Patriots Top Giants on Last-Second FG
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Welcome to Super Bowl 50, where the undefeated New England Patriots (18-0) will take on the.
The Patriots had already lost Dion Lewis to an injury heading into Sunday and now Edelman will be out for a stretch with a broken bone in his foot.
In Edelman’s absence, No. 3 receiver Danny Amendola saw an immediate increase in playing time in two-receiver packages and finished with 10 receptions for 79 yards.
It won’t be easy to replace one of the New England Patriots key wide receiver Julian Edelman, as superstar quarterback Tom Brady stated, but Danny Amendola is a top candidate to assume his job. Trumaine McBride had kept the Pats, leading 24-23, from breaking the game open with the interception he returned to the 3, and the Giants had marched all the way to the New England 5 on a 30-yard throw to Dwayne Harris and then a brilliant back-shoulder toss to Harris for 18.
The fourth quarter 76-yard touchdown pass from Tom Brady to Rob Gronkowski was a thing of beauty, and a play that completely flipped the momentum. When the Patriots got the ball back again, they drove it all the way down the one yard line. Led by the unflappable Brady, the Patriots stared down the team that has given them so many problems over the last decade, and they simple said, “not this time”.
“If you don’t win, they’re all miserable”, Coughlin said.
The game was a hard one for the Patriots, as their games against the Giants usually are. “And on offense I thought we just did enough”.
“Just get the game over with!” 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. He threw a lame duck that was caught by the Giants defense, but was jarred out when he hit the turf, and they promptly gained new life in the game.
“Certainly, Julian has been incredible for us”. They extended it to 35 with Gostkowski’s second-quarter 31-yard field goal; LeGarrette Blount’s 1-yard TD run following Amendola’s 82-yard punt runback in the third – the longest of Amendola’s career; and the long pass to Gronkowski on which New York’s Craig Dahl and Brandon Meriweather collided. This was probably the most beatable that they looked all season, as injuries are finally beginning to catch up to them.
The Titans (2-7) suffered their 10th straight home loss in the first home game under interim coach Mike Mularkey.
The Giants learned they actually can get in the same area code of the opposing quarterback then put him on his back.
Oddly, the best part of the video might be the never-ending Eli Manning face that even looks sad on an airplane television.
“We’ll update [his condition] when we do the injury report”, Belichick said. He got out there, with six seconds left, and kicked it. You can talk about all the situational football you want, it doesn’t really mean anything unless you make the kick.