When it comes to the Patriots' upcoming schedule- no reason to brake.

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00:00While the Patriots, they are back, Shaughnessy today in the Boston Globe has a column where he notes,

00:05the prudent thing, of course, is to pump the brakes and remind everybody that the 2025 Patriots

00:10couldn't beat the awful Raiders in Foxborough, that they committed five turnovers in a ridiculous

00:15home loss to the Steelers, and that the lords of television buried the Patriots in anonymous

00:19one o'clock Sunday slots for 13 weekends because nobody expected them to be interesting.

00:25Well, Shaughnessy notes, it's not so much about the Patriots, but what we've been talking about

00:30with the schedule, and the schedule is wide open for this team.

00:37They should be 6-2.

00:39They've already had the losses to inferior teams where they stepped on their own foot.

00:43They have these games ahead of them.

00:45This weekend's big.

00:46They're only three and a half point favorites against the awful Saints in New Orleans.

00:50That feels like a trap game for a young team coming off a lot of praise after the game against

00:54the Bills on Sunday night.

00:56But just betting alone, I know this is Shyam's side of the street, but right now, they are

01:02plus 400 to win the division.

01:05So if you bet 100, you win 400.

01:08I would absolutely put a couple bucks on that.

01:11I mean, they're 2-0 in the division.

01:13The only games they have remaining are at home against the Dolphins, 2 against the Jets,

01:17and the Bills at home.

01:18If you say you split with the Bills, you lose that one, you're 5-1 in the division.

01:21Listen, I find that the two most difficult division games they've already won, in Miami

01:26and in Buffalo, two places they've had a hard time winning of late.

01:29And I just watch and see what the rest of the NFL is.

01:33You don't have to be an all-time great team.

01:36You just have to be the best team that year.

01:38And the NFL is down.

01:40There's a stat at PFF where they do the quarterback and all the player rankings, and you can have

01:45these qualifiers.

01:45So 80% of dropbacks is what I use to see, you know, what Drake looks like against Mahomes

01:51and everybody else.

01:52There's only 16 quarterbacks that have taken 80% or more of their team's snaps.

01:58Half the league's quarterbacks haven't taken 80% of the snaps, which is unbelievable when

02:06you consider how much we protect them.

02:07So all of that tells me, barring injury, the Patriots are about to go on a run, and it's

02:12not hyperbole to say that they're a playoff team already.

02:14Tomato cans.

02:17That's what Shaughnessy would say.

02:18He does.

02:19That's what you have.

02:20You have a bunch of tomato cans ahead of you, and we talked about this yesterday.

02:24Your two hottest games left are going to be at home to the Bills and on the road to the

02:31Bucs.

02:31The Baltimore game, I don't know what that's going to look like because that's towards

02:35the end of the season.

02:36But even if it's tough, that's only three tough games.

02:39Right, right.

02:39So even if it's tough, like Shime said, that's three tough games.

02:42You'll be on the road in Baltimore.

02:44Well, and we were talking about it yesterday.

02:46You believe, I think most everybody does, that AFC is pretty wide open.

02:51Wide open.

02:52I mean, who scares you?

02:55I mean.

02:56Who's the best team in the AFC?

02:58Buffalo.

02:58We talked about this yesterday.

03:00You think.

03:01You think.

03:04I mean, we just love it.

03:06I mean, we have a bunch of other teachers, but I told you that a bunch of them all came

03:08up and they're out of common general, and we're not around and that you're out of ...

03:16We used to do that talent.

03:18But it is so hard to pay for us.

03:19I've already tied up, because there are other games of you to go in嘴.

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