00:00Credit to the Patriots for winning, albeit one of the worst games I think I've ever seen in an AFC.
00:05And I've seen a lot, definitely the worst half of football I've ever seen.
00:10So I guess I'm just not surprised to see this end at the half.
00:13They should have just went home.
00:15Because those conditions were just insane to have to play in.
00:18But I do give the...
00:20Credit to the Patriots, because if their defense was horrendous, then I suppose R.J. Harvey and McLaughlin...
00:25And those guys would have just ran all over them, because that's all anybody was doing.
00:28But I guess I would...
00:30I'm going to ask you this, Adam.
00:30Was that positive for the Patriots there in that second half?
00:34Do you think that they...
00:35They just simply played better defense to win the AFC championship, because it was...
00:40That narrow of a margin.
00:42Well, I'll say this.
00:42You sound a little bit like Kurt Warner.
00:44Of course, the...
00:45Hall of Famer who lost to the Patriots back at the greatest show on turf days, who still...
00:49All these...
00:50Years later, 25 years later, holds a grudge against New England for some of the various...
00:55Conspiracies or just blatant cheating that happened along the way.
01:00For the Belichick regime.
01:01But, you know, I look at...
01:03I understand why...
01:05A lot of people going into yesterday, never mind the results of yesterday, felt like the NFC...
01:10Game Ram Seahawks was the Super Bowl, if you will, because that was going to be the more...
01:15Selling game, and you knew that whoever it was that came out of the AFC...
01:20Patriots less so, but whichever team, it was going to be the NFC...
01:25Heavily favored.
01:25I mean, hell, if Jarrett Stidham and the Broncos got through, they would have been, you know...
01:30By kickoff, probably a 10-point dog against the Seahawks.
01:33So, it would have been...
01:35Incredibly lopsided.
01:36I think the Patriots...
01:38I guess to go back to yesterday...
01:40First, the conditions were really interesting, because the conditions were not...
01:45A factor at all, the first half of that game, and both offenses looked terrible...
01:50No doubt about it.
01:51I mean, we were not getting MVP Drake May, for instance, and have...
01:55We haven't seen a whole lot of that over the course of these three games so far in the postseason.
01:58It was the second half...
02:00And in particular, the last, you know, quarter, quarter and a half, where everything got...
02:04Really...
02:05Really gross, you know, May dropping back to hand off to Ramondre Stevenson, and he can't give him the ball.
02:10Because Stevenson slips and falls on his face, and then May slips, and has to take the sack.
02:14It just got...
02:15You know, mucky and ugly out there.
02:17But I do think you have to...
02:20One credit both defenses.
02:21Both defenses were terrific, and I was someone who was really...
02:25Skeptical of the Broncos' defense over the second half of the year, and...
02:30Felt they were a little fraudulent, a little overrated, you know, weren't really deserving of the top five recognition.
02:35That the statistics over the course of a full year bared out, but, you know...
02:40Watching it, obviously the weather impacted things, but still, they got stops.
02:43They, in particular, in that...
02:45The first half made May and the rest of that offense's life very, very difficult.
02:50Where I will contend that yesterday, you know, feeds into...
02:55All these people's opinions about the Patriots who are doubters, skeptics.
03:00And believe they've had this, you know, easy path, even in the postseason, never mind the easy regular season.
03:05Schedule is, I do think, doesn't mean the Patriots would have lost, but I absolutely do believe yesterday...
03:10If you had a mobile Bo Nix, a la a mobile Drake May, as...
03:15As opposed to a pocket passer who couldn't handle pressure in Jarrett Stidham, who just got stuck there and drilled...
03:20Anytime the Patriots brought a blitz, that game would have looked different, but...
03:25Some decisions were made, obviously Sean Payton, after the fact, asked about him, you know...
03:30Whether or not he had regrets over passing on the early points that could have gone up by two scores and making a 10-0...
03:35Something lead, and they didn't, they got greedy, and they went for it, didn't work out, and all of a sudden, you're on the wrong side of a 10-7...
03:40Game, I just, the Patriots defense is really, really good, especially the run defense, and I do think...
03:45I think it's going to make Kenneth Walker's life as a rusher difficult in the Super Bowl.
03:49Now...
03:50As a receiver, as a pass catcher, it could look different, but I think the...
03:55I've sort of changed my tune on this game a little bit along the way, I wonder if these...
04:00defenses, the Patriots and the Seahawks are a little bit of a wash, more so than I would have initially...
04:05given them credit for knowing how good Seattle's is, to where then you start to look to the office...
04:10defense and say, maybe this actually will be the game that will be determined by the quarterback.
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