Welcome back Patriots fans as Training Camp is about to start.\u00a0 Here are a few morsels as the players begin.<\/p>\n
Tuesday the players ran their conditioning test.\u00a0 Expect to see more names added to the PUP list when they don\u2019t pass the test.\u00a0 Trent Brown is the obvious name to watch.\u00a0 Brown made some headlines on Monday when he had a car delivered to the stadium.\u00a0 He was flaunting his high salary for his teammates with his new ride.<\/p>\n
Bill Belichick Press Conference <\/strong><\/p>\n Lawrence Guy Holdout<\/strong><\/p>\n Belichick confirmed Guy is at camp but I would think that he finds a way not to practice.<\/p>\n Jack Jones Pending Legal Case <\/strong><\/p>\n Jones will be in camp and participating.\u00a0 Not surprising that Bill wouldn\u2019t answer any questions when pressed about Jones’s status.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s a legal situation that I can\u2019t comment on, that\u2019s ongoing\u201d.\u00a0 When asked again he said, \u201dYeah I can\u2019t comment on it, I would love to, but\u201d.\u00a0 He would love to, yeah right.\u00a0 It\u2019s a good excuse and an easy out for him.<\/p>\n Looking Good \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Trent Brown is looking good according to Belichick.\u00a0 Brown has been at Foxboro 4 days ahead of schedule.\u00a0 That\u2019s a positive sign.\u00a0 I did see pictures of Brown working with other O-linemen in shorts and tee shirts.\u00a0 Brown had a pair of hideous vertical striped shorts on.<\/p>\n JuJu Smith Schuster and Tyquan Thornton have also looked good and were at the facility the last 4 days.\u00a0 They are both good to go for the start of camp.<\/p>\n Five Things I am looking at as Camp Begins <\/strong><\/p>\n Comings and Goings <\/strong><\/p>\n Patriots sign two to fill the 90-Man Camp Roster <\/strong><\/p>\n Diego Fagot a LB from NAVY was signed yesterday along with WR Jalen Hurd.\u00a0 Fagot (FAH-go) is a 6\u20193\u201d 235 undersized LB that gained fame at the Naval Academy.\u00a0 He was a player I had targeted as a possible UDFA candidate for the Patriots last year when he came out for the draft.\u00a0 He signed with the Ravens instead and was cut in training camp and didn\u2019t sign on with any teams Practice Squad.\u00a0 You know how Bill Belichick loves those players from the Naval Academy.\u00a0 Fagot is slow, running a 4.72 40-yard dash and a 7.27 3-cone drill.<\/p>\n Hurd has not played a single down in the NFL since being drafted in the 3rd<\/sup> round by the 49ers in 2019.\u00a0 He is 6\u20195\u201d, 228 lbs, and runs a 4.64 40.\u00a0 As a rookie, he missed the entire season with a back injury.\u00a0 The next year he blew out his ACL and in 2021 he hurt his knee again and never played in an NFL game in his three years with SF.\u00a0 He sat out 20222 and is trying a comeback with the Patriots.\u00a0 Hurd is an interesting story.\u00a0 He played three years for the Tennessee Volunteers as a running back and had 20 TDs in 33 games.\u00a0 He transferred to Baylor and had a very good season as a WR with 69 catches for 946 yards and 4 TDs. \u00a0\u00a0I can\u2019t help but compare him to Jakobi Meyers with the exception that Meyers has performed well at the NFL level and Hurd has yet to prove he can stay healthy.<\/p>\n Other Moves <\/strong><\/p>\n OT Calvin Anderson starts camp on the Non-Football Illness list.<\/p>\n Demarcus Mitchell \u00a0is on the Non-Football Injury list<\/p>\n Justus Tavai has been taken off the PUP List<\/p>\n Roster Turnover <\/strong><\/p>\n This morsel is from Zack Cox of NESN. Kind of crazy: 90% of the Patriots’ current 90-man roster wasn’t around for New England’s most recent playoff win (SB53). Only nine players remain from that 2018 team.\u00a0 That would be 10 players if you included LB Calvin Munson who was on the Practice Squad.<\/p>\n Cox went on to quote some of the team leaders \u201cThe expectation here is for us to be winners and to be competitive every year,\u201d said Slater, the Patriots\u2019 longest-tenured player and longtime special teams captain. \u201cAnd for those of us who have been here for any (amount) of time, we have not enjoyed this past couple of seasons. It hasn\u2019t been fun for us.<\/p>\n \u201cFootball is a lot more fun (when you\u2019re) winning. That\u2019s no mystery. I think everybody in that locker room wants to win, but we\u2019ve got to be willing to do what it takes to win. Because everybody in the league wants to win, but everybody\u2019s not willing to do what it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n N\u2019Keal Harry <\/strong><\/p>\n The former 2019 1st<\/sup> round selection of the Patriots (bust) is still out there as a Free Agent.\u00a0 He worked out for the Philadelphia Eagles today.\u00a0 Wow, want to talk about a fall from grace!\u00a0 The scouts that evaluated him and the GM that selected him should be fired.\u00a0 Yeah, I said it \u2026 Bill Belichick should have his title reduced to just Football Coach and take away his GM duties.<\/p>\n Patriots Schedule <\/strong><\/p>\n The Patriots have the toughest schedule in the NFL.\u00a0 The other thing to keep in mind is the improvement in the quality of opponents’ QBs they will face this year. This according to Warren Sharp are the QBs the Patriots beat for their 8 wins:<\/p>\n Zach Wilson (2)<\/p>\n Mitchell Trubisky<\/p>\n Tedy Bridgewater\/ Skylar Thompson<\/p>\n Sam Ehlinger<\/p>\n Colt McCoy<\/p>\n Jared Goff<\/p>\n Jacoby Brissett<\/p>\n It\u2019s not going to be so easy this year.\u00a0 Replace Zach Wilson with Aaron Rodgers and they also have Jalen Hurts, Dak Prescott, Justin Herbert, and Pat Mahomes.\u00a0 In division Tua Tagovailoa and Josh Allen twice. \u00a0Then they have Daniel Jones, Russell Wilson, Derek Carr, and Jimmy Garoppolo.<\/p>\n Gardner Minshew \/ Anthony Richardson, Sam Howell, and Kenny Pickett are QB they should dominate.<\/p>\n The Patriots’ defense and secondary are going to have to play their best in order to keep the Patriots in the games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome back Patriots fans as Training Camp is about to start.\u00a0 Here are a few morsels as the players begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":46546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patriots-news"],"yoast_head":"\n\n