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I have dubbed him Badassmosi.
Nice!
I have dubbed him Badassmosi.
I'll admit I was one of the guys not sure if Lewis would find a spot on this O but I think I seriously underrated what he could do as a lead back. He looks much better than Gill aside from short yardage work. Happy to see him looking more like his old self.
Burkhead also ran well in limited action.
Aside from Gronk dumbass penalties and some periodic derp from the OL the offense looked scary.
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I'll admit I was one of the guys not sure if Lewis would find a spot on this O but I think I seriously underrated what he could do as a lead back. He looks much better than Gill aside from short yardage work. Happy to see him looking more like his old self.
Burkhead also ran well in limited action.
Aside from Gronk dumbass penalties and some periodic derp from the OL the offense looked scary.
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Stephon Gilmore could find himself riding some serious pine here going forward.
I'll admit I was one of the guys not sure if Lewis would find a spot on this O but I think I seriously underrated what he could do as a lead back. He looks much better than Gill aside from short yardage work. Happy to see him looking more like his old self.
Burkhead also ran well in limited action.
You and many, many others.
Chevss and I have been telling you folks that when healthy Lewis is the RB1/Feature Back for this team.
I don't know how it looked on TV, but the fog was unreal.
Shortly after the 2nd half started you could see fingers of heavy mist coming down suddenly like somebody was pouring steam into a bowl. For most of the remainder it was somewhere between hard and completely impossible to see the ball in the air.
I watched a point after from a perfect angle on the goal line and close and couldn't see the ball at all.
Gene Steratore made a call and the only thing visible on the jumbotron was the dim outline of the black stripes on his shirt. He looked like the invisible man.
It made for a weirdly beautiful kinda night at Gillette. Easily the best performance of the year, but if I wanted to keep it humble I'd comment that they are missing Shanahan something fierce. We were all over almost everything Steve Sarkisian dialed up. Everybody was covering well. Even the LB corps. I don't know what their stats were for 3rd and 4th down, but it had to be total dominance for us.
On the flip side, I'll give Josh credit for sticking with the ground game even though it didn't do a whole lot early. He didn't panic and they were off-balance most of the night as a result. I'm sure Ernie Adams was up in the booth using U.S. military black ops fog-penetrating binocs, but Sarkisian called plays like he could barely see the field.
That 4th down call where they ran a jet sweep to the right on our goal line was truly one of the worst calls of the year.
From our pal Mehta ...
Like it or not, Tom Brady, Belichick and the Patriots are going to the Super Bowl … again
Manish Mehta
MANISH MEHTA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, October 23, 2017, 7:30 AM
Tom Brady has everything.
Five Lombardi Trophies. Most wins ever. Square jaw. Pristine white choppers. Supermodel wife.
Now, he has a defense again.
I'm going to be violently ill.
For all the jokes cracked about the putrid Patriots defense through the first month and a half of the season, here's the new, annoying reality: Brady & Co. are going to the Super Bowl… again.
Ugh.
Matt Patricia evidently used that pencil behind his ear to good use by devising a brilliant defensive game plan to neuter Matt Ryan's Falcons in a 23-7 beatdown Sunday night. Somehow the same Patriots defense that allowed 300-yard passers in each of the first six weeks turned the reigning NFL MVP into a Pop Warner signal caller.
Somehow, this lost unit that was lit up for 41 points in the season opener and 33 in two other games finally came to life. Somehow, the atrocious New England defense that would surely doom Bill Belichick once and for all turned into an asset. (There was even a David Harris sighting!)
What in the name of the Purple People Eaters is going on around here? How could this be? It makes little sense. Check that. It makes no sense whatsoever.
I'm befuddled.
The Patriots were dead last in total defense entering the Super Bowl LI rematch. Only the Colts and Cardinals were allowing more points per game than New England's 26.5. Heck, the Jets had just racked up 408 yards in a tight game a week earlier.
Tales of Belichick's adjustment wizardry have taken on a life of their own through the years. To hear some people tell it, the Hoodie is football's John Nash, a beautiful mind capable of solving the most vexing problems.
Although it has all sounded so romanticized, the results don't lie. The Patriots have looked vulnerable early in seasons in the recent past only to find their way.
The only logical conclusion: The Evil Empire is, in fact, a machine.
"We just started communicating better," cornerback Malcolm Butler said.
Ya think?!
There was something strange in the air. And it wasn't just that weird fog.
The Patriots looked like champions all over again.
Sure, Brady did Brady things to get them atop the AFC East entering the primetime showdown, but there had always been a sense that these Patriots were hardly Super Bowl LII contenders with that suspect defense.
The Falcons, losers of three in a row after starting off 3-0, piled up some garbage-time stats, but don't be fooled: The Patriots, who occupy the AFC East throne at 5-2, thoroughly dominated the night.
New England scored the final 31 points in their epic Super Bowl win and the first 23 points on Sunday night. Haven't the Falcons suffered enough, Sir Hoodie?
The Patriots are Minneapolis bound. If you laugh at the thought, consider the likely "contenders" in the AFC.
Would you bet your bottom dollar that the Chiefs would beat the Patriots twice in the same season?
Would you slap down a wager on the Steelers to topple Brady?
Who else in the conference would you get in a foxhole with come playoff time? The Broncos? Please.
It's time to face reality, no matter how painful it might be.
Belichick fooled us all yet again.
Like it or not, The Evil Empire is going to Super Bowl LII.
I don't know how it looked on TV, but the fog was unreal.
That 4th down call where they ran a jet sweep to the right on our goal line was truly one of the worst calls of the year.
The fog was awesome because it forced the use of field cameras more than usual.
Van Noy's best play of the year so far.
Our RBs are a big strength of this team. Keep Cooks outside. He is deadly there. Have Danny and Hogan do the middle of the field of the stuff and let Gronk run the seam. And don't forget Mitchell is coming back mostly likely after the bye.
I'm sure the conspiracy theorists figure BB called up the fog!