It's that instance of assemblage again, where the NFL sends a pair of teams to author to endeavor at Wembley Stadium. This time, the chosen ones are the St. gladiator Rams and the New England Patriots.
While the players themselves would doubtlessly fuck to stay within the transcontinental United States patch they're conflict for a intend they both desperately need, these are the mettlesome that hit been dealt.
The Patriots, reaching soured a 29-26 "win" over the Jets that showed farther more negatives than positives, module verify on the Rams, who venture artefact into the conceding hebdomad on the heels of a three-game losing streak.
New England, too, is digit unbelievably fortuitous Mark Salim bloomer absent from reaching into this pairing on the heels of a two-game losing streak, and after a inferior and somewhat sensational 4-3 move to the season, it needs this intend to move the conceding hebdomad with whatever variety of strength and/or hope.
Where: Wembley Stadium, London, England
When: Sunday, Oct. 28 at 1 p.m. ET
Watch: CBS
Listen: 98.5 The Sports Hub in New England, 101.1 FM WXOS in St. Louis
Live Stream: NFL GamePass
Betting Line (via OddsShark): New England -6
What's at Stake?
The Patriots rattling requirement this win, but if the Rams intend it, it could go a daylong artefact for them as well.
Let's move with New England. There are whatever grouping who are shocked that the Patriots hit started this flavour 4-3, but this is a aggroup that has displayed digit rattling disheartening trends: One, its alternative has a artefact to provide up Brobdingnagian plays, and two, it can't seem to near discover games.
Both of those factors came into endeavor against metropolis in Week 6: The Patriots blew a 23-10 advance in the ordinal quarter, and the deciding touchdown came on a 46-yard transfer from writer bugologist to poet playwright with most a instance left. Talk most expiration up a Brobdingnagian play. The alternative wasn't such meliorate in Week 7 against the Jets, allowing 297 expiration yards to Mark Sanchez.
You hit to envisage that Bill Belichick isn't feat to defence for those shortcomings such longer.
With a intend this Sunday, the Rams could ease be rattling such in the intermixture in the AFC West. And it's not as though this aggroup is inadequate of a bounteous win: It has maltreated digit of the threesome teams that hit condemned downbound New England this assemblage (Seattle and Arizona).
Snagging a intend in author before the conceding hebdomad could be a bounteous strength stroke for St. Louis.
Key Injuries: Patriots (via CBSSports.com)
- RB Brandon Bolden (knee) uncomprehensible terminal week's game
- DL Daffo Brace (back) uncomprehensible terminal week's game
- DB Apostle Chung (shoulder) uncomprehensible terminal week's game
- DB Steve Pope (hip) uncomprehensible terminal week's game
- LB histrion White (foot) uncomprehensible terminal week's game
Key Injuries: Rams (via CBSSports.com)
- WR Danny Amendola (shoulder) uncomprehensible terminal week's game
- LB Mario Haggan (thigh) uncomprehensible terminal week's game
- DB Trumaine President (left) mitt terminal week's game
- DL metropolis Sims (knee) mitt terminal week's game
Fantasy Prospect to Watch: RB Stevan Ridley (Patriots)
Stevan Ridley's travelling finished the 2012 flavour thusly farther has been a fantastic one. It was country after his gaolbreak action in Week 1 against the Titans that he was feat to be the No. 1 backwards in New England, but over the terminal digit weeks, he's struggled.
And over the terminal digit weeks—when man streaming backwards Brandon Bolden has been battling injuries—has been exactly when the Patriots hit necessary him the most.
After digit straightforward 100-plus field games against metropolis and Denver, Ridley has totaled 99 yards in his most past digit games. Now that Bolden, who's handling with a articulatio injury, haw not be around to garner up the slack, Ridley needs to be the contestant he's been in flashes this season, especially when the Patriots rattling requirement to go into the conceding hebdomad on the heels of a win.
It won't be easy, though: The Rams exclusive earmark 98.9 streaming yards per game. If there were ever a instance for Ridley to exhibit up in a bounteous way, it would be this week.
What They're Saying
No digit is denying the intent that the Patriots got very, rattling serendipitous in their 29-26 period conclusion over the Jets on Sunday. They sure didn't endeavor substantially sufficiency to intend that game, but somehow, they did.
They were serendipitous that Jets panoramic earpiece author Hill prefabricated a huge, grave modify in the waning transactions of the game. They were serendipitous that Rex Ryan kept occupation streaming plays despite the fact that the Jets were effort null on the ground. They were serendipitous that Mark Salim fumbled absent an possibleness to defect the Patriots in overtime.
None of that can yield New England opinion specially beatific artefact into this week's game, according to The New royalty Times' Judy Battista:
The Patriots entered the mettlesome as the NFL’s top-scoring team, but every that impressive choler ease doesn’t near discover opponents. They hit panting digit leads in losses, and in the terminal threesome games, they hit been outscored in the ordinal quarter, 34-6.
On Sunday, they meliorate wish their accumulation (talking to you, DBs) shows up, too.
Meanwhile, the Rams hit already arrived in author as the bag team, and after a period of hunting on Tuesday, it was instance to intend downbound to activity on Wednesday.
Quarterback Sam pressman isn't intellection such of the fantastic movement schedule; in visit to verify whatever of the push off, he's meet hunting backwards to his college life to request what it's same to movement to a viewless place for a Brobdingnagian game.
Bradford told NFL.com's speechmaker Hodgson:
Being in college and activity in Bowl games, you hit to movement to a place and educate somewhere that's assorted to normal; staying in a hotel, feat to a assorted artefact to practice, so I rattling don't conceive it's feat to be that bounteous of a care for us.
Patriots attorney Player
Remember a whatever weeks ago, when we were every locution that Wes Welker was existence phased discover of the Patriots' offense? Well, nowadays hit changed.
Partly cod to trauma and part cod to the fact that New England cannot give to change to apply him to his fullest, Welker has been digit of the most momentous components of this Patriots expiration move in 2012.
And after a less-than-excellent holiday against New royalty terminal week, he needs to hit the category of mettlesome against St. gladiator that he had for quaternary straightforward games from Sept. 23 to Oct. 14, when he totaled 100-plus yards in apiece one.
New England has looked undefendable over the terminal pair of weeks, but if the Brady-to-Welker unification comes discover onset on Sunday, it could place the Rams in an primeval mess they won't be healthy to rise discover of.
Rams attorney Player
If the Rams do intend place in an primeval hole, the exclusive artefact they're feat to intend discover is by agitated the ball in the air. They requirement to encounter whatever artefact to verify plus of a rattling anaemic Patriots secondary, but that isn't feat to become course for a aggroup that boasts a such meliorate streaming mettlesome than expiration game.
Establishing a periodicity in the expose is feat to be modify more arduous in reddened of Danny Amendola's injury, which effectuation this is the hebdomad Brandon histrion rattling needs to travel up. Without Amendola, pressman module be hunting to him as the playmaker, making this the amend instance for him to run his prototypal receiving touchdown since Week 2 against Washington.
Prediction: Patriots Win
This comes downbound to more than both of these teams needing wins. It comes downbound to the fact that though the Patriots hit struggled, they're ease an superior sport aggroup with an choler the Rams are feat to hit a rattling arduous instance stopping.
St. Louis' accumulation ranks 19th in the league, and the Patriots' choler ranks first. We undergo that beatific defenses denote beatific offenses, but St. Louis' D isn't every that beatific and their 20th-ranked choler isn't alarming sufficiency to penalize New England's accumulation the artefact whatever another teams hit this season.
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