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00:00It's Jones and Keefe, and we're joined now

00:02on a Patriots Monday by Patriots tight end Hunter Henry.

00:04He's brought to you by Shaw's and Star Market,

00:06perfecting the art afresh.

00:08Hunter, how are we doing this week?

00:09Doing all right.

00:10Let's start with yesterday.

00:12Obviously, another tough result, a rough finish yesterday.

00:16What happened on that final drive?

00:18What happened on the final play?

00:19Was that the design to go across the middle of the field,

00:22and what was the breakdown there?

00:25Yeah, I mean, it was just a tough ending.

00:28Obviously, there was the high of feeling like we scored,

00:32but then having to regroup.

00:34And I feel like we need to regroup and make

00:37another play there.

00:38And I put that on myself.

00:40I've got to be better, try to make a play for the team.

00:42And obviously, then we get the ball back

00:45and get another chance.

00:47Just need to be better in situational football.

00:49But yeah, it just wasn't good enough at all.

00:52Honestly, we shouldn't have even been in that scenario

00:55if we could just take care of business early.

00:57Just couldn't get anything going offensively enough,

01:00and just not good enough.

01:01On the Jalen Polk non-touchdown, is that a rule that you knew?

01:05I mean, because toe tap on the sideline is great.

01:07Everybody celebrates.

01:08But apparently, toe tap back at the end zone, not OK.

01:10Yeah, I kind of knew that one.

01:14It's such a hard thing when you're that close.

01:18You're trying to focus on the ball,

01:20but you're also trying to get.

01:21One foot is easy to get down, but two feet always

01:25is a challenge.

01:27So he'll learn from that, man, and he'll only get better.

01:30He's a great player, and going to continue

01:32to be a great player.

01:34And he's going to learn from that.

01:35He had quite a celebration, didn't he?

01:37The 50-yard line, when he went out there after that, too.

01:40He was, yeah, did you guys bring him back together after that?

01:43No, I didn't even realize that.

01:44I don't think I realized that.

01:45No, I was sure.

01:46I mean, it looked like a game-winning touchdown.

01:47I mean, I would have celebrated.

01:48Yeah, I was kind of locked in.

01:50So I was worried about the next play

01:51if we get a two-point conversion.

01:53And then, obviously, overall.

01:54Did you guys have to settle him down at all in the, I mean,

01:56he thought he scored the game-winning touchdown.

01:58So when you guys are huddled up, you're like, all right,

01:59now it's whatever.

02:00It was third down.

02:00We've got to play.

02:01Yeah, I mean, I think we just move on and try

02:02to go to the next play.

02:04Obviously, we weren't good enough on the next two.

02:06So yeah, there were some highs there, a lot of emotions.

02:10It's kind of hard to come back down.

02:11And we just got to be better in that scenario.

02:14You're locked in during the game.

02:16So maybe with some time to reflect,

02:18you feel a little differently about it.

02:20Do you guys think you ran the football enough yesterday?

02:22You ran with a high degree of success.

02:24It seemed like you got away from it for a couple of stretches,

02:27including with about a minute left,

02:29you guys were down at the 12, four straight incompletions.

02:32Do you think you ran the football enough yesterday?

02:35I mean, we ran the ball effectively.

02:38I mean, we got really two really good running backs.

02:41If you can get them in a one-on-one scenario,

02:43I mean, they're really, really great.

02:46And so I felt like we were able to run the ball.

02:48I mean, we need to be better in the passing game, though.

02:51Like, we have to be better.

02:52We got to execute better.

02:54I mean, it takes all 11 of us, though.

02:56It's not just one person.

02:58It takes the receivers, the tight ends,

03:00running backs, protection.

03:01We've all got to be better.

03:03So I would say no.

03:05I think we got to put that on ourselves

03:07and make more plays.

03:11Last week, there was a report there's a teetering mutiny

03:13inside the locker room.

03:14You're one of the captains, one of the veteran guys

03:16on the team.

03:17First of all, any truth to it?

03:18And then also, with a four-game losing streak,

03:20how do you keep everybody going in the right direction?

03:22Yeah, I don't know about that report.

03:25It's nothing I've ever seen in our locker room.

03:28Obviously, we're young, and we got a lot of new guys, too.

03:32But I think we're close, too.

03:35Obviously, yesterday was ugly and just messy

03:38and a lot of penalties, a lot of things that we beat ourselves.

03:43But we're right there, too.

03:45I mean, we were moving the football,

03:47and then we would have a penalty.

03:48We're moving the football, have a penalty.

03:50I mean, no offense wants to play from second and 20,

03:53second and 25.

03:54I mean, it's always tough.

03:56I mean, you saw it on their side of the football, too.

03:58When they had that, it was just a tough scenario.

04:00So yeah, I mean, we just got to keep going, man.

04:04We got 12 more of these things, and it starts this week.

04:06We got another home game.

04:07So you sign up for all of them.

04:11Obviously, our record is what it is,

04:13but we're going to continue to compete, continue to go.

04:15And this weekend is a big one.

04:17We've got a really good football team coming in.

04:19It's tight end Hunter Henry joining us here

04:20on a Patriots Monday.

04:21Jones and Keefe at Gillette Stadium.

04:24We heard Gerard Mayo this morning on WEI basically say,

04:28you know, we're going to have a squad meeting.

04:30We're going to talk things over.

04:31As it relates to the quarterback position,

04:33you guys haven't had your squad meeting yet,

04:35I don't think, unless you've had one since we

04:37talked to Christian Gonzalez.

04:39How much of the struggles offensively?

04:41And you said you got to get better on offense.

04:43How much of that is on the quarterback?

04:45Yeah, I don't think it's, I mean,

04:47he doesn't have a ton of time sometimes.

04:49You know, things, sometimes they're

04:51playing good coverages for some of the passing game.

04:54I think Jacoby's done a great job, man.

04:55He's a great leader.

04:56He's a great leader in that locker room.

04:58I love playing with him, playing for him.

05:00He's super tough.

05:01I mean, he continues to get up, down, after down,

05:04after down, and continue to compete,

05:06continue to kind of, you know, just put one together.

05:09I mean, we put together a great drive at the end of the game,

05:11even though I felt that we couldn't.

05:13You know, that second half was just, you know,

05:15grind almost offensively.

05:17And to put one together there at the end, it's just,

05:20I think, speaks to all the toughness of some of, you know,

05:23a lot of the guys on offense.

05:24You know, when things aren't going your way,

05:26but still at the end, you can put something together.

05:28I think that's big.

05:29So we've got to build on that, continue to do

05:32that throughout the week.

05:33You're a captain on the team.

05:35And so I don't know if the coaches would ask you

05:39for input on what you would want to do at quarterback.

05:41I don't know that you would tell us right now.

05:43But if they ask you for input, you

05:44would give it on that decision?

05:47I'm going to let Mayo make that decision.

05:49So, you know, he's going to do what's best for the team.

05:53I love Jacoby.

05:54I've taken almost all my reps with Jacoby.

05:56So and he's been great.

05:58Obviously, you know, the record is not

06:00where we want to be at all.

06:02You know, the games haven't been the way we want them to be.

06:04But Jacoby's doing a great job.

06:05How has Drake May developed in practice?

06:08You know, we saw him in camp.

06:10We saw him in the preseason games.

06:11We've only seen him in that one series in the Jets game.

06:13You've been there at practice.

06:14You've heard about 30% reps and all that stuff.

06:16How has he looked from week one all the way to now at practice?

06:19I mean, Drake's a great player.

06:21He really is.

06:22And he's continuing to progress.

06:24Obviously, there's a lot of intangibles

06:26that come into an NFL offense, just from top to bottom.

06:31But he's continuing to work hard, continuing to get better.

06:34And he's doing a lot of good things in practice.

06:36OK, Patriots tight end Hunter Henry.

06:38Real quick, did you end up having a bet with Coach

06:40Mayo on the Tennessee game?

06:42Arkansas big upset.

06:43That was a big upset.

06:45I probably should have thrown a bet.

06:46But I did give him a good woo pig after the game.

06:50So just to remind him.

06:52Good.

06:53I mean, I get it.

06:54Not that you don't have faith in your Hawks, I'm sure.

06:55But again, that Tennessee team looks scary.

06:57So that's a good thing to do.

06:58It's always tough to come out of favor with a win, though.

07:02Hunter Henry, Patriots tight end here on a Patriots Monday.

07:05We appreciate the time.

07:06Best of luck going forward.

07:07All right, guys.

07:07Appreciate y'all.

07:08All right, Hunter Henry joining us here on WEI.

07:10We're live at Gillette Stadium.

07:12We're taking your phone calls, 617-779-7937.

07:16There's a lot going on with the Patriots, it seems.

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