New England Patriots Links 1/26/15 - Time to Get Fully Pumped for Super Bowl XLIX

TEAM TALK

• Patriots Super Bowl send-off rally at City Hall Plaza, Monday, January 26 at 11 a.m. at City Hall Plaza.
• Erik Scalavino shares some notes and locker room chatter from Sunday's practice at Gillette: Patriots anxious for Arizona.
• Press Pass: Patriots chat for final time in Foxboro. (1.04 min. video)
• Press Pass: Julian Edelman (6.55 min. video) - Chandler Jones (8.20 min. video)
• Patriots Today - All present for final home practice. (1.04 min. video)
• Why we play: Brandon Browner. (1.45 min. video)

LOCAL LINKS

• Tom Brady posts a fantastic "Who's with us?!" video montage on his Facebook page.
• Mike Reiss updates the team's schedule for Monday, beginning wit the team departure from Gillette Stadium and send-off rally at 11 am at City Hall Plaza.
• Christopher Price says it's clear there's a groundswell of support building in the locker room for Tom Brady.
• Jerry Spar highlights Tom Brady's Monday morning call-in to WEEI: Brady ignoring the critics and focusing on those who support him.
• Christopher Price tells us five things we have to know about the Seahawks: Offense begins on the ground.
• Mike Reiss cleans out the Super Bowl XLIX notebook from Sunday: Seahawks are motivated to beat the last team to win back-to-back championships so that they can do it.
• Ron Borges hears from Jimmy Johnson, Richard Seymour and Ty Law on why repeating a Super Bowl is no easy feat.
• Mike Reiss posts some quick-hit weekend thoughts from the Patriots and around the NFL: The Pats-Colts regular-season contest will be the most highly anticipated game of 2015.
• Nik DeCosta-Klipa reports on how the Patriots fumble at a 'nearly impossible' rate.
• Lee Schechter reports the Patriots had perfect attendance at their final practice before they leave for Arizona.
• Jeff Howe believes Bill Belichick had Julian Edelman pegged long before anyone else could have seen it coming: Not another Welker, but the next Troy Brown.
• Mike Reiss and Lee Schechter note Julian Edelman was appreciative to hear the amount of pride and passion Bill Belichick has for his team.
• Mike Petraglia notes Julian Edelman is mentally ready to prepare for the 'ferocious' Legion of Boom.
• Mike Petraglia reports Dont'a Hightower knows Marshawn Lynch will throw 'a little bit of everything' at the Patriots defense.
• Stephen Hewitt hears from the players who are ready to get out to Arizona, get a feel for their surroundings and get ready for the game.
• Jeremy Gottlieb talks about the players' anticipation of going to the Super Bowl.
• Christopher Price believes Bill Belichick will use deflategate as motivation to spur his team against the Seahawks.
• Mike Petraglia details how Bill Belichick brilliantly schools the NFL and how the league has no answer.
• Tom E. Curran points out the Jets connection appearing in the deflategate probe.
• Phil Perry passes along a report that the Patriots footballs may have been closer to 11.5 PSI.
• Mike Reiss talks about the media coverage for deflategate, and how he doesn't control the ESPN column with his content.
• Stephen Hewitt says that Bill Belichick's impromptu press conference to give his rebuttal of the charge against his team was no surprise to his players.
• Ben Volin reports the Seahawks are only too happy to let the Patriots deal with deflategate.

NATIONAL NEWS

• Vinnie Iyer and David Steele (Sporting News) Super Bowl XLIX: The most pressing Patriots-Seahawks questions.
• Peter King (The MMQB) Super Bowl breakdown: New England Patriots. (3.06 min. video)
• Michael David Smith (ProFootballTalk) Akeem Ayers: Titans did me a favor trading me to Patriots.
• Ross Tucker (Sports on Earth) Develin had rocky-esque rise to NFL.
• Mike Freeman (Bleacher Report) Revis and Sherman take their feud to the field for Super Bowl XLIX.
• Cian Fahey (Football Outsiders) Film room: New England linebackers.
• Warren Sharp (Sharp Football Analysis) The New England Patriots prevention of fumbles is nearly impossible.
• Erik Frenz (Bleacher Report) How Brandon LaFell went from afterthought signing to Super Bowl X-factor.
• Matt Bowen (Bleacher Report) Russell Wilson's running ability a huge X-factor.
• Mike Wilkening (ProFootballTalk) Rob Gronkowski favored to score a touchdown in Super Bowl 49.
• NFL Total Access (NFL.com) New England Patriots Top 10 Plays of 2014. (3.18 min. video)
• Josh Peter (USA Today) 'America's Toughest Sheriff' ready to tackle Super Bowl.
• Peter King (The MMQB) MMQB - A Super Bowl comeback: A look at Bill Vinovich's remarkable story, more on the Patriots' Deflategate response and 10 things I think in Phoenix.
• Mike Tanier (Bleacher Report) Monday Morning Hangover: Caught up, pumped up for Super Bowl XLIX.
• Mike Florio (ProFootballTalk) NFL to test new replay system at Pro Bowl.
• Jenny Vrentas (The MMQB) Football's focus group: The rise of PFF.

DEFLATEGATE DUMPSTER

• Tom Pelissero (USA Today) What if the Patriots are telling the truth?
• Mike Florio (ProFootballTalk) NFL bears plenty of blame for #DeflateGate.
• Chris Wesseling (NFL.com) What we learned: Carroll empathizes with Belichick.
• Marc Sessler (NFL.com) Michael Bennett: Patriots' ball saga is 'propaganda'.
• Jared Dubin (CBS Sports) Sherman on Deflategate: Goodell won't punish Kraft's Patriots.
• Christian Datoc (The Daily Caller) ESPN pulls ‘Sports Science: Deflate-gate’ clip exonerating Patriots. /Then puts it back with changed post date.
• William C. Rhoden (NY Times) It doesn't take a scientist to sense a shift in momentum.
• Peter King (The MMQB) The deflategate rundown [and a little Super talk].
• Richard Deitsch (SI) Mark Brunell on why he reacted so strongly to Brady's press conference.  /Brady didn't admit to cheating like Brunell expected.