TEAM
TALK
- Evan Lazar’s After Further Review: How the Patriots defense won the AFC Title game, Maye breakdown, and quick-hit film notes from Sunday’s win in Denver. /Good read.
- Transcript: Mike Vrabel (Plus, 17 min. video)
- Press Conferences: Christian Gonzalez and TreVeyon Henderson.
- WEEI Patriots Monday: Mike Vrabel and Drake Maye.
- Patriots Unfiltered: AFC Championship recap , Super Bowl bound, Team news/updates. (2 hours)
LOCAL LINKS
- Doug Kyed’s Pats primer: Everything to know about 2025 Patriots Super Bowl LX team.
- Doug Kyed highlights Mike Vrabel with an initial scouting report on the Seahawks.
- Alex Barth reports how Mike Vrabel outlined the plans and practice schedule leading up to Super Bowl LX.
- Matt Vautour notes that for logistics, Mike Vrabel will lean on Josh McDaniels’ Super Bowl experience.
- Mike Reiss talks about how Drake Maye and Mike Vrabel acknowledge the need for the offense to be better
- Doug Kyed relays Mike Vrabel’s assessment of rookie Will Campbell’s performance after recent struggles.
- Chris Mason talks about Mike Vrabel saying he noticed Christian Gonzalez elevate his game to a different level late in the season, and how the Pro Bowl CB reacted.
- Alex Barth points out how the Pats’ defense has turned narratives into motivation in the playoffs.
- Matt Vautour mentions how winning follows wherever TreVeyon Henderson “Mr. Championship” goes.
- Lance Reynolds finds Mike Vrabel full of gratitude after return trip from AFC Championship game, thanks Foxboro fire and police departments.
- Alex Barth’s Patriots Mailbag: Early Super Bowl LX thoughts.
- Karen Guregian hears from Andre Tippett about 1985 and his cautionary tale for this year’s team.
- Lauren Campbell passes along a report that Broncos fired their OC after the AFC Title game loss.
NATIONAL NEWS
- Josh Alper (ProFootballTalk) Mike Vrabel: Concern about Drake Maye’s shoulder “probably” overblown.
- Sarah Barshop, et al (ESPN) Who should win 2025 NFL MVP: Matthew Stafford or Drake Maye?
- Josh Alper (ProFootballTalk) Mike Vrabel on whether Patriots have been disrespected: ‘Doesn’t matter, we’re in the Super Bowl.‘
- Staff (ESPN) Super Bowl 2026 predictions, picks, odds. All 12 pick Seattle. /Click for all the reasons why.
- Zachary Pereles (CBS Sports) Five early bold Super Bowl predictions: Unwanted history for Drake Maye, Sam Darnold becomes a champion.
- Ben Solak (ESPN) Seahawks-Patriots’ offseason lessons: Free agency, QB moves.
- Bill Barnwell (ESPN) How the Patriots, Seahawks won NFL conference title games.
- Mike Florio (ProFootballTalk) On Sunday, zero fourth-quarter points were scored.
- Kevin Patra (NFL.com) 2025 Unsung heroes: One overlooked/surprise contributor from each AFC team. Patriots: Morgan Moses.
- NFL Nation (ESPN) 2026 NFL free agency: Re-signing decisions for all 32 teams. Patriots: DE K’Lavon Chaisson.
- Zachary Pereles (CBS Sports) Landing spots for NFL’s top 50 free agents. Safeties Coby Bryant, Jaylinn Hawkins included.
- Dan Wetzel (ESPN) Don’t take the weather out of football. Let it snow.
- Michael David Smith (ProFootballTalk) Sean Payton regrets his fourth-and-1 play call more than his decision to go for it. /Exactly… one yard, should have called a run.
- Matt Warren and Matt Bynham (Buffalo Rumblings) OC Joe Brady will be the next Bills head coach.
- Rich Cimini (ESPN) Despite being 3-14, Jets still believe in coach Aaron Glenn.
BELICHICK – NFL HALL OF FAME SNUB
- Don Van Natta Jr & Seth Wickersham (ESPN) Bill Belichick will not be a first-ballot Hall of Famer.
- Jay Busbee (Yahoo! Sports) If Bill Belichick isn’t a first-ballot Hall of Famer, no one — not even Tom Brady — should ever be again.
- Stephen Douglas (SI) Hall of Fame voter shared Tom Brady’s passionate note in support of Bill Belichick.
- Jonathan Jones (CBS Sports) Bill Belichick’s snub demands a Hall of Fame reckoning: Belichick’s omission isn’t controversial. It’s disqualifying. When it comes to sports honors, this is the grossest miscarriage of justice in sports history. It has no equal.
- Mike Florio (ProFootballTalk) Hall of Fame voters pass on Bill Belichick. “The failure to put Belichick in on the first try strips the Hall of Fame and its voting process of all legitimacy and credibility. It’s a joke that he didn’t make it. Anyone who voted against his enshrinement should be stripped of the privilege, immediately. … So congratulations to those who didn’t want him in. You got your pound of flesh. At the expense of the integrity of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.“
- Dan Wetzel (ESPN) If Belichick isn’t first ballot, just shut the Hall down.
- Matt Vautour writes how Bill Belichick not getting into the Pro Football Hall of Fame is a joke.
- Mike D’Abate declares no one should ever question Bill Belichick’s Hall of Fame credentials. /I’ll add that they’re not questioning his worthiness, they’re punishing him because of it. He showed them all up.
- Staff (ESPN) Mahomes, Watt, others sound off on Bill Belichick missing first-ballot HOF nod.
- Mike Florio (ProFootballTalk) Bill Polian denies influencing the Bill Belichick snub. “…And, as a politician once told me, you can only trust the people who say they didn’t vote for you.” /True, lol.
- Jason Owens (Yahoo! Sports) Bill Polian reportedly isn’t sure whether or not he voted for Bill Belichick for Hall of Fame.
- Andy Nesbitt (SI) Jimmy Johnson tore into ‘cowardly’ Hall of Fame voters over Bill Belichick snub.
- Jack Baer (Yahoo! Sports) Bill Belichick misses the Hall of Fame: Explaining the voting process that rejected the Patriots legend.
