That puts the Patriots back in the AFC championship game for the fifth consecutive year. “It’s hard to do”. “He’s always been one of the hardest workers – one of the hardest workers I’ve ever played with, one of the most determined young men that’s on this team”.
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The Patriots, who lost four of their last six regular-season games while Edelman was out because of a broken foot, are trying to become the first team to win back-to-back National Football League titles since they did it in 2003-04.
Peyton Manning and his Denver Broncos (13-4) will host Tom Brady and the New England Patriots (13-4) on Sunday afternoon in Colorado. After two unsuccessful plays to start their game-opening drive, the Patriots faced a 3rd and 10 right off of the bat.
Tom Brady took off for the end zone and dived for the pylon, taking a helmet in the back as his body sailed over the goal line.
Gronkowski was up to his usual “smashing and dashing” ways, turning his eight targets into seven receptions for 83 yards and two touchdowns.
– Rob Gronkowski and Julian Edelman, Patriots, had big games in New England’s 27-20 victory over Kansas City after both came in bothered by injuries.
Danny Amendola had two catches for 18 yards as he worked his way back from a knee injury.
“The chemistry was clicking”, Gronkowski said.
Brady went 6-for-6 for 63 yards passing in a 98-yard drive that ended when he scored on a 1-yard touchdown dive up the middle just 3:23 before half-time.
The Carolina Panthers built a 31-point halftime lead before barely holding off Seattle’s relentless comeback, beating the Seahawks 31-24 on Sunday to advance to the NFC championship game.
“We work those situations all the time, so we wanted to maintain our timeouts the best we could”, Reid said.
The New England Patriots welcome the Kansas City Chiefs to the north-east, with the victor going on to play in the AFC Championship Game for a chance to represent the conference in Super Bowl 50.
It’s not the first time that headsets had trouble at Gillette Stadium.
“It was tough, but I told myself I was going to go out there and do the best I can to help this team win”, Maclin said.
Brady got his 9th career 300-yard passing postseason game, tied for first all-time.
-The Kansas City Chiefs won 11 straight games after starting the season 1-5, including the franchise’s first postseason win in 21 years. “I mean, if you get any yards there, you’ve probably got points and we weren’t able to do anything”.
“You gotta grind throughout the entire year”, Brady said.
“Dustin Colquitt is one of the best, especially at the pooch play”, Fleming said.
During a five-game losing streak at the beginning of the season, the Chiefs forced fewer than one turnover per game.
“It’s a fine line, you know, we were down numbers there at receivers”. Hopes were high that Edelman would have a huge impact in his first game back.
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Despite possessing the ball for almost 38 minutes of game action and converting 12-of-20 third downs attempts, an undermanned Chiefs offense failed to do significant damage against New England for the majority of the afternoon.
