 If you can't beat him, join her. Or if you can't beat him, have him join you. The Patriots, finally. This just makes all the sense in the world for the Patriots to have finally made this move. I'm hyped like they're my team right now. Cause I'm just happy for Cam Newton. I'm excited to see Cam Newton with Bill Belichick. I'm excited to see it. Cause Cam Newton is somebody that can do it all. He's somebody that has the ability to make any type of play that there is to make. The short throws, the intermediate throws, the deep throws. Or if he needs be, he'll take off. And Cam Newton, one thing that I absolutely love about his game is that he puts himself out there. He puts himself out there for his team. Now I know the Super Bowl, the full fumble thing. But besides that, he puts it out there, man. And Cam Newton to the Patriots, this is gonna be fun. This just made the AFC East that much more interesting. Because a lot of us, including myself, was thinking, okay, Jared Stidham, I'm naive to him, don't know anything about him. So I can't call him good, I can't call him bad. Brian Hoyer, if he would have been the starter, yeah, exactly, you get my point. So with the Patriots, while their defense was still intact, so I could see the Patriots having some low scoring games, their offense, I just felt like their offense was gonna keep them out of it just because of the quarterback situation. Cause I felt like they most likely would have started Brian Hoyer. But hey, who knows? Hopefully now we don't have to know. But I thought this division was the Beals because the Beals, they were on a come up last year. The Beals, they are a young team. They added a few pieces. I was like, okay, yeah, yeah, Beals gonna do this. Cause Dolphins, I feel like Dolphins could be more competitive next year, but we'll see. And then the Jets, well, yeah. But I just felt like the Patriots, like, okay, they were done running the show. But now you add a Cam Newton to the mix. You add a Cam Newton to the New England Patriots. You add a Cam Newton to Bill Belichick and everything that he was able to accomplish with the Tom Brady. And no, I'm not saying that Cam Newton is better than Tom Brady. Athletically, yes. Career wise, what he's accomplished, of course not. Well, nobody, nobody has accomplished more than Tom Brady. But this, this made me that much more excited for football again. I mean, I'm already excited for it because we were, me and my wife and Carl, we were at a restaurant yesterday and they were playing NFL Network. And they were playing the game between Mason Rudolph and Jacobi Bressat. The Colts vs. the Steelers. How exciting. But for me, when I saw it, I looked up at the screen and I saw a football broadcast. And I was like, man, I missed this. I'm missing, I don't even care that it was Mason Rudolph for me. I ain't even care. Because I just missed that. And I was telling my wife, NFL Network was showing the schedule for each team at the bottom of the screen, scrolling across. And I was like, man, I'm missing that graphic. I'm missing stuff like that. But it was just a beautiful thing. But anyway, Cam Newton, he joins the Patriots and he gives them new life. And Cam Newton in the end of the video the other day, it was a little petty, but he just wanted to let people know cause he probably feels like people have been being petty with him. Cam Newton was like, show, are you doing okay? Okay, you good? Foot, you doing okay? Oh, you good? Yeah. Because he has had to go the extra mile to let people know that he's healthy. He's had to go above and beyond. I know there's been some people that have been like, why is he posting so many videos? Well, it's like this guy hasn't even been getting a shot. Nothing. And apparently this deal was in the works for a while. That's what Ian Rappaport said. But at the same time, it's like, hey, if I'm Cam Newton, I can't count on that. And I don't know what a while is in Ian Rappaport's terms. Cause a while to some people could be a couple of days. A while to some people could be a couple of months. And I remember when we did the video, maybe like a month ago that talked about the Patriots that they talked to Tom, I mean, yikes, that they talked to Cam Newton early on in free agency. But nothing had come from it. So maybe that's where it started. But regardless, if I'm Cam Newton, and even if the Patriots tell me, hey, we're interested, but just wait it out a little bit. Just hold on a little bit. If I'm Cam Newton, I can't count on that. I can't because that ain't nothing but a word. And teams were a verbal agreement with a team, those could fall through any second. And I mean, we've seen it with teams that even announced verbal agreements. Oh, well the teams don't announce it, but the reporters do. When they come to a verbal agreement with a player, it's happened so many times, especially over the past two years with this whole illegal tampering period that I hate, they need to just get rid of it. Just go straight to free agency, don't waste the time. What's the point? There's no point in legal tampering period. But anyway, it has happened so many times where teams will come to an agreement with these players and then all of a sudden it'll be like, oh, well, it fell through. So again, if I'm Cam Newton, if Patriots are just telling me they're interested, I ain't starting that. I'm still out there trying to talk to people. I'm still out there trying to see where my interest level is. So, but I'm glad that this finally came to fruition with Cam Newton in New England because it makes sense. It makes sense. Apparently the deal is worth up to $7.5 million, but it's heavy incentive-based. I'm sure there gonna be playtime incentives. There may be touchdown incentives. There may be rush yards incentives. There may be win total incentives. There may be starting incentives. There may be workout bonuses. There may be all that stuff. And I don't think there was anybody. I don't think there was one person. Maybe there might have been some. But I don't think anybody expected Cam Newton to get this big whopper contract coming out of free agency. I don't think anybody expected that. Coming off the injury. I don't think anybody expected that at all. But I don't think anybody expected Cam Newton to have been out as a free agent for this long. I don't think you could have expected that. But now I'm glad that he's finally got a home. So he got it running back. Sonya Michelle. Got a receiver. Julian Edelman. Got the cute hair too. Tight end situation in New England. Not too familiar with it. Offensive line situation in New England. It could get a little rougher if they end up trading that offensive lineman. The one that they franchise tag. His name is not coming. I wanna say Tanny, but I don't think that's his name. His name is not coming to me right now. But the thing with New England, their strength, the defense, man. That defense. And that's actually been one of New England's strengths for a while, man. For a while. New England usually has this sneaky type of defense. It's usually sneaky defense because everybody would usually be so focused on their offense that it's like, oh, we ain't even realized that the defense was actually pretty good too. But now Cam Newton joins that. Oh, we're gonna get to see it. Cam Newton versus Lamar Jackson. Nice. Cam Newton versus Tua. Okay. Cam Newton versus Josh Allen. Okay. Cam Newton versus Joe Flacco. Even though we seen that already, but because we know Donald's gonna get benched. Nah, I'm just joking. I'm just joking. Sorry, Jets fans. I gotta give it to y'all sometimes, man. But Bella check the mastermind that he is. He has an opportunity to really get creative. No, you don't want to put Cam Newton in harm's way. You don't want to get too creative, man. But that's been the thing with Bella check. He doesn't get too creative. He doesn't get too fancy with it. He doesn't get too pretty with it. With his creativity, it'll catch you off guard. Cause the game could be going one way. Then all of a sudden he'll throw in a little wrinkle in there. And it'd be like, oh, okay. We didn't see that coming. But that's one thing that you got to respect about Bella check is that the way that he coaches, he's usually, usually, not all the time, but usually 10 steps ahead of the game. He's 10 steps ahead of the game. Now in his last, the last game that we saw from him, he wasn't 10 steps ahead then. Rable came through, got a little petty with him. So, okay, we see. And he got beat by Rable. Then the Lions beat him, was it last year, two years ago. So his former coaches had to come back and beat him. And then last year too, Brian Flores. So those former New England coaches, they got some info on them. They know some stuff. They know what it takes. They know what it takes to be Bella check. Hardball too. John Hardball, he know what it takes to be Bella check. But Bella check is still a very, very smart coach. The thing about him is that, what you notice about New England is that they maximize their players' talents. And they take advantage of all of the talents that their players have. If your player can throw, your player will be thrown. No matter what position you play. That's why I felt like Taysome Hill. Because he was a pending free agent. But the Saints obviously put the restricted tag on him. They made him a restricted free agent. They put the first round tender on him. That's what it was, a tender, not the tag. But I thought that he, New England could have been a good fit for Taysome Hill. Because he does so many different things and that's what Bill Bella check and them Patriots, that's what their coaching staff loves for the players to do when you can do so many different things. So if you can throw, no matter what position you play, you will be throwing that football. If you can run, no matter what position you play, you will be running that football. Like we've seen it so many different, so many times. Some of the players that come to mind, Rex Burkhead. But we ain't got a little more throwback. Dion Branch, Dion Branch. These guys had a receiver playing cornerback. A receiver playing cornerback. Then I mean a couple years ago, they had Cordero Patterson. And he was a wide receiver his entire career because he was with the Vikings. I think he had a little stint with the Bears too. But on the Patriots, he was a receiver. But then he was like, no, you ain't no receiver. That's not the place for you. They put him at running back and it worked out well. So with Cam Newton, with him being a quarterback that can do, that can throw and run, Josh McDaniels, he gonna have a good time. He gonna have a really good time. So anyway, just like Cam Newton told everybody in free agency, he said, hey y'all, I got a deal now. So I'm out.