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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Official Jets Podcast powered

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Speaker 1: by Amazon Web Services, the Opponent Preview series taking a

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Speaker 1: stop in the a f C East against the New

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Speaker 1: England Patriots, and E. A and I caught up with

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Speaker 1: Ben Boland, the senior writer of the Boston Globe, to

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Speaker 1: discuss the New England Patriots in the post Tom Brady era.

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Speaker 1: And really that's a great place to start, because this

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Speaker 1: team is an enigma right now. What are they gonna

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Speaker 1: look like without number twelve at the helm? Well, they

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Speaker 1: still have that head coach who often wears the hood

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Speaker 1: and Bill Belichick, and he has led the Patriots to

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Speaker 1: six Super Bowl titles, albeit none of those titles with

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Speaker 1: the Patriots have been without Tom Brady. So offensively, it

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Speaker 1: looks as of right now it's gonna be Jared Stidham,

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Speaker 1: but Brian Hoyer is there as well, And I know

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Speaker 1: one of Lawyer's former teammates, Rob Nikovic, actually thinks that

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Speaker 1: Lawyer will ultimately win that job. But offensively, it sure

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Speaker 1: seems like they're gonna try to rout in the football

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Speaker 1: with Sony Michelle and James White get the ball to

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Speaker 1: White out of the bakfield and Julian Julian Edelman is

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Speaker 1: still there is their primary turret. But defensively, Greens, nothing

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Speaker 1: changes because this defense is elite and it should keep

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Speaker 1: the Patriots in a lot of games. And in a

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Speaker 1: wide open a FC East, do not discount the team

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Speaker 1: that has won the past eleven division championships. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think that's a great point, and that defense probably goes

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Speaker 1: overlooked just because of the magnitude of the storyline with

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady leaving. But that defense was debatably the best

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Speaker 1: in the NFL last season, and they didn't really lose

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Speaker 1: a lot of their players. Steffond Gilmore still there that secondary,

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Speaker 1: which is one of the best in the league. They're

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Speaker 1: largely intact here entering two thousand twenties. So I think

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Speaker 1: this will be an interesting matchup, and really, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Jets won't have a chance to dethrone the Patriots

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Speaker 1: with Tom Brady. But to your point, and we've discussed

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Speaker 1: this before, the a f C East is wide open,

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Speaker 1: and Chris Brown of the Buffalo Bill said this to us,

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Speaker 1: with the Bills going from the hunter to the hunted, Well,

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Speaker 1: the Patriots were so frequently or not frequently, they were

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Speaker 1: the hunted for the past two decades and now it

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Speaker 1: just feels like a lot of a lot of questions

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Speaker 1: right now surrounding the New England Patriots. But I'm very

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Speaker 1: curious to see what this team looks like. And you

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Speaker 1: mentioned the offensive weapons. Seems like it's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: ground and pound to use a Rex Ryan term type

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Speaker 1: of team. To your point, yeah, they're definitely gonna rely

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Speaker 1: on the running game. They have their offensive line intact.

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Speaker 1: I think Dante scar Nakia retiring is big hit. He's

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Speaker 1: a legendary assistant coach in the National Football League. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you can find anybody who coach offensive

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Speaker 1: alignment better than him. It's interesting where these games fall

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Speaker 1: on the schedule. The back half of the schedule. The

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Speaker 1: Jets play the Chiefs in Week eight at Arrowhead, then

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Speaker 1: come home in week nine, have an extra day to prepare,

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Speaker 1: have the Patriots for a Monday night affair before ending

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Speaker 1: the season two thousand twenty, actually two thousand one is

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Speaker 1: January three at Gillette Stadium. That's the return matchup. So

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Speaker 1: again the Jets will finish their season series against the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills prior to playing in another Division game. So

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Speaker 1: the Patriots pop up on their schedule to start the

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Speaker 1: second half and to end their regular season campaign. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Jets lay four division games in five four o

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Speaker 1: their five games from week seven to week twelve our

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Speaker 1: Division games with a week eleven by And you mentioned

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs game in week eight. Well before that, it's

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Speaker 1: against the Bills. Then you go away at the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: home against the Patriots on Monday Night Football, and then

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Speaker 1: get to that on the next episode of the podcast.

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Speaker 1: But that first game in week nine e A. I

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Speaker 1: know this is at the time in which this game

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Speaker 1: is going to be played. The ghosts storyline will probably

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Speaker 1: get picked back up again because it's Monday Night Football

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Speaker 1: I think that game might have some some a little

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Speaker 1: extra juice because of that storyline. And I don't think

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Speaker 1: seeing ghosts is a football term, and I just feel

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Speaker 1: like that game is gonna hold a lot of weight.

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Speaker 1: Even because Tom Brady is not there, doesn't mean that

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Speaker 1: you're still not going up against Bill Belichick and a

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Speaker 1: very difficult New England Patriots team. Yeah, especially defensively, and

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Speaker 1: they're gonna bring it, and they'll be well prepared and

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Speaker 1: would actually, if I had my druthers, I would love

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Speaker 1: the Jets have a lot of personnel changes, but that's

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Speaker 1: a seismic shift taking Tom Brady TV twelve out of

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Speaker 1: New England. And since everybody has been battling the COVID

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Speaker 1: nineteen pandemic, none of these teams have been on the

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Speaker 1: field throughout the spring. So if Jared Stidham is indeed

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Speaker 1: the signal caller, he will not have the benefit of

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Speaker 1: in the season. So we'll have to see what the

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Speaker 1: Patriots offense looks like in Week nine. Um, but I

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, without further ado, let's hear from Ben

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Speaker 1: Voland of the Boston Globe to learn about what this

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Speaker 1: Patriots team is gonna look like Without Tom Brady and

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry in advance. I'm sure you've been asked us

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Speaker 1: a thousand times. Is Jared said, H'm really going to

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Speaker 1: regular season. I mean, it certainly appears that way. He

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Speaker 1: already beat out Brian Hoyer once, uh for a roster spot.

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Speaker 1: That was last year Stidham was the backup Brian Hoyer.

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Speaker 1: The Patriots ended up releasing and he went to Indianapolis

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Speaker 1: so it appears on paper like it's time to give

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Speaker 1: You know that said, Uh, there's an interesting comment from

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Speaker 1: former Patriot Rob Nikovich who's now with ESPN. He said

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Speaker 1: he predicts Hoyer to start the season just because he

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Speaker 1: thinks Hoyer has more experience in the system and has

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Speaker 1: more experience in general, and that, um, you know, the

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Speaker 1: base them around developing and evaluating Jared Sidham. That they're

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Speaker 1: and it wouldn't be too surprising to me. I mean

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Speaker 1: if Sidham's the best player of the two, then absolutely

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Speaker 1: in the season does start the season for the Patriots

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Speaker 1: as the start a quarterback. What's your personal view of

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Speaker 1: covering the Patriots now without Tom Brady? And can we

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Speaker 1: all say right now that the dynasty is over as

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Speaker 1: a new era. Well, it certainly appears that way. Uh,

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Speaker 1: dynasty really did have a lot to do with Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady and he's elsewhere now. But look, Bill Belichick is is,

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Speaker 1: I think, rebuilding the offense right now. But they're not

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Speaker 1: But you know, this is the challenge now, can Belichick

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Speaker 1: They doubled up a tight end this year. We'll see

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Speaker 1: then the defense should still be very good. With Stephan Gilmore,

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