Tom E. Curran

If you're gonna be a bear, be a grizzly. In the end, the Patriots took their tenth L of the season for the same reason they took their ninth last Sunday against Miami.

What led Bill Belichick to eschew the NFL to lead a middling North Carolina program? Tom E. Curran dives into the fascinating dynamics at play.

“This is not about control,” Michael Lombardi said last Friday after news broke that Bill Belichick was mulling a move to the University of North Carolina. “I don't want anybody to misinterpret this.”

You know what they say: “You only get one chance to make a good first impression after two weeks off when you're still getting a tentative benefit of the doubt at the tail end of a miserable season.”

Now THAT'S how a bad team is supposed to lose. Get the drop on the unassuming opponent expecting a walkover win. Overachieve for a while.

The Patriots lost for the 12th time Sunday in Buffalo, but this defeat wasn't like the others. Tom E. Curran explains why.

This final four-game post-bye stretch for the Patriots was critical. Even though they were 3-10 heading out to Arizona on December 14, it was

Robert Kraft and Patriots ownership need to make a firm decision on the coaches and front office personnel who will lead this team going forward, writes Tom E. Curran.

The Patriots have a long path back to relevance after pulling the plug on Mayo. The New England Patriots fired head coach Jerod Mayo after just one season with the team.

Robert Kraft has said time and again over the past year, “You can't win in this league if you don't have it right at coach and quarterback.” (Or some variation of that.)