February 18, 2025 • 52 mins
Dominance. That’s the only way to describe New England’s 14-2 campaign. The Patriots set an NFL record with their 21st consecutive win, steamrolled opponents, and proved they could win in any way necessary. But even dynasties have their hiccups, including a humbling loss to the Steelers and a shocking late-season stumble against Miami. Still, through every challenge, the Patriots never lost sight of their ultimate goal.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What do you remember about the two thousand and four Patriots?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
And the Patriots are world champions?
Speaker 3 (00:04):
I am After winning two championships in three seasons, The
Patriots third Super Bowl win in two thousand and four
cemented their.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Place as the NFL's dynasty at the new millennium.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Back to back world championships three out of four.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Now twenty years later, we're going back for our third
and final chapter, recapture how the greatest Patriots team of
the two thousands came together and reigned supreme.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yes it's a dynasty.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
This is a Patriots super Bowl sound odyssey.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yes it's a dynasty. Episode two. The regular season. After
reloading during the spring and summer, the Patriots were poised
to embark on the two thousand and four season already
carrying a fifteen game win streak that dated back to
late September of two thousand and three.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Dynasty and that's the goal of the Patriots this season,
who last year started two and two then ran the
table through the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
They haven't lost a.
Speaker 6 (00:50):
Game since the fourth week of the.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Two thousand and three season.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
If anything, they have more talent with the addition this
season of running back Corey Dillon.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
The Patriots raised their second banner on thirdday, September ninth,
with their arch rivals Peyton Manning and Indianapolis Colts looking
to spoil the party.
Speaker 7 (01:05):
Patriots and Colts.
Speaker 8 (01:06):
What a way to kick off the two thousand and
four regular season.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Pats were fresh off a win over the Colts in
the AFC Championship the previous January, but now in ideal conditions,
they still had plenty to prove against the high powered
offense that could only be contained for so long.
Speaker 8 (01:21):
In this case, the Patriots say, oh, we got their number,
and it's a psychological edge for a while.
Speaker 7 (01:27):
But it's always a possibility.
Speaker 8 (01:29):
That the other team can return that and take over,
and that's what you have to be concerned about. But
usually the team that plays the best will win, and
the past the Patriots, I do believe we're playing the
best football and they have been proving that over the
period of time.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Matt Patricia, offensive assistant.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
We're getting ready for the game. And one of the
things that was amazing to.
Speaker 9 (01:51):
Me right away in my first year in the NFL
was just Bill teaching the team situation football situations.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Situations no one I had never I know it's common now.
Speaker 9 (02:00):
I think the secret kind of got out a little bit,
but no one was doing that back then. Like he
was just the detail and how to play situational football.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
And our guys ate it up.
Speaker 10 (02:09):
Alos on a one yard line half to distant to
the goal, they get penalized two inches.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
So why not try to draw you guys offside? Right,
that's the cheapest five yards they can get.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
That's the situation.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
They're backed up.
Speaker 11 (02:21):
You got to be ready for a hard cadence that
gets them off.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
The goal line. All right, they miss it. What they
got to lose?
Speaker 12 (02:27):
Nothing?
Speaker 10 (02:27):
Two inches?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
They're on a one yard line anyway.
Speaker 9 (02:30):
Okay, So we were doing that all week and we're
in the meeting and we're getting ready for a team meeting,
and I'm telling you, we walk in it's like probably
the day before the game, and on our chairs is
you know is how long ago it was.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
But we had these giant CDs, like really nice.
Speaker 9 (02:45):
It's all signed by Ozzy Osmoren and I'm like, I
love Ozzy osmore.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
And this is really cool. And I'm telling you.
Speaker 9 (02:51):
Bill comes in to start the meeting and he's going
through stuff, and the doors to the back room opens
up and Ozzie walks into our meeting and you could
see all the players, well, couldn't really see him, and
you can see all the players like, oh my god,
that's Oi Aslen and just shuffled into our room.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
And he totally was confused. And I don't know if
you get it on purpose or not. And Bill, do
you even know what was going on? And also he
looks and he's like, you know, some.
Speaker 9 (03:12):
Dude in the corner, and he shuffles back out and
we're like, Ozi Alagon.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Just totally broke into our meeting room right now. It
was like the most amazing thing ever.
Speaker 13 (03:20):
Bracy Trade the Patriots traditional and trans at them.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Nick Fitzie Stevens, Patriots fan and personality.
Speaker 14 (03:33):
You're coming off of defeating Peyton Manning in the AFC Championship,
Tylaw having his way with Peyton Manning, but opening the
season after you win your second Super Bowl in the
NFL says, Okay, if you really mean this, you're gonna
have to go through the Colts, the team we thought
was going to be the gold standard of the AFC.
Once again, this an opener. After you raise your second
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banner Indianapolis, the Colts, Peyton Manning Brady this right here, truly.
He cemented that Brady Manning was to be the rivalry,
the matchup for the first decade and then some of
the NFL in the twenty first century.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
Second down Brady play action, fake lookie fires, end zone touchdown,
Leon Branch a bullet from Brady to Branch.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
It was a back and forth game through the first half,
with Indy taking a seventeen to thirteen lead into the
locker room.
Speaker 15 (04:23):
At the break.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Bonnie pass from the snap, the ball down, the kick
is up, the kick is on the way, the dick
is right down the pipe. And a tremendous first half
is over. Is Adam Vinit Terry pomps a forty three
yard field goal through.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
In the third, Tom Brady hit David Patton with a
twenty five yard touchdown.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Brady straight back to throw looks, goes to the.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
End zone, up and touchdown David Patton, and then Daniel
Graham with an eight yard touchdown to give the Patriots
a ten point lead.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
Brady on second down, play action, fake looks, floats, end
zone touchdowns, Tom Brady touchdown with Daniel brim He has
been spectacular.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
What a great throw.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
And he would close within three points after a fourth
quarter Brandon Stokely touchdown.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
Third and goal Indianapolis, Manning calling signals, play action, fires
to the end zones, caught touchdown.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
And then string together a game ending drive that stalled
out at the Patriot twenty nine yard line thanks to
Willie McGinnis sack.
Speaker 7 (05:20):
Manning out of a shotgun, takes the snap. Here's the
rush by Willie McGuinness. He shacks him back up the
thirty yard ut.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Colts kicker Mike vander Jack, who had hit forty two
straight field goals, confidently rubbed his fingers together in a
money sign as he walked on the field to attempt
a game tying forty eight yard field goal.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Wall is in the middle of the field to snap
the ball down. The kick is up, the kick is
on the way, and.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
The kick is no good, No God, no good.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
Vander Jacks forty two straight field goals.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
He's broken.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
Hey misses with nineteen seconds left, and the Super Bowl
champs will make it sixteen wins in a row.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Just like that. The Pats were off on their two
thousand and four season and already had a game in
hand over an opponent they were sure to see again
down the road.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
The defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots hang on
and beat the Indianapolis Colton again, twenty seven to twenty four,
make it sixteen wins in a row for the Patriots.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Nick Fitzi Stevens Patriots fan and personality.
Speaker 14 (06:22):
First things first, you gotta know you do not taunt
or troll Patriots fans. Doing the money sign and then
missing the kick at the end of the game like
that is one of the sneaky, great memorable moments of
the Brady Manning rivalry. Pats coltson at Gillette Stadium just awesome,
What a great way to begin the season.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Paul Parrillo, Patriots Football Weekly.
Speaker 16 (06:45):
That was a great game, and I don't think that's
one that gets talked about as much as some other ones.
You know, Listen, Peyton Manning's a punching bag in New England. Still,
even though he won a couple of titles and whatnot,
it was people still I think dismiss him as not
being on Brady's level, and I think I think that's
unfair to him. Those Colts teams were really good, and
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the Patriots were really good, and that game, that opening
game in two two thousand and four. You realize that
that's the difference between hosting and not, you know, and
that was let's just look at it. When Manning hosted
the games in the playoffs against the Patriots, he won
three times. When the Patriots hosted, they won when Brady
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got to be at home, So at least they should
have gotten to overtime. But a terrific way to start
the season.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
And we two.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
The Patriots traveled to Arizona, where Corey Dlon broke out
and send a message to the rest of the NFL
that last year's chance had gotten even better.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Running back is Dylan First and ten Arizona, twenty five.
Brady brings Gibbons in motion. It's a hamboff coming to
Dylan to the left. He's not with the twenty five
yard line, Philip fifteen yard line, that a twelve will
be eleven yard line. Corey Dylon, beautiful piece of running.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Dylan talied one hundred and fifty eight rushing on thirty
two carries, and the Pats rolled twenty three to twelve for.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
The final score in New England. Patriots seventeenth win in
a row, twenty three to twelve over Arizona.
Speaker 15 (08:09):
Ivan Fears, running backs coach.
Speaker 17 (08:11):
I mean, he made plays in each one of the
games he played in. I mean, the whole idea was
not the thirty two that was a little bit more
than we wanted to do, really was. I mean, but
every time we every time we get going and he'd
make a play or two, and he'd be in the
middle of a drive and then he'd be getting a
little tired, and I'd be wanting to get them out
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Charlie or Bill by yelling where's Corey, where's the bat?
He's on the sideline with me. I'm going yo, he
needs a blow. But he was he was very good
at dealing with that kind of stuff, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 15 (08:50):
Jim Niggy, executive director of the Senior Boy.
Speaker 18 (08:52):
That was really unique to that team is that they
didn't rest on the previous year. They did a really
good job of putting two thousand and three in the
rear view. So credit to those coaches and players that
they kind of turned the page and they were focused
on two thousand and four for that two thousand and
four season.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
But yeah, it you are.
Speaker 18 (09:10):
You're heavily invested, you know, when my typical routine that year,
I would go to a I'd find a sports bar
in whatever college town I was in and watched the
Pats game. This is back when you know it was
you had the Sunday ticket, but you couldn't really get
it at the house, so you had to go to
a sports bar and I would I would bring a
stack of thank you notes, and I would write thank
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you notes to all the people I met with at
the schools that week, whether it was the strength coach
or the trainer, position coaches, coordinators, whatever it might be.
And I just sit there and write my thank you
notes and watch the Pats. And usually those were Those
were pretty fun Sundays.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
The Pats stayed on the road for a familiar opponent
with a familiar quarterback in Week three, traveling to Buffalo
to face Drew Bledsoe and the Bills.
Speaker 19 (09:52):
Drew Bletsoe against his old teammate and old team Tom
Brady and the Pats.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Unlike the two thousand and three opener, the Pats took
it to the Bills, putting the game away in the
fourth quarter with two scores, including a sixty eight yard
fumble return by Richard Seymour that.
Speaker 15 (10:05):
Iced the game.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
Let'shell calling signals fourth down, Let's sell play action.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Gotta be hit.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Suck Coombo faul is loose, picked up by Richard Seymour
for forty forty five left sideline. Fifty forty five forty
down the left sideline, Richard Seymour goes the destance touchdown.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Patriots.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
With the win, New England became the fourth team in
NFL history to win eighteen straight games.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
So the New England Patriots have tied the National Football
League record hell by the Chicago Bears of nineteen thirty three,
thirty four and forty one forty two, the Miami Dolphins
of seventy two seventy three, the forty nine Ers of
eighty nine and ninety the Broncos of ninety seven and
ninety eight. The Patriots become the first team in the
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twenty first century to win eighteen games in a row.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Home wins over the Dolphins and Seahawks followed. Despite the
versatile kicking talents of future Patriot Wes Welker, who made
an extra point and a twenty nine yard field goal
in his team's twenty four to ten loss to the Pats.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
And Wes Welker will attempt his first National Football League
field goal. The kick will come from the nineteen. It's
a twenty nine yard attempt for Welker, left footed kicker.
The ball is down, the kick is up, and the
kick is good. So Welker hits a twenty nine yard
field goal, coming in to do the place kicking because
of the injury to will Linda Maurray.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
The win was New england nineteenth straight, setting a new
league record.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Rady will take the final snap and the game will
come to an end and the Patriots improved to four
and zero. The Dolphins fall to zero to five. The
Patriots have won nineteen consecutive football games, a new National
Football League record and one that I agree with Gino
could be a long time in being broken.
Speaker 12 (11:47):
How fit about that.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Gavo roll against the Seahawks, they log their twenty straight
win and that.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Is the ballgame. The New England Patriots have won twenty
games in a row, extending their record. Their National Football
League record of most consecutive victories.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Over two seasons.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
Twenty in a row for the Patriots, five in a
row this season, seventeen regular season wins over the last
two years, that ties the record for most regular season
wins in succession. The Patriots, for the second time in
their history, are five and zero to start a season.
The last time was nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Just as their crosstown baseball team is getting ready to
embark on an impossible comeback of their own arties in.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
A deep right field, Patty ship Field, We'll see.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
You later tonight, Nick Fitzi Stevens, Patriots fan and personality.
Speaker 14 (12:40):
The fall of two thousand and four for a Boston
sports fan may have been the absolute emotional apex of
our existence. Like it may not have ever been much
better than the Pats coming off a Super Bowl win
being an absolute wagon looking like a shoe win for
at least an AFC championship, if not another return to
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the Big Game again, possibly winning back to back Super Bowls.
And on top of it, the Red Sox are awesome
and they ultimately not only get back to the Alcs,
but complete the greatest comeback and turn around in Major
League Baseball history, going through the Evil Empire to finally
reverse the curse. This was like being a child and
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having your parents take you to toys r us letting
you go on a shopping spree and then saying, Hey,
you know what, why don't we hit child World on
the way home.
Speaker 20 (13:31):
For one old pitch?
Speaker 7 (13:33):
Why you're ground ball to second base? Packy Reece has it.
Speaker 16 (13:37):
They throw us the first and the Red Sox have
won the American.
Speaker 19 (13:39):
L tennant Hem Bowling embry Alma Mile the Boston Red Sox.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
They have Paul the creative pectoring in team history.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
While the Red Sox were headed to the World Series,
the Patriots welcome their own New York rivals, the Jets.
New York shared the same five to zero record that
the Patriots had, and the low scoring competitive game lived
up to the hype, with the Patriots goal lines preserving
a thirteen to seven win that extended their record to
twenty one straight wins.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
Fourth down nine for the Jets, with the Patriot thirty alone,
running back his soul back to throw as Pennington, here's
the rush. He fires down field and it is broken up,
battled away.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
By Rodney Harrison.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Play had no chance and the crowd at Foxboro give
being the Patriots a tremendous ovation as they make their
twenty first make the New York Jets their twenty first
consecutive victim and their eighteenth regular season victory in a row,
breaking the NFL record. Trady takes the knee close to
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the ground and that's set. Ball game is over.
Speaker 12 (14:41):
Fory Dylan, University of Wantington.
Speaker 21 (14:43):
That was the theme. Man, we can win in so
many ways. There's been times like during that four season
where we start off in five wides, we're not even
running the ball. We'll go a whole two series we
don't even run the ball. I just think that was
the scheming of Charlie Wise. He he was a genius
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in running at running that offense man, and dude, it
was I felt like, you know what, I was a closer,
you know in those grindy games like you need those
tough yards. That's where I showed up and showed up big.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
Ready to hand off to Corey Dillon coming right up
the middle of the crossing twenty five across the thirty
p's across the thirty five, forty forty five past to
that bield cuts up back to the right cut time
from behind, I thought, jet forty yard line. Corey Dillon
breaks up back, went on from his own fifteen yard line,
e Racers forty five yards Patriots first down making a
forty eight yard run for Corey Dillon.
Speaker 12 (15:41):
Teddy Bruski Arizona.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 22 (15:42):
I think especially during that twenty one game win streak
that was there, you really learn to suppress success. And
that sucks really to do that, because you really don't
live in your successes basically until you retire, you know,
And I think that's what what truly great players and
teams and professionals do is you never focus on any
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type of championship or accomplishment that you've ever had until
you've been retired and you can finally look back and say.
Speaker 12 (16:11):
Man, we were pretty good.
Speaker 22 (16:13):
You know we were, but we just didn't do that.
We didn't do that in terms of we learned about
one and the mentality we had in two three, the
winning that we had, and then realizing that putting every
victory behind us, even if it was a Super Bowl,
really prepared for a Super Bowl like it was a
regular season game or vice versa. You know, I think
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you start to learn how to do that, and you know,
it's a tough way to live. You know, it's a
tough way to live and not appreciate your success in
the moment, but it's something you have to do if
you want to keep winning.
Speaker 10 (16:45):
We never thought of last season as winning fifteen in
a row. We thought of it as winning one in
a row fifteen times.
Speaker 15 (16:52):
I have in fears running backs.
Speaker 17 (16:54):
Coach Well, I thought that was basically a bill. Bill
had a way of telling the team what is gonna
take to win the game and then showing it to
him in the meetings. And it took a little longer
in the meetings than you would, you know, normally, but
you like, but I he got the point across. And
as a team, the guys that we had, the character
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of the guys we had, they really bought into that
and they would they could see, they could vision how
it would what it would take to win the game.
I mean, it was it. It was just ex It
was exciting to be a part of that because they
went into each game sort of ready for what's gonna happen,
and no matter what happened, I think they believed themselves.
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They just had a they had this thing about 'em.
You know, they they knew what it takes to win. Yeah,
and it's never gonna be easy. But as long as
we don't give the opponent the game, we had.
Speaker 15 (17:45):
A chance Adam Vinitterry Kicker.
Speaker 23 (17:49):
Those years were fun. They were just so much fun
cause we expected to meet everybody all the time. And
I don't know if that that's not an arrogance. It's
just a confidence that we had in the locker room
that we knew that the guys that we had like, hey,
if we play well, we execute Bill's game plan, we're
going to win. You know, we didn't win every single time,
but we want most of the time.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
You Red Sox fans have wonder here.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
The Boston Red Socks are world champions.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Just as the Red Sox were winning their first World
Series in eighty six years and breaking Babe Ruth's curse,
the Patriots were about to end the streak of their own,
but in a bad way. Matt Patricia, offensive assistant.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
We're at Pittsburgh.
Speaker 9 (18:28):
It's Halloween, and again I'm on the field and I'm
checking numbers like that's my job. So I'm checking pregame
numbers or out there stretching just to see who's out
there and all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Pittsburgh always had a you.
Speaker 9 (18:37):
Know, and they had one of their players defensively that
like to he liked to chirp, and he liked to
talk and he'd like to yell at the other team,
and you know, it's great player for him, you know,
a great player. I've got a lot of respect for him.
But like, you know, here I am nobody. I'm trying
to check numbers. She starts like yelling at me. He's like,
what are you doing? What are you checking?
Speaker 24 (18:53):
You know?
Speaker 9 (18:53):
And he's like, you know, he's just coming at I
was like why, I'm looking around, like what I mean,
like trying to timidate me.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Ray, I'm not playing, like you know, I don't, you know.
Speaker 25 (19:02):
And he's just talking, talking, talking, And all of a sudden,
this giant hand comes up over my shoulder, grabs me
and pulls me back, and it was Willie Mack and
I love Willie mcguinnis is I love Willie McGuinness.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
He pulls me out of the way and he just
starts going. He's like yelling over at their side.
Speaker 9 (19:19):
He's like, why don't you just shut and he's like going,
And then like Willie Mack was like a dude, this
guy like you did not mess with Willie And.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Everything got real quiet on their side, you know.
Speaker 9 (19:28):
So that was like my one hundred percent of one
of my memories from that game was Wally like saving
me and coming to my rescue.
Speaker 11 (19:34):
Footnote here. Tom Brady will go today without Corey Dillon
deactivated after suffering a thigh injury practice on Thursday. Originally
listed as probable, he got worse every day, downgraded the.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Doubtful coming in. Now they have deactivating Kevin Fulp will
be the back for the Patriots.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Without Corey Dillon and Deon Branch, New England's offense was
without two of their most important pieces. The defense would
take a hit of their own in the game, as
ty Law went down with an injury that would cost
him the rest of the season.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
Rider, the fullback is in motion to the left Roethlisberger
play action gets hit justin he gets rid of the ball.
It is caught on a diving grab and going down.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
At the forty eight yard line.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
After the reception is hinz War and ty Law goes
limping off the field.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Adding to the mounting injuries in the secondary that will
call for desperate measures.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Yeah, ty Laws turned and when he turned, he's slipped
and something gave in his leg.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
He's hopping off on one leg. Now he's down on
his knees, and he's asking for assistance from the medical staff.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Steelers raced out to a twenty four to three lead
and route to a thirty four to twenty victory that
ended the Patriots twenty one game winning street.
Speaker 19 (20:40):
To Pittsburgh Steelers head ended in Bill Cower Squad twenty
one guns put a. Patriots had amazing record breaking right,
but it comes to a close on Halloween, on the
night that it might have been Game seven for the
Red Sox at Fenway.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Can't have it all.
Speaker 19 (20:57):
The Steelers beat the Patriots thirty four to twenty.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
For the first time since Week four of the two
thousand and three season. New England Patriots lost a game.
Jim Niggy, executive director of the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 18 (21:09):
Well, the Pittsburgh one did just because you were playing
Ben Roethlisberger. And I scouted in the year before in Miami, Ohio,
and so I was just really curious what that would
look like because I love Ben Roethlisberger the player when
he was coming out, and they you know, they didn't
load him up, they didn't they didn't ask a lot
of bet on that football team. You know, they they
ran the football and played really good defense.
Speaker 12 (21:29):
But I was just curious.
Speaker 18 (21:30):
And then they came out and they took it to us,
you know, kind of hammered us that game.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
Second and goal to goal with the Patriot four first
to the near side, right back to throw Roethlisberger's fires
left and it is pat touchdown caught on the fire
side of the bio by Plack.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Schick Oberrows Scott Poli, Patriots director of player personnel.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
You know when that happened, did it sucked?
Speaker 21 (21:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (21:55):
It sucked, But you know, it's.
Speaker 13 (21:58):
One game, and if you let things either if you
put too much significance or too much pain into one
game in either direction.
Speaker 12 (22:10):
It gets you distracted.
Speaker 26 (22:11):
It sucked, But you know, Tommy used to have the
same It's one of my favorite sayings of his, Like
after he threw a bad ball or had a bad game.
I remember you say, Hey, even Betty Croker burns the
brownies every once in a while, And I mean we burned.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
The brownies that day. I mean it sucked. And the
thing is the most important thing is the wind.
Speaker 26 (22:33):
Streak wasn't the goal. The goal was February. Winning your
game in February is what the goal was.
Speaker 12 (22:39):
Teddy Bruski Arizona.
Speaker 22 (22:41):
You remember that because you get beat a certain way.
It's like you get beat by a team that's throwing
the ball all over the place. You try to make
different adjustments in terms of coverages, and oh man, we
got to get there. As a pass rusher, you just
get beat up and you get run over. And bett
As coming right down the pipe, right down and is
running running through you.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
At the Patriot thirty seven met us is the iback
hand off to Jerome Bettas breaks through a hole into
the secondary at the thirty, at the twenty five, at
the twenty inside the ten down of the six yard line, hoose,
Jerome Bettas brought down by Rodney Harrison, and that will
put the caper on it for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 22 (23:24):
It's a different type of loss. And that's the type
of loss it was.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Rothlisberger takes a knee and that will do it. The
Pittsburgh Steelers break the Patriots NFL record twenty one game
winning streak. Were they thirty four to thirty win here
in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 22 (23:39):
I wish we could have won all of them all
the way through.
Speaker 12 (23:41):
I don't really believe.
Speaker 22 (23:42):
In the whole you know, it's good to lose, so
you rest or it's good to lose because it refocused you.
We refocused every every week, no matter what it was
twenty one in a row or wins or losses.
Speaker 17 (23:56):
We really called the what did I call it?
Speaker 22 (23:58):
I said it was you know it's it was one win.
It was one win won in a row. We just
did it twenty one times. But to do one win
in a row every single week, you know, was try
the thing that we tried to form. So no, I
never it's almost you know seven if we would have lost,
you know, we would have ended up winning another one.
It's like, no, it was about winning all of them.
(24:18):
It's always winning about all it's all about It's always
about winning all of them. I don't think people understand that,
and the players that don't understand that is why they're
flashes in the pan. In terms of winning one Super.
Speaker 15 (24:29):
Bowl, I have in fears running backs coach.
Speaker 17 (24:32):
I think the way we looked at each one of
them was it was just the game, all right. It
was just the game. That wasn't what we were after.
We always want to win every game, but that wasn't
what we're after. So bullshit on the game, all right,
we lost it. It's not that game that counts, it's
what we do next week, and that's where we were.
Speaker 27 (24:52):
Branchville just felt terrible, but was super eager to get
back because knowing at some point we will see these
guys again, We will see the again, and I couldn't wait,
you know, just to add my little tabbit to the game.
Speaker 12 (25:06):
You follow me.
Speaker 27 (25:07):
My teammates went out and did everything they possibly could,
and it wasn't because of me that they lost the game.
We just didn't carry out this as Simons. There was
plenty eraors in that game that actually caused us a loser.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
I think everything happened for a reason.
Speaker 12 (25:19):
That timing was that it is.
Speaker 27 (25:21):
We went on the twenty game win streat twenty one game. Sorry, hey,
everything comes to it in a little bit, but that
doesn't mean we can't start another win street, you know.
And that was the thing for us, more so, knowing
that we will see these guys again and making sure
we got all of our guys in the stable and
now they'll get the best of us now.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Paul Parrillo, Patriots Football Weekly.
Speaker 16 (25:42):
I think they lost ty log in that game, and
Kevin Falk had a big fumble on a big hit.
I mean, it wasn't necessarily you know, a bad fumble.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Brady out of a shotgun has fall CRUs left in
the back field direction, snap to Brady takes a couple
of steps, back, stands in there, fires that is caught
by pumba ball on the ground. Pittsburgh has it at
the Patriot eighteen seventeen yard line, the last thing in
the world that they needed on the first play of
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the second half, fourth Patriots turnover of the.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Game, and this one could be the real killing.
Speaker 16 (26:17):
It was just one of those things. I think the
way you put it, it's kind of inevitable. You can't
win every game, and Pittsburgh was really good. You know,
we didn't know much about Roethlisberger at the time, and
he had sort of you know, he'd stepped in and
we thought he was kind of like Brady, like you
know in O one. You know, he's winning all these
games as a rookie quarterback, but he's not really responsible
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for the wins. He played really well in that game.
He made some plays and I'd think everything that could
go wrong for the Patriots went wrong, and I did
kind of look at it as a one off, but
I did respect Pittsburgh. I thought the Steelers were really good,
and I figured that they would see them again.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Patriots and Rams first time they've met since Super Bowl
thirty six, which Gino and I enjoyed ementionally. And the
good news are getting both running backs back Patrick Pass
and Corey Dillon.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
The next week, the Pats got back on track. In
true Patriots fashion, Troy Brown not only got his first
true taste to playing cornerback in the NFL, but caught
a touchdown pass from Adam Vinierry on a fake field
goal attempt.
Speaker 28 (27:18):
Troy Brown Marshall University found out later that you know,
he was hoping that at least they would get to
the second half, the third fourth quarter, some before I
had to go in and play. It was two plays,
two plays into the game, right, and it was like,
all right.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
You see who comes in Troy Brown?
Speaker 7 (27:35):
Yeah, Troy Brown is in as an extra corner.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Joy you got you gotta go in?
Speaker 19 (27:40):
So and it rams of, oh, absolutely right, Troy Brown
and playing defence, playing.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Sean McDonald one on one in coverage.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Hey, how about love that?
Speaker 28 (27:55):
Yes, there was a lot of pressure, scary situation to
be in that particular time, you know, as a guy
that just had to play defense in ten years, eleven years,
whatever whatever it was, you know, and uh, you know,
so we've we got that game, you know, unscathed, and
you just kind of start relaxing after that, and it's like, hey,
if I gotta play, I gotta play.
Speaker 19 (28:13):
And who else would take that up then phill Bella, Check.
Speaker 21 (28:16):
And Company, Toy Dillon, University of Washington, I mean, and
that's that's just the brilliance of the players we had.
We're you know, could switch up. Who who wouldever thought
Troy Brown can get over there and play corner, right,
you know what I mean? Who would think of that?
What what coach would think of you know what, Troy,
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we need you at corner this week, and had a
confidence of putting them in there and letting him play corner.
I think I think overall what was real underrated is
we had a lot of good play.
Speaker 16 (28:52):
Well.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
The Patriots will line up another field goal attempt for
Adam Gonna tarry the lineup scrimmages before the kick will
come from the twelve yard line. It'll be a twenty
two yard field goal attempt for Adam Vinitariot's a.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Fake pass to the left touchdown.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
Patriots a touchdown to Troy Brown on the fake field goal,
the direct snap to Adam Vinterry, he fires a strike
to a wide open Troy Brown, who was like a
lonesome end way over on the far left side of
the formation.
Speaker 15 (29:26):
Jim Niggy, Executive director of the Senior Boy.
Speaker 18 (29:28):
The position versatility. I think that that two thousand and
four season, what Troy Brown was able to do going
to the defensive side of the ball, I mean that
to me, that's so emblematic of the New England Patriots
and the Patriot way. Just again, the more you can
do mentality.
Speaker 29 (29:43):
It's really about doing anything you can help the team win.
So many, so many guys who can dress for the game,
But if you're addressed, you better be prepared to play
just about anywhere.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
What's next for you?
Speaker 29 (29:56):
Hopefully the only place you see is behind center, because
have you ever seen on the defense that we were
all in left of trouble?
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Scott p Oli, Patriots director of player Personnel.
Speaker 26 (30:07):
You know we also had this other saying that we
were built through it at me when he hired me
in Cleveland, an entry level job.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
He said, hey, just remember the more you can do,
the more you can do. And I'm like, oh, yeah,
I don't remember what thing is the work? They all
does that mean?
Speaker 26 (30:19):
And what it is is you need to just do
your job, but be prepared to serve in many ways.
Speaker 24 (30:26):
So I don't think, you know, anyone was really thinking
there were other players that were used at different positions
for different reasons, you know.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
So I again, I don't think anyone made that big
of a deal of it.
Speaker 13 (30:45):
But we knew that we were always going to have
backup lines.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Linebacker Mike Brabel caught his second career touchdown in a
total team effort that featured a little bit of everything.
Speaker 7 (30:53):
Dylan directly behind Brady in motion left or right, Foyer,
Brady play action, fake looks, fires En Zoon touchdown touchdown
on the park corner of the end zone to Christian.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Arabel eight.
Speaker 30 (31:10):
Mike Rable while State University, they had a bunch of
energy and they'd show up three hours before the game
and go out on the field and Drew it would
be out warming up and I would start running routes
and he'd say, well, this is this is one, this
is two, this is three, four or five on this
you know, different routes, and I'd run him on the right,
We'd flip around and run him on the left, and
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then I'd go inside and wait for the game. And
he must have had a conversation or Charlie was outside
and said, Hey, this guy could probably do this, and
uh we we headed in. We used it finally in
the Chargers game in San Diego. Scored lost the game,
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so it did not get much attention and then kind
of snowballed from there.
Speaker 26 (31:59):
Pray, remember the Super Bowl, Mike Vrabel, the Super Bowl, Lance,
you cind a touchdown did everything?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Kept me hun from Tom Brady.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
To the forty to twenty two win over their Super
Bowl thirty six opponent, Patriots, showed their first loss in
over a year would not derail them.
Speaker 7 (32:14):
The Patriots scoring pretty much at will against the Rams.
Josh Miller only had to punt twice in this game,
as the Patriots ran roughshod over these Saint Louis Rams
here this afternoon, and they did it with a banged
up defensive secondary, and they did it in style to
improved a seven to one and regain a one game
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lead in the AFC East.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
After a two game road trip, the Patriots returned home
to Jillette Stadium with the newly crowned World champion Boston
Red Sox being honored before the game.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
Red Sox outfitter Johnny Damon honored before the game.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
The Patriots won a Super Bowl before your season? What
kind of motivation was that?
Speaker 31 (32:55):
Oh, it's a huge motivation because they showed up the spring,
or show up opening day a couple of years ago,
throwing out the first pitch, and they showed up again
this year.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
And you know, those guys inspire us. I mean, they
know how.
Speaker 31 (33:08):
To play as a team and that's exactly.
Speaker 7 (33:10):
What we had to do to win the championship.
Speaker 31 (33:12):
So coming out here and supporting them if we're doing
any day, we think they're the greatest teams around, and
they support us, we support them. It's New England's a
very happy place right now.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Drey Brown continue to play cornerback against the Bills, picking
off former Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoell.
Speaker 7 (33:30):
Travis Henry, who was right in the backfield first and
ten direction ap to bloodshell rush comes on.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
He fires to the blood.
Speaker 7 (33:36):
They's tender tructor picked off by Troy Brown down inside
the twenty five hit the twenty three yard line.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Troy Brown with the past utter truction.
Speaker 7 (33:45):
Then he gets over rising hands from the folks in Foxbah.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Teddy Bruski also grabbed an interception off Bledsoe as the
defense led the way to a twenty nine to six victory.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
I loossibly yeah second in eleven for Bloodshell in the
Buffalo Bills with their own forty five and Bloodshell's back
to throw fly goes down the passage had or stuff
that by Teddy Brusky at the forty five yard line.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Final turning to the right.
Speaker 7 (34:06):
Eastern midfield for the forty five to the party for
the thirty five right sidelight to the thirty. Still on
his feet and knocked out of bounds inside the thirty
yard line.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Teddy bruce Ki was a brilliant return.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
It was an especially sweet win for Brown after catching
so many passes on offense from Bledsoe earlier in his career.
Speaker 28 (34:24):
Troy Brown, Marshall University. It was one of those things
where I just, uh, it was like just just a
sweet moment, and I was celebrating and jumping in Teddy's arm,
you know that stuff, and like so happy. I got
a pick and.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Then it set end and I just picked off Drew bledso,
you know.
Speaker 28 (34:40):
And I was like, oh, man, so how do I how.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Do I handle this one after the game?
Speaker 28 (34:45):
You know and all that stuff. So it was like,
you know, and I just I didn't really feel bad,
but I just felt like, this is just too awkward.
Speaker 12 (34:54):
You know.
Speaker 32 (34:54):
Drew Bledsoe and Troy Brown hooked up two hundred and
eighteen times when they were teammates. That's when Bloodsoe was
aiming for Brown. But now the rounds playing DV these
days an awful lot. His first career pick Pats win.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Dion Branch returned to the lineup against the Chiefs in
week eleven after an extended injury absence and immediately made
his impact felt with a key catch on third and fifteen.
Speaker 7 (35:15):
On the opening drive, third down in fifteen from the
Kansas City twenty two, they have to get to the
seven for a first down. Three receivers to the near side, right,
two to the fireside left. Poor Brady third and fifteen
out of a shotgun takes the direct snap, stands in there,
pump fakes fires end zone, diving catch up the five
by Dion Branch. First Bengaligo Patriots.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
The franch got things started. Willie McGinnis finished things off
with a sack that sealed win number nine of the season,
a twenty seven to nineteen victory.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
And it is a fourth down in six for Kansas
City at their own thirty six. Again, Green out of
the shotgun slaps the bob side direct snap to Green,
stands in, stands in pean chase, gonna be shacked.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
That'll do it.
Speaker 7 (35:56):
Sacked back at the twenty six guideline. Willie McGill was
relentless in his pursuit of quarterback Trent Green, and he
sacked him back at the twenty sixth and that puts
the cap on it for the Patriots.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Back in Foxborough, the Patriots continued to show they could
win games however necessary, with a twenty four to three
domination of the Ravens in a driving rainstorm.
Speaker 7 (36:17):
Second down and twenty for Baltimore at their own twenty
out of a shotgun, now bowler, we'll take the direct snap.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Here's the rush from the other side.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
He has hit it. Sack, the down, tumble, follow the ground,
tasted out of the one yard line in the end zone,
touch down, touchdown. Patriots touchdown on a fumble with covery
by Jarvis Crane.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
That is defense.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
My friend Travis Green returned to fumble for a touchdown.
Corey Dillon rushed for one hundred and twenty three yards.
Speaker 7 (36:45):
Rain pounding down second and goal to go at the
Baltimore one. Seymour the fullback billing the tailback in the eye,
goes to the left, drinds it down and.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
The n touchdown.
Speaker 21 (36:55):
Corey Dylon Corey Dylan University of Washington would dawned on me.
I didn't. I didn't understand, like like being at other organization,
you would hear, you would hear like what other organizations do.
So I never I never knew what the Patriot Way was.
Speaker 12 (37:12):
I didn't.
Speaker 21 (37:13):
I didn't.
Speaker 12 (37:13):
I didn't get that.
Speaker 21 (37:13):
I was like, what is that?
Speaker 12 (37:14):
You know what I mean? Like, I don't know, is
that a code with what's going on?
Speaker 21 (37:19):
Like and you would hear that from from other places,
because I mean, I grew up. I'm from Seattle. I
know Lawyer mylloy, and I've been knew Willie McGinnis and
all these guys before I got here. So me actually
coming over and and like and the narrative out there
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before I even got here. Oh, he had never fit in.
It's the Patriot way. I was like, I don't even
know what the hell that is, to be honest with you,
But getting over here and and and seeing it firsthand
and figuring out what it is. It's just a guy
doing his job, you know what I mean, going out
there playing.
Speaker 7 (37:58):
The right way.
Speaker 6 (38:00):
He seven nineteen.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
As always, winners get to talk first.
Speaker 33 (38:03):
And I'm playing with a great group. I mean, they
got my back, I got theirs. And you know when
I make mistakes, man, we just come up and make
a play to help us win. And that's what that's
what a team effort's about.
Speaker 10 (38:15):
Well, Brady got the horse trailer from John Madden, but
Corey Dillon was the horse total.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Team efforts continued in Cleveland as Bethel Johnson returned the
opening kickoff ninety three yards for a touchdown.
Speaker 7 (38:25):
Dawson into it, Bethel Johnson deep and the kickoff is away,
coming down to Bethel on the fire side at the
six heads to the ten, toward the middle of the
field of fifteen, twenty, alle, twenty five, thirty, thirty five, forty.
He is going to go to the races at the
fifty the forty, the thirty five, He is going to
go all the way ninety four yards kickoff return for
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a touchdown for Bethel Johnson, and the.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Pats never looked back en route to a forty two
to fifteen win, their highest scoring output of the season.
Speaker 6 (38:54):
Paul Parrillo, Patriots Football Weekly.
Speaker 16 (38:57):
They go to Cleveland and Bethel Johnson returns the opening
kickoff for a touchdown. The game, Mike, was over, ohvah,
as we'd like to say in Boston, it was over.
There's no way that the Cleveland Browns were ever gonna
make up fifteen seconds in. They were never gonna make
up that gap. And that to me spoke to just
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how dominant. I know Cleveland wasn't a good team, but
how many teams just like, well, that game's over. You know,
one play, that's all right, go home, you go home.
Speaker 7 (39:28):
The game is fourteen seconds old and Adam Vinteri is
on to attempt the extra point. The snap, the ball down,
the kick is up, the kick is good, and the
team's head back up field. Fourteen seconds into the game.
Your score the Patriots seven, Cleveland nothing.
Speaker 16 (39:45):
And that's how it was.
Speaker 17 (39:46):
It was.
Speaker 16 (39:47):
I used to feel like when the Patriots got the
ball when if they moved to score, Now, let me
see what the defense is gonna do. Oh, the defense
forced a three and out, or they looked like they
were in control. And I would look at Bred and
I'd say this one. And I did that a lot
of time, probably like twelve times out of those fourteen
wins in the regular season.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
At zero four, back at home again, the Patriots clinched
the AFSE East title with a thirty five to twenty
eight win over the Bengals.
Speaker 7 (40:12):
Brady checking off at the line of scrimmage on second down,
drop straight back to pass.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
He falls, gets rid of the foot bottle. It's caught by.
Speaker 7 (40:20):
Pass on the near side at the forty stiff arms
and man and goes up and out of bounds at
the forty five yard line.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
What a play by break. Can never see a play
like that.
Speaker 7 (40:30):
He dropped it all fell, but he knew where pass was.
That's the thing. Him on the ground.
Speaker 6 (40:36):
The referee Triplett was standing behind him.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
He's laughing.
Speaker 7 (40:41):
He's laughing and saying, my god, never saw anything like it.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Cory Dillon scored a touchdown against his old team while
punching his first ever ticket to the postseason.
Speaker 7 (40:50):
Third down in goal to go at the Cincinnati one,
Richard Seymour is checked in as the full back and
he lines up off set right. Dylan is the iback.
Brady on third and goal to give us to Dylan
to the right, crashes down and in touchdown Corey Jellen.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
Seemed like the Patriots were streaking toward the playoffs as
they traveled to Miami to face the Dolphins, historically one
of the toughest places for New England to play.
Speaker 7 (41:11):
Patriots defeated the Dolphins earlier in the season in Foxborough
by a score of twenty four to ten, and they're
looking to make it two in a row over the
Dolphins for the second year in a row.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
The game was going according to playing against the Dolphins
in their orange alternate uniforms, as New England built an
eleven point lead with four minutes to play.
Speaker 7 (41:29):
They come out of the huddle with Seymour the full
back and pass the tailback in motion right to left
comes Forrier. The gift to no when Brady play action
fake floats at the end zone, touchdown Daniel Reya.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
That's when things uncharacteristically fell apart. Dolphins quarterback aj Feeley
led a seven play touchdown drive.
Speaker 7 (41:49):
First and goal to go Miami at the Patrie eight
one yard line. Miller and Morris in the backfield in
a straight eye to give us to Morris hurdles up
in the air and goes down.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
In in for a touchdown.
Speaker 7 (42:01):
That's the third time the Dolphins have scored a touchdown
with their running back leaping into the end zone.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
And then Tom Brady threw an interception deep inside Patriots territory.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
They're down to nine with their own twenty one.
Speaker 7 (42:11):
Swatted the near side left for Brady in motion like
to left Patton. Brady back to throw, being rushed, going
to be hit Tigers of all to the right right.
He settled us intercepted by Miami. He just fired the
ball off to the right and I am Badagio intercepted it.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Ill advised.
Speaker 7 (42:28):
Tom Brady got away with that a couple of weeks
ago when he was lying on his back and threw
it out made a completion, he was sacked, he was
going down on his back. He tried to do it again,
and I gotta tell you, I know that he is
really upset with himself for doing something so foolish At
this particular stage of the game, and what might have
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been the consequence has happened.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
Miami again capitalized, taking a one point lead with one
twenty three left.
Speaker 7 (42:54):
Chambers far side left, slocked to the left side, Morris
alone running back fourt down in ten Miami field is
back to throw, looks fires to the end zone. Talk
touchdown Miami Talk by Darius Thompson who leaped in the air.
He's six to two and he catches a twenty one
yard touchdown pass from aj Peely with one twenty three
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to go and the Dolphins take the lead twenty.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
Nine, twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
Brady threw another pick on the final drive. Just like that,
Miami was kneeling on just their third win of the year.
Speaker 20 (43:25):
Second down in nineteen from their own fifteen yard line,
Patting to the near side left, givens to the fireside
right the branch and.
Speaker 7 (43:36):
The slotting on the wings kis Graham passing.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
The back field of the elected Brady out of.
Speaker 7 (43:41):
A shotgun formation direct snapped to Brady stands in, stands in,
fires to the right, and it is interceptor. Fourth interception
of the game on the left sideline and down to
the twenty three yard line.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
Goes Ar Turo.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
Freeman and handing the Patriots just their second loss of
the season and.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
The Patriots six game win straight.
Speaker 7 (44:01):
It was about two ms.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
The upset made national headlines and was a reminder of
how quickly games can turn upside down.
Speaker 6 (44:08):
So many explain this to us.
Speaker 10 (44:09):
A little eleven point le with four minutes ago in
the game, So you got to get Minama credit. They
made the plays at the end that they need to make,
and we didn't make them. So that's that's why they
came out on top. I think we didn't do a
good job in any of the three phases of the game,
and I just just need to play better.
Speaker 29 (44:27):
You just got to do your best to go out
and rebound. And like I said, you watch going I'll
go into tomorrow and I'll watch the tape and I'll
see the problems and I'll try to correct them. And
you're not gonna win any games thing four interceptions into that.
I've learned that a long time ago.
Speaker 6 (44:41):
Nick Fitzi Stevens Patriots fan and personality.
Speaker 14 (44:44):
Of course, as the Patriots were to go on this
incredible winning streak twenty one straight games, like they couldn't
they couldn't be stopped. They were just a bulldozer, a
freight train, led by Brady's ascending greatness, Belichick's brilliance, Corey
Dillon just smashing in, dashing through lines, and maybe their
best defensive unit to date as a franchise. But of
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course there had to be just to make sure that
we didn't completely lose our minds, there had to be
one head scratching, How the hell did you guys lose
that game?
Speaker 2 (45:16):
Game?
Speaker 14 (45:17):
The Monday night loss in Miami, Because of course the
season ended with a Super Bowl doesn't bother the Patriots
fan to date. But when you think back to where
you were and when Brady threw the ass pass, but
this time it was intercepted, costing the Pats a win
on Monday night football against a terrible Dolphins team, that
was just that was one of those ones that kind
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of kept us all in emotional checking.
Speaker 12 (45:42):
Corey Dylan, University of Wie.
Speaker 21 (45:44):
Monday night, We're controlling the game, everything is going good, man,
it just weird stuff started happening. Man. It just interception here,
fumble here, and I'm just looking like wow. But I
tell you what, I tell you what I think honestly,
I don't like losing. I hate losing, but I think
we needed to lose that game to reset and get
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back focused, because I mean, when you're running through the
season and you're thirteen in one or whatever, you can
get a little complacent, you know what I mean. And
I think Bill used that game prime example to reset us,
get us back where we need to be.
Speaker 6 (46:23):
Paul Perillo Patriots Football Weekly.
Speaker 16 (46:25):
Just so uncharacteristic of those Patriots teams. They almost never
beat themselves, and that night they beat themselves, and worse,
Tom Brady was the reason that they beat themselves. I mean,
just a terrible interception where as Jason Taylor is throwing
him down. Just one of those nights that you know,
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Miami was. I want to say, Miami had two wins
going into that game. No one really took it seriously,
you know, just give you a little little peak behind
the curtain.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
Mic.
Speaker 16 (46:55):
You know, we used to do the paper at that
time too, We still had Patriots Football Weekly. It's the
only I just, you know, I had most of my
writing done and the game just sort of unfolded in
a flukey way down the stretch, which completely made everything
I wrote irrelevant. It's the only time I've ever done this.
I just deleted the file and just started completely over again,
because nothing I had written was relevant by the time
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the game was over. It was one of the truly
stunning results. Now that one, everybody said, there's nothing to
worry about it. That was just a sloppy, uncharacteristic one
off performance Pittsburgh. You said, like, how much of it
had to do with the Steelers and the Patriots. The
Dolphins loss was on the Patriots.
Speaker 6 (47:36):
Scott Poli, Patriots director of player personnel.
Speaker 26 (47:39):
Yeah, again, it was frustrating, It was annoying, but it
was you know, the timing was part of our thing
was we always wanted to get better as the season
went on. We wanted to be strong in November, stronger
in December.
Speaker 5 (47:53):
You know, you don't want to peak in September.
Speaker 26 (47:56):
So when you're getting to that point and we're a
pretty good football team, you know, we're a one lost
football team.
Speaker 5 (48:01):
Up to that point. It was another one of those
reminders that you got.
Speaker 24 (48:05):
To be ready in sixty minutes, sixty minutes, sixty minutes,
sixty minutes maybe more.
Speaker 3 (48:12):
Undeterred, the Patriots bounced back the following week, clinching the
second overall seed in the AFC and the valuable bye
week that came with it.
Speaker 7 (48:19):
The Patriots, after having lost last week twenty nine twenty
eight on Monday to the Dolphins in Miami, bounced back
with a brilliant overall efforts this afternoon, offensively, defensively, special
teams in a twenty three to seven route of the
New York Jets.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
The Jets had five punts and two turnovers on offense
through three quarters. The Pats roll twenty three to seven.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
And you're New England.
Speaker 7 (48:42):
Patriots have just clinched the first round by in the
NFL playoffs with the no worse than the number two seed.
Matter of fact, they will be the number two seed
no matter what happens next week because Pittsburgh clinched the
number one seed this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (48:56):
With their playoff seeding set, the Patriots closed out their
two thousand and four season with a final win over
the forty nine ers, but it was not a meaningless
final victory.
Speaker 7 (49:03):
Second down at the six yard line, second and two
for a first down, six for a touchdown, Rowan Davy
has him set tie end on the right wing, is
Weaver Dylan alone running back handoff comes to Dylan, comes
to the left, shoots it.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
Up the meadow. Touchdown.
Speaker 7 (49:20):
Beautiful piece of running by Corey Dylon. Started left, then
just stop for a second and.
Speaker 2 (49:26):
Bang right up the shoot for the touchdown.
Speaker 3 (49:28):
Corey Dylon rushed for one hundred and sixteen yards to
set the Patriots single season rushing record with sixteen hundred
and thirty five yards.
Speaker 7 (49:34):
Second down and two for the batch at the San
Francisco forty.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
Three yard line. Ready to hand off to Dylan again
right up the middle.
Speaker 7 (49:40):
He's got a first down at the forty on the
street at the thirty five half to thirty at the
twenty five hack for twenty down inside the fifteen and
brought down at about the fourteen yard line. Corey Dylan
with a bang bang run.
Speaker 1 (49:52):
Matt Patricia offensive assistant Corey Dillon one of.
Speaker 9 (49:55):
My favorite favorite people coming into the building. He was
such a dude man. He's such a tough guy. And
I remember the beauty of Corey was just coming from Sincy.
Remember I remember him saying this is like and he's like,
you know, He's like, what I love here is I'm
in the locker room.
Speaker 5 (50:13):
I'm just another guy. Like the media comes in.
Speaker 9 (50:15):
They're going to talk to Tom, they're going to talk
to Bruski, they're going to talk to Rodney, Willie, whoever
it was. They didn't want to Hount, Like, they didn't
even bother him. He's like, I can just be a
football player. He's like, let me just go run the ball.
And that's all he wanted to do.
Speaker 5 (50:27):
And he was. He was a man.
Speaker 9 (50:30):
I mean when you like, the NFL is full of
grown men, but then there's some like grown, grown men,
and he was one of those grown grown men.
Speaker 5 (50:37):
He just he would punish people.
Speaker 9 (50:39):
And you'd stand on the sideline during a game and
you watch him run and you're like, there's no chance,
like I would my body would break in half.
Speaker 5 (50:46):
Like he was a beast.
Speaker 9 (50:47):
And you know he had over sixteen hundred yards. I mean,
he just would dominate and control the game.
Speaker 7 (50:53):
Bory Dillon tied his personal high with his ninth one
hundred plus yard rushing game, and so the Patriots good
shape going into the playoffs.
Speaker 12 (51:02):
Corey Dillon University of Wine.
Speaker 21 (51:03):
So during that whole season, I mean, everybody I like,
I like players, holding players accountable offense and defense. That's
what we did all year. Man, So it it, it
panned out, and it kept us focused as just coming
in and you know the you know the the famous
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quote just do your job, you know, and that's what
we did. And and players held everybody accountable for just
doing your job. So and if you're off, you're not.
You know, other players could sense that, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 12 (51:41):
And it's just.
Speaker 21 (51:42):
The the confidence another player will give you when you
may be struggling a little bit to go out there
and perform man means everything. That's a that signs of
a good team.
Speaker 3 (51:53):
Next time, the Patriots begin another epic and poetic playoff
run with two bitter AFC rivals standing between them and immortality.
Join us next time on this Patriot super Bowl sound odyssey.
Yes it's a dynasty.
What do you remember about the two thousand and four Patriots?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
And the Patriots are world champions?
Speaker 3 (00:04):
I am After winning two championships in three seasons, The
Patriots third Super Bowl win in two thousand and four
cemented their.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Place as the NFL's dynasty at the new millennium.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Back to back world championships three out of four.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Now twenty years later, we're going back for our third
and final chapter, recapture how the greatest Patriots team of
the two thousands came together and reigned supreme.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yes it's a dynasty.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
This is a Patriots super Bowl sound odyssey.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yes it's a dynasty. Episode two. The regular season. After
reloading during the spring and summer, the Patriots were poised
to embark on the two thousand and four season already
carrying a fifteen game win streak that dated back to
late September of two thousand and three.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Dynasty and that's the goal of the Patriots this season,
who last year started two and two then ran the
table through the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
They haven't lost a.
Speaker 6 (00:50):
Game since the fourth week of the.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Two thousand and three season.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
If anything, they have more talent with the addition this
season of running back Corey Dillon.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
The Patriots raised their second banner on thirdday, September ninth,
with their arch rivals Peyton Manning and Indianapolis Colts looking
to spoil the party.
Speaker 7 (01:05):
Patriots and Colts.
Speaker 8 (01:06):
What a way to kick off the two thousand and
four regular season.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Pats were fresh off a win over the Colts in
the AFC Championship the previous January, but now in ideal conditions,
they still had plenty to prove against the high powered
offense that could only be contained for so long.
Speaker 8 (01:21):
In this case, the Patriots say, oh, we got their number,
and it's a psychological edge for a while.
Speaker 7 (01:27):
But it's always a possibility.
Speaker 8 (01:29):
That the other team can return that and take over,
and that's what you have to be concerned about. But
usually the team that plays the best will win, and
the past the Patriots, I do believe we're playing the
best football and they have been proving that over the
period of time.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Matt Patricia, offensive assistant.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
We're getting ready for the game. And one of the
things that was amazing to.
Speaker 9 (01:51):
Me right away in my first year in the NFL
was just Bill teaching the team situation football situations.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Situations no one I had never I know it's common now.
Speaker 9 (02:00):
I think the secret kind of got out a little bit,
but no one was doing that back then. Like he
was just the detail and how to play situational football.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
And our guys ate it up.
Speaker 10 (02:09):
Alos on a one yard line half to distant to
the goal, they get penalized two inches.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
So why not try to draw you guys offside? Right,
that's the cheapest five yards they can get.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
That's the situation.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
They're backed up.
Speaker 11 (02:21):
You got to be ready for a hard cadence that
gets them off.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
The goal line. All right, they miss it. What they
got to lose?
Speaker 12 (02:27):
Nothing?
Speaker 10 (02:27):
Two inches?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
They're on a one yard line anyway.
Speaker 9 (02:30):
Okay, So we were doing that all week and we're
in the meeting and we're getting ready for a team meeting,
and I'm telling you, we walk in it's like probably
the day before the game, and on our chairs is
you know is how long ago it was.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
But we had these giant CDs, like really nice.
Speaker 9 (02:45):
It's all signed by Ozzy Osmoren and I'm like, I
love Ozzy osmore.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
And this is really cool. And I'm telling you.
Speaker 9 (02:51):
Bill comes in to start the meeting and he's going
through stuff, and the doors to the back room opens
up and Ozzie walks into our meeting and you could
see all the players, well, couldn't really see him, and
you can see all the players like, oh my god,
that's Oi Aslen and just shuffled into our room.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
And he totally was confused. And I don't know if
you get it on purpose or not. And Bill, do
you even know what was going on? And also he
looks and he's like, you know, some.
Speaker 9 (03:12):
Dude in the corner, and he shuffles back out and
we're like, Ozi Alagon.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Just totally broke into our meeting room right now. It
was like the most amazing thing ever.
Speaker 13 (03:20):
Bracy Trade the Patriots traditional and trans at them.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Nick Fitzie Stevens, Patriots fan and personality.
Speaker 14 (03:33):
You're coming off of defeating Peyton Manning in the AFC Championship,
Tylaw having his way with Peyton Manning, but opening the
season after you win your second Super Bowl in the
NFL says, Okay, if you really mean this, you're gonna
have to go through the Colts, the team we thought
was going to be the gold standard of the AFC.
Once again, this an opener. After you raise your second
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banner Indianapolis, the Colts, Peyton Manning Brady this right here, truly.
He cemented that Brady Manning was to be the rivalry,
the matchup for the first decade and then some of
the NFL in the twenty first century.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
Second down Brady play action, fake lookie fires, end zone touchdown,
Leon Branch a bullet from Brady to Branch.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
It was a back and forth game through the first half,
with Indy taking a seventeen to thirteen lead into the
locker room.
Speaker 15 (04:23):
At the break.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Bonnie pass from the snap, the ball down, the kick
is up, the kick is on the way, the dick
is right down the pipe. And a tremendous first half
is over. Is Adam Vinit Terry pomps a forty three
yard field goal through.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
In the third, Tom Brady hit David Patton with a
twenty five yard touchdown.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Brady straight back to throw looks, goes to the.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
End zone, up and touchdown David Patton, and then Daniel
Graham with an eight yard touchdown to give the Patriots
a ten point lead.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
Brady on second down, play action, fake looks, floats, end
zone touchdowns, Tom Brady touchdown with Daniel brim He has
been spectacular.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
What a great throw.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
And he would close within three points after a fourth
quarter Brandon Stokely touchdown.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
Third and goal Indianapolis, Manning calling signals, play action, fires
to the end zones, caught touchdown.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
And then string together a game ending drive that stalled
out at the Patriot twenty nine yard line thanks to
Willie McGinnis sack.
Speaker 7 (05:20):
Manning out of a shotgun, takes the snap. Here's the
rush by Willie McGuinness. He shacks him back up the
thirty yard ut.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Colts kicker Mike vander Jack, who had hit forty two
straight field goals, confidently rubbed his fingers together in a
money sign as he walked on the field to attempt
a game tying forty eight yard field goal.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Wall is in the middle of the field to snap
the ball down. The kick is up, the kick is
on the way, and.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
The kick is no good, No God, no good.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
Vander Jacks forty two straight field goals.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
He's broken.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
Hey misses with nineteen seconds left, and the Super Bowl
champs will make it sixteen wins in a row.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Just like that. The Pats were off on their two
thousand and four season and already had a game in
hand over an opponent they were sure to see again
down the road.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
The defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots hang on
and beat the Indianapolis Colton again, twenty seven to twenty four,
make it sixteen wins in a row for the Patriots.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Nick Fitzi Stevens Patriots fan and personality.
Speaker 14 (06:22):
First things first, you gotta know you do not taunt
or troll Patriots fans. Doing the money sign and then
missing the kick at the end of the game like
that is one of the sneaky, great memorable moments of
the Brady Manning rivalry. Pats coltson at Gillette Stadium just awesome,
What a great way to begin the season.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Paul Parrillo, Patriots Football Weekly.
Speaker 16 (06:45):
That was a great game, and I don't think that's
one that gets talked about as much as some other ones.
You know, Listen, Peyton Manning's a punching bag in New England. Still,
even though he won a couple of titles and whatnot,
it was people still I think dismiss him as not
being on Brady's level, and I think I think that's
unfair to him. Those Colts teams were really good, and
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the Patriots were really good, and that game, that opening
game in two two thousand and four. You realize that
that's the difference between hosting and not, you know, and
that was let's just look at it. When Manning hosted
the games in the playoffs against the Patriots, he won
three times. When the Patriots hosted, they won when Brady
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got to be at home, So at least they should
have gotten to overtime. But a terrific way to start
the season.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
And we two.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
The Patriots traveled to Arizona, where Corey Dlon broke out
and send a message to the rest of the NFL
that last year's chance had gotten even better.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Running back is Dylan First and ten Arizona, twenty five.
Brady brings Gibbons in motion. It's a hamboff coming to
Dylan to the left. He's not with the twenty five
yard line, Philip fifteen yard line, that a twelve will
be eleven yard line. Corey Dylon, beautiful piece of running.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Dylan talied one hundred and fifty eight rushing on thirty
two carries, and the Pats rolled twenty three to twelve for.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
The final score in New England. Patriots seventeenth win in
a row, twenty three to twelve over Arizona.
Speaker 15 (08:09):
Ivan Fears, running backs coach.
Speaker 17 (08:11):
I mean, he made plays in each one of the
games he played in. I mean, the whole idea was
not the thirty two that was a little bit more
than we wanted to do, really was. I mean, but
every time we every time we get going and he'd
make a play or two, and he'd be in the
middle of a drive and then he'd be getting a
little tired, and I'd be wanting to get them out
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Charlie or Bill by yelling where's Corey, where's the bat?
He's on the sideline with me. I'm going yo, he
needs a blow. But he was he was very good
at dealing with that kind of stuff, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 15 (08:50):
Jim Niggy, executive director of the Senior Boy.
Speaker 18 (08:52):
That was really unique to that team is that they
didn't rest on the previous year. They did a really
good job of putting two thousand and three in the
rear view. So credit to those coaches and players that
they kind of turned the page and they were focused
on two thousand and four for that two thousand and
four season.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
But yeah, it you are.
Speaker 18 (09:10):
You're heavily invested, you know, when my typical routine that year,
I would go to a I'd find a sports bar
in whatever college town I was in and watched the
Pats game. This is back when you know it was
you had the Sunday ticket, but you couldn't really get
it at the house, so you had to go to
a sports bar and I would I would bring a
stack of thank you notes, and I would write thank
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you notes to all the people I met with at
the schools that week, whether it was the strength coach
or the trainer, position coaches, coordinators, whatever it might be.
And I just sit there and write my thank you
notes and watch the Pats. And usually those were Those
were pretty fun Sundays.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
The Pats stayed on the road for a familiar opponent
with a familiar quarterback in Week three, traveling to Buffalo
to face Drew Bledsoe and the Bills.
Speaker 19 (09:52):
Drew Bletsoe against his old teammate and old team Tom
Brady and the Pats.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Unlike the two thousand and three opener, the Pats took
it to the Bills, putting the game away in the
fourth quarter with two scores, including a sixty eight yard
fumble return by Richard Seymour that.
Speaker 15 (10:05):
Iced the game.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
Let'shell calling signals fourth down, Let's sell play action.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Gotta be hit.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Suck Coombo faul is loose, picked up by Richard Seymour
for forty forty five left sideline. Fifty forty five forty
down the left sideline, Richard Seymour goes the destance touchdown.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Patriots.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
With the win, New England became the fourth team in
NFL history to win eighteen straight games.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
So the New England Patriots have tied the National Football
League record hell by the Chicago Bears of nineteen thirty three,
thirty four and forty one forty two, the Miami Dolphins
of seventy two seventy three, the forty nine Ers of
eighty nine and ninety the Broncos of ninety seven and
ninety eight. The Patriots become the first team in the
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twenty first century to win eighteen games in a row.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Home wins over the Dolphins and Seahawks followed. Despite the
versatile kicking talents of future Patriot Wes Welker, who made
an extra point and a twenty nine yard field goal
in his team's twenty four to ten loss to the Pats.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
And Wes Welker will attempt his first National Football League
field goal. The kick will come from the nineteen. It's
a twenty nine yard attempt for Welker, left footed kicker.
The ball is down, the kick is up, and the
kick is good. So Welker hits a twenty nine yard
field goal, coming in to do the place kicking because
of the injury to will Linda Maurray.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
The win was New england nineteenth straight, setting a new
league record.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Rady will take the final snap and the game will
come to an end and the Patriots improved to four
and zero. The Dolphins fall to zero to five. The
Patriots have won nineteen consecutive football games, a new National
Football League record and one that I agree with Gino
could be a long time in being broken.
Speaker 12 (11:47):
How fit about that.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Gavo roll against the Seahawks, they log their twenty straight
win and that.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Is the ballgame. The New England Patriots have won twenty
games in a row, extending their record. Their National Football
League record of most consecutive victories.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Over two seasons.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
Twenty in a row for the Patriots, five in a
row this season, seventeen regular season wins over the last
two years, that ties the record for most regular season
wins in succession. The Patriots, for the second time in
their history, are five and zero to start a season.
The last time was nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Just as their crosstown baseball team is getting ready to
embark on an impossible comeback of their own arties in.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
A deep right field, Patty ship Field, We'll see.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
You later tonight, Nick Fitzi Stevens, Patriots fan and personality.
Speaker 14 (12:40):
The fall of two thousand and four for a Boston
sports fan may have been the absolute emotional apex of
our existence. Like it may not have ever been much
better than the Pats coming off a Super Bowl win
being an absolute wagon looking like a shoe win for
at least an AFC championship, if not another return to
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the Big Game again, possibly winning back to back Super Bowls.
And on top of it, the Red Sox are awesome
and they ultimately not only get back to the Alcs,
but complete the greatest comeback and turn around in Major
League Baseball history, going through the Evil Empire to finally
reverse the curse. This was like being a child and
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having your parents take you to toys r us letting
you go on a shopping spree and then saying, Hey,
you know what, why don't we hit child World on
the way home.
Speaker 20 (13:31):
For one old pitch?
Speaker 7 (13:33):
Why you're ground ball to second base? Packy Reece has it.
Speaker 16 (13:37):
They throw us the first and the Red Sox have
won the American.
Speaker 19 (13:39):
L tennant Hem Bowling embry Alma Mile the Boston Red Sox.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
They have Paul the creative pectoring in team history.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
While the Red Sox were headed to the World Series,
the Patriots welcome their own New York rivals, the Jets.
New York shared the same five to zero record that
the Patriots had, and the low scoring competitive game lived
up to the hype, with the Patriots goal lines preserving
a thirteen to seven win that extended their record to
twenty one straight wins.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
Fourth down nine for the Jets, with the Patriot thirty alone,
running back his soul back to throw as Pennington, here's
the rush. He fires down field and it is broken up,
battled away.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
By Rodney Harrison.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Play had no chance and the crowd at Foxboro give
being the Patriots a tremendous ovation as they make their
twenty first make the New York Jets their twenty first
consecutive victim and their eighteenth regular season victory in a row,
breaking the NFL record. Trady takes the knee close to
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the ground and that's set. Ball game is over.
Speaker 12 (14:41):
Fory Dylan, University of Wantington.
Speaker 21 (14:43):
That was the theme. Man, we can win in so
many ways. There's been times like during that four season
where we start off in five wides, we're not even
running the ball. We'll go a whole two series we
don't even run the ball. I just think that was
the scheming of Charlie Wise. He he was a genius
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in running at running that offense man, and dude, it
was I felt like, you know what, I was a closer,
you know in those grindy games like you need those
tough yards. That's where I showed up and showed up big.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
Ready to hand off to Corey Dillon coming right up
the middle of the crossing twenty five across the thirty
p's across the thirty five, forty forty five past to
that bield cuts up back to the right cut time
from behind, I thought, jet forty yard line. Corey Dillon
breaks up back, went on from his own fifteen yard line,
e Racers forty five yards Patriots first down making a
forty eight yard run for Corey Dillon.
Speaker 12 (15:41):
Teddy Bruski Arizona.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 22 (15:42):
I think especially during that twenty one game win streak
that was there, you really learn to suppress success. And
that sucks really to do that, because you really don't
live in your successes basically until you retire, you know,
And I think that's what what truly great players and
teams and professionals do is you never focus on any
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type of championship or accomplishment that you've ever had until
you've been retired and you can finally look back and say.
Speaker 12 (16:11):
Man, we were pretty good.
Speaker 22 (16:13):
You know we were, but we just didn't do that.
We didn't do that in terms of we learned about
one and the mentality we had in two three, the
winning that we had, and then realizing that putting every
victory behind us, even if it was a Super Bowl,
really prepared for a Super Bowl like it was a
regular season game or vice versa. You know, I think
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you start to learn how to do that, and you know,
it's a tough way to live. You know, it's a
tough way to live and not appreciate your success in
the moment, but it's something you have to do if
you want to keep winning.
Speaker 10 (16:45):
We never thought of last season as winning fifteen in
a row. We thought of it as winning one in
a row fifteen times.
Speaker 15 (16:52):
I have in fears running backs.
Speaker 17 (16:54):
Coach Well, I thought that was basically a bill. Bill
had a way of telling the team what is gonna
take to win the game and then showing it to
him in the meetings. And it took a little longer
in the meetings than you would, you know, normally, but
you like, but I he got the point across. And
as a team, the guys that we had, the character
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of the guys we had, they really bought into that
and they would they could see, they could vision how
it would what it would take to win the game.
I mean, it was it. It was just ex It
was exciting to be a part of that because they
went into each game sort of ready for what's gonna happen,
and no matter what happened, I think they believed themselves.
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They just had a they had this thing about 'em.
You know, they they knew what it takes to win. Yeah,
and it's never gonna be easy. But as long as
we don't give the opponent the game, we had.
Speaker 15 (17:45):
A chance Adam Vinitterry Kicker.
Speaker 23 (17:49):
Those years were fun. They were just so much fun
cause we expected to meet everybody all the time. And
I don't know if that that's not an arrogance. It's
just a confidence that we had in the locker room
that we knew that the guys that we had like, hey,
if we play well, we execute Bill's game plan, we're
going to win. You know, we didn't win every single time,
but we want most of the time.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
You Red Sox fans have wonder here.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
The Boston Red Socks are world champions.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Just as the Red Sox were winning their first World
Series in eighty six years and breaking Babe Ruth's curse,
the Patriots were about to end the streak of their own,
but in a bad way. Matt Patricia, offensive assistant.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
We're at Pittsburgh.
Speaker 9 (18:28):
It's Halloween, and again I'm on the field and I'm
checking numbers like that's my job. So I'm checking pregame
numbers or out there stretching just to see who's out
there and all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Pittsburgh always had a you.
Speaker 9 (18:37):
Know, and they had one of their players defensively that
like to he liked to chirp, and he liked to
talk and he'd like to yell at the other team,
and you know, it's great player for him, you know,
a great player. I've got a lot of respect for him.
But like, you know, here I am nobody. I'm trying
to check numbers. She starts like yelling at me. He's like,
what are you doing? What are you checking?
Speaker 24 (18:53):
You know?
Speaker 9 (18:53):
And he's like, you know, he's just coming at I
was like why, I'm looking around, like what I mean,
like trying to timidate me.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Ray, I'm not playing, like you know, I don't, you know.
Speaker 25 (19:02):
And he's just talking, talking, talking, And all of a sudden,
this giant hand comes up over my shoulder, grabs me
and pulls me back, and it was Willie Mack and
I love Willie mcguinnis is I love Willie McGuinness.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
He pulls me out of the way and he just
starts going. He's like yelling over at their side.
Speaker 9 (19:19):
He's like, why don't you just shut and he's like going,
And then like Willie Mack was like a dude, this
guy like you did not mess with Willie And.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Everything got real quiet on their side, you know.
Speaker 9 (19:28):
So that was like my one hundred percent of one
of my memories from that game was Wally like saving
me and coming to my rescue.
Speaker 11 (19:34):
Footnote here. Tom Brady will go today without Corey Dillon
deactivated after suffering a thigh injury practice on Thursday. Originally
listed as probable, he got worse every day, downgraded the.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Doubtful coming in. Now they have deactivating Kevin Fulp will
be the back for the Patriots.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Without Corey Dillon and Deon Branch, New England's offense was
without two of their most important pieces. The defense would
take a hit of their own in the game, as
ty Law went down with an injury that would cost
him the rest of the season.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
Rider, the fullback is in motion to the left Roethlisberger
play action gets hit justin he gets rid of the ball.
It is caught on a diving grab and going down.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
At the forty eight yard line.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
After the reception is hinz War and ty Law goes
limping off the field.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Adding to the mounting injuries in the secondary that will
call for desperate measures.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Yeah, ty Laws turned and when he turned, he's slipped
and something gave in his leg.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
He's hopping off on one leg. Now he's down on
his knees, and he's asking for assistance from the medical staff.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Steelers raced out to a twenty four to three lead
and route to a thirty four to twenty victory that
ended the Patriots twenty one game winning street.
Speaker 19 (20:40):
To Pittsburgh Steelers head ended in Bill Cower Squad twenty
one guns put a. Patriots had amazing record breaking right,
but it comes to a close on Halloween, on the
night that it might have been Game seven for the
Red Sox at Fenway.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Can't have it all.
Speaker 19 (20:57):
The Steelers beat the Patriots thirty four to twenty.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
For the first time since Week four of the two
thousand and three season. New England Patriots lost a game.
Jim Niggy, executive director of the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 18 (21:09):
Well, the Pittsburgh one did just because you were playing
Ben Roethlisberger. And I scouted in the year before in Miami, Ohio,
and so I was just really curious what that would
look like because I love Ben Roethlisberger the player when
he was coming out, and they you know, they didn't
load him up, they didn't they didn't ask a lot
of bet on that football team. You know, they they
ran the football and played really good defense.
Speaker 12 (21:29):
But I was just curious.
Speaker 18 (21:30):
And then they came out and they took it to us,
you know, kind of hammered us that game.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
Second and goal to goal with the Patriot four first
to the near side, right back to throw Roethlisberger's fires
left and it is pat touchdown caught on the fire
side of the bio by Plack.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Schick Oberrows Scott Poli, Patriots director of player personnel.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
You know when that happened, did it sucked?
Speaker 21 (21:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (21:55):
It sucked, But you know, it's.
Speaker 13 (21:58):
One game, and if you let things either if you
put too much significance or too much pain into one
game in either direction.
Speaker 12 (22:10):
It gets you distracted.
Speaker 26 (22:11):
It sucked, But you know, Tommy used to have the
same It's one of my favorite sayings of his, Like
after he threw a bad ball or had a bad game.
I remember you say, Hey, even Betty Croker burns the
brownies every once in a while, And I mean we burned.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
The brownies that day. I mean it sucked. And the
thing is the most important thing is the wind.
Speaker 26 (22:33):
Streak wasn't the goal. The goal was February. Winning your
game in February is what the goal was.
Speaker 12 (22:39):
Teddy Bruski Arizona.
Speaker 22 (22:41):
You remember that because you get beat a certain way.
It's like you get beat by a team that's throwing
the ball all over the place. You try to make
different adjustments in terms of coverages, and oh man, we
got to get there. As a pass rusher, you just
get beat up and you get run over. And bett
As coming right down the pipe, right down and is
running running through you.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
At the Patriot thirty seven met us is the iback
hand off to Jerome Bettas breaks through a hole into
the secondary at the thirty, at the twenty five, at
the twenty inside the ten down of the six yard line, hoose,
Jerome Bettas brought down by Rodney Harrison, and that will
put the caper on it for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 22 (23:24):
It's a different type of loss. And that's the type
of loss it was.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Rothlisberger takes a knee and that will do it. The
Pittsburgh Steelers break the Patriots NFL record twenty one game
winning streak. Were they thirty four to thirty win here
in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 22 (23:39):
I wish we could have won all of them all
the way through.
Speaker 12 (23:41):
I don't really believe.
Speaker 22 (23:42):
In the whole you know, it's good to lose, so
you rest or it's good to lose because it refocused you.
We refocused every every week, no matter what it was
twenty one in a row or wins or losses.
Speaker 17 (23:56):
We really called the what did I call it?
Speaker 22 (23:58):
I said it was you know it's it was one win.
It was one win won in a row. We just
did it twenty one times. But to do one win
in a row every single week, you know, was try
the thing that we tried to form. So no, I
never it's almost you know seven if we would have lost,
you know, we would have ended up winning another one.
It's like, no, it was about winning all of them.
(24:18):
It's always winning about all it's all about It's always
about winning all of them. I don't think people understand that,
and the players that don't understand that is why they're
flashes in the pan. In terms of winning one Super.
Speaker 15 (24:29):
Bowl, I have in fears running backs coach.
Speaker 17 (24:32):
I think the way we looked at each one of
them was it was just the game, all right. It
was just the game. That wasn't what we were after.
We always want to win every game, but that wasn't
what we're after. So bullshit on the game, all right,
we lost it. It's not that game that counts, it's
what we do next week, and that's where we were.
Speaker 27 (24:52):
Branchville just felt terrible, but was super eager to get
back because knowing at some point we will see these
guys again, We will see the again, and I couldn't wait,
you know, just to add my little tabbit to the game.
Speaker 12 (25:06):
You follow me.
Speaker 27 (25:07):
My teammates went out and did everything they possibly could,
and it wasn't because of me that they lost the game.
We just didn't carry out this as Simons. There was
plenty eraors in that game that actually caused us a loser.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
I think everything happened for a reason.
Speaker 12 (25:19):
That timing was that it is.
Speaker 27 (25:21):
We went on the twenty game win streat twenty one game. Sorry, hey,
everything comes to it in a little bit, but that
doesn't mean we can't start another win street, you know.
And that was the thing for us, more so, knowing
that we will see these guys again and making sure
we got all of our guys in the stable and
now they'll get the best of us now.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Paul Parrillo, Patriots Football Weekly.
Speaker 16 (25:42):
I think they lost ty log in that game, and
Kevin Falk had a big fumble on a big hit.
I mean, it wasn't necessarily you know, a bad fumble.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Brady out of a shotgun has fall CRUs left in
the back field direction, snap to Brady takes a couple
of steps, back, stands in there, fires that is caught
by pumba ball on the ground. Pittsburgh has it at
the Patriot eighteen seventeen yard line, the last thing in
the world that they needed on the first play of
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the second half, fourth Patriots turnover of the.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Game, and this one could be the real killing.
Speaker 16 (26:17):
It was just one of those things. I think the
way you put it, it's kind of inevitable. You can't
win every game, and Pittsburgh was really good. You know,
we didn't know much about Roethlisberger at the time, and
he had sort of you know, he'd stepped in and
we thought he was kind of like Brady, like you
know in O one. You know, he's winning all these
games as a rookie quarterback, but he's not really responsible
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for the wins. He played really well in that game.
He made some plays and I'd think everything that could
go wrong for the Patriots went wrong, and I did
kind of look at it as a one off, but
I did respect Pittsburgh. I thought the Steelers were really good,
and I figured that they would see them again.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Patriots and Rams first time they've met since Super Bowl
thirty six, which Gino and I enjoyed ementionally. And the
good news are getting both running backs back Patrick Pass
and Corey Dillon.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
The next week, the Pats got back on track. In
true Patriots fashion, Troy Brown not only got his first
true taste to playing cornerback in the NFL, but caught
a touchdown pass from Adam Vinierry on a fake field
goal attempt.
Speaker 28 (27:18):
Troy Brown Marshall University found out later that you know,
he was hoping that at least they would get to
the second half, the third fourth quarter, some before I
had to go in and play. It was two plays,
two plays into the game, right, and it was like,
all right.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
You see who comes in Troy Brown?
Speaker 7 (27:35):
Yeah, Troy Brown is in as an extra corner.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Joy you got you gotta go in?
Speaker 19 (27:40):
So and it rams of, oh, absolutely right, Troy Brown
and playing defence, playing.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Sean McDonald one on one in coverage.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Hey, how about love that?
Speaker 28 (27:55):
Yes, there was a lot of pressure, scary situation to
be in that particular time, you know, as a guy
that just had to play defense in ten years, eleven years,
whatever whatever it was, you know, and uh, you know,
so we've we got that game, you know, unscathed, and
you just kind of start relaxing after that, and it's like, hey,
if I gotta play, I gotta play.
Speaker 19 (28:13):
And who else would take that up then phill Bella, Check.
Speaker 21 (28:16):
And Company, Toy Dillon, University of Washington, I mean, and
that's that's just the brilliance of the players we had.
We're you know, could switch up. Who who wouldever thought
Troy Brown can get over there and play corner, right,
you know what I mean? Who would think of that?
What what coach would think of you know what, Troy,
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we need you at corner this week, and had a
confidence of putting them in there and letting him play corner.
I think I think overall what was real underrated is
we had a lot of good play.
Speaker 16 (28:52):
Well.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
The Patriots will line up another field goal attempt for
Adam Gonna tarry the lineup scrimmages before the kick will
come from the twelve yard line. It'll be a twenty
two yard field goal attempt for Adam Vinitariot's a.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Fake pass to the left touchdown.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
Patriots a touchdown to Troy Brown on the fake field goal,
the direct snap to Adam Vinterry, he fires a strike
to a wide open Troy Brown, who was like a
lonesome end way over on the far left side of
the formation.
Speaker 15 (29:26):
Jim Niggy, Executive director of the Senior Boy.
Speaker 18 (29:28):
The position versatility. I think that that two thousand and
four season, what Troy Brown was able to do going
to the defensive side of the ball, I mean that
to me, that's so emblematic of the New England Patriots
and the Patriot way. Just again, the more you can
do mentality.
Speaker 29 (29:43):
It's really about doing anything you can help the team win.
So many, so many guys who can dress for the game,
But if you're addressed, you better be prepared to play
just about anywhere.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
What's next for you?
Speaker 29 (29:56):
Hopefully the only place you see is behind center, because
have you ever seen on the defense that we were
all in left of trouble?
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Scott p Oli, Patriots director of player Personnel.
Speaker 26 (30:07):
You know we also had this other saying that we
were built through it at me when he hired me
in Cleveland, an entry level job.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
He said, hey, just remember the more you can do,
the more you can do. And I'm like, oh, yeah,
I don't remember what thing is the work? They all
does that mean?
Speaker 26 (30:19):
And what it is is you need to just do
your job, but be prepared to serve in many ways.
Speaker 24 (30:26):
So I don't think, you know, anyone was really thinking
there were other players that were used at different positions
for different reasons, you know.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
So I again, I don't think anyone made that big
of a deal of it.
Speaker 13 (30:45):
But we knew that we were always going to have
backup lines.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Linebacker Mike Brabel caught his second career touchdown in a
total team effort that featured a little bit of everything.
Speaker 7 (30:53):
Dylan directly behind Brady in motion left or right, Foyer,
Brady play action, fake looks, fires En Zoon touchdown touchdown
on the park corner of the end zone to Christian.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Arabel eight.
Speaker 30 (31:10):
Mike Rable while State University, they had a bunch of
energy and they'd show up three hours before the game
and go out on the field and Drew it would
be out warming up and I would start running routes
and he'd say, well, this is this is one, this
is two, this is three, four or five on this
you know, different routes, and I'd run him on the right,
We'd flip around and run him on the left, and
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then I'd go inside and wait for the game. And
he must have had a conversation or Charlie was outside
and said, Hey, this guy could probably do this, and
uh we we headed in. We used it finally in
the Chargers game in San Diego. Scored lost the game,
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so it did not get much attention and then kind
of snowballed from there.
Speaker 26 (31:59):
Pray, remember the Super Bowl, Mike Vrabel, the Super Bowl, Lance,
you cind a touchdown did everything?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Kept me hun from Tom Brady.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
To the forty to twenty two win over their Super
Bowl thirty six opponent, Patriots, showed their first loss in
over a year would not derail them.
Speaker 7 (32:14):
The Patriots scoring pretty much at will against the Rams.
Josh Miller only had to punt twice in this game,
as the Patriots ran roughshod over these Saint Louis Rams
here this afternoon, and they did it with a banged
up defensive secondary, and they did it in style to
improved a seven to one and regain a one game
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lead in the AFC East.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
After a two game road trip, the Patriots returned home
to Jillette Stadium with the newly crowned World champion Boston
Red Sox being honored before the game.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
Red Sox outfitter Johnny Damon honored before the game.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
The Patriots won a Super Bowl before your season? What
kind of motivation was that?
Speaker 31 (32:55):
Oh, it's a huge motivation because they showed up the spring,
or show up opening day a couple of years ago,
throwing out the first pitch, and they showed up again
this year.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
And you know, those guys inspire us. I mean, they
know how.
Speaker 31 (33:08):
To play as a team and that's exactly.
Speaker 7 (33:10):
What we had to do to win the championship.
Speaker 31 (33:12):
So coming out here and supporting them if we're doing
any day, we think they're the greatest teams around, and
they support us, we support them. It's New England's a
very happy place right now.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Drey Brown continue to play cornerback against the Bills, picking
off former Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoell.
Speaker 7 (33:30):
Travis Henry, who was right in the backfield first and
ten direction ap to bloodshell rush comes on.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
He fires to the blood.
Speaker 7 (33:36):
They's tender tructor picked off by Troy Brown down inside
the twenty five hit the twenty three yard line.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Troy Brown with the past utter truction.
Speaker 7 (33:45):
Then he gets over rising hands from the folks in Foxbah.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Teddy Bruski also grabbed an interception off Bledsoe as the
defense led the way to a twenty nine to six victory.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
I loossibly yeah second in eleven for Bloodshell in the
Buffalo Bills with their own forty five and Bloodshell's back
to throw fly goes down the passage had or stuff
that by Teddy Brusky at the forty five yard line.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Final turning to the right.
Speaker 7 (34:06):
Eastern midfield for the forty five to the party for
the thirty five right sidelight to the thirty. Still on
his feet and knocked out of bounds inside the thirty
yard line.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Teddy bruce Ki was a brilliant return.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
It was an especially sweet win for Brown after catching
so many passes on offense from Bledsoe earlier in his career.
Speaker 28 (34:24):
Troy Brown, Marshall University. It was one of those things
where I just, uh, it was like just just a
sweet moment, and I was celebrating and jumping in Teddy's arm,
you know that stuff, and like so happy. I got
a pick and.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Then it set end and I just picked off Drew bledso,
you know.
Speaker 28 (34:40):
And I was like, oh, man, so how do I how.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Do I handle this one after the game?
Speaker 28 (34:45):
You know and all that stuff. So it was like,
you know, and I just I didn't really feel bad,
but I just felt like, this is just too awkward.
Speaker 12 (34:54):
You know.
Speaker 32 (34:54):
Drew Bledsoe and Troy Brown hooked up two hundred and
eighteen times when they were teammates. That's when Bloodsoe was
aiming for Brown. But now the rounds playing DV these
days an awful lot. His first career pick Pats win.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Dion Branch returned to the lineup against the Chiefs in
week eleven after an extended injury absence and immediately made
his impact felt with a key catch on third and fifteen.
Speaker 7 (35:15):
On the opening drive, third down in fifteen from the
Kansas City twenty two, they have to get to the
seven for a first down. Three receivers to the near side, right,
two to the fireside left. Poor Brady third and fifteen
out of a shotgun takes the direct snap, stands in there,
pump fakes fires end zone, diving catch up the five
by Dion Branch. First Bengaligo Patriots.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
The franch got things started. Willie McGinnis finished things off
with a sack that sealed win number nine of the season,
a twenty seven to nineteen victory.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
And it is a fourth down in six for Kansas
City at their own thirty six. Again, Green out of
the shotgun slaps the bob side direct snap to Green,
stands in, stands in pean chase, gonna be shacked.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
That'll do it.
Speaker 7 (35:56):
Sacked back at the twenty six guideline. Willie McGill was
relentless in his pursuit of quarterback Trent Green, and he
sacked him back at the twenty sixth and that puts
the cap on it for the Patriots.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Back in Foxborough, the Patriots continued to show they could
win games however necessary, with a twenty four to three
domination of the Ravens in a driving rainstorm.
Speaker 7 (36:17):
Second down and twenty for Baltimore at their own twenty
out of a shotgun, now bowler, we'll take the direct snap.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Here's the rush from the other side.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
He has hit it. Sack, the down, tumble, follow the ground,
tasted out of the one yard line in the end zone,
touch down, touchdown. Patriots touchdown on a fumble with covery
by Jarvis Crane.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
That is defense.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
My friend Travis Green returned to fumble for a touchdown.
Corey Dillon rushed for one hundred and twenty three yards.
Speaker 7 (36:45):
Rain pounding down second and goal to go at the
Baltimore one. Seymour the fullback billing the tailback in the eye,
goes to the left, drinds it down and.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
The n touchdown.
Speaker 21 (36:55):
Corey Dylon Corey Dylan University of Washington would dawned on me.
I didn't. I didn't understand, like like being at other organization,
you would hear, you would hear like what other organizations do.
So I never I never knew what the Patriot Way was.
Speaker 12 (37:12):
I didn't.
Speaker 21 (37:13):
I didn't.
Speaker 12 (37:13):
I didn't get that.
Speaker 21 (37:13):
I was like, what is that?
Speaker 12 (37:14):
You know what I mean? Like, I don't know, is
that a code with what's going on?
Speaker 21 (37:19):
Like and you would hear that from from other places,
because I mean, I grew up. I'm from Seattle. I
know Lawyer mylloy, and I've been knew Willie McGinnis and
all these guys before I got here. So me actually
coming over and and like and the narrative out there
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before I even got here. Oh, he had never fit in.
It's the Patriot way. I was like, I don't even
know what the hell that is, to be honest with you,
But getting over here and and and seeing it firsthand
and figuring out what it is. It's just a guy
doing his job, you know what I mean, going out
there playing.
Speaker 7 (37:58):
The right way.
Speaker 6 (38:00):
He seven nineteen.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
As always, winners get to talk first.
Speaker 33 (38:03):
And I'm playing with a great group. I mean, they
got my back, I got theirs. And you know when
I make mistakes, man, we just come up and make
a play to help us win. And that's what that's
what a team effort's about.
Speaker 10 (38:15):
Well, Brady got the horse trailer from John Madden, but
Corey Dillon was the horse total.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Team efforts continued in Cleveland as Bethel Johnson returned the
opening kickoff ninety three yards for a touchdown.
Speaker 7 (38:25):
Dawson into it, Bethel Johnson deep and the kickoff is away,
coming down to Bethel on the fire side at the
six heads to the ten, toward the middle of the
field of fifteen, twenty, alle, twenty five, thirty, thirty five, forty.
He is going to go to the races at the
fifty the forty, the thirty five, He is going to
go all the way ninety four yards kickoff return for
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a touchdown for Bethel Johnson, and the.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Pats never looked back en route to a forty two
to fifteen win, their highest scoring output of the season.
Speaker 6 (38:54):
Paul Parrillo, Patriots Football Weekly.
Speaker 16 (38:57):
They go to Cleveland and Bethel Johnson returns the opening
kickoff for a touchdown. The game, Mike, was over, ohvah,
as we'd like to say in Boston, it was over.
There's no way that the Cleveland Browns were ever gonna
make up fifteen seconds in. They were never gonna make
up that gap. And that to me spoke to just
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how dominant. I know Cleveland wasn't a good team, but
how many teams just like, well, that game's over. You know,
one play, that's all right, go home, you go home.
Speaker 7 (39:28):
The game is fourteen seconds old and Adam Vinteri is
on to attempt the extra point. The snap, the ball down,
the kick is up, the kick is good, and the
team's head back up field. Fourteen seconds into the game.
Your score the Patriots seven, Cleveland nothing.
Speaker 16 (39:45):
And that's how it was.
Speaker 17 (39:46):
It was.
Speaker 16 (39:47):
I used to feel like when the Patriots got the
ball when if they moved to score, Now, let me
see what the defense is gonna do. Oh, the defense
forced a three and out, or they looked like they
were in control. And I would look at Bred and
I'd say this one. And I did that a lot
of time, probably like twelve times out of those fourteen
wins in the regular season.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
At zero four, back at home again, the Patriots clinched
the AFSE East title with a thirty five to twenty
eight win over the Bengals.
Speaker 7 (40:12):
Brady checking off at the line of scrimmage on second down,
drop straight back to pass.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
He falls, gets rid of the foot bottle. It's caught by.
Speaker 7 (40:20):
Pass on the near side at the forty stiff arms
and man and goes up and out of bounds at
the forty five yard line.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
What a play by break. Can never see a play
like that.
Speaker 7 (40:30):
He dropped it all fell, but he knew where pass was.
That's the thing. Him on the ground.
Speaker 6 (40:36):
The referee Triplett was standing behind him.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
He's laughing.
Speaker 7 (40:41):
He's laughing and saying, my god, never saw anything like it.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Cory Dillon scored a touchdown against his old team while
punching his first ever ticket to the postseason.
Speaker 7 (40:50):
Third down in goal to go at the Cincinnati one,
Richard Seymour is checked in as the full back and
he lines up off set right. Dylan is the iback.
Brady on third and goal to give us to Dylan
to the right, crashes down and in touchdown Corey Jellen.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
Seemed like the Patriots were streaking toward the playoffs as
they traveled to Miami to face the Dolphins, historically one
of the toughest places for New England to play.
Speaker 7 (41:11):
Patriots defeated the Dolphins earlier in the season in Foxborough
by a score of twenty four to ten, and they're
looking to make it two in a row over the
Dolphins for the second year in a row.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
The game was going according to playing against the Dolphins
in their orange alternate uniforms, as New England built an
eleven point lead with four minutes to play.
Speaker 7 (41:29):
They come out of the huddle with Seymour the full
back and pass the tailback in motion right to left
comes Forrier. The gift to no when Brady play action
fake floats at the end zone, touchdown Daniel Reya.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
That's when things uncharacteristically fell apart. Dolphins quarterback aj Feeley
led a seven play touchdown drive.
Speaker 7 (41:49):
First and goal to go Miami at the Patrie eight
one yard line. Miller and Morris in the backfield in
a straight eye to give us to Morris hurdles up
in the air and goes down.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
In in for a touchdown.
Speaker 7 (42:01):
That's the third time the Dolphins have scored a touchdown
with their running back leaping into the end zone.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
And then Tom Brady threw an interception deep inside Patriots territory.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
They're down to nine with their own twenty one.
Speaker 7 (42:11):
Swatted the near side left for Brady in motion like
to left Patton. Brady back to throw, being rushed, going
to be hit Tigers of all to the right right.
He settled us intercepted by Miami. He just fired the
ball off to the right and I am Badagio intercepted it.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Ill advised.
Speaker 7 (42:28):
Tom Brady got away with that a couple of weeks
ago when he was lying on his back and threw
it out made a completion, he was sacked, he was
going down on his back. He tried to do it again,
and I gotta tell you, I know that he is
really upset with himself for doing something so foolish At
this particular stage of the game, and what might have
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been the consequence has happened.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
Miami again capitalized, taking a one point lead with one
twenty three left.
Speaker 7 (42:54):
Chambers far side left, slocked to the left side, Morris
alone running back fourt down in ten Miami field is
back to throw, looks fires to the end zone. Talk
touchdown Miami Talk by Darius Thompson who leaped in the air.
He's six to two and he catches a twenty one
yard touchdown pass from aj Peely with one twenty three
(43:15):
to go and the Dolphins take the lead twenty.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
Nine, twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
Brady threw another pick on the final drive. Just like that,
Miami was kneeling on just their third win of the year.
Speaker 20 (43:25):
Second down in nineteen from their own fifteen yard line,
Patting to the near side left, givens to the fireside
right the branch and.
Speaker 7 (43:36):
The slotting on the wings kis Graham passing.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
The back field of the elected Brady out of.
Speaker 7 (43:41):
A shotgun formation direct snapped to Brady stands in, stands in,
fires to the right, and it is interceptor. Fourth interception
of the game on the left sideline and down to
the twenty three yard line.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
Goes Ar Turo.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
Freeman and handing the Patriots just their second loss of
the season and.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
The Patriots six game win straight.
Speaker 7 (44:01):
It was about two ms.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
The upset made national headlines and was a reminder of
how quickly games can turn upside down.
Speaker 6 (44:08):
So many explain this to us.
Speaker 10 (44:09):
A little eleven point le with four minutes ago in
the game, So you got to get Minama credit. They
made the plays at the end that they need to make,
and we didn't make them. So that's that's why they
came out on top. I think we didn't do a
good job in any of the three phases of the game,
and I just just need to play better.
Speaker 29 (44:27):
You just got to do your best to go out
and rebound. And like I said, you watch going I'll
go into tomorrow and I'll watch the tape and I'll
see the problems and I'll try to correct them. And
you're not gonna win any games thing four interceptions into that.
I've learned that a long time ago.
Speaker 6 (44:41):
Nick Fitzi Stevens Patriots fan and personality.
Speaker 14 (44:44):
Of course, as the Patriots were to go on this
incredible winning streak twenty one straight games, like they couldn't
they couldn't be stopped. They were just a bulldozer, a
freight train, led by Brady's ascending greatness, Belichick's brilliance, Corey
Dillon just smashing in, dashing through lines, and maybe their
best defensive unit to date as a franchise. But of
(45:06):
course there had to be just to make sure that
we didn't completely lose our minds, there had to be
one head scratching, How the hell did you guys lose
that game?
Speaker 2 (45:16):
Game?
Speaker 14 (45:17):
The Monday night loss in Miami, Because of course the
season ended with a Super Bowl doesn't bother the Patriots
fan to date. But when you think back to where
you were and when Brady threw the ass pass, but
this time it was intercepted, costing the Pats a win
on Monday night football against a terrible Dolphins team, that
was just that was one of those ones that kind
(45:39):
of kept us all in emotional checking.
Speaker 12 (45:42):
Corey Dylan, University of Wie.
Speaker 21 (45:44):
Monday night, We're controlling the game, everything is going good, man,
it just weird stuff started happening. Man. It just interception here,
fumble here, and I'm just looking like wow. But I
tell you what, I tell you what I think honestly,
I don't like losing. I hate losing, but I think
we needed to lose that game to reset and get
(46:06):
back focused, because I mean, when you're running through the
season and you're thirteen in one or whatever, you can
get a little complacent, you know what I mean. And
I think Bill used that game prime example to reset us,
get us back where we need to be.
Speaker 6 (46:23):
Paul Perillo Patriots Football Weekly.
Speaker 16 (46:25):
Just so uncharacteristic of those Patriots teams. They almost never
beat themselves, and that night they beat themselves, and worse,
Tom Brady was the reason that they beat themselves. I mean,
just a terrible interception where as Jason Taylor is throwing
him down. Just one of those nights that you know,
(46:46):
Miami was. I want to say, Miami had two wins
going into that game. No one really took it seriously,
you know, just give you a little little peak behind
the curtain.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
Mic.
Speaker 16 (46:55):
You know, we used to do the paper at that
time too, We still had Patriots Football Weekly. It's the
only I just, you know, I had most of my
writing done and the game just sort of unfolded in
a flukey way down the stretch, which completely made everything
I wrote irrelevant. It's the only time I've ever done this.
I just deleted the file and just started completely over again,
because nothing I had written was relevant by the time
(47:17):
the game was over. It was one of the truly
stunning results. Now that one, everybody said, there's nothing to
worry about it. That was just a sloppy, uncharacteristic one
off performance Pittsburgh. You said, like, how much of it
had to do with the Steelers and the Patriots. The
Dolphins loss was on the Patriots.
Speaker 6 (47:36):
Scott Poli, Patriots director of player personnel.
Speaker 26 (47:39):
Yeah, again, it was frustrating, It was annoying, but it
was you know, the timing was part of our thing
was we always wanted to get better as the season
went on. We wanted to be strong in November, stronger
in December.
Speaker 5 (47:53):
You know, you don't want to peak in September.
Speaker 26 (47:56):
So when you're getting to that point and we're a
pretty good football team, you know, we're a one lost
football team.
Speaker 5 (48:01):
Up to that point. It was another one of those
reminders that you got.
Speaker 24 (48:05):
To be ready in sixty minutes, sixty minutes, sixty minutes,
sixty minutes maybe more.
Speaker 3 (48:12):
Undeterred, the Patriots bounced back the following week, clinching the
second overall seed in the AFC and the valuable bye
week that came with it.
Speaker 7 (48:19):
The Patriots, after having lost last week twenty nine twenty
eight on Monday to the Dolphins in Miami, bounced back
with a brilliant overall efforts this afternoon, offensively, defensively, special
teams in a twenty three to seven route of the
New York Jets.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
The Jets had five punts and two turnovers on offense
through three quarters. The Pats roll twenty three to seven.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
And you're New England.
Speaker 7 (48:42):
Patriots have just clinched the first round by in the
NFL playoffs with the no worse than the number two seed.
Matter of fact, they will be the number two seed
no matter what happens next week because Pittsburgh clinched the
number one seed this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (48:56):
With their playoff seeding set, the Patriots closed out their
two thousand and four season with a final win over
the forty nine ers, but it was not a meaningless
final victory.
Speaker 7 (49:03):
Second down at the six yard line, second and two
for a first down, six for a touchdown, Rowan Davy
has him set tie end on the right wing, is
Weaver Dylan alone running back handoff comes to Dylan, comes
to the left, shoots it.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
Up the meadow. Touchdown.
Speaker 7 (49:20):
Beautiful piece of running by Corey Dylon. Started left, then
just stop for a second and.
Speaker 2 (49:26):
Bang right up the shoot for the touchdown.
Speaker 3 (49:28):
Corey Dylon rushed for one hundred and sixteen yards to
set the Patriots single season rushing record with sixteen hundred
and thirty five yards.
Speaker 7 (49:34):
Second down and two for the batch at the San
Francisco forty.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
Three yard line. Ready to hand off to Dylan again
right up the middle.
Speaker 7 (49:40):
He's got a first down at the forty on the
street at the thirty five half to thirty at the
twenty five hack for twenty down inside the fifteen and
brought down at about the fourteen yard line. Corey Dylan
with a bang bang run.
Speaker 1 (49:52):
Matt Patricia offensive assistant Corey Dillon one of.
Speaker 9 (49:55):
My favorite favorite people coming into the building. He was
such a dude man. He's such a tough guy. And
I remember the beauty of Corey was just coming from Sincy.
Remember I remember him saying this is like and he's like,
you know, He's like, what I love here is I'm
in the locker room.
Speaker 5 (50:13):
I'm just another guy. Like the media comes in.
Speaker 9 (50:15):
They're going to talk to Tom, they're going to talk
to Bruski, they're going to talk to Rodney, Willie, whoever
it was. They didn't want to Hount, Like, they didn't
even bother him. He's like, I can just be a
football player. He's like, let me just go run the ball.
And that's all he wanted to do.
Speaker 5 (50:27):
And he was. He was a man.
Speaker 9 (50:30):
I mean when you like, the NFL is full of
grown men, but then there's some like grown, grown men,
and he was one of those grown grown men.
Speaker 5 (50:37):
He just he would punish people.
Speaker 9 (50:39):
And you'd stand on the sideline during a game and
you watch him run and you're like, there's no chance,
like I would my body would break in half.
Speaker 5 (50:46):
Like he was a beast.
Speaker 9 (50:47):
And you know he had over sixteen hundred yards. I mean,
he just would dominate and control the game.
Speaker 7 (50:53):
Bory Dillon tied his personal high with his ninth one
hundred plus yard rushing game, and so the Patriots good
shape going into the playoffs.
Speaker 12 (51:02):
Corey Dillon University of Wine.
Speaker 21 (51:03):
So during that whole season, I mean, everybody I like,
I like players, holding players accountable offense and defense. That's
what we did all year. Man, So it it, it
panned out, and it kept us focused as just coming
in and you know the you know the the famous
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quote just do your job, you know, and that's what
we did. And and players held everybody accountable for just
doing your job. So and if you're off, you're not.
You know, other players could sense that, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 12 (51:41):
And it's just.
Speaker 21 (51:42):
The the confidence another player will give you when you
may be struggling a little bit to go out there
and perform man means everything. That's a that signs of
a good team.
Speaker 3 (51:53):
Next time, the Patriots begin another epic and poetic playoff
run with two bitter AFC rivals standing between them and immortality.
Join us next time on this Patriot super Bowl sound odyssey.
Yes it's a dynasty.
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