There’s been a lot of my fellow Patriots die hards out there who were concerned that it appeared that the Jets were the only team that was making an effort to organize workouts during the lockout.
Yes, Mark Sanchez has put together a highly-publicized Jets West camp in California, complete with full media attendance, water balloon toss contests, Ipad giveaways and even a snazzy logo…
Well news comes today from Mike Reiss, who apparently had to press Rob Gronkowski pretty hard, that the Patriots are doing some team activities of their own, they’re just not making a public spectacle out of it.
“We’ve been doing everything, but we’re on the down-low,” second-year tight end Rob Gronkowski said Tuesday night. “[Others teams] may go to the media, acting like they’re some of the only teams doing it, but we’re working hard out here too. We’re just keeping it low.”
“We are intense. The workouts are insane,” he relayed. “We’ve been getting after it hard. I feel great right now, ready to go.”
Now we hit on the differences between the standard operating procedures between the Patriots and Jets plenty of times, especially last year when we got a glimpse inside Rexy’s domain via Hard Knocks.
There’s no secret that the Jets like to keep things a little more loosey-goosey than the Pats do, and who knows maybe that played a part in why they were able to put 45-3 behind them and defeat the Pats in the playoffs.
But the fact is that the Patriots aren’t just sitting around eating bon bons, watching the Jets all become BFFs with matching Ipads while waiting for the lockout to end. They’re getting after it and will be ready to go whenever the season starts.