Felger & Mazz: Chris Gasper of the Boston Globe, the Benching of Malcolm Butler, Possible NBA Playoff Changes, and the State of the Boston Celtics (Hour 3)
Felger & Massarotti
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🗓️ 23 February 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Chris Gasper, of the Boston Globe, joined Felger and Jim Murray during Hour 3. The guys discussed the fallout from benching Malcolm Butler in the Super Bowl, the NBA playoff format, and the state of the Boston Celtics.
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| 0:00.0 | This, hey, how you doing? |
| 0:02.4 | What are you doing? Hey, how you doing? |
| 0:04.2 | Is Felger and Matt? |
| 0:05.1 | What? |
| 0:06.6 | On 985. Unbelievable. The Sports Hub. It's Gasper in our town for Attire Studios. Hi, Chris. What's up, Felgi? How you doing? Murray. What up, Gaspar? Gentlemen, what's up? I usually ask you off the air before we go on. |
| 0:18.9 | What do you want to hit on? |
| 0:19.6 | I've neglected to do that, so I have to do it on the air. |
| 0:22.1 | What do you want to hit on? |
| 0:23.0 | I love this, Patreon. gentlemen, what's up? I usually ask you off the air before we go on, what do you want to hit on? I've neglected to do that, so I have to do it on the air. What do you want to hit on? |
| 0:23.0 | I love this Patriots discussion. I'm all about that, so we can do that. |
| 0:27.6 | Do it. |
| 0:28.0 | Celtics, anything you guys want to talk about. Do it. Do it. |
| 0:30.7 | You know, I think Devin's one of the guys down there who is able to sort of speak his mind a little bit and takes the time to try and be real and give |
| 0:38.4 | the reporter's information without going too far a field of really what they want. And when you look |
| 0:44.7 | at what he's saying down there and in the clips that you guys are playing, I think it's pretty |
| 0:49.5 | obvious that those guys don't think Bill made the right decision. They don't. |
| 0:57.8 | And having been in that locker room after the Super Bowl, |
| 1:01.0 | I could sense the disappointment in losing the game, |
| 1:06.3 | but you also sort of got the sense that they didn't feel like they put their best foot forward. |
| 1:09.9 | And it wasn't just because they gave up 41 points in 538 yards. |
| 2:00.9 | I mean, from a personnel standpoint. You feel like the coaching didn't put the best footpoint? I mean, how often does Bill say he does what's in the best interest of the team? How was that in the best interest of the team? You can make an argument it was in the best interest of his authority over the team, but those are two different things. You know, can you subjugate your own ego there to be able to say, okay, look, this guy did whatever he did, whether it was, you know, MFing a coach or some other scenario. But this is what gives us the best chance to win. I've made my point. It's the second half. We can't stop these guys. Let's just roll the dice and see what happens. Or is it all about maintaining your authority, your control? And it seems like it's the latter, and it wasn't the former. The former would have been rolling the dice, putting the guy in the game, and really giving your team the best opportunity to win that game. I don't think there's any way. Like this isn't like fourth and two, which we can all debate, right? Like, I would have punted the ball, but I see what Bill was doing there. He was trying, you can make a legitimate argument that he was trying to do what was in the best interest of the team in that game to win that game. We can disagree on it, but you cannot look at that and say that he was not trying to do what he thought was in the best interest of the team at that time. |
| 2:50.9 | How can you look at this one and say that and he was not trying to do what he thought was in the best interest of the team at that time. How can you look at this one and say you think he's doing what he thought was in the best interest of the team? Well, I think you're walking on Murray's side of the street, sort of the psychology of the control down there, and that was his opportunity to reassert it. Yeah, and I think Chris thought I went a little too far with my kooky theory in that I think this correlates to Brady and how powerful he's become of the last three years. Maybe on a subconscious level, but yeah, that's, I do think you're... The bigger thing is, is that Belichick, I felt like his lost control. And this one particular player, Malcolm Butler, I mean, he helped make this guy on this stage three years ago. You're a cog. I made you. And you're going to act up this week? |
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