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Brady back on track: over 400 yards; Saints a difficult season start

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New Orleans, Louisiana After loosing in week 1 at home against the Kansas City Chiefs, the New England Patriots had a new opportunity to show how Bill Bellichik adjust the team and how Tom Brady came back throwing over 400 yards to an always weak saints defense. Tom Brady had several targets through the game, Cook, Gronkovski and Hogan. The patriots now feel more confident looking forward week 3, when they will receive the Houston Texans (1-1). Phto by gettyimages In the other hand, the New Orleans Saints (0-2) struggled again with the defense. They allowed more than 500 yards. In the other side of the ball. The saints made 429 total yards. Besides that they were not able to compete or to be close to the Patriots. As in every season. The Saints must improve their defense if they want to compete in their divition, that look strong. Because by now they are at the bottom of it.

Mexican college football ONEFA : Pumas visiting Tigres 2017

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Monterrey Mexico ONEFA College football Pumas from National University of México visited Autenticos Tigres from Nuevo Leon state university on Friday night. The victory was for the pumas in extra series. The QB Danieldejuambelz from Pumas Led the extra series for the victory with a fake running play TD  to finish the game 22-19 for the visitors. Photo by la afición But the key of the victory was in the Autenticos last drive. They were in the 4th quarter 40 seconds to play. They were in the 1st yard line ready to score and they ran the ball but it was fumbled by Diego Pareyón and gave the opportunity to tie the game and force the extra series. The autenticos did not scored in the drive, but a FG But the pumas took the opportunity and scored TD. In recent years, this match up has become a classic college football match up showing the best football i the north of Mexico against the best of the center.

TNF Texans: a new offense? Bengals a dificult path

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Thursday Night Football from Cincinnat i  Ohio Both teams Houston Texans, and Cincinnati Bengals opened the season loosing against divisional rivals. The Texans lost the opening game at home against the Jacksonville jaguars 29-7, the OL allowed 10 sacks, 7 to Tom Savage and 3 to Rookie Deshaun Watson, out of Clemson. In the other hand the Cincinnati Bengals had troubles in their opening game too, against the Baltimore Ravens they finished the game 20-0 and terrible numbers for Andy Dalton and A.J Green. And both have deadly turnovers. Both teams had problems moving the chains, offense were limited and seem to have no many options, so the game became boring because both offenses were not advancing. It would seem that the game was more defensive, but it was not. Offense were terrible. Photo by hollywoodlife.com But for the Texans there was some hop with Watson as a starter, the only TD  they scored was by an improvised running TD, but the rookie QB showed his ability to r

NYG vs DAL week 1 : Cowboys revenge

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September 10th Dallas offense look strong,the lone star team showed a balanced offense, with Dak Prescott (4) as srtarting QB and second year Ezekiel Elliot as RB. Passing and running game seemed functional, by the end of the first half cowboys were up by 16 points. Dallas defense, with a renewed  secondary DB was able to keep  Giants offense with only 3 points. The renewd defense did their job. In the other side of the ball, Eli Manning had his 200th straight game a starter. Althought they had problems stablishing their offense, also, Odell Beckham Jr was out for an injury in the ankle.  In 2016 season, they won the serie 2-0 aginst the cowboys. But this time they had more problems in the oppening game. Just in the first half Eli Manning had 33 passing yards. In the second half, the Giants made some adjustements, but they were stopped in the first drive of the second half and scored a FG and those were the only points in the scoreboard. Photo sweets.es  Giants WR

Cleveland Browns a new hope?

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The Browns were the worst team in the NFL 2016 season, that why they earned the first pick in the 2017 draft. They chose Miles Garret from Alabama ad DE, and Deshone Kizer from Notre Dame in the top picks. In this week 1 against the Pittsburgh Steelers showed an acceptable performance loosing 21-18 in Cleveland. They had their opportunity and they were able to show their rookie QB a hope for a better 2017 campaign. Photo: Deshone Kizer from sports ilustrated But, not everything is hope for the browns, OL allowed 7 sacks during the game. Last season Cleveland Browns were the team that allowed more sacks. If they want to improve they will need to do a best job protecting their QB and give them more time to find their recievers. Defensive front from Cleveland made an acceptable job. In the first half were able to stopped steelers running game, caracterized by a strong OL and good RB, Le'veon Bell. Besides that, they allowed Ben Roethlisberger to throw 255 yards and 3 TD.

Strong Kansas City offense or poor Patriots defense?

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The 2017 NFL season just started yesterday. The first game Kansas City visiting the New England Patrios in Foxborough, Massachusetts.The patriots were expected to win by 9 points. But the Kansas City chiefs shocked the Patriots 42-27. In the first half, the Patriots were leading 17-7 but after halftime the chiefs started a comeback. The stars in the Chiefs were Alex Smith who had 368 yards with 4 TD. And the Rookie RB out of Toledo, Kareem Hunt, besides he fumbled on his first carry in the game, he recovered and scored 3 Touchdowns. In the other hand, the New England patriots had a good first half and established a strong offense running back Mike Gillislee had three touchdowns of his own, but the Patriots couldn't match the Chiefs' pace and fell at home to open the season. Tom Brady had 287 yards and no TD. The problem was not on the offense, it was in the defense, they allowed 42 points and coach Bill Bellichick admitted it after the game. "Bad defense, bad

QB battles in 2017

Few teams in the NFL are having troubles in designing their oppener QB, some of them drafted a QB, the other adquire them by the free agency and are fighting this pre season for the oppening job. In Houston Tom Savage is looking to hold off rookie Deshaun Watson for the starting position.. In Denver the second-year challenger Paxton Lynch against, also second year Trevor Siemian. For the Bears, it’s veteran Mike Glennon, traded from the TB Bucanners versus first roudn pick Mitchell Trubisky, and in Cleveland, it’s a three-way battle with second year Cody Kessler, Brock Osweiler traded from the Houston Texans, and rookie DeShone Kizer from the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Finally the  Jets quarterback position could be interesting with Bryce Petty and Christian Hackenberg pushing Josh McCown for the job. .