By Tim Jordan
For regular readers of Game Day Rear View, you’ve come here expecting to get your weekly game recap from GDRV staple and founder, Scott Benson. I am sorry to be the one to let you know that, in addition to being the proud father of jetsetting children who favor Corsican holidays, Scott is [...]

by Scott Benson
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
For more than 60% of the NFL, today is the last day of the 2006 regular season. Game over. Not so for the Patriots, who travel to Tennessee today for a final tune up with the Titans before the league’s second season begins next week. Let’s get the flavor of things with a [...]

by Scott Benson, Greg Doyle, Tim Jordan and Bruce Allen
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
The Patriots head to Tennessee this Sunday to end their regular season with a grueling road match at LP Field, home of the surprising Titans. With six straight wins, coach Jeff Fisher and sensational rookie quarterback Vince Young have led a bottomed-out Tennessee squad all [...]

For all the whining, second guessing by armchair experts and half-truths pointed at the Patriots by some media and some fans this season, alls they did in response was win at least 11 games, bettering last season’s record and win their fourth consecutive AFC East title. Some of the fans around here have been spoiled. [...]

by Scott Benson
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
The New England Patriots clinched a playoff spot today – and their fourth consecutive AFC Eastern Division title – with a hard-fought, down-to-the-wire 24-21 road win over the Jacksonville Jaguars.
With a brilliant 27 yard touchdown dash, Laurence Maroney gave the Patriots a 10 point lead with just over four and a half minutes [...]

by Scott Benson
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
Christmas Eve brings one of the biggest games of the 2006 season as the Patriots meet the rugged Jaguars today in Jacksonville. Here’s a quick turn at the links before we head off over the river and through the woods……
In the Globe, beat guy Mike Reiss writes about today’s must-win for both teams, [...]

By Scott Benson, Greg Doyle, Tim Jordan and Bruce Allen
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
Next Monday, for the first time in my life, I’ll spend Christmas without either of my two now-grown children.
All for good reason, I’m happy to say. Earlier this week my son flew to spend Christmas with his sister, who is living in Corsica while she does [...]

Well, this was certainly a more pleasant game to watch over. A 40-7 victory tends to calm football fans down, no matter how inept the opponent. So, lets take a look individually and see if the Patriots really played well Sunday or it was just a function of a weak opponent.
QUARTERBACK: Tom Brady did what [...]

by Scott Benson
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
It’s unlikely that the Patriots swayed any skeptics with their 40-7 win over the visiting Houston Texans today.
They shouldn’t have, really. The Texans are one of the league’s worst clubs and don’t in any way measure up to the kind of competition the Patriots will face in the upcoming NFL playoffs. Their mistakes [...]

by Scott Benson
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
The Patriots play the Houston Texans today, and I honestly have no idea what to expect. December 17th is no time to be uttering that phrase, but there it is. I’d like to believe something was stirred as a result of their public flogging by the loathsome Dolphins, or by the public upbraiding [...]

by Scott Benson, Greg Doyle, Tim Jordan and Bruce Allen
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
As weeks go, the Patriots have had better.
They started it on Sunday by getting their ass sewed to their face in Miami. Again. On Monday, they heard the Dolphins crow about getting the audio drop on Tom Brady and the Pats offense.
Tuesday, the receiver-less Patriots suddenly [...]

By Bill Barnwell, Football Outsiders – special to BSMW Patriots Game Day
The David Carr Conundrum
It’s hard to write a column about the Houston Texans without taking a look at the decision they made with regards to this year’s draft. Everyone who’s going to read this knows the story: they passed up Vince Young and Reggie [...]