Patriots.com News Blitz - 1/8/09
Fresh off the hot stove, the latest on Pioli and McDaniels.
QB Matt Cassel ...49 mins 
LOLB Mike Vrabel ...1514 mins 
QB Matt Cassel ...2799 mins 
RDE Richard Seymour ...2824 mins 
RDE Richard Seymour ...2829 mins 
QB Matt Cassel ...2849 mins 
RDE Richard Seymour ...2854 mins 
QB Matt Cassel ...2854 mins 
RDE Richard Seymour ...2994 mins 
RDE Richard Seymour ...3004 mins 
LB Adalius Thomas ...arm
DL Ty Warren ...groin
33 Steven Jackson (RB - stl)
24 Michael Turner (RB - atl)
19 Jerious Norwood (RB - atl)
15 Marc Bulger (QB - stl)
10 Donnie Avery (WR - stl)
10 Roddy White (WR - atl)
9 Josh Brown (K - stl)
9 Torry Holt (WR - stl)
7 Jason Elam (K - atl)
21 Jason Campbell (QB - was)
17 Dan Orlovsky (QB - det)
16 Jake Delhomme (QB - car)

Fresh off the hot stove, the latest on Pioli and McDaniels.
The annual Scouting Combine is just one of several key NFL events that are coming up soon.
Surgery for Seymour? Plus, yet another Patriots coach is being courted by an NFL team.
With the Patriots out of the playoffs, the focus has shifted to the offseason and the myriad moves the team could have in store. From Matt Cassel to Scott Pioli to Josh McDaniels, "Ask PFW" tries to figure out where everyone is headed.
The latest on Pioli, the future of Tedy Bruschi, and a closer inspection of the Asante Samuel move highlight Tuesday's Blitz.
Think you’re out of the running loop for this year’s Boston Marathon? The Patriots Charitable Foundation asks you to think again … it may have your number!
Tedy Bruschi signed a two-year contract last February, and as long as the New England Patriots want him back,...
New England's head coach will take some time off before taking on the challenges of the 2009 season.
Updates on McDaniels, Pioli, Brady, and Cassel top today's Blitz.
NFL teams can place the franchise tag on players from Feb. 5 to Feb. 19, although that hasn't stopped speculation...
The Patriots completed the 2008 season with an 11-5 record, winning their final four games and five of their last six contests to tie the franchise's fifth-highest regular-season win total. New England finished the season with the third-highest offensive yardage total in team history (365.4 yards per game) and allowed fewer than 20 points per game (19.3) for the sixth time in the last eight years.
The latest on the courtships of Scott Pioli and Josh McDaniels, plus an update on Matt Cassel.
The easy choice would be to blame the Patriots' absence from the playoffs on the absence of league MVP Tom Brady, who tore up his left knee in the season opener and missed the rest of the year. The right choice would be to look beyond one position. Matt Cassel did a superb job as Brady's replacement—better than expected—by throwing for 3,693 yards with 21 touchdown passes and only 11 interceptions. Of the five games the Patriots lost, at least four can be pinned primarily on the defense's inability to make key stops at opportune times. The Patriots allowed 38 points in a home loss to Miami, 30 in a loss at San Diego, 34 at home to the Jets and 33 against the Steelers.
Rookie Jerod Mayo does as expected, winning the NFL's Defensive Rookie of the Year Award. But his joy is tempered by an early end to the 2008 season.
New England Patriots linebacker Jerod Mayo addresses the media during his conference call and discusses winning the 2008 Associated Press Rookie Defensive Player of the Year award.
New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick issued the following comment on Jerod Mayo being named the 2008 AP Rookie Defensive Player of the Year.
The Associated Press has announced today that Patriots linebacker Jerod Mayo has won the Associated Press 2008 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year award.
Patriots punter Chris Hanson has been named the AFC Special Teams Player of the Week for NFL Week 17.
The Patriots have only been eliminated from the playoffs for a little over a day and the offseason is already in full swing. Questions are swirling throughout Patriots Nation surrounding players, coaches and executives coming and going. Ask PFW is here for its first of many offseason editions looking at the direction the team might go through the winter and spring as the steps begin in building toward 2009.
The New England Patriots signed five players to future contracts today - DL Titus Adams, LB Angelo Craig, P Tom Malone, LB Darrell Robertson and OL Ryan Wendell.
As the New England Patriots transition from the regular season to the team-building season (a.k.a.
The off-season came earlier than expected for the 2008 Patriots. Today, they shared some final thoughts on the season that was, and what's ahead.
The New England Patriots' season began with the shock of Tom Brady's knee injury and ended with more bad news: no playoff berth despite an 11-5 record. Surrounded by the odd sight of empty lockers before New Year's Day, some players found it very strange that their playoff run ended at five straight seasons.
An extradition hearing has been scheduled for a former high school football coach and one-time NFL player accused of child rape. Danny Villa will appear in a Tucson, Ariz., courtroom Jan. 6. Massachusetts authorities will seek to have him returned to the state to face three counts of rape of a child over 14 and three counts of enticing a minor.
OK, 11-5 wasn't enough, but after what the New England Patriots did this season, and especially in the final...