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FOXBOROUGH, Ma. -- The voice is answering-machine perfect. There is no modulation, no emphasis on any particular syllable. The words sound as though they have been sand-blasted to the same size, passed through a filter at the end of some long plastic tunnel, delivered now on a conveyor belt of bland conversation. All emotion has been removed. If there were a color attached to these words the color would be gray. No doubt about that.
“We’re rolling into the week here,” New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick says at an obligatory media appearance in preparation for his team’s coming AFC playoff confrontation with the Houston Texans. “Obviously the Texans are a real good football team... Excellent game for them last week against Cincinnati. I...
When a team is not ready to play, it makes the kind of mistakes — mental and physical — the Texans made in their 42-14 prime-time debacle at New England last month. This time, the Texans need to leave their mistakes at... more »
FOXBORO — Tom Brady’s middle-of-the-week press briefings are always as smooth as spring water flowing over a pebble, every answer delivered smoothly, effortlessly. You could ask him about an upcoming playoff... more »
Wade Phillips’s tenure as head coach in Buffalo and Dallas may not have ended well, but he is well-regarded as a defensive coordinator, and rightfully so: in six of the last seven years, defenses that Phillips has been in... more »
The 2012-13 New England Patriots just became the first team in NFL history to get back-to-back byes before advancing to the conference championship game. Could this get any easier? I mean, seriously? The planets are aligned and... more »
Two separate events over the past four days reaffirmed the depth and intransigence of the tragically growing problem of long-term brain damage to the NFL’s most high-profile employees — its players. The first... more »
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