He is the former owner of the notorious Cincinnati nightclub, Le Boom. And he joins us, hello, Boomer. Hey, guys, good morning. How are you guys, okay? Well, I get into a psychopathic rage every time the Patriots lose. So I'm hanging on by a thread. Well, I thought you were a jet fan. I am a jet fan, actually.

Well, think about this for a second. You can walk around and, you know, pump out your chest. You're actually tie with the Patriots now. Yeah, they can't lose right. They can't even lose right. It's amazing that a jet fan would even think that way, but I will say this about the Patriots. The offense, fantastic. Off the charts, we all know that.

The defense is a disaster,

and it has continued to be a disaster. In other words, you haven't seen any improvement whatsoever.

Now, I know there are some injuries. I know there are some new players, but it's alarming the

numbers that they are giving up. And what that does now puts an enormous amount of pressure

on the offense. And when you're in a situation like that, boy, I'll tell you what, it's really, really difficult. And going on the road this week, on a short week, going down, you know, and playing a tough team down in Tampa with James Winston coming off of a huge win against New York. This is not going to be, I think, an easy week for them,

and it's certainly not going to be an easy game for them on Thursday night.

Okay, on paper, this shouldn't be happening. There's too much talent on this defense, at least in the secondary, and that seems to be where the majority of the problems are lying right now. You've got Gilmore, a guy that they just paid $65 million to, which obviously the Patriots thought would be able to just be competent.

And then you've got Malcolm Butler, who you know what he's been.

He's been, you know, million dollars to which obviously the Patriots thought would be able to just be competent and then

you've got Malcolm Butler who you know what he's been he's been you know excellent for the Patriots

last couple years why is this all falling apart and why is this team that's supposed to be good on

paper defensively so horrible pretty simple it's pass rush you know and I said it the first week

against the Kansas City Chiefs and it hasn't seemed to get any better. They look a little slow to me, and certainly I think they'd probably love to have Coney Ily back, who had a huge play for the Jets yesterday. Not saying that he is the end-all, be-all, and that he is the answer. But when you have injuries along the defensive line and all of a sudden your depth is going uh is going to be thinned out you got problems and that's exactly what i see i don't see a lot of quarterbacks under duress i don't see a lot of quarterbacks getting hit i see a lot of quarterbacks with a very very comfortable pocket which is a bad thing from the eyes i'm'm sure, the defense coordinator, Matt Patricia.

So you have to ask yourself, do you try to get more aggressive with blitzes and with scheme?

And hopefully you put your talented secondary on the island.

The one thing I will say about Stefan Gilmore is that, you know, he was brought in to be a shutdown corner type of guy.

So he's going to have hand-to-hand combat, if you will, down the field. The last couple of games, it's not been good. And the penalty that he's taken, and especially the penalty yesterday towards the end of the game, was the killer because they were coming off the field. There was finally a sack. and it looked like the momentum was clearly on the side of the New England Patriots,

especially after those last two offensive drives. And then that penalty just basically cost them the game. And it's unfortunate, but you know, this is what you get paid for. You get paid the big money. There's going to be a lot of pressure. There's going to be a lot of scrutiny, especially when you're losing and giving up the points that they're giving up. Now, Boomer, is this an issue in talent? Can you see this turning around or is they don't have the horses? You know, I think the secondary should be good. There should be no problems with the secondary. Now, when there is a penalty that is called the way that we saw yesterday. You know, that's the official see one thing.

Maybe, maybe the, uh, the player is doing it incidentally and it probably should have been called. But at the end of the day, what I see is I see, uh, when you give up the amount of points that they've given up now. And I think they're like the 32nd rank defense when it comes to points in passing. I would tell you that it's talent, especially in the front seven,

and especially on the defensive line,

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