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Belichick rocks with Dimitroff - New England Patriots Blog - ESPN Boston
Reiss said:The Patriots visit the Falcons in the preseason -- the game will be nationally televised on Thursday, Aug. 19 -- and the clubs will be getting together in the days leading up to the game to work against each other.
Awesome stuff. I think this type of thing, when done properly, really adds value to our preseason. Chalk this up as another benefit of a large coaching tree.
Scrimmage and practices used be alot more common but for various reasons teams barely so this anymore I don't remember who it is but I believe there is still two teams that meet regularly prior to the preseaon for a scrimmage. I doubt this would be done with a team that didn't have a BB connection but its also not something that is being concated by two friends to gain an advantage of some sort.
The linked article notes a couple of examples.
Patriots and Falcons will have two practices together on 8/15. Just learned that Atlanta will also have practices with Jax earlier in camp.
If anyone finds more from this interview please post especially a link to where we could hear it if it was archived.
Evidently BB really likes Sam Adams.