With the Patriots first training camp practice beginning in just a few minutes, I thought I’d take a look at a couple of roster moves the Patriots made over the last couple of days.
To start, the Patriots released two players; cornerback Jamar Love and offensive lineman Jermail Porter. They finalized a four year contract with [...]
From a recent Associated Press report:
Willie McGinest will consider playing another NFL season if he receives an interesting offer, and he would prefer to get it from the New England Patriots.The 37-year-old McGinest, the two-time Pro Bowl linebacker who won three Super Bowls with New England, acknowledged his interest Saturday during the Hollywood Stars celebrity [...]
Overview
I don’t think there’s any question who Tom Brady’s top two targets will be at the wide receiver position in 2009, with Randy Moss and Wes Welker both returning. But after those two, there are a lot of questions at the wide receiver position, considering the departure of the Patriots’ second outside receiver Jabar Gaffney. [...]
It’s that time of year; prediction season. With mini-camps and OTA’s wrapped up, rosters pretty much finalized, and still a couple of weeks until training camp, I thought I’d take a look at what my predictions are for the 2009 NFL season. The predictions are pretty intense and in-depth, as I included all records, playoff [...]
Over the past 48 hours, the New England Patriots have been really busy completing contracts for their rookies. They have wrapped up deals with Julian Edelman, Sebastian Vollmer, Brandon Tate, and Darryl Richard.
And now, according to Pro Football Talk, they have signed the 40th overall pick of the draft, nose tackle Ron Brace.
Left unsigned are [...]
2nd round draft pick Darius Butler has signed a four year contract with the Patriots, his agent Drew Rosenhaus reports on his Twitter page.
The deal will be for four years, and is particularly interesting because it includes no signing bonus. Instead, it includes a roster bonus of $440,000 and an option bonus for next year [...]
Overview
The Patriots had the sixth ranked rushing attack in 2008, and with nearly the entire core of rushers returning (sans Heath Evans and Lamont Jordan, who departed to the Saints and Broncos via free agency), plus newly acquired Fred Taylor, the Patriots running back group looks to be a force to be reckoned with in [...]
Junior Seau has hinted that he may like to return to the Patriots at some point during the season. Christopher Gasper of the Globe reports:
Junior Seau, who rode to the rescue of the Patriots last December, coming off the street and his surfboard to join New England for the final four games of the regular [...]
Overview
One thing’s for sure, there won’t be a battle for the starting quarterback job this training camp, as a hopefully healthy Tom Brady will be back in pads for the first time in nearly a year. But just because Brady is the starter doesn’t mean there won’t be competition and other storylines at the position.
Projected [...]
