Is Drake Maye up for this challenge?

0:00Final hour Jones a Keith W E E I. We got the grab bag on the way, Keith at 130. Sir do whatever we've missed out on on the program today, including a big extension in the NBA, a major league baseball debut. We've not seen in quite some time again. That's a 130 on grab bag. We've discussed the red socks extensively today. How concerned are we about the direction they're heading here early on in September? It feels like they've taken their foot off the accelerator, even with guys like Roman Anthony and Trevor story back. You continue to discuss that at 6177797937. I want to get into Pat San Sihox coming up. You're skeptical without a contract extension, Keith. Gonzo will be on the field in week one. I think he will be. I guess we'll see on that. That's one thing we disagree on. Either way, I think it's ridiculous. We're this close to the start of the year and he has not been extended. We already have, I believe it's 10 contract extensions in the first round, Keith, for players in the 2020 free draft, the third of the first round. You can add Michael

1:04Wilson, the 94th pick of that draft as another extension out of the 2023 NFL draft. He just signed with the Cardinals three years up to 78 million. I think the guarantees are somewhere around 44, 46 something like that in the deal. So I don't know other than just another player at his draft class. How much that impacts? Christian Gonzalez. Maybe you could look at it as a positive. Hey, it's a team sorting out an extension about a week out from their opener. I mean, maybe you can spend that as a positive, but that's another guy in his class. We just signed. So it's, you said 10 first rounders. I believe it's 10 in the first round. Yeah. And that was the year as you pointed out. Joey Porter was pushed to the second round because there was a spin and pick. So at a 31 picks, 10 of them have been signed. And you shouldn't even look at all of them because not all of them are worthy of being extended. It's not like you automatically want to sign your first round pick. The reds of the Patriots had many years where they would not be having the conversation about extending the kill Harry or Cole Strange or Isaiah Wynn or Sony Michelle

2:06or all these guys. So if you look at it of the players that are actually worth a damn, I think those guys are pretty much science. So that was the year Bryce Young went first. Yep. Out of the ones who have made the Pro Bowl. Yeah. Are they all signed? All the Pro Bowers besides Gonzalez. It can cade sign. He's made a Pro Bowl and CJ Stroud has not. So Stroud. Oh, Stroud has not signed yet. I don't know if you should. He turned down though. The reports are now again. This is average annual versus whatever else. But I read something today that he turned down 50 million because he's hoping to get 60 million a year. I'm telling you. No, I know. But I'm just saying so like they've at least offered up something. But whatever you say something about Gonzalez, that's that's APY. So like what are the guarantees? There's more like there. Yeah. I think there's more question about if CJ Stroud's the guy you want to. No, no, but I'm just saying at a guy's made the Pro Bowl in the first round. Yeah. Stroud has not signed. I don't think can cade sign, but I'd have to double check that one and then Gonzo. Everybody else who's made the Pro Bowl has signed, including flowers, JSN, Jack Campbell, Gibbs,

3:08Jalen Carter, B. John Robinson, Witherspoon and Will Anderson. There's a couple other extensions in there. I think it's Darnell Wright and Skaronsky or the other two. Yeah. But like a chase still on his rookie deal. Okay. So Cade. So out of the three guys who made the Pro Bowl, there's a couple of early second rounders to both with the Lions who extended Campbell, but they have not yet extended LaPorta or Branch. Those are two Pro Bowlers early in the second round that haven't signed from that draft. But Michael Wilson's another one and that a lot of those guys have signed. A lot of the worthwhile players Wilson out of 1000 yards last year for the Cardinals. A lot of those guys have signed in the draft class. Anthony Richardson was in this draft. So like that's an example of a guy that you obviously wouldn't extend. So if you really look at it out of the 10 that's signed, teams probably really want to sound like another like four or five. So it's not like it's a third of the first round of sign. I look at it a little bit differently being like, well, how many of these guys deserve to be extended and you said, I have that right. Anthony Richardson, those are guys who aren't going to sign. Harris Johnson, Tyree Wilson, like Lucas Van Ness, Broderick Jones, I think just got traded to the Cowboys.

4:09It's different. Will McDonald, Emmanuel Forbes, definitely already on a second. Like most of those guys can't play. So out of the guys who can play in or worth it, most have already signed in the first round. So guys in the third round are now signing like Michael Wilson. I wonder, you know, we had a car on Tuesday. He's been somebody that thinks that he's going to get signed and it's all going to be like much to do about anything. But all right, Thursday the third, they play on Wednesday the ninth. What day are they flying out to Seattle? You don't mean like, I don't know. Hang on. I'll look through their media relations plans here. What they believe. We're going to have a travel to Seattle on Monday. All right. So they're leaving on Monday. So does he have a contract on Monday? At least he get on the plane without a contract. I think he will not have a contract, but I do think he'll get on the plane. Okay. That's what I think. By the way, Vrable is speaking now. If he says anything interesting, it'll be different than the other week when he wasn't asked anything interesting. I mean, they might do this week. They might ask him about special teams, Deb. Yeah, they might. He is. Here's a Mike. Mike Vrable. This is from Taylor Kyle's. Mike Vrable says blocking running the football and stopping the run are among the things the

5:12Patrons must do better in next week's rematch versus the C-Hong. Okay. Are they going to ask him? I mean, let's see if they ask about Seattle. It sounds like right now. That's fine. Let's see if they're going to ask him at some point. Don's. They have any. If they have any self respect down there, they're going to ask about the captains and why Christian Gonzalez is not a captain. They may. They may. He might not give you a good answer, but if they have any self respect, that question gets asked today. But we're not going to play it for you live because it was such a waste on Tuesday. It was not. We're not doing that again. If he says anything interesting, we'll turn it around. No, it was. It was not great. But I mean, we're getting closer and closer to it. Still just not have a deal. So I'm not feeling great about it. Beaking of the C-Hong. Yes. According to Vrable, they got a block run and whatever else, stop the run. Yeah. Better. What sort of chance are you giving them in the opener, Keith? So I think they lose the game. However, look at the last two openers. I got those games wrong. I thought the Patrons are going to beat the Raiders. I thought the paths were going to lose to the Bengals in the Mayo years. So there is something wonky about week 1. Sometimes you see big upsets or not even just like big upsets at the time, but you look later

6:13on in the season. You're like, wait, how did that team lose to that team? But I kind of throw that out when it is the banner raising night. And it's the standalone game. And it is all eyes on the Super Bowl champs welcoming whoever it is the town. So Seattle is also one of the very few teams in the league that I do think is better than the Patriots. I don't think there's too many teams that are definitively better than them out to the Rams are and until the Siocs are everybody else. I think they have they could lose in any given time. It's the NFL, but in Seattle would have been tough whether you played it on Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, whatever, but opening it Wednesday night football like no, even though I like the Patriots roster more this week than I do Super Bowl week, I still think Seattle's the better team at home. All that's the I think Seattle. Yeah. So I'm with you on that. I think the Patriots got better this off season, but that's a hard spot or really hard spot to go on where they're raising the banner with the stupid 12s kicking off the NFL season.

7:13That's not an easy place to go into when that game maybe they'll do a chief that when they came in here on a banner night and it's just cream hunt. It's not 400 total yards. It's not like it's not like it's never happened. It's happened. And that's a great example. But I do believe in the last 11 Super Bowl rematch is the away team is three and eight three and eight. Super Bowl rematches or when the not opening night just Super Bowl rematch general the away team is three and eight. Okay. So look, I think we called this an auto loss from the schedule came out. So I'm not going to say I won't crush them at all depending on how they look. I mean, let's see how they look. I don't know how they're going to play. They might win the game for God's sakes and impress me. This is a I so could be wrong. Let me toss that out there. But according to the rich key stats and info department by way of Google AI overview. Crocs cooking. The defending Super Bowl champions in the prime time annual NFL kickoff game are 13 and five. Okay. So that's not going to spread or anything. That's just straight up 13 and five because it felt like that would be the number or maybe even more. I'd be like 16. Yeah, that's actually a better shot at winning the game. I guess not that it's great odds. But

8:15it's a better shot than I would. Only five teams have lost their opening night game after winning a Super Bowl. The Giants in 2012. Baltimore Ravens Patriots Rams and Chiefs in the subsequent years. Didn't have the years next to him. But you can figure it out. Okay. The Chiefs lose the lions. One of those years. I think that one. That was like a 50. Oh, oh, oh, the patch beat the chief. The patch right there. Yeah, career game. No, I think it's the opening night. It's not always a Super Bowl rematch, obviously. But it is the team raising the banner and they usually have either like the AFC championship rematch and FC championship rematch or something along those lines. That's usually two really good teams. But yeah, 13 and five. I'm not surprised by that. Mike for a label getting asked now about Drake May and his comfort and command in your two with Josh McDaniels. Do you think May is up for the challenge, Keith? This game, this environment, six days away because he was not up for it when they played in the Super Bowl.

9:17Yeah, I do. I mean, I'm pretty high on on Drake May having another really good season. And it's funny because I'm high on the season. I don't know that I'm high on this game. His performance is this game. I think they lose. So part was like, how great can he play? Like if he's the best player on the field, don't they win? You know, so I do think you know, I think the offensive line is going to be something that you're focused on. And I don't want to give Drake May all the excuses in the book because he's going to have to be able to figure some stuff out. Even if he doesn't have a ton of time back there. But yeah, this is tough for so many reasons. And so I think the Patriots defense, if guns are plays and if he's signed and all that stuff, I think they have a better chance of slowing down Seattle than the Patriots do of going into Seattle and lighting up that Ceeox defense. Right? Like I think they can have an okay game, but I'm not expect. I think if we look back at the end of the regular season, this will be one of Drake May's three worst games. I bet there'll be another really good defense. Then there'll be like a strange kind of outlier game. And I'll do this one. Yeah. I guess. I mean, that would make sense. How much progress does he

10:23make from the Super Bowl? Yeah. We can get into that with your phone calls. It's true. 617-779-793-7. How much progress is Christian Gonzalez made since the Super Bowl? It looks like they actually asked a question about Gonzo to Mike Vrable today. We can get you his answer to that coming up in just two minutes. Here on Johnson Keve.