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TEAM TALK
- Erik Scalavino tackles this week’s Ask PFW Mailbag: Looking ahead to 2018.
- Highlights: Happy Birthday Randy Moss. (1 min. video)
- PFW in Progress: Free agent preview. (2 hour program)
- Photos - Best of Dion Lewis in 2017.
LOCAL LINKS
- Mike Reiss captures the spirit of Valentine’s Day with a bouquet of things to love about the New England Patriots entering 2018.
- Michael Hurley spends a column looking back at the highs and lows from the Patriots 2017 season.
- Henry McKenna (PatriotsWire) Was Alan Branch’s benching situation worse than Malcolm Butler’s at Super Bowl LII?
- Doug Kyed highlights 15 players who didn’t make much of an impact who could see much greater roles next season and beyond. /Interesting list.
- Isaiah Houde (PatriotsWire) Marquis Flowers isn’t worried about his poor Pro Football Focus grade.
- Mike Dussault (PatsPropaganda) Five most intriguing 2018 returning Patriots.
- Steve Balestrieri (PatsFans) Patriots free agent profile: Danny Amendola.
- Ryan Hannable talks about how the 2017 season will impact Malcolm Butler as a free agent.
- Mike D’Abate (FullPressCoverage) Assessing the 2018 NFL Draft: New England Patriots.
- Phil Perry issues his 2017 season Patriots Report Card: Some trouble with the final exam.
- Doug Kyed notes five Patriots cracked the Pro Football Focus 2017 top 101 players list.
- Ryan Hannable says the idea of Jimmy Graham to the Patriots isn’t as crazy as it may sound. /Eh.
- Joshua Schrock notes NFL media analyst Nate Burleson thinks the Patriots would be an ideal fit for Jimmy Graham.
- Hayden Bird relays what Tom Brady had to say about his media startup with Michael Strahan, “Religion of Sports”.
- Lindsay Kalter reports Rob Gronkowski had kids smiling all over New England yesterday — and it had nothing to do with football.
- Ricky Doyle notes Troy Brown joins Tedy Bruschi in disputing Lane Johnson’s Patriots jab.
NATIONAL NEWS
- Report (AP) Rob Gronkowski, father, brothers give $25,000 to kids’ hospital.
- Matt Harmon (NFL.com) Top 10 best QB-WR duos of 2017. Brady-Cooks just missed the cut. “Cooks led all wide receivers this season with 16 deep-ball receptions.”
- Ben Baldwin (Football Outsiders) Rushing success and play-action passing.
- Sam Monson (Pro Football Focus) Surprise players from the 2017 NFL season. David Andrews makes this list.
- Peter King (SI) Chris Long’s next mountain: Kilimanjaro for water charity; MMQB Mailbag.
- Kevin Seifert (ESPN) The NFL’s top 10 offseason priorities: Catch rule, concussions, anthem, more.
- Gregg Rosenthal (NFL.com) AFC cut candidates. Dwayne Allen ‘on the bubble’.
- Michael David Smith (ProFootballTalk) 2012 serves as a reminder of the unpredictability of the draft.
- Cam Mellor (Pro Football Focus) Top playmakers at cornerback in the 2018 NFL Draft class.
- Vincent Verhei (Football Outsiders) 2017 Football Outsiders Awards.
- Chase Goodbread (NFL.com) Polling 2018 draft prospects: Which NFL coach would you most like to play for?
- Frank Schwab (Yahoo! Sports) Grading all seven NFL head-coaching hires this offseason.
- Darin Gantt (ProFootballTalk) YouTube CEO reiterates desire to stream NFL games.
- Charles Robinson (Yahoo! Sports) Sources: Colin Kaepernick’s deposition request list in NFL grievance case includes Roger Goodell’s wife. Robert Kraft also on this list.
- Mike Florio (ProFootballTalk) Kaepernick’s lawyers want to question Papa John, too.
- Mike Florio (ProFootballTalk) 49ers may need to recalibrate their character-assessment methods.