Sure, the immediate impact of New England’s 30-24 overtime loss at the Denver Broncos was that it ended the reigning Super Bowl champion’s ideal run after a 10-0 start and left the Carolina Panthers as the league’s only unbeaten team. The result was electric.
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After the Patriots’ quarterback posted an image of himself atop an old Broncos logo prior to Sunday night’s game, his opponent answered with a new version following its 30-24 overtime victory.
“We will need to rely on him quite a bit”, Brady said. It was a check we had worked on in practice all week.
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady can be hell on opposing teams when he feels he has something to prove, so his team’s upcoming opponents have been duly warned. “I think we just stay the course and continue to work with Christian today, tomorrow and continue to make up ground”. “When I got the ball, I saw (tackle) Ryan (Harris) get through the hole, and I knew if he could, I could too”. And the fans went insane.
“I hate to see it, but it’s really the only way for defenders to hit now”.
The Patriots had lost the lead late in the fourth quarter on an Osweiler-to-Bubba Caldwell, back-shoulder, 4-yard touchdown pass with 1:09 remaining, and the paid crowd of 76,970 – hanging on to the very end – erupted.
With the injury to Rob Gronkowski, which will keep him out reportedly a few games, Edelman not coming back until at least the postseason and Amendola’s status up in the air, Brady will be tested maybe more than ever with having to go out of his comfort zone and not get rid of the ball as quickly as he would like.
“They just feel like there’s a push-off”, Brady said. “Because we went into overtime in a tough environment with just a lot of things that didn’t necessarily bounce our way”.
“(The player said) Osweiler simply can make throws right now than Peyton Manning cannot make”, Cole said Monday. It always hurts to lose. Last night was no exception. That was enough time for Brady to drive the Patriots to Denver 29-yard line.
Instead of a 17th meeting between the QB greats, it was Brady versus Osweiler, which doesn’t have the same Hall of Fame ring to it. “As players, we trust both guys”.
But I’m glad I was wrong. “It just wasn’t our night”. The Patriots led 21-7.
Tom Brady is no stranger to internet trolls, he photoshopped himself riding on the back of a team’s logo two separate times. But Chris Harper muffed the punt and Shaq Barrett recovered for Denver at the Patriots 36.
Anderson rushed for 113 yards and two TDs on 15 carries. Anderson scored his first touchdown of the game on Denver’s ensuing drive to pull them within 21-14.
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Against New England, which brought the NFL’s third-ranked run defense into Denver, the Broncos ran for 179 yards on 32 carries and three touchdowns.
