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Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

Patriots-Vikings Takeaways: Another EXPLOSIVE preseason game from TreVeyon Henderson and Efton Chism

Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

NBC Sports Boston

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

4.8756 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tom Curran welcomes in Phil Perry, live from Minneapolis, to offer instant reaction and analysis to the Patriots’ 20-12 preseason win over the Vikings.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up everybody?

0:12.8

Welcome into Tom Carnes Talk podcast on this Saturday afternoon.

0:16.8

Hope it's been a lovely one for you, the unique Saturday afternoon preseason game for the Patriots.

0:22.0

Phil Perry is going to join in just a couple of minutes.

0:23.9

You heard him on the radio call along with Bob Sosie.

0:26.8

Phil's good at that.

0:27.8

He really is.

0:29.1

So interesting, really interesting game on a lot of fronts.

0:32.7

And let's start at the very end where Kyle Dugger in sealing sealing the 20 to 12 Patriots victory in which they

0:39.4

actually jumped out to, I believe it was a 20 to 3 lead.

0:43.9

He makes the game ending pick, which is great.

0:46.9

That way nobody goes to overtime.

0:49.0

But Kyle Dugger's on the field, the end of a preseason game.

0:52.3

He's your second highest paid player.

0:53.7

It'll be like having Michael Wenow out there on offense at the end. So it looks like it's probably over for Kyle Dugger in New England, despite that pick, because you're not going to keep a guy who's only relevance to play. Are you? Are you? We'll get into that more with Phil. We'll kick it around.

1:11.0

I just, it's a horrible signal for a guy like Kyle Dugger who just a couple of years ago was a very productive player and has been a good player for this team.

1:19.7

But Phil's going to get in here. We're going to highlight here's some of the notes that I took during the game chronologically. What is up with Drake May's opening to games and closing to games?

1:29.8

Last year, we saw the closing of games where he would make mistakes today.

1:35.2

And last week, following last week's fumbled on the first drive, he had a knee or should have been picked when he sailed his second pass

1:44.5

of the day high to DeMario Douglas. Patriots survived that possession and then went on to

1:50.0

score in their second one after Marcus Jones had a terrific punt return setting up a touchdown

1:58.0

that eventually came on a third down run for Trayvion Henderson, one of the cooler

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