Beatdown.

Of course, Jimmy G.

Former Patriots quarterback, wasn't good.

Stephen A.

Should his job be in jeopardy as the starter?

It should.

It should.

And and I don't say that pleasantly because I'm routing for Cam Newton.

But he has looked horrible.

Uh, in his last four games, he's throwing two touchdowns and seven interceptions.

Um, the reeds air wrong going through his progressions.

Obviously, not quick enough.

Um, his throws air not accurate, which is something that I've always lamented.

Um, and I do understand and to put things in its proper context.

Let's all remember that, particularly with McKeel Harry, who for some reason can't get open to save his life.

Once he went down with the ankle injury that left Cam new and with Julian Edelman, uh, Me Bird and Jacoby Meyers, not Jacoby and Meyers.

The law from Jacoby Meyers.

That's the name of the receive.

Okay, you don't have much to work with, and we understand that.

But here's the flip side to it again.

There were time there were throws that he made where it didn't seem like he's understood the offense.

On Sunday, he was making the wrong play.

He wasn't reacting quick enough.

Health wise, he didn't seem on top of his game.

All of these things are true, and then I want to bring this into this proper perspective.

Ladies and gentlemen, I want everybody to understand the significance of all of this.

Tom Brady.

On the same day that Cam was sticking up Foxboro, Tom Brady was in Tampa putting on the show or Vegas.

I think, I think, was Vegas putting on the show 369 yards passing, etcetera, etcetera.

On that same day on that same field, Jimmy Garoppolo, who was supposed to be Tom Brady successor, was out.

Playing can do it.

And on that same day, the Carolina Panthers, even though they have lost to the seats, had a quarterback and Teddy Bridgewater who doesn't look bad credit to you because Max Kellerman always water.

He's always been a supporter.

Teddy Bridgewater.

So I'm talking about three quarterbacks all looking better than Kim Kim, who was supposed to be in Carolina.

Matt Rule in the new organization said, Hey, we don't want him anymore and they let him go, even though I don't like the way they treated him.

But you sit there.

Signed Teddy Bridgewater.

The $63 million.3 year contract.

He's looking good there.

Three and three playing 500 but they got a better record than New England.

You've got Jimmy Garoppolo.

He comes back.

He's looking better than Cam Newton.

You got Tom Brady that's looking like an M V P candidate.

It ain't just Cam Newton.

It's looking bad.

Is Bill better?

Check this looking back and oh, by the way, let me ask you this, and I leave this to y'all when I think about this.

Max, when have you ever seen Bill Belichick walk over to a player on the sideline and pat him on the shoulder or whatever?

Pat him on the leg after benching him like looking sympathetic towards a player?

What does that happen?

Take your time.

I'll wait.

Take your time, E.

Listen, but other players have I have never seen Bill Belichick appear again.

I don't know.

I'm only going by what i e.

I have never seen Bill Belichick appear to look sympathetic and feel sorry.

No, you're right.

For one of his players until Sunday.

I noticed that.

I'll tell you what that means.

He knows he needs camp.

That's what that means.

That's why I don't think you bench Cam and I'll tell you something else.

They started the season with a win against the Dolphins, which now looks like a quality win recall.

Tom Brady and Julian Edelman, who was a year younger last year, Um, like cameras working with maybe less even than Brady was working with and with no continuity, no knowledge of the offense.

Just kind of walks in in the middle of the offseason trying to learn everything.

Beat that same team, that Dolphins team that the Patriots really needed to beat last year and couldn't.

I thought, Okay, that's a nice win.

Followed that up with loss against Seattle, and I know it's no moral victories, right?

I disagree.

In that game, that was one hell of a game by both quarterbacks.

Cam looked like he belonged, like right there with Russell Wilson.

It was unclear to me who the better quarterback was.

That's how good I thought Cam looked.

I loved that game and then he had a bad game against the Raiders.

This you know, But they won the game and I thought, Wow.

Even when Camp's not as sharp as he was early, they led by Cam.

They wanted it.

Turns out that's a pretty quality win against the Raiders, too, isn't it?

And then he got covert and missed the chief's game.

And then, since he's come back from Cove it he hasn't been good.

But who knows when he contracting Cove it right?

Like, could might that be an explanation for the performance against the Raiders, where he led well but didn't play?

Well?

Bill Belichick is answering questions about whether he thinks Cam is suffering from lingering effects of that disease.

And I don't know, and I'm not looking for excuses for Cam, but I am looking for explanations.

How does a guy go from looking so good early and ascending toe looking so bad recently?

Recall Jimmy Garoppolo, Stephen A.

You just brought up Garoppolo.

He got yanked in that Dolphins massacre against the 40 Niners.

He had, he had a bad ankle, there was something wrong and you could tell that they there's something wrong with.

Then he got healthy and he looked great.

Hey, look great And if anything, I know.

I know the Patriots have had defection or or opt outs off the defense and stuff, but we've seen the Patriots defense look good this year, and Garoppolo, a healthy Garoppolo look great.

I think it's possible that Cam is not 100% right now, But even if he is, Belichick knows this dude is my only choice.

That's what the pat on the back to campus.

That's what the sympathies about my star is hitched to his wagon.

I need this dude to be the best version of what he could be.

You can't bench him yet.

Yeah, we could.

We could ask the question.

Should his job being Jeffrey.

He keep playing like this.

His job is gone.

It's going to go to Jared Stidham.

Listen, you can't You cannot justify what Cam has done the last two weeks, and I'm with Steven.

They like I want to see Cam have success and what he did early in this season.

But could I just interject this into the conversation?

Could we be seeing why a bunch of teams were afraid to sign him?

Is it is it something that people knew before it came out publicly about Cam.

Would he wear down at this point of the season that Max, I think you bring up a great point about covert as well was that Is that a part of what Cam is suffering with?

Listen for as bad at ISAS, it has looked.

It's three interceptions in 15 passes.

Y'all, it's one per five, right?

And we're thinking about all of the things that could have transpired for him to look the way he looks.

It's it's justifiable toe.

Think that way.

Like did this adversely affect him in a way that we did not know?

But now we get onto the field, and when you ask the question, should his job be in jeopardy?

The answer is yes, because this job is predicated on Cam being Superman.

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