The New England Patriots wide receiver Wes Walker will receive the Pop Warner Youth Inspiration Award for the year 2008 at the 48th annual All American Scholar Banquet in Coronado Springs resort in Disney coming Saturday night. The award is presented by the largest youth football and cheerleading organization named Pop Warner Little Scholars and Welker will receive the award for the outstanding season he had with  the Patriots and for his on going and dedicated policy of working with  the youth. The “83 Foundation” that was started by Wes Walker is doing yeomen service to the underprivileged children of Oklahoma City by providing a cordial environment to play football.

Joey Porter, who is a linebacker with the Miami Dolphins, have gone public with his claims that the Patriots are a bunch of cheats. He slams the team for taping the Pittsburgh Steelers’ game play and implied that they won the championships through dishonest means. Porter was also quick to accuse the NFL for destroying the Spygate tapes and thus, eradicating the evidence. He was angry because prior to joining the Dolphins, he was a loyal Steelers team player and was not happy that this controversy that happened during the 2002 AFC tournaments. The NFL refused to comment about his accusations.

The New England Patriots wide receiver Chad Jackson is hopeful of playing in the upcoming regular season along with the likes of Randy Moss and Gaffney. The last two seasons have been very disappointing for Jackson. He has had 13 touchdowns and has caught 13 balls for 152 yards in his two previous seasons for the New England Patriots. Jackson said that he was determined to show the coaches the stuff that he has and feels that this year is an important one for him. Jackson said that he is more mature now and will be able to satisfy the needs of his coaches and fans if he is given a chance to play this season.

Bill Belichick, the New England Patriots coach, in a television interview said that he was wrong about the rules of NFL regarding prohibition of filming the opponent signals and added that there was no intention to hide what they were doing. But, this statement was not accepted by Roger Goodell, the NFL commissioner, and he fined the coach for $ 500,000 and $ 250,000 for Patriots and the draft picks of first- round. Belichick said that the former video assistant Matt Walsh was to blame for the activity. Walsh said that he was coached to avoid NFL rules and was instructed by team officials about the ways to avoid exposure.

The result of the three hour meeting between Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner and former video assistant Mat Walsh is that there would be no further punishments that the New England Patriots will have to face for their involvement in the camera gate scandal. Matt Walsh had provided over eight tapes from 2000-2002 and Goodell said that the tapes did not provide any new information and hence no further action will be taken on the Patriots as they have already been punished for the scandal in September. The Patriots fans are happy that this scandal incident is done with and are looking forward to see their team perform well in the season ahead.

The New England Patriots player Willie Andrews has been ordered by a judge Neil Walker to finish a substance abuse treatment program and to carry out a community service project for the offense of being held for possession of half pound of marijuana and about $6,800 cash at a traffic stop in Lowell in February. The 24 year old player has been asked to perform community service for 100 hours that includes enlightening Lowell student-athletes about the hazards of narcotics, complete the substance abuse treatment program of NFL as well as pay a $1,000 fine. Andrews was Patriots seventh round draft pick in 2006 and is a swashbuckling hard hitting special teams player.

The rookie quarterback Kevin O’Connell has got into the good books of New England Patriots quarterbacks coach Josh Mc Daniels who feels that he is a fast learner and has all that it takes to be a Patriots quarterback. Kevin said that he has not been so far exposed to this style of coaching before and his coach wants him to work on various aspects every day. Mc Daniels had a one to one coaching stint with O’Connell and was impressed with the raw talent he possessed.

O’Connell acknowledged that Mc Daniels was the best coach that he had ever worked out with and said that he had huge amount of respect towards his quarterback coach. The New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick is also appreciative of the efforts put in so far by O’Connell at the mini rookie camp and feels that the Patriots fans will be able to see this rookie player in Patriots uniform pretty soon. 

It seems that someone has been bitten by the love bug! Tom Brady, talented quarterback for the New England Patriots, has dropped hints that he might be tying the knot with his sweetheart Gisele Bundchen. The 30 year old strapping young quarterback revealed to Bridget Moynahan, his ex-beau, that he will soon be going down on one knee and proposing to the Brazilian supermodel. Sources said that Moynahan has expressed her joy and wished Brady all the best. Brady also further said that he wants to introduce Bundchen to his eight month old toddler, and wishes for her to develop a close relationship with his only son.

The New England Patriots have decided that it is pace and athletic skills in the defense that will help them propel in the upcoming season and have gone all out to sign as many as five picks for their defense in the third round of the draft pick. All this only means that the head coach of the Patriots Bill Belichick is fully endorsing the view that younger and faster players are the need of the hour. The Patriots have picked faster players like Jerod Mayo and Wheatley on Saturday and the trend seemed to continue on Sunday as well.

Jonathan White also caught the eyes of the coach in the fourth round and in between all these defensive signing, Bill picked Kevin O’Connell, a San Diego state quarterback, and is the only offensive player that Patriots have signed the whole of last week. So, Pat fans can expect next season to be full of thrills and athleticism.