PatsPropaganda

An Independent Patriots Blog

Tweets of Note from Thursday Patriots Practice

by

We’re now a full week into training camp and the team has had five-straight practices in pads (though the intensity was a little dialed back today per reports). We’ll have some general thoughts about what we’ve heard and learned in this first week later today. 

For now, here are some tweets that stood out about today’s practice.

by

https://www.patspropaganda.com/5597/

Do you think Wendell is out of the center battle, it seems as if it’s going to stork or connolly(of courts it’s very early)

by

I think at this point you can’t read too much into any of it. They’re moving guys around, giving them reps at various spots to show what they can do. The thing I look at most is who is getting the reps, especially in the 1-v-1’s. Not so much how they do, but the guys who get the most reps are the ones who are auditioning.

But as I’ve said many times this offseason, Connolly’s advantage is he can play guard or center. Wendell is only a center. But Connolly also has a sizable salary that is a consideration on him as well.

It’s tough to say how it will all fit together, and certainly if Stork’s injury is significant it becomes less and less likely that he’s going to win the starting center spot out of camp. Every rep for him was vital and each day that goes by without him is a setback.

I don’t think we can look past Josh Kline either, he’s stood out in 1-v-1’s. And then you have Marcus Cannon who could probably play four of the five OL positions.

We’re not even a week into camp, there’s still a lot that can and will happen.

Road tripping: DBs latest group of Patriots to seek coaching advice outside organization – WEEI | Christopher Price

by

Road tripping: DBs latest group of Patriots to seek coaching advice outside organization – WEEI | Christopher Price

Good read from Chris Price on the work some of the DBs put in this offseason in Arizona. I think it’s going to give me a headache trying to analyze and keep track how everything in the secondary plays out from game to game this year. Lots of mixing and matching I think.