by Christopher Price
chris@patriotsdaily.com
Bill Belichick and Tom Coughlin are two examples of why people shouldn’t always make a snap judgment on the abilities of a first-time head coach, especially if they came of age as an assistant under Bill Parcells.
Both Belichick and Coughlin have taken similar routes to Super Bowl XLII: in their initial experience as [...]
by Dan Snapp
dan@patriotsdaily.com
As plights go, it’s not a bad one to have.
Our team’s in the Super Bowl, at the threshold of completing the most historic season in the sport’s existence. We should be grateful, humbled and in reverent awe of what’s occurring, and for the most part, we are. But allow us this one minor [...]
by Scott Benson
scott@patriotsdaily.com
Tuesday thoughts left hanging like loose threads on an old ‘Super Bowl Champions’ t-shirt:
*Our Own Chris Price – there on the Metro’s dime, we hope – is as we speak getting acclimated to the Arizona environs (it’s a dry heat, Chris), so stay tuned for the latest Inside Gillette later this week.
*The Giants [...]
by Scott Benson
scott@patriotsdaily.com
The Pats have landed in Arizona and Super Bowl week has started.
The day began with a Gillette Stadium rally straight out of Currier and Ives, as lightly falling snow and a boisterous crowd evoked memories of some of the team’s signature victories. It ended with the team negotiating a slick airport runway as [...]
by Scott Benson
scott@patriotsdaily.com
One week to go.
Pats fans have hit the halfway point in the grueling 14-day gauntlet that leads to the Super Bowl. This morning, the papers take one final deep breath before full deployment to Arizona. Let’s see what they have to say.
In the Globe, Jim McCabe wonders where the Pats fit in “the [...]
by Scott Benson
scott@patriotsdaily.com
When Albert Breer left the Patriots beat in September, Patriots fans lost one of the best football writers they’ve ever – briefly – had. Hard copy or blog, especially blog, Breer was an ace.
As you know, Breer is now working at the Dallas Morning News, maybe the best sports section in the country [...]
by Dan Snapp
dan@patriotsdaily.com
Prior to the start of the 2000 season, the Patriots played in the Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio. The game marked Bill Belichick’s Patriots head coaching debut, Tom Brady’s first action (he went 3-for-4 for 28 yards), Dennis Miller’s Monday Night Football premiere, and Miller’s lone instance of being funny (“It’s [...]
by Christopher Price
chris@patriotsdaily.com
The last time the Patriots faced the Giants — in that famous Week 17 clash at the Meadowlands — the right side of the New England offensive line consisted of second-year Ryan O’Callaghan at right tackle and all-purpose utilityman Russ Hochstein at right guard. New England rushed for just 44 yards and barely [...]
by Scott Benson
scott@patriotsdaily.com
The still-perfect Patriots are going to their fourth Super Bowl in seven years.
And they did it with defense and the running game – after a season in which Tom Brady, Randy Moss, Wes Welker and others took their fast-break, spread-em-out passing game to dizzying new heights with a high-tech offense straight out of [...]
by Scott Benson
scott@patriotsdaily.com
Well, here we are again.
A journey that began approximately 12 months ago with the shocking finality of a game ending Tom Brady interception and the first AFC Championship Game loss in team history has brought the New England Patriots right back to the place where they left off last year – sixty minutes [...]
by the Patriots Daily Staff
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First, a little housekeeping: we’re having some technical difficulties this morning in posting this week’s Patriots Buffet Table. But please, stay tuned later today for another winning entry from the PD Kitchen Staff.
Edit: And just like that, here it is. With beer cans! Thanks, Kitchen Staff!
The Patriots are poised to entertain the Chargers [...]
by Scott Benson
scott@patriotsdaily.com
Fleeting thoughts while waiting for the AFC Championship Game to return to Gillette Stadium for the first time in four years:
MOSS APPEAL
Attorneys and agents continue to hammer away at each other – and everybody else in the process – over allegations by a Florida woman that Randy Moss committed battery on her sometime [...]
