After enjoying a first-round bye, the New England Patriots are now preparing to meet the Kansas City Chiefs in an AFC Divisional Playoff game Saturday afternoon at Gillette Stadium.
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Six of those players lost for the season were on the defensive side of the ball and four more defenders are questionable for the game Saturday, including linebackers Jonathan Freeny and Dont’a Hightower and defensive end Chandler Jones.
“If you beat a team”, he said, “In the back of your mind, you’re like, ‘Why can’t we do this again?'” “We haven’t played Kansas City, so it doesn’t matter what we did against somebody else or didn’t do against somebody else”, Belichick concluded.
The New England Patriots have won their fourth Super Bowl in the Brady/Belichick Era by defeating the Seattle Seahawks 28-24 in Super Bowl XLIX in Arizona. “They compete and contest every throw and you’re going to have to really do a good job of execution to avoid giving them opportunities”. Rosters are different, and the circumstances are different.
It seemed like Tom Brady was the only key Patriots player on offense that didn’t go down with an injury at some point in the 2015 season.
How will the Kansas City Chiefs stop Gronkowski? The point spread is now favoring the New England Patriots at -5. In Week 4 in 2014, New England went to Kansas City for a Monday Night game and was smacked, 41-14, a loss that sent national media rushing for their keyboards and microphones to declare the Patriots’ dynasty over. Andy Reid and his staff deserve a great deal of credit for keeping their team together and turning things around, but Kansas City ran up on an overmatched Houston team last week. Vollmer missed the final game of the regular season against the Dolphins in which the Patriots surrendered the No. 1 seed to the Denver Broncos.
New England is 2-1 SU in games where it wins the turnover battle, yet undefeated (7-0 SU) in games where it loses the turnover battle.
The Utah product threw just seven interceptions during a regular season in which he threw the ball 470 times. He has been for a long time. Belichick and Tom Brady also have most postseason wins by coach-QB combination with 21…. Remember, Edelman got hurt against the Giants in week 10.
New England is 17-4 at home in the postseason, which is the second-best home record in the entire National Football League during the playoffs.
Edelman has been very productive for the Patriots since gaining a substantial role on offense in 2013 as a result of the departure of former Wide Receiver Wes Welker. Both of those matchups favor the Chiefs.
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The Kansas City Chiefs are coming off of a (30-0) wildcard round drubbing of the Houston Texans, and the regular season saw them close with ten wins in a row after stumbling out of the gates to a (2-4) start. Brady has three touchdown passes in his last three games.
