and Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider and yes

Chad Graf of the Athletic is on the show everyone's been waiting for it I've been

getting d.m. people sending me mail. Like when is Chad coming on the show to talk

New England Patriots and Matt Patricia's explosive offense? What is going on, Chad? How are you?

Doing well, excited to be headed back to Minnesota this week excited to get back to US Bank Stadium

Excited to see this eight and two team that I did not expect to be eight and two and you know Dive a little bit deeper into the numbers this week of is this real is it not real how good are they the

NFC isn't very good so is there a chance they could kind of get on a run

and make something happen?

It's been crazy to watch from afar

and now I'm super excited to watch them in person.

So I think that, did you happen to see what happened

with Iowa and Minnesota the other day

where it was 13 to 10 like I think that's what we might be looking at here for this game.

I mean the Vikings without Christian Darissau the Patriots have a good defense but since I started by making fun of the

Patriots offense I think that's where we kind of have to begin here when we did this

when you took the job, I was like,

Chad, you've covered some Matt Patricia football games.

I mean, what? And no one has regressed harder than Mac Jones.

What is going on? I mean, so the Patriots have a winning record,

and I follow you, of course, on Twitter. You're not muted, and I see your tweets,

and every one of them is like, this team is and this they are atrocious in that this game this game is making me want to jump off of a high building like every every tweet is like that and then I'm like oh that they won on a punt return like what is happening it's incredible like if you will get the numbers defense first second first first second first second every second every stat, the offense, 27, 26, 30.

Mac Jones has taken such a step backward.

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