The Seattle Seahawks (5-2-1) will continue their prime time appearance tour Sunday night ( 5:30 p.m. PT ) when they take on the New England Patriots (7-1) at Gillette Stadium. The Seahawks are coming off a tough and controversy-filled 31-25 win over the Buffalo Bills on Monday Night Football.
The Seahawks are 17-10-1 in their last 28 road games dating back to 2013. Seattle is 16-3-1 in prime time games under Pete Carroll since 2010. New England and Seattle have split 16 meetings in the regular season with the Patriots having won the last time the two teams met in SuperBowl XLIX
NE ENGLAND HEAD COACH BILL BELICHICK
Q: What can you say about the way that Tom Brady has played since his return from suspension?
BB: Well, Tom [Brady] works hard and prepares hard as he always does. Offensively we’ve gotten good contributions from all of our positions really; the offensive line, the skill guys, the tight ends, backs, receivers, quarterbacks. It’s really been a team execution and there are a lot of things we need to keep working on and things we can do better but we’ve had some production and Tom’s done a good job for us these last four weeks.
Q: What do you notice is different at all about Russell Wilson from the last time you played him or even from film study on him last year?
BB: I mean I have all of the respect in the world for Russell Wilson. He’s one of the top players in the league. He’s a tremendous competitor. He does a great job of winning games, making great decisions, helping his team win. He’s very tough, very accurate, good decision maker, can make plays in a lot of different ways, very good situational football player, does the right thing so many times. I have a lot of respect for him personally. I have a lot of respect for his playing performance, how consistent he is, how tough he is, how much he does to help his team win, the leadership he shows out on the field. He’s a great player.
Q: What do you notice is different at all about Russell Wilson from the last time you played him or even from film study on him last year?
BB: I mean I have all of the respect in the world for Russell Wilson. He’s one of the top players in the league. He’s a tremendous competitor. He does a great job of winning games, making great decisions, helping his team win. He’s very tough, very accurate, good decision maker, can make plays in a lot of different ways, very good situational football player, does the right thing so many times. I have a lot of respect for him personally. I have a lot of respect for his playing performance, how consistent he is, how tough he is, how much he does to help his team win, the leadership he shows out on the field. He’s a great player.
SEAHAWKS HEAD COACH PETE CARROLL
(Opening) “We have a great matchup this week. Going across the country to go play New Englad, it’s going to be a really nice opportunity for us to get it going on the road. We’ve got to get good at this and this is about as far as we can go and about as good of a team as we can play. It’s going to be a great matchup I hope and we’re planning on putting together a really good week here. A bit of a shortened week so we adopted a bit of a change in the schedule, but other than that it’s going to be a really cool preparation and we’re looking forward to it.”
(On how they prepare for having both Rob Gronkowski and Martellus Bennett on the field)
“We’re going to prepare normally, they are both really good players. The system really works their guys around to suit their style of play and Tom [Brady] is great in utilizing those guys in that manner. We have to have a real good understanding of their strengths and the ways that they do their things. We’ve got to take care of it and see if we can keep them from controlling the game.”
(On Tom Brady)
“He looks great. He’s on fire. He hasn’t thrown an interception yet, he’s completed 70-something percent of his passes, he’s on fire. He’s even taken off and run a couple times just to show that he can and he looks good moving around. You see no wear at all, he’s fresh and ready to go.”
(On the biggest defensive challenge going against the Patriots)
“It’s everything. It’s really everything that they do. The system is one where they’re really smart and they do the right things against their opponents and they make you really have to work and they tax you. They know what they’re doing as well as anybody playing the game and Tom [Brady] can carry it out and execute it and utilize the calls and the matchups and all that. It’s really impressive.”
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