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In this episode, we first looked back at the Patriots victory against the Texans. Later on we previewed the upcoming game against the Titans.

Tom Brady meets former President Bush at halftime of Texans game.

Patriots sign running back Montee Ball and rookie receiver DeAndre Carter.

Mariota is completing 62.4 percent of his passes and has thrown for 2786 yards with 19 touchdowns and 10 interceptions with a 91.9 passer rating. All very respectable numbers especially for a rookie

The job isn’t done yet and this weekend can potentially help New England get one step closer to at least being able to have a week of rest heading into the postseason.

If the Patriots end up winning it all in February, it might go down as one of the most remarkable runs in football history given all the losses they’ll have suffered to get there.

Tom Brady provides Uggs as Christmas gifts to teammates, celebrates the completion of his Christmas Tree.

It was a total group effort with the interior players pushing the pocket and the edge rushers bringing pressure outside.

Tennessee just gave up 183 rushing yards (while gaining just 24 yards on the ground themselves), so normally you would think that New England’s game plan would be to just run, run and run some more. Problem for the Patriots is that they are running out of running backs, so that may not be feasible.

Punters are players who don’t tend to get a lot of attention, but Ryan Allen is quietly having a terrific season and Sunday night was a prime example of how important he is to this football team.

So wait, Thursday Night Football will be on Saturday after the season already opened with Sunday Night Football on Thursday?

The Patriots locked up a playoff berth and reclaimed the number one seed in the AFC with three games to go following their 27-6 victory over the Texans on Sunday night, […]

Both Denver and Cincinnati lost Sunday afternoon and the Patriots’ win vaulted them right back to the top seed in the AFC at 11-2.

Some thoughts coming off of an interesting weekend of football in the NFL.

The one good thing about this time of year is the fact that so much can happen and Sunday was a classic example of how long four weeks is in the NFL.