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What is the issue with #Patriots Red Zone defense? Where does Rob Ninkovich stand on the Patriots, after the loss to the Bills? How can NE improve on offense inside the 20s Who does Ninko blame for the loss?

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00:00where are you today uh three days later on this loss on on sunday uh i'm not i'm not as
00:09doom and gloom as everybody else is listen during the season there's going to be moments where you
00:15have to learn from these losses now you could always band-aid issues with bad wins or wins
00:21that you you know you're able to take care of business you win kind of overshadow some of the
00:26issues that you have and there's been a problem here with red zone defense they're not able to
00:33stop these teams from scoring in the red zone now when i mean score i'm talking getting in the end
00:38zone that bend but don't break mentality if you were to look at this game and they're up 21 nothing
00:44and instead of buffalo going down and scoring they kick field goals you win this game so what they
00:51have to really address here is where how do we have this bend but don't break mentality let them
00:57drive the ball fine our offense is going to score points we know that let them get into the red zone
01:02and we just got to hold them the field goals and bill's defenses of which you were part were always
01:06we had a lot of i mean if you looked at the total yardage like maybe we weren't the best at total
01:12yards but we were always one of the top in points allowed so if you can just limit the amount of
01:19scores touchdowns and and just have them kick field goals the odds of you scoring more points
01:25are higher and that at the end of the day that's all you need we just need more touches offensively
01:29because we're going to score points we have the horses we got the quarterback we have the running
01:33backs i mean you think about it when you can hand the ball off and your running back is faster than
01:38anybody on the defense out running angles you have the upper hand so in this game there are a couple
01:45things obviously campbell you know the offensive line is going to get healthier hopefully as we move
01:50forward here um i thought protection wise i didn't think drake was hitting his back foot and getting
01:56hit so buffalo wasn't blitzing that much they were dropping back in coverage um we did strike first we
02:04scored a bunch of points but we couldn't we couldn't close it out at the end of this in the second half
02:08here so you're trying to learn from all these things and as a coach you're just pulling up
02:15everything from this loss and you're making it an example to these guys all right we can't do this
02:20we can't shoot ourselves in the foot i think that pi call was ridiculous so there are things that are
02:27going to go against you that are out of your control that you hope moving forward that play just
02:33doesn't happen again which is weird because downplay they're seventh when it comes to points
02:38allowed they're one of the better teams in the nfl yeah but the problem is is i guess if you're mike
02:44vrabel he's probably saying hey don't let him get in the red zone because when they get in the red zone
02:48we're the worst team in the nfl when it comes to scoring defense if we keep them out of the red zone
02:53we're a top 10 team so how do you do that as like i guess how how is that like working out where you're
03:01one of the best teams not giving up points but in the red zone you give up points that to the red
03:07zone uh have you been able to figure out what the issues are for so here's another here's another
03:12little issue i have um if you're going to pay say just just i'm going to put the name out there if
03:19you're going to pay gonzalez you got to put him man to man on the best player and you got to forget
03:24about that guy if you want to pay him that top dollar number one corner type money if he wants to get
03:30it yeah so there are instances i know you're playing josh allen i know he can run i know he
03:35they had a mirror guy on him i know sometimes you want to play a lot of zone because your eyes are on
03:39the quarterback and there's not all that space because we saw against cincinnati when you're a
03:43man and your backs are turned and you're covering somebody it's basically your front four that are
03:49responsible for the quarterback so you have to limit kind of that pin your ears back mentality you can't
03:54run past them because he's going to step up in the pocket and take off um but we have to
03:59rely a little bit more on the talent of being able to play man coverage and then using a linebacker to
04:07mirror the quarterback and have a linebacker that has the speed i know spleen wasn't out there
04:12um in this game but when you are mixing that stuff in it really affects the quarterback in trying to
04:19figure out okay that's why we see a lot of motion in the nfl today because what they're trying to do
04:24is when you're moving the back from empty back into the backfield when you're um yakking somebody
04:29across the formation it is just to see is somebody manned up on him are they in zone because if nobody
04:35moves we know we're in zone and then we'll do our zone beaters and then if we're in man we'll do our
04:40bunch or our man beaters so it's really going to come down to can our best defenders step up in the
04:48playoffs step up and do what they're what they have to do and that's play out of your minds you got to
04:54play your best ball at this time of the year or else you're going to lose and that's just the name
04:58of the game also man beaters a group of ladies that uh shyme is a fan of but yes okay i asked
05:07wiggy this earlier i like that he and i disagreed um who do you put that if you had to put that loss
05:14primarily on sunday the offense or the defense i'm going to say special teams now when you come out
05:20in the second half and the you get the ball on the 40 right so they had what a two or three pretty
05:27big returns they're two really big ones and then they had a return with a uh a personal foul on it
05:32which led to 15 more on top of it so it was like you know three big returns because when you're in
05:37these type of back and forth games where every possession counts if you get the ball say on the
05:43your own 40 versus the 20 or the 30 right on the other side you have a lot that's at least
05:51five to seven more plays that they have to execute and run to get to the same point that they're
05:57starting at right so i didn't like that first opening kickoff a lot of people weren't even in
06:02their seats yet because they're you know it's halftime you come out okay kickoff oh they got
06:07the ball to start well they're already started on the 40 yard line right they get the ball they
06:10score instantly the momentum's already in their favor so they're known to be really good on special
06:17teams so we are usually the team that have the great returns and the big returns and setting up
06:23the field position and that whole thing so you can't give josh allen short 40 yards to go to score
06:29you can't do it so i think that there was a little bit of an issue there on their kick coverage and they
06:35know that so it's not a big secret and i'm sure they're going to address that and say listen we can't
06:40have this moving forward we got to be better on our coverage units um kick coverage but your
06:44expectation moving forward hasn't changed after that loss no i think you know we're playing the
06:49ravens they're kind of a jackal and hide you know they get killed by cincinnati then they kill
06:53cincinnati so our what type of team is are we going to see sunday night you know is it going to be the
07:00the best team that like last week that they've been playing at their best are they going to kind of
07:04just be mediocre and not being out there and not playing at the highest level so i'm not worried about it
07:09they can control their own destiny right now if they win if they win what two games they're
07:14they're winning they got the division in hand so um you just wouldn't you would just like to see
07:21them controlling their own destiny so if they take care of business and they beat buffalo well
07:26they're division champs right now you really have to make sure you go out there take care of business
07:32the last three weeks you know miami's wounded and they're floundering
07:37what do you think of tua like i think tua is uh what do they call that
07:44wait till i get my money right i think he's paid and i don't think that there's great uh a great
07:52relationship there with the head coach and i think that that whole thing is a disaster so
07:57that's over yeah and that's it that game they're gonna come here to have 90 of the team already has
08:03their vacation the flight's all set up they're going to you know aruba or something um and they're
08:09gonna be ready to get the heck out of here and and go on vacation the way i looked at that game on
08:13sunday is i i came away with you blew this game you you're up 24 7 at halftime that's a game that you
08:20should win and but i also look at the way that the patriots have been playing all year long and go okay
08:26if they're in that position again i don't believe they make the same mistakes that they did i think
08:33it's a good learning experience for them and maybe where they got a little bit they got a little bit
08:38to scoreboard watching 24 7 they got to celebrate it and that could come from a young team not being
08:44laser focused where a veteran team that has been there before would be like listen hey we still got
08:49a whole so they looked at it end of the half they're like we got this one and we can take yeah there was
08:53a gas yeah there was a moment where i think they showed collins celebrating i think they showed
08:58digs on the sideline on the jumbotron like excited and it was almost too much too soon as far as the
09:06whole celebration standpoint so you know i think this is a great learning experience for this team and
09:13and i'm sure vrabel's on it right now i'm sure he's got all the clips and all the you know low
09:18lights up like listen we can't have this um and they might see this team again so if they see him
09:25again hopefully they learn from it and then

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