THE AFTERMATH: Pats win to close out HISTORIC regular season... can they keep it up in the playoffs?
Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast
NBC Sports Boston
4.5 • 803 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up everybody? |
| 0:14.8 | Welcome into Tom Carman's Patriots Talk podcast, Phil Perry alongside. |
| 0:19.1 | This is the aftermath. |
| 0:20.9 | And it's the aftermath of a 38 to 10 beatdown of the Miami Dolphins in the season finale. |
| 0:26.0 | Patriots finish 14 and 3, 10 win improvement over last season. |
| 0:31.0 | That ties an NFL record for one season improvements. |
| 0:34.7 | Patriots are going to get the Chargers. |
| 0:36.3 | We don't know yet when, Phil. |
| 0:38.0 | But the Patriots end up with the number two seed. Chargers are number |
| 0:41.4 | seven. Seven. Yeah, 2V7. And we're going to dive into the matchup as the week goes along. |
| 0:48.8 | But right now, let's listen to Mike Frable when he talks about what it took to get where the Patriots have gotten. |
| 0:54.3 | Get the right guys in the building at the right time. |
| 0:56.3 | And we got a good quarterback play. |
| 0:59.3 | We figured out how to not beat ourselves. |
| 1:01.8 | I think we played to our identity. |
| 1:04.0 | And, you know, guys make plays. |
| 1:06.3 | That's what happens. |
| 1:07.4 | So I'm excited for all those guys that, again, when you chase wins, usually the production comes along with it. |
| 1:17.0 | And so we need to focus on winning and the efforts that are going to help us win. |
| 1:21.4 | And in turn, you end up with all the plays that you're going to need. |
| 1:24.8 | And I think you saw that. |
| 1:25.8 | Phil, I talked about this a little bit on quickslance the other day. |
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