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Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

NFL ironman Pete Kendall wonders if the Patriots are playing possum

Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

NBC Sports Boston

Patriots Nation, News, Ja'lynn Polk, Football, Jerod Mayo, New England Patriots, Afc East, Afc, Mike Vrabel, Sports, Tom E. Curran, Sports News, Phil Perry, Nfl

4.5803 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Tom Curran and Phil Perry talk with former NFL guard, Pete Kendall, about what he has seen from the Patriots this preseason. Have the Patriots been playing possum? How hard will it be for Matt Patricia to be play-caller and OL coach? 1:00-Pete Kendall breaks down the play that flummoxed him this preseason 5:30-Are the Patriots playing possum by not audibling out of bad plays? 8:30- How hard will it be for Matt Patricia to be OC/play-caller and OL coach? 14:00-Is there too much on the plate of Cole Strange? 21:30-Biggest concerns for Mac Jones heading into the regular season Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/08BqKOP0pmA

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0:00.0

What is up in turn.

0:07.0

What is up, everybody?

0:10.0

And there ain't nothing you can do about it. What is up, everybody?

0:23.5

Welcome into Tom Carrey's Patriots Talk podcast.

0:26.9

As always, it's featuring Phil Perry,

0:29.0

and we're also bringing in a good friend Pete Kendall.

0:31.9

Of course, Pete, being local, he's staying up with the Patriots.

0:35.1

And the main reason I wanted to have him on is his expert analysis that he can give us. And I want to dive into what the Patriots are trying to establish right now. You saw that second offensive play in the final preseason game against the Raiders. It was an outside zone run to the left. They ended up losing

0:55.0

three with Ramonday Stevenson. That play in particular, and the outside zone scheme in general,

1:00.6

we've all talked about it incessantly in this training camp. What are your thoughts on that play

1:08.6

and how it went and what it might augur?

1:13.9

So the Raiders had a great defense for the zone scheme.

1:18.8

And without getting too far down in the weeds, basically every covered offensive lineman had a tough reach.

1:26.1

And the uncovered offensive lineman had a hard time being able

1:28.9

to offer help to the covered lineman before going to the linebacker level. I think you see,

1:36.0

you see on that maybe Trent stays on the double team a little bit too long and the linebackers

1:42.3

over the top. But it's an impossible reach for Cole

1:44.8

if Trent doesn't give him body presence.

1:47.4

Coming at the left guard's line.

1:49.4

Yeah.

1:49.9

And it's the same thing outside for the two tight ends.

1:53.6

If the wing goes right now to go to go get the safety who's playing contain outside,

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