TEAM TALK
- Transactions: Patriots trade QB Jimmy Garoppolo to San Francisco.
- Andy Hart tackles this week's Ask PFW Mailbag: Reacting to the Garoppolo trade.
- Paul Perillo picks the biggest moment of the game: The Travis Benjamin punt return safety.
- Angelique Fiske presents some of the best costumes from Sunday's game.
- Conference Call Transcript: Bill Belichick. Includes his opening statement on the Jimmy Garoppolo trade.
- Sights and Sounds from Week 8 vs. Los Angeles Chargers. (4.15 min. video)
- freeD vision: See the exact moment the Patriots broke the plane and scored a safety vs. Chargers. (36 second video) /Kinda cool.
- Patriots players dressed as superheroes and partied with some special guests for some Halloween fun. (1.15 min. video)
LOCAL LINKS
- Doug Kyed argues the Patriots chose a good year to need a developmental quarterback to groom behind Tom Brady. 2018 will have no shortage of QB options in draft.
- Evan Lazar sees the Patriots still churning out wins despite scoring fewer points. ‘The drop in scoring has been paired well with a remarkable turnaround on defense’.
- Phil Perry allows the mistake-filled Chargers' performance to demonstrate how the Patriots have learned not to lose all these years.
- Mike Reiss sees the lack of further trade acquisitions from the Patriots means some of their first-half vulnerabilities will have to be fixed from within.
- Mike D'Abate (Cover32) Patriots playing a game of ‘Trick or Treat’ with Garoppolo trade.
- Ryan Hannable is still trying to make sense of the Garoppolo trade.
- Henry McKenna (PatriotsWire) Bill Belichick once believe he'd win Super Bowl with Jimmy Garoppolo as starter.
- Mike Reiss believes the arrival of Jimmy Garoppolo sparked Tom Brady to a higher level.
- Tom E. Curran says 'Brady made damn sure Jimmy Garoppolo wasn’t going to do to him what he did to Bledsoe.'
- Mike Giardi believes Jimmy Garoppolo's 3 1/2 years in New England pushed Tom Brady to unprecedented heights.
- Phil Perry notes Bill Belichick mentions that evaluations of Tom Brady have to be year to year.
- Steve Buckley wonders how long Tom Brady will keep on keeping on, and would prefer he walk away before we have to see him look old.
- DJ Bean looks at the Top 10 Bill Belichick trade deadline moves.
- Karen Guregian reports Jimmy Garoppolo is 'thrilled’ to be in San Francisco and finally get his chance to be a starter.
- Jerry Thornton (Barstool Sports) We now understand why the Browns didn't trade for Jimmy Garoppolo.
- Karen Guregian takes note of the Bills trading for WR Kelvin Benjamin, as they are making a push to challenge the Pats in the AFC East.
NATIONAL NEWS
- Mike Florio (ProFootballTalk) Will Patriots trade up for next quarterback?
- Conor Orr (SI) The most significant trade deadline in NFL history.
- Alex Putterman (The Comeback) Tuesday was one of the busiest NFL trade deadlines in memory… and still kind of lame.
- Peter King (SI) Jimmy Garoppolo Trade: Impact on 49ers, Patriots; MMQB Mailbag.
- Danny Kelly (The Ringer) The winners and losers from the NFL trade deadline.
- Jonathan Jones (SI) Winners and losers of the NFL trade deadline. Winners: New England.
- Dan Graziano (ESPN) NFL trade deadline winners, losers. Winners: Tom Brady.
- Jason B. Hirschhorn (Sports on Earth) NFL trade deadline deals, ranked.
- Kevin Clark (The Ringer) The Jimmy Garoppolo trade ripple effect.
- Jason B. Hirschhorn (Sports on Earth) Garoppolo: Big risk, reward for 49ers.
- Andrew Bucholtz (Awful Announcing) Peter King and Don Van Natta Jr. were fooled by fake Adam Schefter account tweeting Kaepernick signing. /One of Van Natta’s 90 unnamed sources from that 2015 Patriots hit piece maybe?
- Sal Maiorana (Democrat & Chronicle) Bills make big splash again, acquire WR Kelvin Benjamin from Panthers.
- Brad Gagnon (The Comeback) Has an NFL season ever been this wide open?
- Staff (The Ringer) Our updated predictions for the NFL's second half: We were wrong before—but now we are 100 percent correct.
- Tom Junod and Seth Wickersham (ESPN Magazine) Tom Brady's dangerous game: Can Tom Brady leave football on his terms with the TB12 method?
- Brad Gagnon (The Comeback) NFL MVP Tracker. Brady at 3.
- Scott Kacsmar (Football Outsiders) Clutch encounters: Week 8. The Patriots don't always so much beat Los Angeles as they watch the Chargers beat themselves.
EXTRACURRICULAR
- Clarence E. Hill Jr. (Star-Telegram) Ezekiel Elliott denied injunction by New York judge, suspension reinstated.
- Josh Alper (ProFootballTalk) NFLPA files for stay of Ezekiel Elliott suspension pending appeal.
- Mike Florio (ProFootballTalk) Elliott judge’s husband works for law firm that helped craft CBA.