New England Patriots Tickets

New England Patriots Tickets

The New England Patriots are, simply put, one of the best football teams in the NFL this season. They are coming into playoffs with a first-round bye and the offense to decimate any defense. This is nothing new to those familiar with the team playing its home games in Gillette Stadium. New England Patriots tickets during the regular season have been football tickets to see the perennial top scoring team in the league. However, to often these same pieces of paper have been witness to see the offense wilt in the postseason, oftentimes in the Super Bowl.

As a result, Coach Bill Belichick began the preseason with the intention of establishing a running game and a balanced offense. This would not matter with dramatic improvement by the offensive line and the emergence of a single running back. The offensive line did as much and Stevan Ridley has become the feature back. Ridley has run for almost 1,200 yards and has managed to find the end zone 10 times. Not bad for a second-year back who did not gain more than 500 yards the season before.

Tom Brady is not to be forgotten in all this praise for Ridley. The future Hall of Fame quarterback has an incredible 4 to 1 TD-INT ratio and has managed to throw 32 overall. He also has thrown for more than 4,500 yards despite Belichick reportedly doing his best to sabotage Wes Welker early in the season and the injury to tight ends Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez. It certainly helped that Brandon Lloyd has been able to step up in their absence.

The New England Patriots major issue heading into the run for the Super Bowl is the defense. While they force an incredible number of turnovers, they did not do a great job stopping the run or the pass. The team’s numbers are indicative of a bend-but-not-break unit. They are a pretty soft unit until the red zone, more likely to go for the strip or the pick before hunkering down to force a field goal. Also, as the Patriots score in high volume, the secondary sees an obscene amount of passing, distorting the numbers further. These fans are hoping New England Patriots playoff tickets will end with a date at the Superdome for a chance to make a Super Bowl XLVII appearance one for a the club’s first win in the big game in 9 years.