Jones & Keefe: Did the Patriots find their recipe for success in Week 1?

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00:00But I think there's genuine interest this weekend to see.

00:03Are the Patriots that much better without Bill Belichick and with a new coach who they

00:06want to play for?

00:08Are they that much better with a career backup in Jacoby Brissett, but somebody who isn't

00:14greater than Mac Jones?

00:15Yeah, 100%.

00:16Are they that much better off?

00:17Are they on to something?

00:19Is this team a better operation than the dysfunctional mess that people didn't want to acknowledge

00:24they were, but the dysfunctional mess that they were the last couple of years?

00:28So I think there's genuine interest in that, and you could really, really snowball that

00:34forward.

00:35And so the question becomes, all right, how do you beat this Seahawks team?

00:38What's the game plan for beating a team like Seattle that got off to a 1-0 start against

00:43Bo Nix and the crummy Broncos?

00:46I don't think it was a great performance by Seattle, as Curran told us the other day.

00:51It took two safeties in the game, for God's sakes.

00:54So I don't think they're a great team.

00:55What's the game plan for beating them, Keith?

00:56I think it's going to have to be, for the Patriots, very similar to what they did last

01:00week.

01:01That's kind of what they have.

01:02I don't think...

01:03Previous Patriot teams, you remember if the team they faced had a bad run defense, they'd

01:07pass all over them.

01:08If they had a bad run defense, they'd run all over them.

01:11They could beat you in a variety of ways.

01:13This Patriot team can't.

01:15So it's going to have to be running game and defense.

01:18And the big key is probably going to be Jacoby Brissette not turning it over once again.

01:24We'll probably say that every week, as long as he's still the starter.

01:27Because case in point, you brought up my guy, Bo Nix, making his NFL debut, threw two picks

01:31in the game.

01:32One of them was atrocious.

01:33One of them was like one of those, like, you can't throw that at the NFL.

01:36So bad.

01:37And I haven't underscored this enough.

01:39He could have thrown like four or five in that game.

01:41But he did throw two.

01:42One was horrible and he could have thrown more, but he only, yes, he only quote unquote

01:46threw two.

01:47Yes.

01:48And so he did not have a very good game.

01:49And yet they had a lead in the second half, meaning the Denver Broncos did.

01:52So the Seahawks had to come back.

01:54They ended up winning the game by six.

01:5526-20 was the final.

01:58But I think the Broncos turned it over three times because Nix had the two picks.

02:03They also had a fumble lost.

02:05So if the Patriots don't do that and play it similar, I think even though, oh, no, no,

02:12no.

02:13He said, as the ball is in the air, he goes, oh, no.

02:17I mean, basically, Nix can't throw beyond like the line of scrimmage.

02:19That's not true.

02:20He can throw five, 10, 15, 25 yards downfield.

02:23He can't do it.

02:24It's very overstated.

02:25He would throw the ball.

02:26It's not overstated.

02:27You hear Archuleta?

02:28It's not overstated.

02:29Well, that was just a bad read.

02:30He shouldn't have thrown it into triple coverage.

02:31I feel like that was a mistake on his part.

02:33But no, it's a similar game plan.

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