By John Sarianides 1. The Patriots are going to once again ask wide receiver Danny Amendola to take a pay cut again. I can’t say I’m surprised. Amendola is scheduled to make $6 in 2017. That’s way too much money for a receiver who only caught 23 passes last season. 2. The Rams are debating as to whether or not they should franchise cornerback Trumaine Johnson. The answer. YES! He is…
By John Sarianides The Patriots will have an interesting decision to make this off-season regarding the future of back up quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo. With one year left on his rookie deal, Garoppolo is scheduled to become a free agent next off-season. Conventional wisdom would suggest that with 39 year old Tom Brady still playing at a high level, the Patriots would be looking to trade Garoppolo. That may or may…
Has anyone seen my jersey? By Michael Vallee -Evil Genius: Looks like the verdict is in on Belichick’s controversial decision to trade Chandler Jones and Jamie Collins. Jones started 16 games and registered 11 sacks while his replacement, Trey Flowers, started 11 games and finished with 9.5 sacks, including a monster 2.5 sack performance in the Super Bowl. Not only did New England not miss a beat this year on…
By John Sarianides According to FOX Sports College Football Insider Bruce Feldman. Patriots tight end coach Brian Daboll is going to interview for the vacant Alabama offensive coordinator job. Daboll and Alabama coach Nick Saban have a lengthy history together. Daboll was a graduate assistant for Saban at Michigan State before Saban recommended Daboll to Bill Belichick for a quality control job with the Patriots. Daboll has been a member…
By John Sarianides In honor of the NFL Network re-airing the five Patriots Super Bowl wins, we are going to give you five thoughts on each game. Super Bowl 36: Patriots 20 Rams 17 1. Tom Brady was truly a game manager in this game. He completed 16-27 for 145 yards and a touchdown pass. The Patriots rushed for 133 yards in the game. Antwan Smith had 18 of those…
By John Sarianides The Patriots have 14 unrestricted free agents they have to make decisions on this off-season. With $71 million dollars worth of cap space available, conventional wisdom would suggest the Patriots are going to re-sign most if not all of these pending free agents. Luckily, there is nothing conventional about Bill Belichick’s approach to free agency. I don’t think the Patriots will retain all of their unrestricted free…
Photo courtesy of Jed York’s twitter account. By John Sarianides The San Francisco 49ers are set to introduce former Falcons offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan as their new head coach today. The 37 year old Shanahan along with his hand picked general manager John Lynch will be tasked with turning around an organization that has fallen on hard times after appearing in the Super Bowl just four years ago. It won’t…
By Michael Vallee Two and a half quarters into Super bowl LI and the nightmare scenario was unfolding. For Patriots loyalists scattered across New England it was the nuclear option. Maybe a handful of skeptical Pats fans had kicked around the possibility during their many Super Bowl discussions over the last two weeks, pointing out what Atlanta had done to both the Seattle Seahawks and Green Bay Packers, but quickly…
By John Sarianides Patriots owner Robert Kraft indicated last week that Bill Belichick has told him how much longer he plans on coaching. Kraft would not divulge how much longer Belichick wants to coach but the fact that they have discussed it is very telling. The reason they discussed it is because Bob Kraft, Bill Belichick and Tom Brady all have a pact with each other regarding how long they want…
I love it! Tom Brady not only shoved it up Roger Goodell’s last night, he also shoved up Goodell’s ass in this commercial. Revenge sure is a sweet. Good for Brady. He deserves it. He is a class act and a good man and he doesn’t deserve what he’s been through.