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Hey, what's up, everybody?

Welcome into Tom Curran's Patriots talk podcast.

Before we bring Phil in, this was interesting Sunday after the game when Bill Belichick

was asked about the injury to Cole Strange.

Bill.

Yeah, it's tough to lose him.

It's tough to lose Connor. It's tough to lose Hunter.

So, you know, kind of at the end there, we were not, I don't say, didn't feel like we were able to, you know, do probably what we should have done in that situation.

At the end of the game, I'm talking about.

So there was a conversation immediately after the game and in post game, and it was

fevered about Bill Belichick quitting on his team and raising the white flag.

And he did.

But he did acknowledge that he had done so. And he actually said, you know, quote,

we didn't feel like we were able to do probably what we should have done in that situation.

At the end of the game, I'm talking about. So you never want to see a, you know, what's the use,

wo is me approach. And I definitely think the Patriots got there on Sunday.

Let's bring in Phil to discuss this now.

If Bill is going to, in that instance, cite injury as saying, hey, man, hands are tied.

Do you think that he might have a case or at least we'll attempt to make a case that there are portions of this season in which his hands have been totally tied?

And it's the reason, not one of the reasons, the reason that they are where they are.

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