Daily news and links for Tuesday
TEAM TALK
- Evan Lazar’s After Further Review: Examining trends on offense and defense for the Pats through the first 4 weeks.
- Mike Dussault’s Patriots Notebook: Slye’s record day, Peppers’ pick stands out.
- Mike Dussault takes a look at whether Kendrick Bourne’s return could spark the offense.
- Paul Perillo tackles this week’s Patriots Mailbag: Buying some time, pass defense woes, when to start Maye; More.
- Press Conference: Jerod Mayo.
- WEEI Patriots Monday: Jerod Mayo – Jacoby Brissett.
LOCAL LINKS
- Dakota Randall reports DT Davon Godchaux didn’t hold back when talking about teammates being “selfish” in recent games. Godchaux believes his teammates are guilty of trying too hard to make big plays to swing games in New England’s favor. “Guys want to make plays. I get it. But everybody got to play, I’m talking about defense, everybody has to play as 11. And everybody got to sacrifice to do what’s best for the team.”
- Karen Guregian argues the Patriots true identity is in plain sight. After being embarrassed in back-to-back games, it’s hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel for the 1-3 Patriots – even with Drake Maye still waiting in the wings.
- Matt Vautour says these Patriots are hard to watch and hard to picture getting better.
- Nick O’Malley says there were 3 things the Patriots couldn’t let happen yesterday. They all did.
- Mark Daniels sees frustrations growing for the stagnant Patriots offense.
- Karen Guregian urges the Patriots to continue to ignore the noise about starting Drake Maye.
- Karen Guregian’s QB Corner: For Jacoby Brissett, it was Groundhog Day in Patriots loss.
- Meghan Ottolini believes New England wasted a chance to play Drake Maye in garbage time yesterday. Maye would have benefitted from the experience in a real NFL game.
- 98.5 Sports Hub guest Mike Reiss explains why the Pats didn’t play Drake Maye Sunday, “they probably wanted to keep the kid out of harm’s way.”
- Jerry Thornton shares his knee-jerk reactions to week 4’s Patriots loss to the 49ers. “Let’s begin with a thought experiment.” /Accurate, lol.
- Mark Morse shares 11 observations after Patriots bow to San Francisco. The Patriots missed Anfernee Jennings and his ability to hold the edge; More.
- Nick O’Malley picks out the biggest takeaways from the loss. Yes, the Patriots lost. It wasn’t particularly close. You could call it a blowout. But I’d argue that it wasn’t an embarrassing one. It easily could have been against a really talented 49ers team.
- Karen Guregian spotlights Joey Slye, who has emerged as a special teams weapon given his reliability and ability to connect from long distance.
- Sara Marshall notes Bill Belichick’s words come back to haunt Rhamondre Stevenson after another turnover. “Ball security is job security.”
- Sara Marshall notes the NFL repeats nonsense by “randomly” testing another Patriots player after Week 4. Joey Slye’s impressive performance apparently caught the eye of the NFL.
- Nick O’Malley rounds up what they’re saying nationally after the Patriots’ ugly loss to the 49ers.
- Nick O’Malley notes Jerod Mayo used his WEEI radio interview to send 2 messages to his players.
- Sara Marshall notes Patriots fans’ growing frustration about the roster and the 2024 season has them putting the blame on Robert Kraft for the situation they’re in.
- Mark Daniels looks at seven veteran tackles the Patriots might be interested in.
- Alex Barth’s Patriots Mailbag: What to do about the offensive line?
- Nick O’Malley mentions how former Patriot Kyle Van Noy blew up the Bills’ bizarre trick play: ‘Old man out there ballin.’
- Jerry Thornton says Aaron Rodgers’ inability to hide his contempt for Robert Saleh’s stupid ideas means he’s a NY Jet at last.
- Locked On Patriots podcast: Mike D’Abate and Cam Stuart (Locked On Sports Boston) discuss whether it is time to go with Drake Maye, the biggest areas of concern on offense and defense, and more. (34 min.)
- Pats Procrastination podcast: Clare and Chudders break down the Week 4 loss. (37 min.)
NATIONAL NEWS
- Josh Alper (ProFootballTalk) Jerod Mayo: Jacoby Brissett is 100 percent our starter.
- Tyler Sullivan (CBS Sports) Patriots’ QB dilemma: Pinpointing optimal windows for New England to have Drake Maye replace Jacoby Brissett.
- Josh Alper (ProFootballTalk) Patriots expect Kendrick Bourne to start practicing this week.
- Jeffri Chadiha (NFL.com) The First Read: Biggest challenge each current NFL division leader faces to maintain lead; MVP rankings.
- Dan Pizzuta (the33rdteam) 1st & 10 Week 4: Ravens’ statement win, Jayden Daniels keeps going, Vikings stay hot.
- Nate Davis (USA Today) 32 things we learned in NFL Week 4.
- Shanna McCarriston (CBS Sports) Five things you may have missed from Week 4: Historic QB starts, big plays on punts, heroic heaves and more.
- Marcus Mosher (the33rdteam) Biggest winners, losers from Week 4.
- Diante Lee (The Ringer) Why has the NFL’s explosive passing game disappeared?
- Matt Verderame (SI) Searching for reasons the NFL’s passing game is in decline.
- Mike Decourcy (Sporting News) Monday Night Football doubleheaders courtesy of ESPN are an admission one game will likely be a bore. /See: Titans-Dolphins. Woof.
- Jordan Dajani (CBS Sports) Tua Tagovailoa injury update: Dolphins QB symptom-free after concussion, could return to play soon, per report. Tagovailoa is eligible to return from IR in Week 8.
- Mike Florio (ProFootballTalk) Tom Brady will work 4:05 p.m. Cardinals-49ers, not Dolphins-Patriots at 1:00 p.m.
- Shanna McCarriston (CBS Sports) Bill Belichick appears to throw shade at Patriots over QB situation: ‘Can’t move the ball and can’t score’. /Stahhp with the “perceived bitterness in his tone’. He just stated the obvious when asked.