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00:00This is the Gregg Bedard Patriots podcast with Nick Cavins.

00:07The Patriots have made the move.

00:12They're going to Drake May on Sunday against the Houston Texans.

00:16Was that the right move?

00:18Was it a panic move?

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00:54What time is it?

00:55Game time.

00:56And you know what also time it is?

00:58It's Drake May time.

00:59First, let's do a little bit of business police blotter.

01:07The NFL has placed safety and captain, Jabril Peppers, on the commissioner exempt list following

01:14his arrest over the weekend.

01:15Peppers, a team captain, may not practice or attend games while on the list.

01:21He can't even come into the building.

01:23The 29-year-old was arrested on Saturday morning.

01:26Very serious charges, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, strangulation, possession

01:33of a class B substance believed to be cocaine.

01:37Peppers has entered pleas of not guilty.

01:41His next court date is scheduled for November 22nd.

01:45Gerard Mayo talked about it today.

01:47I just want to be clear that really any act of domestic violence is unacceptable for us

01:53as a team.

01:54No matter if you're a player, staff member, we're wholeheartedly against any type of domestic

02:00violence.

02:02He also went on to say, I do think that Jabril has to go through the system, has to continue

02:07to go through a due process, and we'll see how that works out.

02:11So obviously he is not closing the door on him.

02:15Should we get further clarification at his next court date?

02:19It's possible.

02:21In my experience with these things, unless the victim recants, which is possible, that

02:34he's probably not going to be back this season, certainly possibly could be, but the wheels

02:40of justice spin slowly.

02:42I don't think we're going to have to wait for a trial or anything like that.

02:50We've heard from his attorney so that they have video evidence that paint Peppers in

02:57a more favorable light.

02:59We'll have to see all that shakes out, but certainly disappointing for the Patriots.

03:06Certainly one of their leaders, physical guy.

03:10I was just touting him a couple of weeks ago, and Gerard Mayo did the same thing as

03:14well with his hustle and tackle on the next to last play against the San Francisco 49ers.

03:21He's just that kind of player, and the Patriots keep losing those type of players, whether

03:27it's Juwan Bentley or David Andrews and now Peppers.

03:32Certainly disappointing and just another blow, so to speak, with the season.

03:37But aside from all that, the Patriots have pulled the lever.

03:43They have announced that Drake May will start, Jacoby Bursette will go to the bench for Sunday's

03:50game against the Houston Texans.

03:54Gerard Mayo said today, I think now Drake gives us the best chance to win now and going

03:59forward.

04:00He's been getting better every single week.

04:02As I've said before, at the end of training camp, he actually was training at a very high

04:06rate that has continued through the early part of the season.

04:10So it was solely my decision to make this choice.

04:14He was asked about whether this was part of the plan, whether the plan was expedited.

04:20He said, I wouldn't say the plan was expedited again.

04:24The end of training camp, he was training up and that never slowed down.

04:28So at this point, he gives us the best chance to win.

04:32He did also, Gerard went on to say that Elliott and ownership, all of us were on board with

04:39the change.

04:40I'm not really sure why, I mean, I understand why ownership would be involved, but I mean,

04:49we just heard from Gerard Mayo, I don't know, a week or two ago, talk about how ownership

04:56has basically left him and Elliott alone, made it sound like he barely even sees them

05:02or talks to them.

05:03And now all of a sudden they're involved in this decision, or at least they're being appraised

05:09of it.

05:10I don't really understand the need for that other than I do think that ownership was involved

05:15in this decision in some way, shape or form.

05:21As to the decision itself, and we'll get into a little bit, Drake May, is he ready?

05:29Is this a great opponent for him to be going against?

05:32We'll talk about that in a little bit, but let me just say, and I wrote this and sort

05:39of talked about it on Failure Unmasked the other day, when the news came down, I was

05:43on air when the news came down.

05:47This doesn't sit very well with me.

05:51I was all on board for the plan.

05:54First of all, let's go back to the beginning.

05:56I was on board with them drafting Drake May third overall.

06:00All the way through, I have never had any doubts that he has the type of traits from

06:07his arm strength, athletic ability, build.

06:09Would you like his hands to be a little bit better for a Northeast team?

06:14Yes, but we'll have to see how that goes.

06:17We'll certainly get that opportunity for the rest of the season.

06:23I think he's very raw, I think he's very inexperienced compared to other guys in his

06:30draft class who have been playing and, on the whole, doing a good job, typical sort

06:37of rookie season.

06:38Other than Jaden Daniels, start slow and start to make progress.

06:43You're hoping for the same thing with Drake May.

06:46I mean, I would have been fine, I would have felt better had they been able to push this

06:54off to, say, mid-season, second half of the season, when it was clear the Patriots were

07:01out of contention.

07:03You can make the argument that at one and four, they're out of contention right now,

07:06and that's fine.

07:09I wanted the Patriots to have a plan and stick to the plan, and it seemed like every week

07:13we were hearing, like, you know, all right, they're sticking to their plan, which I was

07:18very happy about.

07:19I did not want the Patriots to do what the Jacksonville Jaguars did when they drafted

07:24Blake Bortles, and Blake Bortles maybe never would have been a great NFL quarterback.

07:30He certainly had all the physical skills, I don't know if he had it mentally.

07:35I think Drake May definitely has the intangibles, the smarts, the traits, his upbringing, his

07:44competitiveness.

07:47I think all that stuff is off the charts with Drake May, and that's why I was all on board

07:51with him being the third overall pick.

07:54Now, I did have my draft order, Kayla Williams, Jaden Daniels, and Drake May.

07:59If it was Jaden Daniels and Drake May, I would have taken Jaden Daniels.

08:04Kayla Williams, the only question, which I don't know the answer to, and the Bears

08:08don't even know the answer to is, is his makeup what you need to be that guy, to be one of

08:17the elite quarterbacks?

08:18Certainly, there's a lot of questions about that.

08:20Jaden Daniels, I had fewer questions.

08:22With Jaden, it was more physical and whether he could take a beating given his size, and

08:29a six-game sample size is not going to tell you.

08:31It's going to be years.

08:32I mean, RG3 was Rookie of the Year and over Andrew Luck.

08:41What ultimately did him in was injuries, along with some personality things with him.

08:52All on board on Drake May.

08:53My evaluation coming out of college was similar to a lot of guys, whether it's Greg Cosell

08:58or Dan Orlovsky or whoever.

09:02Loved the traits, loved the flashes on film, definitely green, inexperienced, undertrained.

09:10I would have loved to have spent upwards of a season laying that foundation, retraining

09:16him.

09:17So, in a similar fashion to Patrick Mahomes.

09:21That's ideally what I wanted for Drake May, but everybody's different.

09:24I mean, Drake might learn faster than anybody.

09:28He might be picking up, whether it's his footwork, I definitely would like to see him

09:33over time.

09:34And that's not something that's going to happen in one offseason.

09:38Tighten up his motion, which I do think is too long, but that's something that can be

09:42worked on.

09:45And I just thought, especially considering this offense and that Alex Van Pelt has said,

09:53you need to operate from under center in this offense.

09:59Drake has a long ways to go in terms of that.

10:02I don't expect him to be under center very much, if at all.

10:06I just don't think he's very comfortable with that.

10:08I think every opportunity that we've seen him under center, it's been an adventure.

10:14And it's not just the center, it's him as well.

10:18But that being said, and this is part of where the Patriots are, I think the plans

10:25that they had for this season, for this offense, that Alex Van Pelt had for this offense, have

10:30been thrown out the window.

10:32All the stuff that we saw them working on in the offseason, the wide zone, the boot

10:36action, all that stuff has gone away because they can't block it and they don't have the

10:41athletes up front.

10:43Could that change a little bit with May as the quarterback?

10:47It's possible.

10:49He'd certainly be much better on the boot actions and things like that, just because

10:53of his speed, where he can threaten the outside, but also his ability to flip the hips is way

10:59better than Jacoby Bursette.

11:01But this, from a schematic and scheme standpoint, this might be a good fit, a better fit than

11:11say if Jacoby Bursette was out there and running what Alex Van Pelt visualized for his system.

11:19That is under center and all that stuff, the wide zone and the boot and stuff like that.

11:23They just don't do that anymore.

11:25Their best runs are duos inside and you see them pulling guards and it's more like the

11:31traditional Patriots offense.

11:34And I do think that that style of offense is more conducive to the shotgun or pistol

11:39or whatever they decide to do with Drake May.

11:43Whereas if the Patriots were humming with the wide zone and Van Pelt scheme with Bursette

11:50as far as operating it.

11:52I'm just talking about like, you know, if in that scenario, if Bursette was the one

11:57holding them back, that the runs were there and the boot action was there, but Bursette

12:03just couldn't do it.

12:05I think that would be a harder fit with Drake May.

12:08So in the current state, the Patriots current state of offense, do I think he can operate

12:14this?

12:15Yeah, I do.

12:18So but, you know, back to the decision itself and, you know, like I said, I don't know if

12:24I finished my thought, but, you know, I viewed Drake May and Bortles similar in terms of

12:31prospects.

12:32I may had a much higher ceiling because of intangibles, but in terms of the athlete,

12:38they were sort of inexperienced.

12:42You know, the Jaguars surprised everybody by drafting him.

12:45I don't know.

12:46It was in the top 10, maybe even top.

12:47I think it was around like six and shocked everybody.

12:52You know, I think I had a more in sort of the teens type of things, but, you know, they

12:58saw the physical traits in a somewhat similar decision that the Patriots made.

13:02They saw the physical traits and they said, we're going to take him.

13:05And the GM at the time, Dave Caldwell, said when they drafted Blake Bortles, he's not

13:10playing his rookie year.

13:12We are going to build him up.

13:14We're going to train him correctly.

13:15He is not going to play.

13:17Guess what?

13:18With Chad Henney, a quarterback, their version of Jacoby Bursette, the Jaguars started oh

13:22and three oh and four Blake Bortles started now.

13:26He did take them to an AFC championship game and might have beaten the Patriots if if a

13:32certain fumble call went the Jaguars way.

13:38But you know, that was more about the running game and the defense with that team.

13:42He made a few plays.

13:44But the fact of the matter is, is, you know, a quote unquote franchise quarterback.

13:49He was out of the league in six years.

13:51And I just worried about that with the Patriots.

13:54I just I said from the beginning.

13:58You take Drake May.

13:59That's fine.

14:00And I don't care if he doesn't start until year two.

14:02That does not matter to me.

14:04It doesn't matter to me at three overall.

14:06Not one bit.

14:07As long as you get the guy and you believe he's the guy and you train him up to be the

14:11guy.

14:12I'm fine waiting a year.

14:13I don't care about wasting a year on a rookie deal or anything like that.

14:17Never cared anything about that.

14:18The development of Drake May was first and foremost.

14:24The Patriots said they had a plan.

14:25I thought they were sticking to the plan.

14:27To me, this is not the plan to start him week five against the Houston Texans with a with

14:33a one in four team with an offensive line that that has been as bad as the Patriots

14:39have been.

14:40Now, it was a little bit better on Sunday against the Dolphins, who aren't exactly challenging

14:46up front.

14:47Certainly not without Jalen Phillips.

14:48Yeah, it was better.

14:49You know, I'll give them that.

14:51And it looks like this group with Darian Lowe and Michael Jordan, who probably has

14:58been their best offensive lineman so far, and Nick Leverett certainly has challenges

15:03in this game.

15:04I think he's a better player than that.

15:06How good?

15:07I don't know.

15:08A win back at right guard still doesn't look great.

15:11My question is conditioning seems to wear down.

15:15And Demontre Jacobs at right tackle has some rough reps, gave up a lot of pressure.

15:20But on the whole, I would say it was pretty decent for a guy who's never really played

15:24there in his first game.

15:25So there is hope that this this offensive line, which played all I don't know, 75 snaps,

15:32whatever it was, 60 snaps, that this can be their unit that they go forward with and and

15:40figure it out.

15:42But look, the the Patriots are one in four at this point.

15:53You know, what doesn't sit well with me is they made this decision coming off a game

15:58and we'll talk about this more in a minute, where I thought the loss to the Dolphins 15

16:04to 10 against a bumbling Dolphins crew that was throwing up all of the all over themselves

16:10again multiple times.

16:13To me, that loss was about the coaches.

16:14It was about Gerard Mayo is about Alex Van Pelt.

16:17It was some about Covington special teams, you know, wasn't great.

16:23And to me, this reeks of a panic situation that that, you know, a Patriots team that

16:29if they were better coached, if they were more buttoned up and what they do, they would

16:35be three or two at this point and tied for the division lead.

16:38And we wouldn't be talking about Drake May, but they botched the end of the Seattle game,

16:42botched the end of the first half of the Seattle game when Gerard Mayo gave Seattle three points

16:47that would have been handy, would have been advantageous to the Patriots later on in that

16:51game.

16:54You know, they botched that game.

16:56The Miami game was just a complete debacle in my mind.

17:00And I just think scapegoating to Kobe Brissett was just wrong.

17:07I mean, look, did he play well?

17:09No.

17:10But the fact of the matter is he led them on a scoring drive.

17:13It was part of a scoring drive that should have had a touchdown with a go ahead touchdown

17:18with a minute left to Jalen Polk.

17:20But the rookie now, was it a perfect throw?

17:24No.

17:25Was it a good throw?

17:26No.

17:27But it was good enough.

17:28I mean, there's like four or five yards when he touches the ball between him and the end

17:33line.

17:34And all of a sudden, Jalen Polk decides to scissor kick his legs and he can't get both

17:38feet inbounds.

17:40If he catches that ball, I don't think they're making this move to Jacobi Brissett.

17:46Certainly I don't think they're, to Drake May.

17:49Certainly they're not making this move if the coaching staff was up to snuff and delivered

17:57winnable games against the Seahawks, against the Dolphins.

18:02And so in that way, it does not sit well.

18:08It just seems like this coaching staff doesn't know what they're doing.

18:12They're grasping at straws and they are looking to Drake May to basically save their hides.

18:21And I don't like that.

18:23And I don't think, I'm not going to say it's unfair to Jacobi Brissett.

18:26I'm sure he's taken a lot of hits, but he's also making $8 million a year and he knew

18:30the situation here and he has not played well the last two weeks.

18:35And after the 49ers game, after reviewing the film, I said, it's, he was a detriment.

18:41He was a, he was one of the top reasons why the Patriots lost that game.

18:46If it happens again, two straight weeks, then Maywatch is full steam ahead.

18:53And Jacobi did not play well in that game.

18:56He was my lowest graded player again on offense.

18:59And so on film, statistically, analytics, what have you, is this decision justified?

19:07Yes.

19:08But I just think that considering the coaching blunders and Jalen Polk's inability to get

19:16two feet down on a catchable ball to win the game are more responsible for the Patriots

19:23being one and four than the quarterback.

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19:56You know, look, so I had a two week winning streak.

19:59It did not happen this week.

20:01I told you I did not feel confident about this week.

20:06We'll have to see whether that changes for the Texans.

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20:38Okay, so let's talk about Drake May and his readiness.

20:46And I guess we can start with the decision.

20:48You know, I don't like how it went down.

20:51Does that mean that this is a bad decision?

20:54No, I'm not.

20:55No, it really is.

20:59I think that he was going to play at some point, and from everything I've heard, from

21:06everything we've heard, the kid has been a quick learner.

21:09Now, I will point out that I think Gerard Mayo, so I said, I think it was like a week

21:15ago that I heard from people inside the building that they thought Drake May was a little bit

21:25more of a ways off than I think people.

21:28I think it was after the 49ers game.

21:31People were like, oh, we need to start him.

21:34Of course, this has been an every week thing, just about certainly since the Jets game.

21:44And I was told that he wasn't quite ready, that there were some operation issues, just

21:51the basics of operating the system that deemed him not quite ready.

22:00In terms of when he would be ready, I have no clue.

22:03But Mayo sort of addressed this today when he said, where have you seen Drake's biggest

22:08growth this season over the last five weeks?

22:11Mayo said, just operating the huddle, I think it starts right there, getting the call, getting

22:15in the huddle, getting out of the huddle, going out there and executing the play.

22:20That's kind of what I was talking about.

22:23Sounds like he's improved in that area, at least enough where the coaches are like, okay,

22:27he's at an acceptable place right now.

22:30We'll have to take their word for it.

22:33We shall see.

22:37So they're starting Drake May.

22:39I think that I have no prediction on what he's going to do.

22:43I have no clue whether he's ready or not.

22:49What I do know is that, and this is similar to what we saw in the preseason and what we

22:54talked about and even the Jets game when he appeared, Drake May is a very good athlete

23:01and with a very big arm and he can really run.

23:06So because of that, he's going to make some splash plays in every game.

23:13It's the other plays that you worry about.

23:15Is there going to be consistency?

23:17Is he going to read things outright?

23:19Is he going to get confused by anything that he says?

23:23People are looking to Drake May to elevate a Patriots operation that isn't great.

23:31I would say the coaching isn't great on the offensive side of the ball.

23:36The offensive line we know is shaky and the weapons aren't great and they're young and

23:41kind of raw.

23:43Pretty much similar to where he was at North Carolina a year ago with offensive coordinator

23:49change that was not good, made it a mess.

23:52The offensive line was kind of a mess.

23:55His receivers, he didn't have his top receivers, Vontaze Walker or whatever his name is, had

24:04to deal with eligibility issues.

24:06He had lost some guys in the draft.

24:07So to me, it's a very similar situation that Drake May is walking into with the Patriots

24:16similar to his last year at UNC.

24:20The good part about that is this is not a quarterback who needs everything perfect to

24:25operate and he's not used to that.

24:27He's never really had that.

24:28So that's good.

24:33He's used to what he's going to encounter with the Patriots.

24:39As opposed to, say, Mac Jones, who probably needed a little bit more of perfect situations,

24:45Drake May doesn't need that.

24:48Now, that being said, Drake May wasn't great his last season at North Carolina.

24:53So you can't say, like, Patriots fans are hoping Drake May is going to elevate a suboptimal

25:00operation.

25:02He didn't elevate a suboptimal operation at UNC.

25:06Now, he's a year older.

25:09He's around professional players.

25:10He's around professional coaches.

25:12Can that also help him?

25:13Yeah, absolutely.

25:16But you just worry about the consistency and I don't really look.

25:20They made their decision.

25:23The coaches know better.

25:24I have no clue what he's doing on the practice field and I don't really believe any reports

25:29about these guys or these players are saying this and these coaches are saying that.

25:36It's practice.

25:37I've talked to enough NFL coaches and certainly a lot lately asking them about, you know,

25:42what do you think about this and that and they're just like, practice doesn't matter.

25:46I mean, if somebody's doing something well in practice when they're not really in pads

25:51and things like that, and this goes to the preseason with Drake May, Drake May was a

25:56seven on seven Hall of Famer.

26:00When the pass rush and the pads went on, that's when he struggled a bit more.

26:06But you know, I look, they made their decision.

26:10You know, I expect him to struggle.

26:12I expect him to bring a lift for a game or two.

26:16I would expect that and I think he'll make enough plays that I think will certainly make

26:22the Patriots more entertaining and fun to watch.

26:26I don't care if he throws, I don't care about turnovers.

26:29I don't care about sacks.

26:32You know, I just want to see him get out there and get experience and get after an adjustment

26:39period.

26:40I want to see him start to get incrementally better as the season goes along and I have

26:45hopes for that.

26:46I have high hopes for that.

26:48You know, as far as the Texans this week, a lot is going to be made about their pass

26:53rush, which is really good.

26:57You know, I was just watching some of their film.

26:59I will say they are really fast on film.

27:02I think that's going to be a big bit of a shock for Drake May.

27:07I think that was a little bit of a shock against the Jets.

27:09You also have to remember, so you know, he's doing quote unquote great in practice.

27:17That's against a Patriots defense.

27:18Yes, they show a variety of things, not as much as they used to.

27:24Not as much as he would have seen in the summer.

27:26I think injuries are partly to do with that, but we're also talking about a very slow Patriots

27:32defense that has gotten slower by the week with the injuries to, you know, Kyle Duggar,

27:38Jabril Pepper situation, Juwan Bentley, you know, all that stuff.

27:43So I think from what I've seen on film so far of the Texans, I think that Drake May

27:50is going to, he's going to have to gear up his speed to be ready for this.

27:55And I think it's, you know, it's a situation, it's incumbent upon Alex Van Pelt to figure

28:00out a way to get his feet wet in the game and not to put too much on him early and let

28:06him get adjusted to the speed and then sort of go from there.

28:10And you know, when you're dealing with these young quarterbacks, something else that is

28:15incumbent on Alex Van Pelt, who I haven't been enamored with so far watching his scheme

28:20and certainly the execution of the scheme by the Patriots.

28:24There were some, there were some route issues in this past game, which weren't great and

28:29I think led to some poor plays by Jacoby Brissett.

28:35You know, it's incumbent upon Alex Van Pelt to, he needs to determine what Drake May can

28:42and can't do right now.

28:45And he needs to, I don't care if it's simple, I don't care if they have, you know, five

28:52to seven plays that you know that he can execute.

28:58You can dress them up in different ways and you can get to them different ways, but fundamentally

29:02they're the same type of plays.

29:05And Alex Van Pelt is going to have to figure that out and put Drake May in those situations.

29:13And I don't care if they have to do it the whole game against the Texans, I don't care

29:15if the Texans get it figured out.

29:17But what you can't do is all of a sudden get into a game and put Drake May in a position

29:24where he's uncomfortable with the play calls that he's not used to them.

29:30So you know, you'll also often hear, I heard Josh McDaniels talking about this on Julian

29:36Edelman's podcast when he was asked a little bit about Drake May and you know, he talks

29:40about like buckets.

29:42And you know, when you're a young quarterback, you're dealing with young quarterbacks, that

29:49bucket's pretty small.

29:50It's like a coffee cup size, but you got to figure out what's in their bucket and stay

29:55there and then you slowly expand it as you go along.

30:00So I would look for the Patriots to do that.

30:03I think they're going to take advantage of his legs.

30:05I do think that's an advantage for them, especially, you know, these defenses could

30:10blitz and tee off on Jacoby Brissett because they knew where he was going to be.

30:14And he couldn't really elude anybody, even though he thinks he can.

30:18Drake May is a different beast.

30:20You know, he'll be able to get to the outside on some guys, he'll be able to make some plays

30:24with his legs.

30:26One thing from watching the Bills-Texans game, and remember this Texans defense made Josh

30:31Allen go 9 of 30.

30:34So basically, if Drake May can do anything better than that, that's pretty good.

30:39Of course, you know, the Texans were getting geared up for the Bills.

30:43I don't know how much they're going to be geared up for this.

30:47But I will say one thing going against Drake May and the Patriots in this matchup against

30:52the Texans is they just faced Josh Allen, who, look, Drake May's not Josh Allen.

30:58They're hopeful he's going to be, hopefully, Josh Allen light when he's a little bit more

31:03developed.

31:05But the Texans clearly had a plan, a lot of spying, how they rushed Josh Allen, where

31:12they worried about his athletic ability.

31:14So they just came off learning that, executing that in a game to a high level.

31:20And I assume they're going to use the same sort of plan, probably just move it over to

31:25this week.

31:27And that makes it a little bit less likely that Drake May is going to be able to use

31:32his legs effectively in this game.

31:34But it's part of what he does.

31:37It's definitely in his bucket at this point.

31:40So I still expect him to do that.

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32:46Okay, real quickly because now with the Drake May news, this seems like years ago that they

32:54lost to the Dolphins on Sunday.

32:59To me, like I said earlier, to me, their loss to the Dolphins to me was solely on the coaching.

33:07From Alex Van Pelt's game plan, which was not nearly run heavy enough, the Dolphins

33:13entered with the 26 DVOA against the run.

33:17They had Tyler Huntley at quarterback.

33:19They were scoring less than the Patriots.

33:22This is a game and look, I'm going to put all of this on Gerard Mayo.

33:28He is the head coach and he is a CEO head coach, so it's not like he's busy game planning

33:33on defense.

33:34He has Demarcus Covington for that.

33:36He's not game planning on offense or special teams.

33:38Gerard Mayo is there to oversee everything in this organization, including his coaches

33:43and the game plans and for the Patriots and basically what you get, and this is what Bill

33:49Belichick would do with the Patriots with his coaches on Monday, Monday evening, sort

33:54of after they put the last game to bed, Bill Belichick would instruct his coaches how each

34:03of their game plans should go this week.

34:07He would tell them exactly like, this is how we win this game, and I'm just trying

34:14to find the part where I said this.

34:21This is what Mayo should have told Van Pelt going into this game.

34:24We're breaking in a new offensive line.

34:26Let's go run heavy at least to start this game to get their feet under them.

34:30Miami's run defense is not very good.

34:33They're scoring 11 points a game.

34:34Tyler Huntley is their quarterback.

34:36They are very mistake prone.

34:38We shouldn't have to do much offensively to win this game, probably 16, 17 points.

34:44Control the ball, play field position, and don't turn it over.

34:48If we do what we did against the Bengals, that should be good enough.

34:51I want a 65-35 run pass split.

34:54I don't care if we don't throw 10 passes in this game.

34:57The Dolphins are soft.

34:58Let's be physical with them, pound them, and see how the game goes.

35:04Guess what happens?

35:05The Patriots come out, they run for seven yards, and then they go pass, pass, sack,

35:08sack.

35:10In the first half, the Patriots dropped back 17 times, including penalties.

35:14They rushed seven times.

35:15And one of their rushes included a 33-yard touchdown run that was blocked

35:20beautifully by the offensive line.

35:21And did that in having a lead, a 7-3 lead, and then what was it?

35:2710-3, 10-6, 10-9.

35:29They had the lead the whole game.

35:32Did Gerard Mayo get on this headset and say, Alex, the Dolphins have missed a field goal.

35:40We blocked one of their punts.

35:41They had a field goal snap that was a ground ball.

35:47They were inside the 20, and they snapped the ball early.

35:51For the second week in a row, that was a 22-yard loss, took them out of field goal range.

35:55Like, Gerard Mayo should have just said, don't throw the ball.

36:00Just pound them, pound the ball away, which is exactly what Mike McDaniel did at halftime

36:07after his mistake from first half.

36:09He said, all right, screw this.

36:10We can't do X, Y, and Z.

36:12Guess what?

36:13We're just going to run the ball.

36:14Tyler Huntley and the Dolphins scored on all three of their second-half possessions.

36:21So there was that with the offense, along with the decision before halftime.

36:28They run for, what was it, eight yards, and then they throw, throw, and basically gave

36:36Miami a field goal, or at least attempt at a field goal before halftime.

36:42At the end of the game, they get down there, get on the 12-yard line with about a minute

36:46and a half left, all three timeouts, and Gerard Mayo should have been on this headset to ABP

36:52and saying, this is going to be the last possession of the game, so do what you have to do, which

36:58would include running on first down at least.

37:01You have all four downs.

37:03You need a touchdown.

37:04You have all four downs.

37:06You have 12 yards.

37:07You have three timeouts.

37:08The Patriots should not have had to throw the ball there, and guess what they did?

37:11They threw four times.

37:14Be that as it may, Jacoby Bursette delivers a decent pass to Jalen Polk, and he doesn't

37:19get his feet inbounds.

37:22So that's a little bit on the offense.

37:24I also want to point out that Gerard Mayo said a couple things which I completely disagreed

37:30with.

37:31He said, after the game, he said, I think there's no question we're tough, but we just

37:35have to get better from an execution standpoint.

37:38Tough?

37:39I mean, look, I'm not going to say they're not tough, but does a tough team let the Miami

37:45Dolphins run for almost 200 yards against them when they have Tyler Huntley, a quarterback?

37:52Just the week before, the Dolphins' running backs had 66 yards on 22 carries against the

37:57Tennessee Titans.

37:58They couldn't leak a drop running the game.

38:00All of a sudden, they play the Patriots, and they can run all over them, and that's a tough

38:03team?

38:04No, that's not a tough team.

38:07Tough teams run the ball, and they stop the run to start with.

38:13The Patriots didn't run enough.

38:16Jacoby Bursette should not be attempting 34 passes in a game where the Patriots basically

38:21led throughout the game.

38:23That's just horrible coaching and decision-making, and that starts with the head coach.

38:29The run defense was terrible.

38:32They were not tough enough up front.

38:34Devon Godshall wore down as the game went on.

38:38Him and Marte Mapu gave up the game-winning touchdown.

38:43So there's that.

38:44And then there was also this.

38:45On Monday, in the aftermath of the game, Gerard Mayo said, I thought we played well enough

38:51defensively and on special teams to win the football game.

38:57Sorry, I'm just looking for the part where I wrote about this on BSJ.

39:10What game was he watching?

39:11What is he talking about?

39:13Yeah, you can look globally at, oh, they only allowed 15 points, but that's also like taking

39:20how many points?

39:21I mean, if the Dolphins were a competent unit, if Tyler Huntley could hit wide-open guys

39:27that were out there and get the ball out of his hands, the Dolphins probably score like

39:3130 points in that game.

39:33Just because you only gave up 15 points doesn't mean that's good defense, especially not when

39:37you're going against Tyler Huntley in the state of the Miami Dolphins offense, which

39:43was scoring 11 points a game.

39:45All of a sudden, they score 15 against you and certainly should have scored in the 20s.

39:51Like I said, the defense allowed, so the Miami running backs rushed 35 times.

39:57Remember, Jacoby Brissett dropped back, I think he had 36, including sacks plus penalties,

40:03it was like 40.

40:04Miami rushed 35 times, their running backs, for 184 yards, including seven straight times

40:09to take the lead with their only touchdown.

40:14The Dolphins and Huntley scored in all three of their second-half possessions.

40:17And then there's also this, no one has talked about this, but the defense basically handed

40:25Miami six of their points.

40:28Because if you recall, at the end of the first drive, the Dolphins had third and 17 from

40:32the New England 49, okay?

40:35The Patriots just, what, need to hold them to, I don't know, six, seven yards and they

40:42probably don't kick a field goal, they probably punt.

40:45But guess what the Patriots did?

40:47They had a conservative play call, they gave up easy 13 yards to Johnnie Smith, and Jason

40:52Sanders, because of that yardage, hit a 54-yarder.

40:55To me, I put that on the defense, that's not good defense, that's not playing well enough

40:59to win, that's conceding three points.

41:02Near the end of the third quarter, the Dolphins had third and 13 at the New England 40, right

41:07sort of on the edge of field goal range.

41:09Now, I don't know if they did this because they were going against tendency, because

41:12the Patriots, and we've seen other teams use this, specifically the Seahawks, and they

41:18even talked about this, the Patriots are a very high-pressure team on the edge of field

41:24goal range.

41:25So I don't know if they just did this to screw their tendencies, but it was an epic fail

41:29because Christian Gonzalez, who played great coverage pretty much all day against Tyreek

41:34Hill and Jalen Waddell, was asked to play conservative, and he's like 10 yards off

41:39of Jalen Waddell, and he catches an easy 11-yard reception, and that leads to a 47-yard field

41:44goal.

41:45Again, that's good defense, that's good enough?

41:47I disagree.

41:49And the special teams were good?

41:51Seriously, what game is Gerard Mayo watching?

41:56Brendan School had a great punt block, okay?

41:58Again, they got Jake Bailey, that's like two years in a row.

42:01Obviously they know something from when he was here.

42:03But Joey Sly missed a 33-yard field goal.

42:07Bryce Berenger had three touchbacks that affected field position.

42:10In a game like this, field position should have been like, I don't know, third on the

42:14list in terms of things we have to do to win this game.

42:18And Berenger was terrible in this game.

42:20And he also had a shank punt that was a net of 31 with the return that gave Miami the

42:28ball at the New England 44 with 55 seconds before halftime.

42:34Luckily, that's when they had the ground ball snapped, but that's not good special teams.

42:40So I don't know what Mayo's talking about.

42:43I don't know what games he's watching, because what he should have said was, starting with

42:51the coaches and starting with me, it was not good enough against Miami.

42:56And he probably just should have fell on the sword.

42:58But of course, they don't want to take any blame for anything.

43:02He should have said, I lost this game for the team.

43:07We did not have the right game plans.

43:08We didn't make the right decisions.

43:10Nobody was perfect in this game, starting with me.

43:14And that is not going to happen again.

43:16I am going to learn from that.

43:17Did we hear that?

43:18No.

43:19What we got was Jacoby Bursette got thrown under the bus.

43:22And he was made the scapegoat for this game, which was just wrong on so many different

43:27fronts, least of which was the Jalen Polk touchdown, that if Jalen Polk gets two feet

43:33down and they win that game, they're not making this move.

43:36I know certain people, and I know are reporting, oh, yeah, it wouldn't have mattered, like

43:41blah, blah, blah, bull crap.

43:44You can't bench a guy who let a game winning drive like that.

43:48I mean, look, it wasn't good.

43:50But I mean, how many times have we seen this, you know, Tom Brady or any other quarterback

43:55that like, all right, man, he stinks.

43:57He's throwing interceptions, taking sacks.

44:01But at the end of the day, guess what?

44:02I mean, look, Patrick Mahomes is doing this every week.

44:06He hasn't been really good this year.

44:07But guess what?

44:08At the end of the day, he delivers.

44:09He delivers a victory.

44:10If Jacoby Bursette delivered a victory, I don't think they're making this choice.

44:14So that's sort of my synopsis on the Miami game.

44:18But you know, be that as it may, it's now May Day.

44:22I'm looking forward to it, which is certainly going to be more interesting.

44:25It's going to be more things to write about, more film to analyze.

44:29And you know, Giardi and I are going to bring it to you all on BSJ.

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