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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The Patriots were not able to win the game, but Danny AMendola had a convincing trick pass to quarterback Tom Brady for a 36 yard play. It’s always sad when Flacco’ing a team ranks so highly, but this was a penalty worth almost half of the field with the Patriots up by 7 in the 2nd quarter.
Brady was under pressure for the third consecutive game – this time by a defence that allowed 45 points to the opposition in each of the last two games.
Now they’re trying to recover from their first back-to-back losses in more than three years. Philadelphia did little offensively, but it won 35-28 by scoring once on defense and twice on special teams. I think you coach people up, you don’t coach them down.
The Patriots took a 14-0 lead before Philadelphia scored five straight touchdowns.
“Obviously, Coach O’Brien knows this team very well, so a lot of familiarity there”, Slater said. We competed and sort of had a chance there at the end to come back, but when you give up 21 points when your defense isn’t on the field, you lose about 98 percent of those games.
The New England Patriots failed to hold onto a first half lead and were upset by Philadelphia, while the Carolina Panthers survived a scare from New Orleans to stay flawless at 12-0. Antonio Brown caught eight passes for 118 yards and two scores and also returned a punt 71 yards for a touchdown for the Steelers (7-5).
No question, the Eagles caught the Patriots at the right time; New England’s invincibility pierced with a loss at Denver last week and playing without the likes of Rob Gronkowski, Julian Edelman and Dion Lewis on offense. “Every time something happened we would talk about it. I love the communication we had today”.
In the seven games with all his major weapons, Brady’s full-season pace of 5,381 passing yards with 46 touchdowns and just five interceptions (117.3 rating) actually surpassed his record-breaking 2007 season performance (117.2). With four games to go, it will be interesting to see just how real momentum can be. It is even clearer now that they really needed to beat the Cowboys this week to give themselves a chance. But everything unraveled in the third quarter, as Brady threw two interceptions around the end zone, with one of those being returned by the Eagles’ Malcolm Jenkins for a touchdown.
A win over Jeffrey Lurie’s hometown team the mighty New England Patriots will go a long way towards blinding the ever hopeful owner of the Eagles into believing that Kelly can still turn things around.
The comeback fell short when Brady’s passes bounced out of his receivers’ hands on three straight attempts.
The timing couldn’t be more ideal for Philadelphia. Running back Darren Sproles finished with a game-high 15 carries for 66 yards, and four receptions for 34 yards and an 83-yard punt return for a touchdown. Individual special teams units have been dynamic. “That’s as bad as I want to play for me.
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We’re still in the hunt to make the playoffs”, said Bradford, who missed the previous two games with a concussion and left shoulder injury. They gave us a line drive and they gave us space.
