Mike Reiss is a NESN New England Patriots insider and a blogger for ESPNBoston.com. He previously covered the Patriots and the National Football League for the Boston Globe and MetroWest Daily News. Reiss grew up in Framingham, Mass., and is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
The importance of a good special-teams player sometimes goes unnoticed, but that's not the case for Patriots special-teams captain Sam Aiken.
It's been a disappointing season in Nashville to say the least. The Titans won 13 contests a year ago but have failed to find the win column through five games this season. They now face one of the most dangerous aerial combinations in the history of the game.
Very rarely in the NFL can an entire defense depend so much on a 23-year-old, but in the case of the Patriots and Jerod Mayo, that's exactly the situation. So much so that Mike Reiss of ESPNBoston.com said that losing Mayo to injury is similar to another key loss in recent Patriots history.
Wes Welker was on the field and working out during pregame warmups, Mike Reiss of ESPNBoston.com reported on his Twitter page. Welker had been listed as questionable prior to Monday's game against the Bills.
The Patriots listed Dan Connolly, Julian Edelman, BenJarvus Green-Ellis, Rich Ohrnberger, Myron Pryor, Kendall Simmons, Matthew Slater and Terrance Wheatley as inactive for the first game of the season, the Patriots reported via the team's Twitter page.
He's had many big plays and fond memories in the New England secondary, but former cornerback Ty Law's most memorable moment came more than 1,500 miles from Foxborough, Mass.
Forget about Tom Brady's left knee for just one second.
ESPNBoston.com officially launched early Monday morning.
The new site is similar to ESPN's national Web site, ESPN.com, but with a clear focus on the greater Boston area.
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