00:00You mentioned some of it there, but what's the game plan to beat this team?
00:02I like the deep ball thought, but again, that's not necessarily my first and foremost thing.
00:08And even if you do that, how many times are you going to be able to really do that?
00:12So I think Ramondre Stevenson is going to have to be a big part of this thing.
00:15And like I said, whether it's the screen game, because he is a much better pass catcher,
00:19and he has been all season, and maybe even for his career, honestly, than you think.
00:22When you see Ramondre Stevenson in the back, you don't think of like,
00:25he's a guy that's going to be huge in the pass game.
00:28Travion Henderson looks more like a pass catching back, and he can do it too.
00:33But I think Ramondre Stevenson is going to have to continue his streak,
00:36hold on to the ball, obviously, and then find spots to run.
00:40One of the cliche things is, but you can't be second and 12.
00:45You can't be third and 15, and all it takes is a sack or a negative play,
00:50and now you're really up against it.
00:52It's an awesome, awesome defense.
00:54I think points are going to be at a premium,
00:55so you've got to take advantage of every time you have the ball.
00:58So I do think the game is going to be won on the other side.
01:02I don't know how much the Patriots are going to score,
01:04and I concede the Texans, I think, have the better unit.
01:08As good as the Patriots are offensively, and Drake May is brilliant individually,
01:12I think the Texans have a better unit.
01:14So points are going to be at a premium, as you just said, for the Pats.
01:17I think where you win is on the other side.
01:18And this defense has been, I think, inconsistent at times where they give up easy drives to start the game,
01:26or they fall apart and collapse in the second half like they did against Buffalo.
01:31So I don't always think you know what you're going to get out of this defense.
01:35But based on what we saw last week, and that was something very different,
01:38they were dialing up pressures, they were dialing up blitzes.
01:41I think you keep rolling that.
01:44And CJ Stroud has some good numbers against the Blitz, some awful numbers against pressure.
01:48Phil Perry's been detailing those this week at NBC Sports Boston.
01:51It's interesting.
01:52I think you keep, if not bringing the house, you know, dialing up some of those blitzes.
01:58They had a very high rate of blitzes last week, almost 50%.
02:00You might not need to be that high.
02:02Pick your spots here and there.
02:04But I want it higher than what you did in the regular season.
02:06And I do still think, as Vrabel said, this is where the big dogs eat.
02:10It's another big week for Milton Williams and Christian Barmore on the interior.
02:14It's the time for them to do it.
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