Is The Patriots' Brady-Belichick Era Over?
The Lead
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🗓️ 6 January 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The New England Patriots are out of the playoffs after a 20-13 loss to the Tennessee Titans. As they enter the post-season, there are a number of questions facing the organization -- the biggest being the future of #12. The Athletic’s Steve Buckley joins us to discuss this new era for Pats fans and whether or not after two decades the New England Patriots dynasty has finally reached its end.
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| 0:00.0 | Wild card weekend is in our rear view mirror and man it was a good one. |
| 0:10.0 | Two games wanted to overtime and Martian Lynch is back again. |
| 0:15.1 | There are now eight teams left in the NFL playoffs but for the first time in a decade the New |
| 0:20.9 | England Patriots are not one of them. |
| 0:25.4 | The path losing to the Titans 20 to 13 on Saturday there's a phrase that everyone is |
| 0:30.8 | thrown around and this is probably the end of a dynasty. |
| 0:34.0 | That's lock up their page. |
| 0:35.0 | Yeah, Dynasty is where is that right here and this Patriot Dynasty is finally going |
| 0:39.2 | to die. |
| 0:40.2 | And New England just is it over? |
| 0:42.2 | I mean, it was today the end. |
| 0:43.9 | It kind of felt like today. |
| 0:46.3 | Today the athletic Steve Buckley joins us to talk about the Patriots wild card loss. |
| 0:50.8 | It's been like for Pats fans in this strange new era and of course whether or not the |
| 0:56.0 | New England dynasty is really done. |
| 0:59.0 | From Wondery in the athletic I'm Anders Kaltow. |
| 1:01.8 | And I'm Kavita Davidson. |
| 1:03.3 | It's Monday January 6th and this is the lead. |
| 1:07.5 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:11.6 | There was just something about the emotion and the moment you know the path for pass. |
| 1:15.8 | It doesn't matter because we got this. |
| 1:22.8 | This isn't a story here. |
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