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Tennessee left tackle Taylor Lewan is pretty much all business. And so when he was asked if he anticipates the recent ESPN story causing any extra turmoil for New England in advance of Saturday's divisional playoff game, he pretty much scoffed.
"I feel like the Patriots for so long have been so great with the owner, the coaching staff, the quarterback, everybody's gotten along so well," he told The Rich Eisen Show on Monday. "I'm going to sit here and say this is media BS. This is people watching the perfect storm of individuals together on this dynasty and people want to throw a wrench in it.
"I'm not biting that there's actually some turmoil going on over there. Who knows? I might be totally wrong. I might be 100 percent right. (But) I don't think there's as much going on there as people say there is."
Check out more of Lewan's interview here. Good stuff.
"I think every single person in the world is counting us out in this one." @Titans OL @TaylorLewan77 knows the uphill battle facing his team this weekend against the #Patriots: pic.twitter.com/gX4PamcSmQ
— Rich Eisen Show (@RichEisenShow) January 8, 2018