Three-time Super Bowl champion & former New England Patriots linebacker/special teams player Matt Chatham goes deep on his former team, breaking down the games with a professional eye & previewing the upcoming contests with other insightful former players, including FBF's own Brady Quinn and Brady Poppinga. A Patriots show that majors in real expert analysis of the game action, and not fluff & hot takes. Real football analysis by real football players...that's the REAL THING Patriots podcast.
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IN THE GAME: Why Can't NFL Stop Screwing Up Football?
Matt Chatham & Brady Poppinga return to rummage through the mess the NFL has made of a hard-to-screw-up game like football. The guys give an in-depth, player's perspective on a terrible Week 4 where despite all wrong, the NFL just won't admit their own foolishness. The product on the field is increasingly choppy, and fans appear to be noticing with NFL viewship for primetime games down for the first time in a long time. The incessant game interruptions by the referees are making a great sport into a product that's harder and harder to watch. The game isn't "better than ever." as Commissioner Roger Goodell likes to say. Nobody but Roger believes that. And to make matters even worse, the game interruptions are for trifling nonsense the league is gleefully allowing to change the course of games -- like the unsportsmanlike penalty on Redskins cornerback Josh Norman for pretending to shoot a bow and arrow. The league should so easily be much better than it's become under current "leadership." The guys dig into why the league loves its rules footnotes more than the game of football itself, and how to change things before it's too late... Finally, the guys preview the biggest upcoming games of Week 5, including the return of Tom Brady to the New England Patriots, and what to expect from an energized Pats offense. Enjoy!