Patriots Are Reluctant to Solve Limp Mystery
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Officially, the New England Patriots say they know nothing about an injury to Tom Bradyâs right foot. Unofficially, something seems wrong.
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Strategy? What strategy? To the casual observer, there appears to be no strategy when it comes to the Patriots' kickoff coverage.
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Will using complex statistical analysis give the New England Patriots an edge at game time?
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The Patriots, with an aging, slowing group of linebackers, have struggled against good runners like Joseph Addai, Willis McGahee and Willie Parker this season.
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It's all about the game this week. As the Patriots prepare for Saturday night's playoff test against the visiting Jaguars, it would be difficult to find anyone within the franchise who hasn't adopted that singular focus.
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New Englandâs win offered a succinct reply to those who wonder whether their three championships were tainted by the camera controversy.
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With coach Bill Belichick mired in a messy affair that could be titled, "Football, Spies, and Videotape," Patriots players deflected cheating charges yesterday, saying that ultimately it's what happens on the field that decides games.
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The dissecting of the Patriots' Super Bowl loss will probably never end, but now that spring training has arrived, at least New England sports fans have another team to which they can turn their attention.
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Like passes from Peyton Manning's record-setting arm, the questions about how the Patriots intend to slow down the Indianapolis Colts were flying at Bill Belichick yesterday.
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The only perfect thing about the Patriots was their record. Now they don't even have that. Dominant in the first half of the season, they survived some close calls afterward. But that finally caught up with them in the Super Bowl and left them facing an offseason of what-ifs and what-will bes.
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They comprised one of the steadiest units in the NFL last season, so much so that the Patriots' offensive line made their lineup changes at the beginning and end of the season go virtually unnoticed.
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FOXBOROUGH -- If you're going to measure the performance of the Patriots running backs by just their running yesterday you're going to be disappointed.
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Big passing plays have been a big problem for the Patriots this year.
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For a team with few detectable flaws, the Patriotsâ run defense, ranked 10th in the league, has occasionally been suspect, populated by an over-30 set of linebackers.
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Until now, all that spying was mostly mischief that usually was more smoke than fire. But what Bill Belichick and the Patriots did was a bonfire not normally associated with a model franchise.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Judgment Day is here for Deion Branch and the Patriots, and nothing that happened last night at Giants Stadium altered the reality that without him, New England's deep-passing game is, to be kind, impaired.
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It all depends on the viewpoint. One view looks solely at the bottom line. The Patriots entered their regular-season finale against the Giants tied for the fewest points allowed in the NFL, then proceeded to surrender a season-high 35 - 28 coming on defense and 7 on special teams.