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Patriots Wear Down Texans, Advance to AFC Title Game

Patriots Wear Down Texans, Advance to AFC Title Game

By: Steve Balestrieri
Published: 1/15/2017 4 Min Read

It was the little big men for the Patriots, Dion Lewis and Julian Edelman who did the damage for the Pats offense.

7 years ago

New England Patriots News 7-31, AFC East Notes

By: Steve Balestrieri
Published: 7/31/2016 5 Min Read

Do you think that Patriots fans, missed football? Saturday’s practice had the incredible number of 21,781 fans packing the Gillette practice fields

8 years ago
Four Things To Watch For At Patriots Training Camp

Four Things To Watch For At Patriots Training Camp

By: Steve Balestrieri
Published: 7/27/2016 4 Min Read

Belichick and McDaniel will have to walk a fine line here. Garoppolo must be prepared to take the field against the Cardinals and run the offense smoothly

8 years ago
Patriots Training Camp Primer – Safeties

Patriots Training Camp Primer – Safeties

By: Steve Balestrieri
Published: 7/26/2016 4 Min Read

McCourty is the quarterback of the secondary, a co-captain of the team and the glue that holds everything together on the backend.

8 years ago
Patriots Training Camp Primer – Cornerbacks

Patriots Training Camp Primer – Cornerbacks

By: Steve Balestrieri
Published: 7/25/2016 5 Min Read

Rather than being a weakness, corner became a position of strength in 2015. Butler parlayed his SB heroics into a very solid first season of starting.

8 years ago

New England Patriots News 7-24, AFC East Notes

By: Steve Balestrieri
Published: 7/24/2016 5 Min Read

With many of the Sox on-hand to include skipper John Farrell, Edelman put on quite the show, blasting several homers over the Green Monster.

8 years ago
Patriots Training Camp Primer – Linebackers

Patriots Training Camp Primer – Linebackers

By: Steve Balestrieri
Published: 7/22/2016 5 Min Read

The Patriots have two of the best LBs in the business with Jamie Collins and Dont’a Hightower. But each missed time in 2015 and the depth was a problem.

8 years ago
Patriots Training Camp Primer – Defensive Line

Patriots Training Camp Primer – Defensive Line

By: Steve Balestrieri
Published: 7/20/2016 4 Min Read

They added Terrance Knighton, Frank Kearse, and Markus Kuhn in FA, Vincent Valentine in the draft and Chris Long, this season’s reclamation project.

8 years ago
Patriots Linebackers, Rated #4…With a Bullet

Patriots Linebackers, Rated #4…With a Bullet

By: Steve Balestrieri
Published: 5/13/2016 3 Min Read

NFL Network’s Willie McGinest was asked to rate the top five linebacker units in the league and not surprisingly, he gave the Patriots high marks.

8 years ago
NFL Combine is Just a Step in the Process For the Patriots

NFL Combine is Just a Step in the Process For the Patriots

By: Steve Balestrieri
Published: 2/24/2016 5 Min Read

The truly two most important aspects of the Combine? The interviews and the medicals and those are the two parts that all of us aren’t allowed to see.

8 years ago
Patriots Free Agency Outlook, Tackles

Patriots Free Agency Outlook, Tackles

By: Steve Balestrieri
Published: 2/23/2016 6 Min Read

The Patriots should find a younger, more athletic right tackle and then re-do Vollmer’s contract and move him to swing tackle. That falls in line with the Patriots way of thinking, which is to replace a player perhaps a year too soon rather than a year too late.

8 years ago
Patriots Free Agency Outlook, Cornerbacks

Patriots Free Agency Outlook, Cornerbacks

By: Steve Balestrieri
Published: 2/22/2016 5 Min Read

What the Patriots would really like is an upgrade at the RCB position and move Ryan into the slot. Bill Belichick loves his veterans on the defense and would like to bring in a veteran presence and allow the others to compete and sort out the rest.

8 years ago
Patriots Free Agency Outlook, Tight Ends

Patriots Free Agency Outlook, Tight Ends

By: Steve Balestrieri
Published: 2/20/2016 6 Min Read

Now the team has to decide whether to bring back Chandler who also battled injuries last season for a second go around and cover his cap hit of $3 million-dollars or cut him for a savings of $2.05 million.

8 years ago
Patriots Free Agency Outlook, Linebackers

Patriots Free Agency Outlook, Linebackers

By: Steve Balestrieri
Published: 2/18/2016 5 Min Read

The Patriots lost an iconic figure with the retirement of Jerod Mayo this week, and while it wasn’t entirely unsuspected it leaves the Patriots with a depth issue behind starters Hightower and Collins. Those two are arguably the best pair of linebackers in the league and the team’s immediate concern is locking them up long-term.

8 years ago
Patriots Free Agency Outlook – Wide Receivers

Patriots Free Agency Outlook – Wide Receivers

By: Steve Balestrieri
Published: 2/16/2016 6 Min Read

The team needs some youth, size and speed on the outside. Not necessarily a deep threat, that everyone clamors for, since that isn’t their offense. But someone who can stretch the field horizontally as well as vertically and has the size to go up and grab those contested throws.

8 years ago
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