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Wilfork slo mo interception GIF, anyone?

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News, notes and stats on the Pats

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Some quick hit items of interest from around the web.

Peter King: According to the film analysts at ProFootballFocus.com, who look at every one of a team’s offensive and defensive snaps, these are the formations used by New England in the 38-24 victory over Miami (first number, of course, the linemen, second number the linebackers, third the defensive backs): 3-3-5 ( used 22 times), 4-2-5 (20 times), 4-3-4 (15 times), 3-2-6 (14 times), 2-3-6 (4 times), 5-4-2 (once), 6-3-2 (once).

Mike Reiss offensive formation round up:

2 WR/2 TE/1 RB – 42 of 71
1 WR/3 TE/1 RB – 18 of 71
3 WR/1 TE/1 RB – 10 of 71
4 WR/1 TE – 1 of 71

Brady on the scary knee hit:

“I’m glad I had a knee brace on,” Brady said in his weekly appearance on Boston sports radio station WEEI. “Those are scary when you’ve been through those ones before. He got me in a good spot and I’m glad the knee brace took the brunt of the force. Why I never wore a knee brace before (his season-ending ACL injury in 2008) I have no idea and why every quarterback doesn’t wear one on their left knee I have no idea. It’s just so unprotected.”

Rapsheet on Chung’s injury:

Safety Patrick Chung left the game in the second quarter with an injury hand, and it looked like he was done. Except, Chung returned with a hard cast on his hand. Yup, he was playing. So, whatever the injury is, figure it won’t keep him out much more. But something was likely broken.

Numerous Reports on Aaron Hernandez:

Aaron Hernandez has a sprained MCL and will be out 1-2 weeks, according to a league source.

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Offensive Players of the Week

New England QB Tom Brady. Think about this: A week ago this morning, Tom Brady was a walk-in Hall of Famer if he never played another snap. And in the next six days, he went out and had two of the most explosive offensive days of his career. After his 31-of-40, 423-yard, three-touchdown, no-interception performance to beat San Diego, check out his two-game numbers:

W-L Points Comp.-Att. Pct. Yards TD-Int. Rating
2-0 73 63-88 .716 940 7-1 128.0

One other thing: In the last 18 regular season games, Brady has thrown 43 touchdowns with five interceptions.

Peter King

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Notes on Patriots-Chargers

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This game was kind of all over the map. Some amazingly positive things. Quite a few possible injuries. And some stuff that was really really icky on defense.

The biggest positive is that the Patriots offense looks even better than it was last year. Last year they only excelled at the short passing game, but this year they’re going down the field at an amazingly succesful rate.

Brady beats Chargers deep

NEXT LEVEL: Tom Brady completed 10 of 12 passes that traveled 11 yards or more on Sunday. He was able to exploit the Chargers’ secondary, one of the top defenses in the NFL against the deep ball in 2010, with many different receivers. Overall, five different Patriots caught two passes each that were thrown 11 yards or more resulting in 203 yards and two touchdowns.

Defenses that try to copy Rex Ryan’s “challenge all the short stuff” philosophy might be torched long if the protection can continue to hold up.

They may sputter at times, but overall this offense is looking dominant and at times unstoppable. Though Hernando’s injury status certainly warrants monitoring. Losing him for significant time could sting a bit.

On the defensive side of the ball it was the tale of two halves. The first featured a goaline stand, and ended with Vince Wilfork rumbling down the field. It looked like we might have just as many turnovers as last year.

But the second half looked frighteningly like the horror shows from last year. In fact the Patriots were worse on third down (10/12 = 82% conversions!) against the Chargers  than in any game last year.

The lack of pressure and big receivers allowed Philip Rivers to move the Chargers almost effortlessly down the field. As we noted before the game, the dump off passes underneath burned the Pats all game long. Gasp, did we miss Guyton a bit?

There were definitely some positive moments for the defense, but nearly all of them came in the first half. There should be some things to build on, but they’ve still got a long way to go.

Overall it looks like we’re in for quite a ride with the 2011 Patriots. On offense it looks like more of the same as last year. Though I’m curious to see more of Ridley, Vereen, and Price.

Not quite sure what to make of the defense right now. Not gonna lie, today scared me. I thought we had this shit figured out. I know it was probably one of the best offenses in the NFL, but still, Rivers was just sitting back there throwing darts.

Next week against the Bills should actually be interesting. It’s about time Bills. I’m crediting the new uniforms. If Ryan Fitzpatrick does what Rivers and Henne did we may have a problem.

Injuries to monitor: Hernandez, Chung, Dowling, Arrington, Haynesworth, Love, Bodden. Anyone else I’m missing? Yikes! At least no offensive linemen. As far as I know.