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Brady throws TD pass as Pats top Falcons 26-10The New England Patriots finally got their offense rolling with a balanced attack as Tom Brady threw for 277 yards and Fred Taylor ran for 105 in a 26-10 win over the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday.
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Patriots' Brady excited to get season under way
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By Howard Ulman, The Associated Press
Posted: 09/10/2009 07:02:17 AM EDT
FOXBOROUGH -- Tom Brady's knee seems fine. So does his shoulder.
His excitement level? Just about the same as it was heading into last year's opener before a left knee injury midway through the first quarter ended his season.
"Personally, I'm excited like all the guys are excited," the New England Patriots quarterback said Wednesday. "I've played a lot of games, so it's not like it's the first game of my rookie season, that type of excitement. I think there's just an excitement for a new season and to see what kind of team we have."
He's also played in three exhibition games, time enough to get rid of "those first-game jitters" and become comfortable wearing a knee brace, he said.
On Monday night, he'll lead his team in his first meaningful game in more than a year against the Buffalo Bills.
"It's always exciting to start on a Monday night against a division rival and a team we have a lot of respect for," he said.
During the exhibition season, Brady proved he could take a hard hit. A couple of them, actually.
Cincinnati's Robert Geathers came in around the right side and slammed Brady to the ground on his left side as he dropped back to pass. Washington's Albert Haynesworth rushed from the left side and drove Brady's right shoulder into the turf. The Patriots said he had a sore shoulder, but Brady was throwing a few days later.
Last year, Brady didn't play any exhibition games while he nursed a foot injury. And when he did play, he suffered torn ligaments in his left knee when he was hit by Kansas City's Bernard Pollard.
"I'm very happy that I was able participate in the preseason this year," Brady said. "That was really important to get out there and play and get a feel for the game."
He played in the first three exhibition games, then sat out the fourth and final one along with nearly all the other first-string Patriots.
"Tom's knee must be fine," guard Logan Mankins said. "He made it through all preseason."
Brady made it through 128 consecutive starts, including the postseason. But the last start in which he stuck around until the end was in the 2008 Super Bowl, when the New York Giants scored a touchdown with 35 seconds left for a 17-14 win.
The Patriots did get the ball back at their 26-yard line with 29 seconds left and Brady had four plays left: incompletion, sack, incompletion, incompletion.
"Every loss that I think I've had here in my career I can remember because they're always important losses," Brady said. "You learn from them and you understand that every time you take the field, there's no guarantee to victory.
"We've applied things that we learned in that game to what we're doing today."
A healthy Brady may be even more important now than a year ago.
That's when Matt Cassel was starting his fourth year as Brady's backup and knew the offensive system well despite rarely playing. When Cassel was forced into action, he led the Patriots to an 11-5 record last year that helped him get a six-year, $63 million contract after he was traded to Kansas City.
Now the only backup on the active roster is Brian Hoyer, a rookie free agent from Michigan State.
"I don't think about that at all," Brady said.
Coach Bill Belichick is focusing primarily on one thing: the next game.
"My expectations for Tom are the same as everybody else: to prepare for Buffalo and to play the best on Monday night," he said.
Brady, meanwhile, is showing his customary smile and relaxed demeanor. That should change Monday night when the fans let him know how much they missed him.
"I love being out there," Brady said, "and there's a real excitement when you're out there."
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As unlikely as it may be, Cassel wants to stay with Pats
09:22 AM EST on Friday, January 23, 2009
Special to the Journal
http://www.projo.com/patriots/content/sp_fbn_patriots_cassel_23_01-23-09_OHD2FAR_v8.3fe7df0.html?npc
Patriots quarterback Matt Cassel says he would be “nothing but smiles” if he returned to New England next year, and would even be willing to return to a backup role if Tom Brady is healthy.
“I love New England,” Cassel said last night in an interview on Comcast SportsNet. “I love the Patriots organization. The Krafts have done some amazing things here, and [coach Bill Belichick] is the person who brought me along and taught me. If I’m back, I would be nothing but smiles.”
And if the job was his old job — backup to Brady — he said, “I would accept it.”
That’s unlikely to happen, however. Cassel earned the chance to dramatically increase his pay though his performance last year, and he believes he should be a starting quarterback.
“I’ve earned a right to play in the NFL and I’ve earned a right to start in the NFL, no question,” he said.
Cassel is a free agent, but there’s been talk the Patriots will use the franchise tag to keep him on the roster. He could serve as insurance in case Brady isn’t recovered from his knee injury, but more likely the Pats would shop him to a team willing to trade high draft choices for him.
To this point, Cassel says the Patriots haven’t approached him or his representatives about the franchise tag.
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Patriots crush Cards to stay in playoff huntUpdated: December 21, 2008, 9:57 PM EST 14 comments add this RSS blog email Print FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) - New England is peaking in time for the postseason, whipping Arizona 47-7 with a blizzard of points on a snow-covered field Sunday.
It won't keep the Cardinals out of the playoffs. And it might not be enough to get the Patriots in.
"We have no one to be frustrated with but ourselves," Patriots guard Logan Mankins said. "We lost five games."
Miami, tied with the Patriots at 10-5 but with the tiebreaker edge, would win the AFC East with a victory over the New York Jets next Sunday. Baltimore would get the AFC's one available wild-card spot by beating Jacksonville, leaving New England out for the first time in six years.
But on Sunday, the Patriots showed total superiority to the struggling champions of the weak NFC West. They pressured Kurt Warner into one of his worst games in 11 pro seasons as he threw for just 30 yards.
The Cardinals' defense was more miserable than the weather, allowing the Patriots to score on nine of their 10 possessions before Matt Cassel got the rest of the game off.
New England held a huge margin of 514 to 186 yards over the NFL's second-highest scoring team.
"Right now, we aren't what we were," Warner said. "If we're happy with winning the division, than that's all we'll do."
The Cardinals (8-7) didn't blame their fourth loss in five games on the snowy conditions that they never see in Arizona.
"It's not about excuses. It's all about execution," free safety Antrel Rolle said, "It's embarrassing. It's nothing we can brush off our shoulder."
The Patriots are 10-0 in home games in which snow has fallen during the game and, unlike the Cardinals, practiced in it last week.
"I don't know if they're built for these conditions," Mankins said. "They're a passing team, they don't really run the ball. They're not used to the snow, maybe a sandstorm or something."
Cassel completed 20 of 36 passes for 345 yards and three touchdowns a week after throwing for four touchdowns in a 49-26 win at Oakland as the Patriots seized control early for the second straight game.
"I've never played in the snow before," said Cassel, who barely played at all the past seven seasons at Southern California and New England. "It was a lot of fun."
Heisman Trophy winner Matt Leinart, who kept Cassel on the bench for his last two college seasons after Carson Palmer did it for his first two, replaced Warner with 3:27 left in the third quarter. He went 6-of-14 for 138 yards with an interception, a fumble and a 78-yard touchdown on which Larry Fitzgerald ran most of the way to cut the lead to 47-7 with 6:17 left.
New England clinched a better record than Arizona, which is 2-6 against winning teams, but could become the second team to miss the postseason with an 11-5 record since the NFL adopted a 16-game schedule in 1978.
"That's not really anything that we have any control over," Patriots coach Bill Belichick said. "We're not in the NFC."
Warner, with receiver Anquan Boldin out with a shoulder injury, went 6-of-18 for 30 yards, the fewest in any game in which he started and threw at least 10 passes. His previous low was 105 yards in a loss at Seattle on Sept. 25, 2005.
"In conditions like this, we had to establish the run," Warner said. The Cardinals ran eight times on their first nine plays without a first down.
The snow began falling steadily four hours before the game and tapered off about the time Randy Moss scored on a 76-yard pass play, the longest of Cassel's career, on the first snap of the third quarter. Cassel faked a handoff, then turned and threw to Moss on the left near the line of scrimmage.
He accelerated up the sideline and slowed to a trot as he approached the end zone with his longest gain in two seasons with the Patriots.
That gave them a 38-0 lead before Stephen Gostkowski kicked three of his four field goals.
LaMont Jordan scored on runs of 1 and 3 yards on the Patriots' first two possessions. They punted on their next series, then scored on their next four on Cassel's passes of 15 yards to Kevin Faulk and 11 yards to Wes Welker, Gostkowski's 38-yard field goal and Moss' touchdown.
"I can't understand it or explain it," Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt said. "We may need to grow up, to show that we can play through adversity."
The most trouble the Patriots seemed to have with the snow came when Welker was penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct for making a snow angel just beyond the end line after his touchdown as the Patriots jumped into a 28-0 lead with 1:52 left in the half.
"I just got a little bit too excited there," Welker said. "I really didn't think it would be a penalty. I wouldn't have done it if I thought it was."
Notes
Gostkowski set a Patriots single-season record with his 34th field goal, breaking the mark of 32 set by Tony Franklin in 1986. ... The Cardinals have been outscored 167-70 in their last four losses. ... Moss tied Marshall Faulk for sixth in NFL history with his 136th touchdown. ... Arizona had just four first downs and 45 total yards through three quarters.
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What a game last night...
Seau set to sign and rejoin Patriots
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Junior Seau, 39, is prepared to once again abandon sunny Southern California and the comfort of semi-retirement to bail out coach Bill Belichick and an undermanned New England Patriots linebacking corps.
After getting a call from Belichick and vice president of player personnel Scott Pioli Wednesday night, Seau was here yesterday meeting with the team and on the verge of returning for a third season with the Patriots and a 19th in the NFL.
Seau's agent, Marvin Demoff, said early last night that Seau, whose flight landed at 3:45 p.m., could be signed by Friday, barring complications. The Patriots would have to clear a spot on their 53-man roster to make room for Seau.
"If Junior is there and nothing is different from what they thought [Wednesday] night, I would suspect they'd do a contract, and he'd be a Patriot [today]," said Demoff. "But I don't think there were any promises made to Junior or by Junior to them before he got on the plane."
Demoff said Seau sounded excited about the prospect of playing after he informed his agent about the Patriots' interest in bringing him back.
Seau had surgery to repair a torn left rotator cuff in February, shortly after the Patriots' 18-1 season ended with a loss to the Giants in Super Bowl XLII, but Demoff said the shoulder, which prevented Seau from being ready for training camp, is no longer an issue.
Source: Boston.com
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Colvin rejoins Patriots to play outside linebacker
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP)—Rosevelt Colvin spent weekday mornings fixing his daughters’ hair and driving them to school in Houston. Sometimes he would be in Indianapolis at the two UPS stores he owns.
On Sundays, he would go to church and then relax, perhaps by watching an NFL game on television. He had plenty of time to mow his lawn and eat dinner at home.
“I was at peace,” Colvin said.
Freed from the strict routine of a player, the dangerous pass rusher had settled into a fulfilling life of a husband, father and small-business owner after being released by the Houston Texans at the end of training camp.
Then the New England Patriots called.
On Wednesday, Colvin was back in the locker room he had occupied the past five seasons, ready to abandon the freedom he had enjoyed for the busy schedule of football.
“I didn’t necessarily have something to prove,” he said Wednesday after signing with the Patriots. “It wasn’t like I was scratching walls trying to get back in the game. (But) it’s definitely a benefit and a plus to have an opportunity.”
The Patriots need depth at outside linebacker for Sunday’s game at the Seattle Seahawks with only one healthy player at that position, Mike Vrabel.
Adalius Thomas missed the past three games with a broken forearm. In Sunday’s 33-10 loss to Pittsburgh, Pierre Woods hurt his jaw and Vince Redd hurt his ankle. None of those three practiced Wednesday.
“We got depleted at outside linebacker,” coach Bill Belichick said. “Rosie has been here before. He certainly knows what we are doing and knows the defense. There is a much smaller learning curve with him.”
Before deciding to return, Colvin spent a rare Thanksgiving with his parents and sisters. The father of four talked with his wife about rejoining the Patriots. Now he’s here.
“Life is ever evolving,” he said. “I’m just buying time and, hopefully, that time will extend past this weekend.”
But Colvin didn’t have a burning passion to return to the NFL.
“Was I retired? No,” he said, “but just stepping away from the game was not a situation that was difficult for me.
“I just felt that it had to be the right situation” to play again, he said. “So, definitely, the love I have for the organization and the guys on the team was one of the things that was in front of my mind.”
The Patriots signed Colvin as an unrestricted free agent in 2003 after back-to-back seasons of 10 1/2 sacks with the Chicago Bears. But that season ended when he suffered a hip injury in the second game. He played all 16 games in each of the next three seasons, then missed the last five plus the playoffs last season with a foot injury.
“It’s going to help tremendously,” cornerback Ellis Hobbs said. He’s “a guy who knows the scheme, who knows what we want, who knows what to do there and has the experience.”
With 52 1/2 sacks in nine seasons, Colvin may provide the quarterback pressure the Patriots (7-5) need to improve their playoff chances.
“He’s a guy that can definitely rush the passer,” defensive end Richard Seymour said, “but we need everything right now. We need a pass rusher. We need run stoppers. So all hands on deck heading out to Seattle.”
Colvin returned to practice on Wednesday and could be blitzing Matt Hasselbeck on Sunday.
“Rushing the quarterback is my love,” he said. “I’ve just got to knock some of the rust off and hopefully that’ll happen real soon.”
Even without football, his year has been very satisfying.
“Some of the things I’ve gotten to do as a father that I wasn’t able to do before have been very beneficial and has allowed me to grow as a man, as a husband,” Colvin said. “So I wouldn’t trade the experience for anything.”
Still, he answered the call of a team that needs him, trailing by one game in the AFC East and one in the wild-card race with only four remaining.
But the Patriots, who won two Super Bowls with Colvin, still can reach the postseason.
“This really is a chance just to get back in for a split second to do something maybe unique,” he said. “One more shot at trying to get to the highest level and, if it works out, then it’s great. If not, then I’ll definitely be going back home to spend more time with my kids.”
Pats best hopes for a mediocre year this year, come on healing of T. Brady.
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