New England Patriots

By Beth News flash: Matt Cassel is an inexperienced quarterback. News flash: Bill Belichick is a smart coach. News flash: The Patriots are capable of improving from week to week, and learning from their mistakes. (more…)

By Jamie Adalius Thomas had the only sack for the Patriots, despite flushing JT O’Sullivan out of the pocket several times and nearly dropping him for a big loss several times. The defensive score for the game is as follows: ...

By Brent With a 2-1 record going into the Bye week, most Patriots fans would have thought the loss came versus the Jets even if Tom Brady was still playing. Well the loss is behind us and now we can move forward - even without Brady. ...

By Brent Just as surely as the turf in Gillette Stadium is green and white, fair-weather fans of Patriot Nation are showing their true colors. Buck up troopers! This is only one performance of a long season and the first loss in 21 regular season games.

By Beth All of that said, it’s pretty tough even for a Pats homer like myself to feel too terribly about this. I’m supposed to be grieving the first lost regular-season game in two years? The week after the team tied its own consecutive-regular-season-win record? Please. I’m spoiled, but I’m not th...

By Jamie Go Pats! The last 24+ hours have been a whirlwind for Patriots fans, waiting to get an official word on the status of “The Franchise,” quarterback Tom Brady. As Beth mentioned earlier, Brady is officially out for the year, his season ending before the first quarter of the first game was over....

By Beth Tom Brady has managed to survive the punishing onslaught of 127 consecutive regular-season and playoff games, behind only Peyton Manning and Brett Favre in all-time longevity. Brady has played through sports hernias, taped-up knees, a separated shoulder injury that has lingered for...

By Beth And when that guy is your franchise quarterback, you can multiply that feeling by a hundred. Once the initial AUGH and ARGH and DO NOT WANT subside, there is, I’ll admit, some sense of inevitability about the injury to Tom Brady in the first quarter of this afternoon’s season opener. Brady ha...

By Jamie However, backed up in their own end zone, on 3rd down, Matt Cassel completed a 51-yd pass to Randy Moss and the Patriots are once again driving. The most recent update status on Tom Brady is “unlikely to return.” However, backed up in their own end zone, on 3rd down, Matt Cassel completed a 51-y...

By Jamie Wide Receiver: Randy Moss, Wes Welker, Jabar Gaffney, Chad Jackson, Sam Aiken, Ray Ventrone, CJ Jones, Kelley Washington Linebackers:Tedy Bruschi, Jerod Mayo, Mike Vrabel, Adalius Thomas, Gary Guyton, Larry Izzo, Eric Alexander, Pierre Woods, Shawn Crable

By Brent The Patriots have played poorly in all phases of the game and injuries to quarterback Tom Brady and the offensive line have left little opportunity to see how the offense will really perform at the start of the season. At this point I no longer care about the back up QB position and we should ge...

By Beth The first sight of the stadium for me this year was jarring. I had trekked through a maze of construction sites last year to go to games, but it was still a surprise when I saw the new Patriot Place complex finished. In addition to a movie theater, shopping center and restaurants, a Patriots Hal...

By Jamie Go Pats! The Patriots play host to the Eagles Friday night in the third, and usually considered the most important, preseason game of 2008. The third preseason game is the one where you will usually see the veteran starters play an entire half and sometimes the beginning of the second half. F...

By Beth But of all the problems the Patriots are exhibiting so far, faith in Belichick’s coaching makes the expectation that greater systematic issues will be resolved; there’s not much he can do, with the current crop of backups, if Brady is truly hobbled.

By Beth Even aside from the quarterback situation, this game was just bad, all around. Sort of like how I knew by halftime of the Super Bowl that the Giants defense was outplaying the Patriots at every turn, tonight I knew there was something off about the team after just the first five or six plays. Th...

By Beth Patriot Reign by Michael Holley - If you’re a Boston sports fan, anything with Michael Holley on the spine is something I’d recommend. His reporting and writing are both superb, making his books quick and informative reads. Patriot Reign focuses on the system of player development Bill Be...

By Brent With safety/linebacker/special teamer Tank Williams being placed on IR and wide receiver/special teamer Sam Aiken out for the rest of the season, we may see the Patriots have to review their personnel and available free agents to fill more then one gap on defense and special teams.

By Brent IN BILL WE TRUST! Just when you thought the Brett Favre drama would keep it in the NFC, the ironic twist of fate brings him to the AFC East and to New York at that. Yes, Eric Mangini and Mike Tannenbaum have now spent well over $100 million in 2008 to compete with the Patriots. But as the Patriots gr...

By Brent IN BILL WE TRUST!! In the AFC East, more then one team has a question regarding their quarterback situation. The Patriots are the only team with a true and valuable starting QB on their roster -Tom Brady. Behind Brady there are more questions then answers with three untested youngsters in Ma...

By Brent The addition of new defensive backs coach Dom Capers will also add intrigue as to how the Patriots adjust their system and may return to their old aggressive style in the box and with the blitz. A few people questioned if he was brought in just in case Belichick was suspended, but Capers has le...

By Brent Ah so nice to be a Boston sports fan and yes this does lead to great expectations! But enough for now as I will enjoy a nice cigar tonight and as one person once said ‘bring on the grapes!’ Red Sox - World Champions, Celtics - World Champions, Patriots - undefeated regular season and Bruins a tr...

By Brent After completing their recent new joiners and passing camp, the New England Patriots are set to begin their full sqaud mini camp June 6th through 8th. Of the returning veterans (ahem) wide receiver Chad Jackson may be the only one with real risk to not make the roster if he does not show impro...

By Brent I think the areas the Patriots are still strong and will remain so is defensive line and wide receiver. No changes on the D-Line (give Wilfork a new contract) and although we lost Stallworth, this is the year Chad Jackson needs to step it up. Jackson has the speed and better hands then Stallwo...

By Brent When starting off the press conference after the draft Coach Bill Belichick joked, On Day 2 the Patriots added OLB Shawn Crable, QB Kevin O’Connell, CB Johnathan Wilhite, WR/Special Teamer Matt Slater and as mentioned OLB Ruud with their lat pick.

By Jamie The New England Patriots had a very successful Day One of the NFL Draft. All in all, the day yielded a linebacker, a cornerback, and an extra third round pick. The Patriots picked two players that should help fill their two biggest needs and could have a major impact on the team this coming seas...

By Brent Former Patriots Head coach and now USC head coach Pete Carroll has high expectations for his players. If selected, Gholston would be the first DE/OLB by the Patriots since Willie McGinest was selected the first year Patriots owner Robert Kraft owned the team in 1991

By Brent For the coaching of the Patriots offense versus the Jets defens, Bill Belichick and the team will take advantage of any weakness they can find and also will take what the defense is giving them. Pats 48 - Jets 13 Tom Brady 4 TDs Maroney 72 yds, 1 TD

By Beth As the intricate patterns of the offense unfolded in this game, I thought to myself, it is a good thing that Tom Brady and his receivers are so familiar with one another through both practice and in-game experience given the seemingly infinite spectrum of plays they’re expected to execut...

By Jamie For the Ravens’ view, check out the Ravens’ Roost. The New England Patriots travel to Baltimore Monday night to face the Ravens in their third prime-time game in a row. This marks the fourth time the Pats have faced the Ravens and the first time they’ve traveled to M&T Bank Stadium. The Pat...

By Beth Then there were the penalties, which had both me and my Dad reaching for things to huck at the TV screen throughout the game. It was an uncharacteristically mentally lax first half for the Patriots, including Tom Brady, who was picked off once and forced to punt entirely too often. The Patrio...

By Brent Earlier this year it was interesting to read, listen and watch all the views on the New England Patriots for the upcoming 2007 season. ‘Big time’ signings in the offseason were made to catapult the Patriots past the Colts and compete for another Championship.

By Jamie With a victory Sunday, Tom Brady will have beaten every team in the NFL. He played the Redskins one other time in his career, in 2003, throwing 3 INTs and 2 TDs in a losing effort. I’m not going to call Brady keeping his “at least 3 TDs per game” streak going, as I’d like to see some production from t...

By Beth In fairness, though, while the fans are given to being hypercritical, it’s also been acknowledged by both Coach Belichick and various Patriots players that New England can play better than they did on Sunday–and they’re going to need to if they hope to beat teams that are better than the B...

By Beth On the possession directly following the Brady fumble, the Patriots offense officially decided to quit screwing around, scoring a touchdown to take the lead again in under three minutes, and restoring order to Gillette Stadium.

By Brent Today is the last day of our poll on WHAT SHOULD THE PATRIOTS DO WITH ASANTE SAMUEL?? To be fair Samuel has out played his rookie contract and deserves to ‘Get Paid’, but not enough to break the Patriots’ system and hinder future greatness for the team (and himself if with the team).

By Beth However, it seems that in recent years “In Belichick We Trust” has lost some of its luster in Boston, and at least some of the reasons for that are understandable. I’m as stung by the Patriots’ loss to the Colts as anyone. But I’ve found some of the harping and carping on Belichick by some member...