{"id":12056,"date":"2017-07-23T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/?p=12056"},"modified":"2017-07-22T11:30:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T15:30:39","slug":"12056","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/2017\/07\/23\/12056\/","title":{"rendered":"New England Patriots News 7-26, AFC East Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning, here are your <\/span>Sunday\u2019s Patriots news 7-23, & AFC East Notes.<\/b><\/p>\n

Wide receiver Malcolm Mitchell got a pretty impressive tattoo on his lower leg that shows the Lombardi Trophy after the Patriots Super Bowl win in Feb. The 2nd year wideout didn\u2019t go the subtle route as he opted for a huge tattoo that covers his lower leg which he showed in a video as it unfolded.<\/span><\/p>\n

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So <\/span>Bill Belichick\u2019s<\/b> relatives fought in the Pequot War and helped found the towns of Burlington, Woburn etc. and the coach is a distant relation to both Clint Eastwood and the famous abolitionist John Brown who led a raid on the armory at Harper\u2019s Ferry.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to the digging by the Boston Globe, we know all of these cool but ultimately unnecessary facts about the coach\u2019s genealogy. But after the recent attempts to find dirt on the Patriots and Tom Brady, one has to question, what exactly were they looking for when starting this? Certainly not that Belichick is a distant relative of President William Howard Taft\u2026 right? Maybe not; perhaps we\u2019re looking for the negativity where there isn\u2019t any and it was just that\u2026. a simple case of genealogy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Did you get a<\/span> chance to check out our <\/span>Patriots Training Camp Primers<\/b> from last week? It is a good way to learn a lot of the new faces that the team has brought in this offseason. Training camp begins on Thursday, hope to see a lot of you there<\/span>. Our earlier evaluations looked at the:<\/span><\/p>\n

Running Backs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Wide Receivers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Tight Ends<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Offensive Line<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Defensive Line<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Linebackers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Cornerbacks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Safeties<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Special Teams<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Edelman Shares Apology Letter from Doubting Teacher:<\/b>
\n<\/span>Pats wide receiver Julian Edelman has had plenty of doubters in his time, (even here once upon a time) but he\u2019s never flinched from believing in himself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Edelman recently shared on his social media page a letter of apology he recently received from a freshman English teacher at the College of San Mateo. Edelman made it clear that he planned on making it to the NFL or as he put it, \u201cgoing to the league.\u201d His teacher dismissed him and made a remark about \u201csetting realistic goals.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Julian Edelman received a letter from a college professor apologizing for telling him to set “realistic goals” in his freshman year. (SBalestrieri photo)<\/p><\/div>\n

Edelman transferred to Kent State and went on to play three years as an option QB before getting drafted by the Patriots as a wide receiver. And we all know…the rest of the story as Paul Harvey would put it.<\/span><\/p>\n

This little vignette shows that you can\u2019t ever discount the size of a man\u2019s heart. We\u2019ve seen it with Tom Brady, Edelman and others. But the other thing is that this particular teacher is a keeper. Rare is it these days that anyone admits a mistake or an error. And for this person to pen a letter of apology means that San Mateo made a good choice there. Did he\/she act a bit too quickly pooh-poohing Edelman\u2019s dreams? Yes, but it was a lesson learned and the teacher was big enough to admit it. That\u2019s a teacher I\u2019d want for my kids.<\/span><\/p>\n

Something Must Be in the Water 2\u2026:
\n<\/b>I\u2019ll be so glad for training camp to start\u2026.but not for the usual reasons. Oh yes, a return to football which will be with us all from this Thursday until the Super Bowl in February is my favorite time of the year. But it seems every offseason is another time for the bored, delusional Brady haters to come out of the woodwork.<\/span><\/p>\n

My emails, tweets, and DM mentions this week were filled with the latest carryings on by some individuals with their collective heads up their fourth point of contact. (That\u2019s a paratrooper term that you can look up) And all of this while the players in the NFL voted him the #1 player in the league. Go figure.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be the first to admit that I was foolish enough to respond to a couple of these ridiculous rantings by the people who have nothing better to do than spend all of the days of the summer trying to make an excuse why Tom Brady isn\u2019t this or that\u2026.yada, yada.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then I took and I encourage you to take Bill Belichick\u2019s advice, \u201cIgnore the noise.\u201d Brady\u2019s brought his team to seven Super Bowls and won five of them and the team is primed with a deep roster for another one. So, this is the only way to quiet the haters. (Strong language)<\/span><\/p>\n