CLNS Media's Taylor Kyles welcomes NBC Sports Boston's Phil Perry to Patriots Daily's to react to Aaron Rodgers season-ending achilles injury. Do the Patriots make the playoffs now? How much does their win total shift? Phil shares his thoughts!
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00:00 I'm doing great, Taylor. It feels like we've got a lot to chew on from this game.
00:05 We've got a really interesting matchup coming up next Sunday. And oh, by the way,
00:11 a team that a lot of people had at least making the playoffs as a wild card in your division just
00:16 lost its starting quarterback for the year in Aaron Rodgers. So it is a topsy-turvy NFL. It's
00:23 a topsy-turvy AFC East already. So, my God, I mean, if you're looking for something to talk
00:31 about, you don't have to look very far. Honestly, I was thinking about starting with the coaches,
00:35 but like you mentioned, I think it's fair to touch on what's been going on in the division. So
00:38 with Aaron Rodgers out for the season, it is once again, the Zach Wilson show.
00:44 I think a lot of Jets fans are feeling kind of like Robert Salo looked on that little screenshot.
00:48 I don't know if you saw where it looked like he was just having flashbacks to his first few years
00:52 with the Jets. Where do you think the Jets now fall within the division? Do they stay put? Are
00:57 they going to sink? Does this maybe bump the Patriots up? How does that going to work out?
01:01 I think it bumps the Patriots up at least a game. So for me, I had them as a nine win team and I had
01:08 them splitting with the Jets. If I knew Zach Wilson was going to be the quarterback, I would
01:13 have had them sweeping the Jets as good as the Jets defenses. And that defense is legit. And it
01:17 gave Josh Allen all kinds of problems last night. I think some of Josh Allen's problems last night
01:22 were actually self-inflicted, which is also an interesting storyline for us to follow as Patriots
01:27 followers. And how does that impact the division maybe moving forward? Just hasn't been the same
01:31 guy. The last, I don't know, I guess it's since the UCL injury, but the elbow should be better now.
01:37 And some of the decision-making last night was unbelievable, but I have them as a 10 win team.
01:41 Now, if I had them at nine with one loss to Aaron Rodgers, I got to put them at 10 and I think
01:46 they've got a real shot at getting into the postseason here via the wildcard. I guess I would
01:51 still pick the Bills to win the division, even given what we saw last night. But there's no
01:56 question this thing is up in the air now in a way that it really wasn't 24 hours ago, or at least
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02:19 Yeah. Josh Allen seems to pick his favorites in the AFCs because when it's the Patriots,
02:27 he just goes full Super Saiyan, doesn't make any mistakes, all the right reads,
02:31 all the impossible throws. And then against the Jets, he's just like, you know what?
02:34 I'm going to play this like a Madden game against my cousin where he's just kind of pissing me off.
02:38 And I'm just going to go hail Mary every play engage eight. And just for some reason,
02:42 his decision-making gets kind of shot, but I would agree without Rogers. Like you said,
02:46 that defense is fantastic. And we saw, they gave the Patriots, Patriots also gave themselves plenty
02:50 of trouble last year, but the Jets did not make it easy for them because they're a team that's
02:54 going to force you to put long drives together. Not going to give you any big plays that are easy
02:58 for you. And then the dolphins, I just looked it up. They had 17 explosive pass plays. Now PFF
03:04 defines that as something that goes 15 or more yards through the pass. It's a lot of people have
03:10 it as 20. I think 15 is pretty fair. I think Brian Billick says like, that's his metric for 15 is a
03:14 significant play. The next closest teams had eight. So more than double. What did you see from Tua?
03:21 Do you think that he looked like maybe he's taken a step early? Was it just, Hey, this Miami offense
03:27 is just explosive period. What did you see from that game? Yeah, this is who he can be and what
03:32 they can be when everybody's right. Everybody's healthy when Tua has time to throw. And I look
03:39 at him as basically the same kind of guy. I'm not sure he did anything superhuman in this game that
03:45 we didn't think he was able to do before. But my God, when you have two superheroes that, you know,
03:51 stature wise don't look that way, but in terms of their speed are that way on the outside at
03:57 receiver, it just, it really can give an opposing defense, all kinds of fits to me that that game,
04:03 you know, I'm looking at Brandon Staley after that game and saying, did you not know you might
04:08 want to try to do something extra to prevent Tyree kill from getting 200 yards? I mean,
04:13 I just can't envision the Patriots ever having a week like that against a player like that,
04:20 because you know, Bill Belichick is looking at their best option on the other side and saying,
04:24 okay, we're going to try to take him. He's probably going to get his to a degree,
04:28 but you can't let a player like that completely blow up the game on you. That was,
04:32 that was mind boggling to me.
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