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Patriots in good shape with draft preparation
Since most teams’ seasons ended well before the Patriots’ did, others were able to send full staffs to college all-star games to get a jump on draft preparations.
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1 day ago
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With Brady, there's no time to waste
It’s been almost a week since Super Bowl XLVI and the wounds are still raw, an entire region has replayed and reviewed the 21-17 loss to the Giants over and over like a doleful Adele song. But it’s time to put the DVR remote down and move on because there is no time to sob over lost Super Bowls.
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2 days ago
Gronkowski has surgery
Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski, whose effectiveness in Super Bowl XLVI was limited (two catches, 26 yards) by a high left ankle sprain suffered two weeks before in the AFC Championship game, yesterday underwent arthroscopic surgery.
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2 days ago
Faulk contemplates if it’s time to retire
After getting home from Indianapolis, his emotions at not being in uniform for Super Bowl XLVI and the reality of his team’s loss still fresh, Kevin Faulk was talking with a friend when he looked at a picture of Troy Brown.
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2 days ago
Sounds that speak volumes
Super Bowl XLVI referee John Parry summed up Wes Welker’s fourth-quarter drop in three words that now ring painfully true for those around the Patriots: “That’s the game.’’
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3 days ago
Root of the matter: DeOssie in the clear
His son plays for the franchise with which he built his most cherished football memories, at the same position he played 21 years earlier on a championship team.
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3 days ago
The entire offense dropped the ball
For all the talk about what the Patriots did or didn’t do in their 21-17 loss to the Giants in Super Bowl XLVI - be it losing time of possession, not getting three fumbles, or this or that penalty - the fact is, they held a 17-12 lead and the ball with 6:37 to play in the third quarter and failed to score any more points.
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4 days ago
Fateful pass a rare type for Welker
It will be replayed and argued over in New England for the next 50 years and perhaps beyond.
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5 days ago
Breaking it all down
Though the Patriots’ loss in Super Bowl XLVI still smarts for players and fans, the coaches and front office staff have little choice but to turn the page toward the 2012 season. The Senior Bowl and East-West Shrine Game, the two events that typically kick off draft season in earnest, have already been held, and the annual NFL Combine will begin Feb. 22.
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5 days ago
Giants return home
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Smiles were the order of the day, as the Super Bowl-champion New York Giants returned home, victorious once again.
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6 days ago
Manning, Coughlin are content
INDIANAPOLIS - With two Super Bowl wins (both over the Patriots) and two game Most Valuable Player awards, Giants quarterback Eli Manning has bragging rights over his older brother, Peyton, who was named MVP when the Colts beat the Bears in Super Bowl XLI.
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6 days ago
On balance, all things are not equal
In the aftermath of something like this, the truth sits somewhere in the rubble, buried in piles of questions and missed opportunities. Sifting through the debris can take some time, and in the NFL, there is rarely any rest for the weary.
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6 days ago
Situation hard to grasp for Welker
INDIANAPOLIS - No Patriot, at least visibly, took Sunday’s Super Bowl loss any harder than Wes Welker.
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6 days ago
In the end, Giant difference in talent
INDIANAPOLIS - The Patriots didn’t lose Super Bowl XLVI. The more talented team won it.
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6 days ago
Lasting impressions
FOXBOROUGH - On a personally and professionally painful day, Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick took a few moments to reflect on a Patriots’ season that was at a crossroads at the midway point but ended with the team as AFC champions, and a crushing Super Bowl defeat.
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6 days ago
Indianapolis has become city that doesn’t sleep
Indianapolis was once called Naptown and India-No-Place for a reason.
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7 days ago
BC program well-represented
Boston College football alumni certainly had to be beaming after last night’s Super Bowl.
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7 days ago
Rookie Mallett taking it all in
Ryan Mallett sat out the 2008 season after he transferred from Michigan to Arkansas, so the frustration of practicing all week without any hope of playing is familiar to him.
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7 days ago
Assistant living right where Pope wants to be
Mike Pope had to reach deep into his memory banks to count all the head coaches he’s worked for in his 29 years in the NFL.
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7 days ago
Bradshaw is a reluctant hero after late TD
When the Giants broke the huddle Eli Manning knew there was something he had neglected to say. The quarterback knew he should have talked to Ahmad Bradshaw . So he started yelling.
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7 days ago
Manningham's catch put them over the top
Marion Manningham’s eyes were glued to her son as Eli Manning threw the pass. As the ball followed Mario Manningham to a spot where two defenders were closing in, with the sideline closing in, where the measure between immortality and forgotten was oh-so-thin.
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7 days ago
In the line of fire, a cool head
Tom Coughlin knew the drill. “You lose a game in New York, and you’re fired,’’ he said. “Or burned at the stake.’’
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7 days ago
Once again, team's deferment plan paid big dividends
The Patriots have elected to defer when they win the coin toss, dating to a couple of seasons ago.
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7 days ago
Among the elite, Manning states case
It would have been impossible for Eli Manning not to hear it. He was surrounded by it from the second the Giants bus pulled into the Indianapolis Downtown Marriott last Monday.
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7 days ago
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