Ed Matanes

It has been 10 days since the Patriots last played football. In that time, we have watched Josh Allen get crowned the greatest quarterback to ever live again. We watched Ben Johnson’s Bears hang 59 on Carolina. So...

I’m still thinking about that Seattle game. I’ve read the good, the bad, the ugly. The calls for Josh McDaniels’ head. The people already deciding Drake Maye stinks. It is worth remembering that it is September. Week...

We don't need Seattle fans to tell us what went wrong in January. We know. Drake Maye got sacked five times against the Chargers. Five more against Houston. Five more in Denver. Six in the Super Bowl. Twenty-one sacks in four playoff games. We know the...

Adley Rutschman is hitting .170 as a Red Sox, and his elbow is acting up. Am I sounding the alarm? Not yet. Boston gave up a massive prospect haul for him. Maybe this is the move that pushes the Red Sox over the top. Maybe years from now we're watching...

Three games. Three deficits. Three wins. Boston came home needing a reset and swept San Francisco at Fenway in three straight comeback wins, capped by Sunday’s 5-4 rally from a 3-0 hole. Jake Bennett took his lumps early, then settled in and gave Boston...

Kayshon Boutte has been in trade rumors since it became clear the Patriots were landing A.J. Brown. They have not moved him. Six weeks into camp, Boutte has been their second-best receiver, behind only Brown. Ben Volin has called it the “Boutte paradox”:...

Twenty-nine wins in 34 games. No Red Sox team has ever won more games over a 34-game stretch. Instead of standing pat and hoping July might last forever, Craig Breslow spent the trade deadline treating this run like it was load-bearing. Now Boston has 50...

Training camp hasn’t even started, and Mike Vrabel has already delivered the first surprise of the summer. DeAndre Hopkins is in Foxboro. Not for a workout. Not for a contract. To coach. At least for a few days. ESPN’s Mike Reiss reported that the future...

Caleb Durbin put one over the Green Monster with two outs in the eighth, and the Red Sox beat Baltimore 6-5 to extend the second-longest winning streak in franchise history. One more ties Ted Williams's 1946 club for the longest winning streak in franchise...

Three weeks ago I wrote that Craig Breslow should be fired and that this front office should sell everything that wasn't nailed down. I meant every word. So before I say what's coming next, let me be clear: I was wrong, and I've never been happier to eat...

Let’s be clear about what just happened. Jaylen Brown, Finals MVP, five-time All-Star, and the guy who dragged this franchise through a season it had no business surviving, was traded to the Philadelphia 76ers. Yes, that Philadelphia. The team that just...

Complaining is easy. Sports radio proves that every day. We spent the last piece breaking down how this front office got us here. This one is about what I’d actually do to fix it. For the purposes of this piece, Craig Breslow is fired. I’m the GM. Here’s...

Let's start with what actually happened this season. Without Jayson Tatum, Jrue Holiday, Kristaps Porzingis, Al Horford , Jaylen Brown averaged 28.7 points, 6.9 rebounds, and 5.1 assists while helping carry Boston to...

The 2026 Boston Red Sox were supposed to be different. Garrett Crochet coming off an AL Cy Young runner-up season. Ranger Suarez freshly signed for five years and $130M. Sonny Gray, Johan Oviedo, and a rotation that Breslow spent three offseasons and...

Craig Breslow took over as Boston's Chief Baseball Officer on October 25, 2023, inheriting a franchise that had finished last in the AL East in back-to-back seasons. His mandate was clear: fix the pitching, compete sooner rather than later, and do not...

It's June. The draft is done, free agency has settled, and minicamp is underway. Nobody asked for a Patriots full season preview. Here it is anyway. This is a team that went to the Super Bowl last February and lost. A team that made the largest...