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In honor of our dear old friend Peyton Manning making his triumphant return to Foxboro to face Tom Brady and the New England Patriots this Sunday with his new team, the Denver Broncos, all Seyton Manning shirts are on sale for the crazy, bonkers, insane price of $8 each for the rest of the week.
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[T]he Patriots’ safety play was again atrocious in Buffalo (what is it about this place?). Bad angles, bad reads, bad tackling, bad coverage….just bad for far too long in his game. Thought Patrick Chung had a really rough game, but it was interesting that after Donald Jones’ 86-yard touchdown where Chung took a bad angle and Steve Gregory provided zero last-line defense, that it was Gregory that was sent to the bench for Tavon Wilson. It appeared like Gregory only played in the dime package after that. Wilson played 34 of 69 snaps while Gregory had 49. Not sure if Gregory had an injury that had to be managed – he had a quad issue in the preseason – but in my opinion, the coaches have been looking for an excuse to play Wilson more. He could be headed for a starters’ role.
Morning after: Patriots 52, Bills 28 – Extra Points – Boston.com
Couldn’t agree more. Haven’t rewatched the game yet but this was clear even in real time.
I love being on the team with Brandon Spikes. What he does for our defense, and creating fumbles and really the hard-hitting presence that he is in the middle of the field,” Brady said today on WEEI’s Dennis & Callahan. “Brandon brings that physical element. To knock the ball off (C.J.) Spiller like he did was awesome. And that play he made against Arizona where he knocked the fumble off of (Ryan Williams) was one of the best plays I’ve ever seen anyone make.
Fine tuning, sweet music – Patriots – Boston.com
“The most discouraging thing about it is they literally ran three running plays,” said Bills tackle Kyle Williams. “They ran the same thing over and over and over.” Everything was inside against the Bills’ vaunted defensive line. And almost everything had a little delay to allow one or two linemen out to the second level to block against the Bills’ diminutive second level. Back Brady with a running game like that, and he’s going to be tough to stop.
When you play in an organization like this, and Bill breaks down football the way he breaks down football and makes it clear he wants to run the football, it’s crazy how everybody goes to work,” relayed Ridley, who played 17 snaps in the first half and 17 in the second half. “That was our focus this week, to get that back. "We knew there were going to be some yards on the [Bills’] secondary. Coach told us at the beginning of the week, ‘You see the green grass, take it. We’ll live with the decision. Don’t try to make the perfect read or the perfect cut, just go out and be the players you are.’ For the coaches to say ‘we’re going to attack them with the run’ and for us to stick with the plan and prove we can run the football, it came together.
New England Patriots carry on, turn things around in rout – ESPN Boston
The Bills kept daring the Patriots to run by playing their smaller nickel defense (five defensive backs) – which could have even been viewed as a dime with converted safety Bryan Scott (6-foot-1, 220 pounds) at linebacker – when the Patriots had their bigger personnel on the field. So the Patriots ran it. And ran it. And ran it some more, ringing up 247 yards and four touchdowns, with rookie Brandon Bolden (137 yards, 16 carries, TD) and second-year man Stevan Ridley (106 yards, 22 carries, 2 TDs) in starring roles.
