This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me tonight is my good friend Nate Tyson. How you doing, buddy? I'm doing well. You're just so excited from that, what was it, the most extraordinary regular season game in living memory? I think as that game was being hyped up, 80 pass attempts in the rain. That was a little slinging in the rain type of game tonight. That was a lot of

fun. Yeah, it was that soaking wet game in Foxborough, a 1917 game. I'll remember it for the

rest of my life. I, it seems like my experiences with Foxborough in any sort of big time capacity

have to be disgusting. Like I just remember remember they, like, just fog and mist.

And I remember a game in the snow trying to get an Uber from that stadium when I was covering a game there.

And I had to walk to the Bass Pro Shop down the road.

It's a weird setup down there if you've never seen it.

But all the people getting back to their cars and now sitting on traffic on the one after watching that ugly game, I'm feeling for them. What do we take it away from that game? My first thought, terrible field goal decision by Bill Belichick. Like, I just don't think you can kick that ball in that spot. In the rain with a guy who, I mean, we heard about his plant leg 17 times over the course of that

second half. That seems like a strange choice to me in that moment.

Especially like you and I were kind of doing double do like we're prepping for this, but

we're watching the end of the game. And like I'm looking up and I was like, maybe it's closer than

I realized. Like maybe I'm not realizing. It was. It was not. That was why when they trotted them out there, I was like, maybe it's closer than I realized. Like maybe I'm not realizing that it was it was not close kick. That's why when they trotted them out there, I was like, this isn't that much of a decision to me. Like if it was a 45 yard field goal, maybe how far was it? Wasn't it? It was 54. Yeah, that's in the rain. That seems like way, way, way, way too much. Bad plant foot in the rain because we all know, like, you know, slipping in the rain is already one thing you have to worry about. Now, imagine kicking going in that as already seen people struggling to even grip the ball a day. Like Brady almost went under 50 percent. It was so rainy today. Just beautiful, beautiful October football weather in New England. They managed to squeeze it out, obviously, an ugly

win, but you'll take that on the road against the team that still has a pretty darn good

defense. We talked about that on Friday. What did you make of the plan that Belichick and the

Patriots defense had against Brady? Do you feel like that on top of the weather gave him some

trouble over the course of today? Because they did look much more disjointed on offense than we typically have seen from them this year. Yeah, they like played the, the Patriots kind of played the Patriots way on defense, like which I actually kind of like, they didn't blink. Like they, it wasn't so much the kitchen sink that they were throwing at them, but it was more like, we play the we being

the Patriots played their defense really well. A lot of the one double stuff or they're rushing

five and just playing man coverage behind it. It was so jarring to see now Tom Brady, after we

seen years and years of quarterbacks, especially young quarterbacks double clutching and the

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