The number one thing for me is, look, making the right decision.

We talk about, you know, the correlation between turnovers and wins and losses.

I just want to see the offense put drives together.

I want to see the quarterback go out there and make good throws, go through his reads, and perform like we know he can.

That was Gerard Mayo.

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He's talking about what Jacoby Brissette has to do this weekend against the

Cincinnati Bengals. This is Tom Carren's Patriots Talk podcast. That is Phil Perry, and God, do we need a game,

Barla? Badly. Badly. Can we please have a game to talk about? Thank God. It's on the horizon. All right. Not only do we have a game, but we're going to have Jeff Hobson, who covers the Bengals and has been doing so for about, oh, I would say, 30 years.

Join us to tell us whether or not that team is actually vulnerable and whether they could serve as a model for the Patriots in their ongoing rebuild, which is now five years old.

Phil, simple question here. Can the New England Patriots keep this game tight?

We've heard so much panning of their chances this year.

This is a top seven or eight team if we did power rankings in terms of the Cincinnati Bengals.

Can number 31 New England hang?

I think they can.

I think there's a path to them hanging.

Now, will they win the game?

That I'm not ready to say.

But I think I'm going to pick them to cover, Tom.

I really am feeling strongly about this as time goes by because I feel as though

the Patriots are getting the Bengals, dare I say, at an okay time.

Their quarterbacks coming off a serious injury.

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