According to reports, the Patriots have reached a new deal with one of their top wide receivers. DeVante Parker has signed a new contract with the Pats, reportedly worth $33 million in three years, to 2025. Parker is headed into his ninth year in the league, and second with the Patriots. He spent his previous time with the Miami Dolphins. Last year, Parker caught 31 passes for 539 yards (17.4…
Bill Belichick usually doesn’t do media stuff if he doesn’t have to, but he made an exception recently. ‘The 33rd Team’ is made up of former NFL players, coaches and staffers, so Belichick was on a podcast of theirs recently talking about a number of things. At the end of the 20-ish minute session, Belichick was asked what he’d be doing if he hadn’t become a football coach. The answer…
(Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool) Early on Tuesday morning in East Boston, Jack Jones was arraigned on weapons charges. Jones posted a $30,000 cash bail, pleaded not guilty and has a probable cause hearing on August 18, a day before New England will play Green Bay in a preseason game. The Patriots will have joint practices with the Packers that week as well. Jones’ attorney Rosemary Scapicchio spoke…
AP Photo/Kamil Krzaczynski According to Boston 25, Patriots cornerback Jack Jones was arrested Friday evening at Boston Logan International Airport after attempting to bring two firearms on the plane. The two firearms were found when Jones tried to bring his carry-on luggage through an airport security checkpoint around 5:20 p.m., according to the TSA. Massachusetts State Police were called to the scene and arrested Jones. NEW DETAILS: TSA officials released…
It’s become common over the past few years for bill Belichick to cancel the final mandatory minicamp practice if he believes the team is in a good place. On Wednesday morning, he did so again as the team was headed off for some team bonding instead of heading back out onto the practice fields behind Gillette Stadium. With OTA’s and now minicamp in the books, we won’t get a look…
Three months after signing running back James Robinson in free agency, the Patriots announced on Monday that they have released the veteran running back. Robinson signed a two year deal worth up to $8 million dollars in March. The veteran running back went through OTA’s and seemed to be on track to be a change of pace back up to Rhamondre Stevenson. According to Mike Reiss, Robinson’s contract included injury…
Day two of Patriots mandatory minicamp is in the books. Here’s what we saw over the course of the two-hour session. One more left on Wednesday before the team heads home. -Julian Edelman was in the house. -Season ticket holders got to view practice and grab a few autographs, as well as meet Pat Patriot and some of the cheerleaders. Cool training camp-like atmosphere. -The team ran some conditioning drills…
Real football! Ok, not really, but kind of. On Monday, the Patriots began mandatory minicamp which in theory should have given us our first true look at the team, but there were still quite a few absences. Mac Jones had a good day but it got ugly down the stretch. That and more in our latest edition of the Patriots Journal with everything we saw for two hours… -James White…
The Patriots kick off three days of mandatory mini-camp today in Foxboro. We have focused on the obvious storylines all off season so I am not going to bore you with those. Instead, I am going to look for these five things but from a coaching perspective. I want to see how players and personnel are used and what the Patriots are doing schematically. Here are five things I will…
The voluntary part of the NFL offseason is officially over. With one more voluntary OTA in the books on Friday, the team now turns its attention towards mandatory mini camp next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. While Friday’s OTA was another slower-paced session and only lasted about an hour, there was still some impressive performances. Here’s everything you need to know from the hillside at Gillette… -Lots of absences again today….