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Hear Alex Smith talk about the proper way to develop rookie QBs
Robert Deutsch-Imagn Images Fun fact: neither of my parents cares much about sports, not even a little bit. It’s honestly a coin flip whether either of them could even tell you who won the Super Bowl 8 months ago.
6 reasons to watch the New England Patriots in 2024
Peter Casey-USA TODAY Sports At long last, after a grueling summer of seemingly daily press conferences and a failed superstar receiver trade and another frisky-turned-.500 Red Sox season, the 2024 New England Patriots season is a real thing that’s actually happening this weekend. We made it.
Are any Patriots players worth drafting in fantasy football in 2024?
Eric Canha-USA TODAY Sports For the last several years when I’d write this column, there was always, always ALWAYS much analysis to be done, all the way from “How early is too early to draft Tom Brady, REALLY” to “Is it worth a roster spot to bet on upside for N’Keal Harry/Chris Hogan/Danny Amendola/Malcolm Mitchell/Aaron Dobson/insert second tight end here?” Rosters were flush with league-winners like “healthy Gronk”, PPR monsters like Julian Edelman and Wes Welker, and if you were the kind...
Patriots alum James White somehow makes paying running backs seem logical
Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images Paying running backs a second contract. The “does pineapple belong on pizza?” of NFL discourse. Rarely is anything remotely new or interesting introduced to the convo. There’s the hardline “never give a running back a dime after their rookie contract”, on the other side there’s... Jerry Jones and the Browns, I guess, who were more than happy to give a bag to Ezekiel Elliott and Nick Chubb, respectively.
Let’s talk about the Rhamondre Stevenson extension
Photo by Kathryn Riley/Getty Images There’s a part in Jeff Benedict’s The Dynasty (not to be confused with the propaganda miniseries of the same name) where then-head coach Bill Parcells talks about how negotiating contract extensions used to go in the pre-salary cap era.
Game-by-game predictions for the entire Patriots 2024 schedule
Photo by Sam Hodde/Getty Images Does anyone else ever show up to a barbecue, a happy hour, a family get-together, or anywhere else you’d hang with friends or family you don’t see every day, and when they ask “how’ve you been?”, you find yourself responding “not much, just working and chilling”? And then you realize: wait. There’s been a ton of things that’ve happened since we hung out last! Why did I say it’s the same old, same old?
NFL Draft 2024: Experts grade the Patriots 2024 draft class
Eric Canha-USA TODAY Sports This may be a bold claim to make, but I’ll say it with my chest: It seems more likely than not that the New England Patriots will not lead the NFL with five (5) games with zero (0) touchdowns scored in the 2024 season.
Patriots showered with high grades for Drake Maye pick
The draft community likes New England's first-round pick. For the younger readers of Pats Pulpit dot com, welcome - to the first NFL Draft in your lifetime where the draft really starts with the New England Patriots. For the readers my age and older of Pats Pulpit dot com, welcome back - to the first draft in around 30 years that starts with the New England Patriots, since the 1993 draft figuratively and literally started with the New England Patriots.
NFL Draft grades 2024: Patriots showered with praise for Drake Maye pick
For the younger readers of Pats Pulpit dot com, welcome — to the first NFL Draft in your lifetime where the draft really starts with the New England Patriots. For the readers my age and older of Pats Pulpit dot com, welcome back — to the first draft in around 30 years that starts with the New England Patriots, since the 1993 draft figuratively and literally started with the New England Patriots.
The Mac Jones experiment was already over. The trade just makes it official.
Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images To whatever extent you believe the Patriot Way actually exists in real life, all it really shakes out to is a cool-sounding history-is-written-by-the-victors way of saying “accountability matters.” Do your job, and no days off, and all that is a more meathead way of saying “get the results people are counting on you to get, by putting in the work and taking it seriously and doing everything in your power to excel, because then everyone else can do what...
Matthew Slater is everything that’s good about football
Matthew Slater, who announced his retirement on Tuesday and spent his entire 16-year career playing for the New England Patriots, is quite possibly the only player in existence to which all three of the following apply: The accolades: five first-team All-Pros, three second-team All-Pros, 10 Pro Bowls, the Bart Starr Award, and the Art Rooney Award, not to mention there Super Bowl wins — tells you all you need to know His Pro Football Reference stat page looks like an intern accidentally hit...
Sunday Patriots Notes: Bill Belichick’s legacy is secure no matter his future
Photo by Simon Bruty/Anychance/Getty Images The New England Patriots’ coaching carousel continues to spin, their former head coach is facing an unclear future, and one of their players finds himself in legal trouble. Even with the offseason in full swing at One Patriot Place, the news cycle never stops. We here at Pats Pulpit know this very well — we are trying our best to deliver news and analysis on all things Patriots.
Among bad teams, the 2023 Patriots are uniquely lopsided
Photo by Rich Barnes/Getty Images Right after the loss to the New York Giants that all but ensured any remaining Thanksgiving leftovers in the fridge would be casualties of Patriots Nation eating our feelings, Adrian Phillips let a quote rip that wouldn’t be out of place for us after one of our high school games. “We gave up 10 points, and lost the game two weeks in a row,” he told the Boston Herald after Sunday’s 10-7 loss to the Giants.
The Patriots’ tanking question has answered itself
Photo by Perry Knotts/Getty Images One of the many blessings the great game of football has given us is the jargon. You know all the best ones. “If you have two quarterbacks, you don’t have one.” “There’s three things that can happen when you pass the ball, and two of them are bad.” “Football is a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail.” “Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.” We could go on sitting in a circle and saying all of them and have the best time.
Why the Patriots should extend injured WR Kendrick Bourne
Photo by Peter Joneleit/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images He’s the best receiver on the team. There, case closed. Article over. Enjoy the rest of your day. ... ... OK, OK, we probably should get a little more specific than that. But first, here’s a little Inside Baseball on how things work at Pats Pulpit dot com.
Patriots’ screen plays still going as badly as you think
Photo by Billie Weiss/Getty Images Back in the dark, dark days of 2022, when every other offensive play the New England Patriots ran seemed like one you probably recognized from college intramural flag football, it seemed like we probably would’ve been ecstatic about just about anything we recognized from the Josh McDaniels offense. Matt Patricia carrying on the proud tradition of dialing up a too-clever-by-half screen play on gotta-have-it third-and-longs was probably not one of them.
Is Offensive Coordinator Bill O'Brien to Blame?
Key points: The New England Patriots' screen plays have been performing poorly Under offensive coordinator Bill O'Brien, the success rate of screens has decreased compared to previous years Other successful teams in the league have mastered the screen game The New England Patriots' screen plays are still struggling to find success. In 2022, the team's screen game was executed well under Josh McDaniels, but this year under new offensive coordinator Bill O'Brien, the numbers tell a different story.
Nothing else will matter if the Patriots’ offensive line stays like this
Set Number: X164431 TK1 A close cousin of “the simplest explanation is usually the correct one” is “the best way to solve a problem is frequently the most boring.” OK, fine, that’s not an actual famous, borderline-irrefutable rule of the universe like Occam’s Razor is, but it’s frequently how life works out, isn’t it?
It’s OK for Patriots fans to be excited about (what looks like) improvement
Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images Imagine, if you will, hopping in the DeLorean and setting the destination to December 30, 2022. You find your 2022 self and say, “Hey! Good news and bad news: in the future, we lose the season opener, but we’ll also be converting first downs at a 2-to-1 clip!”. Sheesh, if you heard that stat after the Jets game last year, that kind of chain-moving would sound downright Mahomes-ian. Realistically, this entire article could be, “Dude.
It’s OK to have mixed feelings on the Patriots’ failed pursuit of DeAndre Hopkins
NFL Films There is at least a decade-long running joke among NBA fans that, especially in the Big-3 and superteam/LeBron-is-shadow-commissioner era we’re in now, basketball fans love the offseason more than they enjoy watching the actual games.
‘Playcallers’ podcast reveals more of how the Patriots broke the Rams in Super Bowl LIII
Photo by Michael Zagaris/Getty Images Pats Pulpit is a big trust tree, and as such, I have to get something off my chest before we continue: In the same way that we’re sick of everyone freaking out over Patrick Mahomes, I am sick of Kyle Shanahan. Not because he isn’t a great coach (he is). Not because his assistants and coordinators get hired at ludicrous speed and almost always turn out to be awesome coaches in their own right (they mostly do).
Bill Belichick finally shares some of his draft philosophies
Jeff Howe Whatever the good version of a red alert is, we got one on Wednesday: a long-form interview with Bill Belichick that was about his favorite thing and his favorite thing only. Football! (Seriously, it’s so incredibly easy to get Bill to open up and really start cooking. You just have to ask him about actual football, and not go fishing for Mean Girls scoops like, “Why haven’t you said that Mac Jones is unequivocally the No. 1 starter like you did with Cam Newton?
Oregon head coach Dan Lanning’s analysis of CB Christian Gonzalez is music to your ears
Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports After a season like the one that the 2022 New England Patriots sowed and reaped themselves into, hope is found in the draft.
Game-by-game predictions for the Patriots’ 2023 schedule
Brian Fluharty-USA TODAY Sports Somewhat predictably, this year’s annual Taylor-Swift-scavenger-hunt of clues about the NFL schedule release for the New England Patriots on Thursday ended up being a clarification-fest on the leak of the rumor about when we would see Tom Brady in Gillette Stadium not wearing another team’s jersey: And because we’ve all been subjected to what feels like a decade straight of opening the season against the Miami Dolphins, finding out that the first Miami matchup...
NFL Draft Grades: Experts grade the Patriots’ draft as a whole
Photo by Todd Rosenberg/Getty Images We’ve successfully made it through another NFL Draft weekend. Whether you’re covering every move the team makes like us or just keeping up from your couch at home, the end of the seventh round always feels like the end of spring break and making it through your final exams, all at the same time. There’s nothing like it.
NFL Draft grades 2023: Evaluating the Patriots’ performance on Day 2
Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images It’s happening. Well, it’s happening on defense, anyway.
Patriots draft grades: Evaluating New England’s performance in the first round
Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images Let the New England Patriots’ performance in Round 1 of the 2022 and 2023 drafts be a lesson to you: sometimes, in the absence of consistent excellence, they best way to knock people’s socks off is to lower the bar. That’s not at all a shot at Cole Strange, who remains one of the freakiest of the freaky athletes we’ve had come through Foxboro since Kyle Dugger came to town.
Why the Patriots should draft Bijan Robinson, and why they shouldn’t
Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images With great power comes great responsibility. Want to feel old? That quote from Uncle Ben is old enough to buy a beer now (if you’re going by the movie version) and if you want to date it back to the comics, it dropped at approximately the same time the New England Patriots were serving as somewhere between a JV scrimmage and target practice for for the now-immortal 1985 Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XX.
Shopping Mac Jones would be business as usual for Bill Belichick
Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images To borrow a phrase we’ve probably all said in the past couple years, ironically or otherwise: Boy, it sure would be nice to live in some precedented times. We all know the stakes by now; Year 3 is the crucial put-up-or-shut-up year for any quarterback, never mind the one tasked with being the one true heir to Tom Brady’s throne.
Why the Patriots can’t be scared to draft another wide receiver
Photo by Fred Kfoury III/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Being a fan of the New England Patriots has always come with a unique set of, let’s call them, challenges.
Sunday Patriots Notes: Remembering Devin McCourty’s most memorable moments
Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports With free agency basically starting on Monday with the opening of the so-called legal tampering period, the NFL offseason is going to heat up quite a bit. This past week already was a sign of things to come, though, with several big moves being made all over the league. The New England Patriots were part of some of them, and they naturally grabbed our attention these last few days.
Deja Entendu: Now teams want to ban the Eagles’ cool plays
Photo by Adam Bow/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images It’s a tale as old as time; one of the NFL’s elite teams bashes their way through the playoffs with an unorthodox secret weapon of a play, the kind you keep in a case labeled “break glass in case of emergency and/or situation where it’d be really, REALLY cool”, and then the rest of the league watches the film, takes pages and pages of notes, and does their best to study it and get better and devise counters and...
Super Bowl 2023 picks: Who we like in Chiefs vs. Eagles to win Super Bowl 57
Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images Super Bowl Sunday is upon us, and it will see the top seeds in the two conferences go at each other. On the one side will be the Kansas City Chiefs, owners of a 16-3 record and the No. 1 seed in the AFC. On the other side, the Philadelphia Eagles, who also won 16 of their 19 games so far en route to taking the top spot in the NFC. Now, the two teams will face off on the game’s biggest stage and with the Vince Lombardi Trophy on the line.
A salty Patriots fan’s guide to rooting for the Eagles in Super Bowl LVII
Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports Fans of the New England Patriots across the globe and Henry Hill can certainly agree on one thing; after you’ve lived the finest of the fine life, it’s hard adjusting to living the rest of your life like a shnook. I mean, this is the third year in a row we’ve been talking about draft picks in JANUARY, and we don’t even get to do that thing where we just assume the top 25 on everyone’s draft boards will already be gone by the time we pick.
Patrick Mahomes honors Tom Brady as the GOAT
Winslow Townson-USA TODAY Sports It’s always humbling when the icons of your youth become “classic”. The songs you liked in school start showing up on throwback playlists. The movies you laughed at are heavy hitters at drive-in movie theaters and barbecues where you set up the projector in the backyard after the sun goes down. And, of course, the sports heroes that you grew up with posters on your wall and jerseys in your closet eventually decide to hang ‘em up.
You don’t need a superhero quarterback to win in the NFL playoffs
Sam Greene/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK In the spirit of Let’s Remember Some Guys, let’s remember some Internet: Remember when Paris Hilton fixed poverty? twitter.com/jubilee That’s what people sound like when they say, “If I were the Patriots I would simply move on and draft a quarterback with a laser rocket arm that can throw a 70-yard frozen rope on the move and also runs a 4.6 and just so happens to be built like prime Gronk”.
The Patriots offense line ended the 2022 season as it lived
Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images The New England Patriots offensive line ended the 2022 season as it lived; flashes of greatness mixed in with an alarmingly high number of performances that made you want to ask them, “.......how late did y’all stay out last night?” Or, if movies are more your medium, you could pretty much set your watch to the Patriots first offensive possession when it was time to tweet this out: (whether or not Mac Jones will succeed because unlike other Alabama...
Remembering Bill Belichick’s crazy game-planning for J.J. Watt
Photo by Jim Davis/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Because we are a professional, prestigious, Big-J journalism publication here at Pats Pulpit dot com, we would never use the retirement announcement of one of the greatest defensive players in the history of football to bring up one of the most unintentionally funny games in the last 15 years. Let’s be real though, at least some of us were thinking it: Remember the letterman jackets? Oh, the jackets.
Patriots somehow re-enter Pro Football Focus’ Top-5 offensive line rankings
Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images If Pro Football Focus grades are your gospel, today’s your lucky day, and if you think PFF grades are more or less football nerd CalvinBall, then, well, at least they’re usually much more enjoyable when they confirm that your team is good. The Patriots offensive line had been grading out at PFF as capital-E elite for the first two months of the season, checking in as the third-best squad in the league right before Halloween.
Bill Belichick is right. It’s too late to change. That’s the problem.
Photo by Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images Last week, bright and early on Monday morning when most of us were working on our second coffee (or, if you’re one of those freaks that starts every day with a 16oz 300mg of caffeine drink with a name like HELLBEAST ENERGY or something, one of those), Bill Belichick was out delivering a State of the New England Patriots assessment on WEEI that contained several lines that’d be hilarious out of context, but spelled out a pretty...
Now is the time to put it together for the Patriots
Photo by David Berding/Getty Images This premise isn’t complicated. The 2022 New England Patriots have shown moments of something between competency and home-run ability in all 3 phases of the game. Their playoff chances will come down to whether they can put them all together for a few weeks or not.
Patriots legend Vince Wilfork is finally hosting a cooking show
Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images We interrupt your regularly scheduled coverage of, “Oh JFC we have to play the BILLS this week” for this historic announcement: The food gods have smiled upon us and finally given New England Patriots legend Vince Wilfork a television show. A television show about food.
Kendrick Bourne is still a Patriot. Now get him the ball.
Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images Imagine, if you will: you are Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, reigning back-to-back MVP. Practice is in the books, and you’ve done your non-contractually-mandated extra couple hours of tape grinding. Now it’s time to settle into your cozy Monsterpiece Theater chair in the study, ready to devour another hundred pages of the latest entry in the Aaron Rodgers Book Club, when.... ....the phone rings.
Tony Romo has the only good Matt Patricia take
Related: Patriots quarterback Bailey Zappe has a fan in Lions head coach Dan Campbell After months of hearing how this year’s training camp made the offense seem somewhere between discombobulated and an affront to God, the New England Patriots putting up a meager seven points when Ty Montgomery did a barrel roll into the end zone didn’t do anything to… Read full story via Pats Pulpit
Tony Romo has the only good Matt Patricia take
Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images After months of hearing how this year’s training camp made the offense seem somewhere between discombobulated and an affront to God, the New England Patriots putting up a meager seven points when Ty Montgomery did a barrel roll into the end zone didn’t do anything to ally our fears.
New Patriots defense, same as the old
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Patriots’ new defense is the same as the old
Photo by Adam Glanzman/Getty Images For as glamorous as the sports-writing life is.... (hang on, I have to wipe this Fire sauce off my keyboard.) ....there’s frequently times where, if you’re being honest, you have to look yourself in the mirror and admit “wow. I was completely wrong. I don’t know ball” Every once in a while, though, being wrong is great, because it means things are working out better than you had any reason to believe they would.
Here’s a sliver of hope for the ‘Let Mac Cook’ agenda
Sam Navarro-USA TODAY Sports It doesn’t matter if you’re an OG that sat on the frozen aluminum bleachers at Foxboro Stadium or if you’re not even old enough to buy a 6-pack yet, the one thing all Patriots fans know better than most that’s always held true throughout the decades is this: nothing else matters if you don’t have the quarterback.
Predictions: Will the Patriots end their preseason on a high note against the Raiders?
Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images The New England Patriots’ preseason will come to an end on Friday night, with the team going up against a rather familiar opponent: the Las Vegas Raiders. Not only are the Raiders led by long-time Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels in his first year as their head coach, the two teams also spent time this week practicing alongside one another.
Some notes on running, coaching, and learning outside zone, and what it means to the Patriots
David Butler II-USA TODAY Sports We’ve heard it so many times this summer, I’d need both hands and at least one foot to count the number of times I’ve said “I swear I’m going to pistol whip the next person that says ‘outside zone’.” Ditto for “Shanahan” anything. That sounds like a grumpy old-man-yells-at-cloud take, and grumpy/’old man yells at cloud’ is fair.
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