Jarrett Bell

But I think one of the weaknesses of Seattle is that nobody knows them.

Here's a team that has been pretty consistent all season long as a team to beat in the NFC, and they have not gotten a lot of attention.

But that's going to change on a Super Bowl stage.

Yeah, well, you know, it's unfair to try to compare where they are right now to the previous Super Bowl era because that one lasted for so long.

They won six championships with Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, but...

it is a sign that they are back to being a legitimate contender because, hey, here they are in the Super Bowl with a chance to win the franchise's seventh Super Bowl trophy.

So I think the impressive thing is that they went in the wilderness, if you will, after Tom Brady and then Bill Belichick's gone.

And so, you know, the team owner, Robert Kraft, is still there.

And he's definitely the one that...

kind of sets the course and supports the organization.

But it's been several years since they've been to the Super Bowl and even been in the playoffs.

And so the fact that they have been able to turn it around now with a new direction, with a new coach and a new quarterback, it is a sign that perhaps

The Patriots will build on this from this year to next year because, again, when you've got a young quarterback and he's a good quarterback and there's no reason to believe that Drake May won't get better with time and experience, they can look at themselves now, the Patriots and their fans, and think that, hey, we are now a team that can be in the running year after year, at least competing to get in the Super Bowl mix.

Yeah.

You know, Mike McDonald's a guy, this is his first job as a head coach.

So he's only been on the job in this position for a couple of years, but it's been impressive because he was one of these guys that was identified.

He came from the Baltimore Ravens.

He was a defensive coordinator and he's had a couple of other stops as well.

But when the Seahawks hired him, he was viewed as one of the rising stars in the coaching ranks.

Right.