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Kerry J. Byrne created the revolutionary Cold, Hard Football Facts concept and is the nation's foremost authority on the "gridiron lifestyle" of beer, food and football. He also is a food and drinks writer for the Boston Herald and has spent much of his "career" traveling around the beer-making capitals of the United States and Europe while writing for Esquire, Yankee Magazine, Penthouse (yes, that Penthouse), Cargo, America Online, Epicurious.com, Boston magazine, All About Beer and many other newspapers and magazines, most of them highly disreputable.

 
COLUMNS
Kerry Byrne
02/10/2010 - 9:11am
Manning far from greatest
Is the “Peyton Manning is the Greatest of All Time” debate finally over? Let’s hope so. It would be nice to turn on a radio or open a newspaper again without feeling nauseous.
Kerry Byrne
02/03/2010 - 6:46am
Super Bowl analysis: Saints have passing chance
There are three things a team and its fans must do to ensure a successful Super Bowl Sunday: win the passing battle, win the turnover battle and, naturally, win the tailgate battle. It looks like one team is poised to do all three on Sunday. It starts, as every NFL game does, with the respective quarterbacks. Drew Brees vs. The Chosen One
Kerry Byrne
01/27/2010 - 7:11am
Top 10 moments of Patriots dynasty
Is the Patriots dynasty over? That’s been one of the big questions around New England in the wake of another disappointing end to another disappointing season — a fifth straight year without a Super Bowl victory.
Kerry Byrne
01/20/2010 - 10:04am
Reversal of fortune: Patriots have swapped personalities with Colts
A certain piece published in this space last week about New England’s need to toughen up and return to its old-school roots went over about as well as Martha Coakley’s Senate campaign.
Kerry Byrne
01/13/2010 - 6:43am
Dump Randy Moss
Remember a few years ago, when fans and pigskin “pundits” and even a certain quarterback, not satisfied by winning titles every year, clamored for a big-name wide receiver? ’Member that?
Kerry Byrne
01/06/2010 - 7:11am
AFC playoff breakdown: More wide open than you think
The AFC playoff contingent this year is harder to read than Bill Belichick’s game face. Did he just beat the Colts for the AFC title, or did he just lose his top receiver to a catastrophic knee injury? Damned if we know, at least not this year.
Kerry Byrne
12/30/2009 - 7:33am
Cold, Hard Football Facts That Defined The Decade Of The Patriots
Frame it and put it up on the mantel. The Decade of the Patriots is over. What a decade! And what a gift to the pigskin public, here in Boston and around the nation. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, perhaps no team in history produced a stretch quite like it, or sparked the same depths of local love and national animosity that the Patriots did in the 20-aughts. 
Kerry Byrne
12/22/2009 - 10:30pm
Brady Has Negotiated A Brutal Stretch In 2009
Somewhere along the way, the pigskin “punditry” has forgotten that the best quarterback in football plays in New England.
Kerry Byrne
12/16/2009 - 8:32am
Here's why the Patriots can win the Super Bowl
Buck up, little camper. It’s not so bad.
Kerry Byrne
12/08/2009 - 10:27pm
Patriots Stuck In A Sorry Situation
We’ve witnessed a Christmas miracle this year. We’ve watched Bill Belichick’s powerful Patriots morph into Ron Erhardt’s pathetic Patriots right before our very eyes. Erhardt, you might remember, coached the most infuriating team in franchise history: the 2-14 Patriots of 1981. It was a team that should have been much better than its record indicated: The 1981 Patriots were middle-of-the-road in most statistical indicators, scoring 322 points that year while surrendering 370 points.
Kerry Byrne
12/02/2009 - 8:56am
Belichick no longer a defensive genius
It’s official: the days of Bill Belichick the “defensive genius” are over.
Kerry Byrne
11/24/2009 - 1:41pm
Don't Sleep On The Saints Defense
The typical turkey on television or radio is incapable of analyzing football teams beyond a handful of headline-making players on offense: the 40-year-old gunslinger quarterback, the fumble-prone runner, the loudmouthed wide receiver. These players win all the awards, score all the touchdowns, date all the starlets, marry all the supermodels, do all the Oreo commercials and gain all the attention from the media.
Kerry Byrne
11/18/2009 - 7:52am
Separating facts from myths when it comes to the Patriots
They call it the fog of war: the swirl of chaos that makes it hard to tell fact from fantasy in the aftermath of battle.
Kerry Byrne
11/11/2009 - 1:00am
Brady And Manning Are A World Apart
The Tom Brady-Peyton Manning rivalry is so good that someday it will deserve its own wing in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Kerry Byrne
11/04/2009 - 7:53am
The Wildcat offense brings excitement — but not much else
The Cold, Hard Football Facts, if they had emotion, would love Miami’s Wildcat offense.
Kerry Byrne
10/27/2009 - 9:15pm
Taking The Pulse Of The Pats At The Bye
So, what do you think? Back in the summer, would you have taken a 5-2 record seven games into the season, as Tom Brady attempted to get his sea legs under him? Would you have felt good about wins over then-unbeaten Baltimore and Atlanta? Would you have lived with close losses in the Meadowlands and at Mile High?
Kerry Byrne
10/21/2009 - 6:25am
That's Cold: Brady Best in Winter Weather
A few questions about the Patriots as we contemplate the Zen of 59-0 and consider the severity of the international thrashing the winless Buccaneers are going to suffer in London on Sunday:
Kerry Byrne
10/13/2009 - 10:37pm
Patriots Failing the Passing Test: Secondary a Primary Concern
The local pigskin punditry is twisting itself into logistical knots trying to come up with the reasons for New England’s inconsistent 3-2 start. Let me put an end to the mystery. The problems with the Patriots can be summed with six words: Bill Belichick has lost his mojo.
Kerry Byrne
10/07/2009 - 6:06am
Successful Patriots a Statistical Anomaly
With all due apologies to the once-great Al Davis, the 2009 Patriots seem to have stolen his most famous catch-phrase: “Just Win, Baby!”
Kerry Byrne
09/30/2009 - 12:08am
Time To Temper Expectations, Pats Fans
Did we miss something here? Or did the Patriots beat a 2-0 Atlanta team pretty handily on Sunday? Judging by the reactions of much of Patriots Nation, you would have thought that Tom Brady was knocked out with an injury, that another season was destined for failure and that they had cut off beer sales at Gillette at the end of the first possession.
Kerry Byrne
09/23/2009 - 7:30am
When It Comes To An Unbalanced Offense, Just Say No
An unusual dependency on Tom Brady pretty much describes the Patriots' problems heading into Week 3 of the 2009 season. New England should have learned its lesson back in 2007 — but more on that later. Instead the Patriots, and their fans, were lulled into a false sense of security by Brady's late-game performance in the Week 1 win over the Bills. He returned from a year away from the game and, with an apparently hopeless outlook against the Bills, delivered a pair of late touchdowns to lift the Patriots to an improbable win.
Kerry Byrne
09/16/2009 - 8:18am
Uncovering Why Brady Is Able To Do What He Does
Tom Brady put his stamp on the 2009 season so quickly that he could get a job processing passports at Terminal E if this quarterbacking thing doesn’t work out. New England’s signal-caller overcame a year of rust, a shaky three quarters and a surprisingly spirited effort from the hard-luck Bills to spark one of the average, ordinary inexplicable victories that have defined his career.
Kerry Byrne
09/09/2009 - 9:55am
There Is Life After Richard Seymour...And Here's The Proof
Worried about life after Richard Seymour? Don’t worry. Consider one of the signature battles in New England football lore. Consider the Colts-Patriots playoff game at snowy Gillette Stadium on a frigid night in January 2005.
Kerry Byrne
09/02/2009 - 8:24pm
In 2009, The Pass D Will Hold The Key For Patriots
The Cold, Hard Football Facts like to get their hands around things. Usually those things we like to touch are filled with frothy golden liquid, coated in delectable Buffalo sauce or constrained so suggestively beneath a skimpy bikini top. In the case of the Patriots, the thing we all need to get our hands around as we head into the 2009 season is the state of the New England pass defense. We also need to come to grips with, as we do below, the massive turnover in the Patriots secondary since last year.
Kerry Byrne
02/05/2009 - 6:00am
An open letter to Bill Belichick
Dear Coach Belichick: Far be it for me to tell you how to run your football team, Bill. But apparently, I’m the only one armed with enough data, evidence and Cold, Hard Football Facts to look you straight in the eye and say you effed it all up over the past couple years.



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The Boys Give Their Super…

The Boys Give Their Super Bowl Score on the Final Segment of NFL Sunday For the Year

The NFL Sunday gang wraps up the season predicting the score of Super Bowl 46...and they don't think it's going to be as close as most people do. Go Pats!

The Super Bowl Can Be Emotional Enough, But the Pats Are Doing It for Myra

NFL Sunday rolls on with Dale, Fauria and Price talking about the emotional roller coaster the Pats and more specifically team owner Robert Kraft have been on this season. With the passing of his wife Myra, this goal to become champs has taken on a whole new meaning.

The Giants Have Been Yapping...And Then Their Website Pokes the Pats

The NFL Sunday crew talks about the cocky and brash chatter coming from some of the Giants the last couple weeks. Dale is surprised that Tom Coughlin allowed most of it to go down and says Belichick would never let that fly. The guys also touch on the little mistake the Giants team website made yesterday in putting up the "Giants are Super Bowl Champions" homepage yesterday - that's a no-no!

Doc Rivers & Sean Grande …

Doc Rivers & Sean Grande preview Celtics-Raptors

Sean Grande & Doc Rivers talk tape & more. Listen 2 the entire interview on #CelticsRadio pregame show.

Doc Rivers & Sean Grande preview Celtics - Lakers

Doc Rivers & Sean Grande preview Celtics - Lakers & re-live Doc's son Austin's game-winner for Duke last night. For more from Doc & Sean, listen to the Celtics Tonight pregame show on WEEI tonight.

Danny Ainge live with the Big Show

Danny joined the Big Show live at our remote by the Garden at Hurricane O'Reillys on the night the Celts host the Lakers and talked Paul Pierce, and how there was nothing to the Rondo for Gasol trade.

Dustin Pedroia's Laser Sh…

Dustin Pedroia's Laser Show on the Big Show

Dustin tells us you can't hustle a hustler, and other funny anecdotes.

Red Sox GM Ben Cherington with the Big Show

The Sox GM joined Glenn and Michael to talk Scutaro, Punto, Oswalt, Luxury Tax and all things off-season.

Dustin Pedroia's Laser Show on the Big Show

Dustin Pedroia joined the Big Show for his weekly segment, and talked about losing Scutaro, gaining Cody Ross and Nick Punto, and then got a surprise from his best friend.

Brad Marchand, Bruins for…

Brad Marchand, Bruins forward, on Tim Thomas' facebook post

Brad Marchand joins the show and talks about if Tim Thomas is a distraction to the team and why the Bruins have been struggling as of late.

Andrew Ference, Bruins defenseman, on Tim Thomas, Patrice Bergeron, and the team's recent struggles

Andrew joins D&C to discuss how he feels about Tim Thomas' political views and how Patrice Bergeron has been the MVP for the team so far this season. Andrew also talks about how they have to regroup and make adjustments to get out this funk the team is currently in.

Brad Marchand, Bruins Forward, on Tim Thomas skipping White House visit

Brad Marchand joins the show to talk about President Obama calling him out on stage and Tim Thomas skipping the White House visit.

The Meter "He Said What" …

The Meter "He Said What" Minute

Meter talks about the Celtics 88-87 OT loss to the Lakers last night, Kobe Bryant trying to recruit Rob Gronkowski to the Eagles, and Samantha DeFlaco who went to the Giants Super Bowl parade looking for Jets QB Mark Sanchez.

Andrew Ference, Bruins defenseman, on Tim Thomas, Patrice Bergeron, and the team's recent struggles

Andrew joins D&C to discuss how he feels about Tim Thomas' political views and how Patrice Bergeron has been the MVP for the team so far this season. Andrew also talks about how they have to regroup and make adjustments to get out this funk the team is currently in.

Tim Thomas continues to be a distraction for the Bruins

Tim Thomas is once again in the news for posting his political views on facebook but refuses to talk to the media about it. Is this situation becoming more than a distraction to the team especially with their recent play? D&C react.

Brad Marchand, Bruins for…

Brad Marchand, Bruins forward, on Tim Thomas' facebook post

Brad Marchand joins the show and talks about if Tim Thomas is a distraction to the team and why the Bruins have been struggling as of late.

Jackie MacMullan, ESPN

Jackie Mac makes her weekly appearance and talks about the Celtics loss to the Lakers, the team's future, and what will happen with Paul Pierce.

Celtics fall to Lakers

In an ugly game, the Celtics lost to the Lakers in OT. Have we seen the last of the current Lakers Celtics rivalry?

Belichick picked his pois…

Belichick picked his poison in Mario Manningham... and it killed him

We play the soundbite from the NFL Network from Super Bowl 46 where Bill Belichick is telling his defense 'this is still a Cruz and Nicks game'. The Patriots of course were then burned by Mario Manningham on the Giants game-winning drive. We discuss whether it was the right decision or not.

Shaquille O'Neal is terrible at his new job as an NBA analyst for TNT

Glenn and Michael debate what, if anything, Shaq is bringing to the table for TNT's NBA pre and postgame coverage.

Tim Thomas... are his politics a genuine distraction for the Bruins or just a media-driven fabrication?

We talk about Tim Thomas refusing to speak to reporters about his political ramblings on Facebook, and about whether or not this is a media driven controversy, or a genuine distraction for Thomas' Bruins teammates.

Would the Patriots be mor…

Would the Patriots be more successful with a defensive coordinator?

The discussion of the Patriots loss in the Super Bowl and just like any other loss, the coaching is called into question and whether a defensive coordinator on staff would have helped Bill Belichick and the Patriots.

Could the Llama be coming to the Celtics

Mikey has made no bones about his feelings on Pau Gasol, what will he do if the Celtics trade Rondo for Gasol? Also our buddy LB calls in to talk about the Patriots Super Bowl loss.

Patriots fans are coming to terms with the loss

Mikey talks to some Patriots fans who are still looking at the loss and breaking down what went wrong but are also looking to the future for the franchise.

Fri. February 10th Whiner…

Fri. February 10th Whiner Line

Losing the Super Bowl? Terrrrrrrrrrrrrrible.

Whine of the Week - 02/10/12

This week's whine of the week winner. If you are our winner please send an email with which whine you left and all of your information to whineoftheweek@weei.com

Thurs. February 9th Whiner Line

Live from Hurricane's... not Cocaine's which is where Oil Can Boyd wanted to be broadcasting from. Plus the Cranky Yankee Bitch reaches her tipping point.

Steve DeOssie defends his…

Steve DeOssie defends his position on attending Giants rally and his words against the Patriots

Steve DeOssie went viral when a video of him at a Giants pre-game rally this Saturday surfaced, with audio of him talking up the Giants and taking shots at the Patriots. Steve calls in to defend his position with the Big Show.

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Steve Deossie backs the G…

Steve Deossie backs the Giants, callers do not back DeOssie

After a viral video surfaced of Steve Deossie "dishing" on the Patriots at a Giants rally in Indianapolis, Patriot fans are not exactly happy with Steve's outspokenness about the subject.

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Peter King, SI, on Super …

Peter King, SI, on Super Bowl 46 and the Patriots future

Peter King wraps up the NFL season with Mut and Lou talking about Super Bowl 46, what moves he expects the Patriots to make in the offseason, and what will happen with Peyton Manning.

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Reaction to Steve DeOssie…

Reaction to Steve DeOssie's explanation

Mut and Lou talk about Steve DeOssie's appearance on the Big Show and his explanation why he was at a Giants pep rally.

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Can Tom Brady ever be con…

Can Tom Brady ever be considered as the best QB ever to play?

Mut and Lou debate whether Tom Brady can ever be considered the greatest to ever play after his second Super Bowl loss to the Giants.

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