Bill Belichick needs to redeem himself after last year's fiasco. God I hope his defense is somewhat average in this game.
Meanwhile my cousin believes a Pats win would be an "Upset". Not sure I share his point of view.
Defense sucked last year because they were missing a big piece in Hightower, and were playing bads like Richards and Bademosi. Look, the Butler thing has be beaten to death. Should he have been in? Yes. Should he have been in after sitting out 3 quarters? No. At some point someone else needs to step up, they couldn't, it happens. Let's not act like the Eagles defense were world beaters in that game either, they were equally as abysmal. They just happened to make a play when it mattered most.
I expect the Pats defense to cause Goff to make some bad decisions and turn it over. They are much better this year even if the numbers don't fully reflect that.
Fully believe you're going to see another game plan from Belichick that's similar to what he did against the Bills and Thuman Thomas, where they'll give someone like Anderson the yards in the middle of the field, and crush them on passing downs playing nickel.
Gilmore probably takes Woods in man and effectively takes him out of the game with Jackson getting Cooks with help from McCourty. Jones on Reynolds. If soft as shit Brandon Cooks and Josh Reynolds beat you consistently, you deserve to lose.