At one time not so long ago, Acton-Boxborough was considered a threat regularly to compete for championships. It’s been a while since Revolution fans and supporters have seen the boys in blue and gold in truly meaningful games late in the year around Thanksgiving time, but hopefully, that’s changing soon. On Monday night, the school officially announced its new head coach is Billy Waters. Waters is a Waltham High School…
UMass Spring Preview: New faces aplenty for the Minutemen
Courtesy of UMass Athletics If you are a UMass Football fan, you will need to keep your spring program handy to figure out who is on the roster. New coach Joe Harasymiak and his staff Offensively, all eyes are on the quarterbacks as three new faces are expected to compete for the starting job in the spring. Sophomore A.J Hairston has the big arm and athleticism the offensive staff looks……
Observations from Day 1 of BC spring practice
A few nuggets from day one of spring ball in Year 2 of the Bill O’Brien Era: -Number changes throwing me off big time. Grayson James is now wearing No. 3. Jordan McDonald has taken Kye’s old No. 5. -Lonergan (wearing No. 9) is impressive and he’s clearly been through ‘real’ football with Alabama. Looked like a vet both in drills and team stuff. He and Shaker Reisig did miss…
Instant Analysis of the Patriots signings, DT Khyiris Tonga, QB Josh Dobbs and WR Mack Hollins
The Patriots shopping spree continued late this afternoon and into the evening. New England signed defensive tackle Khyiris Tonga, veteran quarterback Josh Dobbs and wide receiver Mack Hollins. Tonga is a 28-year-old defensive tackle that reportedly signed a one-year, $2.7 million deal. He was a seventh round pick of the Chicago Bears out of BYU in 2021. Tonga appeared in 13 games, last season for the Arizona Cardinals, including one…
Instant analysis on Patriots signing of T Morgan Moses
Image courtesy of Jets Wire When Ronnie Stanley went off the board over the weekend, staying in Baltimore, the Patriots quickly had to pivot. It’s a word Mike Vrabel used a lot when meeting the media at the scouting combine down in Indy and the Patriots have had to pivot quite a bit early on in free agency with guys like Stanley, Tee Higgins, Chris Godwin, DK Metcalf and others…
Instant analysis on Patriots signing of OLB Robert Spillane
Mike Vrabel and the Patriots have splurged on defense so far as free agency heats up. Outside linebacker Robert Spillane is one of the handful of deals the team has agreed to already. Spillane is reportedly heading to Foxborough on a three-year, $37.5 million dollar agreement with $20.6 million guaranteed. Nothing can be made official until the league year starts on Wednesday at 4:00 p.m., but the team’s willingness to…
Instant Analysis on Patriots signing of DT Milton Williams
Stephen Lew-Imagn Images The Patriots have landed the biggest fish in the free agency pond signing defensive tackle Milton Williams to a four year, $104 million dollar contract. New England beat out the Panthers and Cardinals for his services. Williams, who has never played more than 50% of his team’s snaps is coming off of a Super Bowl victory with the Philadelphia Eagles and a career high five sacks. The…
Instant Analysis on Patriots signing of CB Carlton Davis
Lauren Leigh Bacho/GettyImages The Patriots signed veteran cornerback Carlton Davis to a three year, $60 million dollar deal. Davis is going to get $34.5 million guranteed. A pure man to man cover corner, Davis has been one of the top corners in the NFL the past four seasons. Last season, Davis posted the seventh-lowest completion percentage allowed as the nearest defender in man coverage (45.2), per Next Gen Stats. He…
Boston College spring preview
Year No. 2 of the Bill O’Brien era at BC begins on Tuesday morning when the team hits the field inside Fish Field House for the first day of spring practice. BC will be practicing 9:15-11:15 three days a week between now and April 12th. In total, spring ball consists of 15 practices, or in some cases, job interviews for younger players looking to make a statement at the D1…
Patriots Journal: What we are hearing ahead of free agency
Here is what I am being told about Patriots free agency. Much of this is already out there. The Patriots have a plan and that plan centers around culture, the right players and young players. To quote Bane from the Dark Knight Rises, “Let’s not stand here on cermony, Mr. Wayne…..” Here’s what I am hearing. -As reported by Andrew Callahan and Doug Kyed of the Boston Herald, character is…