WEEI Afternoons: Brian Hoyer explains how the Patriots will overcome their injuries

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00:00But let me ask you about just the injuries.

00:03I mean, you're out there, you're a quarterback,

00:05and then your left tackle and your left guard go out with injuries.

00:10What are you thinking at that point?

00:13And then also just what do you think Josh McDaniels will do

00:16to negate maybe those guys being out moving forward?

00:21Well, I think first and foremost within the game as a quarterback,

00:24you realize, okay, I'm not going to hold the ball any longer, right?

00:28And that's just a normal reaction.

00:31I think the one thing I would say, and we've talked about it,

00:35I've played for a lot of great coordinators.

00:36I've been high on Josh.

00:38And the one reason I would say this is where you're thankful

00:41you have an experienced offensive coordinator who can be creative

00:44with a game plan moving forward because let's just say, for instance,

00:48the Patriots did what a lot of people wanted.

00:51Let's go get a young, hot name that's from the West Coast system.

00:55And that could have been great.

00:56But now you're into the point in the season where guys are getting injured

01:01and Josh has done this so many times before and has the experience of figuring

01:06out how to navigate around injuries or maybe where you could be a little

01:10shorthanded.

01:12And so, look, next week's game makes me a little nervous because you're going

01:15against a Giants team.

01:17They have nothing to lose.

01:18They just fired their defensive coordinator.

01:20It's a Monday night national game.

01:21This guy who's the interim D coordinator is going to want to come in and make a splash,

01:25make a name for himself.

01:26And they have some, let's just call it, great elite talent on the front four

01:31of the Giants team.

01:32And so, to me, what Josh is going to do this week is understand, look,

01:36we've got a new combination of guys playing on the left side.

01:39They've got some good pass rushers.

01:40We have to be ready for some things that they have up their sleeve,

01:43try to make a name for themselves.

01:45We're going to focus on the quick pass game this week.

01:47Drake, you know, when I call these certain plays, the ball's got to come out of your

01:51hands in under two and a half seconds, okay?

01:52When I see that maybe some of their pass rushers are out, we'll get to the shot plays.

01:57But having a coordinator with that experience and realizing I'm not just going to go

02:01call plays next Monday night against this defense with some of our guys down.

02:05I have to be very mindful of how I put the game plan together and how I call the game

02:09on Monday night.

02:09And so that's where you've got to be thankful that you have an experienced guy who's been

02:14through the fire in a lot of different situations.

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