Here’s some things to chew on as we await another day out under the Foxboro sun.
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“The guys you’ve played with in the past, there’s a personal relationship with them,” said corner Ellis Hobbs. “But I think all of us that have been in this league understand that it’s a business. I mean, the league changes over every year, you lose players, you gain players. One person moves out, the next person moves in. We have to understand that and play with the people that are here.”
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“I’ve got to learn the playbook before I get excited about things I want to do later on,” said Stallworth, who played in West Coast systems in New Orleans and Philadelphia. “But guys are working at it. I think that’s the most important thing, everybody’s working at it and we got a couple new guys in the receiving room and we’re all pushing each other to get better.”
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As you can guess, Thomas met with us for the first time, as well. And he’s already got Patriot-speak down. Check this one out:
“As far as championships, we’ll leave that for the playing,” he said. “We’re just trying to get better week-in and week-out, and every day, take it one day at a time. You can’t just come in here and start talking like that. So for me, it’s coming here and getting better, learning my plays because it’s a new scheme for me, develop a relationship and a chemistry with these guys, and win one week at a time.”
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He did concede that the defensive mind of Bill Belichick was a lure for his arrival in Foxboro. But he emphasized that his teammates have shown that there’s more than one football savant on those fields.
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Hobbs wore a small wrap around his left wrist, and his hand was free from it, which is a good sign for a player who dealt with the effects of a broken scaphoid throughout last season. The injury was operated on twice: first after the initial injury in September, and then again after the season.
