December 15, 2025 • 26 mins
Follows the Patriots through their first five games, including a strong start, a humbling loss to the Bears, and a frustrating defeat in Cleveland that left Andre Tippett visibly angry. Ends with the team sitting at 2-3, searching for its identity.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What do you remember about the nineteen eighty five Patriots
forty years later? We're going back to tell the story
of the first Patriots team to make it to a
Super Bowl, A special team that blazed a pathway that
we much traveled over the next four decades. Here from
the players and coaches, as well as the sounds from
television and radio that defined the season, as we uncover
what made this a Patriots team to remember even if
they didn't win a Super Bowl championship.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Annihilating might be a better word. Sixty five more cuts
out doing with Chefy Burger's back.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
We're gonna throw a fire this one.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Come fire toutch down.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Then we move them touch Downhill.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Pair hooding player running it all away, Hood touchdown eighty
five yards, curving prior.
Speaker 6 (00:56):
Decent rolling out to the right side, avoiding the pressure.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Brook cuts down Win Duffham in the end zone.
Speaker 7 (01:04):
Six points.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Patrios shut down Hatprian Tony Culler at Grand have believe.
Speaker 8 (01:10):
I might do so.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And this is a Patriots Super Bowl sound Otyssey nineteen
eighty five, Episode three, Who are we hope?
Speaker 8 (01:17):
Crazy?
Speaker 9 (01:17):
Turn off for both these clubs that are trying to
get into the playoff picture.
Speaker 7 (01:21):
They're respectable last year. This year they're trying to turn
the corner.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
The nineteen eighty five Patriots came out of training camp
with belief. Head coach Raven Barry had built a team
that was detailed, focused and united. But belief only gets
you so far. They had to produce results on the field.
Speaker 7 (01:35):
On a beautiful fall.
Speaker 9 (01:36):
Sunday afternoon, Welcome to Sullivan Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts. Last year,
the Green Bay Packers finished second in their division UNFC
Central at eight and eighth for the Wingland Patriots also
a second AFC, He's nine and seven. This free season,
the Packers on Patriots both have identical records, up one
in three after suffering many injuries up front. The weather
conditions this afternoon absolutely perfect and I shouldn't have any
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effect on the ball game. Hello everybody, I'm Jim All
along with John Dappery and John The eighty five season
about to begin, new hopes and new expectations.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
September eighth, nineteen eighty five, the season began with the
Patriots facing the Green Bay Packers at Sullivan Stadium. With
Stanley Morgan out of the lineup, Cedric Jones would step
into a key role delivering the season's first receptions.
Speaker 7 (02:17):
It was back to pass throws some near side lines
and the rest complete.
Speaker 9 (02:22):
Pass was complete to secret Jones hucked out of bound by.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
Mark Lee and jams. To be obvious from the very
beginning of what both teams are going to do? Forrest
Big ran the ball three times? What does New England do?
They come out throwing right now. Raymond Berry's philosophy is
to use balance, get.
Speaker 9 (02:37):
The ball up field with his quarterback Tony Easton, so Brian's.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
You might be surprised to know that Tony Easton was
a third rated quarterback in the NFL last year, behind
such names as Marino and Montana.
Speaker 10 (02:48):
We weren't picked to be a great team that year.
You know, nobody thought that we would be the best
team in the AFC. Miami had a powerhouse with those guys.
The Jets were pretty good and the Raiders office see
we're good, but no. We started off the season against
Green Bay.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
The Patriots wasted little time getting off to an impressive start,
but Tony Easton making big plays through the air, easing back, going.
Speaker 9 (03:09):
Put the middle, He's eery fire fire gets lost first
down Patrios at the eleven yard line, turned off.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
To Tony Thomas back to the near sidelines. He's at
the ten.
Speaker 9 (03:24):
And eleven yard touchdown run by Tony Collinson. It was
absolutely off standing.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
The first drive of the season was a success and
showed the balance that the offense would have when they
were at their absolute best. But it was the defense
that flashed the most, racking up seven sacks, including three
each by Andre Tippett and Don Blackman.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
Third, Donald ten stopped by Andrey Pippin.
Speaker 9 (03:44):
Here boy as a Packers are not playing front.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
Of their bus football but a paypriot. All Harry is.
Speaker 9 (03:49):
Again Andrey Pippin wopping Vicky Bancke at about the.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
Ten yard line. The books is on safe before who
we went gone? What one? How it's good a gone?
Andred Tippett? Who comes in? And really black when Dicky?
Speaker 11 (04:07):
All right?
Speaker 9 (04:07):
Is my question? And Dickey is down? First pressure was
put in by Don Blackman. The Packers are frying the
good bye Blackman and again that such sacks that afternoon ball.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
In New England.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
After recording eighteen and a half sacks in nineteen eighty four,
Tippett was quickly on his way to sixteen and a
half in nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 12 (04:26):
We all complimented each other very well. And you know
it's like if I didn't get to you, Donnie was
gonna get to you. Donny didn't get to you, better,
dann Well know that you better get rid of that
ball or you better make the block, because I'm gonna
get to you.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
And I think we we we fed off of each other.
It was like Don Blackman and I, uh.
Speaker 12 (04:46):
We we looked at each other every game and we
were out there to knock the hell out of somebody.
Speaker 8 (04:53):
Rookie garn Verus picked up the first sack of his
career in his very first game.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
The Boys is gone and Vicky go down again.
Speaker 13 (05:02):
Because I mean I was kind of designated as a
pass rusher coming in on third and the mall situations
or passing situations, and you know, I still vividly remember
that game against Green Bay and my first quarterback sack
against Glenn Dickeye. And you know, I went back and
I've got the actual film, black and white film that
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the Patriots actually you know, took for games, and I
was able to get a copy of that, and that's
one of my most prized possessions my.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
First NFL sack, and it was an exciting time.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Packers quarterback Linn Dickey completed just fourteen to twenty nine
passes and was picked off once.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
It's the pass, rush and coverage perfectly blended together.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
The forsom in the secondary of Raymond Claiborne and Ronnie
Lapett at cornerback and Roland James and Fred Mariyan at
safety had played together for two years already, and we're
quickly becoming one of the most talented groups in the NFL.
Nineteen eighty three eighth round pick Lapet was the last
piece added to what will become a shutdown secondary.
Speaker 14 (06:00):
Played with me at the University of Miami, so we
kind of clicked already. I gee if I made a mistake,
So I was kind of cheating a little bit because
when I made a mistake, I knew Fred would back
me up. Fred to see everything, and Claybournes was super fast.
He ran flat foot fast. Now, if anyone knows anything
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about running running flat foot and be fast at it,
that is phenomenal. That is so hard to do, but
he every It was just amazing.
Speaker 15 (06:34):
And to see.
Speaker 14 (06:38):
Roland James, who my best friend up here. He was fantastic.
I saw him knocked down and pulling guard and I go, oh,
my goodness, this dude is only one hundred and ninety pounds.
He's knocking down, I'm pulling guard. I'm not doing that.
I'm just gonna cut him. I'll cut him. You know,
we had a good group of defensive backs and we
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hardly ever blitz. As amount of time we didn't blitz.
You know, we had the guys up front that can,
that can take care of business man.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
The experienced group of safeties and corners also paid dividends
in practice, challenging receivers like Cedric Jones in nineteen eighty
four first overall pick, Irving Fryar and helping them develop
into game changing players.
Speaker 16 (07:20):
Now going against Ronie and Raymond in practice. And then
Fred was just we call him the ranger. He ranged
back and forth back there in the secondary. Hugh was tremendous.
He was my roommate my rookie year, and we both
had twins.
Speaker 17 (07:32):
That year too.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
So he's just a special guy and special player, you know.
Speaker 16 (07:36):
Not the fastest, not the biggest, not the strongest, but
always in the right place, a very intelligent player, recognized
sets and just.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Had a great job on breaking to the football.
Speaker 18 (07:45):
So as a wing back in college, my one on
ones in practice were in a three point stance, blocking
down on defensive ends or blocking linebackers. My one on
ones in practice never at Nebraska were me stand up.
We even out split out running routes against the defensive back.
So the first time I had ever run a route
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against the defensive back standing up was my first day
in training camp.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
I had never done that before, and.
Speaker 18 (08:15):
Man, I got my behind quite a few times because
Raymond Clayborne and Ronny the pet those guys did not play.
They were great cornerbacks and I had to face them
every day. So it was a learning curve for me
that was pretty pretty long. It took me a minute
to get my feet up underneath me to learn how
to be a wide receiver.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
James again from running room you want to look out.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Craig james Is sixty five yard touchdown run midway through
the fourth quarter effectively put the game away, despite the
final two scores from Green Bay that made things look
more interesting than they were. The Pat's four lost fumbles
also added to it, but Tony Easton completed twenty one
to twenty eight passes.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
For two hundred and forty one yards.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Will the multi prong ground game piled up two hundred
and eight rushing yards, containing possession for nearly thirty seven minutes.
The four hundred and ten yards of total offense would
be the team's fourth highest output of the season, while
the two hundred and five yards allowed would be the
second lowest total. It was a total team win right
out of the gate. The Patriots were one to zero.
The next game will be a reality check.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
The new England takle a tip come to Chicago. Let
by that young quarterback Tony Hoaston for Illinois rising star,
but today he has to contend with the overpowering Chicago
Bear defense.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
September fifteenth, Week two, Soldier Field. The nineteen eighty five
Chicago Bears, the monsters of the Midway, who were in
the second week of what would be one of the
most dominant seasons in NFL history. But at this point
everyone was still finding out about Buddy Ryan's forty six defense.
Speaker 11 (09:41):
Oh well, the Bears have had a chip on their
defensive shoulder for among the last fifty years, but in
nineteen eighty four they terrorized the NFL with the league
record seventy two secs. Now the brains out of Buddy Ryan.
This defense is called a forty six. The New England
Patriots will have to face this about eighty percent of
the time today, and of course the Patriots last year
gave up sixty six and the offensive line has hurt.
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This is an awesome responsibility and challenge for the New
England Patriots offense.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
The Bears defense was suffocating. Easton was sacked six times
and through three interceptions while completing just fifteen to thirty
five passes. The Patriots managed just two hundred and six
yards and seven points behind a short handed offense without
John Hannah, Stanley Morgan, and Irving Fryar in the lineup.
Chicago scored on their first drive and then proceeded to
systematically dismantle the Patriots.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
They don't want to run the Cannons off in touchdown,
Chicago Bears make it happen fast covy two yard.
Speaker 11 (10:33):
Play DoD Craig Marian of the New England Batriot Chad
the coverage at half roll by Jim McMahon. This is
bad news for the Patriots, already cutting the shot.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Gut at third and eight, and Eaton does very well
just to go down before he gets hit with a
head on shot from Singletary. Here comes Jesse Craig James,
and the Bears.
Speaker 15 (10:52):
Aren't gonna give him a thing.
Speaker 19 (10:53):
They're gonna give him.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
About a five yard deficit.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Easton gets time he had an accepted defens with his
thirty second career interception.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
For a second time, that was Singletary coming on the
blizz single.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Perry Ethan has a plenty on a single, Jarry takes
it down to the sixteen.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Yard line, Aasid's third interception today.
Speaker 11 (11:20):
The performance by the Chicago Bear offense and defense. The
offense was not spectacular, It was functional with about.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Three or four big plays all day long.
Speaker 11 (11:29):
It was totally the Chicago Bear defense just stifling, absolutely
stifling the New England Patriots.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
It would be the Patriots' scond lowest offensive output of
the entire nineteen eighty five season, only to be topped
by the rematch against the Bears in the Super Bowl.
The eighty five Bears were unstoppable for everyone but Dann
Marino and the Dolphins, and Ronnie Lapett got a lesson
in trying to lay a hit on a refrigerator one time.
Speaker 14 (11:51):
I hit refrigerated Perry in the thumb as hard as
I could. He didn't fill a thing. I'm backed up then,
but the home guy coming groundling. I try to pretend
that I was going to jump over the bank.
Speaker 17 (12:03):
You know, I'll get you.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
I'll get you.
Speaker 14 (12:05):
I'm like, please, miss stay right.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
There no parts of this guy, but there was one
Patriots play to remember, as Craig James took a dump
off pass from Easton ninety yards for a touchdown in
the fourth quarter that at least got the Patriots on
the scoreboard lead.
Speaker 20 (12:18):
Richard Den I have become friends with and been around
more than when we played, and I he always give
me a hard time. I said, yeah, but Richard, it
seems like I still remember that. I think I own
the Soldier Field's longest past reception touchdown in the history.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Ninety yards is still in the game.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Still pitch it a lops run down field as a
man up and go to the James is dynad lot.
That was gonna be a touchdown for the Patriots. Ninety
yards and the Patriots are in the end zone. James
beat the linebacker and Tony Easton standing in against it,
all out.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Rush, close up, perfect ball.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So the Patriots finally explode and get on the board
a ninety yard play.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Final score Bears twenty Patriots seven. The Patriots were one
and one, but Barry didn't panic.
Speaker 21 (13:03):
Well, what a great story Raymond Berry, what a great
talk we had last night with him, as he took
over an hour with his Bob just to kind of
share his thoughts about the team. Said, it was a
pleasure to coach this team, and a team in the
large part is a reflection of their coach, and that's
the Indian Patriots.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
In nineteen eighty five, Week three, Patriots stayed on the
road for a second straight week to face their divisional rivals,
the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
It was a rock fight, ugly, physical and close.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
New England took a ten to seven lead into the
locker room at halftime as Barry's offense dug into their
bag of tricks and had running back Craig James throw
a five yard touchdown to take the lead before the break,
and again James.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
To throw to Tony Collins touchdown.
Speaker 21 (13:43):
Well, just when you think it's predictable, it's unpredictable.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
A great call by that man. Raymond Berry a run
pass half.
Speaker 20 (13:50):
That pass was amazing because it forced if I'm back
to you at tailback and they would give me that
and I ran it in college. I threw a bunch
as well. It forced the safety just to pause, are
the corner coming up? Is he gonna throw it? Or
is he going to run this thing? And it just
gave me just a little bit of an edge.
Speaker 8 (14:07):
Back in the lineup.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
After missing the Bear's game, Irving Friar, who put the
game away early in the third quarter with an eighty
five yard punt return, his first of two touchdown returns
that would help send the nineteen eighty four number one
overall pick to his first Pro Bowl and also earn
him a second team All Pro nod.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Friar at the fifteen.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Gets the flu get away out runs kid he could
go a touchdown, Burving Friar an eighty five yard touchdown return.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Special teams coordinator Dante Scarnekia helped Friar make a monstrous
second year lead.
Speaker 17 (14:43):
We could make plays in a variety of ways. Irving
Fire was an unbelievable punt returner. Led the league in
punt returns. Tony Franklin and Rich Camio were great kickers,
and our coverage given us were really really good because
we he had a lot of special teams players that
knew the rules and bought in. It just seems like
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it came from everywhere.
Speaker 21 (15:07):
Right now, Raymond Berry wants to get out of here
with a win. He's played a team that's been very
fired up. They've played extremely well today, meaning the Buffalo team,
but of course so has.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
The New England Patriots.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
The New England Patriots have extended their winning streak over
the Buffalo Bills to six games.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Final score Patriots seventeen, Bills fourteen. At two and one,
the Patriots were finding ways to win, even if for
the second week in a row, they produced just two
hundred yards of total offense. The next two weeks would
test the result for the Patriots.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
It is the first full season for new head coach
Raymond Berry, which means a new system, new terminology, and
there are some who are saying that Barry is just
too conservative.
Speaker 19 (15:45):
There's no question I think he knows he's been too conservative.
The other problem has been Tony Eathan a little bit
too erratic. He needs to get back in gear.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
September twenty ninth, Week four, the Patriots returned to Foxborough
to face the Los Angeles Raiders.
Speaker 8 (15:57):
With their rivalry nearly a decade old.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
The Raiders have had the problems of the state of Massachusetts.
In fact, they are zero to two here in Foxboro.
I know this is not one of your favorite places
to play.
Speaker 19 (16:08):
Exactly in nineteen seventy six the Raiders were here, lost
only one game all year, forty eight to seventeen against
the Patch Right here, tough stadium to play in.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
The Raiders were without starting quarterback Jim Plunkett, subbing in
back up Mark Wilson. It was a preview of the
eventual AFC Divisional playoff game to come, and the offensive
fireworks began in the first quarter. The Patriots turnover forcing
defense struck on the very first pass of the game.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Mark Wilson replacing the injured Jim Plunkett, with Alan and
the Hawkins at the running backs and Wilson throwing on
first off, Cick Bob ronny Lip going right to work
have a Patriots.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Well picked over.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
New England took a three zero lead thanks to the pick,
but on their next possession, a Tony Easton interception would
hand the lead back to the Raiders.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Ada's quicked off the Western Hoes.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Wilson for twenty six way Easton.
Speaker 19 (17:01):
Is trying to get the ball to number eighty Irving
Fryar on a little down and out. I'm hitted by
Elvi's throw because hey, man and man coverage is looking
back the entire way steps in front.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
Ball was a little bit behind him.
Speaker 19 (17:13):
Brook quarterbacks having problems starting off on their first couple
of serials.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Undeterred, Eason would bounce back, hitting Friar for a forty
yard touchdown.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
As the two AFC rivals traded body blows.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
As out of the shotgun, stepping up Arving fire on
a forty yard pass player longest career reception for Irving Fryar,
a forty yard pass play his second career TV of
the NFL. The ran on head out of Buck.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Last week, but the Raiders answered again, this time with
a thirty eight yard pass that made the score fourteen
ten Raiders.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
After the first quarter, Wilson.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
With time right, so man right off up Stokey Ways
touch side Donkey Williams, leaving Runny Lippett behind. I have
a Raider recapture of the lead, and what has been
from that explosive first quarter.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
In the second quarter, the Patriots drew within one point
on a Tony Franklin field goal. Then the defense would
come through again, with Andre Tippett recovering a botched punt
snap and taking it to the house for his first
of only two touchdowns in his career.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
That the Patriots, we got to the lovely, lovely stop
look up.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Cook by.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
The karate kid did not need any martial arts maneuvers to.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Pick up us wall.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
That felt good.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
That was my I think that was my first. I
think I only got two touchdowns in my whole career.
I mean, I've never you know, I.
Speaker 12 (18:39):
Can't do everything. Sad touchdowns and the guys got a
ton of tackles, but you know, it's just being around
the football and and uh turnover was again.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Special teams coach Dante Scarnecki's unit was starting to stack
weekly game changing plays.
Speaker 17 (18:53):
We had a real knack for knocking the ball out
of returners and getting fumbos and then I'm I think
I don't even remember as like four or five occasions
were able to return them for touchdowns, so you know,
they were just really you know, it was a special
group of guys. But you know that's and you need
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when you if you have a good football team, you
need to be good at offense, defense, and special teams,
and we were certainly good in all three of those areas.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
The Patriots led twenty to fourteen at halftime, but the
second half was all Raiders unchar.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
Have the laiders of score what to be lyle alzando.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
Let's touchdown.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Tom Krusty said he was able to catch him back
of the ends.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Alt Apple Raders do gabble and succeed.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
With the big play, and this time it is quick
up Sam sr Bernie seven yard touchdown off the interception,
and he's some throwing on the roun.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
It's getting worse for Tony Easton, Jeff Park able to
pick it on. There are times when.
Speaker 19 (20:05):
You have to admit that the game is over and
admit the laws, take your man out of there and
let somebody else come in.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
This is a tough situation. I've been through some of these,
and I'll tell you when.
Speaker 19 (20:15):
The coach took me out, I was glad of it.
Let the other guy go in and get.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
His brains beat out.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Three of the patriots four turnovers led directly to touchdowns
as the Raiders roll thirty five to twenty, evening the
Patriots season record at two and two.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Time has run out the New England Patriots. So the
Raiders with a bounce back victory following the clubbing at
the hands of the forty nine ers last week, I
have turned it to defeat the Patriots by the score
of thirty five to twenty.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
Things would bought him out the next week in Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Raymond Barry, in his first four years head coach of
the New England Patriots, finding good so many first year
coaches find in this league, Bob, and that is it
is tough to win, and.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Sometimes you're not in control of your own death.
Speaker 15 (20:57):
And he fail.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
That's what's the tough part.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
About coaching sixth Cleveland Municipal Stadium. Patriots are coming off
a tough loss and needed to get back on course
that the Browns had other plans.
Speaker 15 (21:09):
Please down.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Patriots got an early boost on another special team's score
when Johnny Rembert recovered a fumble in the end zone,
but it was another up and down effort from Easton,
who threw for over three hundred yards for the only
time in the nineteen eighty five season, but also through
another interception to give him a league leading nine through
the first five games of the season, and took two
more sacks for a lead leading fifteen in five games.
Speaker 7 (21:29):
Stwin Williams in motion.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Lights are down everywhere and saw as Tony Eeson, Oh
was he's stuck by chip bank Still.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
The Bats took the lead in the third quarter on
a twenty two yard touchdown strike to Stanley Morgan, who's.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Got the foot balls got by?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
What a catch?
Speaker 7 (21:48):
What that catch?
Speaker 4 (21:50):
He took a hit And I don't believe what concentration
the ball was. People like me following the bow?
Speaker 7 (21:58):
What got h Yeah, he comes out of the ball.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
That is a pressure cut.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
They couldn't maintain it, allowing to go ahead touchdown by
the Browns in the fourth quarter. The Patriots had one
final chance to pull out the win, driving late in
the fourth quarter into Cleveland territory with the game coming
down to a final fourth and three.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Tony Easton had had wide up the real estate and
fut up here you see play Matthew's trailing the receiver.
I'm tucking his say he just enough to make it
a very difficult catch, and he couldn't get it done
with the play before this, Tony Easton had third down
the second out of three years ago. She had at
least ten yards and foot in field and fire, and
she looked lone as.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Bad as coming on high on foot down and three
with a minute forty nine to play with.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
All the marbles, Big Paddy, Carl Harrison, the oldest talking
them all, makes the big play. Bill Carl Harriston's tenth
year bust of his career has been at Philadelphia, makes
the playoff there on this long day in Cleveland, Ohio.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Now for the Patriots, you can again go back to
what is like this team ever since the regular season began.
For the most part, five of that is a lack
of being able to move the ball on a consistent basis.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
It was the second straight loss with turnovers, again playing
a central role. At two and three. Andre Tippet had
seen enough.
Speaker 12 (23:20):
I freaked out in the Cleveland game because I looked
around because it looked like everybody was just it was
just a casual butt kicking. Yeah, there's no big and
I'm like, no, we all should be pisched. You you
should be upset, you should be shaming yourselves. And I
freaked out I freaked. I taught the Cleveland Municipal Stadium.
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They had wooden lockers.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
I punched kicked five or six lockers.
Speaker 12 (23:48):
I don't know what kind of bill they may have
sent Pat Sullivan for the damage that I caused in there, but.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
I did it, and I freaked out, and and and and.
Speaker 12 (23:58):
It was a control freak out because I was just like,
we're a better football team than this.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Shame on us for going out there playing the way
we did.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
But Tippet's freak out was a welcome one by Ronnie Lapat.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
I got out of the way. You threw this chair
or whatever.
Speaker 14 (24:12):
Heck, he threw his fuck in the ground, Like, oh
my god, man, this is what I'm used to at
the University of Miami, you know, and this is something
that we needed to get going. It was like this,
Oh I remember coming from the University of Miami.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
When we would lose.
Speaker 14 (24:31):
You better have some emotions on your face. You better
be sad, you better be disappointed in yourself.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
You better have all of that.
Speaker 14 (24:39):
And when I got there, we didn't have that.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
And it took Andre to just get us going.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
With enough of the other guys, even the GM Patrick
Sullivan took note of the postgame locker room as Tippet's
tirade was a potential turning point.
Speaker 15 (24:52):
I was not in the room at that point in time,
but I understand that it was a little bit more
than a raw ros speech. It was some furniture lying
and stuff like that, you know, and as you say,
you know, yeah, yeah, Andre Tippett is absolutely.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
One of the great gentlemen you'd ever meet.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
But boy, who would not get the wrong side of him.
Speaker 12 (25:11):
I just kind of aired the room, you know. I
think I may have said what a lot of people
were thinking. And people were like, man, I ain't never
seen you like that. I mean, you said some things
and did some things in there, and nobody said anything
in the locker room, and it was just like after
the game, everybody kind of like sat there and they
were like.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
Wow, what's going on here? Bill, Well, let's be fucking
the coving down here.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
A lot of frust persons coming out.
Speaker 15 (25:37):
Now.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
You can't believe us.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
You'd almost think the.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
AFC Championship was at stake. There's no time remaining. This
ball game is over.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
If I'll tell you what, the picture's going to be
a little bit careful and I know they're frust ready,
but it wouldn't take too much gets over these dogs
out of the stands down there on the field.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
That final scorer, the Cleveland Browns twenty four, the New
England Patriots twenty and in the last four minutes of
this game, and the Patriots had not one chance to
win it, two outstanding opportunities to possibly win this ball game.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
The Patriots were at a crossroad after two straight losses.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
They were a team with potential, a team with talent,
but not yet a team with identity, and they were
searching for answers.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
A very difficult day for coach Verry.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Put on the threshold here it gets put me the
job done.
Speaker 15 (26:20):
In the front.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Next time on a Patriots Super Bowl sound out to
see nineteen eighty five, the turning point, an injury, sparks,
a wind streak, and the beginning of a run that
would change everything.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
So the broken stacks. He's only two for nine of
the second half. As a personal if you love it,
good fire
What do you remember about the nineteen eighty five Patriots
forty years later? We're going back to tell the story
of the first Patriots team to make it to a
Super Bowl, A special team that blazed a pathway that
we much traveled over the next four decades. Here from
the players and coaches, as well as the sounds from
television and radio that defined the season, as we uncover
what made this a Patriots team to remember even if
they didn't win a Super Bowl championship.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Annihilating might be a better word. Sixty five more cuts
out doing with Chefy Burger's back.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
We're gonna throw a fire this one.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Come fire toutch down.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Then we move them touch Downhill.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Pair hooding player running it all away, Hood touchdown eighty
five yards, curving prior.
Speaker 6 (00:56):
Decent rolling out to the right side, avoiding the pressure.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Brook cuts down Win Duffham in the end zone.
Speaker 7 (01:04):
Six points.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Patrios shut down Hatprian Tony Culler at Grand have believe.
Speaker 8 (01:10):
I might do so.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And this is a Patriots Super Bowl sound Otyssey nineteen
eighty five, Episode three, Who are we hope?
Speaker 8 (01:17):
Crazy?
Speaker 9 (01:17):
Turn off for both these clubs that are trying to
get into the playoff picture.
Speaker 7 (01:21):
They're respectable last year. This year they're trying to turn
the corner.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
The nineteen eighty five Patriots came out of training camp
with belief. Head coach Raven Barry had built a team
that was detailed, focused and united. But belief only gets
you so far. They had to produce results on the field.
Speaker 7 (01:35):
On a beautiful fall.
Speaker 9 (01:36):
Sunday afternoon, Welcome to Sullivan Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts. Last year,
the Green Bay Packers finished second in their division UNFC
Central at eight and eighth for the Wingland Patriots also
a second AFC, He's nine and seven. This free season,
the Packers on Patriots both have identical records, up one
in three after suffering many injuries up front. The weather
conditions this afternoon absolutely perfect and I shouldn't have any
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effect on the ball game. Hello everybody, I'm Jim All
along with John Dappery and John The eighty five season
about to begin, new hopes and new expectations.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
September eighth, nineteen eighty five, the season began with the
Patriots facing the Green Bay Packers at Sullivan Stadium. With
Stanley Morgan out of the lineup, Cedric Jones would step
into a key role delivering the season's first receptions.
Speaker 7 (02:17):
It was back to pass throws some near side lines
and the rest complete.
Speaker 9 (02:22):
Pass was complete to secret Jones hucked out of bound by.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
Mark Lee and jams. To be obvious from the very
beginning of what both teams are going to do? Forrest
Big ran the ball three times? What does New England do?
They come out throwing right now. Raymond Berry's philosophy is
to use balance, get.
Speaker 9 (02:37):
The ball up field with his quarterback Tony Easton, so Brian's.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
You might be surprised to know that Tony Easton was
a third rated quarterback in the NFL last year, behind
such names as Marino and Montana.
Speaker 10 (02:48):
We weren't picked to be a great team that year.
You know, nobody thought that we would be the best
team in the AFC. Miami had a powerhouse with those guys.
The Jets were pretty good and the Raiders office see
we're good, but no. We started off the season against
Green Bay.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
The Patriots wasted little time getting off to an impressive start,
but Tony Easton making big plays through the air, easing back, going.
Speaker 9 (03:09):
Put the middle, He's eery fire fire gets lost first
down Patrios at the eleven yard line, turned off.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
To Tony Thomas back to the near sidelines. He's at
the ten.
Speaker 9 (03:24):
And eleven yard touchdown run by Tony Collinson. It was
absolutely off standing.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
The first drive of the season was a success and
showed the balance that the offense would have when they
were at their absolute best. But it was the defense
that flashed the most, racking up seven sacks, including three
each by Andre Tippett and Don Blackman.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
Third, Donald ten stopped by Andrey Pippin.
Speaker 9 (03:44):
Here boy as a Packers are not playing front.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
Of their bus football but a paypriot. All Harry is.
Speaker 9 (03:49):
Again Andrey Pippin wopping Vicky Bancke at about the.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
Ten yard line. The books is on safe before who
we went gone? What one? How it's good a gone?
Andred Tippett? Who comes in? And really black when Dicky?
Speaker 11 (04:07):
All right?
Speaker 9 (04:07):
Is my question? And Dickey is down? First pressure was
put in by Don Blackman. The Packers are frying the
good bye Blackman and again that such sacks that afternoon ball.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
In New England.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
After recording eighteen and a half sacks in nineteen eighty four,
Tippett was quickly on his way to sixteen and a
half in nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 12 (04:26):
We all complimented each other very well. And you know
it's like if I didn't get to you, Donnie was
gonna get to you. Donny didn't get to you, better,
dann Well know that you better get rid of that
ball or you better make the block, because I'm gonna
get to you.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
And I think we we we fed off of each other.
It was like Don Blackman and I, uh.
Speaker 12 (04:46):
We we looked at each other every game and we
were out there to knock the hell out of somebody.
Speaker 8 (04:53):
Rookie garn Verus picked up the first sack of his
career in his very first game.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
The Boys is gone and Vicky go down again.
Speaker 13 (05:02):
Because I mean I was kind of designated as a
pass rusher coming in on third and the mall situations
or passing situations, and you know, I still vividly remember
that game against Green Bay and my first quarterback sack
against Glenn Dickeye. And you know, I went back and
I've got the actual film, black and white film that
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the Patriots actually you know, took for games, and I
was able to get a copy of that, and that's
one of my most prized possessions my.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
First NFL sack, and it was an exciting time.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Packers quarterback Linn Dickey completed just fourteen to twenty nine
passes and was picked off once.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
It's the pass, rush and coverage perfectly blended together.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
The forsom in the secondary of Raymond Claiborne and Ronnie
Lapett at cornerback and Roland James and Fred Mariyan at
safety had played together for two years already, and we're
quickly becoming one of the most talented groups in the NFL.
Nineteen eighty three eighth round pick Lapet was the last
piece added to what will become a shutdown secondary.
Speaker 14 (06:00):
Played with me at the University of Miami, so we
kind of clicked already. I gee if I made a mistake,
So I was kind of cheating a little bit because
when I made a mistake, I knew Fred would back
me up. Fred to see everything, and Claybournes was super fast.
He ran flat foot fast. Now, if anyone knows anything
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about running running flat foot and be fast at it,
that is phenomenal. That is so hard to do, but
he every It was just amazing.
Speaker 15 (06:34):
And to see.
Speaker 14 (06:38):
Roland James, who my best friend up here. He was fantastic.
I saw him knocked down and pulling guard and I go, oh,
my goodness, this dude is only one hundred and ninety pounds.
He's knocking down, I'm pulling guard. I'm not doing that.
I'm just gonna cut him. I'll cut him. You know,
we had a good group of defensive backs and we
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hardly ever blitz. As amount of time we didn't blitz.
You know, we had the guys up front that can,
that can take care of business man.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
The experienced group of safeties and corners also paid dividends
in practice, challenging receivers like Cedric Jones in nineteen eighty
four first overall pick, Irving Fryar and helping them develop
into game changing players.
Speaker 16 (07:20):
Now going against Ronie and Raymond in practice. And then
Fred was just we call him the ranger. He ranged
back and forth back there in the secondary. Hugh was tremendous.
He was my roommate my rookie year, and we both
had twins.
Speaker 17 (07:32):
That year too.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
So he's just a special guy and special player, you know.
Speaker 16 (07:36):
Not the fastest, not the biggest, not the strongest, but
always in the right place, a very intelligent player, recognized
sets and just.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Had a great job on breaking to the football.
Speaker 18 (07:45):
So as a wing back in college, my one on
ones in practice were in a three point stance, blocking
down on defensive ends or blocking linebackers. My one on
ones in practice never at Nebraska were me stand up.
We even out split out running routes against the defensive back.
So the first time I had ever run a route
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against the defensive back standing up was my first day
in training camp.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
I had never done that before, and.
Speaker 18 (08:15):
Man, I got my behind quite a few times because
Raymond Clayborne and Ronny the pet those guys did not play.
They were great cornerbacks and I had to face them
every day. So it was a learning curve for me
that was pretty pretty long. It took me a minute
to get my feet up underneath me to learn how
to be a wide receiver.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
James again from running room you want to look out.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Craig james Is sixty five yard touchdown run midway through
the fourth quarter effectively put the game away, despite the
final two scores from Green Bay that made things look
more interesting than they were. The Pat's four lost fumbles
also added to it, but Tony Easton completed twenty one
to twenty eight passes.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
For two hundred and forty one yards.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Will the multi prong ground game piled up two hundred
and eight rushing yards, containing possession for nearly thirty seven minutes.
The four hundred and ten yards of total offense would
be the team's fourth highest output of the season, while
the two hundred and five yards allowed would be the
second lowest total. It was a total team win right
out of the gate. The Patriots were one to zero.
The next game will be a reality check.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
The new England takle a tip come to Chicago. Let
by that young quarterback Tony Hoaston for Illinois rising star,
but today he has to contend with the overpowering Chicago
Bear defense.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
September fifteenth, Week two, Soldier Field. The nineteen eighty five
Chicago Bears, the monsters of the Midway, who were in
the second week of what would be one of the
most dominant seasons in NFL history. But at this point
everyone was still finding out about Buddy Ryan's forty six defense.
Speaker 11 (09:41):
Oh well, the Bears have had a chip on their
defensive shoulder for among the last fifty years, but in
nineteen eighty four they terrorized the NFL with the league
record seventy two secs. Now the brains out of Buddy Ryan.
This defense is called a forty six. The New England
Patriots will have to face this about eighty percent of
the time today, and of course the Patriots last year
gave up sixty six and the offensive line has hurt.
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This is an awesome responsibility and challenge for the New
England Patriots offense.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
The Bears defense was suffocating. Easton was sacked six times
and through three interceptions while completing just fifteen to thirty
five passes. The Patriots managed just two hundred and six
yards and seven points behind a short handed offense without
John Hannah, Stanley Morgan, and Irving Fryar in the lineup.
Chicago scored on their first drive and then proceeded to
systematically dismantle the Patriots.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
They don't want to run the Cannons off in touchdown,
Chicago Bears make it happen fast covy two yard.
Speaker 11 (10:33):
Play DoD Craig Marian of the New England Batriot Chad
the coverage at half roll by Jim McMahon. This is
bad news for the Patriots, already cutting the shot.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Gut at third and eight, and Eaton does very well
just to go down before he gets hit with a
head on shot from Singletary. Here comes Jesse Craig James,
and the Bears.
Speaker 15 (10:52):
Aren't gonna give him a thing.
Speaker 19 (10:53):
They're gonna give him.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
About a five yard deficit.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Easton gets time he had an accepted defens with his
thirty second career interception.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
For a second time, that was Singletary coming on the
blizz single.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Perry Ethan has a plenty on a single, Jarry takes
it down to the sixteen.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Yard line, Aasid's third interception today.
Speaker 11 (11:20):
The performance by the Chicago Bear offense and defense. The
offense was not spectacular, It was functional with about.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Three or four big plays all day long.
Speaker 11 (11:29):
It was totally the Chicago Bear defense just stifling, absolutely
stifling the New England Patriots.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
It would be the Patriots' scond lowest offensive output of
the entire nineteen eighty five season, only to be topped
by the rematch against the Bears in the Super Bowl.
The eighty five Bears were unstoppable for everyone but Dann
Marino and the Dolphins, and Ronnie Lapett got a lesson
in trying to lay a hit on a refrigerator one time.
Speaker 14 (11:51):
I hit refrigerated Perry in the thumb as hard as
I could. He didn't fill a thing. I'm backed up then,
but the home guy coming groundling. I try to pretend
that I was going to jump over the bank.
Speaker 17 (12:03):
You know, I'll get you.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
I'll get you.
Speaker 14 (12:05):
I'm like, please, miss stay right.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
There no parts of this guy, but there was one
Patriots play to remember, as Craig James took a dump
off pass from Easton ninety yards for a touchdown in
the fourth quarter that at least got the Patriots on
the scoreboard lead.
Speaker 20 (12:18):
Richard Den I have become friends with and been around
more than when we played, and I he always give
me a hard time. I said, yeah, but Richard, it
seems like I still remember that. I think I own
the Soldier Field's longest past reception touchdown in the history.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Ninety yards is still in the game.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Still pitch it a lops run down field as a
man up and go to the James is dynad lot.
That was gonna be a touchdown for the Patriots. Ninety
yards and the Patriots are in the end zone. James
beat the linebacker and Tony Easton standing in against it,
all out.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Rush, close up, perfect ball.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So the Patriots finally explode and get on the board
a ninety yard play.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Final score Bears twenty Patriots seven. The Patriots were one
and one, but Barry didn't panic.
Speaker 21 (13:03):
Well, what a great story Raymond Berry, what a great
talk we had last night with him, as he took
over an hour with his Bob just to kind of
share his thoughts about the team. Said, it was a
pleasure to coach this team, and a team in the
large part is a reflection of their coach, and that's
the Indian Patriots.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
In nineteen eighty five, Week three, Patriots stayed on the
road for a second straight week to face their divisional rivals,
the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
It was a rock fight, ugly, physical and close.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
New England took a ten to seven lead into the
locker room at halftime as Barry's offense dug into their
bag of tricks and had running back Craig James throw
a five yard touchdown to take the lead before the break,
and again James.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
To throw to Tony Collins touchdown.
Speaker 21 (13:43):
Well, just when you think it's predictable, it's unpredictable.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
A great call by that man. Raymond Berry a run
pass half.
Speaker 20 (13:50):
That pass was amazing because it forced if I'm back
to you at tailback and they would give me that
and I ran it in college. I threw a bunch
as well. It forced the safety just to pause, are
the corner coming up? Is he gonna throw it? Or
is he going to run this thing? And it just
gave me just a little bit of an edge.
Speaker 8 (14:07):
Back in the lineup.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
After missing the Bear's game, Irving Friar, who put the
game away early in the third quarter with an eighty
five yard punt return, his first of two touchdown returns
that would help send the nineteen eighty four number one
overall pick to his first Pro Bowl and also earn
him a second team All Pro nod.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Friar at the fifteen.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Gets the flu get away out runs kid he could
go a touchdown, Burving Friar an eighty five yard touchdown return.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Special teams coordinator Dante Scarnekia helped Friar make a monstrous
second year lead.
Speaker 17 (14:43):
We could make plays in a variety of ways. Irving
Fire was an unbelievable punt returner. Led the league in
punt returns. Tony Franklin and Rich Camio were great kickers,
and our coverage given us were really really good because
we he had a lot of special teams players that
knew the rules and bought in. It just seems like
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it came from everywhere.
Speaker 21 (15:07):
Right now, Raymond Berry wants to get out of here
with a win. He's played a team that's been very
fired up. They've played extremely well today, meaning the Buffalo team,
but of course so has.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
The New England Patriots.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
The New England Patriots have extended their winning streak over
the Buffalo Bills to six games.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Final score Patriots seventeen, Bills fourteen. At two and one,
the Patriots were finding ways to win, even if for
the second week in a row, they produced just two
hundred yards of total offense. The next two weeks would
test the result for the Patriots.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
It is the first full season for new head coach
Raymond Berry, which means a new system, new terminology, and
there are some who are saying that Barry is just
too conservative.
Speaker 19 (15:45):
There's no question I think he knows he's been too conservative.
The other problem has been Tony Eathan a little bit
too erratic. He needs to get back in gear.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
September twenty ninth, Week four, the Patriots returned to Foxborough
to face the Los Angeles Raiders.
Speaker 8 (15:57):
With their rivalry nearly a decade old.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
The Raiders have had the problems of the state of Massachusetts.
In fact, they are zero to two here in Foxboro.
I know this is not one of your favorite places
to play.
Speaker 19 (16:08):
Exactly in nineteen seventy six the Raiders were here, lost
only one game all year, forty eight to seventeen against
the Patch Right here, tough stadium to play in.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
The Raiders were without starting quarterback Jim Plunkett, subbing in
back up Mark Wilson. It was a preview of the
eventual AFC Divisional playoff game to come, and the offensive
fireworks began in the first quarter. The Patriots turnover forcing
defense struck on the very first pass of the game.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Mark Wilson replacing the injured Jim Plunkett, with Alan and
the Hawkins at the running backs and Wilson throwing on
first off, Cick Bob ronny Lip going right to work
have a Patriots.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Well picked over.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
New England took a three zero lead thanks to the pick,
but on their next possession, a Tony Easton interception would
hand the lead back to the Raiders.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Ada's quicked off the Western Hoes.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Wilson for twenty six way Easton.
Speaker 19 (17:01):
Is trying to get the ball to number eighty Irving
Fryar on a little down and out. I'm hitted by
Elvi's throw because hey, man and man coverage is looking
back the entire way steps in front.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
Ball was a little bit behind him.
Speaker 19 (17:13):
Brook quarterbacks having problems starting off on their first couple
of serials.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Undeterred, Eason would bounce back, hitting Friar for a forty
yard touchdown.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
As the two AFC rivals traded body blows.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
As out of the shotgun, stepping up Arving fire on
a forty yard pass player longest career reception for Irving Fryar,
a forty yard pass play his second career TV of
the NFL. The ran on head out of Buck.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Last week, but the Raiders answered again, this time with
a thirty eight yard pass that made the score fourteen
ten Raiders.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
After the first quarter, Wilson.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
With time right, so man right off up Stokey Ways
touch side Donkey Williams, leaving Runny Lippett behind. I have
a Raider recapture of the lead, and what has been
from that explosive first quarter.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
In the second quarter, the Patriots drew within one point
on a Tony Franklin field goal. Then the defense would
come through again, with Andre Tippett recovering a botched punt
snap and taking it to the house for his first
of only two touchdowns in his career.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
That the Patriots, we got to the lovely, lovely stop
look up.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Cook by.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
The karate kid did not need any martial arts maneuvers to.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Pick up us wall.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
That felt good.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
That was my I think that was my first. I
think I only got two touchdowns in my whole career.
I mean, I've never you know, I.
Speaker 12 (18:39):
Can't do everything. Sad touchdowns and the guys got a
ton of tackles, but you know, it's just being around
the football and and uh turnover was again.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Special teams coach Dante Scarnecki's unit was starting to stack
weekly game changing plays.
Speaker 17 (18:53):
We had a real knack for knocking the ball out
of returners and getting fumbos and then I'm I think
I don't even remember as like four or five occasions
were able to return them for touchdowns, so you know,
they were just really you know, it was a special
group of guys. But you know that's and you need
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when you if you have a good football team, you
need to be good at offense, defense, and special teams,
and we were certainly good in all three of those areas.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
The Patriots led twenty to fourteen at halftime, but the
second half was all Raiders unchar.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
Have the laiders of score what to be lyle alzando.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
Let's touchdown.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Tom Krusty said he was able to catch him back
of the ends.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Alt Apple Raders do gabble and succeed.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
With the big play, and this time it is quick
up Sam sr Bernie seven yard touchdown off the interception,
and he's some throwing on the roun.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
It's getting worse for Tony Easton, Jeff Park able to
pick it on. There are times when.
Speaker 19 (20:05):
You have to admit that the game is over and
admit the laws, take your man out of there and
let somebody else come in.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
This is a tough situation. I've been through some of these,
and I'll tell you when.
Speaker 19 (20:15):
The coach took me out, I was glad of it.
Let the other guy go in and get.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
His brains beat out.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Three of the patriots four turnovers led directly to touchdowns
as the Raiders roll thirty five to twenty, evening the
Patriots season record at two and two.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Time has run out the New England Patriots. So the
Raiders with a bounce back victory following the clubbing at
the hands of the forty nine ers last week, I
have turned it to defeat the Patriots by the score
of thirty five to twenty.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
Things would bought him out the next week in Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Raymond Barry, in his first four years head coach of
the New England Patriots, finding good so many first year
coaches find in this league, Bob, and that is it
is tough to win, and.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Sometimes you're not in control of your own death.
Speaker 15 (20:57):
And he fail.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
That's what's the tough part.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
About coaching sixth Cleveland Municipal Stadium. Patriots are coming off
a tough loss and needed to get back on course
that the Browns had other plans.
Speaker 15 (21:09):
Please down.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Patriots got an early boost on another special team's score
when Johnny Rembert recovered a fumble in the end zone,
but it was another up and down effort from Easton,
who threw for over three hundred yards for the only
time in the nineteen eighty five season, but also through
another interception to give him a league leading nine through
the first five games of the season, and took two
more sacks for a lead leading fifteen in five games.
Speaker 7 (21:29):
Stwin Williams in motion.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Lights are down everywhere and saw as Tony Eeson, Oh
was he's stuck by chip bank Still.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
The Bats took the lead in the third quarter on
a twenty two yard touchdown strike to Stanley Morgan, who's.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Got the foot balls got by?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
What a catch?
Speaker 7 (21:48):
What that catch?
Speaker 4 (21:50):
He took a hit And I don't believe what concentration
the ball was. People like me following the bow?
Speaker 7 (21:58):
What got h Yeah, he comes out of the ball.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
That is a pressure cut.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
They couldn't maintain it, allowing to go ahead touchdown by
the Browns in the fourth quarter. The Patriots had one
final chance to pull out the win, driving late in
the fourth quarter into Cleveland territory with the game coming
down to a final fourth and three.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Tony Easton had had wide up the real estate and
fut up here you see play Matthew's trailing the receiver.
I'm tucking his say he just enough to make it
a very difficult catch, and he couldn't get it done
with the play before this, Tony Easton had third down
the second out of three years ago. She had at
least ten yards and foot in field and fire, and
she looked lone as.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Bad as coming on high on foot down and three
with a minute forty nine to play with.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
All the marbles, Big Paddy, Carl Harrison, the oldest talking
them all, makes the big play. Bill Carl Harriston's tenth
year bust of his career has been at Philadelphia, makes
the playoff there on this long day in Cleveland, Ohio.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Now for the Patriots, you can again go back to
what is like this team ever since the regular season began.
For the most part, five of that is a lack
of being able to move the ball on a consistent basis.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
It was the second straight loss with turnovers, again playing
a central role. At two and three. Andre Tippet had
seen enough.
Speaker 12 (23:20):
I freaked out in the Cleveland game because I looked
around because it looked like everybody was just it was
just a casual butt kicking. Yeah, there's no big and
I'm like, no, we all should be pisched. You you
should be upset, you should be shaming yourselves. And I
freaked out I freaked. I taught the Cleveland Municipal Stadium.
(23:42):
They had wooden lockers.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
I punched kicked five or six lockers.
Speaker 12 (23:48):
I don't know what kind of bill they may have
sent Pat Sullivan for the damage that I caused in there, but.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
I did it, and I freaked out, and and and and.
Speaker 12 (23:58):
It was a control freak out because I was just like,
we're a better football team than this.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Shame on us for going out there playing the way
we did.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
But Tippet's freak out was a welcome one by Ronnie Lapat.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
I got out of the way. You threw this chair
or whatever.
Speaker 14 (24:12):
Heck, he threw his fuck in the ground, Like, oh
my god, man, this is what I'm used to at
the University of Miami, you know, and this is something
that we needed to get going. It was like this,
Oh I remember coming from the University of Miami.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
When we would lose.
Speaker 14 (24:31):
You better have some emotions on your face. You better
be sad, you better be disappointed in yourself.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
You better have all of that.
Speaker 14 (24:39):
And when I got there, we didn't have that.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
And it took Andre to just get us going.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
With enough of the other guys, even the GM Patrick
Sullivan took note of the postgame locker room as Tippet's
tirade was a potential turning point.
Speaker 15 (24:52):
I was not in the room at that point in time,
but I understand that it was a little bit more
than a raw ros speech. It was some furniture lying
and stuff like that, you know, and as you say,
you know, yeah, yeah, Andre Tippett is absolutely.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
One of the great gentlemen you'd ever meet.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
But boy, who would not get the wrong side of him.
Speaker 12 (25:11):
I just kind of aired the room, you know. I
think I may have said what a lot of people
were thinking. And people were like, man, I ain't never
seen you like that. I mean, you said some things
and did some things in there, and nobody said anything
in the locker room, and it was just like after
the game, everybody kind of like sat there and they
were like.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
Wow, what's going on here? Bill, Well, let's be fucking
the coving down here.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
A lot of frust persons coming out.
Speaker 15 (25:37):
Now.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
You can't believe us.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
You'd almost think the.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
AFC Championship was at stake. There's no time remaining. This
ball game is over.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
If I'll tell you what, the picture's going to be
a little bit careful and I know they're frust ready,
but it wouldn't take too much gets over these dogs
out of the stands down there on the field.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
That final scorer, the Cleveland Browns twenty four, the New
England Patriots twenty and in the last four minutes of
this game, and the Patriots had not one chance to
win it, two outstanding opportunities to possibly win this ball game.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
The Patriots were at a crossroad after two straight losses.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
They were a team with potential, a team with talent,
but not yet a team with identity, and they were
searching for answers.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
A very difficult day for coach Verry.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Put on the threshold here it gets put me the
job done.
Speaker 15 (26:20):
In the front.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Next time on a Patriots Super Bowl sound out to
see nineteen eighty five, the turning point, an injury, sparks,
a wind streak, and the beginning of a run that
would change everything.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
So the broken stacks. He's only two for nine of
the second half. As a personal if you love it,
good fire
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