Mike Vrabel is about to embark on his first training camp as Patriots head coach. Along the ride, Vrabel will have to make some important roster decisions – who stays, who goes. He’ll need to trim the roster from 90 to the necessary 53 by August 26. If the cutdown was tomorrow, how might it look? Here’s my pre-camp roster …
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Eighteen months ago, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and coach Bill Belichick stood beside each other at a podium inside Gillette Stadium on a cold January day and announced their divorce. It was a mutual decision, they insisted, one made through handshakes and fistfuls of cash as the team Belichick oversaw so successfully for so long crumbled into one …
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The New England Patriots could be without their biggest offseason addition to start the 2025 season. Stefon Diggs might not be ready for the season opener, and that is a problem for a Patriots team still struggling to find reliable targets for second-year quarterback Drake Maye. Diggs “will likely open camp by working on the side” as he continues to …
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The back and forth between New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick continued this week with the legendary head coach responding to comments from his former boss. In a statement to ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr., Belichick said he took a “big risk” by taking the Patriots job when he was hired in 2000. “As I told Robert …
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Patriots owner Robert Kraft said in a recent interview that the best move he’s made since buying the team was the trade that made Bill Belichick the team’s head coach in 1999, but another one of his comments caught Belichick’s attention. Kraft said he was “hammered” in the local media for the move and termed it a “big risk” because …
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Don Van Natta Jr.Jul 16, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Close Host and co-executive producer of the new ESPN series, “Backstory” Member of three Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for national, explanatory and public service journalism Author of three books, including New York Times best-selling “First Off the Tee: Presidential Hackers, Duffers, and Cheaters from Taft to Bush” 24-year newspaper career at The …
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In June, I projected the top 10 offenses for the 2025 NFL campaign. A month later, it’s time to shift prognostic focus to the other side of the ball. For the offensive rankings, I looked to answer one straightforward question: Who will score the most points in 2025? Naturally, this defensive rundown aims to infer the opposite: Who will give …
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