Feb. 11, 2026

How A Four-Man Rush Broke New England’s Dream And What It Means Next

A four-man rush shouldn’t end a season, but it did. We unpack how Seattle’s defense suffocated our offense, why the fourth-and-one punt became a flashing neon sign, and what it looks like when a young quarterback meets an all-time performance in the biggest game. This wasn’t about one bad throw; it was about protection failures, missing hot answers, and a call sheet that never found its counterpunch.

We start with the raw beats: May under constant heat, a left tackle isolated and overwhelmed, and a game plan that leaned on long-developing concepts against a defense built to erase them. Then we zoom out. Credit to Seattle’s structure—sit in zone, rush with discipline, tackle in space. Sam Darnold didn’t have to play superhero because Kenneth Walker and Jason Myers controlled the pace and points. Small edges became a gulf: red-zone poise, field position, and execution on the margins.

From there, we get practical. If the Patriots are truly back, the next move is non-negotiable: invest heavily in the offensive line and give May tools to win early downs. Kick Campbell inside if that maximizes him, secure a true left tackle, and add a mismatch tight end plus an outside receiver with size and burst. Veteran trench talent stabilizes fast; explosive pass catchers can come via the draft. Build a contingency-friendly call sheet—screens, quick game, motion—and insist on rhythm before the defense dictates everything.

We also challenge the easy narratives. Strength of schedule talk fades when you beat three top-five defenses on the road. One bad night doesn’t erase a strong year from a young QB. And if the rest of the conference let New England reach this stage during a supposed transition, that says plenty about the path ahead. The blueprint is clear: protect, diversify, and keep taking the points until the knockout presents itself.

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00:00 - Cold Open And Show Setup

00:41 - Prediction Game Results And Banter

02:40 - Setting The Super Bowl Postmortem

03:19 - Drake May Under Duress

05:24 - Fourth-And-One Decision Debate

07:45 - Scheme, Adjustments, And McDaniels

10:20 - Seahawks’ Defense And Credit

12:10 - Turnovers, Margins, And Execution

14:00 - Strength Of Schedule Narratives

16:20 - Lessons From Bengals–Rams: Build The Line

18:20 - Roster Needs: OL And Receiving Corps

21:00 - Cap, Trades, And Win-Now Math

23:00 - Tatum Analogy And Reload Mindset

25:10 - Boston Sports Outlook And Transition

27:20 - Season Wrap And Producer Shoutout

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It's missing the point.

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It's a robo recap show.

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The tone, the tenor.

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Sort of on this side of things, because we have uh half the show, unfortunately, are Patriots fans.

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But before that, I got some news from Mike before the show started, and before you guys got here, because we're we're punctual, the two of us.

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There is results in the prediction game, and has been actually for weeks, but we just haven't checked it.

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Mike, take us through what happened, please, if you don't mind.

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You you've done the count for us graciously.

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What happened in the prediction show?

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What's what are the results?

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Drum roll, please.

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So team NFC.

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Which was who?

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Well, you and me.

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Okay, cool, cool.

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Jesus, Dave.

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Squeaked by the side.

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Oh, I don't know.

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Squeaked by with an with the narrow seven to five victory over team AFC.

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Okay.

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You'll be happy to know that neither team picked any single player honors or coach of the year or first coach fired.

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So that was sick.

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Neither team steal amounted to anything.

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So we we know we know football.

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We know ball prediction show works.

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I feel like I feel like next year we need to be like with those superlatives, like, I don't know if we've ever gotten one right.

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It's kind of hard to guess those, to be honest.

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But you have a decent idea, like chance of getting some of those things.

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Anyway, good win, Mike.

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I'm I'm glad I'm not holding you down again for another year.

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Same.

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You've only lost you've only lost the one year, right?

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That's your you're on a your your streak is reignited.

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Just the last year, yeah.

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Dynasty continues.

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But you and I have been predicting for three years, so two out of three, right?

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Yeah.

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Uh oh Jesus, Mike.

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I expect you remember everything about the prediction show all the time.

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Yeah, because I was 4-0 with Bobby.

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Yeah, wow.

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Impressive considering how terrible he's doing on the other team.

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Nice.

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Just kidding.

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All right, well, we'll be the AFC team next year.

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I do just want to say, DK, my favorite pick that I had to steal.

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I had to convince you.

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I had to, I don't know what I had to give up in order to do this.

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But I said, you need to let me pick Dallas.

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I'm gonna take them at 7 and 10.

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7, 9, and 10.

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You weren't doing that on purpose because you lost the Super Bowl.

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That's all that's the only thing we brought that up.

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We're about to spend the next hour talking about like neither of them have recent memories.

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So like at least we can start off with a little bit of cowboys hate.

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We've got to fit it into every show when you and Mike are on the same show.

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Well, score one for the you guys had an easy schedule, brigade, I guess.

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That was a tough defense to play against.

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I don't know if anybody was beating that team on Sunday.

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I I I didn't think it was over as quickly as you guys did.

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I was wrong on that count.

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Uh I don't know.

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I I'm gonna let Bobby go first on this one.

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Can you just give me an overview of what you saw before we we have to make these poor fuckers talk about their team losing in the Super Bowl?

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Yeah, to me, what so I agree that it definitely shouldn't have been as out of reach.

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Like the score wasn't as out of reach as the game actually felt into that third quarter just because of how lost Drake May actually looked.

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Like, I I totally understand that it definitely wasn't all his fault.

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Will Campbell was on an island all night and he was getting absolutely worked.

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Will Campbell?

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T Rex R is Will Campbell.

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The entire game getting worked.

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So I I know it's not all his fault, but even when he did have moments where he had a chance to make the play, he missed at least four throws where he had his feet set, guys, wide open, and he would miss them by like five, ten yards.

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So, like I mean, that interception was the worst throw of the postseason.

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It was so bad.

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So bad.

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So when you're doing things like that, it's like if your entire offense is playing bad, what brings you out of that gutter?

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What brings you out of the out of those trenches into quarterback?

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And if he's playing like that, it just I just didn't see a shot in that bit of a big of a game in the Super Bowl on that big of a stage, it just you know what I mean.

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When when the second place MVP quarterback plays like that in the biggest game of the year, it's it's tough to come back in that situation.

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Like people kept bringing up 28 to 3, and it's like, what happened with 28 to 3?

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You had the greatest quarterback of all, right?

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You had Tom Brady, and that just wasn't it, it was the complete opposite of that.

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This past ones.

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It's it's unfortunate too, because I really feel like the best performance of the entire game was by a Patriot in in Gonzalez, and I feel like he was keeping them in it for the entire game.

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And I wish they could have repaid him on the other half of the other half of the ball.

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Mike, sorry to say your Patriots lost to the to the old Seattle Seahawks.

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I don't know if that's obviously not news to you, but I I mean Ray was saying when we did the prediction show, or I wouldn't call it a prediction show, the preview show.

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It's really about how you lose.

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I can't imagine that you're super happy with this and how you lost, and it's probably not.

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We're probably not in a place where you can say to yourself, Well, we had a great season, we defied expectations, because you did, but the way you lost that game and how frustrating it must have been to watch from your perspective, because it was frustrating from my perspective, and I wasn't a fan of either team.

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Where are you now after a couple of days of emotions sort of calmed down, or are you just furious?

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No, so I'm I am the in the you know, we defied expectations.

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Uh because I didn't know the show, everybody.

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All right, have a good rest of you because I knew because Ray's not, I can already tell by his face.

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Well, he's going last.

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Everyone, everyone that says, you know, they have the easiest schedule, blah blah blah blah blah.

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Okay, whatever.

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Sure, great.

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But no, no other team in NFL.

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I mean, unfortunately, it you know, watch me, watch me because no no one doing fucking victory laps right now.

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Yeah, well, those people are dumb because no other NFL team had beaten the top three or three top five NFL defenses to get to a Super Bowl.

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So that whole easy schedule in the in the regular season, we did what we needed to do the postseason, except it's hard for me to make that argument when you lose in the the way that you did because when when it was nine-nothing, it felt like it was 28-0.

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Like there was we could do nothing on offense.

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The defense was doing everything that they could do to keep us alive.

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And then I I felt like the game really turned, like it was really over.

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Over.

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I think it was in in the third quarter, fourth and one, and we punted.

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Yeah, like the de the defense just knew at that point that justified immediately.

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You got the ball back right away.

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I yeah, but you didn't you didn't trust your offense to get to get a yard with a 40-yard line.

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You got the ball back immediately.

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Oh, yeah, but would you have tried would you have trusted the offense to get a yard?

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They were they looked terrible all game.

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I mean to be fair, the only thing that the only thing that was working for them was the run game with Ramondre up the middle, was the only thing that actually was working.

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So, I mean, I I would have personally in that in that moment.

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I I was shocked they didn't go for that on that fourth and on that fourth.

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Yeah, it's just that's like this there's no way, Dave, that she would have wanted Ben Johnson to kick that no fucking way, bro.

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Like, come on, man, no way, like as a fan.

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No, I don't think so.

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No, but that's yeah, I'm like, I'm like, I love you.

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You know, you know too much to say it like that.

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And I I I get it.

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It was immediately justified.

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They went three and out.

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Your defense is playing well.

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They get they they weren't scoring a ton either, you know.

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Every time they went down the field, they were scoring field goals, and you guys said yourself, if they score again field goal or or touchdown, it's over.

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So they kept the game alive.

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I mean, if you don't get it on fourth and one, it's over, it's over over in that moment, right?

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Because you were in field goal.

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Yeah, what is that?

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I mean, what is it?

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The sign that that that that that showed the defense was that you're gonna have to do everything in this game, including like you're gonna have to score all the points.

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You're and that already by that point.

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I just honest with you.

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I just this is like the opposite of the fourth and two from a long time ago with what with Bill and Brady.

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I think the same like he felt Vrabel thinks so little, thought so little of his offense, which he absolutely should have, right?

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I agree.

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But if you if you're telling me that you don't trust your team to to gain three and a half they would have picked up that first down based on everything you watched in that game.

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I'd rather I'd rather them go out trying.

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I also think thank you, thank you.

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Like it's I think that that drive, too, to me, was honestly the most promising drive that they had for most of that second half.

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Like they actually got a few first downs on that drive, if I'm not mistaken.

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So for for for them to to me, it just seems like they're punting away their best chance at that moment.

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So that there's there's two plays, right?

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So that play there, obviously, you know, where they go to fourth and one.

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There was a play where they call it a seven route, but it's a it's a post corner.

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Austin Hooper was as wide open.

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I mean, I mean he was open as a freeway.

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It was, I mean, my god.

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And have you seen Derek?

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Because Hooper's not what he was, you know, in Atlanta or Cleveland, so he wasn't gonna outrun anybody, but he would have got 30 or 40 yards.

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Now you're in business.

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Maybe you get at that point, you get 19, 14.

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Now, now it becomes a game, right?

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Uh once again, that that throw to Hollands was beautiful in the fourth quarter.

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Like it was just it was finally all right, you know what, uh F it, you know, we we have nothing to lose, just throw it.

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Which I wish they had played.

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I I wish they had played like that all game because maybe they would have had different results.

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But uh we said all year Drake's a rhythm guy, and uh he was never in rhythm until the fourth quarter, and it was just too late by that time because it was basically just like just they would do whatever they could just not to lose, meaning Seattle.

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But yeah, you you can't I'm sorry, I like and also that fourth and two, we'll talk about from a regular season game, like whatever.

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Like, this is a Super Bowl, dog.

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Like, I don't, I don't I'm going now swinging.

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I'm not I'm not playing analytics, I'm not field position.

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Are you kidding?

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Analytics probably wasn't.

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Say it again.

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Analytics always says go for it on fourth and what I think.

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It's well, yeah, that's what I'm saying.

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So I'm like that, that's that's no, but no, I'm oh that's yeah, but I'm like, I'm like, sorry, I meant to say I'm not playing the field, but I'm not playing field position at that moment.

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I'm not, I'm sorry.

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And once again, we've seen many times throughout the year that he went for it on fourth down.

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Hell, they did it to get to the Super Bowl.

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They did it.

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I mean, I mean, that pointed to it at larger identities.

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You can't, you can't do that there.

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What's the point in me that says I'm done at that moment?

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Or we're done.

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I guess.

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I mean, I I just disagree that that's the moment the game was over because you got the ball back immediately with tons of time left on the clock.

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And after that was when you actually started moving it down the field, and Collinsworth goes, Oh, he's actually starting to read the defense, and then he just throws like the worst pass of the game.

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And it's like you still the game was still there to be won after you punt that ball, and you started getting it like you got the ball back right away.

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You start moving the ball down the field.

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Drake's finally starting to like see open guys and like and split that zone defense that the Seahawks have been playing for the entire day, right?

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Which Drake, honestly, for the entire season has been one of the I wouldn't, I don't know the statistics, but I would say probably top five QBs in in splitting the zone.

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You know, I mean it was I feel like going out there against the Drake May of week eight and playing a zone defense, yes, admittedly, they got a ton of pressure on him.

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I get that.

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But in in the times where he did have time, which of there were a few, he for the first time was driving down the field and actually splitting up that zone and actually finding guys inside the seams until I don't know what happened.

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He threw just diabolical passes.

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They sped him up because once again, him with him being a rhythm guy.

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If they let him go into a rhythm early, it would have been game over.

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Because he sped himself up on that last throw, though.

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Like there wasn't even anywhere anywhere near him.

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He like ran up to the to the offensive line and just threw like a terrible pass.

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And I just feel like it's uh like the game was still my only overall point is the game was still there to be won.

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There was still time on the clock, and they weren't up by that much, you know.

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So is it it like the momentum completely shifts?

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Trust me.

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I mean, I like the entire time that we were in that position when you were down, what was it, 12?

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I was like, Caleb would do it.

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Come on, Drake.

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Fucking Caleb would come back right now, like just do it right now.

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Play like shit all game, and then fucking have an amazing three minutes and win the fucking game.

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It's not that hard.

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And I just I could see it.

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There was still an opportunity to actually go and do it, right?

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There was enough mathematical time left, but also uh an opportunity for a huge momentum shift if you if you had a drive drove down the field and scored in that moment, and especially because that touchdown pass had already happened.

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It was beautiful, it was a beautiful play, like you said.

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So it's like, oh shit, like the Seahawks would then start to panic and like the quicksand would set in, you know, but like he just throws that duck and then the rest of the room.

00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:15.519
But the play, the play you're talking about that he when he ran into the lineman.

00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:17.759
I don't know whether it was either Wilson or Bradbury.

00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:28.399
Now, armchairs like us, we we see from the area of view that if he literally just flies to the left, uh, he has the first down because he can run out.

00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:34.720
It's different when them boys like Leonard Williams is right in front of you saying, Hey, don't run from me, right?

00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:37.840
Like that's basically what what he was dealing with.

00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:43.440
We can see, hey, if you scatter to the left, you got the first down, or at least you know, uh, five or six yards.

00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:45.759
I mean, he was hearing footsteps, though, you gotta admit.

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No, that's that's what I'm saying.

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It's it's easy is easier for us to say when we're looking at it from like 10 different views on TV saying, hey, he could run to get it.

00:13:53.279 --> 00:13:56.080
It's just hard to deal with Augustine when that when that's in your face.

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It just sucks that legit every time that we have lost a Super Bowl, I guess outside of the the Giants, I mean the Eagles won.

00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:09.840
If you have a decent front four, it's it's it's all it's all set.

00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:12.799
You don't you don't you don't have to have a great secondary, you don't have to have great line.

00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:14.960
If you just have a front four that can go get it.

00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:18.799
It's like it's it's it's it's it's wild.

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And once again, I don't think laugh because Lennon Williams, a former jet, and Sam John now world champion.

00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:27.679
So I'm like that that's that's unbelievable to me.

00:14:27.919 --> 00:14:28.639
Not for the Jets, too.

00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:38.559
To your point, to your point, DK, like Drake was was one of the best quarterbacks against the zone all year, but he never played uh against a defense that played zone and could rush the passer.

00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:39.120
Right.

00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:41.120
Usually you play zone because you can't get pressure.

00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:51.360
Seattle had no fucking problem because apparently Will Campbell decided that this game, he was going to be the worst statistical left tackle in the last four seasons.

00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:53.759
He allowed 14 pressures.

00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:55.759
14 pressures in one game.

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He was also just getting thrown.

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It was a it was just a bad tape look, too, because it's like, yeah, it would you know, sometimes you're just outclassed by the guys on the edge, sometimes they're running a really good scheme on you, sometimes they're you know running two guys at you, or isolating you, or whatever.

00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:12.399
The tape was just him getting thrown around.

00:15:12.559 --> 00:15:15.440
The tape was just fully him getting absolutely fucking thrown around.

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I mean, Drake got sacked with him as a shovel, like multiple times, and it was just like Jesus Christ, Campbell.

00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:24.720
I mean, it was from the start of the game, too.

00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:30.480
And I I feel like I did want to come on to talk about this eventually, so we might as well talk about it now.

00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:35.519
Talk about choking, you know, Will Campbell, sure, Drake May, sure.

00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:37.440
Fucking Josh McDaniels, dude.

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I mean, make some fucking adjustments, guy.

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Like, this is what I'm talking about with these fucking visor coaches.

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You just can't trust them.

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This is this is what I'm talking about.

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You're if you think in the morning when you wake up that half a hat is a good look, you should not be giving the keys to the car.

00:15:57.919 --> 00:15:59.759
That's a fucking ludicrous thing to do.

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It's a it's a crazy.

00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:04.399
What why why just put just put the top of your hat on, dude?

00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:10.320
There was absolutely no adjustments made in any of the blocking schemes, no support given to Campbell on that side.

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So fuck it.

00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:13.600
Put him at left guard, move like swing somebody else out there.

00:16:13.679 --> 00:16:14.240
I don't know.

00:16:14.399 --> 00:16:15.519
It's an emergency.

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Do something.

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They uncharacteristically lined up in weird sets for the entire game.

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They barely ever ran any sort of play action off of any kind of Ramondre's success.

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They it was he just honestly, he really looked like Darren Headlights, McDaniels.

00:16:31.200 --> 00:16:33.039
I I really thought it was a terrible performance.

00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:39.360
If you I didn't I don't have the exact stats in front of me, but it basically how uncharacteristic they were was a was a glaring thing.

00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:43.679
They were in jumbo personnel for way more than they they usually are, you know.

00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:46.000
They didn't run as many play actions, like I said.

00:16:46.159 --> 00:16:52.159
It watching that play out, I know it's tough to blame the offensive coordinator, right?

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You're not gonna go and blame the offensive coordinator, it's not his fault at the end of the day.

00:16:56.000 --> 00:17:07.920
But he could have put his rookie left tackle and second year QB in a situation where they weren't getting absolutely fucking swallowed by the number one defense, no, so sure, right?

00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:12.000
I I think I said this on on the group chats I was in.

00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:17.279
Charlie Weiss probably wouldn't do that game if he's there.

00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:21.279
And the reason why I say that the pass rush was crazy, right?

00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:26.960
Yeah, what one negates the pass rush more than anything that Charlie Weiss was the master of running the screen?

00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:28.799
Yeah, screen passes, little pit little pops.

00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:32.559
There was no no, but it but they they didn't throw anything, they didn't throw any screens.

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Because you could you invite the blitz on, right?

00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:35.359
The problem, I guess.

00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:38.079
But that's what I say yeah, no, but you let you let you let it come up the field.

00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:39.680
They weren't blitzing though to Mike's point.

00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:42.240
Right, they weren't they were rushing four.

00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:53.759
Well, no, but that's but that's what but even even with that though, if if you let them come up the come up the field, and once again, if if you've seen a couple of even well, it was a Witherspoon or or Woolen, I can't forget which one it was.

00:17:54.079 --> 00:17:56.480
I think one of them had both of them had a sack of piece, I think.

00:17:56.640 --> 00:18:06.240
But like they were setting the four, but because no one was on World Cam aside, they set another, they set a fifth, and that's what that's what that's what happened when I think Drake got the fumble.

00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:10.319
So anytime they were switching it up, it wasn't just for four all the time.

00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:14.000
No, it wasn't you're right, but I but anytime they blitzed, it was fucking game over.

00:18:14.079 --> 00:18:17.839
Like they knew if you looked their their speech, yeah, usually every time.

00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:21.359
Yeah, I'm glad you brought that up because if you look at if you actually look back at those plays, right?

00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:33.839
When when Weatherspoon uh fucking rushed off the off the left side, every single time Drake looked at at Pop Douglas for that small out, and Pop was just head down running down the field.

00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:35.920
Like he didn't he just didn't never turn to the big thing.

00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:37.759
That's on that to my point, that's on the coordinator.

00:18:37.920 --> 00:18:40.480
No, like where's all his where's all his release valves?

00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:43.599
Like he didn't have any check downs like really available to him at all.

00:18:43.759 --> 00:18:50.319
To Ray's point, like, okay, you don't even need to be running full-on bubble screens or some bullshit like out on the out on the sideline, right?

00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:51.519
Because I fucking hate those anyway.

00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:56.319
They take that they take a lot longer than you actually think, and they like never seem to work out.

00:18:56.400 --> 00:18:59.119
And you're always asking like wide receivers to be blockers in those situations.

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So I'm not sure that would have worked.

00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:12.400
But I think to your point, like little slip screens like to to Ramondre, like underneath or or Henderson underneath or whatever, you know, bring a tight end inside to just get like, you know, they used to do that shit with Gronkowski all the time, right?

00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:17.920
Where it was like, just get him going downhill, just get him the ball in his hands, get him, get him possession, and get him going downhill, right?

00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:22.640
You'll get eight, 12 yards a pop doing that if before they adjust, right?

00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:24.640
That's gotta be on the coordinator.

00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:27.359
Like, where was all his where was all his release files?

00:19:27.599 --> 00:19:33.920
Where how if you can't generate any sort of pass protection, what's the next thing that you need to do?

00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:36.640
Get the fucking ball out of the QB's hands quickly.

00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:48.880
And every time Josh was running these like long progressions where it's like to you're exactly to your point, like Gonzalez is doing a fucking track and field race down the field, and it's like, dude, he doesn't have time to let that route develop.

00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:50.799
I promise you, he's already dead.

00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:54.160
Like they have already taken his head off by the time you're supposed to turn around.

00:19:54.240 --> 00:19:59.599
So to me, just the schemes were like they just would they were married to him and they just wouldn't adjust, you know.

00:19:59.680 --> 00:20:02.079
Like everybody was like a deer in headlights out there.

00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:04.640
It's frustrating, even for me.

00:20:05.119 --> 00:20:06.240
Yeah, no, I know.

00:20:06.319 --> 00:20:14.880
I mean, just they they only blitzed 11 11 of the time, and Drake may was under pressure 85% of the time.

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Imagine that.

00:20:17.200 --> 00:20:19.440
That's that's fucking ridiculous.

00:20:19.599 --> 00:20:28.000
I mean, that guy Drake was hit 14 times, and they only sent more than four 11% of those times.

00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:45.440
It's that's so hard to adjust against like not defending McDaniels, but to me, that's so hard to adjust against because that literally means you're you're you're at a disadvantage, literally what 11 so 89 of the time in the secondary, they have seven on five if you're if you're putting five guys out much.

00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:49.119
You really can't you really can't run a few plays where you just start to get the ball out of his hands.

00:20:49.279 --> 00:20:56.480
Like if he's a rhythm guy, if he like if he just needs a few completions in a row, it like can you can we get a designed run?

00:20:56.559 --> 00:20:57.519
Can we get a cubicle?

00:20:57.759 --> 00:20:58.480
To me, that's what I mean.

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To me, it was the the run game.

00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:08.720
I feel like that's where the big mistake was because Ramondre had some room early, and like he did have some running players, and they just they went away from it, man.

00:21:08.799 --> 00:21:15.200
I mean, I know Trayvon listen, Trayvon's been garbage for like half well the last half of the season, except for his big plays.

00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:20.880
But Ramondre, man, in that game, he was he was actually making some plays, he really was.

00:21:21.119 --> 00:21:21.599
Yep.

00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:30.960
No, I'm with you, but like listen, I I want to I want to blame everyone but Drake, but if you're if you're under center, you're setting you're setting the protections.

00:21:31.200 --> 00:21:37.759
So if you realize that there's gonna be a blitzer, it's you to say hot route, you know, like make sure that your receiver knows.

00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:39.680
And he just that only happened 11 times.

00:21:39.839 --> 00:21:44.079
It really was just like the protection is so bad.

00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:46.000
That was the worst game I've ever seen.

00:21:46.079 --> 00:21:48.640
That was the worst game Drake May has played in his career, for sure.

00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:50.480
That was that was really bad.

00:21:50.880 --> 00:21:52.160
Like he wasn't he he didn't know.

00:21:52.400 --> 00:21:54.319
So happy 130 million people were watching, too.

00:21:54.400 --> 00:21:56.000
It just makes me feel so good about it.

00:21:56.880 --> 00:21:59.599
This actually brings me on to my next point surprise redraft twenty.

00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:01.759
2024 draft surprise redraft.

00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:02.720
We're doing it right now.

00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:03.759
Perfect timing.

00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:04.799
No, I'm just kidding.

00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:12.720
I feel like it I don't want to because I've been preaching this for years now.

00:22:12.799 --> 00:22:15.279
So I'm not going to do a victory lap just because it's the Pats.

00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:21.119
I find that fucking silly anyway, because it's like, oh yeah, like we're so happy the Pats lost.

00:22:21.200 --> 00:22:22.960
Like they didn't have to go through any time period.

00:22:23.039 --> 00:22:25.039
It's like, don't worry about other teams so much.

00:22:25.119 --> 00:22:26.400
You know, like that's always my thing.

00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:31.599
Is it like, why don't you take a look in the mirror if the Pats are already good again?

00:22:31.680 --> 00:22:41.920
If they're already getting to the Super Bowl, like we all the rest of us need to be like, damn, like focus on stop being ass then, you know, and like and maybe they won't keep getting to Super Bowls, right?

00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:46.240
Like everybody else needs to improve and take a long look in the mirror instead of doing Schadenfreud, right?

00:22:46.480 --> 00:22:49.839
That being said, you gotta give young QBs time.

00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:56.799
I mean, it Sam Darnold on the other side is a great example of why you can't do a victory lap on Drake May right now.

00:22:56.880 --> 00:22:58.640
Like, he'll I think he'll be back personally.

00:22:58.799 --> 00:23:07.920
I I don't think this means anything other than like a second year QB faced, we didn't know it at the time, but like an all-time Super Bowl defense.

00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:09.119
Like, that's just what happened.

00:23:09.200 --> 00:23:20.640
I mean, you you as much as this is gonna be Patriot centric and you guys are mad at them, and I get why, and you have good reason to be in a lot of different ways, and you know, criticizing McDaniels, criticizing May, criticizing little T-Rex arms, Will Campbell.

00:23:20.880 --> 00:23:25.839
I I understand it and I get it, but you also have to give the Seahawks credit.

00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:31.039
I mean, Darnold was under almost as much pressure as May for a lot of the game.

00:23:31.200 --> 00:23:34.720
He they they were the game plan on the defensive side of the ball was working.

00:23:34.799 --> 00:23:38.319
He just made a play a few times that Drake May didn't, right?

00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:40.720
It's not like he was lights out on the other side either.

00:23:41.039 --> 00:23:46.559
So I I disagree with or yes, he he he he did make some plays for sure.

00:23:46.640 --> 00:23:50.960
I'm that's not that's not my I think my stance on him yesterday.

00:23:51.519 --> 00:23:54.160
I I don't think he like he wasn't a reason why they lost.

00:23:54.240 --> 00:23:57.599
I mean, if they would have lost, he wouldn't have been a reason, but he wasn't the reason why they reason why they won.

00:23:57.680 --> 00:23:58.400
No, I don't think so either.

00:23:58.559 --> 00:24:01.359
No, can't Kenny Walker was phenomenal, he was great.

00:24:01.440 --> 00:24:10.319
And I mean, if we're talking about reasons for winning, Myers, the kicker, was probably the fucking oh when the guy runs for 150 and I mean, yes, I mean I get it.

00:24:10.400 --> 00:24:22.079
Like he gets the score, but he had to find so yeah, but I'm but can Kenny Walker keeping him on the field, running like when you control the ball via the run, like that's why he won MVP.

00:24:22.160 --> 00:24:24.319
Like it wasn't we don't give it we don't give it to a kicker.

00:24:24.400 --> 00:24:24.640
Come on.

00:24:24.799 --> 00:24:26.960
I'm not advocating that because that's the case.

00:24:27.039 --> 00:24:28.400
Vinitary should have a couple as well.

00:24:28.480 --> 00:24:30.559
So no, that's probably should right.

00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:33.839
So that's that's not the case, but uh yeah.

00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:40.079
I I just think that Kenny Walker obviously he controlled the game and they they committed to the run.

00:24:40.240 --> 00:24:43.680
And when Sam Darnold had to make the throw or the throws, he did.

00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:53.680
Because JSN basically was he was blanketed all game, and that's because of Gonzo, but they did what they had to do, and their secondary guys made plays are then.

00:24:54.720 --> 00:25:08.480
I think Sam Darnold was itching to give the Patriots that game because he made four throws that normally against a I don't know if it was a better defense or whatever, that those would have been they would have been picks.

00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:12.720
But listen, he Yeah, turnover really would have changed things for you.

00:25:12.799 --> 00:25:19.200
I mean, I know it sounds like John Madden obvious to say, but like that would have been a really big momentum shift, you know.

00:25:19.279 --> 00:25:26.960
Like if you could if your defense could have really gone on to do that, take that final step and be like, yeah, we're winning this fucking game for us, and here's the ball back.

00:25:27.119 --> 00:25:28.799
Actually, do something with it this time, right?

00:25:28.880 --> 00:25:32.960
You know, to really be able to hand it back and be like, we we fucking picked this shit off.

00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:35.920
We got great field position, like 50 yards plus, whatever it is.

00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:39.680
Go score, just put some points on the board for the love of God, you know.

00:25:39.759 --> 00:25:42.240
Like that, that the defense can wake the offense up.

00:25:42.319 --> 00:25:43.200
I've seen it, you know.

00:25:43.279 --> 00:25:45.039
Uh we've all seen it plenty of times.

00:25:45.279 --> 00:25:49.839
So it is too bad that you weren't able to go make that one extra play with like strip sack, whatever.

00:25:49.920 --> 00:25:50.799
They were getting those.

00:25:50.960 --> 00:25:55.359
And it's like, you know, uh with the when you win the turnover battle like that, it's hard to win the game.

00:25:55.440 --> 00:25:58.960
Yeah, it's it's hard to lose the game from the Seahawks perspective, you know.

00:25:59.039 --> 00:26:01.279
So it's uh it's tough, you know.

00:26:01.599 --> 00:26:08.319
I I do feel like it was it kind of it looked like two very similar teams, to be honest, playing each other with two very similar game plans.

00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:19.039
And it was just a little bit like I, you know, like Ray said, a ton of ton of yards on the ground from the run game, even though you your guys' run game was pretty good, theirs was a little bit better.

00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:22.960
The defense, yours was pretty good, theirs was just a little bit better, you know.

00:26:23.359 --> 00:26:26.319
Like we were talking about getting getting pressure on the QB with four, etc.

00:26:26.559 --> 00:26:30.319
And then Drake May wasn't that great, but Darnold was a little bit better.

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