Versatility Of James White, Dion Lewis Crucial To Patriots’ Win Vs. Titans

In between, he spent a lot of time trying to limp away from the New England Patriots rush.

BC-FBN-Conference Championships, 2nd Ld-Writethru, 966Showdowns set: Jags-Patriots in AFC, Vikings-Eagles in NFCAP Photo FBO133, PAGP104, PXE132, MNMC148Eds: Corrects to Vikings favored over Eagles.

Jaguars’ best chance to win: Straight talk here – I didn’t wake up this morning planning an argument for how the Jaguars might win the AFC Championship Game at Gillette Stadium.

Brady lit up the Titans defense for 337 yards and three touchdowns while completing 35 of his 53 passing attempts, but he made sure to take the spotlight off of himself afterward.

“Noooo”, he responded sarcastically, when a reporter asked about Brady’s name being mentioned in a negative light.

Here’s what former head of National Football League referee’s Mike Pereira had to say about it during the Philly game.

With Brady’s unbelievable longevity and consistency during the postseason, he’s claimed just about every notable quarterback playoff record worth owning. His touchdown catch was the 10th of his career in the playoffs, the most by a tight end.

The Patriots appeared to have a touchdown three plays earlier, when Dion Lewis caught a pass from Brady and was tackled by Wesley Woodyard at the 19.

Lewis and fellow running back James White combined to produce 108 receiving yards and a touchdown through the air out of the Patriots’ backfield Saturday. And, as we saw, there were several times when he had guys breathing right down on top of him, standing right there when he was catching the ball, so it just put a little more pressure on it. But Tennessee faltered down the stretch as the Patriots defense swarmed the third-year quarterback and sacked him a Patriots playoff-record eight times. New England failed to use a QB spy at times, and Mariota was able to recognize that and take off.

“Everybody plays with something”, he said.

From the start of the second half until there was less than 10 minutes to play in the game, the Titans offense totaled -15 net yards spanning three drives.

“(I’m) embarrassed”, Mariota said. They last met in 2015, a 51-17 New England victory.

“They didn’t make a lot of mistakes”.

THE REIGNING SUPER Bowl champions reached a seventh consecutive AFC Championship Game in the early hours of Sunday morning with a comfortable victory over the Tennessee Titans.

The Patriots led the National Football League this season in first downs by penalties.

Lewis finished with 141 yards from scrimmage in a game that felt over by halftime.

Amendola picked up five first downs on five third-down targets. History would say probably not, but something has to eventually catch up with the Patriots.

But Gronkowski said it’s not something that is even registering right now. I think that’s the great advantage of playing at home – communication is really good. “Like I said, we’ve just got to do it again next week”.

13, the Patriots defeated the Tennessee Titans, 35-14, in Foxborough.

White ran it in from 6 yards midway through the second quarter, carrying a tackler over the goal line just inside the pylon to give New England its first lead of the game.

“I think it always feels that way and I think being on the field is a great place to, you know, that’s where you go prove it”, Brady said.

The only thing that doesn’t quite add up is if the Titans front office was ready to fire Mularkey before the playoffs started, why wouldn’t he still be on the hot seat given both he and the teams lackluster performance in New England.