Patriots: Belichick the coach acknowledges that Belichick the GM has hurt him

October 31, 2020

Patriots coach Bill Belichick acknowledged in an interview with Bill Lekas and Charlie Weis on Sirius XM NFL Radio that the Patriots are young and that due to their cap situation, they have not been able to add quality depth. “We’re playing more young players than we’ve played in the past (for a) combination of reasons. We were pretty heavily invested in our team in the past few years. From…

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

October 27, 2020

In a rather stunning turn of events, Bill Belichick actually answered questions from Glenn Ordway, Lou Merloni and Christian Fauria like a normal human being on Monday. After the embarrassment that was the 33-6 blowout on Sunday, it was just assumed that BB would be his usual ornery self when he met with the guys on Monday. That wasn’t really the case though as Bill gave some legitimately honest answers…

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Patriots: End of the line? 49ers blowout New England by 27 points. Patriots now 2-4

October 26, 2020

AP Photo/Steven Senne FOXBOROUGH — For some reason last week, the New England Patriots decided to put out an “all dynasty” team. Of course, whenever these teams of the decade or century come out, it signifies the end of an era. So, did the Patriots call their shot when they decided to release the all dynasty team? It sure as hell felt that way on Sunday. The Patriots no-showed in…

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Patriots Preview: San Francisco 49ers (3-3) at New England Patriots (2-3)

October 25, 2020

LINE: New England -3, O/U 44.5 OPENING KICKOFF: The New England Patriots host old friend Jimmy Garoppolo and the San Francisco 49ers at Gillette Stadium this afternoon (4:25 P.M.) This is just the 13th time these two franchises are meeting during the regular season. San Francisco holds a 8-5 advantage, taking the last meeting on November 20, 2016 30-17 in California. Between 1971 and 1995, the 49ers dominated the Patriots,…

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Patriots: Scouting The 49ers offense and defense

October 24, 2020

The Patriots host the San Francisco 49ers this Sunday in a game that features the greatest coach of all time in Bill Belichick and one of the best offensive coach’s in the NFL today in Kyle Shanahan. When you look at the 49ers, you see how they were influenced schematically. Offensively, the 49ers take after Mike Shanahan’s Denver Broncos teams. They want to run the football and be balanced as…

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

October 21, 2020

The Patriots are now under .500 through at least five games of the season for the first time since 2002. So, when Bill Belichick met with Glenn Ordway, Lou Merloni and Christian Fauria for his weekly appearance on WEEI on Monday, it was sure to be all sunshine and rainbows, right? We got the good old sarcastic Bill back for a good chunk of this week, and credit to the…

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Patriots: Broncos hand Pats six-point loss on an ugly day at Gillette

October 19, 2020

This is what the rest of the country has had to watch for the last 20 years. If you were disgusted for the majority of Sunday afternoon’s 18-12 loss to the Broncos, welcome back to the real world Patriots fans. We all knew that things would be drastically different without Tom Brady. However, Sunday’s debacle of a game was the first time we truly saw what life after Brady –…

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Patriots: Ugly loss to Broncos reinforces that the system can only overcome so much

October 18, 2020

Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images The Patriots lost an ugly game to the Denver Broncos today. A game that proved no matter how good a coach Bill Belichick is and how effective the system is, you cannot overcome a pandemic and a lack of talent. Thanks to COVID-19, the Patriots have barely practiced the past two weeks. Multiple players including Cam Newton and Stephon Gilmore have landed on the COVID-19…

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Patriots Preview: Denver Broncos (1-3) at New England Patriots (2-2)

October 18, 2020

Line: Patriots -7.5 Opening kickoff: The Patriots and Broncos are meeting for the first time since 2017. The Patriots beat the Broncos 41-16 at Sports Authority Field. The Patriots will host Denver for the first time since 2014 when New England beat the Broncos, 43-21, at Gillette Stadium. Denver leads the overall series 26-22 and are 4-1 in the postseason against the Patriots. Here are three offensive and defensive keys…

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