TEAM TALK
- John Rooke waves the white flag on yellow flags.
- Paul Perillo tackles this week's Ask PFW Mailbag: Roster taking shape.
- Press Conference - Bill Belichick (18.52 min. video)
- Press Pass - Darrelle Revis, Devin McCourty focus on Panthers. (4.50 min. video)
LOCAL LINKS
- Tom E. Curran notes Bill Belichick equates having a good team to having had a good camp.
- Lee Schechter notes Brandon LaFell has gone from shell-shocked to comfortable.
- Doug Kyed reports Belichick believes LaFell could carve out a big role with the Patriots, "He’s got a good skill set — little different than some of our other guys."
- Chris Mason reports LaFell continues to get more comfortable in camp, and has shown enough improvement to earn praise from Belichick.
- Jeff Howe tells us Aaron Dobson has been in Foxboro since March, a mainstay at meetings, and is now itching to make real plays on the field.
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Mike Reiss cleans out his Patriots notebook from the media-access period in the locker room: Left side? Right side? Doesn’t matter to Revis.
- Oliver Thomas reports that undrafted rookie TE Justin Jones stuck around in Foxboro after being released, remaining active and hoping for a phone call to return.
- Lee Schechter notes Jeremy Gallon finally had the chance to silence heckling from his teammates with his return to practice.
- Oliver Thomas writes OL Jordan Devey is looking to find one spot by playing four.
- Lee Schechter reports Sebastian Vollmer was absent from practice again.
- Mike Petraglia tells us Vollmer, Hoomanawanui and Siliga are among those missing at practice.
- Mike Reiss talks about how Chandler Jones could benefit from Revis Island.
- Steve Buckley writes Darrelle Revis can feel it in his gut that the season is starting to get real.
- Tom E. Curran notes Revis is holding out hope the refs might ease up on the flag-throwing.
- Mike Reiss shares Tom Brady's answer on why he went all-out to tackle the CB after his pick-six.
- Phil Perry notes Jerod Mayo is not sure if he'll play the next preseason game.
- Christopher Price catches up with Jerod Mayo: 'Everything is good'.
- Oliver Thomas writes former second-round pick Jerel Worthy is ready for 'a new chapter,' and excited to compete for a roster spot.
- Ben Volin wonders if the Patriots will lose a division game, and if they do it would be Week 1 down in hot, steamy Miami.
- Chris Gasper thinks the crackdown on illegal contact could work in the Patriots favor.
- Erik Frenz says the flags are flying furiously across the NFL, causing concern among some of the Patriots' DBs.
- Eric Wilbur believes flags are killing the NFL and we know it.
- Christopher Price notes Bill Belichick backs the idea of expanding practice squads from 8 to 10 players.
- Mike Reiss explains how the practice squad change affects the Patriots.
- Mike Reiss answers his weekly reader Mailbag: Don't get caught up in preseason greatness.
- Jeff Howe Patriots Notebook: Mayo mum on why he missed practice; Revis feels the butterflies coming back - a sign of the impending season; Belichick overhauled the locker assignments this season but the DBs were left intact.
- Mark Farinella remembers when the NFL had six preseason games as a buildup to a 14-game season.
- NESN reports Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen made a combined $78.3M over the past year.
NATIONAL NEWS
- Josh Alper (ProFootballTalk) Dominique Easley no longer a "lost kid" after return to full practice.
- Jay Feely (The MMQB) A point to make: The NFL's experiment with longer extra points ultimately will get them more injuries.
- Michael David Smith (ProFootballTalk) Blandino sees extra points changing, soon.
- Patrick Imig (Cold Hard Football Facts) 2014 NFL season: Year of the yellow flag.
- Vinnie Iyer (Sporting News) NFL preseason power rankings. Patriots 6th.
- Andrew Sharp (Grantland) NFL Regression Party! Which Teams Will Disappoint Us This Year?
- Mike Tanier (Sports on Earth) How to stop Training Camp fights for the rest of the year.
- Hannah Karp (Wall St. Journal) NFL to Coldplay: Pay to play in the Super Bowl.
- Eli Nachmany (Sports Daily) Each NFL team's biggest villain.