TEAM TALK
- Key dates on the 2016 NFL Calendar.
- Paul Perillo takes a look at how the Patriots ranked coming out of high school, on National Signing Day.
- Andy Hart tackles this week's Ask PFW Mailbag: On to a busy Patriots offseason.
- John Rooke's View from Above: On to 2016, and embracing change.
LOCAL LINKS
- NESN hears from Boomer Esiason who is all in on Tom Brady and believes he and the Patriots have more Super Bowls in them.
- Matt Dolloff wonders who will be the next Patriots player to be traded out of nowhere.
- Steve Buckley bets that Tom Brady will show up at Super bowl 50 to take part in the MVP ceremony.
- Jim Donaldson makes the case for Super Bowl L.
- Jeff Howe ranks the Super Bowl champs of the salary cap era.
- Christopher Price notes Marshall Faulk is still bitter about the loss to the Patriots in Super Bowl XXXVI.
NATIONAL NEWS
- Oliver Thomas (247 Sports) Rodney Harrison: Patriots 'need a young bruiser' at running back.
- Lee Schechter (About Sports) Patriots are in need of young, skill position players in the 2016 Draft.
- Lee Schechter (About Sports) How important is a first-round pick to the Patriots?
- Frank Schwab (Yahoo! Sports) 2000 Ravens, 2002 Bucs ... 2015 Broncos? Defense has won before.
- Mark Schofield (Inside the Pylon) The perils of box score scouting: Cardale Jones and Tom Brady.
- Matt Fitzgerald (Bleacher Report) Tom Brady, Cam Newton Odell Beckham Jr. top highest-selling NFL jerseys list.
- The Dan Patrick Show (DanPatrick.com) Justin Tuck on how tough Tom Brady was in Super Bowl. (1.51 min. video)
- Around the League (NFL.com) What we learned Tuesday during Super Bowl 50 week.
- Mark Leibovich (NY Times Magazine) Roger Goodell's unstoppable football machine.
- Zac Jackson (ProFotballTalk) Faulk "sad" for St. Louis, still thinks Patriots cheated to win Super Bowl.
- Kevin Seifert (ESPN) Super Bowl Confidential: Players don't trust replay review system to provide better results.
- Mike Florio (ProFootballTalk) NFL to consider putting video on sideline tablets.
- Dave Archibald (Inside the Pylon) The real NFL MVP.
- Kevin Clark (Wall St. Journal) Has the NFL become un-reffable?
- Robert Weintraub (Sports on Earth) The Super Bowl rewatchability index.
- Ross Benes (Sports on Earth) Best fictional pro football players.
DEFLATEGATE & DUMPSTER DIVE
- Tom E. Curran points out the blatant hypocrisy and disingenuous nature of Roger Goodell.
- Michael Hurley gives his spin on Roger Goodell's spin on how the testing done to measure footballs this year was not testing it all.
- Ryan Hannable reports the NFL's mishandling of deflategate continues. "Why is the game ball information being recorded on a "Referee's Report" and due back to the league office by noon the next day for just a spot check?"
- Michael Hurley explains Roger Goodell's year of hypocrisy and lies, the sham of his press conferences and the questions he would ask the commissioner if he had the chance.
- Kevin Duffy concludes from Roger Goodell's response to the PSI question that the NFL's football pressure study didn't go as the league had hoped.
- Mike Reiss drops the bombl that Roger Goodell said the NFL didn't do any research study on football pressure, instead using spot checks as a deterrent to teams.
- Jeff Howe reports the NFL had a season’s worth of opportunities to collect scientific data on psi measurements, but Roger Goodell "decided against such a plan."
- Michael Hurley states that if we accept that DeflateGate was indeed a big deal, then yesterday's news from Roger Goodell has to be considered a bombshell. /They're all good but read this one.
- Jeff Kane (ESPNNH) Mr. Kraft, it is time to right the NFL's wrongs.
- Dan Wetzel (Yahoo! Sports) NFL's missing data on air pressure is another black eye in deflategate saga.
- Mike Florio (ProFootballTalk) NFL blows chance to fully understand football air pressure.
- Mike Florio (ProFootballTalk) Goodell says PSI spot checks found no air-pressure violations in 2015.
- Peter King (The MMQB) MMQB Mailbag; Cam Handles the press, Manziel's exit assured, and NFL misses the point on PSI measurements.
- Matt Dolloff reports Peyton Manning said he welcomes an NFL investigation into his HGH allegations - just days after his own team completed their own.
- Robert Silverman (The Daily Beast) Peyton Manning's forgotten sex scandal.