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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.-Gronkowski.... The most unfortunate recipient of Mcdaniels coming back. Does Mcdaniels not see how automatic Gronk is??? I get the feeling Gronk isnt being used as he should be this year. Hes the best tight end in the league and unstoppable at times. He comes up big when you need him. 2 TDs and moved chains in crunch time
Bequette can still turn out to be a productive player, if he busts that's too bad but that is the nature of the beast. The draft class is already shaping up to be a good one, with or without him. As for the UDFA remarks, there are more UDFA players in the NFL than 2nd round picks.
Dennard was super smart to hold Hill on that play at the end. There was no one behind him. Rather than give the yards AND 1st down on a past interference or worse, a TD, he only gave up 5 yards. These are the kind of smart players we need on D.
Patriots won
Jets lost
Honesty, we forced a safety and returned a kick for a touchdown. Brady threw 2 touchdowns and we beat a division rival in overtime. 8 years ago we'd all be thrilled.
I coach AAU basketball, and I often tell my players, look, it's better to win pretty than win ugly. But there are going to be plenty of ugly games, and if it's going to be an ugly game, you might as well win it, because winning ugly is better than losing.
This was a tough game, a gut-check, character-building kind of win against a determined division rival with first place on the line. Both Brady and the defense stepped up big on their last two opportunities to do so. That's a good sign moving forward.
Honesty, we forced a safety and returned a kick for a touchdown. Brady threw 2 touchdowns and we beat a division rival in overtime. 8 years ago we'd all be thrilled.
I was as bummed in the 4th quarter as anyone here. And after the game, I just felt relieved. But let's think about this a bit more.
1 - we won.
2 - we won a close game for the first time this year. That's something. Sure, it only became close by our own failures, but the point remains that we won a very close game.
3 - we beat a divisional rival. We're 2-0 in the division and have a one game lead. In my opinion, this is as bad as we've been since the year Cassel was QB and we were trying to get our legs underneath us. And maybe even worse than that. Perhaps as bad as 2005 when Bruschi was coming back from his heart procedure and we were struggling mightily. Yet as bad as we've been, we're ahead in our division.
4 - we have a young defense and nine more regular season games to get it squared away back there. They'll gel (hopefully). If we can win next week in London, we'll be 5-3, tops in our division and ready for the bye. Gronk's hip will have a week off, Hernandez can rest that ankle, and everyone else's bumps and bruises and heal up, at least some. My predictions in the offseason were that we'd be 6-2 at the midway stage. Win next week and we are only a game off that pace.
5 - apart from the Texans, who appear to be ahead of the others, the AFC is wide open. The Ravens, despite their one game lead and tiebreaker over us, were demolished this weekend and are banged up as bad if not worse than anyone else. We beat the Broncos, who are my pick for the AFC West. We can still eye that #2 seed and winning this division.
We have our problems. But, again probably apart from the Texans, I defy you to find an AFC team that doesn't. We have time to get our act together. It's not all doom and gloom guys. I know that season was remarkable in so many ways, but there was a time where we were 5-5 and totally stoked after a home loss.
Let's get a win this week, enjoy the bye and be ready for an awesome second half of the season!