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The Super Bowl champs are getting ready to defend their title, with both Tom Brady and Bill Belichick looking for their sixth ring together this season. While the Patriots are overwhelming favorites to get back to the big dance, losing star wide out, Julian Edleman is going to hurt. How will the Patriots manage, and handle a tricky early season schedule? I talk with Chris Hogan of 27 Outs and iHeart radio in this season preview.

It says a lot when an injury to the presumptive third string quarterback makes headlines, but when it comes to the Jets -- nothing is normal. During last night's 32-31 loss to the Giants, quarterback Bryce Petty was having the game of his life until one of his teammates rolled up on Petty's leg, and twisting his knee in the process. Petty left the game with staff concerned that the knee was not stable. Fortunately for Petty the injury is not severe. An MRI on Sunday revealed that the injury was just a MCL sprain, and Petty hopes to be ready for the Jets preseason finale against the Philadelphia Eagles. Petty might find himself in the running for the starting job, considering he had a perfect quarterback rating of 158.3 against the Big Blue, and brought the Jets back from a 29-3 deficit. He had three touchdowns in the effort, and threw for 250 yards in the second half. He has been the Jets most polished passer in in-game action this summer. While the Jets have oddly ...

In the dress rehearsal for both the Giants and Jets, we got a pretty good indication of where both teams are heading this year, in Big Blue's 32-31 win on Saturday night. Let's take a look. Christian Hackenberg: In what should be his last chance to vie for the starting job in Week 1, Christian Hackenberg was putrid in the Jets 32-31 loss to the Giants on Saturday night. If that doesn't cost him the starting job, I don't know what will. Hackenberg had no command of the starting offense, and looked totally bewildered against the Giants pass rush. He threw a costly pick-six to Landon Collins who read him like a book to give the Giants a 12-0 lead. Later in the first half he threw another interception, that really wasn't his fault, considering Robbie Anderson was decked on the ball, which jarred the football loose. Still it was another pick-six as Big Blue built a 29-3 lead. Overall, what has to concern the Jets about Hackenberg is this, before his late touchdown i...

Extremely low expectations have surrounded the Jets all off-season, and many expect New York to have the worst team in the NFL this fall. Why not? The Jets have done everything to show they are rebuilding, shedding millions of dollars in payroll, and overhauling the roster with a bunch of young, and inexperienced players.  Now the talk is what will happen next? Christian Hackenberg has turned out a mediocre training camp and preseason, while veteran Josh McCown is getting little reps in practice as the season fast approaches. Clearly the Jets, who have a major issue at quarterback, are still looking for that franchise guy. Will they tank the season to get that guy in next year's draft?  Anyway I preview the season with my bud Dan Feuerstein, who is covering the Jets for Fanfavorite.com. Enjoy the show! 

My NFL training camp tour continued this week with two more additions to the mix in the Chicago Bears and Carolina Panthers.  The Bears are heading into 2017 with low expectations, but all eyes will be on Mitchell Trubisky's progress as the starter. I am joined by friend, Robert Villarreal, a big time Chicago sports fan to talk about the Bears 2017 season!  Two years ago, the Panthers were 15-1 and in the Super Bowl. Then the injuries happened, and the Panthers finished 6-10 last year. A front office shake-up this summer has added to the intrigue that is the Panthers 2017 season. How will it go? I talk to SB Nation's Brian Beversluis ... 

JETS 7 - TITANS 3  While many expect the New York Jets to be one of the NFL's worst teams, the players and coaches certainly aren't listening. While it is preseason, New York won its first game in a 7-3 slugfest against the Tennessee Titans, in a game where the Jets defense dominated the night with eight sacks and two forced turnovers. The Good:  The Jets defense was phenomenal on Saturday night. New York harassed Titan quarterbacks all night, including sacking third stringer Alex Tanney seven times. Starter Marcus Mariota was sacked once by Leonard Willams in the first quarter, which set the tone for the night. Really, this entire game was won on the back of the Jets D. They never relented against the Titans, bringing tons of pressure on Tanney who played about 90 percent of the game. The Jets secondary was also physical at the line of scrimmage against Tennessee's receivers, forcing Tanney to take the extra beat to look for an open man, which there was none. Perha...

I have opened up my NFL Training camp series for the 2017 season. I will be covering as many teams as possible throughout the month on the Open Mike program which will be heard on the SportsTalk Nation channel on YouTube. In the first episode I spoke with Scout.com writer Michael Hernandez, who covers the Miami Dolphins, to talk about Jay Cutler's presence on the Fish in 2017. Next I am joined by John Robert of Cover 32.com to talk about the defending NFC Champion Atlanta Falcons. We talk about how ATL can overcome last February's crushing Super Bowl loss.

STEELERS 20 - GIANTS 12 What did we learn from Friday night's preseason opener between the New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers? Not much. Not much at all. With the starters on both teams spending much of the game on the sidelines, heck neither Ben Roethisberger nor Eli Manning took a snap in this snooze fest, the Giants backups looked the part in a 20-12 loss to the Steelers. What Looked Good:  The Giants did play most of their defensive starters on Friday, and they looked good, granted it was against a second team offense for Pittsburgh. Landon Collins had five tackles, including blowing up Pittsburgh running back Terrell Watson. New York also sacked quarterback Joshua Dobbs three times, and forced two interceptions. Devin Taylor and Valentino Blake both had picks in the effort for Big Blue. Mike Nugent and Aldrick Rosas continue their kicking competition camp with perfect nights against the Steelers. Nugent's long was 45 yards, while Rosas hit one from 52 yard...

The wait is now over. The New York Mets are looking to future on Tuesday night in Denver, when Amed Rosario makes his long anticipated major league debut at shortstop. Call it a passing of torch if you will as veteran Jose Reyes, once the gem of the Mets minor league system all those years ago, now gives way to the man who will eventually replace him. Like Reyes in 2004, Rosario comes with a great resume and lots of hype. The 21-year old holds a slash line of .328/.367/.466 with seven homers and 58 RBI for Triple-A Las Vegas. He also owns 19 stolen bases this season, and 60 swipes in his career. While Rosario is hitting eighth tonight, the hope is that by the end of this year, and certainly going into 2018, Rosario will take over the lead-off spot for the Mets. That will allow Michael Conforto to hit in the middle of the order where he belongs. The addition of Rosario comes after the Mets made some solid moves at the deadline. First they traded away Addison Reed to Boston for t...

The trade deadline has come and gone, and I got the chance to recap it all on Open Mike last night with guest Doug Rush. Rush is a Yankees blogger, and of course the Yankees made a lot of noise this July, most notably with their acquisition of Sonny Gray. In addition, the Dodgers made some last minute magic when they acquired Yu Darvish from the LA Dodgers. We talk about it all, right here on Open Mike.