FOXBOROUGH – We’re back, baby. The media got its first glimpse of the 2023 Patriots during one of two voluntary OTA practices that will be open on Wednesday afternoon. Here’s everything you need to know about what we saw… -There were some notable absences from some of the impact guys. No Trent Brown, Matt Judon, rookie first round draft pick Christian Gonzalez, new free agent wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster, Mike…

The words “Patriots” and “violation” have been in the same sentence more often than they should be over the last 20+ years. On Wednesday night, they were together again. Before that, the Patriots announced early in the afternoon that the first OTA open to the media on Thursday had been cancelled. The schedule also shifted a bit with the media only getting two chances to watch OTA’s instead of the…

Organized Team Activities. The most overly scrutinized part of the NFL calendar. The Patriots begin their non-mandatory OTA’s this week and the first one media members can watch and report on will be Thursday. For the next three-four weeks, we won’t learn a ton from things the team will be running, but there’s still reason to believe this team could be better than everyone thinks as “real” football activities ramp…