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Few teams that start 3-0 with a trio of blowout victories can call the season “diffic - liny195 - 21-01-2020
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is using that very term.During his weekly Monday night interview with Jim Gray of Westwood One Youth Cody Ford Jersey , Brady addressed the events surrounding the acquisition and departure of Antonio Brown, starting with Brady’s reported comment that he was “100 percent” on board with signing Brown two weeks ago.“That was supposed to be a private conversation,” Brady said, “but one thing I’ve certainly learned over 20 years of playing football is I can control what I can control. I’m gonna show up every day to do the best job I can do to be a leader of the team, to embrace new teammates, to embrace the coaching, the challenges that we are all going to face. It’s a difficult year. We’re all faced with different adversities, different teams at different times. We’ve had our fair share and we are going to do our very best to overcome whatever is presented in front of us the entire season.”Without Brown, with Rob Gronkowski retired, and with Julian Edelman now injured, Brady has fewer targets as he prepares to return to Buffalo, where Brady is often the target of certain flying objects with his name written on them.“It’s definitely a challenging situation that we are facing with depth and so forth,” Brady said. “We are going on the road against a very good defensive football team. Anytime you lose great players it definitely takes a hit to your offense. The reality is we are facing a very challenging game coming up. We will go do the best we can do based on the circumstances that we have. No one is ever feeling sorry for the Patriots nor should they. I’ve got a job to do and I’m going to go out and try to do it with whoever is out there and I’m going to do it the best way I possibly can.”Brady also was asked about reports that coach Bill Belichick and owner Robert Kraft disagreed regarding whether to cut Brown.“There are always reports and speculation about a lot of things that I have said or have not said or been a part of,” Brady said. “The reality is I don’t make any personnel decisions.I don’t decide to sign players.I don’t decide to trade them. I don’t decide to release them.I don’t decide to draft them. I don’t get asked. I show up and I do my job. I’m an employee like everyone else. I’m going to show up this week and do the best I can do as quarterback. Maybe one day I will be an owner and I can make all the decisions that I want. I would probably have to play another 20 years in the NFL to be able to afford that.”If Brady had pushed for every dollar he’s worth over the first 20 years of his NFL career, maybe he’d already be able to buy a team. But that’s not the point. The point is that he’s very much adhering to the “do your job” mantra that has characterized the second wave of the New England dynasty. And Brady will have to do his job on Sunday without Brown, without Gronk, and possibly without Edelman. NFL power rankings have not been kind to the Buffalo Bills for much of the last decade. Of course, much of that has been because the Buffalo Bills haven’t done a lot winning. Even with a ten-win season in 2019 Womens Cody Ford Jersey , the Bills “boast” a record of 71-89 since the start of the 2010 regular season. This season, most major outlets began by ranking the Bills according to that past failure.Buffalo was often lumped in with the dregs of the league in September, with most outlets ranking them in the neighborhood of No. 21, right around the New York Jets and San Francisco 49ers (isn’t it fun to look back at just how far off some of these are?). As the Bills kept collecting wins, the narrative focused less on their play on the field and more on their schedule—namely, that the schedule was so easy that anyone could win against it.As the playoffs begin, the Bills find themselves holding serve from last week’s rankings, as most major outlets have the Bills ranked somewhere in the bottom-tier of all playoff teams. This is a far cry from where these analysts thought Buffalo would end their year, but it’s exactly where most of the Buffalo Rumblings staff expected them to be. Five of us (Dan Lavoie, Skarekrow, John Boccacino, Corey Giacovelli, and I) projected the Bills to finish 10-6, while everyone else who participated pegged the Bills for a 9-7 year. As for this week’s national power rankings, we begin with ESPN, who didn’t do a traditional power ranking, per se, but instead ranked each playoff team’s chances at making the Super Bowl via their FPI system. Buffalo comes in as the least likely team to advance Authentic Cody Ford Jersey , as the simulator gives them just a .5% chance at advancing to the big dance. Kevin Seifert says that Buffalo’s reason for optimism is its strong defense, which was fifth in DVOA this year and second in points allowed; he also mentions safety Micah Hyde as the team’s “X-factor.” He says Hyde is “a strong tackler, has some burst as a blitzer and always finds a way to get near the ball.” Josh Allen is Seifert’s biggest reason for concern, noting that “any objective ranking of playoff passers would put him at or near the bottom.”Pete Prisco at CBS ranks Buffalo No. 9 heading into the playoffs, one spot above their Wild Card opponent, the Houston Texans. Prisco writes that resting players in the season finale against the New York Jets was “the right thing to do.” He wrote essentially the same thing about both Houston and Buffalo, so it’s hard to tell what way he has the game breaking. Peter Botte at the New York Post ranks Buffalo No. 10, two spots behind Houston in his power rankings. He notes that Allen came out after two possessions on Sunday (it was three, but I’ll give him a free pass), then he writes that Allen is ranked third among all quarterbacks in rushing, trailing only Lamar Jackson and Kyler Murray. Botte calls Buffalo’s defense “physical and opportunistic,” writing that they’ll need a strong performance to notch the franchise’s first playoff win since 1995.Vinnie Iyer at The Sporting News has two versions of his power rankings this week. One is a straight 1-32 for the entire league, and the second is a power ranking of the playoff teams in order of their chance to win the Super Bowl. In both cases, Iyer ranks Buffalo No. 8 overall. Regarding Buffalo’s place in the league overall, Iyer writes that head coach Sean McDermottis a top Coach of the Year candidate, as the team has played physical all year while making “timely big plays” en route to its first ten-win season since 1999. Regarding their chance to win Super Bowl LIV, Iyer likes the Bills for a few reasons. He calls Josh Allen “fearless,” he writes that Tre’Davious White is a “shutdown corner Cody Ford Jersey Boys ,” and he says that the team can toggle between “physical and finesse football” with ease. He thinks that the Bills’ biggest issue is their inexperience, and he also writes that they could be “doomed” against a strong running team. However, he thinks Houston is the weakest team in the playoff field, and he projects that the Bills will advance beyond round one.Maurice Moton at Bleacher Report thinks Buffalo is the weakest team in the playoff field, as he has them ranked No. 12 overall. That puts Buffalo in his “Tier Two” rankings, with Houston (No. 9), the Philadelphia Eagles (No. 10), and the Tennessee Titans (No. 11) ahead of them. Moton writes that the Bills are the biggest surprise of the 2019 season, writing that “[Sean] McDermott and his coaching staff have squeezed the most out of the roster’s cumulative talent this season.” While he notes that most of the team’s statistics are “unimpressive” and most of the team’s playmakers are “unassuming,” he also thinks that teams shouldn’t “sleep on the Bills” during the playoff tournament.Pat Yasinskas at Touchdown Wire kept Buffalo at No. 8 this week, writing that the team lost a meaningless game to the Jets this week. He also thinks that Buffalo has nothing to lose against Houston this week, writing that “anything the Bills do in this year’s postseason is gravy. It’s more about the future.” He notes that Tom Brady is aging (aren’t we all), and he thinks that the Bills could be in prime position to overtake the New England Patriots as soon as next year in the AFC East.Finally, Nate Davis at USA Today ranked Buffalo No. 11—two spots lower than he had them prior to last week’s loss against the Jets. Davis thinks that Josh Allen has plenty of questions to answer in his playoff debut, as he expresses some doubt that Allen and the Bills’ offense can keep pace with a quarterback like Deshaun Watson of the Texans. Luckily, we’ll find out if those doubts are warranted sooner rather than later.