New England Patriots, the reigning National Football League champions, held onto the top spot in the AFC Sunday night with a comfortable 33-16 victory over the Tennessee Titans. It’s a play where the quarterback shouldn’t have been under such pressure, interim coach Mike Mularkey said, but running back Antonio Andrews made a mistake in protection.
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Mariota, the second overall pick in the 2015 NFL Draft, has thrown for 2,818 yards with 19 touchdowns and 10 interceptions in 12 games. He missed two games in late October/early November with a knee strain after taking a low hit from Dolphins defensive end Olivier Vernon.
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The department will not say how many officers fired their weapons or what the two people were doing before they were shot. Although McDonald had a knife during the shooting, he was deviating away from Van Dyke, who was about 20 to 25 feet away.
Although the Titans had a rough season, Mariota has had an impressive rookie season. WR Damaris Johnson, claimed off waivers by the Titans from New England earlier in the week, was inactive…. On third down from the Patriots’ own 24-yard-line, White took a pass from Brady in the flat, and raced down field for an impressive 70-yard catch and run. Tight end Rob Gronkowski gained a modest 54 yards on five catches, although one of them was for a touchdown.
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The Hornets were coming off a 41-41 season and felt they were close to contending for an Eastern Conference title. He pump-faked, leaned right, then released a fall-away jumper that hit nothing but nylon with 7.3 seconds left.
New England has a chance to clinch a first-round bye depending what happened to the Denver Broncos and Cincinnati Bengals later Sunday.
Brady highlighted penalties and protection breakdowns leading to throwaways as the reason for the stalled second half offense, but nothing was more important than the loss of wide receiver Danny Amendola right before the half- and the Patriots clearly wanted to end the game as quickly as possible.
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Mularkey said Monday that Mariota will be re-evaluated after the Texans’ game with the rookie wanting to play the season finale at Indianapolis on January 3.
Marcus Mariota’s rookie season may have ended Sunday in New England. With the Titans set to hire a new coach, they need someone in tune with Mariota’s dual-threat skill-set.
With the score 27-16, the Patriots responded with a drive that ended with Gostkowski caroming home a 42-yard field goal off the right upright. On the next play, Brady threw a swing pass to White out of the backfield, and he ran it in to make it 21-3.
Fantasy Impact: There was some concern about Brady after he was listed as questionable with an illness going into Sunday.
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Mariota was outfitted in a knee brace on Sunday, and he watched the second half from the sideline wearing a stocking cap.
