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Oct 5, 2024 | 
patspulpit.com | Matthew Rewinski
Robert Deutsch-Imagn Images Fun fact: neither of my parents cares much about sports, not even a little bit. It’s honestly a coin flip whether either of them could even tell you who won the Super Bowl 8 months ago.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
patspulpit.com | Matthew Rewinski
Peter Casey-USA TODAY Sports At long last, after a grueling summer of seemingly daily press conferences and a failed superstar receiver trade and another frisky-turned-.500 Red Sox season, the 2024 New England Patriots season is a real thing that’s actually happening this weekend. We made it.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
patspulpit.com | Matthew Rewinski
Eric Canha-USA TODAY Sports For the last several years when I’d write this column, there was always, always ALWAYS much analysis to be done, all the way from “How early is too early to draft Tom Brady, REALLY” to “Is it worth a roster spot to bet on upside for N’Keal Harry/Chris Hogan/Danny Amendola/Malcolm Mitchell/Aaron Dobson/insert second tight end here?” Rosters were flush with league-winners like “healthy Gronk”, PPR monsters like Julian Edelman and Wes Welker, and if you were the kind...
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
patspulpit.com | Matthew Rewinski
Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images Paying running backs a second contract. The “does pineapple belong on pizza?” of NFL discourse. Rarely is anything remotely new or interesting introduced to the convo. There’s the hardline “never give a running back a dime after their rookie contract”, on the other side there’s... Jerry Jones and the Browns, I guess, who were more than happy to give a bag to Ezekiel Elliott and Nick Chubb, respectively.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
patspulpit.com | Matthew Rewinski
Photo by Kathryn Riley/Getty Images There’s a part in Jeff Benedict’s The Dynasty (not to be confused with the propaganda miniseries of the same name) where then-head coach Bill Parcells talks about how negotiating contract extensions used to go in the pre-salary cap era.
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May 16, 2024 | 
patspulpit.com | Matthew Rewinski
Photo by Sam Hodde/Getty Images Does anyone else ever show up to a barbecue, a happy hour, a family get-together, or anywhere else you’d hang with friends or family you don’t see every day, and when they ask “how’ve you been?”, you find yourself responding “not much, just working and chilling”? And then you realize: wait. There’s been a ton of things that’ve happened since we hung out last! Why did I say it’s the same old, same old?
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Apr 28, 2024 | 
patspulpit.com | Matthew Rewinski
Eric Canha-USA TODAY Sports This may be a bold claim to make, but I’ll say it with my chest:It seems more likely than not that the New England Patriots will not lead the NFL with five (5) games with zero (0) touchdowns scored in the 2024 season.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
bvmsports.com | Matthew Rewinski
The draft community likes New England's first-round pick. For the younger readers of Pats Pulpit dot com, welcome - to the first NFL Draft in your lifetime where the draft really starts with the New England Patriots. For the readers my age and older of Pats Pulpit dot com, welcome back - to the first draft in around 30 years that starts with the New England Patriots, since the 1993 draft figuratively and literally started with the New England Patriots.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
patspulpit.com | Matthew Rewinski
For the younger readers of Pats Pulpit dot com, welcome — to the first NFL Draft in your lifetime where the draft really starts with the New England Patriots. For the readers my age and older of Pats Pulpit dot com, welcome back — to the first draft in around 30 years that starts with the New England Patriots, since the 1993 draft figuratively and literally started with the New England Patriots.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
patspulpit.com | Matthew Rewinski
Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images To whatever extent you believe the Patriot Way actually exists in real life, all it really shakes out to is a cool-sounding history-is-written-by-the-victors way of saying “accountability matters.” Do your job, and no days off, and all that is a more meathead way of saying “get the results people are counting on you to get, by putting in the work and taking it seriously and doing everything in your power to excel, because then everyone else can do what...
