Garoppolo’s four games are not only a tryout to show New England what he can do in his time as their starter, replacing Brady, but it gets his name out to the rest of the league who may be ready to give him a contract and be the starter right away.
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Added safety Devin McCourty, “I’m happy he went out there, did it, and everyone can shut up now and watch the guy get better and grow and us keep improving as a team in the early part of the season”. He’s a Patriots fan with a Tom Brady mask.
“With Tom Brady sitting out the first game of a four-week suspension and All-Pro tight end Rob Gronkowski out with a hamstring injury, Jimmy Garoppolo did just enough to help the Patriots to a stunning road win at Arizona”, Newsday’s Bob Glauber said.
“I’m happy to win, fortunate to win”, Patriots coach Bill Belichick said. They have very good front-line players and their linebackers – [Kevin] Minter, [Deone] Bucannon – did a good job of penetrating the line of scrimmage, running through. He noted that when the Cardinals’ roster doesn’t play to its level, “then we’re going to have disappointment, and that’s certainly what happened last night”.
This offense looks balanced; Garoppolo looks like a gem; Brady is coming back, and the defense looked impressive against legit competition in Week One.
Rob Riggle and the folks at Fox Sports recently put together an interesting musical tribute to Patriots quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo.
Receiver Julian Edelman asked to recall what was said in the huddle: “I don’t even remember”.
“We didn’t play ideal football”, Winston said after the game.
The drive started at their own 25-yard line.
Also noteworthy: Brady didn’t lock into one game. The defense played great, special teams. “It makes it a lot easier on us when you have good coaches like that”. Particularly against a team like Arizona that you can’t just go back there and throw the ball 50 times against them.
Although losing at home to a Pats team that was ripe for the picking was far from an ideal start to the season for Arizona, it still boasts one of the NFL’s deepest and most talented rosters. “Mentally, it’s a little challenging, because I don’t get all the film work that I’d really like to get, but that’s just what we’re dealing with”. But we started in such long field positions from poor special teams, kickoff return was bad and we were behind the 20 most of the time.
Although there is a certain amount of doom and gloom revolving around the team after blowing an 18-point game to their division rivals, the Chargers are in a much better position to replace Allen than they were past year.
On WEEI, Garoppolo claimed he didn’t know that Brady’s posters at Gillette Stadium had been taken down as Sunday night’s game began.
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“Some of those two and three-yard gains – I know they don’t look like much on the stat sheet and even in the game they don’t look like much – but there’s a big difference between second-and-seven and second-and-10”.
