Are the Patriots Due for a Shocking Upset vs. the Jets?

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00:00Alex, is there any concerns at all that you have for this game?

00:05I mean, not beyond the usual.

00:06It's a Thursday night game.

00:08That's always a little weird, the short week,

00:10especially after the Patriots playing such a physical game last week.

00:15You know, odd stuff happens in these games.

00:17Beyond that, you know, if it was Sunday at 1, I'd say not really, no.

00:22Okay, so I've been kicking this around for a couple of days

00:25because this is the first time in a few weeks

00:28where there hasn't been at least a couple of voices saying,

00:31ah, the Patriots could get popped here.

00:34You know, people said it about the Browns,

00:37certainly said it last week against Tampa Bay,

00:41like, you know, they could lose this one.

00:42Nobody says that about the Jets.

00:45So, in thinking about it more, Alex, I thought,

00:48well, if there's that one game every season

00:50where a team loses a game that they shouldn't,

00:54you know, is this the one?

00:55And then I thought, well, maybe that was the Raiders game.

00:57Does that count?

00:59If you lose the first game of the season,

01:01can it count as the one game for the season

01:03that you shouldn't lose but you lose anyway?

01:06Kind of.

01:06I mean, that's another game that's always weird.

01:09Look at the last two years for the Patriots.

01:11They beat the Bengals last year,

01:13and then they lose to the Raiders this year,

01:15which is looking like another one of those weird outcomes,

01:17one of those out-of-place outcomes.

01:19So, you know, I think you can count that.

01:21Some teams have more than one.

01:22It is usually that game, too, is a divisional game.

01:25We know even back in the day when the Patriots were rolling,

01:28they'd, you know, trip up against a bad Miami team

01:31or, you know, there were a couple years New York got them.

01:33It never really happened against Buffalo.

01:34But you look at what happened to the Bills last week

01:37down in Miami.

01:37Now, I think what helps the Patriots,

01:39that's often due to familiarity.

01:41And this is two coaching staffs that have never coached

01:44against each other, both in their first year.

01:46The Jets have turned over a ton of their roster,

01:48both in the last year and obviously in the last few weeks.

01:51So, as far as divisional games go,

01:54this is probably as unfamiliar as you're going to get.

01:56Even Drake May has really never played against the Jets.

01:59He played in garbage time in the first game last year.

02:02And in the second game, that was the game he had to miss most

02:04with the concussion.

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