He can take his backups and beat your starters and probably take your backups and beat his starters.
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But who really noticed?
The next man this time is running back Brandon Bolden, primarily a special-teams contributor in his three-plus seasons in New England.
Obstacles besides the trip to Denver to play the now 7-1 Broncos on November 29 continue to arise in New England’s path toward perfection.
New England Patriots’ star running back, Dion Lewis, is out for the season with after suffering a torn ACL in Sunday’s win over the Washington Redskins.
Before Washington was able to snap the ball for a second time, New England already scored twice courtesy of LeGarrette Blount and Julian Edelman. The severity of Lewis’ injury is unknown as of Monday, but it’s rare that a non-contact injury results in a quick return. They won the first two of those games thanks to a stout defense that permitted just 12 points, but lost 21-18 in overtime at Minnesota on Sunday. I hope he’s sick. “So I’m sure they’ll be prepared, step up and give us their best and do a good job for us”.
The Patriots may bring in a new running back to add to their depth with Lewis out. “You can always count on him. He’s come through for us many times before like he did today, so that’s why he’s a valuable member of this team”. “A lot of guys scrambled to figure out exactly what we’re going to do, and they played really hard, so I’m proud of them”.
Finally, on an individual note, Patriots defensive end Chandler Jones leads all National Football League players with 9.5 sacks this year.
“And it starts from the top with Bill (Belichick). Bill prepares everybody for any(thing) and everything”. BB: They’re a really good football team.
Well, technically that is true, but it’s due more to the NFC East’s general ineptitude than anything Washington (3-5) has done right so far this season, Gruden’s second in charge.
“The more balanced we are, the better it is for the quarterback, so it was great”, Tom Brady said of watching his big back run all day over Washington’s 30th-ranked run defense. “We came in here and threw a few punches”. It’s a totally different team and game and situation and so forth, but they just have a great organization.
After that Brady quickly fell back in to character speaking about the positive history of the Giants franchise and blah, blah, blah.
Again, this isn’t the Giants’ defensive line you remember. The Pats were down to their fourth left tackle of the season once Sebastian Vollmer left with a head injury, and since the days when they rolled out Matt Light, Dan Koppen, Stephen Neal and Logan Mankins week after week, New England has also done a good job filling gaps and finding effective personnel combinations up front. Cameron Fleming moved to left tackle, also for the first time. It’s like unbelievable, and then Flem [Cameron Fleming] to go to left tackle, which… He got manhandled by the much larger Mike Evans two weeks ago, but otherwise he’s been at least OK in pretty much every game he’s played. When the team is at full strength, Vollmer plays the right side. David Andrews has earned the opportunity to stay at center. Josh Kline has made terrific strides at guard from previous year.
“We just had to go out there, and we did what we had to do”, tight end Rob Gronkowski said. I think they both deserve to play.
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Tennessee ended a six-game losing streak after Marcus Mariota’s five-yard touchdown pass to Anthony Fassano in overtime gave the Titans a 34-28 victory over the New Orleans Saints.
