Seahawks 31, Patriots 24

The first taste of life without Collins was on Sunday against the Seahawks, and after a 31-24 loss that included the Patriots’ defense getting pushed around at times late in the game, it appears that unit might take time before it completely figures things out. Just some good treatment like I always get from my buddy Alex [Guerrero], and I’ll be good to go.

Baldwin ran under the pass for a 15-yard, game-winning touchdown.

Regarding the decision to call a QB sneak on first down from the 2, Brady explained the Patriots “were trying to get as close as we could”.

There is one pretty clear answer to this question.

“It’s kind of a math thing, ” he said. Well, you’d never know it after Sunday night, when an unknown rookie third-round pick, out of Notre Dame, who had nine rushes for 30 yards over four previous games (he wasn’t actived for the other four games!). When he was asked about the crowd noise in Foxborough, Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll wasn’t impressed. That chart offers recommendations for what to do when ahead or behind by a certain margin.

A decade before he took over as coach of the Seattle Seahawks, Pete Carroll was sacked from the same position on the New England Patriots, two years before the franchise won its first Super Bowl. Not surprisingly, however, there was thought behind sneaking it twice on the goal line.

The loss drops the Patriots to 7-2 on the season, while Seattle improves to 6-2-1 overall.

In an ironic twist of fate, the Seattle Seahawks beat the New England on Week 10 of the National Football League regular season after the Patriots failed to convert at the one-yard line in the final minute.

Further into his answer Monday, Carroll acknowledged that more than math might have been at play.

“OK”, Carroll said of the environment, via Sheil Kapadia of ESPN. “That was one of them”. We we’re going to play to that. I can draw just one conclusion: They still have a lot of the Jets in them and when they get together, the vibes must be bad. “Different team it might be different”. It was just the best outing that we’ve had. Both Chancellor and Gronkowski were shoving back and forth right off of the line of scrimmage and both ended up going down to the field as a result.

Brady said he still has faith in New England’s defense, which surrendered a season high in points and its highest yardage total (420) since Week 2. Was Belichick afraid of the Seahawks making a Butler-esque interception?

That includes a 1-5 conversion rate last season. Everyone is playing with bumps and bruises this time of year. But the ball was knocked away and Gronk was KOd from the game for five plays. Not many teams can deliver that against the Patriots. “There’s nothing to say, you’ve just got to go do it”. “So we were in the conversation through the game”.

One of the big factors in the contest has to be the play of Russell Wilson.

Carroll said that he really enjoyed Sunday’s win, which was on a goal-line stand by the Seahawks’ vaunted defense. “That’s a chance to win. It was a phenomenal win”, said Wilson.