Vrabel says “trust” is key to Patriots’ second-half play-calling

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

4.5 • 803 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Tom Curran and Phil Perry break down what went wrong for the Patriots in their loss to the Bills. Who deserves more blame: the offense or the defense? How much did the weather impact Drake Maye?

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up, everybody.
0:13.8	Welcome into Tom Cairns, Patriots talk podcast, Phil Perry alongside Patriots drop to 11.3 as you well know.
0:23.1	They have a game against the Ravens this weekend.
0:23.8	Not going to be a layup.
0:26.2	Why are they 11 and 3?
0:32.3	You want the best summation of why the Patriots didn't score more points on Sunday than the Buffalo Bills?
0:33.4	Here it is.
0:38.5	Any mistakes that you make get magnified against an excellent quarterback. Everybody say it with me. Any mistakes that you make get magnified against an excellent quarterback.
0:40.1	Everybody say it with me.
0:45.1	Any mistakes that you make get magnified against an excellent quarterback.
0:47.0	That's refereeing mistakes.
0:48.8	That's specialty teams mistakes.
0:50.5	That's third down mistakes.
0:51.6	That's play calling mistakes.
0:52.7	That's tackling mistakes.
0:57.7	You can make those against a Joe Burrow when's tackling mistakes. You can make those against Joe Burrow when the team stinks.
0:58.9	You can make those against Tewy.
1:00.9	You can make them against Baker-Mayfield.
1:03.9	You can make them against, you know, maybe even Lamar Jackson.
1:07.0	You can't make them against Josh Allen in 2025.
1:07.7	Are you right?
1:08.1	Am I right, am I right?
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