Could the Patriots beat the Dolphins? Do you have any confidence in anyone on Pats other than Maye?

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00:00and every time I get optimistic, Wiggy pours a giant bucket of cold water on it.

00:08I mean, you were in this game earlier in the season with this Dolphins team, but that was...

00:18They didn't have Tua with the Dolphins.

00:19No Tua and at home.

00:20You brought up a great point with Gerard that this is historically a really tough place for Patriots players to play.

00:26Yeah.

00:26So...

00:28I mean, do you have any confidence in the defense at all, which is...

00:33Not really.

00:36I don't have any confidence in this team, but then again, I don't have any confidence in Miami.

00:42And I know Miami's, you know, they've won their last two games, I believe.

00:48But when you look at just the way that this kind of Miami team is, they're really not the same team.

00:55They don't scare you.

00:56So could the Patriots win this game?

00:58Yeah, this is very similar to last week.

01:01Patriots could win this game.

01:03This game could be close and the Patriots could lose, but the Patriots could also get blown out.

01:09I don't really have the confidence.

01:11The only thing I have confidence in is that Drake May will play good and he'll make strides.

01:18Oh, I thought you were going to say the only thing you have confidence in is that Drake May will turn the ball over at the end of the game.

01:25Oh, I hope not.

01:27Well, Greg, it's interesting you say that because Orlovsky has an interesting stat on Drake May.

01:33Of all the quarterbacks qualified, he is the only one who has an off-target percentage less than 10% in the entire NFL.

01:43He has two misses on 64 throws in his last two games.

01:47Could you argue when he hits these receivers' hands, it's off target because they can't catch?

01:51Fair point.

01:52Could be true.

01:53I mean, honestly, if half of the drops are caught, he is discussed far differently nationally.

02:00And they are so egregious.

02:02These aren't like, you know, there's Wiggy the old saying, if it hits your fingers, you should catch it.

02:06Like, that's not always true.

02:08The drops these guys have had have been just pathetic attempts.

02:12How many times do you say, oh, he dropped it?

02:15Like, wide open, hits the hands, and the guy just has no answer.

02:19I think he's dragged more for the turnovers when it comes to picks and fumbles and, you know, the averaging to a game.

02:32And I think that that's like, you know, Jones has a real issue with that.

02:38Right, but look at some of the, like, look at the, so the sack fumble.

02:44I don't necessarily put that on him because he's getting smoke from the blinds.

02:47Like, yeah, I know everybody's going to say, well, you got to protect the football.

02:50I get it.

02:51But it's not like it's a legit fumble where he's running around.

02:54He's loose with the football.

02:56He's scampering for seven, eight yards.

02:58Somebody hits him, and boom, knocks the ball out.

03:01It's more of one of those things where, okay, those generally blindside hits.

03:05Like, all right, if the quarterback, yeah, you got to do a better job.

03:08But I don't necessarily put that on him.

03:10The interception, depending on how the interception goes, like the one in the game, all right,

03:16maybe you win, Pop Douglas weren't on the same page, but it's still a little bit high

03:20of a thrown ball.

03:22Maybe bring it down a little bit.

03:23I put that more on him than I do Pop, because you got to be able to put that in a position

03:28where, you know, it doesn't get intercepted.

03:30But he's going to learn from those.

03:32Yeah.

03:33And it's cool with the interception.

03:34Yeah.

03:35And if you redrafted it today, he'd be the first pick in the draft, with every pick,

03:39with every play.

03:40Yeah, and I'm cool with the interceptions.

03:43Yeah.

03:44Are you not cool?

03:45I know we're not supposed to be cool with them, but do you look at him and go, all right,

03:49he's a rookie quarterback, he's got to have some picks, but he doesn't have the Zach Wilson

03:544-5 pick game where you're like, ooh.

03:57Well, compare it with Mac Jones, because that was the issue that you and Chime and others

04:03had with Mac Jones, was that he was throwing the ball to the other team at inopportune

04:08times.

04:09Right.

04:10But he was doing it where it's like the interception that Mac Jones threw against the, I think

04:13it was the Colts last year.

04:15It's like you literally threw it to the linebacker.

04:17Or the one in the Dallas game where he throws across the field the first time, you're like,

04:21hey, don't do that.

04:22And then the very next drive, he does it again and it's picked and taken for six.

04:26And he did it in the Miami game.

04:28I think it was, no, no, not the Miami, Jalen Ramsey.

04:32Where's he playing now?

04:33Miami.

04:34He's in Miami now.

04:35Was he in Miami last year?

04:37Yes.

04:38Yeah.

04:39Remember he rolls out, he might've rolled out and then tried to-

04:42Oh, just airmailed it over Hunter Henry?

04:44He tried to throw it across it and then it was picked off by Jalen Ramsey.

04:47Those are the interceptions you're like, these are just bad, bad, don't make those decisions.

04:54Where I don't think we've necessarily seen that this year with Drake.

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