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Here’s Quite the Conspiracy Regarding the Patriots Documentary and Nick Foles

Also in Traina Thoughts: CBS colleagues offer well wishes to Greg Gumbel; Ryan Ruocco comes up big; Joey Votto’s whirlwind and more.

Jimmy Traina

1. Conspiracies are all the rage these days. It doesn’t even matter what the topic is anymore; everything is a conspiracy.

So since everybody seems to love a good conspiracy, I thought I’d kick off this edition of Traina Thoughts with quite a doozy regarding the New England Patriots' series that is currently airing on Apple TV+.

The Twitter user below somehow figured out (unless he’s pulling a fast one on us) that in The Dynasty: New England Patriots, former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Nick Foles’s name was edited out of Al Michaels’s call of the “Philly Special” touchdown in Super Bowl LII. 

Michaels’s call went like this: “They’re gonna snap it. And it’s Trey Burton who throws. Caught. Foles. Touchdown.”

On the Apple series, it sounded like this: “They’re gonna snap it. And it’s Trey Burton who throws. Caught. Touchdown.”

It appears that just "Foles" was edited out of the call. Why? Who ordered the code red? 

It couldn’t have possibly been anyone associated with the Patriots who asked that Foles’s name be cut out because the team is still so bitter about losing that Super Bowl, could it? And if not, why would any of the producers of the series decide to edit out “Foles?”

So many questions, as with any good conspiracy.

2. As we told you last week, CBS’s Greg Gumbel missed Sunday’s NCAA tournament selection show because he was dealing with a family illness. Adam Zucker filled in and did a very solid job. 

Here's how the show opened, with Gumbel's colleagues discussing his absence.

3. ABC/ESPN's Ryan Ruocco had a great call on Kyrie Irving‘s unreal game-winning shot for the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday.

4. What a whirlwind for Joey Votto. Two weeks ago, he was on social media begging for a job.

Last week, Votto, who was born in Toronto, signed with the Blue Jays.

Sunday, in his first at-bat as a Blue Jay, Votto went deep.

Then he stepped on a bat and hurt his ankle, while also showing us that we don't use the word "dickens" nearly enough on a day-to-day basis.

5. On March 4, I sent the following tweet:

On Friday, The Rock graced us with a “Rock Concert” from SmackDown in Memphis. The show even included a dig at Memphis Grizzlies star, Ja Morant.

6. A brand new episode of SI Media with Jimmy Traina dropped this morning and it features a conversation with ESPN NFL analyst, Dan Orlovsky.

Orlovsky gives a breakdown of his unbelievably busy schedule, talks about how the NFL owns most of the sports calendar and shares his thoughts about the wild free-agency spree that took place this week.

Orlovsky also reveals that his ultimate goal is to call top games each week and whether he feels like networks have a bias against putting him in that role since he wasn’t a superstar player. He also weighs in on his relationship with Chris “Mad Dog” Russo, Mike Greenberg and Dan “Big Cat” Katz.

Orlovsky also shares some of his famous food takes, talks about what it's like to have triplets and much more.

Following Orlovsky, Sal Licata from WFAN and SNY joins me for the weekly "Traina Thoughts" segment. This week's topics include Aaron Rodgers as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, the NFL Network moving Good Morning Football from New York to Los Angeles, Tiki Barber vs. Saquon Barkley, Love Is Blind and more.

You can listen to the podcast below or download it on Apple, Spotify and Google.

You can also watch SI Media With Jimmy Traina on Sports Illustrated’s YouTube channel.

7. RANDOM VIDEO OF THE DAY: Spoilers ahead: Last night's Curb Your Enthusiasm was the funniest of the season mainly because of Larry trying to deal with being on a group text chain. People thinking they are too good for a text chain is absolutely a thing, so it’s no surprise Larry would nail it.

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JIMMY TRAINA

Jimmy Traina is a staff writer and podcast host for Sports Illustrated. A 20-year veteran in the industry, he’s been covering the sports media landscape for seven years and writes a daily column, Traina Thoughts. Traina has hosted the Sports Illustrated Media Podcast since 2018, a show known for interviews with some of the most important and powerful people in sports media. He also was the creator and writer of SI’s Hot Clicks feature from 2007 to '13.

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