Luckily, Brady isn’t expected to miss much time as the Patriots won’t be playing in the Wild Card thanks to a first round bye.
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The sports news outlet also reported that Edelman was not with the team when it hit the road for Sunday’s game against the Miami Dolphins, which New England surprisingly lost (20-10), and was working out at Gillette Stadium.
“Our level of consistency hasn’t really been up to the standards that we need it to be”, Brady said.
Still, Brady insisted: “Nothing over the last six weeks is going to matter”. The one-time odds-on favorite for the No. 1 seed in the AFC, backed into the No. 2 seed.
This news will allow New England Patriots fans to exhale. But coach Bill Belichick has plenty of experience dealing with a week off at the beginning of the postseason, something the No. 2 seed Patriots secured in a record six straight years. For the Patriots, they wanted to win this game because they would’ve clinched home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. Though Brady was only sacked twice, he was knocked down at least a half a dozen times, and one of the sacks almost took him out of the game, as he appeared to tweak his ankle on the play.
“I’m pretty sore”, Brady told reporters in Miami before limping off the podium and using the wall to support himself following his postgame press conference, “but I’ll be all right.”
Brady required medical attention on the sideline after the Suh hit. He tweaked his right ankle in the second quarter when Ndamukong Suh rolled into his legs on a third-down incompletion, but was back for the next series.
Brady walked gingerly after the play. “We just didn’t do a good job of it”.
“They say he’s going to be OK for the game”, he said. So as we enter the playoffs once again, the gift of Tom Brady graces us in what we hope is another long post-season run. They came out and established the run early on, which opened things up for play-action options downfield, and instinctively took chances when they presented themselves. “What are you talking about, I mean everybody played”.
Executive vice president of football operations Mike Tannenbaum will lead the search.
The move may signal the end of a 20-year National Football League head coaching career for the 69-year-old Coughlin, one of 13 coaches to win multiple Super Bowls (see full story).
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“There are a lot of teams that are going to be looking for coaches”, Ross said, “so we want to make it sooner than later”. While returning to a strong running game will not be easy, given the injury to LeGarrette Blount, New England should try and utilize more of a rotation in their platoon system and should utilize Joey Iosefa more as opposed to relying on aged work-horse back Steven Jackson. He just came down on the back of me and…
