Bill Belichick and Tom Brady made the Patriots the Patriots.
The former star quarterback and famed coach oversaw countless wins and stadiums packed with obsessed and adoring fans — but one of the two was more responsible for their unbelievable success.
“I always thought Belichick, no question,” Jason Whitlock says.
“I’m now sitting here going, that culture that was so important to them, it can’t happen without Tom Brady.”
According to Whitlock, Brady “set the tone for that culture,” and it no longer exists without him.
While Belichick is considered the best coach of all time by football fans everywhere, Brady’s assistance was vital to his success.
“It kind of hammers the point of, again, like damn, the players actually do win the games,” Whitlock continues.
Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre believes they both play a massive part.
“I think the combination,” he tells Whitlock, before noting that if your star player refuses to listen, it will be a lot harder to get his teammates to listen as well.
While Favre thought it was both, Marshall Faulk thinks it’s one: Brady.
“It’s Brady,” Faulk says, adding that “in the beginning it was Belichick.”
“Brady allowed Bill to be Bill, and at some point in time, your quarterback gets to a level to where the coach then gives the quarterback the autonomy to kind of have access to the team,” Faulk explains.
Brian Urlacher is in agreement.
“For me it’s easy, it’s Brady,” Urlacher says. “I played for a great head coach in Chicago,” he continues. “We didn’t win a Super Bowl. We got there and lost because we didn’t have the quarterback, we didn’t have that piece to our puzzle.”
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As another weekend of NFL football wraps up, Jason Whitlock evaluates which teams and players shined and which failed to perform.
“The biggest star of the weekend,” he says, was “Tua Tagovailoa,” the Miami Dolphins quarterback who “absolutely lit it up” in the game against the New England Patriots.
However, Jason is also concerned that Tua’s success might be short-lived because the team has “the fastest pair of receivers perhaps in NFL history … between Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle.”
“I just wonder if Tua has the arm strength to keep up with those guys over a 17-game NFL season,” he tells Brett Favre.
But Brett isn’t nearly as concerned.
One reason for that is because Tua’s position coach, Darrell Bevell, is a good friend of Brett’s and “one of the better coaches in the league.”
On top of Bevell’s excellent coaching, Tua has “great knowledge of the game,” as well as “anticipation and … good rhythm,” he explains to Jason.
Further, Brett also thinks Tua has found a way to compensate for his questionable arm strength. “He throws the ball so far in advance before the guy comes out of his break,” he says, and he knows how to “[play] within his own strengths and weaknesses.”
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Football season is back and in full swing.
One topic of debate for the 2023 season is whether or not Deion Sanders will lead the University of Colorado Boulder in a positive direction as the team’s new head coach.
Jason Whitlock and former NFL players Warren Sapp, Seth Joyner, and Brett Favre get heated as they deliberate the subject.
“I'm fully in because the man is so consistent and patient with them young men, and then he surrounded himself with great … coaches,” says Sapp, who’s been down to Boulder to see Sanders in action.
“He’s got a great staff with him, and the kids are all in,” he tells Whitlock, adding that “when [Sanders] in front of them talking … it's almost like they're in a trance.”
But Whitlock isn’t convinced. “Great players I don’t think make great coaches,” he says.
“There’s always an exception to the rules,” interjects Brett Favre.
“What is it about Deion, besides him being a great player, that makes you doubt?” asks Seth Joyner.
“Arrogance,” answers Whitlock. “You're incredibly gifted,” he tells the three former NFL players, but “I think a lot of times incredibly gifted people have flaws that their gifts make up for, but they think their flaws are part of their strength, and Deion was not the greatest corner to ever play the game in my opinion because of his arrogance.”
“The arrogance to me is a shield … for some insecurity,” Whitlock continues, “and just to be quite honest, when I see people that over the top, when I see people … still wearing gold chains at 56 – that's some insecurity.”
“Just got a little male jealousy,” says Sapp, clearly in staunch opposition to Whitlock’s opinions about Deion.
“I really don't,” retorts Whitlock, assuring that he “would love for Deion to be a success, [but] humility is at the foundation of all sustainable success.”
“You can't talk about his kids and what they can and what they can't do in the national media and think he ain't gonna come at you,” warns Joyner, who sees Deion’s overconfidence as an asset.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg, or shall we say volcano.
To hear their full debate, watch the clip below.
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Like many institutions in America, the NFL seems to be getting too soft — and Jason Whitlock is not pleased.
“I’m not real comfortable with where the NFL has gone in terms of softness,” Whitlock says.
Warren Sapp, a former defensive tackle who helped win Tampa Bay’s first Super Bowl title, agrees, joking that it should be called the “National Fluff League.”
“We play a game that you can go down, and we all take that risk going into it, you know, with our children and our moms and everything, but we got to finish this game,” Sapp adds.
Whitlock believes the NFL has been “demonizing” hard hits on other players for years, noting that Sapp himself was “demonized for a hit on an offensive lineman."
Seth Joyner, who was a linebacker in the NFL and helped bring the Denver Broncos to a Super Bowl victory in 1998, believes it’s important to remember how the NFL got to this point.
“When a multibillion-dollar industry gets sued for $760 million,” Joyner explains, “that’s gonna have reverberations all the way down through every level of football.”
However, Joyner believes that for all the danger the game of football brings, it’s worth it.
“People were like ‘Oh I can’t believe you let your son play football.’ I’m like, I learned more from football than the college degree that I got, okay? There’s no way I wouldn’t let him play now,” he says.
“We had a rule, we talked about it. I said, you got three concussions, and then you’re done,” he adds.
Brett Favre, a famed NFL quarterback who most famously played for the Green Bay Packers, believes the rules and regulations that have been added surrounding things like concussions are a good thing.
Favre spoke to an expert who asked him how many concussions he’d had, to which Favre responded three or four where he blacked out.
“And he said how about a thousand or thousands, and I thought, this guy is crazy,” Favre recalls.
The expert told him that every time he saw stars, or his ears were ringing, those were concussions too.
“I said, ‘So when do you think it’s safe to play tackle football?’ He said, ‘Never.’”
“There’s truth in that,” Joyner responds. “The human body was not designed to be in 60-something car wrecks a game.”
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Former NFL players Brett Favre and Warren Sapp will join BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock's "Fearless" as contributors, appearing on the program each week during the upcoming NFL season to offer expert analysis.
Favre and Sapp are both in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
"I'm thrilled to have Brett and Warren joining me at 'Fearless' this NFL season. As seasoned veterans, they will provide our audience with unparalleled knowledge of the game and unfiltered opinions about the top teams and player performance," Whitlock said in a statement.
Favre will appear for an hour each Wednesday to offer analysis from an offensive perspective, while Sapp will appear on the program on Thursdays to supply a defensive perspective.
Whitlock will welcome the NFL veterans to the "Fearless" team with an exclusive event at his Nashville studio on September 7 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. CT. People who are interested in attending should stay tuned to learn about how to obtain tickets for the event.
Whitlock, whose show averages more than 12 million views and downloads per month, recently interviewed Democratic presidential primary candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Whitlock & RFK Jr. Debate Trump, Biden, Affirmative Action, Climate Change, and Lockdowns | Ep 509 www.youtube.com
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The New Orleans Saints bounty scandal, also known as “Bountygate,” happened over 10 years ago — but NFL MVP Brett Favre has joined Jason Whitlock on “Fearless” to discuss it now.
The scandal itself was an incident in which Saints players were accused of being paid bonuses, or “bounties,” for purposely injuring players on opposing teams.
Favre says “Bountygate” doesn’t bother him, and Whitlock wants to know why.
“Why doesn’t the bounty thing bother you?” Whitlock asks.
“Well, I think they’re always out to get the quarterback or the star running back,” Favre says.
“I mean,” he continues, “there’s a way to do it, there’s a way not to do it. It’s the way the Saints did it was the way not to do it. But I can’t say that I was hit any different than I’ve been hit in my career up to that point.”
Favre recalls that early on in his career, he thought offering bounties was “just the way it was.”
According to Favre, past coaches would walk into the locker room and say things like, “‘You know we got the Kansas City Chiefs tomorrow, I got $5,000 for whoever takes Steve DeBerg out.’”
He says he just thought that “it was a way to motivate the guys to get the best player out of the game.”
While according to sources, Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma put a $10,000 bounty on Favre’s head, he says he’s not going to blame a loss on the bounty.
“I still had a chance to make a play. Just one play. I made some good ones, I played my heart out, but I needed one more, and I didn’t do it, and it wasn’t because of the bounty.”
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Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre has publicly declared his support for Tucker Carlson and called for a boycott of Fox News.
"I'm with Tucker. Time to boycott Fox until they come to their senses and let the man speak," Favre tweeted on Monday.
Two weeks ago, Fox News Media claimed in a press release that the network and Carlson had "agreed to part ways." But Carlson did not appear to anticipate the split because during what turned out to be his last episode, he had signed off by saying, "We'll be back on Monday."
Reports indicate that Carlson is still under contract with the company. Favre's tweet contains a video that features Megyn Kelly suggesting that Fox and Carlson have not reached a deal and that Fox is muzzling Carlson and expecting that viewers will still tune in to the channel.
"They are banking on you coming back to them," Kelly said on her show last week. "That's what's happening here. Keep him silent on the sidelines for as long as possible," Kelly said.
The video Favre posted also features clips of Carlson, and near the end of the video, on-screen text urges people to "BOYCOTT FOX NEWS!"
\u201cI\u2019m with Tucker. Time to boycott Fox until they come to their senses and let the man speak.\u201d— Brett Favre (@Brett Favre) 1683554640
Shortly after his show was nixed, Carlson released a brief video on Twitter that has amassed more than 24 million views.
Fox's ratings have taken a hit without Carlson helming the 8 p.m. primetime slot, and some people have canceled their subscriptions to the Fox Nation streaming service.
"My family is boycotting FoxNews. We watched it daily. No more," one person wrote in response to Favre's tweet.
"I'm with Tucker! I'm done with FOX News!" someone else wrote.
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