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Three Things to Watch This Week - Week 11

The first place New England Patriots play Colin Kaepernick and the San Francisco 49ers at Levi's Stadium on Sunday November 20th at 4:25 PM


Congratulations to Rob Gronkowski on a major touchdown milestone.

Holiday Power Rankings:

1) Thanksgiving

2) Festivus

3) Road

4) Roman

5) Madonna - Holiday


Not a lot of positives to take away from last week's game.  Let's move on to San Francisco.

Here's three things I'll be keeping an eye on this week.

1) Martellus Bennett - Gronk got blown up by Earl Thomas late in the game last week.  Bennett will need to step up this week.

2) Barkevious Mingo / Elandon Roberts - We need a non-Hightower inside linebacker to show up on a regular basis going forward.

3) Cyrus Jones - Hang on to the rock there, Big Guy.


FREE AGENT WATCH: Has Malcolm Butler, Jamie Collins or Dont'a Hightower been resigned yet?  Not yet!

The day after a Bills fan threw a rubber dong on the field in Buffalo, Jamie Collins got the shaft.  The Patriots traded the talented linebacker to the (then) 0 - 8 Cleveland Browns.  That's a big ol' sad trombone.

Did Malcolm Mitchell have a catch last week?  Yes!

My prediction: Pats 34, 49ers 17


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And now we present The Continuing Adventures of Julian Edelman, Private Dick.

We're playing on the West Coast this week.  Everybody is making a big deal of Tom returning to his ancestral home land.

But you know who else is from No. Cal?

Me, Baby.  Me.

Your Ol' Pal Jules only has 1 TD on the year.  Completely unacceptable this late into the season.  My next case is going to be solving The Case of the Missing End-zone Visits.  Maybe Tom can throw a few looks my way.  Hook up a fellow Bay Area Bro.

(Unrelated - Have you guys seen Westworld?  You ever think anyone you work with is maybe a robot, too?  I can't stop thinking about that.  Like... Maybe Brady is a robot or something?  Bruh...)

Time to grind.

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