Patriots Approach To Week 18 | The Takies Continued | Cotillo, Browne & Daniels Join The Show - 12/31 (Hour 3)
Toucher & Hardy
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🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
(0:00) Mark Dondero & Andrew Callahan - in for Toucher & Hardy - begin Hour #3 by discussing the ramifications of the Stefon Diggs legal issues as they loom over the Patriots final regular season game. How should the Patriots approach Week 18 vs the Dolphins?
(10:06) The Takie Awards Continued - Dondero & Callahan are joined by Chris Cotillo & Ian Browne for their worst takes of the year.
(24:53) MARK DANIELS covers the New England Patriots for MassLive.com and joins Dondero & Callahan for his worst take of the year.
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| 0:00.0 | My buddy and me |
| 0:02.4 | With friends like these |
| 0:03.4 | Like to climb up a tree |
| 0:04.5 | Yeah, you know |
| 0:05.4 | We're the best friends you can be |
| 0:07.4 | My buddy and me |
| 0:08.7 | Now, more of your best morning buddies |
| 0:11.6 | Toucher and Hardy on the Sports Hub |
| 0:14.0 | Hey, toucher and Hardy |
| 0:16.2 | Mark Dundaro, Andrew Callahan |
| 0:18.1 | 95 the Sports Up |
| 0:20.8 | Sunday there is still a football game The Chargers Dundaro, Andrew Callahan. 985, the sports up. |
| 0:22.4 | Sunday there is still a football game. |
| 0:28.5 | The Chargers have already announced that they will not play Justin Herbert, |
| 0:33.4 | Jim Harbaugh, saying that his quarterback will sit, which makes it really difficult for anybody to believe, I mean, it could happen, but the Chargers most likely are going to be in a tough spot in their effort to beat the Denver Broncos. |
| 0:40.5 | I think that game is in Denver, Denver trying to wrap up the number one scene in the ASC. |
| 0:44.9 | With that being the case and the reality of this situation, is there any particular way, Andrew, you would handle Sunday from a Patriots perspective and who will play, how much they'll play, et cetera. Yes, I'm going to scoreboard watch. And this is not an approach I like teams to take. But I think about where the Patriots are health-wise, right? You just had Kashan Bouti sit out. You had Harold Landry sit out. William still hasn't come back. There are a lot of guys either looking to knock some Rustoff. Will Campbell could play on Sunday. Looks like he should. At least based on what we've heard, he'll practice for the first time today. Point is, you need to get some run. But if Drake May is out there in the third quarter and you look up at the out of town scoreboard and it says Broncos 27, Chargers 3, why is Drake May on the field? |
| 1:28.0 | Because the reason you want to win that game Sunday in addition to you obviously play well going |
| 1:32.2 | to the playoffs is the number one seat. |
| 1:33.6 | That number one seat has never meant more in the history of the NFL than it does now |
| 1:38.8 | under this format. |
| 1:39.7 | One team gets a free pass to the wildcard round. |
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