Michael Lombardi joined us on Mad Radio to discuss the Patriots, Deshaun Watson, the Khalil Mack trade, and more.  Sean Pendergast and I discussed the final episode of Hard Knocks: Cleveland Browns. 1:50  Attacking the middle of the field with Gronk is key to the Patriots offense. 3:00  Patriots don’t talk about attacking coverages, “They’re talking about attacking the adjustments in the coverage” 3:40  On Belichick. “His whole emphasis in the first quarter is to figure out what the game plan actually is and make the adjustments” 4:40 Challenge for Pats is do they play their front 7 that has trouble with horizontal speed.   5:30 Patriots team speed on defense is not as fast as it needs to be.  “When your mike linebacker is slow, your defense is slow” 7:00 On the Khalil Mack trade, Michael points out that the Patriots traded away Chandler Jones for a 2nd round pick.  He’s gone on to get 28 sacks for the Cardinals. 8:00 The system is built to avoid holdouts 12:00 Eagles converted 3rd and long at an extremely high rate last year. Can they sustain that this year? 12:30 Michael thinks the Texans were better coordinated under Romeo Crennel, doesn’t think the Titans are that talented football team 15:30 I weigh in on Steelers players openly criticizing Leveon Bell’s holdout 18:25 Hard Knocks Cleveland with Sean Pendergast 23:00 We wonder why Hue Jackson would tell somebody to just “keep doing what you’re doing” as they’re getting cut by the Browns!

Michael Lombardi covered a broad range of topics, including Jalen Ramsey's criticism of Rob Gronkowski.  Then Paul Gallant and I took a goofy romp through the NFL, and somehow tied the Black Death to football.

Seth has his weekly visit with Michael Lombardi and they discuss the prospect of the Texans going to the Super Bowl. Then he and Sean Pendergast recap this week’s Hard Knocks and Very Cavallari.

Seth and Paul Gallant wrap up the latest NFL news and discuss the motivational work of Stephen A. Smith and Jim Harbaugh.

Very excited to have longtime NFL personnel man Michael Lombardi on every week. Usually we'll have him on Thursdays, but we had some technical glitches yesterday. We hit on a bunch of stuff around the league today, including:
The Browns' plan(?) for Dez Bryant
Teddy Bridgewater's comeback from injury, and Sam Darnold's processing speed.

It’s a race for the inevitable interim head coach job, and Todd Haley nudged out Gregg Williams this week.

Life's pretty scary. Kids are addicted to smart phones, live streamers are making $1 million per year, and D.J. Swearinger is making dudes flinch. Paul and I talk about all of it on Short Attention Span Tuesday.

There were twelve games on Thursday night, featuring some big NFL debuts and some big names with questions surrounding them. How did Baker Mayfield, Saquon Barkley, Andrew Luck, and others fare?