Patriots: Defense steps up, Hoyer drops the ball in 26-10 loss to Kansas City

October 5, 2020

Charlie Riedel/Associated Press This was setting up to potentially be one of the greatest regular season wins in franchise history. October 5, 2020 was going to be a night Patriots fans remembered in the same class as the comeback against Denver on that frigid night in Foxborough or, Drew Bledsoe’s win over Minnesota. The incredible story was unfolding before all of our eyes. New England’s starting quarterback was diagnosed with…

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Tompa Bay Tuesday: Brady and the Bucs move to 2-1 with win in Denver

September 29, 2020

Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports It still doesn’t look right, but Tom Brady and the Buccaneers are 2-1. Brady went in to what is usually a house of horrors for him and had a good day to help get the Bucs a 28-10 win over the Broncos. We all know how it’s usually looked when he went to Denver in his career, so this was probably a nice little mental hurdle…

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Patriots: Recapping Bill Belichick’s weekly OMF interview on WEEI

September 29, 2020

This week’s interview with Bill Belichick by Glenn Ordway, Lou Merloni and Christian Fauria was the best one  yet. Some failed humor regarding nicknames made for some outstanding awkward silence, but Bill also had some interesting stuff to say regarding Sunday’s 36-20 win over the Las Vegas Raiders. This week the running game will be absolutely critical if the Patriots have any shot to hang with the high powered Chiefs…

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Patriots: Running game and defense carry the Pats to 36-20 win over Las Vegas

September 27, 2020

AP Photo/Charles Krupa FOXBOROUGH — They don’t ask how, just how many at the end of the year. It wasn’t pretty at times on Sunday afternoon, but the Patriots beat the Las Vegas Raiders 36-20 at Gillette Stadium to move to 2-1 on the season. With David Andrews out the offensive line struggled to protect Cam Newton early, but, thanks to 117 yards from Sony Michel and three total touchdowns…

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Tompa Bay Tuesday: Brady, Bucs get first win of the year but it wasn’t pretty

September 22, 2020

Image courtesy of USATI Tampa Bay — First things first. We’re sticking with “Tompa Bay Tuesday” for this piece for the remainder of the year. It’s lame. We know. Oh well. Now, it wasn’t pretty, but Tom Brady and the Bucs got their first win of the year on Sunday, beating Carolina 31-17. Brady was 23-of-35 for just 217 yards, a touchdown and an interception. Mike Evans and Brady finally appeared…

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Patriots: Nuggets from Bill Belichick’s weekly OMF interview on WEEI

September 22, 2020

Image courtesy of the New England Patriots/WEEI After another instant classic with the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday night, Bill Belichick was back meeting with Glenn Ordway, Lou Merloni and Christian Fauria Monday afternoon. As always, it’s one of the more valuable pieces of radio in this area each week that sometimes doesn’t get the credit it deserves. This week was a tough one for the entire Patriots organization as Bill…

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Patriots Rewind: Patriots fall 35-30 in another instant classic with the Seahawks

September 20, 2020

AP Photo/Elaine Thompson SEATTLE – Dating back to the infamous “you mad bro?” in 2012, the Patriots and Seahawks have played some all-time classics. The Malcolm Butler pick, the non-pass interference call at Gillette back in 2016, and now another game can be added to the list. Cam Newton (397 yards) and Russell Wilson (288 yards, 5 TD’s) had a duel for the ages that saw the Patriots fell 35-30…

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Tampa Tuesday’s: Brady’s Bucs buried in the Superdome

September 15, 2020

Photo by Butch Dill/AP By Kevin J. Stone/@kstone06 If you still miss Tom Brady, you’ve come to the right place. Throughout this season we’ll be keeping tabs on what Brady and the Bucs are doing every “TB12 Tampa Tuesday” and if you’ve got a better name please send it our way, it definitely needs work. For those that say ‘he’s not here anymore move on’, he was the greatest athlete…

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Patriots: Breaking down Bill Belichick’s weekly OMF interview on WEEI

September 15, 2020

By Kevin J. Stone/@kstone06 Last week we decided that Bill Belichick’s weekly “Patriots Monday” interview with Ordway, Merloni and Fauria would be a topic of discussion for us all season long. Glenn Ordway has been perfecting the interview game for decades now. Meanwhile, as a former player, Christian Fauria sometimes has the ability to get some more thoughtfulness out of Bill compared to most media members. It’s clear that Bill…

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Patriots: Cam Newton Era begins with a win and a statement drive

September 13, 2020

AP Photo/Steven Senne By Kevin J. Stone/@kstone06 We didn’t know what to expect, and it wasn’t pretty, but the results were still the same in the end. The Cam Newton Era in New England opened with a 21-11 win at a silent Gillette Stadium on Sunday afternoon. It was certainly a changing of the times, as the running game was the story. Newton carried the ball 15 times himself for…

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