But he was only targeted three times, with two catches for 32 yards. He added only one more reception, but it went for 27 yards.
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“We’ve lost quite a few guys over the last three weeks”. Kline was excellent in pass protection Monday night.
“The chances of the victor of this game being in the playoffs are pretty high, so you have to take that and treat it as a playoff game”, said linebacker Nigel Bradham. Danny Amendola performed well, but, as tends to happen with Danny Amendola, he got hurt. And scream about National Football League incompetence, forever and ever, Amen-dola.
“The officials were absolutely right on that, ” Ryan said. Several Bills gave chase. Weird how the whistle came right as Brady was about to get hit. He was open. He was wide open.
Even in 2012, Wes Welker tore apart the Broncos for 13 receptions and a touchdown as Gronkowski’s presence loomed, and Edelman became the last person to score on Harris a year later.
-The Inadvertent Whistle. OK. Or a tavern? Or a country and western tune? The completion was allowed to stand even though the whistle blew while the ball was in the air. They huddled. There was a delay. He was just 3 of 10 for 18 yards with four throwaways when they dropped eight players into coverage. “What else can you do?” “We didn’t win, of course everybody’s frustrated”, says Watkins. Because I truly believe Sammy is that good. “He played great all night”.
Coach Rex Ryan had a somewhat different take on things.
All of Bill Belichick’s trickery won’t save the Patriots then.
Still, Amendola would have had more, much more. The miss snapped Gostkowski’s streak of consecutive field goals made at 31, including 22 this season. He had been a ideal 21-for-21. It was third-and 10 from the 20 when White broke the tie.
Yet wouldn’t you know it?
– Ryan had an excellent game, allowing just one catch for 4 yards on five targets.
Perhaps it’s just sticking out a bit more than usual because it came a day after Case Keenum suffered an obvious concussion in the middle of the field and was essentially left out there to bleed by Jeff Fisher and the Rams staff. And so do the victories.
Instead, Amendola was awarded only a 14-yard gain, though New England was granted an additional 15 yards as a result of an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty against the Buffalo Bills.
The question that agitated Ryan last Thursday? The Patriots are a deep team-put together by an evil genius-but there’s only so much that can be accomplished with the starters going down like flies. In Week 2, Dareus told The Buffalo News, “As a D-lineman, there’s nothing you can do if they’re getting the ball out”. For most of the evening, he barely resembled the guy who filleted Buffalo for 466 yards and three touchdowns while completing 38 of his 59 throws in September’s 40-32 win in Orchard Park, successfully demonstrating that it is not, contrary to commonly held knuckle-dragging belief, necessary to even try to run the football in order to win.
“This week, I know that I’m the starting quarterback Sunday night against the Patriots, so I’m going to keep my focus small, I’m going to focus on the Patriots and next Monday we can talk about the following week”. Chris Mortensen has been a favorite target.
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The importance of limiting mistakes isn’t limited to Brady and the offense, either. An ensuing sack of Tyrod Taylor saw the officials taking their sweet ass time to spot the ball while the clock continued to run. He was a two-time Massachusetts Sportswriter of the Year as voted by his peers and has written four books, including “Big Papi”, the New York Times-bestselling memoirs of David Ortiz. The Patriots’ receivers didn’t get much separation against a strong Bills secondary. Sebastian Vollmer returned after missing a week with a concussion. But this would not be an easy night for the Patriots offense.
