“And we’re off”, said Slater.
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The team needs to get through the next couple of games and be injury free.
Prior to his foot injury, Julian Edelman had caught a franchise-high 61 catches and was second in receiving yards (692), only following Rob Gronkowski (806).
The Patriots struggled without him, falling behind 20-10 early in the third quarter.
– Danny Amendola gets a gold star. While this last-minute victory certainly felt great, it still doesn’t staunch the bleeding of losing two Super Bowl titles to the Giants over the past decade.
New England had a chance to expand the lead when Blount appeared to score a touchdown, but rookie center David Andrews was called for a holding penalty.
“Guys stepped in when Julian got hurt”, Brady said.
“I’m happy we got the win in the meantime”.
“I thought there were times in the second half we weren’t able obviously to sustain any kind of drives and that was frustrating in itself”.
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The referees originally ruled the play a touchdown but overturned it on review. He allowed Malcolm Butler to knock the ball out of his hands after thinking it was a TD because he had two feet down.
Looking at the Patriots’ schedule within that timeframe, the best-case scenario has Edelman returning to the team in either Week 16 against the New York Jets or Week 17 against the Miami Dolphins – both games are road contests.
The Giants learned they actually can get in the same area code of the opposing quarterback then put him on his back.
The final drive wasn’t flawless.
Once the ball was in the Patriots’ possession, the Giants were able to hold quarterback Tom Brady to fourth and ten, after several incomplete passes, one of which was nearly a Giants’ interception.
Either way, with less reliable options behind Lafell and Amendola – such as Aaron Dobson and Keshawn Martin – expect them to each have the opportunity for double-digit receptions in most games, where Amendola has the edge in PPR leagues, and Lafell has the it in standard ones (due to advantage in the red zone compared to Amendola’s).
That kept the drive going. “The game plan is the game plan”, Belichick said. “We’ve seen so many of those in practice and in games”.
Start from the end, where a defense that has failed them repeatedly this season, starting from the opener in Dallas, fell flat again.
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Only 1 second remained. In this instance though, unlike in the painful and avoidable losses to the Cowboys, Falcons, and Saints, the Giants were more victims of the breaks and of the Patriots’ better execution than of their own late-game play-calling mistakes. The Patriots are joined at 9-0 by Carolina. Add in that they’ve already lost their starting left tackle for the season in Nate Solder and those are three pretty significant elements missing from an offense. They struggled at times.
