Patriots Facing Fraud Check

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00:00How bad will it be if they lose this weekend?

00:04It won't be bad, but it'll get you thinking, you know, now it's an uphill fight.

00:10It won't be bad.

00:11It will be bad.

00:12Will it?

00:12Yeah, it will, and I'll tell you why.

00:13But if they lose, all right, go ahead.

00:16I'm going to tell you why.

00:16Go ahead.

00:17If they lose, they've really only got one team on their schedule that they had a big test against.

00:23They passed the test in the first go-round against Buffalo.

00:26Let's say they split with Buffalo, and Buffalo wins here, and you also lost to Tampa Bay.

00:31Where does that put you in the power rankings?

00:34Certainly doesn't have you second in the NFL as high as one person put them this week.

00:40That you beat the teams you're supposed to beat.

00:42That's where it puts you.

00:43You split with a team in your division, a really good team, and then the other big-time, hyped-up sort of contest, you lost.

00:52So what did you really achieve?

00:53You could argue.

00:54Against the good teams.

00:55And I'm not talking about whether or not they had a good season.

00:57I'm just talking about in that the expectations and the bar has been raised.

01:03And if you think they can go on a little bit of a run in the playoffs, I think you've got to have this game.

01:09If not, it's just, hey, they're doing a good job cleaning up against bad teams, and we love that, and we're enjoying the season.

01:15And they're probably not going to make much noise against real playoff teams.

01:18But this is about reputation.

01:20This is a reputation check for the Patriots on Sunday.

01:23How good are you?

01:25How good are you?