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I was trying to get back east, but it doesn't look like I can even fly back now because of the places that I would want to go. I would have to be quarantined.

And then having to see older family. So I just don't really want to do that either. So I'm going to be I think just this one this week and then with Bill and I, we're going to give it a couple Sundays off and then pick up right before the thing gets started again in Orlando.

Just because normally we would have been done right now. We'd be done like this next week for the agency even though this free agency certainly wasn't what last year's free agency was.

And Bill and I, if we if we don't take like a couple weeks off, will have gone I think 22 months or something crazy like that because of the overlap and how much the schedule is going to because as soon as the NBA is over, it's going to be starting up again like two months later.

You know, if everything goes according to plan, which I'm certainly worried about.

So, you know, I don't think Bill likes me that much that he wants to spend 22 months with me every Sunday night. So it's not really that big of a deal. We're just taking a little breather before we gear up for what is going to be what we hope will be a lot of sports. So again, that's the plan.

And today's plan is to get real football nerdy with Andy Benoit.

He has done a bunch of stuff with us in the past. He's just been hammering away at the video during this downtime. And he has really a ton of cool things, but we're going to start talking some Cam Newton with him.

But more importantly, this exercise that he did, he spent hours and hours on this project where he watched every interceptable football of the 2019 season. So not just every interception, every interceptable football.

So that means he probably watched every throw by every quarterback and watched him multiple times. So he's come up with some great numbers off of that. So let's just talk some football with Andy Benoit.

Okay, Andy Benoit, who was joined us as much as times in the past, talking football NFL analyst. If you saw the note that he sent me, you would be just impressed with that. But he's going to press you even more because we're going to talk Cam to the past.

We're going to talk quarterbacks in general. And some evolving things that he's noticing in his film breakdown of the NFL. And an unbelievable exercise at the very end, having to do with the interceptions, which he said he didn't I could tell he was like, this might be too nerdy for you. And I was like, no, this is amazing.

So we'll get to that at the very end. Okay, so Cam Newton on the Patriots is what at this stage of his career?

He's been a great opportunity for for sure. I thought right. I was saying on the record months ago and recently as recently as weeks ago, I would have been shocked if Bill Bell check sign Cam Newton because I think in his heart of hearts, Bell check in that staff.

They understand they believe that if you run our offense, the way it's designed, we're going to win more games than we lose a lot more games than we lose. We can out coach and out execute the opponent just based on the way we approach the game.

So we want a known entity at quarterback. We don't need a playmaker. We need someone that'll get the ball out quickly and on schedule and exactly how we tell them.

And stylistically, that's never been Newton's style of play. He is more of a playmaker. He's more of a vertical thrower than underneath thrower. So he doesn't fit New England's passing game, which is why I thought I believe the Patriots they want Brian Hoyer, they're fine with stood on. I think they'll do that.

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