He acknowledged that it won’t be easy. When it’s someone that’s been the leading receiver on your team for multiple years and you lose them, it’s not like you go, ‘OK, well, let just put someone else in’. “It’s kind of like being on a baseball team where everybody’s got a hit, and you can’t wait to get up there and get a hit, too”.
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Prior to his foot injury, Julian Edelman had caught a franchise-high 61 catches and was second in receiving yards (692), only following Rob Gronkowski (806).
But he did consent to the fact that if he’d simply held onto the ball, the game likely would have turned out differently and everyone would be spared the rigmarole of what defines a catch wouldn’t be necessary.
“Keshawn Martin is still obviously a good player for us and is hopefully coming back here soon”, Brady said of the void at wide receiver.
BIG PLAYS: Brady and Manning each had monster plays, and so did Pats returner Danny Amendola. But our game definitely shows some matchups and some of the things and how Buffalo adjusted to certain things that we did. Incredible. Danny’s had a great year this year and really continued from what he finished last year. The Pats players don’t treat him as the kicker, they treat him as just another member of the 53 and that’s saying something.
“It’s hard because Belichick is a very crafty coach and he comes up with different schemes and ways to use the guys he has available”, said Lawson.
Julian Edelman was flying through the air against the Bills for one of his two touchdowns in Week 2. In addition, tackles Sebastian Vollmer (concussion) and Marcus Cannon (toe), and guard Tre Jackson (knee) have missed significant time. The flight took off during the Giants-Patriots game, so passengers were forced to watch the end of the game on the television connected to the back of their seat. Yesterday was a good example of that.
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“I thought his awareness on that was outstanding and his quickness and ability to get up-field and get about an extra six or seven yards after the catch was really critical to the next play, or the field goal two plays later”. In five trips to the red zone during the game, Manning and the Giants’ offense only came away with one touchdown. They extended it to 35 with Gostkowski’s second-quarter 31-yard field goal; LeGarrette Blount’s 1-yard TD run following Amendola’s 82-yard punt runback in the third – the longest of Amendola’s career; and the long pass to Gronkowski on which New York’s Craig Dahl and Brandon Meriweather collided. “We had our chances to win and we didn’t win”. A lot of the players that played in that game will play in it again, but there are some new faces and some players that played in it that won’t play in it. And I think you’ve just got to start your preparations all over again. In a further reflection of his value to the team and how he plays in every package, he entered Sunday having played 87.7 percent of the team’s offensive snaps.
