There are plenty of division rivalry games in Week Nine. The November schedule starts with Atlanta at Tampa Bay on Thursday 11/3. The Bucs shocked the Falcons 31-24 back in Week One at Atlanta. The Falcons rebounded to win four straight – including back-to-back victories over last season’s Super Bowl participants – but have lost their last two games.
Elsewhere Pittsburgh is at Baltimore for their biannual AFC North slugfest
Bill Belichick was asked if Lewis was indeed coming back to practice. In typical Belichick fashion, he answered laconically “If he is, we’ll let you know.”
Brown was the AFC Defensive Player of the Week when the two teams met a month ago. He made 18 tackles, had a sack and forced two fumbles.
The Patriots shipped a 6th round pick to the Detroit Lions for a 7th RD pick as well as LB Kyle Van Noy They then traded TE A.J. Derby to the Denver Broncos
The Steelers did their best to neutralize Gronk for most of Sunday’s game but at crunch time in the second half, he made key plays in the Patriots win.
The 6-1 New England Patriots and 4-3 Buffalo Bills renew their rivalry in Week 8. The AFC East clubs meet for the 114th time since the American Football League’s inception in 1960. The Patriots lead the series 69-43-1 and would love to avenge their sole loss on the 2016 season. The game kicks off at 1:00 pm eastern time at New Era Field in Orchard Park, New York.
On Monday the Patriots were listed as 6½ point road favorites.
Tom Brady had a very solid day improving to 9-2 lifetime against Pittsburgh. He completed 19 of 26 for 222 yards, two touchdowns, and zero interceptions
With the Pats facing a 3rd and 7, Brady found Gronkowski down the seam and threw a dime that went for a 36-yard touchdown
5-1 New England will travel to Pittsburgh to face the 4-2 Steelers at Heinz Field in the marquee game of NFL Week 7. The Patriots are favored by 7.
“Bill Russell taught me this,” Belichick said. “In a way, a silent leader in some respects is more powerful than a more vocal leader”
The first time the Patriots and Steelers met was 44 years ago today at the old Three Rivers Stadium with the Steelers taking home a 33-3 win
Sitting alone atop the AFC standings, the Patriots can put some distance between themselves and the Steelers in the AFC playoff race.
This one promised to be one of those old-time AFL shootouts. Now with Jones at the helm, the Steelers don’t want him in a shootout type scenario with Brady.
In this episode, we talked to PatsFans.com and Bleacher Report writer Lee Shechter who wrote an interesting article about Stephen Gostkowski. Later on in this episode, we discussed Lee’s grades for the Patriots against the Bengals.
Week 8 features a rematch between New England and Buffalo. In the first game between these two original AFL rivals at Foxboro the Bills handed the Patriots their sole loss of the season. With rookie Jacoby Brisset under center Buffalo dominated, shutting the Pats out 16-0. Even though the Patriots are on the road against a 4-2, the handicappers at the Westgate have listed the Pats as the second biggest favorite of the week.