00:00It was not pleasant here yesterday,
00:03and I think there are two things that need addressing immediately,
00:09and they are Drake May and Christian Gonzalez.
00:13I don't know which one you want to start with.
00:16Let's start with the quarterback, I guess.
00:20So, Wiggy, has he regressed again?
00:25Like, will the real Drake May please stand up?
00:31Like, is he the guy who goes out and performs fantastically
00:38against an excellent Buffalo Bills team, against a good Steelers team,
00:43or is he the guy who is throwing three picks yesterday,
00:48throwing one of them to start the game, doing, you know,
00:52leaping in the air and throwing across his body,
00:55which he has no business doing,
00:57which every quarterback knows not to do from the age of 12 on?
01:02Like, I can't figure out what he is.
01:04I think it's simple.
01:05I think it comes down to this, and a lot of people,
01:08I think, will talk about this with Drake May,
01:12is he looks one way against bad defenses,
01:16and he looks another way against good defenses.
01:19Like, good defenses, I think that's what everybody's going to kind of go to
01:23and say, all right, who is he really against a defense
01:28that you would consider to be good?
01:31Yeah.
01:32Right?
01:32I think that's going to be the biggest question.
01:34They put up a stat last night on the broadcast,
01:37and it was just like that.
01:39Here's what he looks like against teams that are not very good,
01:42and here's what he looks like against teams that are supposed to be very good,
01:46and it's night and day.
01:49So I think that's going to be the conversation
01:51that people are going to continue to have with Drake May.
01:53Yeah.
01:54The stat of the broadcast, and it's now updated after the game,
01:57was the record since 2025.
02:00So that's the Vrabel May era.
02:03They are now 6-6 against teams with winning records,
02:06and they are 16-2 against teams below 500.
02:10I think that's a 6-5.
02:12They are now.
02:13Oh, that was during the broadcast.
02:15Okay, so now they are 500 against teams with winning records.
02:19Correct.
02:20So that's going to be the conversation people are going to have,
02:24is that can he get it done against good football teams?
02:28And the Bills don't count because their defense isn't great,
02:31and they were without their best corner in the game.
02:33The Patriots beat them this year.
02:35Right.
02:35I mean, people are always going to say that about the Bills.
02:37Their defense is not very good.
02:38So I watched that game yesterday, and foundational,
02:41I don't want to go down that road again because that road was choppy,
02:45and people are still enraged about it.
02:47But good players don't make those throws.
02:51I know he's a good player.
02:52It doesn't make any sense.
02:54I don't understand the ebbs and flows.
02:56Like, there's stats about a lot of great quarterbacks.
02:58There's a stat going around about Mahomes against good teams recently.
03:02He's been really bad against good teams and great against bad teams.
03:05I'm not saying that this doesn't happen with players,
03:07but Mahomes has three Super Bowls to stand on top of.
03:11When you're Drake May and you have that performance,
03:13and the Patriots were not out of that game completely.
03:18No.
03:19And he's making throws.
03:20There should have been a pick six.
03:22The worst throw of the game is just on the stat line as an incompletion.
03:25Yeah.
03:25I mean, it was a horrific performance.
03:29That's the worst part about it.
03:31It was a 10-point football game.
03:32It was 24-14.
03:34And you have the ball.
03:35It was – I just – and it was – and really, Wiggy, let's get to Gonzalez,
03:41and I'll throw the defense in too.
03:43I mean, they pride themselves on being the best defense in the league,
03:50and they were not yesterday.
03:51And I don't know what's going on with Christian Gonzalez,
03:55but that was an embarrassing performance from him yesterday.
03:59Yeah.
04:00I don't know.
04:00But I'm not going to trip about it because that is his worst game.
04:04I'm not tripping about it, but I think we're here as fans to point it out
04:10and to go, you got paid.
04:14Yeah, you did.
04:15You got paid.
04:16Yeah.
04:17And it was a big hullabaloo to get you there.
04:21So – and this is not the first week that people have been questioning his performance.
04:29And so –
04:30Well, that's the problem because they shouldn't have been questioning.
04:32If you look at him, if you look at him statistically and you look at him week to week,
04:36he's been very good throughout the whole season.
04:40This was his worst game, and I understand that you're getting paid the big bucks.
04:44When you have two guys, two receivers go over a buck 50, instantly you're going to get all of it.
04:51You're going to get all of – everything that you get you do deserve because you are the highest paid
04:57corner in the league.
04:58You are the highest paid corner on your team.
05:00But when I start to look at where he's been throughout the season, he's been pretty good.
05:05There's questions that Ty comes on here every Tuesday and talks about.
05:08Why are they playing him off coverage?
05:10Why is he off?
05:11I don't know if that's part of the game plan.
05:13I don't know if that's him.
05:15Those questions maybe we can ask Mike Vrabel today.
05:18There's a lot of soft coverage.
05:21On that – because I was thinking about that during the game.
05:23I was going to ask you today, and you just brought that back to my memory.
05:27When Ty said that, that was all I was thinking about yesterday was that Ty would walk into Bill Belichick's
05:33office
05:34and see a game plan and say, no, I want this guy.
05:38I don't want – you know, I want Marvin Harrison.
05:39I don't want to be off this guy.
05:41It doesn't strike me that Christian as of yet possesses that sort of demeanor.
05:46Can you learn that?
05:47I don't know if he – like I said, I don't know if that's him or if it's not him
05:52because maybe he does go in there and says, hey, coach, this is what I want to do.
05:55Put me on this.
05:56And then the coach goes, well, no, here's how we're going to run the defense.
05:59That's why specifically the off coverage, right?
06:04And when we start to look at it and you go, is that something like if –
06:09does he have to line up there because the defense says, all right, this is how we want you to
06:15play this.
06:16Or does he have the capability to be like, all right, I could still play zone coverage,
06:20but I'm going to walk up and I'm going to press, so I'm not going to keep giving these out
06:23routes.
06:23Well, yeah, I mean, Tom Brady pointed it out during the game, which is, you know,
06:30Christian Gonzalez hanging off guys, 10 yards, whatever it is,
06:34and Tom Brady said he prefers to see him right there, first contact on that wide receiver.
06:40But, yeah, maybe it is the way they're telling him to play.
06:43We can ask Mike Vrabel about that.
06:46Mike Vrabel will join us here in 15 – an ornery Mike Vrabel or who knows.
06:52Mike Vrabel will join us here in about 15 minutes on a Patriots Monday at Gillette Stadium.
06:57It was just so disappointing because what a great weekend.
07:01The highlight for me was obviously your party, by the way.
07:05Great night.
07:06Oh, thank you for coming, Curtis.
07:07It was a wonderful time.
07:08And the second highlight was seeing the reaction – I didn't see it live – to the shout-out from
07:15the recently enshrined Rob Gronkowski
07:18to the great Jermaine Wiggins at the Patriots Hall of Fame induction ceremony at Patriot Place on Saturday.
07:23We will get to that.
07:24That's my boy.
07:25A good part of Gronk's speech upon entering the Patriots Hall of Fame was about Jermaine Wiggins.
07:33It is a bromance, and I love it.
07:34Yes, it was great.
07:36I watched that entire thing on Saturday because I was not feeling well.
07:40Oh, I'm sorry.
07:41Well, I've been sick the entire weekend.
07:42I refuse to do this.
07:45I refuse to turn into the old man who tells you exactly what's wrong with him.
07:51I have to say it.
07:52Too late.
07:52Wiggy and I sat here for 20 minutes.
07:54You listened to me about your gout.
07:55I don't know what it is.
07:57I got to go see Dr. Diane after the show.
07:59So she thinks that it's either I'm either paralyzed by a giant gas bubble that has trapped itself in my
08:12system.
08:13Stay home all week, Courtney.
08:15Or I have the other option is I have about a month to live.
08:18Those are the two.
08:19Those are really the two.
08:20You should take the gas bubble.
08:22Give me the gas bubble for 500.
08:23Talk about a rock and a hard place.
08:24I mean, I can't win.
08:26And I went through I had the flu or Tuesday, Wednesday.
08:30Right.
08:31Then I get this thing.
08:32I don't know if it's if it's kidney stones or what.
08:35I have no idea what it is.
08:36But but anyway, you should go to Florida.
08:38People love hearing about this stuff.
08:40We have got a lot to get to on a page.
