Seahawks maintain 2-game lead in NFC West after win over Patriots

Of course, Carroll received a few “thank you’s” from Patriots fans eager to bring up his playcall at the end of the Super Bowl.

Was it really best for Bill Belichick to have Brady run the ball more times (twice) from inside the 2 than Blount (once) on the final sequence?

Is this the blueprint for coralling Rob Gronkowski?

It all ended when Brady’s pass for his elite tight end fell incomplete. For some reason, he felt compelled to make it a nine-point lead, a two-score game.

“It came down to 1 yard at the end, and we didn’t get it”, Brady said.

“The mentality in believing that you’re going to get it done, remaining confident, finding the confidence that it takes to execute well, comes from experience and really good leadership”, Carroll said. But as far as their defense, again, they’re a good defense.

“That was a big hit for sure, ” Gronkowski said.

“It’s football”, he said. There’s nothing else to say.

Gronkowski noted later that Chancellor “was playing off me a little bit, pretty far, farther than usual”. The only thing he didn’t do was score. It does kind of have a fourth quarter of an August preseason game vibe to it.

The Patriots are lost on defense.

The game at Foxborough was the best of a dreary regular season.

We’ll see what happens next week, when the Sunday night game is Redskins-Packers and Cowboys-Ravens and Seahawks-Eagles are probably the two best games during the day. But the lack of loudness relative to fans in places like Denver and Kansas City also has to do with the open nature of the architecture at Gillette Stadium, which is not conducive to containing crowd noise. Prosise also hauled in seven short passes for a painful 87 yards. “It’s not all bad, but it needs to be better”.

The lead changed hands eight different times Sunday night, but Seattle was the team that took control at the end to pull out a victory most experts believed wouldn’t be possible. But with seven games left, he could certainly use some help from his teammates. In those five games, the Pats allowed 14 points on average. The final two games in a day full of of heart-pounding action – Dallas over Pittsburgh and Seattle over New England – each including seven lead changes, a first in National Football League history. Maybe two fumbles? Maybe 10 rushes for 10 yards? “To be out there at the one and we were still able to stop them”. Perhaps his experience in high school gave him insight into what Tom was about to do, as Kam racked up more than 2,000 passing yards as a Senior at Matthew Fontaine Maury High School.

Or any of Baldwin’s three TD receptions. As a starter, Brady is 41-10 during his career in games following a loss. At the current pace, 75 yards per, for 1,200 yards and 21 rushing TDs.

“It was my fault on the ball handling, ” Brady said.

In the third quarter, the Patriots’ defensive struggles were encapsulated.