WEBVTT - Patriots Postgame Show 9/8: Full Analysis of 16-10 Win Over Bengals 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:07.080 This episode at the Patriots Postgame Show is presenting by. 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:12.799 Draftkas This is the Patriots Postgame Show presented by Draft Kings. 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:16.280 First phot shot done after the episode touchdown. 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:20.079 Patriot joined the conversation by calling the eighth Ticket hotline 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:22.520 at eight to five to five pat five hundred or 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:25.920 email the show at web radio at Patriots dot com. 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:26.720 And off to Stevenson. 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:29.320 On's a left big hole across the forty cuts lefhole. 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:31.960 The forty five had steam rolls the defender. 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:34.960 There live from our studios inside Jillette Stadium. 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:36.040 Here's Matt Smith. 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:40.680 Well, welcome into a Jellette Stadium where our postgame show 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:44.159 is Here the Patriots Postgame Show. Matt Smith alongside Paul Perillo. 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.360 Mike Jasoul join us shortly, and Paul, We're here to 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:49.680 talk about a Week one victory over the Cincinnati Bengals. 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.560 The Patriots get it done with a sixteen to ten win. 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:56.400 A head wied a Wire. We'll get to the good 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:58.200 and the bad and the injured first, but initial thoughts 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:00.560 about a game that I don't think many people were predicting. 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:03.560 We're to be in the Patriots w Collum, congratulations to 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:06.800 the team. Congratulations to Gerrod Mayo, those a hell of 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:07.360 win today. 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:12.759 Yeah, Girod Mayo absolutely is the first thing I think of, 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:16.240 you know, first first game out there today, and I 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:18.440 thought they had a really solid game plan on both 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:20.840 sides of the ball. They executed very well, and I 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:25.160 thought that they did more of what they wanted to do. 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.160 I thought they dictated the way. Now, I'm not going 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:29.200 to tell you like they dominated the game or this 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.120 that I thought they dictated the way the game was 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.640 going to be played from the opening kick and they 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.480 I thought carried that through for all four quarters. So really, 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.360 really nice job and hats off. I'm not going to 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:43.080 try to tell you that I saw this coming. I'm 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.320 not going to try to, you know, sugarcoat and pretends 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.240 that I made this pick. I didn't. I thought Cincinnati 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:50.600 would pull away in the second half. They never did. 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.160 Mike, give me your initial thoughts, sir. 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:55.040 I'm just I'm excited for the team. 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:57.000 I mean, I just there's there's so much up against 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:00.000 these guys, and you know, as much as there's been 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:01.960 you know, difficult times in the last couple of years, 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.120 I felt like those difficult times didn't stop when we 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:07.760 hired a new coach and everybody's you know, wants this 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:09.960 team to be good and have been all over these guys, 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:13.240 and every decision gets put under the microscope. And this 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:15.600 is the only way you can shut everybody up is 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:18.000 go win games. And you know, look, it wasn't perfect, 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.160 and there's certainly a long way to go. 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:22.160 It's pretty close or as far as this team goes. 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.120 But I mean, you talk about complimentary football, I mean, 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:27.560 I thought special teams was outstanding defense force and turnovers. 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:29.760 I mean it felt like kind of an old school 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:33.600 Patriots victory, and they overcame their shortcomings with strong run 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:35.000 game and you know, when they needed to have it, 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.680 they got it. So hats off to those guys, and 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.560 i've i've I'm just happy to be to be looking 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.440 at a Patriots win and just to have some positivity 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:44.280 around this team, which feels like first time in a while. 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.440 Eight five to five, Pats five hundred the phone. We'd 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:48.240 like to hear from you. Also, you could email us 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:50.160 at web radio at Patriots dot com. Paul, this is 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:52.880 gonna be a tough week for your shows. There's been 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:54.160 a lot of negatives. 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.840 For my showl. Felger is gonna be insufferable. 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.440 A lot of negativity around this team, and I think 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.400 we talked to it, Mike. I'll start with you at 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.760 the beginning during our pregame show, what was the how 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:06.520 are the Patriots going to try to win this game? 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.840 And I think the formula wasn't fancy. I think everybody 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:12.520 knew was going to need to happen. Cincinnati was going 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:15.520 to have to be a co conspirator. They obliged, and 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.400 the Patriot took advantage of it, and they leaned heavily 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:20.360 on the run game in Romondre Stevens. 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:22.160 Yeah, I mean take your hat off to ramondra Stevenson. 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.119 I mean those you know runs at the end where 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:26.040 he's dragging guys. I mean, you know, have that little 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:29.480 fumble there, which was just like a brief moment, a glimpse. 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.399 Of this that's old Patriot stuff. 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:32.800 Where you know we're in this game, and then you know, 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.640 a mistake starts the whole thing unraveling. So, you know, 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:37.960 a great performance by Romandra. I mean there's so many 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:39.600 questions of how is he going to fit into this 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:41.880 run game? And you know, for all those questions, I 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.680 thought Romandre Stevenson just I mean, he he pretty much was. 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.240 I would say eighty percent of the offense maybe today, 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.360 I don't know exactly what the number was, but he 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:53.080 was excellent, and you know, that's that's that's a great 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:54.600 sign for them if they're going to be able to, 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:56.960 you know, do this to a team like Cincinnati who 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.040 had some struggles against the run last year but. 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.600 Been all on his own. Like I mean, I just 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:04.880 will get to it. But I just thought he was unbelievable. 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:07.840 Me thinks Scott Peters is going to spend some quality 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.800 time in the locker room after today's game now where 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.600 he's going, uh, locker to locker to his guys. They 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:17.640 weren't perfect. Paul Jacoby Prisett's probably got the bruises and 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.480 the cold tub that he's gonna need to show for it. 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.240 But hats off to the offensive line because they know 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:26.080 that they needed to provide a push. They the game 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:27.840 plan was to run the ball to lean on them. 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:31.240 They used an extra offensive lineman in quite a number 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.560 of different snaps today, but it paid off for him. 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.240 Yeah, Like I said, I thought Stevenson was unbelievable. I 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:38.880 thought he just kept breaking tackles in the backfield, the 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.760 side step on the third down, whether it might have 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:45.320 been a second down that actually allowed them to kneel 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.560 on the ball at the end, just dragging Cam Tailler. 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:49.680 There's two There's two guys. I don't even know if 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:51.520 they touched him. There's two guys that had him dead 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:55.039 to rights in the backfield, completely unblocked, and just a 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:58.680 little side step goes out the back door. This was, 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.960 as I would say this, like I've seen ramondre Stevenson 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.039 move the pile. This was as shifty as I've seen 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:08.599 him for a consistent amount of time. I thought, you know, 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.880 so was some some talk to summer Mike about him 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.160 shedding some weight a little bit. I hadn't really seen 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:17.080 any evidence of any added agility today. I did. He 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.400 was I just can't say enough about him. One hundred 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:22.440 and twenty one yards and no, one hundred and twenty 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.560 yards and he was the entirety of the offense. I mean, 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:27.840 let's fay he won the game by himself offensively. Do 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:29.520 you give the line any credit on that? I know 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:33.719 that was difficult on the runs. Yeah, sure, it wasn't 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:35.880 a train wreck. Do we get credit for that? I 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:37.480 get what? Do we lower the bar that low? I 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:39.320 think the bar was pretty low going into the game, 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:42.000 so they raised the bar from that. It wasn't a 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:43.719 train wreck. A lot of people thought it would be. 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:44.520 I didn't. 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.560 I don't think offensive lines are that bad. Like I 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:49.960 said this a million times. I've seen Kansas City and 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.880 Cincinnati go with to the Super Bowl with worse offensive 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.279 lines than what the Patriots are going to have. I 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:58.040 think if you have good players like Ramondre Stevenson was today, 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.120 it doesn't matter. He was great today. 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.320 The decision to go with the extra offensive lineman, how 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:04.680 much do you think that that helped? They were telling 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:05.880 Cincinnati what they were doing. 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:07.920 Yeah, I mean, I just just think without a real 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:09.560 blocking tight end, they had to do something. 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:10.640 And you know, as I said. 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.200 In the pregame show, wanted to see Kadon Wallace get involved. 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.479 I didn't really foresee it being as the you know, 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.560 kind of third tackle, but just to get him some 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:19.600 experience today, I thought that was a positive. And I 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:21.400 think they're showing a little bit of you know, how 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.159 they're going to try to get things done with this 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:24.080 offensive line. 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:27.960 Quarterback. Would you call that a successful managing of the 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:30.760 game by Jacoby Brissett today, Yeah, I mean, made plays 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:32.040 when he needed to make a couple of plays. 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.080 Yeah, he'll probably end up on the on the uplist 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:35.880 for me here in a minute. But yeah, just you know, 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:39.599 gutty performance, got hit a bunch, stayed in there. You know, 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.440 it wasn't overwhelming production or anything like that, but made 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:44.120 some plays when he had to make the plays, and 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:44.880 you just you. 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:46.360 Know, that's that's Jacoby Brissett. 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:46.479 You know. 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:48.120 I don't think anyone expected him to come in here 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:51.719 and be Peyton Manning. But manage the game, don't lose 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.240 us the game. One mistake that he avoided with that, 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:56.599 you know, near interception, But otherwise I thought he was 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:57.640 he was pretty good, all right. 0:06:57.720 --> 0:06:59.440 I would totally agree with that. I think that is 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.000 a good I thought he made enough plays and really 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:02.880 gutty performance. 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:04.680 Yeah all right, you mentioned it, Mike. Why don't we 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:06.720 kick things off, Matt with a little bit of the good, 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:07.960 the bad, and the injured. 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:14.600 Now it's time for the good, pretty good, pretty good, 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:15.520 the bad. 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:17.480 And the injured. 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:26.200 Ah ah, you are right guy, alrighty, the good, the bad, 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:26.640 and the injured. 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:28.640 I don't know, is there another order thing here that 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:29.520 I need to memorize? 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:29.640 Now? 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:34.240 We just we just move around. We just move around 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.200 on that we have. 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.160 We made it obvious. Who was really good today and 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:39.720 that was number thirty eight Ramondre Stevens. 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:41.200 But I'm up there for the first one for sure. 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.320 I mean, just a beast. And you know, it was 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:45.320 funny thinking too back in I think it was two 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:48.000 seasons ago when Patriots offense had a lot of struggles, 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.920 and I just remember him being a lone bright spot 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.120 a lot during that season because of you know what 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:55.760 Paul said, his ability to make things happen when there's 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:57.160 nothing there, and so I thought a little bit of 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.840 that was definitely on display. You know, I did think 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:02.160 there a couple runs where they were well blocked, but 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.440 for the most part, it was kind of, you know, 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:06.680 him trying to make a guy miss, kind of had 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:08.640 that Jimmy White little you know, that little fake to 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:10.480 the side and then cut up. Saw a little bit 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.520 of that from Rmandi, But really good game from him, 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.520 and yeah, he's got the game ball for sure. 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:16.720 Who's your number two star, Paul Perlo? 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.800 Yeah, I don't necessarily put him in order, but I 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:23.880 would say I didn't see anything I didn't like defensively today. 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.000 And I've been a little skeptical of the defense. Not 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:28.120 you know, this is I just want to cut this 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:29.880 off in the past because I've seen this a little 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:33.079 on the Twitter machine. Suddenly now people who wondered if 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:36.079 the defense would be the same without Bill Belichick are 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.640 now now heaven being credited with saying the defense wouldn't 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.720 be good. I never thought that would would be the case, 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.120 but they were outstanding today. We're gonna get back to 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:45.680 that in a second. 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.000 All right, Patriots sixteen to ten winners in Cincinnati, and 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.880 joining us now on the phone is safety Kyle Doug 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:56.800 or Kyle. Congratulations on a great week one win. Kyle? 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:57.240 Are you there? 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:01.360 Sure he's there? I just am not not sure if 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:01.920 you could hear us. 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:03.880 Hey, Kyle, don't know if you can hear his congratulations 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:04.320 on the win. 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:06.720 Today, sir, Thank you, Thank you. 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.480 What defensively, Kyle, you hold this Bengals team down with 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.000 all the explosion even though Chas and Higgins went around. 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:14.520 What was the key do you think to you guys, 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:16.240 defensively and keeping that Bengals team down? 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:18.640 Kyle? Uh? 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:19.760 This do you know? 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:22.400 Yeah? 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:29.840 No, sorry, early, and we had consistent I'm doing our job. 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:33.600 Kyle, big play on the on the takeaway there, you 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:34.480 punched the ball out. 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:35.559 Just what did you see there? 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:37.400 How were you able to get in and and get 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.120 that thing out for Marcus to pick it up and 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:39.640 run with it? 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:43.640 Uh, just one of one more opportunities to get the 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.160 ball out before they got a man's off, and I 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:50.960 was able to do better. But you know, just put 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:51.319 that out. 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.240 I having a high time, little little connection problem. I'll 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.400 try one more time. I think one of the first series, Kyle, 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.280 there was a tone setting play where you came up 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.439 and hit Zach Moss and put him right in his place. 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.160 Do you feel like that was short of sending Cincinnati 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.280 message it it's not going to be easy today. 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.320 I'm not really sure, you know, but I hope it did. 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.839 But every player so I don't know if the way 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:22.960 it did or not, but I hope. 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:26.600 I can't hear it. 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:31.160 I'm sorry, Okay, Kyle, congratulations, congratulations to the team, Coach Mayo, 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.120 great job of getting the first one of the year. 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.960 And we apologize everybody. We had a little bit of 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:39.760 a technical issue there, baby Dad cell service in Cincinnati 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:40.400 and the jungle. 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.040 Let's blame it on that. Let's blame it on that. No, 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.720 a great, great win though, and great like I started 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:47.480 to say, but before Kyle called in, and I didn't. 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.560 I didn't want to have him repeat the same stuff 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:51.839 because I can't. I don't know if you guys were 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.520 hearing any more than I did break it up. But 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.960 obviously his play on the goal line was play. The 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.520 game was a was a huge, huge time arning point. 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:03.960 There's a ten point swing because it's you know, seven years, 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.240 you know Cincinnati is going to get and uh, you know, 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.240 Patriots ended up getting three off of that turnover. But 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.520 I just thought overall during the course of the day, 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:14.800 I didn't really notice and this is part of my 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.679 good you know, back to the you know, our goods, 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.760 just how sounds the Patriots were. There were no real breakdowns, 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:22.400 there were no things that looked like they were way 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:25.480 out of position. I just thought that it was a 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:30.840 really sound first day. 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He's maybe not 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.640 as much as Charles Davis had to say, but he 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.800 was impactful on the field today and his presence was felt. 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:12.840 The Bengals surely knew that he was. 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:14.679 I'm glad you walked me out on this plank mat 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:16.360 because I'm happy to be out on it. 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:17.800 I was happy to, you. 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:19.360 Know, be pumping the brakes a little bit on key 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.040 On White. I mean, I do think everything we said 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:22.920 was valid. I think he was you know where he 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:25.360 got his His production was, you know, kind of doing 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.880 what we said, rushing from the inside, but he was 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.920 a force inside. I love it, I love to see it. 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:33.480 I'm happy to be wrong on him at least as 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:36.480 far as week one goes. So more consistency there, but 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.200 I think he was part of just overall. I liked 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.600 the defensive plan, you know, and it seemed kind of 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.520 to Paul's point, they were aggressive, they were dropping guys. 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:46.280 I mean even I think the first third down where 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.920 they're showing pressure and Bentley drops out, he's able to break. 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:49.480 Up the pass. 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:52.160 The only drive was that one drive, that one scoring 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:53.760 drive they had where they just see they didn't even 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.720 face a third down. They went right down the field. 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.200 They were running the ball with success and then you know, 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:01.400 but to the defense's credit, turned it around the next time. 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:02.440 Held him to a field goal. 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:04.120 You know, I mean, I think we all kind of 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:05.760 thought that was going down to be a touchdown in 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:07.240 a one point game at that point. 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.040 So credit to them though. 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.199 And key On White, great start for him, two and 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.800 a half sacks, not a bad first week for him. 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.679 Yeah, I thought he was. He was active and the 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.840 one sack that he had that he just completely carved 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.360 in the left side of the actually the right side 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.880 of the Bengals line. He was on the defensive left side. 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.920 The other two were just typical Keyon White plays like hustle, 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:31.240 you know, hustle, physical play, like you know, fighting through 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.319 the wash, and you know, Borrow tries to scramble when 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.120 he's not able to get back to the line of scrimmage. 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:39.440 So I thought he was really good. I've sort of 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:43.040 been a little kind of in between our colleagues, Mike 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:46.959 and you with Keon White, I'm not necessarily seeing this, 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:50.960 you know, sixteen seventeen sack guys Aaron Donald in the 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.160 making that our colleagues are making it out to be. 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:55.400 And yet I'm not seeing what you're seeing either. Like 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.520 he's pretty active and he's pretty physical, sort of looking 0:13:58.559 --> 0:13:59.920 to see if he can add some tools to the bell, 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.120 as Evan would like to say, and he throws his 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.760 cliche book at you. But yeah, I thought he was 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:07.400 really good today. I think he was the one guy 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:09.760 that stood out on defense. If you if you were 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:11.959 looking for one guy, think Mike has it like you were. 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.800 You mentioned the plan, dere I say. Their defensive game 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:20.600 plan was almost Belichickian in nature. Everything was kept in 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:23.400 front of them, nothing got behind them. And here's the 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:25.960 one thing that to me was refreshing to see, especially 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:28.440 for a week one game. I thought the tackling, by 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:30.880 by and large, they tackled pretty well. 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:31.640 Yeah, that's get up. 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.080 There wasn't a lot of yards after the catch, there 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.120 was there was yards to be had in front. They 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.200 kept everything in front of him. But I thought they 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.560 did a really good job of tackling buying large for 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:41.120 the most part. 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.120 Yeah, I think it was some of what they did 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.200 last time, tried to do against Burrow last game they 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:46.760 played him where they played a lot of cover two, 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:48.400 tried to you know, stay deep, and he just picked 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.440 him apart down below and still you know, three for 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.000 three hundred and seventy five yards. Like you said, though 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.400 without Chase and Higgins really being able to threaten that 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:58.200 deep part of the field. It was interesting to me 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:00.680 that they still seemed to approach the game that way 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:02.920 against Burrow. I thought maybe they would be a little 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.520 bit more willing to take some chances. But I thought 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:06.960 they just spun the dial well, you know, And I 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.600 think that's kind of the ultimate Belicheckian thing, is keeping 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:11.760 the offense on their toes, not quite knowing if we're 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.800 bringing you know, four four guys, five guys, six guys, 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:18.000 three guys. I thought de Marcus Comington did a good job, 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.000 especially at the end, you know, when it's like all 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.000 right here, it is like you got to get a stop. 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.720 So they got to stop, like because because you know, 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:27.920 I've seen the Patriots have a good game plan before 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.280 they're you know, they have some initial success. I think 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:32.320 they had three three and outs the first three drives. 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.200 After that, I thought Cincinnati did whatever it wanted until 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:39.440 the drive with the game on the line. Then Covington 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.560 got it right back in gear three and out. Really, 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.920 you know, it wasn't like a hold onto your hat 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:48.760 three and out. It was you know, two plays that 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.160 you know could have worked for Cincinnati, but they were 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.000 gonna They were you know, sort of high level play, 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.200 level of difficulty. And then the third down play, I 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.040 think Burrow this is probably Burrow's only mistaken then. I 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:01.880 don't understand how you can check down on third and 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.920 ten cost this team about thirty seconds, you know, of 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:08.480 game time, throw the ball away in punt. You're gonna 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:10.480 punt if you don't have the first down unless you're 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:15.000 like leaning inches. So I thought that drive to me 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:18.600 was more impressive than anything I saw. Defensively, you've sort 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:23.120 of thrown everything at Joe Burrow, and you've kept everything 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.360 under control, and now they've sort of figured you out. 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:28.480 They know what you're doing now, Like they took the 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:32.560 last the last two drives of the first half the Patriots, 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:34.840 I mean, the Bengals moved the ball. One was the 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:37.200 you know, the back to back touchdowns that weren't for 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:39.720 the Bengals. And then the next drive they went right 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:41.360 down the field and got I think they got stopped 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:46.240 on a fourth down maybe, but they drove into scoring territory. 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.080 Then they scored a touchdown, then they had another field goal, 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:52.160 and You're like, you know, of course we're watching it. 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.200 We had a new experience, Mike. We had an experience 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.800 of watching a game live with Matt Smith, who evidently 0:16:56.800 --> 0:17:00.400 thinks it's it's still nineteen ninety one, Mike, Matt was 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:03.000 waiting for something bad to happen at all times. And 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:05.719 I gotta be honest with you, I thought, experience, for sure, 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:09.560 Cincinnati would move into scoring position. Now, whether or not 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:11.720 they got in the end zone, you don't know, but 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:14.000 I thought for sure they would go fifty sixty yards 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:18.000 and see what happens. I thought that stands by. The 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:22.159 defense was really impressive, probably the most impressive possession I 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:22.760 saw of the game. 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:26.760 Yep, Okay, who else And I'll nominate one that's not 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:28.720 sexy or anything like that. As we look at who 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:30.919 was good on this game. Can we not overlook the 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.639 performance by the field goal kicker because I think we 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:35.560 sew my list? Yeah, because I think, as we said, 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:38.080 as we're watching the game, I'm not sure Ryland makes 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:41.800 those kicks. None of them were forty nine yarders into 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.960 a wind, with precipitation and anything like that. All he 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.240 did is just knock him down the middle. Huge plays. 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:49.359 They got him into position to make the kicks. He 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:51.440 made the kick. That's what your kicker is supposed to do, 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:52.000 is any ball. 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.600 Yeah. Now, I do think that those are the kinds 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.080 of kicks that the kickers make. But he was perfect. 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:00.960 You can't be better than perfect correct forty seven, thirty five, 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:03.439 thirty two. You can't miss any of those, but he didn't. 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:05.680 And by the way, they were all right down the middle. 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:09.000 There wasn't any jet Chad Ryland like, is that going 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:10.719 to be in or outside the right? Up right now? 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:13.479 He nailed them all. I agree with Matt. He deserves 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:14.720 to be on the On the goods, I mean I 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:16.760 would put just the special teams in general, because I 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:18.000 saw special teams very good. 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:21.720 I mean a number of really good punts that helped 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:25.720 field position. You know, Joe Cardona, the new captain, getting 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:28.760 down forcing a fumble. Uh you know, I mean, I 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:30.600 guess the only thing you can get is the rookie, 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:32.440 you know, underraft, the rookie Del Pattis, you know, jumping 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:34.040 off sides on the opening kickoff of the first game 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:34.480 of his career. 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:36.360 I tell you now, we have a lot more good 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:38.680 to get to. That's the only thing I wrote down 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:39.440 from my bad list. 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:40.160 Penalties. 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:42.600 No, just the opening kick. Penalties are going to You're 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:44.960 gonna get some penalties. You can't get a penalty on 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.000 the opening kick for that. Yeah, that was it. That's 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.720 the only thing I wrote down. Look one thing, but 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.040 just over by one, you know, as Fred would say, 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:52.440 Whi's my. 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:54.920 One nice job by Jeremy Springers is. I just thought 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:57.480 that whole unit and everybody was ready to go and 0:18:57.480 --> 0:18:59.920 and they just everybody did their job today. And it's 0:18:59.920 --> 0:19:01.960 just that feels refreshing in a way. That's kind of 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:05.320 surprising because you didn't have to set the world on 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:07.400 fire on offense today, like you didn't. And I think, 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:09.800 you know, probably Bill Belichi's gonna look at this game 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:12.199 and it's like, well, the quarterback doesn't make any mistakes like, 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:14.199 this is how we win games. You know, that's this 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:16.640 was the formula. This has been the formula. I hope 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:18.399 they can build off of this and not have to 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:19.600 rely on the formula as much. 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:21.840 It's gon say I'm gonna say that for the second hour. 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:24.000 So I don't think you can win a lot of 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:24.359 games too. 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:26.880 It's hard to win in week one and a banged 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:29.800 up Sincy team, and you just need something positive to 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:32.040 put all the talk of the summer in the spring 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:35.159 behind you and say, all right, you know criticisms are valid, 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:36.760 but still this is a team that can can win 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:37.000 a game. 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:38.880 See Mike, Now you're onto something. And we talked about 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:40.399 that in the pregame show. I think when Paul was 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:45.000 doing one of his shows. It's when the when the coach, Elliott, 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:47.800 whoever you want to put involved in this wants to 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:50.080 try to establish the culture. It's all great to talk 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:52.480 about we're going to do this, we're going to be transparent, 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:54.720 we're going to do things a little bit differently. It's 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:56.920 all great to try to do that, but the players 0:19:56.920 --> 0:19:59.280 need to see that you can win. Besides just talking 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:01.000 about it. They need know that there's a plan in 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:04.920 place that lets win games. Winning today, not maybe playing 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:08.879 their best, but doing things being somewhat disciplined and winning 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:10.520 the way they won. I think it just gives them 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:13.200 a huge shot in the arm that, you know what, 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:16.960 maybe we can do this. Maybe let's let us run 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:18.680 through the wall for Gerard, like some of the players 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:20.359 are saying, that's what that demonstrated. 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:22.119 Well, let's you know, I'm gonna put your Romeo on 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:24.200 the uplist. So you had a team that was ready 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:26.320 to go out. I wanted to play a clean game. 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:29.280 I would call that a clean game. I mean they 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:30.840 had far as it goes, you know, but none but 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:32.159 none that I think really kills you. 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:33.080 I mean, I maybe got to. 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:33.480 Go look back. 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:35.119 I try to forget about the penalties as quickly as 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:37.560 possible at this Mayo getting getting the splash down. But 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:40.639 as I said in the pregame, wins at this point 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:42.080 are worth their weighting goal. 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:44.720 Yeah, and who knows five penalties five? 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:46.800 Who knows how many wins you're gonna have at the 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:49.400 end of the season. But each one you get inspires 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:51.840 a little more confidence, inspires a little bit more belief, 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:54.040 inspires a little bit more buy in from not only 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:56.479 the players and the people inside the building, but the 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:58.560 fans outside the building, who say, you know, is this 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:00.479 a team that is going I mean, you saw how 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:02.520 some of these other teams today performed, and some of 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:05.920 these other you know, teams that were underdogs by less 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:08.080 than the Patriots were underdogs. I would add too, So 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:10.680 i'd put your Rob may on there. Really nice win 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:12.679 for his team, and I think they looked like a 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:13.679 well coached team out there. 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:17.200 Correct, Paul, you said you had a long list of goods. 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:20.640 Yeah, I disagree with you, guys. I think the Patriots 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:22.639 played an almost perfect game today. I don't think they 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:24.840 can play any better than that. I have so many 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:28.560 different things that I was impressed with. We talked about Douger, 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:32.720 we talked about some individual stuff. I just thought when 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:34.639 it was a play to be made Jonathan Jones, like 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:38.080 fourth and two, terrific tackle, Like that's a great play, 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:41.159 that's a game changing play. Like I know that they 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:44.080 don't all come down like Dougger strips a guy of 0:21:44.119 --> 0:21:46.480 the ball inside the one yard line. That's Anybody who's 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:48.439 ever watched a football game knows how important that is. 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:53.280 But the change of momentum cannot be overstated with the 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:56.000 play that Jonathan Jones makes if that's a first down, 0:21:56.840 --> 0:21:59.440 since he's gonna come away with that the minimum points, 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:04.120 but probably seven. They were moving the ball and that's 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:07.400 not an easy tackle to make in space. You made 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:09.640 that comment, Matt, that the tackling was really good today 0:22:09.640 --> 0:22:11.960 for a Week one I would actually say for the 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:15.200 entirety of the game, both teams. For a Week one game, 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:18.280 there weren't a lot of mistackles. Now, Cincinnati missed a 0:22:18.320 --> 0:22:21.400 couple in late in the game when I think the ball, 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:23.680 I think they're trying to strip the ball, and they quit. 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:25.720 I think they quit. They said the only way we 0:22:25.720 --> 0:22:27.840 can win here is if we force a fumble. But 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:31.119 for the most part, the tackling in that game was 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:34.120 really good. That Jonathan Jones fourth and two play was outstanding. 0:22:34.400 --> 0:22:38.200 Outstanding play by by him. I literally could put every 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:41.000 member of the defense on this. I thought the coverage 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:46.680 was tight. You know a couple of plays there on 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:49.080 the run that you know, they hit some seams there. 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:51.040 But for the most part, I thought they were stout 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:54.560 up front. Just what a really good performance. 0:22:54.359 --> 0:22:58.399 At web web radio at Patriots dot Com. Here's are 0:22:58.440 --> 0:23:02.120 we moving too fast? Into this category right now, you guys, let. 0:23:02.080 --> 0:23:03.520 Me know a little bit. Was still doing the good 0:23:03.520 --> 0:23:03.760 the bad. 0:23:04.119 --> 0:23:05.639 Yeah we are, But so I just want to let 0:23:05.680 --> 0:23:07.960 you know that this guy Nate wants to know the 0:23:07.960 --> 0:23:10.720 defense was great. He didn't see Gonzo much on his screen, 0:23:11.160 --> 0:23:13.119 which must mean he did a good job. And I 0:23:13.119 --> 0:23:14.760 don't know if you would agree with that, Paul Parlo. 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:17.199 I think he was fine, but he was on the 0:23:17.200 --> 0:23:20.240 screen six times when the six catches that Jamar Chase 0:23:20.280 --> 0:23:23.560 made now weren't game breaking plays, but I don't think 0:23:23.600 --> 0:23:25.080 they sent him down the field the whole game. I 0:23:25.080 --> 0:23:27.480 don't think he was probably physically able to go down 0:23:27.520 --> 0:23:32.600 the field Chase, I mean, not Gonzales, right, I think 0:23:32.640 --> 0:23:34.919 that Gonzales was fine in this game. I didn't think 0:23:34.960 --> 0:23:37.679 there was anything wrong with him, But I didn't think 0:23:37.720 --> 0:23:40.359 it was an overly strong performance either. I thought a 0:23:40.400 --> 0:23:42.320 couple of those catches were short of the first down, 0:23:42.320 --> 0:23:44.800 and Chase was able to score through the tackle, pick 0:23:44.920 --> 0:23:47.080 up the necessary yardage for the first down. But it's 0:23:47.080 --> 0:23:50.000 also Jamar Chase. I'm not looking for, you know, three 0:23:50.040 --> 0:23:52.680 for fourteen, right, You know that was a really good 0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:57.159 performance by the defense. The only Marco Wilson gets a 0:23:57.200 --> 0:23:59.280 pass interference because he was out of position on one done. 0:23:59.280 --> 0:24:01.680 The one deep ball that Cincinnati threw in the entire 0:24:01.720 --> 0:24:04.600 game resulted in a penalty and he knew it. But 0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:07.240 other than that, like, I been hard pressed to find 0:24:07.280 --> 0:24:10.679 anything even remotely negative about anything on defense. Yeah, they 0:24:11.119 --> 0:24:14.879 were just really good. How many yards? I lost it? 0:24:15.960 --> 0:24:16.160 Mike? 0:24:16.160 --> 0:24:17.280 How about you? 0:24:17.280 --> 0:24:17.359 No? 0:24:17.560 --> 0:24:19.399 I agree very much with the you know, with what 0:24:19.440 --> 0:24:21.280 Paul said, and I mean, I think you know kind 0:24:21.280 --> 0:24:22.520 of what we're getting at here in this. 0:24:22.440 --> 0:24:25.240 Second and twenty four yards total team. 0:24:25.040 --> 0:24:26.800 Win, you know, just it felt like a team win 0:24:26.840 --> 0:24:28.720 where it was you know, a couple of plays I 0:24:28.720 --> 0:24:31.440 would say, you know, to the Gonzales point, he didn't 0:24:31.440 --> 0:24:33.160 really have one of those plays like you mentioned Jones 0:24:33.200 --> 0:24:34.879 had where he came out and made a tackle, stopped 0:24:34.880 --> 0:24:37.040 the guy short. Felt to me like they were in 0:24:37.080 --> 0:24:38.760 a little bit of zone too. So I don't know, 0:24:38.840 --> 0:24:40.880 but hey, it's just a team effort, and I think 0:24:40.880 --> 0:24:42.679 at this point that's what that's what you're looking for 0:24:42.720 --> 0:24:44.320 from these guys. Are they all on the same page, 0:24:44.320 --> 0:24:46.800 Are they well coached? Are they not beating themselves? In 0:24:46.840 --> 0:24:50.520 Week one on the road? They did they checked those boxes, 0:24:50.560 --> 0:24:52.879 so it's something to build off of. But you know, 0:24:52.920 --> 0:24:54.400 it's it's it's cool, it's pretty cool. 0:24:54.800 --> 0:24:56.640 I would also say, like, just you know, we're back 0:24:56.680 --> 0:24:58.919 to Gerard Mayo. I think you might wanted to put 0:24:59.000 --> 0:25:01.080 him specifically, so you come out of the gate right 0:25:01.560 --> 0:25:04.000 your first quarter of the Gerard Mayo regime, they out 0:25:04.040 --> 0:25:07.640 outgained one oh seven to seventeen. That was the first 0:25:07.680 --> 0:25:10.480 quarter total. Now it's one of those things we all 0:25:10.560 --> 0:25:13.680 said Cincinnati generally isn't ready to play at the start 0:25:13.680 --> 0:25:16.480 of the season under Zach Taylor, and I think we 0:25:16.520 --> 0:25:17.960 all said it, but I'm not sure how many of 0:25:18.040 --> 0:25:21.159 us believed it. No, they weren't ready. They weren't ready, 0:25:21.240 --> 0:25:23.400 and the Patriots were and they exposed them. 0:25:23.480 --> 0:25:26.440 Check Mayo. Check Mayo right in the checkbox. 0:25:26.680 --> 0:25:29.200 So again, I have I have a lot of stuff 0:25:29.240 --> 0:25:29.760 like it's just. 0:25:29.800 --> 0:25:31.840 What's funny, say Paul I did have, well, I had, 0:25:31.880 --> 0:25:33.680 I guess I did have one X on josh Ucha. 0:25:33.960 --> 0:25:37.160 I think he got an off side penalty. But otherwise 0:25:37.240 --> 0:25:39.439 that and the Marco Wilson with only two x's I 0:25:39.440 --> 0:25:42.600 wrote down on defense besides specific players of who that 0:25:42.640 --> 0:25:43.480 guy just screwed up. 0:25:43.520 --> 0:25:45.000 So like a game. 0:25:45.119 --> 0:25:47.800 I mean, Jawan Bentley I thought was active. You know, 0:25:47.880 --> 0:25:49.320 he continues to kind of be the heart beat in 0:25:49.359 --> 0:25:52.520 the middle of this of this defense. And yeah they 0:25:52.520 --> 0:25:52.800 were good. 0:25:53.119 --> 0:25:55.680 Uh, you're watching and listening to the Patriots postgame show 0:25:55.680 --> 0:25:58.960 where the Patriots were a surprising sixteen to ten winner 0:25:59.119 --> 0:26:03.399 in Cincinnati. The Bengals today, Paul, do we pivot to bad? 0:26:03.480 --> 0:26:05.800 And I don't know how much bad there was. I'm 0:26:05.840 --> 0:26:08.440 out it wasn't perfect. Yeah, it wasn't perfect. I thought 0:26:08.440 --> 0:26:09.440 there was some Listen. 0:26:09.200 --> 0:26:10.600 I might go down in an area for you, but 0:26:10.640 --> 0:26:13.399 I'd like you so I'll just say in general, like 0:26:13.480 --> 0:26:15.359 I understand like people are gonna look at the you 0:26:15.359 --> 0:26:17.800 know what a homer Paul is turned into because they 0:26:17.840 --> 0:26:20.880 win one game. And I have nothing bad to say 0:26:20.960 --> 0:26:24.840 because I treat this kind of stuff with different you know, 0:26:24.960 --> 0:26:28.360 on a curve, like Jacoby Brissett was nowhere near good 0:26:28.440 --> 0:26:32.440 enough by NFL standards, but I thought he managed the 0:26:32.480 --> 0:26:34.879 game tremendously well. He missed a couple of throws, he 0:26:34.920 --> 0:26:37.000 also made a couple of big throws on third downs, and. 0:26:36.960 --> 0:26:38.240 He also did a couple of things with that. 0:26:38.240 --> 0:26:40.440 That's what happens when you play with a backup quarterback. 0:26:40.480 --> 0:26:42.800 He's gonna make some plays, he's gonna miss some plays. 0:26:42.960 --> 0:26:44.960 You're gonna end up with two hundred and sixty or 0:26:44.960 --> 0:26:47.959 two hundred and eighty yards of offense and sixteen points. 0:26:48.000 --> 0:26:49.840 Oh by the way, before I get bloed for that, 0:26:50.480 --> 0:26:52.840 I said they would score sixteen points. I just thought 0:26:52.880 --> 0:26:54.080 the other team would have twenty seven. 0:26:54.160 --> 0:26:57.560 Right, So the one and this is picnicking a little bit. 0:26:57.720 --> 0:27:00.760 And when while I'm gonna criticize, I think there was 0:27:00.800 --> 0:27:04.040 a reason for them doing it up thirteen to nothing, 0:27:04.359 --> 0:27:06.560 they really went into a shell offensively. You know, it 0:27:06.600 --> 0:27:09.000 was almost like they we can't put the ball on 0:27:09.040 --> 0:27:11.840 Harm's way. The Bengals had taken over the line of 0:27:11.840 --> 0:27:14.160 scrimmage at that point in time when he was going 0:27:14.200 --> 0:27:17.320 back to pass, Brissette was getting popped. You know, it 0:27:17.400 --> 0:27:20.920 was a free for all back there. Did they need 0:27:20.960 --> 0:27:23.280 to continue to do that in order to manage the 0:27:23.320 --> 0:27:26.000 game and continue to win the game and play conservative? 0:27:26.040 --> 0:27:28.320 I think that's going to be learning who you are 0:27:28.359 --> 0:27:29.880 and what you can do. And I mean I think 0:27:29.920 --> 0:27:32.000 they probably were airing a little bit on the side 0:27:32.040 --> 0:27:33.840 of caution. I mean, why wouldn't you You're off to 0:27:33.880 --> 0:27:36.560 a good start. You're playing pretty clean, So I didn't 0:27:36.560 --> 0:27:38.680 necessarily hate it, but I think it's a sign of 0:27:39.320 --> 0:27:40.919 this is where this offense needs to go. You know, 0:27:41.000 --> 0:27:42.880 this needs to be an offense that in those moments 0:27:42.920 --> 0:27:45.000 can now we're going to hit a twenty five yard pass, 0:27:45.040 --> 0:27:47.600 you know, those kind of things, which they're not there yet, 0:27:47.640 --> 0:27:49.160 but I think that they can say, look, our running 0:27:49.160 --> 0:27:51.600 game is pretty solid, and you know, Ramandre obviously is 0:27:51.840 --> 0:27:53.040 you know, looking good. 0:27:53.280 --> 0:27:54.400 Let's try to build off of. 0:27:54.320 --> 0:27:55.960 This and see ways that we can start to be 0:27:56.119 --> 0:27:58.280 a little bit more aggressive and grow as an offense. 0:27:58.480 --> 0:28:02.040 Part if you had, like if you had a really 0:28:02.080 --> 0:28:05.119 productive offer, or even like a middling offense, you probably 0:28:05.160 --> 0:28:08.399 win that game today, something closer to, I don't know, 0:28:09.760 --> 0:28:12.960 thirty to twenty instead of sixteen to ten. You know, 0:28:14.560 --> 0:28:17.439 because they're so limited offensively, I think they had to 0:28:17.480 --> 0:28:21.399 do what they did. And I hate conservative and I 0:28:21.440 --> 0:28:23.959 hate running the ball, but I absolutely would have run 0:28:24.040 --> 0:28:26.160 the ball. I said to you when it was thirteen nothing, 0:28:26.160 --> 0:28:29.840 I wouldn't throw another pass until the Cincinnati scores. Cincinnati scored. 0:28:30.440 --> 0:28:32.360 They threw a couple more passes, a couple of third 0:28:32.400 --> 0:28:34.320 downs on that field goal, drive, which I thought was 0:28:34.359 --> 0:28:38.920 a huge drive to rescore the two score lead right away. Again, 0:28:39.000 --> 0:28:42.280 I thought Prissette was good enough. He made one mistake, 0:28:42.360 --> 0:28:45.520 got away with it and you know, really kept the 0:28:45.520 --> 0:28:47.720 ball out of harm's way otherwise. And I thought did 0:28:47.720 --> 0:28:49.920 a really good job of finding a way to get 0:28:49.960 --> 0:28:53.240 first downs with runs that you know, improbable runs where 0:28:53.280 --> 0:28:55.160 he was taking a lot of hits, especially at the 0:28:55.240 --> 0:28:56.440 end there, I mean, not that last. 0:28:56.480 --> 0:28:58.160 You know, a couple carries pretty pressive. 0:28:58.480 --> 0:29:00.360 He did a couple things with his legs too, you know, 0:29:00.400 --> 0:29:02.280 I thought that that was a nice little touch that 0:29:02.400 --> 0:29:06.200 for set he could get out of harm's way sometimes. 0:29:06.400 --> 0:29:08.200 He showed some real stones on a couple of those 0:29:08.320 --> 0:29:08.720 runs too. 0:29:08.800 --> 0:29:09.360 Yep, he did. 0:29:09.400 --> 0:29:11.600 And I mean I think, like if it all went perfectly, 0:29:11.760 --> 0:29:13.480 like I was thinking though, it's like, wow, it's kind 0:29:13.480 --> 0:29:16.160 of nice to enjoy Patriots win without a bunch of calls. 0:29:16.120 --> 0:29:18.080 Like now our draft pick's gonna be worse. You know 0:29:18.080 --> 0:29:20.320 you haven't well, you haven't taken the calls yet those 0:29:20.400 --> 0:29:22.440 you would go, well, now I'm expecting instead of out, 0:29:22.440 --> 0:29:24.280 you're gonna hear now. It means it's gonna be longer 0:29:24.360 --> 0:29:25.040 until Drake. 0:29:24.880 --> 0:29:26.960 Meg gets it, you know, but I think in a 0:29:26.960 --> 0:29:30.040 perfect world you're saying, look, this is a pretty solid offense. 0:29:30.040 --> 0:29:31.560 And I'm not saying that's what we're here now. I'm saying, 0:29:31.560 --> 0:29:34.120 in a perfect world, if this were to continue to evolve, that, hey, 0:29:34.120 --> 0:29:37.280 we got a pretty solid offense that's just lacking playmaking 0:29:37.600 --> 0:29:40.360 at the quarterback position. Now you're probably gonna put a 0:29:40.440 --> 0:29:42.400 rookie in there at some point and you're gonna you're 0:29:42.400 --> 0:29:44.480 gonna get some more mistakes. You're also hopefully they're going 0:29:44.520 --> 0:29:46.320 to get some bigger plays, and that's, you know, if 0:29:46.360 --> 0:29:48.280 they can set the table for Drake may. I think 0:29:48.280 --> 0:29:50.920 that's what we're all hoping for instead of all right, 0:29:50.920 --> 0:29:52.120 we got to put them in there, but we know 0:29:52.160 --> 0:29:53.760 it's you know, it's gonna be really hard. At least 0:29:53.760 --> 0:29:55.440 now you feel like Mark, well, maybe they do have 0:29:55.480 --> 0:29:57.040 a little bit of something that they can lean into. 0:29:57.200 --> 0:29:58.840 All right, Well, you mentioned the phones. Let's go to 0:29:58.880 --> 0:30:01.120 the phones. Sean and vanc whover your next year on 0:30:01.120 --> 0:30:03.120 Patriot's post game show. Good afternoon, Sean. 0:30:04.080 --> 0:30:07.360 Hey, Matt, I think you're doing an amazing job. You know, 0:30:07.440 --> 0:30:10.240 it's kind of funny. I don't care about the Lions. 0:30:10.280 --> 0:30:11.800 I don't like them. I don't dislike them, but the 0:30:12.040 --> 0:30:14.560 previous post of the show was a huge fan and 0:30:14.600 --> 0:30:17.240 you hate them, so I think that's kind of interesting. 0:30:17.560 --> 0:30:20.040 And fath. 0:30:21.760 --> 0:30:22.400 Entirely wrong. 0:30:22.440 --> 0:30:27.640 But right, that's fine. But this gave us a huge surprise. 0:30:27.680 --> 0:30:29.960 This is the Patriots way, you know, do your job. 0:30:30.120 --> 0:30:30.600 I love it. 0:30:30.600 --> 0:30:34.080 They live in mistakes and they had a smart plan 0:30:34.160 --> 0:30:38.760 and I think Brissett looked like it helped him to 0:30:38.920 --> 0:30:41.200 be in that system in the past, being Cleveland system, 0:30:41.320 --> 0:30:43.640 he knew what he was doing. Another player I think 0:30:44.080 --> 0:30:48.880 also benefited from that was Hooper, the tight End. And 0:30:49.640 --> 0:30:53.720 one thing I wanted to ask Mike about. Yeah, I 0:30:53.720 --> 0:30:55.600 don't know if you've seen the New Giants' uniforms, but 0:30:55.600 --> 0:30:57.760 they kind of reminded me of the Have Total. 0:30:58.520 --> 0:31:01.160 You know, those are not the New Giants uniforms A throw. 0:31:01.160 --> 0:31:03.640 Sorry, Yeah, and they're bad. 0:31:04.560 --> 0:31:06.680 They are bad, I think, and every time I see it. 0:31:06.840 --> 0:31:09.760 Thanks thanks for the call, Sean, and I half assumed 0:31:09.760 --> 0:31:13.200 to see ivon Corn, you know, lining up when. 0:31:13.040 --> 0:31:16.360 You called them like Benetton's Jesus so terrible, terrible. 0:31:16.360 --> 0:31:17.880 Okay, you know, I want to say one thing though, 0:31:17.920 --> 0:31:20.000 that Sean said that I don't know. I hope we're 0:31:20.000 --> 0:31:22.560 making enough of a big deal. Like, nobody expected this 0:31:22.600 --> 0:31:25.520 team to go into Cincinnati and win. Again, it wasn't perfect, 0:31:25.880 --> 0:31:26.640 but that was real. 0:31:26.720 --> 0:31:29.160 That was Curris picked it did he gotta give I 0:31:29.160 --> 0:31:32.160 gotta give props where there. That's that's not even sarcastic. 0:31:32.200 --> 0:31:34.280 I gotta give props with there too. And a lot 0:31:34.280 --> 0:31:37.120 of people thought that this game was winnable. I was 0:31:37.160 --> 0:31:38.600 not one of them. I'm not going to pretend that 0:31:38.640 --> 0:31:40.160 I am one of those people that thought this was 0:31:40.160 --> 0:31:40.680 going to happen. 0:31:40.760 --> 0:31:43.320 I wasn't because of the roster, Paul, right, I mean, 0:31:43.360 --> 0:31:45.640 everybody knew that Chase was going to be somewhat limited. 0:31:45.880 --> 0:31:46.520 You knew, Lally. 0:31:46.680 --> 0:31:48.320 We thought the game was going to get played the 0:31:48.320 --> 0:31:50.280 way it got played, and I still thought the Bengals 0:31:50.320 --> 0:31:52.160 would win it. I thought the Bengals would be sloppy 0:31:52.160 --> 0:31:55.480 as hell because Chase wasn't there the whole summer, right, 0:31:56.080 --> 0:32:01.160 you know, they were sloppy as hell and they didn't 0:32:01.200 --> 0:32:04.040 overcome it. I thought they would overcome it. And like 0:32:04.080 --> 0:32:07.560 I said, that Covington response on that final drive is 0:32:07.600 --> 0:32:08.520 what really impressed me. 0:32:10.520 --> 0:32:15.160 Web Radio at Patriots dot Com is our email address here. 0:32:15.640 --> 0:32:18.160 This one coming to us from Michael in Yarmouth, who 0:32:18.200 --> 0:32:19.880 wants to know would it be fair to say that 0:32:19.880 --> 0:32:23.080 the Patriots defense could end up being in the top 0:32:23.160 --> 0:32:26.080 five defenses in the league. That seems to me to 0:32:26.080 --> 0:32:28.800 be a bit of an overreaction to Week one. Maybe 0:32:28.800 --> 0:32:30.000 that's just me, Mike. 0:32:31.040 --> 0:32:34.120 I mean, look, I'm not gonna get into I still 0:32:34.320 --> 0:32:36.120 don't right of ways to go. I mean, you know, 0:32:36.160 --> 0:32:39.080 you just face Cincinnati without one of their top weapons 0:32:39.160 --> 0:32:42.120 and a limited other top weapon and two new running backs, 0:32:42.120 --> 0:32:44.160 and you know, a brand new tight end. I mean, 0:32:44.320 --> 0:32:46.440 there were a bunch of new pieces for Joe Burrow today. 0:32:46.480 --> 0:32:48.920 So look, I don't want to take take away any credit, 0:32:48.960 --> 0:32:51.960 but going forward, you're gonna have to prove that you 0:32:52.040 --> 0:32:54.840 can play a team that has their full contingent and 0:32:54.880 --> 0:32:55.480 be able to do this. 0:32:55.640 --> 0:32:58.760 And I will even say, like today, like I'll be 0:32:58.800 --> 0:33:00.920 a little even a little more I get what you're saying, Mike, 0:33:00.920 --> 0:33:03.160 and I largely agree. I'll be a little more positive 0:33:03.160 --> 0:33:07.840 if like today, Yes, like I'm not gonna put all 0:33:07.840 --> 0:33:10.320 the asters like Joe Burrow is their starting quarterback. This 0:33:10.360 --> 0:33:12.560 isn't a typical Patriots beat up on a bad offense 0:33:12.720 --> 0:33:15.080 with a backup. This was Joe Burrow, who's one of 0:33:15.120 --> 0:33:18.840 the best quarterbacks in football. Yes, he was missing some 0:33:18.920 --> 0:33:21.040 of his weapons, but they had guys out there, and 0:33:21.120 --> 0:33:23.280 Chase played well, you know, for what he was asked 0:33:23.320 --> 0:33:28.040 to do, six for sixty two. But can this is 0:33:28.040 --> 0:33:31.040 what kind of bugs me? And I know this is everywhere. 0:33:31.080 --> 0:33:32.960 This is not a Boston thing, it's not a Patriots 0:33:33.040 --> 0:33:36.920 fan thing, But why do we take snapshots off the 0:33:37.040 --> 0:33:39.560 very best that we ever seen and say is that it? 0:33:40.240 --> 0:33:43.600 So we saw the Patriots defense virtually make like three 0:33:43.640 --> 0:33:47.080 mistakes today in sixty minutes ball out, and now we say, 0:33:47.600 --> 0:33:49.520 is this a tough Is this the best defense in 0:33:49.520 --> 0:33:50.880 the league? Rush top five defense? 0:33:51.000 --> 0:33:51.680 Last to judgment? 0:33:51.760 --> 0:33:53.800 I don't know. Can I maybe watch two months before 0:33:53.840 --> 0:33:55.560 I decide if I think it's one of the best 0:33:55.640 --> 0:33:57.320 in the in the league. Can I see them when 0:33:57.320 --> 0:34:00.600 they're maybe not playing at their best and see how 0:34:00.760 --> 0:34:03.520 bad it looks? Or maybe can I see them when 0:34:04.240 --> 0:34:06.840 the game plan doesn't work out of the shoot. Today's 0:34:06.840 --> 0:34:08.560 game plan on both sides of the ball I thought 0:34:08.880 --> 0:34:12.600 was excellent. Yes, Patriots moved the ball early and they 0:34:12.640 --> 0:34:16.520 stopped Cincinnati from moving it early. Their game plan was outstanding. 0:34:15.920 --> 0:34:17.000 Well coached, out coached. 0:34:17.000 --> 0:34:18.640 Can I see what it looks like when maybe they 0:34:18.680 --> 0:34:21.560 don't get it right heading into the week or taps 0:34:21.600 --> 0:34:24.480 off to Mayo and Covington today, right and Van Peltz, Or. 0:34:24.480 --> 0:34:26.120 When teams get a chance to see, Oh, let's see 0:34:26.120 --> 0:34:28.480 what this Keon White's doing. Where's he lining up? Let's 0:34:28.520 --> 0:34:30.560 see what he put some tape out there? What they're doing? 0:34:30.760 --> 0:34:33.719 Back to the phones, Christian in La. You are next 0:34:33.719 --> 0:34:35.720 on the Patriots postgame show. Good afternoon, Christian. 0:34:37.200 --> 0:34:39.879 Hey you guys, great Patriots win. I will take it 0:34:40.400 --> 0:34:44.680 no matter how you know. On exciting it was. But 0:34:44.800 --> 0:34:48.799 I'll say this, what I saw today was a couple 0:34:48.880 --> 0:34:51.520 of questions that I think we all had. Ken Girod 0:34:51.560 --> 0:34:56.200 Mayo coach. He showed competency. Ken the offensive line protect 0:34:56.239 --> 0:34:59.640 it all. They showed competency in the defense going to 0:34:59.719 --> 0:35:04.120 be good. They showed competency. So it seems like we 0:35:04.120 --> 0:35:05.680 we did the things we need to do, and that 0:35:05.800 --> 0:35:08.480 you guys said, I think it was last week. We're 0:35:08.480 --> 0:35:11.640 gonna have to beat some teams that come in unprepared 0:35:11.719 --> 0:35:14.839 and maybe hurt and banged up, and we did that. 0:35:15.320 --> 0:35:17.640 My question to you guys is and I have two 0:35:17.719 --> 0:35:20.880 of them. One do you guys feel as sort of 0:35:21.400 --> 0:35:26.799 uh blank stared as I was with the the wide receivers. 0:35:27.120 --> 0:35:29.400 Seemed like they didn't play at all. And it seems 0:35:29.400 --> 0:35:31.919 to me, once we do get a play a team 0:35:31.920 --> 0:35:34.280 that could stop the run, I don't know how this 0:35:34.520 --> 0:35:36.960 team is going to score. That's the first question. The 0:35:37.000 --> 0:35:37.879 second question is. 0:35:39.320 --> 0:35:40.080 Show competency. 0:35:41.160 --> 0:35:43.480 Because the offensive line did show competence, do you think 0:35:43.520 --> 0:35:46.400 that shortens the waiting time for Drake may I know 0:35:46.520 --> 0:35:49.239 we were just waiting to see, you know, the numbers 0:35:49.680 --> 0:35:49.840 he was. 0:35:49.880 --> 0:35:52.279 Don't get killed, right, Christian, thank you for the phone call. 0:35:52.360 --> 0:35:54.520 I think Paul is going to object to you. 0:35:55.080 --> 0:35:55.480 I don't know what. 0:35:58.239 --> 0:36:01.359 Certainly past protection was was a problem throughout the day. 0:36:02.440 --> 0:36:04.239 I think that's why they were so conservative. 0:36:04.239 --> 0:36:05.759 Matt to you a point, Yes, I agree with you, 0:36:06.480 --> 0:36:07.920 and which is why you didn't see much out of 0:36:07.960 --> 0:36:10.359 the wide receivers. To Christian's point, I didn't see anything 0:36:10.400 --> 0:36:12.839 from the wide receivers because they really weren't involved much 0:36:12.840 --> 0:36:13.400 in the game. 0:36:13.200 --> 0:36:16.200 Plan and they really don't have any correct I mean, 0:36:16.239 --> 0:36:18.560 I'm not trying to be mean here, but they have 0:36:18.640 --> 0:36:23.320 a bunch of you know, complimentary pieces Jalen Polk, kJ Osborne, 0:36:23.600 --> 0:36:27.280 Jamario Douglas. They're like, they're all capable of Taekwon Thornton 0:36:27.320 --> 0:36:29.920 showed up today with a couple of catches. But they're 0:36:29.960 --> 0:36:34.279 not gonna make their living on the outside with big 0:36:34.320 --> 0:36:36.520 players from their wide receivers. That's not how they're built. 0:36:36.600 --> 0:36:40.799 Correct Emailer Cynthia saying this was so needed. Yes, the 0:36:40.800 --> 0:36:42.759 Bengals are not at their best, but we have to 0:36:42.840 --> 0:36:45.640 admit our defense brought it and we were better than expected. 0:36:46.040 --> 0:36:49.040 In all caps, this is hope, and I agree with 0:36:49.080 --> 0:36:52.600 her on that we're Cynthia. We're tooting Ramandre and he 0:36:52.680 --> 0:36:55.759 needs to not overdo it, and their defense saw how 0:36:55.840 --> 0:36:58.480 much we needed. It was an awesome start. 0:36:58.520 --> 0:37:01.719 That's one hundred percent. Can we just do like I 0:37:02.000 --> 0:37:06.279 like Cynthia's approach there today. If we want to talk 0:37:06.280 --> 0:37:10.279 about today, there aren't enough superlatives. I think today they 0:37:10.280 --> 0:37:14.560 were outstanding and really all aspects, all three phases. I 0:37:14.560 --> 0:37:17.799 think that they played very well and even offensively, even 0:37:17.840 --> 0:37:20.759 though they didn't have any production. They did what they 0:37:20.760 --> 0:37:24.000 were asked to do offensively. I just don't want to, 0:37:24.160 --> 0:37:29.120 like try to make these sweeping judgments over well, maybe that, well, 0:37:29.160 --> 0:37:32.640 maybe that you know, we can we get something. No, 0:37:32.800 --> 0:37:37.080 today everything was great, like I'm not you know, you 0:37:37.120 --> 0:37:39.160 know what you know the word, what's what's the word 0:37:39.160 --> 0:37:43.400 I'm coming out with? My is this sustainable? No, you 0:37:43.440 --> 0:37:47.920 can't win like that seventeen times. You can't. But but 0:37:48.040 --> 0:37:52.319 they showed hope, hope in caps. I like Cynthia's hope 0:37:52.320 --> 0:37:53.200 in caps. I like that. 0:37:53.239 --> 0:37:55.360 And so here's the deal. You know as well as anybody, 0:37:55.440 --> 0:37:58.520 Paul that everybody tomorrow is going to be over reaction Monday, 0:37:58.960 --> 0:38:01.799 and you know, all the expectations of everything like that. 0:38:01.920 --> 0:38:04.120 Let's take this win for what it was and try 0:38:04.120 --> 0:38:05.759 to build on it. And that's what the challenge is 0:38:05.800 --> 0:38:07.160 going to be for mal I couldn't agree. 0:38:07.320 --> 0:38:07.600 Staff. 0:38:07.719 --> 0:38:09.880 Yeah, you know, he knows better than anybody. You're not 0:38:09.880 --> 0:38:11.440 gonna win many sixteen to ten games. 0:38:11.520 --> 0:38:13.440 But even then, like it's just you're not gonna win 0:38:13.480 --> 0:38:17.360 many games. Like the style that they tried to play, 0:38:17.520 --> 0:38:19.680 you know, throwing for one hundred and twenty yards, that's 0:38:19.719 --> 0:38:21.160 not going to do it. Like you're not going to 0:38:21.239 --> 0:38:23.399 You're not going to score enough points to win most 0:38:23.440 --> 0:38:26.080 times doing that. Now you held the other teams only 0:38:26.120 --> 0:38:28.600 one hundred and sixty five yards throwing, so like it 0:38:28.719 --> 0:38:32.560 was enough today. You played really, really, really well, complimentary 0:38:33.040 --> 0:38:34.240 on all three phases. 0:38:34.880 --> 0:38:36.920 Okay, let's go back to the phone lines. Let's go 0:38:37.000 --> 0:38:40.320 to Neil in Cork, Ireland. To hold on a second, 0:38:40.360 --> 0:38:43.399 let me get the button over there, Bingo, Neil, you're 0:38:43.400 --> 0:38:46.479 next on the Patriots postgame show. Good night or good 0:38:46.560 --> 0:38:47.000 good evening. 0:38:47.000 --> 0:38:52.960 I guess for you there, Yes, thirty first time corner, 0:38:53.280 --> 0:38:59.120 a longtime listener, and I just wanted to say I 0:38:59.440 --> 0:39:03.560 didn't expect too much after the preseason, but the defense 0:39:03.680 --> 0:39:13.839 was awesome. Romandre was was played excellent and a few 0:39:13.880 --> 0:39:16.799 notem trying to read him, and yeah, I. 0:39:16.719 --> 0:39:18.200 Can for your show later. 0:39:19.760 --> 0:39:21.640 I last, I'm a. 0:39:21.560 --> 0:39:23.520 Couple of glasses of wine deep that. 0:39:26.840 --> 0:39:27.160 I can. 0:39:27.280 --> 0:39:29.600 I can actually understand the boy. They played for sett 0:39:29.640 --> 0:39:31.919 and some of the hits he took were pretty hard, 0:39:33.520 --> 0:39:35.840 so like I can see why they didn't want to 0:39:35.920 --> 0:39:40.359 risk Drake may I thought Jacoby played really well, and 0:39:40.719 --> 0:39:43.239 you know, he wasn't amazing, but he did his job. 0:39:43.280 --> 0:39:45.759 They did very well. I felt the whole performance kind 0:39:45.800 --> 0:39:49.279 of felt well check in in a way, and I 0:39:49.360 --> 0:39:54.640 was very happy for Mayo and this last one is 0:39:54.880 --> 0:39:59.360 I once sent a bottle of whiskey via Kevin Connolly 0:39:59.600 --> 0:40:01.799 to good Paul there. 0:40:02.239 --> 0:40:02.520 I don't know. 0:40:02.560 --> 0:40:06.480 I oh, Neil, thank you very much. I know exactly 0:40:06.480 --> 0:40:08.719 what you're talking about, and I do appreciate it. Thank 0:40:08.719 --> 0:40:10.319 you very much. Kevin does have it? 0:40:11.239 --> 0:40:11.680 Thank you. 0:40:12.000 --> 0:40:13.080 Did you ever get to drink it? 0:40:13.520 --> 0:40:13.800 No? 0:40:14.120 --> 0:40:17.120 No, you know that Conley guy, he hogged it all 0:40:17.160 --> 0:40:20.800 for himself. No, but that was a very nice gesture 0:40:20.800 --> 0:40:22.400 on your part. Kevin did tell me about that. 0:40:22.440 --> 0:40:24.520 Thank you, And Neil, thanks for the phone call. You know, 0:40:24.560 --> 0:40:28.080 he said something in that call, Mike, we said, you know, 0:40:28.560 --> 0:40:31.160 he didn't have a lot of great feeling. After the preseason. 0:40:31.239 --> 0:40:33.160 We talked a bunch of the pregame show about like 0:40:33.400 --> 0:40:36.759 the preseason's over. We now see how this team, at 0:40:36.840 --> 0:40:39.799 least they put out on tape, how they want to play. 0:40:39.800 --> 0:40:41.960 I think they'd certainly like a little bit more production 0:40:42.040 --> 0:40:44.400 the passing game, let's all agree on that. But this 0:40:44.520 --> 0:40:46.320 is how they want to play, and they want to 0:40:46.400 --> 0:40:49.680 run the ball, and they want to try to create turnovers, 0:40:49.840 --> 0:40:51.800 take it away from you and keep you out of 0:40:51.800 --> 0:40:55.440 the end zone. And so far after one week as planned. 0:40:55.520 --> 0:40:57.680 Yeah, I think you know, that the caller we mentioned 0:40:57.719 --> 0:40:59.160 the thing about the wide receivers, like, I think that 0:40:59.200 --> 0:41:02.279 was very true when the Patriots are able to get 0:41:02.280 --> 0:41:05.040 another drive together, Grant, I think Romandre had a big catch, 0:41:05.080 --> 0:41:06.680 but then you had big catch from Hooper, big catch 0:41:06.719 --> 0:41:07.520 from Hunter Henry. 0:41:07.640 --> 0:41:08.680 You know, it's the tight ends. 0:41:08.680 --> 0:41:10.160 I always thought it's the tight ends and the running 0:41:10.160 --> 0:41:11.680 backs that are really going to make, you know, be 0:41:11.800 --> 0:41:14.600 the engine of this of this offense. But I just 0:41:14.640 --> 0:41:16.520 think it's a sign of they're gonna be a little 0:41:16.520 --> 0:41:18.880 bit limited while they have Jacoby Brissette at quarterback, and 0:41:18.920 --> 0:41:20.880 this is you know, somewhat with the game style they 0:41:20.960 --> 0:41:22.520 have to play. You know, just looking at the game book, 0:41:22.719 --> 0:41:24.200 you know, one for four in the red zone, I think, 0:41:24.440 --> 0:41:26.560 to me, that's like, okay, this is where you know, 0:41:26.680 --> 0:41:28.200 that's a signal of where we are. 0:41:28.840 --> 0:41:30.279 That should have been on the bad list. Yeah, so 0:41:30.320 --> 0:41:31.040 that that's good. 0:41:31.360 --> 0:41:32.799 That needs to be better and that you know, but 0:41:32.840 --> 0:41:35.640 it's a perfect example of things get tighter down there. 0:41:35.640 --> 0:41:37.440 There's no room for mistakes. You really got to be 0:41:37.480 --> 0:41:39.040 on it. You gotta have athletes to win in the 0:41:39.040 --> 0:41:41.279 red zone and to score touchdowns. If you don't get 0:41:41.280 --> 0:41:45.120 explosive plays they didn't really get explosive plays, so they 0:41:45.120 --> 0:41:46.840 were able to get Remandre for the one touchdown. So 0:41:46.840 --> 0:41:48.279 I think that's, you know, the signal of where it 0:41:48.320 --> 0:41:50.560 needs to go. And can Jacoby figure out a way 0:41:50.680 --> 0:41:52.359 to connect with those tight ends down in the red zone. 0:41:52.360 --> 0:41:53.360 I think that's the next step. 0:41:53.440 --> 0:41:56.840 Our European connection continues at web radio at Patriots dot Com. 0:41:56.840 --> 0:42:01.560 Out from Italy says super Bowl we are cut just kidding, 0:42:01.600 --> 0:42:03.480 but maybe we should hose him down a little bit. 0:42:03.560 --> 0:42:04.759 I think that's a little. 0:42:04.520 --> 0:42:06.560 He was Josh, he's the one in memory used to 0:42:06.600 --> 0:42:10.960 be less Andy Moore, Paul, So we like Alfa Italy. Yeah, 0:42:11.000 --> 0:42:14.160 you know what with all the stuff, you know that 0:42:14.320 --> 0:42:17.000 the the hits, I have to be honest, some of 0:42:17.040 --> 0:42:19.520 the hits that Brissette took today, Like I've been really 0:42:19.840 --> 0:42:22.200 adamant about, like when it's about it's about May, it's 0:42:22.200 --> 0:42:24.160 about May, It's about May, when May is ready, when 0:42:24.200 --> 0:42:26.439 May is ready, some of the hits that Prissette took today. 0:42:26.480 --> 0:42:29.320 I was thinking to myself, Okay, maybe we can be 0:42:29.360 --> 0:42:31.040 a little more patient because. 0:42:31.480 --> 0:42:34.320 Right which I don't understand email or Nick who's asking 0:42:34.320 --> 0:42:35.960 he loves the show, guys and love the win with 0:42:36.000 --> 0:42:39.279 the line play today and Prissettes just okay play. Do 0:42:39.320 --> 0:42:41.320 you feel like this puts even more pressure on Mayor 0:42:41.360 --> 0:42:42.320 to explain why no. 0:42:42.560 --> 0:42:45.200 May Some people saw something in the offensive line today 0:42:45.239 --> 0:42:47.320 that I didn't see quite frankly, I have to be honest. 0:42:47.360 --> 0:42:51.400 I thought the running game was solid okay, But it 0:42:51.480 --> 0:42:54.759 was okay all because of ramondre Stevenson. There was a 0:42:54.800 --> 0:42:57.080 couple of big runs earlier that I thought they creased. 0:42:57.239 --> 0:42:59.560 They did a good job the touchdown run. They did 0:42:59.560 --> 0:43:03.920 a good job opening some holes. The vast majority of 0:43:03.960 --> 0:43:05.480 what he got in the last three quarters was on 0:43:05.520 --> 0:43:09.000 his own like it was on his own like I 0:43:09.040 --> 0:43:11.600 in the past, protection was a going concern every dropback, 0:43:12.560 --> 0:43:15.239 Like I just I don't think. I don't think I 0:43:15.239 --> 0:43:17.799 saw it the same way Mike had these numbers. There 0:43:17.880 --> 0:43:19.680 was something like that, but it was seven I think 0:43:19.719 --> 0:43:22.640 seven QB hits and he on like eighteen dropbacks and 0:43:22.760 --> 0:43:25.880 three three scrambles and seven hits. So ten out of 0:43:25.920 --> 0:43:28.799 eighteen times he dropped back, he got hit right. So 0:43:28.840 --> 0:43:30.759 I know I ended up being a little bit more 0:43:30.840 --> 0:43:32.360 than that by the time the game was over. But 0:43:32.400 --> 0:43:34.360 that was like a snapshot in the fourth. 0:43:34.160 --> 0:43:38.640 Quarter right, I would say, oh, Contrier, Nick, today's game 0:43:38.719 --> 0:43:42.360 showed me that's why you're playing Jacoby pers. 0:43:42.360 --> 0:43:44.560 And I've been correct. I've been on the other side. 0:43:44.600 --> 0:43:47.600 So again this is me saying I was rue like 0:43:47.960 --> 0:43:51.040 some of the hits that Persette took today would make 0:43:51.080 --> 0:43:53.839 me hesitant to to just throw May out there. 0:43:53.880 --> 0:43:57.080 And unfortunately, if those hits continue, you maybe. 0:43:56.880 --> 0:43:58.680 He's going to get Yeah, you're gonna get it rather 0:43:58.760 --> 0:43:59.200 than later. 0:43:59.360 --> 0:44:01.239 You know, you be careful what you wish for. 0:44:01.600 --> 0:44:03.239 On that one, I was trying to figure out what 0:44:03.320 --> 0:44:06.560 this is like when the last feel good Patriots win 0:44:06.719 --> 0:44:08.719 was Oh, that's a good one. I don't know about 0:44:08.760 --> 0:44:10.759 you guys, but I think I'm going all the way 0:44:10.800 --> 0:44:13.200 back to the twenty nine to zero shutout of the 0:44:13.239 --> 0:44:16.080 Lions in twenty twenty two. That might be the last 0:44:16.080 --> 0:44:19.239 time it felt like it wasn't you know, a B 0:44:19.400 --> 0:44:22.160 team quarterback or a team you know they all got 0:44:22.200 --> 0:44:24.520 COVID or you know, all the kind of qualifiers that 0:44:24.640 --> 0:44:26.680 used to get with some of these wins, Like there 0:44:26.719 --> 0:44:28.600 wasn't really a feel good win last year, and a 0:44:28.640 --> 0:44:30.959 lot of those wins down the stretch, Kyler Murray gets hurt. 0:44:31.000 --> 0:44:32.439 You know what like the third play of the game, 0:44:32.760 --> 0:44:36.080 you beat Miami's backup, you beat the Jets ten to three, 0:44:36.800 --> 0:44:38.879 you know, maybe twenty six to three against the Colts, 0:44:38.920 --> 0:44:40.120 But I mean, I really that's as far as you 0:44:40.160 --> 0:44:41.359 have to go back to feel like. 0:44:41.440 --> 0:44:43.080 Did go starts in that game? 0:44:43.160 --> 0:44:43.440 Yes? 0:44:43.560 --> 0:44:45.759 Okay, So I think that's an excellent job by you 0:44:45.840 --> 0:44:48.200 on research to go into the last time you felt 0:44:48.200 --> 0:44:49.160 like that was a good win. 0:44:49.040 --> 0:44:52.040 I would say Buffalo last year. Buffalo. Yeah, that's all 0:44:52.160 --> 0:44:54.279 like that was the one time that Mac Jones, you know, 0:44:54.440 --> 0:44:56.439 was able to come from behind. He led a late 0:44:56.560 --> 0:44:58.799 drive and they were able to win a game that 0:44:58.800 --> 0:45:00.960 I don't think a lot of people did. But to 0:45:01.000 --> 0:45:03.840 Mike's point, the twenty nine nothing game against Detroit, the 0:45:03.880 --> 0:45:06.839 season was still a season, and that Buffalo will win. 0:45:07.200 --> 0:45:09.440 This season was already over, already won and five. You know, 0:45:09.560 --> 0:45:12.800 everywhere it was everywhere except for Patriots unfiltered. The season 0:45:12.880 --> 0:45:15.600 was already over. Win Buffalo one. I remember, you know, 0:45:15.800 --> 0:45:18.759 being told that the window was open at the time, 0:45:18.800 --> 0:45:21.839 and I said, no, it's not. But anyway, I thought 0:45:21.840 --> 0:45:23.680 that was a good win. Last year, the Buffalo win. 0:45:23.960 --> 0:45:25.719 You know, it was early enough in the season. It 0:45:25.760 --> 0:45:28.400 wasn't like that, like the Denver and Pittsburgh games, I 0:45:28.440 --> 0:45:31.640 would wouldn't count because they get the season was really 0:45:31.680 --> 0:45:34.840 over at that point. But the Buffalo game was early 0:45:34.960 --> 0:45:36.719 enough in the season would have made him two and 0:45:36.800 --> 0:45:39.040 four to five. I mean him two and five, two 0:45:39.080 --> 0:45:43.240 and five. There was still time theoretically. 0:45:42.640 --> 0:45:44.560 But still there was a cloud over it of like 0:45:44.600 --> 0:45:46.880 and you just knew like this, Like I think the 0:45:46.920 --> 0:45:48.799 thing with this team though, is that you always had 0:45:48.800 --> 0:45:51.719 preconceived notions with a Belichick team or at a certain 0:45:51.760 --> 0:45:53.960 point of Mac Jones team. And you know, I think 0:45:54.000 --> 0:45:56.280 at that point last year when Buffalo, when they beat Buffalo, 0:45:56.440 --> 0:45:58.600 was kind of like, well that was great. But I've 0:45:58.600 --> 0:46:00.279 been watching this team for two months at this point 0:46:00.280 --> 0:46:02.880 and they this isn't changing my opinion of them. This 0:46:02.960 --> 0:46:08.320 where everything was so unknown, just to see. 0:46:06.480 --> 0:46:10.839 Yeah, I don't sleep on that Christmas Eve Denver game. 0:46:10.880 --> 0:46:12.839 Don't forget what the narrative was at that point in time. 0:46:14.320 --> 0:46:19.520 The scribe, the scribe that Bill still had the team, 0:46:19.800 --> 0:46:23.080 They're still playing hard for Bill. That was the narrative 0:46:23.080 --> 0:46:25.439 after that game. You know, that was a decent win 0:46:25.480 --> 0:46:25.920 in Denver. 0:46:25.960 --> 0:46:28.120 It was a terrible win though we didn't want to win. 0:46:28.719 --> 0:46:31.080 You know, it's not decent of these new Denver uniforms. 0:46:31.120 --> 0:46:32.600 We're looking out on the red zone chain. Yeah, I 0:46:32.600 --> 0:46:34.919 don't love them. I love them. What are we doing? 0:46:36.000 --> 0:46:36.040 Like? 0:46:36.360 --> 0:46:36.520 I do? 0:46:36.680 --> 0:46:40.520 Like the throwback getting is getting me all. I had 0:46:40.520 --> 0:46:43.440 a Steve Large and jersey of this this nature. So 0:46:43.520 --> 0:46:46.879 credit to the Seahawks wearing them this next week though, 0:46:46.920 --> 0:46:47.880 that's that's unfortunate. 0:46:47.920 --> 0:46:48.680 That'd be pretty cool. 0:46:49.239 --> 0:46:52.560 Okay, Web Radio with Patriots dot Com continuing with our 0:46:52.600 --> 0:46:58.080 European pipeline. This is Wayne from the UK. Good complimentary football, 0:46:58.160 --> 0:47:00.440 tight game throughout. I stood up on my living room 0:47:00.480 --> 0:47:03.160 the whole game. It was nice to have someone like 0:47:03.239 --> 0:47:05.960 Prisette manage a game and not give the ball away. 0:47:06.200 --> 0:47:07.960 He'll be going to the game on ten twenty, so 0:47:08.040 --> 0:47:10.479 good for Wayne. 0:47:11.040 --> 0:47:15.839 Difference difference in this game between this game today and 0:47:16.080 --> 0:47:18.560 mac Jones in a typical performance, not like one of 0:47:18.560 --> 0:47:21.880 them is terrible, like not like Dallas last year. Okay, 0:47:22.320 --> 0:47:25.480 a regular run of the mill mac Jones game last year. 0:47:25.520 --> 0:47:28.319 In this game, what was the difference turnovers? The guy 0:47:28.400 --> 0:47:30.879 dropped the interception in the end zone last year that 0:47:31.040 --> 0:47:33.120 passed that Mac Mac threw, the guy caught it. You 0:47:33.160 --> 0:47:34.319 know that was a difference down. 0:47:34.440 --> 0:47:37.000 So Paul, let's go back to that play for a second, 0:47:37.040 --> 0:47:38.920 because I think when we saw that play out in 0:47:38.960 --> 0:47:41.920 real time, we were wondering what's going through the coach's 0:47:42.000 --> 0:47:44.359 mind on the sideline, And it seemed from that point 0:47:44.440 --> 0:47:47.360 on there was a dread in calling the players like 0:47:47.520 --> 0:47:48.879 we can't do this. 0:47:49.320 --> 0:47:51.879 We're going to lose this game is if they turn 0:47:51.920 --> 0:47:52.439 the ball over. 0:47:52.560 --> 0:47:54.320 So we're not going to do that anymore. 0:47:53.960 --> 0:47:56.839 Especially especially in a position to take points off the board, 0:47:56.840 --> 0:47:59.560 which that would have done. They would have left the 0:47:59.600 --> 0:48:00.640 game at have it nothing. 0:48:01.160 --> 0:48:03.879 So, by the way, I say, Chris Judge, great job. 0:48:03.920 --> 0:48:04.960 By the way, on Tate love. 0:48:04.840 --> 0:48:07.000 It always anytime you talk about a play, he's going 0:48:07.040 --> 0:48:10.600 to have an So I will say the other the other, 0:48:10.800 --> 0:48:13.760 and this was not necessarily minor. But the other difference 0:48:13.800 --> 0:48:16.560 I think between Brissette today and mac Jones on a 0:48:16.600 --> 0:48:22.520 positive side, was the handful of I'm just looking seven 0:48:22.680 --> 0:48:25.920 seven carries for thirty two yards. I would say four 0:48:26.080 --> 0:48:29.680 or five of those were were valuable runs that you 0:48:29.680 --> 0:48:31.879 would not have gotten out, no question about it, no question. 0:48:31.920 --> 0:48:34.919 But also seems like the team likes Jacoby Brissette see 0:48:34.920 --> 0:48:36.239 Now I don't know why you got to take it. Then, 0:48:37.360 --> 0:48:40.120 you know, the sixteen that's very much on brands. That's 0:48:39.960 --> 0:48:42.239 that's that's very much on brand to what they would 0:48:42.280 --> 0:48:44.680 have scored. I think they averaged fifteen last year or 0:48:44.680 --> 0:48:46.720 something like that, or fourteen. 0:48:46.280 --> 0:48:51.080 I don't know. Uh. David writes in and says, good 0:48:51.080 --> 0:48:55.680 to win Cleveland Brown's vibe. For sure, run the football, 0:48:55.680 --> 0:48:58.120 play good. You hope that your opponent doesn't capitalize on 0:48:58.160 --> 0:49:01.040 the mistakes you make or the footballs you in harms way. Still, 0:49:01.080 --> 0:49:03.399 I'll take it. We just really talked about the only 0:49:03.440 --> 0:49:05.520 time that they put the football on Harm's way, wasn't it? 0:49:05.560 --> 0:49:08.520 And and from that point on they did. 0:49:08.840 --> 0:49:11.799 They did fumble, they were fortunate to get it back. 0:49:12.880 --> 0:49:15.799 Remindri Stevenson had a fumble and they had a near pick. 0:49:15.880 --> 0:49:18.719 But for the most part, when you're playing better than 0:49:18.719 --> 0:49:21.000 the other team, those are the breaks that you earn, right, 0:49:21.239 --> 0:49:24.319 And they played better than Cincinnati for sixty minutes, Like 0:49:24.360 --> 0:49:26.719 this wasn't a Fluke win. No, it wasn't a Fluke win. 0:49:27.080 --> 0:49:30.000 Now you want to tell me, I'm not sure the 0:49:30.040 --> 0:49:32.000 Patriots can do much more than that, And I'm not 0:49:32.000 --> 0:49:33.880 sure the Bengals can play much worse than that. I 0:49:34.040 --> 0:49:36.640 probably would would listen to that argument, but it was 0:49:36.760 --> 0:49:40.360 not a fluke win. The Patriots played better for sixty minutes, 0:49:40.400 --> 0:49:43.040 no question, they were the better team for sixty full minutes. 0:49:43.120 --> 0:49:44.840 You know, Like after the last couple of years, to 0:49:44.960 --> 0:49:46.640 a refrain that I thought a lot is like, it's 0:49:46.640 --> 0:49:49.040 just it's always a narrow path to victory with this team, 0:49:49.080 --> 0:49:51.600 and there isn't really if you deviate on that line 0:49:51.600 --> 0:49:54.440 with turnovers or too many negative plays that they're just 0:49:54.480 --> 0:49:55.040 kno going to be. 0:49:55.080 --> 0:49:56.439 Like a back alley. It's so narrow. 0:49:56.640 --> 0:50:00.000 Yeah, And it's and I think that that still exists. 0:50:00.080 --> 0:50:02.440 You know, it's gonna depend overall on the season with 0:50:02.480 --> 0:50:04.160 how many takeaways they got. A couple of years ago, 0:50:04.200 --> 0:50:05.879 they got a bunch. Last year they didn't get a lot, 0:50:05.920 --> 0:50:08.560 and that was reflected in the record. But of all 0:50:08.600 --> 0:50:10.520 the good things we saw today, it still feels like 0:50:10.600 --> 0:50:13.160 it's a it's a narrow road to victory. If they 0:50:13.200 --> 0:50:14.840 were able to play that way again and put some 0:50:14.880 --> 0:50:17.000 teams that they'll give themselves a chance, but it's gonna 0:50:17.000 --> 0:50:17.279 be hard. 0:50:17.440 --> 0:50:19.560 I agree, any games they play like today, they will 0:50:19.600 --> 0:50:20.719 have a chance to win eight. 0:50:20.719 --> 0:50:22.719 Five to five Pats five hundred is our number here. 0:50:22.800 --> 0:50:24.920 Let's go to Johnny in South Beach before we take 0:50:24.960 --> 0:50:28.399 a break. Good afternoon, Johnny. You're on the Patriot's postgame show. 0:50:29.920 --> 0:50:30.240 Audi. 0:50:30.320 --> 0:50:33.120 Thanks for taking my call before a break. First of all, 0:50:33.480 --> 0:50:37.160 I was just going to bring up that near interception 0:50:37.320 --> 0:50:39.040 in the end zone. I wanted to shout out my 0:50:39.080 --> 0:50:42.200 boy Hunter, Henry. I feel like he turned into a 0:50:42.200 --> 0:50:46.200 cornerback mid air and kind of caused that, or maybe 0:50:46.200 --> 0:50:49.279 the corner dropped it. I'm not totally sure. 0:50:50.160 --> 0:50:54.200 I think the guy dropped it, but Henry was part 0:50:54.200 --> 0:50:58.400 of the reason why he dropped it right, absolutely yeah. 0:50:57.800 --> 0:50:59.719 And he had that nice little catch across the middle 0:50:59.760 --> 0:51:01.960 kind of when they needed it. And I called earlier 0:51:02.000 --> 0:51:06.400 about the pass rush. Do you guys think my fears 0:51:06.800 --> 0:51:09.840 were allied by the pass rush? I know, I know, 0:51:09.960 --> 0:51:13.160 like I heard some good pressure today, but I couldn't 0:51:13.200 --> 0:51:14.320 necessarily stay on the place. 0:51:15.080 --> 0:51:16.719 Thanks for the call, Johnny, Mike, what do you think 0:51:16.719 --> 0:51:18.640 about pressure today? And I know there's a big topic 0:51:18.640 --> 0:51:20.040 of conversation in the pregame show. 0:51:21.000 --> 0:51:21.840 Mostly not great. 0:51:21.880 --> 0:51:24.720 There were there were some pockets of good, but I thought, 0:51:24.800 --> 0:51:27.840 you know, mostly it was tough. The pocket was not 0:51:27.960 --> 0:51:30.279 always there for Jacobe, you know, stepping up a little 0:51:30.280 --> 0:51:32.360 bit and had to score it out a couple of times. 0:51:32.400 --> 0:51:35.239 But yeah, I mean something at least to build off of. 0:51:35.280 --> 0:51:37.240 I think was he talking about the pressure they allowed 0:51:37.320 --> 0:51:39.200 or the pressure. I thought he was talking about the pressure. 0:51:39.440 --> 0:51:41.880 I thought early in the game, I thought the Patriots 0:51:41.880 --> 0:51:44.719 did a good job of getting after Burrow. I thought 0:51:44.760 --> 0:51:47.040 that a couple I thought the last three quarters for 0:51:47.080 --> 0:51:49.520 the most part, you know, it kind of went away. 0:51:49.560 --> 0:51:52.239 But I do think they were around Burrow a little 0:51:52.280 --> 0:51:54.560 bit and made them move. I think Burrow is a 0:51:54.640 --> 0:51:59.200 very underrated mobility guy. I think he runs well and 0:51:59.239 --> 0:52:01.680 I think he of voids pressure pretty well. But I 0:52:01.719 --> 0:52:04.120 thought early in the game they ended up with three sacks. 0:52:04.480 --> 0:52:05.800 But I thought early in the game they got the 0:52:05.840 --> 0:52:07.640 ball out pretty quickly. 0:52:07.680 --> 0:52:10.360 I thought, yeah, I mean, so sorry for answering that 0:52:11.040 --> 0:52:12.960 question the wrong way, but yeah, I would agree with 0:52:13.000 --> 0:52:13.760 Paul's assessment. 0:52:13.760 --> 0:52:15.120 Early on, it felt it felt good. 0:52:15.760 --> 0:52:17.359 Some of them felt a little late in the down, 0:52:17.360 --> 0:52:19.520 almost felt like they took the first couple reads away 0:52:19.520 --> 0:52:22.120 from Burrow, and you know, then the pressure kind of 0:52:22.440 --> 0:52:24.000 played out as the down got later. 0:52:24.920 --> 0:52:26.839 But you know it's it's more to be. 0:52:26.800 --> 0:52:28.560 Done, and I was big concern of that, and again 0:52:28.680 --> 0:52:31.240 I'm happy to see them just causing disruption. 0:52:31.480 --> 0:52:33.400 Week one is in the books for the New England Patriots, 0:52:33.400 --> 0:52:36.400 sixteen to ten winners over the Cincinnati Bengals in Cincinnati, 0:52:36.719 --> 0:52:39.080 first career win for head coach to Rod Mayo, we're 0:52:39.120 --> 0:52:40.680 going to take a time out. 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Matt, you're next on 0:56:33.120 --> 0:56:37.360 the Patriots Postgame Show or specheck. 0:56:37.600 --> 0:56:41.000 Brisette with shades of Tom Barns are there in Major 0:56:41.080 --> 0:56:42.680 League when he was stumbling around at for some of 0:56:42.719 --> 0:56:49.000 those hits. I'm glad he made it out. That's interesting 0:56:49.080 --> 0:56:51.359 games like like we've been saying, it's kind of bell 0:56:51.440 --> 0:56:53.440 and chicky in like with the defense, run the ball, 0:56:53.480 --> 0:56:56.440 low scoring, even had a Perillo pick three off the 0:56:56.520 --> 0:56:57.040 must punt. 0:56:58.200 --> 0:57:02.239 Hey, it looks of looked like it looked a lot 0:57:02.320 --> 0:57:04.200 like the hard to watch Patriots for recent years, but 0:57:04.280 --> 0:57:07.719 it felt more enjoyable to watch, even before they won 0:57:07.760 --> 0:57:10.000 the game, like to Part of that probably has to 0:57:10.000 --> 0:57:10.919 do with being maybe more. 0:57:10.840 --> 0:57:14.000 Buttoned up, not not as many unforced arrors, not a 0:57:14.080 --> 0:57:18.040 quarterback peeing himself, But then a lot of it has 0:57:18.120 --> 0:57:19.919 I think put a lot of it on the Bengals too. 0:57:19.960 --> 0:57:22.240 They they didn't look ready for a week one. 0:57:22.240 --> 0:57:25.560 They were co conspirators. I think they were cod think. 0:57:25.400 --> 0:57:27.240 They tackled very well in the first half. I mean, 0:57:27.240 --> 0:57:28.840 I disagree with Paul. I think in the first half 0:57:28.840 --> 0:57:31.240 they did not tackle very well. It's because Sicky, like 0:57:31.280 --> 0:57:33.440 you guys have been saying, because Sticky catches that that 0:57:33.600 --> 0:57:38.240 touchdown pass. Then we're talking about how how Gonzales didn't 0:57:38.400 --> 0:57:40.880 cover Chase tight enough on the previous sort of first 0:57:40.920 --> 0:57:42.320 down conversion. There's a lot of things. 0:57:42.520 --> 0:57:44.720 Oh, but you didn't think the Patriots tackled well in 0:57:44.800 --> 0:57:45.200 that game? 0:57:46.400 --> 0:57:48.640 Oh, I did the No, the Patriots definitely tackled well. 0:57:48.640 --> 0:57:50.400 I was saying that the Bengals and why are we 0:57:50.480 --> 0:57:51.960 talking about it not Gerar Chase? 0:57:57.440 --> 0:57:59.720 No no, I was saying different from when when? When 0:58:00.040 --> 0:58:02.080 when Gonzalez kind of played him a little bit stowting 0:58:02.120 --> 0:58:04.360 that third and long on the play right before Gasicki's 0:58:04.360 --> 0:58:09.120 almost touchdowns, Like that was almost a whiff by Gonzalez. 0:58:09.160 --> 0:58:10.240 I thought he could have played him tighter. 0:58:10.320 --> 0:58:13.320 That's all all right, Thanks for the callsb We spent 0:58:13.440 --> 0:58:15.680 a decent amount of time in the pregame show talking 0:58:15.720 --> 0:58:17.600 about the ghost of Mike Kiseki and was he going 0:58:17.680 --> 0:58:19.720 to come back and haunt the Patriots, and I thought 0:58:19.800 --> 0:58:23.200 he looked really good. That was a play where I 0:58:23.280 --> 0:58:26.480 didn't argument with some people on the phone texting that 0:58:26.600 --> 0:58:29.040 they thought there was good coverage by Duggar on that play. 0:58:29.120 --> 0:58:31.240 I don't think it was very coverage rich right. 0:58:31.200 --> 0:58:31.520 I thought. 0:58:31.680 --> 0:58:34.040 I thought Gasecki posted him up, should have caught it, 0:58:34.080 --> 0:58:36.680 should have had a touchdown, But they avoided it there, 0:58:36.880 --> 0:58:39.320 you know, because he couldn't contain the catch the whole 0:58:39.360 --> 0:58:41.880 way through. And Kasecki really didn't do much other than 0:58:41.920 --> 0:58:44.960 a couple catches the rest of the games. 0:58:45.120 --> 0:58:46.959 Yeah, no, I mean I didn't think that he would 0:58:47.000 --> 0:58:49.360 have much more than that, But you got to make 0:58:49.360 --> 0:58:51.920 the touchdown catch. Totally agree with you. And if he 0:58:52.000 --> 0:58:55.080 makes the touchdown catch, that that's the difference between, no question, 0:58:55.120 --> 0:58:58.240 doing nothing and having a good game like Mike Kasicki's 0:58:58.280 --> 0:59:00.480 not going to go out and do a like Isaiah 0:59:00.640 --> 0:59:03.200 likely did on the opener Thursday night. He's not that 0:59:03.320 --> 0:59:03.840 kind of player. 0:59:03.880 --> 0:59:04.080 Nope. 0:59:04.280 --> 0:59:06.360 But he's gonna get you four or five catches and 0:59:06.800 --> 0:59:08.560 come down with the m And he should have had that. 0:59:09.200 --> 0:59:11.120 But that wasn't even a that was a drop like 0:59:11.240 --> 0:59:13.400 he hit he he caught the ball in the air, 0:59:13.920 --> 0:59:16.240 took it all the way to the body, came down 0:59:16.440 --> 0:59:19.000 and the ball moved like there was a technicality incomplete. 0:59:19.160 --> 0:59:21.360 I mean, like you gotta have that. That's not a 0:59:21.440 --> 0:59:22.280 hard play craft. 0:59:22.760 --> 0:59:25.760 Saam from Halifax emails at web radio at Patriots dot com. 0:59:25.840 --> 0:59:28.280 Hey guys, I thought kJ showed up a couple of 0:59:28.320 --> 0:59:30.520 times today and seems to be a go to for Jacoby. 0:59:30.880 --> 0:59:32.960 What did you think of his game? Could I answer 0:59:33.000 --> 0:59:34.080 first and say not much? 0:59:35.000 --> 0:59:35.840 I thought he was fine. 0:59:35.960 --> 0:59:36.160 Yeah. 0:59:36.720 --> 0:59:38.760 I thought all those receivers, I thought when they were 0:59:38.800 --> 0:59:43.480 asked to make a play, they generally did it. Nothing special. 0:59:44.000 --> 0:59:47.960 I mean Osborne and both had three catches. That was 0:59:48.000 --> 0:59:51.480 the leading three for twenty one. I guess you call 0:59:51.560 --> 0:59:54.080 that the leading. But Hooper two for thirty one, Thornton 0:59:54.160 --> 0:59:57.640 two for twenty seven, Henry two for eighteen, Douglas. 0:59:57.640 --> 0:59:59.000 I mean, it's just this is not much. I was 0:59:59.040 --> 1:00:01.520 going to pick one of those guys today, you know, 1:00:01.600 --> 1:00:03.880 in terms of impact plays, I would say Thornton, Yes, 1:00:04.160 --> 1:00:06.960 I thought the two catches that he made were plays, 1:00:07.400 --> 1:00:12.120 and yeah, you know, and like I thought, uh Osborne. 1:00:12.400 --> 1:00:14.480 I know, one of Osborne's catches came on a third 1:00:14.560 --> 1:00:16.200 down that he was well short of the sticks and 1:00:16.320 --> 1:00:21.400 got tackled. Like I thought, see this is again it 1:00:21.480 --> 1:00:26.120 sounds like I'm being critical. It's Bresette like. Sometimes he's 1:00:26.160 --> 1:00:28.080 gonna throw one and the guy's gonna be able to 1:00:28.120 --> 1:00:30.320 catch it. Sometimes he's gonna throw it so high that 1:00:30.560 --> 1:00:32.520 if to Mario, Douglas has to jump out of the 1:00:32.640 --> 1:00:34.880 roof to catch it, and by the time he gets 1:00:34.920 --> 1:00:36.480 down he doesn't have the ability to pick up the 1:00:36.480 --> 1:00:38.520 first down. Like these things happen, right. 1:00:38.640 --> 1:00:42.720 Uh eighty five Pats five hundred, Pat from Agawam, Pat 1:00:42.760 --> 1:00:45.120 from Agawam, You are next on the Patrio's postgame show. 1:00:45.160 --> 1:00:45.720 Good afternoon. 1:00:47.360 --> 1:00:48.280 What's going on, guys? 1:00:49.400 --> 1:00:49.800 How are you doing? 1:00:49.880 --> 1:00:50.280 To Patty? 1:00:52.280 --> 1:00:55.280 Hey, I'll tell you well, who called I called it? 1:00:55.640 --> 1:00:57.800 I called it on Why I called it? Like way 1:00:57.880 --> 1:01:00.520 back when the schedule first came out, I went on 1:01:01.320 --> 1:01:03.720 having an analysis show, and I said, you know, Week 1:01:03.800 --> 1:01:06.680 one is sneaky winnable because of the history. I know, 1:01:07.040 --> 1:01:08.760 probably you don't really buy into a lot of that, 1:01:08.880 --> 1:01:10.240 but yeah, I. 1:01:10.240 --> 1:01:12.480 Mean it's like the history is the history. But both 1:01:12.520 --> 1:01:14.560 teams had terrible Week one history, so I didn't know 1:01:14.560 --> 1:01:15.480 which one to go on, and. 1:01:15.520 --> 1:01:17.560 Boy, did Cincinnati play to their level of Week one? 1:01:17.600 --> 1:01:20.360 Patriot's just won their first opener since twenty twenty. 1:01:21.440 --> 1:01:24.040 Yep, that's true. And I'll tell you what man I was. 1:01:24.320 --> 1:01:27.640 I was very surprised and like them not shooting themselves 1:01:27.720 --> 1:01:29.240 in the foot, because that was the one thing that 1:01:29.400 --> 1:01:31.600 kind of worried me about coming in here. Was like 1:01:31.760 --> 1:01:35.960 what we saw throughout the entire preseason and throughout training 1:01:36.040 --> 1:01:39.840 camp was like, you know, the pre snat penalties. You know, 1:01:39.920 --> 1:01:42.040 it didn't show up today, which was really good. And 1:01:42.360 --> 1:01:44.960 I'll say this, if they can play kind of like 1:01:45.080 --> 1:01:48.480 they played today, they could be two and zero. Because Seattle, 1:01:48.640 --> 1:01:50.880 I mean, they're not that great of a team. But 1:01:51.040 --> 1:01:53.280 going forward after that, you know, it's a rough stretch 1:01:53.360 --> 1:01:55.280 and it's a good win. I'm not going to take 1:01:55.320 --> 1:01:58.560 anything away. I'm happy, and you know, I can't wait 1:01:58.600 --> 1:01:59.160 for next week. 1:01:59.320 --> 1:02:01.040 Let's go baby, all right, pat. 1:02:00.880 --> 1:02:02.840 Thank you very much for the phone call. Cam in 1:02:02.960 --> 1:02:05.919 North Carolina. You're next on Patriot's postgame show. Hi Cam 1:02:08.400 --> 1:02:11.440 cam A you there? You got a sound effect for me? 1:02:11.480 --> 1:02:18.400 Matt can't a court? I did hit it? Cam you there? Yeah? 1:02:18.480 --> 1:02:20.960 No, is that that's the Matts? That's Matt Morrell's Yeah 1:02:21.120 --> 1:02:22.240 he was. I mean I hit it right. 1:02:22.280 --> 1:02:23.640 I mean, I'll let you know when I make it. 1:02:23.720 --> 1:02:26.600 Sorr, it's hard Hardy used to dramma. Oh I think 1:02:26.640 --> 1:02:29.200 it was flat red. It's supposed to be a blinking Okay. 1:02:30.680 --> 1:02:34.120 Let's see web radio at Patriots dot com is the address. 1:02:36.080 --> 1:02:38.240 This is from Cynthia. This is a feel good win 1:02:38.320 --> 1:02:40.280 because nobody thought we could do it. We have room 1:02:40.320 --> 1:02:42.040 for improvement and we can get better by next week 1:02:42.320 --> 1:02:45.320 to take on the Seahawks one game at a time. 1:02:45.760 --> 1:02:47.160 We're starting to get into the one game at a 1:02:47.200 --> 1:02:48.560 time mentality. What do you think about that? 1:02:49.880 --> 1:02:50.000 Right? 1:02:50.200 --> 1:02:53.640 That's right? Okay, Like don't let's not you know, make 1:02:53.680 --> 1:02:55.760 any sweeping general like you know, like the last like 1:02:55.840 --> 1:02:58.760 Patty like to what O like? Okay, I like this 1:02:58.920 --> 1:03:02.680 mentality better. Let's you know, feel good win today. They 1:03:02.720 --> 1:03:05.120 should have a very enjoyable flight home. Let's get ready 1:03:05.160 --> 1:03:05.640 for next week. 1:03:05.760 --> 1:03:07.280 Yeah, I love that, agreed. 1:03:07.360 --> 1:03:09.600 It's probably like in the past, my when we said 1:03:09.640 --> 1:03:12.720 after watching Kansas City, uh, you know, playing the opener, 1:03:12.880 --> 1:03:14.240 like looking at these two teams. 1:03:14.080 --> 1:03:17.600 Like, right, that changed based on what you saw today? No, 1:03:17.920 --> 1:03:20.200 it was Now it's more about just like all right, 1:03:20.680 --> 1:03:22.040 check one win off for this season. 1:03:22.360 --> 1:03:24.960 It's a really solid start, and it's it's just it's 1:03:25.040 --> 1:03:28.040 just a jolt of positivity and reinforcement that any young 1:03:28.120 --> 1:03:31.040 team with a new coach needs and can build off of, 1:03:31.160 --> 1:03:33.200 because if you have all those new things and you 1:03:33.320 --> 1:03:35.160 lose a couple games and it's oh and two and 1:03:35.280 --> 1:03:37.080 oh and three, and you know, it's like, well, what 1:03:37.200 --> 1:03:37.640 are we doing? 1:03:37.720 --> 1:03:38.560 Is there a culture here? 1:03:38.640 --> 1:03:38.680 Not? 1:03:38.760 --> 1:03:41.440 This Like this win is not going to define this 1:03:41.600 --> 1:03:44.160 season by any means, but it is what it is. 1:03:44.200 --> 1:03:45.600 It's a good start, and I think, you know, we 1:03:45.640 --> 1:03:48.960 should be okay being positive about that without saying we're 1:03:49.000 --> 1:03:50.280 back in the hunt for the super Bowl. 1:03:50.440 --> 1:03:53.880 If you if you need any more reason to be positive, positive, right, 1:03:53.960 --> 1:03:56.960 they take a cute I'm positive today. 1:03:57.560 --> 1:04:01.240 H Okay, sixteen to ten, the Patriots winners in Cincinnati, 1:04:01.400 --> 1:04:03.840 one to zero on the season. After Week one, Matt, 1:04:04.080 --> 1:04:06.600 let's go inside the locker room and let's listen to 1:04:06.680 --> 1:04:09.200 the coach, head coach girod Mayo after his first win 1:04:09.560 --> 1:04:10.919 as an NFL head coach. 1:04:12.520 --> 1:04:15.840 Well, I thought the guys went out there and competed hard. 1:04:15.960 --> 1:04:18.120 We talked about establishing the run game and being able 1:04:18.160 --> 1:04:19.960 to stop their run again, making one dimensional. 1:04:20.440 --> 1:04:21.400 H did a good job with that. 1:04:22.280 --> 1:04:24.040 I'll say we still left a lot of plays out there, 1:04:24.120 --> 1:04:25.919 but we're gonna enjoy this one on the flight home 1:04:26.000 --> 1:04:27.680 and you know, get ready for next week. 1:04:27.760 --> 1:04:30.720 But very proud. What you know, my message to the players. 1:04:30.880 --> 1:04:32.640 You know, they gave me the gatorade shower and things 1:04:32.720 --> 1:04:35.560 like that, but you know, without them, I'm nothing, so 1:04:35.840 --> 1:04:37.880 and I made sure they knew that, like they crossed 1:04:37.920 --> 1:04:40.080 the white lines. I always talk about empowering the players 1:04:40.120 --> 1:04:41.840 to go out there and play. I always talk about 1:04:42.120 --> 1:04:44.800 awareness really being the number one thing, and those guys 1:04:44.840 --> 1:04:47.600 taking ownership. So you know, all the praise goes to 1:04:47.680 --> 1:04:50.120 those guys, and they did a great job. 1:04:51.000 --> 1:04:51.760 Waiting for the state. 1:04:54.400 --> 1:04:56.360 What was it like to walk off that field and. 1:04:56.800 --> 1:05:01.360 Locker room within Yeah, the day started off solid, you know, 1:05:01.520 --> 1:05:03.760 just like any other day. Walking off the field though, 1:05:03.880 --> 1:05:05.960 really getting in that victory formation, you know, just kind 1:05:05.960 --> 1:05:08.520 of feel a rush over yourself. And I'm gonna enjoy 1:05:08.600 --> 1:05:10.120 this one here for the next couple of hours. But 1:05:10.520 --> 1:05:13.120 you know, truth be told, you know, it's it's, uh, 1:05:13.440 --> 1:05:15.280 what have you done for me lately? Type of business? 1:05:15.320 --> 1:05:17.480 So time to turn the page, you know, not trying 1:05:17.520 --> 1:05:19.400 to run on anyone's parade, but turn the page and 1:05:19.400 --> 1:05:20.800 get ready for the next game. 1:05:22.960 --> 1:05:26.640 Making those decisions, you know, facing fourth down, maybe thinking 1:05:26.680 --> 1:05:28.640 you might be down territory, Like how did you just 1:05:28.760 --> 1:05:30.840 find the stuff flying through your mind? 1:05:30.920 --> 1:05:32.040 Being able to make the decisions? 1:05:32.240 --> 1:05:34.840 It was just part of you know, I've been playing 1:05:35.000 --> 1:05:37.360 football my entire life, and I was a great Madden 1:05:37.400 --> 1:05:39.440 player back end of the day. But I, uh, I 1:05:39.600 --> 1:05:43.400 understand situational football. I would also say our staff understands 1:05:43.400 --> 1:05:46.160 situational football. And you know, we talked through those things 1:05:46.200 --> 1:05:47.600 and like I said all week, I have to make 1:05:47.600 --> 1:05:49.640 the ultimate decision and felt good about the way it 1:05:49.720 --> 1:05:50.400 operated today. 1:05:53.120 --> 1:05:54.240 Yeah, they came out on fire. 1:05:54.320 --> 1:05:57.840 We challenged those guys everyone's talking about, you know, since 1:05:57.880 --> 1:06:00.760 he's offense and you know how explosive they are, and 1:06:00.840 --> 1:06:03.439 they answered the call. Uh up front, started up front, 1:06:03.520 --> 1:06:05.960 all those defensive linemen. You know, those guys did a 1:06:05.960 --> 1:06:07.960 good job controlling the line of scrimmage. The second you know, 1:06:08.040 --> 1:06:10.720 second level players, the LB's they did a good job 1:06:10.760 --> 1:06:12.880 coming downhill a couple of plays in the past game. 1:06:13.240 --> 1:06:15.360 And then really our safeties and corners, those guys did 1:06:15.360 --> 1:06:17.960 a good job covering, so it was a total unit. 1:06:18.240 --> 1:06:26.280 Victorias, You I challenged Rimandre in the spring. 1:06:26.640 --> 1:06:28.680 I said, look, you don't get a lot of love, 1:06:28.720 --> 1:06:30.880 a lot of hype, but I've always believed that he's 1:06:30.920 --> 1:06:32.360 one of the best running backs in the league. And 1:06:33.000 --> 1:06:34.800 you know, when we signed him to the extension, there 1:06:34.880 --> 1:06:36.440 was no more more happy than me because I know 1:06:36.520 --> 1:06:38.400 what he's capable of, and he showed that today. He 1:06:38.440 --> 1:06:40.080 can catch the ball at the backfield, he can run, 1:06:40.160 --> 1:06:41.439 break tackles and do all those things. 1:06:41.520 --> 1:06:44.200 So, uh, he's he's a great player since. 1:06:44.400 --> 1:06:47.640 January to talk to you about defensive run getting of 1:06:47.760 --> 1:06:48.479 those two things. 1:06:48.880 --> 1:06:50.760 To know you guys kind of hit that formula. 1:06:51.120 --> 1:06:51.560 What was it like? 1:06:52.840 --> 1:06:54.440 Oh, it was great, It was great. You always come 1:06:54.480 --> 1:06:55.120 in with the plan. 1:06:55.640 --> 1:06:57.480 You know, they say god last at plans and what 1:06:57.640 --> 1:06:59.960 Mike Tyson says, y, you know, everyone has a play 1:07:00.040 --> 1:07:02.000 until you get hit in the mouth. But you know, 1:07:02.120 --> 1:07:04.280 in the first half we're averaging six point one yards 1:07:04.360 --> 1:07:07.000 of carry and able to control once again the front 1:07:07.080 --> 1:07:09.520 and you know, defensively, you know, we did a good 1:07:09.560 --> 1:07:11.440 job against their run game until the second half. There 1:07:11.440 --> 1:07:13.520 are a few runs, but you know started up there 1:07:15.600 --> 1:07:18.080 next next one, he has the next one. It's almost 1:07:18.120 --> 1:07:20.880 like double dutch, double dutch, like hesitating to get in 1:07:21.000 --> 1:07:21.439 next one. 1:07:24.960 --> 1:07:32.400 You said, sorry, you said, and we got this. 1:07:34.720 --> 1:07:36.480 You know, I would say the way we were running 1:07:36.520 --> 1:07:38.840 the ball, I felt pretty confident about that. That was 1:07:39.320 --> 1:07:41.200 you know, from the from the beginning to the end. 1:07:41.280 --> 1:07:43.920 Really our offensive line. They did a great job led 1:07:43.960 --> 1:07:46.560 by David Andrews and you know, Big Mic. Those guys 1:07:46.600 --> 1:07:49.320 did a great job having Low here as well. Uh, 1:07:49.440 --> 1:07:51.000 it was good to you know, get him in the game. 1:07:51.080 --> 1:07:53.160 And they were moving bodies and that's what it's about. 1:07:53.200 --> 1:07:55.520 And so when I talk about fundamentals, that's part of it. 1:07:55.640 --> 1:07:59.040 You know, defensively block destruction, offensively opening up gaps, opening 1:07:59.040 --> 1:07:59.640 it up poles. 1:07:59.480 --> 1:08:02.880 And those guys do that today. Nope, Nope, nope, nope. 1:08:04.840 --> 1:08:05.320 I guess. 1:08:08.320 --> 1:08:10.880 That Robert kraft first win as an owner came here 1:08:11.080 --> 1:08:11.760 against the Bengals. 1:08:11.760 --> 1:08:13.680 I'm gonna assume he didn't know that unless. 1:08:13.440 --> 1:08:18.000 It was mentioned football. 1:08:18.200 --> 1:08:20.400 Yeah, it it was special. 1:08:20.520 --> 1:08:22.880 It was special, and you know, I just wanna thank 1:08:23.400 --> 1:08:27.200 you know, the Craft family, Robert, Jonathan, all of them, Danny, 1:08:27.200 --> 1:08:31.280 all those guys, Josh, just for the opportunity and really 1:08:32.240 --> 1:08:34.000 for not really, you know, getting in the middle of 1:08:34.720 --> 1:08:37.439 anything that we do. Football wise, they've pretty much turned 1:08:37.439 --> 1:08:39.280 the keys over to Elliott and myself and the rest 1:08:39.320 --> 1:08:41.800 of the staff, and I'm just appreciative of the the 1:08:41.920 --> 1:08:44.200 opportunity and I'm glad that, you know, we came in 1:08:44.280 --> 1:08:46.840 here today and represented, uh the crafts in a in 1:08:46.920 --> 1:08:47.360 a good light. 1:08:51.760 --> 1:08:53.960 What do you think about sorry, say a. 1:08:57.800 --> 1:08:59.240 Quarterback, what did you think of vision? 1:08:59.439 --> 1:09:00.519 It was great, It was great. 1:09:00.600 --> 1:09:02.479 He made plays with his legs, he made plays with 1:09:02.600 --> 1:09:05.080 his arm, and you know, he just played a He's 1:09:05.080 --> 1:09:06.840 a tough guy. I'm telling he took some hits in 1:09:06.880 --> 1:09:08.680 the game. I'm just like, man, get up. But he 1:09:08.760 --> 1:09:10.280 did everything that we asked him to do in the 1:09:10.360 --> 1:09:11.800 week and we came out of here with. 1:09:11.800 --> 1:09:15.360 The victory from the game. 1:09:16.360 --> 1:09:20.440 Uh yeah, mister Krafft gave me a ball, so absolutely 1:09:20.479 --> 1:09:22.679 absolutely keeping that one. And uh and then I also 1:09:22.720 --> 1:09:24.960 gave Elliot the ball. So I think it's a special 1:09:25.080 --> 1:09:25.679 special moment. 1:09:25.800 --> 1:09:28.840 Who think of, you know, when it comes to this, 1:09:29.040 --> 1:09:32.479 first in your family or just people that have helped you. 1:09:33.640 --> 1:09:35.280 Yeah, you know a lot of people talk about how 1:09:35.280 --> 1:09:37.519 they're self made and things like that, but we've all 1:09:37.600 --> 1:09:39.200 had people that have helped us along the way. 1:09:39.280 --> 1:09:42.400 And you know, I think I definitely think about my family. 1:09:42.760 --> 1:09:42.880 Uh. 1:09:42.960 --> 1:09:47.040 I think about my grandparents. I think about my Pop, Warner. 1:09:46.840 --> 1:09:49.240 Coaches and all the people who instilled not only the 1:09:49.280 --> 1:09:51.400 ex's and o's on football, but also just how to 1:09:51.479 --> 1:09:53.920 operate in life. And one thing, you know, you guys 1:09:53.960 --> 1:09:56.120 would notice about me. I mean, you can write whatever 1:09:56.160 --> 1:09:58.719 you want to write. I'm pretty much like stoked. 1:09:58.880 --> 1:09:59.280 I'm stoke. 1:09:59.400 --> 1:10:00.760 I try not to get too high. I try not 1:10:00.840 --> 1:10:03.320 to get too low. And that's always been my mentality, uh, 1:10:03.360 --> 1:10:07.200 from a from a little kid up until now. That 1:10:07.439 --> 1:10:09.840 was my first gatorade bath. Yeah, it was cold. 1:10:10.080 --> 1:10:10.599 It was cold. 1:10:10.760 --> 1:10:11.240 It was cold. 1:10:11.360 --> 1:10:13.680 I feel I felt worse for my shoes. I was like, ah, 1:10:14.120 --> 1:10:17.759 these are done, ladies. First, no bruh. 1:10:19.520 --> 1:10:21.639 Underdogs and all seventeen games. 1:10:21.720 --> 1:10:24.360 I think you're a very popular survivor. 1:10:25.120 --> 1:10:29.120 Uh, Like the bans are a very popular motivation. 1:10:29.320 --> 1:10:31.360 Not at all, not at all. And we you know, 1:10:32.120 --> 1:10:34.240 we try not to hear anything on the outside. And 1:10:34.840 --> 1:10:37.240 I told those guys all week, it's all about us 1:10:37.280 --> 1:10:39.000 in this building. There's no one gonna come in here 1:10:39.120 --> 1:10:41.479 on a white shining horse and and save the day 1:10:41.680 --> 1:10:43.560 and I said, look, you guys are here for a 1:10:43.640 --> 1:10:45.479 reason and it's all we got and this is all 1:10:45.520 --> 1:10:45.800 we need. 1:10:46.320 --> 1:10:48.160 Do you was the earlier you wanted to ask you? 1:10:48.960 --> 1:10:50.960 How does it feel winning is a head coach versus 1:10:51.000 --> 1:10:54.240 winning as a player. How does it feel? Yeah? 1:10:54.240 --> 1:10:56.519 I've talked about my calling a lot, and you know, 1:10:56.720 --> 1:10:59.280 winning as a winning as a coach is is huge 1:10:59.320 --> 1:11:02.120 and once again and not for what it does for me, 1:11:02.320 --> 1:11:03.840 but what it does for those players out there. 1:11:04.000 --> 1:11:07.559 You know, I just can't say enough about about the players. 1:11:08.720 --> 1:11:11.760 In fact, you talked all week about complimentary football and 1:11:11.800 --> 1:11:13.040 you seem to get it that it's special. 1:11:15.360 --> 1:11:15.559 Yeah. 1:11:15.800 --> 1:11:17.840 Uh, you know those guys just playing hand in hand 1:11:17.920 --> 1:11:19.760 and we had a plan. Uh, they knew the plan. 1:11:19.880 --> 1:11:22.080 It was, you know, articulated well throughout the week and 1:11:22.120 --> 1:11:24.519 they executed. You know, you could have all the mantras 1:11:24.520 --> 1:11:26.519 and things that you want, but on game day it 1:11:26.560 --> 1:11:28.360 all comes down to execution. You can have all the 1:11:28.479 --> 1:11:31.000 rare eye speeches, it's all about discipline and so those 1:11:31.040 --> 1:11:33.240 are the things that hopefully that we can continue to 1:11:33.280 --> 1:11:34.160 build on going forward. 1:11:36.720 --> 1:11:38.920 Condition. How did the condition get. 1:11:40.280 --> 1:11:41.800 Yeah, it showed up and the run game was just 1:11:41.880 --> 1:11:42.679 like hey, keep going. 1:11:42.800 --> 1:11:44.519 You know, I did talk about this on uh was 1:11:44.560 --> 1:11:46.880 it Friday, when you know you looked at those other 1:11:46.920 --> 1:11:49.479 games and conditioning definitely showed up. And I would say, 1:11:49.479 --> 1:11:52.040 our guys are in good condition coming. 1:11:51.960 --> 1:11:52.880 Up next Sunday. 1:11:52.920 --> 1:11:54.759 Anything to the fans, they should say. 1:11:54.600 --> 1:11:55.160 It back to them. 1:11:55.640 --> 1:11:58.000 Uh, you know for the fans, you know, hopefully they 1:11:58.160 --> 1:12:00.080 uh they see what we're trying to build and and 1:12:01.080 --> 1:12:03.439 I talk about it takes time and we're still not 1:12:03.520 --> 1:12:05.559 where we wanna be, but we're heading in the right direction. 1:12:08.200 --> 1:12:11.480 As in the preseason. 1:12:11.000 --> 1:12:15.000 When you think that, I I'm not sure, you know. 1:12:15.040 --> 1:12:16.960 I ask some friends like how the Ravens and how 1:12:17.000 --> 1:12:19.560 the Chiefs practice, and uh, how their camp went, and 1:12:19.640 --> 1:12:21.799 it was like totally you know, total ends of the spectrum. 1:12:21.840 --> 1:12:23.840 And I would say those were two teams where I 1:12:23.920 --> 1:12:25.479 was like, man, I'm getting tired here, and that's why 1:12:25.520 --> 1:12:27.559 I was so heavy on that with our team. 1:12:28.439 --> 1:12:30.400 I I'm I'm not sure that to answer. 1:12:30.240 --> 1:12:34.920 That question, Rob that you were where they kick the 1:12:34.960 --> 1:12:35.400 ball back. 1:12:35.280 --> 1:12:39.479 To Yeah, I mean there comes a point in time 1:12:39.520 --> 1:12:42.080 where they know we're gonna run it. We know we're 1:12:42.080 --> 1:12:43.559 gonna run it, and all the fans know that we're 1:12:43.560 --> 1:12:44.760 gonna run it and we're gonna have to pick up 1:12:44.760 --> 1:12:47.080 four yards and that's the challenge that I always uh 1:12:47.160 --> 1:12:50.120 offer those guys. And look, it's really man on man 1:12:50.200 --> 1:12:52.080 in those instances. It has nothing to do really with 1:12:52.280 --> 1:12:54.840 x's and o's. It's about you know, dominating the player 1:12:54.920 --> 1:12:56.519 across from me, and and those guys did that. 1:12:59.439 --> 1:13:01.479 Defensively. Y, you keep doing that. 1:13:05.560 --> 1:13:06.960 But what other emotions. 1:13:08.960 --> 1:13:10.640 Oh, I'm absolutely happy. I don't want I don't want 1:13:10.680 --> 1:13:13.120 you to take you know, this whole stoeism. That's being unhappy. 1:13:13.200 --> 1:13:15.120 That's not what I'm saying. I I'm definitely happy to 1:13:15.160 --> 1:13:16.920 get out of here with the win and happy for 1:13:16.960 --> 1:13:18.480 the players in the organization. 1:13:19.960 --> 1:13:22.960 Passing game for the BENGALSSSES. 1:13:23.000 --> 1:13:25.000 But he's under six yards per ten. I don't think he. 1:13:25.040 --> 1:13:28.040 Really hit Downie until late Yeah. 1:13:29.120 --> 1:13:31.080 Uh, you know, we just kept it moving. We ran 1:13:31.160 --> 1:13:33.559 a bunch of different coverages, a bunch of different fronts. Uh, 1:13:33.880 --> 1:13:35.519 and then there in the second half there were a 1:13:35.560 --> 1:13:37.720 lot more you know, quick passes. They were trying to 1:13:37.720 --> 1:13:39.759 get him in a rhythm. That's how that's how I felt, 1:13:39.880 --> 1:13:41.560 that's how I was seeing the game. And you know, 1:13:41.600 --> 1:13:43.400 he had a couple of big plays. But we said, look, 1:13:43.439 --> 1:13:45.720 if we win the turnover battle, we don't give up 1:13:45.720 --> 1:13:47.760 big plays. I will be okay, make these guys drive it, 1:13:47.800 --> 1:13:51.679 and that's what that's what we did. Thanks, guys, How 1:13:52.040 --> 1:13:54.559 do you not feel good for Gerard Mayo? 1:13:54.840 --> 1:13:55.040 Huh? 1:13:55.280 --> 1:13:56.679 Congratulations man, that was great. 1:13:56.760 --> 1:13:58.120 You got your first win. That's huge. 1:13:58.200 --> 1:14:00.240 Yeah, game baal, he said. He said he gave a 1:14:00.280 --> 1:14:01.639 game ball to Elliott Wolfe. 1:14:01.640 --> 1:14:02.240 I like to hear that. 1:14:04.160 --> 1:14:08.080 Yeah, it was refreshing to see and refreshing to hear. 1:14:08.160 --> 1:14:09.760 It's fun to see a guy who's new to it. 1:14:09.840 --> 1:14:12.160 I mean we saw last aw coach who's been there, 1:14:12.240 --> 1:14:13.800 done it all in the league, and now you've seen 1:14:13.840 --> 1:14:15.439 it all, you know, seeing a new guy and what 1:14:15.560 --> 1:14:17.760 it's like to you know, finally get that first one, 1:14:17.800 --> 1:14:20.320 which is a nice thing to check off. But as 1:14:20.320 --> 1:14:22.640 I'm sure Jerrod will tell you, like, this should just 1:14:22.720 --> 1:14:24.360 be the start, and it's good to get this one 1:14:24.360 --> 1:14:26.880 out of the way, but now it really begins, you know, right. 1:14:27.000 --> 1:14:31.400 Coach who uses the word stoicism in his postgame press conference, 1:14:31.920 --> 1:14:34.360 didn't usually hear that too much. I thought it was 1:14:34.400 --> 1:14:38.760 interesting to hear him talk about also challenging Ramondre Stevenson, 1:14:39.120 --> 1:14:40.840 and I think that that was all part of the 1:14:41.680 --> 1:14:44.840 when they re signed Remandre. Okay, we're gonna give you 1:14:44.840 --> 1:14:48.320 the money here, but it's not without you know, some expectations. 1:14:48.439 --> 1:14:51.240 We we need to have met here. And certainly after 1:14:51.320 --> 1:14:54.040 one week he answered the challenge, would you say. 1:14:53.920 --> 1:14:55.280 Mike, I would definitely say so. 1:14:55.920 --> 1:14:58.160 You know, I just you hope that they can continue 1:14:58.160 --> 1:14:59.960 to round out though, because as we've kind of hinted at, 1:15:00.200 --> 1:15:03.000 this is, you know, this isn't gonna fly for Ramandrey. 1:15:03.080 --> 1:15:04.600 They you know, kind of random into the ground the 1:15:04.680 --> 1:15:06.400 last couple of years, and last year he got hurt, 1:15:06.479 --> 1:15:08.439 and you know, so I just would like to see 1:15:09.120 --> 1:15:11.720 Antonio Gibson continue to ascend and you know, take a 1:15:11.760 --> 1:15:13.400 little bit of that load off of his plate so 1:15:13.479 --> 1:15:16.240 that Stevens is able to just be effective each time 1:15:16.280 --> 1:15:18.120 he carries the ball, rather than you know, we get 1:15:18.160 --> 1:15:19.320 to the end of the game, this is when we 1:15:19.400 --> 1:15:22.080 want to run to win. Let's make sure we have 1:15:22.160 --> 1:15:23.719 Remandre fresh and ready. 1:15:23.800 --> 1:15:25.760 And I would say, also, you know, we talk a 1:15:25.800 --> 1:15:28.920 lot about well, no one really saw this coming. You know, 1:15:29.000 --> 1:15:32.800 the Bengals are Super Bowl contender, and people didn't. So 1:15:33.040 --> 1:15:34.759 the one thing that a lot of people talked about 1:15:34.800 --> 1:15:39.479 this week was the Bengals thirty first rated run defense 1:15:40.160 --> 1:15:42.360 coming into the you know, coming off of last season, 1:15:43.280 --> 1:15:45.519 they really didn't do a whole lot personnel wise to 1:15:45.600 --> 1:15:48.160 address it. We had Jeff Hopson on in the pregame 1:15:48.200 --> 1:15:49.920 show and that's the first thing out of his back 1:15:50.160 --> 1:15:52.680 was can the Bengals stop the run? They know the 1:15:52.720 --> 1:15:54.800 Patriots want to run the ball, and the answer was no, 1:15:55.360 --> 1:15:57.280 they couldn't stop the run. That's why the Patriots won 1:15:57.360 --> 1:15:57.599 the game. 1:15:58.439 --> 1:16:01.880 Girod said it towards the end, they knew we were 1:16:01.920 --> 1:16:03.639 going to run. We knew we were going to run. 1:16:04.040 --> 1:16:06.479 Having said that, we were surprised, Mike, and maybe you 1:16:06.560 --> 1:16:09.320 were just intimating a little bit towards that that Ramandre 1:16:09.439 --> 1:16:12.200 received as many carries in as many touches as he did, 1:16:12.560 --> 1:16:14.360 that there wasn't maybe more of an effort to try 1:16:14.400 --> 1:16:15.120 to keep him fresh. 1:16:16.720 --> 1:16:17.160 Not really. 1:16:17.280 --> 1:16:19.599 I mean, I based on how Antonio jas ran. 1:16:19.840 --> 1:16:21.840 I think based on what I saw from Antonio Gibson, 1:16:21.880 --> 1:16:24.000 which was a clear difference in you know, what they 1:16:24.040 --> 1:16:24.960 were able to accomplish. 1:16:25.120 --> 1:16:27.280 That's another reason why I give the credit to Stevenson 1:16:27.560 --> 1:16:28.280 more than the line. 1:16:28.520 --> 1:16:30.840 Yeah, I mean I think that's to me is uh, 1:16:31.360 --> 1:16:32.920 you got to lean on what you got, and at 1:16:32.960 --> 1:16:34.840 this point in the game, at the end of the game, 1:16:34.880 --> 1:16:36.880 I you know that that was what they had, so 1:16:37.240 --> 1:16:39.160 to go with him, And I'm just glad he was 1:16:39.200 --> 1:16:40.760 able to come through. We've seen a couple times in 1:16:40.840 --> 1:16:44.519 his career having mistakes in situations like that. I mean, 1:16:44.520 --> 1:16:46.360 I don't want to bring up the Raiders game a 1:16:46.360 --> 1:16:48.360 couple years ago, but you know what I mean. 1:16:48.600 --> 1:16:50.680 And you know with this the Stevenson you know the 1:16:50.720 --> 1:16:54.240 Stevenson game. You know, twenty five is a big number 1:16:54.520 --> 1:16:57.479 for carries, but how many carries did he have in 1:16:57.560 --> 1:17:02.080 the last three minutes? Seven? You know, he probably carried 1:17:02.080 --> 1:17:04.320 the ball in the last game six seven, eight plays 1:17:04.360 --> 1:17:07.240 of the game. Whatever it was. So Mike says it 1:17:07.280 --> 1:17:10.639 all the time. You know, you throw to to get 1:17:10.680 --> 1:17:13.160 the lead, you run to win, throw, throw to score, 1:17:13.240 --> 1:17:17.880 run to win. Now they did not in the pregame show. 1:17:17.880 --> 1:17:20.560 I'm sorry, sorry, a little quick in mind. Yeah, and 1:17:20.880 --> 1:17:23.679 I would say that that's kind of you know, that's 1:17:23.760 --> 1:17:26.680 the only way they can play. Like I said to you, 1:17:27.200 --> 1:17:31.599 they're throwing too much, like they every time they dropped back. 1:17:31.640 --> 1:17:34.120 I thought it was on the verge of disaster. Jacoby 1:17:34.200 --> 1:17:38.840 Brissett amazing but he amazingly avoided I don't know, four 1:17:38.960 --> 1:17:44.120 sacks today just by like squirting around the pocket, moving up, 1:17:44.280 --> 1:17:47.200 moving around, getting out of the pocket, throwing it away. 1:17:48.560 --> 1:17:52.720 I think they were skirting, skirting with danger all all 1:17:52.840 --> 1:17:55.320 second half, and as long as they had the lead, 1:17:55.360 --> 1:17:57.280 there was no need to do that. Just keep running. 1:17:57.320 --> 1:17:59.040 To rmandre Stevens, speaking. 1:17:58.760 --> 1:18:01.960 Of hyperbole web radio at Patriots dot Com, Javier asks, 1:18:02.120 --> 1:18:03.719 do we have an O line for real? 1:18:04.960 --> 1:18:05.080 Uh? 1:18:05.600 --> 1:18:06.599 Check back in a few weeks. 1:18:06.840 --> 1:18:07.040 Yeah. 1:18:07.560 --> 1:18:08.640 I just don't like. 1:18:08.800 --> 1:18:10.760 I don't. I just can't. 1:18:10.800 --> 1:18:13.320 I guess I can't be happy. No, I have a problem. 1:18:14.760 --> 1:18:18.000 Uh continue with the emails. Tony from Canada. I'm happy 1:18:18.040 --> 1:18:20.160 with the win, especially when it comes to the play 1:18:20.240 --> 1:18:23.000 the offensive and defensive line. But let's face it, the 1:18:23.040 --> 1:18:26.639 biggest reason we won was the turnovers. I don't think 1:18:26.760 --> 1:18:28.760 enough as being said about the fact that we won 1:18:28.840 --> 1:18:31.120 because we didn't turn over the ball whereas the Bengals did. 1:18:31.560 --> 1:18:32.960 I don't know, isn't that kind of enough? 1:18:32.960 --> 1:18:35.439 People have talked about that the Bengals handed your game. 1:18:35.560 --> 1:18:38.320 Wasn't that the recipe for the victory? If you had none, 1:18:38.520 --> 1:18:39.000 they had some. 1:18:39.640 --> 1:18:42.200 And the reason why you had none is you played 1:18:42.240 --> 1:18:44.960 better than the Bengals and you forced turn well, you 1:18:45.080 --> 1:18:49.479 forced both turnovers, right one of the collegs. I would say, yeah, 1:18:49.520 --> 1:18:51.760 he said, like I would say the first turnover is 1:18:51.800 --> 1:18:54.320 one thousand percent on the Bengals. Like I know that 1:18:54.880 --> 1:18:56.920 Dougger makes a nice play to swat the ball out, 1:18:57.000 --> 1:19:00.240 But why is the guy reaching the ball out up, 1:19:00.360 --> 1:19:01.720 you know, up in the air, Like what was he 1:19:02.040 --> 1:19:02.320 what was. 1:19:02.320 --> 1:19:02.920 He trying to do? 1:19:03.200 --> 1:19:05.960 Weaving through traffic? Like you have the first, you have 1:19:06.080 --> 1:19:07.880 the first down. The worst that's going to happen here 1:19:08.000 --> 1:19:11.000 is first and goal from like the two. Now, I 1:19:11.120 --> 1:19:13.000 think there was virtually no chance he's not getting in 1:19:13.040 --> 1:19:14.400 the end zone. He's got a full head of steam 1:19:14.439 --> 1:19:16.920 going straight to the goal line. Even if someone meets him, 1:19:16.920 --> 1:19:18.960 he's going to go in the end zone. Just tuck 1:19:19.000 --> 1:19:21.200 the ball away and don't fumble. And the guy puts 1:19:21.240 --> 1:19:23.479 it out up above his head I think at one 1:19:23.520 --> 1:19:27.680 point or at least even with his his head. And 1:19:27.800 --> 1:19:30.160 then you know, hey, once in a while you get 1:19:30.200 --> 1:19:32.200 a break. The ball bounces right up. Look at this, 1:19:32.479 --> 1:19:36.240 the ball is at his face. When when Duggert kicks 1:19:36.280 --> 1:19:39.080 it out and it goes right to Marcus Jones, like 1:19:39.120 --> 1:19:41.120 this could be a this could be a touchdown for 1:19:41.200 --> 1:19:43.040 the bet. He did not once. He did it twice 1:19:43.080 --> 1:19:45.720 by the way, spike it right, you know. And there's 1:19:45.720 --> 1:19:47.519 a couple of Bengals there too, could have gone to 1:19:47.560 --> 1:19:49.160 them and went right to Marcus Jones. 1:19:49.240 --> 1:19:49.599 Eight five. 1:19:49.680 --> 1:19:51.400 This is what happens when you play better than the 1:19:51.439 --> 1:19:53.400 other team for sixty minutes, you get that break. 1:19:53.560 --> 1:19:55.479 Eighty five to five. Pats five hundred is a number. 1:19:55.560 --> 1:19:58.120 Camp from North Carolina is next cam here on the 1:19:58.120 --> 1:19:59.080 Patriots postgame show. 1:19:59.120 --> 1:20:02.679 Hello, Hey guys, it's that ex quick question. 1:20:03.080 --> 1:20:05.479 I'm kind of missed your first forty minutes of the show, 1:20:05.560 --> 1:20:10.880 so I'm sorry. I know, I know, I was driving 1:20:10.920 --> 1:20:13.479 home from from the bar watching it, just getting back, 1:20:14.560 --> 1:20:16.120 but I was just wanted to see if you could 1:20:17.080 --> 1:20:19.880 kind of talk about Christian Gonzalez a little bit, and uh, 1:20:20.600 --> 1:20:22.400 I saw that, at least from what I saw, he 1:20:22.520 --> 1:20:25.719 kind of put the clams down on h on Jamar 1:20:25.840 --> 1:20:28.200 Chase And was he one on one with him all day? 1:20:28.280 --> 1:20:30.960 Is that something where he had help? I noticed, like 1:20:31.040 --> 1:20:34.479 that twenty eight yard reception. I believe was not on 1:20:34.640 --> 1:20:36.800 Christian Gonzales. So I just kind of wanted to see 1:20:36.800 --> 1:20:38.800 if you guys could kind of talk a little bit 1:20:38.800 --> 1:20:42.200 about the coverage that Christian Gonzalez had on Jamar Chase. 1:20:42.479 --> 1:20:44.519 Thanks for the call, Kim Mike to me, and I'm 1:20:44.560 --> 1:20:47.640 not Evan Lazar or play one on TV. But it 1:20:47.800 --> 1:20:51.160 certainly looked on the long pass to Chase that was 1:20:51.200 --> 1:20:53.920 against June, didn't it in the area. 1:20:54.439 --> 1:20:56.280 Need to check the film on that, Matt, go back 1:20:56.280 --> 1:20:57.400 to the film that's for Cam. 1:20:58.120 --> 1:20:59.920 Was that cover zero or was it cover three? 1:21:01.040 --> 1:21:03.120 Well, probably probably more cover three if it's don but 1:21:03.880 --> 1:21:05.840 but you know, cover I think that's I mean, you 1:21:05.920 --> 1:21:06.880 got to go back and look at. 1:21:06.840 --> 1:21:07.120 Some of it. 1:21:07.240 --> 1:21:08.519 But I don't think that there were a lot of 1:21:08.680 --> 1:21:11.200 cases where it was manned man coverage and he gets dusted, 1:21:11.479 --> 1:21:11.640 you know. 1:21:11.720 --> 1:21:12.920 I think it was more. 1:21:13.000 --> 1:21:16.160 But the game plan was, which was having multiple guys 1:21:16.240 --> 1:21:18.320 deep and you know, playing cover four sometimes, which is 1:21:18.360 --> 1:21:20.800 the cornerback dropping out into a quarterzone and you know, 1:21:20.920 --> 1:21:22.560 playing with things in front of you, so that I 1:21:22.640 --> 1:21:25.439 don't think that they really truly tested him. But I 1:21:25.520 --> 1:21:27.400 think this is all going to change, you know, pretty 1:21:27.479 --> 1:21:29.920 quickly week with other you know Week two, Week three, 1:21:30.000 --> 1:21:31.120 other matchups coming out. 1:21:31.000 --> 1:21:32.760 And I would just add I agree with what Mike 1:21:32.800 --> 1:21:35.880 and Matchiff said about the situation, but at the same time, 1:21:36.320 --> 1:21:38.720 I can't then give one guy credit for putting the 1:21:38.880 --> 1:21:41.600 shackles on something. First of all, Jamar Chase was not 1:21:41.680 --> 1:21:43.760 ready to play an NFL game today. Not only he 1:21:43.800 --> 1:21:46.880 did nothing all summer, he had food poisoning chot. He 1:21:47.000 --> 1:21:49.479 had six catches on six targets for sixty two yards. 1:21:49.680 --> 1:21:51.720 You did not put the shackles on him in any way, 1:21:51.760 --> 1:21:55.040 shape or form. And we just we just got finished talking. 1:21:55.360 --> 1:21:57.960 That might broke down a lot of the quarter coverage 1:21:58.000 --> 1:22:00.840 that they used. So when he does catch a pass, 1:22:00.920 --> 1:22:02.439 you don't give credit to the guy, but when he 1:22:02.479 --> 1:22:04.679 does give a pass, you say, well, they're in zone. 1:22:04.920 --> 1:22:08.080 Doesn't work that way. They he did not like lock 1:22:08.200 --> 1:22:10.400 up with him. I thought he was fine. I thought 1:22:10.479 --> 1:22:12.720 there was nothing I saw from Gonzalez today that that 1:22:12.880 --> 1:22:15.680 worried me. But there was some third down throws to 1:22:15.760 --> 1:22:17.320 Chase that he was able to get first downs on. 1:22:17.439 --> 1:22:19.599 And here's the one that I saw that I didn't love. Now, 1:22:19.720 --> 1:22:23.080 maybe Burrow on the on the third down play where 1:22:23.120 --> 1:22:25.479 Burr looks right at him. It's one on one and 1:22:25.880 --> 1:22:28.040 there's a soft cushion that Gonzales was giving up. I 1:22:28.040 --> 1:22:29.599 don't know if he comes up and tries to press 1:22:29.640 --> 1:22:31.840 that a little bit, does that go against the game plan? 1:22:32.000 --> 1:22:33.920 Meaning we'll give up the first down here? We just 1:22:33.960 --> 1:22:35.760 don't want to give up a big play that was 1:22:35.840 --> 1:22:38.000 really the only one. And I haven't had a chance 1:22:38.040 --> 1:22:39.040 to watch the tape yet. 1:22:39.040 --> 1:22:41.720 And I would just say that watching just watching the 1:22:41.760 --> 1:22:44.040 big play, the twenty eight yarder, it looked to me 1:22:44.320 --> 1:22:47.000 like the two safeties were responsible for that. Peppers and 1:22:47.080 --> 1:22:48.960 Duggar were the ones that were closest to the ball, 1:22:49.439 --> 1:22:51.240 and they probably should have been a little bit closer. 1:22:51.280 --> 1:22:54.280 Here Gonzalez is way down here, trailing. He's probably in quarters. 1:22:54.600 --> 1:22:55.760 Just like Mike said, I. 1:22:55.800 --> 1:22:58.040 Mean, am I you know, just looking at the TV 1:22:58.160 --> 1:22:59.560 copy here, I mean, it just it looks like a 1:22:59.600 --> 1:23:01.240 really good play. It looks like they're in cover two. 1:23:01.280 --> 1:23:02.960 They got two deep safeties and he hits them right 1:23:03.000 --> 1:23:03.880 in between the two of the s. 1:23:04.080 --> 1:23:05.879 And by the way, you know a lot of quarterbacks, 1:23:05.880 --> 1:23:07.080 a lot of quarterbacks don't do that. 1:23:07.200 --> 1:23:08.760 Yeah, So I mean that's you know, maybe it's a 1:23:08.800 --> 1:23:10.760 play where where you give Joe Burrow a little credit. 1:23:11.120 --> 1:23:13.360 I thought on that play, Matt, you were mentioning with Gonzals, 1:23:13.400 --> 1:23:15.360 I just that was a blitz by the Patriots, and 1:23:15.680 --> 1:23:17.519 Burrow made the right read and got it out Quack. 1:23:17.600 --> 1:23:19.720 And you know that's that's the thing with Look, if 1:23:19.720 --> 1:23:22.080 we're gonna blitz Christ, you just can't miss the tackle. 1:23:22.680 --> 1:23:24.479 That's the only thing. Now, he got the first down 1:23:24.600 --> 1:23:26.559 on that anyway, But there were a couple of those 1:23:26.600 --> 1:23:28.680 catches that were a little short of the sticks that 1:23:28.800 --> 1:23:32.120 I thought he was able to score through the Gonzales tackle. 1:23:32.200 --> 1:23:35.040 Maybe that's what Speed was talking about when he disagreed 1:23:35.080 --> 1:23:37.040 with me, saying that there was a lot of good 1:23:37.080 --> 1:23:39.439 tackling in the game. I thought, for a week one game, 1:23:39.520 --> 1:23:43.200 usually you see a mess of mistackles. I didn't see 1:23:43.200 --> 1:23:44.840 a lot of egregious mistackles today. 1:23:44.920 --> 1:23:47.719 Yeah, I didn't web Brady with Patriots dot Com Steve 1:23:47.720 --> 1:23:51.759 from Orlando going at me, so good hustle there, Happy 1:23:51.800 --> 1:23:53.200 with the game. But are we gonna have to see 1:23:53.280 --> 1:23:56.400 Matt's beer feet all season? I guess on camera you 1:23:56.439 --> 1:23:58.559 can see the flip flops. We're gonna try to work 1:23:58.600 --> 1:24:01.360 on that. We're gonna work on that ste you appreciate 1:24:01.439 --> 1:24:06.800 the heads up on that frozen after the effort putting 1:24:06.840 --> 1:24:07.479 some socks on it. 1:24:08.080 --> 1:24:10.439 I feel like I needed like Mittens there in our 1:24:10.479 --> 1:24:12.160 studio where he watched the game where it was subarctic. 1:24:13.360 --> 1:24:16.120 He's just he's like at the beach, like no shoes on, 1:24:16.360 --> 1:24:20.240 you know, short Grammy Paul had his his shawl on today. Yeah, 1:24:20.600 --> 1:24:23.559 Tamara's wrapped up in like a winner blanket. Hey, guys, 1:24:23.640 --> 1:24:26.120 Dan from Boston here. Some people saying today's performance shows 1:24:26.120 --> 1:24:28.320 why it's good that Drake is sitting due to Jacoby 1:24:28.320 --> 1:24:30.439 getting hit, while others are saying if Drake was in there, 1:24:30.760 --> 1:24:33.479 the offense would have been a lot better. Where do 1:24:33.600 --> 1:24:37.000 you guys stand on that. I'll guess I'll go first 1:24:37.040 --> 1:24:39.640 and say today was exhibit A why Jacoby Brissett was 1:24:39.640 --> 1:24:40.400 the starting quarterback. 1:24:40.479 --> 1:24:40.639 Yeah. 1:24:40.640 --> 1:24:42.120 I think that's the right way to put it. 1:24:42.240 --> 1:24:44.559 I mean, you know, you saw some of the plays 1:24:44.600 --> 1:24:47.120 where it seemed like Jacoby saw Blitz coming and you 1:24:47.200 --> 1:24:48.519 know was able to I think want at least to 1:24:48.600 --> 1:24:51.120 unload it off to Hooper, but I don't know what 1:24:51.200 --> 1:24:52.280 it would have looked like. And I'm not going to 1:24:52.320 --> 1:24:54.320 play that game like I think this is the right decision. 1:24:54.600 --> 1:24:57.160 It was the right decision to start Jacoby Brissett this season, 1:24:57.200 --> 1:24:58.600 and you know, we'll see how it goes over the 1:24:58.640 --> 1:25:00.720 next few weeks. But like you said, Matt, I think 1:25:00.760 --> 1:25:03.240 this is the kind of game where he didn't kill us. 1:25:03.320 --> 1:25:05.960 He didn't lose the game. He kept it manageable and 1:25:06.160 --> 1:25:08.360 made enough throws that the Patriots got to win. 1:25:08.439 --> 1:25:09.680 It is what you're hoping for from him. 1:25:09.720 --> 1:25:11.400 Yeah, as long as we're going fantasy land, I'm going 1:25:11.439 --> 1:25:13.200 to say they would have scored forty points today had 1:25:13.240 --> 1:25:16.640 Drift shoot if only I know that, Like seriously, like, 1:25:16.760 --> 1:25:19.200 how can I don't know how you can really strongly 1:25:19.280 --> 1:25:21.640 one way or another answer that question without knowing what 1:25:21.680 --> 1:25:23.879 would have happened. It's an impossible variable. 1:25:25.040 --> 1:25:28.040 And so with that, now, Matt, let's go inside the 1:25:28.120 --> 1:25:31.439 locker room and let's listen into Jacobi Prissette's press conference 1:25:31.680 --> 1:25:34.000 after the Patriots sixteen to ten winning Cincinnati today. 1:25:34.280 --> 1:25:37.040 Work that we put in, obviously, the plan on both 1:25:37.080 --> 1:25:39.240 sides of the ball and then special teams was was 1:25:39.360 --> 1:25:41.479 executed to what we what we thought it was going 1:25:41.560 --> 1:25:44.040 to be sixty minute football game. You know, they obviously 1:25:44.040 --> 1:25:45.320 had a good plan on their side of the ball. 1:25:45.439 --> 1:25:47.280 But you know today we executed it a little bit better. 1:25:51.080 --> 1:25:51.280 Yeah. 1:25:54.080 --> 1:25:57.040 Yeah, you know, like I said earlier in the week, 1:25:57.040 --> 1:25:58.680 everybody's talking about out the line, and you know, I 1:25:58.720 --> 1:26:00.760 mean we know in this room how confident we are 1:26:00.840 --> 1:26:01.320 in that group. 1:26:01.840 --> 1:26:03.719 Uh you know, I don't know. I don't have the statue, 1:26:03.720 --> 1:26:05.000 but I don't know how many yards you rush for? 1:26:05.479 --> 1:26:06.679 Uh zero sacks? 1:26:06.680 --> 1:26:09.760 I think versus versus you know, two Pro Bowl d 1:26:10.000 --> 1:26:12.360 n s and uh good interior pass rush, you know, 1:26:12.560 --> 1:26:14.759 and and Lou who does so much on on defense, 1:26:14.840 --> 1:26:16.840 and you know, I might have so off to that 1:26:16.920 --> 1:26:19.080 old line and and and what Scott did with those guys, 1:26:19.120 --> 1:26:20.880 and you know, I know they're hungry to get back 1:26:20.880 --> 1:26:22.080 out there and do it again next week. 1:26:22.160 --> 1:26:24.240 But uh, you know, I'm I'm super proud of those guys. 1:26:26.560 --> 1:26:27.080 Oh there we go. 1:26:28.800 --> 1:26:30.719 Especially Motion recognized the band. 1:26:30.600 --> 1:26:35.080 Because yeah, for sure, Uh you know, Uh, And I 1:26:35.120 --> 1:26:38.479 think AVP did a good job of of playing against 1:26:38.520 --> 1:26:40.320 Lou so much, you know when he was in Cleveland, 1:26:40.479 --> 1:26:42.800 you know, understanding his tendencies and things like that. You 1:26:42.880 --> 1:26:45.400 line up in certain formation, it's like, you know, it 1:26:45.479 --> 1:26:47.720 simplifies the game. And and say thres things like that, 1:26:47.840 --> 1:26:50.720 and obviously giving me the opportunity to pick up uh 1:26:50.920 --> 1:26:52.640 you know, plays with my legs and you know, the 1:26:52.720 --> 1:26:54.679 old line doing a good job of get creating rush 1:26:54.760 --> 1:26:55.240 lanes for me. 1:26:56.240 --> 1:26:56.400 You know. 1:26:56.560 --> 1:26:58.240 So Uh, I thought we had a good plan with 1:26:58.280 --> 1:27:00.360 those things. And you know, obviously wanna complete uh complete 1:27:00.360 --> 1:27:02.080 a couple more passes, but I thought we had we 1:27:02.120 --> 1:27:02.840 did a good job with that. 1:27:05.320 --> 1:27:07.880 The game is what do you say? 1:27:09.400 --> 1:27:09.519 Uh? 1:27:09.720 --> 1:27:11.719 Excited man? It's it's hard to win in this league. 1:27:12.320 --> 1:27:14.120 You know, he played in this league. He understands how 1:27:14.160 --> 1:27:15.360 hard it is to win on his league on the 1:27:15.439 --> 1:27:16.799 road versus a good opponent. 1:27:17.120 --> 1:27:17.280 You know. 1:27:17.400 --> 1:27:20.080 He was you know, what's the word, uh, static and elated, 1:27:20.320 --> 1:27:23.880 Uh any any word you can think of that means overjoyed. 1:27:23.960 --> 1:27:25.120 You know when he should be. You know it's his 1:27:25.160 --> 1:27:27.639 first one, uh, you know, and he got us ready 1:27:27.680 --> 1:27:30.360 to go. Uh you know, not only this week, but 1:27:30.560 --> 1:27:32.200 you know, dating back to OTAs. You know, it all 1:27:32.240 --> 1:27:34.400 built up for this moment right here. Uh, you know, 1:27:34.479 --> 1:27:36.760 to to put all our work on display, you know, 1:27:36.800 --> 1:27:38.360 and we did a good job of doing that this week. 1:27:38.920 --> 1:27:41.120 How validated today? 1:27:43.920 --> 1:27:46.040 Yeah, you know, and I think we got to a 1:27:46.120 --> 1:27:47.960 certain point in the game, and you know, we said 1:27:48.000 --> 1:27:49.240 it before the game, it's like it's gonna be a 1:27:49.280 --> 1:27:49.800 certain point in the. 1:27:49.800 --> 1:27:51.519 Game where we're just gonna overpower them. 1:27:51.600 --> 1:27:53.640 You know, we're gonna just out condition them and and 1:27:53.920 --> 1:27:56.200 and do all the little things right more than them 1:27:56.240 --> 1:27:58.000 because of our all the work that we put in. 1:27:58.360 --> 1:28:00.439 And I think that was on display, you know, everybody 1:28:00.439 --> 1:28:01.800 in the stands and we were running the ball at 1:28:01.840 --> 1:28:03.559 the end of the game, and we still get first 1:28:03.600 --> 1:28:06.160 down after first down. Uh, you know that we're there 1:28:06.160 --> 1:28:08.559 in past the situation in our defense, it's it's hunting 1:28:08.600 --> 1:28:11.400 down a quarterback and and taking away their best players and. 1:28:11.640 --> 1:28:13.360 And limiting a really good quarterback. 1:28:13.400 --> 1:28:15.320 You know, once you do that, you know that that's 1:28:15.320 --> 1:28:18.080 the identity we want to create, you know, and I 1:28:18.120 --> 1:28:20.400 think we did that. We did that a good job 1:28:20.439 --> 1:28:22.519 of establishing that on one. One game this week. 1:28:23.920 --> 1:28:27.120 Was gonna come to a point what's your points? 1:28:28.360 --> 1:28:28.479 Uh? 1:28:28.600 --> 1:28:28.960 For sure? 1:28:30.120 --> 1:28:32.840 You know we pick up a big third down, Uh, 1:28:33.439 --> 1:28:35.519 you know when and we get back into our big, big, 1:28:35.960 --> 1:28:38.280 big personnel and they see big Lady and coming on 1:28:38.400 --> 1:28:39.880 the field and they know we're about to run away 1:28:39.920 --> 1:28:42.400 throwing the ball out of that and you know, the 1:28:42.720 --> 1:28:45.200 the runs didn't change, you know, and and you know, 1:28:45.280 --> 1:28:47.519 we went downhill and Madre was like, man, just give 1:28:47.560 --> 1:28:49.639 me the ball, let me run downhill. And and AVP 1:28:49.760 --> 1:28:51.040 did a good job and I think he does a 1:28:51.080 --> 1:28:53.200 really good job of trusting us out there, you know. 1:28:53.360 --> 1:28:55.680 And uh, we talked about communication and one of the 1:28:55.760 --> 1:28:57.800 main things was, you know, being honest out there. And 1:28:58.320 --> 1:29:00.160 you know when Madre is like, I don't want to 1:29:00.240 --> 1:29:01.920 run outside zone them, I want to run downhill, and 1:29:02.000 --> 1:29:04.040 that's what we did, you know. And you know, obviously 1:29:04.520 --> 1:29:06.000 some of the earlier in the game, the outside zone 1:29:06.000 --> 1:29:07.760 stuff was working. Then we would hit them downhill and 1:29:08.120 --> 1:29:09.760 you know, they haven't seen those looks and and they're 1:29:09.840 --> 1:29:10.599 in they're gashing them. 1:29:12.880 --> 1:29:19.080 Defense, the offense, the defense there. 1:29:19.800 --> 1:29:22.720 Yeah, yeah, I mean it was just what our game 1:29:22.800 --> 1:29:26.080 plan was was, you know, establish the line of scrimmage, 1:29:26.200 --> 1:29:28.719 run the ball, stop the run, take away their big players, 1:29:29.720 --> 1:29:32.400 you know when and you know, keep convert converting third 1:29:32.439 --> 1:29:33.840 down still on the field, and score points when we 1:29:33.920 --> 1:29:35.360 get down there in the red zone. And I think, 1:29:35.400 --> 1:29:38.200 what uh we did that, you know when uh, you know, 1:29:38.240 --> 1:29:40.240 obviously gotta get a little better at the the sudden 1:29:40.320 --> 1:29:43.040 change part of the game. You know we after the 1:29:43.120 --> 1:29:44.880 half and and starting a little faster after the half. 1:29:44.960 --> 1:29:46.840 But you know, I think our defense did a great job. 1:29:47.000 --> 1:29:48.920 You know, I think it got to to the second 1:29:49.000 --> 1:29:50.960 quarter before they got a first down. I think, and uh, 1:29:51.520 --> 1:29:53.200 you know we do that. Man, We're gonna be all right, 1:29:53.320 --> 1:29:54.960 you know, And and hass all to our defense. They 1:29:55.000 --> 1:29:56.800 did a did a hell of the job. And uh, 1:29:56.960 --> 1:29:59.160 I know those guys are I know the work that 1:29:59.200 --> 1:30:01.320 they put in this all season as well. So you know, 1:30:01.360 --> 1:30:02.920 I'm just super proud for the guy. I'm super having 1:30:02.920 --> 1:30:03.200 for him. 1:30:04.960 --> 1:30:06.639 Jon said, I think he told. 1:30:08.560 --> 1:30:10.800 You don't get a lot of attention one of the 1:30:10.880 --> 1:30:13.800 better backs, and you've been around a lovely Bunny backs. 1:30:13.840 --> 1:30:17.000 We really want analys. Yeah, how good do you think? 1:30:18.880 --> 1:30:21.559 Uh yeah, I I don't wanna say the sky's the roof, 1:30:21.600 --> 1:30:22.600 cause that'll put a limit on it. 1:30:23.120 --> 1:30:25.280 Uh, but you know, I it was. 1:30:25.439 --> 1:30:27.200 It was definitely fun turning around and hand him to 1:30:27.200 --> 1:30:29.720 the ball and like seeing the patients that he runs with, 1:30:29.760 --> 1:30:31.840 the aggression he runs with, you know how fast he 1:30:31.960 --> 1:30:33.920 was he was pulling away from DB's that had angles 1:30:33.960 --> 1:30:36.639 on him, and you know, it's just such a smart back, 1:30:36.680 --> 1:30:38.799 you know, I'm excited to see, you know, how this progresses. 1:30:39.040 --> 1:30:41.640 Uh, you know in this offense. Uh man, it was 1:30:41.680 --> 1:30:44.439 just a lot of fun to watch him play. You know, 1:30:45.680 --> 1:30:47.000 what you did against. 1:30:46.840 --> 1:30:49.480 Washington for Washington against the Jets and the Rams. 1:30:49.280 --> 1:30:52.920 Last year kind of continued that year for you though. 1:30:53.200 --> 1:30:54.559 You know, when you're a you're all about the team. 1:30:54.800 --> 1:30:56.760 Was a circle of light bulb for you to to 1:30:56.840 --> 1:30:58.480 make the start at Patriot. 1:30:58.160 --> 1:30:59.559 Quarterback first since two thousand. 1:31:01.320 --> 1:31:01.479 Yeah. 1:31:01.520 --> 1:31:03.400 Man, I think I cried three times before the game. 1:31:03.680 --> 1:31:05.800 Uh A cry when I got to the stadium, cry 1:31:05.880 --> 1:31:08.960 when I uh Mayo came up to me and uh 1:31:09.040 --> 1:31:11.920 before the game and he like started laughing, and he's like, man, 1:31:12.080 --> 1:31:13.840 you're about to You're about to win us this game. 1:31:13.840 --> 1:31:14.639 You're about to ball out. 1:31:14.720 --> 1:31:17.719 And you know, I had never heard that from a coach, 1:31:17.760 --> 1:31:18.840 you know what I mean, And that meant a lot 1:31:18.840 --> 1:31:20.240 to me. And then I cried when I got out 1:31:20.320 --> 1:31:23.720 there and they we're going out there on offense. But 1:31:24.080 --> 1:31:25.760 you know, my emotions were definitely high, you know what 1:31:25.760 --> 1:31:27.360 I mean. It's definitely a moment that you know, I 1:31:27.439 --> 1:31:30.240 just can't take it for granted. You know, you know, 1:31:30.560 --> 1:31:31.880 these things don't come by often. 1:31:32.240 --> 1:31:33.960 Uh. And like I said, I don't take it for granted. 1:31:34.880 --> 1:31:36.160 Question twenty sixteen. 1:31:36.760 --> 1:31:38.320 There was that shot of you after you scored it 1:31:38.400 --> 1:31:39.959 coming off the sidelight having. 1:31:39.760 --> 1:31:46.679 The football to the coach. Did they I didn't score? Yeah? 1:31:50.880 --> 1:31:52.360 Uh I kept that one. 1:31:52.680 --> 1:31:52.840 Uh. 1:31:53.120 --> 1:31:55.120 Mayo got a game ball though, for sure. Uh. 1:31:55.400 --> 1:31:57.800 You know, his first one, uh, which he deserved. Like 1:31:57.880 --> 1:31:59.560 I said, like I don't think people understand I. I 1:31:59.640 --> 1:32:04.000 I think it is like the plan that he put 1:32:04.080 --> 1:32:07.120 in place with us this week, you know, you know, 1:32:07.200 --> 1:32:09.800 and the work that he you know, foresaw for us 1:32:09.840 --> 1:32:11.960 to get to this point, you know, like like nobody 1:32:12.040 --> 1:32:13.760 believed in us, you know. I mean, he just kept 1:32:13.800 --> 1:32:16.040 on preaching like you know, the people in this room 1:32:16.080 --> 1:32:18.680 that were ones that matter, you know, and that came 1:32:18.720 --> 1:32:20.320 to fruition, you know, Like I said, coming on the 1:32:20.400 --> 1:32:23.479 Rover's a good team week one, new head coach, new 1:32:23.520 --> 1:32:26.880 office coordinator, new defensive coordinator, all these things that stacked 1:32:26.960 --> 1:32:29.360 up against us, and you know, and none of that 1:32:29.439 --> 1:32:31.439 mattered once we got between those white lines, you know, 1:32:31.560 --> 1:32:33.200 and once we got on that plane to come here, 1:32:33.560 --> 1:32:36.320 you know, the the vision was clear, you know, and 1:32:36.760 --> 1:32:39.479 the communication was clear, and we came and executed that plane. 1:32:40.200 --> 1:32:40.880 Thank you very much. 1:32:40.960 --> 1:32:42.320 Yeah, thank you. 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We will get back to the fall 1:36:58.160 --> 1:37:01.040 line here in a second, but before we do, Uh, Mike, 1:37:01.200 --> 1:37:03.759 you have the stat of the game and that's sponsored 1:37:03.800 --> 1:37:06.040 by Oh, it's not sponsored by We should let Murray 1:37:06.080 --> 1:37:08.040 Cole know that so that we could get watch it 1:37:08.080 --> 1:37:09.720 for the stat of the game. But anyway, I don't know, 1:37:09.800 --> 1:37:11.160 treats pleased to the stat of the game. 1:37:11.479 --> 1:37:13.720 Look at the new host Funny's in the middle of 1:37:13.760 --> 1:37:16.519 the show. They are out of unscripted funnies. 1:37:17.320 --> 1:37:20.479 Humor aloud, but I don't know when Jaws talk. I 1:37:20.520 --> 1:37:21.680 don't know if this is a stat of the game, 1:37:21.720 --> 1:37:23.559 but I just thought it was interesting. Take you guys 1:37:23.640 --> 1:37:27.000 back eight years ago to September twenty second, twenty sixteen, 1:37:27.040 --> 1:37:28.920 which was the last time. 1:37:29.360 --> 1:37:32.080 That Jacoby won a game for the start for the Patriots. 1:37:32.120 --> 1:37:34.559 How many days has it been, Paul since Jacoby were 1:37:34.600 --> 1:37:37.680 set in between two starts winning for the Patriots. 1:37:37.360 --> 1:37:39.720 Was that that was the last time he started a 1:37:39.760 --> 1:37:42.120 game for the Patriots. You said started or won a game, 1:37:42.160 --> 1:37:43.840 because I can win another game for the Patriots. He 1:37:43.880 --> 1:37:45.400 lost the next week when he Spoffalo. 1:37:45.439 --> 1:37:46.680 Al Right, so we'll just say win a game. That 1:37:46.720 --> 1:37:49.040 was the last time he won a game against Houston. 1:37:49.640 --> 1:37:51.040 And you want to take a guess how many days 1:37:51.080 --> 1:37:53.120 it's been in between the Patriots and start victory. 1:37:53.160 --> 1:37:58.400 You know, me and Matho nine and eight asked me 1:37:58.439 --> 1:38:00.479 a math I asked Siri, I do it, and my 1:38:00.479 --> 1:38:01.320 had I promm Siri. 1:38:02.080 --> 1:38:04.559 But just I'm sure that's probably a number that will 1:38:04.600 --> 1:38:05.920 pop up at some point. I don't know if that's 1:38:05.960 --> 1:38:08.800 a record for you know, between two victories one time 1:38:08.840 --> 1:38:11.519 between drinks two thousand, I mean almost three thousand days 1:38:11.720 --> 1:38:14.480 in between victories there for Jacobi Prisett. 1:38:14.160 --> 1:38:17.240 With web radio at Patriots dot com is our address, 1:38:17.360 --> 1:38:19.680 and Cameron writes in to say, minus the twenty eight 1:38:19.760 --> 1:38:22.040 yard catch five for thirty four yards to a top 1:38:22.080 --> 1:38:24.120 five receiver in the league is in a way, shape 1:38:24.200 --> 1:38:27.320 or form a clamp job. Whether it was Gonzo or 1:38:27.360 --> 1:38:29.680 team effort, they kept him under control, but. 1:38:29.960 --> 1:38:34.439 The point is, you can't credit Gonzo if you don't 1:38:34.720 --> 1:38:37.280 discredit Gonzo when he gives up catches, Like you can't 1:38:37.320 --> 1:38:39.880 say he clamped them on all the plays that didn't 1:38:39.880 --> 1:38:41.920 go to Jamar Chase, but all the catches that he 1:38:42.000 --> 1:38:46.080 did have he wasn't involved in. Like, that's all I'm saying. 1:38:46.080 --> 1:38:47.320 If you want to say he played a man to 1:38:47.400 --> 1:38:49.559 man the whole game and get up six for sixty two, 1:38:49.600 --> 1:38:51.879 I'd say that's a good job by Christian Gonzales. 1:38:51.920 --> 1:38:52.479 But I don't think that. 1:38:52.560 --> 1:38:55.240 But people are saying he didn't cover him on the catches, right. 1:38:55.479 --> 1:38:57.519 That's the thing that I'm pushing back on some of 1:38:57.560 --> 1:38:58.760 the catches he was involved in. 1:38:59.040 --> 1:38:59.160 Right. 1:38:59.520 --> 1:38:59.720 Yeah. 1:39:00.320 --> 1:39:02.240 I just think I'd like to see Gonzales show up 1:39:02.280 --> 1:39:04.320 a little bit more. That's all I thought. I thought 1:39:04.360 --> 1:39:06.400 he was fine today, Like people think that he saw 1:39:06.439 --> 1:39:08.240 us Gardner, He's not right, very fair. 1:39:08.320 --> 1:39:11.000 Eight five to five Pats five hundred the number. Dale 1:39:11.240 --> 1:39:15.800 in Iowa, You're next on the Patriots postgame show. Hello, Dale, 1:39:18.640 --> 1:39:19.479 going once, Matt. 1:39:20.240 --> 1:39:23.360 It's not about the money, Dale, uh. 1:39:23.640 --> 1:39:28.679 Todd from Garner, North Carolina. Good afternoon, PU postgame crew. 1:39:28.720 --> 1:39:30.519 I really liked our fight and not giving in once 1:39:30.560 --> 1:39:32.960 a Bengals started to move the ball. Yes, we're not filled. 1:39:32.960 --> 1:39:34.920 The stars are most likely won't be over five hundred. 1:39:35.120 --> 1:39:37.799 But this makes me feel glad that the season started. 1:39:38.479 --> 1:39:40.240 Not saying that May is Andrew Luck, but I believe 1:39:40.280 --> 1:39:42.000 that if Luck had an O line, he may still 1:39:42.040 --> 1:39:44.160 be in the league. It feels right to have Jacoby 1:39:44.200 --> 1:39:46.600 starting behind the line who's in the developmental stage, not 1:39:46.720 --> 1:39:49.800 a football analyst here just feels right. Nice show because 1:39:49.880 --> 1:39:52.280 it wasn't really a question here. I see a lot 1:39:52.320 --> 1:39:54.479 of comments. Sometimes I maybe jump the gun on some 1:39:54.560 --> 1:39:55.200 of these comments. 1:39:55.240 --> 1:39:58.160 For some of the the emails want the emails want 1:39:58.160 --> 1:40:00.759 to get there, They want to get their opinions across 1:40:00.840 --> 1:40:05.040 took and this is one you know, I I you know, 1:40:05.320 --> 1:40:08.240 not necessarily embracing it, but like you know, you guys 1:40:08.320 --> 1:40:10.720 might say that I tend to be the I don't know, 1:40:11.240 --> 1:40:15.920 pessimistic one of the panel. Right, So I think today's day, 1:40:16.680 --> 1:40:20.120 I say today's a day. Well, there's no room for 1:40:20.200 --> 1:40:23.240 any of that. Ye Like, I'm not telling you that 1:40:23.360 --> 1:40:25.120 this means they're going to the playoffs. I'm not telling 1:40:25.160 --> 1:40:27.280 you this means they're even going to compete for the playoffs. 1:40:27.600 --> 1:40:30.360 I'm telling you, for one day, on the first day 1:40:30.400 --> 1:40:33.840 of the Drod Mao era, they played really, really well 1:40:34.000 --> 1:40:37.679 and they deserve to win against a good football team. Yeah, 1:40:38.040 --> 1:40:39.880 what's that pile? I mean, no pessimism. 1:40:39.960 --> 1:40:42.679 I know it's we want to jump to like what's 1:40:42.680 --> 1:40:44.400 the big picture thing? But you know, can we just 1:40:44.439 --> 1:40:48.360 be happy in this moment for one, especially especially the 1:40:48.439 --> 1:40:49.920 last couple of years with you know how many of 1:40:49.960 --> 1:40:52.960 those wins just they just sucked your life for us 1:40:53.000 --> 1:40:55.559 out of you watching them, you know, score zero points 1:40:55.600 --> 1:40:57.400 and you know, not to say that this was really 1:40:57.479 --> 1:40:59.720 all that much better, but it just felt like the 1:40:59.800 --> 1:41:02.360 team came to play today, they were ready, they were prepared, 1:41:02.400 --> 1:41:04.479 they had a game plan, They didn't kill themselves, and 1:41:04.880 --> 1:41:05.599 they deserve credit. 1:41:05.720 --> 1:41:07.200 I think one of the things that both the head 1:41:07.240 --> 1:41:10.400 coach said and the quarterback said, those are the press 1:41:10.400 --> 1:41:13.160 conferences that we were able to hear. They both talked 1:41:13.160 --> 1:41:15.360 about the fact when they wanted to run the ball, 1:41:15.560 --> 1:41:18.320 when they knew they wanted to run, when Cincinnati who 1:41:18.320 --> 1:41:20.040 they wanted to run, and Paul, you and I had 1:41:20.080 --> 1:41:23.400 a conversation through the years about that it doesn't matter, 1:41:23.560 --> 1:41:25.160 you know, when you call yourself a good running team. 1:41:25.200 --> 1:41:26.960 If you can't line up on third and one and 1:41:27.040 --> 1:41:29.240 get the one, then you're not a really good running team. 1:41:29.560 --> 1:41:33.160 I don't know if Cincinnati's rush defense has anything to 1:41:33.200 --> 1:41:35.479 do with this, but it's encouraging to me that they 1:41:35.720 --> 1:41:37.960 emphasized the run and they ran. 1:41:38.240 --> 1:41:40.160 Yeah, I would agree with that. And the one that 1:41:40.280 --> 1:41:43.200 really impressed me was, you know, it's like two minutes 1:41:43.240 --> 1:41:46.040 and change left to whatever two point fifteen left when 1:41:46.040 --> 1:41:48.920 they took over for the last possession. I don't care 1:41:48.960 --> 1:41:51.080 if it's the worst run defense in the history of football. 1:41:51.200 --> 1:41:54.040 Right now, you know everybody is stacking the box, they're 1:41:54.120 --> 1:41:57.120 not throwing the ball. If you can run in that situation, 1:41:57.360 --> 1:41:59.880 then you're a good running football team. Today the Patriots 1:41:59.920 --> 1:42:02.080 were a good running football team. I've been skeptical all 1:42:02.120 --> 1:42:04.800 summer because I haven't seen it. Gerrod Mayo keeps saying 1:42:04.880 --> 1:42:06.639 he likes the way they ran the ball. Gerrod Mayo 1:42:06.760 --> 1:42:10.679 was right. I was wrong because today when it counted, 1:42:10.800 --> 1:42:13.840 they ran the ball well, and they most importantly, most 1:42:13.880 --> 1:42:17.160 impressively is Matt's thing. When the other team knew they 1:42:17.200 --> 1:42:19.599 were running at the end of the game, they still 1:42:19.680 --> 1:42:21.479 ran it and they got those first downs to close 1:42:21.520 --> 1:42:22.679 out the game, and to me, that's. 1:42:22.560 --> 1:42:23.599 A mark of a good running team. 1:42:23.600 --> 1:42:25.840 Mike, Yes, absolutely, absolutely right. 1:42:25.960 --> 1:42:28.600 Okay, this is Zach from New Hampshire writing in and 1:42:28.680 --> 1:42:31.280 saying I saw Peppers fired up on the sideline after 1:42:31.320 --> 1:42:33.479 the final first down to Ica game. Do you guys 1:42:33.520 --> 1:42:36.080 think that the defense finally being able to rely on 1:42:36.200 --> 1:42:38.840 the offense to finish a game for them instead of 1:42:38.960 --> 1:42:41.240 letting a great defensive every be wasted is a huge 1:42:41.320 --> 1:42:44.519 morale boost for the defensive unit. I just think quibble 1:42:44.560 --> 1:42:46.200 a little bit with the tone of that question. Yeah, 1:42:46.400 --> 1:42:47.000 where he's coming from. 1:42:47.040 --> 1:42:48.920 I see where he's coming from, because I think the 1:42:49.040 --> 1:42:51.360 defense will just say, just don't turn the ball over, 1:42:51.479 --> 1:42:53.439 you know, just give us a chance to do our thing. 1:42:53.600 --> 1:42:55.519 Just don't have us going out there and we're giving 1:42:55.600 --> 1:42:56.960 up points when we're not even out there. 1:42:57.560 --> 1:42:59.120 And I think that's that's what happened today. 1:42:59.120 --> 1:43:01.400 They were able to, you know, avoid the big turnovers, 1:43:01.439 --> 1:43:03.360 and I think the defense was I mean, it sounded 1:43:03.360 --> 1:43:04.960 like the whole locker room was really you know, fired 1:43:05.040 --> 1:43:05.599 up after the win. 1:43:05.600 --> 1:43:08.320 I think they're playing the underdog car so we didn't mention, 1:43:08.880 --> 1:43:11.800 you know, maybe it was just interesting to me, but 1:43:11.880 --> 1:43:14.960 I thought the takeaway from Jacoby Brissett's press conference was 1:43:15.000 --> 1:43:19.080 when he talked about Stevenson, saying how he just said, 1:43:19.200 --> 1:43:20.960 I don't want to run any more of those zone plays. 1:43:21.320 --> 1:43:22.600 I just want to run gap, I just want to 1:43:22.680 --> 1:43:24.479 run pow. I want to I want to like and 1:43:24.560 --> 1:43:26.880 that to me again, I don't pretend to be an 1:43:26.920 --> 1:43:29.400 All twenty two guy. I bristle at the All twenty 1:43:29.439 --> 1:43:34.560 two guys, but I watch I watched Stevenson, and I 1:43:34.640 --> 1:43:37.280 don't necessarily see that guy that wants to run Laterally, 1:43:37.360 --> 1:43:38.920 I don't think he wants to go parallel to the 1:43:38.960 --> 1:43:41.760 line of scrimmage, put his foot in the ground and 1:43:41.920 --> 1:43:43.720 make his cut. He's not like the one. He's a 1:43:43.880 --> 1:43:46.840 power guy, and I think he wants to get going 1:43:46.920 --> 1:43:49.920 north and south. Now. He made some really nice runs, 1:43:50.000 --> 1:43:51.920 the one that I talked about earlier in the show 1:43:51.920 --> 1:43:54.360 at the end where he makes the two guys in 1:43:54.400 --> 1:43:57.120 the backfield miss with a little shimmy to the side. 1:43:57.200 --> 1:44:00.439 That was really shifty. But I think he's going to 1:44:00.520 --> 1:44:04.639 make his living running between the tackles, collering and then 1:44:04.920 --> 1:44:07.640 breaking tackles and getting into the clear. And I'm not 1:44:07.760 --> 1:44:09.439 surprised to hear him say he didn't want to run 1:44:09.479 --> 1:44:10.560 any more of those zones. 1:44:10.360 --> 1:44:12.000 And he looks to me like if I could steal 1:44:12.040 --> 1:44:14.120 one here. I'm not saying he's as good. When this 1:44:14.200 --> 1:44:16.560 guy was good, he was really good. I don't like 1:44:16.640 --> 1:44:19.080 it when he's Leveon Bell back there. Leveon Bell used 1:44:19.120 --> 1:44:22.200 to all the time, used to wait, used to be patient, patient, patient, 1:44:22.439 --> 1:44:24.400 and then hit the hole. I don't think that plays 1:44:24.479 --> 1:44:25.880 to Remandre's strengths when he does that. 1:44:26.000 --> 1:44:26.599 That's my point. 1:44:26.680 --> 1:44:27.840 He looks like water. 1:44:27.880 --> 1:44:30.320 There's a lot of guys that are very comfortable in that, 1:44:31.479 --> 1:44:33.799 you know, with that style. And you know the Broncos 1:44:33.840 --> 1:44:36.519 did it for years with Mike Shanahan. Yes, you know, 1:44:36.600 --> 1:44:39.240 they always you know Orlandis Gary and Mike Anderson and 1:44:39.280 --> 1:44:42.320 those guys, you know, Terrell Davis obviously the but they 1:44:42.560 --> 1:44:45.120 had that style where they could sort of pick and 1:44:45.240 --> 1:44:47.519 choose and put the foot down and then cut it 1:44:47.640 --> 1:44:49.960 up in the gap and increase it. I don't think 1:44:50.040 --> 1:44:51.519 that's that Stevenson's style. 1:44:52.479 --> 1:44:56.519 Okay, one for you here, Paul. This is comes from Cameron. 1:44:57.760 --> 1:45:00.360 I'm not he says, Paul, I'm not picking choosing on 1:45:00.400 --> 1:45:02.040 the catches he gave up and the catches he didn't. 1:45:02.080 --> 1:45:04.720 I'll ask how many catches did he give up? You 1:45:04.840 --> 1:45:06.839 seem like he gave up a ton of yards elsewhere. 1:45:07.000 --> 1:45:07.680 I didn't see it. 1:45:07.840 --> 1:45:10.120 I didn't say he gave up any yards, right, I 1:45:10.200 --> 1:45:12.360 hear what you're saying, Paul. I'm not saying he gave 1:45:12.439 --> 1:45:16.280 up yards. I'm saying you can't credit him only for 1:45:16.360 --> 1:45:19.080 the plays that didn't go to Jamar Chase and then 1:45:19.640 --> 1:45:21.120 say that they were in zone on the plays that 1:45:21.200 --> 1:45:23.240 did go to Jamarch. You know, like, that's all I'm saying. 1:45:23.280 --> 1:45:26.160 But six for sixty two. Anybody would sign up against 1:45:26.240 --> 1:45:28.840 Jamar Chase if you told me before the game T 1:45:29.040 --> 1:45:31.400 Higgins isn't gonna play and you're gonna allow six for 1:45:31.479 --> 1:45:33.679 sixty two for Chase take I actually would have said, 1:45:34.160 --> 1:45:36.960 under normal circumstances, that's unbelievable. Today, I would have said, 1:45:37.160 --> 1:45:39.960 I don't see Chase catching six passes. But what happened 1:45:40.040 --> 1:45:41.559 is the Bengals got in trouble and had to play 1:45:41.600 --> 1:45:43.800 Chase more than they probably thought they were going to, right, 1:45:44.280 --> 1:45:47.080 and he stayed in the game. But six for sixty 1:45:47.080 --> 1:45:51.280 two for an all pro, that's fine, But just don't 1:45:51.320 --> 1:45:54.120 tell me that he locked him up, Like, that's all 1:45:54.160 --> 1:45:57.000 I'm saying. There's a difference between like comparing him to 1:45:57.040 --> 1:45:59.439 Dion Sanders and saying six for sixty two is not 1:45:59.479 --> 1:46:02.240 bad against Jamar Chase eighty. 1:46:02.040 --> 1:46:03.800 Five to five, Pats five hundred of the number. Here 1:46:03.840 --> 1:46:05.920 in my Stacy James voice, we have time for one 1:46:06.040 --> 1:46:08.280 more call and let's go out west to Kevin in 1:46:08.360 --> 1:46:11.559 San Francisco. Kevin, you're next on the Patriots post game show. 1:46:12.600 --> 1:46:15.160 What do you got hey, guys? How we doing? 1:46:15.320 --> 1:46:15.439 Hey? 1:46:16.000 --> 1:46:17.479 Are you so? 1:46:18.720 --> 1:46:21.040 I was out at my local Paths bar here in Francisco, 1:46:21.400 --> 1:46:23.920 and pretty good crowd considering, you know, the state of 1:46:23.960 --> 1:46:26.000 the team. Not like the old days, but pretty good crowd. 1:46:26.680 --> 1:46:28.240 And what was interesting was at the end of the 1:46:28.320 --> 1:46:29.960 game when they were up sixteen and ten and the 1:46:30.040 --> 1:46:32.000 Bengals got the ball back to a man and a 1:46:32.080 --> 1:46:34.920 woman in that bar, everyone was like, great, we won, 1:46:35.120 --> 1:46:36.439 and I'm like, what are you talking about. It's like, well, 1:46:36.479 --> 1:46:37.040 if we hold on. 1:46:37.120 --> 1:46:38.080 A win, we win. 1:46:38.640 --> 1:46:40.200 If the Bengals go down and score and we lose 1:46:40.280 --> 1:46:43.080 by one point, it reinforces the point that you can't 1:46:43.120 --> 1:46:45.240 be having your quarterback throw for one hundred and twenty 1:46:45.280 --> 1:46:47.839 one yards and beat out of be a good recipe 1:46:48.080 --> 1:46:50.519 for moving forward with this team. So anyway, I just 1:46:50.560 --> 1:46:52.560 found it. I found it very interesting that people were like, 1:46:52.720 --> 1:46:53.240 either way. 1:46:53.320 --> 1:46:53.680 We win. 1:46:55.520 --> 1:46:57.479 Thanks So, Kevin, that's kind of an interesting comment. 1:46:57.640 --> 1:46:59.840 I don't know, I don't Yeah, I would have just been, 1:47:00.360 --> 1:47:02.000 you know, disappointed with a loss. 1:47:02.000 --> 1:47:04.000 I mean, I just think this, especially if they lost 1:47:04.160 --> 1:47:06.200 on a last if the Bengals took the ball in 1:47:06.200 --> 1:47:08.519 the last three minutes, went down in one seventeen sixteen, 1:47:08.920 --> 1:47:10.760 that would have been that would have been a gutting loss. 1:47:10.760 --> 1:47:12.280 All right, We're getting ready to wrap things up here 1:47:12.320 --> 1:47:14.000 in a second, so we're gonna go around the horn 1:47:14.080 --> 1:47:16.080 here the Patriots one to zero. After beating the Bengals 1:47:16.120 --> 1:47:18.720 in Cincinnati sixteen to ten, they come home next week 1:47:18.760 --> 1:47:21.840 for their home opener against the Seattle Seapuppies, who right 1:47:21.920 --> 1:47:25.120 now are in a dog fight with the Denver Broncos. 1:47:25.240 --> 1:47:27.800 Denver on the road in Seattle, leading by a point 1:47:27.920 --> 1:47:30.760 ten to nine, is the second quarter is ticking down. 1:47:30.920 --> 1:47:32.840 A couple of two run homers by the Broncos have 1:47:33.080 --> 1:47:34.080 given them the league. 1:47:34.560 --> 1:47:36.280 Initial thoughts when you look at the game for the 1:47:36.320 --> 1:47:38.320 home opener, Mike, Yeah. 1:47:38.760 --> 1:47:41.760 Dk metcalf I think is my first initial thought. 1:47:41.840 --> 1:47:43.599 I mean, he's a you know, an excellent receiver. 1:47:43.720 --> 1:47:45.880 He's really big, he's fast, he gets down the field, 1:47:46.000 --> 1:47:47.920 so you know, all the people wanting to see a 1:47:47.960 --> 1:47:50.360 little bit more out of Christian Gonzalez or more of him, 1:47:50.400 --> 1:47:52.960 I think it'll be a good opportunity to see that, 1:47:53.960 --> 1:47:56.920 and just generally Gino Smith, you know is as you 1:47:56.960 --> 1:47:58.840 can see, they're struggling a little bit today to put 1:47:58.880 --> 1:48:00.519 up points. So I don't know, I think it's another 1:48:00.520 --> 1:48:01.599 opportunity for the Patriots. 1:48:01.640 --> 1:48:04.240 That's my initial I think it's a great opportunity. In 1:48:04.280 --> 1:48:08.919 the home opener, Seattle was in you know, full disclosure, 1:48:09.000 --> 1:48:10.720 Seattle was the one game I had in the first 1:48:10.800 --> 1:48:12.439 eight that I thought the Patriots would have a chance 1:48:12.479 --> 1:48:16.320 to win. They have already exceeded that with the win today. 1:48:16.400 --> 1:48:19.200 But I don't know enough about the Seahawks. I know 1:48:19.240 --> 1:48:21.760 they have a lot of young guys, get it. No, no, 1:48:21.960 --> 1:48:23.920 I won't look at any tape, but I don't know 1:48:24.080 --> 1:48:26.240 enough about their personnel. They've really turned it over in 1:48:26.320 --> 1:48:30.599 recent years. They have a whole new coach and system. 1:48:30.720 --> 1:48:34.080 So I'll you know, be looking forward to learning a 1:48:34.080 --> 1:48:35.080 little bit more about the season. 1:48:35.160 --> 1:48:36.880 So I want to reiterate what you just said there, Paul. 1:48:36.920 --> 1:48:40.280 I know your shows have circled the Sea Puppies game 1:48:40.439 --> 1:48:42.680 on the calendar as well. This is maybe the only 1:48:42.720 --> 1:48:44.439 one of the first however many that you're gonna get 1:48:44.479 --> 1:48:46.800 that you we see having a chance to win. Yeah, 1:48:46.960 --> 1:48:48.240 I felt like they were going to be one and 1:48:48.320 --> 1:48:50.280 eight going to London or whatever. The amount of games 1:48:50.479 --> 1:48:53.479 was London and Seattle was the game I had targeted. 1:48:53.560 --> 1:48:55.960 So now this is this is big. This is a 1:48:56.160 --> 1:48:58.720 you know, big chance to get up, you know, get 1:48:58.760 --> 1:49:00.400 off to a two and oh start. I think you 1:49:00.439 --> 1:49:01.519 have it all right in front of You have a 1:49:01.560 --> 1:49:03.800 team that's got to go three thousand miles and play 1:49:03.920 --> 1:49:06.560 on the East Coast at one one o'clock. You know, 1:49:06.680 --> 1:49:08.280 some people think that's a big deal. I don't know 1:49:08.320 --> 1:49:13.200 what Seattle's history is in that situation, but Patriots have 1:49:13.760 --> 1:49:15.400 I think a huge opportunity to get out of the 1:49:15.439 --> 1:49:16.880 gate too. And oh yeah, just a couple of other 1:49:16.920 --> 1:49:17.559 things i'd point out. 1:49:17.600 --> 1:49:20.000 Mike McDonald, new head coach, was the defensive coordinator at 1:49:20.000 --> 1:49:21.760 the Ravens last year. You know, known for a lot 1:49:21.800 --> 1:49:25.800 of Patriots style defensive schemes, spinning the dial, people walking around, 1:49:25.800 --> 1:49:28.479 who's coming, who's going, you don't know. So that'll definitely 1:49:28.520 --> 1:49:31.000 be something for Jacoby Brissett and the offensive line to 1:49:31.040 --> 1:49:33.519 figure out. A couple other pieces though, you know, Jackson 1:49:33.600 --> 1:49:36.519 Smith Nijigba from Ohio State was you know, pretty highly 1:49:36.560 --> 1:49:39.080 regarded as well as think Tyra Lockett Saill And just to. 1:49:39.120 --> 1:49:41.559 Let everybody know, this Broncos game, the Broncos have the lead. 1:49:41.600 --> 1:49:46.599 They've done next to nothing on offense. They have eight 1:49:46.680 --> 1:49:49.360 of their points on defense, they had to pick three 1:49:49.680 --> 1:49:53.880 early in the game and two safeties that they've cost. So, 1:49:55.240 --> 1:49:57.519 you know, to Mike's point about Mike McDonald, he's a 1:49:57.520 --> 1:49:59.120 guy known to spin the dial a little bit. I'm 1:49:59.160 --> 1:50:02.120 sure he's in the head of rookie bow Nix right now. 1:50:02.840 --> 1:50:05.400 Well, as we wrap things up, let's wrap it up 1:50:05.400 --> 1:50:08.519 with a four letter word, hope. We saw hope today 1:50:08.560 --> 1:50:11.160 in Cincinnati, folks, and that's a good thing. It's a 1:50:11.200 --> 1:50:13.200 good thing to walk away with a win in Week one. 1:50:13.600 --> 1:50:17.439 The Patriots beat the Bengals sixteen to ten. In Week one, 1:50:17.479 --> 1:50:19.120 they're one to zero in the season. They will return 1:50:19.160 --> 1:50:22.120 to Jillette Stadium next week to take on the Seattle Seahawks. 1:50:22.479 --> 1:50:25.679 This has been The Patriot's postgame show, presented by DraftKings four, 1:50:26.640 --> 1:50:29.439 Chris Judge and Josh Davis on the video side, for 1:50:29.680 --> 1:50:31.560 Matt Morell and Matt Lapan on the other side of 1:50:31.600 --> 1:50:35.080 the glass, for Mike do So, and for Paul Pirello. 1:50:35.160 --> 1:50:37.920 I'm Matt Smith. Thanks everybody, once again your final score 1:50:37.960 --> 1:50:41.760 from Cincinnati. The Patriot sixteen the Bengals ten. 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