What will be the Patriots’ Achilles' heel in 2021?
Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast
NBC Sports Boston
4.5 • 803 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's a bit of Terry, |
| 0:07.0 | There's a great game |
| 0:10.0 | And there ain't nothing you can do about it. |
| 0:18.0 | There's your castle, there's your Perry. We got a great game this week. Patriots, Browns. Both teams are five and four, and I guarantee you. What happens in this game is going to have an impact on who the wild card teams are in the AFC. |
| 0:37.8 | But because the Patriots have been in pursuit of Odell Beckham Jr. |
| 0:42.7 | And he's making decisions based upon elite teams with a chance to win. |
| 0:47.6 | It's kind of brought to the forefront of my mind, the Patriots as they're constructed |
| 0:53.5 | right now at five and four, do we believe the |
| 0:56.4 | Patriots are a receiver away from being a Super Bowl aspirant? Matt, do you think they just, if they |
| 1:05.2 | got OBJ, that would be a tipping point for their offense to be, holy crap, we can't deal with these guys. |
| 1:12.4 | I mean, it would help, but at the same time, I don't think it's going to be the major factor |
| 1:16.2 | in whether or not they go deep in the playoffs. And the fact of the matter is, look, we don't know |
| 1:20.0 | how long it would take its receiver like OBJ to get caught up to speed, not only on terminology, |
| 1:24.6 | route recognitions, all the little nuances that go on in this offense. |
| 1:27.9 | While it would be great if he could, but without the offseason, without time and reps in |
| 1:32.2 | this system, it's hard to get a receiver caught up to speed. |
| 1:34.8 | But if he can, yeah, he'd be a great guy to have out there for your one-on-one. |
| 1:38.8 | You circle him, you say he's going to go win consistently. |
| 1:41.5 | But again, it's a matter of time and whether or not he could get |
| 1:44.6 | caught up to speed. So I don't think he's going to be the factor that just drives his team to the top. |
| 1:50.4 | Philly. I don't think he's a missing piece either. And I think Matt brings up a really good point. |
| 1:56.1 | And it reiterates something that I heard from Cleveland very recently, which is, you know, when you're talking |
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