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What's up, everybody? Welcome into Tom Carrens Patriots Talk podcast alongside Phil Perry, as always, day after the game. It is the aftermath.

Phil, how'd the commute go? Did you come back this morning last night? How'd it go? You were out there at SoFi.

I was out there at SoFi.

I got the red eye back.

So just trying to plug along here.

If you're watching on YouTube, you're going to see me occasionally take a sip of coffee.

I want you to bear with me on that because the takes are going to be as fresh as ever, even if I might not be.

You know what I mean? Takes are going to be as hot as a coffee and that coffee is piping. All right, let's get diving into it and here comes my slam. You know, Bill Parcell said a long time ago and people have tethered

themselves to it that you are what your record says you are. Not necessarily.

When you look at the 2021 Patriots, they will be an absolute standard bearer for a team

that wasn't what its record said it was.

When they dipped the two and four after their loss to the Dallas Cowboys, a lot of

players piped up and said, you know, we're better than that.

We're better than that.

And we looked at that team who fumbled away against Miami,

got blasted by New Orleans, who was actually a little overmatched against Houston,

and then got beaten in overtime by Dallas and said, I don't know.

Really? I don't know, man.

You're coming close a lot, but until you turn into finishers, until you show us, jury's going to

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