Author: BostonSportsNews

The New England Patriots earned a big playoff victory over the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday night, and once again, all eyes are on the Pats. Everyone is weighing in on their return to the forefront of the NFL, including former star cornerback Stephon Gilmore. Many folks were expecting the Pats and Chargers to engage in a shootout, but instead, both offenses struggled to put points on the board. New England’s defense, instead, took this game over in the second half, helping the team advance to the divisional round of the 2025 NFL Playoffs. One guy who helped the Patriots…

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FOXBORO — It wasn’t the MVP-caliber quarterback or the red-hot run game that propelled the New England Patriots to their AFC Wild Card victory over the Los Angeles Chargers. It was their underrated defense. It won’t be overlooked any longer after the thrashing took place Sunday night at Gillette Stadium. The Patriots’ defense made life miserable for Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert. It tallied six sacks, tied for the second-most in a playoff game in team history. One of them was a strip-sack by linebacker K’Lavon Chaisson in the fourth quarter that all but punched New England’s ticket to the Divisional…

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FOXBORO — Minutes before his first NFL playoff game, slot receiver Efton Chism III received some words of encouragement from one of his Patriots predecessors. It was Danny Amendola, back in town to watch New England host the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday night in the wild-card round. Which words, exactly? That detail, Chism couldn’t recall. “Honestly, we were kind of just yelling at each other, getting each other going,” the rookie told the Herald, smiling, after the Patriots’ 16-3 win at Gillette Stadium. “I’ve got a ton of respect for that guy, and just having him just there and…

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FOXBORO — Christian Elliss walked out of the Patriots‘ locker room in a light-colored sweatsuit with a worn football tucked under his right arm. The ball was bound for a wall inside his house, where Elliss keeps others on display as mementos from games gone by. This one he recovered with 8:08 left Sunday night, a moment that epitomized how the Pats had brutalized the Chargers to the point they might soon display a white helmet with an arcing lightning bolt on a wall inside their facility. Not as a memento, but a pelt. Trailing by 13 at midfield, Justin…

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New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel is on the board with his first playoff victory since returning to the franchise — but he isn’t satisfied. Vrabel took his typical approach to the postgame media availability following Sunday’s wild-card victory over the Los Angeles Chargers, choosing to take the positives of the performance and intertwine them with points of emphasis moving forward. “We turned the ball over far too many times, but what our defense was able to do early in the game… really set the tone for the rest of the game,” Vrabel said, per team-provided video. “It could…

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FOXBORO — Before the Patriots beat the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday for their first playoff victory in seven years, Stefon Diggs gathered his teammates together to share a motivational message. “Hey, be violent, man!” the veteran wide receiver said, as captured by the Patriots’ in-house media team. “Be smart, but when in doubt, crash the (expletive) out. It’s us vs. them, man. Ain’t nobody like us. Ain’t nobody believe in us. I like us, man. Go lay in on the line for your brother, man.” I LIKE US pic.twitter.com/nPdAQRLAIf — New England Patriots (@Patriots) January 12, 2026 Following New…

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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Drake Maye threw a touchdown pass to Hunter Henry in the fourth quarter, and New England’s defense roughed up Justin Herbert as the Patriots beat the Los Angeles Chargers 16-3 in an AFC wild-card playoff game on Sunday night.Andy Borregales kicked three field goals for the Patriots (15-3), who won a playoff game for the first time since their Super Bowl victory to cap the 2018 season. They’ll host the winner of Monday night’s game between Pittsburgh and Houston in the divisional round.In his first career playoff game, Maye completed 17 of 29 passes for 268 yards and…

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New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye ran off the field to chants of “MVP! MVP! MVP!” on Sunday. It’s safe to say that he didn’t play like one, though… Maye, who turned the ball over twice and was one lucky bounce away from doing it a third time, deflected any and all credit following his first playoff victory over the Los Angeles Chargers at Gillette Stadium. “It wasn’t my best tonight, but hey, that’s why you have teammates — they picked me up tonight,” Maye said following the game, per team-provided video. “… I’ve got to be better.” New England…

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