Arrowhead Report's Tucker Franklin and Patriot Maven's Devon Clement preview the Kansas City Chiefs and New England Patriots game on Sunday.
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00:00What's interesting to me, I don't know, you probably watched Monday night's game
00:04with the Chiefs and the Ravens, seemed like everyone's eyes were on that game.
00:08The Chiefs have had a pretty pedestrian run defense for the first two weeks, but then
00:12all of a sudden they turned it on against the Ravens.
00:15Did that performance from a Patriots perspective worry you at all to see them be able to stop
00:19the run like they did?
00:20Yes, it did.
00:22And the way the Patriots offense is going to work all season long is they got to create
00:26some kind of consistent run game.
00:28And if they don't do that, then we can't expect Cam Newton to come out every single
00:32week like he did against the Seahawks and throw for 300 yards, or 400 yards.
00:36It was 397 yards, so let's call it 400 yards.
00:39Patriots just don't have that kind of depth, and yes, Nikhil Harry's already off to a better
00:44start than he was in 2019, which isn't very hard to do.
00:48He's already surpassed his stats from last year, which obviously is not hard to do either.
00:52But with him and Julian Edelman at 34 years old, like I said, he's been listed on the
00:56injury report the last two weeks in the knee injury.
00:58That's probably an injury that he was dealing with back last year that still lingers.
01:03And we saw last year with him how when you make him the number one option, you target
01:07him heavily, he's going to get injured.
01:10Unfortunately, they're in the situation this year too, where they don't have a better option.
01:14So they have to continue targeting him.
01:17But when you're an opposing team and you know that, you're going to bang them up.
01:20You're going to make sure you shut them out because they don't have a better option.
01:23So when the Chiefs and Andy Reid, I know they're going to make sure that they try to
01:28take him to the passing game.
01:30When you have to rely on Nikhil Harry and Demir Bird and potentially Gunnar Olszewski,
01:35if he comes back from injury preservers week, if he actually is activated to the 53 man
01:39roster.
01:40Those aren't guys that you can rely on heavily in a passing game.
01:42I know Cam Newton has had plenty of success in the past with guys that, you know, a Jericho
01:48Cocherey or Kelvin Benjamin, you know, name the player.
01:52But I just, I don't, I don't really think week two was a good example of what's going
01:58to go ahead moving forward because the Patriots passing game isn't going to be strong enough
02:03against better teams or better secondaries as we saw in week two.
02:07And I just don't think, I'm not, as you can, as you can hear in my long winded answer,
02:12I'm very pessimistic about what the Patriots passing attack can be like moving forward.
02:18I don't think it's going to be a good game.
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02:31I don't think it's going to be a good game.