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And Just Like That, the Patriots Have Turned Their Most Glaring Weakness Into One of Their Biggest Strengths

You will undoubtedly find what I'm about to say shocking. And so I suggest you read this next sentence sitting down.  Sometimes I get accused of being too positive about the New England Patriots.    I know! Ridiculous, right? I used to get accused of that even when they were going to nine Super Bowl

MLB Sends Out a Ridiculous, 34-Page Guide on How Teams Should Handle the Coming Lockout as its 3rd Highest Payroll Gets Swept By its 25th Highest

What a great week this was for America. There's nothing we as a people enjoy more than a good underdog story. The little guys, outmanned and outgunned, triumphing over the great powers is the very core of our national identity. It's how this country was born. It's the theme of all our best sports mo

After Dunking on 'Practice Squad Player' Efton Chism, CJ Gardner-Johnson Went to the Internet for Advice. It Did Not Go as He'd Hoped.

CJ Gardner-Johnson is having a career for himself. He was a starter on the Eagles Super Bowl team a couple of years ago. He led the league in interceptions in 2022. And yet it's fair to say he's never done anything that's made a name for himself quite like this viral, Community Noted insult to the w

It Looks Like Belichick Has an Old Fashioned Power Struggle on His Hands as UNC Intends to Choose His New GM for Him

Imagine you're Bill Belichick right now. You've suffered through the slings and arrows of a painful first season at UNC. You lost your right hand man of over 30 years for some reasons still not known to the public. Your own son went out on a medical leave, which has now been made permanent. Even tho

Josh McDaniels' Game Plan Sunday Proves Once Again Why He's the Perfect Man For the Patriots OC Job

The culture of New England sports fandom being what it is in the Year of Our Lord 2026, where we metaphorically build statues to our icons just so we can abstractly tear them down, a headline like the one you just clicked on (thanks for helping pay the bills at Stately Thornton Manor. Buy all our sp

Has it Felt Like NFL Officials Are Ruining Football? The Math Does Check Out.

It is with a heavy heart that I bring up this subject, 40 years removed from the greatest penalty call in NFL history. Ben Dreith may have confused Marty Lyons for Mark Gastineau, but when it came to knowing what the moment called for, he more than rose to the occasion.  Which is why I'm sad to repo

However Your Monday is Going, it Can't Be as Rough as the One CJ Gardner-Johnson is Having After He Ripped Efton Chism for No Reason

“We’re not getting into no bulletin board material. An elevated guy made a helluva catch. Probably won’t hear from him again. Respectfully. I say that with a lot of confidence. because it’s like (Maye) didn’t put his confidence in his best player. He would have thrown to Doubs or somebody, but they 

Knee Jerk Reactions to Week 4: Patriots vs Bills

Things to consider while wondering how you go about awarding a game ball to Community Notes: --We went through a stretch of a few years where the best we could hope for week to week was the occasional moral victory. With a dubious win mixed in here and there. Last season featured a lot of wins the r

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“Do Your Pod” is a weekly show focusing on the New England Patriots featuring the same type of content Jerry Thornton has been bringing to the Barstool blog from its inception in the early 2000s. With analysis of the games, news, storylines and the sort of slanted, biased, but totally honest opinions that helped build the Barstool empire. Each week he’ll be joined by different guests, including Patriots beat writers, media people, insiders, comedians, Barstool colleagues, and anyone entertaining enough to deserve a major audience during one of the most pivotal years in the history of football’s greatest dynasty.

The Belichick Way ft. Evan Lazar: Do Your Pod Episode 22

As a show of gratitude to all those who have reached out asking for another offseason Do Your Pod, Nick Fasoli and I present this post draft reaction episode.  We're glad to be joined by CLNS Media's Evan Lazar, one of the most insightful, knowledgeable, and often-cited Patriots analysts out there. 

A Very Brady Episode: ft. El Pres, Feitelberg and Hank Lockwood: Do Your Pod Episode 21

Nick and I weren't expecting to put together another Do Your Pod so soon, but once Tom Brady's retirement news took over the world, we had no choice. We're joined by three of the brave, intrepid souls who sacrificed their freedom for Brady during the Deflategate witch hunt. Programming note: We reco

The Finale, Ft. Phil Perry: Do Your Pod Episode 20

It has obviously been a tough week to follow the Patriots. But it helped a lot to talk to NBC Sports Boston's Phil Perry. Phil and Nick and I start where you'd assume we would, slipping into metaphorical hazmat suits to clean up the radioactive waste from that meltdown in Buffalo Saturday night. We 

Onto Buffalo Ft. Matt Chatham -  Do Your Pod Episode 19

On this week's show, Nick and I are joined by our first ever former Patriots player, ex-linebacker and member of the elite Three Ring Club Matt Chatham, now of NESN. He's not only one of the best analysts in the business in terms of explaining scheme, concepts and terminology, he offers a ton of gre

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My Conversation With JFK Files Expert Jefferson Morley in the Wake of New Revelations About the Assassination and Coverup

This is a follow up to the discussion I had with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, who's heading up the congressional task force on the assassination of JFK: Jefferson Morley is arguably the world's foremost expert on the assassination, the coverup, the Warren Commission's lies, and all the shadowy

Do Your Pod ft. Barstool Legend Uncle Buck: The Future is Bright

This week's special guest to talk about the Week 1 game against Miami is none other than Barstool Founding Father Uncle Buck, who sometimes goes by his alter ego name, Adam Cormack.  Buck is the creator of features that helped put Barstool into orbit back in our infancy, including the Wake Ups and S

The OnlyFans Mom Whose Kids Got Kicked Out of Catholic School Talks to Barstool, and She Takes a Flamethrower to the Parents Who Started This War

A little over a month ago, I brought you the story of Mrs. Poindexter, otherwise known as Crystal Jackson, a mom whose kids got expelled from their Catholic school because a group of parents found her OnlyFans account and demanded they be removed: Shortly after, Crystal reached out to me to say than

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Chaps Jags-Off Francis To The Point Where People Were Diving In Mayo And Getting Engaged

What a time, man. Our pals at the Bold City Brigade showed up a great time. Nothing but a bunch of straight up animals out there. Duval til I die, baby.

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Patriots/NFL writer. From Barstool, to WEEI, to back on the pirate ship. Staunch defender of Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, and all things Patriots.

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And Just Like That, the Patriots Have Turned Their Most Glaring Weakness Into One of Their Biggest Strengths

MLB Sends Out a Ridiculous, 34-Page Guide on How Teams Should Handle the Coming Lockout as its 3rd Highest Payroll Gets Swept By its 25th Highest

After Dunking on 'Practice Squad Player' Efton Chism, CJ Gardner-Johnson Went to the Internet for Advice. It Did Not Go as He'd Hoped.

It Looks Like Belichick Has an Old Fashioned Power Struggle on His Hands as UNC Intends to Choose His New GM for Him

Josh McDaniels' Game Plan Sunday Proves Once Again Why He's the Perfect Man For the Patriots OC Job

Has it Felt Like NFL Officials Are Ruining Football? The Math Does Check Out.

However Your Monday is Going, it Can't Be as Rough as the One CJ Gardner-Johnson is Having After He Ripped Efton Chism for No Reason

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