First-and-10 from the New England 38 (11:20, 1st quarter): Jeremiah Johnson took his first carry of the day for a gain of 25 yards into the Patriots’ red zone. Denver capitalized two plays later when Tim Tebow powered the ball into the end zone from 9-yards out to give Denver a 6-0 lead on its first possession of the game.
Third-and-9 from the New England 21 (9:04, 1st quarter): Tom Brady stayed patient on third down and found his tight end Aaron Hernandez open over the middle. The play resulted in a 46-yard gain and sustained the Patriots’ first drive of the game, which culminated in a Brady-to-Chad Ochocinco 33-yard touchdown pass two plays later.
First-and-10 from the Denver 23 (8:37, 2nd quarter): Ron Brace stripped Lance Ball after a 2-yard gain and Rob Ninkovich recovered the loose ball at the Broncos 19-yard line. New England turned the turnover into a 21-yard field goal from Stephen Gostkowski to reclaim the lead at 17-16.
First-and-10 from the Denver 46 (5:18, 2nd quarter): Mark Anderson broke into the Broncos backfield and strip-sacked Tebow, also managing to recover the fumble. New England converted that turnover into a Brady 1-yard rushing touchdown, extending their lead to 24-16.
3rd-and-7 from the Denver 45 (10:19, 3rd quarter): With the Patriots driving into Denver territory, Quinton Carter came on a safety blitz and sacked Brady for a four-yard loss, leading to a Patriots punt.
3rd-and-8 from the 50 (5:16, 3rd quarter): After Denver had strung together three first downs, Tebow was sacked on third down by Mark Anderson for a 10-yard loss. The Broncos were forced to punt, and the Patriots took advantage with a scoring drive that culminated in a 10-yard rushing touchdown by Danny Woodhead to push New England’s advantage to 34-16.
-Stuart Zaas
Tags: Key Plays, New England Patriots, Week 15
At least Orton was the same old Orton yesterday. Moved the ball well in between the 20′s, but, when they were in the red zone, no go. Had to settle for fg’s.
Gotta mix up some Quan-b-Gone now bay.
Even Fox doesn’t sound sure of himself sounds like. Anyway just come out and say we as coaches did a poor job of preparing the team for this game already.
coming down to playing orton. Who knows our offense, except for the option portion … that should be fun … sarcasm … i know we have to handle our own but nothign wrong with praying chargers and raiders DONT win out. My 9-7 record is still alive and well but im hoping for a 10 and 6. TRB
Yep TRB, my 11-5 just went by the wayside yesterday. Oh well, I tried. I did get further with that prediction than I thought I would with the way the season started out.
That brings up the next job I had to do today, thanks TRB, the following 11-5 season record predctions have been eliminated:
codybleedsorangeandblue
seweatherman1
lonewolf7
Rellentess75
ozherol
Mikeyb1203
zhayofun
Weatherman1, any Idea of how the weather looks for saturdays game in Bufallo?
Its like I said with the packers u can beat them if u can play defense. Scoring is not the problem its stoppig their offense. Same thing for the patriots. 17 points off turn overs can’t do it agaist tom brady. Not to heart broken over the game figure we lose that one just gotten use to winning.lol. we need to win in buffalo who has been in a slump. Also next week if we win and oakland and sd lose do we win the div. ?
I’ll check it out and let you know shortly. Recording radio programs right now.
the only weather weaterman knows is florida weather lol. TRB
Yes, that would put us two games up with only one to play.
Wait are u actually a weatherman? musta missed that part lol. TRB
Coool, thanks!
You know I just thought of something with Orton. Like we always said moved the ball between the 20′s well then nothing to get in the endzone. This may all be just a misunderstanding. He may think RED ZONE ment ENDZONE, they sound a little alike, he could have a hearing problem, then when they kicked the fg he may have thought that was the extra point. To think all this Orton madness the last few years based on a possible misunderstanding in terminology or a hearing problem!!! Poor guy!! haha
Yup, in a perfect world we will beat the bills and have both SD and Oakland lose………..then the last game will be for fun. And if that were the case, I’d love to see TT just throw the entire game and not worry about anything but getting some passing moxie………
But the world ain’t perfect, is it? haha
weatherman is actually a weatherman.
Mike Rice with a new blog telling us we’re still on track.
Buffalo, NY weather Saturday.
http://www.weather.com/weather/wxdetail/USNY0181?dayNum=5
Well I would like to control our own fate but ill take a loss from them raiders could lose to kc but who does sd play
Detroit
Its funny someone says that they should let Tebow let it rip if we already have playoffs by next week.
http://nflfilms.nfl.com/2011/12/19/cosell-talks-broncos-must-toss-tebows-training-wheels/?module=HP11_content_stream
That article says we should find out in the last 2 weeks. And they dont mean that conservative, throw the ball away or inaccurate crap where only the receiver can lay out for it…. but aggressive pinpoint throws that could possibly be interceptions. They believe this team will learn more from that than playig it safe.
TRB
At Detroit
Hold up. I read alot of posts about poor coaching. I do not disagree. The coaching wasnt good. However they delivered exactly what many bloggers here asked for. They tried there best to shut down Gronk and Welker and were reasonably successful. I think we focused to much on that and forgot that its a team game and Brady was happy to remind us. I didnt see much of a pass rush most of the game. We tried a few times but got lit up by hot reads to wide open TE/WR. I didnt see much press coverage either. We lined up 5-8 yards off the recievers and let them come to us and make contact, drawing the defensive holding flags. Perhaps we just dont have the personnel for that. Might have been different if we had Syd’Quan Thompson at CB and returning kicks. Wish P.Cox could have stayed out of trouble too.