 We wanted to bring in our buddy, Larry Jeanfee, onto the show, Larry. Hasan, big con, was good. Hey, I appreciate you taking the time to dedicate this segment to talking about the New England Patriots and all of the stuff that has been going on. Listen, I have some big news for you. Sony Michelle, his fifth year option has been declined. Thank you, Jesus! It's about time. It's about time. It's been a long four years. It just doesn't make any sense on why they chose to keep or pass up on Nick Chubb and take Sony Michelle. I mean, they passed up on the power running back to take a running back who can't catch or be a power running back or play running back for the national football league. But, hey, you can't hit on every pick, right? Yeah, I guess it just didn't work out with them. But, hey, that's okay. That's okay. But speaking of picks that might hit or miss, listen, Matt Jones, number 15 overall, goes to New England Patriots. False. The future. The future. You're already calling it. I was going to ask you, what are your thoughts on Matt Jones? I'm not the biggest college football guy, but I know he's a very successful quarterback at Alabama. I'm just not sure if it's a talent thing or if it's a program thing, because he's playing for Alabama that got the best wide receivers, the best running backs, the biggest linemen, the best defense. And it's not going to be like that in the NFL. The Patriots were mediocre last year and they added a lot of pieces, but is he going to be a quarterback that elevates everybody else? Or is he going to struggle because he's not playing with the number one recruits from every state? Do you feel like Cam should get the start in week one and for maybe the entirety of the 2021 season? Or do you feel like Matt Jones should get some playing time in 2021? I think Cam should be the starting quarterback for the entire season. He dealt with it a lot last year. The circumstances were extraordinary. The pandemic, he was stepping in for Tom Brady. He had no OTAs, no mini-Camp, no pre-season. He just had to come in and try to learn a new system on the fly. And he was successful for two, three weeks, and then he caught COVID. And I mean, we're still learning about the effects of COVID. There's certain players in the NBA who are struggling with getting their breath back on things like that. So I can't imagine Cam playing quarterback and the national football league, dealing with all that stuff on top of recovering from COVID, on top of dealing with a team that had a whole lot of injuries. A lot of players often out, things like that. They were playing the first-place schedule because, or second, well, there were two C last year. So yeah, first-place schedule, they're playing tough teams. The Bills are in that division. The Dolphins were on the rosters, just a lot to deal with. And then when did they go six and 10? Last year, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so this year is gonna be different, hopefully. He's gonna have more time to prepare. He's gonna be more familiar with the system and the players and the coaches. They've made a bunch of additions. So I say, let's see what Cam can do. I think he's given everything that he was given last year. He deserves an opportunity to be a starter for the season this year. Might have been six and 10 or seven or nine, one of those, I think it was seven and nine. Not sure, regardless, though. So you say Cam should be starting. When do you feel like Mac Jern should be going in? Is that 2022? I think it should be next year. I think the only way I can see Mac starting this year is if something happens to Cam, whether he gets hurt or sick again or something like that. I don't know if he can come in and change the program right away. I think, and there's nothing wrong with sitting for a year or two. Brady sat for a year. So we're gonna make the comparison then. There you go. Yeah, and if we wanna make more comparisons, let's just hope that Cam Newton was to get light up by the New York Jets and Mac Jerns comes in and has a seven Super Bowl career, six with the Patriots. But that's wishful thinking. However, the seventh Super Bowl that Tom Brady did win was with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who's now gonna be playing Bill Belichick and the Patriots Sunday Night Football. It's gonna be a very good game. I think the cheapest ticket, I just read this, was. It was like $500, right? It was like $1,200. Yeah, it's ridiculous. So that's gonna be a great game. What are your thoughts on that matchup? It's gonna be a good game. I think we know what the Buccaneers can do. They have a high-part offensive. They've got, let's say three at the top, 15 wide receivers. They've got the running backs, Kronkowski. They've got a lot. But I do think our defense is gonna be pretty good this year. All the players that opted out are coming back. We had a Jude on. We added a bunch of defensive back talent. Patrick Stone did retire, but if there's one thing Buccaneers can do is he can fill in gaps and holes for players that come and go. So I think we're gonna have one of the top defenses again. Stephon Gilmour is still there. He was hurt last season, but at the beginning of the season, he was healthy. He was still a shutdown corner. So there's one thing Buccaneers can do is he can scheme to take away what you do best. And the high-fired offense with high-fired receivers is what they do best. I know, I think Bucaneers can come up with a good scheme to shut that down. And it's the age-old question where it still might be a conversation. It still may not be after Tom Brady's Super Bowl win, but was it Bill Belichick or was it Tom Brady that was responsible for the Super Bowls? After this matchup in week four, are we gonna find out the answer to whether it was Belichick responsible or Brady responsible? No, we didn't find it out last year. I don't think we're gonna find it out this year. I don't think that question is ever gonna get answered. Brady left the Patriots and went to one of the better offenses in the league the previous year with James, even though he threw 30 interceptions, he did it there for 5,000 yards and 30 touchdowns. So he went to that. They had a pretty good defense. He went to perfect situation for a quarterback like him and the Patriots had a bunch of players that opted out and a bunch of injuries and a pandemic to deal with. So, I mean, we just don't know. I don't think we know the answer personally. Yeah, it's just me. No, it's, you're absolutely right. I mean, the Super Bowl last year, some people could say you could put an asterisk next to that. Even though Tom Brady went to his different team, all these players wanted to sign once he signed with Tampa Bay. And I think it was just like a perfect marriage that just happened to so get together. Bill Belichick was the greatest coach. Tom Brady, greatest quarterback and just worked really well together. Yeah. And when they were together, it flip flopped. There were some years where Brady wasn't the greatest and you know, the defense and the scheme held it down. There were some years where, you know, we have Matt Patricia and the 32nd ranked defense and Brady was carrying it us to the Super Bowl. So, I mean, just looking back at that, you just don't know. So I still, you know, I don't think we'll ever know personally. It's age old question. We'll never know. But that's the beauty of it. We get to debate about it, which is so awesome. Final question before I let you go. If you had to make a rough guess about the record for the Patriots in 2021. Now, there is a 17th game as well. So keep that in mind. What is your prediction? If everybody stays healthy, I think they can go to the extra game. So I think they can go 11 and 6. I don't think they'll win the division, but I think they can be a divisional playoff team or a wild card team. So 11 and 6 is my record of everything. If everybody's healthy. Yeah, 11 and 6 is not out of the record. We actually did a whole computer simulation of the schedule last week during the schedule release show. And the Patriots actually surprisingly went 12 and five and had one of the better records in the NFL. So they got a lot of talent. They got a lot of talent. And there were some games last year that, you know, came down to the end and we almost beat the Seahawks. We almost beat the Bills, but there's a lot of one possession games. Yeah, we'll definitely see what's going to be happening. But Larry, thank you for taking the time to join us on Time to Football. Much appreciated. And best of luck to you and the Patriots. Best of luck to you and the Falcons. Yeah, Falcons are going to suck. But that is Larry Gianfi, ladies and gentlemen, joining us for this episode of Time to Football.