McCourty: Cure for Pats defense is to play better

I think that’s what everyone in the locker room and everyone on the defense wants to go out there and do.

The Seahawks’ passing attack works best when the different elements are working together – specifically the quick passing game and the play-action shots downfield. “So we don’t like to make games bigger than they are, otherwise you lose focus”. It wasn’t good execution by us. “I’ve got to admit, I haven’t had more fun just enjoying a win, really”.

Inactive for Seattle Sunday night are defensive end Michael Bennett (knee), running back Thomas Rawls (fibula), T Bradley Sowell (knee), TE Luke Willson (knee), WR Tanner McEvoy and G Rees Odhiambo.

But the Patriots thought Jones and Collins were expendable, shipping Jones to Arizona in the off-season and Collins to Cleveland at this fall’s trade deadline. Their offense is so good that they’ll have a chance to win almost every game, even against other Super Bowl contenders, like the Seahawks.

The turning point occurred when newly-returned safety Kam Chancellor wrestled the ball away from Pats’ wide receiver Julian Edelman (who had picked up an inexplicable third-and-25 conversion earlier in the game). Chancellor had his arms on the Patriots tight end on the play, and it appeared as if he might have pulled on Gronkowski as he was going to the ground.

Brady said the injury wasn’t his knee and Jim Gray referred to it in the interview as a quadriceps issue.

Fortunately, Brady can cover up a lot of what ails the Patriots’ by producing points in bunches.

“If I’m a young player out there, I’m not going to play injured”. The Patriots struggled to get any pressure up front on Wilson during the drive, which took only 4:05 off the clock. On first-and-10, from the Patriots’ 18, Russell Wilson escaped the pocket as the Patriots’ pass rush couldn’t get to him against a notably futile Seahawks offensive line. Leg injuries have kept him in the pocket recently, but he was still effective in keeping the Patriots’ defense guessing. If we had played well we’d still have something to prove. “So I would have to say that I appreciate what our fans did for us and they provided a good environment last night”.

“Teams have quite a bit of scheme in, both us and our opponents, we’re not just looking at kind of some basic stuff like in the beginning or the year or in preseason, which is what preseason is”.

“We knew both teams were going to fight, no matter what happened in the game”. It’s a long season. “We just gotta get a couple of stops to help out”. They are 3-1 this season, and the reason for that has very much to do with the quarterback, which starts our list of what we learned.