Free agent running back Ezekiel Elliott made his way to Massachusetts on Saturday to visit the New England Patriots, sources revealed to ESPN. This comes as the Patriots are reportedly looking to recruit someone in Elliott’s role as they prepare to perfect their running game when training in full pads next week.

Elliott was released by the Dallas Cowboys on March 15 after managing just 876 rushing yards in 2022; a career low. Still, Elliott was able to score 12 touchdowns while remaining a top short-yardage back and pass protector.

While this is Elliott’s first free-agent visit, he is not the first unattached player that the Patriots have hosted in recent times. Fellow free agents Leonard Fournette and Darrell Henderson visited the Patriots’ practice facility last week, while Dalvin Cook has also been linked with the team. Cook is also expected to visit the New York Jets in the coming days.

“Dalvin’s another player, this is a really, really unique situation — you don’t typically have players of this caliber available at this time,” director of player personnel Matt Groh explained, exhibiting an interest in the player.

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The New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick stated that he and his team will not look back at their past championship success while preparing for the upcoming NFL season. Belichick has been coaching the Patriots for the past 23 years.

“We’re not resting on our past laurels; that’s not the message to the team or the fans,” Belichick stated. “We have never operated that way and aren’t now.”

Belichick clarified his stance after he held a Q&A session with a large group of reporters at the NFL’s annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. During that session, Belichick referred to his history with the team when asked about reasons for why fans should be confident about the Patriots’ prospects this season.

During his tenure with the Patriots, Belichick has led the team to six Super Bowl Championships and nine AFC division titles. His record is 292-120 during the regular season and 30-12 during the playoffs.

Currently put at 70-1 to win this season’s Super Bowl by Caesars Sportsbook, these are the lowest odds that the Patriots have faced since the 100-1 in 1993. In 2001, however, the Patriots won Super Bowl XXXVI despite facing over 50-1 odds.

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Free agent tight end Mike Gesicki has agreed to a one-year deal with the New England Patriots, sources revealed on Friday. His deal is expected to be worth $9 million.

Patriots coach Bill Belichick expressed his admiration for Gesicki before the tight end’s arrivial, saying of him: “He’s a hard guy to cover. Long. Crafty route runner. He can get down the field. Very good hands. Makes some acrobatic catches, has enough quickness to separate. He’s really, I would say, more of a big receiver than a true tight end, but he functions a little bit in that spot.”

Gesicki had his best season in 2021, which was followed by an underwhelming 2022, where he appeared to struggle to fit in with the Miami Dolphins’ setup. He was able to catch just 32 passes for 362 yards, his lowest totals in both categories since his 2018 rookie season.

Upon joining the Patriots, Gesicki is expected to line up with veteran Hunter Henry to create the tight-end duo the Patriots hoped for when signing Jonnu Smith alongside Henry. Smith was traded to the Atlanta Falcons on Monday.

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The New England Patriots always seem to find ways to win close games under Bill Belichick. That was the case on Sunday when the Pats beat the division rivals New York Jets thanks to a punt return touchdown in the dying seconds of the game.

The game itself was a defensive standoff that saw no team managing to come up with anything that would seem like a functional offense. Both the Pats and Jets managed to only get a field goal apiece in the second quarter and entered the final 30 seconds of the game tied 3-3.

The Jets had the ball at the point, but their drive didn’t go anywhere so they sent their punter Braden Mann to the field. New England’s punt returner Marcus Jones got the punt at the 16-yard line and proceeded to dash and slice through the tackles to deliver the ball in the end zone and give the Pats a memorable win.

“How that game ended was phenomenal,” said Patriots captain Deatrich Wise Jr. “I think it was almost like a movie script in a sense. I think of all the football movies — “Rudy,” “Any Given Sunday” and “Remember the Titans” — this beats it.”

Interestingly, this was the first punt returned for a touchdown in the 2022 NFL season. It was also New England’s first kickoff or punt return TD in the fourth quarter since 2002.

The Patriots improved to a 6-4 record win the win and look in good shape to fight for the playoff spot. The New York Jets are also 6-4 but now have their work cut out for them since New England owns the tiebreaker.

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The New England Patriots are going old school this season. The franchise just announced that they would bring back their old red uniforms and white helmets with the “Pat Patriot” logo at some point in 2022.

The Pats made the announcement via video shot in the style of the popular movie franchise Back to the Future.

“Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me the red uniforms are back?” wrote the Patriots’ social media team in the caption.

This may come as a surprise for some people, but red was the dominant color for the New England Patriots until the early 90s. Change of ownership in 1993 resulted in a look overhaul that included adopting the royal blue as the team’s home jersey color. Navy blue and silver followed in 2000, while white kept its place as dominant for the away jersey. Finally, the team adopted the “Color Rush” edition of their jersey as the primary uniform starting in 2019.

This won’t be the first time the Pats did the red uniform since changing colors. The team wore them occasionally since 1994, with the last time being in 2012 in a game against the New York Jets. After that, the league imposed the one-helmet rule, and New England decided not to mix red uniforms with their standard silver helmets. The rule was abolished last year.

“We wanted to stay pure to that original throwback, and so that’s why we waited and kept lobbying the league to change it back,” said the Patriots on the team’s official website.

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The New England Patriots are struggling this season and look far from the dominant force they were in the NFL for the past two decades. This Pats’ slip isn’t sitting well with the franchise legend Julian Edelman who recently decided to call out his former team for bad performance in 2021.

“The Patriots just aren’t the Patriots right now, and it hurts me to say this,” Edelman said during his appearance as a panelist on Inside the NFL. “They are not the Patriots. We are so used to seeing the last 20 years. I know there’s different players and this, that, but there’s still a group of guys in there that know how they should play.”

Edelman added that New England players need to be held accountable and start playing “mistake-free” football. To his point, the mistakes were the story for the Patriots so far in the season as they turned over the ball 11 times and had several special teams errors, including two blocked punts.

If anyone can speak like this about the New England Patriots, it’s Julian Edelman. He was there for the franchise’s glory days and knows how to win football games. Edelman spent 12 years with the Patriots and helped them win three Super Bowls while also claiming Super Bowl LIII MVP honors. He retired from football following the injury-plagued 2020 NFL season.

The Pats are currently sitting at a 2-4 record and may not see the playoffs for the second straight year. This would be the first time for the franchise to miss out on the postseason in consecutive seasons since 2000.

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Becoming a Super Bowl champion obviously wasn’t enough for the retired All-Pro corner Darrelle Revis to enjoy the stint with the New England Patriots in 2014. That might be the reason why he only stayed in New England for one season.

During his recent appearance on the I Am Athlete podcast, the now-retired Revis shared his thoughts on the Patriots organization, and they were not exactly pretty.

“Nobody likes it in the locker room. Just being honest, nobody likes it,” Revis said.

Revis then explained that there was “a lot of tension” and “a lot of noise” surrounding the organization that made the experience far from enjoyable for him. When asked whether a Super Bowl win made it any better, the seven-time Pro Bowler reiterated his stance.

“You see the hustle and the grind of it, but at the end of the day, there’s other philosophies to win and it doesn’t have to be that way,” he added.

Darrelle Revis signed with the Pats as a free agent ahead of the 2014 NFL season and played a big part in the team’s road to Super Bowl while earning a Pro Bowl nod and All-Pro honors. But despite this, New England decided not to pick up the option on his contract for 2015, making him a free agent.

Revis later played with the New York Jets and the Kansas City Chiefs before retiring in 2018.

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It didn’t take long for wide receiver Cameron Meredith to find a new job after being released by the New Orleans Saints earlier this week.

New England Patriots announced on Friday that they have agreed to a deal with Meredith. The team, however, did not disclose the details of the contract.

Due to Julian Edelman’s injury and Josh Gordon’s absence, Pats became thin in the receivers department and were on the market to add a WR for some time now. Meredith presents a low risk/high reward option, as he proved that he can be a game-changer when healthy.

According to NFL Network’s Mike Giardi, New England will take the slow approach with Meredith and won’t rush to bring him onto the field.

New Orleans Saints signed Cameron Meredith on a two-year, $9.6 million deal in early 2018 with an intention of making him the team’s second WR option behind Michael Thomas. These plans never came to fruition, however, as Meredith struggled with injuries and inconsistency last year. During his time with New Orleans, he played in just six games recording nine receptions for 114 yards and one touchdown.

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After winning Super Bowl LIII, the New England Patriots are already back to work at putting together their coaching staff for next season.

After de-facto defensive coordinator Brian Flores left New England earlier this week to become head coach of the Miami Dolphins, the Super Bowl champions began looking for someone to replace him.

They seem to have found their man in Greg Schiano.

Schiano, who is now in his 30th year of coaching, will leave Ohio State University, where he served as the Buckeyes’ defensive coordinator.

The 52-year-old Schiano has served in multiple roles during his long coaching career. His most notable stints were as Rutgers University, where he was head coach from 2001 to 2011, and as the head coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2012 and 2013.

Tampa Bay fired him after two consecutive losing seasons and an 11-21 overall record.

Schiano has been known as a polarizing figure due to his alleged knowledge of the Jerry Sandusky abuse case and also due to his hard-nosed style.

Bill Belichick reportedly has a similar style and a similar outlook to Schiano’s, however, which seems to indicate that his transition back to the NFL will be smooth.

Contract details were not immediately available.

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Los Angeles Rams and New England Patriots will face in the Super Bowl LIII on February 4th, after winning their NFC and AFC Championship games. Both teams needed overtime to get the win, with the Rams edging out the New Orleans Saints with a Greg Zuerlein’s 57-yard field goal, while the Patriots got the OT win against the Kansas City Chiefs thanks to Rex Burkhead’s rushing touchdown.

This was the first time in NFL history that both the AFC and NFC Championship games went to OT.

Los Angeles Rams started their games against the New Orleans Saints being behind 13 points and actually never got the lead, managing to get the equalizer after Greg Zuerlein scored a 48-yard field goal 18 seconds before the end of the regular time. New Orleans had the first possession, but their quarterback Drew Brees threw an interception on 2nd & 16, which LA a chance to win the game with the next score. Rams got the ball to around 40-yards and decided to trust Zuerlein that he will manage to score from that distance.  The 31-year old Pro Bowler didn’t disappoint and secured his team the first Super Bowl appearance since 2001.

“It’s unbelievable, man. I can’t put it into words,”- said Goff. “The defense played the way they did to force it to overtime. The defense gets a pick and Greg makes a 57-yarder to win it. That was good from about 70. Unbelievable.”

New England Patriots, on the other hand, opened the game against the Kansas City Chiefs with a furious run, scoring 14 points in the first half and managing to keep their opponent scoreless. Chiefs, however, managed to find motivation in the second half, and thanks to Harrison Butker’s FG, sent the game in overtime. Still, that didn’t help a lot, since the Patriots got the ball first with Tom Brady leading a game-winning drive to give New England their third consecutive Super Bowl appearance.

“We knew it was going to be tough,” – said Brady. “Kansas are explosive, and they have been beating teams here all year. It was awesome, what a game.”

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Free agent running back Ezekiel Elliott made his way to Massachusetts on Saturday to visit the New England Patriots, sources revealed to ESPN. This comes as the Patriots are reportedly looking to recruit someone in Elliott’s role as they prepare to perfect their running game when training in full pads next week.

Elliott was released by the Dallas Cowboys on March 15 after managing just 876 rushing yards in 2022; a career low. Still, Elliott was able to score 12 touchdowns while remaining a top short-yardage back and pass protector.

While this is Elliott’s first free-agent visit, he is not the first unattached player that the Patriots have hosted in recent times. Fellow free agents Leonard Fournette and Darrell Henderson visited the Patriots’ practice facility last week, while Dalvin Cook has also been linked with the team. Cook is also expected to visit the New York Jets in the coming days.

“Dalvin’s another player, this is a really, really unique situation — you don’t typically have players of this caliber available at this time,” director of player personnel Matt Groh explained, exhibiting an interest in the player.

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The New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick stated that he and his team will not look back at their past championship success while preparing for the upcoming NFL season. Belichick has been coaching the Patriots for the past 23 years.

“We’re not resting on our past laurels; that’s not the message to the team or the fans,” Belichick stated. “We have never operated that way and aren’t now.”

Belichick clarified his stance after he held a Q&A session with a large group of reporters at the NFL’s annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. During that session, Belichick referred to his history with the team when asked about reasons for why fans should be confident about the Patriots’ prospects this season.

During his tenure with the Patriots, Belichick has led the team to six Super Bowl Championships and nine AFC division titles. His record is 292-120 during the regular season and 30-12 during the playoffs.

Currently put at 70-1 to win this season’s Super Bowl by Caesars Sportsbook, these are the lowest odds that the Patriots have faced since the 100-1 in 1993. In 2001, however, the Patriots won Super Bowl XXXVI despite facing over 50-1 odds.

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Free agent tight end Mike Gesicki has agreed to a one-year deal with the New England Patriots, sources revealed on Friday. His deal is expected to be worth $9 million.

Patriots coach Bill Belichick expressed his admiration for Gesicki before the tight end’s arrivial, saying of him: “He’s a hard guy to cover. Long. Crafty route runner. He can get down the field. Very good hands. Makes some acrobatic catches, has enough quickness to separate. He’s really, I would say, more of a big receiver than a true tight end, but he functions a little bit in that spot.”

Gesicki had his best season in 2021, which was followed by an underwhelming 2022, where he appeared to struggle to fit in with the Miami Dolphins’ setup. He was able to catch just 32 passes for 362 yards, his lowest totals in both categories since his 2018 rookie season.

Upon joining the Patriots, Gesicki is expected to line up with veteran Hunter Henry to create the tight-end duo the Patriots hoped for when signing Jonnu Smith alongside Henry. Smith was traded to the Atlanta Falcons on Monday.

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The New England Patriots always seem to find ways to win close games under Bill Belichick. That was the case on Sunday when the Pats beat the division rivals New York Jets thanks to a punt return touchdown in the dying seconds of the game.

The game itself was a defensive standoff that saw no team managing to come up with anything that would seem like a functional offense. Both the Pats and Jets managed to only get a field goal apiece in the second quarter and entered the final 30 seconds of the game tied 3-3.

The Jets had the ball at the point, but their drive didn’t go anywhere so they sent their punter Braden Mann to the field. New England’s punt returner Marcus Jones got the punt at the 16-yard line and proceeded to dash and slice through the tackles to deliver the ball in the end zone and give the Pats a memorable win.

“How that game ended was phenomenal,” said Patriots captain Deatrich Wise Jr. “I think it was almost like a movie script in a sense. I think of all the football movies — “Rudy,” “Any Given Sunday” and “Remember the Titans” — this beats it.”

Interestingly, this was the first punt returned for a touchdown in the 2022 NFL season. It was also New England’s first kickoff or punt return TD in the fourth quarter since 2002.

The Patriots improved to a 6-4 record win the win and look in good shape to fight for the playoff spot. The New York Jets are also 6-4 but now have their work cut out for them since New England owns the tiebreaker.

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The New England Patriots are going old school this season. The franchise just announced that they would bring back their old red uniforms and white helmets with the “Pat Patriot” logo at some point in 2022.

The Pats made the announcement via video shot in the style of the popular movie franchise Back to the Future.

“Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me the red uniforms are back?” wrote the Patriots’ social media team in the caption.

This may come as a surprise for some people, but red was the dominant color for the New England Patriots until the early 90s. Change of ownership in 1993 resulted in a look overhaul that included adopting the royal blue as the team’s home jersey color. Navy blue and silver followed in 2000, while white kept its place as dominant for the away jersey. Finally, the team adopted the “Color Rush” edition of their jersey as the primary uniform starting in 2019.

This won’t be the first time the Pats did the red uniform since changing colors. The team wore them occasionally since 1994, with the last time being in 2012 in a game against the New York Jets. After that, the league imposed the one-helmet rule, and New England decided not to mix red uniforms with their standard silver helmets. The rule was abolished last year.

“We wanted to stay pure to that original throwback, and so that’s why we waited and kept lobbying the league to change it back,” said the Patriots on the team’s official website.

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The New England Patriots are struggling this season and look far from the dominant force they were in the NFL for the past two decades. This Pats’ slip isn’t sitting well with the franchise legend Julian Edelman who recently decided to call out his former team for bad performance in 2021.

“The Patriots just aren’t the Patriots right now, and it hurts me to say this,” Edelman said during his appearance as a panelist on Inside the NFL. “They are not the Patriots. We are so used to seeing the last 20 years. I know there’s different players and this, that, but there’s still a group of guys in there that know how they should play.”

Edelman added that New England players need to be held accountable and start playing “mistake-free” football. To his point, the mistakes were the story for the Patriots so far in the season as they turned over the ball 11 times and had several special teams errors, including two blocked punts.

If anyone can speak like this about the New England Patriots, it’s Julian Edelman. He was there for the franchise’s glory days and knows how to win football games. Edelman spent 12 years with the Patriots and helped them win three Super Bowls while also claiming Super Bowl LIII MVP honors. He retired from football following the injury-plagued 2020 NFL season.

The Pats are currently sitting at a 2-4 record and may not see the playoffs for the second straight year. This would be the first time for the franchise to miss out on the postseason in consecutive seasons since 2000.

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Becoming a Super Bowl champion obviously wasn’t enough for the retired All-Pro corner Darrelle Revis to enjoy the stint with the New England Patriots in 2014. That might be the reason why he only stayed in New England for one season.

During his recent appearance on the I Am Athlete podcast, the now-retired Revis shared his thoughts on the Patriots organization, and they were not exactly pretty.

“Nobody likes it in the locker room. Just being honest, nobody likes it,” Revis said.

Revis then explained that there was “a lot of tension” and “a lot of noise” surrounding the organization that made the experience far from enjoyable for him. When asked whether a Super Bowl win made it any better, the seven-time Pro Bowler reiterated his stance.

“You see the hustle and the grind of it, but at the end of the day, there’s other philosophies to win and it doesn’t have to be that way,” he added.

Darrelle Revis signed with the Pats as a free agent ahead of the 2014 NFL season and played a big part in the team’s road to Super Bowl while earning a Pro Bowl nod and All-Pro honors. But despite this, New England decided not to pick up the option on his contract for 2015, making him a free agent.

Revis later played with the New York Jets and the Kansas City Chiefs before retiring in 2018.

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It didn’t take long for wide receiver Cameron Meredith to find a new job after being released by the New Orleans Saints earlier this week.

New England Patriots announced on Friday that they have agreed to a deal with Meredith. The team, however, did not disclose the details of the contract.

Due to Julian Edelman’s injury and Josh Gordon’s absence, Pats became thin in the receivers department and were on the market to add a WR for some time now. Meredith presents a low risk/high reward option, as he proved that he can be a game-changer when healthy.

According to NFL Network’s Mike Giardi, New England will take the slow approach with Meredith and won’t rush to bring him onto the field.

New Orleans Saints signed Cameron Meredith on a two-year, $9.6 million deal in early 2018 with an intention of making him the team’s second WR option behind Michael Thomas. These plans never came to fruition, however, as Meredith struggled with injuries and inconsistency last year. During his time with New Orleans, he played in just six games recording nine receptions for 114 yards and one touchdown.

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After winning Super Bowl LIII, the New England Patriots are already back to work at putting together their coaching staff for next season.

After de-facto defensive coordinator Brian Flores left New England earlier this week to become head coach of the Miami Dolphins, the Super Bowl champions began looking for someone to replace him.

They seem to have found their man in Greg Schiano.

Schiano, who is now in his 30th year of coaching, will leave Ohio State University, where he served as the Buckeyes’ defensive coordinator.

The 52-year-old Schiano has served in multiple roles during his long coaching career. His most notable stints were as Rutgers University, where he was head coach from 2001 to 2011, and as the head coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2012 and 2013.

Tampa Bay fired him after two consecutive losing seasons and an 11-21 overall record.

Schiano has been known as a polarizing figure due to his alleged knowledge of the Jerry Sandusky abuse case and also due to his hard-nosed style.

Bill Belichick reportedly has a similar style and a similar outlook to Schiano’s, however, which seems to indicate that his transition back to the NFL will be smooth.

Contract details were not immediately available.

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Los Angeles Rams and New England Patriots will face in the Super Bowl LIII on February 4th, after winning their NFC and AFC Championship games. Both teams needed overtime to get the win, with the Rams edging out the New Orleans Saints with a Greg Zuerlein’s 57-yard field goal, while the Patriots got the OT win against the Kansas City Chiefs thanks to Rex Burkhead’s rushing touchdown.

This was the first time in NFL history that both the AFC and NFC Championship games went to OT.

Los Angeles Rams started their games against the New Orleans Saints being behind 13 points and actually never got the lead, managing to get the equalizer after Greg Zuerlein scored a 48-yard field goal 18 seconds before the end of the regular time. New Orleans had the first possession, but their quarterback Drew Brees threw an interception on 2nd & 16, which LA a chance to win the game with the next score. Rams got the ball to around 40-yards and decided to trust Zuerlein that he will manage to score from that distance.  The 31-year old Pro Bowler didn’t disappoint and secured his team the first Super Bowl appearance since 2001.

“It’s unbelievable, man. I can’t put it into words,”- said Goff. “The defense played the way they did to force it to overtime. The defense gets a pick and Greg makes a 57-yarder to win it. That was good from about 70. Unbelievable.”

New England Patriots, on the other hand, opened the game against the Kansas City Chiefs with a furious run, scoring 14 points in the first half and managing to keep their opponent scoreless. Chiefs, however, managed to find motivation in the second half, and thanks to Harrison Butker’s FG, sent the game in overtime. Still, that didn’t help a lot, since the Patriots got the ball first with Tom Brady leading a game-winning drive to give New England their third consecutive Super Bowl appearance.

“We knew it was going to be tough,” – said Brady. “Kansas are explosive, and they have been beating teams here all year. It was awesome, what a game.”

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