Today in Patriots History
The Late 2010s
June 26, 2015:
Raises a couple interesting points I hadn't see mentioned http://climateaudit.org/2015/06/23/deflategate-and-errors-in-the-wells-report/#more-21173
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ESPN picked up on the non-story below and - of course - ran with it, making it their headline news.
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Denver Broncos wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders doesn’t think the Patriots deserve to be the Super Bowl champions because of Deflategate.
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June 26, 2016:
The first public practice is scheduled for Thursday, July 28 on the Gillette Stadium practice fields. The team will practice from 9:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
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File this one under the
“Now You’re Going to Act?” category. The NFL announced that it will finally interview the players named in the Al-Jazeera PED scandal, not named Peyton Manning. Back on January 11, the league said it would investigate the claims made then recanted by Charlie Sly. Now it released the information that the players involved will be interviewed at the end of July.
Anyone catch the
Genealogy Roadshow on PBS this week? While filming a segment in Providence, RI the producers spoke with former Patriots LB
Steve King in a brief cameo outside the Providence Library. King was researching some of his OK roots. Tuned in to watch old friend Carolyn Peary find some of her long-lost relatives and caught King at the very beginning.
Baltimore Ravens WR
Steve Smith was caught off-guard by a young Patriots fan at his football camp this week. As Smith broke a huddle with his campers, one kid yelled out “Go, Patriots!”. Caught off-guard, Smith was momentarily speechless but recovered and laughed about it afterward.
Ben Affleck Goes Off on Deflategate:
By now, most everyone in New England has seen the profanity-laced tirade that actor and friend of Tom, Ben Affleck unleashed on Bill Simmons new show on HBO.
Affleck was Simmons’ guest on his “Any Given Wednesday” and was entertaining, to say the least in his defense of Brady. He unleashed 18 f-bombs (by his own count), and summed up how most people of Boston feel in a nutshell.
His take seemed less like the polished actor he is but more in line with talking to one of the locals at the “Perfect Game” in Woohstah or the “Post Office Pub” in Grafton.
Rob Gronkowski makes appearance on Late Late Show.
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June 26, 2017:
Julian Edelman pays tribute to David Ortiz on eve of his number retirement ceremony at Fenway Park.
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"Ranger Rob" Gronkowski featured in new commerical series for Oberto Beef Jerky.
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http://boston.cbslocal.com/2017/06/26/tom-brady-could-be-in-line-for-new-contract-this-summer/ If true, I got no problem... ...with riding that horse. ;)
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June 26, 2018:
The Patriots quarterback was revealed as the No. 1 choice on the NFL Network’s annual countdown as voted on by players.
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Marshon Lattimore, Saints cornerback: “No. 1 player? Man, Tom Brady. He gotta be.’’
Brandin Cooks, Rams receiver: “It’d be insane if he’s not No. 1. Let’s just say that.’’
Former New England Patriots RB Sammy Morris hired as assistant coach at Dean College - MassLive
Former New England Patriots running back Sammy Morris has been hired as an assistant coach at Dean College, the school announced Tuesday. Morris will coach the running backs at the Division III school.
After retiring from the NFL in 2011, Morris spent time working with the Patriots' strength and conditioning staff. He was spotted frequently at training camp practices, but was never listed as a member of the staff in the team's media guide. Additionally, Morris recently
served as an assistant coach at Attleboro high school.
Dead Body Found at Home of NFL Star Janoris Jenkins, Cops Investigating
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June 26, 2019:
I can think of a few tin foil hat posters around here who will actually be mad at Tom for this. Lol
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I can think of a few tin foil hat posters around here who will actually be mad at Tom for this. Lol
Julian Edelman reviews pizza in New York City with Barstool Sports.
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Some midweek Patriots thoughts after an interesting couple of weeks.
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1) The Nick Caserio situation remains one that will be interesting to watch this season, especially given how the sequence of events behind the entire situation left us with more questions than answers about Caserio’s future heading into 2019.
Greg Bedard’s report last week about the internal frustration with the
New England Patriots in terms of current Texans executive V.P. of team development and former Patriots character coach, Jack Easterby, spoke volumes, painting a good picture of how things played out. Easterby’s meddling reportedly
left the Patriots “livid” internally, which then led to the tampering charges the team filed against Houston.
It wasn’t until the Texans learned about the clause in Caserio’s contract preventing him from leaving that they dropped their interest, but by then the damage was done. Thanks to this fiasco, the Patriots now potentially find themselves in a tough situation because it will likely require a promotion and a significant pay increase to retain Caserio, who will see his contract expire next offseason.
As for Houston, it seems they believe Caserio will join them when his deal runs out next spring. After losing out this time, rather than switching gears and directing their pursuit elsewhere, they’ve instead left the seat open. According to reports, rather than hire a new GM, Texans head coach Bill O’Brien, Easterby and salary cap specialist Chris Olsen will handle the job heading into 2019. Since they’re not looking for a replacement, it makes you essentially believe that they’ll be able looking to pursue Caserio again once his contract expires, unless the Patriots can put that to rest and lock Caserio up further before it reaches that point.
The big question now is how Caserio feels about the whole situation and whether or not remaining in New England is even a possibility. Having been with the team since 2001, he obviously has deep roots here and a young family in a very stable organization with plenty of job security. But one thing that could be playing out in his mind might simply be, what else is there left for him to prove? Caserio has already been a part of building championship teams, which he doesn’t get the credit for nationally since Bill Belichick’s name is generally the one mentioned when it comes to personnel moves, etc. It could be that Caserio is looking for a new challenge and the Texans are simply the team he might believe would be his best opportunity, especially given the relationships he already has with each of his former Patriots colleagues. Those guys know what they would have in Caserio, so the trust would be there and he wouldn’t have anyone second-guessing his decisions.
As for whether or not Caserio is upset or “wants out”, that was the other discussion which raged on last week, sparked largely by The Boston Globe’s Ben Volin,
who put together an articlethat many took as a report rather than an opinion piece. Volin then made it worse by not clarifying that part of things after the story got picked up nationally, telling Houston reporters it was his opinion and then later telling WEEI it was a report, muddying the waters for those who wondered if there was anything factual about it.
That created a mess and Bedard was one who surprisingly
took Volin to task in his latest Q&A. Bedard didn’t mince words when it came to his opinion on the matter, saying, “Look at the ‘writer’ and his track record,” wrote Bedard when asked about Volin’s report and how it was handled. “There are people who know what they’re doing, and those who don’t and try to look like they do.”
3 ) Stephon Gilmore’s pass break-up in the Super Bowl against Brandin Cooks has been a topic of discussion this offseason when it comes to what will/won’t be called pass interference in the future and it sounds like that play has remained in the crosshairs as they continue working out the kinks for the new rules.
Adam Schefter already previously reported that the competition committee believed that Gilmore should have been flagged and according to Rich Eisen, NFL Senior vice president Al Riveron
confirmed during a conference last week that it’s a play that will be flagged after using it as an example during that portion of the recent NFL Media Group’s annual talent symposium.
But it goes both ways. Eisen cited a play between the Chargers and Chiefs during their Week 15 match-up, where Los Angeles overcame a 14-point first-quarter deficit to beat the Chiefs at home.
One of the plays that helped complete the victory for the Chargers stemmed from a pass interference call on Kansas City defensive back Kendall Fuller, who was called for interfering with Mike Williams. The penalty turned things from a 3rd-and-goal from the 10 to a 1st-and-goal from the 1-yard line.
From there, Los Angeles not only scored a touchdown, but converted the two-point conversion to stun the high-flying Chiefs.
However, according to Riveron, since it was under 2 minutes, the play would have been reviewed and instead would have seen Williams flagged for offensive pass interference for pushing off of Fuller.
The NFL might never again see a quarterback rivalry as awesome as the one between Tom Brady and Peyton Manning. Brady’s New England Patriots and Manning’s Indianapolis Colts and Denver Broncos teams squared off in many classic regular season and playoff battles, including a few AFC Championship...
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The New England Patriots held their last practice at home Saturday before they get ready to head to Atlanta for Super Bowl LIII. Following the team’s final practice at Gillette Stadium, quarterback Tom Brady spoke to the media where he was asked about his relationship with Julian Edelman. A...
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Julian Edelman: Tom Brady has gone from anti-social media to 'always peeping the Gram’ - MassLive
“Eleven years ago in 2009 I was the first kid in the room with Twitter and Instagram and stuff,” Edelman said. “I’d be on my phone and he’d yell at me. ‘Get out of your phone bro and get in your playbook.”
These days the tables have turned. Brady regularly posts on Instagram and Facebook, and in the few month’s he’s been on Twitter he’s used the platform to show off his humor as if he’s known every inside-joke or meme between the Twitter community for years.
“Now, I’ll literally be on the internet and he’ll be liking photos that were posted 10 minutes ago. And I’m like, how did that even get liked. He’s always peeping the ‘Gram,” Edelman said.
Julian Edelman: Playing for Patriots is ‘mentally, physically and emotionally draining,’ but Bill Belichick has ‘gotten softer’ - MassLive
