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Welcome into the Patriots Postgame Show presented by DraftKings, Paul Parillo, Mike d So, I'm Kwannie Lunis and as you know, the Patriots taking another win thirty one thirteen in Tennessee.

How do we feel, guys?

How do we feel?

I just in all of Drake May, I just am so impressed with how that kid's playing football right now.

It's really just fun to watch play football.

And some of the throws hemate today, just staying hot, you know, no dip in his performance from what we've seen over the last couple of weeks.

I just I'm really impressed with him.

That's yeah, and I say that.

I mean everything you said about May, I would co sign, but I would just say my overall feeling is it's gonna sound weird like boredom, and it's so refreshing to return to the days where these kinds of wins might go boring.

Yeah, you know, it's just like they come in, you know that the better team.

They take care of business.

You know, a little bit of a shaky start, but just offensively, they're relentless and they you know, today they found a way to get some running game going.

And then like you said with Drake May, but yeah, I mean I say it in the most complimentary way.

That game was.

Never in doubt in my mind now and that's the way it used to be.

Yeah, I mean a little Harry at the top.

And you know, cam Ward has got a perfect passer rating through the first quarter, and I like cam Wood.

You know, it's I think he's got something.

He looked comfortable, and you know, this is something we can dive into.

I don't really want to go into, like yeah, but because I mean, look, they just they did what they were supposed to do, took care of business in Tennessee.

And you know, congratulations to Mike Vrabel, I'm sure he downplayed it.

He never you know, it never came off to me at any point that the Patriots were kind of looking to make a statement or do any They just went in, they played good football, They didn't make any killing mistakes.

They kind of whether the storm a little bit early on and just allowed their offense then to take over, and you know, just what a performance by then.

It's just it's getting more and more exciting by the week with the way these guys are.

Jason mccordy gushing on the broadcast Understandley so talking about the accuracy and confidence of Drake May but very impressive performance today.

I mean, twenty one to twenty three, two hundred and twenty two yards.

I mean it's just, you know, a couple couple of moments there where the ball came out, I think they were a little bit scary.

But you know, he's just not making the critical mistakes.

He's not making the random WHOA what was that throw kind of plays.

He's locked in, he looks comfortable, and when it all falls apart, he's able to pick things up with his legs.

So he's he's dealing.

Right.

We haven't really seen any of the recklessness that we saw pretty much every game in his rookie year, and then you know, periodically at the start of this season, the last two or three weeks that's really disappeared.

You mentioned his legs eight for sixty two.

I thought he was a very effective runner today.

This was about as perfect a quarterback performance as you're going to get.

And it's not just you know, like making all the right right but some of the throws, like the touchdown to Booty couldn't have been more perfect.

He had one to start the second half down the left sideline to Diggs that is just perfect.

You know, a deep ball to mac Collins.

You know, another one in the in the honey hole, you know, in the zone where he just finds a way to get enough on it, but he has the touch to lay it over the first first segment of coverage.

But this, this throw of Booty is just perfect and nice nice catch by Booty too.

But I mean this is you might as well, this is like an extended hand.

This is a thirty five yard handle.

I mean, it's just he's playing at an exceptionally high level right now.

I mean, you look at these plays, Paul and how many times over the last couple of years.

I mean, really, going back to twenty twenty, did you talk about Patriots in a little hole.

It's going to take them a while to put its scoring drive together.

And you know, here you have a three play drive.

I mean, all of a sudden, the Titans take a thirteen to ten lead and that was it.

That was the turning point.

Three play drive score stop them there, you know, briefly before the half, get back on the field, another good drive score Chase On takes it in twenty one point swing.

Just like that, all of a sudden, it goes from you're down to now It's kind of the complexion of the game is changed and you're running away with it.

So it's just the big playability has really changed everything for this Patriots offense.

I mean, we've seen times over the last few years where Mac Jones will get into a rhythm maybe or you know, you'd find a little bit of something, but it never was able to push the ball down the field to make big scoring plays.

And that's just what's making them so lethal right now.

And I do I think you make a great point, Mike.

I think that's the biggest difference between the offense we saw the first couple of weeks and the offense we've seen the last few is that they've able to get the ball downfield.

You know, three plays sixty yards was unheard of, right, you know, you know, and even even week one two, you know, like they they were going, you know, long drives with a lot of plays and requiring a lot of execution.

And in this all of a sudden, I would say, started in the Buffalo game.

It's just completely changed and he's consistently getting the ball down the field.

He's he's going deep to three or four different guys.

Now, who was Douglas last week?

You know, it's it's everybody this, I mean Holland's I think Hollands, Digs and Booty all had deep, deep catches today, A huge fourth down catch for for Douglas sitting down in the zone.

I think, by the way, it might be a play that we talk about a little bit during the course of the week, maybe one of those examples of what we talk about with with Douglas in zone just kind of sit down and you know, I think maybe that's why that's probably why that throw looked like it was a little bit behind him.

But yeah, just like offensively, this team is playing at a very high level then knocking on the door four hundred yards day and they basically throttled it down in the fourth quarter.

And vermondre Stevenson too, you know, you know, giving him something on the ground game, So a little bit everything from the offense today.

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And of course I think the top of our good list is of course, Drake may I think we're talking about the receivers.

I want to say he's Oprah with his receiving cores, making sure everyone gets to catch throughout the game.

But of course we can talk more about his performance.

Oh no, it was I mean it was excellent and you know where to start with it, I would just say that it's just been consistent.

You know.

That's what's impressing me is that, you know, I think some quarterbacks can have a little bit of a run where they complete a bunch of straight passes and they look kind of locked into the zone and then all of a sudden, you know, a mistake happens, it falls around, they get a little cold, like he just he isn't getting cold like he No, certainly they're punting sometimes it's not completely, but for the most part, the mistakes aren't derailing him.

He's playing with the same poise that you've seen throughout this season over the last you know, four games that they've won, and that, to me is just what's so impressive.

I just keep waiting for the ebbs and flows of it.

The flows are great, but you know, you're thinking, like, all right, well, at some point he's going to regress a little bit towards the mean, and right now it's you're just wondering, like what is his ceiling?

Like can he just keep doing this?

Can he keep playing at this level?

Because this is MVP type football right here, where you're completing almost every single one of your passes, and he did it last week at some point he had what like nineteenth straight pass Like he's playing at a crazy level right now, and I think I'm running out of ways to describe it.

Yeah, I would say, you know, all the stuff about the whole game, you know, we I think we've already mentioned, but the second drive to me eleven players, ninety three yards.

You know, you come out, you get up a field goal, you go down and get the field goal right back, and then you know, the Titans say, okay, you know we showed up to play today.

Touchdown ten to three, and you know, they get a terrible kick return.

Chisholm gets bottled up, they get a penalty, they get backed up inside their ten, and he just goes to I think he was six or six on the drive and also had like twenty five or so yards rushing on that drive.

Some unbelievable throwers.

That one to Hollins was Pitcher perfect.

He had one on the other side to Booty earlier in the drive.

And then the touchdown to Austin Hooper, he you know, lost it up.

He takes advantage of the defender having his back turn.

I think it was Snead in Hollands.

I mean, Hooper makes a great catch, you know, with a head top in the end zone.

But that drive to me, ended the game, you know, like old old school like to me, that's like, yeah, I know it's ten ten right now, but that drive told me that the offense was going to have another good game and the Titans were going to be powered.

They couldn't stop at that point in the game.

They couldn't stop the ron.

Or the pass.

Yeah, and you know that that basically continue for the better part of three quarters.

I don't know if the guys can pull up the Digs.

I think it was a third down catch al on the left sideline late in the game.

To that, to me was like another one of those throws where just his touch, his timing, dropping these balls in the hole where only his receivers can get it.

You're seeing it more and more, you know, and at some point like these become like what he does.

Like it's cool to watch him develop as a as a player and make some crazy throws.

All right, that looked pretty cool, but can he do it consistently?

Yeah, this is the one.

To me, it's just like, I mean, Digs doesn't even have to move.

He just looks up, puts his hands out and the ball just flies right into his hands.

Yeah, and loss thing.

He doesn't put his hands out, He waits for the ball to get there and then he catches, just catches it so the defender doesn't have a chance to react to it.

So why don't we just keep the train growing?

I want to put Digs on there.

We just watched him.

I mean, you know, eight catches, sorry, seven catches for sixty nine yards for him again coming through in some big spots.

We had I think at least two third down conversions.

He just continues to be what they need.

The volume guy, the move, the chains kind of guy, the reliable guy when you need to play.

Stefan Diggs has been there for Drake May and that, as we saw today, is also opening up opportunities for other players to make plays too.

But you know, Diggs was again that here on third and eight, just a huge, you know play.

But it's just showing the confidence Drake has.

Perfect pocket opens right up, there's Digs right in the middle.

I mean, this is just great execution.

That's how EU drama.

It's so different that when they're on thirty and I talked about this in my halftime chin wag.

Here at the stadium, self styled.

But it used to be just third and long.

You'd be like, a good time to go to the bathroom or you know, grab something to eat because you know they're gonna either throw a check down or get sacked.

But now, like, I just feel like he's going to find a way to convert these and Diggs has been the guy he leans on the most in those situations, like you said, Mike, but Kaishan Boody is a guy that I had on my list today and again another day with not a tremendous amount of volume.

Two catches the first one.

He makes it a really heads up play coming back for you know, kind of a oddly thrown ball.

Yes, I mean it's a second and twelve.

You're down already ten three.

And this was kind of I don't know if it was underthrown or maybe he didn't get enough.

Maybe I don't know if he didn't get didn't come out of his hand properly.

This is the only ball all day that really didn't look right.

But Booty does a nice job making sure he comes back and keeps the ball out of Harm's way and he's kind of.

Pushed back there is like take a yeah and look at him, and then the touchdown like to you know, for Booty.

So I had Booty on my list, you know, and I mentioned the touchdown catch that that Hooper had.

I mean again, just when you ask these guys to make a player two and they're not always easy plays and they make them, that's worthy of the recognition.

So I think that that's what that's what you're getting from the offense right now, is his contributions from almost everybody I had.

I kind of had Booty, but I kind of had it more under the banner of secondary receivers and just digs.

Obviously with the volume guy.

But as you said, Paul, you had five people with ten or more yards of their longest catch.

He had three at twenty plus.

Everyone was contributing today.

You know, four catches for Hunter Henry thirty three yards, three catches for Douglas.

Hooper only has two.

But once the big touchdown, you know, Holland's coming through with two catches.

But along at twenty seven.

Just we talked a lot about this.

Everybody contributed, everyone was there.

Nobody came out of this game feeling like they were a passenger.

You needed all these guys to make a play.

And it's what I've kind of been waiting for a little bit.

And you know, Booty's been the consistent one.

He's always going to come up with two or three important catches.

But now to see the rest of the roster contribute those kind of catches, you know, to me.

And then the second part, which I'm sure we're certainly going to get to, the ability to be able to run the ball a little bit.

You know, you're starting to see what a fully well rounded offense can do.

Yeah, and Stevenson would be that guy.

I mean, eighteen for eighty eight, four point nine touchdown.

I thought he ran with conviction.

I thought he looked a little bit more like his normal self today.

Now, obviously it helps to have the amount of room that they had.

You know, early on, there was some there was some holes that he was able to shoot through, but he also made some guys missed today, and I thought avoided some negative plays in the backfield and was able to get you know, four yards on a play that looked like it was gonna be minus two.

But I thought a little bit more like the Remandre that we've seen in the past.

Such a kind of striking distance early in the game with the amount of space that he had to work with, and he was decisive and you know, I thought he finished runs pretty well obviously protected the football.

I mean, I think my question is, you know, there was a little drop off.

It felt like in the second half he wanted to kind of run it out.

Wasn't quite as easy as you might have hoped.

But you know, for two guys, I mean basically Stevenson carried the vast majority of the load.

I mean Henderson only had what two attempts.

I mean, so it was it was that was a Stevenson dumb But you know, got to get Tarel Jennings in there and get him some touches as well, which I think is, you know, nice, But give it up for Remondre.

A lot of a lot of volume today and I think maybe some growing confidence from him, And then I think we're gonna hear from him in a minute.

We should be fun to chat with him about the game.

For him, hopefully it will be as enthusias Pop Douggs was last week.

Uh one person on my lift switching sides of the ball calevon Chase on the TD overall, just making a statement on the on the field today, despite I know you weren't a big fan of the defense, but yeah.

No, the defense was fine today.

I just don't think that they were as good as the numbers would would show you.

And then the accolades that were getting in the second half by the broadcast crew.

But yeah, Chase On I thought was active in the game early on.

I thought he had some good pressure.

He blew up a potential end around, you know, he made uh I think it was DK He made him go the long way around.

He ended up getting a few yards, but you know, any chance of that being a big play was stopped by Chase On's you know, penetration on the play.

We'll just call it that, you know, just you know, a little red zone interlude.

I think you know that that a J.

Brown, you know fantasy that people have had to think that might I think that might have been Those days were over completely disappeared today.

Big big day for A J.

Brown and looks like a big win for the the Eagles on the road.

But I do I had Chase On on my list.

A couple of sacks, I mean, yeah, you end up with a it's funny you end up with a sack, a forced bumble, a fumble return for a touchdown, and a play.

He never made contact with cam Wood, but I thought it was a good game for him overall.

He too really active, and you know, with Landry a little banged up and didn't hear his name a lot.

But you know, I just think they need that athleticism on the end that that Chase On brings.

And you know, any time he's gone on the spot, I mean, look, catching the ball no easy task.

But he was really good, I thought in a day where you know, they thought the defense just did just enough.

Yeah, we'll get into that, yeah, right.

So I also had Milton Williams, who I thought in the first half, when the Titans offense was playing well, they had a couple of plays that look like you know, there were like four or five yard runs that looked like they had a chance for something, and then Milton Williams drags a guy down or I think he blew up a screen well something that looked like they were trying to set up a screen at one point, and then he had a big sack in the second half with like on a third and short too.

It's like a third and two play action.

He just completely blew the play up in the backfield.

So Milton Williams, I thought again today showed up.

Yeah, reviewing my notes, actually this is it sounds like I'm trying to be funny, but I put Joshobson on there just because of the way when we think next man up mentality the okay, I felt silly writing it, but I wanted.

To give him as Okay, it's another.

No.

But just going on the top of the third, Will Drake is in this, you know, quick concussion protocol getting that first reception.

We were watching it like, oh my goodness, what's gonna happen?

But yeah, so that's the difference between twenty to thirteen and twenty four to thirteen.

Yeah, that's true.

So it's another example of I'm not going to ask you to do a lot of things, but.

When I call on you to be ready and shakes a guy off.

So that was a good play by Dobbs and I absolutely had him on my list for that.

I love it.

I'm just going to throw Vabel on there.

Because three home three road wins, it's not easy to do in this league, and no matter who you're facing.

There was a lot on this game.

You know, they didn't come out great on the defensive side of the ball.

But I just think that this team to go on a three game rotter, something has never been done in team history.

To win three straight on the road in the regular season, really impressive, and.

Since nineteen sixty one, since.

The af the modern era.

Just want I just you know, for get specific.

It's like facts, yeah, the old I know, that's where you get confusing the Patriots from the AFL.

But I just I think he kept this team together, He kept this team focused.

That kind of travel ever easy.

Nobody loves having to get back on a plane three times in three weeks.

So you know, just to Vrabel and his coaching staff keeping that team focused and you know, the ability to win three games on the road not easy to do mentally.

Is it like time zone changes packing your little things?

You know, did they change times?

Well for New Orleans and then for Tennessee.

Ye, yeah, this was there should be a tie.

I think.

I think that's an hour.

You know, maps are hard.

So I also had Douglas because of that, you know that catch, and again I thought he might have drifted.

I mean, I don't know for sure.

I mean I have to go back and look and maybe talk to the players themselves, but I'm wondering if that's one of those Drake is looking for him to sit in that hole in the zone and he keeps drifting.

Be that as it may.

That's a terrific one handy catch on fourth down.

Again, So now at that point, you know, that's that that's shortly after the the Josh Dobbs completion.

So if this, if this falls incomplete, oh yeah, if that falls incomplete, you get no points and you're still only up seventeen thirteen.

I said to you, I would have.

Kicked the field goal because I feel like the Patriots are completely dominating the game and they're only up four points.

Yeah right, And I you know, fortunately for the for Vable and the Patriots, Douglas comes up with a huge catch.

But I had Douglas on on my good list for that play, and he had the catch on third down for Dobbs too, so they had big you know, those are big catches.

Again, didn't ask you to do a lot, right, but when we called on you to, you know, three catches for seventeen yards yeah, targets three catches.

I mean, everybody who got targeted today basically caught the ball.

There were two incompletions the whole game.

So yeah, no, it's I mean that goes back to just you know, the overall complimentary play from the other players and everybody stepping up and making contributions to the win.

I imagine, you know, that helps feeling great about after a win like this.

You got this hard part of the schedule over with, You're gonna come home.

You're gonna be at home the next two weeks.

Imagine this is a pretty pretty excited Patriots team.

Oh you want to go back home?

Oh yeah, all right, who else do we have?

I think that's kind of yeah.

I think for me, generally speaking, I thought, uh no, that.

Was that was about it for me.

I had the Christian all was had a big, big hit on a kickoff return.

But that was like one of those individual plays if we're looking for, you know, I just that was it.

I mean, I thought the offense was just terrific.

Yep.

Well let's flip into the bats and you know, I'll just put with the defensive start.

I mean, once the game, once the game shifted like I said that three touchdown like swing twenty one point swing.

I mean, you went from being down three to up by a bunch.

I thought that aided the defense.

And but you know, previous to that point, they're getting help from a holding call, they're getting help from a false start.

You know, like the stops they did get, they needed like some help from from the calls.

They weren't making a lot of plays.

It just felt like they kind of came off flat first half.

They really didn't come up with any stops.

Yeah, nothing, And I mean it just it felt like Spencer Ratler last week, where he's just completing everything and you know I didn't last week.

It felt like, and this is on you know my initial impression that Ratler made some throws under pressure, at least with some guys in his face.

Today you're seeing some highlights right now where there's a pretty good pocket and time for him to kind of get through the progressions.

The big touchdown to Marcus Jones, I kind of felt like was a was.

A pressure Jones and Woodson.

Yeah, a lot of time Jonson, he's.

Running across the field.

I mean it's just it's hard to ask cornerback to chase the whole length of the field, and when that guy has that much time.

So that's why I put Woodson in there.

I think he's supposed to be over.

The top there.

Yeah, you know, so that one.

I mean's just I didn't.

I just was not.

I mean, I wish I could say I'm surprised, but this is kind of what the defense does.

And you know, so far the offense lately has been so dominant that they're able to kind of control the game.

It doesn't feel like the defense can control the game right now.

It seems like they're kind of at the mercy right now of how the game is unfolding, and do they have, you know, some help.

They need someone to step up and make a play.

And then they seem to play a little bit better.

And I agree, Mike, you're gonna look at this the offense.

This was an old school Patriots win with the offense bludgeoned the other team to death and then got him in a situation they weren't comfortable in.

And that's when the Patriots defense started to look better.

But even like it's they come out with a double score which ended the game.

Right, you score at the end of the half to go up seventeen thirteen.

You get the ball to start the second half and go up twenty four to thirteen for what.

I don't know if it may have been the first play.

I think it was the first play after that.

The quarterback just dropped the ball.

I mean, let's call it what it was.

He just dropped the ball.

He was trying to make a pass, the ball slipped out of his hands, bounces up to Chase On It's thirty one thirteenth, game's over.

Yeah, you know, and then you know, from that point on, I think it was something like the next three drives that the Titans got nothing going.

But now you have total control of the game because of what your offense did.

Sleepy start to the game.

I agree with Mike's Mike's bad list for that one.

Now you look at the numbers at the end, two hundred and fifty five yards, Titans were three for ten on third down, two turnovers.

Now you look at it like, oh, not the great performance by the defense.

You know, I will.

Say they did play better in the second.

I thought they took some of those some of those quick throws to tight ends and crossing routes to the receivers.

I thought they did a better job of in the second half, But I I came away relatively impressed with cam Ward.

I thought that he showed he showed some signs of promise.

He's got to get he's got to eliminate the turnovers.

You can't turn it.

He's kind of like Drake May a little bit last year.

You know, you have a lot of opportunities, you don't have a lot of help around you, and you're turning the ball over once or twice every game.

You can't win that way.

Just quote quick, just to chime in with some of the next gen stats that are now populating, it was they gave the Patriots a thirty three point three percent pressure rate, which is below the league average.

It's one of their lower performances of the year.

So the next gen stats would back up not great pressure from the Patriots today and for the Titans thirty eight point nine, which is slightly better, not terrible for the tame.

I didn't think it was terrible decent pressure rate.

But I do think it was there.

And uh, why.

Do we think that was a certain player?

Let's put Jared Wilson.

Yeah, I think Jared Wilson's seed to struggle a little bit.

They got beat with a guy, they got beat badly with the blitz late in the game.

Four sacks, I mean like you were dominant offensively, and you were running the ball really, really well.

You didn't have a lot of situations where they could pin their ears back.

And four sacks is a good amount.

Now, the Patriots had five sacks, but you know one of those was the ball that the guy just dropped.

I thought that they had decent pressure.

I'm surprised that number is a little lower than I thought it would be for the Patriots.

I thought in the second half it seemed might have.

Been skewed a little bit.

I mean, it's not terrible, it's not a terrible it's about average.

But I do agree with you.

I thought the Patriots allowed a little more pressure than you'd like.

I thought some of the throwers were real quick throws today to to to mitigate.

That's your left guard.

If your left guard's giving up a.

Couple of sacks, those are usually I think pressures in the face a sack.

I think there were three that he was involved with today.

I saw a lot of the back of his jersey.

Well why don't we check the next gen stats here the numbers telling you they got Yeah, they gave They credited uh Wilson with five quarterback pressures and two sacks.

They gave six pressures to Will Campbell and one sack to Will Campbell.

Oh, so was.

This the first I don't believe Will Campbell has ever given up?

It is possible.

And then three of them when they three to Campbell and two to Wilson, were credited as quick pressures.

Otherwise the other guys, Michael won you pretty good day for him as far as these stats are, can turn one pressure here.

Bradbury three pressures, one sack, So he was a little bit behind the two rookies.

So one of the sacks that I credited to Wilson, they probably credited the one you were talking about Berry.

It looked like, yeah, they got split.

I think to Andre Sweat might have split between them very quickly, and I thought it was Wilson, but they must have said it was uh Bradbury.

But I would just say it's still a work in progress.

That offensive line is so much better than it was last year, but it's still got a waste to go to be where they need it, and I think what it does, Mike, is it really accentuates how well Drake May is playing because I don't think he's been protected exceptionally.

Well.

Yeah, and that's exactly why I had the line on my list as well.

And I mean even the scare of Drake going into concussion protocol not well, it was their fault, isn't you know in theory.

So the fact that he's not getting the.

Ground that's going to happen.

He runs a lot, He's going to get tackled.

Yeah, no, and that's all that was.

It's scary every time, Like I'm not, I'm not used to this.

Watching his head bounce twice, I.

Was like, God, Luckily Drake came charging out of this.

As if nothing had happened seamless.

So I had some more more bad So the I think the first three times the special teams are on the field, it was not good.

You know, you get a touch back to open the game.

Now, I'm going to mitigate that a little bit because it certainly seemed like the wind affected some of those kickoffs.

Joey Slide had one go out of bounds.

I think Boragillis had two touchbacks.

But you know, the second kick that he was able to keep in play, they allow him to return it out to the forty one yard line.

And then the first punt they allow a fifteen yard part return.

So I like the special teams weren't weren't quite buttoned up.

I didn't think today, you know, to start the game.

Fortunately it didn't really cost them much.

But you're allowing you know, the first three possessions.

I think the Titans had started at the thirty five, the forty one and the thirty five.

I mean, that's that's not good.

Yep, yeah, I don't know if I have anything else, Paul no.

I thought the offense, the offense was so good today, and even like you know, the offensive line we're talking about, you know, they did much better job run blocking today, even them, I you know, I don't really feel great about having on the bad list.

I just thought offensively, they were so good today.

They were able to run and throw with reasonably equal effectiveness.

That's it's kind of what you're looking for.

It's amazing what big plays can do for an offense and the complexion of the game and how you feel about the control of the game and for so long over the last few years, it just feels like as soon as you're in a little like a ten point hole, you know.

And I was kind of getting like the flashbacks to that early in the game where it was, you know, thirteen, I mean ten to three.

It's like now nothing, but still it's you just remember how hard it has been for this team to climb out of holes to reverse the momentum.

And now with Drake May, it's not only his ability to throw the ball down the field, but he doesn't seem rattled.

He seems cool, calm and collected, and the team seems to be feeding off of that.

So it's you know, if they could ever get this run game going consistently from start to finish, they would they would be very very tough offense to contend with.

So the injured really not much a lot on the tight in side, but I didn't want to know the Jefferes Simmons going out early in the game questionable with the left hamstring.

Do you two think that affected anything about this game?

Definitely?

I don't.

I don't.

I mean, you know, when he was in there early on, he was a tremendous player, but they were, you know, they were running all over him when he was in there.

They were obviously running away from him.

They made a big deal out of that on the broadcast, but I don't think.

It had a big impact on the way.

And you know, that's the secondary you can target.

And you know, it's just like again, it's just when.

You can make an argument that what you could do, you can make an argument that maybe the deep passing started after he left, maybe they felt a little bit more comfortable.

You know, it's one of those things you can't tell because you didn't see it.

Yeah, I mean.

Certain they didn't help Tennessee's cause to have the best player guy.

Right in their second too.

Uh No, I think.

I mean, I saw Barbara garaar with like a lymp shoulder.

I don't think that was.

A stink or he was back in the game.

He was back in there.

Drake obviously went into concussion protocol for a brief moment, but ran out and came back in.

I and I don't even I didn't see anything else.

I didn't know, you know, No, I don't.

Harold Landry looked like he was would of being spotted a little bit early in the game, but then he was out there.

He had a sack in the second half, which I'm sure felt real good for him.

Yeah, yeah, I.

Mean I didn't really notice much in the way of injuries today for the Patriots.

We like that might the best news of all.

This was a little scary here with Drake.

Why are you playing this again?

Yeah, never again, burn the tape.

But I'm glad they checked him out.

That was, like you said, very important that they did.

I was kind of surprised.

It took a while, but I as soon as it happened, I looked and I was like, now, if they're doing it right, he should he should have to come out of the game and get checked because you could definitely see him get up and sort of rubble.

Yeah, you know, you know, another just another little interesting stat here.

What's interesting, Mike, Again, Patriots played a ton of zone coverage in this game, their highest percentage of zone coverage since Miami.

You know, they've been, you know, a heavy man team, but they played eighty eight percent zone today or sorry, eighty four percent.

Eighty four point six, so eighty five percent zone today and that would rank me.

Yeah, I mean they were eighty seven against the Dolphins.

Otherwise, it's all been around seventy, So they seem like and maybe that's part of kind of what the problem is a little bit with the defense, was let's just play zone, let's sit back, let's wait.

Maybe they're searching, they're trying to figure something out because they're doing a lot of zones, they're doing a lot of mans, and whatever they're doing ain't working because they remain, you know, kind of down the bottom of those past defense statistics.

But at the end of the day, you're only allowing thirteen points.

So they'll tell it.

I mean, it's yeah, it's kind of counterintuitive, but it's working for them.

Yeah.

Well, I mean even you know, Toront Davenport, we talked to him in the pregame show saying, now they're probably gonna have cat coverage and stuff, and I guess they just you know, I don't know.

I mean, it's you know, Zach Core talking this week.

I thought he was talking about Lagarious Sneed.

Was that their side?

I said, cat coverage?

I thought he was talking about our guys.

That's all you get that ketch.

But by the way, Lagarious Sneed did not play well in this game for the Titans.

Anyone out, So I don't know.

Maybe that's part of it.

But like I was saying, Zach Krer talking that a lot of you guys, we're still kind of figuring it out.

Well, all right, we're getting to the end of October.

Like I'd like to see this defense really start to come out and you know, dictate a little bit.

It just feels like they're a speed bump right now until Drake and the offense can get out and put some points on and then the complexion of the game changes, and now they've got to throw the ball a bunch and right now we're going to cook.

I just think it's a tough it's a tough way to live.

The good teams, you know, and you know, I mean looking at the passers coming up, it's you know, it's not going to be great next week with Dylan Gabriel and after that Michael Penix.

It gets a little better.

Then you get Baker Mayfield, so you know, maybe we have to wait until that point to really see his defense, put how their feet stuck against the against the fire, and to see what they really have with their schedule is going to show easy.

They haven't had any of these teams that are capable.

But like I don't think the Titans are capable of playing much better than that offensively based on their rankings coming into the game.

Yeah, I mean the thirtieth, thirty first of thirty second and like nine different categories.

And they go out and they put two hundred and fifty five yards and thirteen points on the board.

That's what they did.

Like that, that's just good.

I mean the quarterback was twenty five to thirty four for two to fifty five.

Yep.

You know, with a touchdown and a late pickoff, a deflection, they're not capable of playing any better than that.

But so, like to Mike's point, maybe when you see Atlanta, maybe when you see Tampa and there's teams that are capable of playing offense well for more than a you know, a quarter or a quarter and a half.

The way that the you know, the last couple of weeks have gone, maybe we'll get a better gauge as to where this defense sits.

I think it's good, Like the defense has been good, but it's I think been a little bit misleadingly good.

I think that the result has been much better than you know, the journey.

Yeah, the end result has been better than the journey.

Yeah, and I just I wonder about the approach and looking at a first year quarterback last year.

Last week you had, you know, quarterback in his second year getting his whatever it was, fifth start.

Do they get more aggressive right out of the gate against someone like Baker Mayfield where it's like, you know, we can't sit back and kind of way, you know, well, we'll see.

I still think that this defense, and with Christian Zalez and Carl Davis, they're meant to play man coverage and to just you know, man up like that.

But I don't know, the matchups right now are making me feel like they're getting a little cute with stuff, you know.

All right, and just like that, we have Ramandre Stevenson joining us here on the Patriots post game show.

Welcome in, So how are you feeling there?

It seems like you guys got off to a good start, some good space for you to run early on.

Did that kind of set the tone for you having a good day?

Yeah, that definitely set the tone.

The all line was moving them guys up front and giving me plenty of allance to run through.

So yeah, all.

Thanks to them.

We know that the Titans rushing defense has struggled this season overall.

Is there anything that you saw in particular that made you maximize on them early?

Uh?

Now, I wouldn't say that on film.

Honestly, they're you know, active defense.

They got a good front seven.

But I feel like our O line went in.

You know, bray Will kind of challenge us to run the ball this week, and so I feel like we did a great job of that.

For mind you, when we listened to Mike Grabel talk during the course of the week, there are times when he sort of harps on one particular thing and then we see that on Sunday this week he talked a lot about the running game and and sort of needing to get it going.

Was that something that got you excited heading into this game knowing that you were going to be a big part of the game plan.

Uh?

Yeah, you know, just all the backs we took the challenge, The OH line took the challenge, and I feel like we did a great job of that.

Got to go back and look at the film, but I feel like we were officient on the on the run.

Ronnie, Just what's the feeling in the locker room you guys?

Three straight wins on the road I know it's not easy to win on the road in the NFL.

What can you guys take from this, you know, three game stretch where you really played well on the road three three straight times.

Yeah, just look at the film and see what we did well, See why we won those games.

See how we could you know, tighten up and things like that.

But it's great winning on the road.

It's hard to do it, like you said, so I'm just excited about it and gonna enjoy this win for next day or two.

Yeah, I'm able to definitely preaches enjoy it till tonight and then you guys move on to the next game.

But for you personally, what are you taking away from this win as you head into week eight?

Just be myself, don't let don't let ball security, you know, kind of crush me a little bit.

Just just run with what I see and run how you know, I know how to run, and you know, everything else will come with it.

I remind Dre.

Let you enjoy the win, three game road trip three and oh on that road trip, it's got to feel pretty satisfying for you.

Have a safe trip back.

Yeah, I appreciate you guys, Thank you, congrats.

Yeah, I thought.

I thought he was terrific, you know.

You know, he talked about the ball security, which I you know, I know it sounds funny, but I like the way he talks about it.

And I know that.

Everybody's gonna be like, I don't care, I don't care he's got to hold onto the ball, but like, yeah, yeah, it's exactly what he saying.

Like he's recognizing he's wearing it.

There's an accountability there.

And and you know, today I didn't see any signs of any issues.

You know, there's been a little talk the last couple of weeks about are you running a little bit more cautiously in an effort to do that.

I didn't see any signs of that today.

Saw the old Remondra today.

Do now I'd be I mean, he's such an X factor for this team.

And I mean, going back to what I said in the pregame show, asking a lot to have him do this, eighteen, I mean eighteen isn't crazy.

But again, the game was kind of out of hand.

They could take him out of the game.

So I mean, if they were really having to play this whole game, it was going to be a twenty twenty two twenty three carry kind of the day for him.

So I don't think that's sustainable.

But if he can continue to kind of run with confidence, and you know, you when you ask him, like what can he take from this, I'm like, I hope it's a budding confidence of I can handle the ball almost twenty times and you know, put some of this stuff behind me, build some confidence.

I mean, there's no question they're not going to find a better running back than Remondra Stevenson on the market right now.

So he's got to be the guy to lead the way.

And you know, getting these games where he plays well, he gets some confidence.

It's huge for the offense, and I mean it's huge for Drake and really seeing how hot what is this offensive ceiling?

That's what I want to find out now, and you're gonna need Remindra Stevenson to find out.

They must have been watching the pregame show when we mentioned the trade that they weren't all right actually.

As well be getting ready for the game, right all right.

We're getting calls and emails of course, and Christian and La I think you called before the show started, So I'm gonna prop you up first.

Hi, Christian, Hey, you guys thy.

Happy when happy Sundays.

Thank you for taking my call once again.

Uh, great game.

Nothing really to nitpick.

I was a little upset about, uh, the the zone defense in the beginning.

I just don't think we are made for the zone defense.

Like you guys said, we have the dogs to man up on guys like their receivers should not have scared us into the zone defense.

But I don't know why we were in zone defense.

Uh.

I was just phenomenally pleased with Drake.

May I have come one into this guy's camp.

This kid is phenomenal.

He's already best at Brady in a completion percentage.

That's that's the phenomenal in itself, right, So he's he's a really, he's the real deal.

My only nitpick would be, I'm afraid, guys that we're going to turn out to be a paper tiger this year.

What do I mean by that?

Will probably wind up in the playoffs, right, because we're playing good and we have a light schedule, but they will likely kind of run up against a really good team and losing the playoffs and being not a great position to get a good draft choice.

But yes, being in the playoffs is good.

So that that's my only thing that I have to say is how real can this be?

And how deep can we go?

And is it time to spend the money and get a dog receiver?

This time?

He's ready, Let's do it.

Let's spend the money.

I say, take a game by game that's stressed about the playoffs just yet, but I get it.

He never's just to amazement.

He's speechless.

You got Balbarolo speechless.

So all right, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna play.

Please, I'll play Alex.

Who's the team?

Like that, you would say, Wow, good little run we had here, but it's going to end.

Now, who's the team?

Just like the worst NFL that we've had in like fifteen years, Like there's no great team.

Nobody has emerged as like, wow, they're really good.

So why are you fearful that when you get up against quote unquote a good team you won't be able to compete?

You've played one good team out of the how many games they play?

Seven games?

Now five and two.

You played one good team out of the five that you out of the seven that you've played, and you beat them in their place on Sunday night football, Right, So why would you like, even if you would going to Buffalo for a playoff game, why would you go into that game and say, well, you know, we're not gonna I'm afraid we won't be able to compete.

Why and why would you worry about that at this point instead of being you know, excited that you have a quarterback who's going to obviously give you chance to.

Win every game week by week.

Yeah, we just talked about the zone and man thing, they've completed one of them.

Well, so I'm not killing the coaches.

Well, I don't know why they went predominantly zone today, but I think they're searching for answers.

They're trying to figure out why they can't stop the pass when they don't get pressure.

I think that's what they're trying to do.

I don't know, that's a question for Mike Rabel and Zach Korer.

But I couldn't be more excited about this offense.

Really, they haven't had an offense like this since seventeen sixteen seventeen, it's.

Been a while.

It's been a while.

They haven't had an offense that's been capable of scoring, you know, virtually every time they get the ball.

Yeah.

Well, I mean even if you talk about being concerned about the defense and not thinking they're going to be able to stop good offenses, it's like, are we looking at shootouts now that but at least you feel like.

Oh, we could probably at least compete.

I mean, you know, if you had some of the old quarterbacks here from the last few years, you don't feel that good about it.

But you know, my my concern now is just you know, getting this defense to a point where they can come out play well and match up against some of these better teams.

But it'll be really I mean, it's it's gonna be really interesting.

Well, I mean, next week it's Dyllan Gabriel.

You know they I do think Cleveland's got some pieces on offense.

They've got a very good defense.

It's very physical and that's going to be a lot of challenges for Drake May.

So you know, next week could be the week where you know, it isn't quite as easy to put thirty plus on the board, and you know, the defense has got to make a few more plays early than they had to make today.

Yeah, and this one was a little deceptive because I think the way the game just changed in the blink with that twenty one point barrage.

They scored twenty one points in the span of about five plays, change the point so quick.

But I mean reality, it's another twenty four point game, you know.

And offensively, I think they look like they should have scored more than that today.

But I do think this was one of those games they throttled it down, like you get to the middle of the third quarter and you know you have enough points to win, let's just make sure we, you know, take care of business, run the clock, get out of here.

And I'm not saying they just ran the ball into the ground because they kept throwing.

But at one point you're like, why is Drake stilling.

The Yeah, well, not so much in the game, but you know, we were in a drop back passing game when we had a thirty one to thirteen lead, and he's taken some shots like that that safety blitz, that blitz from uh, I think it was Cedric Gray, the linebacker blitz at the end of the game, Like that was a there's a hit he didn't need to be taken.

But offensively, again, thirty one, you know, there wasn't really thirty one.

It was really twenty four like they.

Should be able to.

I feel like they should.

Be in the thirties on their own, and they really haven't been in the thirties on their own.

All the games that they've been thirty, there's been either a special teams or a defensive touchdown.

Yeah, but you make it wonder what's gonna happen if they do have to go toe to toe with somebody.

But I do think today, just to be in full you know, I want to be full disclosure, I think today, had they not gotten the defensive score and they continue to play offense the way they you know, yeah, they probably they would have kept scoring.

I think that they they throttled it down a little bit.

It's just Greg's got that thing now where you can just tell when a guy's in rhythm, and you could just tell before the ball leaves his hand if it's gonna be or not, because you could just tell by the timing of it, and you know he's he's locked in, and if it's continuous, it's trouble.

All right, Let's head to Salem where Aiden is.

Oh, it must be crazy already thick of Halloween.

How's Salem treating you?

Aiden?

Aiden?

Are you with us.

It's not all right.

We're gonna move on to Jason and Sapanna.

Hello, Jason, Hey everyone.

Hi.

I don't know about you guys, but I'm at the point where I think I'm going to take a moment of silence for the rest of the NFL.

I think the worst nightmares come back at that point.

But other than that, I wasn't able to keep track of the game lely just walking NFL red zone.

But how bad has the penalty has been so far?

At least in that game, it's been kind of a mess everywhere else in the league.

No penalties weren't an issue today for anybody.

The refs were not really involved in the game at all today.

I actually said in the middle of the fourth quarter of refreshing that when we haven't time to talk about the refs all day exactly.

I was gonna I was gonna say, after last week and how many penalties there were, really felt like we need to start doing it over under on penalty calls.

That's yeah, they only had five today.

Titans had three, you know, so you know again you jump off side, you know, or you have a guy you know that they got called for too many men in the huddle on a play, you know, penalties that you have to call, but not otherwise not not really a factor today.

At least it was not ridiculous and I can appreciate that.

Right, Thanks Jason, Thank you.

All right, let's think it to Sean in Florida one one.

Sean call my fellow self.

I agreed, comply with the contributions from other players, like you mentioned with that that catch where it was kind of loft it up a bit and uh Booty came back for his first catch to make that.

That was amazing fighting that.

That made Drake look good as well.

In the fourth fourth quarter when Pop was like I think it sports down, reached out and uh to a side and made that catch in that.

Yeah, that was a big play.

Big play for sure.

That allows you to put the game away.

Yeah.

I have one question though, do you think the Titans in the first quarter or maybe even the first half, we're having a lighter box and that led to some even more success for for Monte.

So I'll leave you on that.

Go Pat, my guess is yes, but I you know, I when you're watching on TV, you can't always tell that.

But my guess is that they probably made some adjustments in the second half and did that, but like that that they That would encourage me the most is if they were doing that they you know, so you're playing too high and maybe trying to take the stuff away down the field.

They weren't able to take that away, you know, like May was still making them pay for that.

So first half offensively was as good as you can get.

I mean they had the one punt, but then they scored the other three times they had the ball, right.

Yeah, yeah, I could share some of the numbers from Mike next Gen.

I would love it if you would share that with us and not hog all the information in their own.

It's nice to have, you know, Look, it's only one piece of the pie.

And this isn't the gospel of what you know.

This is one one outlets impression of it.

I always do.

But against the light box six attempts forty three yards a seven point two yards per carry, three successful runs two ten plus yards against the light box, against a neutral box with seven defenders, forty four percent of his attempts eight attempts forty one yards five point one yards per carry, four successful carries, three three were stuffed and one ten plus yards, So yeah, he did definitely have some better success those on those six attempts against the lighter box, with two big runs off of those against the stack box just four yards on four carries, just one of those being successful to run stuff.

So yeah, maybe they did take a little bit of an advantage of the lighter box, but you know, that's a good place to start.

Hopefully they're able to you know, continue to build off of that.

As we'd be kind of animated and I was kind of saving this till after we talked to Mander.

Just felt in the second half there was no room, there was no room for them to run.

There were more stuff runs the first half, first quarter especially, just felt like, wow, there's some room there today.

Now, maybe that was you know, you can break it down by quarter and all that stuff.

Maybe it was early on they just came out saying we're going to dare you to run it, but but you got to start somewhere.

I guess we'll take it for today.

I think you might appreciate this email, Paul.

So we talk about a lot of times Drake May's skill set versus Josh McDaniel's play calling.

So Spie in fresno Is said in the off season, there was much consideration that Josh's offense might be putting too much on Drake's play.

Clearly that take age like milk, but how is it in the reverse true that Josh has adjusted to his scheme to maximize on Drake's skill set.

It's a great marriage and Drake is awesome, but Josh deserves huge credit too.

Sis.

Yeah, I mean some of them, you know, moving in the pocket a little bit, some of the mobility stuff.

But I mean, whatever he's doing, the kid understands what he's selling right now, and he looks, you know, he looks comfortable.

I'm just like, this is Drake may I mean, I'm sorry.

He's not throwing to wide open guys all over the field.

He's dropping balls into you know, these shots on the sideline.

He had two within the span of about three plays, one on the left side line, one on the right sideline, one booty one to Hollins Like these are throws that not every guy in the NFL will even attempt.

And you know the one that Mike talked about earlier in the second half to digs down the sideline guys right on him.

The touchdown throw to Hooper, guys right on.

Him, Like.

I just the guy's playing an exceptionally high level right now.

If you want to give all all that credit to the offensive coin.

I love Josh McDaniels as much as anyone here.

Mike and I had an unbelievable sit down with him like two years ago where we broke down all of Tom Brady's highlights.

I'll talk Josh McDaniels with you all day.

I love the guy, I really do.

I really enjoy talking to the guy.

This is about Drake May.

He's lifted his game to a whole different level.

This isn't just about schemes.

This is about Drake May playing at an exceptionally high level.

But can't both things to be true?

Yep?

You know, I just like because sometimes we get into this and but this is all Josh McDaniels.

I just think, why it As much as a coach can get credit for a great player, I think you have to give Josh that credit.

And I'm not saying you know you're great.

The majority of the credit the blungs to Drake May.

But so now I'm with you.

You know, if we can we can do it that way I'm not hearing.

I'm hearing the like a lot of the media, I'm hearing all about like, Wow, he's scheming this up and then setting this play up here and that play here, And I'm like, yeah, that's great.

You can scheme up all the plays and you want.

If you don't have a guy that's capable of physically making the plays like he has, yeah, it doesn't work.

I think for me what stands out though, is just watching an offense the last three years that didn't look very coordinated, and it made players look probably worse than they even were, and there was no understanding of sequencing of plays or knowing you know what buttons to push and throw is sick.

But Paul's right, you know, Drake deserves the majority of the credit.

But I look at it as teaching and does the student look like he's understanding what the teachers are telling him right now?

Yeah?

It does, you know.

And it's looked like that from the summer.

It's never you know, look like, what the hell's going on out there?

They they can't get a playoff there?

You know that Just for me, like it's hard to like extract the coaching from the player.

Sometimes but when you've seen.

Some bad coaching over the last couple of years, it just makes me appreciate a little bit more that you've got a confident guy who knows what he's doing.

Yeah.

Well, I'll give McDaniel's credit.

Is the pocket presence that may have shown the ball security in the pocket, you know, the you know, the two hand ripped throughs, the footwork, the moving around, that kind of stuff.

I think that that's been drilled into him.

Now, whether Ashton Grant gets that credit because I know that's what Rabel has been talking about a little bit.

You know, Thomas Brown, you know, with the passing game coordinator.

Maybe some of these different guys, these different voices coming in and helping Josh a little bit.

Maybe it's a collaborative.

I will give the coaching a lot of credit for that, because he looks like a different guy in the pocket.

The physical execution of these plays, oh yeah, is some of these plays are very very high level of execution.

And I just I mean, I look at I look at when we watched him in training camp as a rookie last year without even really any coaching, and he's making these crazy downfield throws.

His first touchdown throw to Booty last year against the Texans.

That kind of throw, like that physical talent to put the ball downfield, an absolute pinpoint accuracy like that is a Drake May gift that he has confidence.

And I think Josh was asked a couple of weeks ago, like, you know, do you find him getting more confident the dock.

He's like, he's never like coming like that is true, And I say, from when we've seen this kid, he is not afraid to whip it downfield.

And now he's you know, I mean he's hitting Booty down the field like left and right.

So it's just a it's all, it's all clicking right now.

And no matter how you want to divvy up any pie, like Drake May is in fuego and if he can maintain this, then he's gonna have the Patriots.

And a lot of Really he's actually just nailed it right there, like who cares?

Who cares?

Who's who's got to get the credit?

Pie?

And then I'm this much, who's got to.

Get the bottom line.

There's the offense from the size and playing at such a high level.

His brothers beat the crap out of him and made him like really competitive.

Everyone gets credit.

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For me, that run game signs of life.

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I know the second half, but eighteen carries held out of the ball, had a touchdown.

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They can build off of that.

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They'll really I think, round it out and be truly deadly.

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We have an addition to the table.

Matt Smith is here.

Paule Parilla of course, and Mike do so.

You are suffering from injury right now, So.

A little bit of an ankle injury today and a coach in a flag football game.

The coach got injured, but I think in a power through the last forty five minutes in.

Case you wonder when you lost the game, Yeah, fortunate changes need.

To be made to stick right here.

I know, I know you think with all the brilliant analysis I provide that you give changes are coming year old flag football team.

But apparently not.

I think you could get ladies and gentlemen very high Ima the Drake May High train.

Matt Is just left the station left.

Everyone's welcome, people on, people on, not dog Tojo last year, I would take him over everybody.

Yeah, I mean he looks like I'm consistent.

Yeah, how are you feeling.

Any sliding questions or concerns or anything like that?

What do you mean by sliding?

Harm?

No scary, It's a thriller ride watching it.

I mean, man, yeah, I mean it's it's I mean what Buffalo Bills fans must feel watching Josh Allen when he you know, runs the ball, takes the matters into his own hands.

It's exciting and great to have that ability on a second or third down and long that everybody's covered and the quarterback's able to run.

But you know that it comes with a level of risk with this kind of quarterback place in the game.

Like those are big conversions, like you know, you got to take He's going to get nicked up.

We know that.

But yeah, I don't have any issues.

Films and running right now.

But I think the biggest concern was that concussion protocol earlier today.

But if you have a quarter act that can extend the play and move the chains, I think you're never gonna be sl that.

Display we're watching right here for those watching the Videoary, you know, had a little scramble out the middle and he just felt like he got the first down and then you know when he fumbled it kind of thing.

Every time three times I thought they did it, you know, I was surprised.

But they mentioned that there's three times the ball ended up sort of loose, and I think he was probably down on all three of them.

But Charles Davis said something during the telecast they got to clean it up.

I agree with that, So that would be my concern is the ball more so than him.

But yeah, I understand what you're saying, Matt about you know, there's there's some times I think he could have probably gotten the first down and gotten down like he did on that play was the yard shore of the first down.

They just showed no need to take any extra hits.

I agree, I mean, no disrespect to Josh Dobbs who came in and that was a nice rush off the guy and make the completion everything like that.

But at seventeen thirteen and mays all over to the sideline, I think people are going, what's going on here a little bit and you could see what much life going to look like without Drake may Well, don't.

I don't think people want to see that.

No again, no disrespect.

I don't want to see it now.

So that's my only point about just you know, reaffirming maybe the coaching staff gotta be careful.

I would live to play, yeah, I would.

Saying he's improved on it, I still feel like there's a middle ground that he needs to kind of find where it still feels a little bit on the risky side with some of these where you know, I mean, I've always said it, there's just nothing more demoralizing than when the quarterback just gets the first down, takes a little slide, pops back up, and then like drops the ball off, you know, instead of like trying to get those two extra yards and and kind of getting pinball between two defensive backs for a couple that a couple of times, it's almost like that is like, well, you know that gives the defense like, yeah, I got that, but we got a little hit on him.

Whereas when he just pops up untouched and does the little flip, right, we go again first down.

We got to figure out a whay stop this guy just I'd like to see the balance a little bit better, but that's gonna be his game.

You don't want to take that away from him.

Like to be emailed about putting too much on Drake's play, but I think now it seems like he's putting too much on his plate thinking he has to carry.

Yes, he carries an offense literally, but to your point, no question being careful for sure.

So let's go into the locker room.

The story of the day going into the game was the return of Mike Rabel, and let's hear from the Patriots head coach after they win today.

I think an emotional game, emotional stretch for us, I meant something that this team organization hasn't done, and it's done a lot and again, that doesn't do anything, but again the grind of coming back and getting prepared.

And staying in the game.

We've played really well in the second half, you know, that's what I'm really proud of.

And sometimes you don't always know how these games are going to go, and you know, we certainly have to start faster, but really proud of the way that we've played, you know, giving up three points in the last two halves of football offensively, Really, if we don't beat ourselves, it's been a good product and was that same way today.

I love the fact that we're finishing with the football special teams.

Unfortunately, you know, with a penalty, but you know, we had some good kick coverage, some inconsistent kick coverage.

So again there was some good ones and there's some bad ones, and that's kind of where it's been.

But in the end, I felt like we did enough.

So excited for these guys and I appreciate the support of our fans to come down here and be excited and be into the football game.

And we got to continue to give them things to cheer about and to travel and to come back and play really well home.

So that's what I'm proud of.

Them.

I'm happy for these players, you know, have a little bit momentum and to continue to build it throughout the week.

It's not just the running back.

And again we say the running back doesn't do a good job, and we got to run it better.

But we got a block better and I felt like there were some running lanes and when there weren't, we were able to stick them downhill and be able to push some piles.

We had some some double digit runs, we had some dirty runs.

It was great to see us finish there at the end.

So I think it's always a combination.

And we took care of football and that's really the formula, and and they and they made a mistake there that we.

We were able to capitalize on.

Going on the road to Miami and.

And having a you know, difficult environment to play and the heat and the back and forth, and you know, I felt like that told us a lot about who we were.

We just you know, we kind of dipped our tone of water the first game.

And I was really proud of what they did and in practice and going down there, and I think that really showed them It's always been a tough place for you know, us to play, so I think that was really important for us, and that created a lot of positive momentum.

You know, we didn't get discouraged when we you know, had a bunch of turnovers, but you know, I had a chance against Pittsburgh and then you know, we played some pretty decent football and we played good enough to win.

That last answer and reference to a question, when did you start to see that maybe your team was building or growing a little something?

And they started with you know, going down to Miami, winning a place that's not very easy.

If I might digress, If I may digress for a second, a little nerdy media stuff, inside media stuff with coach Rabel in the pregame.

ESPN and Mike Reese did a really nice piece on the fact that Mike calls on in Tennessee it was a woman by the name of Teresa who worked with the Associated Press always called on her first, and now here in New England he's carried over that tradition with Karen.

Grigan, so a nice little piece.

He's answering questions in the postgame, and Dan Roach, our friend from WBZ TV four, asked the questions.

He goes, wait a minute, He goes, did you just celebrate.

Twenty five years at WBZ and Roachie goes, yeah, yeah, he goes, that's a that's a hell of a job, man.

Congratulations on that.

Good for Mike doesn't have to do it, recognizes Teresa in the AP with Tennessee.

Karen here with mass Live says something to Dan roach I just thought that was kind of a classic move by that favorite.

She didn't recognize my twenty fifteen.

They they didn't have a segment few like they did on WBC, because they had a segment for him on that.

It was a great segment.

The organization recognized it.

They gave me a ball.

Yeah.

Now inside the locker room, we'll listen to the players and Mike Rabel, their head coach, was a topic of conversation amongst the players as well.

With Coach Rabel and his staff.

I think we're just trying to, you know, buy into each other and build an identity.

And I think that's what's kind of the biggest thing for me.

I'm trying to he'll be the same player, you know, every week.

And I think those guys from this game last year, yeah, left the bad taste of our mouth.

Sota came out here with the win.

It was huge.

I think the first thing we was talking about to have time is stop waiting on somebody to make the play, and somebody be the one to make the play.

So Brace kept emphasizing that for sure, something that we went over all week and just came to match in the hand and being able to recover the ball and get in the box.

And how good to feel, you know, after the offense out there for soeven and a half you guys to.

Come right back and bro static.

It's something that we needed.

Obviously, we was feeling like the energy on the defense wending up to part like we would like it to be.

So it was a jump start to get it going.

And man, I feel like we just started rolling out of that.

For sure.

He downplayed all week, which we appreciate.

You know.

I think he was focused on us and worried about us, and that's what matters.

But I know that it feels good for him.

Would you gain such a with your peers and obviously with your coach man, they try not to make it more thing with keep their guys in the love head, but you know it's personal form and and we just want to play hard for him and give them everything we got to make sure they come out on top and they get the exact feeling that they would like to feel at the end of the game.

So definitely was some extraduce on the defensive end to make sure that our guys.

Anybody that you know what I'm saying that came from this team or it just was a part of this organization.

Anyway, Man, they got their revenge and they came out on top.

The boys.

The key keeping this.

On the ends, you were really generating today moving forward next week the week got that specific.

Man, just attacking practice the same way we did last week.

You know, just have just just stacked the days, just stack the days, be consistent.

Uh, you know, we got a pretty relentless team.

And then I loved that about us.

We take challenges and you know we we we passed the test.

Pass the test.

Interesting stuff from Amandre Stevenson who's seen it, I think on a bunch of different levels with a bunch of different staffs here.

And could you hear him say like they passed the test.

Yeah, but also the way they gushed over him a professional way, you clearly can tell this team is all in on mile no question.

I think what stood out to me was cleaveon Chasing saying they came out with like low energy and somebody needed to make a play.

And I just like that's a recurring theme, Like we've heard the same thing from them, Like why Robertsplain is one of the most intense dudes I've had the opportunity to like watch.

I mean, mil Williams is locked in, and I just don't quite understand why the slow starts for this team and why they come out someone needs to make a play, Like you have guys that seem like they're focused on this all week pretty hard, and then they get to the game day and it's like, oh, a rookie quarterback, but up up right down the field on them, I just there's a disconnect right now that I just I don't quite understand, Like why are these guys not showing up right?

And that's what we talked about earlier in the show.

You know, you have an offense right now that's playing at a very high level and Drake may is playing out of his mind and you have an opportunity because of that to compete in these games and win these games.

But going forward, will this performance on the defensive side be good enough.

You keep playing teams that don't have the ability to do anything more than they're doing.

They've played seven games and I believe five of them are against teams with one win.

They don't have the ability to score any more than they're scoring.

Like, that's as good as performance as Tennessee's had all year offensively, and you're able to shut them out in the second half.

New Orleans last week, same kind of deal.

They didn't play that well offensively all year.

In the game against you, they score three points in the second half because they're just not good enough to do it for sixty minutes.

Now, Fortunately for the patriots're playing another team next week that doesn't have the ability to do it in Cleveland.

So this is why I think you have the buy in with Rabel, because you get in the tangible results.

You're winning these games, and you're having this success and you're stacking them, and with every one of these wins, you're getting closer to where you want to be and back to that road, you know, re building and getting back into relevance.

This is why they're buying in.

They're getting their results, and it's just will it be enough to overcome what you were talking about, Mike, can you afford to just allow the other team to go out and score three of the first four times they have the ball every game, which seems like it happens almost every game.

Even Carolina gave you won forty one to whatever.

You know you I think it was forty forty two to thirteen.

Carolina moved the ball it will in the first half, but that's six times they drove into Patriot's territory.

Well, I think they're.

Just not good enough to score anymore than they scored.

Do you know what I mean?

I think you had a really good point in the pregame show where you talked about it.

I mean a lot of them.

Sorry, I.

But the point that you're making are we getting a little bit too far?

We're getting a little bit too far ahead of ourselves.

Okay, the thirty one to thirteen win, I think today, I think if somebody had just given you the score, you said, oh yeah, I figured that that's what's going to happen.

It's the way they actually won thirty one thirteen.

That's kind of interesting.

But it isn't just a given with this team.

They're not good enough to just sit there and roll the balls out and win the game.

I think it's interesting how far they've come that you're analyzing these guys, well, you know, why is the defense, you know, not getting after it right out of the shoot?

Why are they allowing teams to go down?

You know, if they can continue to have these problems while continuing to stack wins, yep.

And that's why the way, that's why I made the point about the tangible results or you know, that's what allows you to buy in, because you can see when you're playing, well, what's the potential?

You know, and they play they play well in spurts.

Now today I thought they played well offensively the whole game.

They thwarttled it down at the end and just got out of there in the fourth quarter.

But I think they could have named the amount of points they wanted to score today offensively, but not so defensively.

I like I said, I thought Kim Ward, I thought he he looked good at times.

He's just a little young, and they don't really have anything around him.

Their best weapon was not playing.

They need to.

I think they need to be a little better defensively.

The numbers would tell you they're terrific.

Can I thirteen points, two hundred and fifty five yards, three fo ten on third down.

You look at that and say, I'll sign up for all of those numbers.

But I think we all would agree it didn't really look that good.

Can I raise a concern offensively?

Please?

Everybody talked about concern.

Everybody talked about how well the running game rebounded this week, and it did, you know?

And it sounded like the players are saying in the locker room that Mike challenged him this week.

Rimandre said that he challenged the steak.

They wanted to run the ball.

It's funny when I asked Mermandre about that, he didn't give us that answer.

How many tackles for a loss did they have in the running game today, Mike?

How about too many?

I didn't think there were many offensively negative runs.

They have a lot of negative runs today.

Uh yeah, so they got five Stevenson had five stuff runs, five negative runs.

Stuff like less zero one.

And that's without Simmins in the game.

By the way, I'm just saying, yeah.

I don't know, I'll take five yards and carry, okay, I mean eighteen for eighty eight.

I mean not every run is going to go for for yards.

But I thought they ran the ball well today.

Now, I thought you were going to say Tennessee and for the most most of the game without Simmons, I thought that was going to be Can I nitpick?

But I mean, I'll take the way they ran the ball.

I just I didn't like the negative runs.

That's all.

I just, I mean taking here a little bit more in that shin.

I just, you know, kim word again, like Spencer Ratler last week, really good against pressure and versus the blitz.

I mean he was four or five against the blitz for forty nine yards, you know, no turnovers, one hundred and seven point five passer rating, you know, against pressure, which was thirty.

You know, a third of the snaps he was pressure.

He was five for eight for sixty nine yards and ninety quarterback rating.

So I mean he's just you know, nothing's affecting the quarterbacks.

Nothing's affecting the quarter There's mistakes that he made.

But I came away, I came away impressed with him, much like I was Rattler last week.

You know, I think they got something here.

They have a lot of work to do because that's a roster really lacking mentality.

I feel the same way this week about War that I follow about Rattle last week, where it's these guys look like they know where to go with the ball.

They don't have a lot of dynamic weapons to really push the ball down the field and make defenses pay, but they seem to know where to go with the ball.

They don't seem rattled by any of the pressure, the blitzes that Patriots are thrown at them.

They don't see really confused by their coverage.

They seem to get into a rhythm pretty easily.

And it's really just the complexion of the game that has taken them out of that ability.

Like, you know, if Patriots weren't scoring on every drive, then you know, it might be a little bit more drawn out, it might be a little bit even.

And I just I continue to think Panix will be really interesting in a couple of weeks.

And then Baker Mayfield, like those two quarterbacks back to back, and certainly Baker Mayfield, who's you know, playing out of his mind right now.

Those two teams have some weapons that can score.

Yeah, the Bucks got more than the weapons.

They know what to do with it this way coming out everywhere.

All right, Well, we're getting calls and emails.

I guess we should catch up on those.

Let's go to air Eric and tennessee.

Hi Eric, Hi, I you guys do it?

Eric?

Good.

So we watched the game.

Uh, pretty exciting to see our our quarterback and blossom into something pretty special here.

Yeah, I don't know.

Yeah, agreed, thank you wash.

Oh sorry, Yeah, so I got to take my son to the game.

We uh experienced a good win.

We went to the.

Chicago game last year and that was a different feeling than this game.

Yeah, I'm just good to see our Patriots back on top.

And yeah, I mean everything you're saying about Drake May.

I think he gives you belief and he gives you a feeling that you can compete.

And this is why I took exception to the call earlier in the show.

It's like, you know, I hope we're not just fooling ourselves into think why would you think that?

Why would you like?

He gives you a chance.

This is old school Patriots.

We got Brady, we got a shot.

And I'm not saying that Mays like Brady, like forget the completion percentage nonsense, that that's not what we're talking about.

But the quarterback is playing at a level that he's moving the ball almost every drive that he's on the field.

When that happens, you have a chance to win.

You don't have to win seventeen thirteen like you had to do the last three four years.

Eighty eight yard drive, ninety ninety three yard drives in the first half.

Yeah, eleven ninety three he.

Was six or six and he had I think three carries for like thirty yards on it, big boy drives.

Can we get the ted lasso believe over our door here?

I think I'm with it.

I just you know, we spent so much time, like after Brady left, just talking about this about finding the next quarterback, and I hit or miss it can be, and how difficult it can be, and how many he's called it like you're off in the wilderness, like you just don't you're not really relevant until you have a quarterback.

And you know, some guys come in with a lot of hype and they flame out.

Other guys come from nowhere.

There's just no set formula to it.

And you know, even in the draft where the Patriots had two quarterbacks taken above them who both look like very good quarterbacks and you know, potentially gonna have their teams.

In this conversation as well, it's just remarkable to see, you know, this kid plucked from North Carolina and we saw some potential last year and there was plenty to be excited about coming into this season, but to see him playing at this level now six seven games into his second season, it's it's just super cool.

It's super cool.

It's so hard to find.

And you know, if you're a Patriots fan who has just been like, I don't really like watching bad football.

You know, I don't like watching a nept offense.

I don't like having to win games six to three.

You know, Now you get to be excited on Sunday when you get to watch just well, I mean, I remember Steve Palazola is from PFF, but he's like a closet super Patriots fan, and I remember him always saying I remember him always just like saying, like it's the tweet.

I'd be like, we get to watch.

Tom Brady play football today, and it's like, you know, you get so concerned with the wins and the losses in the playoffs and all that.

It's like at the end of the day, you're getting to watch very talented people do very special things on the football field, and you're seeing it consistently out of Drake May, and it's just it's really fun to watch, you know, regardless of wins, losses, all that stuff.

It's just the kid's got some real talent.

It's pretty cool.

One thing though, Mike, is you better have a structure around your quarterback if you've got the quarterback.

And I thought CBS did a nice job with that graphic about the last was it the last four first round number one overall picks, Lawrence Ward, Caleb Williams.

Who am I missing?

There's all had their head coach fired in their first year.

That can help their develop picks.

But you know your number three overall pick had the same thing.

I know, I know, right, Yeah, so.

You got to have a structure around him.

And I think I'm sure you guys have been talking about in people's you know, I think Josh has made a difference here and I think Josh, Tony Brown, those guys are really made a difference in Drake May's development this year.

It's just I mean his confidence, that's the thing.

And it's just and even just the strides that he's made just since Week one, like week one, look like a different quarterback.

You know, people doubts after week after Week one.

Is the last five games he's played at a pretty high level.

Now, it hasn't always been perfect.

I don't think he played great against Pittsburgh, you know, I know a lot of people think he was great that day except for the turnovers.

You know that you can't right since that Pittsburgh game, you know, he's played at a really, really high level.

And it's no surprise to me that you've been able to be productive offensively.

All right, let's see where instead is stead Did you go to the game?

You're in Nashville.

Instead.

We're gonna have to go with someone else instead.

All right, I'm gonna go laughing in my dumb Are you doing.

Good?

Evening?

Everyone?

I just wanted to get find some flowers on you guys.

You do a very very good job.

I think pictures fans like myself, we're very spoiled because we get such good coverage stuff.

You know, it's confident stuff, it's not over exaggerated.

You know, positive stuff about the team.

Your balance, a great balance, and appreciate you all.

Thank you.

I'm going to study your check.

Did you have a question too?

Or I got from the words of remember the Titans.

We got ourselves a quarterback.

There we go, and one last thing, one last thing.

I'm little knit, but I wish what I wish moving forward, especially against some of these bottom feet of teams, you know, such as we played today.

I wish we could send Kyles a couple of those goal routes throughout the game, you know, until he refines his route running.

Let's send him.

Let's send him on a couple of those go routes, Go pats, Thank you all.

What do you think about that?

I think they're trying.

I mean, it was another play impossim.

I'll let you do the Kyle wins No, no, because I agree with you.

I think where you're going.

I think that they've gotten him involved today again, early in the game, he's involved.

I think they're trying to get him kickstarted a little bit.

I don't think he has issues with rout running now.

I don't think today's route was particularly sharp, but I think that he has had a couple of plays, He's had a couple of plays dialed up for him.

They haven't really been able to to hook up yet.

But you know he's the fifth receiver.

It's true, but the only summer time you'll get.

And again, this is like the third time I think that they've They've thrown the ball somewhere between let's call it seventeen or eighteen and twenty three, twenty four times and had like three or less incomplete passes.

Yeah, like what do we?

Oh, well, where's Chisholm, where's Williams?

Like who cares?

That's really Nick?

Who cares?

Like the guys that he's throwing two are catching them.

Right dig seven for Booty two for.

Two, look right down the line, Hollin's two for two for two, Henry four for five, Douglas three for three, hoo were two for two.

Like everybody who gets targeted is catching passes.

When you're twenty one to twenty three, you're gonna have a lot of One of them was Williams.

Missus he had one target.

But there was a third down incompletion to Williams early in the game that led to the punt on the one drive that they didn't score on in the first half.

And I don't think that was a great route bye by Williams.

And then there was a throwaway in the second half.

Those are the two incompletions.

Was the Jacksonville game?

The Brady game of the playoff game?

Was that twenty six for twenty eight?

Yeah, he was surgical that day.

All right, Chris, you're in Orlando, Welcome in to the show.

What's going on, guys?

How are you doing?

Chris?

Oh?

Are you hey?

Guys?

All right, So a little quick stat off the top, and then I'm going to get into me like a little schedule of question.

Drake Bay just became the first quarterback in Patriots franchise history to complete over ninety percent of his passes in a game with twenty plus attempts twenty one to twenty three and twenty two yards and two touchdowns.

First time Patriots franchise history gets a little nugget Tom.

Brady in two thousand and we're going to annoy.

We're going to ignore that Tom Brady game.

Okay, right, regular season in the AFL.

In the Okay, I saw it on the Patriots social media page.

I can't argue with that.

I called in with the last week.

I called him with a bit of pessimism.

I'm going to call in with some over reaction optimism Okay, looking at the schedule, I have us losing to Atlanta, losing to Tampa, losing the Buffalo, and then losing to Baltimore.

Those are some games I think we can win.

Maybe we can lose to Cincinnati.

What have you?

That will have us going eleven and six.

According to what I have with other teams, eleven and six still get us the seventh seed.

According to what I have for other you know teams, Buffalo still have them going thirteen and four winning the division.

I know you guys have already done this.

I just want to know right now where you guys stand.

And if you guys think you know, ten and seven will be good enough to land this team of playoff spot.

Getting too far ahead of yourself, Chris, I do think that that would be good enough to make the playoffs.

Ten and seven and I think that's about where I have him nine or ten wins, And I agree with the way he said it.

Those are games that you would look at and say, those would be the toughest games.

They won't lose them all.

Yeah, they'll win one or two of those.

But I'm going to tell you the games that you that I'm sure you have in your mind is already penciled in as w's like Cleveland and the Giants and clean both of them against the Jets, they won't win them all.

Yeah, right, they'll win the majority of them.

Miles Garrett the kid ward at cornerback.

That's a challenge next week coming up for them against Cleveland.

Schwartzy on defense.

Yeah, and you see what happens when you turn the ball over like Miami did, and all of a sudden Cleveland gets thirty one point.

Which they could score thirty one against Cones if they were alone on the field right right.

But if you turn it over like they did, you make it awfully easy for them.

And you do what you've been doing every game this year and come out and let the other team run right down the field to start the game and spot them seven.

That's a defense that might.

Be able to have that lead for a while, yep, as opposed to the Patriots just keep getting that score right back every time because their offense is playing at such a high level.

I don't know how it all has to play out, but I think to get to that Buffalo game here at home and still be in the conversation for the division, and you know, to set that up.

At I don't see any way that that won't happen.

Yeah, it seems like a pretty good chance.

I just think that that would be really great for the franchise to you know, have a December game here against the Bills, a lot of hype, you know, real like some real stakes, you know, to that game first time probably since twenty twenty one, where you came down the stretch and you felt like, you know, this is we're in the mix.

We have a chance to really do something here and get you know, some playoff seeding.

So we'll see.

I just I don't think it's going to go You can sit here and make any prediction you want.

I don't think it'll go that way.

No, there's too much weird stuff.

But I just, you know, if Drake May continues to play like the way he's playing and not making mistakes, like I don't know what, I don't know what the ceiling is.

Like before I would have kind of said, but you know, what's the wildcard?

To me?

I'm just you know, I'm doing what I always do during the postgame show, and I'm watching my red Zone and I'm watching the Giants play and they've given Denver everything that they want.

Right now.

You know, at Denver they got a thirteen nothing lead and you know late in the second quarter, and I don't know if they'll win the game or not, but the Giants are clearly a different team.

With Jackson Dart at quarterback, they've been different.

They're more annoying.

Everybody just has that.

Everybody just you know, there's no way they can lose that game.

Well, I'm telling you, I think there's a way that they can lose some of these games.

I don't want to pour water on it, but I want to repeat what I said earlier when Paul said in the in the pregame show, let's not get ahead of ourselves.

I think it's great that fans are interested.

They're looking at the schedule, win lose, win, win win, What are they going to finish?

Let's not get ahead of ourselves here.

This team is a work in progress at five and two.

I think Paul, you said earlier in the week that you know, one of the accomplishments maybe is already.

You can tell they're going to play meaningful games.

They're in the mix.

That's all.

We couldn't have asked for more than that.

Back in August.

Well, that was the goal we're going to be doing, right, that was the goal.

Everybody looked to change a little bit.

Everybody looked at the schedule and said they should be playing meaningful games when you get to November, and they are right.

You know, there's no question in my mind that they're playing, that they're going to be playing meaningful games.

But I also I want to look at things from both sides, and you know, I think I said that they had all games, four of their seven games being against teams with one win, you know, so like that's an exception.

There's a reason why we Let's go back to the metrics, Mike, right, you know, we do the pressure rate in the past, block win rate and all this stuff.

Well, the metrics of the schedule tell you it's the easiest schedule in the history of football since the sixteen game schedule was instituted at nineteen seventy eight.

So good for you.

You've you've played, and you've played four games against one win teams, and you're three and one in those four games.

But again three and one, not four and oh right, so don't just take the next four games you're playing against the bad teams and just say when, when, when what you're probably going to lose a game.

I just like I wrote at the top of my every year, I have a little spreadsheet that I put the roster.

On and do all my work on.

And the first thing I.

Wrote was be the best of the bad, be the best of the bad early on, and they're flirting with it being the best of the bad.

They're three and one, not four to ozh.

But that's what to me, what this season was about, getting back on track.

Be the best of the fourth place teams, take advantage of this schedule, put together a season to build off of, and that's and that's what they're doing.

And his introductory press conference, did Mike be able to say take advantage out of bad?

But that was the second thing I wrote next to because I felt like Matt it it kind of corresponded.

It was like, all right, one the same when the quarterback drops back and lets the ball slip out of his hands, being possessed, be in a position, just scoop it up and take advantage football.

Just nice seeing your kids, it's beautiful.

Pause to hold it in.

Get some tissues.

Eric in Tennessee.

How you doing, Yeah, so back.

Sorry I drove out of the car wash that we should be good.

Now, Okay he was in the car washed.

You weren't done.

Are you still in the car wash, Eric, I'm still in the car wash, damn.

Uh So here with my son, we're we're just again stoked on the wind and.

Cool.

Just seeing Drake mate.

Building over the past year and a couple of games, and and then.

Remandre holding onto the ball.

He took some.

Hits similar to that yeah earlier and.

Held onto the also like it's just it's great.

I don't know these uh, I just I'm super excited about I kind of feel like we're back.

Yeah, yeah, there you go.

All right, shout out to you here son, Thanks for calling back John and Vancouver.

Hello, great show, guys.

So I just wanted to say that, you know, first of all, with Drake May, it's just a phenomenal performance throughout the year.

And one of the things that I was really concerned about heading into the season was that we'd see a sophomore slump, you know, similar to what we've seen from maybe c J.

Stroud last year and the handful of other quarterbacks throughout the years.

But we're just really not seeing that that's a major sign of encouragement.

I would say, so, I love your thoughts on that.

Well, I mean, I think it's a little different.

C J.

Stroud had an exceptional seasons rookie year, so it's kind to you know, I would put Jayden Daniels in that situation right now.

Kind of hard to continue to play at that kind of a level.

Sure, Drake May didn't play at that level last year, so a sophomore slump would have been we need a new quarterback, do you know what I mean?

So, I think what Drake May is doing now is kind of reminiscent of what Daniels did last year and what Stroud did whatever three years ago as a rookie, two years ago, whatever it was.

But the bottom line is you've got a quarterback.

You know, whether he levels off at some point, which is probably inevitable, teams are going to adjust to some of the things that he's doing at some point, and quite frankly, you're going to play teams that are better than what you're playing and they're going to be able to physically take away some of the stuff that hasn't been But it won't matter to me because he's showing you that he's the guy and he's going to he's going to continue to get better too.

Speaking of the guy, I don't know if you guys talked about is see where Drake was Friday night?

Yeah, Zavarian CM.

Asked about that, and he was asked about that in the post game and his face kind of lit up about it, like he was sitting there going, I think he lives in Westwood.

I'm not sure, but he saw something that doesn't happen very often.

John DIBIASO team lost and he.

Was pretty jacked up about it.

He goes, I thought everybody said, this is going to be a big game.

I wanted to go.

I thought it would be cool.

It was a great atmosphere.

So maybe a little bit of Drake may kind of, you know, inserting himself into the community a little bit, you know.

I thought that that was really cool.

And he chanced there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's funny though.

Sometimes you hear, especially on.

Fridays, you hear players be like, hey with games that tonight go high school games.

They always talk about one ago and I'm always like, don't come to my share.

Juwan Williams Jawan Wades used to ask me a lot, Like, you know, what, what's a good game?

Very in CM.

I'm like, that's a that's a real ful I feel comfortable my son's play.

But I was like, I'm just kiddings too far away.

Matt jud used to go to high school games every once in a while.

That was cool.

A lot of guys go to the game every week.

I think Paul and I talk abou all the time, Like I just I love going to high school football games, in high school hockey games, and you know, really any high school sport, but those two specifically for me, just the atmosphere and and you know, and then somebody who played hockey and you know, he just it brings you back and reminds you of who you are, where you came from, and the parents, and you know, just the cow bells and the atmosphere.

I just have more cow bell That was.

That was bad hockey.

I do miss it.

I do miss it.

I was going to go my my my kids high school played against fiend, So I was going to go and see my boy.

Logans, you know, busy, I decided to go and have a few uh sud seas instead.

Well, could you imagine, like you like if Logan looks at you, goes, what are you here for?

I don't know.

I just came the game.

I just can't.

I mean, your kid doesn't play, doesn't to give you a hug.

My friends like to make fun of me when I do that.

We're gonna at the South Beach, John, They're all coming out, Patty.

Everyone was anybody else expecting to see h Hooper Moss somebody today because I got up off my couch.

That Yeah, that was very Randy Moss.

Yeah.

So two things, one one good sign.

One thing that I think is a little bit troubling.

First, I think the total number of penalties against US was a normal number of penalties versus other games.

I don't think it's you know, I don't think we're quite a discipline team yet.

But I was pleased to not see a flag on every other play because of something we did on something that I think we could work on or that's troubling to me.

I think this team really missus Gibson, especially on those Steakoffer terms.

I think sism looks kind of slow, and we returned one that was going to land on like the one yard line too.

I was like, oh man, so definitely need help there otherwise I'm like, like, right now, simple.

To Bliss that I kind of agree with that point, especially with Gibson, Like I just think he was a good like piece that and there were a couple of times early on where he kind of sparked the run a little bit.

He runs and it's been twofold.

But because you've lost Gibson on that kick return, you've had to lose Henderson because they now can't afford to lose him.

So I do think it's taken now.

Aside from the touchdown that Gibson had, I don't think the kick return game has been all that strong that.

I think Gibson had one other one against the Raiders that was decent, but for the most part, they really didn't get much out of the return game, but it was nothing compared to this.

Now.

The last two games they've gotten absolutely nothing.

They've been bottled up inside the twenty five on a consistent basis, and Johnny's right that you know they're getting a penalty a week.

I think on those kick returns, they had one last week, they had another one today.

Point of them was just maybe before the trade deadline.

Do you think trying to find somebody.

They need a running back.

You can't go with two running backs.

I don't think the whole where's the Antonio Gibson out there?

You know that kind of return kicks?

Can you know be that second back bringing a little bit of a burst.

That's what Gibson was was so good about it, you know.

Quick side by Barron Gibson by the way, yesterday wise, he still throws a community block party in Mattapan.

Gibson and his wife were there supporting, and that's making a presence.

So despite being on IR, I love to see that, like you mentioned, being an embedded.

Yeah, and should be back next year.

Yeah, they're gonna continue to add to that position.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

All right, let's see what Brad in California is telling us.

Hey, Brad, all right, all I gotta say is you guys better start clearing out space and Patriot placed next to Tom Brady for this dude, because please, Brad, this man is my savior, He's my king.

But in all seriousness, in all seriousness, am I misremembering the first couple of weeks of the season when we were talking about maybe having to just deal with Drake May's inconsistencies in the short game, like this guy has been nearly perfect in almost all of the games since maybe week two.

And also, before I take the answer off their I need an obligatory Marty Mapu snap count was out there to ye, yeah and all.

The hits to that.

I got you, I got you, Marty, Maddy Page Hope please come hey, Francesa, can we get to get one?

Martin?

Where are you?

What you're gonna do when they come?

Yeah?

So so clean off, make some space, twenty snaps, make some space next to Brady statue.

You think they got ahead of myself?

No, I do know, Brad.

I'm just heasing because I know Brad.

Brad said that he was he was just trying.

I think I think next week's are real tests, a real I'm not telling you that the last three games weren't tests.

They aren't.

But this Cleveland team plays really good defense.

They they do play good defense, but they have absolutely no offense.

No, I know, thirty one point and the kid through an eighteen times their first round whatever, fifth round.

Pick yeah and two has scored a lot of those points for them like that.

I just think he had at least three picks.

It's kind of for me a nice next step because you expect that this is going to be a good defense and it's going to maybe challenge.

Yes, I defense good off there and let you let Dylan Gabriel go right down the field on the first two drives.

And just so that that's what I want to see if that happens and they have a little support from their offense, Like, if you don't get support from your offense, I don't care how good you are defensively, you're not going to stop the Patriots all day because you're not giving them any reason to want to stop anybody that like Cleveland has giving up some points.

Cleveland GetUp like forty one to the Ravens.

It's their only win, you know, Like so they if the Browns have that success early in the game that every other opponent has had, then it could be game on.

Yeah, it could be game on because you want to give them ten points in the first quarter and all of a sudden they're playing defense like, hey, we we got this.

We we we can stop them and figure out a way to stay in this game.

Then I agree with Matt Miles, Garrett can ruin a game they they have, they have some pieces in place on defense.

But I don't care how good your defense is.

If you can't move the ball and score, you're not going to stop teams.

Yeah, no exactly.

I mean, I just it's a terrible offense.

But the defense is they are physical, they swarm to the ball.

There's not much space.

It's gonna be tough sledding to try to get that run game going.

Next, you keep the game close and Quinn Sehn Jenkins can run the ball instead of having Dylan Gabriel have to throw.

Yeah, well, I mean, Matt you said it.

I mean you have sports.

I mean he's you know, been forever, but he's aggressive.

I mean, they're gonna come and it's gonna be it's just gonna be an interesting should be an interesting.

And I also think, and I don't want to like this is I'm gonna get made fun of.

I know this week, but it's one of those you know how I always get concerned about random things.

Sometimes you get a long road trip and that first game back after a long road trip can be kind of a letdown.

Excellent point.

You see how I get how I get?

I like the point a lot.

Yeah, I get mocked on my own show.

You the interim coach.

I'm the show.

Sorry, I knew we get to upset it.

How will we ever sleep?

Oh boy, I don't worry when the final thoughts and words thoughts.

I just can't say enough about drafting.

Yeah, give him more flower.

I just the level of difficulty on some of the throws.

This is like, there's not a stat in football that I can't stand more than completion percentage.

It means absolutely nothing to me.

It does.

It means nothing to me.

The throws that he's completing at a ninety percent level today were not checked down, Charlie all themself checked down.

Charlie, Sorry, trust you, he said.

I don't want to be checked down.

Charlie said that in the post.

Game, he throws the ball down field and not wide open.

Guy like tomorrow.

Douglas was open last week.

Anybody could have completed that pass.

The stuff that he completed to Holland's booty digs, they were all reasonable Hooper, they were all reasonably tightly contested.

No thanks stuff Again.

I'm not here to talk about completion percentage because that generally means that you're throwing all passes that should be complete.

He wasn't throwing all passes that should be complete.

Today, No, all over the odd Now great kid, got to keep it, got to keep it rolling.

But they got some momentum now and it's it's starting to pick up steam.

So carried into a tough Cleveland team and play well and continue to work on the things that they've been You know that they're obvious what they need to work on and they got to fix those things.

But they're coming together.

And they heard your segment.

You're building a legacy.

Yeah, listen to my segment.

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