New England Patriots

The Patriots visit Las Vegas on Sunday, where they will try to avoid a second straight loss to former offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels. The Raiders beat New England 30-24 last season.

It can't get much worse than the last two weeks for the Pats...can it?

A week after a 38-3 loss to Dallas that established an all-time low for Belichick, the Patriots may have topped it with the biggest home shutout in the once-proud franchise's history. The only time the team was blanked worse: a 52-0 loss to the undefeated 1972 Miami Dolphins.

The next six weeks will either see the Patriots right the ship and get back into contention in the AFC, or the team will be forced to make some very tough decisions.

The Boston Celtics' typically straight-faced basketball boss Brad Stevens couldn’t hide his smile after watching just one practice with Jrue Holiday on the team.

Most coaches around the league don't survive the first couple losing seasons, let alone ones that have been plagued with the issues we've seen from the Pats in recent years.

New England is 3-8 in their last 11 games. They're 9-12 since the start of last season and 10-16 since that wind game in Buffalo during the '21 season. They've scored more than three offensive TD's just four times in their last 37 games and have trailed by at least six points in each of their last 10 contests.

Former NFL tight end Russ Francis, a three-time Pro Bowl selection with the New England Patriots who won a Super Bowl with the 1984 San Francisco 49ers, was killed along with another aviation enthusiast when their small plane crashed after takeoff from an upstate New York airport, authorities said Monday.

Things have rarely been this bad in New England during Bill Belichick's tenure as the Patriots' head coach.

Mac Jones was pulled late in the third quarter of the Patriots' 38-3 loss against the Cowboys on Sunday, when he had three turnovers. Two of them led directly to touchdowns for Dallas in what was New England's worst loss in its 24 seasons under Bill Belichick.