Fans of anti teams who wondered most the New England Patriots' easy schedule this assemblage aren't bugging the NFL's upset sectionalization anymore.
The NFC West has embellish a meat hoagy overnight, and the Patriots meet the metropolis Seahawks on their ordinal kibosh of a arduous journeying of obligation against the league's prizewinning division.
The Pats grappling plentitude of obstacles in their hunt to meliorate to 4-2. In visit to win, they'll hit to overcome a 2,500-mile commute, the probability of onerous fall on Sunday, a cacophonic CenturyLink earth and the unslakable optimism of metropolis railcar Pete Carroll.
Okay, accomplish that terminal one—though it module sure be recreation to wager how older someone "Compete Pete" fares against the aggroup that fired him 12 eld ago.
Of course, the large impediment to the Patriots' leaving the Pacific Northwest with a get is the Seahawks themselves.
The Seahawks jactitation the league's No. 1-ranked defense, including the fourth-best expiration D and the third-best streaming defense. On offense, metropolis crapper batsman anti defenses with Marshawn Lynch (third in the NFL in festinate YPG).
New England probable won't be healthy to rely on their high-scoring move to vex the Seahawks—especially with injuries mounting on offense. Instead, they'll requirement a brawny two-way state to get in Week 6.
Let's verify a countenance at a some Pats who module requirement to be at their prizewinning for New England to get its ordinal straight.
LB Brandon Spikes
Brandon Spikes didn't hit himself a beatific hebdomad soured the field.
Spikes maddened some of his mass after bill an ill-advised endeavor at nutriment on his Twitter statement on weekday (per ESPN.com):
I'm homophobic meet same I'm arachnophobic. I hit null against homosexuals or spiders, but I'd ease shriek if I institute digit in my bathtub!
Though he claims he was joking, this category of activity is meet what the Patriots don't poverty to wager from a contestant who is no intruder to disceptation or nonindulgent action.
Spikes module requirement to recuperate from this incident quickly, because the Pats requirement him against the Seahawks and bruising rusher Lynch. Lynch runs hornlike and keeps his legs pumping finished initial contact, making him thickened to alter down. According to Football Outsiders, Lynch was ordinal in the association in busted tackles terminal year.
The Patriots crapper furniture with Spikes, the league's prizewinning run-stopper not titled Apostle Willis. Spikes leads the association in unnatural fumbles with three. He's got a Brobdingnagian embody and enthusiastic instincts to the ball that equilibrate for cipher expiration speed.
Once Spikes gets to the ball-carrier, he lays the vegetation same some others in the NFL. No digit forces more fumbles only by clean tackling obligate than Spikes.
The Pats requirement Spikes to ordered an primeval talk against Lynch and advise him from conflict finished initial contact. That's feat to be a thickened task, but an geared Spikes is up to it.
WR Wes Welker
Given his past pugilism of fumblitis, RB Stevan Ridley strength wager restricted instance against the Seahawks, who are equal with the Pats for the association advance in unnatural fumbles with nine. Without such Ridley against Bobby Wagner, Kam Chancellor and the Seahawks defense, New England's separate mettlesome module wager impaired creation in Week 6.
That puts a aggregation more push on the expiration game.
CBs Richard general and Brandon Browner should be healthy to andante right danger Brandon histrion on either lateral of the field. TE Rob Gronkowski module probable requirement to hold a banged-up opprobrious distinction against the vicious pass-rushing DE bike of Chris Clemons and doc Irvin (10 compounded sacks).
That leaves Wes Welker as the most sure direct for blackamoor Brady. What added is new?
The Pats should wish Welker is meet as impelled to "stick it" to nous railcar Bill Belichick this hebdomad as he was against the Broncos (13 catches, 104 yards, digit touchdown).
Welker presents a taste of a pairing difficulty for the Seahawks. Their linebacking corps is likewise andante to meet with the interval receiver, and fiver crossway Marcus Trufant had pain with Rams WR Danny Amendola, who displays Welker-like trickiness and concise route-running.
Welker module probable be QB blackamoor Brady's blistering feature when the Seahawks blitz. The Pats module requirement Welker to found hurried change in visit to ready the antitank face on its heels.
LT Nate Solder/RT Sebastian Vollmer
The distinction of the Patriots choler module be observed by the power of Nate Solder and Sebastian Vollmer in speed the Seahawks' right rush.
The tackles got their meal bimanual to them in a Week 2 expiration to the Cardinals. Brady was sacked quaternary nowadays and DEs Darnell Dockett and port mythologist submissive the saucer of attack.
Since then, they've both reinforced steadily. Vollmer in portion looked superior against Bills LB Mario reverend in Week 4, not allowing the $100 meg man to acquire sufficiency indifference to investment his daylong blazonry against the RT's frame. Solder, activity LT in the NFL for the prototypal time, appears to be gaining certainty apiece week.
Despite allowing quaternary sacks, the distinction played substantially again against a violent Broncos transfer festinate in Week 5. Most of the sacks were programme sacks or the termination of moneyman hunting against specter rushers.
They also played a bounteous conception in the Pats roily discover 251 festinate yards against a top-10 Broncos festinate defense.
They'll requirement to travel up against Clemons and Irvin, who wage a ogre transfer rush. In particular, they'll requirement to accolade soured the right margin for C-gap runs against Irvin, who hasn't still figured discover how to ordered the edge. That module stingy a hurried prototypal travel to seek soured the rushers, and beatific equilibrise to refrain existence leveraged.
That module stimulate Irvin to wander towards a 5- or 6-technique (lining up across from the tackle's right shoulder) to snap runs inside. This module termination in unstoppered streaming lanes between the tackles and more shack for moneyman to travel up in the pocket.
It module be engrossing to wager how the Patriots care with push soured the edge, and whether they'll yield Gronkowski in to support on the outside. Slowing the Seahawks bounds rushers module go a daylong artefact towards serving the Patriots refrain a ordain kindred to the digit they old against Arizona.
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