The New England Patriots will open the season at home for the third straight year when they host the defending AFC North Champion Cincinnati Bengals. The Patriots, who have won 13 of their past 15 home openers, are a perfect 8-0 at Gillette Stadium in home openers.
With the Patriots finalizing their roster over the weekend, the moves generated most of the buzz this week in the "Ask PFW" mailbag.
In today's Patriots.com News Blitz...Randy Moss comments on contract situation, Belichick talks about Derrick Burgess' release, newly traded safety Jarrad Page gets settled and Tyrone McKenzie rejoins Patriots as 7th man on the 8-man practice squad. It's all in today's Patriots.com News Blitz...
During the weekend of Aug. 7 and 8, the Patriots Platelet Pedalers (PPP) biked across the Bay State, as they've done so many times before, from Sturbridge to Provincetown, at the very tip of Cape Cod. The two-day odyssey is just short of 200 miles total, and it's not exactly a leisurely, scenic ride. But the muscle pain and soreness the riders endure pales in comparison to the true suffering of the cancer patients they're helping save.
Patriots Football Weekly staff writer Erik Scalavino offers notes, quotes and anecdotes from Patriots locker room access on Monday, September 6, 2010.
Patriots Football Weekly staff writer Erik Scalavino offers notes, quotes and anecdotes from Patriots locker room access on Monday, September 6, 2010.
Now that we're back in regular-season mode, we're only allowed access to view 15-20 minutes of Patriots practice per day, most of which consists of the team stretching period. We sometimes get to watch one or two individual/position drills. As a result, practice reports from now on will be extremely brief and limited in detail. With that, here are the newsworthy notes from Monday, Sept. 6
The head coach discusses his latest roster subtractions and additions.
Take a look back 50 years to the Patriots first game on Septmber 6, 1960.
The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation has partnered with UnitedHealthcare and KaBOOM! to sponsor the transformation of a sandpit volleyball court at the Boys and Girls Club in Waltham, Mass. into a playground that was designed by members of the club when they put pen to paper last week.
Another moderately stunning move by BB & Co. today, as former third-round draft choice Tyrone McKenzie has been released. The Patriots needed a roster spot after claiming rookie O-lineman Steve Maneri (6-6, 290) off waivers from the Houston Texans. Maneri signed with the Texans this past May as an undrafted free agent out of Temple University. New England also confirmed its trades for LB Tracy White and S Jarrad Page.
The New England Patriots acquired S Jarrad Page in a trade with the Kansas City Chiefs for undisclosed draft considerations and LB Tracy White in a trade with the Philadelphia Eagles for undisclosed draft considerations.