It’s become common over the past few years for bill Belichick to cancel the final mandatory minicamp practice if he believes the team is in a good place. On Wednesday morning, he did so again as the team was headed off for some team bonding instead of heading back out onto the practice fields behind Gillette Stadium. With OTA’s and now minicamp in the books, we won’t get a look…

Day two of Patriots mandatory minicamp is in the books. Here’s what we saw over the course of the two-hour session. One more left on Wednesday before the team heads home. -Julian Edelman was in the house. -Season ticket holders got to view practice and grab a few autographs, as well as meet Pat Patriot and some of the cheerleaders. Cool training camp-like atmosphere. -The team ran some conditioning drills…

Real football! Ok, not really, but kind of. On Monday, the Patriots began mandatory minicamp which in theory should have given us our first true look at the team, but there were still quite a few absences. Mac Jones had a good day but it got ugly down the stretch. That and more in our latest edition of the Patriots Journal with everything we saw for two hours… -James White…

The voluntary part of the NFL offseason is officially over. With one more voluntary OTA in the books on Friday, the team now turns its attention towards mandatory mini camp next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. While Friday’s OTA was another slower-paced session and only lasted about an hour, there was still some impressive performances. Here’s everything you need to know from the hillside at Gillette… -Lots of absences again today….

The media was back at Gillette on Tuesday afternoon for a second open OTA. There will be one more on Friday before mandatory mini-camp Monday-Wednesday. There was some interesting stuff that went down. Here’s everything I saw from our viewing area: -Before practice, Bill Belichick said the day would be a bit slower paced after a few practices we haven’t seen where they’ve ramped things up, including in the classroom.Belichick…