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At age 41, no one would have been surprised if Tom Brady seemed to be playing slowly for three days of rest, but that 's not what happened on Thursday. Instead, Brady has developed a three-hour information document on the TB12 method.
Everything that feeds Brady works, because the Patriots quarterback was the best player on the field while New England won a 38-24 home win against the Colts in "Thursday Night Football". Brady was almost perfect in the game, scoring 34 goals out of 44 for 341 yards and three touchdowns. (He also launched two interceptions, but we will not count those who are against him, and we'll explain why later.)
Not such a short rest could slow Brady out, pulling against the Colts. During the initial possession of New England, Brady racked up 9 of 9 for 78 yards. Brady took advantage of his first pass of the game to welcome Julian Edelman after his suspension of four games. In his first appearance of the season, Edelman led the way by getting a nine-yard pass in the first game of the scrum.
Edelman then finished the game with a total of seven catches for 57 yards.
"We wanted to involve him and he did great games," Brady told Edelman after the match. "It was nice to have it there."
Brady looked comfortable all night and Edelman 's presence was for many. It probably also helped Brady have Rob Gronkowski on the ground with Edleman for the first time since November 2016. Indeed, before Thursday, it was almost two years since Brady did not have his two favorite targets on the field at the same time.
Oh, and he had Josh Gordon too. Although Gordon was quite active during the match, the former receiver of the Browns exploded in the fourth quarter and helped Brady get into the history of the NFL. Although Gordon scored just two assists in the game, one of them scored 34 yards in the fourth quarter, which was Brady's 500th touchdown pass. Gordon also became the 71st player to catch a Brady touchdown pass, which broke Vinny Testaverde's record of throwing a 70-player touchdown pass.
It is unclear whether Gordon knew how much the touch had been touched from a historical perspective, but he clearly nailed the party: he left with a giant Gronk peak to celebrate the milestone of Brady.
Even if you do not see him in the replay, Brady ran 34 yards to give Gordon a big hug after the touchdown, and that basically sums up how Brady played all night: he was excited and he was short of blood.
Not only did Brady shred the Colts' defense with his arm, but he also called his own number during a quarterback in the second quarter. Brady gets so old that the Patriots do not often let him dive into the end zone, but they did it in his game, which allowed him to score his first touchdown since 2015.
Although Brady had four touchdowns in the game, he also shared the richness (which will probably make Fantasy owners happy). Brady not only hit eight receivers on Thursday, but each of his three touchdown passes was awarded to a different player (Gordon, James White, Cordarrelle Patterson).
The Patriots' offensive coordinator, Josh McDaniels, was probably delighted to see the offensive explosion of New England. The man who rejected the Colts in February called the match almost perfect. Not only did Brady put all his weapons on the line, but we also saw Sony Michel take another step forward to become a star. The rookie got 98 yards and a touchdown, which means he's now amassed 210 yards in the last five days.
In the first three weeks of the season, the Patriots' offensive seemed disappointing, but now that Brady has all the guns in hand, this team looks like the Patriots of yesteryear, which is bad news for the rest of the AFC because the Patriots of yesteryear. tend to go to the Super Bowl every year.
Brady's bad luck
As we mentioned above, Brady was perfect in the game, but his receivers were not. The Patriots quarterback has launched two interceptions that you will almost never see. One of the interceptions was so confusing that the official marker went from interception to breakaway for interception.
So, how did it happen? Let's look at this below.
As you can see, Gronk catches the pass, then seems to try his luck in football, before taking a big shot and drop the ball. Although there has been a serious debate about whether the play should be judged as a choice or escape lost by Gronk, the NFL has decided to punish Brady's owners in Fantasy.
The other choice of Brady was almost as strange. Once again, in the third quarter, he managed a perfect pass and, once again, his receiver was unable to keep it. This time it was Chris Hogan who provoked the interception.
Both choices came on consecutive records.
Had both passes been captured, Brady would probably have finished the night with a near 36-for-36 statistics line for 365 yards without any interceptions.
Andrew Luck is no luck against the Patriots
If there is a team, Andrew Luck will probably never want to see his career again, these are the Patriots. At the beginning of the match on Thursday, Luck was 0-5 against all-time, with the defeats averaging 24.6 points. It's an ugly average and things got even worse in this game.
Ugliness began during the second game of the game when Luck was crushed.
Of course, being crushed was not Luck's biggest problem, because it was the only time in the game where he was fired.
The biggest problem of luck is that the Colts simply did not have the firepower needed to follow New England. Without T.Y. Hilton, Luck entered the match with Ryan Grant, Chester Rogers and Eric Ebron as the main targets and did his best to counter a setback that seemed to be taking place for a moment.
After being led 24-3 at halftime, the Colts roared in the second half to reduce the lead to 24-17. First, Luck took the lead with a touchdown pass in the third quarter to Eric Ebron. The Colts quarterback then silenced the crowd at Gillette when he narrowed the gap again with a touchdown pass in the fourth quarter to Erik Swoope.
Although Swoope was good, it was not Eric's favorite Luck in the game. The honor belonged to Eric Ebron, who finished with nine catches for 105 yards and one touchdown.
Luck, which had 365 yards and three touchdowns, made only one big mistake against the Patriots, which led to a late interception in the second quarter.
Patrick Chung's choice came with just 38 seconds in the half and allowed the Patriots to sneak into a shot on goal just before half-time. This also led to the greatest interception celebration of all time.
As for luck, if the Colts have good news of this defeat, it is that the right shoulder of luck now seems invincible. When he was worried that he would be hurt again this year, these worries were probably thrown out the window after this game. For his part, Luck entered Thursday's game after throwing 62 assists in a 20-17 overtime loss to the Texans on Sunday. The 62 pass attempts are the highest that all quarterbacks have thrown in a game of the season. Luck then followed by throwing 59 passes against the Patriots.
In five weeks, Luck is about to launch 784 assists this season, shattering Matthew Stafford's 727 NFL record set in 2012.
Vinatieri returns to New England
It seems almost impossible, but Adam Vinatieri has now played longer for the Colts than for the Patriots. The 45-year-old has spent 10 seasons in New England, but has now surpassed that number, as the 2018 season marks his 13th year with the Colts.
For the most part, Vinatieri is automatic when it comes to scoring, except when he is playing against his former team. Since he left New England, Gillette Stadium has turned into a black hole for the 45-year-old player. Including the playoffs, Vinatieri missed at least one field in three of his last four games played at Gillette, including Thursday's game. In the first quarter, Vinatieri unexpectedly missed a 38-yard placement on the left post.
Of course, we are talking about Vinatieri, so you know he's rebounded. The old man came out in the second quarter and started a 54-yard field goal that would probably have been good with 60 yards.
During his return trip to New England, Vinatieri not only scored six points, but also participated in face-to-face meetings with Tom Brady.
Brady will probably thank him for the Super Bowl rings that Vinatieri has awarded him.
Colts may have to put their team on injured reserve
The Colts are unlikely to blame their loss to New England for the number of injuries they suffered in Thursday's game, but no one would blame them. The Colts were so excited for the match that they could not even complete their list of 46 players. Due to injury, the Colts were only able to dress 44 players on Thursday.
To give you an idea of the seriousness of the situation, the Colts entered the match without their best receiver (T.Y. Hilton), their best tendon (Jack Doyle) and their best running back (Marlon Mack). With these three players in the lead, Andrew Luck's main targets on the field were Ryan Grant, Chester Rogers and Eric Ebron. Not exactly Rob Gronkowski, James White and Julian Edelman.
These were just the skill players though. CB Col Quincy Wilson, DT Hassan Ridgeway and CB Kenny Moore II were also missing. In a rarity, linebacker Darius Leonard and cornerback Nate Hairston were listed as active for the match, even though they did not dress. That was the only way for the Colts to complete their list of 46 players.
To make matters worse, the Colts also lost several players injured in the match, including linebacker Anthony Walker, excluded after suffering a concussion in the first quarter. Safety Clayton Geathers (neck / concussion) and defensive tackle Denico Autry (hamstring) also left the game in the first period, leaving the Colts with only 41 players in uniform.
The Colts also played without offensive lineman Denzelle Good. However, Good was not hurt. The good tackle is back home to find his family after his brother was shot in South Carolina on Tuesday.
Delay of play
If you watched at 8:20 pm ET for the start of this game, you may have noticed that the first offensive series had not yet started at the exact time, and this because the chain gang had some problems in New England. As they were preparing for the first possession of the Patriots, the band somehow stuck its chains. It was not nice to see.
Untangling a small chain basically means trying to solve a Rubik's cube. The good news is that someone on the sideline is really good at unraveling the chains because the delay only lasted about two minutes. The delay clearly has no effect on Tom Brady, who scored 9 yards out of 9 for 78 yards and a touchdown on the initial possession of the Patriots.
If you missed the game and want to relive the victory of the Patriots, be sure to check out our live game blog.
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