by Scott Benson
scottb@bostonsportsmedia.com
Not making any excuses for the Patriots last week or anything, but have we underestimated the Buffalo Bills a tad?
On defense anyway. They’ve held the Dolphins to 130 yards over 40 minutes in Miami’s home owner, they’ve sacked Daunte Culpepper five times and intercepted him once, and they lead 13-0 with a little [...]
by Scott Benson
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
Some happy news, at least early in the day. Mike Reiss reports that Tedy Bruschi, Doug Gabriel and Chad Jackson all made the trip to New York.
I’m sure there will be a game-time decision made on each, and they may yet remain on the shelf for another week. But for the moment, [...]
by Scott Benson
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
Ron Borges continued his free-fall into abject dementia this morning by returning to a familiar theme for the lead item in his Sunday notes column.
Of all people Ron should bump into this week. it’s Old Friend Ty Law. Hey, did you know Ty almost returned to the Patriots this summer?
“I thought about [...]
by Scott Benson
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
The Patriots will travel to the Meadowlands for the second time in three weeks Sunday when they face off in an early season AFC East matchup with the New York Jets.
The game – seen by many as a likely New England win, even as recently as last week – now seems to have [...]
By Bill Barnwell, Football Outsiders – special to BSMW Patriots Game Day
Monday’s trade of Deion Branch to the Seahawks to a chapter of Patriots lore that will shine positive light on neither Branch nor Patriots management; while Branch got what he wanted, he was vilified in the process, while Bill Belichick and Scott Pioli’s initial [...]
by Scott Benson
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
As Ron Borges continues to spin his way madly through another Patriots story, and the more misguided amongst us continue to accept his ‘reporting’ as fact, we offer this link from a particularly brilliant You Tube subscriber.
Click it, absorb it, and carry the righteous work of this industrious filmmaker forward to your [...]
by Greg Doyle
A second look at the Patriots 19-17 opening day win over Buffalo reveals it was not nearly the near disaster portrayed by some. In fact, these eyes felt the Patriots played well for the most part. I heard one shrieking media person who longs to make himself more relevent than he is wondering [...]
by Scott Benson
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
Boston’s best football writer, Mike Reiss, is first with the stunning news that holdout WR Deion Branch has been traded to the Seattle Seahawks for a first round draft choice, just days before arbiters were to hear two grievances filed by the former Super Bowl MVP and his agent after earlier trade talks [...]
by Scott Benson
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
A couple of lingering ‘I wish’ thoughts as week two begins…..
I wish I’d made a bigger deal of the game Rosevelt Colvin had. He was everywhere, but mostly in the Buffalo backfield. For a minute, I remembered how we wondered about Colvin as he worked his way back from a devastating hip injury [...]
by Scott Benson
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
The 2006 edition of the New England Patriots, after being unfashionably late to its own opening, rallied to upstage the upstart Buffalo Bills in a hard fought 19-17 divisional win surprisingly keyed by the previously beleguered Patriots defense.
The game turned when Don Davis stopped Willis McGahee on a 4th and 1 from the [...]
Beginning with an embarrassingly unforgiveable turnover that was returned for an easy touchdown on the game’s first play, the Patriots have laid the worst kind of rotten egg in the first 30 minutes of the 2006 season. They’re one more score from being blown off their home field by a team that finished 5-11 just [...]
A little disappointment mixed in with all the happiness over the arrival of the new season; the Patriots inactives have been released, and a few key players will be on the sidelines today.
Tedy Bruschi isn’t yet ready to play with a cast, as had been hoped. Both Doug Gabriel and Chad Jackson will be hamstrung [...]
