The schedule release makes for strange bedfellows. For the NFL and Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, they've apparently found common ground after more than a decade of hostility. Only two days after the 10-year anniversary of Portnoy’s arrest for staging a sit-in at the lobby of the league office in protest of the Tom Brady #Deflategate suspension,

New England’s season opener against the Raiders should have no shortage of storylines — especially if new Raiders minority owner Tom Brady makes the trek to Foxborough.

Big picture thought on the Patriots' schedule, which comes out tomorrow: It sets up well for them. — Nine home games. — No games west of New Orleans. — One of the easiest schedules in the NFL based o...

Overall, the Patriots do not have a tough schedule.