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Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

The Aftermath: Patriots' DEFENSIVE SHUTDOWN vs. Texans proof-positive of Vrabel's plan for this team

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

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tom Curran and Phil Perry react to the Patriots' 28-16 win over the Houston Texans to advance to their first AFC Championship Game since the 2018 season.

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up everybody?

0:14.5

Welcome into Tom Carren's Patriots Talk podcast.

0:17.8

Patriots take care of business in the AFC divisional playoffs wiping out the Houston

0:24.2

Texans 28 to 16 in a game in which the Houston Texans defense was everything they were

0:29.5

advertised to be and C.J. Straub was nine times worse than he was on Monday night against the

0:34.1

Steelers. Phil Perry alongside Phil, let me just play a little sound from

0:38.5

Mike Rable because I don't think these patrons are satisfied now. Everybody's stepping up. We're

0:42.9

using everybody. Everybody's making plays. Everybody's helping us win. I'm excited for these guys,

0:47.0

but they're also, they're not satisfied, and I can tell that. All right, Phil, Patriots,

0:51.6

defense harassed and overwhelmed the depleted offense of the Houston Texans.

0:58.1

I'm not going to say we saw how this was going to go, but I had 2313.

1:03.3

I did not think that Houston's offense was going to be good enough.

1:05.7

I did not think that C.J. Straub would be as complicit as he was, but I'm not,

1:10.8

and I thought that Drake may would take better care of the was, but I'm not, and I thought that Drake May would take

1:12.0

get better care of the ball, but I'm not the least bit surprised at this outcome. You?

1:16.2

No, I'm not surprised either. I had the Patriots winning 2017. They were able to score a defensive

1:21.2

touchdown, which I didn't anticipate. No, you can't. But that was about the kind of game I

1:27.2

thought would occur. Now now did I think there

1:30.5

be eight total turnovers and that the Texans would have five and that Drake May would

1:35.9

fumble four times no I didn't see that coming I think the conditions had something to do

1:40.7

with that but just an incredibly sloppy across the board postseason game.

1:45.2

But in some ways, if you're Mike Vrable, you're looking at it and you are appreciative of the

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