Photo via: Jim Rogash/Getty Images Follow me on twitter: @zcarey13 HO HO HO! Happy Holidays to all of the readers here at NEFJ. In the spirit of the Holidays and because my last preview for Patriots vs Bills was for a normal game and not one in a monsoon, I’m gonna switch things up for this preview. You can read my last in depth preview here where I break down…
As much as we’d all like to think Bill Belichick is the living, breathing, walking example of Scrooge, that’s just simply not the case. Bill is actually a big fan of Christmas. On Christmas Eve Friday, New England practiced inside Gillette Stadium around noon time with light snow falling and Christmas carols blaring throughout the stadium. Assistant coaches ran some red zone plays while players stretched at the start and…
Photo: Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald JC Jackson was named to his first Pro Bowl on Wednesday, a well deserved honor for the Patriots’ No. 1 cornerback. Jackson has proven he can be an elite corner in this league and his ability to fill a role that Steph Gilmore’s absence left vacant has been enormous for this defense and probably one of the main reasons the team is currently fighting for…
Photo: Barry Chin/Boston Globe Mac Jones hadn’t lost much in his football career prior to being a member of the Patriots. Whether it was high school or Alabama, the rare loss Jones took was usually quickly pushed aside by a dominant performance with elite players around him a week or two later. Things are different now, and Jones is faced with quite a difficult task for a rookie quarterback this…
Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images Throughout Bill Belichick’s tenure as Head Coach of the Patriots, his teams have consistently fielded one of the best special teams units in the NFL. New England has invested in special teams more than most other franchises and prided themselves in executing in those situations that can often flip games. This season, however, the Patriots special teams have made several high profile and costly mistakes….
For the entirety of the seven-game winning streak, Bill Belichick had praise heaped upon him and rightfully so. After a 2-4 start with a rookie quarterback and a lot of new faces, it was a minor miracle that New England was the No. 1 seed in the AFC heading into last week’s slate of games. Guys began buying in when Belichick appeared to take over the defense – or at…
Photo by Michael Allio/Icon Sportswire via Getty Image It is easy to point to one area and say that’s why the Patriots lost 27-17 to the Colts on Saturday night. The truth is, it was a collective failure. The Patriots lost the game in all three phases. The run defense was an issue as Jonathan Taylor did to the Patriots what he has done to everyone else this season. Gash…
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Photo: AJ Mast/AP With three games left in the regular season, do we know who this Patriots team is yet? With a somewhat jarring 27-17 loss in Indianapolis on Saturday night, New England not only had its seven-game winning streak snapped, but also lost a grasp on the No. 1 seed in the AFC. For the first time since October, the Patriots looked like a team with an inexperienced rookie…
Photo via AP Follow me on twitter: @zcarey13 Patriots @ Colts: Saturday, December 18th, 2021. 8:20 PM Line: Colts -2.5, O/U 45 It has been almost two full weeks since we have seen the Patriots. We saw an instant classic and one of the weirdest games in modern NFL history when the Patriots beat the Bills on Monday night in week 13. This week brings another challenge and another tough as…