With new weapons galore, Tom Brady and the patriots are still scared | Bleacher's report

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More than ever, the NFL is a league focused on the offensive. The points are marked at a record pace. Fans are dazzled weekly by offensive hacks in Kansas City and Los Angeles.

If the first match of week 5 is an indication, another buzz saw is in the process of becoming in tune. He has a body of deep receivers with both vertical threats and chain looters. A talented doubled. One of the most dominant ends of the league.

And a five-time Super Bowl champion and three-time MVP of the NFL at the helm.

The New England Patriots have long had little trouble moving the ball or scoring points. Tom Brady threw for 505 yards and three touchdowns at the Super Bowl LII – which was a loss.

But when the Patriots defeated the Indianapolis Colts 38-24 on Thursday night at Gillette Stadium, we witnessed what could be the first steps of an offensive as successful as they have been since their regular season. 2007 unbeaten.

In the first half, it was the week of the old house. The first pass of the first disc was that of the extraordinary receiver of slot machines Julian Edelman, who made his debut in 2018 after serving a suspension of four games for violating the drug policy to improve the performance of the league.

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There were also tight-set mandatory throws and Rob Gronkowski's laboratory experience, but the point of offensive support in the first period was the Super Bowl LI's hero, James White. An exhausted and under-equipped Colts' defense had no answer to give him. The Patriots essentially moved the ball at will and at the intermediate they rolled 24-3.

If things had stayed that way, it would have been just another fight of a lower opponent by the Patriots. Business continues in Foxborough.

But some deviations that turned into interceptions of Brady allowed the Colts to return to the match at 24-17.

It's at this point that things have become interesting.

While it was about nine minutes and the Patriots were driving, Brady managed to go back. He waited. Then waited a little more. Eat a kind of germinated TB12 sandwich. And then unpacked a jump ball to the end zone …

Wide catcher, Josh Gordon, took him off for a touchdown.

There is no lack of discussion about what Gordon could bring to the offensive from the moment the Patriots acquired it. Cleveland Browns September 18th. He demonstrated in one game: the ability to win 50-50 balls and hurt the teams above the top that no other receiver of the New England formation has .

The highlights were not over. After an interception at Indianapolis that returned the ball to New England, the Pats intended to chew a little clock by throwing rookie striker Sony Michel.

Michel had other ideas, like giving a second consecutive 34-yard score to put the game out of reach.

In total, it was a 439-yard offensive blast in which a handful of players made a substantial contribution.

Michel finished with 110 yards and that score. Edelman's first game since the last Super Bowl win in New England has ended in seven catches for 57 yards. The Whites captured 10 assists and found the goal zone. Gordon had an average of 25 yards per jack. Gronkowski caught six passes for 75 yards.

And then there's Brady, who racked up 341 yards and three touchdowns and scored.

The scary part? Gronkowski told the NFL after-game that the new offensive against New England was just beginning,

"I just brought Edelman back next Monday, he brought the juice," said Gronkowski. "He brings the juice to the locker room.And that's what we needed … to have Julian underneath." Josh Gordon should be out there.We're just coming together.We're just starting to click now We just have to keep working hard Go on the practice field to develop chemistry with each other and bring it to the game. "

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Gronk is right. The team needed juice. In the consecutive defeats against Jacksonville and Detroit, the New England offensive seemed apathetic and predictable. Opponents placed Gronkowski in square brackets and collapsed on White.

The last two games, however, have been a different story. A horror story for opposing defensive coordinators.

Patriots can hurt you in too many ways. Play in a soft zone and Brady will be happy to reduce you in short passes with White and Edelman, as did the first-half team against Indy. Be aggressive against the short film, and it's a unique cover for Gordon and Chris Hogan (do you remember him?).

This is not a good way to defend Gordon. As he showed on Thursday, sometimes even when he is covered, he is not covered.

And now, as if all that was not enough, Michel is an emerging talent that can attack teams in the field.

There is no way to defend all these weapons at once. And the Patriots have a decision maker behind center who happens to be the biggest quarterback in NFL history.

You think that he will find the weak point? Exploit the area you left vulnerable?

Yeah. Me too.

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This is not to say that the Patriots are a juggernaut destined to play in another Super Bowl. the The Chiefs and the Jaguars will still have a lot to say about it. And a New England defense that has yielded 439 yards to the Colts remains a problem.

But the Kansas City defense makes the New England squad look like the big Jacksonville unit. And the Jaguars were incompatible in attack. It does not matter that Blake Bortles and Patrick Mahomes are not Tom Brady, who launched his 500th career touchdown in Thursday's win.

After these Jags and Lions defeats, there have been proclamations and questions that come up every time the Pats stumble at the beginning of the year. The dynasty is dead. WWhat's wrong with New England? All these good things.

Given what we've seen against the Colts, this year's fall is no different from the others, in that it was not as bad as we thought and quite temporary. The Patriots did what the Patriots always do: they got up and went back to winning football games.

This year they did it with an offense that combines the old and the new talent. Weapons at all levels. Led by one of the best to do what he does.

What is wrong with the Patriots, at least offended, is nothing.

And it's terrifying for the rest of the NFL.