Drake Maye delivered one of the best performances of his career in the New England Patriots’ victory over the Miami Dolphins on Sunday, and offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels significantly contributed to it.

NBC Sports Boston’s Patriots insider, Phil Perry, praised McDaniels for utilizing Maye’s athleticism early in the game.

“It appeared as though McDaniels wanted to take advantage of Maye’s athleticism in Week 2,” Perry wrote Monday. “Whether or not McDaniels knew on-the-run types of throws would help Maye feel at ease early in the game is unclear. But Maye had multiple bootleg throws on the first drive alone, one...

Tom Brady plans to play football again, but this isn’t another return from retirement.

The legendary quarterback announced Monday that he’ll compete in the Fanatics Flag Football Classic, a new flag-football tournament taking place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on March 21, 2026.

Brady isn’t the only New England Patriots icon returning to the gridiron. According to Fox Sports’ Eric Williams, former teammate and current Fox colleague Rob Gronkowski will also participate.

Saquon Barkley, CeeDee Lamb, Christian McCaffrey, Sauce Gardner, Myles Garrett, Brock Bowers, Maxx Crosby, Tyreek Hill and Odell Beckham Jr. are among the current NFL stars confirmed to compete....

The first win of the New England Patriots’ Mike Vrabel era was a thriller. Taking on the Dolphins in Miami, the first-year head coach and his team emerged with a 33-27 victory from what was a back-and-forth division battle.

The Week 2 shootout saw several noteworthy performances, for better or worse, and an improved Patriots team across the board. A look at our weekly grading chart, however, shows that not every part of the team played an equal part in New England breaking its five-year losing streak in Miami.

Patriots position grades for Week 2

Quarterback: Drake Maye has...

The Miami Dolphins are still scrambling for answers following Sunday’s 33-27 loss to the New England Patriots.

Miami fell to 0-2 after dropping the AFC East contest at home, leading questions over Mike McDaniel’s job security to intensify. Some critics latched onto a peculiar statement from the Dolphins head coach in his post-game press conference.

“To win games, you have to win the game,” McDaniel said. “Not lose the game, honestly.”

McDaniel made the Perd Hapley-like observation while lamenting a sloppy final drive. The Dolphins drove the ball to New England’s 26-yard line before committing consecutive false start and delay...

Mark Robinson and Kobee Minor reverted to the New England Patriots’ practice squad on Monday after serving as standard elevations against the Miami Dolphins.

The 33-27 AFC East win at Hard Rock Stadium saw the linebacker as well as the cornerback check in on special teams.

Robinson, 26, played 12 snaps in the kicking game and recorded his third tackle of September in punt coverage. He previously had been called up for a core role in the opener versus the Las Vegas Raiders. The 5-foot-11, 235-pound linebacker signed to the practice squad in Foxborough heading into Labor Day weekend.

After...

The New England Patriots earned their first win of the season in 2025 on Sunday against the Miami Dolphins, and boy, was it a thriller. Easily the biggest play of the game for the Patriots was Antonio Gibson’s 90-yard kickoff return touchdown, which was made more epic thanks to an awesome reaction from head coach Mike Vrabel.

With a 23-20 lead, the Pats punted away to the Dolphins, only for Malik Washington to rip off a 74-yard return for a touchdown. New England suddenly found itself trailing midway through the fourth quarter, setting the stage for a wildly important drive....

It wasn’t necessarily pretty, but the New England Patriots earned their first win of the 2025 campaign in Week 2 against the Miami Dolphins. With the final score settling in at 33-27, the Patriots did a good job of bouncing back after a rough outing in Week 1, but there are still some areas that need to be cleaned up.

Drake Maye and the offense had quite a bit of success moving the ball in this one, but the defense struggled to slow down Miami’s offense, particularly in the second half. With the game officially in the books, let’s check...

Drake Maye has plenty of support in the New England Patriots locker room after Sunday’s strong showing.

Maye led New England to a 33-27 win over the Miami Dolphins by completing 19 of 23 passes for 230 yards and two touchdowns. The second-year quarterback posted the best QBR (77.6) of his NFL career and added a rushing touchdown for good measure on the road.

Patriots teammates praised Maye after the Week 2 victory, courtesy of MassLive’s Mark Daniels. Offensive lineman Morgan Moses, who joined the organization for his 12th NFL season, celebrated the 23-year-old for taking ownership of the team....

New England Patriots fans haven’t let Asante Samuel’s infamous Super Bowl drop go, and neither has Rodney Harrison.

We’re talking, of course, about Samuel’s failure to catch an interceptable pass on the play that preceded David Tyree’s helmet catch in Super Bowl XLII. Moments after that fateful sequence, Eli Manning found Plaxico Burress for a late touchdown, and the New York Giants secured an upset victory over the previously unbeaten Patriots.

Well, in a forthcoming book by author and NFL reporter Gary Myers, Samuel was called out by legendary Patriots safety Rodney Harrison.

“Asante Samuel had the opportunity to make...

New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel offered an update on defensive coordinator Terrell Williams, who was away from the team last week dealing with an unspecified medical issue.

Williams will be “around and involved” the team moving forward, but it is currently unclear as to what extent.

“I think Terrell’s in good spirits, I appreciate [the media] asking,” Vrabel said Monday morning. “So again, Terrell will be around. I don’t quite fully know in what capacity, but he will be around and involved, so we’ll continue to just make sure that there’s a good plan for everything that happens,...

Well, at least Mike Vrabel is saying there’s a chance Christian Gonzalez returns to action in Week 3.

The star cornerback missed the New England Patriots’ first two games with a hamstring injury. Vrabel left the door open for Gonzalez to make his season debut, but the head coach didn’t sound overly confident.

“It’s a chance,” Vrabel said of Gonzalez playing this Sunday, per WEEI’s Tom Carroll. “I mean, there’s a chance that a lot of things could happen. It’s Monday, and we’ll figure out how he progresses along the week, and we’ll see what he can do.”

Vrabel briefly...

I’m very fortunate in that, at absolutely no point in my life, did I ever think I had the slightest clue what I was doing or what was going on. If I were living in London AF 632, I’d proudly be a Delta or an Epsilon and not think twice about it.

So, I’m able to roll into this huge Patriots win in Miami with the same kind of good-natured idiocy that has served me so well over these past four decades. This was as close to a must-win Week 2 game as it got, for both sides, and here...