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TEAM TALK
- Don Banks takes a look at the NFL Decade Standings: How the league ranks from 2010-2018. ‘New England starts the 2019 season just three wins shy of posting the most successful decade in NFL history.’
- Touchdown Israel III: Robert Kraft receives the Genesis Prize. (2.20 min. video)
- Touchdown in Israel III: Patriots take an afternoon stroll by camel in Israel. (22 second video)
- Patriots Unfiltered 6/20: Josh Gordon sighting! (2 hour program)
LOCAL LINKS
- David Latham (LastWordOnSports) Phillip Dorsett can break out for the Patriots. ‘If everything goes right, New England could have one of the best wide receiver depth charts in the league.’
- Oliver Thomas (Forbes) After an invisible rookie season, Patriots CB Duke Dawson Is one to watch.
- Darren Hartwell notes Stephon Gilmore and Ty Law show mutual respect on Patriots’ Israel trip.
- Nick Goss refutes Chris Simms (who?) ranking of Tom Brady (9th) in his list of top NFL QBs, as well as his rationale for doing so. Simms: “It’s not for clicks”. /Uh huh... Kurt Warner isn’t buying it either.
- NESN highlights Kurt Warner disagreeing with Chris Simms and people who say Tom Brady is a system QB.
- Andy Hart weighs in with a squishy take on this ranking, although he does point out the egregiousness of Simms placing Roethlisberger ahead of Brady.
- Devon Clements (PatriotsWire) Tom Brady to be featured in Sports Illustrated Kids magazine.
- Erin Walsh notes Josh McCown offers a bold take on his first day as ESPN analyst, placing Julian Edelman 4th on his list of the NFL’s top five WRs.
- Phil Perry writes that at 67, Bill Belichick is the second-oldest head coach in the NFL. And Tony Romo could see him coaching ‘all the way until we put him in the ground’.
- Michael Hurley explains why he thinks the NFL’s new replay review rules for pass interference don’t appear to be all that bad.
- Patriots Roster Preview podcast: Running backs. Adam Kurkjian and Evan Lazar look at how the carries will be distributed and who’s on the bubble. Patriots Roster Preview: Running Backs. (59.32 min.)
- Russ Goldman (PatsFans) Patriots Fourth And Two Podcast: The Nick Caserio situation. (45.22 min.)
NATIONAL NEWS
- Henry Buggy (Pro Football Focus) Can RB Damien Harris steal the show in New England’s backfield?
- Report (AP) Patriots owner Robert Kraft pledges $20M to fight anti-Semitism.
- John Breech (CBS Sports) Ex-Patriots player shocked to get Super Bowl LIII ring after being cut three times by New England in 2018. /Good for Kenjon Barner.
- Report (TMZ) Bill Belichick stuntin’ in Greece ... Hot bikini GF and Super Bowl swag.
- Gil Brandt (NFL.com) Ten most talented teams in the NFL ahead of the 2019 season. No. 5 Patriots.
- Dan Graziano (ESPN) 50 NFL players who could get contract extensions before training camp. Tom Brady included: “Expect a lucrative extension for one or two years.”
- Dom Cosentino (Deadspin) The Texans’ attempt to hire a GM was cartoonishly inept. “...the plan was bungled with enough incompetence to make the Jets probably wish they’d thought of it first.”
- Dom Cosentino (Deadspin) QBs are getting more expensive: Here’s how NFL teams can pay them and still win.
- Kristopher Knox (Bleacher Report) 1 Big regret each NFL team should have this offseason. Patriots: Missing out on Jared Cook.
- Cameron Filipe (FootballZebras) Officiating crews for the 2019 season. This season there are six new officials to replace four that retired and one that was fired.
- Josh Alper (ProFootballTalk) NFL officials union head expects a lot of preseason PI review stoppages.
- Dom Cosentino (Deadspin) The NFL’s new pass interference replay rule is going to be pretty chaotic.
- Mike Florio (ProFootballTalk) Blandino: Creating a rule for one play leads to bad rules.
- Ryan Wilson (CBS Sports) NFL confirms new pass interference rule that will ‘remain in effect for the 2019 season only’.
- Dom Cosentino (Deadspin) Dear The NFL: The CFL is so much better at video reviews than you are.