By Ron Borges
The Patriots, like half the teams in the top portion of Saturday’s first round of the NFL draft, would like to do one thing when their name is called. They’d like to not answer. And not make a pick.
New England may be one team that can do it.
Selecting seventh, the Patriots have possible […]

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By Ron Borges
Sportswriters and fans never cease to amaze me. Troy Brown’s visit to the New York Jets last week reminded me of that once again.
Apparently based on nothing but air, some media folks in these parts assumed that, as one person put it, Brown “would not ever consider teams that would be slated to […]

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By Ron Borges
The chickens came home to roost for Bob Kraft and Bill Belichick and their players paid the price for it Sunday in Honolulu.
For the first time anyone could remember, six members of the Pro Bowl were booed when they were introduced to the normally laid-back crowd at Aloha Stadium. Why? […]

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By Ron Borges
For several days now New England Patriots’ cornerback Ellis Hobbs has taken a pounding in the local media and on talk radio for his supposedly poor coverage of Plaxico Burress on the game-winning touchdown pass from Eli Manning in Super Bowl XLII. Hobbs was quoted by one reporter after the game as […]

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By Ron Borges
GLENDALE, AZ. – Nobody’s perfect, except the 1972 Miami Dolphins.
That is the sad reality the New England Patriots woke up to this morning, hours after being upset by the far from perfect New York Giants, 17-14, in Super Bowl XLII. The Perfect Patriots had been beaten. Hold up that parade. Cancel that book […]

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By Ron Borges
The formula for beating the unbeatable Patriots is a lot easier to come by than to execute. You play to win or you prepare to lose.
Those are the simple options facing Tom Coughlin and his New York Giants Sunday night when they try to upset the unbeaten Patriots in Super Bowl XLII. If […]

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By Ron Borges
If the long shot Giants find a way to upset the peerless Patriots Sunday night in Super Bowl XLII, New Yorkers will immediately insist it’s the biggest upset since David dropped Goliath with a well placed stone to the noggin. New Yorkers would be wrong, not that that’s anything new.
They will talk about […]

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By Ron Borges
If consistency is a key to playoff success no one was more consistent than the Pick 6 picks last weekend, which were 0-for-4.
This is typical of the kind of weekend it was. Take the Seahawks plus 8 and Seattle turns two early turnovers into touchdowns. What we had at that point was the […]

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By Ron Borges
Most people in football feel this is the most enjoyable weekend of the year. Not as much hype as Super Bowl weekend but two days filled with usually highly competitive and always fiercely contested match-ups between the best teams left standing in the NFL.
The detritus from wildcard weekend has been cleared away and […]

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By Ron Borges
Usually this time of year somebody surprises. This first playoff weekend will be no different but the surprises may be more surprising than usual.
For the first time in recent memory, the Pittsburgh Steelers are underdogs at home in a playoff game, the odds makers having made the Jacksonville Jaguars three point favorites. […]

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