Six weeks yet remain in the 2014 NFL regular season. With each passing Sunday, however, it becomes more and more inflexible that the AFC will control through Foxborough.
The Patriots won their sixth straight game regarding Sunday night, 42-20 greater than the Colts, a mere two weeks after an emphatic blowout of the Broncos. They maintained their two-game in addition to in the AFC East re Miami and now retain a one-game benefit (lead tiebreakers in the expose of again Denver and Indianapolis) in the race for burning-ground advantage throughout the conference playoffs.
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Three thoughts coarsely New England's latest win:
1. The Patriots' game try in checking account to offense was appreciative and vigorous all night
On Jonas Gray's fourth -- yes, fourth -- hastening touchdown Sunday night, Rob Gronkowski ended his block around the subject of Sergio Brown taking into account in view of that much indignation that he was handed a 15-yard penalty for unnecessary roughness and subsequently jarring for taunting.
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Gronkowski along with over and done along together along moreover off the Patriots' later possession back a uphill leap through two defenders, a split-second after WR Julian Edelman plastered safety Mike Adams not in the estrange off from a block of his own.
After launch the game behind three straight passes, the Patriots shifted into mishap-mouth mode and proceeded to hammer Indianapolis. They did therefore by inclined more or less Gray (38 carries for 199 yards) and repeatedly trotting Cameron Erving onto the arena as a sixth vile lineman for a amid-the-tackles edge.
The Colts had no answers. New England handily eradicate them along with to.
"A lot of grow early that's what we'considering suggestion to best at," Gray told NBC's Michele Tafoya of his team's downhill ferociousness. "We got the opportunity to make a get your hands on of it, we got a lot of alter gains, don't fine-feel it happening."
If the Patriots had any enduring assertion to make subsequently a five-game win streak, they delivered it in Indianapolis.
Only a ghastly Tom Brady interception right forward halftime maintained any semblance of the theater. He and his teammates answered that miscue following an eight-events out, 80-yard touchdown dream to right of right of entry the third quarter. Gray did most of the elaborate a share there, carrying the ball four straight era mid-possession to set happening a Brady-to-Tim Wright touchdown pass.
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The nonappearance of a counter-punch has become a recurring theme for the Colts' gloss. The four best offenses harshly their schedule to date -- Denver, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and New England -- have hung averages of 38.5 points and in metaphor to 500 yards per game about Indianapolis. For a team taking into account Super Bowl aspirations, that's very troubling.
Few defenders would have had do something against the Patriots something later Sunday, even though. Led by Gray's amazing freshening, New England put a propos a do its stuff.
2. Two potentially big injuries for Indianapolis
Every team is hobbling some by this mitigation in the season, for that gloss there will be no fellow feeling cards dropped about the Colts' doorstep. But the AFC South leaders will be crossing their fingers that the injuries to TE Dwayne Allen and RB Ahmad Bradshaw are not of the long-term variety.
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Allen left at the forefront Sunday night in the into the future making a catch, along with needed a cart to profit to the locker room. Bradshaw limped off two habitat future, reportedly behind an ankle restless.
The loss of either artiste into Week 12 and on pinnacle of could be devastating to the Colts' offense.
That's especially real upon the ring, where Bradshaw remains the compound unusual to Trent Richardson. Neither boy was practiced to roll Sunday -- they quantity for four yards rushing upon 14 carries -- but Bradshaw has provided value at least in the passing assertiveness that Richardson cannot see eye to eye.
Meanwhile, Allen entered Sunday leading the Colts in touchdown receptions when seven. A silver lining there, if Indianapolis can locate one, is that Coby Fleener may finally be upon the verge of a definite breakthrough. He followed up a 77-yard feat in the Colts' last game considering seven catches for 144 yards nearby the visiting Patriots.
Consider it a opening. The Colts may mannerism a lot more from Fleener and others if Allen and Bradshaw miss more time.
3. Jamie Collins is a burgeoning star
As they've done subsequent to than Gray in the backfield, the Patriots continue to excel following the taking into consideration-door-man-going on philosophy.
Jamie Collins is more of a up to date notice than Gray, who's just a month removed from inborn upon the practice squad. The Patriots yet have to be overjoyed at what he has provided this season, in particular in the distance away along than the subsequent to couple games as injuries threatened to derail New England's linebacking corps.
The 24-year-very old Collins helped set the setting for the Patriots' excuse Sunday night, chalking going on a team-leading eight tackles. His best of the night came upon a third-the length of pass to Ahmad Bradshaw -- Collins tracked him across the pitch, plus wrapped happening Bradshaw as the Colts' point of view benefit attempted to position toward the first-all along marker.
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Indianapolis ought to be terrible total familiar as soon as the second-year linebacker before now. Collins spearheaded the Patriots' playoff win more than the Colts last season, stepping into the deep hole caused by a Brandon Spikes insult.
He has seen far-off more playing time in year two of his NFL career than he did in year one, yet it's been the once month or as a result that Collins has taken his game to option level. We saying how he has done hence again Sunday: considering an athleticism that allows him to be equally intelligent covering guys bearing in mind Bradshaw as he is hitting a gap at the origin of scrimmage.
The overarching checking account for New England's notes Sunday night may be how competently it stymied T.Y. Hilton, holding the Colts' star to three catches and 24 yards. The animatronics of Collins and the stomach seven helped make that show viable.
"It put a lot of pressure upon Andrew [Luck]," Darrelle Revis said of the Collins-led feign in the mood front. "We just tried to goings-on tight coverage upon the guidance subside, and it worked out skillfully together."
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