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…
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…
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 –…
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…
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…
The Patriots and Broncos will finally meet at Gillette Stadium this Sunday. After two weeks of uncertainty surrounding positive COVID-19 tests, the two long time AFC rivals will meet again. Broncos coach Vic Fangio is in his second season as head coach of the Broncos. Fangio is a defensive coach who made his reputation as a long time coordinator. His defenses are known for being multiple and he does a…
The Pats didn’t play this past weekend, but, Bill Belichick still met with Glenn Ordway, Lou Merloni and Christian Fauria Monday afternoon to talk about the state of the organization. With so much uncertainty revolving around the schedule, the HC of the NEP had some interesting thoughts on how the league has handled things. Ordway opened acknowledging that each week there is a new “have you ever seen anything like…
The Patriots and Broncos game has been postponed to next Sunday after a Patriots player tested positive for COVID-19 in the latest round of testing. The game was originally scheduled to be played today at 1 pm, then it got moved to 4:25 pm and finally it got moved to 5 pm on Monday after Stephon Gilmore tested positive for COVID-19 earlier in the week. Now that the game has…
As first reported by Mike Klis of 9 News in Denver, the Patriots, Broncos game originally scheduled for 4:25 pm on Sunday will be moved to Monday night. The game is more than likely to kickoff at 7:05 pm. For the second week in a row, the Patriots are playing on Monday night. Broncos have been informed their game against New England will be moved from Sunday to Monday night…
Stephon Gilmore has tested positive for COVID-19, two days after playing every defensive snap against the Kansas City Chiefs. Gilmore acknowledged this afternoon that he is asymptotic. Gilmore is suspected to have contracted the virus from Cam Newton. He tested negative in all three tests prior to Monday’s game but tested positive in his latest test. So what does all mean? It means that Gilmore is out on Sunday against…