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The NFL season may still be just over two months away, but in this article we post our early pre-season team rankings. Our rankings are half art, half science, statistically based with a touch of experienced intuition taking into account off season player and coaching staff movements.After crunching

New England added tight end Michael Roberts in a trade with the Detroit Lions, agreed to on Thursday. According to multiple reports, the Lions are owed a seventh-round pick in return. The Patriots are shuffling into life after Rob Gronkowski at tight end with significant uncertainty.

As the NFL celebrates its 100th season, the league asked a panel of 50 voters, including our Tom E. Curran, to select the Greatest Play in its history. The panel was given a list of 100 and told to get it down to 50. Here are Curran’s Top 20.

Demaryius Thomas said he’s ‘still going through stuff, but I’m blessed.’

The Patriots finalized a two-year extension worth $21 million to perhaps keep Super Bowl MVP Julian Edelman in New England for his entire career. Since the Patriots drafted him in the seventh round in 2009, Edelman has played in 115 regular-season games and tallied 499 receptions for 5,390 yards and

Jesse Pantuosco peels back the curtain on his 2019 fantasy rankings in Tuesday’s Bump and Run. (Getty Images)

A little luck is needed in order to win the Super Bowl, a notion the New England Patriots have put on display throughout their dynastic run. The Patriots, of course, earned every bit of their six Super Bowl titles, but it’s safe to say occasional moments of good fortune helped them along the way.

What’s it like to discuss a trade with New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick? Well, it doesn’t sound like the six-time Super Bowl champion has much time for small talk.  Ex-Tampa Bay Buccaneers general manager Mark Dominik, in a recent medial call with SiriusXM NFL radio, shed light

Demaryius Thomas is reuniting with Josh McDaniels in New England.

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady will be wearing a different helmet for the 2019 season, although it will have nothing to do with finding a new team. Brady’s model of helmet was banned from the NFL because it did not meet necessary safety standards in laboratory testing, according to ESPN

Patriots cornerback Stephon Gilmore shared some great insights in a recent Q&A with fans on Twitter.

The retirement of tight end Rob Gronkowski, though not unexpected, nevertheless carries a suddenness and finality that creates real questions for the Patriots regarding a position that has become an important part of the offense. So where will the Patriots go from here? They have four general options

Rob Gronkowski has announced his retirement from the NFL, ending his career on a high after helping the New England Patriots win Super Bowl LIII against the Los Angeles Rams. The tight end won three Super Bowl titles in a nine-year career with the Patriots, as well as five Pro Bowl appearances, to establish

New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski announced he is retiring after nine seasons in the NFL. Gronkowski, a 2010 second-round pick, will end his career as a three-time Super Bowl champion and a five-time Pro Bowler. He released a statement on Instagram on Sunday. “It all started at 20 years old

Eric Rowe took his talents to Miami to join the Dolphins in NFL free agency, but the veteran cornerback will certainly look back fondly at his time spent with the New England Patriots. Rowe spent a little time during St. Patrick’s Day on Sunday to thank the Patriots in an Instagram post.  Rowe spent

The first full day of NFL free agency featured plenty of Patriots comings and goings. Here’s who’s left after Thursday’s flurry of moves.

The New England Patriots offensive line played very well during the 2018 regular season and throughout their run to Super Bowl LIII, and guard Shaq Mason was a huge reason for that success. Mason was Pro Football Focus’ highest-graded guard of the 2018 campaign, besting all of his peers across the

The new NFL year begins Wednesday, March 13, and with it, the advent of 2019’s free agent marketplace. Leading up to that first day, we’ll examine the landscape from a Patriots perspective, beginning with specialists. PATRIOTS FREE AGENTS Stephen Gostkowski (K), Ryan Allen (P) OTHER NOTABLE NFL

Only three NFL teams have been awarded more compensatory picks than the New England Patriots since the formula began in 1994. New England’s 35 over that span currently sit behind the Dallas Cowboys, Green Bay Packers and Baltimore Ravens as another year’s disbursement looms less than a week away

The Super Bowl (or the Punt Bowl — depends on how you look at it) has come and gone. Liz Loza, Matt Harmon, and Dalton Del Don break down the big game on this week’s latest podcast episode.

In a Super Bowl snoozer featuring a single touchdown by victorious New England and the high-scoring, newfangled, all-the-rage Los Angeles Rams managing a measly three points, the MVP trophy went to Patriots receiver Julian Edelman.

Overtime in chilly Kansas City, game tied at 31-31. The Patriots possess one of the great mis-match players in the NFL in tight end Rob Gronkowski, bound for the Hall of Fame but whose opportunities so far in the AFC Championship game have been minimal.

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The biggest day in the NFL calendar is finally here – on Sunday the Los Angeles Rams and New England Patriots will go head to head in Super Bowl LIII (that’s 53 for all you non-Romans) at the beautifully funky Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.

The problem facing the Rams is that Patriots Trent Brown, Marcus Cannon, Shaq Mason, Joe Thuney and David Andrews have provided a virtual force field around the 41-year-old Brady allowing him to go about his work undisturbed. In playoff wins over the Los Angeles Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs, who

The annual chucklefest that is the NFL’s Media Night — now dubbed “Opening Night” — has lost some of its edge.

The video game that has picked 10 of the last 15 Super Bowl winners predicted a perfectly reasonable game script for Super Bowl LIII.

If nothing else, the offensive line has created such a sense of security that Brady isn’t just still healthy, but declaring he will return for the 2019 season, at age 42.

The identity of the New England Patriots has been not having an identity. What’s made them so difficult to beat in the Tom Brady era is an amorphous quality that has them adapting a game plan effortlessly to any opponent. So the team’s emphasis on the run versus the pass — and to whom the […]

While most are weary of seeing Tom Brady’s face in the Super Bowl, it’s difficult for many to not respect the achievement of his ninth straight AFC championship.