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Getty Images Yet again, Drew Brees stands in the shadow of Tom Brady. Brees, one of the best quarterbacks of all time, isn’t the best quarterback of his generation, thanks in large part to Brady. Brees, like Brady, is on the wrong side of 40. Brees, like Brady, will be a free agent in March...

Getty Images For the first time in his 20-year career, Tom Brady can do whatever he wants to do. So what will he want to do? No one knows, yet. And no one may know, for a while. In the grand scheme of things, the general options are fairly limited. First, he can stay with the Patriots...

Getty Images When it comes to Tom Brady‘s instantly murky football future, everyone will have a guess. Some guesses will be more reliable than others. Tony Romo of CBS, who worked multiple games involving the Patriots this season and who met with Brady in the days preceding the season-ending...

Getty Images Patriots tight end Ben Watson said after Saturday night’s loss to the Titans that it was probably the last game of his NFL career. Watson, who initially planned to retire a year ago before changing his mind and returning to the Patriots, doesn’t think he has it in him to come back...

Getty Images Amid reports that the NFL is poised to discipline the Patriots for Spygate 2 within the next two weeks, the NFL has issued a statement to the contrary. “The investigation is ongoing and there has been no discussion of any potential discipline,” the league said in a statement. “Any...

Getty Images Bill Belichick is coaching his 43rd postseason game, extending his NFL record. Tom Brady is playing in his 41st NFL postseason game, extending his NFL record. They are off to a good start toward making it another next week. The Patriots took the opening kickoff 57 yards in eight...

Getty Images Ryan Tannehill is making his first postseason start. He doesn’t seem fazed. Of course, it helps to have the league’s leading rusher in the backfield with you. After the Patriots opened with a 57-yard field goal drive, the Titans answered with a 12-play, 75-yard touchdown drive...

Getty Images The Patriots led for most of the first half. They don’t lead at halftime. New England was up 10-7 and at the 1-yard line late in the second quarter. The Patriots didn’t get a touchdown on three runs inside the Titans 2-yard line, and Derrick Henry ran Tennessee to a touchdown with...

Getty Images Was it Tom Brady‘s final home game at Gillette Stadium? If it was, it was not the way Brady, the Patriots or Patriots fans wanted to see it end. The Patriots quarterback sat on the bench for 2:55 of the final 3:10 as time ran out on New England’s season and perhaps on Brady’s...

Getty Images The Patriots pick near the bottom of the draft order every year, but one of the ways they manage to replenish their roster season after season is by acquiring compensatory picks. And this year will be no exception. Although the NFL has not yet announced the compensatory picks for...

Getty Images Titans wide receiver Kalif Raymond‘s chances of playing in Saturday night’s game against the Patriots are trending in the wrong direction. Raymond was listed as questionable to play on Thursday’s injury report, but the team revised his outlook for the game on Friday. He’s now...

Getty Images Another coaching carousel, another round of speculation as to whether Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels will finally leave the Patriots, again. He’s a candidate for the three current vacancies (the vacancy in Dallas still isn’t vacant, yet), and one of them seems like...

Getty Images When Patriots quarterback Tom Brady takes the field on Saturday night against the Titans, he’ll add to several of the career postseason records he records he owns. Brady has rewritten the NFL’s playoff records, owning almost every career record a quarterback can own. Here are a...

Getty Images Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels is focused on the Titans right now and he hopes to be focused on the Chiefs next week, but he’ll reportedly be making some time for other teams a week from now under any circumstances. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that McDaniels...

Getty Images The Patriots have been planning for Titans running back Derrick Henry since last Sunday and they may also have to deal with Winter Storm Henry on Saturday night. The storm has dumped significant amounts of rain on parts of the southern United States and is making its way up toward...

Getty Images As the Patriots prepare for their first wild-card game in a decade, everyone needs to be bracing for the possibility that Saturday night’s game at Gillette Stadium will be the last home game of quarterback Tom Brady‘s career with the team. At this point, no one knows what will...

Getty Images The Associated Press has announced the results of this year’s All-Pro voting and two players were selected as first-team choices by all 50 voters. Saints wide receiver Michael Thomas got the unanimous nod after setting a new record for receptions during the 2019 season. Patriots...

Getty Images Time and again, Patriots coach Bill Belichick has maintained a laser focus on the task at hand, declining to address during press conferences topics unrelated to the effort to prepare for and defeat the next opponent. And he still gets opportunities to demonstrate his reluctance to...

Getty Images Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman has been dealing with knee and shoulder ailments for a while, but hasn’t missed a game and said on Thursday that he’s feeling better than he has in weeks. Those are both strong pieces of evidence that Edelman is going to be in the lineup...