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Takeaways from a very winnable Week 2 loss to the Seahawks

Patriots fans enjoyed a brief spell of fortune last week, only to be swiftly brought back to earth by an overtime loss to the Seahawks. Fitzy and Hart painstakingly dissect the numerous missed opportunities the Pats had throughout the game. The preseason concern over the offensive line has resurfaced, following their earlier solid performance against the Bengals. Issues that seemed resolved last week have now reemerged during the Patriots' home opener. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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16 Sep 2024
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Patriots fans enjoyed a brief spell of fortune last week, only to be swiftly brought back to earth by an overtime loss to the Seahawks. Fitzy and Hart painstakingly dissect the numerous missed opportunities the Pats had throughout the game. The preseason concern over the offensive line has resurfaced, following their earlier solid performance against the Bengals. Issues that seemed resolved last week have now reemerged during the Patriots' home opener.

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Ah, I meant a glass case of the motion. You know, Andy Hart, there's a bunch of things in this life that I hate. I hate traffic. I hate mean people. I hate when people wait in line for 20 minutes at a concession. Why are you working with Andy? Shut it, Joe. It's way too early for you. I told you, Braverman. I'm on edge right now. Push him. 20 minutes in line for concessions. And then people still say, "Now, what do I want?" You know what else I hate? Illinois Nazis. And when my favorite football team loses a winnable game. I know this team has a long way to go. I know this team needs everything to go their way. I know they need every last bounce. I know they are trying their hardest. I know there is a deficit of talent, and I know I am supposed to believe in the process. But on a glorious, beautiful, picturesque, damn near perfect day at the tail end of summer. At Foxborough, home opener. Fans were lubed. The tips were sizzling. The bevs flowing. Moons elevated. Vibes immaculate. The New England Patriots just fall apart in the second half of this football game. They can't block. They can't throw. They can't run. They can't stop the other team from throwing. But otherwise, it was perfect. A game that could have been a W ends up a 23-20 loss to the Seattle Seahawks. Possibly a playoff team. We'll look back on that one in a couple of weeks, or maybe a few months. Maybe Andy Hart will say, "Oh man, good thing the Patriots lost that game because now they're going to get a much better draft pick." Or maybe this competitive, tough ass team that keeps telling us that they want to take him to the hill. It feels like my soul was taken to the hill. Maybe they'll say, "Ah!" If we had just found a way to convert in that game, I feel bad for Jacobi Brissette. I feel terribly for everyone that had their hopes pinned to the Pats going 2-0 and then going down to meth life stadium on Thursday night with a chance to fight it out. Possibly even for the lead and the AFC East. But alas, here we are. I agree with you in your quote tweet of my promotional tweet for the post game show. They showed good fight. Some areas played really well. Some really did not. Another entertaining game to open the year. No argument from this guy. That is the bar for this Patriots team until otherwise noted. And we opened the Six Rings post game show today here, following the announcement of Joe Castiglione's retirement, which apparently I heard Andy was accompanied by a Red Sox game in the Bronx against the Yankees. Or something like that. I wasn't paying attention. We opened today's Six Rings post game show and the lines, which are probably like Route 1 right now outside the stadium, jammed with a lot of frustrated Fox bro faithful, Andy. 617779793 7. We opened with this question. I'm just going to put it out there. It may be the dumbest question ever that's never stopped me. And you've never been hesitant to remind me. I won't now. At this point, Andy, seeing what you saw from this truly offensive line, it's not an offensive line. It is an offensive line. From Old Man Brissette, who just keeps getting hammered into the turf over and over again. Some very rookie coaching and some questionable play calling. Oh, and wide receivers, by the way, who caught three passes. Do they have wide receivers? I think, uh, pal, Mike Giardi just, quote, just tweeted a few moments ago. Uh, they had, here it is right here. This is a stat and a half for everybody. Pat's through for 32 yards in the second half and overtime combined. Oh, he catches total from the wide receivers for you. Guested audience 19 yards in a touchdown. Don't forget the touchdown though. Yeah, it was a nice throw. Maybe maybe try that again over and over again. But then again, also you need time to actually be able to take a three, five, seven step drop. Look at the field process, analyze and make the throw as opposed to, I don't know, laden Robinson, Michael Wenu. Oh, well, I know who's making Andy's thumbs down list today. Yeah. All of them. The answer, everyone but key on white and Jalen Polk. Uh, I asked this. I'll just, I'll ask. How crazy would it be to start Drake May, week three? Uh, on a short week going against a Jets defense, I think, uh, barring an injury. I think that's a fireable offense for Gerard Mayo, Alex van Pelten, the people that supposedly have a plan. I know it's not, it's not ideal. No, it's not ideal. It's stupid. It's stupid. It's exceptionally stupid. If you didn't want to break him, that's a good way to break him. If there was concerns about development and being ready, a short week with no practices, just walk throughs to go against a pretty darn talented and potentially aggressive Jets defense on the road at MetLife Stadium, I'm not sure you could find a worst time to start him. That might be the worst possible time to start him. Oh, and by the way, I don't even know the status of half the offensive lineman, because you got Chukes jumping ship, which I don't know if anybody misses him, doesn't miss him, but he's part of the plan. He was part of Elliott Wolf's plan. He's still a human being that tries to block other people. So at this point now, the Pats are desperate for any and all options on the offensive line, especially tackle. Yeah, I don't, I, that would be a, I'm not exaggerating. To me, that would be a borderline fireable offense. If they chose to start Drake May this week, that would be taking the plan, laying it out, putting lighter fluid, then gasoline, then dynamite on it, and lighting it and exploding it and blow it. That would be stupidie manifestation. Okay, so how about, all right, so Jacoby percent. So is that a no Andy? So Andy, so how do you really feel about it? Now let's pretend everyone's listening. Okay, so I wouldn't want to do it either because I think at this point now, you basically have just sold out the month of September, maybe not the entire season, but you can't tell me that, oh, hell, dude, would Bailey, poor Jacoby percent. I mean, he's got no time. I get it. You know, just, it's a jailbreak. Every other dropback. But he goes 15, what is it, 15 for 27? On a day, Gino Smith looked like freaking Patrick Mahomes, 33 of 44 for 330 yards and a touchdown, 103.1 rating for set 15 of 27 for a buck 49. One touchdown, three sacks. It felt like he had about 13 sacks on the day. I don't know, man. It just, this offense like is definitely going to be-- Oh, I'm not saying you don't need a boost at quarterback. He's going to be stuck in the mud for a while to come. You've laid a foundation where you can't play him now. If you wanted him to effing inject life into the passing game, week one was the one, not week three, going on a short week to New York. You have put a plan into effect and you need to stick with it. Absolutely. And, you know, there's some question as to who won, lost this game. And if you ranked the three areas of the team, I mean, Keon White started off his press conference saying the offense did enough to win. We've got to figure things out on our side of the ball. Haven't heard that in a long time. We spent all of last year having guys talk about, well, I guess now we've got to not allow zero points if we want to win football games around here. Defensive accountability from the kid who had two sacks has four and a half and is on pace for 40 this season. Yeah. So, I mean, there was plenty of reason to go around as to A, why you were in the game. I think there were contributions in some ways from all three areas, but also failures in all three areas. And I'll add a fourth area because we don't bring this up enough. We always talk about offense, defense, special teams. Coaching wasn't good. The coaching was a problem today. Situational football helped or hurt by coaching was an issue today. And with all of that thrown in there, you could have. And I saw Greg Badard tweeted out after the Antonio Gibson long run. Should have won this football game was like an 87% chance to win the game or something at that point. And then things kind of fell apart from there. And unfortunately, you're not nearly good enough to overcome significant mistakes that they made today. You're not good enough to overcome some questionable calls, some poor calls, maybe, by the officials. I know we're going to get into the past interference on Jonathan Jones, maybe the past interference. Yes, sir. Yeah. I thought the ref sucked. The only thing that blew more than the refs was the broadcast. It was one of the worst broadcasts I've ever watched. I don't know. If you had to like metal stand, like a reverse metal stand of, so I guess that was more. Can we make that? 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That was very procedural and probably more information than you needed to know, point being we're here till 7.30. Pipe down everybody. So yeah, a reverse metal stand of how the Patriots lost this game. It may be the, I would say the offensive line gets the gold medal. The coaching gets the silver and it wasn't like by a nose or like a photo finish, but it was close because the coaching got real bad in the second half. And then the refs would probably take a distant, but you know, worthy bronze. That's my feeling. Yeah. I just, I hate getting into the refs and the debates. They were. You always say they suck, don't you? Yes. I think they're terrible. Muched a high school game on Friday night was horrifically officiated. And guess what? No one cared because one team took care of its business and the other didn't. Terp, if you're listening, I'm talking about the Dartmouth Indians. All right. Why don't you let me say how great it is, let the host just feed you the compliments as opposed to having it. All right. You'll get your. No, but I know your training as an official as well. No, his boy played great. And that's the worst thing they ever. Keep my hometown into the ground as well. Like it was, and I'm very, I'm very happy. If any one team was going to embarrass my hometown. I'm thrilled for your son. I'm thrilled for you guys. Thank you. But my point was it becomes an issue in a, in a close game or an issue when you let it become an issue because you let the game get too close, you make mistakes. So now your mistake is almost compounded by the refs mistakes instead of making everybody forget about it. And this was a game you probably could have said it in both directions. But yes, in general, I think the officiating stinks. And I think in general, you have to not only play well enough to beat the opponent, play well enough to try to distance yourself from the mistakes of the officials. That's it. That's it right there. Play well enough so that the officials can't ruin the game for you. Can't come in. Right. Distance yourself. Don't give them the space leeway or ground to step in. And I don't know. Make a call like in the first quarter for the second, it was at first quarter or maybe early second quarter. Marco Wilson. One. Dude, that ball to Tyler Lockett, which was ruled defensive pass interference. Which it was. He tackled him. But the ball landed by the cheerleaders therefore it's a little bit. You believe that was a penalty? Not by the rule. I don't want to hear the detail. Like, should that be allowed on an NFL field? Well, if it's not a catchable pass, then it doesn't matter. See, I think that's the letter of law, my name. Whether it's illegal contact or pass interference, like I just, that's the way I look at those things. Illegal contact. Fine. Then I could live to the, live with the letter of the law. But if you're going to call pass interference and it has to be a catchable ball and not even minute ball or Sean Bradley or Yao Ming could have caught the ball, Tyler Lockett sure as hell isn't going to catch that pass, then you need to call it the right way. But okay, if you want everything called the right way, go back, go look back. I think early third quarter, DK Metcalf drops a ball over the middle, horrific drop. Kyle Dugger puts the crown of his helmet right on his chin after the drop. To me, borderline ejectable offense. That didn't even draw a flag. Drew nothing. He did it on targeting, right? College football, you're absolutely targeting your, you're out of this half and you're suspended for the next game. They, they didn't throw a flag. I also thought there was a questionable Devin Witherspoon PI where he did the same thing Marcus, Marcus, Marco Wilson did he tackled somebody for no reason. Maybe tomorrow Douglas just shoved him to the ground, but I actually thought Presett had gotten out of the pocket. And once Presett's out of the pocket, those rules go away. Correct. No, the officials stink. They absolutely stink, so you want to win football games, be better than the opponent, be better than the official. And you know what the issue with the Patriots is right now? Gerard Mayo says, I know we'll listen to him later, but I saw he said this is not a fancy football team. No, no, no, this is not a 2024 football team. They can't throw the ball and today at least they couldn't stop the pass. And if you're going to win with any consistency in the NFL, you have to be able to throw the football and stop other teams from passing the football. You gave up two receivers with double digit catches, 100 plus yards. And it wasn't just like, oh, we had that one blown coverage where we let DK just run. No, no, no, it was consistent all day long. What was up with given, you know, listen, I joked with you because I ran into Christian Gonzalez's mom at the stadium today. And I only found out it was her because I said, Oh, can I take a picture of your t-shirt? It said Christian Gonzalez is good. And then someone else came up and said, Hey, can I, she's like, well, I'm wearing this because I'm his mom. And then like the whole family was there said hello, a charming little engagement. He is good. But I do not understand why he was playing five to seven yards off Metcalf the entire second half like Metcalf. Yes, you got beat early, whoever was supposed to be wherever between he and Duggar, there was obviously significant confusion that led to that ghastly blown coverage with one of the tallest, fastest, strongest men to ever play the NFL game. Just striding by you guys by 10, 12 yards. That was, that was flat out embarrassing. Now some of those rookie growing pains for these coaches and these coordinators are going to happen. I get it. That's okay. You can forgive them, but all time. But later on as the game progressed, your zone, they were picking apart your zone. You got a man up and that's the way they were manning up by giving him five, seven yards. Jackson Smith and Jigba was open and you could have underhanded him the ball more often than not. And he's got terrific hands and great body control as well. I just, oh, and then I'm here at the studio and I'm watching with Joe Braverman. And as the Seahawks are setting up their over, I said a lot of things. Many of them are not repeatable, especially considering that it's four, five o'clock in the afternoon. It's a family friendly radio show, supposedly, I was just yelling, don't blitz on that third down where Charbonnet cut across the formation, like make them make a play. Be tough. Get in their face. If you're going to get called for something by these terrible refs, get called for something. But don't sell out on a jailbreak blitz when you haven't been able to get home against Smith, who's been picking you apart. And then Charbonnet, who's who's much better in formation like that than he is running between the tackles, was the perfect, the perfect little pass, perfect run by him. Just frustrated. A lot of bad calls, a lot of miscues. And like you said, Andy, a lot of opportunities missed and blown by a team that can, the margin of error is so narrow, it is so small and they obviously care and they, they really seem like a big old football family, like, you know, it's just a bummer. I wish those fans were able to go home with a dub today. Two and O would have been absolutely spectacular heading into Thursday night. It has been an entertaining month of football thus far. They have delivered on, wasn't our request, wasn't the hope that we had that the Patriots would at least be entertaining, that they would be in these games and make us proud. Yes. That's my barometer bar, whatever you want to call it, and through more than 120 minutes of football, we got an extra whatever, 10 minutes of football today. I've wanted to watch everything. There were times in recent years where I was watching because, well, I do a post game show and then I do a podcast with Fitzy. I enjoyed watching today. I enjoyed watching last week. I look forward to watching on Thursday night. It may not go well, but I think this team is going to show up. It's going to hit people. It's going to run the football. It's going to break tackles. It's going to make tackles where it goes from there in terms of Mayo in the passing game in Brissette. Hell, Brissette made more plays again with his legs today, running and then pump faking and then hitting Hunter Henry. Hunter Henry had a great day. There were things to pull from this either individually or maybe threads of what you see this team being this year as it creates its identity that were positive, then there were the other things. But guess what? It could be worse. Dallas Cowboys, Carolina Panthers, they can't be hard because he's two weeks into a knockout pool and he took the frickin Bengals in week one and the frickin Ravens and week two in the buyback. Oh, no. Right. He is. What are we doing? I mean, we're going to we'll get to all the wild NFL scores in, you know, there's there's week one. There's overreaction Monday. And then there's you just didn't see that ish coming week two that is bananas. I mean, I did not have on my week two 2024 NFL bingo card, the Cowboys getting demolished in their home opener. I didn't have the Saints scoring on basically every drive to start the freaking season. I didn't have the Ravens going on to. I didn't have the Jets and a nailbiter. I didn't have the Vikings beat in the 49ers. Yes. Speaking of which, Kevin O'Connell seems like a pretty good offensive coach. Yeah. He took Sam Darnold's making him comfortable. How about that? How about that? Look, everyone, everyone should take heart. They have a very likable football team. They have a team that tries hard. They have a team that's tough. They have a team with heart. I love it. I love this team. I just don't have a team with wide receivers and a left tack. They just, they just need an offensive line. They could use a quality control assistant on offense. Can we find tomorrow, Douglas? Did you look maybe like in a closet, Joe, can you check, did you play today? I saw glimpses of a number three in that maybe blue, but not much. I'm going to stop watching. I'm going to stop watching. Yeah, please. Andy, did you, did we, or did we not watch a lot of practices together? All the time. Yep, and see. All the time. Hard of the offense. He runs faster. Hard of the offense. He was the go-to guy and now he's gone. The gone-to guy, he's not been a part of the offense. Gone baby gone. Where'd he disappear to? So our team's taking him out. Is he, is he hurt? Also, you mentioned Hunter Henry. Guy was uncomfortable in the first half. Did Seattle either figure out a way to cover him? Yeah. He gassed. No, I think they put love on him. I think it was some zone and some linebackers early and then he got safety attention and it is what it is. But if he's getting safety attention, that means less safety attention to wide receivers. Why is Demario Douglas, who we've seen, quote, can get open in a phone booth, that's his quarterbacks that say that, not me. That's his teammates that say that. You tell me he cannot run any of those routes where they're quick hitters because the offensive line's an issue, we don't want Jacobi holding on to the football. So how about we, I don't know, use Demario Douglas to run some of those old Edelman, Welker, Amundola, Brown, whoever the hell out you want to include in that list routes where he gets open and under a second and a half, you throw him a little slant, he picks up four yards and boom, we feel like we did something good. I find inexplicable the, and I know Jacobi was set when he talked post game says he needs to do a better job getting the wide receivers involved and there's probably some truth to that. But I also think offensively there were plays I was trying to watch like, okay, right slot is, is Demario Douglas. The first read is on the left side. Well, why is the first read on the left side when the guy who's most likely to get open quickly is on the right side? Like I just, so some of this is on Alex van Pelt, some of it's on Jacobi reset and maybe some of it is on Demario Douglas, I'm not removing him from responsibility, he is the player. But you know, he's a guy that I literally thought wrong again, heart could catch like a hundred balls. I thought he could be a main, you know, mainstay of the passing game because I don't have much consistent faith in Thornton, booty, Baker, Osborne, even, I don't really have faith in any of the other receivers. I thought I could have faith that Demario Douglas would get open and be targeted by his quarterbacks because percets seem to love him on the practice field. Somehow they fell out of love between the practice field and the game field. Something happened in that tunnel that connects the practice field to the game field and now they're no longer in love. Is there any chance, can we, can we call San Francisco and see if we can, can we try to trade for Iook again? Can we call Cincinnati and see if T Higgins is available, you know, it's 10 10 right now against the Chiefs? I don't know. Jamar Chase is the one I want now. He's pissed. You know what? 40 just fine. You know what? Four for 160 right now. And would you give the number one pick for this is a quick offshoot and I know we're going to have a break coming up. But it is right now. Jamar Chase, your number one pick and you have to pay him four for 160 with a hundred and twenty guaranteed. Would you do that? Yes, I would. I think I would for my NFL wide receiver. You would beg. You would hope you would pray to hit on a talent like that, no matter what position they play next off season in any capacity in the draft. I wouldn't have done it for Iook. I wouldn't have done it for Iook. I think I would do it for Jamar Chase because I think he's that kind of a talent. Yeah. And then you would come here and he'd have three targets because you could be a second snapped in half. No, then I go to Drake, mate. Once I give you the tackle, you'll have to figure that out. But if I give you Jamar Chase, I want Jamar Chase playing with Drake May later. But I know this is stupid. It's not going to happen. I just was thrown it up. We're in fantasy land because we want to ignore the reality of the Patriots losing a winnable game. We love them so hard of a champion, but unfortunately the talent of a team that made it to overtime but was not able to deliver a win in front of their fans today in week two, a very entertaining season thus far, lots of things to revisit, plenty of question marks, things we can debate back and forth for the next couple of hours. We will give you the audio of both Jerrod Mayo and Jacobi percent following the game as well. But when we come back, we promise those phone calls, we are going to get to you, the Pats people, the Fox bro faithful who are out there in those beautiful, sunny, damn near midsummer light conditions at Gillette today. There were some wonderful moments in the game. There are some true north stars to point to and there were also some lows along the way that hopefully, Andy, as they point out in the Batman movies, as I tell my kids on our little football team, why do we fall down so we can learn to pick ourselves up again? Let's hope the Patriots find a way to learn from this bounce back and get better every week coaches to players and beyond 617 779 793 7 is your telephone number. Pat AJ Sean, John Sorgia and everyone else who keeps trying to call in. It is your show next when we come back, but first let's catch you up on all the scores in a wild week, too, in the National Football League and beyond with the one and only Joe Braveman. My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big row as man. Then he told everyone how much he loved calculating his return on ad spend. My friends still laughing me to this day. Not everyone gets B2B, but with LinkedIn, you'll be able to reach people who do. 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DK Metcalf, split wide left, ultimately splits Kyle Duggar and Christian Gonzalez, each of whom thought the other was going to be in deep coverage. One would stay in the flat. The other would tail a receiver. If he ran a go route, DK Metcalf went and no one actually followed him. And so what resulted was a 56 yard touchdown pass that silenced a rowdy Gillette crowd that was all fired up on a gorgeous day, especially after the Patriots went up seven nothing on a very methodical Patriot like tough as nails drive that ended in my gosh, something we never see around here anymore, a touchdown pass to a wide receiver. A touchdown pass was one of three. That's right. Count him folks. Three. Vaughn. Two, three. Trace. Trey. Twa. Three. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie pop? A lot. Two. Three. Three catches from wide receivers. What are we doing? Losing. Rashie Rice already has like four and a touchdown. I'd say he has two touchdowns and they thought he couldn't play. Honest. He does. Doesn't he? Oh, yeah. Two touchdowns. Of course he would. He runs 16 miles an hour. He runs like Fitzy speed and he's still fine in the end zone. I thought he ran 20 something miles an hour. Yeah. But last week he ran 16. I don't know. I read it on the internet. Oh, but then it must be true. Ah boy. Oh boy. Thing is like the receiver thing, you got young receivers, they'll eventually learn to get open. Their game will improve. They'll adapt to the pros. Sure about that. I think. Hope. The quarterback situation eventually Drake may is going to play. He's quicker. Has a stronger arm. A better playmaker. This will happen. The offensive line. They're not fixing it. Well, it's going to be now. Not now. Not, not anytime soon. Well, about Cade and Wallace. He had to get out there late in the game, maybe this was like tackle eligible tight end. Well, yeah, but then he had to go out there when low was hurt and then they could cover a penalty and that didn't go well either. But maybe these reps will be enough to, because remember, Elliot Wolf who knows a lot about left tackles and them transitioning from right tackles sitting quarterbacks for a long time. He said that Cade and Wallace could play left tackle. Nothing's happened. That's bad yet. What it has now. Excuse me. Just a while. Have you seen Jacoby? Jacoby's leg hurts, his ribs hurt, his hand hurts, his whole damn body hurts. Jacoby hurts. My God. Poor man. That's why part of the reason why I asked you earlier, how criminal it would be to start Drake May. Yes, I know he's starting him behind this line on the road against the Jets. Can't do it. Even in San Francisco, it is now starting to look like Miami. I think. I told you all along. Yes. I'm right. I recalibrate. Always right. You stop congratulating yourself. Zero wins a play. Thank you, Joe. One in sixteens in play, I'll tell you that much. So I set the over under six and a half. I recalibrated to four and a half. It makes too much sense. It'll be an AFC East division game. Tom Brady will be on the call. He'll say nothing interesting. It's a backup. The dolphins. Yeah. Anyway. All right. A lot to discuss. Let's talk to the people. Come on. How do you guys feel about this? You people. We've heard from us, we've got more to offer as well. But now we take it over to you, the good people of Pat's Nation, the Foxboro faithful, who are home in their bars, their fancaves, the lots of Gillette, maybe sitting on Route 1 now, maybe it made it to 95 or 93, probably not. Here we go. First on the line. This guy's been waiting since the Red Sox game was actually still on the air. One of our favorites here at WEI, Sorgia out in Mansfield. Welcome to the six rings post game show. It's the heart. How are we today? Super. You know, I was better earlier. Not as good now. Little agitated. Touch disappointed. But I'm happy to talk to you. Yeah. Absolutely. And just really quick side note before I get into the Patriots, Andy Hart, you mentioned it before, the broadcast today was absolutely horrendous. I mean, you know, everyone was getting on Brady last week. I mean, you might as well give these guys the pink stuff. I mean, I don't want to call for anybody's job, but you know, anyways, with the Patriots so far, I thought that, like you said, Betsy, with so much margin of error, like the margin of error for these guys to win is so low, you can't have what you had in the first half where you punt it back to them and get give them an extra three points. And you look at the defense as bad as, you know, the defense was, and like you mentioned, like, you know, Smith was looking like a prime, the homes, they only scored three points in the second half. Right? Yeah. And I think this is going to be a great learning opportunity for the Patriots itself. I wonder what you guys think about not having Bentley in the lineup today. I mean, he was so effective last week, and then, you know, the one last thing I would say is, you know, you hate to criticize Brissette because he's such a nice guy, but I just wonder where the line is so awful and we know that he has to get rid of the ball a little bit more quicker. Right? I think one of the most like little misleading statuses is that he has the low touchdown to interception ratio, right? But the reverse of that is I feel like he sometimes holds on to the ball too long and does give up a lot of sex, but with that said, obviously the line is not that great. So, you know, I'll end it with this, you know, we're expecting these guys every week to make chicken salad out of chicken. You know what? And I thought the chicken salad came out, it was like a five out of ten today. And I hope that these guys are able to learn and, you know, we're going to give them the opportunity to learn, but we can't make these same mistakes in the future. But thank you guys for taking the calls always and enjoy the rest of this sunny day. Ah, we will indeed from inside a studio in Brighton where there's no sunlight in a bunch of fluorescence. But thank you for calling. We appreciate you hanging in there and listening to the Six Rings post-game show. It is a beautiful day today, Andy. It is today for winners and the Patriots. It is, you know, again, like, I wonder if this is a game we're going to point to four months from now and say, oh, it's a good thing they didn't, they didn't win that one because, uh, now that we would have missed out on a chance to get one of those two tackles taking our training now, what, um, uh, or is it going to be, oh man, you know, I, it doesn't, any, nobody thinks this team has a chance to make the postseason. We're not even going to do it ourselves into that. That's, that's, I think some people were starting to wonder. I think if you go to an, oh, you had a winnable game today and you go to an, oh, well, then you start saying, well, I mean, do you only need to get to nine wins? Is there going to be a nine win playoff team? Do I only need to win seven of the next 15 games? Can I go seven and eight and even that I think was ridiculous, but I don't. I think there were probably some people that they play defense and they can control the ball and that'll help them win some games that really don't look winnable on paper. I think there was a few. I don't think it was the majority. I think it was a minority of Patriots fans, but, you know, stranger things have happened. Type thoughts, uh, may have been starting to filter in. And this is a reality check this game. I will say most of us, you, me, us, everybody kind of picked this game to play out exactly how it played out to be too defensive coaches, to be the high teens, right around 20, probably be a field goal game, you know, that we said over time, but I think most people looked at this and it played out the way it did. And I said to you, part of my thinking in picking Seattle was you're due to not get a break. You got, I thought every break basically in the Bengals game. And you could say the PI call, the PI call, either one of those. That's a break you didn't get, right? There was even a thing making the rounds this week in terms of whether the gasecki play should have even been reviewed last week, but you got breaks last week. You were due to not get breaks. And I think this team, when it doesn't get breaks, when the breaks go against it, then I think this team is really going to struggle to win because that is, as the caller said, the final really, really fine line this team faces. Yeah. No margin for error with this team. No margin for error whatsoever and in a season where growth, learning and development are paramount to probably wins and postseason dreams and anything else further down the line beyond just making sure they get better at what they do, it is frustrating to see, to see the Pats have games that they could and should win because winning as well will help with their confidence, help with their morale, it'll do it did it. Some say it's the ultimate cure all, the ultimate bomb, the ultimate tonic and potion remedy, whatever. It would be great for these guys to find ways to win, like teach themselves to win is just as important as figuring out who's talented and who's a keeper and who's going to make a difference going forward. It's really... And not just players. Yeah. I would include the coaches in that. Oh, for sure. Alex van Pelt and Gerard Mayo need to really look at the end of that second quarter and say how do we do things differently so we don't contribute to a loss because that right there, those three points, your inability to hold on to the football, forget about driving to your own score or anything, just your inability to hold on to the football, give it back to the Ravens, I mean the Seahawks and allow them to score and I didn't even think Seattle was great. Like I think their execution was questionable too. You saw two young coaches that I think are still finding their way, defensive coaches that are making offensive game management decisions. I think there's a learning curve for them too. So I think that without Alex van Pelt and Gerard Mayo need to look at that, not just the players and learn to win and learn to not lose in situations. Yeah. I'd like to have a conversation on this very post game show a little bit later today about some of the decisions they made in the fourth quarter as well. Some of which were inordinately frustrating why they didn't run the ball later on and try to kill the clock and get to overtime, why they were throwing, giving Seattle a chance to possibly even win an overtime, let alone in overtime. All right. More back to the people. John's in the car. He's probably on the way. What's up. Tiger. Elephant. Paul. John. He broke back for rugs. I mean, he's people are rich. Wow. Those people were rich. John, there's an elephant. Oh, man, the side call. What's going on over there? I've never had a friend who owned a tiger or a knee, neither. If you could own one or the other, a tiger or an elephant, which would it be? Elephant. Tiger would scare me. I want no part of the time. Are you going to do with an elephant? Do you have any idea how much space an elephant takes up? Yeah. I get a big yard. Is it is it elephant? Is it elephant big elephant safari big? I don't know how much room you range big. Elephant seem really nice. They are. So I want something that yes, it could kill me could stampede stampede through your house, but yeah, I would roll the dice with it. I mean, my real answer is panda bear if we're going to say, if I'm really rich and I can get any animal on the planet, people who know me know, I think pandas are the coolest thing on the planet. So I have a panda bear. Wasn't the panda? Wasn't the question. Okay. So elephant, I'm jumbo heart. I went. There you go. Jumbo jumbo. Okay. I'm taking elephant. That's on brand very well. John is in the garage. They're belly. John. Only on the radio. Save us from this conversation. How are you? John. John. John. Okay. Get rid of him. Sean. Jeez, gone. It's not Sean. It's gone. It's gone. All right. Get rid of him all the way down to AJ and Dover. What's up, AJ? How's it going, guys? Oh, yeah. It's going. You know, you guys stole the point right out of my mouth out of here because I want to know where the heck top Douglas was. He was on the field. You know, the military is going to come looking for him because I've endured it. I've boarded his post. He abandoned his post. Your best separation guide, not getting the ball at all. I don't even think he's got a target. Nope. I don't actually believe so and thank you for the call, AJ. Man, do you really thank him for that call? Not really. Call volume. Great. I don't know if he was drunk. There's a lot going on there. He could have been in like a tin room or a bathroom or maybe he was like a basement. No targets for tomorrow, Douglas. How do you not target a starting receiver? How do you not target one of the shiftiest guys on the team, one of the speedier guys in your conference? How do you not involve somebody that we were told was a focal point? I know Jerrod Mayo and we'll hear from coach Mayo in just a few minutes here on the Six Springs Post game show. I know he said we got to do a better job driving the ball down the field. I had a feeling there would still be a conservative approach to this game and Mayo did say this week. I believe the whole point he made Andy was, you know, we've got to, we need to show mental or creative or play calling agility, not rigidity and being able to be flexible enough to adapt to whatever is needed at a given time. Like, if they load the box, then you throw. If they have, if they're in a dime package, maybe you run on it, but holy smokes. But I don't think when done properly, the slot receiver, when you have the skills that DiMario Douglas has is, you know, cliche alert, extension of the running game, right short passing game. It's not, it doesn't take past protection. It doesn't take a lot of winning of match ups or any, it's one guy that you think is quicker than the guy across from him, and you have a quarterback that can throw the ball relatively active, accurately and quickly and short. It should be, it should be a staple part of this offense, in my opinion, no different than Ramondre Stevenson is going to have good days and bad days, but Ramondre Stevenson is a staple part of this offense. There's certain things just like I think Hunter Henry should be targeted a number of times over the middle because I think he's shown the ability this year to get open, catch the football, still be a putt. There's certain guys that I don't know how they should go. You're not talented enough. If you were the 49ers or one of these teams that go, oh, we got two wide receivers, we got a tight end, we got two running backs, we got a quarterback who wants to run, we can't give it to everybody. You're not, I can't give it to everybody, everybody kind of team. You're a, we only got so many, we better get them all involved kind of team. Yeah. And so far through two weeks, for whatever reason, DiMario Douglas, not involved. No, it makes, it makes no sense to me whatsoever. He's not like a down field guy. We're not looking for seam routes, goes and post patterns. We're just looking for quick hooks, curls, incuts, anything, screens, whatever, little option routes, all kinds of things you can run under there. Just do it. You're quick. You get open, you're, you can catch the football cliche alert. We all thought the issue was he might get hit too much and he might get hurt. Good news is he's going to last through the season because if you never catch the ball they're not allowed to tackle you, if they don't throw it to you, then they can't make contact with you. Right. What a mess. Gikes. Maybe that's what it is. This is rope a dope. How do you keep him healthy? You don't throw him in the football. Shout over checkers, bitches. Wait, whoa. How about that? That drop will be, we'll live in perpetuity. Maybe a Thursday night, that's, they're saving them for Thursday night. You say the rope a dope, they're going to save them against the jet boy, the lack of a wide receiver one or tap, left tackle one or wide receiver two or how do you feel about, uh, so, uh, can, uh, Calvin Ridley went for four for 77 in a touchdown today for the Titans. Yeah. He'd be your wide receiver. One. He's not a wide receiver. One, but what kind of difference would it's even like a, a, a decent dish and okay wide receiver one? What kind of difference would that make? Cause Kendrick born whenever he comes back, he'll be the defacto wide receiver one, but we all know he's a good two slash three. He's a highly productive featured receiver at times, but a better complimentary role player to whenever you have, right, an AJ Brown, a Debo, uh, Justin Jefferson, a Jamar Chase, et cetera, even Calvin Ridley or Brandon, I look for that matter, but the, the Pats have none of that right now. KJ Osborne. Sorry. Nice guy. Just want a community like the NFL community, best buddy superstar, nice guy award of the week. Oh, don't mock it. I'm not. It's a typical world with community MVP. Great. He seems like a terrific human. He pulled someone from a car once after an accident or a car that was burning. People said this is one of the better humans that'll ever put on a Patriots uniform. I love that. Hmm. He's not a wide receiver. One. No, he did have one catch. So he's texting wide receiver, comma one. Yeah. Oh boy. That's what he is. I would Ridley be better. Yes. Would it work? I don't know. This passing game, I don't know how evolved the passing game is to take advantage of the wide receivers with Alex van Pelt. I mean, don't forget Alex van Pelt as of Tuesday or whenever the hell he talked was like, yeah, last week I was missing some stuff on my play sheet. I've learned I got to add some things to my play sheet. That's how much a work in progress this is. The guy who wants to call the plays realize, Oh, shoot, I didn't have all the plays I wanted on my play sheet, which means we didn't really practice. What'd you do all week? Well, he's learning. He's a work in progress. It's his first time too. So it's not going to be perfect. So I don't know how much better they'd be with Calvin Ridley because I don't think he's a transformational talent. He's not a, Oh my God, we got Calvin Ridley. We're going to kick ass kind of guy. He's a better than you got. Run of the mill number one receiver kind of guy. Still, like you said, the key phrasing there being better than you got the calls are loaded once again, six, one, seven, seven, seven, nine, seven, ninety through seven is your telephone number. We're here in just a few minutes as well from quarterback Jacobi Percette, head coach Gerard Mayo with their post game comments. And of course you throughout the rest of the show, we'll get to Andy's thumbs up thumbs down list. We will review the rest of a wild week two in the NFL. It's all here for your listening, for your entertaining, your analyzing, your frustrating and whatever else you need. We got you. It's Fitzy and Hart on the six rings post game show live here on WEI. Time is luxury, which is why Polestar spent so much time designing and refining every aspect of Polestar three, their luxury electric performance SUV. So you can drive with up to 315 miles of range. 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Why did we take the ball in overtime? Because you don't want to let Seattle's even if Seattle scores don't the Patriots have a chance to retaliate under new or at least even neutralized things under the new NFL rules. Well, they scored touchdown. Yeah. But I don't know, I think you were trying to drive I don't know. That's a it's a fair question. I actually haven't heard Mayo yet. I know we'll get to that. I'm sure he was I would hope he was asked that question. Yeah, I probably would not have. I think I feel better about even though the defense gave up 300 in whatever it was through the air and couldn't stop Smith and Jigba and Metcalf if they had to, you're not supposed to allow two receivers to get 11 catches a piece. I mean, I guess there's two ways to look at it. The strength of this team is supposed to be its ground game, right? So do you believe I'm just going to take the ball and I'm going to drive it down their throat, score touchdown, win the game? Is that likely? Is that how you're playing? Is that the way this game was? I don't know. It's a it's a fair question. I don't think I probably would have taken the ball there. I think I probably would have given them the ball, but two four Oh, the offense is pathetic shame on Elliot. Well, for not getting anything in the form of a left tackle shame. I imagine he probably wants the shame bell from Game of Thrones rung during that time. Yep. That's by far his the biggest line spot issue, but even just like not even trying to they didn't even get someone who plays left tackle. They got people they were trying to turn into left tackles, yeah, other than Vadarian low, but that is definitely the biggest weakness of this team. At least they, you know, KJ Osborne, they got a receiver shame, shame, shame. Yeah. Elliot Wolf has some some explaining to do. He does indeed. Let's see 508. Nobody can convince me Drake may wins that game. I don't know. I would. I may tend to disagree Andy in the four one three deaths per year tigers kill an average of 100 people elephants 500. I feel like those statistics are flawed. They're like ratings in the radio business, but excuse me now 860 Jacobi has good pocket presence, but he just doesn't push the ball downfield. He doesn't even look at the second level roots. I wonder if a lot of that has to do with the immense pressure he's feeling as his line, which is nothing stronger than a sand castle at Nantasket caves in and collapses around him regularly. This is my favorite one so far. There's many more to get to. And we've got time here folks. Okay. Here's a good one. 860, whatever happened to Marte Mapu? He's hurt. I don't see. There you go. Okay. He's he's on NFI or PP. He didn't make. He's not a list. He's on one of the list. Yeah. Not on IR. I don't believe so. Could be. I mean, because he never practiced in the summer. So I think, I don't know what list he's on, but he's on a list. He's not on the roster right now. He can't play. So there were only five inactive today, I believe. It was a short inactive list. And Joanne Bentley, what was the cause of Bentley missing today's game? That'll lay. No, he was on the he was on the field and then he got hurt or he got hurt early. Okay. I didn't see him. And then I didn't Jelani Tavaya. I thought did a decent job stepping up and kind of becoming the line batch in the middle of it all. But yeah, he Bentley played and then he got hurt. That's what it was. Okay. So I didn't see him as an early scratch. I didn't think about him missing the game, but so yeah, I didn't see one who is indeed on injured reserve. So he is on injured reserve. After week four, he needs to be on their lease for weeks, just the same way that Christian Barmore was placed on injured reserve, designated to return. Well, he's on NFI and he can return from NFI. That's a different. That's not football injury. Lot of acronyms. Way too many acronyms to handle with this hour of the day. Yes, there are. Yep. 781. You have to take the football in overtime because if they score a touchdown. You lose. No, I know. That's absolutely a possibility, but if they score a touchdown after I can't move the ball, I lose too. 978. Or if they score a field goal after I can't move the ball, I was correct to 978 Andy Bursette playing not to lose actually causes us to lose. May would have won this game. So already now we've got our we've got our new little fissure. We've got our new fracture in past nation. I've seen that a lot of places. Social media was a buzz with May talk. Do you think that's fair? I do because this is what this is the situation they've created by telling us it was an open competition by drafting a quarterback third overall by telling us it was an open competition and then saying actually it was all about the plan overall. So he would have won the competition, but the competition was a moot point because our plan was to stick with the plan and not the winner of the competition. Correct. They've invited this upon themselves. Correct. I do think it's fair to wonder Drake may has a certain skill set, even though we're watching Jacobi Bursette run a little bit and even make some throws on the run. That's not his game. That's more Drake May's game. And I also think for Jacobi Bursette to run and move and make plays with his feet, you know, as the slowest black quarterback in the NFL, according to his head coach. Yeah. I'm not saying that. Nope. He lumber. By the way, he doesn't run. He lumbers. Exactly. Or for you to run, you have to begin running sooner, correct, because the fast guys chasing you. Drake May could have an extra half second, three quarters of a second to keep his eyes downfield and then still run because he's more nimble, quicker, faster. So I think that could play a role in Jacobi Bursette does have to decide sooner rather than later when he's going to run. I think that hinders his ability to see the whole field, to get the ball down the field, to make many plays in the passing game. But the reality is they chose him as the starter and he's going to be the starter for another couple of games, unless he gets banged out. I thought there were a couple of times today he might be hurt. That leg injury, when he gets sacked, I thought he broke his leg when I saw it live. And then Fox, because it's the worst broadcast in the history of broadcast, didn't really talk about it. Didn't really show me replays. Then he was back out there. Then later, he got popped in the ribs and was really grimacing and grabbing. And I wondered, could he get knocked out of the game? So there is a chance we see Drake May sooner rather than later. But I think it would be because of injury and knocking Bursette out. If it's just a pure change, it's still week five for me. That is still the target date. Let's end our second hour here. Well, it's second, it's our first full hour, second hour of the program with one of your favorites. Uh oh. Haven't heard from him in a while. Steve from Fall River. Welcome back to six rings. Hello, guys. You had a caller who I guess is my brother and I'm being lumped in now with this last segment of people said, thank God we have told me, what do you say about that? He was right. He was happy. We had Jacobi before. He was thankful. I thought I heard him. Did I hear that right? Somebody was thankful we had this guy. Did he see the line this guy had his line, his lines is awful. It's just mean of whatever, hundreds of yards and he's not, and he's not going to make game for it. You're right about that. I'm surprised he's going to get hurt. There's no, there's no difference if this kid goes in today, tomorrow, November, that's something made up in the head. That's the coach's wet dream or some wish list, so they might feel good about it. You don't have the team ready. He's got to go in and take what's there. I mean Drew Bledzo, that '93 season, Drew Bledzo, it's not at 1 and 11. 1 and 11. I was talking about on another show and I went back over those games and we actually had some hope while I came for 1 and 11. You could see things brewing up. Where's your hope with Jacobi Brissette? I mean come on with this guy and I heard something utterly ridiculous. Christian Gonzales was going to solidify himself as a corner, a shut down corner with DK Metcalf today, which is first of all, I mean if he did a good job of pat me and sir, but I mean what was his job? I think Troy Brown said it when he was playing, remember he was playing in the secondary back in the bad old days of the 10 year drought Andy, what do you say? Get the F back, that was their attitude. He had to get the F back. Did Troy Brown tell him this? Yeah, get the, yeah, right, I mean what was that? That was communication breakdown. Next we call Steve Talen. Okay, Steve. All right, Jesus. Let's just stay, like if we could just stay on the game at hand, there's enough going on right now. Yes. Without having to take a trip down one Patriots Hall of Fame Lane or NFL films where Bill Belichick basically lives all week when he's not on Nantucket filming the perfect couple too. Speaking of which, for the first time in his broadcast career, yes, Bill Belichick entertained me. There's an underdog ad making the rounds. Yeah, it was good. Isn't it funny sitting by the pool and he's doing the pool and Nantucket and he's giving advice kind of made me laugh when he smiles and says I still like the subway commercial. Not really. And I wasn't really, I meant his current broadcast career when he's actually a broadcaster now and actually is no longer a coach. I, you know, I've been thoroughly not entertained by him listing the Patriots off season transactions and things of that nature and your guy, Matt Patricia there with him on the podcast. But that was an entertaining commercial. But to get back to Steve's play at hand, the 56 year I'd touchdown a DK Metcalf alone coverage party of well, it was more a communication breakdown. Kyle Dugger took the blame for it. He kind of checked to something he probably shouldn't have. They expected the pressure to get there sooner that played a role in it. So Kyle Dugger kind of fell on his sort of there in terms of the way they handled that situationally. Yes. But guess what? DK Metcalf still had nine other catches for 70 something yards or so. Yeah. And he was open when he needed to be opened in the third, especially the fourth quarter and finally overtime. And yes, I do understand Seattle was held to three points in the second half. Some clutch defense. Yep. Some big plays later on as well. Some drop does. Yeah. And also some drops as well. Gino Smith sacked three times for 16 yards in the day, two of those by Keon White. But did it feel like the rush got home very often because when they blitzed later on in the day, I felt like Seattle kind of had an answer almost every time. Yeah. And another one of those sacks was a bad one. I thought early on Gino Smith when Dugger came off his right side and it was clear he was blitzing and he did blitz. And to me as a veteran quarterback, you can't just take the sack there. You got to get the ball to a hot receiver, throw it away, like find a way to avoid that sack. So no, I don't think the past rush, the past defense wasn't good today overall. The rush, the coverage, the concerts played between the two was not good enough. And we knew this was going to be a problem. It's coming week after week, you're going to face some pretty good passing attacks. Some true number one receivers are coming. The Bengals, whatever the Bengals may be on their football card, they weren't in week one. They didn't play like a number one receiver with a Pro Bowl caliber MVP caliber quarterback. Today, Gino Smith played pretty well and they threw the ball. They targeted you. They believed they could throw the ball and guess what? They did throw the ball because they couldn't run the ball. They ran the ball for 2.4 yards per carry. They had less than 50 yards rushing. They said we can throw it on you and guess what? They could and they did. Yeah, they did. And I can't believe how much they threw the ball in the Patriots in the second half as well. You would have thought they would have scored 30-something points, not just 23 as well. Belichick would have 207 textures. We go to break. Belichick would have punted fourth and one in overtime, so did Mayo. So what's really changed here? A bunch of things have changed, but there are some things that remind you of the days of old as well. 6 1 7 7 7 9 7 9 3 7, more of you guys, more of us, and we finally get to Jacobi Brissette and Gerard, I almost call him Gerard. See the wiggy effect. It's sitting in the studio. I think Billma was doing the film effect. It's the film effect. That broadcast is terrible. And by the way, I just have to say this now, dear every broadcaster under the sun, the word is resilience. You're an angry little elf. I am. There are many more ways to, you know, focus your anger today. Resilience. Oh great. Now, Lad MacConkey highlights are on. That's it. I'm going to break. I need to take a walk. We'll be back in just a few minutes with more of the Six Rings post-game show here on E.E.I. Time is luxury, which is why Polestar spent so much time designing and refining every aspect of Polestar 3. Their luxury electric performance SUV. So you can drive with up to 315 miles of range. 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