Brady: tough to replace ‘great player’ like WR Edelman

And even though this injury is not season ending, this is the second straight game a New England player has gone down with a very serious injury. What resulted instead was another agonizing defeat.

Tom Brady completes a 12-yard pass to Danny Amendola on 4th and 10 on the final drive (+3.1 EPA). Excluding the 2011 season where he only played one game, all those marks were career-lows.

The team needs to get through the next couple of games and be injury free. We had the ball in the end zone that’s knocked out of the hands. “I thought his awareness on that was outstanding and his quickness and ability to get up-field and get about an extra six or seven yards after the catch was really critical to the next play, or the field goal two plays later”.

October 18, 2015: New England Patriots Wide Receiver Julian Edelman (11) [11715] runs with the football in action during a NFL game between the Indianapolis Colts and New England Patriots at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, IN.

The wide receiver reportedly broke his foot and will undergo surgery on Monday.

Turns out, Tom Brady and company can win when they’re not that crisp, too.

After sloppy finishes in their last two wins over the Colts and Packers, the Panthers outscored the Titans 13-0 in the second half. Especially, late in the fourth quarter when the Giants had the ball first and goal from the five yard line.

“With the competitive group of guys we have here on defense, that’s always something we want to do”, Brinkley said. “We want to get turnovers and force them”.

Coughlin likes the way the Giants have been playing.

While I was writing my article about yesterday’s rally in the Boston Common for those who perished in Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris, I had the Patriots-Giants game on and I’m glad I did. The Giants, still clinging to first place by a half-game, control their own playoff destiny – and the next step to the postseason is in Washington next week. In their win against the 49ers they gave up the lead, Manning was just able to have the game winning drive. NY generated just 80 yards rushing and Eli Manning was sacked three times, one of which resulted in a turnover. The win did not come without its costly losses, however.

New England’s offense wasn’t the same after Edelman exited on the last play of the first quarter.

The Patriots are hoping that Edelman still can return this season.

The news will come as a hammer blow to the Patriots, who lost running back Dion Lewis for the season to a knee injury just last week. “The game plan is the game plan”, Belichick said. “We can’t draw up 20 new plays because something happens”.