“A Second String Musical”, the tuneful ditty follows the adventures of quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo as he attempts to lead the team in the wake of Tom Brady’s four-game Deflategate suspension. Great team. I’m looking forward to seeing these guys on the field. I think, maybe three for one isn’t out of reach.
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Playing without suspended quarterback Tom Brady, All-Pro tight end Rob Gronkowski, suspended defensive end Rob Ninkovich and two starting offensive linemen, the Patriots rode the arm of Jimmy Garoppolo and the leg of kicker Stephen Gostkowski to deal Arizona their first home loss in September since 2009. San Francisco backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick inspired the debate by taking a knee before preseason games to call attention to what he termed the oppression of blacks and other minorities.
“We came down here and played a tough, physical football game against a good team”. “It’s the-sky-is-falling Monday and that’s the feel that all of us should have and use that as a chip on our shoulder to make sure it doesn’t happen again”. Punting, kicking, you name it, returning. It’s nothing new for the veteran coach to downplay issues with the media and focus on what his team needs to improve on, rather than what it did right in a given game. “We got great effort in all three phases”.
Head coach Bruce Arians, who a year ago led the Cardinals to their first postseason victory since 2009, was also blunt about his team’s performance on national television (via Boston.com). “That ended up costing us the game”.
“We were obviously not ready to play”, Arians said during his postgame press conference.
As for the missed kick, Arians was blunt in his explanation.
LOW SNAP, BIG MISS: The snap on what would have been the game-winning field goal for Arizona was low, the first big moment for the Cardinals’ rookie long snapper.
Fitzgerald is far too productive and valuable to his team to retire this season.
Brady also added: “And it was great to see the Patriots finish off the night with a huge win in Arizona, so I was really pumped to see that”. As seen in NFL Films’ All Or Nothing, the two have made the Cardinals’ locker room a safe haven, where players are inspired and encouraged to follow through on their goals, especially when it comes to making up for missed opportunities and learning from failures. This also goes along with the fact that the Cardinals will be facing a quarterback in Jameis Winston who just tossed four touchdown passes in Week 1, while absolutely dominating the Atlanta Falcons’ secondary. After Sunday’s performance, the prospect of Garoppolo giving New England a 4-0 start seems more possible. And with a secondary that helped force 19 interceptions last season, Arizona opened the National Football League season with the sixth-best odds to win Super Bowl 51, according to Bovada.
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The Giants won their first game under new coach Ben McAdoo as Eli Manning hit Victor Cruz for a go-ahead touchdown with 6:13 remaining to send NY past the Cowboys 20-19 near Dallas. He showed he can lead his team down the field, and to a big road victory.
