985, the sports hubber toucher and rich Kevin Duffy is the New England Patriots beatwriter

from MassLodd.com.

He joins us on the AT&T expert hotline.

Mr. Duffy, hello, sir.

Hey, guys, how's going?

It is going well.

Let's start with what everyone around the NFL is talking about today.

Did you see any, did you, can you make any sense of the, uh, overturned touchdown in that

game yesterday?

No.

I mean, from every angle I saw, which I'm assuming are the same angles, uh, you guys

saw, um, just when I was at the game searching it on Twitter trying to find a replay.

To me, it looked like Separian Jenkins regained

possession of the ball before he went into the end zone and therefore went and afterwards

went out of balance. So I was confused initially when the call came out, and I was a little bit

more confused when the pool report from the interview with referee Tony Carrenti came out because he actually

called it a pretty obvious call that it was indeed a touchback and I just I looked at that

and I was like I mean you might have called it a touchback but in on what planet can you say

it was an obvious call that was a touchback so it was obviously one of the more bizarre plays of the weekend, probably of the season. And I don't know if it's why the Patriots won, but it certainly went a long way into tournament in the outcome of the game. Okay, so the one thing with this team is that you're just looking for some sort of improvement from week to week because it has been a, I guess, frustrating. Most of the wins, all but I guess New Orleans has been frustrating to watch.

When you watch yesterday's game, the one thing on the stat sheet that seemed to improve

was that Brady didn't get sacked and he was only hit four times.

It seemed to, obviously, for a guy who's been knocked around all season long, that is a massive step forward.

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