00:00all right let's go over the game uh let's start with drake may uh kind of review his performance
00:05how you thought he was yesterday fred hosting through the pain much respect uh for me for
00:11the jordan game yep thank you that's it uh so so um i i came out of the game fred and we have to
00:18answer a um like a big question for espn.com out of every game and my big question was what can
00:25drake may do more of to elevate the offense i i felt like they needed more from him in the game
00:33um so to your question you know my thoughts on his performance i i think there's throws that that
00:40are higher percentage throws that seem like he's not maybe making well not maybe he's not making
00:45those throws and i think it's making it harder on himself and i think that's one one thing that
00:51stands out and and they need more from him okay uh and just another big question oh well he wasn't
00:58a big question mark but a big question mark coming into the season was will campbell how did you feel
01:03he held up yesterday i i didn't think that he was um if we were making a list of the top issues that
01:13they had i i wouldn't put them near the top of the list i was listening to mike rabel on his uh radio
01:19interview this morning and i think he felt the same way when he was asked that question he said
01:24that between him and jared wilson the fellow rookie on the left side that that they hung in there um
01:29was it perfect obviously not um false start penalty late there that made the fourth and five go to fourth
01:37and ten and then rabel elects to punt when he would have went for it that's one thing that stands out
01:43maybe a few blocking um miscues but i i don't i didn't think it was that bad brett i didn't think
01:49it was that bad from will camp i thought uh something definitely that he can build off of and
01:53not that bad okay uh defensively we were we were talking about you know the secondary earlier and
02:01there were obviously some issues jalen hawkins uh got beat early but came back got the interception the
02:07the play toward the end of the game when carlton davis uh got beat on on the third and 20 um
02:13just starting there and well i guess we'll work our way forward because i think i think things got
02:18better how do you think the defense played and we'll start on the back end there party they gave up
02:23nine plays of 20 yards or more nine plays of 20 yards or more uh gonna be hard to win games
02:32when you do that um i would say i i go offense first would be and drake would be at the top of
02:40my list of of areas that led to the result that that happened and that would be the second point
02:45like too many big plays given up and on that specific play you're you're mentioning third and
02:5020 they brought pressure and i think carlton davis um i heard mike rabel say this morning just probably
02:57needs to play off there and and don't give up the deep ball more keep everything in front of you
03:03rally in front of you and tackle so that was a that was a miscue ultimately these two things go hand
03:10in hand i know hardy wanted to work our way forward here but the lack of a pass rush with only four guys
03:16contributed to some of that there was a there were blown coverages too i remember brock bowers catch and
03:21run for a big gain on a slant over the middle but it just seemed like if rabel didn't dial up a blitz
03:28and you saw a lot of that as the game went on the patriots weren't getting home and that contributed to
03:32a lot of big plays i think that's right on john and it's the same old story um you know you got to
03:38sync up the coverage in the rush and at times if you're gonna send extra rushers like you mentioned
03:44the brock bowers catch and run for 38 yards they they sent six rushers so just five back in the
03:51secondary and if you don't get close to geno smith you're in a vulnerable spot right there so i think
03:56that's it you send four well you might be relying on your coverage to hang in longer because you got
04:02more numbers back there but when you send more rushers on the blitz and that's terrell williams
04:07a defensive coordinator um you know you're relying on that pressure getting there because no one even
04:12if christian gonzalez was playing can cover that long for some of those longer developing plays
04:18so how do you fix it how do you fix it that's not his job john no no i mean that's a good question
04:28i john let me come back to you on that because that's like an x's and o's thing and i i i mean
04:33make make more plays i don't know i mean let me let me come back to you on that so i have a better
04:38answer yeah let him come back to you safe to say well we'll go back the offense because i mean that's
04:44obviously but you know where more that more of the questions were before the start of the season
04:50safe to say that we're all looking for a little bit more out of the run game
04:53oh my goodness hardy absolutely they had 60 yards rushing you go back to um that's the fewest yards
05:00rushing in a patriots opener since 1996 against the dolphins i think some of that is you get behind
05:09you know in the fourth quarter you're going to lean more towards the pass um but but i want to
05:14look more at the play time distribution of the running backs ramondre stevenson 46 snaps
05:21travion henderson i think it was 24 or 25 and antonio gibson just five i think that's an area to dive
05:30into and say what you know you get the second round pick who's got a lot of speed probably needs to be on
05:37the field more and maybe bring ramondre's numbers down a little bit what do you do you were talking
05:43about getting getting the rookie out there i'm wondering why they didn't throw a lot more short
05:49passes and screen passes to him i saw swing passes to get him out there but considering the raiders
05:54blitzed a ton in the second half why was the screen game not utilized more with him specifically
06:01yeah it's a good question john i mean i remember one time they did try it and maybe it was early in the
06:07game and the raiders were right on it and so i think probably that the answer to that would would
06:12be that the defensive coordinator patrick graham probably pretty dialed in that when henderson's in
06:17the game um be be alert for the screen and and john just to go back to the other question how to fix
06:24it on defense i think getting christian gonzalez back would obviously help right so better players um
06:31so that that's one part of it and then um that just came to my mind because i didn't want to
06:36leave you hanging on the answer to that well thank you did this change your kind of the way you think
06:43this season's gonna go this loss i know you weren't overly like optimistic you weren't going like 11
06:50wins with the people but do you does this change how you feel this season is going uh in any way
06:56um fred so i i don't don't overreact to the first game i'd use last year as an example um patriots won
07:05that game we saw what happened that being said i i will say i expected more yesterday so i i would say
07:11maybe confidence slightly shaken and and part of the reason for that is you know they talked for a week
07:19about the importance of the second half and mike rabel even like structured his practices last week
07:25to focus on the second half by putting a break in the practice and then having the players come
07:33back as if it was a simulated halftime and for them to come out and and play the way they did in the
07:38second half that that does shake the confidence a little bit but i again wouldn't overreact to one
07:44game but probably why i think i was saying seven to nine wins and then our friend mike giardi got on me
07:51said you can't say seven to nine wins you got to give a number and i think i settled on eight um you
07:56know as we i can't believe you did that you had between seven and nine to choose and you chose the
08:02one right there in the middle by the way did when vrabel took that break in the middle of practice did
08:07he practice making halftime adjustments i mean did he do his own practice there you're great hardy
08:13how about um you know come out of halftime you get a penalty on the kickoff return so you're already
08:18deep and then we're talking about will campbell on the left side but on the interception that
08:23drake may threw it was actually the right side of the line mike owenu and morgan moses it looked like
08:29they struggled a little bit with um one stunt there um and drake got hit and that turnover in my view i
08:36don't know if you guys view it the same way it changed the game it was the turning point of the
08:39game all right and this is this is just a kind of cosmetic thing that i want to ask you about
08:47this team has been really boring win or lose for a while this game was boring in a way do you think
08:56that that is going to change this season say they win eight games that's that's great and you're in
09:03the hunt you know still you're on that graphic in december and that's really what you should root for
09:10with this season is there a way that this gets a little more entertaining yeah i i would invest in
09:16that thought fred and and the reason why is i think we'll see more travion henderson he's an exciting
09:22player kyle williams their third round pick wide receiver he'll get mixed in there he's an exciting
09:28player i think stefan diggs i'd like to see him play a little more i i you know they were easing him
09:33into the mix i think he had 29 snaps i thought every ball that was thrown to him he he caught for
09:38the most part i think he's exciting so i i do think they'll get better fred like a mike rabel
09:45and this coaching staff i think they'll get this this team playing better a more exciting brand of
09:51football and one point rabel made there were 25 new players that were wearing the patriots uniform
09:57in this game and it does take some time to come together and how many of those players do you
10:03think are difference makers well should we go through them fred like how much time no no no but
10:10just my point is is that everyone you know went nuts about free agency and how much the talents
10:16improved and i just think that that might have been over and not because of this game just in general i
10:22think that might have been overstated a little bit yeah yeah i think a small handful of difference
10:27makers and clearly the roster still needs an influx of um and then of more players more talent right
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