Ron Borges
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Borges: Tom Brady wants to get paid like Jimmy G, or he’ll skip OTAs
The dominos are about to continue their Foxboro free fall.Tom Brady wants to get paid. → Read More
Patriots Report Card: Coaches, defense fail Super test
EAGLES 41, PATRIOTS 33 Everyone likes to set records, but the Patriots set the kind you want no part of in their Super Bowl LII loss to the Eagles.With its defense on the ropes and reeling the entire game, the Pats became the first team in NFL history to gain 600 yards and lose. Teams with 600-plus yards had been 38-0-1. They also became only the second team in league history to lose with no… → Read More
Borges: Eagles skewer Patriots defense, which finally broke at the worst time
MINNEAPOLIS — The wrong colored confetti flew down from the roof of U.S. → Read More
Borges: Dante Scarnecchia still passionate about teaching offensive linemen
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — There is an art to teaching, as there is to offensive line play, and Dante Scarnecchia has long been a master of both. But when he came out of a two-year retirement last season to reclaim command of the Patriots offensive line he found himself not feeling quite right. → Read More
Borges: Jim Schwartz out to one-up his teacher, Bill Belichick, on Sunday
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — Jim Schwartz understands nothing the Cleveland Browns ran in 1993 will be of much importance in Super Bowl LII. But everything he learned there will. → Read More
Borges: Brandin Cooks a master at drawing penalties that help Patriots
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — Brandin Cooks averaged 16.6 yards per catch this season but about 32.6 yards per pass interference drawn. So what is his real aim when he breaks the huddle and toes the line of scrimmage?Is it to make the big catch or is it catching a defender in the act of committing Cooks-induced mayhem, beating him with a referee’s flag more than with his own soft hands? → Read More
Borges: Ray Lewis dishes out advice on how Tom Brady can be beaten
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — Al Davis had a theory on why teams and organizations succeed or fail, and it always started from the same place.The top.“A fish rots from the head,” Davis used to say. “So does a football team.”In the case of the Patriots it’s obvious where the top is. It’s inside Tom Brady’s head. But how does an opponent get inside it? → Read More
Borges: Patriots well-schooled in preparing for Super Bowl hysteria
FOXBORO — Like every kid who ever played flag football, Duron Harmon dreamed about playing in the Super Bowl. What he didn’t dream about was locating hotel rooms and bartering for tickets.But when you get there — or if you’re smart, the week before you get there — that’s as much a part of the Super Bowl Experience as watching the Philadelphia Eagles offense on an endless loop of videotape. → Read More
Borges: Artist Palmer Murphy casts Bill Belichick in role of doorknocker
If Palmer Murphy didn’t like Christmas movies he never would have made the connection, but then again, if he didn’t grow up watching the “Prestone Giants Journal” in New York he might not have either. Really, who would look at Bill Belichick with a headset jammed around his ears and think “Jacob Marley?” → Read More
Patriots Report Card: Smart kids advance
PATRIOTS 24, JAGUARS 20 This was an AFC title game as much lost by Jacksonville’s incompetence and lack of boldness as it was won by the Patriots’ clutch play and attack mode with the game on the line.When two teams are evenly matched, as these two were, you cannot commit 98 yards in penalties, miss open receivers in the shadow of your own goal line and try to go conservative in the final… → Read More
Borges: Once again, Pats make clutch plays and foe doesn’t
FOXBORO — Winners make plays when it counts most. Losers make mistakes.Winners know who they are and then prove it when challenged. Losers forget.Winners do it. Losers talk about what they’re going to do. → Read More
Borges: Patriots send yet another opponent home frustrated and frazzled
FOXBORO — Winners make plays when it counts most. Losers make mistakes.Winners know who they are and then prove it when challenged. Losers forget.Winners do it. Losers talk about what they’re going to do. → Read More
Borges: Devin McCourty, teammates learn hard inequality lessons at Harvard seminar
FOXBORO — It was an off day not fit for man nor plow but as snow lay in foot-high piles around Harvard Square and cars crept along icy street → Read More
Patriots Report Card: Divisional test too easy
PATRIOTS 35, TITANS 14This game didn’t take long to become the mismatch it was projected to be. It was an advertisement for why there’s no need for an additional round of playoffs, and no need for as many playoff teams as presently exist.After two weekends of playoff games, the championship round boils down to the No. 1 Patriots against the No. 3 Jaguars in the AFC, and the top two seeds… → Read More
Borges: Pathetic playoff foes like Titans cure all that ails Patriots
There was not a warrior spirit about the Tennessee Titans last night. They were not willing to give up their life to beat Tom Brady. They weren’t even willing to give up a fingernail for that matter.They were willing to give up though, which they did early in the second half of last night’s AFC divisional round playoff extravaganza when they allowed their quarterback, Marcus Mariota, to be… → Read More
Borges: Once again, Tom Brady and his ‘warrior spirit’ have a lot to prove
FOXBORO — The recent trailer for the upcoming Facebook documentary on Tom Brady’s fight with Father Time seemed a bit, shall we say, eerie. In fact, if the words coming out of his mouth had been uttered by Aaron Rodgers or Drew Brees, New England football fans would be chortling that both had lost their minds. → Read More
Borges: Patriots getting reminder that it often ends ugly in the NFL
It seldom ends with a kiss in the NFL. It usually ends with a kiss off.It didn’t end well for Johnny Unitas or Terry Bradshaw or Joe Namath. It didn’t end well for Joe Montana or Brett Favre. That’s not how it works in a world as cold-blooded and heartless as the NFL. → Read More
Borges: Isaiah Thomas shows his love for Danny Ainge, Celtics and city
As feuds go the one between Isaiah Thomas and Danny Ainge didn’t have long legs. Then again neither does Isaiah. → Read More
Patriots Report Card: Not a peak performance
Patriots 26, Jets 6 When one team is warming up on the field before the game while more than half of their opponents are warming up by sitting on the heated benches the issue is pretty much decided. And when your opponent’s starting QB forgets tries to put his helmet on over his stocking cap to open the game it reaffirms this notion. That was the case with the Patriots and Jets on a frigid… → Read More
Borges: If James Harrison can’t provide edge, he’ll be gone
FOXBORO — It is difficult to look at 6-foot-3-inch, 250-pound Marquis Flowers and think “out of the mouth of babes” but yesterday → Read More