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Brady-Moss hookup, Pats top wildcat Dolphins 27-17
Tom Brady and Randy Moss connected on two highlight-reel plays and the New England Patriots overcame the Miami Dolphins' revived wildcat offense for a 27-17 win Sunday.
Brady-Moss combo overcomes wildcat 27-17
The Miami Dolphins had just spent more than 10 minutes marching to a wildcat touchdown when Randy Moss used one stiff-arm to wipe out their lead.
Injured Crowder, Ferguson inactive for Dolphins
Linebacker Channing Crowder and nose tackle Jason Ferguson are inactive for the Miami Dolphins against the New England Patriots.
Patriots sign DB Arrington from practice squad
The New England Patriots have signed defensive back Kyle Arrington from their practice squad. Arrington was added to the 53-man roster on Sunday before the Patriots game with the Miami Dolphins.
Just another Fish story
Dolphins at Patriots Today, 1 p.m., on Ch. 4 (Line: Patriots by 10 1/2) When the Patriots run New England has the offensive balance that is the goal of every team, in large part because of the versatility of the offensive line. The interior three of center Dan Koppen and guards Logan Mankins and Stephen Neal are tough, strong, and ...
Patriots get to work on the division problem
FOXBOROUGH - The sudden and bitter end to the 2008 Patriots season was decided by games precisely like the one they will play today. Last year’s unfamiliar want for January football in New England occurred because the Patriots, despite 11 victories and a four-game December winning streak, allowed division and conference games to slip from their grasp.
Air and space: Passing game helps Patriots down Dolphins
FOXBOROUGH -- In the rare Patriots season that concluded before the playoffs, no team tormented them more than the Miami Dolphins. Last fall, the Dolphins embarrassed them at their home field with an offense no one had seen before. In the winter, they stood atop the division the Patriots have owned for a decade.
With Miami bearing down, rookie Pryor is next in line
FOXBOROUGH - In his first days as a rookie defensive tackle, the size of the Patriots playbook awed Myron Pryor . “It’s kind of terrifying,’’ he said. But he learned all of it, or at least most of it. After the Patriots made Pryor inactive for Week 1, he has played in every game since.
Moss doesn’t go by the book
Randy Moss , who rarely speaks to the media during the week, chatted briefly yesterday on his way out of the locker room after practice. He reflected on his season, during which he has played through pain and used his unrivaled football instincts to play a more diverse role in the Patriots passing game.
Brady officially rules out influence
The Ravens expressed the feeling after losing to the Patriots a month ago. Dolphins linebacker Joey Porter seconded it.
Green sidelined for Sunday
Speaking at an event to support his charitable foundation, defensive end Jarvis Green said he will not play next week against the Colts and he will miss “a few weeks’’ after undergoing knee surgery at the end of the Patriots’ bye week.
Double duty
In the season opener, Patriots tight end Benjamin Watson caught two touchdowns in the final two minutes of a comeback win against Buffalo. Two weeks later, tight end Chris Baker improvised on a route and caught a 36-yard touchdown pass from Tom Brady against the Falcons, Brady’s longest completion at the time.
Patriots release former Steelers G Simmons
The New England Patriots have released guard Kendall Simmons. Friday's move came after Simmons was inactive for six of his seven games with the team. He played only on special teams on Oct. 18 in a 59-0 win over the Tennessee Titans.
Week off made Warren stronger
The bye week was more than a few days off for Patriots defensive end Ty Warren.
Return to prominence
The story changed for the Dolphins’ Ted Ginn Jr. in one quarter. When the Jets game started last week, he was the benched wide receiver. By the end of Miami’s 30-25 victory, Ginn was that guy who ran two kickoffs back for touchdowns in the same quarter.
Back in game after off week
The mayor of Boston, Tom Menino, keeps telling us he wants to move our city forward. If that in any way means ignoring the past, then I’d like to move forward with the picks below and ignore my effort from last week. Deal?
Porter turns up the hate again
Dolphins linebacker Joey Porter professes that hatred for his opponent makes him a better linebacker. He doesn’t like people. He expects the feeling is mutual. It works for him.
Patriots are getting a healthy dose of Brady
Maybe you’re skeptical that the 1,033 yards and 94 points the Patriots have posted over their last two games are a simple byproduct of playing teams that are a combined 1-13.
Belichick is sold on methods of Parcells
From three decades of experience, much of it firsthand, Bill Belichick knows well what a team run by Bill Parcells looks like. When he watches film of the Miami Dolphins, the tape reveals Parcells’s imprint, all of the familiar aspects.
Brady starts rolling when November begins
Seven games into his comeback season, a healthy Tom Brady has the New England Patriots where he wants them -- on top of the AFC East.
Patriots better balanced now
The return of Tom Brady this season made it tempting to envision a re-creation of the Patriots’ 2007 offense, a barrage of passes whipping around the field, records toppling, points skyrocketing like the score on a pinball machine.
Patriots’ Green has knee surgery
The idea of Jarvis Green going under the knife wasn’t that it would make the Patriots better today. It’s that it would make them better in the long run.
‘The Legendary Lunch’ at the Four’s
You can rub elbows with New England athletes and sportswriters at The Legendary Lunch presented by the Four’s Restaurant and Sports Bar and the Sports Museum. Join former Boston Patriot legends Gino Cappelletti (below), Larry Eisenhauer, and Tom Yewcic for lunch and a panel discussion with WCVB sports anchor Mike Lynch. Attendees will go home with a gift bag (free ...
Patriots' DL Wright may get larger role
Mike Wright's playing time increased after the New England Patriots traded star defensive end Richard Seymour to the Oakland Raiders a week before the season.
There’s nothing new about talking Dolphins
After the week-long verbal jabbing between the Jets and Dolphins, Miami coach Tony Sparano made something clear to his team in a victorious locker room Sunday.
Pats tackle cancer; rested Brady returns to town
Former Patriot Joe Andruzzi was surrounded by his Pats pals in Foxborough last night for the second annual New England Celebrities Tackle Cancer Gala, which benefited the Joe Andruzzi Foundation. The guest list for the event included Tom Brady , who was back in town after a weekend in South Beach with his wife, Gisele Bundchen , and teammates Stephen ...
Belichick, Patriots now much less afraid of Dolphins’ Wildcat
The Patriots, as the Wildcat formation’s unsuspecting first NFL victim, may always be the strategy’s most infamous mark. But one year later, with the Dolphins returning to New England Sunday for the first time since they unveiled the Wildcat, the Patriots have also proved they can stifle it.
Taylor considered signing with Patriots
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Whether Jason Taylor would be a part of next weekend’s Dolphins-Patriots clash in Foxborough, Mass., was never really a question.
Patriots the big winners after Dolphins-Jets AFC East clash
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - If this season’s been a little weird in New England, then what happened yesterday makes all the sense in the world.