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Cornerback Springs released by Pats

GameSetMatch — Wed, 19 May 2010 18:42:00 +0000

The New England Patriots released cornerback Shawn Springs on Tuesday but haven’t ruled out re-signing him, a league source told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter.

For now, though, the team and 35-year-old player are going their separate ways, the source said.

“I’ll have teams calling me, and they won’t be [bad] teams,” Springs told The Boston Globe. “I’m cool. I would come back to New England. I wish them the best. I’m going to miss those guys.”

Springs told the Globe that he had arthroscopic knee surgery in January, though he stressed that the injury was not the reason why he was released.

“It’s not a knee issue,” he told the newspaper.

Click here to read the full article – By of ESPN.com

Pats, Burgess agree on 1 year

GameSetMatch — Fri, 14 May 2010 17:05:36 +0000

Just as the New England Patriots retained Vince Wilfork, they have done the same with defensive end Derrick Burgess.

The Patriots and Burgess reached agreement on a one-year contract, a league source said Friday morning. The agreement enables New England to continue to stockpile defensive linemen.

Already this offseason, the Patriots have signed Wilfork and Gerard Warren to go along with pass rusher Tully Banta-Cain.

New England and Burgess have had dialogue since before the free-agent signing period started the first week of March.

Click here to read the full article – By Adam Schefter of ESPN.com

Brady throws four TDs, three to Moss, in dominant win to clinch division

GameSetMatch — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:37:38 +0000

Randy Moss stared at the scoreboard after his third touchdown catch and saw a fan wearing a Randy Moss mask on the screen.

The real Randy — the one who played hard Sunday — stood on the sideline with a huge grin as he made his parting-of-the-defense motion, sweeping his arms from his chest to his sides.

“That was very entertaining,” Moss said after the New England Patriots clinched the AFC East title with a 35-7 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars. “I had a lot of my teammates wanting me to mess with the guy. So he put a little humor into it and I enjoyed it.”

After his last home game, a 20-10 win over Carolina, several Panthers questioned his effort. So did Patriots fans the following week. But on Sunday they chanted his name, “Randy, Randy, Randy.”

And Moss, who has sold the mask on his Web site , appreciated it.

Click here to read the full article – By Associated Press of ESPN.com

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In the receiving line?

GameSetMatch — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:43:46 +0000

Patriots wide receiver Brandon Tate has spent most of his rookie season working out and taking notes. This week he finally got the chance to practice.

Tate was on the non-football injury list as he recovered from surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament in his knee suffered during his senior season at North Carolina. The designation meant Tate could not practice until after the sixth game of the season. Now the Patriots have 21 days to determine whether they want to activate Tate, release him, or place him on the season-ending reserve list.

Tackle Mark LeVoir (shoulder) is in the same boat, as he was on the physically unable to perform list.

Tate has been itching for a chance, and he is joining the mix at the right time. The Patriots released veteran receiver Joey Galloway Tuesday, and receiver Julian Edelman has a forearm injury that kept him out of practice yesterday.

Click here to read the full article – By Monique Walker of boston.com

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GameSetMatch — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:25:18 +0000

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Galloway joins long list of wide receiver blunders

GameSetMatch — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:14:02 +0000

The Joey Galloway experiment ended with nothing more than a whimper on the field from the veteran (7 catches, 67 yards in three games) and a grunt from Bill Belichick.

“(We) moved on on that one,” Belichick explained Tuesday. “He’s had a great career. It’s just one of those things; it just didn’t work out. I don’t think it’s anybody’s fault or anything that you can pinpoint, it’s just one of those things that didn’t work out.”

The 37-year-old Galloway’s exit leaves the Patriots at about 3-15 when it comes to wide receiver moves in the Belichick Era.

Of course, Randy Moss and Wes Welker are the hits. Drafting Deion Branch in round 2 in 2002 ranks as the third victory. Of course, Branch being dealt to Seattle when the team chose not to pay him counts as a loss, too, one you can argue from which the Pats have yet to recover.

Click here to read the full article – By Hector Longo of The Eagles-Tribune

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Time for Adalius Thomas to do some thinking

GameSetMatch — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:48:55 +0000

The view from 3,000 miles from Foxboro isn’t much different from the view at the lockers of Leigh Bodden, Adalius Thomas and Joey Galloway. It’s a little foggy, gray and inclement in both places.

Thomas, in particular, sits bewitched, bothered and bewildered after being a healthy inactive last Sunday during a 59-0 blowout of the Tennessee Titans. Unfortunately, being inactive is nothing new for the most expensive free agent signee of the Bill Belichick era, which is a large part of the reason he was sitting at home while less well compensated players were playing football in the snow.

It was a reminder to Thomas from a master psychologist just how quickly this can all end, and it was done in the safest of environments – on the day of a home game against one of the worst teams in pro football (just turn on the projector). Whether Thomas, Bodden or most anyone else not named Tom Brady was playing Sunday the Patriots were going to win.

Click here to read the full article – By Ron Borges of Boston Herald

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Patriots’ Brady Answers Skeptics

GameSetMatch — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:28:50 +0000

Tom Brady threw for an NFL record five touchdowns in the second quarter as the Patriots humiliated the Titans 59-0 in snowy Foxborough, Mass.

Brady had six touchdown passes overall, matching his team record, and threw for 380 yards before leaving the game in the third quarter. The Patriots set team records for points and yards (619). We can move past wondering whether Brady will ever look like his pre-injury self.

A week after a shaky showing in a loss at Denver, it was 2007 all over again against the hapless and helpless Titans. … Quite a turnaround for the Jets, who started 3-0 but fell to 3-3 with an overtime loss to the Bills. Rex Ryan will probably be roasted this week on WFAN by the same callers who were calling him a genius and talking Super Bowl three weeks ago.

Click here to read the full article – By MIKE ANTHONY of The Hartford Courant

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