Quick thoughts on the Patriots' game (late, I know, Samus Returns had priority).
-Tom Brady looked way better. Yeah, the Saints' defense sucks, but the variety of mistakes that were purely on him last time were gone. The drop off the cliff will have to wait for at least one more week.
-I'm seriously beginning to regret saying that New England could afford to take a hit at the WR position when Julian Edelman went down, because apparently the football gods have decided to run with that by having every single receiver get injured. The Patriots only had three receivers active today, and two of them left the game due to injury concerns. Oh yeah, and Gronk got hurt as well. This is beginning to feel a lot like 2006, when New England ended up starting Reche Caldwell and Doug Gabriel for most of the season.
-Defense looked a bit better, although they still got gashed consistently by big plays. A defense that was very good about not getting beat deep has constantly struggled with this through Week 2. Credit certainly goes to the Saints' receiving corps (Michael Thomas in particular), who made some fantastic catches, but this has the potential to become a major weakness later in the season.
-Stephen Gostkowski continues to miss extra points...going back to the end of the 2017 regular season, his FG percent is higher than his XP percentage.
