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Oh, well, it's not a victory Monday. Good morning, guys. Kind of sad. But you know what? A very valuable learning lesson for a young Patriots team.

Well, we love, I absolutely love our Christmas gifts, but I will, this has boomer

Jenks written all over it.

We get them, we get them in the mail, and they're beautiful, but they say victory

Monday, Monday right across, and then here we are talking about a loss this morning.

Yeah, but a very valuable loss,

the way I look at it, just the way you got to see this thing. I mean, they had a great first

half and then all of a sudden a kickoff return and Wiggy knows this. A couple of momentum plays

here and there and all of a sudden the momentum is impossible to stop. But really what

to teach you is Drake May and everybody else is that

when you are playing somebody like Josh Allen and you do have the bills who, you know, do have a lot

of pride, man, you got to play four quarters. I mean, the amount of games yesterday, there were

actually seven teams that won after trailing by at least nine points in week 15, and that was most in a single

week in NFL history. So it wasn't just the Patriots that happened to. There were six other

teams that happened to. From your perspective, that loss yesterday here, is that more on what

Josh Allen was able to do in the second half, Josh Allen of the bills, or more on what the Patriots were unable to do, because they look like two different teams, first half to second half.

So I kept saying to myself, okay, Drake, this is your Tom Brady moment. This is your Tom Brady moment, especially late in the fourth quarter.

And it just didn't happen for him. And, you know, it's a learning experience for the young man. He's had a great season. He's going to finish off strong. I have a, I believe, I believe they're going to win their division. And then they're going to have to go on the road somewhere along the line to win a playoff game if they want to get to the Super Bowl. So sometimes losses like

this are great teaching moments. That's, again, that's, I feel very strongly about that. And I would imagine Mike Vrable is going to use that. I'm sure he's going to use that ad nauseum this week. It's going to be a tough week of practice. Nobody's taking anything for granted. But like I said, It's just, it's Josh Allen for sure, but also that Buffalo defense actually

got a lot better in the second half.

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