 That's the big news today. Grinkowski told the patients he wanted to come back but he wanted to come back for the bucks with his buddy Tom Brady. So they made the trade. You heard what the specifics are. And now let's bring in our good friend Bart Scott. Part of the duo of Bart and former friend of the show Alan Han. You can hear them one to three every single day right before our show on 98 70 SPN Bart. How you doing my friend. Oh no. Couldn't be better. I'm here bro. We all good. There he is. There you go. Multi-tasking this dad time. I'm trying to season chicken. Get the other one to take the trash down. Get the other one to do the dishes. They're not used to working in tandem because they're used to the bait. They're used to the nannies and everybody coming clean the house. They got to do some real damn work. That's amazing Bart. You're able to deal with your family. Multi-task and answer a phone call from the Michael Keisha. Well I always got time for the Keisha. Yeah. Remember where it all began. You know if we get all the other stuff the other company I worked for. Remember where it started. That's right. Started as a call in. We all come from humble beginnings. Man everybody can't get that hot nine seven job like you got come out of the off the gate to be a high priority free agent. You know I'm standing up in the sports world. All right. So what was what's what's your initial take on on Grinkowski going to the box. I mean it's just like like most people probably assume his body was hurting. What happens is you try and do other things in your life and nothing gives you the satisfaction of playing football and then the opportunity to kind of play and let your hair down with a coach that's going to provide a different type of atmosphere. I think everybody that plays in New England for a long time long for the opportunity to be able to play and just have fun and come to environment that the environment is fun and everybody's loose because there are more than one way to win. Now they've been successful in winning the way that they have over the years. But you heard what Philadelphia when they won and you talk about you know long Kyle Long and talking about not Kyle I'll forgive which one it is so many of them. I mean but you know long and what he said about you know his experience in New England and then the joy in which you had just the environment and the looseness of playing you know for Philadelphia. So I think this is an opportunity for Grunt to kind of go and be loosey goosey and have fun. So I think even though he had a huge smile on his face I don't think he was super excited about jumping off the top rope looking like a fake Nacho man Randy Savage. So you don't think he comes back if Brady stays in the way. Oh not at all not at all. I mean this is about him coming back and playing with a friend in a fun environment. Now from a Tampa Bay standpoint now you have some decisions to make because I believe OJ the OJ the juice man is down there and you also have Cameron break so they have their three tight end sets. And if they're going to come and try and absorb that $10 million salary I think you know they're going to have to let somebody go because they don't have a lot of cash to begin with. So you know watch for either Cameron break or I can doubt if it's going to be OJ the juice man because he's a younger of the two kind of being on the block because you know you can't have a three tight end set even though they have tremendous playmakers all around to kind of you know be able to compliment that you know you really when you go three tight end set you're basically playing with one receiver with what Gowen did last year and what Evan's done is no way you're taking old guys off the field. I'll tell you what Bart if you look at that offense that might be one of the most weapon heavy offenses that Tom Brady's ever played in. Well I think the one that was the most difficult hardly enough to stop was the one that had you know Gronk Hernandez and algae crumpler because that personnel package forces you to go heavy and when you go heavy they basically had two receivers playing tight end which when you look at it they will have three tight ends playing you know receiver so to speak because OJ is not a great blocker but we know Gronk is a tremendous inline blocker and also you know that Cameron break is a South blocker so it could pose a lot of questions but they're not going to walk away from God when we're at a career year and they're not going to work away from Evan's who's one of the top ten receivers in the game. That just tells you exactly what they're going to do on the offensive side they got to go left tackle now because you can have all those great players you put Gronk on the right side he's going to be tremendous in the run game as well that allows you to protect Tom Brady's backside and give some opportunity to process and go through all different types of reason giving him an opportunity to burp the baby and now you have these tremendous receivers on the outside. I mean I could see them if they decide to stay with this whole package with the three tight ends I can see them going with a personnel with no running back in the game and daring you to figure out what to do. Wow. What does burp the baby mean I'm sorry. I need help. Well burping the baby is when a quarterback has time to sit back in the pocket he's weighing his options so he's looking at the ball like burping the baby. Yup got it. I know you got a dog. I know you got a dog. I'm slow but I get it now. God okay. And the Jets have a quarterback at Sam Donald didn't have a lot of time to burp the baby. So at eleven are you going. He dropped the baby. He dropped the baby and ran for high. So you go offensive line even if Judy's there at eleven. You had you definitely go offensive line because you look at you know the hardest thing to get in free agency and it was rare that Conklin was out there. The hardest thing to get especially in this league is a tackle and what's even harder than getting a great tackle is getting a great less tackle. I feel like depending on what the Giants do the Jets will have a tremendous opportunity to upgrade that position which allows you to be able to evaluate Sam Donald and see if he is the truth. He had a step back be it the mono be it the offensive line you know that Baker Mayfield had you know so they all had like a sophomore slump. This is an opportunity for him to be able to really solidify his position as a franchise quarterback. So if you go get the left tackle I mean you can get great receivers as I've been breaking this drive down. You can get great receivers in the third round. I mean I've never seen such a deep pool of receivers and they got big ones. They got fast ones. They got slot guys. They got run after the catch guys. You can think about a guy like I you or you know he's a guy that reminds me of Quincy Anoula. You look at the guy like a man from from Penn State. He gives you that little guy that can run after the catch and if you look at you know Chase pool he gives you that you know Calvin Johnson Frames 64 240 vertical receiver. So it's just it says you can get whatever you want there. I think this is the deepest position there. We've seen some of the great receivers rather than Michael Thomas you know whether it's you know whether it's a B these guys come in the later rounds. You can find guys in the later rounds but don't miss on the hardest position to pay in the hardest position to drive in the left tackle. All right. So then the question about the top four they're going to have their pick of any of the offensive line in the top four or Isaiah Simmons. Who would you go with? No way I'm going with Isaiah Simmons. Isaiah Simmons to me is the jack of all trades in the master of none. You got to have a clear and decisive plan for a kid like that because is he the best safety. No. Is he the best inside line backer. I can argue that I'll pick three inside linebackers that you know actually my favorite inside linebacker right now is Willie Gay from from Mississippi. I mean this guy is tremendous. Runs a 4 4 40 and he's one of these guys man that hits with the bad intent. Now I know I don't think we have any concerns. It's been better. I know I spent plenty of time talking with him. Oh no. That was a misfire. Sorry Bart. Cut. Sorry Bart. Okay. Okay. Okay. Well yeah. I was thinking about the zoom stuff going on. I thought maybe we got zoom bombs or something. Well you know Willie Gay and also the kid Jordan Brooks I believe from Texas Tech. So whoever gets idea of Simmons has to identify him as a certain position. I think he can be a lead safety in the camp chancellor mode. But if you get into his mode of thinking that he's an inside linebacker and you're going to move them all around. He's not going to be able to master any of these positions and learn to my new details because every position that you put him in whether you want to rush him from the outside you want to put him in the inside you want to put him in safety he's going to have to you can have he can see three plays totally different depending on how he's lined up because what his keys are. So I mean it's great to be great at a lot of stuff but you got to be or good at a lot of stuff but you got to be great at something in this league because everybody's good at something they wouldn't be. Well what I guess the big compliment I hear from him and certainly what I loved in the three four and I'm not comparing him to Lawrence Taylor is is that you could put him put him anywhere in the three four and that the feeling seems to be in this modern NFL defenses this is the player that that jack of all trades is perfect for the way teams run defenses you don't buy that in this day and age. No I do but I wouldn't offer five different positions to this kid you know what I mean I think he can be he can be a weapon but you can you can get your offensive tackle from the Giants you can get your offensive tackle. You can go to the second round which is a high pick and I know people are going to say well this guy goes to Southern Illinois so that's why you like him but if you look at Jeremy Chen he offers you the exact same thing from a safety come down and play your dime linebacker and a tremendous blitzer you know for a second round draft pick so you can get the best of both worlds. Now this kid is actually six four as well just like Isaiah Simmons he's two twenty four so that means if you need him to add on you know seven more pounds he's two thirty so he's perfect for a wheel linebacker slash safety but he ran at four four as well so he is that's why government has to do is do diligence and go through the process and understand what's the best combinations of players I can get not just what's the best player I can get because at first round you can get a great player but you should be able to try and find a great player in the second round as well and players that compliment what Daniel Jones do but also offers what you can get from a standpoint of being dominant in the three four and I feel like you can get that from Jeremy Chen because he offers you the same things that Isaiah Simmons does but he offers you that at a cheaper price in the second round. What's up with Bart Scott one half of Barton Han you can hear them one to three right before our show every single Monday through Friday from 9870 SPN so would you look at two atagabaloa and say it's a huge gamble of taking because of the hip injury and they haven't been able to really look at him medically. Yeah but no risk no reward you know I mean you know you have to sometimes evaluate and see where you're picking it depends on where you're picking and what your backup quarterback situation is do you have a guy in place like a Ryan Swiss Patrick like a Tyra Taylor that if you miss see it's not the penalty that it used to be if you strike out on a on a quarterback used to be the quarterback came in he was picked in the top five top three he was the highest paid player arguably in his position still Sam Bradford when he came in he became the highest paid player in the position now you can get out of these contracts relatively easy you know not not without being unscathed but the talent is there and you think even if he comes back and he gives you four great years it gives you opportunity to build a team around him at a very cheap cost you know that's how teams are winning now teams are winning because they're either one they have a franchise quarterback that's a force multiplier that can make up the holes like a Russell Wilson like a Tom Brady or you're going with a guy like Mahomes that although he is a franchise quarterback or you look at Carson Wins who on a rookie contract that allows you to go out and get hired guns and put so many weapons around him that his chances of failing are low it's all about risk management so whoever is going to pick a tool could get a great player and maybe he's a great player for 10 years or maybe he's a good player for five years but if I'm a general manager that's good for me because my life expectancy in the league if I don't win it's probably about three to four years how much of a disadvantage are some of those late round players by the way that they are doing the draft now not getting a chance to talk to these guys not having the pro days are there going to be some guys that are just going to miss the boat and not get drafted because of what's going on right now yes it's brutal and you know I was one of those guys right I was the guy that got the invite but teams were able to come on and come to my pro day and see what I was and see what I could be and put me on the board and talk to me I look at these small schools of guys that didn't get invited to the combine they're not going to have the opportunity to have an interview to get opportunity to even know that they exist they're not going to get opportunity to show how did that game wait to show that hey they played faster than what it looks like on film to be able to put a time there they can't put a 40 up they can send videos and video chat and you know we're talking to Joe Douglas and talk to some other guys you know just in talking you know we feel that that's going to be the people that get left out and without the XFL even being in existence they don't even have a place to go prove themselves you know maybe the Canadian League to prove themselves to try and show what they can do with elevated competition. I'm curious before we let you go Bart so it seems like Brady wanted no part of Belichick and Grunkowski wanted no part of Belichick would you have rather been on a team and had a good time with a relaxed atmosphere a good team or would you rather have been miserable and want to super ball with Belichick miserable and want to super ball with Belichick. The thing is all these guys have gotten that so now it's like one of those things once you've got your titles now you can do what you want to do and have fun and try and go at both right. You can you both can be possible you can have fun and win championships. I mean just look at that 2000 Baltimore Ravens team you saw you saw the you saw hard knocks before the season started they had a blast. You know you saw we saw that underdogs Philadelphia team they had a blast but when you've already gotten it you know that's why you can look at Kevin Durant and he say you know I got my titles so now my resume is complete. I mean is Brady really going to up his resume by going to win a Super Bowl with Tampa. It may take it up a point but his his his legacy is already cemented so now Grunkowski gets to go and act like a crazy crazy person have fun in a loose environment if he wins he wins and if he doesn't he's still a three-time Super Bowl champion. He's still a first ball at Hall of Famer. He's still in the top 100. So now he's like man I can go actually have fun with my friend and I know that we're going to be successful and it's a team that possibly could win. I mean that's all the boxes and taxes. Do you think with guys like that yeah exactly with the taxes but do you think with guys like that there's an excitement of like we can actually go down there and rule the rule the roost it'll be our team in a way that you just can't feel in New England because it's always Bella checks team. Absolutely I mean I can actually show my personality off. I know Grunk always did but I actually can say what I feel. I mean you understand this you get to a point when you age you get to a certain age but you just ain't having you just ain't holding your tongue. You ain't got time to waste time. You tell people exactly how you feel your direct you do what you want to do. I think Brady's at that point where I do what I want to do. I'm going to have fun. I'm going to be demanding I'm going to be a diva if I want to do that if I want Grunkowski even though you got two Pro Bowl Titans guess what damn it I want I want Grunkowski do it. This isn't going to go the way you want because you need me more than I need you. See I thought it was maybe different. It was always a hey maybe I don't need you as much as I need you. Maybe I can get Jimmy G. Or maybe I can get somebody else. I don't maybe it was questions there but I think he wants to go there as well and we've seen listen if anything the last dance was taught us is that being successful is about managing egos is usually somebody pride and ego that gets in the way that wants more credit than what they deserve or they feel like they're not getting somebody feel slight and I feel like Brady feels like he's been slighted and he feels like you know Bill thought that he wasn't that important. Well guess what Bill go ahead and try and win with Jerry still good luck with that. And then guess what if it doesn't go your way because before me you won't win in no titles. Right before me you weren't having a success you matter of fact before me your job was on the line so how about let me prove to everybody and let me end the debate. Let me end and let me prove it to myself that I can go somewhere else and be successful and you know Bill you're later in age so you only got a couple more swings at Apple. You can't afford another 10 years and I went into the title like you went between our first dynasty and then our second one. So then if I win it proves no different from why why Shaq left Kobe right egos always get in the way. I'm curious about one thing you know everybody in the NFL are you friends with people that played for New England and is it no fun whatsoever Bart. It is the worst thing ever I know plenty of people I can name them as Marquise Cole. I can name names. I got receipts of people that I played with other places and Adelias won the Super Bowl with the Ravens. He went to New England and he played well in the Super Bowl they lost. He absolutely hated it. Really what's bad about it. Well it's miserable. It's no fun. They do just berate you. I mean they got conditioning afterwards. You know what I mean you saw her you see all you have to do is to see how a glimpse of what New England is like is look at all the rumblings of you hear the assistance that come and try and create that same environment other places. The only reason you can do that in that environment in New England is because the best player on the team buys in and allows you to do that. No different than how Tim Duncan and David Robinson allow Poppins to do that to them. Well now I let them like listen to why Leonard was like you ain't gonna be talking to me like that. You know what about peace. How about that. I'm curious what you think of Joe judge then you know I've made a big thing out of fact that he will not say I'll check without the trophy. So what do you think of something like that. What are the players think when the coach refuses to utter their name. I mean thank you think he's a clown. He's an ass like dude who's you trying to prove first of all you have to prove yourself to us because we don't know nothing about you bro. We don't even know if you if you qualify and we don't even know if you deserve our respect you have to earn our respect. At least some of those other guys were coordinators that had success at doing certain things. So like at least they had success. The players noticed it. They want him to say Daniel Joe's name. They're like come on man really this is what we gonna do is this is what we gonna spend our energy and our time on. You acting like you don't know that Saquon Barker's gonna be your starting running back. Right. Come on man. Quick wasting our time wasting time. Let's focus on the stuff we gotta worry about about like actually trying to win some games build a team learn offense really. Who do you think you are Yoda. You're playing Jedi mind trick. Literal not literal. But right. I understand that but what would you know obviously what he's trying to do is he's trying to say that all players are created equal but did you want that in the environment or did you want the pecking order of hey there's a starter there's a star there's a leader that's a guy that I want to get to that level or did you want to walk into a room believing that you were looked upon the same way as everybody else on the team. Bro don't lie to me when keeping it real goes wrong. Brian really was you know people people don't understand how great Brian Billy was right. He was his offensive genius that couldn't get offense in Baltimore but he still found the way to win. How did he find a way to win because he knew how to manage egos. First day he tells you listen I'm going to teach all you guys fairly none of you the same because I'm lying to you because we know life ain't fair it's like me telling my kid it could be fair you know it's like my dad telling me that I could play and the great coaches understand that your future my future are linked together so listen yeah first I can fire you but eventually if I fire enough players they're going to come fire me. So listen our success is intertwined so I want you guys to understand that we're going to create an environment a competition a accountability and we're going to keep it real I ain't going to lie to you bro if you if you want to ask me why you ain't playing because you suck or if you want to ask me why you're playing that's like me coming to the Baltimore Raven and I'm a rookie undrafted from Baltimore and they're like hey man there's an open competition between you and Ray Lewis but you know what I can't even do I can't even do with this one because y'all if y'all are lying to me like that y'all lie to me and cut me like I'm not even going to fall for that banana and to tell producers I'd rather go somewhere else right here on 98.7 so Bart we love you thank you for coming on man hey man I appreciate it man you know and congratulations on number one you know what I'm saying you guys are the women these are our wings you and your family stay tuned buddy you keep doing it buddy I don't know no doubt no doubt have a great day alright thank you that's Bart Scott and tomorrow we're going to have on Mike Tannenbaum at five o'clock so the other half of Bart and Mike