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• NFLPA: NFL’s modified offseason plan does not address players’ concerns

  15-04-2021 02:07 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  The NFL released more details Wednesday about plans for offseason workouts. It still isn’t enough to satisfy the NFLPA. Union leaders still are advising players to skip in-person offseason workouts. A day after NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith and president JC Tretter sent a initial memo to all players with their recommendation, they decried the [more]
  
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• Patriots players say “many of us” won’t participate in voluntary workouts

  14-04-2021 19:03 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  Like their counterparts on the Broncos, Seahawks, Buccaneers, and Lions, the Patriots players released a statement regarding participation in voluntary offseason workouts. But unlike the rest of the teams, New England’s statement was not a unilateral declaration. The Patriots’ players said “many of us” will not attend the voluntary in-person offseason program, believing it to [more]
  
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• Panthers OC Joe Brady will be at Justin Fields Pro Day Wednesday

  14-04-2021 13:18 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  The Panthers had head coach Matt Rhule and General Manager Scott Fitterer at former Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields‘ first Pro Day workout in March, but their quarterback situation changed since that workout. Carolina acquired Sam Darnold in a trade with the Jets last week and Rhule said this week that the move gives them [more]
  
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• LeSean McCoy: I’ve got a good shot at the Hall of Fame, Julian Edelman does not

  14-04-2021 11:25 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  Count free agent running back LeSean McCoy as one player who does not think Julian Edelman is heading to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Asked by Yahoo Sports if Edelman is a Hall of Famer, McCoy scoffed. “Hall of Famer? No, come on, man,” McCoy said. McCoy said Edelman’s strong postseason performances don’t change [more]
  
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• Report: Jets, Broncos will attend Justin Fields’ second Pro Day

  14-04-2021 00:44 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  Prospects were not allowed to have private workouts with teams, but several quarterbacks have had more than one Pro Day. Ohio State’s Justin Fields will have his second Pro Day on Wednesday, and it sounds as if he will have more than a few interested pro scouts. The 49ers, Patriots and Falcons previously were reported [more]
  
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• Report: Falcons will attend Justin Fields’ second Pro Day workout

  13-04-2021 22:10 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  The Falcons have done their best this offseason to portray an open mind about taking a quarterback with the fourth overall pick in the draft and they’ll reportedly be checking out the workout of a potential choice with that pick on Wednesday. Former Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields will be holding his second Pro Day [more]
  
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• Rob Gronkowski pegs chances of Julian Edelman joining Buccaneers at (what else?) “69 percent”

  13-04-2021 21:22 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  We’re not the only ones not buying the Julian Edelman retirement. Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski estimated for TMZ.com on Monday night the chances that Edelman will land in Tampa Bay, despite his retirement from the NFL. “69 percent chance,” Gronkowski said when asked if there’s a chance Edelman signs with the Bucs. “He’ll be [more]
  
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• Is Julian Edelman truly retired?

  13-04-2021 16:40 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  In the aftermath of Super Bowl LIII, the talk began of receiver Julian Edelman as a candidate for Canton. Our take at the time was that he still has more work to do to get there. Two years later, he added a 1,117-yard season in 2019 (the third of his career), a three-catch, 30-yard postseason [more]
  
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• Tom Brady to Julian Edelman: You shined the most on biggest stage, in biggest moments

  13-04-2021 02:44 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  Julian Edelman was Tom Brady‘s favorite receiver, with the most targets (1,036) and most catches (689) of anyone who has caught passes from the quarterback. Edelman had 7,674 receiving yards and 41 touchdowns on passes from Brady in the regular season and postseason combined. Who would have guessed that Edelman (34) would retire before Brady [more]
  
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• Bill Belichick: It was a privilege to coach “ultimate competitor” Julian Edelman

  13-04-2021 00:00 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  Julian Edelman officially announced he’s retiring as a Patriot, and shortly after head coach Bill Belichick and team owner Robert Kraft issued statements praising the wide receiver’s accomplishments. “By any measure of what constitutes an elite NFL career — wins, championships, production — Julian has it all,” Belichick said. “Few players can match Julian’s achievements, [more]
  
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• Julian Edelman: I am retiring a Patriot

  12-04-2021 23:41 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  Julian Edelman is hanging up his cleats. Shortly after news broke that the Patriots had released Edelman after he failed a physical related to last year’s knee injury, Edelman announced that he has played the last game of his career. “Nothing in my career has ever come easy,” Edelman said. “This isn’t going to be [more]
  
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• Patriots waive Michael Barnett

  12-04-2021 23:26 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  The Patriots announced that they dropped a player on Monday afternoon, but it wasn’t wide receiver Julian Edelman. News of Edelman’s release is only on the league’s transaction report for the day and hasn’t been acknowledged by the team at this point. They did announced that Michael Barnett has been waived, however. Barnett signed with [more]
  
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• Julian Edelman cut after failed physical, may retire

  12-04-2021 22:23 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  After 12 years with the Patriots, wide receiver Julian Edelman has been released. The Patriots officially terminated Edelman’s contract today, with a “failed physical” designation on the NFL’s transaction wire. ESPN reported that Edelman’s next step may be retirement. The failed physical is not a big surprise, given last week’s news that Edelman wasn’t expecting [more]
  
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• Stephon Gilmore on future with Patriots: It’s out of my control

  12-04-2021 22:06 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  A report emerged late last month that Patriots cornerback Stephon Gilmore would be “very open” to an extension that would lower his cap number for the 2021 season. But Gilmore realizes that is not entirely up to him. The cornerback is about to enter the last year of his five-year contract, but turns 31 in [more]
  
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• Report: 49ers, Patriots have committed to attend Justin Fields’ second Pro Day

  12-04-2021 16:19 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan was the first person to mention that Justin Fields would hold a second Pro Day workout for NFL teams, so it doesn’t come as much surprise that Shanahan and General Manager John Lynch are set to be in Columbus, Ohio on Wednesday. Shanahan and Lynch weren’t at Fields’ first workout [more]
  
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• Jonathan Kraft makes case for full capacity at 2021 games

  12-04-2021 12:31 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  The 2021 NFL season begins in five months. When it comes to the pandemic, a lot can and will happen between now and then. And there continues to be a belief that, by September, NFL teams will be able to host full stadiums of fans. “Once vaccines have been available in a community for a [more]
  
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• How long will Bill Belichick coach?

  11-04-2021 16:31 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  At one point, Patriots coach Bill Belichick said that, unlike Hall of Famer Marv Levy, Belichick won’t be coaching into his 70s. As Belichick inches closer and closer to 70, his stance may have changed. To start the week that will see Belichick turn 69, Mike Reiss of ESPN.com published recent quotes from Levy regarding [more]
  
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• No decision yet on reversal of one-helmet rule

  10-04-2021 17:36 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  Last year, the NFL acknowledged that the one-helmet rule could change in 2021. It still could. Per a league spokesperson, there has been no resolution yet regarding the possibility that teams could be permitted to allow players to use more than one helmet during the course of a given season. That would give teams the [more]
  
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• Phillip Adams’ brain will be studied for CTE

  10-04-2021 16:00 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  Earlier this week, former NFL defensive back Phillip Adams shot and killed five people before killing himself. Adams’ father said that “football messed him up.” Scientists will take a closer look at that specific question. Via the Associated Press, the brain of Phillip Adams will be tested for Chronic Traumatic Encephelopathy, a degenerative condition that [more]
  
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• Patriots cut Ross Reynolds

  09-04-2021 22:46 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  The Patriots waived offensive guard Ross Reynolds on Friday, according to the NFL’s transactions report. Reynolds, 25, has never appeared in an NFL regular-season game. The Patriots activated him from the practice squad for Week 17 in 2020, but he did not play a down. Reynolds entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent out [more]
  
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• Report: Phillip Adams shootings were sparked by decision to stop medication

  09-04-2021 21:33 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  It remains unknown why former NFL defensive back Phillip Adams shot and killed a prominent South Carolina doctor, his wife, two grandchildren, and another person. A new report supplies a potential motive. South Carolina U.S. Representative Ralph Norman tells Alex Giles of WBTV that Dr. Robert Lesslie had been treating Adams, and that Dr. Lesslie [more]
  
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• David Tepper listed as richest NFL owner, with net worth of $14.5 billion

  09-04-2021 11:12 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  David Tepper remains the NFL’s richest owner, and he’s gotten a lot richer lately. Tepper’s net worth is listed at $14.5 billion on the latest Forbes billionaires list, which indicates that his net worth has risen by 21 percent since last year. Tepper’s hedge funds have done well during the COVID-19 pandemic. The NFL’s next-richest [more]
  
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• Phillip Adams’ father says: “I think football messed him up”

  09-04-2021 01:06 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  Former NFL defensive back Phillip Adams obviously suffered from severe and untreated mental illness. That’s the only way to explain his decision to take five lives and then his own on Wednesday. His father blamed the situation on Adams’ football career. “I can say he’s a good kid,” Alonzo Adams told WCNC-TV. “I think the [more]
  
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• Lane Kiffin: Bill Belichick is unique among NFL coaches in researching draft prospects

  08-04-2021 23:35 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  Lane Kiffin, the longtime coach who has is currently at Ole Miss and has coached at several big-time college programs in addition to a stint as head coach of the Raiders, says there’s one NFL coach who stands apart in his effort to learn about draft prospects: Bill Belichick. Kiffin told Pat McAfee that during [more]
  
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• Report: “Doubtful” Julian Edelman will be able to play entire 2021 season

  08-04-2021 19:01 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  The Patriots have brought in a slew of new players this offseason and this month’s draft will introduce more fresh faces to the mix, but there are some holdovers from the old days still on hand. Wide receiver Julian Edelman is part of that group, but word in February was that he was unsure his [more]
  
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• Former NFL player Phillip Adams kills five, then himself

  08-04-2021 16:20 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  Philip Adams, a former NFL defensive back who played for the 49ers, Patriots, Seahawks, Raiders, Jets, and Falcons, shot and killed five people on Wednesday and then committed suicide. Via the Associated Press, Adams killed Dr. Robert Lesslie, his wife Barbara, two of their young grandchildren (Adah and Noah), and James Lewis. A sixth person [more]
  
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• Dustin Woodard back on Patriots’ roster after retiring prior to his rookie year

  07-04-2021 22:45 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  The Patriots selected Memphis center Dustin Woodard in the seventh round of the 2020 NFL draft. Four months later, Woodard retired. Now he’s coming back. Woodard has been reinstated to the Patriots’ active roster, according to Field Yates of ESPN. It’s unclear why Woodard changed his mind. He hasn’t spoken publicly about his decision. He [more]
  
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• Tom Brady on Bruce Arians: Great motivator, great feel for the team

  07-04-2021 18:11 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  In Tom Brady‘s 21-year NFL career, he has played 20 seasons for Bill Belichick and one for Bruce Arians. Reflecting on that one, Brady said Arians has been great to play for. “He’s a great motivator — he’s got a great feel for the team — a great pulse for what’s going on in a [more]
  
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• Tom Brady: I’ve got a little sickness in me that still wants to throw a freaking spiral

  07-04-2021 15:51 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  Tom Brady just won his seventh Super Bowl and his fifth Super Bowl MVP, and then signed a contract extension through the 2022 season. With the Buccaneers bringing back all 22 of their offensive and defensive starters, they’re clearly keeping the championship window open for as long as possible. Brady turns 44 in June and [more]
  
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• Tom Brady: I was always motivated by people doubting me, and I still feel that way

  07-04-2021 11:17 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  After seven Super Bowl rings, Tom Brady doesn’t have many doubters left. But he finds motivation in believing he’s been doubted. Brady told Michael Strahan that a big part of his motivation in his first season with the Buccaneers was believing that people had given up on him and thought he should retire. “I was [more]
  
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• Alex Cappa earns most in performance-based pay for 2020

  06-04-2021 21:19 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  The NFL Players Association on Tuesday sent agents the numbers on performance-based pay for the 2020 season. Buccaneers guard Alex Cappa earned a league-high $622,056 in extra pay after starting 16 games for the Super Bowl champions, Ben Volin of the Boston Globe reports. The money is a reward to low-earning players who start a [more]
  
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• Bill Belichick reportedly ignored scouts in drafting N’Keal Harry

  06-04-2021 12:41 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  Last week’s comments from Patriots owner Robert Kraft, covered extensively here and on PFT Live, included a blunt and candid assessment of the team’s recent failures in the draft. “Really, the teams who draft well are the ones who will be consistently good,” Kraft told reporters last Wednesday. “I don’t feel like we’ve done the [more]
  
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• Tom Brady rookie card goes for $2.25 million

  03-04-2021 15:56 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  Tom Brady is good for business, in many ways. In the old-school, non-NFT football card business, Brady has broken records twice in recent weeks. After one of his rookie cards sold at auction for $1.32 million, another Brady rookie card has sold for $2.25 million at auction. The bidding began at $75,000, and 67 total [more]
  
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• Malcolm Butler: “Kind of amazing” to play home games where I first became known

  01-04-2021 15:56 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  The first time many people became aware of Malcolm Butler was late in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl XLIX at State Farm Stadium in Arizona. Butler was playing for the Patriots when he intercepted Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson on the goalline as the Seahawks were trying for a go-ahead touchdown. Butler was an undrafted [more]
  
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• President Biden cautions against full stadiums, for now

  01-04-2021 15:30 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  The NFL expects to have full stadiums in September. Baseball’s Texas Rangers will have a full stadium now. President Joe Biden would prefer that they didn’t. Appearing on ESPN last night, the President called the team’s decision to start the MLB season at full capacity during the ongoing pandemic a “mistake.” “They should listen to [more]
  
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• Ex-NFL player Kenbrell Thompkins charged with identity theft, unemployment fraud

  01-04-2021 14:54 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  Former NFL player Kenbrell Thompkins has been charged with fraudulently obtaining unemployment benefits that were meant for people who lost their jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic. Thompkins, a wide receiver who played for the Patriots, Raiders and Jets, was charged by federal indictment with access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. According to prosecutors, Thompkins [more]
  
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• Robert Kraft acknowledges New England’s recent draft failures

  01-04-2021 03:07 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  The Patriots needed to splurge in free agency this month due in large part to the fact that the 2020 roster lacked talent. The roster lacked talent due in large part to the fact that the team hasn’t drafted well in recent years. In a Wednesday conference call with reporters, owner Robert Kraft acknowledged that [more]
  
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• Does Robert Kraft regret letting Tom Brady leave?

  01-04-2021 02:39 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  The Patriots continue their search to “solidify” the quarterback position a year after Tom Brady walked out the door. New England went 7-9 last season, missing the playoffs for the first time since 2008, while Brady won his seventh Super Bowl ring, this one with the Buccaneers. Brady, whom the Patriots drafted in the sixth [more]
  
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• Robert Kraft: We have to solidify QB position one way or another

  31-03-2021 22:42 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  The first year of life without Tom Brady was a rough one for the Patriots as they slumped to 7-9 and missed the playoffs for the first time since 2008. The team has been busy signing free agents that they hope will allow them to rebound in 2021, but there’s one key spot where they [more]
  
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• Robert Kraft: If there was ever a year to spend in free agency, this is the year

  31-03-2021 22:30 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  Patriots owner Robert Kraft admitted earlier this month that his team’s brass always made fun of the organizations that spent heavily in free agency. Then his own team went 7-9 in 2020. Now New England has signed several high-profile free agents in an effort to once again become competitive in 2021. But there’s a method [more]
  
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• Jason McCourty “excited to get somewhere and play football”

  31-03-2021 14:40 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  The Patriots have made a lot of moves this month, but none of them has involved the return of cornerback Jason McCourty. McCourty remains unsigned for the 2021 season and it is not because he’s unsure about his plans for a 13th NFL season. During an appearance on NFL Network Wednesday, McCourty made it clear [more]
  
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• Devin McCourty: In my 11 years, the Patriots haven’t had an offseason like this

  31-03-2021 14:31 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  After finishing 7-9 in 2020, the Patriots have been the big spenders of free agency, with the club signing several high-profile players. Team owner Robert Kraft said recently that New England “always made fun of the teams that spent a lot in the offseason.” But following the first losing season in well over a decade, [more]
  
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• Packers-Chiefs, Cardinals-Browns among additions to 2021’s 17-game schedule

  30-03-2021 20:52 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  NFL owners have approved a 17-game schedule for the 2021 season and that means each team now has a new opponent on their schedule. The 17th game will be an intra-conference game each season and teams the conferences will alternate hosting duties. The AFC will host the games in 2021 and they will feature matchups [more]
  
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• Marcus Cannon ready to return to football, return home

  30-03-2021 04:06 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  Marcus Cannon was one of eight players who opted out for the Patriots last season. As a survivor of non-Hodgkins lymphoma, the offensive lineman had his health to consider during the pandemic. Cannon, 32, is returning this season but not to the Patriots. New England traded him to the Texans, so he is returning to [more]
  
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• Jermaine Wiggins: Patriots players wondered whether they could depend on Jimmy Garoppolo

  29-03-2021 17:44 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  With Jimmy Garoppolo‘s days numbered in San Francisco, speculation regarding his eventual future has centered on the Patriots. Former NFL tight end (who played at one point for the Patriots) Jermaine Wiggins threw some water on that possibility on Monday morning. “They used to look at Jimmy G. a little sideways, like he kind of [more]
  
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• Report: Danny Shelton visiting with Giants

  29-03-2021 17:27 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  Veteran defensive lineman Danny Shelton is visiting with the Giants on Monday, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports. Shelton spent last season with the Lions, starting 12 games. He recorded 37 total tackles with a sack, two tackles for loss, and four quarterback hits. Prior to that, Shelton played a pair of seasons with New England — [more]
  
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• Report: Stephon Gilmore “very open” to extension in New England

  29-03-2021 16:07 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  Cornerback Stephon Gilmore was seen as a trade candidate heading into last year’s deadline and discussion of a possible deal extended into this offseason, but he remains a member of the Patriots with March coming to an end. While that doesn’t mean that Gilmore will be in New England once we hit September, the way [more]
  
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• Kyle Van Noy on Brian Flores: I had no comment because I’m damned either way

  29-03-2021 13:41 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  Immediately after learning he’d be released by the Dolphins, linebacker Kyle Van Noy said he was “surprised and disappointed” by the decision. Van Noy noted that he played through injuries and that he felt he lived up to expectations as a leader in his only season playing for head coach Brian Flores. Van Noy and [more]
  
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• Kyle Love announces his retirement

  28-03-2021 20:41 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  Defensive tackle Kyle Love never signed with another team after being released by the Buccaneers last September and he won’t be signing anyone this year either. In a post to his Instagram account, Love wrote that he is “closing this chapter in my life and opening up a new one” away from the football field. [more]
  
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• Matt Patricia makes his mark for the Patriots in free agency

  28-03-2021 15:30 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  Matt Patricia has returned to the Patriots, with an unspecified role. Generally, he’s there to assist the coaching staff. And by “coaching staff,” that likely means head coach Bill Belichick. Patricia’s name appears nowhere on the team’s official website. It has appeared, via Mike Reiss of ESPN.com, on the bottom of some of the contracts [more]
  
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