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The Next Pats Podcast - A Patriots Podcast

Kurt Warner: Priority No. 1 for Patriots is to get Mac Jones to BELIEVE in the offense

The Next Pats Podcast - A Patriots Podcast

NBC Sports Boston

News, Sports News, Jerod Mayo, Nfl Draft, Football, Ja'lynn Polk, 2024 Nfl Draft, Phil Perry, New England Patriots, Nbc Sports Network, Drake Maye, Nfl, Nbc Sports Boston, Sports

4.8558 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Phil Perry sits down with Hall of Fame QB Kurt Warner to get his thoughts on the Patriots offense and how Bill O’Brien can help Mac Jones next season. Then, Pro Football Focus’s Steve Palazzolo joins to explain how the Patriots should react to Mac’s regression in year 2 and if Bill Belichick is still a coaching difference-maker. 1:00- 1-on-1 with Kurt Warner 2:15- Kurt explains why the priority needs to be building the offense around Mac Jones and getting him to buy into that system 4:35- Kurt shares what he makes of Bill Belichick’s performance since Tom Brady left in 2020 7:30- 1-on-1 with Steve Palazzolo 9:10- Steve breaks down what he learned about Mac Jones last year and if the Patriots should have hope that they can be successful if they get the right system around Mac 13:00- Steve says teams should be drafting quarterbacks high until they know they have ‘the guy’ 17:30- Steve explains the analytics opinion of Belichick in recent seasons Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/yMQilBD0Sm8

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? Welcome into the next Pats podcast. I'm Phil Perry coming at you once again from Super Bowl 57 on Radio Row here in

0:21.9

Phoenix, Arizona. We've got a couple great guests that I think you're going to love in this

0:25.5

edition of NextPats. We're going to start out with the Hall of Famer friend of the NextPats podcast.

0:30.9

Kurt Warner brings phenomenal insight yet again on what's going on with the Patriots right now.

0:34.7

Why things should be different with Bill O'Brien now that he's in the fold to help Mack Jones along in year three?

0:41.7

What is Mack Jones's ceiling Kurt Warner dishes on that as well as how he feels Bill Belichick has done his job

0:48.1

over the course of the last three years since Tom Brady has departed?

0:51.2

We're also talking to pro football focuses Steve Palitzolo to get the analytics perspective on where the Patriots are at right now. But first, let's get to our conversation with Kurt Warner. All right, very happy now to have with us, Hall of Famer, Kurt Warner. Kurt, thanks so much for being with us. You got it. Good to be here. Kurt, I remember talking to you midseason this past season, watching the Patriots, and you telling us, it just felt like some of the details offensively for them were lacking.

1:16.6

Now that we know Bill O'Brien is coming in to be offensive coordinator for the Patriots, how do you think things will change having an experienced guy in that role?

1:24.0

Well, I mean, I think, and you hope the first thing is that, you know, Bill sits down with Mac and goes, okay, what did you like? What didn't you like? Why didn't you like it? You know, or, you know, maybe there's just a complete overall. Maybe they're not going to do anything that they did this past year. But whatever it is, you want to sit down with your quarterback and go, I want to know what you're comfortable with, what you see, why you did certain things.

1:48.2

Because I just, I never believe a quarterback can play to his highest potential, that he never plays confident football.

1:54.2

If he doesn't truly believe in what you're doing and why you're doing it.

1:59.6

And, you know, and I felt like that at times last year is that,

2:02.6

you know, we all saw it.

2:03.6

Mac didn't look like the Mac from a year before.

2:06.4

And even on some of the simplest concepts

2:08.4

that you just sit back and go, okay, why?

2:10.6

Why can you not read the simplest concepts, you know,

2:13.1

which I know you can do?

2:14.4

I've seen you do it.

2:15.3

Why can you not do it this year,

2:16.9

even though you did it

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