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TEAM TALK
- Patriots-Giants Tuesday Injury Report.
- Mike Dussault shares the locker-room buzz from Tuesday at Gillette: Depth and versatility keying defensive dominance.
- Erik Scalavino tackles this week’s Unfiltered Q&A: Kickers, pass-catchers and more.
- Press Conference Transcripts: Tom Brady and Bill Belichick - Devin McCourty and James White.
- Belichick Breakdown: Top plays against the Redskins. (7.54 min. video)
- Sights and Sounds: Week 5 vs. Redskins. (4.08 min. video)
LOCAL LINKS
- Steve Balestrieri (PatsFans) Week 6, first impressions of the Giants. 1. Belichick is really high on Jones, was hoping he’d drop in the draft.
- Evan Lazar’s Patriots Game Plan: Will the offense build on Sunday’s second-half performance?
- Matt Dolloff points to the time-crunch of prepping on a short week, and added physical grind can be the great equalizer between two teams with large disparities in talent.
- David Albiani (FullPressCoverage) What’s happening in Week Six? Patriots vs. Giants.
- Robert Marcello (FullPressCoverage) Patriots enemy profile: New York Giants.
- Matt Dolloff reports Daniel Jones will try to beat the Patriots at Gillette Stadium, something that no rookie quarterback has ever done.
- Eric Wilbur knows the Patriots are good. The question is, why is the rest of the NFL so bad?
- Mike Reiss introduces us to “The Boogeymen” - the Patriots’ three, 3-down linebackers: Dont’a Hightower, Jamie Collins and Kyle Van Noy.
- Doug Kyed looks at why the defense is so much better this year than last season.
- Deyscha Smith highlights Bill Belichick explaining what makes the Patriots’ defense unique.
- Rian Queen (LastWordOnSports) Dont’a Hightower leads Patriots defense with 2019 resurgence.
- NESN passes along an NFL.com list of top corners in the league, with Stephon Gilmore leading the way.
- Michael Hurley finds that Tom Brady struck a noticeably different tone when talking about the importance of work on the practice field -- not for himself, necessarily, but for his younger teammates. (Hurley concedes that perhaps last week everybody took Brady’s words too literally.) /Perhaps, lol.
- Zack Cox mentions how Cody Kessler is ‘stealing extra reps’ to learn Patriots’ offense.
- CBS Boston notes Bill Belichick hints that Ben Watson may be back at some point.
- Matt Vautour tries to make sense of Belichick cutting Ben Watson because of a tight roster, when the Patriots need help at the TE position but also keep a third QB.
- David Latham (LastWordOnSports) Patriots wide receiver trade targets.
- Nick Goss hears from Matthew Slater on why he’s not a fan of Thursday night games: They ‘don’t fit under the umbrella of player safety’.
- Mike Reiss reports Rob Gronkowski will make his debut as an analyst during Fox’s pregame show for Thursday’s Patriots home game against the New York Giants.
- Zack Cox NFL Rumors: Patriots work out three free agents, including a kicker.
- Deyscha Smith helps us catch up on all five of Tom Brady’s postgame victory videos this season.
- Tony Massarotti is dying to see a Brady-Garoppolo Super Bowl face off, for the final game of Brady’s career.
- Locked On Patriots podcast: Mike D’Abate talks Pats with Bernd Buchmasser. (33 min.)
- Patriots Fourth And Two podcast: The Patriots beat the Redskins and look to do the same against the Giants. (52.52 min.)
NATIONAL NEWS
- Cameron Filipe (FootballZebras) Week 6 referee assignments. Pats-Giants: Brad Allen.
- Kevin Clark (The Ringer) In the NFL, the path of least resistance is easier than ever: Bad teams—really, really bad ones—are everywhere in 2019.
- Rodger Sherman (The Ringer) Ranking all 32 NFL kicking situations, from most stable to least. The disaster zone: Patriots Mike Nugent/Younghoe Koo.
- Josh Edwards (CBS Sports) NFL Rookie Power Rankings Week 6. No. 9 Chase Winovich. /No love for Jake Bailey?
- Kristopher Knox (Bleacher Report) Every NFL team’s biggest early-season disappointment. Patriots: RB Sony Michel.
- Jeremy Bergman (NFL.com) Deshaun Watson, Aaron Jones among Players of the Week.
- Danielle Allentuck (NY Times) Sam Darnold cleared to return for Jets: The Jets said Darnold would start Sunday when his 0-4 team faces the Dallas Cowboys.
- Sam Farmer (LA Times) NFL broadcast teams get plenty of inside information before games.
- Sean Wagner-McGough (CBS Sports) NFL coaching hot seat rankings.
- Ken Belson (NY Times) Players with CTE doubled their risk with every 5.3 years in football: New study is the first to quantify the number of years linked to measurable brain disease.
VIEW FROM NEW YORK
- Paul Schwartz (NY Post) Bill Belichick’s Daniel Jones dream didn’t last long.
- Pat Leonard (NY Daily News) Daniel Jones and Giants face impossible odds shorthanded offensively against mighty New England Patriots.
- Zach Braziller (NY Post) The Giants’ unsettling plan if Saquon Barkley is a no-go.
- Pat Leonard (NY Daily News) Saquon Barkley playing against New England Patriots on Thursday is a possibility, Giants coach says.
- George Willis (NY Post) Giants’ Jabrill Peppers is psyched for Tom Brady challenge.
- Dave Blezow (NY Post) Giants haven’t been this much of an underdog in nearly 40 years.
- Pat Leonard (NY Daily News) Giants rookie fourth-round pick Julian Love could see playing time on defense vs. Patriots.
- Zach Braziller (NY Post) Giants expected to get Ogletree, Davis back for Patriots game.
- Pat Leonard (NY Daily News) Giants receiver Sterling Shepard out long-term with concussion: source