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Pats get 9 sacks in dominant 26-3 victory over Colts
"The Patriots are over 500 for the first time this season following a dominant defensive performance in a 26 three stifling of the colts Linebackers Matt Judah and Josh uche each had three of New England's 9 sacks Mac Jones was 20 of 30 for 147 yards and a touchdown defense played great Three sacks two on three sacks Bentley sack DUIs half a sack you know it was just sacks everywhere So we kind of knew that our defense was going to control the game Sam Allen was 15 of 29 for 103 yards and a late interception that was returned for a touchdown I'm Dave fairy
Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"josh uche" Discussed on Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"All right, let's look at the 5 guys that we think have the most pressure on them this season. What we'll do is we'll actually start from the bottom. So 5 to one, Greg give us your 5th guy on your list. 5th guy for me is Matthew judon. And I think this is a guy who is even acknowledged. He realized that he basically disappeared down the stretch. And he's talked about that he needs to be in better shape. And he needs to anticipate how teams are going to react to them and things like that. But I think when you look at number one, how much the Patriots are paying him, he's at the top of the food chain in terms of he's the highest paid player on the team, cap space, real money. You talk about what he means to this team and about how look, we might think good things up say Josh uche and Ronnie Perkins and whoever, on the other side, but in terms of dominating pass rushers, there's little doubt the Patriots have made this scheme with Matthew judon in mind that he is going to be the star outside guy who's going to affect the quarterback more often than not. And the scheme is predicated on that. So not only should judean have internal pressure to make up for what happened last year down the stretch and I don't think there's any coincidence that the Patriots defense was riding high when he was dominating games. He was a legitimate defensive player of the year candidate. Then all of a sudden, he disappeared and the defense nosedived, and they couldn't stop anybody. They couldn't stop the bills as we all know. We couldn't get him to punt. And I think that and also I think he realizes that for this defense to be good, which is going to be a key for this team overall, Matthew judon has to be that player consistently throughout the season. So I do think that there is pressure on him. And I think he, I.
Patriots Beat
"josh uche" Discussed on Patriots Beat
"But Willie does a great job and I think that's that Roman Pfeiffer taking on the full back there. It looks like 95. Roman Pfeiffer's on the bottom of the screen. Oh, no, 59s COVID 95 is fight for your right. Yeah. Colvin's on the bottom there. Colvin kind of. He does that brewski thing where he kind of pops out and looks to take away. Right. So both of these guys really, Pfeiffer and Willy on the arm side do a great job of closing keeping the pocket closed and not allowing God to run away from it. But the one on one, again, see more there at the bottom of the screen against the guard with the rib move just goes right through them, gets the sack. Another bird downplay. So this is the first down run play now. And we talked about some of the power. We talked about some of the recognition. Here he's just going to shoot the gap again. And we talk about the get off. The quickness off the snap and the ability to time the snap. So he's here on the backside of this play or front side, excuse me. Right here over the tackle. They're going to run like a zone style concept. We talked about outside zone a lot. In the last couple of weeks, stepping out to the right. And they're going to try to get the tackle to reach Richard Seymour who is playing and in the inside here right over the tackle. And he's going to try to reach him and turn him out. And it's just not going to happen. I mean, you just can't, you can't try to reach Richard Seymour. And he just goes right through the gap and makes the plan. I think this one we might have the end zone. Oh, no, we don't. Here. You see it again. So you see the tackle at left tackle. 72 there. Can you try and reach Richard Seymour on the zone style block? And there's just no chance that he's going to get to him. But that get off with that speed. You see him, his ability right there to shoot the gap. And then you also talk about, I think that's really again on LJ Smith. Look at the edge set. That's the key to this play as well, because if Willie doesn't set the edge, then Westbrook might be able to bounce this, right? Like he might be able to bounce this to the corner. But because he got this really good edge set here from William McGinnis, this is like textbook. This is probably on the teach tape for the Patriots when they talk to Josh uche. And Matt judon and Anthony Jennings about how they want them to set the edge. This is how you set the edge, right? That's how it's done. And Richard Seymour gets the penetration on the inside. The Guinness sets the edge and make sure that the back camp bounce it, and then see more against the tackle for loss..
Patriots Beat
"josh uche" Discussed on Patriots Beat
"As well. I'll say what I've said the last couple of shows. I still think it's going to be a rotation. I think between Mac Wilson and Ronnie Perkins and Cameron mccrone and Josh uche, I think they're all very versatile, but I think they all have different strengths. And I think you can really match them to the situation. So I look at as a situation where they're going to kind of try to, you know, it could be game planning. They're going to try to put the best guy on the field for the best, you know, based on the matchup. So outside of Bentley on early downs, is there really a guy that skill set stands out so much where you say this guy needs to be a 60s, 65, 70% usage rate guy? No. So play it off the matchups. They've done it at other positions before. They've done it a corner. Not recently, but they've done it a corner. They've done it a wide receiver. Why not try it at linebacker? I think linebackers and position where that sort of strategy would really have some benefits. I think that's kind of how they're looking at both these positions. Linebacker and corner is that it's somewhat situational and they're going to roll with the hot hand, I'm sure in some occasions, but if one game plan, you come in and you're going to be pretty zone heavy than the guy like Terrence Mitchell probably has an upper hand on Malcolm butler and Jack Jones and those types of schemes. So they'll probably throw Mitchell out there, but if they feel like the best game plan against the opponent is to play man, then you might see Malcolm butler, you might see Jack Jones, you might see some of the man guys, right? So I think that that's a possibility pretty much everywhere. And they're going to try to just mask it with depth, right? And sort of just throw a bunch of different skill sets at it. I'm not as concerned about linebacker as corner just because of what you were kind of saying, which is you're only going to really be playing one or two of these guys at a time, right? So it's not like you're really going to have to play anybody 85% of the snaps anyway. So if Bentley is your first down run stuffing may climb backer and then on second and third down and passing situations, you play more safeties in the box and you're really light in that situation and that's fine too. If Mack Wilson sort of emerges, that that would work as well. But I think that they're really optimistic that at least on the ball rushing the passer that uche or Ronnie Perkins might actually turn it on this season and be consistent throughout the season. They certainly need that..
Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"josh uche" Discussed on Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"So I'm not going to draw any conclusions, but he's obviously in the mix. And doing a good job. Trent Brown, again, at left tackle. When do we put this in sharpie? Pretty soon. I mean, if I had to bet right now, I would say that they're going to open up training camp with Trump Brown on the left side. Isaiah went on the right side until they can find a trading partner for him if that even happens. But yeah, that's where we're going. Offense struggled again 11 on 11s a little bit there towards the latter portion of this mini camp practice. Miscommunication upfront and it concerns mini camp who cares. Yeah, it's mini camp who cares, but I will say, if I had to take anything from that, I'm somewhat encouraged by the work that the front 7 is doing in terms of, you know, there are amoeba stuff which they are doing, they're using various personnel. Again, I can't keep track of who is who and what they're doing from down to down basis, but I will be, I will say, I'm a little bit surprised that Anthony Jennings has been in the mix a lot, which is somebody we weren't even sure would be on this roster. Come training camp, but yeah, so far so good. You mentioned Jennings, any Ronnie Perkins sightings, anything going on with him? Yeah, not really. I mean, you know, I saw him and Josh uche working together in the positional stuff. It's interesting that those guys work with the defensive alignment, uche, and Ronnie Perkins, but Matthew judon works with the linebackers. I don't know, I don't know what to say about that other than just to point it out for people. But, you know, I haven't really noticed much. I do think that uche and Jennings are sort of right now if I had to say what they're targeted for to start practice. I have not seen uche, I will say this, I have not seen him an inside linebacker after we did in the OTAs. I have not seen him do that during many camp. To me, it looks like those two guys are getting ready to be subpackage ends. That it's going to be that the front would be uche, watch out, Lawrence guy, Dietrich wise, would be your starting quote unquote defensive line and then once they get into longer, once they get into sub, then one of the big guys is coming off and uche indoor Perkins are going out there. Is anything happening with camera grown right now? He's been, you know, he's out there. I would not say he's among the first couple of lines of inside linebacker when you're looking at he's more of a scout team 13 type of guy at this point. I do wonder a little bit about his conditioning and, you know, he's not wearing a knee brace or anything like that. I still think it's been a long time.
Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"josh uche" Discussed on Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"And I said, do you think he has that inside outside versatility versatility similar to what we've seen out of Dante Hightower in the past year? I'm not comparing him to Dante Hightower. I'm just saying, do you think he has those traits that could he do something similar? And it Bill says it's a stress to compare almost anybody to high tower. You're talking about one of the best linebackers that's ever played here. You idiot. So everybody knows, I'm not comparing Joshua to Dante Hightower. Like, I'm not. And I would never do that in a million years, but just, you know, could he be a mini junior training wheels version of Dante Hightower being inside on early downs outside on later downs, which I think that's what it looks like they're doing, but of course Bill just wanted to throw a loogie at me. So thank you, Bill. I'll have another. You heard her here first, Greg bidar thinks Joshua, the next Dante Hightower. Nelson Nelson Aguilar. Where is he fitting in right now with the upper Echelon of the wide receiver class? And that's a good question. I did not watch him very much in this practice. So maybe somebody else reported something about I thought, I think he's been out there a lot. I know the first practice, you know, he was out there a lot with the starters and it's devonte Parker and Nelson Aguilar a lot, and then they sort of filter things around, but it was tough to tell in this practice. There wasn't a whole lot that they were doing and it was mostly run focused when they were looking at things. All right, three rapid fire for you. New linebacker combinations. What are you seeing? What are you thinking? So I thought that was a little bit interesting because like we said, we did have Josh uche there last time. So this time, they basically went too deep and it was juwan Bentley and jelani tavai..
The Rich Eisen Show
"josh uche" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"Joining us here on the Mercedes Benz van's phone line from NBC sports Boston will get to him in one split second, but here's a sound bite yesterday from Bill Belichick's press conference. You caught this one, Chris. Yeah, I saw this. Our three rich eisen show coaching cliches that we remember we handed it, we told Mike mcdaniel, we'd love to have you drop one in a press conference. I'll drop all three in my next press conference at the combine and he did it. I did it. It is what it is. I don't have a crystal ball, and you can control only what you can control. Accept that third cliche, this time of year when players are either holding out or not there, or are sitting at home as a free agent and you're wondering, will you sign this guy? You could basically say I'm only talking about the guys who are here. And that's apparently what happened yesterday when Belichick was asked about Michigan's finest of Josh uche, right? Oh, is that what it was? And the questioner compared uche potentially in his abilities is blossoming abilities to Dante Hightower, who is a free agent at the crib right now. He's not doing it. And this is how that exchange went. He has that inside outside versatility, similar like we've seen Dante in the past. I think it's stretched to compare the most everybody to Hightower. Talk about one of the best linebackers that's ever played here. Would you welcome Dante back? For this season? Yeah, let's talk about the players are on the.
Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"josh uche" Discussed on Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"And then on the edge, it was Josh uche at times. It will be Matthew judon. You know, so maybe judon doesn't even need to start. You know, that's why you would have judean at inside linebacker for the first two downs. And then on passing downs, he could move to an edge when you take off one of the defensive linemen. But anyways, so to address these questions, number one, yes, you need to separate the nose tackles and tackles Mike and stoneham, like we've been over this many, many times. And I don't know what you've seen out of the run defense the past few years to make you indicate that they have the right pieces on the field to do what's needed to stop the run. You need a nose tackle as a guy who two gaps who just takes a blockers, you know, he's sitting in the gap where the team wants to run and he doesn't move, okay? That's been a problem since Vince wolf left here and went to Houston because guys like Devon are getting shoved down the field and that leaves the linebackers exposed and they can't stop the run. So nose tackle and tackle, you can't just against the run on the first couple downs we're talking about. You can't just put out Christian barmore and Byron cowart, like those are two 'cause Mike wants to say that those guys are interchangeable. They're not. All these guys are interchangeable on the inside. They're not. Those two guys are pass rush first sub sort of three techniques, which they're on the outside shoulder of the guard. They want to rush. Think Warren sapp, that type of guy. That's a three technique classic. Like, you can't have two, three techniques inside. You need a guy who can take up double teams, a nose tackle, and then you need a regular tackle. Those are what you need to do. So yes, you have to separate them. And do the other question, what's the difference between N and edge? And is really, it's a bigger guy, oftentimes he's on the weak side of the formation. So the weak side of the formation, it has no tight end. The strong side.
Patriots Beat
"josh uche" Discussed on Patriots Beat
"So it remains to be seen with the future holds for Isaiah win. All right, moving over to defense again here, we talked about the quarterbacks. I think enough earlier with Jack Jones and things like that, linebacker though, two guys that I think stood out to everybody that was out there yesterday, but one in particular really stood out to me. It was ray quack McMillan. Picking up right where he left off after the tour ACL last year playing right next to Juan Bentley, Cameron mccrone was also out there a bunch. Josh uche was kind of wearing all the hats moving inside outside those types of things. That seems to be like the group, right? And I think raekwon McMillan is a player that I'm starting to really come around to that could be a real contributor for this team next year as they break in McGraw and hopefully develop a little bit more off the ball and those guys are not ready to take on 60, 70% of the snaps off the ball. They might be able to give some of that workload to ray Quan McMillan. Yeah, I'm really excited for Rae Quan McMillan. People who are new to the show who joined really after he got hurt last year didn't get to hear her. I'm such a fan of this guy. I think he can really play, I think he has starting potential. He's been hurt throughout the beginning of his career. That's really the one knock. To see him kind of picking up where he left off last year. I'm excited. I'm happy for him. All of that. I can't wait. This is going to be get ready to hear me talk a lot about raekwon mcmill in the next couple months because I'm really excited to see what this guy's going to bring to the team. I think he's going to give that, he's not just a good player. I think he gives them an element they haven't had. He's not that.
Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"josh uche" Discussed on Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"That you would add to that? And as far as immediate, they would trade up to solve this issue. I think the three positions you call out of the three biggest glaring needs, right? A 100% couple of guys cornerback if they start to slip would make sense for them to reasonably think about going up to get. Davis or somebody that can help stop the run for sure. And then tackle is an obvious position in need. And there is a little bit of a tier there that they would miss if they don't go up and potentially get a tap. So that's definitely going to be, isn't there going to be a run on tackles at some point in the first round? Yeah, there's about 6 guys in that first 40, 40 picks that I expect will go. And we're looking at the first 15 picks probably having four tackles, right? And so if you don't, now, does cross fall depends how teams kind of evaluate him. He's a wonderful athletic guy he's got the left tackle prototypical size and he's a great pass blocker. He needs work on the run game. He's coming from an offense that is very much passing offense. His run blocking reps are not as strong. Pennington is a little bit of the opposite. I think penning is a guy that, you know, you could slide in potentially at guard early on. He plays like a mean, mean, mean I compare him in the mock draft to playing style of a Richie and cognito. And he was the best tackle I saw, I expected Bernard Raymond from central Michigan and be better going into the senior bowl and I came out feeling the penning was the best tackling. He's really had a great kind of pre draft process. But he's making a jump his task blocking reps, I think, could be an issue of speed. So, you know, you're going up to get some guys that aren't perfect, but you certainly have a need and the rest of the league has a need at offensive tackle. Just like the rest of the league has a need at defensive back. One other guy I would add to that list that if they see them falling, they could potentially look at to come up is Jermaine Johnson the second from Florida state. I think that an edge rusher is something that they should invest in just like the rest of the NFL, you always need those guys to defensive backs, offensive linemen, edge rushers are places that you can't ever be too deep. And he's a three down player, has the size to play the run. I can certainly get after the quarterback and can hold the edge. So he's a guy that expect to go around. I don't see him getting past the Vikings at 12. But if he did start to fall, that is somebody that they could think about going up and get. One last thing. I'll just say just one interjection on that. Like, I understand you can never draft enough pass rushers. But the Patriots recent history, you know, they've thrown a lot of resources at the edge. Chase winovich, Josh uche still hasn't gotten a chance, Ronnie Perkins, red shirted last year, you know, to me, I'm, you know, if the Patriots do that, that means none of those guys can play. And there's a big problem. And I don't really believe that..
Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"josh uche" Discussed on Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"They'll have a plan. Let's move to the next piece here. Winovich, for Mac Wilson. That trade happened. What do you think? How long have we been talking about trading chase? I mean, it's, again, it's another late move by Bill Belichick. I mean, I don't know why this didn't happen a year ago and clear the decks let Josh uche play a little bit more. You Ronnie Perkins, like whatever. You know, it goes along with the lines of guys in the past that I've said like, all right, they need to move on from a Landon Roberts, drawn Harmon, and they end up doing the year after. I say it. But chase one of it, that pick complete waste. It was a complete waste of a third round pick. You know, it's either they misidentified, like what he could do. I mean, you know, they didn't know that he couldn't set the edge or did they not develop them well enough, which outside linebacker, which now uche is there and Ronnie Perkins, that's Steve Belichick's position. You know, what's the deal at edge? Why can't they develop any guys internally? Why do they have to go get Matthew judon? And Kyle van noy and guys, why can't they develop these relatively high draft picks? But look, one of which hasn't done anything here. I think he's a good player. I think he's good at what he does. Sub pass rusher, I would have liked to have seen them at some point. Say, hey, what is he good at? He's going to run around and go into the ball and fly into the ball. Why don't we stand them up and try them at inside linebacker? Maybe it takes there. Clay Matthews did sort of the same thing in Green Bay in that worked. I just did not like the lack of imagination with the chase winovich career. I thought that it was, I think that the Patriots did a poor job developing him or at least using him. I thought they kept him on the roster too long, and but you know, I will say this. Mack Wilson, who they got from Alabama, 5th round pick winner was a third round pick same draft 2019 Mack Wilson out of Alabama. I liked Mack Wilson out of Alabama. I think he has the potential to be a good player. I think he has the potential to be a starter here. Maybe a little bit of an upgrade on juwan Bentley a little bit faster than Bentley, same type of player. You know, but we'll have to see. There have been some, you know, he went, he went later in the draft at Alabama. He went against Nick Saban's advice, which was stay in school for another year. He pissed off some people there about that. There's always been questions about his attitude a little bit, which led to him being benched basically in Cleveland, his last year. I think there's a player there..
Patriots Beat
"josh uche" Discussed on Patriots Beat
"So you put together the fact that they can save on the cap that they have some guys in house that they've drafted and use resources on recently in the pipeline and a stacked edge linebacker class to begin with in the 2022 draft and you get this Kyle van noy move and why Kyle van noy won't be on this team next year. Yeah. This is typical short sighted instant reaction. Oh, they need linebackers. They cut Calvin with the same people have been whining for the last two years to chase winovich can't get on the field that Josh uche can't get on the field. It's one way or the other. Either keep in or you keep the veterans to keep bearing the kids, or we were saying they need to find a way for these guys to get on the field, right? Uche, channings, Perkins. I think winovich is more of a defensive end at this point than, you know, I don't think he's playing van noy's role at this now. Those other three, I think, could. So now those guys, now there's space for those guys to play. Will any of them step up and win the job? That's, you know, we'll see an OTAs. We'll see throughout camp in the preseason. Do they need to draft on the edge? I don't know that they need to. I think between those three, you'll be able to get serviceable play on the outside. But they've done it the last three years for the last 5. They've taken an edge rusher on day two. So they'll probably continue to add to that equation. I thought van noy had a really good year last year. I did. I thought he was one of their best defensive players last year. He was excellent. Opening up $5 million in letting some of the kids play. I think this is ultimately a net positive move. I really do. Socks for Calvin, no, this is a second year in a row. He's been a cat casualty, right? I think he'll end up somewhere. I think he'll, you know, some people have floated the Raiders and makes a ton of sense. I was going to say, wonder if you go to the Steelers, but actually him and Flores don't get along, right? But yeah, I think this is ultimately a good move. It's a little bit of a risk. A little bit of a risk, but I think, you know, the risk reward balance, the potential reward is so much higher than what the risk is. Yeah, I mean, you drafted guys like Ronnie Perkins and Joshua in particular, I would say over the last two years so that you can save this $5 million on the cap by not having better and like Kyle van noy. Exactly. At some point you gotta let it ride and see if these guys can play. The other thing I would say about this is the Patriots and I tweeted this out after they are after field Yates reported that Kyle van noy has been released. The Patriots were cap compliant before this move. They didn't need to do this move when they did it. Now maybe there are some good faith arguments here that they did it to let Kyle van noy hit the open market early and potentially sign somewhere. So that he was ahead of things. That could be part of it. But the main thing is that I see they're freeing up cap space. And I don't think that this is the only move that they're going to make to free up cap space over.
Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"josh uche" Discussed on Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"BSG, the promo code up to 200% in bonuses for you. Patriots minor 7 at home against the jets. What are you thinking Greg on this one? Well, I mean, did you say it's 7 or 7 and a half? I saw really matters. Yeah, I saw 7. It's 7 and a half now. I don't know. Then 40 minutes moved a half a point. Okay. I don't know who looks at this patriots team and feels like they should be a touchdown favorite over anybody anywhere at this point. So to me, that's a really large line. And I don't know if I really feel a sense of urgency from the Patriots yet in terms of like all right, well they're like, well, we have to put it together. I think the Patriots win, I don't think they cover the spread in this one. I'm laying the points. I think this is the week it clicks a little bit. I think this is the week Mac Jones gets cooking. I think the defense plays better and some of the things I heard in the postgame on Sunday, I really liked from the players like McCourty. And I think it's time where Belichick kind of looks at this and goes, okay, you know, we're two and four. Again, this is the make or break stretch. I just feel like they're gonna play a good game on Sunday. And so I'll lay the points, it is a lot of points. I'll take the risk. I think they start clicking in a few days at Gillette. Boss is sports general dot com member question of the day. BSG is 39.99 on their annual plan. Top notch analysis of all the Boston pro sports. Of course, you get the video analysis epidural does on the coach's film, direct access to him and weekly chats. Greg, you've got a question for us from one of your members, I know. I do. As what's up with Joshua, this was supposed to be a breakthrough year for him looked great in camp, but a complete no show so far. Please tell me this is scheme or a minor injury thing and not Zack sudfeld two. Training camp hero to in season zero. Davey, how dare you mention Nate sudfeld and Josh uche in the same sentence? To your question, I think we brought it up here on the podcast from time to time. One of my triggers with the season so far, Nick is not playing a guy like Joshua. And I think it's simply because he might be a little bit weak on the run or might make some mistakes and Bill Belichick wants to play the guys that he's comfortable with. And that's people like Kyle van noy and Dante Hightower, Fenway on the injury list with a groin thing, high towers..
Patriots Beat
"josh uche" Discussed on Patriots Beat
"Talk about last year that I think it was on EEI that appearance at bell CheckMate where he blamed the cap for reasons that they couldn't add more talent to the roster? That would just wasn't a Belichick thing to do. Was to come up with excuses. And he was like, oh, it's not an excuse. I'm just telling the truth. Fair enough, but there was a lot of instances with this team last year that really just wasn't backwards. They should have hit a hard reset last year without Brady. And they didn't do that and they end up putting themselves in a pretty difficult situation with Stefan Gilmore by hanging on to the players. So I think I look back at a lot of this vision as history with trades like the Jimmy G trade or the fact that a Brady and Gronk left for pennies on the dollar if you want to call it that. And look at those situations very differently. That was Bill chasing rings, where Jimmy G, he prioritized and valued Garoppolo as a backup and potential successor to Brady more than just getting a higher draft pick for him in a return. He tried to take trade, Rob Gronkowski. Rob Gronkowski wouldn't let him trade him, right? He said, the only person that I, that I'm going to play a quarter, you know, play for quarterback is Tom Brady. Or I'm going to retire. If they trade me to Detroit, I'm just going to retire. That's what Gronk said. And that really forced their hand to keep him in that situation. So the ground thing should not be on this list at all. He tried to trade him. And he wouldn't let him trade him. But with guys like Garoppolo and Brady, Joe Tunis name has come up a bunch right because they franchise tag them last year and then they didn't hand in the contract this year. I think that those guys are in a different categories, maybe not tuning, but Gilmore and specifically this needed to be done last year. And I think that's why we have gotten where we have gotten. And then on the flip side, just moving on from this, the Patriots trade Stefan Gilmore and one breath say they can't come up with an agreement with this contract, get only a 6th round pick in return. And then they bring Jamie Collins back this week to play a linebacker for them. So now this is a little bit of a weird situation too. Collins really doesn't count against the cap. I think he counts like a 100,000 against something. It's not even a perfect cap, right? It's just about what direction as an organization are you going in right now? Clearly, Belichick is going in a direction of, as he always says, we're doing what's best for the football team to win as many games as possible this year. But you can't say that on one hand that we're doing what's best for the football team to win as many games as possible and bring back Jamie Collins, but not pay Stefan Gilmore, right? I mean, those two things are contradictory. And so they bring back Jamie Collins who's going to take whether we want to kind of own up to this or not Alex. Jamie Collins is going to take reps away from guys like Josh uche, right? Joshua Jay is not going to play as much..
Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"josh uche" Discussed on Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"They'd have judon on the other. They'd have Bentley at linebacker, and they'd bring duggar into the box. I don't think that's going very light. It's not like they were they were backing up and just like, oh, look, we're just going to give you the underneath stuff. And they still defended the run. I just think they did it really, really poorly. Again, and you know, when you're putting three defensive linemen out there and that includes, I guess, Dietrich wise because this is going to be a thing, apparently. You know, they're going to need to play better. You expect to play the run. And probably, Nick, the Patriots probably made that decision because they were like, this jets offensive line is awful. They got George fan at left tackle. They got whoever right tackle. I don't even know who's on the inside. They're so bad. So we can go light 'cause we're gonna win at the point of attack. And guess what? They lost. They lost big time. And against a better opponent against a better quarterback, they don't get four interceptions. That play up front might have decided this game. All right, one more thing before we move on to three up three down, talk about some of this patriots defensive pressure they created late in this game. Bauer playing as much as he did, especially over ujjayi. Why? The only thing Nick that I can I can think of is like, because the role that they had them out there, it's his length and his ability, supposedly to play the edge against the run and they just think for whatever reason they think Josh uche is not good enough, even that he is a little bit undersized, but he has longer arms. And I just don't get it. I mean, I know a lot of like judean, a lot of ujjayi production in this game came in the second half when the score was helping the Patriots defense. It allowed them to pin their ears back a little bit more. But look, I just, I don't understand it. This guy just got elevated from the practice squad. Josh uche has been out there the whole time. All during training camp, look, sometimes you need to go with the younger kid and you drafted him there, play him what have you. I just don't understand it. And this game going back and watching the film. I mean, I had, I had uche for one, two, three, four, 5, 6. I mean, I'm even running out. I ran out of space in the second half, ten plus plays for Joshua in this game and to Sean Bauer had zero and one minus play with an edge. So what the hell are.
Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"josh uche" Discussed on Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"Gonna need to strike a balance. And I think they will go forward. Hey, Greg, just want to ask you about the kick-off team today, Jake Bailey, obviously kicked one out of bounds. I was a practicing burial at a nice little return as well. But he did have a great punt later on in the game there, but any concerns with the kick-off or Jake Bailey this season? Yeah, I don't think the special teams have been that great so far. And that's concerning when you basically keep 9 specialists on your team, including some of the older players on this team, and on this roster, and you let some younger players with more upside go. Yeah, it's an issue. It hasn't cost them to this point. But I think that going forward it's something to be concerned about. I mean, I will say, you know, Nick foley missed the extra point today, but outside of that, I mean, he's been nails. The guy's just money. Very windy. Yeah, I mean, he's just he's kicked there before, being with the jets certainly how he talked about that in the postgame, but man, it's just remember all those stories about nordeen being winning the job and being the kicker. Yeah, that was a long time ago. I mean, folks, folks pretty much been the kicker, the entire time here was just a matter of when. It's crazy to me. Because it's fair to call him a journeyman. He's been on a handful of teams. I just always thought he was just, you know, just another kicker and he comes here. Last year is one of their top three players, but he's just nails now. It's crazy. Yeah, it's, you know, he gets out there and you're just like, I mean, even the 49 yarder because you're like, all right, he's a little bit older. He didn't exactly report to camp in the greatest of shape, which is why he missed the better part of a week during camp due to just soreness and, you know, he gets out there 49 yards and he just drills it without any issue where you're like, oh, well, he doesn't have that much distance. Guy's been great. He broke the franchise record for consecutive field goals. And right now it's at 33. I would not be surprised if it gets past 40. Of course I just jinxed them, so he's definitely missing his next one, but yeah, he's been great. So I want to ask you, you've had an opportunity to watch. You did watch the coaches film from the Miami game, right? No, I have not, because it's not because game passes such a disaster. I got all mad at the NFL and they're like, it's supposed to be out like sometime next week and yeah, a few curse words and things like that. So I had not I have not seen that I just know what I saw in the stadium, which was Mac passed up a few shot plays that were there. Well, what I want to ask you, though, Justin watching, just in general, being there last week, watching this today, his footwork in the pocket. Is it has he shown patients and balance or does he kind of have a little bit of happy feet that you would expect to see with a rookie? Well, it's a good point because I do week one, I thought he was great. I thought he was great in that regard. I thought his footwork was really good. I did think he got a little sloppier today, and that's, you know, those are some of the things you have to be concerned about where you worry about, you know, is he getting his feet pointing the right way and the shoulders too, because, you know, he's a guy that we all know. You know, he's not exactly the most dynamic athlete when it comes to quarterback play. So, you know, very similar to Brady, you know, everything has to be right. That's why Tom Brady works on his mechanics all off season because if he's not right, it can look ugly and Mac Jones is in that same sort of ballpark. I did think he got a little sloppier, so it's something to watch moving forward. Yeah, anything else today that stood out to you. I mean, JJ Harris got called up to Taylor. Why don't we change it? He got called up today, played later on in the game. Didn't see much in the passing game, though. Any other surprise ossias out again today. Anything stand out to you Greg? Yeah, I thought the ossei thing was, you know, interesting. And you know, I thought he's a kid who's who's taken the next step this year, or at least a half a step. Which isn't saying much from where he was as a rookie. So that was disappointing to see that he was a healthy scratch along with Stevenson. I'm baffled by what they're doing sort of in the front 7 and on the edge with a figured with Kyle van noy down that Josh uche was get a chance to play more and that just hasn't happened. And so you're just you just sort of puzzled on what's going on up there and but I do think, you know, I'm trying to have patience with this and as the Patriots find things out, but I think we know this. Teacher wise will never leave the lineup. He's always out there. Yeah, and something else that's stuck in my head since your appearance on his fellow romance on Tuesday is this Henry Anderson than Greg, is this Mike pedal all over again? 'cause I saw the name of the back of his Jersey like once, and then I looked at the stat sheet and he had one tackle so didn't feel like he was out there all that much. Yeah, well, I mean, panel was just like, that just didn't work. Anderson works. He's good. It's just, they're not playing him right now. I mean, even I remember he got into this game and he really held the point of attack. It was when Juan Bentley had to tackle for a loss. And it was almost all because Henry Anderson was in front of them, basically, you know, making do with the jets offensive lineman. And so I'm hopeful that as the coaching staff gets more evidence and they see the problems with the run defense that Anderson gets more of a chance and wise is used more situationally, but I'm not optimistic about that. And on that too, was continuing with the defensive line. You know, I know you've always and rightfully so, sung the prices of Lawrence guy since he's been on this team, but have you felt like his plays dip this year? Absolutely. Yeah, and it's tough for me to say and I wrote this in my column today about 5 guys on the Patriots who sort of needed to take a step quickly. You know, not to overreact from week one, but, you know, and guy, gotcha was one of them. I mean, guy, you know, don't take my word for it. I mean, PF PFF had guy, I think as the third worst defender for the Patriots last week and in the preseason, the only guy who was rated worse was Rashad Barry who got cut in like the first cut down. And so, you know, I asked Lawrence guy this week. You know, he there was a GQ story about him being a vegan. I asked him whether the Patriots are on the same page with him, he said yes, I asked him, does it feel like he's lost and he said absolutely not that he still feels like he's the same guy from the past couple of years. But Godzilla, Hightower, wise, I thought Shaq mason was better today. Those were the 5 guys that I thought there's been a disturbing trend since the started training camp with those guys, but they need to be better. You know, I would say everybody outside of mason. I still think there are work in progress in the Patriots need them to get going. Yeah, and I just personally would like to see more of hunter Henry and Johnny Smith Greg like B more involved in the offense. I get that 70 plus yards. These first couple of weeks combined is pretty good, but maybe I just have crazy expectations. I thought one of those guys would be getting 70 yards on a touchdown per game. I'm real surprised that hunter Henry really hasn't done all that much these first two games. And you.
Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"josh uche" Discussed on Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"Back there and Jameis Winston wasn't great today, but and if you look ahead, Greg, they have to travel this week. They're staying at TCU for the whole week. They were without it. I think 9 coaches today. This is a really bad spot for them. I just hope the Patriots aren't looking ahead to next week. The following following the following week. Yeah, that's a good point, Joe, that, you know, with you know who looming and coming to town, the following week. This is a game that with all that's going on with the saints. The Patriots need to deliver victory and they need to get a little bit better every week. To sort of make people feel at ease a little bit, but yeah, I think you're right. This is a this is a tough spot for the saints. The Patriots need to be a little bit better. I would like to see the Patriots start to figure out what the hell they're going to do it linebacker because it seems like they don't really know. Juwan Bentley played a lot in the middle, Dante Hightower was a lot on the line with Kyle van noy out to Sean Bauer gets promoted from the practice squad and he plays way more than Josh uche two facts later or winovich, like, you know, what's going on there? How are they going to deal with Kamara and some of the saint speed? I think the Patriots have a lot to figure out in the front 7 or else they could get exploited by a good team that really runs their offense through the backfield. Speaking of Cali van noy who was out today with this throat issue didn't practice all week. Did you have any insight on that Greg or what happened there? Do you take like a helmet to the larynx or something? I just. I've never heard of such an injury on the injury report. Yeah, no, I did not, I did not hear anything on that front. Yeah, I thought I was surprised when I first saw him get up there, I thought, well, maybe as a sore throat or something like that and they're keeping them out just for precautionary reasons with COVID and all that. But that went out through the week and he was out, like, yeah, they need him out there. And that's a little bit of a concern, but considering he was tweeting during a game, I think he's feeling okay, probably. All right, we got one more segment to go with Greg Bernard. Do you want to get on? Have any questions for him? 6 one, 7, 7, 7, 9, zero, 98 5, get to your calls with Greg coming up after the headlines here with Joe Murray get you caught up with all the latest in some of these four o'clock games. But first, let's pause ten seconds. Here on the safety insurance, 98 5, the sports of patriots, radio network. Listen to sports team on stage. Please leave your attention. Sports lines. Patriots get their first win of the season 25 6 over the jets Mac Jones, 20 to a 30 on the day a 186 yards passing, but as the running game the cut touchdowns for the bats, James White, Damien Harris, each in the end zone. Zach Wilson through foreign assumptions he was also sacked four times in the game pad's not one on one, they host New Orleans next week, the saints fell 26 to 7 today to Carolina or other NFL scores right now in the third quarter. Vikings have a 30 to 24 lead over Arizona. Buccaneers 28 falcons ten Tom Brady is four touchdown passes in literally a half. Right now the cowboys are a 1411 lead over the Chargers. Seahawks 24 to 9 over the Titans, the Titans had a touchdown taken away from them by the ref so for those who think the refs have no involvement, they did there. The bears 20 to 17 win over the Bengals browns 31 Texans 21 rams to win over the colts 27 24. The bills, they shut out the dolphins today 35, nothing too we're talking about, and he left the game with an injury, no word, yet on what it was. Also, other scores did a 49 or 17 eagles 11. Raiders sneak out a win over the Steelers 26, 17, and the Broncos 23 Jaguars follow Owen to they lose 23, 13. Tonight, it's the chiefs. And the ravens. Headlines of rocky by Valvoline is an oil change. They want to help you prepare your car for fall travel. They offer completely contactless service and you don't even need to make an appointment. Go to get another team's dot com for a coupon. I'm Joe Murray next update in 30 minutes. Second down and two play fake by Wilson keeps off under pressure fires down the middle by JC Jackson. And eventually intercepted. Picked off at the 35 yard line. He is pretty aggressive. He's aggressive quarterback if you want a guy here still try to zip it in there. I mean, I was just in the right position to make plays. And that's what I do. JC Jackson after the Patriots 25 to 6 win over the New York Jets today. Welcome back Sean's patriots postgame show Jim Murray Joe Murray Bregman Boston sports journal dot com. One last segment. If you saw this Greg JC Jackson said after this game, you know, he didn't really want to get into why he wasn't out there to start the second half. Did he talk back to someone on the sideline or something? Because Juan Williams was out there quickly gets hit with a penalty dumb holding call. I think it was on Corey Davis. I think he's a liability and a bad play wedding to happen anytime he's out there is to want Williams. What do you think happened there? Yeah, I was very odd. I mean, at first you thought it was an injury, and then, you know, just something like give them a little bit more time to recuperate. But then as answers in the postgame, yeah, I mean, I'll lead you to believe that there was something that where he ran afoul of the team, whether he talked back to somebody or, you know, was a prepared to go out in the field for the second half and they said screw it, put juwan out there. I'm not really sure. But yeah, it's a little bit concerning, but, you know, I thought he played really well today. I thought he did a really nice job against Corey Davis, who you didn't hear much from and sort of showed in this game why the Patriots did not have much interest in all at all in him in free agency and decided to go with other guys and including Belichick's comment earlier this week where he basically said like they did a ton of work on keelan coal. They did not do the same work on Cory Davis. Let's go to Zach in Maine, who's joining us here in the Sean's patriots postgame show with some thoughts on Josh mcdaniel's play calling. Go ahead, Zack. Hey, guys. I think that Josh may be the reason that we're not seeing Mac progress quickly. I mean, I already like what I see from the candy mix. Good decisions. Need to speed up getting the ball out sometimes. But you also don't see a lot of space created for the running backs, right? So if we don't have speed to receiver, get somebody with speed and shift the ball in the open field like the flats. And I'm seeing I'm seeing that, take a lot of shots to receivers in the flat, but not really the backs and then late in the fourth I saw a couple of misdirection runs as we're getting in the jets red and zone. And those didn't really turn out to anything. So just your thoughts on that off here. Thanks. Greg? Yeah, I mean, you know, look, the way that they've played in the red zone, the first two weeks, it invites the criticism. I understand it. And I think a lot of it is fair. I just think that, you know, with the getting the ball running backs, like, say outside of screen passes and things like that. I think it's probably a situation where there were a little bit worried about going too much to the backs and getting it being too predictable and where they'd rather sneak in like a screen pass by surprise, which I think worked well today. I thought they had some really nice screens today. That were well timed and cut sort of caught the jets by surprise. A lot of times you're setting those up with multiple plays leading up to that in the drive. But yeah, I mean, look, they haven't thrown in the end zone in two games. I don't care who's playing quarterback and how long they've been here. That's an issue. And, you know, I know some of it is Mac not taking the shots and taking the easy money which they do preach in this offense, which is if they have easy 5 or 6 yards, take the 5 or 6 yards. But they're.
Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"josh uche" Discussed on Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"Don't forget it. Live by defensively, Greg, your thoughts. I didn't, I didn't think it was good overall. I mean, the stats will look good. You know, with the 17 points and, you know, the third downs and things like that. But I just didn't, they didn't look settled at all. They didn't look prepared. They didn't look like they had an answer. I mean, the dolphins seemed to run a read option slant like every drive and the Patriots had no answer for it. They kept to it just kept reading the safety like are you gonna bite or reading the cornerback? And it was like the Patriots hadn't seen it before. Like they weren't prepared for it. I didn't like any of it. I especially did not like the run defense up the middle. Nick you and I had talked about it in the preseason. I was hoping it was just gonna be, you know, preseason sort of thing where they're just maybe they're not into it and blah blah blah and they would be it would be, you know, everything would be right once the regular season got here. It was not. It was a continuation, the preseason from Devon God chow, Lawrence guy. Christian barmore when he got in there, Dietrich wise, I don't know what the hell he's doing out there all the time, but he's always out there all the time. Instead of like Josh uche or how about Henry Anderson? You know, an actual proven pro who can hold the run and rush the passer at the same time. Inside linebacker, they don't know who's doing what Bentley's out there sometimes, high towers out there, sometimes Kyle van noy all of a sudden with the game on the line as the middle linebacker where we haven't seen he's done it before, but we haven't seen him in forever there. High towers on the sideline, he might be dealing with an injury. Gotta hope he is considering how he looked in that game. But I just, overall, I didn't think it was good and I thought you're exactly right. The end of the game was the biggest concern, three and a half minutes left to dolphins give you 5 yards, it's first and 14 to give you a gift. And any other patriots defense gets off the field there, and the Patriots throw.
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"NFL draft day one for the patriots draft picks they had nothing in the first round with the thirty seventh pick overall the patriots selected defensive back tile Duggar who is the only division two player invited to the senior bowl a defensive back from hickory North Carolina in the third round they selected linebacker Josh Uche J. out of Michigan and then draft two tight ends in the third round Devin I see a C. and Dalton