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Tough to find fault with this first place, 6 and 2 New England Patriots team.

But Rob, you were telling me the other night that you do have a concern headed into the

second half of the NFL season. Just running the ball consistently, rushing when you have to run the

ball, four-minute offense. If it's a nasty game, say you have a rainy, cold, fall, New England,

which we're going to have one of those. This past weekend was

beautiful, sunny, awesome. But at some point, you're going to have to run the ball with your

running backs. And right now, Drake May has 250 yards rushing, and Stevenson has 279 yards rushing.

So that is not great. You don't want your quarterback to have as much as your number one running back.

That just goes to show you that the quarterback, yes, he's getting out of situations and using his legs,

but you're also relying on him to scramble for first downs instead of running the ball.

Do you put that more on the running backs, on the

offensive coordinator, on the line? Well, running the ball is a, it's a group effort. So you have

your offensive line. Obviously, they're executing what the play is, but your running back has to see it.

We talked about this before. The running back and everybody have to work together and they

have to see it and also you have to take care of the football. So do you have less confidence now

that you've seen some of the fumbles like we did versus the Steelers? I know Vrable has talked about

you know, still needing Stevenson and still having to rely on him and he's got to stay here and

like we just, you're going to need him. So at point in the future say you're in a you know field goal game or you you have to control the time of

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