Refs Foul Up 1st Play of Pats-Bills Game
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Buffalo's game against the New England Patriots didn't get far before the first controversy.
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FOXBOROUGH -- In the end, the Patriots had to bow up to make the Buffalo Bills bow down.
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FOXBOROUGH -- It was a messy, lurching 60 minutes of football. No rhythm. No flow. Lots of turnovers, penalty flags, and injury timeouts. The teams combined for three turnovers in a six-play sequence in the middle of the fourth quarter. New England ran off five plays of offense in the entire third period. Against the Lions . If you'd paid ...
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New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick  has been fined $500,000 for using video to tape an opponent&#39;s  touchline signals, the National Football League said on  Thursday.
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FOXBOROUGH -- Forget the individual performances, the blocked field goal by Richard Seymour that would have put the Bears on the board first, and the 15 tackles between Vince Wilfork (8) and Ty Warren (7), because in the trenches, this game was about the defensive line as a whole. It was about the Patriots stopping the run when it counted, ...
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Adam Vinatieri kicks five field goals, Corey Dillon rushes for 151 yards and the Patriots intercept four passes Drew Bledsoe passes to dump the Bills, 29-6.
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The New England Patriots could face severe sanctions if an NFL investigation rules that coach Bill Belichick violated league rules by videotaping the New York Jets defensive signals during their regular season opener.
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Credit the Carolina Hurricanes for being the first team in the postseason to get the Buffalo Sabres off their game.
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The National Football League has determined that the Patriots violated league rules Sunday when they videotaped the New York Jets' coaches sending signals to players on the field during New England's 38-14 victory at Giants Stadium, ESPN and the NFL Network reported last night.
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Patriots Coach Bill Belichick apologized Wednesday, but would not say for what. He did say he spoke with N.F.L. commissioner Roger Goodell about rules for videotaping events on the sideline.
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Patriots coach Bill Belichick apologizes Wednesday for the commotion surrounding his team following accusations that his club spied on the Jets during New England's season-opening victory in New York.
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FOXBOROUGH -- The end came, for all intents and purposes, at 11:20 last night. It was at that moment, in another losing effort against the Patriots, that Drew Bledsoe was yanked from the game in favor of rookie J.P. Losman, who is still recovering from a broken leg. Bills coach Mike Mularkey's decision to risk his still-healing No. 1 pick ...
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Already on record as calling the Patriots classless, Chargers star LaDainian Tomlinson yesterday ratcheted up his enmity for Bill Belichick &amp; Co. after learning that the NFL is investigating whether the Patriots spied on the Jets in Sunday's victory at the Meadowlands.
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass.  -- Hey, Chad Johnson, Bill Belichick can talk trash, too.
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FOXBOROUGH -- The Patriots pulled within one game of the NFL record for consecutive victories with a 23-12 win over the Cardinals Sunday, but coach Bill Belichick was not satisfied with the team's performance.
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The New England Patriots moved to within one game of a perfect regular season when they crushed the Miami Dolphins 28-7 to become the first NFL team to go 15-0 on Sunday.
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Although they still can earn a bye in the first round of the playoffs with a win today over the Jets, the New England Patriots have problems.