Hey, what's up everybody?

Welcome into Tom Cairns's Patriots Talk podcast featuring Phil Perry.

It is the aftermath.

It's the aftermath of a Patriots win in Miami, and I said I needed to see proof of concept

before I was picking the Patriots to win any football games at all.

I need a proof of concept before I could say that Drake May was a guy who was

elevating from among the lower quarter of quarterbacks in the league to maybe the upper

half.

Today was a day where we saw some of it.

And Phil, we're going to go deep on Drake, maybe, because we went deep on him during the week.

But I think what was interesting about this team was the resilience that it showed.

Here's Mike Vrable talking about some of that resilience.

I'm just excited for these guys.

I'm really excited that they could, you know, fight and compete, come on the road, you know, be in a game, get off to a good start, not be front runners, everything that we talked about. You know, we tried to get the drive stop sometimes. We ended this drives with scores with touchdowns.

We were much better in a red zone on offensively. The only thing that stopped us today was us.

So there was a lot of really good keys there.

This is what a bad team needs, is to be able to go ahead 12 to nothing, find itself 15 to 14 at a half time with mistakes, getting shredded on

defense, missing PATs, actually falling behind, and then weathering the storm.

It's not a good team, but I really fully believe that they didn't take advantage of bad

football and not play any of their own because they played enough bad football to fill a nice bucket.

But they showed resilience.

And that to me is the biggest takeaway non-player related from today.

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