The Patriots travel to Atlanta this week for Thursday Night Football. Atlanta enters the game at 4-5 and are coming off a blowout loss to Dallas. The Falcons have had their moments this season but they have also been very inconsistent. They are a tough team to play against because you don’t know which team will show up. They pose match up problems across the board. The Patriots lead the…
Image courtesy of yahoo.com It took tight end Hunter Henry a while to get acclimated to the Patriots offense but the free agent acquisition is finally starting to get comfortable in the system and it shows with how much he is producing of late. Henry has caught seven touchdown passes in the Patriots last seven games. He has emerged as Mac Jones go to guy in the red zone. Henry…
Photo courtesy of Brian Fluharty-USA TODAY Sports The Patriots have won four in a row and yesterday’s demolition of the Cleveland Browns is proof that they are a legitimate playoff contender in the AFC. It might be a little too early to call them a Super Bowl contender but that could change in the coming weeks if they were to beat Atlanta, Tennessee and Buffalo. It took a while for…
The Cleveland Browns invade Gillette Stadium today for a showdown with the Patriots. Both teams are currently 5-4 so there are major ramifications for both teams in this one. The winner would have a much clearer path to the playoffs. Today will be the Patriots 1,000th game as a franchise. It will also be the 26th meeting between the Patriots and the Browns. Cleveland leads the all-time series with a…
Photo by Brett Coomer/AP Follow me on twitter @zcarey13 Browns @ Patriots: November 14th, 2021. 1:00 PM Line: Patriots -2 The Patriots look to continue their new winning streak on Sunday with a matchup against the OBJ-less Cleveland Browns. This is a matchup of 2 relatively similar teams and should be one that comes down to the wire in Foxborough. Lets look at the matchups New England offense vs Cleveland defense…
Photos: Cleveland Browns Ben Bloom and Drew Petzing have had plenty of experience in the NFL over the last two decades. Petzing’s coaching journey began at Middlebury as a grad assistant and has gone through Harvard, BC, Yale, the Vikings, the Cowboys and the Browns. Bloom took a similar path, graduating from Tufts before working with the program as a grad assistant. Bloom went on to coach at Harvard –…
PHOTO: Grant Halverson/Getty Images We all knew it might be a little ugly at times when Bill Belichick decided to go with a rookie at quarterback. After nine games, Mac Jones has now won more than he’s lost in the NFL and he hasn’t been the reason you lost any of them. I’d say that’s about as good as fans could have hoped for given how things started. Jones was…
PHOTO: Bob Donnan – USA Today Sports Don’t look now, but the season that seemed destined for failure just a few weeks ago is suddenly looking more and more like one of Bill Belichick’s career masterpieces in the making. I believe 2001, 2007, 2011, 2014, 2016 and 2018 will stand as his best work given different circumstances in each of those seasons, but with a third straight win on Sunday,…
Photo courtesy of Jon Bazemore/AP If style points were important in football then the Patriots would have lost today. Today’s game in Carolina wasn’t pretty but the Patriots got the job done in a 24-6 win over the Panthers. The Patriots collectively rushed for 154 yards on 36 carries, their fifth straight game of over 100 yards rushing. Rookie Rhamondre Stevenson paced the rushing attack with 62 yards on 10…
The Patriots travel to Carolina this afternoon to take on the Panthers. Both teams are 4-4 and need to win this game in order to enhance their chances at making the playoffs. The two teams are meeting for the seventh time during the regular and eighth time over all. Carolina leads the regular season series 4-2. The two teams last played in 2017 at Gillette with the Panthers winning 33-30….