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Big Blue’s Black Eye
By Jason Keidel It’s hard to find solace in losses, especially in the emergency room schedule of the NFL. Especially to an old-world coach like Tom Coughlin. But the Giants can say with certainty that...
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NFL Announces Leading Vote-Getters For 2016 Pro Bowl
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Deflategate didn’t seem to affect Pro Bowl voters, as Patriots QB Tom Brady leads all players with a total of 342,471 votes so far. The 2016 Pro Bowl will be played on January...
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NFL Pro Bowl Voting Update; Brady, Newton Lead
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady received 701,554 fan votes to lead all NFL All-Stars in balloting for the 2016 Pro Bowl. Fan voting for the Pro Bowl ended on...
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CBS Sports’ Boomer Esiason: Nothing Better To Belichick Than Beating Jets
By Danny Cox The NFL Playoffs are quickly approaching and teams like the New York Jets and New England Patriots are both competing for playoff positioning. The Jets are still fighting to make sure they...
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Chiefs Will Test Patriot Mettle In Divisional Round
By Sam McPherson The Kansas City Chiefs are moving on in the AFC playoffs for the first time in decades and their reward for first-round postseason success is a road trip to take on the defending Super...
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Patriots Downplay Hospitalization Of Chandler Jones
By Gregory Hunt Some NFL teams are magnets for drama. The Dallas Cowboys are one such team, as they regularly attract negative attention due to its media-loving owner Jerry Jones and controversial...
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Patriots Will Face Chiefs With Relatively Healthy Team
By Gregory Hunt Despite losing the number-one AFC playoff seed on the final weekend of the regular season, it was a stroke of good fortune for the New England Patriots to still come away with a...
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Patriots Team Grades: Workmanlike Effort Ends Chiefs Streak
By Gregory Hunt The New England Patriots are heading to their fifth consecutive AFC Championship Game thanks to a 27-20 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in a Divisional Playoff game Saturday at...
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Patriots Can Blame Belichick For Trip To Denver
The Patriots could've had home-field advantage in the playoffs. But Bill Belichick, their legendary coach, got careless at the end of the season.
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Brady Looks Forward To His 17th Meeting Against Manning
By Gregory Hunt Sunday’s AFC Championship game between the New England Patriots and the Denver Broncos will be the 17th time that New England quarterback Tom Brady and Denver quarterback Peyton Manning...
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NFL Playoffs: Championship Predictions
By Jason Keidel The NFL’s 32 teams have been chiseled down to four. And a fitting final four they are, with the top two seeds in each conference playing each other. And while the semifinals are white...
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Team Grades: Patriots Can’t Overcome Relentless Broncos Pass Rush
By Gregory Hunt In a match-up between Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, two of the greatest quarterbacks ever to play in the NFL, Sunday’s AFC Championship Game turned out to be a defensive struggle in...
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Team Grades: Denver Defense Punches Golden Ticket To Super Bowl 50
By Mark Schiff In the end, in a word: Defense. For all of the hype surrounding the 17th and presumably final meeting between star quarterbacks Peyton Manning and Tom Brady, the AFC Championship between...
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Are The Patriots The Best NFL Team Of This Generation?
By Jason Keidel A few eyebrows arched when the Patriots shipped Chandler Jones to Arizona for Jonathan Cooper. But only a few. Most teams would be questioned for such a move. Rabid pass rushers don’t...
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Keidel: Tom Brady Suspended… Get Over It, Pats Fans
By Jason Keidel With one sentence, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals did something that NFL defenses have failed to do for 15 years: knock Tom Brady out of a football game. Brady has often been...
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Keidel: The Tom Brady Era Isn’t Over In New England
By Jason Keidel Before the game balls were even handed out, you could sense the growing murmur. Pundits were sharpening their pens and tongues, ready for fresh, hot takes. Ready to play Monday morning...
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Keidel: Bills Game Proves Just How Important Brady Is To Patriots
By Jason Keidel You never hope for harm, even among the enemy. So even the most ardent Patriots hater doesn’t wish any ailment upon Jimmy Garoppolo or Jacoby Brissett. But, both did get hurt during...
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Keidel: Can Steelers Win Without Big Ben?
By Jason Keidel With one misguided assertion, Jerry Krause went from heralded architect of the greatest NBA dynasty since the ’60s Celtics to an out-of-touch executive who forgot the obvious,...
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Keidel: Seahawks-Patriots Super Bowl Rematch Worth The Hype
By Jason Keidel Whenever an NFL game is labeled a Super Bowl rematch, it’s often a reach, a hyperbolic way to get butts in the seats and eyes on the flatscreen. Especially in a league as transient as...
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Rams Opponent Profile: Patriots Present Difficult Challenge For Los Angeles...
By Sam McPherson It doesn’t get any easier for the Los Angeles Rams in Week 13 coming off a 49-21 thumping at the hands of the New Orleans Saints. Still reeling from the wounds inflicted in Louisiana,...
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