The Path to the AFC Championship: Texans-Patriots Deep Dive

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

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🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Tom Curran and Phil Perry break down all the key factors heading into the Texans-Patriots game. Can the Patriots offense make big plays vs the Texans defense? How big of an impact could the loss of Nico Collins be?

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up everybody?
0:13.2	Welcome into Tom Cairns, Patriots Talk podcast, Phil Perry, alongside
0:17.2	AFC Divisional Playoff Week and Patriots Texans, and it is not just a two of us.
0:23.8	Songs in my head today.
0:25.3	It's also Joe Buck, who's on the call with Troy Aikman for ESPN this weekend.
0:30.2	He joined Phil on the next past podcast.
0:32.4	Here he is on Drake May.
0:35.0	Drake May, who's 23 years old and just phenomenal.
0:40.3	And when he was on our production call, he hung up.
0:43.6	And I was like, it's a video call him.
0:45.5	Like something about him reminds me of Manning.
0:48.3	I don't know what it is.
0:49.2	Maybe the Southern accent and just his demeanor to be a 23-year-old just kind of blew me away.
0:57.3	Is it a confidence thing that makes you say Manning, do you think, when you think of Drake May?
1:02.7	Or is there something else about them?
1:04.4	Because it's probably not the on-the-field play style necessarily.
1:07.6	It's got to be something else.
1:08.4	Yeah, I think it's a maturity.
1:12.1	I think it's a maturity at a young age. And obviously, they both come from incredible sports families. And there's just something
1:17.6	about him. Obviously, yeah, it's not the on-field play style. But there's a maturity there at 23
1:24.8	years old that you just hang up. And you go, man, that young man's different.
1:28.8	And I think it's evident with the way he plays on the field. He limits turnovers. He doesn't panic.
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