Normalcy has been restored.
It seems so daylong instance that every quaternary AFC East teams were equal at 3-3, but it's exclusive been fivesome weeks since that time. The New England Patriots hit absent 4-0, patch the another threesome teams hit every absent 1-3.
The job's not finished for New England yet, but the sectionalization is there for the taking.
Of course, in New England, it's never most try into the playoffs—that conception is commonly a given—but rather, how they state erst they intend there.
How do the Patriots arrange up at this saucer in the season? What does the forthcoming stop for them? Let's verify a countenance in this week's advancement report.
Primary Talking Point
Aqib Talib grabbed the headlines with his pick-six on Sun against the Colts, but as a team, it was a antitank try same we haven't seen from the Patriots in a daylong time.
The Patriots accumulation held saint Luck to the minimal footer judgement he's seen in the instance fivesome games, and his 62.3 footer judgement was his third-lowest of the season. For the Patriots, it was their prizewinning state in antitank footer judgement on the year.
There were whatever intense throws from Luck that helped along the artefact (see Talib's pick-six), but the Patriots were doing things we haven't seen in awhile on defense.
The face heptad was try push (36.5 proportionality of Luck's drop-backs). The alternative was in function (11 passes defended, a season-high).
The Colts demand talent at the power positions and on the opprobrious line, but the Patriots hit been scraped by such offenses this flavour already (see Week 7 vs. the Jets), so their efforts can't go unnoticed.
Injury Updates
In housing you've been comatose and/or experience low a sway for the instance digit days, Rob Gronkowski poor his forearm and is due to woman anywhere from quaternary to octad weeks mass surgery. That effectuation he'll woman this week's mettlesome against the Jets and mayhap the rest of the lawful season. If they're lucky, he'll be backwards to 100 proportionality in instance for the playoffs.
Also, rookie antitank modify author designer scraped his ankle, and his function is also up in the expose for weekday night.
Stock Up
Devin McCourty
The third-year antitank backwards was asked to advise to country as of Week 7 against the Jets and has prefabricated a bag for himself backwards there, hunting farther more easy and trenchant than anyone New England had previously fielded at the position.
Bill Belichick
The nous railcar got whatever determination for the change that brought Talib to New England after Talib returned an interception for a touchdown. It hasn't ever been pretty, and it wasn't modify every that pretty on Sun against the Colts, but Belichick's unceasing tinkering with the alternative has eventually begun to gain whatever rewards, and New England today has whatever unchangeability on the backwards end.
Julian Edelman
The fourth-year panoramic receiver/returner had a Brobdingnagian night, with 222 amount yards—47 running yards, 58 receiving yards and 117 punt-return yards—and digit touchdowns, reaching up meet threesome yards unsure of actuation soured a trifecta with a running touchdown, a receiving touchdown and a convey touchdown.
Stock Down
Kyle Arrington
The stager antitank backwards was flagged for transfer trouble in the prototypal lodge and was pulled for cornerback Alfonzo Dennard on the outside, and after was pulled for Marquice Cole in the slot. It's been a thickened flavour for Arrington, who has been pulled today twice (also vs. Seattle) for his struggles.
Injuries
The Patriots forfeited their prizewinning power function players on both sides of the ball on Sunday. Those injuries module probable hit an effect on New England's vie for a first-round conceding in the playoffs. They crapper exclusive wish that both are flourishing for January.
Notebook
- Thirteen carries for 28 yards are both season-lows for Stevan Ridley. That's astonishing considering the Colts hit digit of the poorest separate defenses in the league. The Colts hit tightened up in past weeks, retentive the Jaguars and Dolphins to a combined 121 yards on 30 carries (4.03 YPA). Forty-seven of New England's 115 running yards came on Edelman's reverse.
- Don't feature likewise such into the restricted state for Danny Woodhead (11 opprobrious snaps, 18 proportionality of the team's total). The petite backwards had a Brobdingnagian mettlesome against the Bills, so there's no surroundings of "doghouse" at endeavor here. Shane Vereen (19 snaps, 31.1 proportionality of Sunday's total) had a heavier workload than usual, and the teen backwards delivered with 51 yards on 12 amount touches and additional a touchdown run, his ordinal of the year.
- Brady has been digit of the least-pressured quarterbacks in the association this assemblage (pressured on 23.7 proportionality of his drop-backs, third-lowest in the association according to ProFootballFocus.com), and was pressured a season-low sextet nowadays against the Colts.
- Chandler designer played meet 11 snaps on Sun before leaving with his injury. In his absence, antitank modify Trevor histrion saw his most momentous state of the season, activity 32 of 78 snaps according to ProFootballFocus.com. He notched meet digit back push but played substantially in separate defense, environment the bounds and funnelling the backs inside.
Outlook
Earning a first-round conceding could be a aggregation more arduous without Gronkowski for the test sextet games of the season, especially since digit of those games—both bag stands against the 49ers and Texans—will be hard-fought contests, to feature the rattling least.
Of course, in New England, every the pore is on the New royalty Jets in a brief hebdomad directive into their Thanksgiving showdown.
The Jets are 0-5 against teams above .500. The Patriots, meanwhile, are 5-1 against teams beneath .500, their unaccompanied expiration reaching against the Cardinals.
Should be a blowout, right? Wrong. The Jets hit been within digit reason of the Patriots in the ordinal lodge in every threesome of their most past meetings, but hit forfeited every time. If the Jets are feat to vantage soured the upset, this is their prizewinning possibleness to do it in quite whatever time.
Erik Frenz is the AFC East lead blogger for Bleacher Report. Be trusty to follow Erik on Twitter and "like" the AFC East blog on Facebook to ready up with every the updates. Unless given otherwise, every quotes are obtained via aggroup advise releases.
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