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The Carolina Panthers portrayed their decision to part after nine seasons with quarterback Cam Newton as a magnanimous gesture. They announced last week that they were granting him, the best player in franchise history, permission to seek a trade. But as teams around the N.F.L. scurried to add quarterbacks, Newton languished in a sort-of purgatory, […] More
He was, according to his unsparing head coach, one of the best ever to play his position, and for more than a decade, game after game, season after season, the New England Patriots relied on him to — in their vernacular — do his job, and he did, about as well as anyone in N.F.L. […] More
Tom Brady, the only N.F.L. quarterback to win six Super Bowls, is headed to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. After telling the New England Patriots, the only club he has played for in his 20-year career, that he would not return to the team this week, Brady posted to Instagram a picture of his signing a […] More
New Orleans Saints Coach Sean Payton is the first known member of the N.F.L. community to test positive for the coronavirus. Payton told ESPN on Thursday that his symptoms started on Sunday — the day after he attended the Rebel Stakes, a thoroughbred horse race at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark. He said he […] More
Rick Field, the founder of Rick’s Picks pickles and a lifelong New England Patriots fan, vividly remembers the moment that changed his favorite team’s destiny. On Sept. 23, 2001, he gathered with friends in front of a TV to watch a Patriots home game against the Jets. Drew Bledsoe, the Patriots’ beloved quarterback at the […] More
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers played one night game last season, on a Thursday in Week 2. That looks like it’s going to change. The limit for prime-time appearances per team is six, but with Tom Brady poised to join the Buccaneers’ pirate ship — maybe they’ll let him control the animated parrot resting on its […] More
With other sports leagues around the world shut down, the N.F.L. has a captive audience for the frenzied days of free agency, which began at noon Monday, when teams were officially permitted to start talking with unrestricted free agents. Trades will not be official, and teams cannot announce them, until the beginning of the league […] More
Tom Brady’s 20-year career with the New England Patriots, which came to an end on Tuesday with the announcement that he would seek a new team as an unrestricted free agent, had no shortage of superlatives. Six Super Bowl championships. Nine A.F.C. championships. A 219-64 record as a starter — that’s an average season of […] More
