Could the Patriots beat the Dolphins? Do you have any confidence in anyone on Pats other than Maye?
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00:00and every time I get optimistic, Wiggy pours a giant bucket of cold water on it.
00:08I mean, you were in this game earlier in the season with this Dolphins team, but that was...
00:18They didn't have Tua with the Dolphins.
00:19No Tua and at home.
00:20You brought up a great point with Gerard that this is historically a really tough place for Patriots players to play.
00:26Yeah.
00:26So...
00:28I mean, do you have any confidence in the defense at all, which is...
00:33Not really.
00:36I don't have any confidence in this team, but then again, I don't have any confidence in Miami.
00:42And I know Miami's, you know, they've won their last two games, I believe.
00:48But when you look at just the way that this kind of Miami team is, they're really not the same team.
00:55They don't scare you.
00:56So could the Patriots win this game?
00:58Yeah, this is very similar to last week.
01:01Patriots could win this game.
01:03This game could be close and the Patriots could lose, but the Patriots could also get blown out.
01:09I don't really have the confidence.
01:11The only thing I have confidence in is that Drake May will play good and he'll make strides.
01:18Oh, I thought you were going to say the only thing you have confidence in is that Drake May will turn the ball over at the end of the game.
01:25Oh, I hope not.
01:27Well, Greg, it's interesting you say that because Orlovsky has an interesting stat on Drake May.
01:33Of all the quarterbacks qualified, he is the only one who has an off-target percentage less than 10% in the entire NFL.
01:43He has two misses on 64 throws in his last two games.
01:47Could you argue when he hits these receivers' hands, it's off target because they can't catch?
01:51Fair point.
01:52Could be true.
01:53I mean, honestly, if half of the drops are caught, he is discussed far differently nationally.
02:00And they are so egregious.
02:02These aren't like, you know, there's Wiggy the old saying, if it hits your fingers, you should catch it.
02:06Like, that's not always true.
02:08The drops these guys have had have been just pathetic attempts.
02:12How many times do you say, oh, he dropped it?
02:15Like, wide open, hits the hands, and the guy just has no answer.
02:19I think he's dragged more for the turnovers when it comes to picks and fumbles and, you know, the averaging to a game.
02:32And I think that that's like, you know, Jones has a real issue with that.
02:38Right, but look at some of the, like, look at the, so the sack fumble.
02:44I don't necessarily put that on him because he's getting smoke from the blinds.
02:47Like, yeah, I know everybody's going to say, well, you got to protect the football.
02:50I get it.
02:51But it's not like it's a legit fumble where he's running around.
02:54He's loose with the football.
02:56He's scampering for seven, eight yards.
02:58Somebody hits him, and boom, knocks the ball out.
03:01It's more of one of those things where, okay, those generally blindside hits.
03:05Like, all right, if the quarterback, yeah, you got to do a better job.
03:08But I don't necessarily put that on him.
03:10The interception, depending on how the interception goes, like the one in the game, all right,
03:16maybe you win, Pop Douglas weren't on the same page, but it's still a little bit high
03:20of a thrown ball.
03:22Maybe bring it down a little bit.
03:23I put that more on him than I do Pop, because you got to be able to put that in a position
03:28where, you know, it doesn't get intercepted.
03:30But he's going to learn from those.
03:32Yeah.
03:33And it's cool with the interception.
03:34Yeah.
03:35And if you redrafted it today, he'd be the first pick in the draft, with every pick,
03:39with every play.
03:40Yeah, and I'm cool with the interceptions.
03:43Yeah.
03:44Are you not cool?
03:45I know we're not supposed to be cool with them, but do you look at him and go, all right,
03:49he's a rookie quarterback, he's got to have some picks, but he doesn't have the Zach Wilson
03:544-5 pick game where you're like, ooh.
03:57Well, compare it with Mac Jones, because that was the issue that you and Chime and others
04:03had with Mac Jones, was that he was throwing the ball to the other team at inopportune
04:08times.
04:09Right.
04:10But he was doing it where it's like the interception that Mac Jones threw against the, I think
04:13it was the Colts last year.
04:15It's like you literally threw it to the linebacker.
04:17Or the one in the Dallas game where he throws across the field the first time, you're like,
04:21hey, don't do that.
04:22And then the very next drive, he does it again and it's picked and taken for six.
04:26And he did it in the Miami game.
04:28I think it was, no, no, not the Miami, Jalen Ramsey.
04:32Where's he playing now?
04:33Miami.
04:34He's in Miami now.
04:35Was he in Miami last year?
04:37Yes.
04:38Yeah.
04:39Remember he rolls out, he might've rolled out and then tried to-
04:42Oh, just airmailed it over Hunter Henry?
04:44He tried to throw it across it and then it was picked off by Jalen Ramsey.
04:47Those are the interceptions you're like, these are just bad, bad, don't make those decisions.
04:54Where I don't think we've necessarily seen that this year with Drake.