Patriots may have missed their chance to tank

Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

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Tom E. Curran, Mike Vrabel, Afc, 2024 Nfl Draft, Football, Afc East, New England Patriots, Nfl, News, Sports News, Jerod Mayo, Phil Perry, Sports, Drake Maye, Patriots Nation, Ja'lynn Polk

4.8 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Tom Curran and Phil Perry discuss the Patriots' thrilling 30-27 win over the New York Jets. Should we even be happy with the result? Later, Tom is joined by Pete Thamel of Yahoo Sports to talk about the top quarterbacks in the upcoming NFL Draft. 0:48 - Tom and Phil answer the question we really want to know after the Patriots defeated the Jets in Week 9: Would we have rather had them lose? 9:05 - Did we learn anything positive about this Patriots team from the win? Tom and Phil get into a heated debate about the skill level of the Pats secondary. 22:08 - After Cam Newton's solid performance in the win, have we changed our minds about wanting him in New England next season? 30:52 - Tom is joined by Pete Thamel, who covers college football for Yahoo Sports and targets three QBs in the upcoming NFL Draft: Trevor Lawrence, Justin Fields and Trey Lance. 40:38 - Pete discusses how the scouting process has been impacted by COVID-19 and how that could make for some interesting draft results next year.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up, everybody?
0:06.0	Welcome into Tom Carren's Patriots talk podcast featuring Phil A. Perry, plenty to get to today.
0:11.2	The Patriots win, but did they really win against the New York Jets?
0:15.7	Cam Newton, is he making a case from muddling up the quarterback plan?
0:20.0	We'll also have Pete Dammel from Yahoo talking quarterback prospects in the National Football
0:24.9	League annual selection that comes up in April.
0:28.2	All that and more on, more on, more, wrong.
0:30.1	Everybody I.
0:32.0	I'm out of been a telling.
0:33.6	He's a fourth one.
0:34.9	It's this time.
0:36.4	World champion.
0:38.2	And there ain't nothing you can do about it.
0:44.9	Oh, Philly, Phil, Phil, Phil.
0:51.3	What do we got?
0:53.5	Talk about a mixed emotion Monday night.
0:56.0	I mean, the Patriots win, yay, but it was the 0 and 9 Jets, boo, and then they win, but that doesn't help them necessarily when you look at them and realize that they're not that great a team.
1:06.2	And you might want to say there's no chance of the playoffs trying to lose here.
1:09.8	Phil, I might be coming over to
1:10.9	your side in saying that losing is the best case scenario, Phil. Well, listen, I understand that when
1:21.5	it comes to tanking, that is not something the Patriots are going to be participating in. They
1:26.1	missed their chance. If they were going to tank, if they're going to do the elegant tank, if they're going
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