NE won the coin toss so everytime they win it Belichick let the opponents to start with the ball, Rivers and the Chargers arrived easly to midfiel area but once there Collins sacked Rivers to force the Chargers to punt the ball. The Pats started from their 7 yards and marched down the field right inside to the SD's 10yards where Ingram sacked Brady in the pocket to force Gostowski coming on the field to kick the 1st 3 points of the game. Rivers drove the Chargers to their 1st lead of the game playing a perfect balanced drive alternating safe short passes and let run Mathews when the Pats' defense started to look for passes, they did that till Floyd got free in the endzone on a fade route and grab the ball on a awesome diving catch. NE got the ball back but SD's defense cameout big and forced LaFell to fumble the ball recovered and returned to the endzone by Stuckey. Brady accelerate his offense passing nearly all the time but once again Chargers goaline stand has been outstanding and limited NE to just another FG. Pats defense forced the Chargers to a quick 3 and out and they blocked the Scifres punt tackle him down and provocating him an apparentely bad injury to his ribs that roule him out of the game. NE capitalyzed that chance and scored a TD on a fade to Gronkowski who outplayed physically the shorter Brandon Flowers. Mati Te'o ended a very entertaining 1st half with a pick 6 on Brady's unusual mistake. The 3rd quarter has been completly dominated by 2 defense who played argubly their best football of the season in this period limiting 2 of the best QB in the NFL and their respective teammates. No scores in the 3rd period but in the 4th the things changed and saw the Pats take the lead due to a Gostowski's FG and a 69 yards TD pass from Brady to Edelman on a crossing route after a play action fake that saw Chargers defense concentrated on Blount and let Edelman get an easy catch that after the reception let missed a pair of awful tackles by a tired Chargers defense. Chargers failed due to very bad choices by Rivers the crucial 4th down on their 20 yards and the game ended with the Pats who kneel down and chew all the remaining time.
This has been a great game and both teams deserve all the congratulations for the show they put on the field, this has been a game completely dominated by the defenses who argubly played their best game of the season stopping 2 great offense all game long. The absence of Scifres has been huge for the Chargers because Novak hasn't been able to punt the ball effectively and the result was always a very good field position for Brady and Co. Edelman played a very good game scoring the game winning TD and he resulted the only Pats able to get free from the very very good Chargers secondary. This game should end in both ways due to a very balanced game who has been decided just at the end thanks to a SD's mistake, the mistakes are the main problem for the Chargers if the will able to fix them they will be definetely SB contenders and to do that they need to tackle better and avoid penalties like false starts who and holdings. The Pats realy proved that they can win even away from Foxboro and against very good team who forced them to play another kind of football they usually play, they are also a very complete team who can win with both offense and defense and that's why i give my MVP trophy to Revis who completely shutdown 1 of the best young WR in the league Keenan Allen.
(((making NE offense monodymensional stopping the running game and understanding when Blount is on the field most of the time Brady pass the ball )))
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