ESPN offers a blog entry about where things stand with **Tom Brady's **contract negotiations.
USA TODAY, meantime, examines why the Patriots are a team in transition, and what that could mean for them in 2010.
There's yet another story about the lack of official coordinators on **Bill Belichick's **staff, this time from the folks at NESN.
And in the LA Times, you'll find reaction from Patriots owner **Robert Kraft **to the death of George Steinbrenner.
