TEAM
TALK
- Evan Lazar‘s After Further Review: Patriots rushing attack is the key to improving the offense and more takeaways from Sunday.
- Mike Dussault breaks down one big thing to take away on both sides of the ball from Sunday’s loss. Pats miss opportunities in second half, focus turns to fixes.
- Press Conferences: Mike Vrabel – Kayshon Boutte, Jaylinn Hawkins, Morgan Moses.
- WEEI Patriots Monday: Mike Vrabel and Drake Maye.
- Gallery: Best game photos from Patriots-Raiders.
LOCAL LINKS
- Andrew Callahan‘s Patriots-Raiders film review: What went wrong for Drake Maye and Mike Vrabel’s defense in Week 1. /Good read.
- Karen Guregian wants to know what happened to the running game, which was one of the team’s projected strengths.
- Sean T. McGuire hears from David Andrews who details what went wrong with the run game from an O-line perspective. “I just thought that was going to be a strength of this team.”
- Khari Thompson talks about the Pats’ abandoning the run game in the second half.
- Jerry Thornton‘s Knee Jerk Reactions: Week 1, Patriots vs. Raiders. ‘I don’t think I can take another year of this. Of a team finding a way not to win. Self-destructing. Making fatal mistakes in high-leverage moments of close games.‘
- Karen Guregian writes Drake Maye looked unsettled and unsure of what he was doing on Sunday. Mike Vrabel acknowledged needing to evaluate if too much has been put on Drake Maye’s plate.
- Ian Logue shares five thoughts following the Patriots loss: Pressure is on Maye after rough outing.
- Mark Morse picks out the good, bad and ugly from the loss: Pats didn’t take advantage of bad football.
- Karen Guregian observes the Patriots can’t win by breaking all of Mike Vrabel’s pre-season commandments.
- Bob George explains how even though the Pats were better, but still not good enough.
- Chad Finn suggests we underestimated how long the Pats rebuild is going to take.
- Clare Cooper reminds us that it’s only season one, week one, game one of this new Patriots team.
- Zack Cox reports Will Campbell admitted he was “nervous as hell” before his up-and-down debut. The season opener showed that Mike Vrabel’s Pats are still very much a work in progress.
- Matt Vautour explains how the Raiders used the Patriots’ run-stopping focus against them. Pete Carroll said the Patriots’ focus on stopping Ashton Jeanty opened the door for the Raiders’ passing game.
- Mike D’Abate gives us the Patriots snap counts, revealing the ups and downs from Sunday.
- Jennifer Streeter points out the Patriots won the time of possession in the loss.
NATIONAL NEWS
- Ben Solak (ESPN) Ranking QB debuts of Week 1. No. 1 Geno Smith. Mailbag Question: “I need you to tell me Drake Maye will be OK.” Answer: “… This was a bad Maye game, but in four weeks, it’ll feel like a meaningless Maye game. So yes, Maye will be OK.” /Click for more commentary.
- Gilberto Manzano (SI) Five things we learned in Week 1: Giants need to start Jaxson Dart; Plus, we should pump the brakes on the Bo Nix hype, and why the Jets should still be feeling good about moving on from Aaron Rodgers.
- NFL Nation (ESPN) Who calls plays for every NFL team in 2025? What to know. Patriots: Josh McDaniels. Key stat: The Raiders took 46.3% of their snaps from under center when McDaniels was head coach and playcaller from 2022 to 2023, which was tied for second most in the league; More.
- Cody Benjamin (CBS Sports) NFL Week 1 winners and losers: Aaron Rodgers gets his revenge; Dolphins crumble in Daniel Jones’ Colts debut.
- Frank Schwab (Yahoo! Sports) NFL Winners and Losers: After ‘kick in the balls’ opener, Dolphins might already be in trouble.
- Steven Ruiz (The Ringer) The winners and losers of NFL Week 1. Winner: Geno Smith.
- Gordon McGuinness (PFF) NFL Week 1: PFF Team of the Week & Player awards; Highest-graded plays of the week. No Pats.
- Vinnie Iyer (Sporting News) 2024 QB Draft Class: Redrafting the top quarterbacks. Drake Maye: Where he went: No. 3 overall. Where he should have gone: No. 2 overall. /Click for commentary.
- Vinnie Iyer (Sporting News) NFL Week 1 worst overreactions. “The Dolphins are totally the worst team in the NFL.” /Click for the Patriots commentary.
- Jeff Kerr (CBS Sports) Overreactions from Week 1 of NFL season: Josh Allen best QB in NFL? Ravens won’t win SB with John Harbaugh?
- Josh Alper (ProFootballTalk) Kendrick Bourne to sign with 49ers.
- Nora Princiotti (The Ringer) Riding the NFL’s AI float into despair: The most offensive part of the kickoff game …was the league’s horrifying AI slop commercial. /Brutal!!
