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Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

Reacting to Josh Gordon stepping away from the Patriots

Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

NBC Sports Boston

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

4.5803 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Tom E. Curran is joined by SI's Ben Baskin to discuss Josh Gordon's off-the-field troubles, and Phil Perry discusses the impact of his departure on the field.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:13.8

All right, today on Quickslancel podcast, Josh Gordon in Focus.

0:18.2

And I wrote a column today, and what that column visited on was, before anyone

0:22.7

gets into too many I told you so's, I'm not positive. That's the time for it. Yeah, maybe you were

0:28.8

right. Josh Gordon didn't make it till the end of the season with the Patriots. Take a bow, pat yourself

0:33.9

on the back, feel good about that. But the reality is Josh Gordon actually had almost

0:39.9

90 days of productive life in an organization with a team that while it might have had

0:45.4

ulterior motives for having him around, gave him a pretty damn good support system. So yeah,

0:50.8

in the end, Josh Gordon isn't going to be with the Patriots for their final two regular season games or the playoffs.

0:56.3

And it's going to hurt because he was a valuable and productive player.

0:59.8

But the fact that he came in and did produce and did make contributions.

1:05.0

And you know what?

1:05.5

Out of those 90 days, he probably had some pretty damn rewarding ones in terms of personal value.

1:11.2

I'm not going to undersell that and call this a failure.

1:14.8

He didn't make it to where people would have hoped.

1:18.0

Josh Gordon certainly being primarily one who would have hoped,

1:21.6

but certainly Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, Robert Kraft,

1:24.2

Josh McDaniels, and anybody else who has grown close to Josh Gordon.

1:30.5

But he did good for a period of time.

1:34.8

And everybody's victories need to be measured by what they came from before they got on the

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