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Tweets of Note: Patriots Training Camp Practice #5

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Stopped in for a little bit at training camp practice number five this morning, just long enough to see a little 11-on-11 work. It was a much lighter crowd than I saw on Thursday and Friday last week, with plenty of open spots on the side hill where you could watch.

It was a hot morning and tempers were flaring as Julian Edelman and Stephon Gilmore got into a shoving match and were both ejected from practice. One injury note that popped up — Elandon Roberts went down, had his foot looked at then taped and then hopped right back into practice. Roberts seems like one of those uber tough guys who would need to lose a limb to miss time.

James O’Shaughnessy also had to leave due to an injury.

Here’s some other tweets of note from the dog days of training camp…

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Belichick Hoping for Ground Balance

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For whatever reason Bill Belichick always seems to open up a bit more than usual when talking with Pat Kirwan on Sirius XM Radio and Monday’s show was no exception. Kirwan, who poked his head into then Ninkovich retirement presser, has one of then best books learning how to watch football — Take Your Eye Off The Ball.

This quote stood out to me, as Belichick mentioned they were looking for more balance out of their backfield.

“Hopefully we will be a little bit less of a Blount on first down [and] second-and-short, Lewis on second down, White on third down — that type of [set-up],” Belichick said on SiriusXM NFL Radio.

“Part of that for us was getting our best player to do what he does best type of thing. Hopefully, this year, we’ll have a little more balance between the running game and passing game. Again, LG was primarily a runner. He didn’t have a lot of receiving production. The reverse is true of James White. So hopefully with our backs this year we’ll have a little more balance and be a little less predictable from that spot.”

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