If the Patriots are a soft football team, then that is Jerod Mayo’s and his staff’s fault. The performance of the team is a direct reflection of their talent and their coaching staff. Mayo told WEEI on Monday that the Patriots are playing “soft” but that they are not a soft team. Newsflash! If they are playing soft, they are a soft team. That is what a soft team is…

Top 16 Division 1 Poll for Week 8
Rams maintain the top spot while Harvard and Dartmouth make big jumps in this week’s poll.
Here is our Top 16 for Week 8.
1. Rhode Island (6-1): Rams win at UNH for the first time since 1995. Jim Fleming’s squad is in a good position in the CAA.

2024 Patriots starting to look like the 1990, 1-15 Patriots
Getty Images The Patriots are not a good football team and with each passing week, they are starting to resemble the Rod Rust Patriots of 1990. If you remember that team, they went 1-15. Their only win ironically enough was a 16-14 win at Indianapolis in Week 2. The 1990 Patriots were built similar to this year’s Patriots They had a rookie quarterback in Tommy Hodson, a talented running back…

Seven Points on the Patriots 32-16 loss to the Jaguars
The Patriots got off to a good start on Sunday morning, building a 10-0 lead early but from the second quarter on, they got outscored 32-6 en route to an embarrassing 32-16 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Here are seven points on the game. 1. Started fast and fizzled: The Patriots got off to a hot start and it looked like they were going to run the Jaguars out of…

Q&A with BC High coach Paul Zukauskas
In the premier game of the weekend, BC High earned a 30-13 win over Xaverian. The Eagles are now 5-0 and have a game with St. John’s of Shrewsbury up next. We wanted to talk to BC High first-year coach Paul Zukauskas about this weekend’s game and his team. Here is an edited version of that conversation. Adam Kurkjian: A fun couple of days in the Zukauskas household, huh? PZ:……

Week 5 New England Top 25
Again, a lot of the change came from Connecticut. Week 5 New England Poll 1. St. John’s Prep (6-0) 2. Springfield Central (5-1) 3. Catholic Memorial (5-1) 4. Windsor (5-0) 5. King Philip (6-0) 6. Hand (5-0) 7. Needham (6-0) 8. New Canaan (4-1) 9. BC High (5-0) 10. Greenwich (4-1) 11. Staples (4-1) 12. Bishop Hendricken (4-2) 13. Darien (4-1) 14. Scituate (6-0) 15. Bedford (7-0) 16. Londonderry (5-2)……