The New England Patriots are entering a new era with Jerod Mayo stepping into the head coaching role vacated with Bill Belichick leaving the team after more than two decades. While Mayo is a Belichick disciple and figures to keep some elements of the team-building structure and process the same, he will look to breathe […]
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Pats WR Kayshon Boutte Arrested For Making Nearly 9,000 Bets In A Year While Under 21 At LSU
Kayshon Boutte was once one of the most highly touted young wide receivers in college football after he burst onto the scene for LSU as a freshman, breaking the SEC record with 308 receiving yards against Ole Miss in 2020. However, Boutte never quite built on the promise of that season as hoped, and when […]
Read MoreBill Belichick Had Legendary Success With The New England Patriots
It is hard to make an impression, and even harder to make history in a place as old and momentous as New England. The measuring stick is so high. But Bill Belichick, who departed Thursday as the head coach of the New England Patriots after 24 years of unmatched dominance in America’s most popular sport, […]
Read MoreHow Belichick Helped Patriots Go From Laughingstock to Economic Powerhouse
It’s hard to imagine now, after six Super Bowl titles and two decades atop the N.F.L., but for most of their existence the New England Patriots were awful. The team didn’t have a permanent home for its first decade, and then left Boston in 1971 for the windswept Schaefer Stadium in Foxborough. The owners fought […]
Read MoreThe End of the Bill Belichick Hoodie Era
In all the words currently being written about the end of the Bill Belichick era in Boston — or, technically, the Boston suburbs — which reportedly finally came to a close on Jan. 11 after weeks of speculation, the end of the N.F.L. season and the Patriots’ dismal loss to the Jets, the one that […]
Read MoreThe Best Sentences of 2023
Over recent days, I took on a daunting task — but a delightful one. I reviewed all the passages of prose featured in the For the Love of Sentences section of my Times Opinion newsletter in 2023 and tried to determine the best of the best. And there’s no doing that, at least not objectively, […]
Read MoreMac Jones Got Benched After A Horrific 4th Quarter Interception In The Red Zone
A week after getting the Chiefs and Dolphins in a matchup of the AFC’s best, the good people of Frankfurt, Germany were reminded what the bottom half of the NFL looks like when the Colts and Patriots showed up to play the latest NFL overseas game. It was a quarterback showdown of Gardner Minshew and […]
Read MoreThe Commanders Got Called For Roughing The Passer On The Most Normal Tackle You’ll See
The NFL has instituted a number of rule changes in recent years to try and make the game safer, particularly for quarterbacks. While some of the rule changes have been welcome to take out big helmet-to-helmet hits and late hits along the sidelines, there’s an argument that the league has gone too far with some […]
Read MoreJosh McDaniels Got Fired After Getting Mad Antonio Pierce Brought Up The 2007 Patriots Super Bowl Loss In A Raiders Team Meeting
Josh McDaniels was fired midseason for the second time in his career as an NFL head coach this week after the Raiders finally decided to pull the plug on his failed tenure with the team after 1.5 seasons. McDaniels, who did not do well in his first coaching job with the Broncos, had a lot […]
Read MoreN.F.L., on Lookout for Growth, Finds Open Arms in Germany
About 60 hardcore fans of the National Football League piled into the party space at Der Player, a fancy eatery, on a chilly evening in Hamburg, Germany, last month. Wearing jerseys and hoodies of teams like the Chicago Bears, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Las Vegas Raiders, they grabbed seats to watch a taping […]
Read MoreStefon Diggs Scored Because The Patriots Didn’t Touch Him After He Was On The Ground
One of the biggest differences between the NFL and college football revolves around what happens when a ball carrier hits the ground. In college ball, if a football player has possession of the ball and they are on the ground, they’re not able to get up and continue playing. In the NFL, however, players are […]
Read MoreThe Patriots Lost To The Dolphins After A Lateral To A Lineman Came Up Just Short On 4th Down
The Miami Dolphins moved to 2-0 on the season with a 24-17 win over the Patriots in New England that was a bit dicier than expected when they led 17-3 entering the fourth quarter. New England’s offense woke up in the final frame and their defense and special teams produced some big plays, with a […]
Read MoreBill Belichick Furiously Spiked His Challenge Flag Next To An Official (And Then Lost The Challenge)
The Patriots continued their brutal opening stretch of the season on Sunday night as they hosted the Dolphins a week after battling the Eagles in a close loss. Once again the Patriots defense held up pretty well against the high-octane Miami offense, but Mac Jones and the Pats offense could never get out of first […]
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