.AlbertBreer’s Week 8 takeaways: ✅ McCourty on Belichick, Patriots’ win ✅ Jones on Titans’ five-game win streak ✅ Why trade deadline could be quiet ✅ Will the Colts be sellers? ✅ Cowboys rounding into form ✅ More
I don’t know how far Atlanta’s going this year, but I think it’s safe to say the Falcons are on the way up.
“We always believed that we could be pretty good, but at the same time, we just gotta take it one game at a time. And that’s what’s cool about these guys is they don’t really care, wins or losses, it’s just about improving. If we continue to have that mentality, I think we’ll like where we are at the end of the year.”
The score gave Atlanta a 31–28 lead with 2:14 left, after which the Falcons forced a turnover on downs, and kicked a field goal to make it 34–28. That left the Panthers with 36 seconds. It wound up being enough time for P.J. Walker to deliver a dime downfield to D.J. Moore for a 62-yard touchdown to tie it to seemingly win the game., drawing a 15-yard penalty, making the extra point a 48-yarder.
“We have a team, with young guys that didn’t start here. It’s not like years past, and everybody talks about Tom [Brady], but it’s not just Tom. We had a lot of guys that played together for a long time, so I think there was some built-in trust, that we didn’t blink. And I think now, we’re starting to build that.”
• Normally, you’ll hear Patriots players deliver clichés on how no week is more important than the next. But coming off Monday night, McCourty wasn’t afraid to admit that the game against the Jets carried a little more weight. “We knew we needed to stay deep,” McCourty said. “He does as good of a job as anybody in this league of when he rolls, looking downfield. And we did a good job of that. Guys that were reading the quarterback stayed on the quarterback. I mean, that’s really what all my interceptions were.”Robert Deutsch/USA TODAY Sports
“It was a mindset,” center Ben Jones told me postgame. “We knew what we needed to do up front, we got challenged earlier in the week, and it takes all 11. No matter if it’s a quarterback, running back, tight ends, receiver. We had receivers blocking downfield for a long touchdown for Derrick [Henry]. So it wasn’t just us; it was all of us. We had a mindset, we knew it, we wanted to control the rock on the road and our defense stopped the run. So we had a mindset and a game plan and we executed.
• It’s always important to consider who’s pulling the trigger in these situations. In New Orleans, it’s Mickey Loomis, now in his 21st season as Saints GM, and with a roster chock full of in-prime stars, but one that’s fallen to 3–5 with inconsistency at quarterback. My sense is Loomis still wants to win with the current group, even if there is, and getting capital back for players such as Alvin Kamara and Marshon Lattimore. Which was reflected with last year’s predraft trade with Philadelphia.
• Contracts, and we’ve got more on cap space later in the column, are always a factor here. Denver’s Bradley Chubb is a great example—while the Broncos have explored what it would cost to re-sign him, they haven’t dived into negotiations with him yet. So calls over the next day or so with Chubb’s camp could color Denver’s approach on trading him.
I believe Irsay is part of a faction of owners concerned that Mary Jo White’s investigation is going to move the goalposts on this whole saga, and return inconclusive findings on Snyder’s financial improprieties while emphasizing that the workplace culture in Washington has improved, which would give another faction of owners looking to protect themselves against various attacks from Snyder cover to let him off the hook.
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