He’ll have to pull off his magic again if the Patriots are going to keep their early season momentum.
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And part of Jimmy Garoppolo’s slicing and dicing of the Miami Dolphins defense on Sunday before he left with an injury was recognizing the blitz and dealing the ball to open receivers accordingly.
CLEVELAND – Joe Flacco threw two touchdown passes to Mike Wallace and the Ravens rallied from a 20-point first-quarter deficit. “It’s football and everyone’s just gotta do their job a little bit better”.
There’s apparently good reason that Josh McDaniels didn’t want to name Jacoby Brissett the starting quarterback for Thursday’s game against Houston.
But who will the Patriots use for Thursday’s game against the Texans?
OAKLAND, Calif. – Justin Hardy caught a deflected 8-yard touchdown pass to break a tie midway through the fourth quarter. Long recovered a fumble and caused Dolphins QB Ryan Tannehill to throw an interception to linebacker Jamie Collins late in the first half. It’s 0-0, let’s execute one play at a time and find a way to get back in this thing, ‘ ” Gase said. “We play with the next-man-up mentality”.
The downtime without Brady this time will be much shorter, but the mindset for the Patriots is pretty much the same as it was then. “Unfortunately that’s part of this game”, Edelman said.
Brissett did not seem consumed by the moment with Garoppolo going down.
Dianne DeMio Marchese said, “We should have guest QBs”. “When the opportunity comes, you gotta be ready for it”.
New England improved to 21-1 at home against the AFC East since 2009 with its 31-24 victory over the Miami Dolphins on Sunday.
Through one and a half games this season, Garoppolo has completed 70 percent of his passes (42-of-60) for 498 yards, four touchdowns and 0 interceptions. A 77-yard drive led to a field goal at the end of the second quarter, and Miami also drove to touchdowns on three straight possessions in the second half. “It’s great to see that when we had to score and we had to get some points and we had to move the ball, we were able to do that”. The Dolphins had DE Mario Williams and WR DeVante Parker, both questionable, active, Parker catching eight passes for 106 yards.
Kansas City running back Jamaal Charles is out with a knee injury, but Miami running back Arian Foster (hamstring) and Carolina’s Jonathan Stewart (ankle) were in their teams’ respective lineups.
“We can’t be an nearly team”, said Jarvis Landry, who caught 10 passes for 133 yards in the loss. “It was one of those plays like you’ve see happen past year with (Tony) Romo and (Aaron) Rodgers”. He’s going to be a big-time player for us. “We just put our head down and kept fighting”.
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Parker had five catches for 106 yards and a touchdown in a season-ending victory over New England on January 3.
