00:00Let's dive right into this game, Joe, between the Pats and the Broncos.
00:03We know that the Pats come away with the...
00:05They did not cover. It was a three-and-a-half-point spread, so Broncos get the cover.
00:10Under was really the play from the beginning throughout the entire game.
00:15We know that Stidham was in there instead of Bo Nix.
00:17You know, I know a lot of people, or at least I saw the scent of...
00:20Even across social media saying, oh, you know, the what-ifs with the Broncos.
00:23What if Bo Nix was healthy?
00:25What if this? What if that?
00:26But really, I look at this game and say, the Pats continue...
00:30Continue to struggle on offense for the, I'm going to say, two-and-a-half games, at least in the playoffs.
00:34We saw...
00:35Drake May take five sacks for the third straight game in the playoffs.
00:39And Drake May...
00:40Looked kind of terrible yesterday.
00:41That's what my takeaway is from it.
00:43It's a great defense in Denver.
00:45It's a tough place to play on the road.
00:46The weather certainly played a part in all of this.
00:49But the Pats won.
00:50In spite of Drake May, Joe, 86 yards to me is unacceptable from a quarterback in a playoff.
00:55Yeah, I agree.
00:56I think when you look at the performance, Drake May...
01:00is a good quarterback when, obviously, the rushing attack is there with both Henderson...
01:05and Ramondre Stevenson, and he's a product of his environment.
01:09Let's be honest.
01:10Devon Diggs is not the same player that he was when he was with Josh Allen in the Buffalo...
01:15Bills, and certainly not in his days in Minnesota.
01:18He's lost a step.
01:19He's not in a...
01:20Fleet number one.
01:21And Kayshawn Booty's a very good wide receiver, but again...
01:25lacks overall elite speed to stretch Patrick Sertan and that's...
01:30secondary over the top.
01:31So they stack the box and they try to force Drake May to beat them...
01:35over the top, and that allowed Denver to be in that game.
01:38What I did like about Drake May...
01:40is as bad as the passing attack was, still was calm enough to make plays...
01:45with his legs, extend drives, and obviously that play with the roll out of...
01:50at the end of the game, with the game on the line, he made enough plays to put his team in a position...
01:55to just close it out.
01:56Now, I will say when we look at the matchup against Seattle...
02:00this team is going to need a much better effort throwing the football because we know how...
02:05how active that front seven is with Demarcus Lawrence in Seattle, you're not going to have...
02:10easy yards, they haven't allowed a hundred-yard rusher now, Tom, in basically...
02:15what, like, it's been 28 games, so we know the rushing attack...
02:20that potentially is not going to be there, that means Drake May is going to have to make plays in the...
02:25passing attack, how they actually mix it up will be critical if you're back in New England...
02:30plus the four-and-a-half, and whether they win this game outright.
02:33Mm.
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03:27option in the offense that's how I see it playing now yeah you bring up great points and
03:32here's the thing so you look at the game yesterday and it's like Josh Mc
03:37Daniels in New England said you know what we're confident that we don't have to score a lot
03:42of points maybe against Jared Stidham because we feel our defense matches up
03:47so they were a little bit vanilla I felt on first and second down run Ramon
03:52Stevenson get a couple yards run it again and now you're in a manageable third
03:57down type of situation and we'll play the field position type of game and the defense
04:02bailed them out when Stidham made the the lateral right they're not going to be able to do
04:07that against Seattle so to your point if Stevenson is let's say getting 59
04:12yards how do you neutralize that from just attacking Seattle
04:17you can still run the football but it's when you run it so if didn't Josh McDaniel
04:22has two weeks now to prepare I always say in Super Bowls and big matches
04:27the team that breaks tendency the biggest ultimately wins
04:32the game so again you might still want to run it 35 or 40 times but again
04:37if they're more aggressive maybe on first and second down to open up the run with the pass
04:42and attack that's a way that they can neutralize the front seven of Seattle if you watch the
04:47game against the L.A. Rams Blake Corum got some yards on misdirection
04:52and they were running the football on passing situations and that's how they
04:57were able to move the football on the ground New England and Tom is going to have to do the same thing
05:02in this matchup
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