{"id":350054,"date":"2025-09-07T22:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/350054\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T22:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:49:09","slug":"patriots-veteran-saw-glimpse-of-dominance-from-defense-in-week-1-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/350054\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots veteran saw &#8216;glimpse of dominance&#8217; from defense in Week 1 loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOXBORO \u2014 The result wasn\u2019t what the Patriots wanted, but their new look defense showed potential in Sunday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2025\/09\/07\/what-we-learned-best-and-worse-from-patriots-20-13-loss-to-raiders\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">20-13 loss<\/a> to the Raiders.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots limited the Raiders to just 2.3 yards per carry and sacked quarterback Geno Smith four times while forcing an interception.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like you could see the glimpse of dominance that our defense has,\u201d outside linebacker Harold Landry, who led the team with 2.5 sacks, said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it wasn\u2019t all good, and Landry acknowledged that. The defense, led by head coach Mike Vrabel and defensive coordinator Terrell Williams, allowed 362 yards and a touchdown to Smith. They also allowed a rushing touchdown to rookie running back Ashton Jeanty and two field goals from Daniel Carlson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all know on the defensive side of the ball, the sky\u2019s the limit for us,\u201d Landry said. \u201cI think for us it\u2019s just that consistency snapping in and snapping out and not having any lapses. You can easily tell that we have so much potential on that side of the ball. We just have to come to work, leaders have to lead, and we just have to come to work tomorrow ready to improve, hungry to improve. You can see it, this is an exciting defense, I\u2019m excited to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots missed cornerback Christian Gonzalez, who missed Sunday\u2019s game with a hamstring injury. There was also a questionable playcall on Smith\u2019s touchdown, when the Patriots dropped defensive tackles Christian Barmore and Milton Williams into coverage and blitzed cornerback Marcus Jones, forcing safety Jaylinn Hawkins to take on speedy wide receiver Tre Tucker, who scored on a 26-yard reception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOXBORO \u2014 The result wasn\u2019t what the Patriots wanted, but their new look defense showed potential in Sunday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[80,833,839,7,838,1167,249,2326,2094,6,15,835,61050,832,208,836,19972,834,831,61051,61052,724,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-350054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","9":"tag-drake-maye","10":"tag-eliot-wolf","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-mike-vrabel","13":"tag-new-england","14":"tag-new-england-patriots","15":"tag-newengland","16":"tag-newenglandpatriots","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-nfl-draft","19":"tag-nfl-news","20":"tag-nfl-patriots","21":"tag-nfl-rumors","22":"tag-patriots","23":"tag-patriots-2025","24":"tag-patriots-game","25":"tag-patriots-news","26":"tag-patriots-rumors","27":"tag-patriots-schedule","28":"tag-patriots-stats","29":"tag-pats","30":"tag-robert-kraft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115165460220435659","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}