Jun 16, 2021; Foxborough, MA, USA; New England Patriots head coach Invoice Belichick reacts through the New England Patriots mini camp on the New England Patriots apply complicated. Obligatory Credit score: Paul Rutherford-USA TODAY Sports activities
The New England Patriots aren’t any strangers to NFL guidelines violations and the newest, this time within the offseason, has price the staff two OTA practices.
For any New England Patriots followers hoping to get a primary report of what the staff is trying like this offseason from the media at OTAs, you’re going to have to attend.
Thursday, Might 25 was purported to be the primary scheduled OTA apply open to the media. As a substitute, that apply was surprisingly canceled on Wednesday afternoon. It seemingly got here out of nowhere, however a number of hours later, we came upon why it was canceled.
In response to Mike Reiss of ESPN, the Patriots had been docked two OTA practices for a violation of offseason guidelines. Thursday’s apply is the primary they misplaced and there shall be one other subsequent week that can now not be going down.
Filed to ESPN: The Patriots are shedding two days of voluntary organized staff actions as a result of a violation of offseason guidelines, per league sources.
That explains the staff’s announcement about Thursday’s apply being referred to as off.
One other OTA subsequent week has additionally been taken away.
— Mike Reiss (@MikeReiss) May 25, 2023 Maybe the 2 largest dishonest scandals in NFL historical past each concerned the New England Patriots with Spygate and Deflategate. After all, after Spygate got here to mild in September 2007, all of the Pats did was reel off an undefeated common season earlier than falling to the Giants within the Tremendous Bowl. Then, in 2015 when Deflategate’s subject material occurred within the AFC Championship sport. Belichick and Co. went on to win one other Lombardi Trophy.
So with the Patriots again to “dishonest”, followers had been fast to joke (or possibly not a lot) that Belichick and New England had been undoubtedly again and going again to the Tremendous Bowl.
Oh LFG we’re dishonest once more. Ring #7 on the way in which
— PRZ (@prztweets) May 25, 2023
Again to dishonest? Lastly. We successful all of it this yr! LFG
— DB (@TheDon2174) May 25, 2023
Lets goooo we’re attempting to win once more
— Sean (@seankolo99) May 25, 2023
https://twitter.com/LuiHard/standing/1661548005227372546
Maybe the funniest addition to the dialog was a response to the query of what the principles violation was, to which one quick-witted individual replied “Drafting a punter and kicker in the identical draft.” That’s, certainly, worthy of punishment.
Alas, we don’t know what rule the Patriots really violated to obtain this punishment. And whereas the jokes are nice, the actual fact of the matter is that New England seems to have a methods to go earlier than they’re really again within the Tremendous Bowl dialog.
Followers suppose Patriots are successful Tremendous Bowl after being punished for ‘dishonest’
