What is the Patriots' Achilles' heel in 2025?

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00:00What's the Achilles heel of the Patriots?

00:03What's going to derail them?

00:05Slow start.

00:06Slow start in the game.

00:07And I think it starts with the defense.

00:09I think the offense at times is ready to go at the beginning of the game

00:12because you're able to script things

00:13and you sort of have a plan of what you're going to attack.

00:16I don't really know what they really want to attack on defense

00:18because they don't play a ton of man

00:20unless they're going to totally flip the script here in the playoffs when they start.

00:23Or maybe you get down to Baltimore and you play Buffalo in those two big games

00:26and all of a sudden you become a man team on defense.

00:28I think they're predominantly a zone team.

00:30I think teams know that.

00:32They're able to get in rhythm early in the game.

00:33But they're able to switch some things and go to different man coverages

00:36to where, okay, we can adjust to win a game.

00:39I think a slow start getting down by 7 or getting down 10-0,

00:41that's the one thing that could derail this team

00:43because they really haven't had to fight back

00:45from like a double-digit deficit much at all this year.

00:51I mean, that is adversity facing adversity in your face

00:53where we lose, we're out, we're eliminated.

00:55I'm talking like round one.

00:56Getting down 10-zip in round one.

00:59If you don't have the bye.

01:01Maybe this is why you have to have the bye.

01:04But I do worry, especially with Milt Williams here,

01:07you know, going to be out for a while.

01:09Hey, this thing could be six weeks.

01:10We don't know that.

01:11Like, he's going to miss four games.

01:13Yeah, the hope should be you get him back for the playoffs.

01:14It's four to six weeks is the injury, and he's a big guy.

01:18I worry about big guys with that weight on it

01:19because it's a lot different than a guy that's light

01:21because you can kind of tape that thing up tight, shoot it up, and go.

01:24Bigger guys, it's a little tougher

01:26because you've got that big ball of their joint, you know,

01:28going up between the two bones and the legs.

01:30That's how the high ankle sprain happens.

01:33He's not going to get the surgery.

01:34That's stupid if he did.

01:35I wouldn't zip tie it, you know, or whatever the heck that's called.

01:39Oh, you think it might be that bad?

01:40I think it's like a third-degree high ankle sprain.

01:42I don't know that, but I think he – and this is what I did.

01:46Like, when I had mine, like, 50 years ago, it felt like I broke my ankle.

01:51But I got up and hobbled off the field like he did.

01:54Then I'm on the sideline.

01:55I'm standing there, and Scar was the interim head coach.

01:57And I'm like pushing – I said, I think I broke my ankle.

02:00It felt like I broke my ankle.

02:01He goes, oh, Jesus, okay, we're going to get x-rayed.

02:03So they put me on a car that took me and got x-rayed.

02:06They said, it's not broken.

02:06But we didn't have the imaging and the MRI right there to tell that it's a high ankle sprain.

02:10I'm like, dude, I can't – my toe, I can't go up on it.

02:13I broke it.

02:14There's chips in there somewhere.

02:15It's not.

02:16Here's the x-ray.

02:17So what we're going to do is we're going to shoot it up.

02:19We're going to tape it up tight.

02:20You wear a size 13, we're going to put a size 15 shoe on you because you put so much tape on it.

02:25I got out there, and I tried.

02:26I was able to move around when I got out there, but, man, you couldn't feel anything.

02:30You couldn't be effective.

02:31Like, he tried to come back in the game and be effective.

02:33Like, that tells me it's a high ankle sprain.

02:36Like, that tells me it's a high ankle sprain.

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