COVERAGE

Eric Rowe: 3-4, 62 yards, PBU

Logan Ryan: 2-2, 42 yards

Malcolm Butler: 1-2, 35 yards

Patrick Chung: 3-5, 31 yards, TD, two PBUs

Duron Harmon: 1-1, 9 yards

Rob Ninkovich: 1-1, 6 yards, TD

Kyle Van Noy: 1-2, 4 yards

— Ryan was beat on consecutive plays by All-Pro wideout Julio Jones. He was targeted on a 9-yard catch by Mohamed Sanu in the fourth quarter, but the play was negated by a penalty.

— Despite making some incredible catches, the Patriots successfully held Julio Jones to under 100 yards. He caught four passes on four targets for 87 yards.

— The Patriots didn’t assign one player to cover Jones. Ryan, Butler and Rowe all got shots at him. Rowe allowed two catches for 45 yards to Jones.

— Chung had an up-and-down performance for the Patriots, allowing a touchdown but also breaking up two passes.

PASS RUSH

Trey Flowers: 2.5 sacks, two QB hits, five pressures

Jabaal Sheard: 1/2 sack, two hurries, three pressures

Chris Long: QB hit, two hurries, three pressures

Dont’a Hightower: sack, QB hit, two pressures

Alan Branch: 1/2 sack, hurry, two pressures

Kyle Van Noy: 1/2 sack, hurry, two pressures

Logan Ryan: hurry, one pressure

Shea McClellin: QB hit, one pressure

Patrick Chung: hurry, one pressure

— The Patriots recorded 20 pressures on just 28 dropbacks. They did a nice job of dialing up pressure when needed against a potent Falcons passing attack.

— Flowers only had the second most impactful sack of the game. Hightower had a strip sack midway through the fourth quarter, which gave the Patriots the ball at the Falcons’ 25-yard line. The Patriots scored a touchdown to cut Atlanta’s lead to eight points.

— Sheard was credit for a sack, but Branch did most of the work on the play. Sheard just touched Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan down.

PASS PROTECTION

Nate Solder: sack, QB hit, 12 hurries

Shaq Mason: two sacks, QB hit, two hurries

Marcus Cannon: sack, two QB hits, two hurries

Joe Thuney: four hurries

Tom Brady: sack

— Solder had a really tough time against Falcons pass rusher Dwight Freeney, which was very surprising, since he otherwise had a great 2016 season.

— Falcons defensive tackle Grady Jarrett beat Mason and Cannon for sacks. The sack credited to Brady also was Jarrett’s. Brady simply held the ball way too long.

— Center David Andrews wasn’t credited with a pressure, but he also didn’t do a great job helping his fellow interior linemen.

TOM BRADY’S ACCURACY

1. High to Julian Edelman

2. Pass to Malcolm Mitchell broken up

3. Hit while throwing (Solder) to Edelman

4. Behind and low to Danny Amendola

5. Dropped by Dion Lewis

6. Intercepted by Robert Alford while thrown into double coverage

7. Throw in front of Edelman

8. Thrown out of bounds to Chris Hogan

9. Pass to Edelman broken up

10. Dropped by Hogan

11. Dropped by Edelman

12. Overthrown to Edelman

13. Short to Edelman

14. Overthrown to Edelman

15. Low to Amendola

16. Thrown away toward James White

17. Underthrown to Hogan

18. Pass behind Edelman broken up

19. Pass to Martellus Bennett broken up

— Of Brady’s 19 incompletions, 10 were inaccurate, three were good defensive plays, three were drops, two were thrown away and one was because of pressure. Brady was under pressure on nine of his incompletions.

— Brady was 5 of 12 for 110 yards on deep passes.

— Brady started slow but went 27 of 34 for 294 yards with two touchdowns on the Patriots’ final five drives.

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