Mike'd Up: The Mike Francesa Show

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Was Mike a decent CB 40 years and 80 pounds ago?

He is playing this first game up the middle. Praise for everyone. Brady and BB playing with house money because of the tremendous losses this year. Tons of pressure on Manning.
 
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Mystic Merlin said:
For an 'old school' guy, Mike pays no attention to special teams, which is where the Pats have their biggest advantage.
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This is even more hilarious when you factor in how he harps on Parcells placing such an emphasis on special teams. "It's 1/3 of the game." He has always repeated some version of this statement for years.
 
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I have done 70 Pats games the last 10 years. I have NEVER seen Tom Brady so confident. I have been thinking about this the last 36 hours. Forget this running stuff. I think they will come out throwing the ball.
 
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Mike, who picked the Colts and his new favorite, Luck, last week, now trying to sell the idea that the Colts game wasn't a tough one for the Pats. You have to love it.
 
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Mike fuck you. STILL going on and on about how the Pats KNEW secret plays the rams were using that had NEVER been revealed so of course that means the pats stole them.
 
Wish he was as vituperative about the Junkees and their institutional usage and involvement in steroids and how it made their team very successful for a short while
 
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" how is it fair to knock manning and not knock the pats?" Umm because one team had a dynasty and the other one has a sub 500 playoff record
 
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One caller after another is calling him out about the Pats and he's starting to lose it.

This is great, great stuff.


What were they saying to him?
 
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They were basically just very calmly pointing out the usual points - that Spygate proved nothing, that he didn't like Belichick, that the Pats have been the most dominant/successful team of the last 15 years... and that rational approach just drove him around the bend.  Not quite into full meltdown mode, but pretty close.
 
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And Mike himself repeatedly talks about how the blowouts that the 90s Cowboys, and a few Niners teams, among other multiple-time champs in previous eras, handed out are a thing of the past because of free agency and general parity. He just said 2 hours ago that the days of 'dominant' teams are long gone.

The contradictions keep piling up.
 
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I turned it off in the midst of it.  I've heard all his SpyGate rantings before, and they just get me riled up.   FYI, for those who missed it, the proof of SpyGate is that once the Rams changed their offense, the Pats couldn't stop them.  Of course, why it took 3 quarters for the Rams to change their offense is never answered.   Nor it it considered that the Rams drove into the Pats territory on their first three drives of the game, nor that the Rams punted on the series between the one in which they scored their first and their second TD in the fourth quarter.   When SpyGate is the storyline, all recollection of facts must be adjusted to fit the storyline.  
 
Unless he's interviewing someone or giving away Super Bowl tickets, he's really not worth anyone's time.  
 
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fightingirish595 said:
"Pats won 3 superbowls by only 3 points each" didnt the giants win Super Bowls by 3,4, and 1 point each. He never brings that up
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That detail never seems to come up, or that the 1 point win was against Scott "wide right" Norwood. With plays that need not be mentioned now, his G-men have been arguably the luckiest SB franchise ever. 
 
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It is amazing to me the number of times this guy takes a day off right after a big event like this.  You'd think that he'd be eager to talk about yesterday's big games while its still top of mind with all his listeners.  You'd like his bosses might like that too.  Wasn't he off right after the World Series too?
 
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MLK Day?
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Yeah..the Knicks played the Nets at 2:30 P.M in the annual MLK  NBA day game. WFAN is the broadcast home of the Nets. Still, he could have come on for a short show from 1 P.M. to 2:30 P.M. If I remember correctly, he did exactly that last week when the Nets had the London game.
 
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Yeah..the Knicks played the Nets at 2:30 P.M in the annual MLK  NBA day game. WFAN is the broadcast home of the Nets. Still, he could have come on for a short show from 1 P.M. to 2:30 P.M. If I remember correctly, he did exactly that last week when the Nets had the London game.
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Well, maybe he had to take care of kids if they didn't have school... but mostly I was joking.
 
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Yeah..the Knicks played the Nets at 2:30 P.M in the annual MLK  NBA day game. WFAN is the broadcast home of the Nets. Still, he could have come on for a short show from 1 P.M. to 2:30 P.M. If I remember correctly, he did exactly that last week when the Nets had the London game.
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Years ago I heard a black caller call Jim Rome around MLK day and tell Rome that he loved his show but wished he would take MLK day off. He felt like working on MLK day while taking other holidays off was diminishing to the Holiday. I think Rome took it to heart. I have no idea if this has anything to do with why Francessa was not on today, but it was something I never thought of until I heard that guy's call
 
edited: because I don't know that know is not the same as no
 
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bankshot1 said:
I assume we'll get an "I told you so" on the Pats D today But I wonder if he'll kill BB over the Welker/Talib comments. .
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He'll note that "we were right" on the AFCCG.  His use of the royal "we" for his betting picks is simultaneously grating and ironic, given his general antipathy for his listeners.
 
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last year we would have beaten baltimore with talib, but this year im not sure it wouldve made a difference, tom brady wasnt good enough with or without talib on defense
 
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Great moment there. Caller brings up the roughing the punter game in the NFCCG. Mike gets confused and thinks he's talking about the AFCCG. He talks about it as if it happened in the Pats - Broncos game: "One play wouldn't have changed that game… The Pats wouldn't have won."
 
Two minutes later someone must have whispered in his headset, "Oh wait, which game? Tell me what happened."
 
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I'm wondering if you guys can help me out.  I'm not sure if Mike thought it was significant that Harbaugh failed to take the penalty after the missed roughing the kicker call.  I didn't quite get the point the first 75 times that he stated it.
 
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"Heah are some Soopah Bowl mittens... they awnt really mittens cuz dey have finguhs... uhkay?... mittens... dey ah really gloves.  Soopah Bowl mittens... Soopah Bowl gloves..."
 
On the hand warmer... "Ya put yoooooah hands in heah... it's furry and wawm.  Put ya hands in heah."
 
What a creepy weirdo...
 
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Leaving in a bit to the studio :)
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Watching Mike try to put on earmuffs for about two minutes was strangely riveting.
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Just did a piece on the swag bag on the NYC local news.  Looks like a gaiter and a hand muff have been added (or Mike never got to them).
 
For those not in the metro area, the reason there may have been 5+ hours of weather talk is because that is all we're seeing and hearing on the local news.  Everything is coming up just short of all sides acknowledging it was a bad idea.  (one of Mike's repeated points to callers today was that IF the weather holds and IF the game is played on schedule and IF it doesn't take moving heaven and earth to get the game played, then it wasn't a bad idea to hold the game at Met Life.  It's only a bad idea IF they have to move the game.)
 
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Mike on with Marshall Faulk.  Same bullshit when talking about great offense vs. great defense in the Super Bowl.  First off, Marshall says the Patriots didn't have a great defense.  Then, Mike says "when Martz made the adjustments from the obvious thing we all know went on your team started to go up and down the field at will on them".  Also says "that the Patriots knew they wouldn't win the game in OT so that's why they had to go for the win at the end of regulation".
 
Waaaaa-waaaa Marshall.  Give it up.
 
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