New England Patriots links 9/09/19 - Defense keeps its Super Bowl figure, steamrolls flat Steelers

TEAM TALK

• Post Game Notes & Records: Patriots vs. Steelers. Patriots win 14th-straight regular season game at home; More.
• Game Book: Full Patriots-Steelers stats.
• Post Game Quotes: Patriots and Steelers.
• Erik Scalavino recaps the season opener from the press box at Gillette Stadium: Patriots make it look easy.
• Mike Dussault’s Game Observations: Patriots raise a banner, drop the Steelers 33-3.
• Megan O’Brien’s Stock Watch: James White, Patriots offense among Week 1 standouts.
• Post Game Pressers: Bill Belichick - Tom Brady - Josh Gordon - Devin McCourty.
• Press Pass: Julian Edelman, Stephon Gilmore, and Ted Karras. (1.41 min. video)

LOCAL LINKS

• Zack Cox highlights the banner raising and the butt-whooping: Pats’ defense maintains it’s Super Bowl form with dominant showing vs. Pittsburgh.
• Andrew Callahan details how the new Patriots offense broke the Steelers with pace, packaging and personnel.
• Doug Kyed’s Patriots-Steelers takeaways, metrics: Tom Brady digs the long ball.
• Tom E. Curran gives us his Week 1 takeaways: Patriots put Steelers defense in a blender.
• Michael Hurley explains why America should be eternally grateful for Brady, Belichick and the New England Patriots, if only for the captivating storylines.
• Mike Petraglia’s Game Recap: Tom Brady & Patriots methodically dismantle Steelers 33-3 in banner-raising opener.
• Mike D’Abate (FullPressCoverage) Solid as steel: Patriots dominate Steelers 33-3 in 2019 season opener.
• Evan Lazar tells us ten things we learned from Sunday night blowout win: Pats secondary with a near-perfect performance.
• Tom E. Curran highlights Josh McDaniels’ season-opening plan that left the Steelers reeling.
• Mike Petraglia writes that with Antonio Brown waiting in the wings, Tom Brady shows last night he’s more than ready to air it out.
• Doug Kyed reviews Phillip Dorsett’s performance last night showing why he’s the perfect Patriots reserve receiver.
• Ty Anderson talks about how Phillip Dorsett refuses to be the forgotten man in the Patriot offense.
• Matt Vautour says Phillip Dorsett is making a habit of memorable openers.
• Mike Reiss talks up the Patriots’ often-overlooked defense that was rolling in last night’s rout.
• Matt Dolloff wonders if this is the start of something special, as the Patriots defense hits the ground running.
• Phil Perry lauds the group effort by the defensive coaches who handled the Steelers (last year’s passing yardage leader) offense despite a massive amount of turnover in the ranks.
• Doug Kyed points out the Patriots don’t even need Antonio Brown, but they’re getting him anyway.
• Mike Cole finds Tom Brady cautiously optimistic about Antonio Brown addition: ‘There’s a lot to learn.’
• Zack Cox relays Josh Gordon as he opens up about the Patriots ‘culture shock’ after his impressive return.
• Michael Hurley picks Four Ups and Four Downs from the Patriots’ 33-3 thumping of the Steelers.
• Matt Dolloff picks the biggest Ups and Downs from a 33-3 win over the Steelers.
• Nick O’Malley issues his Patriots-Steelers report cards: Straight A’s for Tom Brady, passing attack, stifling defense.
• CBS Boston details the Super Bowl LIII banner ceremony, a grand celebration to kick off the 2019 season in championship fashion.
• Sierra Goodwill, Mike Petraglia and Evan Lazar Patriots Postgame Report: discuss how the Patriots defense dominates Big Ben & the Steelers. (4.01 min. video)

NATIONAL NEWS

• NFL Game Center (NFL.com) Steelers 3 at Patriots 33: Recap, stats, highlights.
• Alaa Abdeldaiem (SI) Tom Brady, Patriots steamroll Steelers to make early-season statement.
• Ian O’Connor (ESPN) Brady, Patriots will be unstoppable if Antonio Brown doesn’t stop them.
• Darin Gantt (ProFootballTalk) Sunday Night wrap-up: Patriots stand on the gas, beat Steelers.
• Frank Schwab (Yahoo! Sports) Patriots looked like a machine Sunday night, and they add Antonio Brown in Week 2.
• Darin Gantt (ProFootballTalk) Mike Tomlin: “We weren’t ready for prime time”.
• Danny Heifetz (The Ringer) The Steelers had nine months to prepare for life without Antonio Brown. What the hell happened?
• Robert Mays (The Ringer) Antonio Brown is the piece the Patriots offense was missing.
• Josh Alper (ProFootballTalk) Josh Gordon on Antonio Brown: He has to figure out his own way.
• Albert Breer (SI) Monday Morning QB: Eye-opening weekend: Lamar Jackson, Sammy Watkins, Dak Prescott and the Pats light it up.
• Peter King (ProFootballTalk) FMIA Week 1: On cusp of Antonio Brown addition, Patriots roll Steelers and Tom Brady says: ‘Let’s go do it’.
• Gary Gramling (SI) Sunday Freakout: Lamar lights it up, new-look Cowboys take off, Browns a mess, Dolphins an insult to the NFL and its fans.
• Will Brinson (CBS Sports) Sorting the Sunday Pile: Browns bandwagon stalls out; Dak Prescott stakes claim for Cowboys cash; Bill’s best defense?
• Rodger Sherman (The Ringer) The Winners and Losers of Week 1: Football is back, and Lamar Jackson has arrived. Plus: Melvin Gordon didn’t play and is a loser, Antonio Brown didn’t play and is a winner; More.
• Around the NFL (NFL.com) What we learned from Sunday’s Week 1 games.
• John Breech (CBS Sports) NFL Week 1 grades: ‘F’ for Steelers, A- for Patriots.

VIEW FROM PITTSBURGH

• Ray Fittipaldo (Post-Gazette) What else is new? Another ‘embarrassing’ performance against Tom Brady and the Patriots.
• Joe Rutter (TribLive) 5 things we learned from Steelers’ season-opening loss to Patriots: Bad to the last drop.
• Ron Cook (Post-Gazette) Steelers leave Gillette Stadium as overmatched losers again.
• Gerry Dulac (Post-Gazette) Patriots dominate Steelers in season-opening blowout in Foxborough.
• Joe Starkey (Post-Gazette) Between Antonio Brown saga and final score, Steelers opener a kick in the groin. /Lols.
• Kevin Gorman (TribLive) Sound the alarms. Steelers looked lost without Antonio Brown.
• Joe Rutter (TribLive) Steelers throttled by Patriots in season opener.
• Joe Axelrod (Post-Gazette) Instant Analysis: Steelers fall to Patriots in Foxborough ... again.
• Tim Benz (TribLive) First airing of grievances is deep after Steelers debacle vs. Patriots.
• Joe Rutter (TribLive) Devin Bush has ‘quite the experience’ in first NFL start for Steelers. “He was getting the ball out fast,” Bush said. “He was finding those matchups, completing the ball on third down, getting the ball behind the defense. He was checking in and out of run plays, play-action plays and screens.” /Yep. Sounds like Brady.