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Tweets of Note: Patriots Training Camp Practice #14

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The Patriots were on the field with the Bears on Monday starting three days of joint practices prior to Thursday night’s second preseason game. This should be a good chance to face another veteran quarterback with some interesting size/speed combo weapons who should give the Pats’ defenders some new looks and challenges.

We’re in the dog days of summer now with just under four weeks to go before the Pats open the 2016 campaign in Arizona. Every practice rep, every injury, it’s all so critical now.

Here are the tweets that stood out.

So this makes two times already this summer I’ve accepted a player was likely done for the year only to have him return to practice. Even if he can’t do much contact stuff, just being out there and being able to get some reps and stay in the flow of the season is huge for Mitchell. But seriously, how the hell can he be back out there so soon after his arm got pretzeled? Another impressive moment for a rookie who is quickly making a name for himself.

Sheard is on his second day of missing practice, McClellin is on his first. Ebner should be showing up soon, but the biggest boosts will come once Vollmer and Lewis appear off PUP.

He looks just about ready to go for the season.

This would’ve been a great picture.

Headline of this practice is Gronk walking off. Wouldn’t seem like anything too major and Gronk isn’t going to play in the preseason anyway, so probably not much of a big deal at all here.

Bolden’s making more plays but I still think if he’s playing running back it’s simply as a stop gap. His specialty is special teams, but it’s nice to know he can fill in if injuries start sticking.


 Nobody is going to enjoy blocking those two.

Not surprising. Butler plays with that edge and I can imagine plenty of WRs can’t stand it.

Sticking up for their teammate. Love it.

I continue to be so excited for Chris Long this year. If he stays healthy people are going to remember how good he was before the last two seasons derailed him. Gotta imagine getting out of the Rams organization is motivational.

Next two days of practice and then Thursday’s game are going to be INTERESTING.

What I was hoping to avoid this offseason. We’ll see what’s up with McClellin. Hopefully a rest day?
 

Young guys standing out along with Collins, who seems poised for a monster year. Better re-sign him quick, that price tag is going up game-by-game once the season starts.

Reason #3485 I’m glad I’m not an NFL player. This looks miserable. But this is the kind of thing great teams do, hitting the sled in deadly heat. It will pay off down the road.