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The Pats/Giants preseason finale ended with a score of 19 - 14, but the score doesn’t reflect what truly happened in the game. Despite that final score, the Giants really dominated the game on offense and defense. It wasn’t until the back-ups’ back-ups came in that the Patriots’ offense, led by QB Kevin O’Connell, was able to put up some points. Here’s my ...
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Rookie QB Kevin O’Connell has finally lead the Patriots’ offense to the end zone with a beautiful 16-yard lofting pass to Chad Jackson. He led Jackson perfectly as Chad didn’t have to break stride to make the catch. The drive went for 7 plays, and featured runs form Benjarvis Green-Ellis and passes from O’Connell, who went 2/3 for 24 yards and the touchdown. ...
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The Giants dominated the third quarter time of possession, holding the ball for over 13 minutes, meaning the Pats had the ball for less than 2 minues the entire quarter. The Giants scored a field goal on their second drive, which ended at the beginning of the 4th quarter.
Kevin O’Connell is now in at QB.
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The Pats again have let up points on an opening drive. The Giants’ first drive of the second half lasted about 7 minutes and went for 13 plays. The drive ended in a field goal. The goal line defense looked very good, but that meant that the Giants had to drive down to the goal line first. The defense can not get off the field on third down. I’ll be glad when this preseason is ...
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With the first half coming to a close, the score is 13 - 0 Giants, which should be 14 - 0 but Giants kicker Josh Huston doinked an extra point. The Patriots ended the first half with a horrible-looking turnover. With about 20 seconds left, Gutierrez called a fade pattern at the line and threw a nice lob, but WR Chad Jackson fell down, leaving CB R.W. McQuarters waiting for an easy ...
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QB Matt Cassel, who started at quarterback, has been replaced by Matt Gutierrez. Cassel finishes the night 4/6 for 37 yards. His last pass of the night was dropped by WR Kelley Washington. He did not lead the offense to any scores but was able to garner a couple of first downs. Gutierrez started 0/1 and went 3-and-out his first drive.
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The NY Giants offense, led by back-up QB David Carr, just marched down the field and scored a touchdown. The Giants running game ran through and around tackles and the scoring play, a short pass to TE Darcy Johnson that was taken 26 yards, was painful to watch. Johnson basically ran through 3 tackle attempts. James Sanders missed low, Jerod Mayo was late getting over, and Fernando Bryant was ...
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Quick update. Patriots’ offense has the ball first and LT Matt Light is starting. This is great news as the offensive line instantly is improved with Light on the field.
More to come later…
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With both Super Bowl teams suffering injuries on the defensive side of the ball, it will be interesting to see how much playing time the defensive starters will have as the Patriots play the Gaints in the final preseason game for 2008.
The Patriots have played poorly in all phases of the game and injuries to quarterback Tom Brady and the offensive line have left little opportunity to see ...
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Included: photos of the almost-finished Patriot Place. [ Slideshow on Flickr ]
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Defensive tackle is wearing his usual number 75 and although so far has not been dominating in the preseason, he is expected to push the opposing offensive line back and add some pressure to the quarterback and break off a block to tackle the QB or running back trying to sneak by him.
Newly signed veteran guard/center Mike Flynn from Massachusetts is also wearing the number 75 in cam. After ...
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Despite all the coverage this preseason about injuries along the offensive line, injuries in the secondary, poor back-up QB play, and Tom Brady’s foot (again), the Patriots have had a couple of bright spots, one being rookie inside linebacker Jerod Mayo, and the other being kicker Stephen Gostkowski. Both players have been able to distinguish themselves through solid play to give ...
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After being MIA since the first practice of training camp, left tackle Matt Light returned to practice today . Light’s return is a big positive for a line that has been shaky to say the least without it’s starting right guard Stephen Neal and starting left tackle. Neal remains on the PUP list. Nothing was ever mentioned about why Light was out, but the Patriots didn’t have ...
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Last night, my husband and I headed to
Foxboro for our first trip to Gillette of the
new season. Little did we know that the highlights of our night would be walking into the stadium, and the Pee Wee Football halftime show between school kids from ...
The Patriots play host to the Eagles Friday night in the third, and usually considered the most important, preseason game of 2008. The third preseason game is the one where you will usually see the veteran starters play an entire half and sometimes the beginning of the second half. For Pats fans, this could be the only time this preseason we see the veterans for any extended period, as ...
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The New England Patriots added some veteran depth to their offensive line today, signing guard/center Mike Flynn to a one-year deal . To make room for Flynn, the Pats released corner Ade Jimoh. Flynn played 10 seasons for the Baltimore Ravens, starting 115 of his 134 games. Flynn is a little long in the tooth (he’s 34 years old), but he is an upgrade in the depth on the offensive line, ...
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The Patriots have cut tight end Marcus Pollard which will allow him to catch on with another team as there is still time before the roster cuts for teams which have need of a tight end may take a look at Pollard in their system during preseason games.
I would have bet that Matt Cassel would have been the first to be cut, but Pollard did a case of the drops and did not seem to be leaving the ...
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The Patriots have been their usual elusive selves when it comes to Tom Brady’s injury this preseason, which is to be expected. But after the display we saw from the backup quarterbacks in Game 2, the natural question on New England fans’ minds today is: when do we get our binky back?
It’s not like Brady’s absence was what made the defense so porous last night, ...
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So far, there’s not much of a QB
controversy in New England–even a backup QB controversy, though
that was the headline leading up to this week’s game after news of Brady’s foot injury broke. Right now, tonight, ...
This Sunday the New England Patriots will travel for the first time this preseason to meet the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in what should be a good game (as far as preseason goes). Coach Belichick seemed to place a special emphasis on this preseason game as opposed to last week’s game because the Buccs do a lot of similar things scheme-wise that other teams the Pats will face this year do.
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