The New England Patriots’ 23-21 Week One win Sunday night over the Arizona Cardinals was impactful for some reasons. There was still some uncertainty over Garopollo as the Patriots’ quarterback. “We got great effort in all three phases”.
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It’s apparent now that he was ready for this, and he knew he was ready for this. You don’t bet against Bill Belichick no matter how dismal the odds look for him and you should never buy into the Arizona Cardinals hype.
“I’ve got to make that kick, just a good old-fashioned miss”, he said. While he avoided the long ball most of the game, he completed two of his three attempts over 15 yards.
“We got to regroup”, Keim said.
The Cardinals’ defense failed to stop New England on 10-of-16 third downs, and had trouble defending back-up quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo despite knowing what was coming. That would be ridiculous considering Garoppolo has one game under his belt and Brady’s played 225 career games. Based on what they gave up for Sam Bradford, the Vikings are probably already prepared to offer six. If you don’t spend all your waking hours on Twitter, however, and you actually have a life, you might have missed the glorious observations straight from the few-years-ago brain of New England’s very own Jimmy Garoppolo. But with the superstar quarterback sitting out the first four games of the 2016 National Football League season for his role in the “Deflategate” scandal, his 24-year-old backup stepped up as a capable replacement, completing 24 of 33 passes for 264 yards, and throwing for one touchdown and no interceptions.
Talk about your ideal outcomes. But we started in such long field positions from poor special teams, kickoff return was very bad and we were behind the 20 most of the time.
Kansas City needed 10 plays to march 75 yards in overtime, and Smith finished off the biggest comeback in franchise history with his keeper from the 2-yard line on third-and-goal. After Arizona had taken a 21-20 lead, he directed a 13-play, 61-yard drive that ended with Stephen Gostkowsks 32-yard field goal, what proved to be the game victor with 3:44 to play.
While Brady may not be able to participate in team functions during his suspension, perhaps he was there in spirit Sunday night to help lift his team to victory. But even if New England loses to Houston, there is still a good chance the Patriots go 3-1, with Brady returning in time to face the Cleveland Browns in Week 5.
Wouldn’t it be something, then, if it didn’t work at all? Way too early to make any predictions but this is one of the deepest rosters from a talent standpoint I have seen since 2007.
His biggest throw of the night came in the fourth quarter after the Cardinals had taken a 21-20 lead. “A lot of times, you don’t get to see those things until after when you watch it on film”.
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In theory, the Patriots could sign Garoppolo to a long-term deal and keep Brady. If he’s going to play, he needs to play better. And that also presumes that Garoppolo is willing to remain a backup while another team is offering a huge contract and a starting job.
