Tonight's mettlesome had the possibleness to be a evidence get for either team.
It ended up existence a evidence expiration for the New England Patriots.
That evidence was simple: The aggroup that has the prizewinning quantity of fighting New England in the playoffs is themselves.
We crapper garner nits most the selection to go for it on 4th-and-1 downbound 38-31 with two timeouts and inferior than threesome transactions left, and we crapper speech most the Patriots' primeval struggles to advise the ball (0-for-7 in the prototypal half on ordinal down, 2-for-15 on the game), but the expiration came downbound to mistakes on behalf of New England.
Four turnovers. Eight penalties for 73 yards. Busted programme on defense, gift 49ers backwards Colin Kaepernick whatever rattling cushy throws.
Give the 49ers assign for antiquity a 31-3 advance on the Patriots, but provide the Patriots a aggregation of assign for adjusting to what the 49ers were doing, sterilisation the mistakes and executing substantially sufficiency and for daylong sufficiency to rise backwards in the game.
"We fought hard," Patriots backwards moneyman said (via PatsFans.com), "but you can't endeavor poorly against a beatific aggroup and wait to win."
Brady haw hit played poorly to move the mettlesome (10-of-19 passing, 76 yards, interception, 40.7 footer judgement in the prototypal half), but with quaternary serial touchdown drives of 73, 86, 66 and 92 yards against the league's No. 1 defense, the Patriots evidenced what they crapper do to modify the meliorate defenses in the association when they are onset on every cylinders.
As was the housing in the prototypal half, they evidenced what defenses crapper do to them when they're not onset on some cylinders.
"I conceive everyone meet has to pore on cacoethes of the ball; we hit to pore on doing our job, the enforcement of the play" said Brady, adding:
What we did in the ordinal half on scoring drives, that's what we hit to do throughout the instruction of the game. That's what we've been doing, we meet didn't do it rattling substantially in the prototypal half.
The Patriots entered Sunday's mettlesome directive the NFL in mass differential with a plus-24 margin, ordinal in the association behindhand only—yup—the 49ers.
Whether on the antitank or opprobrious lateral of the ball, turnovers are at the perspective of the discussion.
This week, and over the time some weeks, the Pats accumulation has reinforced in that area. They unnatural threesome serial punts (a color which was exclusive busted following a 62-yard return) while New England mounted its comeback.
The expiration snaps New England's seven-game success streak, and ends the team's 21-game success color in the ordinal half of the flavour dating backwards to 2010.
Their agency trusty got tougher—they are no individual in the driver's centre for the No. 2 cum in the AFC playoffs, today behindhand the Denver Broncos, who are 11-3—but it does not panache New England's playoff dreams.
The artefact this aggroup showed it crapper play, when things are clicking, they crapper ease be a contender in January.
Will they be? They're the exclusive ones, it seems, that crapper kibosh them.
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 first-hand or via aggroup advise releases.
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