Take it from a former scientist: Bill Belichick is cooking up a wild experiment with this 2022 Patriots team. And it's exposing how much people hate having their assumptions of how football works challenged. Could he have us questioning what we know about the game by the end of the year?

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The Patriots are taking a few days before Week 1's game against Miami to get acclimated to the heat and humidity, but Mac Jones is going to have to deal with a different kind of heat on Sunday. How he and the Patriots can beat the Dolphins' (likely) blitz-heavy tactics, and how the defense will deal with Miami as a whole -- not just Tyreek Hill.

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This season might be the weirdest post-Tom Brady campaign yet for the Patriots, and one of their fellow New England teams might be an interesting example of where the 2022 season might be headed. Khari Thompson joins TSN in Toronto to make sense of the madness.

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How much should we read into the Patriots' preseason struggles this year? Not as much as we've been doing, says former Patriot Matt Chatham. Also, some insight into what makes new offensive coordinator Matt Chatham tick.

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What is Mac Jones going through in his second season with a new offense, a new play-caller, and a host of questions about his supporting cast? We talk with former NFL quarterback Tim Jenkins to get inside the mind of a signal-caller.

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Khari hops on SportsMap Radio's "The Rundown" to talk about all things Patriots, including Bill Belichick's master plan for 2022, with host Jeff Michael.

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Alex chats with WEEI Patriots reporter Khari Thompson about the challenges of covering Bill Belichick and getting acclimated on one of the most competitive beats in sports.

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Were those practice reports last week and that ugly Friday game against the Las Vegas Raiders as bad as they looked for the Patriots? We talk to someone who was there -- Chad Graff of The Athletic -- to break down where the Patriots are at heading into the season.

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It took forever, but the Patriots finally got down to a 53-man roster on Tuesday. And it may still change by the end of the week. We talk with WEEI's Andy Hart about what positions look good and which ones...could use some work.

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What's it like to cover the notoriously secretive Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots? Khari shares some thoughts on that as well as the media's relationship with the coach.

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