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Patriots vs Bengals Preview

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The inconsistent Cincinnati Bengals host the undefeated New England Patriots in Week 5. It’s an interesting matchup, as the Bengals have been good enough to hand the Green Bay Packers a loss, but also inconsistent enough to sit at just 2-2 through four weeks. New England, on the other hand, has stayed perfect through four games despite not having a litany of offensive weapons they’re accustomed to having.

Despite Cincy being a little erratic and the Pats being under-manned, it’s a surprise that fans only need to pay $122 on average for this one, with a get-in tag of just $39. In fact, it’s just 3% more expensive than Cincinnati Bengals tickets have averaged for 2013 home game price. It’s also a whopping 53% below the average price for Patriots tickets on the road this year.

Despite the soft ticket price this week, this matchup isn’t likely to produce soft results. After all, the Patriots just ousted a borderline desperate Atlanta Falcons on the road last week, yet again without all of their offensive studs. That proved for them once again that as long as their players aren’t dropping passes and running wrong routes like they did against the Jets in week two, Tom Brady can pretty much will them to victory.

The same can be said for Cincinnati, however, who barely lost to the Bears in week one and used a late fury against the Packers to steal an impressive in week three.

Bottom line, however, is whether or not Andy Dalton can out-dual the legendary Tom Brady. It’ll be nice if he can get a helping hand from rookie running back Giovani Bernard. And with Pats defensive tackle (aka wall) Vince Wilfork now on injured reserve, that’s something that just might happen.

Regardless, if Dalton can cut down the mistakes and attack the New England secondary with A.J. Green, the Bengals could pull off another upset. But even if they can’t, Brady and co. will make this an interesting battle that all should enjoy.

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Thanks to our partners at TiqIQ for the preview – Mike D.

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New England’s offensive line has been tremendous so far in 2013. The group currently ranks third in run blocking and fourth in pass blocking in our cumulative grades. Nate Solder ( 13.2) and Sebastian Vollmer ( 10.2) have been excellent, and they are currently our second- and third-highest graded tackles, respectively. Neither has allowed a sack or hit. Center Ryan Wendell and right guard Dan Connolly will need to step up their games this week. They are the only starters with negative grades, and they have struggled in pass protection. They will have to be better this week if they hope to keep Geno Atkins from ruining the Patriots’ game plan.

3TFO: Patriots @ Bengals, Week 5 | ProFootballFocus.com

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I was thinking the other day when I read that [Vince] Wilfork goes down. This is the first thought that comes into my mind. I said, If I’m a Patriots fan, I’m saying, ‘Oh, boy, at least it wasn’t Talib.’ … Look, Vince Wilfork one day will get discussed in the room about going to Canton, in my opinion. But right now, this team, the way football is played — 61-39 pass-run ratio in the NFL so far this year, or something like that, it’s very close — 61 percent passing, going against Matt Ryan, Roddy White, Julio Jones last week, [Peyton] Manning down the road. If you don’t have at least one good [cornerback] — to me, you know who he is right now? He’s Richard Sherman. He’s good, he’s physical and he knows it. And I want my cornerback to have those three traits. So, to me, that is a gigantic [factor]. You can’t let him go. But on the other hand, you also can’t guarantee him [$]30 million, and a year and a half down the road he does something stupid.

It Is What It Is » Peter King on M&M: Patriots ‘desperately need Aqib Talib’

Next offseason will be interesting, as they always are. Right now I think the Franchise Tag is really perfect for Talib. 

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Bill Belichick Press Conference Transcript

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Bill Belichick Press Conference Transcript

Q: Have you slid defensive ends over to defensive tackle for a few years now, or when is the first time you saw that?

BB: As far back as I can remember. In Cleveland we did it with Rob Burnett. He probably had more production inside than he did outside, and he had a lot of production outside too. So how far is that? 20 years ago? We’ve done it with plenty of people around here. When you’re in a 3-4 defense, you usually take your defensive ends and move them inside. If you’re in a 4-3 defense, a lot of times you just get your better pass rushers out there on the field. If one of your outside guys can move inside and be productive in there, then I think you see a lot of teams of that. I don’t think it’s anything that’s revolutionary or that big a deal to us or any other teams in the league. But like I said, I can remember doing that back in Cleveland with Rob Burnett. Those guys can do a good job sometimes moving inside on guards with their quickness and their pass rush skills, when they don’t really have to play the run on a lot of those situations. They can just rush and you can get a third guy in there, that’s really three ends. It gives you better speed, better athleticism, better pass rushers on the field – if that’s the situation.

Danny Amendola says he’s ‘looking forward to Sunday’ | masslive.com

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Danny Amendola says he’s ‘looking forward to Sunday’ | masslive.com

“Had a good day today,” he said. “Had a good practice, ran around, made some plays and looking forward to Sunday, so we’ll see.” Does that mean he’ll play? “Had a good day today, so we’ll see what tomorrow’s like and go from there,” Amendola replied.

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What does he do with the notes? “I usually transfer them so it would be notes after the game,” he explains. “Maybe it’s a communication between the coaches we need to talk about or some substitution where something happened. Something you won’t see on film because it’s not a film play, it’s something that happened on the sideline or press box. Maybe we missed something on a play from the press box. We write it down and talk about how we need to correct it. Sometimes it’s a halftime thing, sometimes it’s a day after the game thing. I just then have a record of it.”

The write stuff: Belichick takes note of everything | Comcast SportsNet – CSNNE.com

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