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Byline: Adam Kilgore Week 18 provided its annual reminder that the motivations of professional football players need not be dissected. It does not matter if a loss means their team [...]

Byline: Mark Maske A handful of NFL teams have unsettled starting quarterback situations as the second round of preseason games arrives this week. The New England Patriots and Denver Broncos [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY NFL draft week has arrived at last, Round 1 set to open this evening in downtown Detroit. Thirteen prospects will be in attendance, including the [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY Trades are going to occur today, when the 2024 NFL draft kicks off in downtown Detroit with what should be a highly entertaining first round. [...]

Byline: Jarrett Bell, Columnist, USA TODAY One thing to know about Eliot Wolf as he assumes the role as final decision-maker during the NFL draft for the New England Patriots: [...]

Byline: Chris Adamski Dec. 6The opposing coaches are likely future Hall of Famers, and the 'brand' recognition of Pittsburgh Steelers vs. New England Patriots conjures up memories of classic matchups. [...]

Byline: Mark Maske The New England Patriots' six Super Bowl triumphs over two decades of dominance with Bill Belichick as their coach and Tom Brady as their quarterback are fading [...]

Byline: Tim Benz May 4The 'did they or didn't they' saga surrounding the Steelers-Patriots trade during Round 1 of the NFL Draft took a few more turns Wednesday. Like many [...]

Byline: Adam Kilgore Zombies are suddenly thriving in the NFL. Teams left for dead weeks ago are stumbling and lurching toward Week 18, suddenly on a mission to devour a [...]

Byline: Richard Morin, Columnist, USA TODAY The New England Patriots are out to disprove the notion that you're only as good as your weakest link. Because if that were true, [...]

Byline: Neil Greenberg and Matt Bonesteel Late-November division rivalry games are almost always fun, and Bills vs. Patriots on Thursday night should be no different, even if one of the [...]

Byline: Mark Maske FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - As the New England Patriots celebrated and savored a wind-swept victory over the Buffalo Bills last December, it seemed they were back to being [...]

Byline: Tim Benz Sep. 16This week's edition of 'Friday Football Footnotes' has a viral moment from last week's Steelers-Bengals game. A former Pitt Panther tears into Bill Belichick. Aaron Rodgers [...]

Byline: Mark Daniels, The Providence Journal, USA TODAY Network The pressure is on Bill Belichick. That was one takeaway from Robert Kraft's media availability from the NFL annual meetings on [...]

Byline: Richard Morin, USA TODAY Sports Plus Why does it feel like the Bills have so much to prove against the Patriots? They won more games this season. They scored [...]

Byline: Mark Maske FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - Like it or not, the New England Patriots are back. And if they, in Year 2 post-Tom Brady, manage to turn their reinvigorated play [...]

Byline: Scott Allen Showing his allegiance during Army-Navy game week for the school where his father, Steve, was a longtime assistant coach and scout, Bill Belichick wore a Naval Academy [...]

Byline: Mark Maske Each week during the NFL season, The Post's Mark Maske ranks the 32 teams. This week, the Cardinals and Buccaneers remain in the top two spots, followed [...]

Thanks to the New England Patriots' six-game win streak and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' light schedule, the pair seem to be on a collision course. Our N.F.L. playoffs calculator has [...]

Byline: KYLE HIGHTOWER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FOXBOROUGH, MASS. -- Lead It's beginning to feel like old times in New England. The Patriots were solid in all three phases as they [...]

Byline: Adam Kilgore It didn't make any sense then, and it makes sense even less now. In the NFL, nothing matters for a franchise until it acquires a great quarterback. [...]

Byline: Adam Kilgore When November arrived, the NFL season transformed into a minefield for the league's best teams. A week after the Buffalo Bills lost to the Jacksonville Jaguars, the [...]

Byline: Mark Maske FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - There is little that is familiar about the state of the New England Patriots in this training camp. They aren't the 'defending' anything. They [...]

Byline: Mark Maske The NFL draft is always all about the quarterbacks. That was particularly true this year as the NFL draft returned - somewhat - to normalcy after last [...]

Byline: Mark Daniels, The Providence Journal, USA TODAY Network FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - After the worst home loss of the Bill Belichick era, the Patriots find themselves at a crossroads. On [...]

Empires never fall in a day. The Patriots have been quietly crumbling from within for years. Just as Constantinople had shrunk to a shadow of its former glory by the [...]

Byline: From Staff Reports, USA TODAY The Patriots' historic run and one of the best dynasties in all of sports came to an end Sunday. The departure of Tom Brady [...]

Byline: Tim Benz Nov. 16It's time to stop wondering 'how' and time to start wondering 'how many.' In other words, forget how the Steelers managed to get to 9-0. Now [...]

Byline: John Clayton If there's one thing this most unusual NFL season has taught us, it's that anything goes. On Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs went 0 for 8 on [...]

Byline: Adam Kilgore Paul Johnson hosted Bill Belichick at the U.S. Naval Academy's football offices several times during his tenure as Navy's head coach from 2002 to 2007. Belichick grew [...]

Byline: John Clayton This year has provided many lessons about the challenges of making predictions, and even in the NFL it has been hard to forecast how things might unfold [...]

Byline: John Clayton When Tom Brady opted not to play a 21st season with the New England Patriots and instead signed in free agency with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, he [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, Columnist, USA TODAY Admittedly, neither Bill Belichick nor Cam Newton could have asked for a much better shotgun marriage given how drastically each man's NFL circumstances have [...]

The Cam Newton signing shows why league observers have nearly unshakable faith in decisions made by the New England Patriots' coach. ''People are just so used to Bill Belichick figuring [...]

Byline: John Clayton Tom Brady's first taste of free agency has the potential to turn into a feast. On Monday, NFL teams can begin talking with Brady about a possible [...]

Byline: John Feinstein John Feinstein is a Post contributing columnist. His new book, 'The Back Roads to March,' was published two weeks ago. His book on playing quarterback in the [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, Columnist, USA TODAY Mike Vrabel patiently waited by the entrance of the Titans locker room Saturday night in Baltimore, issuing hugs, fist bumps, edifying words, trash talk [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - Tom Brady believed himself to be invincible, as close to immortal as a professional athlete can get. With his exacting workout [...]

Byline: CATHAL KELLY, Staff TORONTO -- Lead A while back, The New Yorker ran a football-themed cartoon that said a lot about life. A man is watching a game on [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY 1. Nice Sunday for the Ravens, who became the first AFC team to sew up a postseason ticket thanks to a hard-fought win at Buffalo. [...]

Byline: Jarrett Bell, Columnist, USA TODAY Go ahead, write off Tom Brady. Again. That's just foolish. Sure, there's a hot quarterback in Lamar Jackson who has the Ravens heading into [...]

Byline: Matt Bonesteel There are seven NFL teams with at least nine wins after Week 13, the most at this point in the season since 2011, so a number of [...]

Byline: Adam Kilgore The Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers faced each other in a showdown Sunday that provided a reminder of how little anybody knows about the NFL. In [...]

Byline: Jarrett Bell, Columnist, USA TODAY BALTIMORE - History, shmistory. After the Lamar Jackson Show upstaged Bill Belichick's Great Defensive Adventure on Sunday night, there's no further need for comparisons [...]

Byline: Mark Maske When NFL quarterbacks were putting up dizzying numbers last season and offenses were making rugged defensive play look like part of the game's past, league leaders were [...]

Byline: Adam Kilgore OWINGS MILLS, Md. - Lamar Jackson presents the NFL's most perplexing problem for a defense to solve. He is a proficient passer and one of the fastest [...]

Byline: Mike Jones, Columnist, USA TODAY FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - The Patriots' core defensive players spent the bulk of the 2018 season in this somewhat awkward stage, stuck between experimentation, modification [...]

Six weeks into the season, there are still two undefeated teams in the N.F.L. One is the New England Patriots. Ho-hum. The other is ... the San Francisco 49ers? Yes, [...]