New England owner Robert Kraft announced that former assistant head coach/offensive line coach Dante Scarnecchia will be the inducted into the Patriots Hall of Fame as a lifelong contributors to the franchise.
Scarnecchia becomes just the fourth person to be selected by Kraft as a contributor, joining Patriots founder Billy Sullivan(2009), the team’s longtime play-by-play announcer Gil Santos (2012), and longtime cheerleader director Tracy Sormanti (2021).
“Dante Scarnecchia is recognized as one of the greatest assistant coaches of all time,” said Kraft. “He is the first Patriots assistant coach to receive this honor and I can’t think of a more deserving person.”
Scarnecchia spent 36 years in the NFL, including 34 seasons with the Patriots (1982-88, 1991-2013, 2016-19). He joined the Patriots as an assistant on Ron Meyer’s staff in 1982. He was on the Patriots coaching staff for 22 of the franchise’s 28 playoff seasons and coached in 48 of the 59 playoff games in team history, including 10 of the franchise’s NFL leading 11 Super Bowl appearances and five of the Patriots’ six Super Bowl championships.
BENGALS: Running back Joe Mixon is again facing a misdemeanor charge of aggravated menacing over allegations that he threatened and pointed a gun at a woman in Cincinnati earlier this year.
City police issued a statement Friday announcing that they had refiled the charge “following the discovery of new evidence during the investigative process” but did not provide further details. The statement also noted no investigatory details or evidence will be disclosed outside of official court proceedings “to preserve a fair and impartial judicial process for all parties involved.”
A warrant for Mixon was issued in February. A police officer’s accompanying affidavit alleged that the 26-year-old pointed a firearm and told the victim: “You should be popped in the face. I should shoot you, the police (can’t) get me.”
It said the altercation happened a few blocks from the Bengals’ stadium on Jan. 21 – the day before Cincinnati beat the Buffalo Bills in a divisional-round playoff game – but included no other details about the circumstances.
The warrant was dismissed in Hamilton County Municipal Court the day after it was issued. That order said only that the city prosecutor’s office requested the dismissal “in the interest of justice.”
TITANS: New General Manager Ran Carthon has made his biggest move yet by agreeing Friday to a four-year contract extension with two-time Pro Bowl defensive lineman Jeffery Simmons, according to a person familiar with the deal.
The Titans picked up the two-time defensive captain’s fifth-year option for 2023 for $10.76 million last April. ESPN.com first reported the deal was worth up to $94 million with $66 million guaranteed, including a $24 million signing bonus.
The 6-foot-4, 305-pound lineman wound up starting seven of nine games played as a rookie in 2019, and he has started 54 of 56 games played. Simmons missed two games last season with an injured ankle and said at the end of the season he needed shots in his ankle to finish the season.
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