What a bit of telling.

This time, world champion, and there ain't nothing you can do about it.

What's up, everybody?

Welcome into Tom Carnot's Patriots Talk podcast, joined as always by the senator of Phil Perry, who is still in Buffalo at High Marks Stadium.

And High Marks for the Patriots running game, Phil. This is the aftermath.

Phil, big picture takeaways.

I'm going to give you mind first, the Patriots are now in a commanding position in the American Football Conference.

They went in.

They emasculated their greatest divisional rival.

There's inconsistent play among quarterbacks all over the AFC.

We're going to dive deeper into the decision to just throw the ball three times by the Patriots.

But that was a resounding message sending kind of win that could only happen because of a confluence of circumstances that allowed the Patriots to flex their muscles.

Phil, your takeaway.

This game was the game that we thought it was going to be, but on steroids.

This was, we think that this is going to be a game that's one in the trenches, that's one at the line of scrimmage.

It's going to be about which team is tougher, which team hurts to tackle more,

which team can pound the other team harder over the top of the head over and over and over again.

And it was that times 100.

So the Patriots run the ball 46 times for 222 yards, 4.8 yards per carry, even though they

rushed for a total of negative 10 yards in the fourth quarter, which is remarkable to me,

232 yards through three quarters. And they weren't even all that balanced, within their own running game it wasn't like they

ran a lot of endarounds or they ran a lot from shotgun or they ran a lot of draw plays it was

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