New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman will reportedly undergo surgery to fix the broken bone he suffered in his left foot during the team’s 27-26 win over the NY Giants on Sunday, sources told ESPN.
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“This is tough, this is tough”, veteran defensive tackle Cullen Jenkins said. I think there are multiple layers to why he wasn’t thrilled with the Patriots victory. But this is not the same Patriots team; these Patriots are older and more fragile, just as Tom Brady is older and more fragile, and on a day when Brady’s longtime adversary Peyton Manning sunk to rock bottom, it wasn’t unfathomable to imagine that Brady would also fail to lead a comeback.
Of course, if Beckham simply holds onto the ball – which he should have – no one is using this particular moment in time to hail Belichick’s genius.
“Probably 3-4 weeks before the pain was away and I was able to perform a normal way and the way I’m accustomed to”, he said. That set up a 54-yard field goal from Stephen Gostkowski, who made it without a problem. Tom Brady completed 26 of 42 passes for 334 yards and two touchdowns against one interception.
Brady was hit throwing the ball and it rainbowed down the middle of the field to a waiting Landon Collins. Beckham didn’t score again, and he caught only three more passes for 17 yards. He tried to grab the ball at its high point, seemingly lost his balance and fell to turf, hitting his head and losing the ball. “That being said, you take that into the (bye) knowing that you went toe to toe with the defending champs and you can play with anybody”.
Brady eventually converted a fourth-and-10 on the series and Gostkowski, the NFL’s leading scorer the last three seasons, sent his winning kick soaring through the uprights.
“We’ve got to find different ways”. From the season-opening one-two punch against the Cowboys and Falcons to the Week 8 final-minute meltdown against the Saints and now to here, against the ideal Patriots, the Giants have proven they can lead the league in fourth-quarter heartbreak. In fact, JPP received the third most snaps of any defender behind Jonathan Casillas (72) and Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie (68). “There’s plenty of times this season we had the opportunity to win and we just didn’t”. It’s very, very frustrating.
The Giants (5-5) have given the Patriots fits under Tom Coughlin and almost pulled off another victory.
Brady hooked up with tight end Rob Gronkowski on a 76-yard catch and run in the fourth quarter.
On the down side, the Patriots squandered a chance to put away the game earlier in the fourth quarter when a holding penalty on center David Andrews negated a would-be touchdown run by running back LeGarrette Blount. The Giants lost center Weston Richburg with an ankle injury in the second half.
With six games to go after the bye, the first-place Giants can still make something good of their season, can still win the division crown in the dilapidated NFC East, can still qualify for the playoffs, can still dream of replicating their proven formula of upending the mighty Patriots when it matters most, in the Super Bowl.
The bang-bang play had one ref wave for an incomplete pass while the other signaled for a touchdown.
Up he leapt over the body of New England cornerback Malcolm Butler.
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Manning missed another throw to the end zone and they settled for the field goal – which proved too little to keep the Pats at bay.
