• Bill Belichick’s Patriots misery further exposed by Tom Brady

    Bill Belichick’s Patriots misery further exposed by Tom Brady

    The sixth and final docu-series episode began airing in the weeks leading up to the Patriots’ Super Bowl 52 loss to Nick Foles and the Eagles. They called it “Tom versus Time,” because Father
  • Sad state of Jets-Patriots rivalry offers one bit of hope

    Sad state of Jets-Patriots rivalry offers one bit of hope

    For the better part of two decades, the Jets bided their time and tried to wait out the Patriots. Year after year, the Pats would go 14-2 or 13-3 or some such tribute to gaudy dominance. Year after
  • Patriots trade rumors swirl around Stephon Gilmore: ‘Almost anyone’

    Patriots trade rumors swirl around Stephon Gilmore: ‘Almost anyone’

    Bill Belichick has never been afraid to dive into the trade market, but the Patriots could be sellers this deadline instead of buyers. In their first season without Tom Brady, and heading into
  • NFL, networks keep glorifying and justifying showboating

    NFL, networks keep glorifying and justifying showboating

    How much space is left behind us before we fall off and forever disappear? Can’t be much. Even before the current rush to alienate the fair-minded and logical, let us never lose sight of what TV has always done to remove the sport from our sports. While front-and-center folks such as Cris Collinsworth and Kirk …
  • Tom Brady’s Buccaneers debut did not go that well

    Tom Brady’s Buccaneers debut did not go that well

    Tom Brady has pulled off a few historic comebacks over two decades with the New England Patriots, but the six-time Super Bowl champion could not complete another in his ballyhooed debut with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Brady’s pick-six to former Giants cornerback Janoris Jenkins early in the second half put the Bucs in a 17-point …
  • Tom Brady wanted to join Saints if Drew Brees was retiring

    Tom Brady wanted to join Saints if Drew Brees was retiring

    It appears Tom Brady’s first choice was a different NFC South team. As he walked away from the New England Patriots after 20 NFL seasons and six Super Bowls, Brady was interested in replacing Drew Brees with the New Orleans Saints if Brees, 41, was going to retire and begin his post-playing career with NBC …
  • The Tom Brady, Bill Belichick divorce is about to feel very real

    The Tom Brady, Bill Belichick divorce is about to feel very real

    Sometime after 4:25 Sunday afternoon, 43-year-old Tom Brady will trot off the sideline at the Superdome, and tremors will be felt in the Tampa Bay area and as far away as Foxborough, Mass., and all across New England. Hearts will be racing in Tampa, because Brady’s mere presence has filled to the brim a long-suffering …
  • ‘Rude awakening’: Who will win the Tom Brady-Bill Belichick divorce?

    ‘Rude awakening’: Who will win the Tom Brady-Bill Belichick divorce?

    Name a more compelling on-field subplot to the 2020 NFL season than following what happens in New England without Tom Brady and what happens in Tampa with Brady. You can’t. Because there isn’t anything more fascinating. How will Bill Belichick and the Patriots power on while playing without Brady under center for the first time …
  • Cam Newton helping Patriots move on from ‘dour’ Tom Brady

    Cam Newton helping Patriots move on from ‘dour’ Tom Brady

    Who said the Patriots would miss Tom Brady? That may change once they actually play a game without one of the best quarterbacks of all time, but their honeymoon phase with Cam Newton appears to still be going strong as they enter the first week of the season. “I think, honestly, it’s been a match …
  • Cam Newton is the winner of the Patriots’ starting QB gig

    Cam Newton is the winner of the Patriots’ starting QB gig

    The New England Patriots officially will start the “Life after Tom Brady” era with Cam Newton at quarterback. Bill Belichick informed the Pats during a team meeting Thursday morning that Newton, the former NFL MVP, has been named the team’s starting signal caller, according to multiple reports. Brady, of course, signed with the Tampa Bay …