Locked On Patriots - Daily Podcast On The New England Patriots - PATRIOTS POSTCAST: Patriots HUMBLED By Aaron Rodgers and the Jets On TNF!

Episode Date: September 20, 2024

Aaron Rodgers made it a happy homecoming for the Jets as they crush the Patriots 24-3 in a game that did not even feel that close. The Patriots failed to crack 200 yards of total offense while Rodgers went 27-35 for 267 yards and 2 TD's. Drake Maye debuted on the final drive, getting sacked twice, capping off a 7 sack performance from the Jets defense. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Arena Club Right now, you can get 10% off your first Slab Pack or card purchase by going to Arenaclub.com/lockedonnfl and use code lockedonnfl. Robinhood The new gold standard is here with Robinhood Gold. Sign up at robinhood.com/gold Terms apply, for product specific disclosures visit robinhood.com/gold. Investing involves risk. Rate may change. Gold membership is offered by Robinhood Gold, LLC. DoorDash Use promo code LOCKEDFALL24 for 50% off up to $10 value, when you spend $15+ on your first order. Limited time offer. Terms apply. Promo is not valid for orders containing alcohol. PrizePicks Go to https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/LOCKEDONNFL and use code lockedonmlb to win $50 instantly when you play $5. You don't even need to win to receive your $50 bonus, it's guaranteed! Prizepicks. Run Your Game. LinkedIn LinkedIn Jobs helps you find the qualified candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONNFL. Terms and conditions apply. Gametime Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONNFL for $20 off your first purchase. Terms Apply. Download Gametime today. What time is it? Gametime. FanDuel Now through September 22nd, ALL FanDuel customers can bet FIVE DOLLARS and get a THREE WEEK free trial of NFL Sunday Ticket from YouTube and YouTube TV. Visit FANDUEL.COM to get started. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)

there goes our first Patriots torture watch of the season. This is the Locked On Patriots Postcast. You are Locked On Patriots Postcast, part of Locked On Sports Boston on the Locked On Podcast Network. Your team every day. Welcome to the Locked On Patriots Postcast brought to you by PrizePix and part of the Locked On Podcast Network where it is your team every day. I am your host, Cam Stewart, and that was not fun at all.

The Patriots get just throttled by the Jets. 24-3 is a flattering score for the Patriots to go home with because it should have been much worse. And I'm almost glad they didn't go in to try and score a touchdown at the end because they did not deserve a touchdown tonight. That was pitiful. An absolutely pitiful performance. We're going to talk about just how bad this offense is.

Maybe we were wrong a little bit about the defense as well. And we're right back to August with the offensive line. That's all coming up on this Locked On Patriots postcast. Okay, so the elephant in the room is the thumbnail that says the worst offense in the NFL. I get it. The Panthers are there. The Panthers really suck. The Panthers shouldn't even be considered an NFL team, but nipping at those heels are the New England Patriots. Undoubtedly the worst offense in the AFC, and because I don't even consider the Panthers a franchise, I would say the worst offense in the National Football League. Just atrocious, just god-awful, had nothing,

nothing going for it tonight. It never felt more like 2023 than it did tonight. This is the first day in the whole year of 2024 that I said, by God, this feels a lot like 2023. The Patriots are going for this thing. They're trying to like, I don't know, set NFL records or something. They're thinking how many times can we pass for under 150 yards? They have not passed for 150 yards in a game once this season. Through almost 13 quarters of football. They haven't found one game where they could throw for 150. That's pedestrian.

That's worse than pedestrian. And they can't even hit that. They're trying to see if they can win an NFL game for passing under 100 yards. Jacoby Brissett, 12 of 18 for 98. They had 120 yards through the air tonight. How are you supposed to beat anybody doing that? How are you supposed to beat

Foxborough freaking high school doing that? 120 yards through the air. I'm telling you, I'm broadcasting a high school football game tomorrow night. I guarantee you both teams will pass for more than 120 yards. The Patriots cannot do it. They cannot do it. It's abysmal. Less than 200 yards of total offense. Are you kidding me?

Are you kidding me? How can you be that bad? How? And call yourself an NFL team. Good Lord, what a joke. What an absolute joke. Of course they don't have a team out there for Drake May. And it was bound to come because nobody was blitzing on him. And finally a team says, wow, this might be the worst offensive line in the whole freaking league. How about we throw some pressure at him and see what happens? That's what happens.

Less than 200 total yards. It's a joke. It's a joke of a team. And then I get to hear during the broadcast, if they took a break, they took Aaron Rodgers' shafts out of their mouth for just a second to talk about how apparently Robert Kraft picked Gerard Mayo to be the head coach nine years ago on a trip to Israel

because of how he interacted with older people. That's what this franchise is now, let alone this one team. But now the franchise is picking a coach 10 years in advance to replace the best coach ever because he talks nice with old people? What is this franchise? I actually, I felt as good as I can about this team coming into this game. And by that, I mean, I thought they would not be a two-win team,

but rather like a five or six-win team. Because I thought they were not be a two-win team, but rather like a five or six-win team. Because I thought they were doing everything right, except for passing the football to wide receivers. And tonight showed that there is much more to that, that they were doing wrong. Penalties, mistakes, can't throw the ball, don't even try to establish the run. They fall down 7-0, and they're playing one of the worst rush defenses in the league right now. And they say, you know what? We're a passing team. Let's just let Jacoby cook first drive. They abandoned it. They didn't even start it to even abandon it. Ramondre Stevenson was well over 200 yards in his first two games. You're facing the 24th best rush defense in the league. You give him the rock six times, six times,

for the guy you're paying $9 million a year. Six times for 23 yards. What even is this? Oh, but thankfully, Gerard Mayo was pretty cool in Israel a decade ago. When I was in high school, he was pretty good at talking to people. And now he's the head coach of this team. And I didn't even want this to be a Mayo thing because I thought he coached well in the first two games.

He didn't handle the clock well against Seattle, but that's what comes when it's your second game. But then this shit that, this stuff that we hear about him being picked nine years ago on a trip to Israel. How does that not piss you off? And I just. It's a couple with this performance. My God, I Thursday Night Football has never been a great broadcast.

OK, and Al Michaels was and probably is the best ever he has lost his fastball big time and he doesn't like working with Kirk Herbstreet but my god we get it Aaron Rodgers had a nice game but they just couldn't stop it was a three-hour stroke fest eight yards a completion and they just they't, they are falling all over themselves talking about how great he is. He had a good game. 280 yards, a couple touchdowns. But, like, can we just pump the brakes a little bit? God, they were acting like it was the greatest comeback story of all time.

Played one of the worst teams in the league, and they won handily. Congrats. It was a good game. It was a good game. God, I sound bitter. Oh, I just. This team looked competent the first two weeks, as competent as they can be with this talent pool.

And I do need to preface it by saying that. Because by no means do I look down this roster and say, yeah, this is a good team. This is competent. But they weren't making mistakes. Tonight they made mistakes. And I'm so glad they actually got the ball to pop a few times. Pop Douglas, they actually targeted him this week.

Liked that. They targeted him nine times. And look what happened. Seven catches for 69 yards. He's 10 yards a catch. That's what happens. But then you look down the list. Keyshawn Boutte got one catch.

Jalen Polk, one catch. So outside of Demario Douglas, you're right back to where you were last week. Three catches by wide receivers. And Tyquan Thornton. Tyquan Thornton. I think Tyquan Thornton is a theory at this point. I don't know if he exists.

I don't know if he is a wide receiver in the National Football League. And that sucks. I'm a Baylor alum. My other show is Locked on Baylor. I wish I could sit here and say how great a pick Tyquan Thornton is. You're in year three of this, and you're on the field this time. On the field, in name only. A complete placebo out there.

Nothing. Again, two catches on the year. Could have had George Pickens. Could have had an offensive lineman. Pro Bowl offensive linemen were picked behind him. Instead, we just have a decoy, a traffic cone wearing number 11. That's what we've got.

And I'm wondering what we've got on defense. I'm wondering if it is the same one that I was so high on last week and the week before. Let's talk about that next on the postcast. But this postcast is brought to you by FanDuel. You guys have heard us talk about it. All right, it's America's number one sportsbook. Got something a little different for you this week because now through the end of this weekend, September 22nd,

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Which, by the way, again, 42 more yards than your offense got the whole game. How pathetic is that? How pathetic is that to say out loud, talking about an NFL game? Golly. I watched this team win Super Bowls. and now they can't muster up 200 yards against the Jets. Oof. Oof, that's brutal. The Titans almost beat this team. The Titans scored 17 against them. The Titans gave up less points, actually. It did not look good in the first half, and I understand you're going up against a Hall of Fame quarterback

who, if you listen to the broadcast, would think was the greatest quarterback ever to be pooped out into earth. But it just, I didn't think it was a great game from Christian Gonzalez. I thought Wilson beat him a couple of times and obviously had that touchdown on him that was just as likely to be a touchdown as it was a pick six. And if it was any Patriot quarterback throwing it, Gonzalez would have walked into the end zone from 99 yards out. Um, but this was the first time this year we've seen Gonzalez be okay.

He had some good coverage out there at times. And I want to say only two of those catches from Garrett Wilson were on Gonzalez man-to-man, but that was just on my naked eye count, including that one that was a touchdown. So first touchdown, he's given up this year. Five catches on nine targets. So, uh, they spread the ball around, they spread the ball around and Patriots again

had three receivers with catches and the jets had Conklin for five catches, Wilson for five catches Williams for three Lazard for three, and then tight ends and running backs too. It was worrisome in that first half, I thought. And I mean, the game, the rest of the game stats don't seem great. You gave up 27 first downs. You let them go 10 of 15 on third down. I think that, that is, that is the damning point here is that it was 10 of 15 on third down. Like how do you let a team go 67% on third down? That's, that's, that's not a good defensive performance. And the jets didn't really make them pay because it should have been worse.

They, they should have, they should have put up two more touchdowns tonight and really, really embarrassed the Patriots here. But 10 of 15 on third down, that'll embarrass you. 400 total yards of offense compared to your team's 139. 139. I can't get away from this number. It's so bad. It's so bad. And thankfully, things tailed off at the end

so that the Jets would go down to just six yards of play because they were up over eight at one point in the first half. Six yards of play. I'm surprised they even got to 15 third downs on that. They ran 22 more plays than the Patriots. I mean, look at that. They just stay on the field. Patriots couldn't get after the quarterback on what's now looks like a good offensive line. Didn't the first

two weeks now looks like a good offensive line for the jets. Just two sacks, um, held them to 130 rushing yards, but who cares when you gave up two 67 and in the air and 400 total and 24 points. Uh, the jets actually have more penalties than the Patriots, which it did not feel that way. It looked like the Patriots, felt like the Patriots shot themselves in the foot with that, but the Jets at one point did have a third and 33. So I guess that makes sense.

Three or four in the red zone, one turnover on the game and it's Ramondre Stevenson. The Jets had the ball for 40 minutes. For two-thirds of the game, they had the ball. How are you supposed to do anything against that? That's on the defense. That's on a defense not getting off the field. It sure as heck doesn't help that your offense is so bad

that you don't even hold it for 20 minutes. I get that. But it's not like the offense was really any better the last two weeks. They had one drive last week, one sustained drive, and maybe two against Cincinnati. It's not like they were lighting the world on fire offensively, but you forced turnovers the other week, especially week one. This wasn't really close to forcing a turnover. Just that one play, Gonzalez on the goal line.

So your one play that was almost a turnover was just a touchdown for the other team. It was not a great performance. Not a great performance from this Patriots defense. Like, I don't know, it didn't feel terrible in the second half, but I'm trying to think, well, they did this. I can't think of anything. Didn't force the turnover and allowed them to go 10 to 15 on third down. I don't need to go any more than that. 10 to 15 on third down. We're done. That's a terrible performance. And it just goes to show that, especially in a short week, your defense cannot win you every game.

It can't. In fact, it rarely happens in the NFL these days. Even in this year, when the offense is going down, field goals are up, touchdowns are down, and you still can't win a game when you're not passing for 120 yards. You can't do it. And with this offensive line, I don't know that they're going to have a game where they throw for 200 yards. In 17 this year, I don't know that they will because of this putrid offensive line, this complete lack of weapons, and a questionable attack tonight.

I had relented. I liked Alex Van Pelt the first two games. I liked his play calling. They could have managed the clock better, but I liked his play calling. I thought he was making the most of what he had, which is not wide receiver, obviously. But again, after that first Jets touchdown touchdown drive I had the pit in my stomach because then they go uh then they go pass on the first play and the first two drives they're trying to pass out of it I'm like that's not this offense you you are you see the Jets

deficiency on defense and you say don't worry guys I'm not going to go after that that would be classless you guys suck against the run but seven nothing seven minutes into the game I really got to catch up now I gotta pass I just thought that was brain dead. I thought that was completely brain dead and the Patriots deserve to lose as bad as they did when it came out to that attack. I usually go the next segment with the turntables and where this game turned, but I'm just going to sneak preview it for you. I think it was done right then. I think it showed a team that said we're abandoning the game plan after one

sign of adversity. And that is being down 7-0. And just completely let this Jets rush defense off the hook by not handing the ball off. I thought it was all pitiful. Drake

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to win to receive that bonus. Guaranteed. Prize picks. Run your game. Speaking of run, Patriots quarterbacks are running for their lives tonight. That included Jacoby Brissett and Drake May, who made his NFL debut. But both of them kind of the same thing because the Jets seven sacks for 59 yards lost on the day. And I forgot to mention with the Patriots defense, this was the thing that I kind of noticed early on was I was like, Hmm, the thing that's really bugging me here is they're missing tackles. They hadn't missed tackles the first two games. They didn't even do it a lot last year.

And I was like, that's a missed mark here because this is a physical defense that I thought through the first two weeks were excellent tackling. Instead, tonight, and this stat came up late in the game, they had 13 missed tackles, losing 100 yards. 100 yards and a 15% missed tackle rate. That's bum stuff, man. That's bum.

That's not good defense. And it was not a good offensive line performance either. Like I just said, seven sacks. And you're watching it in the first half. Jacoby Brissett, I mean, he's getting hit on almost every play. And I'm sitting there thinking, man, this could be a good time at the end of a game to bring in Drake May. But I know football is a contact sport.

He's going to get hit at some point, but Brissette's getting hit every time. Maybe this isn't the game to bring him in. Nope. The team that is scared to play him because that offensive line is so bad on a night where they're just getting beat up said, yeah, this is the time. This is the time. And look, the kid was in there for one drive. Did he look impressive?

Not really, but he was in there for one drive. Hurried everything because he was hurried. Four of eight for 22 yards, almost three yards of completion. And even in his one drive, he was sacked twice. And this was not, get rid of the ball, kid. Why are you taking a sack? This was, oh my God, try to get anything to get out of the way. He got sacked twice and probably got hit five times in one drive. My God, I hope they have good insurance because this is like hurting me to watch. Their quarterback gets hit every play.

Every play, he's on his ass. How can you put the kid out there for a whole game? That's what I'm wondering. So I wasn't happy necessarily to see him in there and i did find it interesting that they didn't try for a touchdown at i mean they stalled out the game after a sack inside the jets 10 yard line by the way fitting way to end it on the sack but dra Drake May, his time will come. His time will come. But as sad, as scared as I am

about him playing behind this offensive line, I might be more scared with this receiver unit that's out there. Because Jacoby Brissett, he can buy some time and has this year. Still no one's getting open. Apparently, Jalen Polk was like the most open receiver in the league in week one I didn't watch the all 22 I didn't see it but he's had like three catches since then

how open can he be truly how open can he be and uh Drake almost intercepted on his first pass. That would have been something. And I had this thought during the game, which I know is going to sound stupid and not exactly apples to apples, but I just think it's funny that they're not ready to send Drake May out there because this offensive line, it's patchwork.

It's no good. It's probably the worst in the league. And yet they have another rookie who's on the offensive line that they are more than happy to put out there at a position he's never played. He played his whole college career at right tackle. They put Caden Wallace at left tackle. He's holding. He's lining up wrong.

He's holding when they're still giving up a sack. Like this is the Eagles joint practice all over again. Hit on every drop back and committing penalties to impede a pass rusher, a pass rusher who still gets the sack. Just pitiful. Just a pitiful performance all the way around tonight. I can't find one good thing you can draw from this performance. Not one.

Like, okay, you might have baited the Jets into some penalties. Who cares? You lost by 21 points. And then Drake May is out there. They're down by 21 on what is the final drive of the game. It's third and 13. And they're throwing behind the sticks. Like, just take a shot.

Take a shot. You lost the game. Just go for it. What are you doing? And they go for it on fourth down anyway. It's like, why are you throwing behind the sticks on third and 13? Who does that help? It totally inconsequential the game, but I'm like, why is that the mindset? Why are you going to put this kid out here and not see what he has?

That to me was just dumb. He's getting hit anyway. You cannot protect him anyway. You know that when you're putting him out there, have him stand in the pocket and try to get something downfield in an NFL game. Why are you going conservative there? I just, it doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense. And too many teams do that. But I don't know. It was like you wanted to put him out there

just to check off that he's appeared in an NFL game and not actually you know give him some plays to run take some shots I mean they did one thing in the first half they took one deep shot and it was just to get a pass interference penalty they got got it. It was barely a pass interference. If it was, it was like feet tangling up. It probably shouldn't have even been a penalty. And I remember teams did that against the Patriots for years and Brady never did it.

And they never called one of those to like simply run a four verts or two verts just to try and get a flag. And that was their offensive philosophy in the first half. So I don't know whether to hate it or love it because look, you're not completing. That was to Taekwon Thornton. You're not completing a pass to Taekwon Thornton in the NFL. You're not doing it.

Not in NFL regular season game. I don't think it's allowed. But instead they go conservative with Drake May out there. Like what's the, again, what is the point of getting conservative? Conservative is to like, keep this Jersey dry, keep it clean, but you're not doing that anyway. So just, I don't know, take a shot. I wanted to take a shot watching this game. Let me know what you thought down in the comments below.

I thought it was dog. I'm not going to swear again today. It was very poor. It was a very poor performance. And I imagine that even with the extra days off, they are going to get curb stomped by the San Francisco 49ers on the road. And then you've got Miami at home, I believe it's at home, with Skyler Thompson at quarterback. That was the game I thought was the earliest you could see Drake May. Let me know what you think down in the comments below. Be sure to like and subscribe. Bring that notification bell to get notified every time we are on here on the Postcast, which is right after every Patriots game. So a little 10-day break, siesta, collect our thoughts and then come back. Mike debate.

We'll have the full wrap up tomorrow. He'll have more level headed. He'll probably swear less than me and he will have some more reason. It's not going to be as emotional and debate does great job breaking that down. And my favorites are on Mondays. Now, in this case of Friday to get that breakdown from the game before we appreciate you making the lockdown podcast network your first listen today and every day.

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