The New England Patriots ground game is averaging 88.5 yards per contest, and LeGarrette Blount leads the way with 650 yards and six touchdowns.
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Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Connor Barwin (98) sacks New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015, in Foxborough, Mass. The Eagles beat the Patriots, 35-…
Philadelphia rallied from a 14-0 deficit, scoring 35 consecutive points, 14 on special teams and seven on defense, and then held on for a wild 35-28 victory over the New England Patriots on Sunday.
Brady threw for 312 yards, and the Patriots piled up 427 as a team, but the box score belied the effectiveness of what the Eagles did Sunday. One more on defense. Johnson has 52 catches in 43 games for 601 yards one touchdown.
“You have a first-ballot Hall of Fame coach, and you have a first-ballot Hall of Fame quarterback – maybe the best quarterback to ever play the game”. “So you’re aware of that”.
Here comes safety Malcolm Jenkins, critical last week of Kelly’s coaching philosophy of not addressing individual misplays in front of the entire team, saying how it was Kelly who helped him most of all in producing the 99-yard interception return for a touchdown that put the Eagles ahead for good.
“When they kicked that first one to me today our special teams coach came up to me and said ‘they are going to give us one today, ‘” Sproles said.
If there is one thing that Bill Belichick and Tom Brady don’t like to do.
“Sort of had a chance there at the end”. Sam Bradford threw for 120 yards, just two more than his season low.
The Eagles moved into a tie for second in the division with the New York Giants, just a half-game behind Washington, which plays Dallas on Monday night. Unfortunately, Julian Edelman’s rehab timeline has him in line to return during the first round of the playoffs, but there is no reason why Gronk can’t play in the next couple weeks. That’s basic quarterbacking. No one can save us from that. We didn’t get it done.
(At) Tennessee 42, Jacksonville 39: Marcus Mariota scored the go-ahead touchdown on an 87-yard run and the Titans edged ended an 11-game home losing streak. “We’re very proud to win this game”, he said.
The message: “Just to have that belief”. I’m going to do whatever I can – whether it’s blocking, running or catching. “I think every team would love that at this point, but it’s just not the reality”.
“We can’t do anything about what happened tonight or last week”, said Brady. “Right up until the end there was confidence that he had that we can go down and score again even after that fumble that we can’t do”.
Sam Bradford proceeded to lead an eight play 59 yard drive capped off by a Bradford touchdown pass to Zach Ertz.
“We threw stuff at them and they handled it”, Ebner said.
Still, the Super Bowl MVP gave them a chance.
(*With the Pats so depleted and Gronkowski out of the game, you could also make the argument this was the loss we all should have seen coming.) Either way, the defeat moved New England to 10-2.
The Bears (5-7) took a 20-13 lead on Ka’Deem Carey’s 4-yard run with 3:32 left, only to let Gabbert scramble untouched through the middle for a 44-yard touchdown with 1:42 left. The ensuing Patriots onside kick went out of bounds, but Philadelphia left the window open when Kenjon Barner fumbled on third down with a minute remaining.
The Vikings are simply a one-dimensional team that’s very easy to defend, and among the three starting second-year quarterbacks, Teddy Bridgewater is clearly the worst.
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While the number of former New England coaches and players, including head coach Bill O’Brien, now in Houston might be seen as a potential benefit in slowing down Brady and the Patriots, O’Brien said he doesn’t view it that way. I thought we were confident in the scheme, and I think it was obvious we needed to change some things or add some things.
