BobDigital
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The Pats beat the Titans fairly easily as expected and the score was probably closer than the game was.
Now we are on to the Jets in a game that is important to both teams. For the Pats it locks up the #1 seed and for the Jets it is virtually an elimination game cause if they don't win out they have likely no shot to make the playoffs unless one of the Steelers or KC drops both of their remaining 2 games.
The Pats of course would like to wrap up the #1 seed early which would allow them to use week 17 however they please leading into the bye.
A few things about this game are interesting.
The last game played against the Jets was one of Butler's worst and Ryan and Chung's best of the season. It will be interesting to see how much they use the same strategy of Butler on Decker and Ryan with help on Marshall. Ryan is coming off one of his worst games last week so it will be interesting to see how this duo does facing a very good pair of WRs and see if they have grown since the last contest (Particularly Butler).
Last time the Pats OL played the Jets DL they handled them pretty well. This would be a good time to see the OL put together a good wire to wire effort vs a good DL unit.
The Jets on the other hand don't tend to give up many sacks so I would like to see the Pats get home and get pressure on a good OL unit.
People tend to forget this game was razor close much of the way through and it was not till the 4th the Pats got a little breathing room that was mostly taken away at the end. The Pats can and should do better vs this team this time.
Now we are on to the Jets in a game that is important to both teams. For the Pats it locks up the #1 seed and for the Jets it is virtually an elimination game cause if they don't win out they have likely no shot to make the playoffs unless one of the Steelers or KC drops both of their remaining 2 games.
The Pats of course would like to wrap up the #1 seed early which would allow them to use week 17 however they please leading into the bye.
A few things about this game are interesting.
The last game played against the Jets was one of Butler's worst and Ryan and Chung's best of the season. It will be interesting to see how much they use the same strategy of Butler on Decker and Ryan with help on Marshall. Ryan is coming off one of his worst games last week so it will be interesting to see how this duo does facing a very good pair of WRs and see if they have grown since the last contest (Particularly Butler).
Last time the Pats OL played the Jets DL they handled them pretty well. This would be a good time to see the OL put together a good wire to wire effort vs a good DL unit.
The Jets on the other hand don't tend to give up many sacks so I would like to see the Pats get home and get pressure on a good OL unit.
People tend to forget this game was razor close much of the way through and it was not till the 4th the Pats got a little breathing room that was mostly taken away at the end. The Pats can and should do better vs this team this time.
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