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Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

Zeke, Malik and a huge week in Green Bay

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

4.5803 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Tom Curran and Andrew Callahan come to you live from outside of Lambeau Field to preview the Patriots upcoming joint practices with the Green Bay Packers. Later, we catch up with Jabrill Peppers for some irrelevant questions.    1:00-Impact of Ezekiel Elliott  5:00-Why move on from Damien Harris?  7:00-TE depth concerns with Mike Gesicki injury?  8:30-What to do with Malik Cunningham  17:30-Irrelevant questions with Jabrill Peppers  Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PE9YflF-bpo Download the NEW NBC Sports Boston app: https://www.nbcsportsboston.com/news/the-new-nbc-sports-boston-mobile-app-is-here/534513/

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0:00.0

Tom Curran's Patriots Talk Podcast is presented by Fan Dual Sportsbook. Make every moment more.

0:19.0

Hello, friends. Welcome into Tom Carren's Patriots Talk podcast.

0:23.4

We are in Green Bay for a table setter type podcast, Andrew Callahan from the Boston

0:28.1

Herald alongside.

0:29.3

For those of you on YouTube, you might be able to detect right here.

0:33.4

That is the story to Lambeau Field behind us, a variety of bars and restaurants in the immediate area.

0:39.8

Andrew, we're going to have a good time this week?

0:41.3

Oh, we're going to have a great time.

0:42.6

More important than anything else is, what are we going to key on during the beginning of the Zeke Elliott era?

0:48.6

How seismic is the addition of Ezekiel Elliott?

0:51.7

Because on Tuesday, it was a lead story to a large extent on national

0:56.2

media and I heard some breathless takes about the impact he could make some breathless takes

1:01.3

from the national media you say look I've been wrestling with this the last couple days because

1:05.7

we've really discussed it's the last two three weeks and you came on my podcast very gracefully

1:09.6

and we discussed it maybe for eight minutes I think we spent closer to double time on Malik Cunningham because Ezekiel Ali

1:15.0

is going to help you in two ways. Short yardage and a blitz pickup. And in doing so, though, what I

1:20.1

finally arrived at today after this 48-hour wrestling match is he's going to make life easier on the

1:24.5

Patriots best and most important players on offense, those being respectively, Remandre Stevenson and Mack Jones. And that's the value for me. Not as statistics,

1:32.3

not his number of pass blocking snaps brought to you by PFF. It's making Stevenson better by taking

1:36.8

some off his plate and giving Mack more time, which we know he needs more of. We can spend all kinds

1:41.9

of time going through the stats on short yardage.

1:44.4

His effectiveness on third and one or third and three or less.

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