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Best social media postings from Rob Ninkovich’s retirement day.

Roger Goodell confirms he will be in attendance at the New England Patriots home opener.

But Ninkovich’s retirement leaves a void in experience, so who steps up in 2017 to fill the gap and provides the team with the pressure they’ll need?

In a media workroom packed with family, teammates, coaches, owners and the Patriots media beat writers, Rob Ninkovich retired in an emotional ceremony that celebrated his Patriots career.

“I’ve always said Patriots fans are the best fans in the world. Y’all were able to finally able to make this happen. The fourth time was a charm!

During the full team drills, however, Wise jumped inside of Fleming again and would have had a clean sack of Jimmy Garoppolo.

The team had a pair of shorts and shells practices the first two days of training camp to get things started but the intensity was dialed down a bit.

Fans in New England had to endure five months without football and two days into training camp, it’s hard not to get fired up over every big play as the team begins getting ready for the upcoming season.

We’re through two days of training camp and things are already starting to heat up down in Foxboro as the Patriots finish up day two of their 2017 training camp.

Andrew Hawkins formally announces his retirement from the NFL.

Unlike 2016, the Patriots hit the field on Thursday without the cloud of a four-game suspension hanging over their starting quarterback, which was obviously the big story when the team opened training camp last year.

With Raymond Clayborn set to be inducted into the Patriots Hall of Fame on Saturday night, Bill Belichick was asked on Thursday about the former New England defensive back finally earning the honor of having his name added to the Hall at Patriot Place presented by Raytheon.

Thursday saw the absence of veteran linebacker Rob Ninkovich, but it appears whatever kept him off the field wasn’t injury-related.

Carr made arguably the catch of the day with a beautiful leaping grab in the back of the end zone with a leaping grab over DB Will Likely.

Even though he got a late start, Patriots head coach Bill Belichick isn’t worried about newcomer David Harris.