Seemingly ageless as the Pittsburgh Steelers 33-3 toppled on Sunday night Tom Brady passed for 341 yards and 3 touchdowns.
The Patriots maintained a pregame celebration for their Super Bowl championship, and subsequently started the defence of the title in powerful style.
Brady improved to. The 42-year-old has been 24 of 36, hitting Phillip Dorsett for 2 touchdowns and Josh Gordon for another. Four field objectives were added by stephen Gostkowski.
Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was 27 for 276 passing yards, with an interception.
The Patriots thwarted the Steelers’ offense (308 total yards) without linebacker Kyle Van Noy, last season’s leading tackler, whose wife was in labour.
Cornerback Stephon Gilmore awakened to offer powerful coverage on Pittsburgh receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster, that had six receptions for 78 yards.
New England led 7-0 after the first quarter and.
The Patriots proceeded 82 yards on seven plays to take a lead on Brady’s 20-yard scoring pass to Gordon.
At 11:52 of the moment, Gostkowski’s 25-yarder made it 10-0.
Dorsett got behind the defense in the target line to pull to drive it into.
Even the Steelers didn’t convert on a fourth-and-1 at midfield, helping to set up Gostkowski’s 41-yard field goal to make it 20-0 with 21 seconds.
Pittsburgh finally transferred down the field early in the second half but stalled inside the 5 and then settled to close it at 10:17 of their third to 20-3.
Brady and Dorsett hooked up at 8:05 of this third as Dorsett sped much behind the shield to get a 58-yard scoring grab to make it 27-3.
Gordon’s 44-yard grab in visitors keyed a 73-yard push which culminated to get a 30-3 Patriots lead in Gostkowski’s 35-yard field target with 13 seconds left in the third.
Gostkowski added a 39-yarder at 6:38 of the fourth.
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