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Getty Images The NFL announced the eight finalists for this year’s Art Rooney Sportsmanship Award on Tuesday. It is the seventh year that the league has given out the award to the player “who best demonstrates the qualities of on-field sportsmanship, including fair play, respect for the game...

Getty Images The Dolphins will be monitoring multiple injuries on the offensive side of the ball this week, including the one wide receiver DeVante Parker picked up in last Sunday’s loss to the Chiefs. Parker was limited to 27 snaps due to a hamstring injury. Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports...

Getty Images On Monday, Patriots quarterback Cam Newton said he wasn’t going to throw Josh McDaniels under the bus when asked about the offensive coordinator’s play calling. McDaniels returned the favor on Tuesday morning. “As far as Cam is concerned, I couldn’t ask anything more of him,”...

Getty Images With three games left in the regular season, the Patriots are 6-7 and won’t win the AFC East for the first time in over a decade. A significant part of what’s gone wrong for New England this year has been its passing attack. After nearly two decades with Tom Brady (and a year of...

Getty Images A few days after browbeating the Chargers 45-0, the Patriots came back to the Southern California stadium and lost to the Rams 24-3. New England could barely muster anything offensively, and the Patriots inserted Jarrett Stidham at quarterback in the fourth quarter to relieve Cam...

Getty Images The Patriots are 6-7, four games behind the Bills with three to play. Thus, for the first time since 2008, the Patriots will not win the AFC East. A wild-card playoff berth is a longshot, so New England likely also misses the postseason for the first time since 2008. The Patriots...

Getty Images Patriots receiver and special-teams savant Matthew Slater joined the team in 2008. The Patriots have won at least 10 games every year of his career. For the first time in his 13 NFL seasons, Slater has to find the motivation to essentially play out the string. “This is new...

Getty Images The NFL fined Chargers defensive lineman Joey Bosa for a low hit on Patriots quarterback Cam Newton, Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports. The fine was for $15,000 for roughing the passer. Officials penalized Bosa for roughing the passer with 9:41 remaining in the third quarter. The...

Getty Images A recent story published by SI.com took a detailed and careful look at the questions surrounding the curious and sudden rise of Texans executive V.P. of football operations and interim G.M. Jack Easterby. On Friday, Texans interim coach Romeo Crennel was asked for his reaction...

Getty Images After the Patriots lost 24-3 to the Rams on Thursday, New England head coach Bill Belichick said quarterback Cam Newton remains the team’s starter. That’s after Newton completed just nine of his 16 passes for 119 yards, had just 16 yards rushing, got sacked four times, and threw a...

Getty Images Rams head coach Sean McVay wasn’t interested in looking backward after Thursday night’s win over the Patriots. McVay was asked whether he drew extra satisfaction from beating the Patriots after losing to them in Super Bowl LIII and said that nothing will “get back the hurt and the...

USA Today Sports For much of the season, the Rams have employed a rotation at running back. That seems to be over with the emergence of Cam Akers. The second-round pick rushed for 171 yards in Thursday’s 24-3 victory over the Patriots — the most rushing yards of any rookie this season. Per NFL...

USA TODAY Sports After graduating from high school, Tom Brady left California for Michigan and then landed in New England, where he stayed for 20 years. Now that he’s spending the first half of December in warm-weather climate for the first time since his late teens, he’s not keen on spending...

Getty Images During the 2019 playoffs, the 49ers embraced the run and abandoned the pass because: (1) the run was working; and (2) the pass wasn’t. On Thursday night, the Rams showed flashes of what the 49ers did in January. With rookie running back Cam Akers having a career night, gaining 171...

Getty Images On Sunday night against the Broncos, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes had 318 passing yards. In the last three games combined, Patriots quarterback Cam Newton has 272 passing yards. Total. From 84 against the Cardinals to 69 against the Chargers to 119 against the Rams, Newton...

Getty Images The Patriots have three trips into the red zone. They have three points. Cam Newton threw a pick-six; the Patriots were stopped on downs; and Nick Folk kicked a 29-yard field goal. Thus, New England has little to show for the first half when it gained 162 yards and had a takeaway...

Getty Images Cam Akers had only 50 carries for 201 yards in his first eight games in the NFL. He has 50 carries for 305 yards and two touchdowns in two games plus three quarters. The Rams rookie, a second-round choice out of Florida State, has his first career 100-yard game with a quarter left...

Getty Images With the Patriots trailing 24-3 with 10:12 remaining in the fourth quarter, Jarrett Stidham replaced Cam Newton at quarterback. Newton was questionable entering Thursday Night Football with an abdominal injury that Jay Glazer of FOX Sports reported before the game has “caused him...

USA TODAY Sports For the second week in row the New England Patriots were a part of a blowout result at SoFi Stadium. But this week they were on the wrong side of the ledger. Cam Akers rushed for 171 yards, Jared Goff threw for a touchdown and ran for one as well, and Kenny Young delivered a...

Getty Images Cam Newton may not have finished Thursday night’s game against the Los Angeles Rams, but head coach Bill Belichick said nothing has changed regarding Newton’s status as the team’s starter. “Great question. Really glad you asked that. Cam is our quarterback,” said Belichick...