Ben Solak

Is the ball going to be accurate?

Are we going to get a DPI?

A lot of this is going to come down to Sean's going to manufacture a few lever spots for Stidham to hold that ball for a little longer and shoot that sucker.

And what's going to happen on those plays?

That's what happens with all backup quarterbacks.

That's the Jacoby Brissett story, right?

That's the Joe Flacco story.

Just dink, dunk, dink, dunk, stay ahead of the six, don't mess up, don't mess up.

Okay, we're going for our shot here.

Let's go get 7-on-1 play.

My whole job, we're 20 weeks in, and I'm just like, I don't know, man.

This is the sort of question you hope you professionally be able to answer.

I definitely think that... I saw Aaron Schatz of Football Outsiders or of FTN, excuse me, tweet today that since week 10, the Patriots defense is better by DVOA than the Broncos defense.

The Broncos defense has been having a little bit more up and down performances than this Patriots defense.

it is easy to fall into the trap of saying the schedule is not good and they've played soft quarterbacks.

It's absolutely true.

And their numbers are inflated.

But you also look at the room and you're just like, all right, wait.

No, like Milton Williams and Christian Barmore are good and have been good.

Carlton Davis, Christian Gonzalez, Marcus Jones are good and have been good.