{"id":36339,"date":"2025-10-24T15:51:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=36339"},"modified":"2025-10-24T15:51:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:51:36","slug":"breaking-patriots-star-defender-excited-to-face-browns-rookie-quarterback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=36339","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Patriots Star Defender &#8216;Excited&#8217; To Face Browns Rookie Quarterback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bostonglobe-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com\/resizer\/v2\/XHJCZGIC5FGBHUGMMXXQJ4B63I.JPG?auth=cbd9d53974dd1763f7d62a3f20d711326d3739a8cc8eec54c6eff0af64d45a51&amp;width=1440\" alt=\"Patriots defense will be ready with or without Christian Gonzalez\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??--><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??-->For the second week in a row, the New England Patriots will face a rookie quarterback this week.The Patriots\u2019 defense feasted on Tennessee Titans rookie Cam Ward last week, sacking him five times and forcing two turnovers from him (one interception and one fumble). They shut the Titans out in the second half and allowed just three points after the first quarter, cruising to a 31-13 rout in Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>New England faces a similar assignment during this week\u2019s home matchup against the Cleveland Browns, who have rookie QB Dillon Gabriel under center. Gabriel will be making his fourth career start for the 2-5 Browns and is coming off his first career win after dominating the Miami Dolphins last week.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s yet to turn the ball over in his brief NFL career, but Christian Gonzalez and the Patriots\u2019 defense are looking to change that.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Patriots?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Patriots<\/a> CB Christian Gonzalez on the Browns:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Quinshon\u2019s] been looking real good\u2026 Dillon over there, he\u2019s making plays, he has no turnovers. We wanna get the ball off of him. They got receivers\u2026 It\u2019s gonna be a challenge for us, but we\u2019re excited for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(\ud83c\udfa5 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Patriots?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Patriots<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/16JTk2WI3X\">pic.twitter.com\/16JTk2WI3X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Carlos A. Lopez (@LosTalksPats) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LosTalksPats\/status\/1981365784053240236?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDillon over there, he\u2019s making plays, he has no turnovers. We wanna get the ball off of him,\u201d Gonzalez told reporters on Thursday. \u201cThey got receivers, they got a lot of good players over there. It\u2019s gonna be a challenge for us, but we\u2019re excited for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staticg.sportskeeda.com\/editor\/2025\/10\/c634d-17612444117962-1920.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"Dillon Gabriel gets warning from Christian Gonzalez ahead of Browns vs.  Patriots Week 8 game\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez has yet to force a turnover this year, but New England\u2019s defense has forced nine so far, ranking ninth in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel has struggled with his accuracy, completing just 59.8 percent of his passes. He seems due for an interception, and the Patriots have five of them.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>The 24-year-old has been sacked 10 times in his three starts, so New England\u2019s defense will at least try to get him on the ground and keep Cleveland\u2019s offense behind the sticks.<\/p>\n<p>Even with Gabriel, the Browns have one of the worst offenses in the NFL, ranking 30th in both points and yards per game. That makes this a great matchup for the Patriots\u2019 stellar defense, which ranks fifth in points allowed per game and 11th in yards allowed per game.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Gonzalez and the New England Patriots defense are ready for Cleveland Browns rookie quarterback Dillon Gabriel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cleveland-browns","category-new-england-patriots"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Patriots Star Defender &#039;Excited&#039; To Face Browns Rookie Quarterback - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=36339\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Patriots Star Defender &#039;Excited&#039; 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