TEAM TALK
- Paul Perillo’s Day 7 blogservations: Pats pick party slows momentum.
- Mike Dussault’s Camp Notebook: The lineage of Patriots ‘backer-hood’ going back over 20 years is still going strong in Foxborough.
- Erik Scalavino analyzes how the tight ends are reemerging as a factor on offense. “Since the start of training camp, however, Smith seems to have healed from whatever was limiting him in June and has proven as a popular target for New England’s quarterbacks. The 6-3, 250-pounder’s ability to make impressive catches has been rivaled only by his surprising speed and quickness in the open field.