By Scott Benson, Greg Doyle, Tim Jordan, Bruce Allen and Bill Barnwell
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
1 more day to the Senior Bowl.
26 more days to the NFL Scouting Combine.
35 more days to the start of the league’s free agency period.
92 more days to the draft.
About 105 days before the first mini-camps for rookies.
About 140 days before the veterans [...]
By Scott Benson
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts exorcized every demon imaginable tonight when they rallied from a 21-3 first-half deficit to post 32 second-half points on a dog-tired New England Patriots defense and earn the first Super Bowl berth of Manning’s career.
The Colts 38-34 come-from-behind win set a record for AFC championship round comebacks [...]
by Scott Benson
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
On Friday, it struck me: if I could get a few fans to submit their thoughts on tonight’s epic AFC Championship showdown between the New England Patriots and the Indianapolis Colts, I could decrease MY workload for the day and leave myself free to start on the cocktails a little early.
Success!
Seriously, though, I [...]
By Scott Benson
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
As I write this, it’s 6:00 a.m. in the East, and there’s still more than twelve hours before another classic clash between the New England Patriots and Indianapolis Colts. Once again, the two rivals will battle all the AFC marbles, this time in the Indianapolis hothouse that the delicate Colts call home.
I’ll bet [...]
By Scott Benson, Greg Doyle, Tim Jordan and Bruce Allen
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
Benjamin Franklin used to like to tell his buddy Jean-Baptiste Leroy that in this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Earlier this decade, New Englanders amended Ben’s pithy phrase about the inevitability of exceedingly high municipal mil rates to include a [...]
Sunday in San Diego, the Patriots answered convincingly a lot of questions that have floated about them all season. Are they deep enough? You’d have to say yes after watching them advance to the AFC Championship Game. Are they still tough enough? Undoubtedly, yes. They took the hardest punches San Diego could throw and still [...]
By Scott Benson
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
A ballsy New England Patriots team defied four months of abject (and now, obsolete) skepticism with today’s 24-21 comeback road win over the top ranked San Diego chargers, a win that returns the proud three-time champions to the AFC Championship Game for the fourth time in six seasons.
Awaiting the Patriots will be old [...]
by Scott Benson
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
It’s five o’clock in the morning, there’s eleven and a half hours before game time, we’ve got a full tank of gas, a half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses.
Hit it.
Pretty interesting game yesterday. Nice ballgame from MacNair. We’re still laughing about Dan Dierdorf’s “He Built This City (On [...]
by Scott Benson, Greg Doyle, Tim Jordan and Bruce Allen
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
Well, for all their trials and tribulations over the last year, where do we find the New England Patriots but in the same place we left them last January. The divisional round of the AFC playoffs.
Wait, there actually is a difference between this year and last. [...]
Sunday’s impressive 37-16 win in the opening round of the NFL playoffs proved the Patriots are once again ready to take on all challengers when the postseason rolls around. Despite the final score, it was a tight, well-played, competitive game most of the way through. But the Patriots were clearly better and I never had [...]
By Bill Barnwell, Football Outsiders – special to BSMW Patriots Game Day
It Is Time For Stormy Weather
Oh, if only the Patriots were hosting the Chargers this weekend instead of heading to sunny San Diego. 62° is the high for Sunday in San Diego; Foxboro, a measly … 60°? El Nino aside, Foxboro’s expecting rain on [...]
by Scott Benson
scott@bostonsportsmedia.com
The New England Patriots earned a berth in next week’s divisional round of the AFC playoffs – just two games away from Super Bowl 41 – with a decisive 37-16 win over the New York Jets in today’s AFC Wild Card game in Foxboro.
New York hung with New England through three quarters, and [...]
