Patriots offensive line protection efficiency against the Raiders Alijah Vera-Tucker 100.0% Caleb Lomu 96.0% Ben Brown 94.7% Jared Wilson 94.7% Will Campbell 92.3% Morgan Moses 92.1% *min 10 pass blocks

Quick-hit thoughts/notes around the Patriots and NFL ('01 lessons for '26 team; A.J. Brown's presence; Christian Gonzalez/adrenaline; Drake Maye's classy touch w/ Kirk Cousins; stats show turnover issue; Kyle Williams' time?; 3-TO goal for D; Mooo... etc. www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

Patriots to honor the 2001 Super Bowl team: Can the 2026 squad learn from them?

Robert Kraft talked about the similarities between the two teams as he prepares to honor the 25th anniversary of the Patriots' first championship.

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Patriots Thursday S™️🗣️12:45p: Jeremy Springer ⭕️©️🎙️1:05p: Josh McDaniels 🔒🚪1:15p: Locker room 🏈2:10p: Practice D🤺🗣️4p: Zak Kuhr (then O assistants) NOTES: CB depth tested with 3 not at practice (Davis, Gonzalez, Prunty) and 2 limited (Canada, Woods)...2 open spots.

NEW: An hourlong debate for #RIgov tonight saw some clear contrasts emerge between Helena Foulkes, Aaron Guckian and Ken Block - here's a recap www.wpri.com/news/electio...

Foulkes, Guckian, Block spar in RI gov. debate over Morales, gender, energy

The three major candidates for governor sparred with one week left before the start of early voting.

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Divine Deablo is the football version of God Shammgod

NE 29, BUF 26 ⭐️ Gritty win ↪️ Turns everything around 🪜Chism climbs it in clutch 🧊 Maye in 4Q ⬆️ Chism III, Davis, Doubs, Maye ⬇️ Run game 🚑 Hollins (calf) 🫵Forced touching rule saves fumble 😡🦓Vrabel to official 🎁3⃣ Gifted Bills FG end 2Q 🏴‍☠️ Next: vs. Raiders

Defensive snaps vs. Bills: 🏈 CBs Marcus Jones/Carlton Davis III go wire-to-wire in absence of Christian Gonzalez, with Charles Woods (35) third option 🏈 Not a single snap of 3-safety package 🏈 LB Robert Spillane (team-high 8 tackles, FF) has played every snap this season

Offensive snaps vs. Bills: 🏈 76 marks season high (71, vs. SEA) and most since Nov. 17, 2024 vs. Rams (also 76) 🏈 WR Efton Chism III with 34, second highest in career (41, vs. Jets, Dec. 28, 2025) 🏈 “Number 74 is eligible” — extensive jumbo TE work for OT Caleb Lomu (20)

Tracy says that all the pitching change decisions were his. "Not one time since I've been here has anyone scripted a game. ... As far as that specific one (Gray), that falls on me."

Researchers have created a functional antenna that is made out of plasma. It's *made*out*of*plasma*(!!!) How this works is just wild. 🧪 news.ncsu.edu/2026/10/plas...

Researchers Successfully Demonstrate First-Ever Plasma Beam Antenna

Researchers have demonstrated a technique that uses a laser to produce a plasma beam antenna capable of transmitting radio waves.

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Sam Kennedy at Red Sox end-of-year press conference: "While we are proud of some of the things that happened and proud we got to the postseason, we are definitely not satisfied....We obviously fell short of that goal (of the World Series)." He describes WC loss as "painful and deeply disappointing."

Old man Rodgers was really huffin' down the smelling salts in the huddle there 🙄

John Grotzinger helped lead Curiosity’s search for ancient habitability on Mars. He showed up for our Caltech portrait session on a homemade bicycle carrying a model rover wheel. Perfect. Portrait + story: explorers.com/john-grotzin...

Cleaning out the notebook from the Patriots’ 20-3 win over the Steelers … diving into QB Drake Maye’s performance … and looking ahead to Sunday’s road game against the Jaguars (pictured: OLB Elijah Ponder). Link: mikereiss.net/2026/09/23/c...

Cleaning out the notebook from Patriots’ 20-3 win over the Steelers

The Patriots’ win over the Steelers falls into the “no style points” category — wasn’t good enough offensively and pretty good defensively against a subpar offense. But the result was badly n…

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Red Sox press conference discussing the official naming of Chad Tracy as manager and Breslow’s options being exercised. Sam Kennedy: “Today is a great day … It’s been a rollercoaster of a season. We’re so pleased to make these announcements.”

Congratulations to the whole team for this, I know people have been trying for a while to get radio emission from an exoplanet but it's fantastic to finally get a solid location and confirmation!

Yvette Cendes@whereisyvette.bsky.social · 3w ago

If @science.org is covering it, I guess I should share something here- we have for the first time definitively detected radio emission from a planet around another star! 🔭🧪🎢 What does this mean? Details in thread! (But TL;DR- still not aliens) 🧵 www.sciencenews.org/article/exop...

A little response to the many comments on yesterday's mushroom photos.

Brady's said "Oh shit" upon seeing the Jayden Daniels injury and called the throw to Lamb a "piss missile" today.

Jourdan Rodrigue@jourdanrodrigue.bsky.social · 3w ago

What a throw and a catch by Dak Prescott to CeeDee Lamb. Did Tom Brady say “piss missile”?? (Accurate if so)

🏈 GB 20 - 17 NYJ FINAL 👎 That's Antigami! 20-17 is the most common result in NFL history. This score has happened 302 times before. Last time: Jan 18, 2026 Los Angeles Rams defeated Chicago Bears

TB12 with the live "oh shit!" from the booth LOL

After half a quarter I was already sick of hearing "three nineTEEEEEN"... #Patriots

Jamel Dean has been on Romeo Doubs all first quarter and it's interesting that at the goal line, the Steelers lined him up against Mack Hollins instead. Maye trusts Hollins in these situations.

Roster analysis: With Mitch Wishnowsky elevated, and OT Dametrious Crownover and CB Carlton Davis III ruled out, the Patriots will declare 4 more players inactive. Projected -- Behren Morton (3rd QB); T/G Walter Rouse or C Ben Brown (knee); LB Erick Hunter; DT Joshua Farmer.

Electron is vertical on Pad B at Launch Complex 1 ahead of today's 'Owl By The Dozen' mission for Synspective - our 96th Electron launch. ❄️LOX loading is about to begin 🌤️ Weather: 85% go 🚀 Range: Clear ⏱️ Liftoff: scheduled for 3:22pm NZ local time

gasoline up to $4.434/gal as of tonight, while diesel has climbed to $6.387/gal, according to the latest GasBuddy live view. up from $4.355 and $6.301 last night, and tomorrow will bring more increases to the averages as they play catch up.

Two-time All-Pro cornerback Stephon Gilmore returned to New England Friday and signed a one-day contract to retire as a member of the Patriots: https://www.wpri.com/sports/patriots-new-england-nation/two-time-all-pro-cornerback-stephon-gilmore-retires-as-member-of-patriots/ 

Some of them even enjoyed The Diagram, which is truly a feat. If you are a college student and you see this diagram and want to know more, please consider a geology major immediately

Dr. Adeene Denton@spacewhalerider.com · 4w ago

Today, I will briefly torment my class of astronomy and aerospace engineering majors with some real geology stuff. That's right folks. It's time for The Diagram.

Multiple sources confirmed that as early as next week, NASA will announce that it will order two additional Starliner crewed missions, pay some of the costs to fix the spacecraft’s thruster issues, and provide support to certify the spacecraft’s launch on a new rocket.

After being sidelined, Boeing's Starliner to get starring role in NASA's spaceflight plans

They should fly their capsule. The government paid a lot of money for that."

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Gas prices hit $4.46 a gallon today — a gain of 17 cents over the previous week and $1.26 higher than the same point last year. Diesel prices are up more than $2.74 from a year ago. Families, farmers, and truckers are all getting squeezed. Meanwhile...

Question (from Wednesday’s locker room): How pleased were you with the way you started the season?   LT Will Campbell: “It doesn’t matter. We lost the game. I just gotta do more and clean up the stuff that wasn’t good. All I care about it winning. That’s all that matters to me.”