 | Love Letters
Jabar Gaffney and Richard Seymour are gone to the AFC West, but they are not forgotten in New England.
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| 2009 Season Preview: New England Patriots
This is no worse than the 3rd best team in the NFL on paper and will enjoy an incredibly favorable schedule, which will make them the odds-on favorite to win the Super Bowl come February.
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| Patriots Out of Options At OLB
If the Patriots are to live up to Super Bowl expectations, they have to improve the defense. Particularly a pass rush that ranked 14th in the NFL needs a boost. But with the draft over and free agency winding down, there are few quality options now.
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| New England Patriots Draft History
Much of the Patriots' success has come from finding the right guys for their system, whether it is via trades (Randy Moss), free agent signings (Adalius Thomas) and the draft (Tom Brady).
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| Cassel Sold Below Value
This move is a salary dump by the Patriots. How else can a team explain forking over two starting-quality players for one second round pick?
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| Will Cassel Even Play For Pats In 2009?
The Patriots didn't surprise anyone when they franchised Matt Cassel, but will he even play a down for them in 2009?
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| The NFL: A Year in Review
With the year 2008 in the books, it's time to take a look back at the highs and lows of yet another season in the NFL.
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| Injuries Test The System
Does New England's offensive system produce great quarterbacks, or is Matt Cassel nearly as good as Tom Brady?
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| A Limited Time Opportunity In The AFC
Hey AFC, are you tired of being bullied? Frustrated that no matter what you do, you can’t get by the Patriots? Have you been trying for years to wrestle away the AFC South from the Colts with no success? Or do you look at San Diego and think they can’t be beat?
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| Captain Moss?
For all the help Randy Moss can provide Matt Cassel, he can’t revert to his old self. Moss has never handled adversity well in the past, and this season could become a trying one.
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| 2008 Season Preview: New England Patriots
Still the best team in the NFL by a wider margin than most people give them credit, the Patriots will have no problem racking up at least 11 wins and another AFC East title.
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| The Anticipation Of Matt Walsh
Matt Walsh dragged the football community around since February just to keep his name in the spotlight. Don’t disappoint us. Either give us new details, or you should had never whispered.
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| Patriots Pre-Draft Summit
New England may have lost a trio of impact players, but their fans still believe that it will be 'Super Bowl or bust' in 2008. The re-signing of Randy Moss gives these fans confidence, while one places Tom Brady on the hot seat.
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| Forever A Patriot
It is hard to imagine that the Patriots have no use for a player like Troy Brown who was indispensable for so long. He was a 1993 eighth round draft pick out of Marshall whom the Patriots cut but later brought back to play special teams and return punts.
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| Grading The Deal: Patriots Lock Up Randy
While losing Samuel, ,and Gay could come back to hurt the Patriots in 2008, retaining Randy Moss was as imperative as it gets.
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| Sixty Minutes
It began as a rallying cry. It was a perfect exhortation to inspire persistent effort for a Patriots' team who remembered all too well the result of failing to play for the duration during last season's AFC Championship loss.
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| The Kraft Ethics
It’s too early to know who is telling the truth or the reasons why in the Randy Moss/Rachelle Washington case. That can wait. What really would be telling is the reaction of the franchise.
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| The Blueprint
The lack of interesting fodder generated at a press conference is more your fault than Bill Belichick's. Because, really, he’s winning. His goal is to thwart your attempts to gather and ultimately disseminate any information, proprietary or otherwise.
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| How The Patriots Can Go Undefeated
The Patriots are seven regular season wins and three postseason wins away from going undefeated. Oddsmakers are saying there is a strong probability that this will happen. What does the schedule say?
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| What Bill Belicheck And Lindsay Lohan Have In Common
Bill, you’ve become the last thing you ever wanted: you’re sexy. The topic of you evokes opinions from everyone this season. You’re a walking bowl of oatmeal Bill, yet somehow you’ve been the most talked about fellow around the league this side of Michael Vick. That’s a pretty epic feat for a guy who cuts the sleeves off of his sweatshirts and talks like a high school chemistry teacher. You’ve somehow had one hell of NFL season, and it’s only week five.
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| Case Closed
To put an end to whatever speculation that might still be out there, here's a review of cheating claims made by other teams that proved to be baseless against the Patriots.
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| Randy Moss Described Eternity
The question that needs to be asked in New England is whether it was apathy and a bad Oakland club or an overall decline in play that led to his poor showing with the Raiders. And whether Week 1 was an aberration that shocked Eric Mangini who thought single coverage would be sufficient or if this is indeed the best Minnesota import since David Ortiz.
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| 2007 Season Preview: New England Patriots
This is the best team on paper in the NFL, and their record will reflect that. 13-3 and total command of the AFC playoff race will be theirs, and the Patriots have the ability to win every playoff game they’re in, including the Super Bowl.
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| Tip The Scales For Tippett
The Patriots biggest weakness might be at outside linebacker. Do they promote from within? How about sign a free agent? Or will the Pats wait until the draft in April? Andre Tippett is still in their front office and was one of the all-time best at the position.
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| There WAS No Place Like Home
With the air of invincibility gone, out goes the grass and in goes the field turf. It is expected to be ready by the November 26th game against the Chicago Bears. Tom Brady is 19-1 on artificial surfaces. New England only hopes changing the field will lead to a new period of dominance.
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| Standing Pat?
After a disappointing playoff loss to Denver, New England needs to bounce back. But how will they if head coach Bill Belichick and Vice President of Player Personnel Scott Pioli let their free agents walk without finding replacements?
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| Indyfensible
Let’s be honest with ourselves here; no one in New England should have been surprised by Monday night’s outcome. The Colts are possibly the most complete team in the league at this point. Currently, they lead the league in Total DVOA, which is the sum of a team’s offensive DVOA (in which they are currently second, behind Seattle), defensive DVOA (a very respectable fourth) and special teams DVOA, in which they are currently ranked 31st, but, at -6.6% DVOA, does not seriously detract from the total values.
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| A Scheduling Game: Does the NFL have it out for the Patriots?
Looking at the NFL this weekend and my beloved Patriots, a thought popped into my mind. I looked at the schedule that Patriots have had so far, and their match up this week against powerhouse Indianapolis. To me, it’s arguable that New England has faced one of the toughest first halves in NFL history. Let’s take a closer look at the path the Patriots have trodden thus far in 2005.
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| BRUSCHI’S COMEBACK
New England Patriots linebacker, Tedy Bruschi returned to the gridiron of Gillette Stadium tenaciously, adhering to the direction of the opposition, hearkening the opposition’s play call with keen focus and accentuating assignments for victory, all in one inner-circle of football craved fans
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| The Predictable Dynasty
The Patriots dynasty has become the House of the NFL; predictable, yet extremely successful. Each key victory seems to follow a similar series of events: Brady starts off hot, cools down a bit just as the opposition begins to heat up, defense comes to the rescue with a few critical plays, Brady heats up again right before the half, defense continues keeping the game close until Brady orchestrates his patented two-minute march down the field and into field goal range, and Adam Vinatieri kicks the game-winning field goal just as time expires.
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| Eyes On The Prize
All (or most) eyes will be on the New England Patriots as they set off to do what has become the Holy Grail of football achievements; win three consecutive Super Bowls.
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| Renew England
Repeating as Super Bowl champions for the third straight season is tough enough; nobody has ever done it. Repeating as Super Bowl champions for the third straight season without your offensive and defensive coordinators as well as the lynchpin of your defense makes it that much more difficult.
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| Ten Reason Why The Pats Won’t Three-Peat
In the History of the game, no team has ever won four Super Bowls in a five-year stretch. Not one.
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