Patriots defense and running game propel them to 19-17 victory
It almost seemed like the Patriots were sleepwalking yesterday and still beat the Bills. Tom Brady didn’t play that great connecting on 11 of 23 passes (47.8%) for 163 yards with 2 TDs and an interception. Rookie RB Laurence Maroney carried the ball 17 times for 86 yards (5.1 ypc). Corey Dillon also had a good game carrying the ball 16 times for 73 yards (4.6 ypc) and catching 2 passes for 22 yards. Old vet Kevin Faulk carried the ball 3 times for 21 yards and caught 1 pass for 17 yards and it was a TD. TE Ben Watson caught 3 passes for 50 yards and Troy Brown caught 2 passes for 18 yards and a TD.
Junior Seau looked good and had 8 tackles. Mike Vrabel also had 8 tackles. The safeties were all over the field too. Rodney Harrison had 9 tackles and Eugene Wilson had 8. DE Ty Warren essentially won the game for the Pats when he sacked QB JP Losman in the end-zone to give the Pats their final two points of the contest.
The Bills ran for 99 yards on 24 carries (4.1 ypc). The Pats allowed the Bills to complete 65.2% of their passes but only for 140 net yards thru the air.
The game was ugly, but still a win for the Patriots.
the game was ugly but the feild was worse dry dust not good for a opening game lots of money has been spent from lots of fans the field was junk loooked like trash open house ???look bad play bad someone should shape up our playing turf gillette staduim home of 3 time champs should look a alot better