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John Sapochetti is the sports talk radio host of Boston Herald Drive in the Greater Boston area and has been covering the New England Patriots for years. After losing to the Buffalo Bills 16-0 in Foxboro back in early October, is there added motivation this Sunday against Buffalo...

Given the small sample size of one half of football we saw Jacoby Brissett play last week for the Patriots, I figured this was worth posting. These are highlights of Brissett's two years at NC State. In those two seasons he completed 60% of his passes and had a 4 to 1 TD/Int ratio...

John Sapochetti is a talk radio veteran in the Greater Boston area and the current host of Boston Herald Drive radio show. "Sap" joined Big Board Sports in the hours leading up to the New England Patriots prime time game v.s. the Houston Texans...

The New England Patriots are 2-0 to start the NFL season. That's a pretty good scenario considering they've done so without future hall of fame quarterback Tom Brady. But now that backup Jimmy Garoppolo has gown down with a shoulder injury, how are the Pats to fair until Brady comes back...

We were all wondering how Jimmy Garoppolo would handle the Patriots starting job the first four game of the season in Tom Brady's absence. If one game is any indication than the Pats won't miss a beat. The 24-year-old QB went 24-33 for an efficient 73% completion rate to go with his 264 yards and a touchdown...

ESPN's Freddie Coleman joined us this Friday on Big Board Sports, as he will every Friday during the NFL season, to break down week 1 of the NFL season. Do the Bills or Jets have a better shot at upsetting their first matchup? How will the Pats fair without Brady in Arizona...

The Patriots received a big scare on Monday afternoon, as tight end Rob Gronkowski gingerly walked off the practice field. Gronk is one of the most vital offensive pieces in the sport and has proven it since he came in the league in 2010. In the time that Gronk spends on the field, Pats QB ratings are 74, while they are just 54 when he is off the field...

Could Deflategate finally be coming to an end? We got one step closer to the end of the road today: As it stands, Brady is almost out of options. He could take his case to the Supreme Court and have the highest court in the country's judicial system take a listen to it...

DeflateGate is not over. It seems that it will never be over.... What does this mean? It means that Brady is petitioning to get his case reheard and that he continues to fight his four-game suspension. Taken directly from Cbssports.com: "Our two primary arguments are that the commissioner in the first place conducted an investigation and then the commissioner imposed discipline...

Good news for the Capital Region as former CBA standout Joe Vellano has signed a futures deal with the New England Patriots. Vellano has been with the Pats multiple times before, having played with them from 2013-2014. From the Patriots website: Vellano, 27, was released by the Patriots on Aug...

Neither one of them played all that well, but in the end, Peyton Manning got the best of Tom Brady. And with that, the Broncos are headed to the Super Bowl after disposing of the Patriots, 20-18 in the AFC Championship. It's the third time in five playoff chances that Manning has beaten Brady, but Manning got this one more in part to his defense...

We are still four full days from the AFC Championship game, but the trash talk has already started for the Denver Broncos. Smith called the Pats QB a ''cry baby.'' However, he appears to have been set up for the question by being asked: "Do you think Tom Brady is a cry baby...