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ATLANTA (AP) — Trent Brown made a huge — no http://www.packersauthorizedshops.com/authentic-jace-sternberger-jersey , massive — impression the first time he strolled through the door at New England’s facility and met his new teammates.“Man, I thought Nate Solder was big,” Patriots center David Andrews said while shaking his head. “And then he walked into the room.”Brown is a mammoth of a man, standing at 6-foot-8 and weighing in at a scale-tipping 380 pounds as the heaviest player in the NFL. It’s a distinction the Patriots left tackle carries around like a badge of pride.Just ask his offensive linemates, who support — OK, endure — Brown having no qualms about roaming the locker room in all his bare, barrel-chested glory.“Yeah, hey, whatever, right? He’s a good-looking guy,” backup offensive lineman Ted Karras said with a big smile. “I mean, this is the league of the biggest, baddest men and he has the distinction of being the biggest, which is pretty cool.“And, he plays to it and been doing a great job.”Brown has been a pleasant surprise this season for the Patriots, whose line has kept Tom Brady clean throughout the postseason — not allowing a single sack. Brown has been a big-time key, literally and figuratively Dexter Williams Jersey , as the protector of the five-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback’s blind side.“I think Trent has just kind of fit into the system and progressed every week to be a better player,” offensive line coach Dante Scarnecchia said. “He’s worked to be a better player every week. He wasn’t without skills. We got him and he was a guy who could move his feet. He’s long and certainly is athletic enough to play. And he’s big and he can knock people off the ball.”Solder, a big boy himself at 6-8 and 320 pounds, had the left tackle gig for seven seasons until he signed with the New York Giants last offseason as a free agent. Bill Belichick and the Patriots filled the void by swinging a deal during the draft, trading a third-round pick to San Francisco for Brown and a fifth-round selection.Brown immediately slid into the starting job at left tackle — despite playing on the right side his first three NFL seasons with the 49ers.“It’s worked out really well for us considering he hasn’t played much left tackle,” Scarnecchia said. “We put him there out of need and he’s really come through. Him coming through this week will be really important for us.”Mostly because the Patriots will be taking on a Los Angeles Rams defensive line that features Aaron Donald, who led the league with 20½ sacks, and the always-disruptive Ndamukong Suh and Dante Fowler.And, it won’t be just on Brown’s broad shoulders to keep Brady upright and clear holes for the running game trio of Sony Michel, James White and Rex Burkhead. It’ll be a group effort with Andrews, left guard Joe Thuney, right guard Shaq Mason and right tackle Marcus Cannon.“The passing game starts with them, the running game starts with them,” Brady said. “Over the last four or five weeks, we’ve really been efficient at both of those at different times and different ways, and we’ve really needed it. We’re counting on those guys when we need it most and obviously going into this game against the best D-line in football is a big challenge — and that’s what these games are all about.”The line has been consistently good in pass protection this season as Brady was pressured on only 25.8 percent of his dropbacks, according to the analytics site Pro Football Focus. That ranks as the league’s third-lowest rate.“I love talking about them Max Scharping Jersey ,” Brady said of his linemen, “so we could talk about them all night.”Along with fullback James Develin blasting open holes for the running backs, the Patriots’ O-line helped the running game ranked fifth in the league during the regular season. New England has also averaged 165.5 yards on the ground this postseason — second only to the Rams (175.0).Not bad for a mostly rag-tag bunch of offensive linemen who stand out more as a unit than as highly touted individuals, with not one first-rounder among them.Brown was a seventh-rounder by San Francisco in 2015, while Mason went in the fourth round. Andrews was an undrafted free agent that same year.Thuney came to New England as a third-round pick in 2016.Cannon is the veteran of the group, having joined the Patriots as a fifth-rounder in 2011. But he didn’t become a consistent starter until 2015.“They’re just a great group,” Brady said. “They work so well together. They’ve got the best O-line coach in history coaching them who holds those guys to such a high standard every day.“They’re the heart and soul of our offense.” CHICAGO (AP) — Russell Wilson looked to his left and his right. He looked for help in the middle of the field. He looked short and he looked for deep balls.No one was open.It was that kind of Monday night for the Seattle Seahawks.Wilson was surrounded for most of Seattle’s 24-17 loss to the Chicago Bears, and he got very little help from his teammates until the fourth quarter. He was sacked six times for the second straight week, including five in the first half, and made a game-sealing mistake in the final period.“We’re still a work in progress,” coach Pete Carroll said. “You can see how hard our guys played, see how they fought throughout all the way to the last seconds on the clock.”Seattle (0-2) played without guard D.J. Fluker and receiver Doug Baldwin due to injuries, and Baldwin’s absence was particularly noticeable. Tyler Lockett was the Seahawks’ top receiver with five catches for 60 yards, but he got most of his numbers in the fourth. Brandon Marshall struggled to get open against one of his former teams.“I can always do better,” Marshall said. “There’s some things I definitely have to clean up. Just got to be sharper in everything that I do. We got to find a way to make plays.”The rushing attack also was shut down by Chicago’s refurbished defense, finishing with 74 yards on 22 carries. Seattle went almost 24 minutes of game time between rushing plays at one point.Wilson began the fourth quarter with just 69 yards on 9-for-20 passing, but he tried to rally the Seahawks down the stretch.“The fourth quarter showed us who we are and who we can be http://www.texansauthorizedshops.com/authentic-kahale-warring-jersey ,” Wilson said. “We just got to get a better start and try to figure out how to catch that fire that we had in the fourth quarter, let’s put it in the first, second, third if we can do that, which I don’t think we’re far off by any means.”The four-time Pro Bowler found Lockett for 20 yards and tight end Nathan Vannett for 11 to move Seattle deep into Chicago territory. He then threw a 19-yard touchdown pass to Lockett to trim the Bears’ lead to 17-10 with 10:13 left.Chicago (1-1) went three and out on the ensuing drive and punted the ball right back to Seattle. But Wilson’s pass intended for Rashaad Penny near midfield was picked off by Prince Amukamara, who returned his first interception since 2015 for his first career touchdown with 6:37 remaining.“You can’t even remember the last time Russ did that,” Carroll said.Wilson also lost a fumble on Seattle’s next drive. He passed to Will Dissly for a 2-yard touchdown with 14 seconds to go, but the Seahawks’ onside kick was unsuccessful and the Bears ran out the clock.The lackluster showing for Seattle’s offense wasted a solid performance for its defense, led by two second-quarter interceptions for Shaquill Griffin. The second-year cornerback made a nice play on an underthrown ball by Mitchell Trubisky, and then had a diving grab on a tipped ball.Mychal Kendricks had one of Seattle’s two sacks in his first game since he signed with the Seahawks on Friday. Kendricks pleaded guilty last week to insider trading charges, but he isn’t expected to be sentenced in the case until January and the NFL has yet to impose any discipline.“Just having this opportunity to play it means so much more to me,” said Kendricks, who was released by Cleveland on Aug. 29 after the charges were filed. “That being said, I plan on doing the most with it.”It just wasn’t enough, not with the Seahawks’ ineffective offense.Wilson was 22 for 36 for 226 yards. Penny was the top rusher with 10 carries for 30 yards as Seattle possessed the ball for just 25 1/2 minutes.“The fighter mentality in me is always going to be there so you can’t play scared,” Wilson said. “You got to be able to go for it. I think we were still able to do that. We had a lot of fourth-quarter comebacks and I believe those are going to happen.”