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Getty Images Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is, at age 42, the oldest non-kicker in the NFL. But he doesn’t think this will be his last season. Or his next to last. Or his next to next to last. Asked today on WEEI if he still plans to play until he’s 45 years old, Brady answered, “Yeah, I do...

Getty Images Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown is not the only NFL star who’s being forced to change helmets this season. Just the only one who’s threatening to quit football over it. Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has also been forced to change helmets this season as the NFL eliminates...

Getty Images The Patriots love bringing in tight ends, and they’ve added another. Eric Saubert was traded from the Falcons to the Patriots today. The Falcons are getting only a conditional seventh-round pick, which likely means they were about to place Saubert on waivers, and the Patriots, who...

Getty Images Shortly after Patriots quarterback Tom Brady agreed to a new contract with the team that provided a path to free agency in 2020, there was word that he put his Brookline house on the market for $39.5 million. If one wanted to connect the two things, one could find that Brady was...

Getty Images In addition to giving him a raise for the 2019 season, the new deal that quarterback Tom Brady signed with the Patriots allows him a path to free agency in 2020 by voiding the final two years of the deal at the end of the 2019 league year and barring the Patriots from using the...

Getty Images The Lions finally will be getting at practice their biggest free-agent acquisition. Former Patriots defensive lineman Trey Flowers has been activated from the Physically Unable to Perform list, the team announced on Saturday. Flowers signed a five-year, $90 million deal to make...

Getty Images It may be the preseason, but Patriots coach Bill Belichick already is in midseason stonewalling form. Asked Friday by Tom Curran of NBCSportsBoston.com whether newly-arrived defensive assistant Jerod Mayo is calling the defensive plays, Belichick answered with a non-answer...

Getty Images Undrafted rookie wide receiver Jakobi Meyers has been one of the stars of Patriots training camp, but there have often been players who draw positive reviews in practice before failing to see it carry over to games. Meyers did not have that problem against the Lions on Thursday...

Brian Hoyer is still standing there, so the Patriots have a backup quarterback they can trust to a certain degree. But the next project had a good debut, with rookie Jarrett Stidham turning in a solid performance in the opener against the Lions. The fourth-round rookie was 14-of-24 for 179...

Getty Images The preseason has begun, which means that the significant injuries also will begin. Lions receiver Jermaine Kearse has been carted off with a lower leg injury, early in the first quarter of the game between New England and Detroit. A defensive player fell into Kearse from behind...

It didn’t look good when it happened, and it isn’t good. Lions receiver Jermaine Kearse suffered a broken leg early in the first quarter of Detroit’s preseason opener, according to Ian Rapoport of the NFL. Kearse also reportedly has suffered “associated injuries” to his ankle. The 29-year-old...

An anonymous quote given to four different publications didn’t work. An on-the-record statement with more holes than his team’s roster didn’t work, either. Dolphins owner Stephen Ross finds himself on the receiving end of extensive criticism from Dolphins players, Dolphins fans, and customers...

Getty Images Patriots quarterback Tom Brady received good wishes from many people when he turned 42 years old on August 3, but none came from one of the quarterbacks chasing him in the AFC East. Sam Darnold was asked to take part in a video with other NFL players wishing Brady happy returns...

Getty Images The Patriots made Devin McCourty a first-round draft choice in 2010. Still, the safety faced long odds to play as long as long as he’s played. “It was always a goal – once I got into the league – to play 10 years, so it means a lot,” McCourty said, via Jeff Howe of...

Tom Brady has seen plenty of the Lions already this week, getting significant work during joint practices. So there’s no point in risking him tomorrow. According to Karen Guregian of the Boston Herald, the venerable (which is the nice way of saying old) quarterback will not play in the...

Getty Images A year ago, the Saints liked wide receiver Cameron Meredith enough that they signed him to a free agent contract that guaranteed him $5.4 million. That did not go well. So this week, Meredith signed with the Patriots for nothing guaranteed. According to multiple reports, Meredith...

Regardless of whether quarterback Tom Brady plays for the Patriots in 2020, they’ll be taking a significant salary-cap charge under his name. Based on a report from Albert Breer of SI.com that Brady’s new deal includes a signing bonus of $20.25 million, the proration dynamic pushed two thirds...

Jarrett Stidham isn’t expected to see action in the regular season as a rookie. That gives the fourth-round pick time to learn the position behind Tom Brady and Brian Hoyer, who have a combined 29 seasons of experience. But Stidham is proving a quick study. Andrew Callahan of masslive.com...

Getty Images The Lions are doing their level best to imitate every aspect of the Patriot Way. But a guy they didn’t seem to have any use for has flourished since escaping Detroit and landing in New England. Via Carlos Monarrez of the Detroit Free Press, Patriots coach Bill Belichick showered...

Getty Images Tom Brady has long looked to Julian Edelman as a reliable target for his passes, but the wideout is out with a broken thumb for the time being and that’s led to chances for other receivers to catch the quarterback’s eye. Undrafted rookie Jakobi Meyers has been catching it more...