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BLOG: Welcome To Your Tape ... Steve Spagnuolo, Barrett Brooks & Marshall Faulk

Tonight's post goes out to all the formers players who believe they were robbed out of Super Bowl title, because the Patriots allegedly cheated.

Yup, Steve Spagnuolo, Barrett Brooks, Marshall Faulk, and other former players who feel cheated by the Patriots, welcome to your tape.

Former Pittsburgh Steelers' offensive tackle Barrett Brooks joined Gary Tanguay, and Michael Felger on Comcast Sports New England on Tuesday night inside the Mall of America. And boy, did Brooks give us a the most laughable quote, when he admitted that every team attempts to steal signs.

"It's not cheating, unless you get caught."

Did he really just say that? "It's not cheating, unless you get caught."

Seriously, Barrett? That's like saying you weren't speeding on the highway, despite going 85 in a 65-mph zone, because you didn't get pulled over. No, you were still were still speeding, you were just lucky enough, this time, to avoid being seen by the blue lights.

Cheating is the same. It doesn't matter if someone catches you or not, it's still cheating. In school, when you were taking a test, happen to glance at your buddy's test to see his answer to question number three, and the teacher didn't see you, that's still cheating! It's black and white. But, Brooks hates the Patriots, so there's no convincing him otherwise.

He still feels cheated out of a chance to play in the Super Bowl, believing the Patriots defense knew what the Steelers offensive package was before they even lined up on offense. Sorry, Barrett but that's not believable. While they may not know the definitive formation before you actually line up, they can make a highly, educated guess on what it is by who is trotting out to the field.

See Barrett in the game of football, players' numbers give away a lot of information. When the opposing defense sees certain numbers jogging onto the field, it's a tell and the Patriots watch a lot of game film. In addition to knowing how their opponents play, Patriots players and coaches also study the little things - the mannerisms of how players walk, run and stands around on the field. By knowing this, they don't need see the other team lineup to know what type of package is out there. They know pretty quickly if it's a single set back, or if there are two tight ends out there, whatever it is they have a pretty good idea of what it is.

That's not very hard and, in fact, I bet many football fans can probably figure that out too.

But, it gets better. Ex-Eagles linebacker coach Steve Spagnuolo said on a local Philadelphia sports radio station today (97.5 The Fanatic) that he believed the Patriots knew the Eagles' defensive signals in Super Bowl XXXIX. Spagnuolo thought that because Tom Brady got the ball out pretty, that meant the Patriots knew when the Eagles were blitzing.

Not so fast coach. That's one of Brady's strengths. Like the rest of the Patriots coaching staff, Brady watches and studies so much game film that he's able to to decipher what a defense is going to do before he snaps the ball. He even knows, before he snaps the ball, if his first and second reads will be open. Sorry coach, but your theory doesn't hold a lot of water.

Apparently Bowling For Soup's 2006 hit song is right, high school never ends. It's still not cool to study and be a nerd. Instead of burying your head in books, it's immersing yourself in game film for hours, not cool according to many current and former players.

WEEI's Ordway, Merloni & Fauria: Steve Spagnuolo, and Barrett Brooks accuse the Patriots of cheat in 2004 (Jan. 30, 2018)

Video of the Day: 15 Things You Didn't Know About Apple

15 Things You Didn't Know About Apple

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1. Apple Actually Had Three Founders: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne

2. Apple Was Started With A Calculator

3. Steve Was Adopted By Paul and Clara Jobs, And He Is The Legitimate Son of Abulfattah Jandali and Joanne Schieble

4. In 1996 Apple Started A Clothing Line That Failed Completely

5. Apple Owns The Patent For The "Slide To Unlock" Feature

6. Apple iPad's Retina Display Is Actually Manufactured By Samsung

7. Steve Jobs "Invented" The Computer Mouse By Stealing It From Xerox

8. Jonathan Ive, Has Worn The Same T-Shirt In Every Apple Product Intro Video Since 2000

9. The Mac Battery Is Bulletproof

Don't know if you really want to find out if this is actually true or not. 

10. Bill Gates Stole Windows From Apple, Just Like Mark Zuckerberg Stole Facebook From The Winklevoss Twins

11, Steve Jobs Forced Microsoft To Save Apple, Inc. in 1997

12. The Most Expensive iPhone In The World Costs $15 Million

13. Apple Has More Cash On Hand Than The U.S. Treasury

14. If Apple Were To Go On A Shopping Spree, It Could Buy Almost 80% Of The Top 500 Companies In America

15. In The Last Years Of His Life Steve Jobs Declared War On Google

Bonus

16. Apple announced it will come out with an electric car in the next five years

BLOG: Welcome To Your Tape, Roger Goodell

Well, well, well, Roger, did you really think you'd slip through the cracks and not be here? Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and the Patriots are back in the Super Bowl for the eighth time.

Ok maybe this time is different. Did anyone really want to see a Philadelphia-Jacksonville Super Bowl? That probably would have been the first game where the NFL would've had to PAY advertisers for commercial spots, and Justin Timberlake would've, at the last minute, said "I pass." We were one play away in the AFC Championship game of having a one-man street band at halftime and an empty U.S. Bank Stadium.

It's a good thing the Patriots are in it. More eyes glued to their television sets on February 4, more butts in the seats, means more money in Goodell's pocket. But can Goodell really be happy seeing Belichick, Brady and the Patriots back in the Super Bowl for an eighth time?

These are the guys he went after two years ago. Plucking their 2016 first- and fourth- round draft picks. Fining the team the largest amount in the history of the NFL - $1 million. And suspending its Hall of Fame quarterback, who had won four out of six championships to that date, for four games to begin the 2016 season. Four games, four games, the same amount of games he suspended Dallas Cowboys' defensive end, Greg Hardy, who was accused of grabbing his girlfriend by her hair, throwing her into furniture, AND threatening to kill her.

Apparently being "generally aware" of deflating footballs and "failing to comply with the League's investigation" equates to domestic violence. Well, in Goodell's head.

In the first of six, 15-minute installments of Brady's newest documentary, "Tom vs. Time" on Facebook Watch, Brady admits to saving the official suspension letter in his 2016 scrapbook. A little extra motivation for a man who really doesn't need much more motivation. (He still sees himself as the sixth round draft pick no body wanted, who couldn't even start on his winless high school team.)

When the Patriots completed the historic comeback against the Falcons in last year's Super Bowl, Goodell looked embarrassingly uncomfortable standing on stage, as he handed the Lombardi Trophy to Bob Kraft for the eighth time. The following day at the Super Bowl MVP trophy presentation you could cut the tension with a knife.

You know all Goodell was thinking, as he handed the MVP trophy to Brady, "how the hell did you beat me again?" as he's standing there smiling in front of hundreds of cameras.

He did get you Mr. Goodell.

BLOG: Welcome To Your Tape, Alex Reimer

Did you ever meet someone who is so desperate to be successful, and try very, very hard to mimic other successful people, but at every step along the journey he ends up falling flat on his face? Well that person is no one other than Alex Reimer.

Reimer really shouldn't be this high up on the 13 Reasons Why list and wasn't until last Friday. He was a relatively tame, but when he decided, against better judgement, to call Tom Brady's young five-year-old daughter "an annoying pissant," Reimer took the express elevator straight to jerk-status. 

What he said was indefensible. Rule number one of being a talk-show personality is, not only do you not go after family members of public people - especially children, but you also don't go after those who can't defend themselves. Brady's young daughter, Vivian, is five years old. All she wants is daddy's attention, and play soccer with her babysitter. You don't go after that innocence. 

It doesn't matter how talented Reimer is as a writer, and sports radio personality, according to Boston Herald columnist Steve Buckley, he killed all that, and possibly his career, with a foolish choice of words late last week. 

Reimer sees the success Kirk Minihane has attained with his eccentric, outlandish outbursts, that have gotten him into trouble occastionally, on WEEI's morning show Kirk & Callahan, and Reimer wants that. He wants to be Kirk, so he acts like him. 

When you take a step back and really realize that's what Reimer wants, it's incredibly sad. He's a 24-year-old kid, fresh out of Boston University, who already experience a good chunk of success and was on the right path, but he was not there yet. He is not at Kirk's level yet. He doesn't have the experience Kirk or Gerry Callahan have to have that acerbic wit. But yet he desperately wants it. 

In Reimer's case, you have to feel sorry for him. He's not really a jerk, he's just doesn't have the self-awareness yet. He's a 24-year-old kid. 

Video of the Day: #Entspresso Be PREPARED To Be MISUNDERSTOOD

Mark Zuckerberg: Someone ALWAYS Wants To SLOW You DOWN

Evan Carmichael

Haters gonna hate! 

BLOG: Welcome To Your Tape, Max Kellerman

The Patriots are back in the Super Bowl for the second straight year and third time in four years, which makes football fans outside the six New England states absolutely miserable. But for Patriots Nation the game is still a week away. Pats fans are going to get restless. One can only take so much hype that is the week leading up to big game.

However Pats fans, I got you covered with a spoof of the hit Netflix drama series "13 Reasons Why." I know present you with "13 Reasons Why The Patriots Are Back In The Super Bowl."

Up first, ESPN commentator and known Brady-hater, Max Kellerman.

During the summer of 2016, just prior to start of training camp and before Brady began his four-game "vacation" handed down by Commissioner Goodell,  Kellerman began his lovely soliloquy of the demise of Tom Brady. The New York native and Ivy League graduate prefaced his initial rant by praising the Patriots' quarterback and everything he's accomplished, before getting down to the meet of the story. Without mincing any words, Kellerman went as far as saying "Brady will be a bum in short order." And the cliff is coming.

The Patriots made it back to the Super Bowl for the second time in three years where they faced the high-flying, potent offense of the Dirty Birdz. As we all know, the Patriots looked pitiful for the first three quarters of the game, and was highlighted by Tom Brady's first playoff pick six right into the waiting hands of Falcons defensive back, Robert Alford.

The picture of Brady getting up from the turf only to watch Alford running it back for the score to put Atlanta up 21-0 was demoralizing, but nonetheless Kellerman found solace in it. At that moment, his one word tweet said it all.

Cliff

— Max Kellerman (@maxkellerman) February 6, 2017

Despite the Brady and the Patriots completing the biggest comeback in Super Bowl history to win his fifth title and fourth MVP, the following day Kellerman still went on ESPN's First Take and said Brady can still fall off a cliff.

Kellerman's cliff talk didn't end with Brady continuing to perform at a high-level to begin the 2017 season. In October when Brady missed his first Wednesday practice for first time, "cliff talk" reared its ugly head again.

Patriots earn the No. 1 seed, a first-round by and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs with a 13-3, but it still doesn't convince Kellerman. Before the Patriots first playoff game against the Tennessee Titans, Kellerman went on the air and proclaimed "Brady was the quarterback in the playoffs that had the most to prove."

Brady carved up the dismal Titans, completing 35 of 53 passes for 337 yards, while throwing three touchdowns for a quarterback rating of 102.5. But still not swaying Kellerman. Apparently the cliff is still coming.

One of these days, Max will be right. But by then Brady may have his sixth (or seventh) ring by that point.

Video of the Day: Tony Robbins's Top 10 Rules For Success

Tony Robbins' Top 10 Rules For Success Vol. 3

Evan Carmichael

1.  Find Fulfillment

It's about enjoying the PROCESS of a goal, not actually attaining the goal itself. 

2. Feed Your Mind With Greatness

3. Own Your Business

4. Change Your Story

"Things are impossible until somebody does it." 

5. Be Obsessed With Adding Value

6. Focus

7. Diversify

8. Live Your Mission

9. Believe

10. Let It Go

BONUS

Create Raving Fans

Give

Video of the Day: Real Life Trick Shots 2

Real Life Trick Shots 2

DudePerfect

Throwing the trash up and over the railing into the bag was pretty impressive, but so too was dropping the backpack down and perfectly landing on Ty's shoulders. 

Why one was your favorite? 

Video of the Day: #BelieveLife Becoming A Better You

Five Steps To Becoming A BETTER YOU

Evan Carmichael

Love Yourself 

Tim Ferriss

Go Towards The Truth 

David Goggins

Stop Making Excuses

Robin Sharma

Learn How To Think Critically

Jordan B. Peterson

Prime Yourself

Tony Robbins

Video of the Day: How To Be A Leader

The Five Levels of Leadership

The Better Man Project

1. Position Level

2. Permission Level

3. Production Level

People follow you because you get results. 

4. People Development

5. Respect

Video of the Day: How To Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie: How To Win Friends & Influence People

The Better Man Project

1. If You're Wrong, Admit Quickly and Emphatically

2. Speak In Terms of the Other Person's Interests

3. Remember that a Person's Name is to that Person the Sweetest and Most Important Sound in Any Language

Video of the Day: 10 Things You Need To Know By 30

10 Things You Need To Know Before You Turn 30

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1. Life Is Not About You

2. Things Will Never Satisfy The Soul

3. Credit Cards Are Dangerous

4. Read More

5. Travel More

6. Save Money

7. Have A Healthy Lifestyle

Be like Tom Brady and join the TB12 method. He's reversing the aging process. 40 is the new 30!

8. It's You Who's Looking Back In The Mirror

9. Learn To Say "No"

10. Have Close Friends

10. 

Video of the Day: #Entspresso It's NOT Over UNTIL You WIN

Les Brown: It's NOT Over UNTIL You WIN

Evan Carmichael

Winning is not the end result. It's the process of winning. Winning is the consequence of the bigger process. Once you realize winning is not a result but a consequence of doing all the right things (i.e. working hard, believing yourself, having faith in oneself), only then do you start truly winning. Focus on the process of what it takes to become a winner. 

It doesn't matter what you start with. It's not about the lack of resources, or a lack of time. We all have 24 hours in a day. How do you use it? 

Video of the Day: The Fresh Prince's Top 10 Rules For Success

Will Smith's Top 10 Rules For Success Vol. 3

Evan Carmichael

1. Focus On The People

2. Take A Shot

3. Always Be Joyous

"Identify the negative, but focus on the positive."

4. Be Motivated By Fear

5. Always Look Forward

6. Be Yourself

7. Experiment

I'll never forget the first time I got called "Hello Ms. Graham" in an email. 

8. Have A Strong "Why?"

9. Put Positive Energy In The World

10. Have Fun

Bonus:

Fail Loud

Hang On To The Beauty

Do Things For The Right Reasons

Video of the Day: How To Manage Your Money Like The Rich

How To Properly Mange Your Money Like The Rich

Tom Ferry

Video of the Day: 12 Reasons Why Smart People Fail in Business

12 Reasons Why Smart People Fail in Business

Valuetainment

1. Beginner's Mindset Disappears

2. Too Conservative

3. Over Promise / Under Deliver

If you're going to say it, you better be prepared to deliver. 

4. Fact Driven (Logic, Emotion)

Business needs emotions. There are times it needs to be fired up, especially if the numbers are down. 

5. The Me Mentality

It has to be about the people around you. It's not about you. It's about being a King-Maker.

6. Entitlement

7. Won't Admit Mistakes

8. Lack Of Selling Vision

9. Out-Smart Hart-Work

10. No High Road

11. Fear Of Adapting

12. Not Getting Your Hands Dirty

Video of the Day: Instant Confidence Hacks

Four Instant Confidence Hacks

The Better Man Project

1. Use a Powerful Pose

2. Grooming

3. Music

4. Exercise

Video of the Day: 15 Things You Should Know About Your Haters

15 Things You Should Know About Your Haters

Alux

1. If They Could Do It Better, They Would've Done It Already

2. They Want To Bring You Down To Justify Their Mediocre And Failed Life

3. They'll Never Amount To Anything Unless They Change

4. They Have A Limited Mindset

5. They're Not Happy

6. They're Scared Of Change

7. They're Filled With Envy

8. They'll Justify Your Success As Luck Instead of Hard Work

9. They Don't Really Know You

10. They Secretly Want To Be You

"They hate us 'cause they ain't us!" 

11. They Never Invest In Improving Themselves

12. They Stalk All Of Your Profiles

13. They Gossip About You With Their Friends

14. They're Only Going To Fuel Your Ambitions

15. Haters Gonna Hate

"Player's Gonna Play"

Bonus

16. One Week They Hate You, The Next Week They Love You. Make Sure You Get Paid Both Weeks!

Video of the Day: #Entspresso FAIL Your Way To SUCCESS

Michelle Obama: Do NOT Be Afraid To FAIL

Evan Carmichael

It's better to fail at something going big, then it is doing well at little things.

"You are who you consistently hang around with." - Evan Carmichael

"Become a no matter what person."

"Fail forward." - Lisa Nichols

Video of the Day: MLK's Top 10 Rules For Success

Martin Luther King's Top 10 Rules For Success

Evan Carmichael

1. Believe In Yourself

2. Be Fearless

3. Fight For Yourself

4. Keep Moving

5. Follow Your Morals

6. Act Now!

7. Be Determined To Achieve Excellence

Being great and having pride in everything you do every single day. 

8. Stay True To Your Principles

9. Stand For Something

10. Have A Dream

Bonus

Empower

Learn To Accept Mistakes

BLOG: It's Not About The Flag, It's About Creating Opportunities For All

It’s been nearly two weeks since Watertown sworn in its elected officials, including first time Town Council member Caroline Bays. Bays received a lot of backlash in the past two weeks after she knelt during the saying of the “Pledge of Allegiance.” It made news state-wide, when Fox25 picked it up this week.

Bays explains why she chose not to stand and say the “Pledge of Allegiance” in a Facebook post on last week. She “did so because [she] can not say ‘with liberty and justice for all’ while that is not true in our country. People of color throughout our nation do not experience the same right and privileges as white Americans.” No one listened to her reason, which is completely valid.

As citizens of the United States we all have the same freedoms and rights to do whatever we choose. We all like to believe everyone is equal and have the same opportunities, but the truth is not everyone is equal. And it has NOTHING to do with race. It has to do everything to do with opportunities.

Not everyone in this country is afforded with the same opportunities to do whatever they want, and it’s through no fault of their own. As Mark Zuckerberg said when he returned to Harvard to give the 2017 commencement address, “if I had to work to support his family, I probably never would’ve built Facebook.”

If Bill Gates was not afforded the opportunity to do real-time computer programming, and able to spend hours in the computer room as an eighth-grade student, he probably never would’ve started Microsoft. Gates was able to dedicate that amount of time to learning computers and programming, because he came from a wealthy background.

Gates parents sent him to the private school where he discovered computers. Zuckerberg attended prestigious, New Hampshire prep school, Phillips Exeter Academy. Both these schools led them to Harvard, where they met the people who would be instrumental in the creation of their ideas. Gates met Paul Allen, while Zuckerberg met the Winklevoss Twins, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.

When you have money, and grow up into a family that has resources, your world expands. You’re involved in more elite activities and surrounded by many successful and highly-educated people. Being around these people teaches you a lot. It teaches you how to act and talk around smart people, and almost through osmosis you pick up a little bit of what makes them successful.

You’re the average of the five people you spend most of your time with. And if you’re surrounded by smart and successful people, you most likely will be smart and successful.

But many people don’t have this opportunity. They may have grown up in a broken home with a single mother or single father, who had them at a young age, and are now working a minimum wage job at McDonalds just to afford a one-bedroom apartment in Brighton. They probably aren’t hanging out with smart or successful people that are pushing them to make the right decisions, so they make the wrong choice and end up continuing the cycle they are in.

What Councilor Bays wanted to get across is, while we like to pride ourselves as a nation of equality, we are not truly equal. There are always going to be people with greater opportunities for success. If you are one of those types of people who is benefiting from a tremendous opportunity, then it is your duty to help others who may not be as fortunate.

Video of the Day: How Successful People Think

How Successful People Think

The Better Man Project

"Little drops make big drops!" - Greg Sullivan

Video of the Day: 10 Morning Routine Habits of Successful People

10 Morning Routine Habits of Successful People

Practical Psychology

1. Make A To-Do List

2. Energize Themselves

3. Schedule Your Day

4. Wake Up Early

5. Affirmations and Visualizations

6. Gratefulness

7. Bond With Someone Early On

8. Clean From The Night Before

9. Silence

It's a beautiful thing! 

10. Read About What Happened The Night Before

Video of the Day: 15 Things You Didn't Know About Down Under

15 Things You Didn't Know About Australia

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1. Progress Oriented

2. It's Home to 7.000 Beaches

3. It's Sparsely Populated But Closest to the Coast

4. Longest Fence in the World

5. Longest Golf Course Worldwide

6. Moves Six Centimeters North Annually

7. Bob Hawke: Australia's Beer Minister

8. Foster's Is Not The Australian Drink of Choice

9. The Second Largest Greek Population

10. Rarest Animal Species

Koalas! 

11. Watch Out For the Box Jellyfish

12. Highest Number of Natural World Heritage Sites (UNESCO)

13. Almost Equal in Size to the United States

14. Weirdest Laws on Earth

15. Home to Several A-List Celebrities

BONUS FACT!

16. "The Matrix" Franchise was Shot There

Video of the Day: #Entspresso DEFINE Your Circle Of COMPETENCE

Warren Buffett: Make MONEY On THINGS You UNDERSTAND

Evan Carmichael

When you really think about this is exactly the model Bill Belichick follows. He only talks about things he understands. He only talks about football and the x's and o's of the game. It's a running joke in his press conferences when a reporter asks about a player's injury, he blandly says "that falls to our great medical staff." He knows football and how to coach the game, so that's what he does. 

Stick to what you know and excel in that. 

Video of the Day: Casey Neistat's Top 10 Rules For Success

Casey Neistat's Top 10 Rules For Success

Evan Carmichael

1. Do What You Can't

2. Always Be Closing

3. Pave Your Own Path

4. Focus

5. Find The Time

6. Show Up Everyday

7. Don't Do It For The Money

8. Destroy The #LittleMan

9. Find Your Motivation

10. Do More!

BONUS

Follow Your Moral Compass

Video of the Day: #BelieveLife How To WIN at the Game of LIFE

How To WIN at the Game of LIFE

Evan Carmichael

1. Work On Yourself

Oprah Winfrey

2. Develop A Good Morning Routine

Mel Robbins

3. Take Risks

Mark Zuckerberg

4. Focus

Will Smith

5. Always Be A Student

Bill Gates

6. Change Your Story

Tony Robbins

7. Fail Your Way To Greatness

Les Brown

8. Go Into Lion Mode!

Eric Thomas

BLOG: The Masters of Football

Over the past 18 years, the New England Patriots dynasty was built and sustained on the backs of three men. Now, if you were to believe what ESPN senior writer Seth Wickersham propose in his latest work of fiction … oh I mean article … for ESPN, he may lead you to the notion of a plot between Bill Belichick, Robert Kraft, and Tom Brady which will crumble the Patriots dynasty.

Sounds like a great novel for the summer 2018 beach reading list.

However, there is no doubt that the Patriots franchise has been made up of three men, Kraft, Belichick, and Brady. It’s been argued, time and time again, which one of them gets the credit for the success of the franchise. But it’s tough to divide a pie equally three ways, mathematically speaking, someone will always get a bigger slice.

All three have their quirks and little idiosyncrasies that define them. Kraft is the man who had the guts to trade a first round pick for a guy who spent less than 24 hours as the New York Jets’ head coach and, apparently, was “a man in emotional turmoil.” Belichick, the type of guy that takes a flyer on a sixth-round quarterback despite already having three on the roster. Then there’s Brady, never having an easy experience is the story of his life. Could start on a winless high school team. Having to fight for playing time at Michigan, not being picked until the 199^th pick to today, being hated for being too good.

While all three of them are great as individual people in the world of football, what truly made them was being together. Kraft, Belichick, and Brady are “The Deathly Hallows” of the NFL.

To those unfamiliar with the New England Patriots of literature, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, I will explain. Towards the end of the seven-book series, the protagonist encounters the “Deathly Hallows,” three objects, when all are possessed together, make one the master of death.

These objects – the elder wand, the resurrection stone, and the cloak of invisibility – are powerful objects by themselves, but when combined make them greater. That’s the New England Patriots right there. That’s Bill Belichick, Tom Brady, and Robert Kraft. Three men who alone by themselves are extraordinary men, but when fate put them all in the same room they became the “Masters of Football.”

Below is "The Story of the Three Brothers" from Harry Potter: