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Chandler Jones with the sack, strip and recovery of the football.

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I am, like you, a completely biased, card-carrying Belichickian, but the Fox broadcast was complete garbage on the Mayo injury front. They immediately cut away from the play where Mayo got hurt to the live shot of the new Bills owner and continue chatting away at length and then then casually mention that the captain of the Pats defense is injured before throwing it to commercial. That’s irresponsible.

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You mean you can’t tell that Jerod Mayo just had a season-ending injury from this:

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Two questions with the injury to Ridley: 1) Does the team look to make a trade for a starting RB? 2) Who gets the lead role now? I suspect Bill will make it a three man rotation with Vareen, Boulden, and White. But if I was coaching I’d leave Vareen in his current role, and give White the start. See what the rookie can do, with Boulden spelling him. The effectiveness (or lack thereof) of #2 may determine if #1 happens.

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I really don’t know what the answer is, there’s just a lot of factors to sort out. The problem is that White seems closer to Vereen than he does to Ridley. And while it could make sense to use White on early downs to minimize the amount he’s in pass protection, I just don’t know if he is ready for that kind of pounding yet.

Of course the easy answer is just roll with Bolden on some early downs but make Vereen the go-to guy on most of the other downs. This might be the best solution because I just don’t think Bolden has what it takes to get the hard yards. But who does?

Who do you run now on the goalline when you have to have a TD? Develin? Jonas Grey certainly has some size. He could make sense there too, but who knows if he’s really more ready than Bolden.  Although it does make sense to keep Bolden in his special teams/back up role and just let Grey focus on 1st and 2nd down.

As for trades I have no idea. Trades always come out of nowhere. Projecting them is just such a stretch I don’t even want to attempt to speculate. But I think they stay in house. 

The answer is somewhere in here, I’m just not exactly sure how it will all come together and I’m not sure the Pats do either. It’s important to just get through the Jets, hopefully with a W, and then regroup on all of this.

Patriots vs. Bills All 22 Thoughts: Offense Edition

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We learned a lot about the New England Patriots offense against the Bills. Are they perfectly unstoppable yet? Nope. But they have a resiliency about them that was shown multiple times in this game. 

The protection continues to improve, as does Rob Gronkowski. Along with Edelman and Brandon LaFell the Pats’ attack is looking more and more diverse with each game and that’s a great thing.

While the questions swirl around how they’ll replace Stevan Ridley, there are plenty of other things to feel good about with this offense.

Here’s what stood out on the All 22 film re-watch, offense edition.

Communication on the offensive line stood out on the first third down of the day. Adjusting and passing guys off in perfect sync. This is what takes time to build and the better results are obvious.

Just overall the pocket is much cleaner now as well. No longer is it total chaos with guys flailing all over the place.

Josh Kline whiffs on Dareus on the second drive but Brady already got the ball out. Still, Kline fights pretty hard. Not sure how he wasn’t in the mix early in the year, perhaps injury?

Not sure why we’re running into this front…

Kinda strange to throw a WR screen to Brandon LaFell with Amendola and Edelman blocking for him, but I guess that’s the unexpected.

Ah, the fullback dive… I have a bad feeling we’ll be seeing Develin with more of these. And I like Develin, but the OL just doesn’t seem to be explosive enough off the ball to open those quick seams up front.

It’s really amazing how the Pats neutralized Brandon Spikes in this one. Spikes is a devastating run blocker but the Pats’ game plan completely took him out of the equation.

Not sure what Nate Solder was doing on the sack he gave up in the second quarter. He looked down on the snap and opened the door for Hughes. If he just squares up there’s no sack. Might’ve been a communication thing.

Give Buffalo’s D some credit they swarmed the ball in the running game. Their secondary just couldn’t disrupt Brady’s timing in the pass game.

The next pressure Solder gave up on the next possession was all him though, Hughes just got under him and flew around the corner to flush Brady out. That was the one that got him a seat on the bench the next possession.

If Brady wasn’t pulling it down after looking at Gronk (in middle) he might’ve had Amendola on the out up top.

Ridley’s best run of the day came off a quick snap that the Bills weren’t ready for. Guess you have to get them any way you can.

Spikes gets stuck covering LaFell on a third quarter third down and totally misses the jam allowing a free release. LaFell finds the open zone in the middle of the field and takes it for a first down. 

Still just so impressed with Tyms’ touchdown catch. I really hope this is just the beginning with him, he has real deep ball talent. Still, if I’m an opposing defense and I see him come on the field there’s one route I’m bailing and covering downfield.

Gronk did a lot of damage on the outside matched up against cornerbacks. Such a tough assignment for a guy six feet or under.

Total whiff by Josh Kline pulling for Ridley in the third quarter, okay maybe that’s why he was stuck on the bench. BTW – how have I not noticed Jordan Devey yet?

 For a guy known for his blocking, LaFell didn’t get anything of his man on the play Ridley got injured. Tough to see again…

Still wondering where the hard-charging-downhill Brandon Spikes was this game. Not that I’m complaining.

Pretty impressive how in sync Edelman and Brady are. He just continues to make it look like Wes Welker never left.

There wasn’t much there for him, but Brandon Bolden sure ain’t generating anything on his own. Is he really about to be the lead early-down back?

 This is what it has to look like for Bolden to pick up a chunk of yardage:

Wow, just saw Devey make an open field block to spring Gronk late in the fourth. I don’t know, maybe he isn’t a total loss?

Such a perfect play on LaFell’s touchdown for so many reasons. Offense showing “finish”. Brady showing faith in a new receiver. Love it.

Bolden is not turning this into anything but a loss:

The third-and-long conversion to Gronkowski was one of the best plays of the day. Protection was strong and Brady stood tall and waited for Gronk to get open.

The second LaFell touchdown to close it out was just the icing on the cake.

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One of the issues of playing man on every play is just the amount of energy it takes,” said Belichick. “I mean you have to run with the guy 30, 35 yards on a running play because he’s just running you off. It’s really a nothing play for the corner, it’s an inside run, but you don’t know that. You’re in man coverage, the guy runs a go route and you gotta chase him for 40 yards and the ball is back there 40 yards behind you at the line of scrimmage, but you don’t know that. So to do that every single down, is it doable? Yeah. But is it taxing on your secondary to do that, it really is.

Revis great, but can’t expect man-to-man all game | Comcast SportsNet – CSNNE.com

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