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But a hundred years from now when we’re sitting around during TV timeouts of the Hunger Games, we’ll be talking about one thing: “We’ll Take the Wind.” Just the gutsiest, most self-assured move in a career full of them. Where Belichick just hung his titanium testicles out in the wind and if Denver had marched down and punched it in, the whole nation would be standing in line for their chance to kick him in them with steel toed boots. It was 4th & 2 all over again only this time it won them the game. Like he told his team after that one, I made the call because I believe in you and I don’t apologize for it. And like the mics caught him saying on his “A Football Life,” “If we call this, we better fucking get it.” Well they got it. I just hope the country gives him as much credit this time as they friggin’ flambe’d him that time.

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Chat: Chat with Tedy Bruschi – SportsNation – ESPN Boston

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Chat: Chat with Tedy Bruschi – SportsNation – ESPN Boston

Bruschi: [Jamie] Collins was productive last night and you saw a lot of positive things – 10 total tackles. He had some positive plays in coverage. But your playing time on this defense will depend on the game-plan of the week. If this was a team that had a different offensive philosophy, maybe you’d see a little bit less of Collins. The Patriots were mostly in sub defense last night. So do they now consider him the sub LB? In a game when you might play more regular personnel, we might not see him as much. But you can call this is a big step in his development. Biggest game of the year, against a top-ranked, and he played and produced. He can use this momentum to earning more playing time.

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They’re the scrappy team that wins games they have no business competing in. Spotting Manning two-dozen points with the help of three first-quarter fumbles and still winning? Giving him the ball in overtime not once, but twice, and still winning? That stuff just doesn’t happen. It shouldn’t. It takes a certain amount of audacity to stare down those odds and shrug at them. But that’s what these Patriots do. It’s who they are, and that sh*t is crazy.

What is the hallmark of these New England Patriots? It’s beginning to look like their heart | masslive.com

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Contributions from linebackers Dane Fletcher and Jamie Collins, who haven’t been a big part of defensive plans prior to this point, stood out. Fletcher had played 68 total defensive snaps through the first nine games of the season and nearly matched the total on Sunday night, when he had a key forced fumble. Fletcher was thrust into action when linebacker Dont’a Hightower came out of the game late in the second quarter and didn’t play another snap the rest of the way. As for Collins, he was “active”, according to Bill Belichick. That was reflected in his snaps-to-tackle ratio, which was impressive (22 snaps, 10 tackles).

Snaps: Reserve LBs do their part – New England Patriots Blog – ESPN Boston

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Can’t help but feel like some 4th-and-2 demons were laid to rest last night…

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Defying odds, Bill Belichick went for the wind – Sports – The Boston Globe

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Defying odds, Bill Belichick went for the wind – Sports – The Boston Globe

Let’s call this one Belichick’s Redemption. There’s something about Tom Brady-Peyton Manning matchups that turns Bill Belichick’s decision-making a little unconventional. In 2009, it was a fourth-and-2 call against the Colts that backfired in his face and led to weeks of criticism. Belichick decided to go for it from his 30, the play fell short, and Manning’s Colts promptly marched down the short field for the winning score. In Sunday night’s thriller, an unbelievable 34-31 comeback overtime win over the Broncos, Belichick again went against the grain with a major decision. The Patriots won the overtime coin toss, but instead of taking the kickoff, like 99.9 percent of NFL coaches do in that situation, Belichick took the wind.