FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The Patriots' comeback started with a goal-line stand to end the first half and ended with yet another big win to keep alive their playoff hopes.
There can be no more detours for the New England Patriots if they hope to remain on a path to the playoffs.
The 11-time defending AFC East champions fell to 4-6 with a 27-20 loss to the...
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Well, this is unusual.
The skidding New England Patriots and winless New York Jets square off Monday night in a once-spicy matchup of AFC East rivals dealing...
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The Patriots did their best to prepare for their matchup with Denver while adjusting to an outbreak of COVID-19 cases in their locker room and the resulting lack of...
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Rex Burkhead can’t remember the last time he scored three touchdowns in a game. But he said every time he reached the end zone Sunday was for James White.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Patriots running back James White says he is having trouble processing the sudden death of his father, but is finding comfort in celebrating his son's first birthday....
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Cam Newton is officially the new starting quarterback of the New England Patriots.
A person familiar with the situation said Thursday that Newton was announced as...
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Damien Harris hardly saw the field for the Patriots last season. This year, that could change for the second-year running back.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin running back Jonathan Taylor is headed to the NFL.
The record-setting junior announced Friday on Twitter and Instagram that he will forgo his senior season...
The Patriots have been compared to a sporting dynasty and to Palpatine's Evil Empire. Regardless of which is true, there's no denying that New England enters these playoffs more vulnerable than in...
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Miami dropped defending Super Bowl champion New England into the wild-card playoff round when Ryan Fitzpatrick tossed a 5-yard touchdown pass to tight end Mike Gesicki...
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The Super Bowl champion New England Patriots are back at work, and things are already a lot quieter.
Rob Gronkowski has retired, and the locker room is a more...
ATLANTA (AP) — James Develin will reach into his past every now and then by pulling out one of his notebooks from his junior and senior years at Brown University.
The New England Patriots fullback flips through a few pages, shakes his head and can barely recognize what he scribbled on them on his way to earning a degree in mechanical engineering in 2010.
It will be dark and cold, perhaps absurdly cold, Sunday night in Kansas City. Arrowhead Stadium will be lit up, though, and the winner of the Patriots-Chiefs game will head to Atlanta for the Super Bowl.
The New England Patriots have approached the final week of the regular season with a postseason-like focus.
No, really. A first-round bye through the AFC playoffs is on the line Sunday, so they insist they're not taking their game against the lowly New York Jets lightly.
"It's a one-game season," running back James White said. "We've got to play our best football this week."
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The last time James White faced the New York Jets, he set a career high for rushing yards in a game.
That game also marked the start of a stretch in which the ground attack has taken on added importance for White's New England Patriots, who bring a 10-5 record into Sunday's game at Gillette Stadium against the Jets (4-11).
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The numbers don't lie: The New England Patriots are a better offensive team in 2018 when James White is on the field.
The running back, known more for his pass catching than his running, has seen his number of snaps slip the past two weeks with the return of the previously injury Rex Burkhead. The Patriots lost both games, giving them five losses for the first time since 2009.
But the White numbers and their effect on the team go back beyond the past two weeks.
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — To be a productive member of the New England Patriots, it's usually best to approach the game plan each week with adaptive eyes.
No one has learned that lesson more this season than receiver Cordarrelle Patterson.
When he was traded by Oakland to the Patriots in March, Patterson arrived in New England hoping to land a place on Tom Brady's receiving corps following an offseason shake-up that saw the departures of both Brandin Cooks and Danny Amendola.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers spent the week telling anyone who asked that the other guy was the better quarterback.
In the second matchup between the future Hall of Famers, it was the one with five Super Bowl rings who walked off the field with the victory.
Brady threw for 294 yards and a touchdown, and James White ran for two scores to lead the New England Patriots to a 31-17 victory over Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night.
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Devin McCourty was pleased that the New England Patriots defense didn't have to play second fiddle to Tom Brady and Co. for once.
With the Patriots leaning more on Stephen Gostkowski's leg than Brady's arm against the Buffalo Bills on Monday night, McCourty stepped up and returned an interception 84 yards to secure a 25-6 victory.
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — On a night when he reached 500 career touchdown passes, Tom Brady welcomed back a buddy with one of his three scoring tosses Thursday, then connected with a newcomer who could help him reach more milestones.
Brady also sneaked in for a rushing touchdown and the New England Patriots put together their second straight win after a mediocre start to the season, beating Indianapolis 38-24.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tyrann Mathieu intercepted Tom Brady's pass and also recovered a fumble Sunday against the New England Patriots.
Not good enough, if you ask the Houston Texans safety.
"Yeah, I touched the leather, but I didn't touch the end zone," Mathieu said after the 27-20 loss in the opener. "We lost by seven points, so that's how I look at it and how I judge myself."
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tom Brady shook off the rust of a long layoff and then found time to shake hands with Nick Foles, six months after they met in the Super Bowl.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tom Brady moved the New England Patriots with ease in their Super Bowl rematch against the penalty-prone Eagles, winning 37-20 with a little help from running back James White and fifth-round draft choice Ja'Whaun Bentley.
In his first action since losing in the NFL title game to Philadelphia, Brady completed 19 of 26 passes for 172 yards and two touchdowns on Thursday night to help stake New England (2-0) to a 27-7 halftime lead.
NEW YORK (AP) — Winner stays.
That's the norm on the playground, where a team playing pickup ball remains on the court until it is beaten.
And that's the way Ice Cube insisted it had to be in the BIG3.
Win a championship, come back the next season with the team intact to defend the title.
"To me it goes back to the essence of 3-on-3, king of the court mentality," Cube said.
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — The Patriots have had a knack for getting sometimes unexpected production out of late-round draft picks and undrafted free agents during Bill Belichick's tenure.
From Tom Brady to Julian Edelman to Danny Amendola to last season's Super Bowl star James White, the list is long and lauded.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — First, the Patriots tuned out a week full of off-field drama. Then, they silenced the Titans to earn yet another trip to the AFC championship game.
Tom Brady passed for three touchdowns and 337 yards, and New England cruised past Tennessee 35-14 on Saturday night to advance to their seventh consecutive conference title game.
New England (14-3) will host the winner of Sunday's divisional matchup between Jacksonville and Pittsburgh.
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Tom Brady passed for three touchdowns and 337 yards, and the New England Patriots cruised past the Tennessee Titans 35-14 to advance to their seventh consecutive AFC championship game.
New England (14-3) will host the winner of Sunday's divisional matchup between Jacksonville and Pittsburgh.
BOSTON (AP) — The Bruins have honored the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots before Boston's game Saturday against the Vancouver Canucks.
Fourteen members of the NFL championship team walked onto center ice wearing Bruins jerseys with their names and numbers on the back.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — James White was not the New England Patriots' featured running back when Super Bowl 51 started.
As White has proven before, that was irrelevant.
In 2009, White was a senior at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was a starter for the perennial state and national powerhouse but wasn't considered the go-to ball carrier. That role was held by Giovanni Bernard, now of the Cincinnati Bengals.
HOUSTON (AP) — James White sure waited a long time to get his first rushing touchdown of the season.
It came with 57 seconds left in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl Sunday night , leading to a 2-point conversion for the Patriots to tie the game at 28, forcing the first ever overtime in the history of the big game.
HOUSTON (AP) — The greatest quarterback in NFL history led the biggest Super Bowl comeback to be the MVP on Sunday night.
Tom Brady rallied New England from a 25-point third-quarter deficit for a 34-28 win over the Atlanta Falcons in the first overtime game in Super Bowl history to earn his fifth Super Bowl title and fourth MVP trophy.
"They're all sweet," he said. "They're all different and this was just an incredible team and I'm just happy to be a part of it," he said.
HOUSTON (AP) — The greatest quarterback in NFL history led the biggest Super Bowl comeback to be the MVP on Sunday night.
Tom Brady rallied New England from a 25-point third-quarter deficit for a 34-28 win over the Atlanta Falcons in the first overtime game in Super Bowl history to earn his fifth Super Bowl title and fourth MVP trophy.
HOUSTON (AP) — When you play for the Patriots, being selfish is not an option.
And no other group may be a greater example of that this season than the trio of running backs that New England will lean on in its Super Bowl matchup with the Atlanta Falcons.
The Patriots struggled to run the ball a year ago after Dion Lewis was lost late in the season to a torn left ACL and LeGarrette Blount to a hip injury.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — While most of the preseason spotlight for the Patriots focused on who was missing at quarterback, there was just as much uncertainty surrounding the running back position.
LeGarrette Blount was re-signed in the offseason after just missing his second career 1,000-yard season because of a late hip injury. In addition Dion Lewis, the team's primary receiving option out of the backfield, was working his way back from surgery for a torn ACL in his left knee.