Rex Ryan, ace reporter? Asks Pats’ Edelman if he’ll play QB

“You talk about a consistent guy, Bill Belichick is the most consistent guy there is and I try to be consistent, albeit in a much different way”.

In addition to all of upstate NY and into New England getting the game, most of the upper Midwest will see it, as well, into IN and Missouri.

Quarterbacks Jimmy Garoppolo (10) and Jacoby Brissett (7) loosen up during the stretching portion of Thursday’s Patriots practice in Foxborough. Take away the 2014 season finale when the Patriots rested starters for the playoffs, and the Bills have not won in Gillette Stadium since November 5, 2000. Their ranks grew in the first three games of this season when the Pats, playing without Brady, tight end Rob Gronkowski (essentially ) and left tackle Nate Solder, got off to a 3-0 start.

Brissett came into the game against the Miami Dolphins and did exactly what he needed to do. Jacoby Brissett also practiced, but did not reveal much about whether the injured thumb on his throwing hand is affecting his grip on the ball and throwing ability. Even though he was spotted at practice earlier this week, he is still reportedly in pain and has limited mobility in his throwing shoulder. Who knew such a thing existed? You can’t just hop back in and be full-go 100 percent. “Everybody’s going, ‘No Tom Brady, this team is going to be a disaster.’ Well, they’re 3-0 last time I checked and beat some pretty good teams”. It nearly seems as if we’re the little kid who gets a few punches in on the bully before he just pushes us over and steals our lunch money and one shoe, just because. If Watkins is out again, you can be sure that coach Bill Belichick will concentrate on taking LeSean McCoy out of Buffalo’s attack and make Tyrod Taylor try to beat the Patriots through the air, a proposition that seems nearly impossible.

Bills head coach Rex Ryan then jumped on the conference call under the alias “Walt Patulski of the Buffalo News”-which Edelman didn’t realize at the time-and asked the receiver if he would play quarterback in the game”.

It’s expected either Garoppolo or Brissett – or perhaps both – will be available Sunday.

Ryan leaned down and asked Edelman the final question, using an alias well-known to veteran Bills fans: “Julian, ” Ryan said.

However, in the third preseason game Garoppolo played the first quarter, Brady the second and Garoppolo back for the first half of the third.

In college, Edelman played quarterback at Kent State. With the Bills coming off a win, they will be a typically over-confident, sloppily executed unit at Gillette on Sunday.

Garoppolo would welcome the challenge presented by Buffalo’s defense.

Brady’s absence was supposed to be Garoppolo’s long-awaited opportunity to prove himself, which made sitting out against the Texans all the more disappointing. “Never really been in that situation”. They lost week one by one to the Bengals and then got into a shootout with the Bills in week two to notch their first win of the year. “But it is what it is”.

The New England Patriots are 23-2 straight up and 15-8-2 against the spread in their last 25 games against the Buffalo Bills.

But for at least one more time in 2016, Garoppolo or Brissett will be the starting QB for the Patriots.