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Getty Images Suspended wide receiver Josh Gordon‘s Super Bowl ring will be sold at an upcoming memorabilia auction. Gordon, who received a ring from the Patriots after they won Super Bowl LIII, has placed the ring with Heritage Auctions for its memorabilia auction in August. Although Gordon...

Getty Images It’s officially official: Cam Newton is a member of the Patriots. The quarterback passed his physical and signed his deal, with the team announcing the transaction Wednesday. Newton, 31, spent nine seasons in Carolina before the Panthers released him March 24. He remained on the...

Getty Images Peyton Manning has scored his second victory of the year over Tom Brady. The first came on the golf course. The second came in a competition that required even less effort than swinging a metal club. Under the specific umbrella of NFLPA-related marketing and royalty revenues...

Getty Images The article I posted just before starting on this one pointed out that Tom Brady earned $2.998 million in the fiscal year ending February 29, 2020 in money-for-nothing marketing and royalty payments via the NFL. That, along with the rest of his holdings, did not stop his zealously...

Getty Images Veteran kicker Stephen Gostkowski said in May that he expects to get a chance to make a team in training camp this summer and there may be an opportunity with a team coached by one of his former teammates. Gostkowski used to play with Titans head coach Mike Vrabel in New England...

Getty Images The Patriots have created a little extra cap space for the coming season. Field Yates of ESPN reports that the team has agreed to a revised contract with running back Rex Burkhead. Burkhead’s base salary drops from $2.5 million to $1.05 million with a $500,000 signing bonus...

Getty Images Tom Brady has won a lot of games, including six Super Bowl titles, over the years, but it isn’t a postseason win that he thinks about when it comes to a “perfect night” on the field. Brady said on an episode of the Apple TV+ series Greatness Code that the performance he’s “always...

Getty Images Not many players have received contracts of 10 years or more. Patrick Mahomes has, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports. Contract details have not leaked on the new deal for the Chiefs quarterback yet. But both the amount of money and the number of years will rank among the highest and...

Getty Images It’s a mistake for former Bill Belichick assistants to act like Bill Belichick, who brusque demeanor is backed up by six Super Bowl wins. It’s not a mistake for former Bill Belichick assistants to incorporate lessons learned from Belichick. Giants coach Joe Judge recently told...

Getty Images A vote of NFLPA team representatives last week recommended scrapping preseason games entirely this summer in favor of increased practice time for teams that haven’t worked on the field at all this offseason. The preseason has already been scaled back to two games for each team...

Getty Images Quarterback Cam Newton shared some of his thoughts through Instagram videos this offseason and landing an agreement with the Patriots hasn’t led him to change his habits. Newton’s latest videos went up on Sunday night and was captioned with a “note to self” that included “you are...

Getty Images The Patriots are letting season ticket holders know that they expect the 2020 season to go on, but not like usual. In a message sent to season ticket holders today, the team said it will offer free parking at Gillette Stadium and digital-only tickets in an attempt to make social...

Getty Images Patriots kicker Justin Rohrwasser got some notoriety after the draft when it was revealed that he had a tattoo of the logo of the Three Percenters, a far-right militia group. Rohrwasser has had that tattoo removed. Rohrwasser began the removal process immediately after the draft...

Getty Images Cam Newton is taking the final step toward becoming a Patriot. Newton is in New England now to take his physical, at which point he can officially sign his one-year contract with the Patriots, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network. Despite Newton’s injury issues over the last...

Getty Images The terms of the contract that quarterback Cam Newton agreed to with the Patriots include $500,000 in guaranteed money, a $1.05 million base salary and a collection of roster bonuses and incentives that could push the total value of the one-year deal to $7.5 million. 49ers...

Getty Images The Panthers have a new quarterback in Teddy Bridgewater, but their former quarterback is the talk of the NFL. Cam Newton signed a one-year deal with the Patriots on Sunday. At least one of Newton’s former teammates seems genuinely happy to see Newton get a shot to replace Tom...

Getty Images When seeing the initial details regarding Cam Newton‘s bargain-basement contract with the Patriots, some wondered whether the Patriots agreed not to apply the franchise tag in 2021 in order to get him to agree to a compensation package with a maximum upside of $7.5 million. They...

Getty Images The latest punishment of the New England Patriots came with no press release or other announcement from the NFL. Although the league confirmed reports regarding the price to be paid by the Patriots for the taping of the Cincinnati sideline a week before the Patriots were scheduled...

Getty Images In June of 2008, a jewelry store in Attleboro, Massachusetts, was burglarized, and millions of dollars worth of jewelry was stolen — including Super Bowl rings for the Giants, who had beaten the Patriots four months earlier and chose a Massachusetts jeweler to make their rings. It...

Getty Images Playing for the Patriots typically means leaving a significant chunk of a person’s individuality at the door. Which has raised the question of whether Cam Newton will still be Cam Newton while playing for Bill Belichick. There surely will be an adjustment, like there is for anyone...