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I am your host, Travis Wingfield.

And on today's show, we get into the Patriots.

Week 2 upon us here in the National Football League. Taylor Kiles's show, we get into the Patriots week two upon us here in the

National Football League. Taylor Kiles will join me to break down this matchup from the Patriots

perspective. Plus, we are going to talk a little bit about the state of being a Dolphins fan,

as we seemingly do every other year on this show here. We'll also pick the TNF game from the

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For this week's opponent spotlight presented by Govie, longtime friend of the show, Taylor

Kyle's Taylor. What is up, man? How you doing? I'm great, man. Always glad to be back. See your smiling face. I'm sorry about the circumstances. I guess on both sides, though, from last week. I was hoping this would be a game for the top spot in the AFC East, but now it's kind of a game where teams are trying to find their way back into the wind call and back into, I guess, the good graces of what we thought these teams could be going into week one. I want to go ahead and start here, Taylor, because we knew about a lot of change this offseason coming for the Patriots, right? And that's what kind of happens when you get the rookie quarterback on the rookie contract and you can start building out the roster around him. And week one, you know, that can be challenging to draw big conclusions from. but I want to try to have you do that for us here.

Offensively, what stood out about the offense for the Patriots as a whole to you?

And Taylor, if you can, let's take it from the perspective of what worked and maybe what questions exist from that first performance for the Patriots offense here.

Well, I think I was kind of hoping for, you know, Drake May and his first game in this Josh McDaniel system was hoping for more of a Mac Jones kind of debut. I'm sure Dolphin stands. Remember back in 2021, Mac Jones just comes out and is slinging it. He's getting them in the right plays, putting it on guys. I still think that might have been his best game as a Patriot. Didn't quite get that from Drake May. And I think the biggest thing was inaccuracy and decision making at times. Early, he definitely seemed a little bit too amped up, passed up some decisions, ran at times where I didn't think he really should have. Also kind of put himself in positions to take hits that these coaches have been like, hey, man, you've got to protect yourself. Those are kind of par for the course with a young quarterback, especially in a new offensive system. You know, you learn what you can and can get away with. That I'm not too concerned about. But the inaccuracy for Drake May was something that was pretty concerning for me. And one of my biggest takeaways was there were too many gimmies that he wound up sailing over guys' heads or even completions where he put it to the wrong shoulder for his receivers and kind of took away yak opportunities or forced them to have to make difficult adjustments. And then the run game was non-existent. I mean, the Raiders really wanted to try to use stunts and post-snap movement to confuse and complicate blocking angles. They had a lot of success. The Patriots and Mikerable admitted they abandoned the run pretty much in the second half because it wasn't working. So from an offensive perspective, the run game was bad. Drake still had his flashes. It wasn't like, oh, God, what's going on with Drake? You still saw the things that encourage you, but there were some things he definitely needs to work on, at least from an offensive standpoint. With the passing game with Drake, do you think that was more, is that like a mechanical thing? Is it a timing issue within the offense? I'm a new OC, new system that can be kind of, you know, tough to iron out one game in. Like, what would you attribute that to that performance? It felt like mechanics, because there were times where he wasn't really following through. There was a time where he could have hit Remondre Stevenson for a checkdown. Might have turned into a big play, but he kind of throws it with his feet off the ground, the sidearm, and then it ends up behind Remandre off his hands. Wasn't almost intercepted, but Devin White was too close where I kind of got the yips up in the press box when it happened. So, and then at the same time, you see plays where he's stepping up into the pocket, hitch, hitch, follow through throw, and it's a dime. So you saw the flash as a positivity, but mechanically, I feel like you did see at times him just not following through or having breakdowns. And at times it was from clean pockets. It wasn't even always because of pressure. To kind of follow up further and sorry to be redundant here, but I'm just so fascinated by the Josh McDaniel's entire coaching arc,

you know, going back to the same place multiple times. Do you think his offense, I know it's only one game, but you got a chance to watch camp, is it kind of more the same, you know, the kind of complex side adjustments and, you know, ability to uncover quickly in the quarterback to be really, you know, Tom Brady-esque at the line, has it evolved?

Like, what would you say this McDaniels version of the Patriots offense, kind of what's their calling card, I guess? There's definitely a lot of carryover, and we're even talking about here, is that the best thing for Drake May, is he the kind of guy who, like a Tom Brady, is going to be able to dink and dunk consistently hit guys in stride,

like I said, creating those yak opportunities. Or is he more somebody where you wanted to drop back and have opportunities to go downfield, where his play really does shine? So it is a lot of the same Josh McDaniel stuff, but you're also seeing, especially in the run game, they started peppering in some more use of Drake May's legs. You saw some zone read, and I expected there was going to be some elements of the Cam Newton offense going back to 2020, even saw something we didn't see with Cam Newton, where you got the power read option where you can either hand off behind a pulling guard and you leave somebody unblocked, but they also had Antonio Gibson as a shovel option on the play, which was a new wrinkle there. So you are seeing some new things. You know, there was a bootleg, some moving pockets for Drake May. They still move the pocket a bit with Tom Brady and Mac Jones, but I think we're going to get more of that with Drake, even though there was just one boot. So a lot of the same from Josh McDaniels, not a lot of wholesale changes quite yet, but you did start to see the run game starting to incorporate more things that use Drake's athleticism. For some reason, your commentary there reminds me, the Dolphins and Patriots play early season every year, right? Because you mentioned the Mack Jones opening day game in 21. Cam Newton in 2020, had like, what was it, 200 rushing yards for the Patriots that day in a Patriots win over the Ryan Fitzpatrick led Miami Dolphins. You talked about the running backs there a little bit. And Taylor, one of my favorite players in the entire draft, he showed up in the preseason the very first play of the preseason. Trevion and Henderson. I'm curious what you saw in the first game in terms of the workload split, the running back position, and what we should expect going forward into Sunday's game. So the running back split was surprising, I think, for everybody, because Trayvion Henderson, like you said, was electric in the preseason. He was electric in training camp throughout the summer. Even going back to the spring, you could see, oh, this guy moves very differently from everybody else because he's big, he's stout, and then has that home run hitting ability. But remandre was by far the bell cow in what we expected to be a 1A, 1B situation. It was really very clearly remandre as the one. And then Trevionn Henderson is a distant two, which I'm hoping to see a little bit different in the next week, or this week rather, because Remandre, the offensive line was not helping him, but he wasn't really slipping tackles the way you typically expect remandre too and to be fair it hasn't been since

his rookie year where he's had sufficient pass blocking or run blocking rather where he wasn't getting

hit in the backfield and having to deal with disruption and make something out of nothing constantly so

a little bit of a you know grain assault there for remand Trayvion, you saw in very limited touches, was able to make guys miss, was falling forward. You saw the power and the explosiveness. And then you kind of got Antonio Gibson rounding out that backfield. It's a three-headed monster, but they need better blocking. And I think you got to get more of Trayvion Henderson because he might be the most dynamic player you have on your entire offense, even with Drake May. Yeah, you guys went one, two in terms of two my favorite players in the draft this year with him and then Kyle Williams from Go Coos, Washington State. My guest is Taylor Kyle. So you can find his work at Patriot C LNS. And Taylor, you did a bunch of great breakdowns. I mentioned this to you off the air.

And you make my job easier because it's like a shortcut to Patriots week and kind of getting some notes on the film and stuff. And you went over, you know, Will Campbell and the offensive line performance. You talked about the run game, not getting going. I kind of just want to give you the floor here, Taylor, just in terms of how the Will Campbell debut went, how the group did it as a whole.

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