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Mike Dussault

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The case could easily be made that the eight-year kicker out of Memphis is not only having the best season of his career but he’s having the best season of any kicker in the league. He has made 30-of-32 field goal attempts this season, missing only from 43 yards wide left against the Jets in Week 2 and from 55 yards against Houston in Week 13. Gostkowski followed up that 55-yard miss in Houston by hitting a pair from 53 yards on the suspect grass turf of Reliant Stadium in the fourth quarter, one to tie the game and one to win it. His 93.8 conversion rate on field goals would be a career best, passing his 90 percent mark (36-of-40) in 2008.

It Is What It Is » Bill Belichick: Stephen Gostkowski is like Tom Brady ‘gets a little better each year’

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FOOTBALL OUTSIDERS: What Denver’s Loss Did to Playoff Odds

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FOOTBALL OUTSIDERS: What Denver’s Loss Did to Playoff Odds

Pats jump from an 18% shot at the #1 seed to a 37.1% shot. Denver still the favorites at 41.9%.

Just beside myself imagining if the Pats can win these next two games. Now’s when the football stress really starts to settle in. Get ready for heart palpitations every weekend from here on out…

Bill Belichick Press Conference Transcript

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Bill Belichick Press Conference Transcript

Q: It seems like they use a lot of double ‘A’ gap coverage. How does that put pressure on your offensive line?

BB: Well, that’s what they do. [Kevin] Coyle came from kind of the Cincinnati program, which is what they do. That’s definitely a big part of their defense, particularly in third down or two-minute passing situations. It puts six guys really on five. Your tackles, guards, and center and are against their four defensive linemen and two guys in the ‘A’ gap. You have to determine how you’re going to handle those six players. Sometimes they come, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they line up in there and bring people off the edge, so there’s actually a seventh guy that’s not part of that six. But again, when you line up there it, I don’t want to say it limits, but it makes it harder to get to other spaces on the field than if you weren’t lined up on the line of scrimmage. It puts pressure on one thing, but it also takes them away from something else. It’s like anything else, there’s a give-and-take with it. You definitely have to have a plan to decide how you’re going to treat it and what you’re going to do with it, because they do it quite a bit of it.

How are you feeling about the Ravens game? Wondering if the “Miracle Man” (my moniker for Flacco) is going to pull out some miracle passes and give us a considerable threat on offense, or go back to choking it big time. Right now this is the game I’m most nervous about.

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Hard to look past the Dolphins right now, but the potential ramifications going into the Baltimore game are certainly intriguing. To have a chance to put a serious dent in their playoff hopes in their building after the two losses last year? That would certainly feel good. 

I think without Reed and Ray Lewis, their defense will be find defending Brady a little tougher. They might’ve lost a step last year, but their savvy and fearlessness were huge factors in playing the New England offense.

It will be a huge game, but let’s get through this week’s huge game first.