Brady breaks QB wins record, Patriots beat Rams 26-10
He won the Ray Guy Award as the nation’s best punter in back-to-back seasons (2011, 2012) and was signed as a free agent by the Patriots in 2013, when he beat out fan favorite Zoltan Mesko for the job. That said, Patriots head coach Bill Belichick stated that he has been impressed by how he’s played in his first season with the team. How, even with Tom Brady, do you not move on to starter ready 25 year-old quarterback whose National Football League record is 4-0?
The New England Patriots are poised to make history Sunday afternoon in a rematch of Super Bowl XXXVI against the now Los Angeles Rams. “There’s been a lot of football over the years, so it’s always been about winning and I’ve been very fortunate to be on a lot of great teams”. Man, I really don’t like going back and talking about it.
Brady completed 33 of 46 attempts for 269 yards and one touchdown and effectively spread the ball around. His 51.7 yards per punt average in that game limited NY to an average starting position on its own 18.
By drive’s end, when the Patriots went for it on fourth-and-1 and ran a one-receiver, two-tight end, one-fullback power look, offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels had shown the diversity of the team’s attack before the game was barely 4 minutes old. In a lengthy introduction to his Wednesday press conference, the Patriots’ coach called the 6-foot-5, 236-pound Hekker a “weapon” because of his size, strength and athletic ability.
The final four games of the regular season could prove to be their toughest yet, though they may face one or more of them with yet another key player sidelined. Their season-long struggles only got magnified, as quarterback Jared Goff was under pressure and suffered from dropped passes, and the Rams once again were unable to run the ball with any consistency.
Favre added, “As far as records go, he can break as many as he wants, because I think he’ll play as long as he wants and be good up until the day he leaves”. “So I welcome that, for sure”. – Goff on watching Brady, whom he congratulated postgame on setting the wins record.
Throughout the entire first half, the Rams have only gained one first down. That brought me back to the first couple of games of this season before Garoppolo got hurt and was replaced by Jacoby Brissett. His 35 punts inside the opponents’ 20-yard line easily lead the league, seven more than Minnesota’s Jeff Locke, who’s next with 28. He had boots of 75 and 78 yards last month against the Panthers and Jets.
He made a 48-yarder from the right hash, a 45-yarder from the left hash and a 45-yarder from the right hash on consecutive series that stretched from the third quarter and into the fourth. CB Eric Rowe also did not return after leaving with a hamstring injury. Lewis will be a low-end flex option in that Monday night game.