{"id":11970,"date":"2017-07-09T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/?p=11970"},"modified":"2017-07-08T13:02:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T17:02:12","slug":"11970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/2017\/07\/09\/11970\/","title":{"rendered":"New England Patriots News 7-9, AFC East Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning, here are your\u00a0Sunday\u2019s Patriots news 7-9, & AFC East Notes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We hope everyone enjoyed their 4th<\/sup> of July, Independence Day holiday but did you know (courtesy of my desk calendar) that on July 4, 1960<\/strong>, the Patriots opened their first training camp at the UMass campus and had 350 players attend? And we think that 90 is a lot to follow when camp opens.<\/p>\n

It has been a week without any big breaking Patriots news\u2026 after this off-season, I keep watching the NFL transaction wire to see if they\u2019ve made any new moves.<\/p>\n

Tom Brady<\/strong>, Julian Edelman<\/strong>, and Danny Amendola<\/strong> have used the down time before training camp to work on their chemistry even harder than normal. The three were seen on social media at Brady\u2019s Montana residence catching passes and working on their timing. They were also seen mountain biking with a group of other men, which were impossible to identify since they all wore biking helmets with face shields.<\/p>\n

Josh McDaniels<\/strong> will drive the official Toyota Camry pace car at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on July 16, leading the drivers to the start of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Overton\u2019s 301.<\/p>\n

Sorry to hear that Kerry Byrne\u2019s<\/strong> long relationship with the Boston Herald is coming to a close after 19 years. Byrne penned a weekly food and beer column for the Herald at a time when beer was considered something only for knuckle-draggers in culinary circles. My how times have changed. He also is the owner of the outstanding Cold, Hard, Football Facts website.<\/p>\n

Kerry\u2019s food columns were especially perfect during football season as nothing goes better with football than food and beer. I\u2019ve known him for several years, and have been a guest on his podcast<\/a> on Patriots.com and co-hosted a Mikey Adams Show at WEEI with him. And he\u2019s one of the truly nice guys in the business. All the best Kerry. Something tells me though, that he won\u2019t be a free agent for very long.<\/p>\n

Brady Coming Out With a Book in September\u2026on How to Be Like #12:
\n<\/strong>Tom Brady has had a busy offseason, besides the normal appearance with Aaron Rodgers and others at the Kentucky Derby and his Best Buddies Football Game, he was off to China, throwing footballs to his son at the Great Wall and to Japan matching up with a Sumo wrestler. Now he\u2019s penning a book that will be released in September.<\/p>\n

The book, released by Simon and Schuster will be called “The TB12 Method: How To Achieve A Lifetime Of Sustained Peak Performance.” This offering from Brady according to his publishers will be “a gorgeously illustrated and deeply practical ‘athlete’s Bible’ that reveals Brady’s revolutionary approach to sustained peak performance for athletes of all kinds and of all ages.”<\/p>\n

The hardcover version will cost fans $29.99, while an e-book will cost $14.99. Now you know what to buy every hardcore Patriots\u2019 fan for Christmas or for a birthday.<\/p>\n

Brady also posed with the Stanley Cup and the resulting outcry of protest from Western PA was hysterical. Brady and the Patriots are firmly in the heads of Pittsburgh fans and the comments are typical of what one would expect.<\/p>\n

Ndamukong Suh, the Gift That Keeps Giving:<\/strong>
\nSomeone in Miami\u2019s front office needs to muzzle Suh when it comes to talking about the Patriots. And while his comments when taken as a whole are pretty innocuous, he once again had to know what writers around the country were going to focus on. Suh on Monday stated the Patriots \u201cthey\u2019re definitely beatable as everybody is in the league.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was a few weeks after his \u201cMiami will never be scared of the Patriots\u201d speech. We get that confidence is high in Miami after a 10-6 season and a playoff berth. But when the other team has won the division 14 times in the last 16 years and has beaten you 11 of the last 14 times you\u2019ve faced, then take a page out their book and defer any comments about that team (New England) and talk about yours\u2026.<\/p>\n

David Harris Contract Details:
\n<\/strong>Our buddy Miguel (@Patscap<\/a>) who is the PatsFans.com resident expert on all things Salary Cap-related when it comes to the Patriots has posted a piece<\/a> that breaks down the contract details of LB David Harris\u2019 deal with New England. Harris\u2019 deal for the 2017 season breaks down as follows:<\/p>\n

Signing bonus: $1,250,000 (prorated over 2 years $625,000 in 2017)
\n2017 base salary: $1,000,000.
\n2017 roster bonus: $500,000 (46-man active roster bonus \u2013 $31,250 per game).
\nSince Harris was active for 15 games this bonus counts $468,750 against the 2017 cap or $31,250 times 15 games.
\n2017 LTBE playing-time incentives \u2013 $750,000. Please note that LTBE is short for likely to be earned.<\/p>\n

Manning Revelations Mean Little at This Point:<\/strong>
\nFormer Colts OL Tarik Glenn dropped a bit of a bombshell this Tuesday when he stated that the Colts were using illegal hearing aids during Peyton Manning\u2019s rookie season to help him deal with crowd noise.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were playing on the road, it might have been Peyton\u2019s rookie year, and it was really loud,\u201d\u00a0Glenn told the Indy<\/a> Star. \u201cPeyton [Manning] hadn\u2019t mastered the silent count, so [former OL Coach] Howard Mudd had us wearing these hearing aids that were supposed to muffle the crowd while projecting the quarterback\u2019s voice.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Patriots fans on social media were demanding their pound of flesh this week, nothing is going to get done about that now. That was 19 years ago and what exactly could the league do about it now?<\/p>\n

Another story making the rounds was Manning begging out of a blowout loss to the Patriots when he was still a very young QB. According to former QB Coach and now HC of the Arizona Cardinals Bruce Arians, Manning asked to be taken out late in the 4th<\/sup> quarter of an obvious loss. Arians described the moment in a new book, \u201cThe Quarterback Whisperer\u201d hitting the bookstores on July 11.<\/p>\n

“Midway through the fourth quarter of the game, with the outcome already decided, Peyton was so frustrated that he asked for mercy. He wanted to be pulled from the game.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“‘F–k no, get back in there,’ I told him. ‘We’ll go no-huddle and maybe you’ll learn something. You can never ask to come out. You’re our leader. Act like it.'”<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure plenty of young QBs and great ones have gone thru that sort of thing in their younger days. But you\u2019ll never see one guy asking to come out, win or lose, rain or shine. Even in practice. Enjoy the era folks.<\/p>\n

Did you get a chance to check out our Early Patriots 53-man Roster Projection<\/strong> from last week? There will be some tough decisions<\/a> to make for the coaches this summer. Two of the UDFA players I have making the roster so far are Harvey Langi and David Jones but there is a long way to go.<\/p>\n

East Bound and Down\u2026AFC East Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bills Building Themselves in McDermott\u2019s Image and Positions to Watch in TC:<\/strong>
\nThe Buffalo Bills jettisoned Rex Ryan after the season and hired Sean McDermott as their new head coach. And while much of their philosophies are close, (active, aggressive defense, power running game), McDermott is quickly putting his own personal stamp on this team.<\/p>\n

Buffalo has had a massive turnover in personnel this spring, the third most in the NFL. Sometimes these things take time, Bill Belichick said it took him two years to get the players he wanted on the team and that would have been the 2001 season. And we all remember how that team turned out.<\/p>\n

The Bills have some interesting positional battles that will take place at training camp later this month. Among them is at linebacker; although all three starters (Ramon Humber, Preston Brown, and Lorenzo Alexander) return, the team added Reggie Ragland from Alabama in this year\u2019s draft. They also signed free agent Gerald Hodges who is athletic and very good in coverage.<\/p>\n

Big Season Loom for the Dolphins and Tannehill:<\/strong>
\nThe Miami Dolphins have stuck with QB Ryan Tannehill thru thick and thin for five full seasons. He played and started all 16 games in his first four years before getting injured and missing three games in 2016. He\u2019s entering his sixth season and the Dolphins are committed to him thru 2017.<\/p>\n

He is under contract for the next four years for a modest $73 million against the salary cap which will look better as the cap increases. Is he the answer as a franchise QB? The 2017 season will have a lot to say about that. He\u2019s shown flashes of very good play in his career but has not shown that he can be the guy to lead a team deep into the playoffs and carry a team on his back. With the roster they have surrounding him, if he\u2019s going to jettison that image this will be the year.<\/p>\n

Having a second season to work with Adam Gase will also answer a lot of questions when it comes to his long-term viability. One thing is for certain, he\u2019s not going anywhere and he shouldn\u2019t be in 2017.<\/p>\n

Jets\u2019 Hackenberg Will be Under Scrutiny in 2017:
\n<\/strong>The New York Jets have been searching for a franchise QB for a long time and the rumors that they may \u201cSuck for Sam\u201d as in USC QB Sam Darnold may have hit a snag this week. It was rumored in various publications that the Trojans\u2019 QB may opt to spend both eligible seasons playing in college rather than coming out early.<\/p>\n

If that is the case then they\u2019ll need to see what they have rather quickly in QB Christian Hackenberg. Gang Green knows first-hand what it is like to be rejected by the league\u2019s overall #1 pick. In 1997, they held the first pick and Tennessee QB Peyton Manning opted to return to college for his final season. He was taken by the Colts with the #1 pick in the 1998 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n

With 38-year old Josh McCown as the veteran in the wings, the Jets can afford to let Hackenberg play his way either into or out of the job in 2017. Time will tell.<\/p>\n

Follow me on Twitter\u00a0<\/em>@SteveB7SFG<\/a>\u00a0or email me at\u00a0<\/em>stevebpatsfans@gmail.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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