A Doink in Foxboro Decides the Fate of the World | NFL Deep Dive
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🗓️ 4 October 2021
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
The biggest game in the history of sports (that actually doesn’t have that big an impact on the standings) was played in Foxboro on Sunday night, as Tom Brady played kinda O.K. in a game that his current team won against his former team after a last-minute field goal attempt bounced off the upright. Should Bill Belichick have gone for it on fourth down? Hypothetically, would Mac Jones have gotten it done against Todd Bowles and the Bucs’ shorthanded secondary? Will we talk about this game forever and ever? Maybe.
Then, a discussion of the undefeated Cardinals, the difference between the 2020 and ’21 editions, and whether or not this year’s early success is sustainable. Plus, everything that’s going so very right for the Cowboys, the Giants finally show what Daniel Jones can become if they let him, the Browns are dominating with the defensive line, the 49ers don’t show much in Trey Lance’s first extended action, the Steelers look ugly as ever, and a very neat day for Zach Wilson.
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| 0:38.0 | podcast I'm Gary Gremlin. I'm Jenny Bruntas. I'm Connor Orr. |
| 0:42.0 | And guys we are starting with an inter-conference battle, |
| 0:46.0 | which probably won't have much effect on the standings |
| 0:49.0 | when it's all set and done. |
| 0:50.0 | But everyone seems to be talking about the Sunday night game so we will as well |
| 0:54.2 | the Tampa Bay Buccaneers squeak out a victory against a rookie quarterback in |
| 1:00.8 | Foxborough 19 to 17 and I guess I know let's start with the decision at the end of the game |
| 1:08.8 | The Patriots who had some success moving the ball throughout this game especially in the second half |
| 1:14.8 | they get to the Bucks 37-yard line they are facing a fourth and three in the rain |
| 1:20.0 | there are 59 seconds left they are trailing by two they opt not to try and convert the first down they put it in the in the hands in the foot hands of their field goal kicker and Nick folk hits the left upright. Do we, I mean no one likes to call |
| 1:36.3 | in retrospect because you miss the kick, but are we okay with the call in real time? |
| 1:41.3 | Yeah I think that's exactly it, Gary. When they made the decision, it was a little surprising because it was a 56-yarder in a driving rain and like you said, they had been moving the ball very well. |
| 1:54.6 | But then Nick Folk kicks it and it looks like it's going in and it's like okay yeah |
| 2:00.1 | this was a good decision they knew what they were doing and then it doinks and it's like well why |
| 2:04.8 | they just go for it so it's sort of hard to evaluate it when you you know you can tell |
| 2:12.4 | the outcome right but I think there there's it should be a |
| 2:16.4 | question that we should discuss because I think if you're bell checked the obvious move here would be to would be to |
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