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A weekly mix of WEEEI's best NFL talk to get you ready for game day. Good morning on a Patriots playoff Monday from Gillette Stadium where it wasn't necessarily pretty yesterday,

but a gutsy performance by the Patriots defense wins you a football game and I can't believe I am saying

this but this team is on its way to the AFC championship in Denver on Sunday.

Morning hello. Who's who wants first mic time this morning? Can I just say who cares if it was

pretty? Good morning everybody. Doesn't matter. It does not matter. It was gritty.

They stuck in it in the four.

And all you heard about, I know that you were at the game, Greg, but during the broadcast,

all they talked about was how dangerous this Houston Texans team is in the fourth quarter.

And oh, God, you've let them stick around.

It was just the

hate for the patriots are so real we are so back because of it and i don't care that it was ugly

they got it done yeah um not the again back-to-back weeks not the greatest performance from

drake may overall although uh when you need him, he is able to make

a beautiful throw and get a beautiful catch from Kishon Booty and able to put the points up

when you need them. So you have a concern, I guess, about ball security when it comes to your

quarterback. I don't know. I mean, there's always a concern when I guess, about ball security when it comes to your quarterback, I don't know.

I mean, there's always a concern when it comes to ball security, whether it's Drake May

holding on to the football too long or the offensive line, getting cooked at times.

But you're right, Courtney, going against a really good defense.

And I said this, I said this before the game.

It's going to come down to those quarterbacks making the throws

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