11/26/2017 8:13:42 PM
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — When the New England Patriots’ 2017 season ended on October 1, it was all Stephon Gilmore’s fault. Just four games into his first year with the Pats, the former Bills’ cornerback had ruined ev...
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11/10/2017 1:00:17 PM
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Ever inventive, Bill Belichick doesn’t need a game to keep you entertained. Just give him a bye week and the trade deadline. He’ll make things interesting
Much li...
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10/29/2017 7:57:54 PM
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Patriots special teams captain Matthew Slater
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The offense sputtered in the red zone. The defense was its charming, bendable self (aside from Melvin Gordon’s 87-yard touchdown run). Philip Rivers w...
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10/23/2017 12:50:30 AM
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — In the moments after Lady Gaga performed at Super Bowl LI, a dense cloud of pyrotechnic smoke lingered over the field at Houston’s NRG Stadium. The Patriots emerged from that...
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10/15/2017 10:47:25 AM
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — History has instructed us never to doubt the New York Jets’ capacity for futility. Of the six NFL franchises with a lower all-time winning percentage than New York’s .456, only the Cardinals (fou...
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10/5/2017 1:53:08 PM
FOXBOROUGH — Bill Belichick warns you all the time: Everything you’ve seen in the past is meaningless.
It does not matter that the Patriots’ secondary has three Pro Bowlers. It does not matter that Stephon Gilmore played like a $65 mil...
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10/1/2017 8:00:26 PM
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Cam Newton was down on the turf, sacked and defeated, smothered beneath the Patriots’ rookie defensive end Deatrich Wise Jr. After squandering a 14-point lead in the fourth quarter, Newton’s Panthers would have to surrender the ball to New England with a...
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9/24/2017 7:33:29 PM
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Forcing their fans to endure the unmerciful drama of a close football game in September, the New England Patriots were on the verge of several dubious feats.
With a surprisingly feisty Texans squad holding a 33-28 lead with 2 minutes, 28 seconds left ...
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9/16/2017 8:19:52 PM
Patriots linebacker Dont'a Hightower will miss Sunday's game with a knee injury.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — In a week of plot twists that shipped him 3,047 miles from th...
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9/8/2017 2:16:56 AM
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Surely, at some point, the New England Patriots were going to have to part ways with the much-hyped, but implausible dream of a perfect season.
But who though...
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9/6/2017 11:04:30 PM
Chris Hogan is a potential Plan B for Julian Edelman.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — A Patriots training camp that began with spirited predictions of perfect dominance ended with the sober reality that anterior cruci...
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8/31/2017 2:02:24 PM
FOXBORORUGH, Mass. — Cyrus Jones is a Sagittarius.
We know this because his Twitter feed has told us nothing else since October 6, 2016. That’s when the Patriots’ cor...
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