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We are live in New York City.

It is Wednesday, November 17th.

My name is K. Adams.

Kyle Brand is here, a former Seattle Seahawk, Texas Longhorn, and Green Beret, the U.S. Army, Nate Boyer, is with us for all week.

Hey, Kay. Hi. Good to see you. You too. As always. And Peter Schroger, why am I staring at a tie and a suit back in the back of the studio here? We might be doing a costume change, but Kay, welcome back. Thank you. Happy to be here, happy to see your faces. It's time for the lead block! Let's go, leave lock. We still 11, I can't believe that. We are kicking it off with a primetime clash on Thursday night football, Mac Jones, making his TNF debut as the Patriots look to keep pace in the AFC playoff race. And we set it a couple weeks ago showings. Here they come. And here they are. Matt Ryan and the Falcons, they want to protect their home turf, though. It's Patriots, Falcons 28-23. No way. Tomorrow, 8 p.m. on NFL Network on Fox and streaming on Prime Video. Our very own Mike Giardy has the latest on the matchup. You may have to save yourself the celebration of Jacoby Myers' first ever touchdown from the Patriots was just a run-of-the-mill thing. Hey, guys, we're happy for a teammate to finally get in the end zone after 134 catches without. But there's something more brewing here. I think it's a belief that this team has in each other and a brotherhood that's been formed. As Matthew Judon has told us numerous times here during the course of the last three or four months, we know what we have in the room and we believe in each other. And they're all seemingly pulling in the same direction, even when there were moments at 2 and 4 where it could have gone sideways. And now in this winning streak at 4 and 0, the energy has been brought up, the level of attention has been brought up, and now this team is thinking in grander terms. Yeah, they'll never get past the one week at a time, one day at a time thing, but I think they're starting to understand that maybe there's more here than meets the eye with the New England Patriots and that rookie quarterback in Mack Jones, Kay? Thank you so much, Garty. Let's take a look at the AFC playoff picture. The Patriots climbed into the six-seat lookout after starting the season. One and three. Mac Jones coming off his best performance of the year of his career in the NFL, his young one. Now they're looking to make it five games straight with Ws. They got the Falcons on Thursday Night Football, which of course you can see right here on NFL Network.

Is it too soon for this? Here come the Patriots. Here are the Patriots talk.

Yeah, they came. Like, they're here. They've come barging in like the Kool-Aid man, right into the

pull-out picture. And I read an incredible statistic earlier this morning that back when they lost to the Cowboys in that great game and overtime and the Cowboys break their hearts and they fell to two and four, I think they had a 20% chance of making the playoffs.

Right now they have an 88% chance of making the playoffs.

If I'm looking at this team, the way they're playing, they're doing something

that I think no other team in the league is doing.

They're getting better every week. And we don't know what the ceiling is. A lot of these other teams have their drop downs. They go up and down. I look at this game, and Mike G. You already mentioned it in his head here. They're down 7-0. Then they go on this nine minute drive score, and then it's just an onslaught.

It's defense.

It's obviously the pick six by Dugger. But then Jacoby Myers finally gets a touchdown. And he's been on this team for three years. And he's heard the he's not good enough for Tom Brady. He's not a true number one. He's a converted quarterback. He has this gutty, gritty play. And the reaction

from this Patriots team, which is a lot of guys who were signed in the offseason with

rolled eyes, the Nelson Agalore types, Hunter Henry's, the Kendrick Borns. Why are they celebrating

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