The Patriots’ First Shot

Good morning! The First Shot provides you with a healthy helping of links to the top Patriots-related stories around the internet to get your day started. Enjoy your breakfast, your coffee, and kick off the weekend right with an early morning football fix. The links begin after the jump…

• Musket Fire’s Ryan Hannable chronicles the Patriots’ success in the month of December under Bill Belichick.
• Should BenJarvus Green-Ellis become the Patriots’ featured back with the team dumping the running-back-by-committee approach? Read the debate HERE.
• Sebastian Vollmer has been ruled out of tomorrow’s Pats-Colts game.
• Everybody over at ESPN is picking the Patriots to beat the Colts.
• Did Bill Belichick zing the Colts for losing all of their games so far this year without Peyton Manning, while in 2008 the Pats won 11 games without Tom Brady?