Patriots: Stephon Gilmore wins Defensive Player of the Year

February 4, 2020

By Kevin J. Stone/@kstone06/@newftbj On Saturday night before Kansas City ultimately ended a 50-year drought, the NFL held the now annual “NFL Honors” awards ceremony to officially cap the 2019 season. While we’ve grown accustomed to seeing other stars around the NFL accept awards at this event while Patriot players are holed up in their hotel rooms getting ready for yet another “biggest game of their life”, this year –…

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Patriots: Richard Seymour not getting into the Hall of Fame this year is a travesty

February 4, 2020

Richard Seymour narrowly missed out on being elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame this past weekend. For the second year in a row, he finished in the top ten for modern candidates. Seymour has been on the ballot for three years and while he is inching closer to getting in, the voters just don’t seem comfortable with putting him in Canton right now. If Seymour were to get…

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Patriots: Tom Brady is playing mind games and quite frankly, I am over it

February 1, 2020

Photo courtesy of Tom Brady’s twitter account. The football world was abuzz on Thursday when Tom Brady posted this picture of him walking into an empty stadium on his Instagram account. Rumors started circulating that this was Brady walking into Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee. Others interpreted the picture as Brady possibly hinting at retirement. A few people mentioned that he was paying homage to Kobe Bryant who had a…

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Patriots: Dante Scarnecchia’s retirement leaves a huge void on the Patriots coaching staff

February 1, 2020

Offensive line coach Dante Scarnecchia has retired after spending the past 34 of his 36 years in the NFL with the Patriots. During his illustrious career, Scarnecchia coached under head coaches Ron Meyer, Raymond Berry, Dick MacPherson, Bill Parcells, Pete Carroll and Bill Belichick. Scarnecchia was the only coach in league history along with former Steelers running backs coach Dick Hoak to coach 30 plus years with organization. The 71…

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Patriots Draft: 10 prospects to watch at the Senior Bowl

January 25, 2020

The Senior Bowl is the premier pre-draft all star game in football. Some of the top talent in college football will be on display today in Mobile. All 32 teams were present in Mobile. Unlike the past few years, the Patriots had a large contingent in Mobile led by Bill Belichick of course. Belichick hasn’t been in Mobile much in recent years but with the Patriots being eliminated early in……

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Patriots: Bill Belichick goes outside the circle in hiring by hiring Jedd Fisch

January 25, 2020

The Boston Globe’s Jim McBride tweeted out last night that the Patriots were hiring veteran college and NFL coach Jedd Fisch as an offensive assistant. Fisch has a wealth of college and NFL experience as both a coordinator and as a position coach. He has coached quarterbacks and receivers during his career. One would think that he will coach one of those two positions. On paper, it would seem Fisch…

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Patriots: If Bill Belichick learned anything this weekend, it should be that speed kills

January 22, 2020

Like most of us, Bill Belichick probably watched the AFC and NFC championship games on Sunday. He probably noticed the same thing we did. The two teams that would and advanced to Super Bowl LIV are fast. Really fast! Belichick knows this first hand having to defend the Chiefs in recent years. He how quickly the complexion of a game can change on one play. Chiefs general manager Brett Veach…

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