Daily news and links for Wednesday.
TEAM TALK
- Game Preview: Patriots at Bears. Series history, Scouting the matchups, Tale of the tape.
- Broadcast Info: How to watch/listen to Patriots-Bears.
- Transactions: Patriots make a series of roster moves.
- Paul Perillo’s NFL Notes: Checking in at the midway point.
- Sights and Sounds: Week 9 vs. Tennessee Titans. (3.29 min. video)
- Patriots Unfiltered: Titans loss, Drake Maye, trade deadline. (2 hours)
LOCAL LINKS
- Karen Guregian relays Drake Maye downplaying his upcoming rookie showdown with Caleb Williams.
- Tom E. Curran tries to make sense of Patriots’ lack of trade deadline activity and what it means going forward.
- Andrew Callahan says the Patriots’ next move after the trade deadline is obvious: It’s time for them to play the kids
- Alex Barth shares three thoughts on the Patriots, the NFL trade deadline, and wide receivers.
- Nick Goss gives us the updated list of Patriots’ 2025, 2026 draft picks after trade deadline.
- Tom E. Curran writes how Drake Maye’s play Sunday should ignite a sense of urgency for the Patriots to clean up the rest of their operation.
- WEEI guest Boomer Esiason believes Drake Maye ‘has all the makings’ of a ‘really good’ QB.
- Doug Kyed reports the Patriots swapped a center for a linebacker on the practice squad as trade deadline passes.
- Doug Kyed reports the team waived guard Zachary Thomas to make room for new guard Tyrese Robinson.
- Mark Daniels reports the Patriots add former starting LB Monty Rice to practice squad.
- Dan Kelley helps us get to know new Patriot, LB Monty Rice.
- Karen Guregian says the Drake Maye Show rocks. Now the Pats need to crush the offseason.
- Karen Guregian issues her Patriots report card to see how the team grades out halfway through the season.
- Alex Barth issues his Patriots midseason position-by-position report card: Offense – Defense & special teams.
- Pats Procrastination podcast: Clare and Chudders break down the week nine loss to the Titans. (36 min.)
NATIONAL NEWS
- Jori Epstein (Yahoo! Sports) Trade deadline winners and losers: While Chiefs and Lions bolster Super Bowl hopes, Cowboys sacrifice only their future.
- Judy Battista (NFL.com) NFL trade deadline: Who are the biggest winners and losers?
- Gilberto Manzano (SI) NFL Fact or Fiction: Chiefs will finish the regular season 17–0; Plus, Will the Lions have a cakewalk to the Super Bowl?
- Frank Schwab (Yahoo! Sports) NFL midseason: Top 5 games of the first half, and top 5 matchups yet to come.
- Pete Prisco (CBS Sports) Midseason All-Pro team: Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry headline best performers at halfway point.
- Mike Florio (ProFootballTalk) Through nine weeks, nine teams have only two wins. “Parity shmarity.”
- Cody Benjamin (CBS Sports) Week 10 QB Power Rankings. Drake Maye 23rd. “The first-round rookie has been predictably uneven when throwing it deep. But at least he has the skill set to push the ball, bringing some much-needed energy to a rebuilding Patriots group.”
- Charles Robinson (Yahoo! Sports) QB Room, Week 9: Which quarterbacks won and lost the trade deadline, plus midseason awards and 2nd-half predictions
- Matt Johnson (SportsNaut) NFL coaches on the hot seat 2024: Why Doug Pederson, Antonio Pierce could be next NFL coaches fired.
- Nora Princiotti (The Ringer) NFL midseason head coach hot seat tiers.
- Jimmy Traina (SI) Traina Thoughts Mailbag: Brady vs. Romo, Ian Eagle’s future and More.