A little less encouraging game than last week. But I suppose it would be easy to look at the ugly nature of yesterday’s win and forget a few things. First, it was a win. A division win at that, so even more important. Second, Miami knows the Patriots very well and always plays them tough. [...]
by Scott Benson
It wasn’t pretty, but the Patriots will take it.
Today’s 20-10 win over Miami offered none of the dominance of last week’s thrashing of the Bengals – in fact quite the opposite at times – but the New England Patriots still headed off the threadbare Gillette Stadium field and into their bye week [...]
by Scott Benson
Never has been so much been made over so little.
Ever since the Miami Dolphins narrowly edged a group of Patriot second-stringers last New Year’s Day, the national football literati has been falling all over itself to hand the future of the AFC East to uber-coach Nick Saban and his allegedly emerging Phins. When [...]
by Scott Benson
I guess my only question now is what’s next.
What do we get this week, from the Patriots?
Obviously, they won’t beat everybody 38-13. The Pats did an awful lot right last Sunday, but it would be unrealistic to think that will be the case every week from here. Only days before, at [...]
Here’s a look at what the national experts are saying about the Patriots this week:
From Phil Simms on NFL.com:
Maybe people are just tired of the Patriots. I don’t want to go into one of my usual rants, but I just don’t understand why more people aren’t infatuated by them. They can’t wait to tear them [...]
Now THAT was a great performance. The Patriot have played some good games since their last Super Bowl win following the 2004 season. But they haven’t played any great games. One can pretty much place a caveat on almost any win they’ve had since dispatching the Eagles twenty months ago to win their last title. [...]
By Bill Barnwell, Football Outsiders – special to BSMW Patriots Game Day
Apologize for this being a little late, everyone, but there’ll be – yes – two pieces in Patriots Game Day this week from me, both of which will be covering, shockingly enough, the media and some claims made in recent columns.
I was going [...]
Patriots stun Bengals, me, 38-13
by Scott Benson
Mr. Halberstram……..it’s Bill Belichick on the line.
The Patriots today added another chapter to Belichick’s literary canon with a thoroughly shocking 38-13 upset of the undefeated Bengals at Paul Brown Stadium.
The Patriots defense, despite missing two starting defensive backs, held Chad Johnson to only 64 yards and allowed [...]
by Scott Benson
I’ve been up since 5:00 this morning and I still can’t think of anything positive to say about today’s game.
Expectations are minimal, naturally. The Bengals are a playoff team off to a 3-0 start, and what’s worse, their passing game presents horrifying matchup problems for the suddenly decimated Patriots secondary. And honestly, [...]
Here’s the clip from FSN this week where Ron Borges says that Belichick will soon put the blame for his failures on the owner, as “he did in Cleveland”, that he and Scott Pioli are good at taking credit when things go well, and that Belichick asked Michael Holley and David Halberstam to the write [...]
