Patriots unstoppable, Brady connects for 400th touchdown

– New England racked up 35 first downs in building a 51-10 lead over Jacksonville. Nobody got hurt. The end.

– I loved how Gannon and Kevin Harland were going on and on about the placement of the play clock while all any of us at home could focus on was the kid in the Gronk jersey on the scoreboard, freaking out for the cameras.

A milestone missing in this game was tight end Rob Gronkowski failing to become the sixth tight end in history with 60 touchdown catches. Brady remains behind Peyton Manning (533), Brett Favre (508) and Dan Marino (420). He had maybe his best game of his 16 starts against the Miami Dolphins in Week 2 but this was definitely a step back. Who beats this team? That’s why you’re the HEAD coach. But like just about everything else the Jaguars tried to do, the execution was lacking. “That takes a lot of games, a lot of snaps to do that, and it’s certainly a tribute to both of them, the durability, longevity and obviously consistent production that both of them have had”, he said. I’m just not sure what this team can do to stop the bleeding. It happens much too often.

“The defense at that time had a lot of plays on the field”, Bradley explained. Later Bortles rolled out and tried to hit Robinson deep up the sideline but Butler was all over him.

The quarterback play in those days was largely substandard as well, with the likes of Mike Taliaferro, Joe Kapp and many others that marked years of struggling offenses. Those were the only two plays on an 80-yard drive that included a 15-yard facemask penalty against Falcons cornerback Robert Alford. So c’mon, let’s keep going. The Patriots won’t talk about the Deflategate investigation anymore.

The defense has yielded 68 points (two fewer than New England) and defensive tackle Marcell Dareus is just rounding into shape after missing Week 1 serving a suspension.

-Danny Amendola, man. He’s pretty good.

“Unbelievable”, he said. “He works hard every day he comes in”. Vowing his team would be more disciplined, it was. On a team where the WR depth is razor thin, that’s much needed. And he made three successful field goal attempts to boot.

A 43-yard toss to Gronkowski set up the first Patriot score, an 8-yard run by Lewis just 3:05 into the game.

Remember how Bortles’s pick-6 two weeks ago against the Panthers took the air out of the Jaguars in a 20-9 loss? I like to think it was the last one and that’s the signal for Amendola and Julian Edelman to join together and form one giant, unstoppable, megapowerful receiver. The execution was ideal.

Bortles attempted to take a shot at the Patriots late in the first half, throwing deep to Marcedes Lewis, only for Devin McCourty to pick up an interception at the New England 16-yard line and return it to their own 43. Respectfully, I’m not all that impressed. Brady is a QB1 every week. It would be about 38 minutes long. We need to execute better. It hasn’t been flawless but he’s been more than serviceable. Gostkowski is rock solid. Brady seems exhausted of questions about his age, and is on the record as saying he wants to play past 40.

– Jon Gruden Nickname of the Week: “I gotta tell ya, I love this kid Davon House“. From the moment Grant received the pitch, Slater was already making his B-line to cut him off. Impressive. “We have a break here, and we come back to work and see if we can make some improvements and try to get to 4-0″. Nearly worked. Inside the numbers is where Tom Brady is at his best.

In all, Brady completed 33 of 42 passes for 358 yards while leading New England to scores on all nine of his drives.

One Titans’ three-and-out later, the Colts marched to the Tennessee 6, where running back Frank Gore ran in with 2:57 left to extend the Indy lead to eight. It is good to anchor a defense public or some breakdowns here offensively in the red zone you can. Power running back LeGarrette Blount rushed for three touchdowns on the day according to the Boston Globe.

– Poor Jimmy Garoppolo. And you know I wrote on WEEI dot com and am writing that’s that. “You never do everything totally right out there on the field and you always want to learn from your mistakes from the week before”.