Drew Bledsoe: Hard road ahead for Patriots, but don’t count them out
Former NFL QB Drew Bledsoe joined Zolak & Bertrand to discuss the current status of the Patriots and despite a tough road ahead for them, he made it clear not to count them out yet.
It’s a tough road…
Marc Bertrand: What do you make of the New England Patriots these days?
Drew Bledsoe: Oh, man, it’s a little bit of a struggle right now, huh guys? You know, and then the injuries this week obviously are devastating. So, yeah, it’s it’s a little bit of a rough time for the Pats.
Scott Zolak: Trying to think… you know, obviously, we’ve had some bad years. We got off to bad starts from an expectation standpoint. Like where’s the light at the end of the tunnel for this team?
Drew Bledsoe: Well, the first thing, I mean the first two Super Bowls we were 0-2, you know, ’96 and ’01 we 0-2 to start the season. It’s not over. You know, it’s just the first quarter of the season. But yeah, just seeing those the injuries you know to (Matt) Judon and then the the young kid from Oregon (Christian Gonzalez), you know, those are pretty impactful because it’s really a team that’s built for defense obviously. Those are tough ones to see, but don’t count them out yet.
Scott Zolak: I think Beetle brought it up too, but what you don’t have now is what you had back then, you know, the (Tedy) Bruschi, the Ty Law’s, the drafts we had in the ’90s. You know, we didn’t. I didn’t think we knew how good we could potentially be until things got figured out. I don’t see that light at the end of the tunnel right now for this team. That’s the problem.
Drew Bledsoe: You never know. I mean, you know, certainly it’s it’s a tough road right now and I think everybody acknowledges that.