Patriots reveal 2025 schedule with the egg drop problem

On Wednesday, the Patriots launched their annual video announcement of the upcoming season’s schedule. 

New England used the chance to begin a contest between 4 gamers within the egg drop problem. 

Josh Dobbs hosted the competitors as a result of, as DeMario Douglas mentioned, Dobbs is “a science kind man.” Douglas, Robert Spillane, Marcus Jones and Christian Gonzalez all introduced their units to maintain their egg protected to say the egg drop trophy. 

Of the 4 gamers to drop the egg, just one did not maintain his protected. 

Gonzalez tried to maintain his egg protected by placing padding inside a soccer and inserting the egg inside. He used rubber bands to maintain the ball collectively. The soccer was in a field for further safety. 

Regardless of his “10 out of 10” confidence stage, the egg cracked after a tough smack onto the bottom. 

“It broke, man,” mentioned Gonzalez. “However you recognize that’s a part of soccer. It’d break, however you’re going to interrupt again.”

Because the viewers watched the replay of the field hitting the bottom, the primary group of the schedule appeared on the display screen. It revealed that New England will play the Carolina Panthers on Sept. 28, New Orleans Saints on Oct. 12, the Atlanta Falcons on Nov. 2, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Nov. 9.

Douglas was the winner of the drop, the place he put his egg in a field connected by balloons. 

“What higher solution to convey out the schedule launch with out balloons?” Douglas mentioned earlier than the drop. 

Dobbs requested Douglas about the opportunity of the egg floating up as a substitute of down. 

“I feel it’s going to drift down. I imply, after all of the helium is out,” mentioned Douglas. 

The touchdown from the balloon was the softest touchdown and stored the egg protected. After cheering, Douglas requested Dobbs his ideas. 

“I believed it was flawless execution. That appeared good to me. … I’d get in that. If I used to be an egg, I’d get in that.” 

“So principally, it is a rocket ship,” mentioned Douglas. 

On the replay, one other group of video games have been revealed. They have been the Las Vegas Raiders on Sept. 7, the Tennessee Titans on Oct. 19 and the New York Giants on Dec. 1. 

Spillane and Jones additionally stored their eggs protected throughout their experiment and had extra of the schedule launched. 

Spillane put his egg in a cup and lined it in Gillette shaving cream. He additionally connected two parachutes to the cup. 

After the egg was taken out of the cup unbroken, Dobbs gave some credit score to Gillette for the success. “Shoutout Gillette Lab.”   

Throughout Spillane’s flip within the problem, the staff revealed that they may play the Miami Dolphins on Sept. 14, Week 18: TBD; the Buffalo Payments on Oct. 5 and Dec. 14; and the Jets on  Nov. 13 and Dec. 28. 

Regardless of Jones having his teammates doubt his methodology for shielding the egg, he stunned them by passing the problem. 

Jones’s methodology was sandwiching the egg in between two sponges after which “a complete bunch of bubble wrap” in a field. 

“You recognize, there’s at all times doubters,” mentioned Jones when Dobbs requested how he felt about his teammates not believing in him. “You bought to show individuals fallacious. And I felt like that’s the way it form of went. However now, you recognize, they consider in what I had with the method.”

In his replay, the schedule revealed that New England will tackle the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sept. 21, the Cleveland Browns on Oct. 26, the Cincinnati Bengals on Nov. 23 and the Baltimore Ravens on Dec. 21.