“Our main focus – and we are already reminded by what coach (Ron) Rivera says – is to become 12-0 first”. Guess what happened? They pretty much destroyed the dirty birds.
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The Patriots suffered their first loss of the season in overtime against the Denver Broncos on Sunday night. He’s supplemented by the likes of CJ Spiller, who functions as the team’s change of pace back, especially with Khiry Robinson done for the season. I really do. Could we have been a good undefeated team, yeah, the ’85 team might have been. They have the pieces to make a run at a 16-0 season, and a Super Bowl title. “Shoot, that’s a result of being 4-7 and I think that he has done a lot of things. (But) we know that if we play the way we’re capable of playing we have a great chance of winning every game”.
Drew Brees (Quarterback): Brees has had a rough few weeks.
The Panthers defense showed out on the national stage last Thursday. But some of the Panthers’ players believe the lopsided win in New Orleans – and the manner in which Carolina dominated – created momentum that carried into the playoffs and the ensuing offseason. The other challenge is just the talent of Cam in that, there’s a guy assigned to him and yet, he gains six yards on a run. He picked on the secondary all game long.
It’s no secret Drew Brees is doing great things for the New Orleans Saints in 2015, despite having no defense to back him up, a depleted offensive line, and little depth at the wide receiver position.
“I remember when they came here a year ago in that game I just saw a confidence in him that was different”.
Bill Parcells famously said, “You are what your record says you are”.
QB Archie Manning took the snap and quickly whipped a screen-pass to RB Tony Galbreath – who juked two Rams defenders and left them grasping at air – and rambled down the sideline untouched and in for the TD to give the Saints a hard-earned 10 – 3 victory. I am half expecting Aaron Rodgers to come out and tell everyone to “Relax”. The Saints have given up the most fantasy points to quarterbacks this season and this week should be no exception. The NFC Championship game is scheduled for January 24 which gives Romo eight weeks to recover from a second broken collarbone – you can’t fault the Cowboys optimism but they’ll need more than that against the Redskins this weekend. Those two teams forced him to throw a total of five interceptions.
FanSided Daily brings you the hottest content on your favorite teams. Once they got the Texans to third down, they sent blitzes.
“I don’t blame [Newton], though”, added Harper for the way Newton responded to the fan. “It’s just guys are making plays when their numbers are called”.
But we here at numberFire like to quantify how good or bad a team really is, not just based on record. Free safety Kurt Coleman has five interceptions and cornerback Josh Norman has four to help the Panthers rank fifth against the pass. Their tight coverage could be a tough matchup for Brees, who has thrown at least one pick in his last five games and seven total in that span. One of the top 10 teams in attempts of 21 or more yards.
But it has been the defense that has been the catalyst for the team all season. This defense has only gotten better since the Saints faced them in September. In other words, they can stop the run, and they’ve been good at limiting big plays, despite having a poor pass defense ranking according to our numbers.
While they don’t have the highest nERD rating of the remaining teams, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers actually might have the best shot to take down Carolina. Carolina also has 33 sacks, led by six from an emerging star at defensive tackle Kawann Short.
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Who’s Going to Beat Them? They stretched that to 20-3 when Luke Kuechly pulled the same trick shortly before halftime. I consider those guys two of the best linebackers in the game.
