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DETROIT HAS A SLIGHT ONE POINT EDGE AT HOME FROM THE VEGAS ODDMAKERS AND OFF-SHORE BOOKS. TIME TABLE OF PLAYING TIME AMONGST STARTERS FIGURES TO GO PAST THE FIRST QUARTER AND LIKELY WELL INTO THE SECOND. THAT’S ENOUGH OF A LIGHTNING ROUND TO PLEASE TOM BRADY, WHO HAS SHOWN GREAT EFFICIENCY WHILE ON THE FIELD IN PRESEASON. THUS FAR THROWING FOR THREE TOUCHDOWN STRIKES WHILE GOING 18 OF 20 IN BOTH GAMES COMBINED. A STELLAR PERCENTAGE THAT GROSSLY COULD FIND ROOM TO BE EVEN BETTER VERSUS THE DETROIT DEFENSE. I THINK THAT’S WHERE VEGAS FIGURES TO GIVE DETROIT A SLIGHT EDGE, AS THE DEFENSIVE STARTERS MAY STAY ONTO THE FIELD INTO THE SECOND HALF, WITH HOW POOR THEY’VE BEEN IN TWO GAMES IN THE PRESEASON.

WHILE DETROIT DOES HAVE TREMENDOUS DEPTH IN THEIR BACKFIELD THAT WOULD LEAD YOU TO TIP TO THEIR SIDE FOR A SECOND HALF COME BACK, I JUST THINK THE PATRIOTS FIRST UNIT AND EVEN THEIR SECOND UNIT WILL GET THE PATRIOTS A DOUBLE DIGIT LEAD. WITH TIM TEBOW’S JOB AS QUARTERBACK AND ROLE UNDEFINED LOOK FOR BILL BELICHICK TO RESORT BACK TO USING RYAN MALLET FOR MOST OF THE SECOND HALF SERIES. MALLET WILL BE THE DIFFERENCE, AND I WOULD NOT EXPECT TEBOW INTO THE GAME UNTIL THE LAST PORTION OF THE FOURTH QUARTER.

THE PATRIOTS GAVE TEBOW THE ENTIRE SECOND HALF A WEEK AGO TO AUDITION FOR A QUARTERBACK POSITION, AND THAT IS ALL THEY NEEDED TO SEE FOR THE CAPPING FACT THAT HE WILL NEED A REDEFINED ROLE AS A PATRIOT OR ELSEWHERE IN THE LEAGUE.

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