The Aftermath: Drake Maye leads RESILIENT Patriots past Dolphins

The Aftermath: Drake Maye leads RESILIENT Patriots past Dolphins

Hey, what’s up everybody? Welcome into Tom Current’s Patriots Talk podcast featuring Phil Perry. It is the aftermath. It’s the aftermath of a Patriots win in Miami. And I said I needed to see proof of concept before I was picking the Patriots to win any football games at all. Well, I need a proof of concept before I could say that Drake May was a guy who was elevating from among the lower quarter of quarterbacks in the league to maybe the upper half. Today was a day where we saw some of it. And Phil, we’re going to go deep on Drake May because we went deep on him during the week. But I think what was interesting about this team was the resilience that it showed. Here’s Mike Vrabel talking about some of that resilience. I’m just excited for these guys. I’m really excited that they could uh, you know, fight and compete, come on the road, you know, be in a game, get off to a good start, not be front runners, everything that we talked about. You know, we tried to get the drive stopped sometimes. We ended this drives with scores, with touchdowns. We were much better in a red zone on offensively. The only thing that stopped us today was us. Uh, so there was a lot of really good keys there. This is what a bad team needs is to be able to go ahead 12 to nothing, find itself 15 to 14 at halftime with mistakes, getting shredded on defense, missing pats, actually falling behind, and then weathering the storm. It’s not a good team, but I really fully believe that they didn’t take advantage of bad football and not play any of their own because they played enough bad football to to fill a nice bucket. But they showed resilience and that to me is the biggest takeaway non-player related from today. Yeah, I think that’s fair. And I liked what Rael said after the game where we said, “Listen, I appreciate the character. I appre, you know, appreciate the resiliency. All that’s good. It be it’d be nice if we didn’t have to test it in that fashion because of our own wrongdoings out there on the field.” And so, they put themselves in those spots, but that’s going to happen. Again, they’re not a good team yet. they’re going to find themselves in instances where they have screwed up and put themselves behind the eightball. How do you react in those situations? And so I think the the in the- moment resiliency is one thing and that is a a positive to me from this game. But I even think the week- toeek resiliency coming back from a loss, this is this is a team for multiple years now, Tom. We have not seen them bounce back from pretty much anything. And so for them to lose a game that was winnable in week one at home, a disappointing effort, come back on the road in what’s been a difficult place for them to play for years now. I think that might be even more of a positive sign moving forward for this team. Patriots hadn’t scored more than 30 points since the 2022 season. They scored 38 against the Cleveland Browns in middle October. So that was a Bailey Zappy game. The next week they got their asses summarily handed to them by the Chicago Bears in a 33 to4 Bailey Zappy Mack Jones split loss. Um but we both agree Phil that the quarterback position and the way Drake May played might have been a watershed moment for him. We don’t know until it’s all over with. We’ll look back on it and see whether it was a blip or the real thing as he started to emerge. But here’s Stefon Diggs from the locker room talking about May’s performance growing up. You know, it’s early game two. You know, obviously we try to go one and0 each and every week. Um, feel like he made the jump from last week just settling on in. It’s hard being a young quarterback. You know what I’m saying? But I feel like he’s uh doing the best job he can and obviously for incompletions, you ask him if you’re happy about it. Phil, the floor is yours on Drake May. I just think there was real growth that he exhibited today. Now, whether that takes hold and it’s something we see consistently from week to week, let’s wait and see. But you have to be so encouraged if you’re Josh McDaniels, if you’re Mike Vrabel. Not just because he looked like a quarterback that you win because of, not just a quarterback you can win with. That’s the the distinction that we’ve been using for years now. That was the topic of conversation felt like on a weekly basis with M. Jones. Well, you can win with him in the right situation. No, today you won because of Drake May. And I think he did it because he played the quarterback position. That sounds obvious. We understand that’s what he does. That’s his job. But when I say he played the position, I look at plays like the ones in the second drive of the second half, early in the third quarter where it’s second and forever after a hold. Hit the check down. Don’t try to push something down the field and get it all in one chunk. Hit the check down. Make it third and manageable. That’s playing the quarterback position. And then on third manageable, your right tackle gets beat the way Morgan Moses did. Protect the football. Keep two hands on it. step up in the pocket and deliver a strike down the field which he did to Raandre Stevenson for a 55 yd gain to me one of the biggest plays if not the biggest play in the game because they took the lead on that drive and they traded special team scores after that but they end up winning the game in my opinion Tom because he was playing the position it was not just hero ball it was not just playground football he was playing the quarterback position today in a way we hadn’t seen him do it on a consistent basis since he’s been here Phil Perry that’s the best play of his NFL career Woo. That juncture right there where you go to the checkdown again. They had gone three and out and lost, I believe, eight yards on the first drive of the second half. And they had fallen behind at that juncture, 17 to 15. They’re about to lose another game. They’re about to go to one and 12 with Drake May under center um from start to finish in a game. yet he comes out and after an initial loss on that drive does exactly what you said. Then because he’s got an offensive coordinator who is now able to scheme things up in a particular way, he gets Stevenson kind of naked and alone down the sideline. Really good play call. Then they use Gibson up the middle to set up the Drake May touchdown scramble. Phil, talk about the things that we’re seeing defenses have to deal with because of Drake May. Yeah, I thought maybe the most interesting thing we heard from Drake May in his postgame press conference today was the fact that they played the Dolphins played a lot of zone against the Patriots today. We heard the same thing last week after they lost to the Raiders. They played a lot of zone. Well, that’s sort of funny. You probably, if you’re a Patriots fan and you’ve been following these things, you like to listen to these postgame press conferences. You haven’t heard that very much for years. And it’s because teams have not played a lot of zone against the Patriots. to play a lot of man against the Patriots in obvious passing situations because they know their guys are better than your guys and so they feel totally fine playing man-to-man one-on-one across the board throwing an extra body in the box to play against the run or to spy the quarterback. But now that Drake May’s here and teams understand that maybe their best weapon still is Drake May’s legs, they have to play zone or they feel they have to play zone because they want eyes in the back field. They want to be able to keep Drake May under wraps and his scrambling ability under wraps. Well, that’s helpful to the Patriots and the weapons they have, Tom, because now they don’t have to beat somebody across the line of scrimmage one-on-one. Good for them because they don’t have a lot of one-on-one just my talent’s better than your talent types of players. But it’s also good because they have an experienced offensive coordinator who knows how to scheme things up against different zone coverages and he can flood different zones. and you can make sure that guys like Raandre Stevenson or Austin Hooper leaking back across the field on a roll out type of play that guys are getting open against that type of coverage. So teams because of in my opinion because of Drake May’s athleticism and the threat to scramble they have to play a certain style of defense which is really benefiting the people Drake May has around him because the talent is what it is on that side of the ball in the Yeah. and Drake May. Can you identify the hero play he made? The offplatform scrambling um play that Gez, there’s only a couple guys who can make that. I can’t. And I don’t want to I don’t you don’t want that from your quarterback. You don’t need him to put on a cape and be a superhero. It’s win because of, not win with. But to me, sometimes winning because of is making that throw to Kahan Booty that he made on the only reception for Booty in the game. Put in a spot that Kahan Booty could go get it and make an acrobatic play because he’s your most acrobatic and athletic receiver really in terms of body control. Put it on M. Holland in the end zone. Don’t, you know, pee down your leg. Put it on Trayvon Henderson’s hands. Even though you didn’t use a lot of arc on that play, probably because there was a safety coming over. Really wellplaced throw that when it left his hand. I said he overthrew him. Trayvon Henderson tracked it down. They had a gain. Same thing with the RA Andre Stevenson throw. Those were really good throws. The fourth down throw to Digs. Phil. Yeah, that’s a that’s another great one, too. I love that call, by the way, from Frabel. We’re on the road. We’re trying to make sure that we we get one on the board in terms of my first win as a head coach and our first win as a team here in 2025. I love coming out fourth and short and making sure that you stay on the field and keep your offense on the field and allow them to generate some momentum. But I I also think part of the reason Drake May was able to have success is that they were able to run the ball. You look at his statline and it’s not gaudy. 19 for 23, incredibly efficient, but I’m I’m looking at the 23 number there. That’s half the number of attempts he had in week one. That was not the formula. Dropping back to pass 53 times against the Raiders and attempting 46. That ain’t it for this Patriots team. 23 25 28 attempts. That should be where they want to live. And they were able to do that today because they ran it 29 times for 122 yards, 4.2 per attempt. That’s significant improvement. And I I liked it, Tom, especially because they stuck with it. It was not incredibly successful early on. They were plowing into the line. It was two, three yards a pop, but they didn’t get away from it. And then you started to see the the floodgates open up a little bit on Miami side. I felt like they were tired at times, their defensive front, especially at times. And you saw some big chunk runs from Henderson, from Stevenson, and Gibson on that drive. We were just talking about that second drive in the second half. Uh that put them really on the doorstep. It It’s funny, too, because there was last week it was a byproduct of some of the game situation in the second half when the Patriots ran the ball three times. It could have been the same thing today, but they were productive because of May, because of his composure. So when they came out of the second half, they had fallen behind 20 to 15 when they got the ball during that drive. I’m talking about it’s first and 10 at their own 17. It’s 20 to 15. Um they had just had a holding on Trayvon Henderson on the punt return, excuse me, kickoff return. So they’re they’re at their 17. They hit digs for eight yards. So they’re they’re going to throw it actually off their but then they run it with Stevenson, but Jared Wilson gets a hold. So now it’s second and 12. It’s again taking them out of their opportunity to run the ball. You know why? because they’re not a good team and they’re going to make mistakes because they have rookies and veterans and a slew of new guys who were some of them in the remainder bin. Third and three, they got the 55 yard completion because maybe they’re expecting run by that point. Miami saying, “Shit, third and three, they’ve already gashed us for like 80 yards with this guy in the first half.” Nope. They’re going to run him and leak him out. He’s going to have that pass. And then they come back with up the middle, first and 10 on the Miami 21, 15 yards up the middle with Gibson. I just thought it was a really good day of play calling by Josh McDaniels. There is, however, a caveat to attach to everything. You can look at Antonio Gibson’s kickoff return and go, “Wow, special teams.” You can also look at the punt return touchdown and go, “Boo, special teams.” Or Baragalis hits a key field goal at the end of the game. Yay, Andy. Andy, don’t miss the first two freaking kicks or they won’t have to sweat have sweat dripping off their fingernails at the end of the game on deciding whether or not to kick a field goal because you missed them earlier. To me, you can look at the defense of Marte Mapu and say, “Wow, nice pick.” But he also missed a tackle on Devon Achain that could have been a touchdown if the Miami Dolphins running back had not stepped out of bounds. They’re not a good team. They don’t have a fleet of good players. They have some average ones. They have some pretty good ones, but they’re gonna have to be a a hole that is greater than the individual parts. And and they did that today, Phil. They did. And the fact that you win that game as opposed to losing it now. You can make those corrections and just feel better about yourselves, right? You’re not having Vable wear on you throughout the course of the week. you’re not having the media and the fans wearing on you throughout the course of the week and feeling that stress and that pressure of, “Oh god, this team’s won four games the past years. I wasn’t even here.” Yeah, half the roster wasn’t even here, right? They were probably saying to themselves, I wasn’t even here last year or the year before, but now I’m feeling the residual pressure from from being a part of this organization right now. So, you can make those corrections coming off win. I think it’s a lot easier to try to make those in that sort of situation. I also I would look at I would look at it and say the fact that you can escape all that bad football and win it. This is why we started the day talking about Drake May. the fact that you did it because of your quarterback to me organizationally speaking, not individuals in the locker room maybe per se, but if you’re Mike Vrabel, if you’re anybody in his front office, if you’re ownership, you’re looking at that performance from that guy in his second year, his second game in a new offense. And Tom, you’re you’re talking about potentially having a really good player at the game’s most important position. If he gives you what he gave you today, that’s I know the numbers, you know, aren’t necessarily, like I said, through the roof. But if you get that week in week out from Drake May, you’re going to win a lot of games. [Music] When you talk about how the conversation is altered by the final result, Morgan Moses had three false starts. Hard to come back from that. You had myriad holds. I think there were 12 penalties. Henderson had three holds. That’s a busy guy. that’s staying busy. Um, told you’d be productive. 12 for 75 total on the penalties. Additionally, they’ve now allowed in two games 60 pass attempts, 671 yards, which you folks who are really good at math know that’s 10 yards per attempt. That’s going to land you in the Hall of Fame, maybe get you a statue put up. But I still think that the most mind-numbing, headscratching, help me understand, please help me understand decision of the entire afternoon was on second and eight going into the two-minute warning throwing the ball to M. Hollands and not trying to bleed clock fresh out of the two-minute warning. Fresh out of the two-minute warning. Excuse me. I’m looking at the game book. So it was the Patriots are uh ahead at the time 30 to 27 and after the Mapu pick they have the ball with the Miami 38. You get zero and you’re going to have a 55 yard field goal attempt. This is what this is. This is bad team performance. This is exhibit A of what happens with bad teams. So you uh run Stevenson up the middle on first and 10. He gets two yards. It runs down to the two-minute warning. It’s second and eight on the Miami 36. Was Josh saying, “I’m going to throw it to M. Holland here. I’ll pass it landed incomplete with 156 left.” Why was Why was he doing that? Well, that that to me is a that’s a that’s a head coach decision, not necessarily that specific play. But in the two-minute warning, if you’re Josh McDaniels and you’re on the headset, aren’t you having a conversation with Mike Vrabel saying, “Hey, you want to run it here and bleed some clock?” and and maybe the answer back is no, call your best play, you know, call, you know, call it because we’re we’re trying to go score here. We’re not just trying to, you know, you’re only up three play against the clock. We’re only we need to be aggressive. It’s like you’re shooting the ball early in the 24 seconds. I just I disagree with that. I would I would have run on second down there and and you know, you saved them on that particular play. Saved him 30 seconds. Then you threw it again, right, the following play. did complete it, but they did complete it uh for six yards to Diggs. Miami burned a timeout at 152. So now instead of it being 110 or Miami having already burned a timeout and uh being out of timeouts, Miami burned a timeout. So it’s now fourth and two after the Diggs reception and it’s at the Miami 30. And it appeared they were going to issue the field goal attempt of 47 yards and run a play. Instead, Morgan Moses jumped for the third time in the game. And in second week in a row where it feels like they’re going to do one thing, then there’s a false start and now they have to do something else. Last week it was Will Campbell false start. They were going to go for it on fourth down, fourth and five. They ended up punting on fourth and 10. So similar sort of deal. I just and I don’t care I don’t care if Mike Vrabel would contend that that’s not what we were going to do there. We were trying to draw him off sides regardless if that was the case. It was so far less than ideal. I don’t care if they were trying to draw him off sides. I don’t care if they were going to run a play. So I don’t want to get caught in the weeds on that conversation because I think that might happen when we start to investigate this this week. I don’t know if it will, but I could see the conversation being we were just trying to draw them off sides. We weren’t going to kick it. We we were going to kick it there the whole time. Doesn’t matter. There was no way that they said, “Let’s move it back five yards for Andy who’s having a tough day.” No shot. No shot. And I know Mike Vrabel said he he didn’t hesitate at all whatsoever when it came to calling on Andy Borgalis in that situation. But I would have I would have had a lot of hesitation. I Tom, am I being inconsistent though? So if Vable’s here with us right now talking about this, they would have given the ball Miami the ball at the 42 and been ahead by three points. I think his argument is I want to be aggressive. I want to go win the game. I’m not just playing against the clock here. I would say there are times where you where you do have to play against the clock and I thought what though that was one of them. But is that inconsistent of me because I loved the fourth down call on the first drive. I did not like the chip shot field goal call to give one to Andy Borgalis after he had already missed two extra points. Not thinking he’s going to miss the chip shot necessarily. But you’re at I think they’re at the four yard line. I think it was fourth down and goal at the four. I would have tried to punch it in there. The offense is playing well. It looks like Drake May is having himself a game. No, I would have gone for the seven there and it didn’t end up mattering in the end obviously, but I those could have been four big points in my opinion and they passed on that. It was a conservative call after the aggressive call on fourth down earlier in the game. And I’m trying to I’m sitting there trying to figure out, okay, what’s their overall approach here? And I’m sure it’s changing as the game’s going on, but I I like when you’re if you’re showing you’re going to be aggressive early, you know, be consistent with that and go for the go for the seven. Well, I think the mindset of the team would have been so deflated if they failed to get that field goal because it was 14-12 at that point or was it 15 I’ll have to go back and look. Uh, yes, it was that made it 15 to 15-7 or 15 to seven. Yeah, right. So, it made So, it was 12-7. They kicked the field goal to 15-7. My thought was they were giving the ball back to Miami anyway. So if they had not gotten it there and it was 12 to seven still and Miami did what they ended up doing, go down and score a touchdown, very easy touchdown, Patriots would have been beside themselves if they were down 14 to 12 at halftime. We were just finished talking about what a resilient bunch this is. They had to show that no resiliency goes forward. You have to have proof of concept and to be trailing after having the ball for I believe 22 minutes in the first half and Miami had it for seven and changed. No, you you needed that field goal. That’s why I think reading the game and I don’t blame him for trying the field goal of Boraggalis. I still don’t think he should have, you know, through the roof confidence. I mean, Boralis is kicking with one finger hanging off the the ledge. So that he was kicking for his life there. And he might still have been kicking for his life from the Patriots. I’m bringing kickers in right now and letting him watch them walk across the field with a bag of balls to start kicking because he should know he’s on notice. And Morgan Moses should be able to deal with the fact that if he gets called out, I’m sure he would be able to too, but if he gets called out in a team meeting because if Mike is going to set a standard, it has to be a high standard for I’m not going to accept ass play regardless. Any shot, this would be making an excuse for the guy and he probably wouldn’t even want this, but any shot uh you know, he’s a veteran guy. He’s seen so much football. Three false starts is can’t happen obviously, but I would also say it’s way beyond the norm for somebody who’s played that amount of football and started as many games as he has. He came into the game with a foot injury. Is he trying to Let’s get into the the mechanics of it. Is he trying to jump? Is he trying to cheat it a little bit because he’s not as quick out to his spot because he’s dealing with a with a boo boo? Maybe, but not on that one where you go from fourth and two to fourth and seven on fourth down. I mean, that’s just it’s bad. Maybe. Maybe. Look, I’m 34. I got to get my ass out there quick or I’m going to give up a game, you know, altering sack conceivably. So, yeah, definitely. And and that’s what you’re going to be dealing with. And there’s no slight on the guy who has been a real good leader, it seems, but that’s what you’re dealing with when you cannot get the players that you extremely well desire to play on your offensive line. They didn’t want Will Campbell to be their fourth overall pick. I’ll say it again. They would have Ronnie Stanley to be their left tackle. Didn’t happen. So, Will Campbell would be a wonderful consolation prize. They probably didn’t want Morgan Moses to be their right tackle necessarily. Whether they could draft it or get somebody to develop, he is. So, you deal with it and you love him while he’s here. Hey, speaking of Will Campbell, yeah, we didn’t talk about him at all in the post game. And I get why it was an incredibly entertaining and lot to talk about kind of game. Um, I did not have week two as sort of the overunder on on when Will Campbell would play a better game than Morgan Moses or I did not have two weeks in and one sack. I know multiple penalties now, right? He did have a he had a penalty again today, but I don’t think of the three and we’d have to go back and watch them. I don’t think of the three I remember saying to myself, boy, Campbell got burned there. I’d say it’s been two pretty good weeks for Will aside, penalties aside, which is a significant thing. But penalties aside, the arm length has not presented itself as a real problem through two weeks. Yeah. And I’m sure that there will be a lot of time devoted to that by the folks who made a big deal of it previously. I’m sure I’m sure they’ll go over chapter and verse. Be that as it may, there’s still time. There’s still time. Don’t play this back in two weeks when you know he’s playing uh I can’t even tell you a pass rusher on the Panthers maybe right now. I’d have to think real hard, but if he sees TJ Watt next week, who knows? Maybe the arm length’s an issue then. But I would just say, what about JJ? Got a show to do today. Through two weeks, he’s been he’s been okay. What about the amount of hair on JJ Watt’s head? We both noticed that today. Boy, on the pregame that we had the CBS pregame up there and it was just a massive mop of hair on top of his head. Helmet. Absolute helmet and a tough place to have a helmet down in Miami. That humidity not doing JJ Watt any favors. It also looks like he’s he’s lost some weight. So, whole new guy. Yeah, he’s going to look exactly like Tom Brady before it’s over with. Seven sacks through two weeks for the Patriots defense. Phil, I’m just I’m still envisioning images of JJ Watt, Tom Brady next to each other. JJ Watt’s faces shrinking. They do have some similar features. You’re right. Yep. Really interesting. Won’t be long now. Sorry, I didn’t even hear what you said. Seven sacks for the Patriots defense. Um, which might equal last year’s entire season’s total? inflated at all because they got two on their last two snaps of the game essentially today with the Dolphins in desperation mode. Don’t care. Okay. Did you have a feeling because I one million% did those are huge plays by the way and like big Milton Williams. Big ticket Mil Williams and a big play by Harold Landry to beat his guy coming off the edge on third down the play before that like to have a walk-off as a pass rusher. It’s essentially what that was. I got to imagine there there are very few better feelings than that. And so I give those guys credit for for notching those in crunch time. And to me, they’re not in those numbers are not inflated because those are the types of plays they haven’t been able to make in the past without real pass rush juice up front. And that’s real MacGyver type stuff. Okay? Because you have to dismantle the bomb because if he does throw it, he’s not throwing to you and me. He’s throwing to Wadd. He’s throwing to Tyreek Hill. He’s throwing against an inexperienced secondary. And I swear to God, I felt as if after Craig Woodson in the end zone did a nice job of avoiding a pass interference on Jaylen Wadd on an incompletion to the end zone. I said, “You know what? I could see them getting one of these ridiculous end of game pass interference calls because the Patriots aren’t good yet.” And bad teams get bad calls when unknown players are defending known players. And I could one million percent see Tua throwing a balloon down the field and somebody walloping Tyreek Hill and the next thing you know it’s Tua on the goal line. So those were big sacks. MacGyver definitely after MacGyver and particularly with your top corner out. We talked about it on the pregame show. My concern level one to 10 with Gonzalez missing this game was a 10. 10 out of 10. 10 out of 10. your best corner against a team where their strength is their receiver group. Carlton Davis seemed to hold his own well enough. I guess Tom, I don’t remember him necessarily being on the scene the same way Alex Austin was on the scene for some big really backbreaking types of completions. Jaylen Wald’s touchdown. Alex Austin had him in man-to-man coverage. Looked like kind of a I don’t know if you call that a circus route. Some of the X’s and O’s people get at me on that one. But but but feigning sort of a deep over and then going up the field and running a corner. Uh really difficult to stay with that guy for that long. And then the down the field he from two a boy he maxed out his arm on that 47 yard pass to Tyreek Hill that he had to come back for but completely overran it like you know th that should be Christian Gonzalez really out there in those situations. And so he would have been a differencemaker had he been out there today. the fact that they were able to survive without him. Um, to me a very good thing for them. [Music] All right. Um, Patriots are going to play the Steelers next week. They lost. The Steelers did at home to Seattle. Aaron Rogers, did they not? They Aaron Rogers went 18 for 33 for 203. Had a touchdown, two picks. He went down three times. Mason Rudolph came in for the mopup. Meanwhile, Jay Warren, who the freak is Jay Warren? What’s this? Jaylen Warren is their running back. Yeah. Just 14 for 48. Kenneth Gainwell 5 for 20. And on the other side, Kenneth Walker had 13 for 105. Zack Sharet did dick 13 for 105. Yeah, Zack Sharon made up for it with a 15 for 10 running. Wow. With a long of six. That’s a tough line. So his other his other 14 carries gained four yards. He must have run backwards on That’s got to be a typo. No, he must have run backwards carries for four. No, 15 for 10, but he had a long of six. So, but but the Yeah, you’re right. He probably had some sort of like fumbled handoff or something and it went backwards and he recovered it 12 yards behind him. Uh meanwhile, Sam Darnold 22 for 33 against that Steelers defense with 295 yards. He was sacked twice. He was picked off twice. Uh Koopa Koopup Koopa Koopup. Is there anybody we haven’t spent a ridiculous amount of time talking about? He had seven for 90. The Steelers defense through two weeks bad. They give up 32 to the Justin Fields le Jets who did absolutely nothing today and then Aaron Rogers. Now that defense in Seattle I think is going to be very good this year. So I don’t necessarily look at at the offensive stuff and say the Steelers can’t play. But two weeks in a row giving up 30 plus 13 in week one. This is a chance for them to the Patriots now chance for them to have another good week offensively. Speaking of now, Bill Parcels is going to be inducted in the Patriots Hall of Fame next week, as will Julian Edelman. Good coach now. He’s a good coach now. I mean, he can he can he can hit a quarterback now. Um, Bill Parcels is good for the house. Did he did he hit quarterbacks? I thought he just yelled at them. No, he would say that in the I mean, he can get out the quarterback now. Oh, okay. Was he a now guy? He think he might have been the original now guy. Okay. Oh, I didn’t know that. I might be wrong. I didn’t cover him. I’d love to know where it started. I didn’t cover him. I a human for sweet pee carol the first I feel that’s like bear Bryant you can get out yeah they all decide that they’re southern at some point um but all right let’s put a cork in it Phil uh interesting win for the Patriots didn’t use nearly the amount of sound from postgame that I had said we were going to be that as it may that’s fine Casey Keane who’s on the clock down there she’s putting together the pod thanks for doing that Casey we’re going to have the next Pat’s podcast we’re going to have the breakdown on Monday that’s Phil’s week from us we will have a Patriots talk podcast you’ll be able to on television. That’ll be on Tuesday evening. Phil and I will work on that in the next couple of days. Then we will have quickslance and another Patriots talk pod on Thursday. Thursday. So Patriots are oneonone. I’m not clapping for the Patriots. I’m not a homer. I’m not a green teamer. I’m not a a blue teamer. I you know what? I’m an objective observer of the team. But it always is more interesting to see a team be one-on-one. I root for the story. It’s a daily talk show. Okay. It’s a daily talk show. That was I was not reading into that clap at all. That was like a ready break like podcast is over. Let’s go. All right. Is that what that was? Yeah. I’m starving. I got a I got a nice uh Shaw Wagyu uh ribeye in the fridge that I’m going to cook up. Heck yeah. They’re pretty good. They’re a little expensive, but they all they’re all $25.99, which is not in insane. Shaw’s Wagyu ribeye for $25.99. How many meals you getting out of that? Just one. Just one. $25.99. I mean, it’s But I mean, if you go to a freaking steakhouse, it’s going to be 65. Well, yeah, but they’re going to cook it up for you. I’ll do a better job. I’m pretty good. Will you really? I’m pretty good. How much butter? I’m good on the grill. Um, butter. There’ll be butter. You know, I don’t measure it, you know, a pad of butter. I’m going to put olive oil all over both sides of it. Salt and pepper. I’m keeping it simple. Okay. And I cook it medium rare. Almost almost rare. All right, everybody. Goodbye. [Music]

Tom E. Curran and Phil Perry break down the Patriots’ gritty win over the Miami Dolphins. They dive into Drake Maye’s impressive performance and discuss how the team pulled off the victory despite a few costly mistakes.

1:00 – Breaking down Drake Maye’s performance
14:00 – Patriot still making costly mistakes
22:00 – How has Will Campbell looked through the first two weeks

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