00:00Paul Perillo, Patriots.com, long-time writer and employee of the Patriots and Kraft Sports Productions.
00:07I'm not going to ask you about the money, Paul. I know that.
00:10That'd be cheap by me to do that.
00:12But welcome into the program. It's good to have you once again.
00:15Yeah, coming off a win, like Maz said, yeah, it's good to be here.
00:18Okay.
00:18Did you feel good about that win, though?
00:20Good enough.
00:20Good enough?
00:21You're not going to ruin my week, Murray.
00:24All right, Coach Braves.
00:26Yeah, so what does that mean, explain good enough?
00:27Well, I thought defensively they were excellent.
00:30Obviously, that's why they won the game.
00:33You know, I've been impressed early on with what I think is some improvements stopping the run,
00:39which I thought was a sneaky problem down the stretch.
00:42And, you know, last season, obviously, it was a huge problem in the Super Bowl.
00:46So I've been impressed with some of those things.
00:48I think the tests will get harder on that side of the ball.
00:51I'm not necessarily telling you I think this is a top-five defense, top-three defense,
00:57or whatever the numbers suggest right now.
00:59But, yeah, I'm not going to ignore the issues on the other side of the ball.
01:02It hasn't looked great.
01:04I think it's looked clunky.
01:05And specifically with Drake May, I'm wondering about maybe some of his pocket presence
01:11that I thought was impressive for the most part last year.
01:15I don't think he's had that same kind of poise this year.
01:18Okay, so let's dig right into that.
01:19When you were talking about what's wrong with Drake May and the problems so far this year,
01:22you think it starts with his pocket presence?
01:24Yeah, and I think of some of the plays that we're talking about,
01:27and I would use different terminology than maybe some of the people have,
01:31but I'm not sure he's trusting his protection, first of all.
01:36There are times I think that the protection has been perfectly fine,
01:39like that sack late in the first half that he sort of runs into to T.J. Watt.
01:45I thought Morgan Moses had Watt all set, and he kind of, you know,
01:50he didn't see what he wanted to see right away,
01:52and then he starts to drift a little bit, and he went right into a sack.
01:54So I don't think he's seen the field as well as he has in the past.
01:59Well, certainly last year, I should say.
02:01And I do wonder, my bigger picture kind of thing that I'm wondering about
02:06is have teams sort of adjusted to the way they're defending him.
02:10I know there's been a lot of talk about the cover six and all that kind of stuff.
02:13I'm not necessarily talking about that.
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