Brady is in shape. He's confident in running the ball.

If it's having Brady throw the ball 40-50 times, that's what they're going to do. You just have to practice for everything and play. We can't look at it like, 'Jenks isn't here now so we have to worry about that side.' We have to just play and let the pieces fall where they may.

That's what they do — and they are very good at it. Brady knows where he wants to throw the ball and he is very quick, so we just have to try to get there.

We needed that drive because you can't give the ball back to (Patriots quarterback Tom) Brady. You have to keep it away from him because he is able to make so many things happen. That drive of eight minutes was huge for us.

Brady just got the ball out quick. ... However, we should've met their intensity with more intensity, and that didn't happen.

We started slow at the plate, but kept putting pressure on them with bunting and running until we could get some timely hitting. We made some mistakes, but again played great defense when we it was needed. The pitchers did a good job.