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Speaker 1: Here's Matt Smith.
Speaker 3: Well, welcome into a Jellette Stadium where our postgame show
Speaker 3: is Here the Patriots Postgame Show. Matt Smith alongside Paul Perillo.
Speaker 3: Mike Jasoul join us shortly, and Paul, We're here to
Speaker 3: talk about a Week one victory over the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 3: The Patriots get it done with a sixteen to ten win.
Speaker 3: A head wied a Wire. We'll get to the good
Speaker 3: and the bad and the injured first, but initial thoughts
Speaker 3: about a game that I don't think many people were predicting.
Speaker 3: We're to be in the Patriots w Collum, congratulations to
Speaker 3: the team. Congratulations to Gerrod Mayo, those a hell of
Speaker 3: win today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Girod Mayo absolutely is the first thing I think of,
Speaker 1: you know, first first game out there today, and I
Speaker 1: thought they had a really solid game plan on both
Speaker 1: sides of the ball. They executed very well, and I
Speaker 1: thought that they did more of what they wanted to do.
Speaker 1: I thought they dictated the way. Now, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to tell you like they dominated the game or this
Speaker 1: that I thought they dictated the way the game was
Speaker 1: going to be played from the opening kick and they
Speaker 1: I thought carried that through for all four quarters. So really,
Speaker 1: really nice job and hats off. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: try to tell you that I saw this coming. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to try to, you know, sugarcoat and pretends
Speaker 1: that I made this pick. I didn't. I thought Cincinnati
Speaker 1: would pull away in the second half. They never did.
Speaker 3: Mike, give me your initial thoughts, sir.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm excited for the team.
Speaker 5: I mean, I just there's there's so much up against
Speaker 5: these guys, and you know, as much as there's been
Speaker 5: you know, difficult times in the last couple of years,
Speaker 5: I felt like those difficult times didn't stop when we
Speaker 5: hired a new coach and everybody's you know, wants this
Speaker 5: team to be good and have been all over these guys,
Speaker 5: and every decision gets put under the microscope. And this
Speaker 5: is the only way you can shut everybody up is
Speaker 5: go win games. And you know, look, it wasn't perfect,
Speaker 5: and there's certainly a long way to go.
Speaker 1: It's pretty close or as far as this team goes.
Speaker 5: But I mean, you talk about complimentary football, I mean,
Speaker 5: I thought special teams was outstanding defense force and turnovers.
Speaker 5: I mean it felt like kind of an old school
Speaker 5: Patriots victory, and they overcame their shortcomings with strong run
Speaker 5: game and you know, when they needed to have it,
Speaker 5: they got it. So hats off to those guys, and
Speaker 5: i've i've I'm just happy to be to be looking
Speaker 5: at a Patriots win and just to have some positivity
Speaker 5: around this team, which feels like first time in a while.
Speaker 3: Eight five to five, Pats five hundred the phone. We'd
Speaker 3: like to hear from you. Also, you could email us
Speaker 3: at web radio at Patriots dot com. Paul, this is
Speaker 3: gonna be a tough week for your shows. There's been
Speaker 3: a lot of negatives.
Speaker 1: For my showl. Felger is gonna be insufferable.
Speaker 3: A lot of negativity around this team, and I think
Speaker 3: we talked to it, Mike. I'll start with you at
Speaker 3: the beginning during our pregame show, what was the how
Speaker 3: are the Patriots going to try to win this game?
Speaker 3: And I think the formula wasn't fancy. I think everybody
Speaker 3: knew was going to need to happen. Cincinnati was going
Speaker 3: to have to be a co conspirator. They obliged, and
Speaker 3: the Patriot took advantage of it, and they leaned heavily
Speaker 3: on the run game in Romondre Stevens.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean take your hat off to ramondra Stevenson.
Speaker 5: I mean those you know runs at the end where
Speaker 5: he's dragging guys. I mean, you know, have that little
Speaker 5: fumble there, which was just like a brief moment, a glimpse.
Speaker 1: Of this that's old Patriot stuff.
Speaker 5: Where you know we're in this game, and then you know,
Speaker 5: a mistake starts the whole thing unraveling. So, you know,
Speaker 5: a great performance by Romandra. I mean there's so many
Speaker 5: questions of how is he going to fit into this
Speaker 5: run game? And you know, for all those questions, I
Speaker 5: thought Romandre Stevenson just I mean, he he pretty much was.
Speaker 5: I would say eighty percent of the offense maybe today,
Speaker 5: I don't know exactly what the number was, but he
Speaker 5: was excellent, and you know, that's that's that's a great
Speaker 5: sign for them if they're going to be able to,
Speaker 5: you know, do this to a team like Cincinnati who
Speaker 5: had some struggles against the run last year but.
Speaker 1: Been all on his own. Like I mean, I just
Speaker 1: will get to it. But I just thought he was unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Me thinks Scott Peters is going to spend some quality
Speaker 3: time in the locker room after today's game now where
Speaker 3: he's going, uh, locker to locker to his guys. They
Speaker 3: weren't perfect. Paul Jacoby Prisett's probably got the bruises and
Speaker 3: the cold tub that he's gonna need to show for it.
Speaker 3: But hats off to the offensive line because they know
Speaker 3: that they needed to provide a push. They the game
Speaker 3: plan was to run the ball to lean on them.
Speaker 3: They used an extra offensive lineman in quite a number
Speaker 3: of different snaps today, but it paid off for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I said, I thought Stevenson was unbelievable. I
Speaker 1: thought he just kept breaking tackles in the backfield, the
Speaker 1: side step on the third down, whether it might have
Speaker 1: been a second down that actually allowed them to kneel
Speaker 1: on the ball at the end, just dragging Cam Tailler.
Speaker 1: There's two There's two guys. I don't even know if
Speaker 1: they touched him. There's two guys that had him dead
Speaker 1: to rights in the backfield, completely unblocked, and just a
Speaker 1: little side step goes out the back door. This was,
Speaker 1: as I would say this, like I've seen ramondre Stevenson
Speaker 1: move the pile. This was as shifty as I've seen
Speaker 1: him for a consistent amount of time. I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: so was some some talk to summer Mike about him
Speaker 1: shedding some weight a little bit. I hadn't really seen
Speaker 1: any evidence of any added agility today. I did. He
Speaker 1: was I just can't say enough about him. One hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty one yards and no, one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: yards and he was the entirety of the offense. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's fay he won the game by himself offensively. Do
Speaker 1: you give the line any credit on that? I know
Speaker 1: that was difficult on the runs. Yeah, sure, it wasn't
Speaker 1: a train wreck. Do we get credit for that? I
Speaker 1: get what? Do we lower the bar that low? I
Speaker 1: think the bar was pretty low going into the game,
Speaker 1: so they raised the bar from that. It wasn't a
Speaker 1: train wreck. A lot of people thought it would be.
Speaker 6: I didn't.
Speaker 1: I don't think offensive lines are that bad. Like I
Speaker 1: said this a million times. I've seen Kansas City and
Speaker 1: Cincinnati go with to the Super Bowl with worse offensive
Speaker 1: lines than what the Patriots are going to have. I
Speaker 1: think if you have good players like Ramondre Stevenson was today,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. He was great today.
Speaker 3: The decision to go with the extra offensive lineman, how
Speaker 3: much do you think that that helped? They were telling
Speaker 3: Cincinnati what they were doing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I just just think without a real
Speaker 5: blocking tight end, they had to do something.
Speaker 1: And you know, as I said.
Speaker 5: In the pregame show, wanted to see Kadon Wallace get involved.
Speaker 5: I didn't really foresee it being as the you know,
Speaker 5: kind of third tackle, but just to get him some
Speaker 5: experience today, I thought that was a positive. And I
Speaker 5: think they're showing a little bit of you know, how
Speaker 5: they're going to try to get things done with this
Speaker 5: offensive line.
Speaker 3: Quarterback. Would you call that a successful managing of the
Speaker 3: game by Jacoby Brissett today, Yeah, I mean, made plays
Speaker 3: when he needed to make a couple of plays.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he'll probably end up on the on the uplist
Speaker 5: for me here in a minute. But yeah, just you know,
Speaker 5: gutty performance, got hit a bunch, stayed in there. You know,
Speaker 5: it wasn't overwhelming production or anything like that, but made
Speaker 5: some plays when he had to make the plays, and
Speaker 5: you just you.
Speaker 1: Know, that's that's Jacoby Brissett.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: I don't think anyone expected him to come in here
Speaker 5: and be Peyton Manning. But manage the game, don't lose
Speaker 5: us the game. One mistake that he avoided with that,
Speaker 5: you know, near interception, But otherwise I thought he was
Speaker 5: he was pretty good, all right.
Speaker 1: I would totally agree with that. I think that is
Speaker 1: a good I thought he made enough plays and really
Speaker 1: gutty performance.
Speaker 3: Yeah all right, you mentioned it, Mike. Why don't we
Speaker 3: kick things off, Matt with a little bit of the good,
Speaker 3: the bad, and the injured.
Speaker 7: Now it's time for the good, pretty good, pretty good,
Speaker 7: the bad.
Speaker 8: And the injured.
Speaker 1: Ah ah, you are right guy, alrighty, the good, the bad,
Speaker 1: and the injured.
Speaker 3: I don't know, is there another order thing here that
Speaker 3: I need to memorize?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 1: We just we just move around. We just move around
Speaker 1: on that we have.
Speaker 3: We made it obvious. Who was really good today and
Speaker 3: that was number thirty eight Ramondre Stevens.
Speaker 5: But I'm up there for the first one for sure.
Speaker 5: I mean, just a beast. And you know, it was
Speaker 5: funny thinking too back in I think it was two
Speaker 5: seasons ago when Patriots offense had a lot of struggles,
Speaker 5: and I just remember him being a lone bright spot
Speaker 5: a lot during that season because of you know what
Speaker 5: Paul said, his ability to make things happen when there's
Speaker 5: nothing there, and so I thought a little bit of
Speaker 5: that was definitely on display. You know, I did think
Speaker 5: there a couple runs where they were well blocked, but
Speaker 5: for the most part, it was kind of, you know,
Speaker 5: him trying to make a guy miss, kind of had
Speaker 5: that Jimmy White little you know, that little fake to
Speaker 5: the side and then cut up. Saw a little bit
Speaker 5: of that from Rmandi, But really good game from him,
Speaker 5: and yeah, he's got the game ball for sure.
Speaker 3: Who's your number two star, Paul Perlo?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't necessarily put him in order, but I
Speaker 1: would say I didn't see anything I didn't like defensively today.
Speaker 1: And I've been a little skeptical of the defense. Not
Speaker 1: you know, this is I just want to cut this
Speaker 1: off in the past because I've seen this a little
Speaker 1: on the Twitter machine. Suddenly now people who wondered if
Speaker 1: the defense would be the same without Bill Belichick are
Speaker 1: now now heaven being credited with saying the defense wouldn't
Speaker 1: be good. I never thought that would would be the case,
Speaker 1: but they were outstanding today. We're gonna get back to
Speaker 1: that in a second.
Speaker 3: All right, Patriots sixteen to ten winners in Cincinnati, and
Speaker 3: joining us now on the phone is safety Kyle Doug
Speaker 3: or Kyle. Congratulations on a great week one win. Kyle?
Speaker 3: Are you there?
Speaker 1: Sure he's there? I just am not not sure if
Speaker 1: you could hear us.
Speaker 3: Hey, Kyle, don't know if you can hear his congratulations
Speaker 3: on the win.
Speaker 4: Today, sir, Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 3: What defensively, Kyle, you hold this Bengals team down with
Speaker 3: all the explosion even though Chas and Higgins went around.
Speaker 3: What was the key do you think to you guys,
Speaker 3: defensively and keeping that Bengals team down?
Speaker 6: Kyle? Uh?
Speaker 10: This do you know?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 10: No, sorry, early, and we had consistent I'm doing our job.
Speaker 5: Kyle, big play on the on the takeaway there, you
Speaker 5: punched the ball out.
Speaker 1: Just what did you see there?
Speaker 5: How were you able to get in and and get
Speaker 5: that thing out for Marcus to pick it up and
Speaker 5: run with it?
Speaker 10: Uh, just one of one more opportunities to get the
Speaker 10: ball out before they got a man's off, and I
Speaker 10: was able to do better. But you know, just put
Speaker 10: that out.
Speaker 3: I having a high time, little little connection problem. I'll
Speaker 3: try one more time. I think one of the first series, Kyle,
Speaker 3: there was a tone setting play where you came up
Speaker 3: and hit Zach Moss and put him right in his place.
Speaker 3: Do you feel like that was short of sending Cincinnati
Speaker 3: message it it's not going to be easy today.
Speaker 10: I'm not really sure, you know, but I hope it did.
Speaker 10: But every player so I don't know if the way
Speaker 10: it did or not, but I hope.
Speaker 1: I can't hear it.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Okay, Kyle, congratulations, congratulations to the team, Coach Mayo,
Speaker 3: great job of getting the first one of the year.
Speaker 3: And we apologize everybody. We had a little bit of
Speaker 3: a technical issue there, baby Dad cell service in Cincinnati
Speaker 3: and the jungle.
Speaker 1: Let's blame it on that. Let's blame it on that. No,
Speaker 1: a great, great win though, and great like I started
Speaker 1: to say, but before Kyle called in, and I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to have him repeat the same stuff
Speaker 1: because I can't. I don't know if you guys were
Speaker 1: hearing any more than I did break it up. But
Speaker 1: obviously his play on the goal line was play. The
Speaker 1: game was a was a huge, huge time arning point.
Speaker 1: There's a ten point swing because it's you know, seven years,
Speaker 1: you know Cincinnati is going to get and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Patriots ended up getting three off of that turnover. But
Speaker 1: I just thought overall during the course of the day,
Speaker 1: I didn't really notice and this is part of my
Speaker 1: good you know, back to the you know, our goods,
Speaker 1: just how sounds the Patriots were. There were no real breakdowns,
Speaker 1: there were no things that looked like they were way
Speaker 1: out of position. I just thought that it was a
Speaker 1: really sound first day. First uh, first impression for DeMarcus Covington.
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Speaker 3: We continue with the good, the bad, and the injured,
Speaker 3: and Charles Davis was talking about it maybe a bit
Speaker 3: of hyper hyperbole, Mike. There was a lot of pregame
Speaker 3: discussion about Keon White. He delivered today. He's maybe not
Speaker 3: as much as Charles Davis had to say, but he
Speaker 3: was impactful on the field today and his presence was felt.
Speaker 3: The Bengals surely knew that he was.
Speaker 5: I'm glad you walked me out on this plank mat
Speaker 5: because I'm happy to be out on it.
Speaker 1: I was happy to, you.
Speaker 5: Know, be pumping the brakes a little bit on key
Speaker 5: On White. I mean, I do think everything we said
Speaker 5: was valid. I think he was you know where he
Speaker 5: got his His production was, you know, kind of doing
Speaker 5: what we said, rushing from the inside, but he was
Speaker 5: a force inside. I love it, I love to see it.
Speaker 5: I'm happy to be wrong on him at least as
Speaker 5: far as week one goes. So more consistency there, but
Speaker 5: I think he was part of just overall. I liked
Speaker 5: the defensive plan, you know, and it seemed kind of
Speaker 5: to Paul's point, they were aggressive, they were dropping guys.
Speaker 5: I mean even I think the first third down where
Speaker 5: they're showing pressure and Bentley drops out, he's able to break.
Speaker 1: Up the pass.
Speaker 5: The only drive was that one drive, that one scoring
Speaker 5: drive they had where they just see they didn't even
Speaker 5: face a third down. They went right down the field.
Speaker 5: They were running the ball with success and then you know,
Speaker 5: but to the defense's credit, turned it around the next time.
Speaker 1: Held him to a field goal.
Speaker 5: You know, I mean, I think we all kind of
Speaker 5: thought that was going down to be a touchdown in
Speaker 5: a one point game at that point.
Speaker 1: So credit to them though.
Speaker 5: And key On White, great start for him, two and
Speaker 5: a half sacks, not a bad first week for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought he was. He was active and the
Speaker 1: one sack that he had that he just completely carved
Speaker 1: in the left side of the actually the right side
Speaker 1: of the Bengals line. He was on the defensive left side.
Speaker 1: The other two were just typical Keyon White plays like hustle,
Speaker 1: you know, hustle, physical play, like you know, fighting through
Speaker 1: the wash, and you know, Borrow tries to scramble when
Speaker 1: he's not able to get back to the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: So I thought he was really good. I've sort of
Speaker 1: been a little kind of in between our colleagues, Mike
Speaker 1: and you with Keon White, I'm not necessarily seeing this,
Speaker 1: you know, sixteen seventeen sack guys Aaron Donald in the
Speaker 1: making that our colleagues are making it out to be.
Speaker 1: And yet I'm not seeing what you're seeing either. Like
Speaker 1: he's pretty active and he's pretty physical, sort of looking
Speaker 1: to see if he can add some tools to the bell,
Speaker 1: as Evan would like to say, and he throws his
Speaker 1: cliche book at you. But yeah, I thought he was
Speaker 1: really good today. I think he was the one guy
Speaker 1: that stood out on defense. If you if you were
Speaker 1: looking for one guy, think Mike has it like you were.
Speaker 3: You mentioned the plan, dere I say. Their defensive game
Speaker 3: plan was almost Belichickian in nature. Everything was kept in
Speaker 3: front of them, nothing got behind them. And here's the
Speaker 3: one thing that to me was refreshing to see, especially
Speaker 3: for a week one game. I thought the tackling, by
Speaker 3: by and large, they tackled pretty well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's get up.
Speaker 3: There wasn't a lot of yards after the catch, there
Speaker 3: was there was yards to be had in front. They
Speaker 3: kept everything in front of him. But I thought they
Speaker 3: did a really good job of tackling buying large for
Speaker 3: the most part.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it was some of what they did
Speaker 5: last time, tried to do against Burrow last game they
Speaker 5: played him where they played a lot of cover two,
Speaker 5: tried to you know, stay deep, and he just picked
Speaker 5: him apart down below and still you know, three for
Speaker 5: three hundred and seventy five yards. Like you said, though
Speaker 5: without Chase and Higgins really being able to threaten that
Speaker 5: deep part of the field. It was interesting to me
Speaker 5: that they still seemed to approach the game that way
Speaker 5: against Burrow. I thought maybe they would be a little
Speaker 5: bit more willing to take some chances. But I thought
Speaker 5: they just spun the dial well, you know, And I
Speaker 5: think that's kind of the ultimate Belicheckian thing, is keeping
Speaker 5: the offense on their toes, not quite knowing if we're
Speaker 5: bringing you know, four four guys, five guys, six guys,
Speaker 5: three guys. I thought de Marcus Comington did a good job,
Speaker 5: especially at the end, you know, when it's like all
Speaker 5: right here, it is like you got to get a stop.
Speaker 1: So they got to stop, like because because you know,
Speaker 1: I've seen the Patriots have a good game plan before
Speaker 1: they're you know, they have some initial success. I think
Speaker 1: they had three three and outs the first three drives.
Speaker 1: After that, I thought Cincinnati did whatever it wanted until
Speaker 1: the drive with the game on the line. Then Covington
Speaker 1: got it right back in gear three and out. Really,
Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't like a hold onto your hat
Speaker 1: three and out. It was you know, two plays that
Speaker 1: you know could have worked for Cincinnati, but they were
Speaker 1: gonna They were you know, sort of high level play,
Speaker 1: level of difficulty. And then the third down play, I
Speaker 1: think Burrow this is probably Burrow's only mistaken then. I
Speaker 1: don't understand how you can check down on third and
Speaker 1: ten cost this team about thirty seconds, you know, of
Speaker 1: game time, throw the ball away in punt. You're gonna
Speaker 1: punt if you don't have the first down unless you're
Speaker 1: like leaning inches. So I thought that drive to me
Speaker 1: was more impressive than anything I saw. Defensively, you've sort
Speaker 1: of thrown everything at Joe Burrow, and you've kept everything
Speaker 1: under control, and now they've sort of figured you out.
Speaker 1: They know what you're doing now, Like they took the
Speaker 1: last the last two drives of the first half the Patriots,
Speaker 1: I mean, the Bengals moved the ball. One was the
Speaker 1: you know, the back to back touchdowns that weren't for
Speaker 1: the Bengals. And then the next drive they went right
Speaker 1: down the field and got I think they got stopped
Speaker 1: on a fourth down maybe, but they drove into scoring territory.
Speaker 1: Then they scored a touchdown, then they had another field goal,
Speaker 1: and You're like, you know, of course we're watching it.
Speaker 1: We had a new experience, Mike. We had an experience
Speaker 1: of watching a game live with Matt Smith, who evidently
Speaker 1: thinks it's it's still nineteen ninety one, Mike, Matt was
Speaker 1: waiting for something bad to happen at all times. And
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you, I thought, experience, for sure,
Speaker 1: Cincinnati would move into scoring position. Now, whether or not
Speaker 1: they got in the end zone, you don't know, but
Speaker 1: I thought for sure they would go fifty sixty yards
Speaker 1: and see what happens. I thought that stands by. The
Speaker 1: defense was really impressive, probably the most impressive possession I
Speaker 1: saw of the game.
Speaker 3: Yep, Okay, who else And I'll nominate one that's not
Speaker 3: sexy or anything like that. As we look at who
Speaker 3: was good on this game. Can we not overlook the
Speaker 3: performance by the field goal kicker because I think we
Speaker 3: sew my list? Yeah, because I think, as we said,
Speaker 3: as we're watching the game, I'm not sure Ryland makes
Speaker 3: those kicks. None of them were forty nine yarders into
Speaker 3: a wind, with precipitation and anything like that. All he
Speaker 3: did is just knock him down the middle. Huge plays.
Speaker 3: They got him into position to make the kicks. He
Speaker 3: made the kick. That's what your kicker is supposed to do,
Speaker 3: is any ball.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, I do think that those are the kinds
Speaker 1: of kicks that the kickers make. But he was perfect.
Speaker 1: You can't be better than perfect correct forty seven, thirty five,
Speaker 1: thirty two. You can't miss any of those, but he didn't.
Speaker 1: And by the way, they were all right down the middle.
Speaker 1: There wasn't any jet Chad Ryland like, is that going
Speaker 1: to be in or outside the right? Up right now?
Speaker 1: He nailed them all. I agree with Matt. He deserves
Speaker 1: to be on the On the goods, I mean I
Speaker 1: would put just the special teams in general, because I
Speaker 1: saw special teams very good.
Speaker 5: I mean a number of really good punts that helped
Speaker 5: field position. You know, Joe Cardona, the new captain, getting
Speaker 5: down forcing a fumble. Uh you know, I mean, I
Speaker 5: guess the only thing you can get is the rookie,
Speaker 5: you know, underraft, the rookie Del Pattis, you know, jumping
Speaker 5: off sides on the opening kickoff of the first game
Speaker 5: of his career.
Speaker 1: I tell you now, we have a lot more good
Speaker 1: to get to. That's the only thing I wrote down
Speaker 1: from my bad list.
Speaker 3: Penalties.
Speaker 1: No, just the opening kick. Penalties are going to You're
Speaker 1: gonna get some penalties. You can't get a penalty on
Speaker 1: the opening kick for that. Yeah, that was it. That's
Speaker 1: the only thing I wrote down. Look one thing, but
Speaker 1: just over by one, you know, as Fred would say,
Speaker 1: Whi's my.
Speaker 5: One nice job by Jeremy Springers is. I just thought
Speaker 5: that whole unit and everybody was ready to go and
Speaker 5: and they just everybody did their job today. And it's
Speaker 5: just that feels refreshing in a way. That's kind of
Speaker 5: surprising because you didn't have to set the world on
Speaker 5: fire on offense today, like you didn't. And I think,
Speaker 5: you know, probably Bill Belichi's gonna look at this game
Speaker 5: and it's like, well, the quarterback doesn't make any mistakes like,
Speaker 5: this is how we win games. You know, that's this
Speaker 5: was the formula. This has been the formula. I hope
Speaker 5: they can build off of this and not have to
Speaker 5: rely on the formula as much.
Speaker 1: It's gon say I'm gonna say that for the second hour.
Speaker 1: So I don't think you can win a lot of
Speaker 1: games too.
Speaker 5: It's hard to win in week one and a banged
Speaker 5: up Sincy team, and you just need something positive to
Speaker 5: put all the talk of the summer in the spring
Speaker 5: behind you and say, all right, you know criticisms are valid,
Speaker 5: but still this is a team that can can win
Speaker 5: a game.
Speaker 3: See Mike, Now you're onto something. And we talked about
Speaker 3: that in the pregame show. I think when Paul was
Speaker 3: doing one of his shows. It's when the when the coach, Elliott,
Speaker 3: whoever you want to put involved in this wants to
Speaker 3: try to establish the culture. It's all great to talk
Speaker 3: about we're going to do this, we're going to be transparent,
Speaker 3: we're going to do things a little bit differently. It's
Speaker 3: all great to try to do that, but the players
Speaker 3: need to see that you can win. Besides just talking
Speaker 3: about it. They need know that there's a plan in
Speaker 3: place that lets win games. Winning today, not maybe playing
Speaker 3: their best, but doing things being somewhat disciplined and winning
Speaker 3: the way they won. I think it just gives them
Speaker 3: a huge shot in the arm that, you know what,
Speaker 3: maybe we can do this. Maybe let's let us run
Speaker 3: through the wall for Gerard, like some of the players
Speaker 3: are saying, that's what that demonstrated.
Speaker 5: Well, let's you know, I'm gonna put your Romeo on
Speaker 5: the uplist. So you had a team that was ready
Speaker 5: to go out. I wanted to play a clean game.
Speaker 5: I would call that a clean game. I mean they
Speaker 5: had far as it goes, you know, but none but
Speaker 5: none that I think really kills you.
Speaker 1: I mean, I maybe got to.
Speaker 9: Go look back.
Speaker 5: I try to forget about the penalties as quickly as
Speaker 5: possible at this Mayo getting getting the splash down. But
Speaker 5: as I said in the pregame, wins at this point
Speaker 5: are worth their weighting goal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and who knows five penalties five?
Speaker 5: Who knows how many wins you're gonna have at the
Speaker 5: end of the season. But each one you get inspires
Speaker 5: a little more confidence, inspires a little bit more belief,
Speaker 5: inspires a little bit more buy in from not only
Speaker 5: the players and the people inside the building, but the
Speaker 5: fans outside the building, who say, you know, is this
Speaker 5: a team that is going I mean, you saw how
Speaker 5: some of these other teams today performed, and some of
Speaker 5: these other you know, teams that were underdogs by less
Speaker 5: than the Patriots were underdogs. I would add too, So
Speaker 5: i'd put your Rob may on there. Really nice win
Speaker 5: for his team, and I think they looked like a
Speaker 5: well coached team out there.
Speaker 3: Correct, Paul, you said you had a long list of goods.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I disagree with you, guys. I think the Patriots
Speaker 1: played an almost perfect game today. I don't think they
Speaker 1: can play any better than that. I have so many
Speaker 1: different things that I was impressed with. We talked about Douger,
Speaker 1: we talked about some individual stuff. I just thought when
Speaker 1: it was a play to be made Jonathan Jones, like
Speaker 1: fourth and two, terrific tackle, Like that's a great play,
Speaker 1: that's a game changing play. Like I know that they
Speaker 1: don't all come down like Dougger strips a guy of
Speaker 1: the ball inside the one yard line. That's Anybody who's
Speaker 1: ever watched a football game knows how important that is.
Speaker 1: But the change of momentum cannot be overstated with the
Speaker 1: play that Jonathan Jones makes if that's a first down,
Speaker 1: since he's gonna come away with that the minimum points,
Speaker 1: but probably seven. They were moving the ball and that's
Speaker 1: not an easy tackle to make in space. You made
Speaker 1: that comment, Matt, that the tackling was really good today
Speaker 1: for a Week one I would actually say for the
Speaker 1: entirety of the game, both teams. For a Week one game,
Speaker 1: there weren't a lot of mistackles. Now, Cincinnati missed a
Speaker 1: couple in late in the game when I think the ball,
Speaker 1: I think they're trying to strip the ball, and they quit.
Speaker 1: I think they quit. They said the only way we
Speaker 1: can win here is if we force a fumble. But
Speaker 1: for the most part, the tackling in that game was
Speaker 1: really good. That Jonathan Jones fourth and two play was outstanding.
Speaker 1: Outstanding play by by him. I literally could put every
Speaker 1: member of the defense on this. I thought the coverage
Speaker 1: was tight. You know a couple of plays there on
Speaker 1: the run that you know, they hit some seams there.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, I thought they were stout
Speaker 1: up front. Just what a really good performance.
Speaker 3: At web web radio at Patriots dot Com. Here's are
Speaker 3: we moving too fast? Into this category right now, you guys, let.
Speaker 1: Me know a little bit. Was still doing the good
Speaker 1: the bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah we are, But so I just want to let
Speaker 3: you know that this guy Nate wants to know the
Speaker 3: defense was great. He didn't see Gonzo much on his screen,
Speaker 3: which must mean he did a good job. And I
Speaker 3: don't know if you would agree with that, Paul Parlo.
Speaker 1: I think he was fine, but he was on the
Speaker 1: screen six times when the six catches that Jamar Chase
Speaker 1: made now weren't game breaking plays, but I don't think
Speaker 1: they sent him down the field the whole game. I
Speaker 1: don't think he was probably physically able to go down
Speaker 1: the field Chase, I mean, not Gonzales, right, I think
Speaker 1: that Gonzales was fine in this game. I didn't think
Speaker 1: there was anything wrong with him, But I didn't think
Speaker 1: it was an overly strong performance either. I thought a
Speaker 1: couple of those catches were short of the first down,
Speaker 1: and Chase was able to score through the tackle, pick
Speaker 1: up the necessary yardage for the first down. But it's
Speaker 1: also Jamar Chase. I'm not looking for, you know, three
Speaker 1: for fourteen, right, You know that was a really good
Speaker 1: performance by the defense. The only Marco Wilson gets a
Speaker 1: pass interference because he was out of position on one done.
Speaker 1: The one deep ball that Cincinnati threw in the entire
Speaker 1: game resulted in a penalty and he knew it. But
Speaker 1: other than that, like, I been hard pressed to find
Speaker 1: anything even remotely negative about anything on defense. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: were just really good. How many yards? I lost it?
Speaker 6: Mike?
Speaker 3: How about you?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 5: I agree very much with the you know, with what
Speaker 5: Paul said, and I mean, I think you know kind
Speaker 5: of what we're getting at here in this.
Speaker 1: Second and twenty four yards total team.
Speaker 5: Win, you know, just it felt like a team win
Speaker 5: where it was you know, a couple of plays I
Speaker 5: would say, you know, to the Gonzales point, he didn't
Speaker 5: really have one of those plays like you mentioned Jones
Speaker 5: had where he came out and made a tackle, stopped
Speaker 5: the guy short. Felt to me like they were in
Speaker 5: a little bit of zone too. So I don't know,
Speaker 5: but hey, it's just a team effort, and I think
Speaker 5: at this point that's what that's what you're looking for
Speaker 5: from these guys. Are they all on the same page,
Speaker 5: Are they well coached? Are they not beating themselves? In
Speaker 5: Week one on the road? They did they checked those boxes,
Speaker 5: so it's something to build off of. But you know,
Speaker 5: it's it's it's cool, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I would also say, like, just you know, we're back
Speaker 1: to Gerard Mayo. I think you might wanted to put
Speaker 1: him specifically, so you come out of the gate right
Speaker 1: your first quarter of the Gerard Mayo regime, they out
Speaker 1: outgained one oh seven to seventeen. That was the first
Speaker 1: quarter total. Now it's one of those things we all
Speaker 1: said Cincinnati generally isn't ready to play at the start
Speaker 1: of the season under Zach Taylor, and I think we
Speaker 1: all said it, but I'm not sure how many of
Speaker 1: us believed it. No, they weren't ready. They weren't ready,
Speaker 1: and the Patriots were and they exposed them.
Speaker 3: Check Mayo. Check Mayo right in the checkbox.
Speaker 1: So again, I have I have a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: like it's just.
Speaker 5: What's funny, say Paul I did have, well, I had,
Speaker 5: I guess I did have one X on josh Ucha.
Speaker 5: I think he got an off side penalty. But otherwise
Speaker 5: that and the Marco Wilson with only two x's I
Speaker 5: wrote down on defense besides specific players of who that
Speaker 5: guy just screwed up.
Speaker 1: So like a game.
Speaker 5: I mean, Jawan Bentley I thought was active. You know,
Speaker 5: he continues to kind of be the heart beat in
Speaker 5: the middle of this of this defense. And yeah they
Speaker 5: were good.
Speaker 3: Uh, you're watching and listening to the Patriots postgame show
Speaker 3: where the Patriots were a surprising sixteen to ten winner
Speaker 3: in Cincinnati. The Bengals today, Paul, do we pivot to bad?
Speaker 3: And I don't know how much bad there was. I'm
Speaker 3: out it wasn't perfect. Yeah, it wasn't perfect. I thought
Speaker 3: there was some Listen.
Speaker 1: I might go down in an area for you, but
Speaker 1: I'd like you so I'll just say in general, like
Speaker 1: I understand like people are gonna look at the you
Speaker 1: know what a homer Paul is turned into because they
Speaker 1: win one game. And I have nothing bad to say
Speaker 1: because I treat this kind of stuff with different you know,
Speaker 1: on a curve, like Jacoby Brissett was nowhere near good
Speaker 1: enough by NFL standards, but I thought he managed the
Speaker 1: game tremendously well. He missed a couple of throws, he
Speaker 1: also made a couple of big throws on third downs, and.
Speaker 3: He also did a couple of things with that.
Speaker 1: That's what happens when you play with a backup quarterback.
Speaker 1: He's gonna make some plays, he's gonna miss some plays.
Speaker 1: You're gonna end up with two hundred and sixty or
Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty yards of offense and sixteen points.
Speaker 1: Oh by the way, before I get bloed for that,
Speaker 1: I said they would score sixteen points. I just thought
Speaker 1: the other team would have twenty seven.
Speaker 3: Right, So the one and this is picnicking a little bit.
Speaker 3: And when while I'm gonna criticize, I think there was
Speaker 3: a reason for them doing it up thirteen to nothing,
Speaker 3: they really went into a shell offensively. You know, it
Speaker 3: was almost like they we can't put the ball on
Speaker 3: Harm's way. The Bengals had taken over the line of
Speaker 3: scrimmage at that point in time when he was going
Speaker 3: back to pass, Brissette was getting popped. You know, it
Speaker 3: was a free for all back there. Did they need
Speaker 3: to continue to do that in order to manage the
Speaker 3: game and continue to win the game and play conservative?
Speaker 5: I think that's going to be learning who you are
Speaker 5: and what you can do. And I mean I think
Speaker 5: they probably were airing a little bit on the side
Speaker 5: of caution. I mean, why wouldn't you You're off to
Speaker 5: a good start. You're playing pretty clean, So I didn't
Speaker 5: necessarily hate it, but I think it's a sign of
Speaker 5: this is where this offense needs to go. You know,
Speaker 5: this needs to be an offense that in those moments
Speaker 5: can now we're going to hit a twenty five yard pass,
Speaker 5: you know, those kind of things, which they're not there yet,
Speaker 5: but I think that they can say, look, our running
Speaker 5: game is pretty solid, and you know, Ramandre obviously is
Speaker 5: you know, looking good.
Speaker 1: Let's try to build off of.
Speaker 5: This and see ways that we can start to be
Speaker 5: a little bit more aggressive and grow as an offense.
Speaker 1: Part if you had, like if you had a really
Speaker 1: productive offer, or even like a middling offense, you probably
Speaker 1: win that game today, something closer to, I don't know,
Speaker 1: thirty to twenty instead of sixteen to ten. You know,
Speaker 1: because they're so limited offensively, I think they had to
Speaker 1: do what they did. And I hate conservative and I
Speaker 1: hate running the ball, but I absolutely would have run
Speaker 1: the ball. I said to you when it was thirteen nothing,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't throw another pass until the Cincinnati scores. Cincinnati scored.
Speaker 1: They threw a couple more passes, a couple of third
Speaker 1: downs on that field goal, drive, which I thought was
Speaker 1: a huge drive to rescore the two score lead right away. Again,
Speaker 1: I thought Prissette was good enough. He made one mistake,
Speaker 1: got away with it and you know, really kept the
Speaker 1: ball out of harm's way otherwise. And I thought did
Speaker 1: a really good job of finding a way to get
Speaker 1: first downs with runs that you know, improbable runs where
Speaker 1: he was taking a lot of hits, especially at the
Speaker 1: end there, I mean, not that last.
Speaker 5: You know, a couple carries pretty pressive.
Speaker 3: He did a couple things with his legs too, you know,
Speaker 3: I thought that that was a nice little touch that
Speaker 3: for set he could get out of harm's way sometimes.
Speaker 3: He showed some real stones on a couple of those
Speaker 3: runs too.
Speaker 1: Yep, he did.
Speaker 5: And I mean I think, like if it all went perfectly,
Speaker 5: like I was thinking though, it's like, wow, it's kind
Speaker 5: of nice to enjoy Patriots win without a bunch of calls.
Speaker 1: Like now our draft pick's gonna be worse. You know
Speaker 1: you haven't well, you haven't taken the calls yet those
Speaker 1: you would go, well, now I'm expecting instead of out,
Speaker 1: you're gonna hear now. It means it's gonna be longer
Speaker 1: until Drake.
Speaker 5: Meg gets it, you know, but I think in a
Speaker 5: perfect world you're saying, look, this is a pretty solid offense.
Speaker 5: And I'm not saying that's what we're here now. I'm saying,
Speaker 5: in a perfect world, if this were to continue to evolve, that, hey,
Speaker 5: we got a pretty solid offense that's just lacking playmaking
Speaker 5: at the quarterback position. Now you're probably gonna put a
Speaker 5: rookie in there at some point and you're gonna you're
Speaker 5: gonna get some more mistakes. You're also hopefully they're going
Speaker 5: to get some bigger plays, and that's, you know, if
Speaker 5: they can set the table for Drake may. I think
Speaker 5: that's what we're all hoping for instead of all right,
Speaker 5: we got to put them in there, but we know
Speaker 5: it's you know, it's gonna be really hard. At least
Speaker 5: now you feel like Mark, well, maybe they do have
Speaker 5: a little bit of something that they can lean into.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, you mentioned the phones. Let's go to
Speaker 3: the phones. Sean and vanc whover your next year on
Speaker 3: Patriot's post game show. Good afternoon, Sean.
Speaker 11: Hey, Matt, I think you're doing an amazing job. You know,
Speaker 11: it's kind of funny. I don't care about the Lions.
Speaker 11: I don't like them. I don't dislike them, but the
Speaker 11: previous post of the show was a huge fan and
Speaker 11: you hate them, so I think that's kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: And fath.
Speaker 3: Entirely wrong.
Speaker 11: But right, that's fine. But this gave us a huge surprise.
Speaker 11: This is the Patriots way, you know, do your job.
Speaker 6: I love it.
Speaker 11: They live in mistakes and they had a smart plan
Speaker 11: and I think Brissett looked like it helped him to
Speaker 11: be in that system in the past, being Cleveland system,
Speaker 11: he knew what he was doing. Another player I think
Speaker 11: also benefited from that was Hooper, the tight End. And
Speaker 11: one thing I wanted to ask Mike about. Yeah, I
Speaker 11: don't know if you've seen the New Giants' uniforms, but
Speaker 11: they kind of reminded me of the Have Total.
Speaker 1: You know, those are not the New Giants uniforms A throw.
Speaker 3: Sorry, Yeah, and they're bad.
Speaker 1: They are bad, I think, and every time I see it.
Speaker 3: Thanks thanks for the call, Sean, and I half assumed
Speaker 3: to see ivon Corn, you know, lining up when.
Speaker 1: You called them like Benetton's Jesus so terrible, terrible.
Speaker 3: Okay, you know, I want to say one thing though,
Speaker 3: that Sean said that I don't know. I hope we're
Speaker 3: making enough of a big deal. Like, nobody expected this
Speaker 3: team to go into Cincinnati and win. Again, it wasn't perfect,
Speaker 3: but that was real.
Speaker 1: That was Curris picked it did he gotta give I
Speaker 1: gotta give props where there. That's that's not even sarcastic.
Speaker 1: I gotta give props with there too. And a lot
Speaker 1: of people thought that this game was winnable. I was
Speaker 1: not one of them. I'm not going to pretend that
Speaker 1: I am one of those people that thought this was
Speaker 1: going to happen.
Speaker 3: I wasn't because of the roster, Paul, right, I mean,
Speaker 3: everybody knew that Chase was going to be somewhat limited.
Speaker 3: You knew, Lally.
Speaker 1: We thought the game was going to get played the
Speaker 1: way it got played, and I still thought the Bengals
Speaker 1: would win it. I thought the Bengals would be sloppy
Speaker 1: as hell because Chase wasn't there the whole summer, right,
Speaker 1: you know, they were sloppy as hell and they didn't
Speaker 1: overcome it. I thought they would overcome it. And like
Speaker 1: I said, that Covington response on that final drive is
Speaker 1: what really impressed me.
Speaker 3: Web Radio at Patriots dot Com is our email address here.
Speaker 3: This one coming to us from Michael in Yarmouth, who
Speaker 3: wants to know would it be fair to say that
Speaker 3: the Patriots defense could end up being in the top
Speaker 3: five defenses in the league. That seems to me to
Speaker 3: be a bit of an overreaction to Week one. Maybe
Speaker 3: that's just me, Mike.
Speaker 5: I mean, look, I'm not gonna get into I still
Speaker 5: don't right of ways to go. I mean, you know,
Speaker 5: you just face Cincinnati without one of their top weapons
Speaker 5: and a limited other top weapon and two new running backs,
Speaker 5: and you know, a brand new tight end. I mean,
Speaker 5: there were a bunch of new pieces for Joe Burrow today.
Speaker 5: So look, I don't want to take take away any credit,
Speaker 5: but going forward, you're gonna have to prove that you
Speaker 5: can play a team that has their full contingent and
Speaker 5: be able to do this.
Speaker 1: And I will even say, like today, like I'll be
Speaker 1: a little even a little more I get what you're saying, Mike,
Speaker 1: and I largely agree. I'll be a little more positive
Speaker 1: if like today, Yes, like I'm not gonna put all
Speaker 1: the asters like Joe Burrow is their starting quarterback. This
Speaker 1: isn't a typical Patriots beat up on a bad offense
Speaker 1: with a backup. This was Joe Burrow, who's one of
Speaker 1: the best quarterbacks in football. Yes, he was missing some
Speaker 1: of his weapons, but they had guys out there, and
Speaker 1: Chase played well, you know, for what he was asked
Speaker 1: to do, six for sixty two. But can this is
Speaker 1: what kind of bugs me? And I know this is everywhere.
Speaker 1: This is not a Boston thing, it's not a Patriots
Speaker 1: fan thing, But why do we take snapshots off the
Speaker 1: very best that we ever seen and say is that it?
Speaker 1: So we saw the Patriots defense virtually make like three
Speaker 1: mistakes today in sixty minutes ball out, and now we say,
Speaker 1: is this a tough Is this the best defense in
Speaker 1: the league? Rush top five defense?
Speaker 3: Last to judgment?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Can I maybe watch two months before
Speaker 1: I decide if I think it's one of the best
Speaker 1: in the in the league. Can I see them when
Speaker 1: they're maybe not playing at their best and see how
Speaker 1: bad it looks? Or maybe can I see them when
Speaker 1: the game plan doesn't work out of the shoot. Today's
Speaker 1: game plan on both sides of the ball I thought
Speaker 1: was excellent. Yes, Patriots moved the ball early and they
Speaker 1: stopped Cincinnati from moving it early. Their game plan was outstanding.
Speaker 3: Well coached, out coached.
Speaker 1: Can I see what it looks like when maybe they
Speaker 1: don't get it right heading into the week or taps
Speaker 1: off to Mayo and Covington today, right and Van Peltz, Or.
Speaker 3: When teams get a chance to see, Oh, let's see
Speaker 3: what this Keon White's doing. Where's he lining up? Let's
Speaker 3: see what he put some tape out there? What they're doing?
Speaker 3: Back to the phones, Christian in La. You are next
Speaker 3: on the Patriots postgame show. Good afternoon, Christian.
Speaker 12: Hey you guys, great Patriots win. I will take it
Speaker 12: no matter how you know. On exciting it was. But
Speaker 12: I'll say this, what I saw today was a couple
Speaker 12: of questions that I think we all had. Ken Girod
Speaker 12: Mayo coach. He showed competency. Ken the offensive line protect
Speaker 12: it all. They showed competency in the defense going to
Speaker 12: be good. They showed competency. So it seems like we
Speaker 12: we did the things we need to do, and that
Speaker 12: you guys said, I think it was last week. We're
Speaker 12: gonna have to beat some teams that come in unprepared
Speaker 12: and maybe hurt and banged up, and we did that.
Speaker 12: My question to you guys is and I have two
Speaker 12: of them. One do you guys feel as sort of
Speaker 12: uh blank stared as I was with the the wide receivers.
Speaker 12: Seemed like they didn't play at all. And it seems
Speaker 12: to me, once we do get a play a team
Speaker 12: that could stop the run, I don't know how this
Speaker 12: team is going to score. That's the first question. The
Speaker 12: second question is.
Speaker 8: Show competency.
Speaker 12: Because the offensive line did show competence, do you think
Speaker 12: that shortens the waiting time for Drake may I know
Speaker 12: we were just waiting to see, you know, the numbers
Speaker 12: he was.
Speaker 3: Don't get killed, right, Christian, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 3: I think Paul is going to object to you.
Speaker 9: I don't know what.
Speaker 1: Certainly past protection was was a problem throughout the day.
Speaker 1: I think that's why they were so conservative.
Speaker 3: Matt to you a point, Yes, I agree with you,
Speaker 3: and which is why you didn't see much out of
Speaker 3: the wide receivers. To Christian's point, I didn't see anything
Speaker 3: from the wide receivers because they really weren't involved much
Speaker 3: in the game.
Speaker 1: Plan and they really don't have any correct I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be mean here, but they have
Speaker 1: a bunch of you know, complimentary pieces Jalen Polk, kJ Osborne,
Speaker 1: Jamario Douglas. They're like, they're all capable of Taekwon Thornton
Speaker 1: showed up today with a couple of catches. But they're
Speaker 1: not gonna make their living on the outside with big
Speaker 1: players from their wide receivers. That's not how they're built.
Speaker 3: Correct Emailer Cynthia saying this was so needed. Yes, the
Speaker 3: Bengals are not at their best, but we have to
Speaker 3: admit our defense brought it and we were better than expected.
Speaker 3: In all caps, this is hope, and I agree with
Speaker 3: her on that we're Cynthia. We're tooting Ramandre and he
Speaker 3: needs to not overdo it, and their defense saw how
Speaker 3: much we needed. It was an awesome start.
Speaker 1: That's one hundred percent. Can we just do like I
Speaker 1: like Cynthia's approach there today. If we want to talk
Speaker 1: about today, there aren't enough superlatives. I think today they
Speaker 1: were outstanding and really all aspects, all three phases. I
Speaker 1: think that they played very well and even offensively, even
Speaker 1: though they didn't have any production. They did what they
Speaker 1: were asked to do offensively. I just don't want to,
Speaker 1: like try to make these sweeping judgments over well, maybe that, well,
Speaker 1: maybe that you know, we can we get something. No,
Speaker 1: today everything was great, like I'm not you know, you
Speaker 1: know what you know the word, what's what's the word
Speaker 1: I'm coming out with? My is this sustainable? No, you
Speaker 1: can't win like that seventeen times. You can't. But but
Speaker 1: they showed hope, hope in caps. I like Cynthia's hope
Speaker 1: in caps. I like that.
Speaker 3: And so here's the deal. You know as well as anybody,
Speaker 3: Paul that everybody tomorrow is going to be over reaction Monday,
Speaker 3: and you know, all the expectations of everything like that.
Speaker 3: Let's take this win for what it was and try
Speaker 3: to build on it. And that's what the challenge is
Speaker 3: going to be for mal I couldn't agree.
Speaker 4: Staff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, he knows better than anybody. You're not
Speaker 3: gonna win many sixteen to ten games.
Speaker 1: But even then, like it's just you're not gonna win
Speaker 1: many games. Like the style that they tried to play,
Speaker 1: you know, throwing for one hundred and twenty yards, that's
Speaker 1: not going to do it. Like you're not going to
Speaker 1: You're not going to score enough points to win most
Speaker 1: times doing that. Now you held the other teams only
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty five yards throwing, so like it
Speaker 1: was enough today. You played really, really, really well, complimentary
Speaker 1: on all three phases.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's go back to the phone lines. Let's go
Speaker 3: to Neil in Cork, Ireland. To hold on a second,
Speaker 3: let me get the button over there, Bingo, Neil, you're
Speaker 3: next on the Patriots postgame show. Good night or good
Speaker 3: good evening.
Speaker 13: I guess for you there, Yes, thirty first time corner,
Speaker 13: a longtime listener, and I just wanted to say I
Speaker 13: didn't expect too much after the preseason, but the defense
Speaker 13: was awesome. Romandre was was played excellent and a few
Speaker 13: notem trying to read him, and yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Can for your show later.
Speaker 14: I last, I'm a.
Speaker 13: Couple of glasses of wine deep that.
Speaker 11: I can.
Speaker 13: I can actually understand the boy. They played for sett
Speaker 13: and some of the hits he took were pretty hard,
Speaker 13: so like I can see why they didn't want to
Speaker 13: risk Drake may I thought Jacoby played really well, and
Speaker 13: you know, he wasn't amazing, but he did his job.
Speaker 13: They did very well. I felt the whole performance kind
Speaker 13: of felt well check in in a way, and I
Speaker 13: was very happy for Mayo and this last one is
Speaker 13: I once sent a bottle of whiskey via Kevin Connolly
Speaker 13: to good Paul there.
Speaker 14: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I oh, Neil, thank you very much. I know exactly
Speaker 1: what you're talking about, and I do appreciate it. Thank
Speaker 1: you very much. Kevin does have it?
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 13: Did you ever get to drink it?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: No, you know that Conley guy, he hogged it all
Speaker 1: for himself. No, but that was a very nice gesture
Speaker 1: on your part. Kevin did tell me about that.
Speaker 3: Thank you, And Neil, thanks for the phone call. You know,
Speaker 3: he said something in that call, Mike, we said, you know,
Speaker 3: he didn't have a lot of great feeling. After the preseason.
Speaker 3: We talked a bunch of the pregame show about like
Speaker 3: the preseason's over. We now see how this team, at
Speaker 3: least they put out on tape, how they want to play.
Speaker 3: I think they'd certainly like a little bit more production
Speaker 3: the passing game, let's all agree on that. But this
Speaker 3: is how they want to play, and they want to
Speaker 3: run the ball, and they want to try to create turnovers,
Speaker 3: take it away from you and keep you out of
Speaker 3: the end zone. And so far after one week as planned.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you know, that the caller we mentioned
Speaker 5: the thing about the wide receivers, like, I think that
Speaker 5: was very true when the Patriots are able to get
Speaker 5: another drive together, Grant, I think Romandre had a big catch,
Speaker 5: but then you had big catch from Hooper, big catch
Speaker 5: from Hunter Henry.
Speaker 1: You know, it's the tight ends.
Speaker 5: I always thought it's the tight ends and the running
Speaker 5: backs that are really going to make, you know, be
Speaker 5: the engine of this of this offense. But I just
Speaker 5: think it's a sign of they're gonna be a little
Speaker 5: bit limited while they have Jacoby Brissette at quarterback, and
Speaker 5: this is you know, somewhat with the game style they
Speaker 5: have to play. You know, just looking at the game book,
Speaker 5: you know, one for four in the red zone, I think,
Speaker 5: to me, that's like, okay, this is where you know,
Speaker 5: that's a signal of where we are.
Speaker 1: That should have been on the bad list. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: that that's good.
Speaker 5: That needs to be better and that you know, but
Speaker 5: it's a perfect example of things get tighter down there.
Speaker 5: There's no room for mistakes. You really got to be
Speaker 5: on it. You gotta have athletes to win in the
Speaker 5: red zone and to score touchdowns. If you don't get
Speaker 5: explosive plays they didn't really get explosive plays, so they
Speaker 5: were able to get Remandre for the one touchdown. So
Speaker 5: I think that's, you know, the signal of where it
Speaker 5: needs to go. And can Jacoby figure out a way
Speaker 5: to connect with those tight ends down in the red zone.
Speaker 1: I think that's the next step.
Speaker 3: Our European connection continues at web radio at Patriots dot Com.
Speaker 3: Out from Italy says super Bowl we are cut just kidding,
Speaker 3: but maybe we should hose him down a little bit.
Speaker 3: I think that's a little.
Speaker 1: He was Josh, he's the one in memory used to
Speaker 1: be less Andy Moore, Paul, So we like Alfa Italy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what with all the stuff, you know that
Speaker 1: the the hits, I have to be honest, some of
Speaker 1: the hits that Brissette took today, Like I've been really
Speaker 1: adamant about, like when it's about it's about May, it's
Speaker 1: about May, It's about May, when May is ready, when
Speaker 1: May is ready, some of the hits that Prissette took today.
Speaker 1: I was thinking to myself, Okay, maybe we can be
Speaker 1: a little more patient because.
Speaker 3: Right which I don't understand email or Nick who's asking
Speaker 3: he loves the show, guys and love the win with
Speaker 3: the line play today and Prissettes just okay play. Do
Speaker 3: you feel like this puts even more pressure on Mayor
Speaker 3: to explain why no.
Speaker 1: May Some people saw something in the offensive line today
Speaker 1: that I didn't see quite frankly, I have to be honest.
Speaker 1: I thought the running game was solid okay, But it
Speaker 1: was okay all because of ramondre Stevenson. There was a
Speaker 1: couple of big runs earlier that I thought they creased.
Speaker 1: They did a good job the touchdown run. They did
Speaker 1: a good job opening some holes. The vast majority of
Speaker 1: what he got in the last three quarters was on
Speaker 1: his own like it was on his own like I
Speaker 1: in the past, protection was a going concern every dropback,
Speaker 1: Like I just I don't think. I don't think I
Speaker 1: saw it the same way Mike had these numbers. There
Speaker 1: was something like that, but it was seven I think
Speaker 1: seven QB hits and he on like eighteen dropbacks and
Speaker 1: three three scrambles and seven hits. So ten out of
Speaker 1: eighteen times he dropped back, he got hit right. So
Speaker 1: I know I ended up being a little bit more
Speaker 1: than that by the time the game was over. But
Speaker 1: that was like a snapshot in the fourth.
Speaker 3: Quarter right, I would say, oh, Contrier, Nick, today's game
Speaker 3: showed me that's why you're playing Jacoby pers.
Speaker 1: And I've been correct. I've been on the other side.
Speaker 1: So again this is me saying I was rue like
Speaker 1: some of the hits that Persette took today would make
Speaker 1: me hesitant to to just throw May out there.
Speaker 3: And unfortunately, if those hits continue, you maybe.
Speaker 1: He's going to get Yeah, you're gonna get it rather
Speaker 1: than later.
Speaker 3: You know, you be careful what you wish for.
Speaker 5: On that one, I was trying to figure out what
Speaker 5: this is like when the last feel good Patriots win
Speaker 5: was Oh, that's a good one. I don't know about
Speaker 5: you guys, but I think I'm going all the way
Speaker 5: back to the twenty nine to zero shutout of the
Speaker 5: Lions in twenty twenty two. That might be the last
Speaker 5: time it felt like it wasn't you know, a B
Speaker 5: team quarterback or a team you know they all got
Speaker 5: COVID or you know, all the kind of qualifiers that
Speaker 5: used to get with some of these wins, Like there
Speaker 5: wasn't really a feel good win last year, and a
Speaker 5: lot of those wins down the stretch, Kyler Murray gets hurt.
Speaker 5: You know what like the third play of the game,
Speaker 5: you beat Miami's backup, you beat the Jets ten to three,
Speaker 5: you know, maybe twenty six to three against the Colts,
Speaker 5: But I mean, I really that's as far as you
Speaker 5: have to go back to feel like.
Speaker 3: Did go starts in that game?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 3: Okay, So I think that's an excellent job by you
Speaker 3: on research to go into the last time you felt
Speaker 3: like that was a good win.
Speaker 1: I would say Buffalo last year. Buffalo. Yeah, that's all
Speaker 1: like that was the one time that Mac Jones, you know,
Speaker 1: was able to come from behind. He led a late
Speaker 1: drive and they were able to win a game that
Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of people did. But to
Speaker 1: Mike's point, the twenty nine nothing game against Detroit, the
Speaker 1: season was still a season, and that Buffalo will win.
Speaker 1: This season was already over, already won and five. You know,
Speaker 1: everywhere it was everywhere except for Patriots unfiltered. The season
Speaker 1: was already over. Win Buffalo one. I remember, you know,
Speaker 1: being told that the window was open at the time,
Speaker 1: and I said, no, it's not. But anyway, I thought
Speaker 1: that was a good win. Last year, the Buffalo win.
Speaker 1: You know, it was early enough in the season. It
Speaker 1: wasn't like that, like the Denver and Pittsburgh games, I
Speaker 1: would wouldn't count because they get the season was really
Speaker 1: over at that point. But the Buffalo game was early
Speaker 1: enough in the season would have made him two and
Speaker 1: four to five. I mean him two and five, two
Speaker 1: and five. There was still time theoretically.
Speaker 5: But still there was a cloud over it of like
Speaker 5: and you just knew like this, Like I think the
Speaker 5: thing with this team though, is that you always had
Speaker 5: preconceived notions with a Belichick team or at a certain
Speaker 5: point of Mac Jones team. And you know, I think
Speaker 5: at that point last year when Buffalo, when they beat Buffalo,
Speaker 5: was kind of like, well that was great. But I've
Speaker 5: been watching this team for two months at this point
Speaker 5: and they this isn't changing my opinion of them. This
Speaker 5: where everything was so unknown, just to see.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't sleep on that Christmas Eve Denver game.
Speaker 3: Don't forget what the narrative was at that point in time.
Speaker 3: The scribe, the scribe that Bill still had the team,
Speaker 3: They're still playing hard for Bill. That was the narrative
Speaker 3: after that game. You know, that was a decent win
Speaker 3: in Denver.
Speaker 1: It was a terrible win though we didn't want to win.
Speaker 5: You know, it's not decent of these new Denver uniforms.
Speaker 1: We're looking out on the red zone chain. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't love them. I love them. What are we doing?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 15: I do?
Speaker 5: Like the throwback getting is getting me all. I had
Speaker 5: a Steve Large and jersey of this this nature. So
Speaker 5: credit to the Seahawks wearing them this next week though,
Speaker 5: that's that's unfortunate.
Speaker 1: That'd be pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Okay, Web Radio with Patriots dot Com continuing with our
Speaker 3: European pipeline. This is Wayne from the UK. Good complimentary football,
Speaker 3: tight game throughout. I stood up on my living room
Speaker 3: the whole game. It was nice to have someone like
Speaker 3: Prisette manage a game and not give the ball away.
Speaker 3: He'll be going to the game on ten twenty, so
Speaker 3: good for Wayne.
Speaker 1: Difference difference in this game between this game today and
Speaker 1: mac Jones in a typical performance, not like one of
Speaker 1: them is terrible, like not like Dallas last year. Okay,
Speaker 1: a regular run of the mill mac Jones game last year.
Speaker 1: In this game, what was the difference turnovers? The guy
Speaker 1: dropped the interception in the end zone last year that
Speaker 1: passed that Mac Mac threw, the guy caught it. You
Speaker 1: know that was a difference down.
Speaker 3: So Paul, let's go back to that play for a second,
Speaker 3: because I think when we saw that play out in
Speaker 3: real time, we were wondering what's going through the coach's
Speaker 3: mind on the sideline, And it seemed from that point
Speaker 3: on there was a dread in calling the players like
Speaker 3: we can't do this.
Speaker 1: We're going to lose this game is if they turn
Speaker 1: the ball over.
Speaker 3: So we're not going to do that anymore.
Speaker 1: Especially especially in a position to take points off the board,
Speaker 1: which that would have done. They would have left the
Speaker 1: game at have it nothing.
Speaker 3: So, by the way, I say, Chris Judge, great job.
Speaker 3: By the way, on Tate love.
Speaker 1: It always anytime you talk about a play, he's going
Speaker 1: to have an So I will say the other the other,
Speaker 1: and this was not necessarily minor. But the other difference
Speaker 1: I think between Brissette today and mac Jones on a
Speaker 1: positive side, was the handful of I'm just looking seven
Speaker 1: seven carries for thirty two yards. I would say four
Speaker 1: or five of those were were valuable runs that you
Speaker 1: would not have gotten out, no question about it, no question.
Speaker 1: But also seems like the team likes Jacoby Brissette see
Speaker 1: Now I don't know why you got to take it. Then,
Speaker 1: you know, the sixteen that's very much on brands. That's
Speaker 1: that's that's very much on brand to what they would
Speaker 1: have scored. I think they averaged fifteen last year or
Speaker 1: something like that, or fourteen.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Uh. David writes in and says, good
Speaker 3: to win Cleveland Brown's vibe. For sure, run the football,
Speaker 3: play good. You hope that your opponent doesn't capitalize on
Speaker 3: the mistakes you make or the footballs you in harms way. Still,
Speaker 3: I'll take it. We just really talked about the only
Speaker 3: time that they put the football on Harm's way, wasn't it?
Speaker 3: And and from that point on they did.
Speaker 1: They did fumble, they were fortunate to get it back.
Speaker 1: Remindri Stevenson had a fumble and they had a near pick.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, when you're playing better than
Speaker 1: the other team, those are the breaks that you earn, right,
Speaker 1: And they played better than Cincinnati for sixty minutes, Like
Speaker 1: this wasn't a Fluke win. No, it wasn't a Fluke win.
Speaker 1: Now you want to tell me, I'm not sure the
Speaker 1: Patriots can do much more than that, And I'm not
Speaker 1: sure the Bengals can play much worse than that. I
Speaker 1: probably would would listen to that argument, but it was
Speaker 1: not a fluke win. The Patriots played better for sixty minutes,
Speaker 1: no question, they were the better team for sixty full minutes.
Speaker 5: You know, Like after the last couple of years, to
Speaker 5: a refrain that I thought a lot is like, it's
Speaker 5: just it's always a narrow path to victory with this team,
Speaker 5: and there isn't really if you deviate on that line
Speaker 5: with turnovers or too many negative plays that they're just
Speaker 5: kno going to be.
Speaker 1: Like a back alley. It's so narrow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And it's and I think that that still exists.
Speaker 5: You know, it's gonna depend overall on the season with
Speaker 5: how many takeaways they got. A couple of years ago,
Speaker 5: they got a bunch. Last year they didn't get a lot,
Speaker 5: and that was reflected in the record. But of all
Speaker 5: the good things we saw today, it still feels like
Speaker 5: it's a it's a narrow road to victory. If they
Speaker 5: were able to play that way again and put some
Speaker 5: teams that they'll give themselves a chance, but it's gonna
Speaker 5: be hard.
Speaker 1: I agree, any games they play like today, they will
Speaker 1: have a chance to win eight.
Speaker 3: Five to five Pats five hundred is our number here.
Speaker 3: Let's go to Johnny in South Beach before we take
Speaker 3: a break. Good afternoon, Johnny. You're on the Patriot's postgame show.
Speaker 13: Audi.
Speaker 14: Thanks for taking my call before a break. First of all,
Speaker 14: I was just going to bring up that near interception
Speaker 14: in the end zone. I wanted to shout out my
Speaker 14: boy Hunter, Henry. I feel like he turned into a
Speaker 14: cornerback mid air and kind of caused that, or maybe
Speaker 14: the corner dropped it. I'm not totally sure.
Speaker 1: I think the guy dropped it, but Henry was part
Speaker 1: of the reason why he dropped it right, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 14: And he had that nice little catch across the middle
Speaker 14: kind of when they needed it. And I called earlier
Speaker 14: about the pass rush. Do you guys think my fears
Speaker 14: were allied by the pass rush? I know, I know,
Speaker 14: like I heard some good pressure today, but I couldn't
Speaker 14: necessarily stay on the place.
Speaker 3: Thanks for the call, Johnny, Mike, what do you think
Speaker 3: about pressure today? And I know there's a big topic
Speaker 3: of conversation in the pregame show.
Speaker 1: Mostly not great.
Speaker 5: There were there were some pockets of good, but I thought,
Speaker 5: you know, mostly it was tough. The pocket was not
Speaker 5: always there for Jacobe, you know, stepping up a little
Speaker 5: bit and had to score it out a couple of times.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean something at least to build off of.
Speaker 1: I think was he talking about the pressure they allowed
Speaker 1: or the pressure. I thought he was talking about the pressure.
Speaker 1: I thought early in the game, I thought the Patriots
Speaker 1: did a good job of getting after Burrow. I thought
Speaker 1: that a couple I thought the last three quarters for
Speaker 1: the most part, you know, it kind of went away.
Speaker 1: But I do think they were around Burrow a little
Speaker 1: bit and made them move. I think Burrow is a
Speaker 1: very underrated mobility guy. I think he runs well and
Speaker 1: I think he of voids pressure pretty well. But I
Speaker 1: thought early in the game they ended up with three sacks.
Speaker 1: But I thought early in the game they got the
Speaker 1: ball out pretty quickly.
Speaker 5: I thought, yeah, I mean, so sorry for answering that
Speaker 5: question the wrong way, but yeah, I would agree with
Speaker 5: Paul's assessment.
Speaker 1: Early on, it felt it felt good.
Speaker 5: Some of them felt a little late in the down,
Speaker 5: almost felt like they took the first couple reads away
Speaker 5: from Burrow, and you know, then the pressure kind of
Speaker 5: played out as the down got later.
Speaker 1: But you know it's it's more to be.
Speaker 5: Done, and I was big concern of that, and again
Speaker 5: I'm happy to see them just causing disruption.
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Speaker 19: Brisette with shades of Tom Barns are there in Major
Speaker 19: League when he was stumbling around at for some of
Speaker 19: those hits. I'm glad he made it out. That's interesting
Speaker 19: games like like we've been saying, it's kind of bell
Speaker 19: and chicky in like with the defense, run the ball,
Speaker 19: low scoring, even had a Perillo pick three off the
Speaker 19: must punt.
Speaker 20: Hey, it looks of looked like it looked a lot
Speaker 20: like the hard to watch Patriots for recent years, but
Speaker 20: it felt more enjoyable to watch, even before they won
Speaker 20: the game, like to Part of that probably has to
Speaker 20: do with being maybe more.
Speaker 19: Buttoned up, not not as many unforced arrors, not a
Speaker 19: quarterback peeing himself, But then a lot of it has
Speaker 19: I think put a lot of it on the Bengals too.
Speaker 19: They they didn't look ready for a week one.
Speaker 3: They were co conspirators. I think they were cod think.
Speaker 19: They tackled very well in the first half. I mean,
Speaker 19: I disagree with Paul. I think in the first half
Speaker 19: they did not tackle very well. It's because Sicky, like
Speaker 19: you guys have been saying, because Sticky catches that that
Speaker 19: touchdown pass. Then we're talking about how how Gonzales didn't
Speaker 19: cover Chase tight enough on the previous sort of first
Speaker 19: down conversion. There's a lot of things.
Speaker 1: Oh, but you didn't think the Patriots tackled well in
Speaker 1: that game?
Speaker 19: Oh, I did the No, the Patriots definitely tackled well.
Speaker 1: I was saying that the Bengals and why are we
Speaker 1: talking about it not Gerar Chase?
Speaker 19: No no, I was saying different from when when? When
Speaker 19: when Gonzalez kind of played him a little bit stowting
Speaker 19: that third and long on the play right before Gasicki's
Speaker 19: almost touchdowns, Like that was almost a whiff by Gonzalez.
Speaker 19: I thought he could have played him tighter.
Speaker 3: That's all all right, Thanks for the callsb We spent
Speaker 3: a decent amount of time in the pregame show talking
Speaker 3: about the ghost of Mike Kiseki and was he going
Speaker 3: to come back and haunt the Patriots, and I thought
Speaker 3: he looked really good. That was a play where I
Speaker 3: didn't argument with some people on the phone texting that
Speaker 3: they thought there was good coverage by Duggar on that play.
Speaker 3: I don't think it was very coverage rich right.
Speaker 9: I thought.
Speaker 3: I thought Gasecki posted him up, should have caught it,
Speaker 3: should have had a touchdown, But they avoided it there,
Speaker 3: you know, because he couldn't contain the catch the whole
Speaker 3: way through. And Kasecki really didn't do much other than
Speaker 3: a couple catches the rest of the games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I mean I didn't think that he would
Speaker 1: have much more than that, But you got to make
Speaker 1: the touchdown catch. Totally agree with you. And if he
Speaker 1: makes the touchdown catch, that that's the difference between, no question,
Speaker 1: doing nothing and having a good game like Mike Kasicki's
Speaker 1: not going to go out and do a like Isaiah
Speaker 1: likely did on the opener Thursday night. He's not that
Speaker 1: kind of player.
Speaker 7: Nope.
Speaker 1: But he's gonna get you four or five catches and
Speaker 1: come down with the m And he should have had that.
Speaker 1: But that wasn't even a that was a drop like
Speaker 1: he hit he he caught the ball in the air,
Speaker 1: took it all the way to the body, came down
Speaker 1: and the ball moved like there was a technicality incomplete.
Speaker 1: I mean, like you gotta have that. That's not a
Speaker 1: hard play craft.
Speaker 3: Saam from Halifax emails at web radio at Patriots dot com.
Speaker 3: Hey guys, I thought kJ showed up a couple of
Speaker 3: times today and seems to be a go to for Jacoby.
Speaker 3: What did you think of his game? Could I answer
Speaker 3: first and say not much?
Speaker 1: I thought he was fine.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I thought all those receivers, I thought when they were
Speaker 1: asked to make a play, they generally did it. Nothing special.
Speaker 5: I mean Osborne and both had three catches. That was
Speaker 5: the leading three for twenty one. I guess you call
Speaker 5: that the leading. But Hooper two for thirty one, Thornton
Speaker 5: two for twenty seven, Henry two for eighteen, Douglas.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just this is not much. I was
Speaker 1: going to pick one of those guys today, you know,
Speaker 1: in terms of impact plays, I would say Thornton, Yes,
Speaker 1: I thought the two catches that he made were plays,
Speaker 1: and yeah, you know, and like I thought, uh Osborne.
Speaker 1: I know, one of Osborne's catches came on a third
Speaker 1: down that he was well short of the sticks and
Speaker 1: got tackled. Like I thought, see this is again it
Speaker 1: sounds like I'm being critical. It's Bresette like. Sometimes he's
Speaker 1: gonna throw one and the guy's gonna be able to
Speaker 1: catch it. Sometimes he's gonna throw it so high that
Speaker 1: if to Mario, Douglas has to jump out of the
Speaker 1: roof to catch it, and by the time he gets
Speaker 1: down he doesn't have the ability to pick up the
Speaker 1: first down. Like these things happen, right.
Speaker 3: Uh eighty five Pats five hundred, Pat from Agawam, Pat
Speaker 3: from Agawam, You are next on the Patrio's postgame show.
Speaker 3: Good afternoon.
Speaker 14: What's going on, guys?
Speaker 3: How are you doing?
Speaker 1: To Patty?
Speaker 21: Hey, I'll tell you well, who called I called it?
Speaker 21: I called it on Why I called it? Like way
Speaker 21: back when the schedule first came out, I went on
Speaker 21: having an analysis show, and I said, you know, Week
Speaker 21: one is sneaky winnable because of the history. I know,
Speaker 21: probably you don't really buy into a lot of that,
Speaker 21: but yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Mean it's like the history is the history. But both
Speaker 1: teams had terrible Week one history, so I didn't know
Speaker 1: which one to go on, and.
Speaker 3: Boy, did Cincinnati play to their level of Week one?
Speaker 1: Patriot's just won their first opener since twenty twenty.
Speaker 21: Yep, that's true. And I'll tell you what man I was.
Speaker 21: I was very surprised and like them not shooting themselves
Speaker 21: in the foot, because that was the one thing that
Speaker 21: kind of worried me about coming in here. Was like
Speaker 21: what we saw throughout the entire preseason and throughout training
Speaker 21: camp was like, you know, the pre snat penalties. You know,
Speaker 21: it didn't show up today, which was really good. And
Speaker 21: I'll say this, if they can play kind of like
Speaker 21: they played today, they could be two and zero. Because Seattle,
Speaker 21: I mean, they're not that great of a team. But
Speaker 21: going forward after that, you know, it's a rough stretch
Speaker 21: and it's a good win. I'm not going to take
Speaker 21: anything away. I'm happy, and you know, I can't wait
Speaker 21: for next week.
Speaker 6: Let's go baby, all right, pat.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much for the phone call. Cam in
Speaker 3: North Carolina. You're next on Patriot's postgame show. Hi Cam
Speaker 3: cam A you there? You got a sound effect for me?
Speaker 3: Matt can't a court? I did hit it? Cam you there? Yeah?
Speaker 1: No, is that that's the Matts? That's Matt Morrell's Yeah
Speaker 1: he was. I mean I hit it right.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'll let you know when I make it.
Speaker 1: Sorr, it's hard Hardy used to dramma. Oh I think
Speaker 1: it was flat red. It's supposed to be a blinking Okay.
Speaker 3: Let's see web radio at Patriots dot com is the address.
Speaker 3: This is from Cynthia. This is a feel good win
Speaker 3: because nobody thought we could do it. We have room
Speaker 3: for improvement and we can get better by next week
Speaker 3: to take on the Seahawks one game at a time.
Speaker 3: We're starting to get into the one game at a
Speaker 3: time mentality. What do you think about that?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 1: That's right? Okay, Like don't let's not you know, make
Speaker 1: any sweeping general like you know, like the last like
Speaker 1: Patty like to what O like? Okay, I like this
Speaker 1: mentality better. Let's you know, feel good win today. They
Speaker 1: should have a very enjoyable flight home. Let's get ready
Speaker 1: for next week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that, agreed.
Speaker 5: It's probably like in the past, my when we said
Speaker 5: after watching Kansas City, uh, you know, playing the opener,
Speaker 5: like looking at these two teams.
Speaker 1: Like, right, that changed based on what you saw today? No,
Speaker 1: it was Now it's more about just like all right,
Speaker 1: check one win off for this season.
Speaker 5: It's a really solid start, and it's it's just it's
Speaker 5: just a jolt of positivity and reinforcement that any young
Speaker 5: team with a new coach needs and can build off of,
Speaker 5: because if you have all those new things and you
Speaker 5: lose a couple games and it's oh and two and
Speaker 5: oh and three, and you know, it's like, well, what
Speaker 5: are we doing?
Speaker 1: Is there a culture here?
Speaker 15: Not?
Speaker 5: This Like this win is not going to define this
Speaker 5: season by any means, but it is what it is.
Speaker 5: It's a good start, and I think, you know, we
Speaker 5: should be okay being positive about that without saying we're
Speaker 5: back in the hunt for the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: If you if you need any more reason to be positive, positive, right,
Speaker 1: they take a cute I'm positive today.
Speaker 3: H Okay, sixteen to ten, the Patriots winners in Cincinnati,
Speaker 3: one to zero on the season. After Week one, Matt,
Speaker 3: let's go inside the locker room and let's listen to
Speaker 3: the coach, head coach girod Mayo after his first win
Speaker 3: as an NFL head coach.
Speaker 22: Well, I thought the guys went out there and competed hard.
Speaker 22: We talked about establishing the run game and being able
Speaker 22: to stop their run again, making one dimensional.
Speaker 9: H did a good job with that.
Speaker 22: I'll say we still left a lot of plays out there,
Speaker 22: but we're gonna enjoy this one on the flight home
Speaker 22: and you know, get ready for next week.
Speaker 9: But very proud. What you know, my message to the players.
Speaker 22: You know, they gave me the gatorade shower and things
Speaker 22: like that, but you know, without them, I'm nothing, so
Speaker 22: and I made sure they knew that, like they crossed
Speaker 22: the white lines. I always talk about empowering the players
Speaker 22: to go out there and play. I always talk about
Speaker 22: awareness really being the number one thing, and those guys
Speaker 22: taking ownership. So you know, all the praise goes to
Speaker 22: those guys, and they did a great job.
Speaker 6: Waiting for the state.
Speaker 1: What was it like to walk off that field and.
Speaker 22: Locker room within Yeah, the day started off solid, you know,
Speaker 22: just like any other day. Walking off the field though,
Speaker 22: really getting in that victory formation, you know, just kind
Speaker 22: of feel a rush over yourself. And I'm gonna enjoy
Speaker 22: this one here for the next couple of hours. But
Speaker 22: you know, truth be told, you know, it's it's, uh,
Speaker 22: what have you done for me lately? Type of business?
Speaker 22: So time to turn the page, you know, not trying
Speaker 22: to run on anyone's parade, but turn the page and
Speaker 22: get ready for the next game.
Speaker 6: Making those decisions, you know, facing fourth down, maybe thinking
Speaker 6: you might be down territory, Like how did you just
Speaker 6: find the stuff flying through your mind?
Speaker 4: Being able to make the decisions?
Speaker 22: It was just part of you know, I've been playing
Speaker 22: football my entire life, and I was a great Madden
Speaker 22: player back end of the day. But I, uh, I
Speaker 22: understand situational football. I would also say our staff understands
Speaker 22: situational football. And you know, we talked through those things
Speaker 22: and like I said all week, I have to make
Speaker 22: the ultimate decision and felt good about the way it
Speaker 22: operated today.
Speaker 9: Yeah, they came out on fire.
Speaker 22: We challenged those guys everyone's talking about, you know, since
Speaker 22: he's offense and you know how explosive they are, and
Speaker 22: they answered the call. Uh up front, started up front,
Speaker 22: all those defensive linemen. You know, those guys did a
Speaker 22: good job controlling the line of scrimmage. The second you know,
Speaker 22: second level players, the LB's they did a good job
Speaker 22: coming downhill a couple of plays in the past game.
Speaker 22: And then really our safeties and corners, those guys did
Speaker 22: a good job covering, so it was a total unit.
Speaker 9: Victorias, You I challenged Rimandre in the spring.
Speaker 22: I said, look, you don't get a lot of love,
Speaker 22: a lot of hype, but I've always believed that he's
Speaker 22: one of the best running backs in the league. And
Speaker 22: you know, when we signed him to the extension, there
Speaker 22: was no more more happy than me because I know
Speaker 22: what he's capable of, and he showed that today. He
Speaker 22: can catch the ball at the backfield, he can run,
Speaker 22: break tackles and do all those things.
Speaker 9: So, uh, he's he's a great player since.
Speaker 7: January to talk to you about defensive run getting of
Speaker 7: those two things.
Speaker 6: To know you guys kind of hit that formula.
Speaker 15: What was it like?
Speaker 9: Oh, it was great, It was great. You always come
Speaker 9: in with the plan.
Speaker 22: You know, they say god last at plans and what
Speaker 22: Mike Tyson says, y, you know, everyone has a play
Speaker 22: until you get hit in the mouth. But you know,
Speaker 22: in the first half we're averaging six point one yards
Speaker 22: of carry and able to control once again the front
Speaker 22: and you know, defensively, you know, we did a good
Speaker 22: job against their run game until the second half. There
Speaker 22: are a few runs, but you know started up there
Speaker 22: next next one, he has the next one. It's almost
Speaker 22: like double dutch, double dutch, like hesitating to get in
Speaker 22: next one.
Speaker 6: You said, sorry, you said, and we got this.
Speaker 22: You know, I would say the way we were running
Speaker 22: the ball, I felt pretty confident about that. That was
Speaker 22: you know, from the from the beginning to the end.
Speaker 22: Really our offensive line. They did a great job led
Speaker 22: by David Andrews and you know, Big Mic. Those guys
Speaker 22: did a great job having Low here as well. Uh,
Speaker 22: it was good to you know, get him in the game.
Speaker 22: And they were moving bodies and that's what it's about.
Speaker 22: And so when I talk about fundamentals, that's part of it.
Speaker 22: You know, defensively block destruction, offensively opening up gaps, opening
Speaker 22: it up poles.
Speaker 9: And those guys do that today. Nope, Nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 10: I guess.
Speaker 17: That Robert kraft first win as an owner came here
Speaker 17: against the Bengals.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna assume he didn't know that unless.
Speaker 6: It was mentioned football.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it it was special.
Speaker 22: It was special, and you know, I just wanna thank
Speaker 22: you know, the Craft family, Robert, Jonathan, all of them, Danny,
Speaker 22: all those guys, Josh, just for the opportunity and really
Speaker 22: for not really, you know, getting in the middle of
Speaker 22: anything that we do. Football wise, they've pretty much turned
Speaker 22: the keys over to Elliott and myself and the rest
Speaker 22: of the staff, and I'm just appreciative of the the
Speaker 22: opportunity and I'm glad that, you know, we came in
Speaker 22: here today and represented, uh the crafts in a in
Speaker 22: a good light.
Speaker 9: What do you think about sorry, say a.
Speaker 8: Quarterback, what did you think of vision?
Speaker 9: It was great, It was great.
Speaker 22: He made plays with his legs, he made plays with
Speaker 22: his arm, and you know, he just played a He's
Speaker 22: a tough guy. I'm telling he took some hits in
Speaker 22: the game. I'm just like, man, get up. But he
Speaker 22: did everything that we asked him to do in the
Speaker 22: week and we came out of here with.
Speaker 1: The victory from the game.
Speaker 22: Uh yeah, mister Krafft gave me a ball, so absolutely
Speaker 22: absolutely keeping that one. And uh and then I also
Speaker 22: gave Elliot the ball. So I think it's a special
Speaker 22: special moment.
Speaker 20: Who think of, you know, when it comes to this,
Speaker 20: first in your family or just people that have helped you.
Speaker 22: Yeah, you know a lot of people talk about how
Speaker 22: they're self made and things like that, but we've all
Speaker 22: had people that have helped us along the way.
Speaker 9: And you know, I think I definitely think about my family.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 9: I think about my grandparents. I think about my Pop, Warner.
Speaker 22: Coaches and all the people who instilled not only the
Speaker 22: ex's and o's on football, but also just how to
Speaker 22: operate in life. And one thing, you know, you guys
Speaker 22: would notice about me. I mean, you can write whatever
Speaker 22: you want to write. I'm pretty much like stoked.
Speaker 9: I'm stoke.
Speaker 22: I try not to get too high. I try not
Speaker 22: to get too low. And that's always been my mentality, uh,
Speaker 22: from a from a little kid up until now. That
Speaker 22: was my first gatorade bath. Yeah, it was cold.
Speaker 9: It was cold.
Speaker 6: It was cold.
Speaker 9: I feel I felt worse for my shoes. I was like, ah,
Speaker 9: these are done, ladies. First, no bruh.
Speaker 18: Underdogs and all seventeen games.
Speaker 3: I think you're a very popular survivor.
Speaker 9: Uh, Like the bans are a very popular motivation.
Speaker 22: Not at all, not at all. And we you know,
Speaker 22: we try not to hear anything on the outside. And
Speaker 22: I told those guys all week, it's all about us
Speaker 22: in this building. There's no one gonna come in here
Speaker 22: on a white shining horse and and save the day
Speaker 22: and I said, look, you guys are here for a
Speaker 22: reason and it's all we got and this is all
Speaker 22: we need.
Speaker 6: Do you was the earlier you wanted to ask you?
Speaker 6: How does it feel winning is a head coach versus
Speaker 6: winning as a player. How does it feel? Yeah?
Speaker 22: I've talked about my calling a lot, and you know,
Speaker 22: winning as a winning as a coach is is huge
Speaker 22: and once again and not for what it does for me,
Speaker 22: but what it does for those players out there.
Speaker 9: You know, I just can't say enough about about the players.
Speaker 7: In fact, you talked all week about complimentary football and
Speaker 7: you seem to get it that it's special.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 22: Uh, you know those guys just playing hand in hand
Speaker 22: and we had a plan. Uh, they knew the plan.
Speaker 22: It was, you know, articulated well throughout the week and
Speaker 22: they executed. You know, you could have all the mantras
Speaker 22: and things that you want, but on game day it
Speaker 22: all comes down to execution. You can have all the
Speaker 22: rare eye speeches, it's all about discipline and so those
Speaker 22: are the things that hopefully that we can continue to
Speaker 22: build on going forward.
Speaker 6: Condition. How did the condition get.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it showed up and the run game was just
Speaker 9: like hey, keep going.
Speaker 22: You know, I did talk about this on uh was
Speaker 22: it Friday, when you know you looked at those other
Speaker 22: games and conditioning definitely showed up. And I would say,
Speaker 22: our guys are in good condition coming.
Speaker 6: Up next Sunday.
Speaker 1: Anything to the fans, they should say.
Speaker 19: It back to them.
Speaker 22: Uh, you know for the fans, you know, hopefully they
Speaker 22: uh they see what we're trying to build and and
Speaker 22: I talk about it takes time and we're still not
Speaker 22: where we wanna be, but we're heading in the right direction.
Speaker 6: As in the preseason.
Speaker 9: When you think that, I I'm not sure, you know.
Speaker 22: I ask some friends like how the Ravens and how
Speaker 22: the Chiefs practice, and uh, how their camp went, and
Speaker 22: it was like totally you know, total ends of the spectrum.
Speaker 22: And I would say those were two teams where I
Speaker 22: was like, man, I'm getting tired here, and that's why
Speaker 22: I was so heavy on that with our team.
Speaker 9: I I'm I'm not sure that to answer.
Speaker 6: That question, Rob that you were where they kick the
Speaker 6: ball back.
Speaker 22: To Yeah, I mean there comes a point in time
Speaker 22: where they know we're gonna run it. We know we're
Speaker 22: gonna run it, and all the fans know that we're
Speaker 22: gonna run it and we're gonna have to pick up
Speaker 22: four yards and that's the challenge that I always uh
Speaker 22: offer those guys. And look, it's really man on man
Speaker 22: in those instances. It has nothing to do really with
Speaker 22: x's and o's. It's about you know, dominating the player
Speaker 22: across from me, and and those guys did that.
Speaker 9: Defensively. Y, you keep doing that.
Speaker 6: But what other emotions.
Speaker 22: Oh, I'm absolutely happy. I don't want I don't want
Speaker 22: you to take you know, this whole stoeism. That's being unhappy.
Speaker 22: That's not what I'm saying. I I'm definitely happy to
Speaker 22: get out of here with the win and happy for
Speaker 22: the players in the organization.
Speaker 11: Passing game for the BENGALSSSES.
Speaker 6: But he's under six yards per ten. I don't think he.
Speaker 9: Really hit Downie until late Yeah.
Speaker 22: Uh, you know, we just kept it moving. We ran
Speaker 22: a bunch of different coverages, a bunch of different fronts. Uh,
Speaker 22: and then there in the second half there were a
Speaker 22: lot more you know, quick passes. They were trying to
Speaker 22: get him in a rhythm. That's how that's how I felt,
Speaker 22: that's how I was seeing the game. And you know,
Speaker 22: he had a couple of big plays. But we said, look,
Speaker 22: if we win the turnover battle, we don't give up
Speaker 22: big plays. I will be okay, make these guys drive it,
Speaker 22: and that's what that's what we did. Thanks, guys, How
Speaker 22: do you not feel good for Gerard Mayo?
Speaker 4: Huh?
Speaker 3: Congratulations man, that was great.
Speaker 1: You got your first win. That's huge.
Speaker 3: Yeah, game baal, he said. He said he gave a
Speaker 3: game ball to Elliott Wolfe.
Speaker 1: I like to hear that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was refreshing to see and refreshing to hear.
Speaker 1: It's fun to see a guy who's new to it.
Speaker 5: I mean we saw last aw coach who's been there,
Speaker 5: done it all in the league, and now you've seen
Speaker 5: it all, you know, seeing a new guy and what
Speaker 5: it's like to you know, finally get that first one,
Speaker 5: which is a nice thing to check off. But as
Speaker 5: I'm sure Jerrod will tell you, like, this should just
Speaker 5: be the start, and it's good to get this one
Speaker 5: out of the way, but now it really begins, you know, right.
Speaker 3: Coach who uses the word stoicism in his postgame press conference,
Speaker 3: didn't usually hear that too much. I thought it was
Speaker 3: interesting to hear him talk about also challenging Ramondre Stevenson,
Speaker 3: and I think that that was all part of the
Speaker 3: when they re signed Remandre. Okay, we're gonna give you
Speaker 3: the money here, but it's not without you know, some expectations.
Speaker 3: We we need to have met here. And certainly after
Speaker 3: one week he answered the challenge, would you say.
Speaker 1: Mike, I would definitely say so.
Speaker 5: You know, I just you hope that they can continue
Speaker 5: to round out though, because as we've kind of hinted at,
Speaker 5: this is, you know, this isn't gonna fly for Ramandrey.
Speaker 5: They you know, kind of random into the ground the
Speaker 5: last couple of years, and last year he got hurt,
Speaker 5: and you know, so I just would like to see
Speaker 5: Antonio Gibson continue to ascend and you know, take a
Speaker 5: little bit of that load off of his plate so
Speaker 5: that Stevens is able to just be effective each time
Speaker 5: he carries the ball, rather than you know, we get
Speaker 5: to the end of the game, this is when we
Speaker 5: want to run to win. Let's make sure we have
Speaker 5: Remandre fresh and ready.
Speaker 1: And I would say, also, you know, we talk a
Speaker 1: lot about well, no one really saw this coming. You know,
Speaker 1: the Bengals are Super Bowl contender, and people didn't. So
Speaker 1: the one thing that a lot of people talked about
Speaker 1: this week was the Bengals thirty first rated run defense
Speaker 1: coming into the you know, coming off of last season,
Speaker 1: they really didn't do a whole lot personnel wise to
Speaker 1: address it. We had Jeff Hopson on in the pregame
Speaker 1: show and that's the first thing out of his back
Speaker 1: was can the Bengals stop the run? They know the
Speaker 1: Patriots want to run the ball, and the answer was no,
Speaker 1: they couldn't stop the run. That's why the Patriots won
Speaker 1: the game.
Speaker 3: Girod said it towards the end, they knew we were
Speaker 3: going to run. We knew we were going to run.
Speaker 3: Having said that, we were surprised, Mike, and maybe you
Speaker 3: were just intimating a little bit towards that that Ramandre
Speaker 3: received as many carries in as many touches as he did,
Speaker 3: that there wasn't maybe more of an effort to try
Speaker 3: to keep him fresh.
Speaker 6: Not really.
Speaker 1: I mean, I based on how Antonio jas ran.
Speaker 5: I think based on what I saw from Antonio Gibson,
Speaker 5: which was a clear difference in you know, what they
Speaker 5: were able to accomplish.
Speaker 1: That's another reason why I give the credit to Stevenson
Speaker 1: more than the line.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think that's to me is uh,
Speaker 5: you got to lean on what you got, and at
Speaker 5: this point in the game, at the end of the game,
Speaker 5: I you know that that was what they had, so
Speaker 5: to go with him, And I'm just glad he was
Speaker 5: able to come through. We've seen a couple times in
Speaker 5: his career having mistakes in situations like that. I mean,
Speaker 5: I don't want to bring up the Raiders game a
Speaker 5: couple years ago, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And you know with this the Stevenson you know the
Speaker 1: Stevenson game. You know, twenty five is a big number
Speaker 1: for carries, but how many carries did he have in
Speaker 1: the last three minutes? Seven? You know, he probably carried
Speaker 1: the ball in the last game six seven, eight plays
Speaker 1: of the game. Whatever it was. So Mike says it
Speaker 1: all the time. You know, you throw to to get
Speaker 1: the lead, you run to win, throw, throw to score,
Speaker 1: run to win. Now they did not in the pregame show.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, sorry, a little quick in mind. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I would say that that's kind of you know, that's
Speaker 1: the only way they can play. Like I said to you,
Speaker 1: they're throwing too much, like they every time they dropped back.
Speaker 1: I thought it was on the verge of disaster. Jacoby
Speaker 1: Brissett amazing but he amazingly avoided I don't know, four
Speaker 1: sacks today just by like squirting around the pocket, moving up,
Speaker 1: moving around, getting out of the pocket, throwing it away.
Speaker 1: I think they were skirting, skirting with danger all all
Speaker 1: second half, and as long as they had the lead,
Speaker 1: there was no need to do that. Just keep running.
Speaker 1: To rmandre Stevens, speaking.
Speaker 3: Of hyperbole web radio at Patriots dot Com, Javier asks,
Speaker 3: do we have an O line for real?
Speaker 23: Uh?
Speaker 1: Check back in a few weeks.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just don't like.
Speaker 6: I don't. I just can't.
Speaker 1: I guess I can't be happy. No, I have a problem.
Speaker 3: Uh continue with the emails. Tony from Canada. I'm happy
Speaker 3: with the win, especially when it comes to the play
Speaker 3: the offensive and defensive line. But let's face it, the
Speaker 3: biggest reason we won was the turnovers. I don't think
Speaker 3: enough as being said about the fact that we won
Speaker 3: because we didn't turn over the ball whereas the Bengals did.
Speaker 3: I don't know, isn't that kind of enough?
Speaker 1: People have talked about that the Bengals handed your game.
Speaker 3: Wasn't that the recipe for the victory? If you had none,
Speaker 3: they had some.
Speaker 1: And the reason why you had none is you played
Speaker 1: better than the Bengals and you forced turn well, you
Speaker 1: forced both turnovers, right one of the collegs. I would say, yeah,
Speaker 1: he said, like I would say the first turnover is
Speaker 1: one thousand percent on the Bengals. Like I know that
Speaker 1: Dougger makes a nice play to swat the ball out,
Speaker 1: But why is the guy reaching the ball out up,
Speaker 1: you know, up in the air, Like what was he
Speaker 1: what was.
Speaker 6: He trying to do?
Speaker 1: Weaving through traffic? Like you have the first, you have
Speaker 1: the first down. The worst that's going to happen here
Speaker 1: is first and goal from like the two. Now, I
Speaker 1: think there was virtually no chance he's not getting in
Speaker 1: the end zone. He's got a full head of steam
Speaker 1: going straight to the goal line. Even if someone meets him,
Speaker 1: he's going to go in the end zone. Just tuck
Speaker 1: the ball away and don't fumble. And the guy puts
Speaker 1: it out up above his head I think at one
Speaker 1: point or at least even with his his head. And
Speaker 1: then you know, hey, once in a while you get
Speaker 1: a break. The ball bounces right up. Look at this,
Speaker 1: the ball is at his face. When when Duggert kicks
Speaker 1: it out and it goes right to Marcus Jones, like
Speaker 1: this could be a this could be a touchdown for
Speaker 1: the bet. He did not once. He did it twice
Speaker 1: by the way, spike it right, you know. And there's
Speaker 1: a couple of Bengals there too, could have gone to
Speaker 1: them and went right to Marcus Jones.
Speaker 3: Eight five.
Speaker 1: This is what happens when you play better than the
Speaker 1: other team for sixty minutes, you get that break.
Speaker 3: Eighty five to five. Pats five hundred is a number.
Speaker 3: Camp from North Carolina is next cam here on the
Speaker 3: Patriots postgame show.
Speaker 19: Hello, Hey guys, it's that ex quick question.
Speaker 24: I'm kind of missed your first forty minutes of the show,
Speaker 24: so I'm sorry. I know, I know, I was driving
Speaker 24: home from from the bar watching it, just getting back,
Speaker 24: but I was just wanted to see if you could
Speaker 24: kind of talk about Christian Gonzalez a little bit, and uh,
Speaker 24: I saw that, at least from what I saw, he
Speaker 24: kind of put the clams down on h on Jamar
Speaker 24: Chase And was he one on one with him all day?
Speaker 24: Is that something where he had help? I noticed, like
Speaker 24: that twenty eight yard reception. I believe was not on
Speaker 24: Christian Gonzales. So I just kind of wanted to see
Speaker 24: if you guys could kind of talk a little bit
Speaker 24: about the coverage that Christian Gonzalez had on Jamar Chase.
Speaker 3: Thanks for the call, Kim Mike to me, and I'm
Speaker 3: not Evan Lazar or play one on TV. But it
Speaker 3: certainly looked on the long pass to Chase that was
Speaker 3: against June, didn't it in the area.
Speaker 1: Need to check the film on that, Matt, go back
Speaker 1: to the film that's for Cam.
Speaker 3: Was that cover zero or was it cover three?
Speaker 5: Well, probably probably more cover three if it's don but
Speaker 5: but you know, cover I think that's I mean, you
Speaker 5: got to go back and look at.
Speaker 6: Some of it.
Speaker 5: But I don't think that there were a lot of
Speaker 5: cases where it was manned man coverage and he gets dusted,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 1: I think it was more.
Speaker 5: But the game plan was, which was having multiple guys
Speaker 5: deep and you know, playing cover four sometimes, which is
Speaker 5: the cornerback dropping out into a quarterzone and you know,
Speaker 5: playing with things in front of you, so that I
Speaker 5: don't think that they really truly tested him. But I
Speaker 5: think this is all going to change, you know, pretty
Speaker 5: quickly week with other you know Week two, Week three,
Speaker 5: other matchups coming out.
Speaker 1: And I would just add I agree with what Mike
Speaker 1: and Matchiff said about the situation, but at the same time,
Speaker 1: I can't then give one guy credit for putting the
Speaker 1: shackles on something. First of all, Jamar Chase was not
Speaker 1: ready to play an NFL game today. Not only he
Speaker 1: did nothing all summer, he had food poisoning chot. He
Speaker 1: had six catches on six targets for sixty two yards.
Speaker 1: You did not put the shackles on him in any way,
Speaker 1: shape or form. And we just we just got finished talking.
Speaker 1: That might broke down a lot of the quarter coverage
Speaker 1: that they used. So when he does catch a pass,
Speaker 1: you don't give credit to the guy, but when he
Speaker 1: does give a pass, you say, well, they're in zone.
Speaker 1: Doesn't work that way. They he did not like lock
Speaker 1: up with him. I thought he was fine. I thought
Speaker 1: there was nothing I saw from Gonzalez today that that
Speaker 1: worried me. But there was some third down throws to
Speaker 1: Chase that he was able to get first downs on.
Speaker 3: And here's the one that I saw that I didn't love. Now,
Speaker 3: maybe Burrow on the on the third down play where
Speaker 3: Burr looks right at him. It's one on one and
Speaker 3: there's a soft cushion that Gonzales was giving up. I
Speaker 3: don't know if he comes up and tries to press
Speaker 3: that a little bit, does that go against the game plan?
Speaker 3: Meaning we'll give up the first down here? We just
Speaker 3: don't want to give up a big play that was
Speaker 3: really the only one. And I haven't had a chance
Speaker 3: to watch the tape yet.
Speaker 1: And I would just say that watching just watching the
Speaker 1: big play, the twenty eight yarder, it looked to me
Speaker 1: like the two safeties were responsible for that. Peppers and
Speaker 1: Duggar were the ones that were closest to the ball,
Speaker 1: and they probably should have been a little bit closer.
Speaker 1: Here Gonzalez is way down here, trailing. He's probably in quarters.
Speaker 1: Just like Mike said, I.
Speaker 5: Mean, am I you know, just looking at the TV
Speaker 5: copy here, I mean, it just it looks like a
Speaker 5: really good play. It looks like they're in cover two.
Speaker 5: They got two deep safeties and he hits them right
Speaker 5: in between the two of the s.
Speaker 1: And by the way, you know a lot of quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: a lot of quarterbacks don't do that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I mean that's you know, maybe it's a
Speaker 5: play where where you give Joe Burrow a little credit.
Speaker 5: I thought on that play, Matt, you were mentioning with Gonzals,
Speaker 5: I just that was a blitz by the Patriots, and
Speaker 5: Burrow made the right read and got it out Quack.
Speaker 5: And you know that's that's the thing with Look, if
Speaker 5: we're gonna blitz Christ, you just can't miss the tackle.
Speaker 1: That's the only thing. Now, he got the first down
Speaker 1: on that anyway, But there were a couple of those
Speaker 1: catches that were a little short of the sticks that
Speaker 1: I thought he was able to score through the Gonzales tackle.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's what Speed was talking about when he disagreed
Speaker 1: with me, saying that there was a lot of good
Speaker 1: tackling in the game. I thought, for a week one game,
Speaker 1: usually you see a mess of mistackles. I didn't see
Speaker 1: a lot of egregious mistackles today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't web Brady with Patriots dot Com Steve
Speaker 3: from Orlando going at me, so good hustle there, Happy
Speaker 3: with the game. But are we gonna have to see
Speaker 3: Matt's beer feet all season? I guess on camera you
Speaker 3: can see the flip flops. We're gonna try to work
Speaker 3: on that. We're gonna work on that ste you appreciate
Speaker 3: the heads up on that frozen after the effort putting
Speaker 3: some socks on it.
Speaker 5: I feel like I needed like Mittens there in our
Speaker 5: studio where he watched the game where it was subarctic.
Speaker 3: He's just he's like at the beach, like no shoes on,
Speaker 3: you know, short Grammy Paul had his his shawl on today. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Tamara's wrapped up in like a winner blanket. Hey, guys,
Speaker 3: Dan from Boston here. Some people saying today's performance shows
Speaker 3: why it's good that Drake is sitting due to Jacoby
Speaker 3: getting hit, while others are saying if Drake was in there,
Speaker 3: the offense would have been a lot better. Where do
Speaker 3: you guys stand on that. I'll guess I'll go first
Speaker 3: and say today was exhibit A why Jacoby Brissett was
Speaker 3: the starting quarterback.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that's the right way to put it.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, you saw some of the plays
Speaker 5: where it seemed like Jacoby saw Blitz coming and you
Speaker 5: know was able to I think want at least to
Speaker 5: unload it off to Hooper, but I don't know what
Speaker 5: it would have looked like. And I'm not going to
Speaker 5: play that game like I think this is the right decision.
Speaker 5: It was the right decision to start Jacoby Brissett this season,
Speaker 5: and you know, we'll see how it goes over the
Speaker 5: next few weeks. But like you said, Matt, I think
Speaker 5: this is the kind of game where he didn't kill us.
Speaker 5: He didn't lose the game. He kept it manageable and
Speaker 5: made enough throws that the Patriots got to win.
Speaker 3: It is what you're hoping for from him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as long as we're going fantasy land, I'm going
Speaker 1: to say they would have scored forty points today had
Speaker 1: Drift shoot if only I know that, Like seriously, like,
Speaker 1: how can I don't know how you can really strongly
Speaker 1: one way or another answer that question without knowing what
Speaker 1: would have happened. It's an impossible variable.
Speaker 3: And so with that, now, Matt, let's go inside the
Speaker 3: locker room and let's listen into Jacobi Prissette's press conference
Speaker 3: after the Patriots sixteen to ten winning Cincinnati today.
Speaker 25: Work that we put in, obviously, the plan on both
Speaker 25: sides of the ball and then special teams was was
Speaker 25: executed to what we what we thought it was going
Speaker 25: to be sixty minute football game. You know, they obviously
Speaker 25: had a good plan on their side of the ball.
Speaker 25: But you know today we executed it a little bit better.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 25: Yeah, you know, like I said earlier in the week,
Speaker 25: everybody's talking about out the line, and you know, I
Speaker 25: mean we know in this room how confident we are
Speaker 25: in that group.
Speaker 6: Uh you know, I don't know. I don't have the statue,
Speaker 6: but I don't know how many yards you rush for?
Speaker 6: Uh zero sacks?
Speaker 25: I think versus versus you know, two Pro Bowl d
Speaker 25: n s and uh good interior pass rush, you know,
Speaker 25: and and Lou who does so much on on defense,
Speaker 25: and you know, I might have so off to that
Speaker 25: old line and and and what Scott did with those guys,
Speaker 25: and you know, I know they're hungry to get back
Speaker 25: out there and do it again next week.
Speaker 6: But uh, you know, I'm I'm super proud of those guys.
Speaker 6: Oh there we go.
Speaker 1: Especially Motion recognized the band.
Speaker 25: Because yeah, for sure, Uh you know, Uh, And I
Speaker 25: think AVP did a good job of of playing against
Speaker 25: Lou so much, you know when he was in Cleveland,
Speaker 25: you know, understanding his tendencies and things like that. You
Speaker 25: line up in certain formation, it's like, you know, it
Speaker 25: simplifies the game. And and say thres things like that,
Speaker 25: and obviously giving me the opportunity to pick up uh
Speaker 25: you know, plays with my legs and you know, the
Speaker 25: old line doing a good job of get creating rush
Speaker 25: lanes for me.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 25: So Uh, I thought we had a good plan with
Speaker 25: those things. And you know, obviously wanna complete uh complete
Speaker 25: a couple more passes, but I thought we had we
Speaker 25: did a good job with that.
Speaker 6: The game is what do you say?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 25: Excited man? It's it's hard to win in this league.
Speaker 25: You know, he played in this league. He understands how
Speaker 25: hard it is to win on his league on the
Speaker 25: road versus a good opponent.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 25: He was you know, what's the word, uh, static and elated,
Speaker 25: Uh any any word you can think of that means overjoyed.
Speaker 25: You know when he should be. You know it's his
Speaker 25: first one, uh, you know, and he got us ready
Speaker 25: to go. Uh you know, not only this week, but
Speaker 25: you know, dating back to OTAs. You know, it all
Speaker 25: built up for this moment right here. Uh, you know,
Speaker 25: to to put all our work on display, you know,
Speaker 25: and we did a good job of doing that this week.
Speaker 1: How validated today?
Speaker 25: Yeah, you know, and I think we got to a
Speaker 25: certain point in the game, and you know, we said
Speaker 25: it before the game, it's like it's gonna be a
Speaker 25: certain point in the.
Speaker 6: Game where we're just gonna overpower them.
Speaker 25: You know, we're gonna just out condition them and and
Speaker 25: and do all the little things right more than them
Speaker 25: because of our all the work that we put in.
Speaker 25: And I think that was on display, you know, everybody
Speaker 25: in the stands and we were running the ball at
Speaker 25: the end of the game, and we still get first
Speaker 25: down after first down. Uh, you know that we're there
Speaker 25: in past the situation in our defense, it's it's hunting
Speaker 25: down a quarterback and and taking away their best players and.
Speaker 6: And limiting a really good quarterback.
Speaker 25: You know, once you do that, you know that that's
Speaker 25: the identity we want to create, you know, and I
Speaker 25: think we did that. We did that a good job
Speaker 25: of establishing that on one. One game this week.
Speaker 3: Was gonna come to a point what's your points?
Speaker 14: Uh?
Speaker 6: For sure?
Speaker 25: You know we pick up a big third down, Uh,
Speaker 25: you know when and we get back into our big, big,
Speaker 25: big personnel and they see big Lady and coming on
Speaker 25: the field and they know we're about to run away
Speaker 25: throwing the ball out of that and you know, the
Speaker 25: the runs didn't change, you know, and and you know,
Speaker 25: we went downhill and Madre was like, man, just give
Speaker 25: me the ball, let me run downhill. And and AVP
Speaker 25: did a good job and I think he does a
Speaker 25: really good job of trusting us out there, you know.
Speaker 25: And uh, we talked about communication and one of the
Speaker 25: main things was, you know, being honest out there. And
Speaker 25: you know when Madre is like, I don't want to
Speaker 25: run outside zone them, I want to run downhill, and
Speaker 25: that's what we did, you know. And you know, obviously
Speaker 25: some of the earlier in the game, the outside zone
Speaker 25: stuff was working. Then we would hit them downhill and
Speaker 25: you know, they haven't seen those looks and and they're
Speaker 25: in they're gashing them.
Speaker 6: Defense, the offense, the defense there.
Speaker 25: Yeah, yeah, I mean it was just what our game
Speaker 25: plan was was, you know, establish the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 25: run the ball, stop the run, take away their big players,
Speaker 25: you know when and you know, keep convert converting third
Speaker 25: down still on the field, and score points when we
Speaker 25: get down there in the red zone. And I think,
Speaker 25: what uh we did that, you know when uh, you know,
Speaker 25: obviously gotta get a little better at the the sudden
Speaker 25: change part of the game. You know we after the
Speaker 25: half and and starting a little faster after the half.
Speaker 25: But you know, I think our defense did a great job.
Speaker 25: You know, I think it got to to the second
Speaker 25: quarter before they got a first down. I think, and uh,
Speaker 25: you know we do that. Man, We're gonna be all right,
Speaker 25: you know, And and hass all to our defense. They
Speaker 25: did a did a hell of the job. And uh,
Speaker 25: I know those guys are I know the work that
Speaker 25: they put in this all season as well. So you know,
Speaker 25: I'm just super proud for the guy. I'm super having
Speaker 25: for him.
Speaker 15: Jon said, I think he told.
Speaker 19: You don't get a lot of attention one of the
Speaker 19: better backs, and you've been around a lovely Bunny backs.
Speaker 6: We really want analys. Yeah, how good do you think?
Speaker 25: Uh yeah, I I don't wanna say the sky's the roof,
Speaker 25: cause that'll put a limit on it.
Speaker 6: Uh, but you know, I it was.
Speaker 25: It was definitely fun turning around and hand him to
Speaker 25: the ball and like seeing the patients that he runs with,
Speaker 25: the aggression he runs with, you know how fast he
Speaker 25: was he was pulling away from DB's that had angles
Speaker 25: on him, and you know, it's just such a smart back,
Speaker 25: you know, I'm excited to see, you know, how this progresses.
Speaker 6: Uh, you know in this offense. Uh man, it was
Speaker 6: just a lot of fun to watch him play. You know,
Speaker 6: what you did against.
Speaker 1: Washington for Washington against the Jets and the Rams.
Speaker 6: Last year kind of continued that year for you though.
Speaker 1: You know, when you're a you're all about the team.
Speaker 6: Was a circle of light bulb for you to to
Speaker 6: make the start at Patriot.
Speaker 1: Quarterback first since two thousand.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 25: Man, I think I cried three times before the game.
Speaker 25: Uh A cry when I got to the stadium, cry
Speaker 25: when I uh Mayo came up to me and uh
Speaker 25: before the game and he like started laughing, and he's like, man,
Speaker 25: you're about to You're about to win us this game.
Speaker 6: You're about to ball out.
Speaker 25: And you know, I had never heard that from a coach,
Speaker 25: you know what I mean, And that meant a lot
Speaker 25: to me. And then I cried when I got out
Speaker 25: there and they we're going out there on offense. But
Speaker 25: you know, my emotions were definitely high, you know what
Speaker 25: I mean. It's definitely a moment that you know, I
Speaker 25: just can't take it for granted. You know, you know,
Speaker 25: these things don't come by often.
Speaker 6: Uh. And like I said, I don't take it for granted.
Speaker 6: Question twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: There was that shot of you after you scored it
Speaker 1: coming off the sidelight having.
Speaker 6: The football to the coach. Did they I didn't score? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Uh I kept that one.
Speaker 25: Uh.
Speaker 6: Mayo got a game ball though, for sure. Uh.
Speaker 25: You know, his first one, uh, which he deserved. Like
Speaker 25: I said, like I don't think people understand I. I
Speaker 25: I think it is like the plan that he put
Speaker 25: in place with us this week, you know, you know,
Speaker 25: and the work that he you know, foresaw for us
Speaker 25: to get to this point, you know, like like nobody
Speaker 25: believed in us, you know. I mean, he just kept
Speaker 25: on preaching like you know, the people in this room
Speaker 25: that were ones that matter, you know, and that came
Speaker 25: to fruition, you know, Like I said, coming on the
Speaker 25: Rover's a good team week one, new head coach, new
Speaker 25: office coordinator, new defensive coordinator, all these things that stacked
Speaker 25: up against us, and you know, and none of that
Speaker 25: mattered once we got between those white lines, you know,
Speaker 25: and once we got on that plane to come here,
Speaker 25: you know, the the vision was clear, you know, and
Speaker 25: the communication was clear, and we came and executed that plane.
Speaker 9: Thank you very much.
Speaker 6: Yeah, thank you. They have a good way.
Speaker 3: Jacobe Brissette, quarterback one who helped the Patriots to their
Speaker 3: first one of the year, sixteen to ten victors in Cincinnati.
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Speaker 5: don't know if this is a stat of the game,
Speaker 5: but I just thought it was interesting. Take you guys
Speaker 5: back eight years ago to September twenty second, twenty sixteen,
Speaker 5: which was the last time.
Speaker 1: That Jacoby won a game for the start for the Patriots.
Speaker 5: How many days has it been, Paul since Jacoby were
Speaker 5: set in between two starts winning for the Patriots.
Speaker 1: Was that that was the last time he started a
Speaker 1: game for the Patriots. You said started or won a game,
Speaker 1: because I can win another game for the Patriots. He
Speaker 1: lost the next week when he Spoffalo.
Speaker 5: Al Right, so we'll just say win a game. That
Speaker 5: was the last time he won a game against Houston.
Speaker 5: And you want to take a guess how many days
Speaker 5: it's been in between the Patriots and start victory.
Speaker 1: You know, me and Matho nine and eight asked me
Speaker 1: a math I asked Siri, I do it, and my
Speaker 1: had I promm Siri.
Speaker 5: But just I'm sure that's probably a number that will
Speaker 5: pop up at some point. I don't know if that's
Speaker 5: a record for you know, between two victories one time
Speaker 5: between drinks two thousand, I mean almost three thousand days
Speaker 5: in between victories there for Jacobi Prisett.
Speaker 3: With web radio at Patriots dot com is our address,
Speaker 3: and Cameron writes in to say, minus the twenty eight
Speaker 3: yard catch five for thirty four yards to a top
Speaker 3: five receiver in the league is in a way, shape
Speaker 3: or form a clamp job. Whether it was Gonzo or
Speaker 3: team effort, they kept him under control, but.
Speaker 1: The point is, you can't credit Gonzo if you don't
Speaker 1: discredit Gonzo when he gives up catches, Like you can't
Speaker 1: say he clamped them on all the plays that didn't
Speaker 1: go to Jamar Chase, but all the catches that he
Speaker 1: did have he wasn't involved in. Like, that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: If you want to say he played a man to
Speaker 1: man the whole game and get up six for sixty two,
Speaker 1: I'd say that's a good job by Christian Gonzales.
Speaker 3: But I don't think that.
Speaker 1: But people are saying he didn't cover him on the catches, right.
Speaker 1: That's the thing that I'm pushing back on some of
Speaker 1: the catches he was involved in.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just think I'd like to see Gonzales show up
Speaker 1: a little bit more. That's all I thought. I thought
Speaker 1: he was fine today, Like people think that he saw
Speaker 1: us Gardner, He's not right, very fair.
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Speaker 1: It's not about the money, Dale, uh.
Speaker 3: Todd from Garner, North Carolina. Good afternoon, PU postgame crew.
Speaker 3: I really liked our fight and not giving in once
Speaker 3: a Bengals started to move the ball. Yes, we're not filled.
Speaker 3: The stars are most likely won't be over five hundred.
Speaker 3: But this makes me feel glad that the season started.
Speaker 3: Not saying that May is Andrew Luck, but I believe
Speaker 3: that if Luck had an O line, he may still
Speaker 3: be in the league. It feels right to have Jacoby
Speaker 3: starting behind the line who's in the developmental stage, not
Speaker 3: a football analyst here just feels right. Nice show because
Speaker 3: it wasn't really a question here. I see a lot
Speaker 3: of comments. Sometimes I maybe jump the gun on some
Speaker 3: of these comments.
Speaker 1: For some of the the emails want the emails want
Speaker 1: to get there, They want to get their opinions across
Speaker 1: took and this is one you know, I I you know,
Speaker 1: not necessarily embracing it, but like you know, you guys
Speaker 1: might say that I tend to be the I don't know,
Speaker 1: pessimistic one of the panel. Right, So I think today's day,
Speaker 1: I say today's a day. Well, there's no room for
Speaker 1: any of that. Ye Like, I'm not telling you that
Speaker 1: this means they're going to the playoffs. I'm not telling
Speaker 1: you this means they're even going to compete for the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, for one day, on the first day
Speaker 1: of the Drod Mao era, they played really, really well
Speaker 1: and they deserve to win against a good football team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's that pile? I mean, no pessimism.
Speaker 5: I know it's we want to jump to like what's
Speaker 5: the big picture thing? But you know, can we just
Speaker 5: be happy in this moment for one, especially especially the
Speaker 5: last couple of years with you know how many of
Speaker 5: those wins just they just sucked your life for us
Speaker 5: out of you watching them, you know, score zero points
Speaker 5: and you know, not to say that this was really
Speaker 5: all that much better, but it just felt like the
Speaker 5: team came to play today, they were ready, they were prepared,
Speaker 5: they had a game plan, They didn't kill themselves, and
Speaker 5: they deserve credit.
Speaker 3: I think one of the things that both the head
Speaker 3: coach said and the quarterback said, those are the press
Speaker 3: conferences that we were able to hear. They both talked
Speaker 3: about the fact when they wanted to run the ball,
Speaker 3: when they knew they wanted to run, when Cincinnati who
Speaker 3: they wanted to run, and Paul, you and I had
Speaker 3: a conversation through the years about that it doesn't matter,
Speaker 3: you know, when you call yourself a good running team.
Speaker 3: If you can't line up on third and one and
Speaker 3: get the one, then you're not a really good running team.
Speaker 3: I don't know if Cincinnati's rush defense has anything to
Speaker 3: do with this, but it's encouraging to me that they
Speaker 3: emphasized the run and they ran.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree with that. And the one that
Speaker 1: really impressed me was, you know, it's like two minutes
Speaker 1: and change left to whatever two point fifteen left when
Speaker 1: they took over for the last possession. I don't care
Speaker 1: if it's the worst run defense in the history of football.
Speaker 1: Right now, you know everybody is stacking the box, they're
Speaker 1: not throwing the ball. If you can run in that situation,
Speaker 1: then you're a good running football team. Today the Patriots
Speaker 1: were a good running football team. I've been skeptical all
Speaker 1: summer because I haven't seen it. Gerrod Mayo keeps saying
Speaker 1: he likes the way they ran the ball. Gerrod Mayo
Speaker 1: was right. I was wrong because today when it counted,
Speaker 1: they ran the ball well, and they most importantly, most
Speaker 1: impressively is Matt's thing. When the other team knew they
Speaker 1: were running at the end of the game, they still
Speaker 1: ran it and they got those first downs to close
Speaker 1: out the game, and to me, that's.
Speaker 3: A mark of a good running team.
Speaker 5: Mike, Yes, absolutely, absolutely right.
Speaker 3: Okay, this is Zach from New Hampshire writing in and
Speaker 3: saying I saw Peppers fired up on the sideline after
Speaker 3: the final first down to Ica game. Do you guys
Speaker 3: think that the defense finally being able to rely on
Speaker 3: the offense to finish a game for them instead of
Speaker 3: letting a great defensive every be wasted is a huge
Speaker 3: morale boost for the defensive unit. I just think quibble
Speaker 3: a little bit with the tone of that question. Yeah,
Speaker 3: where he's coming from.
Speaker 5: I see where he's coming from, because I think the
Speaker 5: defense will just say, just don't turn the ball over,
Speaker 5: you know, just give us a chance to do our thing.
Speaker 5: Just don't have us going out there and we're giving
Speaker 5: up points when we're not even out there.
Speaker 1: And I think that's that's what happened today.
Speaker 5: They were able to, you know, avoid the big turnovers,
Speaker 5: and I think the defense was I mean, it sounded
Speaker 5: like the whole locker room was really you know, fired
Speaker 5: up after the win.
Speaker 1: I think they're playing the underdog car so we didn't mention,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe it was just interesting to me, but
Speaker 1: I thought the takeaway from Jacoby Brissett's press conference was
Speaker 1: when he talked about Stevenson, saying how he just said,
Speaker 1: I don't want to run any more of those zone plays.
Speaker 1: I just want to run gap, I just want to
Speaker 1: run pow. I want to I want to like and
Speaker 1: that to me again, I don't pretend to be an
Speaker 1: All twenty two guy. I bristle at the All twenty
Speaker 1: two guys, but I watch I watched Stevenson, and I
Speaker 1: don't necessarily see that guy that wants to run Laterally,
Speaker 1: I don't think he wants to go parallel to the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, put his foot in the ground and
Speaker 1: make his cut. He's not like the one. He's a
Speaker 1: power guy, and I think he wants to get going
Speaker 1: north and south. Now. He made some really nice runs,
Speaker 1: the one that I talked about earlier in the show
Speaker 1: at the end where he makes the two guys in
Speaker 1: the backfield miss with a little shimmy to the side.
Speaker 1: That was really shifty. But I think he's going to
Speaker 1: make his living running between the tackles, collering and then
Speaker 1: breaking tackles and getting into the clear. And I'm not
Speaker 1: surprised to hear him say he didn't want to run
Speaker 1: any more of those zones.
Speaker 3: And he looks to me like if I could steal
Speaker 3: one here. I'm not saying he's as good. When this
Speaker 3: guy was good, he was really good. I don't like
Speaker 3: it when he's Leveon Bell back there. Leveon Bell used
Speaker 3: to all the time, used to wait, used to be patient, patient, patient,
Speaker 3: and then hit the hole. I don't think that plays
Speaker 3: to Remandre's strengths when he does that.
Speaker 1: That's my point.
Speaker 3: He looks like water.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of guys that are very comfortable in that,
Speaker 1: you know, with that style. And you know the Broncos
Speaker 1: did it for years with Mike Shanahan. Yes, you know,
Speaker 1: they always you know Orlandis Gary and Mike Anderson and
Speaker 1: those guys, you know, Terrell Davis obviously the but they
Speaker 1: had that style where they could sort of pick and
Speaker 1: choose and put the foot down and then cut it
Speaker 1: up in the gap and increase it. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's that Stevenson's style.
Speaker 3: Okay, one for you here, Paul. This is comes from Cameron.
Speaker 3: I'm not he says, Paul, I'm not picking choosing on
Speaker 3: the catches he gave up and the catches he didn't.
Speaker 3: I'll ask how many catches did he give up? You
Speaker 3: seem like he gave up a ton of yards elsewhere.
Speaker 3: I didn't see it.
Speaker 1: I didn't say he gave up any yards, right, I
Speaker 1: hear what you're saying, Paul. I'm not saying he gave
Speaker 1: up yards. I'm saying you can't credit him only for
Speaker 1: the plays that didn't go to Jamar Chase and then
Speaker 1: say that they were in zone on the plays that
Speaker 1: did go to Jamarch. You know, like, that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But six for sixty two. Anybody would sign up against
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase if you told me before the game T
Speaker 1: Higgins isn't gonna play and you're gonna allow six for
Speaker 1: sixty two for Chase take I actually would have said,
Speaker 1: under normal circumstances, that's unbelievable. Today, I would have said,
Speaker 1: I don't see Chase catching six passes. But what happened
Speaker 1: is the Bengals got in trouble and had to play
Speaker 1: Chase more than they probably thought they were going to, right,
Speaker 1: and he stayed in the game. But six for sixty
Speaker 1: two for an all pro, that's fine, But just don't
Speaker 1: tell me that he locked him up, Like, that's all
Speaker 1: I'm saying. There's a difference between like comparing him to
Speaker 1: Dion Sanders and saying six for sixty two is not
Speaker 1: bad against Jamar Chase eighty.
Speaker 3: Five to five, Pats five hundred of the number. Here
Speaker 3: in my Stacy James voice, we have time for one
Speaker 3: more call and let's go out west to Kevin in
Speaker 3: San Francisco. Kevin, you're next on the Patriots post game show.
Speaker 23: What do you got hey, guys? How we doing?
Speaker 6: Hey?
Speaker 4: Are you so?
Speaker 23: I was out at my local Paths bar here in Francisco,
Speaker 23: and pretty good crowd considering, you know, the state of
Speaker 23: the team. Not like the old days, but pretty good crowd.
Speaker 23: And what was interesting was at the end of the
Speaker 23: game when they were up sixteen and ten and the
Speaker 23: Bengals got the ball back to a man and a
Speaker 23: woman in that bar, everyone was like, great, we won,
Speaker 23: and I'm like, what are you talking about. It's like, well,
Speaker 23: if we hold on.
Speaker 12: A win, we win.
Speaker 23: If the Bengals go down and score and we lose
Speaker 23: by one point, it reinforces the point that you can't
Speaker 23: be having your quarterback throw for one hundred and twenty
Speaker 23: one yards and beat out of be a good recipe
Speaker 23: for moving forward with this team. So anyway, I just
Speaker 23: found it. I found it very interesting that people were like,
Speaker 23: either way.
Speaker 4: We win.
Speaker 3: Thanks So, Kevin, that's kind of an interesting comment.
Speaker 5: I don't know, I don't Yeah, I would have just been,
Speaker 5: you know, disappointed with a loss.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just think this, especially if they lost
Speaker 1: on a last if the Bengals took the ball in
Speaker 1: the last three minutes, went down in one seventeen sixteen,
Speaker 1: that would have been that would have been a gutting loss.
Speaker 3: All right, We're getting ready to wrap things up here
Speaker 3: in a second, so we're gonna go around the horn
Speaker 3: here the Patriots one to zero. After beating the Bengals
Speaker 3: in Cincinnati sixteen to ten, they come home next week
Speaker 3: for their home opener against the Seattle Seapuppies, who right
Speaker 3: now are in a dog fight with the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 3: Denver on the road in Seattle, leading by a point
Speaker 3: ten to nine, is the second quarter is ticking down.
Speaker 1: A couple of two run homers by the Broncos have
Speaker 1: given them the league.
Speaker 3: Initial thoughts when you look at the game for the
Speaker 3: home opener, Mike, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Dk metcalf I think is my first initial thought.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a you know, an excellent receiver.
Speaker 5: He's really big, he's fast, he gets down the field,
Speaker 5: so you know, all the people wanting to see a
Speaker 5: little bit more out of Christian Gonzalez or more of him,
Speaker 5: I think it'll be a good opportunity to see that,
Speaker 5: and just generally Gino Smith, you know is as you
Speaker 5: can see, they're struggling a little bit today to put
Speaker 5: up points. So I don't know, I think it's another
Speaker 5: opportunity for the Patriots.
Speaker 1: That's my initial I think it's a great opportunity. In
Speaker 1: the home opener, Seattle was in you know, full disclosure,
Speaker 1: Seattle was the one game I had in the first
Speaker 1: eight that I thought the Patriots would have a chance
Speaker 1: to win. They have already exceeded that with the win today.
Speaker 1: But I don't know enough about the Seahawks. I know
Speaker 1: they have a lot of young guys, get it. No, no,
Speaker 1: I won't look at any tape, but I don't know
Speaker 1: enough about their personnel. They've really turned it over in
Speaker 1: recent years. They have a whole new coach and system.
Speaker 1: So I'll you know, be looking forward to learning a
Speaker 1: little bit more about the season.
Speaker 3: So I want to reiterate what you just said there, Paul.
Speaker 3: I know your shows have circled the Sea Puppies game
Speaker 3: on the calendar as well. This is maybe the only
Speaker 3: one of the first however many that you're gonna get
Speaker 3: that you we see having a chance to win. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I felt like they were going to be one and
Speaker 3: eight going to London or whatever. The amount of games
Speaker 3: was London and Seattle was the game I had targeted.
Speaker 1: So now this is this is big. This is a
Speaker 1: you know, big chance to get up, you know, get
Speaker 1: off to a two and oh start. I think you
Speaker 1: have it all right in front of You have a
Speaker 1: team that's got to go three thousand miles and play
Speaker 1: on the East Coast at one one o'clock. You know,
Speaker 1: some people think that's a big deal. I don't know
Speaker 1: what Seattle's history is in that situation, but Patriots have
Speaker 1: I think a huge opportunity to get out of the
Speaker 1: gate too. And oh yeah, just a couple of other
Speaker 1: things i'd point out.
Speaker 5: Mike McDonald, new head coach, was the defensive coordinator at
Speaker 5: the Ravens last year. You know, known for a lot
Speaker 5: of Patriots style defensive schemes, spinning the dial, people walking around,
Speaker 5: who's coming, who's going, you don't know. So that'll definitely
Speaker 5: be something for Jacoby Brissett and the offensive line to
Speaker 5: figure out. A couple other pieces though, you know, Jackson
Speaker 5: Smith Nijigba from Ohio State was you know, pretty highly
Speaker 5: regarded as well as think Tyra Lockett Saill And just to.
Speaker 1: Let everybody know, this Broncos game, the Broncos have the lead.
Speaker 1: They've done next to nothing on offense. They have eight
Speaker 1: of their points on defense, they had to pick three
Speaker 1: early in the game and two safeties that they've cost. So,
Speaker 1: you know, to Mike's point about Mike McDonald, he's a
Speaker 1: guy known to spin the dial a little bit. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he's in the head of rookie bow Nix right now.
Speaker 3: Well, as we wrap things up, let's wrap it up
Speaker 3: with a four letter word, hope. We saw hope today
Speaker 3: in Cincinnati, folks, and that's a good thing. It's a
Speaker 3: good thing to walk away with a win in Week one.
Speaker 3: The Patriots beat the Bengals sixteen to ten. In Week one,
Speaker 3: they're one to zero in the season. They will return
Speaker 3: to Jillette Stadium next week to take on the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 3: This has been The Patriot's postgame show, presented by DraftKings four,
Speaker 3: Chris Judge and Josh Davis on the video side, for
Speaker 3: Matt Morell and Matt Lapan on the other side of
Speaker 3: the glass, for Mike do So, and for Paul Pirello.
Speaker 3: I'm Matt Smith. Thanks everybody, once again your final score
Speaker 3: from Cincinnati. The Patriot sixteen the Bengals ten. Have a
Speaker 3: great week, everybody.
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