McCourty twins on deciding to not retire, dealing with distractions, experiences with Greg Schiano at Rutgers

Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

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Patriots Nation, News, Ja'lynn Polk, Football, Jerod Mayo, New England Patriots, Afc East, Afc, Mike Vrabel, Sports, Tom E. Curran, Sports News, Phil Perry, Nfl

4.5 • 803 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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1:50 - Devin McCourty on why he decided to not retire. He says he still likes playing and enjoys mentoring the young players in the locker room. 3:53 - Jason McCourty is a free agent. He says he would love to be back in New England but he realizes the NFL is a business. 4:47 - Jason McCourty doesn't have any expectations for free agency but would like to make a decision before April. 6:12 - Devin on how fast his NFL career has been going by and that it's important to remember your life outside of football. 7:27 - How and when the McCourty twins realized you could make an impact off of the field and do more in the community. 9:40 - The experiences Devin and Jason had with Greg Schiano at Rutgers. They say he is a very tough coach and big on discipline but he can fit right into the New England mold. 11:08 - Greg Schiano’s style of calling defenses - Very aggressive, blitzing all of the time. 12:05 - How much Brian Flores will be missed - Great leader who was a stable part of the organization. 13:22 - Jason says he is used to the coaching change over more so than Devin. How veteran players can help with the adjustment of losing several coaches on the staff. 14:08 - What Steve Belichick has been like as a safeties coach. 17:20 - How the Patriots approach distractions off the field - Robert Kraft now involved. 18:55 - Was it weird for Jason to get the inside perspective on the Patriots after years on other teams? 20:33 - How Devin and Jason recover from playing a full season of football and prepare for the next year. 21:45 - Tom Brady not being at OTAs last season. Devin says people don’t realize how many games and offseason programs he has been in.

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0:14.3	Today on quickslance, the podcast, Devin and Jason McCordy from Puerto Rico, the Intercontinental San Juan, where I sat down with the twins in the midst of a goodwill tour to let folks see just how much this island has rebounded from Hurricane Maria.
0:32.3	This trip and a clinic that the fellas did on Saturday was sponsored by Planet Fitness Puerto Rico and the
0:39.2	Intercontinental San Juan. We speak about a number of different topics, including the
0:45.2	twins' decision to continue playing football and kind of their realization that their football
0:50.8	mortality is staring them in the face, or realizing too that there's a lot left to do.
0:56.0	Here it is.
0:57.0	Hey, what's up everybody?
1:06.0	It's Jason McCordy, Dev McCordy. I'm Tom Caron.
1:10.0	We're down here at the Intercontinental San Juan because the McCordy's were good enough to come down here for a goodwill trip to Puerto Rico, the Intercontinental San Juan,
1:18.5	playing a fitness Puerto Rico. They combine to kind of open up the island for us to come down and spend some time with the kids and send the message that they are open for business.
1:29.2	But let's talk a little football if we could. And you made news towards the end of the week by
1:33.9	finally wrapping up the drama. Jason, I'm going to let you answer it. Just straight drama.
1:39.1	What's my motto? What's my model? No publicity's bad publicity. I don't know about that, but either way. All pubs
1:45.8	good pub. He got me intertwined. I'm over here answering retirement questions and I never
1:51.5	said anything about retirement. But this guy wants to... People assume if you go 0 and 16 and then you
1:56.1	win the Super Bowl and you're 31. That's it. It's a wrap. This guy wants to, I guess he wanted to make headlines in the off season and that was probably
2:03.3	the best way to do it.
2:04.6	But it was interesting in speaking of the guys from Squirt Spectrum.
2:07.6	You mentioned not just the reason you wanted to come back being that you wanted to continue
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