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Join Chudders and Clazzy Clare as they continue to bring you their post season musings and opinions. This episode they start to mull over the combine and free agency!
Clazzy Clare and Chudders bring you a little Patriots chat, in a casual and light hearted show that (hopefully) has you feeling like you’re sitting back and having a laugh with some fellow Patriots buddies!
Join Chudders and Clazzy Clare as they bring you their post season musings and opinions.
Clazzy Clare and Chudders bring you a little Patriots chat, in a casual and light hearted show that (hopefully) has you feeling like you’re sitting back and having a laugh with some fellow Patriots buddies!
Join Chudders and Clazzy Clare as they bring you their final post game recap wrap of the season, Super Bowl 60, Patriots vs Seahawks.
Clazzy Clare and Chudders bring you a little Patriots chat, in a casual and light hearted show that (hopefully) has you feeling like you’re sitting back and having a laugh with some fellow Patriots buddies!
Did you hear? The New England Patriots are on their 12th Super Bowl appearance? I just thought I should let you all know, just in case you weren’t aware! (Here I would insert the winking emoji but I am after all, a professional…)
What you may not know, of the 13 Super Bowls held in California, that this is the Patriot’s first in the golden state!
Whilst the previous Dynasty has six super bowl wins in the likes of New Orleans, Houston and Arizona, this west coast sunny delight is the first trip under the Mike Vrabel tenure. Super Bowl bound… pretty darn good for his first year as the team’s head coach, huh?
In contrast it is the Seahawks fourth Super Bowl appearance, their first since 2015. When the Patriots beat them in Arizona.
Another first, Sam Darnold is the first quarterback of the five selected in the first round of the 2018 draft, (the second highest amount ever to be selected in the first round of an NFL draft so far), to reach the Super Bowl.
Darnold is also on the fifth team of his career, and usually guys on their fifth team don’t tend to make it to a Super Bowl as a starter, this has only happened three times in NFL history and not since Chris Chandler on the Falcons.
The last six games these two teams have matched up in have been close scoring. Overall, the teams have seen one another 20 times in NFL history, with the Seahawks eeking out the wins over the Patriots of 11-8 in the regular season. The one game difference… the Pats are 1-0 in the post season over Seattle.
To be fair, sure, you could say that’s history, that’s the past and obviously, you would be correct. However, when you look at this Patriots team, and this Seahawks team somethings just feel a little eerily familiar. Dominating defenses, one offense with a star (in the making, I submit to) quarterback and a collection of good offensive pieces without a stand out WR1 (maybe, I want to give Stefon Diggs some serious kudos for how he’s bounced back after his injury and become a pivotal vein within this new offense. There is an easy argument to make that he is a WR1), against a possibly underrated quarterback, with some star players out there ready to catch the ball.
Even so, it’s all gravy baby too, what matters is the now. And the now is 2026, Super Bowl 60. The now is Mike Vrabel head coach, it’s Drake Maye, 23 year old quarterback and it’s so very, very much more.
But, it’s all that we’ve got and heck, it’s all that we need! Win or lose on Sunday, these Patriots are fighters, they are dominators, they are brothers and Pats Nation is the same. We are brothers and sisters, we are in the fight with them, we will give our hearts and our souls. Whether we are in California, Colorado, Connecticut … or coasts away, Foxborough is home and we are ALL PATRIOTS baby!
Join Chudders and Clazzy Clare as they bring you their thoughts on the upcoming Patriots Super Bowl match up against the Seattle Seahawks!
Clazzy Clare and Chudders bring you a little Patriots chat, in a casual and light hearted show that (hopefully) has you feeling like you’re sitting back and having a laugh with some fellow Patriots buddies!
In a game that saw sunshine, wind, and a storm of snow, the Patriots managed a touchdown, a field goal and an extra point to win in Denver.
Obviously, both teams had to play in the swirling snowflakes, but Drake Maye’s legs and Zak Kuhr’s defense won the AFC championship!
Now, don’t get me wrong, there’s plenty of congratulations and concerns to go around. Sunday’s game was no cupcake walk, despite what some may say.
But to break the voodoo hold Mile High has is an achievement in itself, and now the Patriots go on to the Super Bowl, baby!
Not only all that, but Drake Maye is the first QB to have played three playoff games against top five defenses in the same post season, all whilst having a dinged-up shoulder too!
Sure, the offensive line still has its issues, and whilst I may have been excited by more fullbackery than you can shake a stick at, with Jack Westover playing 41% of the offensive snaps, Tonga notching up 3%, and Milton Williams 2%… that’s not necessarily the best thing for an offense.
But right now, it’s all gravy baby, and I will take what I am fed!
Because Mike Vrabel and Drake Maye (as well as a huge cast of other fabulous players and coaches) did it again, they smashed yet another hex looming over the NEP!
First, it was the crushing of the Miami curse, the first Patriots win in Miami since September 15th 2019, when the Tom Brady led Patriots played a shut out of 43 – 0 against Ryan Fitzpatrick (and that was before I even started my Patriots content producing journey!). Not only that, but that also meant a win against the thorn in Bill Belchick’s side, a left handed quarterback – Tua Tagovailoa.
Then, it was the successful beating of the Bills in Buffalo that wasn’t just because of crazy weather, with a 23 – 20 score.
This defense has racked up the most wins on the road this season with a 9 – 0 record, Road Waaarrriors!!
Mike Vrabel himself is the first player to start for, and head coach the same franchise in a Super Bowl, and he has three SB wins under his belt as a player.
I don’t know about you, but I feel like the Patriots are well set up for another Dynasty run! Wishful thinking I know. But it’s onto the Super Bowl baby!
Go Pats!
Don’t forget the check out the latest edition of Pats Procrastination, episode 87 is available now, only on the Pats Propaganda Youtube channel!
Join Chudders and Clazzy Clare as they bring you their post game recap wrap of the Patriots AFC Championship win in Denver!!
Clazzy Clare and Chudders bring you a little Patriots chat, in a casual and light hearted show that (hopefully) has you feeling like you’re sitting back and having a laugh with some fellow Patriots buddies!