Bill Belichick

NFL free agency is finally slowing down after a frenzy over the first few days of the new league year. Here’s a look at winners and losers from the transaction period.

The Lombardi Trophy might get hoisted at the end of the Super Bowl but the jewelry worn around the finger has become more and more flashy through the years.

From 2001 through 2019, the Buffalo Bills lost 34 of their 38 games against the New England Patriots. Something notable happened following the 2019 season — namely, Tom Brady’s departure for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers — which has led to the Bills winning three of four regular season meetings with the Patriots. What transpired on Saturday night at Highmark Stadium…

Six teams are looking for new head coaches after the 2021 season, but which coaches have been with their current teams the longest?

Struggling in Miami against the Dolphins is nothing new for Patriots quarterbacks, even for Tom Brady. But Mac Jones did nothing to indicate things will be different for him in south Florida in the regular season finale on Sunday, playing better late but still committing two turnovers in a 33-24 loss which ensures the Patriots will enter the postseason as…

The AFC East no longer runs through Foxboro. The Patriots no longer control their own destiny in their divisional race with the Buffalo Bills following a 33-21 loss at Gillette Stadium on Sunday, which moves the Bills back atop the division despite the team’s sharing identical 9-6 records. Buffalo’s 4-1 record within the division tops New England’s 3-2 mark....

Never in the 62-year history of the Boston/New England Patriots has the team attempted as few passes as it did on Monday Night Football against the Buffalo Bills. The commitment to keeping the ball out of the wind, which gusted upwards of 50 mph at times at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York played out to perfection for the…

Many people have taken to comparing this year’s version of the Patriots to the 2001 team with a young Tom Brady in recent weeks. There’s really no similarities between the two, because these Patriots are suddenly blowing doors off opponents in a way the team of two decades ago almost never did. New England’s latest triumph, a 45-7 decision...

Call it the Adrian Phillips revenge game. The special teams standout shined on defense against his former team, including a 26-yard interception return for a touchdown in the fourth quarter for the Patriots that gave the team a lead it wouldn’t relinquish in a 27-24 win over the Los Angeles Chargers Sunday at SoFi Stadium. With the win, the...

After Jon Gruden’s resignation, Bill Belichick and Pete Carroll are atop the list of the NFL’s highest paid coaches in 2021.

It’s the first bye week of the season, plus two more teams head over to London for Week 6 of NFL action.

The sure sign for Red Sox manager Alex Cora that things are getting serious in the baseball playoffs: He got a text from Patriots coach Bill Belichick wishing him luck. “That’s like the highlight of the year,” Cora gushed before the AL Division Series against Tampa Bay on Sunday. “I got the text from this random area code. That’s...

The New England Patriots are releasing Pro Bowl cornerback Stephon Gilmore, with coach Bill Belichick saying in a statement that the star and the team had “agreed to part ways” on Wednesday. The Carolina Panthers later said they’d traded for the veteran, sending a 2023 sixth-round pick to New England. The two teams face off in Week 9 in North…

New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick reportedly paid a visit to the visitor’s locker room after the team’s 19-17 loss to Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sunday night.

Mac Jones engineered a pair of fourth quarter scoring drives to give the Patriots lead, but couldn’t get them close enough for a third. Nick Folk missed a 56-yard field goal in the driving rain off the left upright with less than a minute to go, enabling Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to escape Gillette Stadium with...

Julian Edelman’s Tom Brady/Bill Belichick video will get NFL fans hyped up for Sunday night’s Week 4 game between the Patriots and Buccaneers.

Rob Gronkowski is not making the trip to New England and will not play in Sunday night’s Patriots-Buccaneers game. Gronkowski exited the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ Week 3 game with a painful rib injury and didn’t practice all week. NFL Media’s Ian Rappaport had reported that the injury was not “a major one” and he was likely going to play Sunday. “There is no...

Tom Brady and the defending Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers head into Foxboro on Sunday Night Football to face former coach Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots. The Buccaneers are 2-1 after losing to the Los Angeles Rams last week, while the Patriots sit at just 1-2 after falling to the New Orleans Saints. It will be...

Tom Brady is returning to New England when the Buccaneers take on the Patriots. Joining Shaquille ONeal and Peyton Manning, here are the 10 most memorable homecomings.

Patriots coach Bill Belichick denied a report Wednesday that he refused to meet with Tom Brady before the legendary quarterback left New England to join the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. According to an excerpt from ESPN senior writer Seth Wickersham’s upcoming book, “It’s Better to Be Feared,” before Brady departed he reportedly wanted to say goodbye to Belichick in person,...