Chris McGrath / Getty Images                                                                                                  The Patriots celebrate their record-breaking touchdown.
By Ron Borges
The Patriots hadn’t yet completed their remarkable 16-0 season and the drums were already beating to minimize what they had done. Sadly, that’s what society seems to have come to.
For weeks prior to their stirring, come-from-behind victory over the New York Giants Saturday […]

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By Ron Borges
The Boston Herald’s all-time greatest Patriot on-line poll continues and it is down to 32 players after the first round of eliminations. Most of the results have thus far been predictable and, as I look at my bracket, the only way it doesn’t come out as Tom Brady vs. Andre Tippett in the […]

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By Ron Borges
Consistency is an important thing in pro football and no one other than the Patriots have been more consistent than these picks. Another 2-4 week last Sunday makes clear one thing – readers who listened to those suggesting gamblers do the opposite of my suggestions each weekend, as I do myself, would be […]

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By Ron Borges
We came tumbling back to earth last Sunday and it was a hard landing.
After going 4-2 the week before, the Pick 6 reversed field and came in at 2-4 as the Falcons proved Bobby Petrino wasn’t the only problem in Atlanta, the Bills, of all people, proved they couldn’t handle the snow and […]

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By Ron Borges
With three weeks left in the regular season I’m finally getting the hang of this.
Went 4-2 last week to get to a .333 betting average. If I was a DH I’d be headed to the Hall of Fame. Hit a third of the time in Vegas and they send you home without your […]

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By Ron Borges
Ever since the Philadelphia Eagles battled the Patriots to a near-standstill last weekend there has been more talk about blueprints around the NFL than at the National Architects Association annual convention. But exactly what was the Eagles’ blueprint for holding their own against the seemingly unbeatable Patriots before finally succumbing to them?
There has […]

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By Ron Borges
Back-to-back sad weekends leaves me well below .500. I’ve at least avoided the fate of becoming the winless Dolphins but one can see that it is picks like this that have helped build Las Vegas.
This weekend we’ll try and do better. After going 1-5 last weekend one cannot do much worse. I was […]

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By Ron Borges
Reportedly, the Philadephia Eagles are insulted to be coming to Foxborough on Sunday as the biggest non-expansion team regular-season underdog in the history of the La Cosa Nostra Point Spread (Isn’t everything sponsored these days?).
When you’re allegedly a professional football franchise and you’re a 22-point underdog (23 ½ when the week started) one […]

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By Ron Borges
Here we go again. After a Thursday of turkey eating in which my picks were 3-0 we take a wee look at the weekend’s fare. Unfortunately, none of my three picks – Dallas, Green Bay and the Colts – were recorded here but you could have gotten them on 1-900-LOCK-UP.
Having likely missed those […]

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 Ricky Williams 2005
By Ron Borges
The most mercurial running back since the days of Duane Thomas and the Dallas Cowboys is back in the NFL. Almost.
Ricky Williams won’t really be back until Monday and not even he probably knows how long he’ll be back for but one thing is clear – if he’s anywhere near what […]

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