Phil Perry What's Changed with the Patriots Running Backs

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00:00The running game. It was effective. It's been very bad, but it was effective last week. What did you see?

00:08I think the question is, is it here to stay? Was that for real? Because Tennessee is one of the worst run defenses in football.

00:17And, you know, there were some things that they were doing schematically that I think made it a little bit easier for the Patriots to run.

00:23And that's, listen, that's to the Patriots benefit. I think some of the things they were doing early, if you watch,

00:29they had an extra safety out of the box. So the Patriots have seen a lot of single high safety coverage over the vast majority of the season.

00:37The numbers game in terms of trying to run the football against those looks can be really difficult.

00:42And it was for the Patriots. But I think what happened in Tennessee, at least to start that game, was Drake Mays been playing so damn well.

00:50They said, OK, you know, finally, a Patriots opponent said, I guess we have to pull this extra body out of the box,

00:56even though we don't love the receivers they have. The quarterback's so good, he's making the receivers good.

01:01And so we'll play an extra safety deep and we'll try to defend the pass first.

01:05And that made it a little bit easier for them to run the ball, especially early in the game.