Rob Gronkowski to play on Sunday?

“That came later for other reasons”, O’Brien joked. I think a lot hinges on how soon they get Justin Houston back, but Eric Berry, coming back from beating cancer (!), is playing out of his friggin’ mind right now, so I’m not really sure anybody wants to see them early on in the playoffs.

Since his time in New England, Hoyer has endured a torn anterior cruciate ligament two seasons ago with the Browns and being replaced by the hard-partying Johnny Manziel last season before landing in Houston.

Anyways, after losing to the Bills last week Houston is a game behind Kansas City, Pittsburgh, and NY, and is tied 6-6 with Buffalo. As it turns out, he actually is kind of fast – and we know that thanks to the NextGen stats that the National Football League has been releasing every week. “He’s right up there with all those guys”.

“My agent was like, ‘I think you should go to New England, ‘” Hoyer said. It’s not like the Texans have a ton of talent on offense, so it is imperative that they stay unpredictable and be able to hit some big plays.

He scoffed at that notion.

“He’s pretty special”, Belichick said, per Tania Ganguli of ESPN.com. Overall, they are allowing 2.2 points a game in the opening quarter, the fifth-fewest in the NFL.

As indicated above, while the Eagles have won the most games while wearing their midnight green jerseys this season than any other color, they’ve lost two straight games while donning those jerseys. 27, 2002. Houston will try to bounce back from a 30-21 loss to Buffalo that snapped a four-game winning streak. Bill Belichick is comparing Houston defensive end J.J. Watt to Lawrence Taylor (Watt broke his left hand in practice Wednesday, but says it won’t be an issue).

Watt, who leads the National Football League with 13.5 sacks, will be part of the game’s feature matchup against the Patriots offensive line.

The loss to the Eagles seemed to be a case of the Patriots trying to be the smartest guy in the room when all they needed to do was focus on playing a solid football game for 60-minutes.

Brady went half-cheetah on the Eagles and hit 16.96 miles per hour, which made him the THIRD-FASTEST RECEIVER in the game. “So that’s what I plan to do”.

James White: The Patriots have struggled on 3 downs since the injuries to Dion Lewis, Julian Edelman, Danny Amendola and Rob Gronkowski have decimated the receivers for Tom Brady. If the team starts using him more, it will take some of the burden off of Brady.

If you’ve ever bumped into an ex-girlfriend on the street before, you know how Bill Belichick must feel heading down to Patriots South for New England’s matchup against the Texans this Sunday. This follows a rocky start to the season during which O’Brien replaced him with chronically late and now unemployed Ryan Mallet before later naming Hoyer as the starter again. The Patriots are led by Tom Brady, who leads all players with 291 points.

“With experience in different systems and… Come at it. I’ll take advantage of whatever you try to do”.

One of the things tracked by the NFL’s NextGen stats is player speed. Don’t look now, but Jadeveon Clowney has had a couple of decent games the last few weeks, as well. If the season ended now, the Patriots would lose tiebreakers with Cincinnati and Denver and be the No. 3 seed in the AFC and host the New York Jets in the wild-card round.