00:00let's dive right into this game joe between the pats and the broncos we know that the pats come away
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 from the beginning throughout the entire game
00:15know that stidham was in there instead of bo nicks you know i know a lot of people or at least i saw
00:19the scent
00:20across social media saying oh you know the what ifs with the broncos what if bo nicks was healthy
00:25what if this what if that but really i look at this game and say the pats continue
00:30to struggle on offense for the i'm gonna say two and a half games at least in the playoffs we saw
00:35drake may take five sacks for the third straight game in the playoffs and drake may
00:40looked kind of terrible yesterday that's what my takeaway is from it it's a great defense in denver
00:45it's a tough place to play on the road the 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 i 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 the remandre stevenson and he's a product of his environment let's be honest
01:22you
01:10if on digs is not the same player that he was when he was with josh allen and the buffalo
01:15bills and certainly not in his days in minnesota he's lost this step he's not in a
01:20league number one and case on booties and a very good wide receiver but again
01:25lacks overall elite speed to stretch you know patrick certain and that's
01:30the secondary over the top so 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 what 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 with the roll out of
01:50the 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 now i will say when we look at the match up against seattle
02:00this team is going to need a much better effort throwing the football because we know
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 base
02:15that's basically what like it's it's been 28 games so we know the rushing attack but
02:31you
02:20we know the rushing attack potentially is not going to be there that means drake may is going to have
02:24to make plays in the
02:25the passing attack how they actually mix it up will be critical if you're back in new
02:30to england plus the four and a half and whether they win this game outright
02:44and
02:46and
02:35that's to your point you know looking at remandre stevenson yesterday what we saw from him
02:49you
02:4025 carries for 71 yards he had a long rush of 12 yards
02:54you
02:4525 yards that means outside of that he had 24 carries joe for 59 yards he's averaging
02:50under two and a half yards per carry and frankly that type of performance is not good
02:55enough versus seattle if he's doing that on the ground it's going to be obvious passing situations
03:00for the pats it's going to be drake may in that offensive line which again five sacks in three
03:05great playoff games combined with the fumbles that we saw against the texans and the chargers that is going
03:10to be an issue for drake may so
03:12to me when the pats are going to
03:14have success
03:15it's because steph diggs does enough hunter henry does enough keishan booty it's your point
03:20does enough no one needs to be a superstar but they all need to have enough threat on offense
03:25to make everyone a well-rounded option in the offense that's how i see it playing now
03:30yeah you bring up great points and here's the thing so you look at the game
03:35yesterday and it's like josh mcdaniels in new england said you know what we're coming
03:40confident that we don't have to score a lot of points maybe against jared stidham because we feel
03:45that's how our defense matches up so they were a little bit vanilla i felt on first
03:50and second down run ramandre stevenson get a couple yards run it again
03:55and now you're in a manageable third down type of situation and we'll play the field position
04:00type of game and the defense bailed them out when stidham made the the lateral
04:05right they're not going to be able to do that against seattle so to your point if steven
04:10stevenson is let's say getting 59 yards how do you neutralize that from
04:15just attacking seattle you can still run the football but it's when you
04:20running so if didn't josh mcdaniels has two weeks now to prepare i always
04:25say in super bowls and big matchups the team that breaks tendency
04:30the biggest ultimately wins the game so again you might still want to run it 35
04:35or 40 times but again if they're more aggressive maybe on first and second down
04:40to open up the run with the passing attack that's a way that they can neutralize the
04:45front seven of seattle if you watch the game against the yellow rams blake corum got
04:50some yards on misdirection and they were running the football on passing
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