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Patriots Beat Texans 41 – 28, Advance to AFC Championship
January 15th, 2013 at 10:11 AM
Same old story.  Tom Brady excels, Patriots win, New England is just one win away from another Super Bowl appearance, Shane Vereen scores three touchdowns...wait, what? Despite Brady's outstanding performance, completing 25 of 40 passes for 344 yards and three touchdowns, the Patriots' MVP on the offensive side of the ball in...

Patriots Beat Dolphins 28-0 Clinch First Round Bye
January 3rd, 2013 at 8:49 AM
Yessssssssssssssssssss.  The New England Patriots (12-4) defeated the Miami Dolphins (7-9) 28-0 on Sunday to clinch a first round bye following a Houston loss to Indianapolis.  Tom Brady threw for two touchdowns, Stevan Ridley ran for two, and the defense recorded a season high seven sacks en route to the...

Patriots Come Back to Beat Jaguars 23-16
December 26th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
After falling behind early for the second straight week the Patriots (11-4) were able to climb back and avoid a meltdown to beat the Jacksonville Jaguars (2-13) 23-16.   Jacksonville jumped out to a 10-0 lead after Brady threw two first quarter interceptions and the New England secondary was picked apart...

Game Review: 49ers 41, Patriots 34
December 18th, 2012 at 2:20 AM
The San Francisco 49ers defeated the New England Patriots 41-34 on Sunday night. Rain poured from the sky on a cold December night in Foxboro Massachusetts.  The Patriots, winners of 7 straight controlled their own destiny in the hunt for a first round bye.  However, with wins by both Denver and Houston...

Patriots Destroy Texans in Foxboro 42-14
December 11th, 2012 at 1:43 PM
When Tom Brady comes into work this week he will enter with the recollection of a quintessential, picturesque annihilation of a foe deemed at the outset worthy of playing tit for tat with the Patriots but who left looking defective and inadequate to even be mentioned in the same sentence as the...

Patriots Defeat Dolphins and Clinch AFC East
December 3rd, 2012 at 1:19 AM
Brandon Lloyd fell to the ground after recovering an onside kick late in the fourth quarter sealing a 23-16 Patriots victory over the Miami Dolphins.  On a day that seemed to flip the script on the Patriots' season, the Dolphins miscues turned out to be their undoing.  A botched punt, roughing...

Game Recap: Patriots Crush Jets 49-19
November 23rd, 2012 at 9:08 PM
The Patriots got just about everything they could handle from a New York Jets team, which played them to a draw all the way through the end of the first quarter eventually leading to a 49-19 New England Patriots victory. QB Ryan Mallett closed out the final drive with a handoff...

Game Recap: Patriots Rout Colts 59-24
November 19th, 2012 at 2:41 AM
In their first ever meeting Tom Brady got the best of Indianapolis rookie quarterback Andrew Luck as the New England Patriots ran away with a 59-24 victory.   Brady was excellent completing 24 of his 35 passes for 331 yards, three touchdowns, and no interceptions while Luck completed only 27 out...

Patriots Barely Get by Bills 37-31
November 12th, 2012 at 9:03 AM
It took a couple of late Bills turnovers deep in Patriot territory and a myriad of Buffalo penalties for the Patriots to fend off their division rival Buffalo Bills 37-31. The Patriots were heavily favored and looked like it at the beginning of the game as they jumped out to a...

New England Patriots Defeated by the Underdog New York Giants in the Super Bowl Again
February 5th, 2012 at 10:59 PM
***PHOTO1*** The New England Patriots saw their sensational season end in heartbreak as Eli Manning and the New York Giants pulled out yet another nail-biting, heart-stopping, come-from-behind, fourth quarter victory to win Super Bowl XLVI 21-17 in front of 68,658 fans at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday night....

New England Patriots Clip Baltimore Ravens Wings to Win AFC Champiosnhip and Head to the Super Bowl
January 22nd, 2012 at 7:08 PM
***PHOTO1*** The defense made the big late fourth-quarter plays and a 32-yard field goal attempt that would have tied the score with seconds remaining sailed wide as the host New England Patriots edged the Baltimore Ravens 23-20 to win the American Football Championship and advance to the Super Bowl in Indiannapolis on February 5.  The Patriots defense, led by Pro Bowl nose tackle and captain Vince Wilfork as he made key play after key play, stepped up when it...

New England Patriots Blow Out the Denver Broncos to Advance to AFC Championship
January 14th, 2012 at 11:36 PM
In a game that hardly lived up to all of the hype, the New England Patriots destroyed the post season dreams of the Denver Broncos by blowing them out of Gillette Stadium 45-10 on Saturday night in an American Conference divisional contest. By winning the game, the Patriots also garnered the right to host the winner of Sunday's other divisional game between the Houston Texans...

New England Patriots Beat Bills 49-21 and Nail Down #1 Seed
January 1st, 2012 at 5:24 PM
***PHOTO1*** The New England Patriots overcame a three touchdown first quarter deficit and stormed back to score 49 unanswered points as they beat the Buffalo Bills 49-21 at home on Sunday. With the win, they finished the regular season with a 13-3 record and earned the top seed in the American Football Conference and home field advantage throughout the post season. The Patriots have...

New England Patriots Come from Behind to Down Miami Dolphins 27-24
December 24th, 2011 at 5:31 PM
Whatever head coach Bill Belichick said at halftime surely worked wonders as the New England Patriots overcame an embarrassing 17-0 deficit at intermission and then scored 27 unanswered points to defeat the Miami Dolphins 27-24 at Gillette Stadium on the day before Christmas. With the victory, New England improved to 12-3 and secured a first round bye in the playoffs, but didn't ice home field advantage all the way through because the...

New England Patriots Dispense with Denver Broncos and Win Division
December 18th, 2011 at 9:34 PM
The New England Patriots overcame a typically slow start to blow the Denver Broncos out of Mile High Stadium 41-23 while preventing quarterback Tim Tebow from engineering another miraculous come-from-behind win. On Sunday the Patriots proved to be the tougher team in the fourth quarter and in the process, they improved to 11-3 and captured the American Conference East title for the ninth time in the last 11 years. ***PHOTO1*** "It never gets old. Never," nose tackle and defensive captain Vince Wilfork said about...

New England Patriots Escape with 34-27 Win Over Washington Redskins
December 11th, 2011 at 6:03 PM
***PHOTO1*** Record-setting Rob Gronkowski couldn't be stopped and Jerod Mayo and the much-maligned defense stepped up big when it mattered most as the New England Patriots hung on to eke out a narrow and hard-fought 34-27 victory over the Washington Redskins at Fed Ex field in Landover, Maryland on Sunday. Because the New York Jets steam rolled the Kansas City Chiefs, the Patriots couldn't claim the American Conference East title but they did advance to 10-3 to keep...

Monday Musings from New England Patriots Head Coach Bill Belichick
December 5th, 2011 at 10:15 PM
***PHOTO1*** Pick up the sports section in the newspaper, tune in to one of the sports talk radio shows, watch any of the sports wrap up shows on television, peruse the internet or crank up your social media account in New England. The lead topic of discussion being debated is the New England Patriots defense and if the unit is really as bad as it looked when giving up 21...

New England Patriots Beat the Indianapolis Colts 31-24 for Fourth Straight Victory
December 4th, 2011 at 5:06 PM
***PHOTO1*** Even with the fourth quarter let down on both sides of the ball, the New England Patriots 31-24 victory over the still-winless Indianapolis Colts was never really in doubt as they improved to 9-3 in a game that was a classic case of the final number on the scoreboard not being indicative of the true nature of the action on the field. With the Colts (0-12) and new...

New England Patriots Pound Philadelphia Eagles 38-20
November 27th, 2011 at 8:57 PM
The Dream Team? Not so much after the way the New England Patriots rolled to an easy 38-20 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles in the City of Brotherly Love on Sunday and improved to 8-3 while remaining as one of the top three teams in the American Conference. ***PHOTO1*** Quarterback Tom Brady was masterful, completing 24...

New England Patriots Crush Kansas City Chiefs 34-3
November 21st, 2011 at 11:50 PM
Welcome to the National Football League, Tyler Palko. The Kansas City Chiefs first-year quarterback, who was making his first start, received a rough introduction at Gillette Stadium as he and his teammates were crushed by the New England Patriots 34-3 in front of the national Monday Night Football audience. ***PHOTO1*** Although the game wasn't...