Kevin Duffy

Good Morning

Killing time? Some of my favorite things I wrote this week: Josh McDaniels visited top teams and prioritized family in his year off: bostonherald.com/2026/02/01/pat… What NFL teams can (and can't) copy from the Patriots: bostonherald.com/2026/02/08/lea… 10 things I'm watching in Super Bowl LX: bostonherald.com/2026/02/08/10-… Hilarious backstory behind Wes Welker mocking Rex Ryan's foot fetish: bostonherald.com/2026/02/03/pat… Four players grateful that the Patriots rescued them from last-place finishes: bostonherald.com/2026/02/06/pat… Eliot Wolf willing to evolve past just draft and develop: bostonherald.com/2026/02/07/pat… One thought on every Patriots player: bostonherald.com/2026/02/03/one… Efton Chism still chasing Cooper Kupp: bostonherald.com/2026/02/05/pat… McDaniels on an "honest" moment with Drake Maye: bostonherald.com/2026/02/02/ins…

The NFL needs to call in replay assist for the Belichick HOF decision.

@jagibbs_23 Love CMC, but I’d expect Gibbs and Bijan to be the clear 1 and 2 when draft season comes around. Elite talents in their primes, and RBs have dominated the past few seasons . I’d expect them to go ahead of Chase and Puka in any format for that reason.

Top-24 Fantasy Football picks for 2026 Jahmyr Gibbs CMC Ja’Marr Chase Puka Nacua JSN Bijan Robinson De’Von Achane Malik Nabers Amon-Ra St. Brown Jonathan Taylor CeeDee Lamb James Cook Round 2 Drake London TreVeyon Henderson Josh Jacobs Ashton Jeanty Omarion Hampton Cam Skattebo Trey McBride Brock Bowers Nico Collins George Pickens Chase Brown Saquon Barkley

Which members of Patriots two dynasties made MassLive Quarter-Century Team? Voters: @kguregian, @ByMarkDaniels, @nick_underhill, @KevinRDuffy, @nickjomalley, @ByKevinDillon, @_AndrewCallahan , Chris Kennedy, @JPignatiello, @MattVautour424 and I: masslive.com/patriots/2025/…

Congrats to @FOXSports NFL writer @henrycmckenna for his 2025 Dick Connor Writer Award: Dave Anderson Column Writing! 👏

If you can’t make it out to this great event, you can still donate to our @LLSusa campaign. We are very close to hitting a huge milestone. Help us achieve it by donating or sharing: princesshallieforever.com

@ByChrisMason Congrats, Mason!

Stoked to share that I'm shifting to a new sports enterprise role at MassLive. I'll be writing deep dives on the Patriots, Red Sox, Celtics, Bruins, and beyond. If you have ideas for stories that should be highlighted, I'm all ears. Excited to get started!

@ikenyonFB Organizationally, they tried to lose. If they were trying to win they would have played Drake Maye.

I understand why players like Joe Milton want to (and would!) play their ass off, but from top-down organizational standpoint, there has to be an understanding that there's more to gain by losing than by winning.

@TMurph207 All good here man. Miss talking to you. When I covered them they were winning 13 games a year...I don't know how calm and cool my takes would be nowadays haha

@TMurph207 What up Murph?

@MikeGiardi Same way Belichick played it against the Bills the past few years

Punting there is playing to not let this game get lopsided IMO. What's the point?

@jackha1e He was pretty dominant most of last season, too

@KevinRDuffy 1 year

Trading down from the Ladd McConkey pick may end up looking just as bad as taking N’Keal Harry over Metcalf and Deebo.

@jackha1e He isn’t anymore but he was one of the best players in the league for a 2-3 year stretch

@KevinRDuffy Deebo isn’t elite

@davidgandersen Bad teams feel like they need to compile picks and give themselves more bites at the apple, which I totally get. But they gotta be better on player evaluations…you can’t possibly view McConkey and Polk as being in the same tier

@KevinRDuffy Really didn’t understand that move. I thought McConkey at that spot was perfect

@russ48239 Yeah idk how I forgot about AJ Brown

@KevinRDuffy Over aj ^ That was the fit with Tommy

@funk2001 @ByMarkDaniels Oh yeah, him too. Even better than DK and Deebo.

@KevinRDuffy @ByMarkDaniels don’t forget about AJ Brown

@MikeGiardi You’re sick

Two elite candies no one ever talks about: 1. Gummy cola bottles 2. Buttered popcorn jelly beans

The Patriots are a team with talent, leadership and experience issues. How team sources view the team's biggest issues. bostonherald.com/2024/10/24/tea…