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Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

The Aftermath: Mac Jones wows in NFL debut, but is he built to last?

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

🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Tom Curran and Phil Perry break down the Patriots’ 17-16 loss to the Dolphins.  Mac Jones impresses, but can he continue to take the pressure he faced on Sunday? 1:00-Mac Jones proves he is the real deal, but can the Patriots give him better protection? 5:30-Breaking down the good and bad from Mac Jones in Week 1 11:00-Report card: 3 best, 3 worst from Sunday 25:00-Why does Belichick’s former staff continue to have success when facing the Patriots? Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/uWpdpUJsDUs

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0:00.0

What's a bit of telling me.

0:07.0

What's up everybody?

0:10.0

And there ain't nothing you can do about it. What's up, everybody? Good Monday morning to you.

0:24.8

We're afternoon, if you happen to be listening to it at that time.

0:27.3

This is the Aftermath Pod.

0:29.3

Phil Perry and I are going to get after it.

0:32.3

And we're not going to have a lot of ado.

0:34.9

The reason, we unloaded to the Gills with work.

0:37.2

Phil, of course, has his program

0:40.2

tonight, which is called The Breakdown with Ted Johnson. They will go over some of the key

0:46.5

plays in the 17 to 16 last of the Miami Dolphins. But we're going to start this off with a little

0:52.7

slant from each of us.

0:54.6

I'll go first, Phil, when I look at this game, I could not really care less that the Patriots lost.

1:01.6

Because the problems they had were rectifiable issues, penalties, turnovers.

1:07.4

The most important thing to take away from this game is that the most important position in

1:11.7

sports is staffed appropriately. Mac Jones had a day to remember and a day that I didn't think

1:19.5

he was necessarily capable of. Some of the stats to me that are most eye-popping are the attempts

1:24.2

and the third down conversions. Also, somewhere in there, we have to tuck in

1:29.5

the amount of punishment and the hits that he took. But when we look at the grand scheme, Phil,

1:34.8

kicking rocks over a loss when the Patriots are notorious for fixing issues, even though it's a

1:43.0

divisional loss, even though it's at home, even

1:45.0

though it's to a former coach, it's just not worth wringing your hands over. Because to me,

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