by Scott Benson
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
Just eight days ago, the New England Patriots were 6-1 and on the precipice of taking control of the AFC at the halfway point of the 2006 season.
That brief moment may indeed prove to have been their zenith for this year.
The Pats yesterday lost two in a row for the first time in [...]

by Scott Benson
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
The Patriots will try to rebound from last week’s disappointing loss to the Colts when they host the New York Jets this afternon in Foxboro. Let’s have a look at what the morning papers have to say for themselves:
Over at the Globe, Mike Reiss reminds us that the Patriots’ 57 game streak without [...]

By Greg Doyle
greg@bostonsportsmedia.com
Well, here we are, heading into the second half of the season with the Patriots coming off a poor and disappointing performance against the Colts. Fear not, things rarely end up in the NFL how they appear at midseason. That could be good, it could be bad. But its unlikely to stay the [...]

By Bill Barnwell, Football Outsiders – special to BSMW Patriots Game Day
Watching Trees Decompose
Last week’s injury to Rodney Harrison was the latest in a seemingly-interminable series of injuries that has decimated the Patriots secondary for the better part of three years. The reason why this injury bug has bitten the Patriots secondary repeatedly isn’t in [...]

by Greg Doyle
Greg@bostonsportsmedia.com
A look back at Sunday night’s 27-20 Patriots’ loss to Indianapolis was just as unpleasant as watching it live. Make no mistake about it, the Patriots played a very bad game all around. I suppose some solace can be found in the fact as bad as they played, there they were with a [...]

by Scott Benson
Face it.
The joke is no longer on Peyton Manning and the Colts.
Now it’s on the Patriots.
The Indianapolis Colts left no doubt which team now has the upper hand in the storied rivalry with a crippling 27-20 defeat of the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium tonight.
It was their second [...]

by Scott Benson
This most anticipated of Game Days has finally arrived, so let’s take a look at the morning papers.
Over at the Globe, Ron Borges says in his Football Notes column that Tony Dungy’s Cover 2 defense hasn’t worked as well in Indy as it did in Tampa, thanks to cut back power runners like [...]

By Bill Barnwell, Football Outsiders – special to BSMW Patriots Game Day
On Football Outsiders, we have a pet thread for irrational arguments about the relative merits of Tom Brady and Peyton Manning; in our traditionally uninflammatory manner, we refer to this thread as the “Official Thread for Irrational Brady-Manning Arguments”. The thread has become so [...]

by Scott Benson
Short week, tall task.
Of all times to host the Indianapolis Colts – on a short week after a Monday night game.
The Patriots and Colts will meet again on Sunday night, the ninth game between the teams in the last six seasons. And though the Patriots hold a decided edge in these matchups [...]