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Our last regular season victory Monday, man, who would have thought we were going to have 14 of these? I know. How were the holidays? The holidays were great, man. I missed you guys last week. But then again, you know, the Patriots were playing a JV team called the Jets. So there was really no reason to talk about that game. And I know Drake May had an unbelievable game against them.

But at the end of the day, the Jets are who the Jets are.

And they now have the second pick of the draft.

And the Patriots have shown, and so have the Chicago Bears,

that you can change your coach and you can add a quarterback

and the next thing you know, you're in the playoffs. Well, how do you think this Patriots team matches up against the Chargers? I think it's a good matchup for them. The Chargers are underrated in terms of their defense. Their defenses, top five defense, where they've really had problems is protecting Justin Herbert. He's got hit a lot this year. They lost both of their tackles.

I don't know if they're going to get one of these guys back.

I'm not sure.

But I think for all intents and purposes,

the teams that you really want to stay away from in this first round,

you know, for me anyway, we're the Texans.

I still think the Texans present a lot of problems to a lot of quarterbacks.

And, you know, it's Justin Herbert struggled against them.

Trevor Lawrence struggled twice against them.

Patrick Mahomes struggled against them.

So to me, if you're talking about a both of these teams, the Rams and the Texans who sit in the fifth seat in their respective conferences, are the teams that you would not want to play just simply because they are balanced.

You know, I'm not, I'm not too concerned about C.J. Stroud, but I think this is really a good matchup for the Patriots.

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