When you say backup tight end.....Do you mean starting #2 receiver Chris Hogan??????

Not liable to work. Edelman is as tough a player as you’ll find on the field. If they blitz, they have to disguise it extremely well, and that isn’t likely to work against Brady either. My guess is they mostly rush 4, and try and use their speed to cover well enough to slow things down a little. Their hope has to be…

so does vegas and they are the ones that usually get it right.

Martellus Bennett had 5 catches for 32 yards. Hardly what I’d call “getting eaten alive”.

Yeah, no. Brady eats the blitz alive.

Just correcting one error at a time.

Good to see Dion Lewis doing stuff. I just booted up my old copy of NCAA Football 2009 and “Sophomore HB Pitt” won the Heismann first season

And he’s not a backup.

Huh? None of that makes sense. What backup TE do you think ate the Steelers up?

The Pats have one of the best YAC numbers this year. The Falcons have one of the worst. The Falcons will need to keep the completion from being made at all.

I don’t think this woman is capable of embarrassment. To her detriment... 

He’s a WR.

But the article Dom wrote notes that Atlanta struggles a lot against pass-catching RBs; if the Pats have to settle throwing to Lewis and White out of the backfield that might still be a huge positive for them because both guys are good in that role and the Falcons have issues with it.

Blitzing almost never works against Brady because he can make the read and throw so quickly. FO had the numbers, his are insane against the blitz. The Giants didn’t blitz in their SBs against NE, they got immediate pressure with just the defensive line, and they got it up the middle. That’s the key, getting pressure…

I get the gut feeling that the Pats are going to use their RBs a ton this game, a lot more than they usually do. I think they’re not only going to throw to Lewis and White a lot, they’re going to run Blount a bunch and stay with it, both to wear down Atlanta’s D and to keep their offense off the field. I wouldn’t be…

They’re going to have to blitz and pray, plus score every time they have the ball.

My prediction is that this SB will look like Giants-Pats, however with the Pats playing the part of the Giants and the Falcons as the 07/11 Pats.

It also sounds like Alex Mack’s anke injury is pretty bad. Your article suggests that the Falcons have to beat New England in shoot-out, and even if he is 75%, he is critical to their offense running efficiently, so that could be pretty significant. Pats -3 looking pretty good.

Such fine upstanding young men. So good to see college students on the right path to becoming model citizens.

Right. Far more likely than tired of harassing calls from basketball fans.