As many may have seen, the New England Patriots quarterbacks have been extremely active this offseason. It seems like every other week, they have been working with teammates in preparation for the upcoming season.
Friday, we were able to get a sense of how those workouts came to be. As Jarrett Stidham noted, he and Brian Hoyer were on the East Coast. That made it a bit easier for them to organize workouts with teammates. As the 2020 season gets closer, Stidham in particular figures to be at the center of the quarterback competition.
“Hoy and I were here on the East Coast,” Stidham said Friday. “So, we weren’t able to have OTAs, obviously, so we just said, ‘Hey, if anybody is in town or wants to come into town let’s just try and get together and be responsible about everything and try and get some good work in.’ Going from January to training camp is a long time not to throw with guys, get timing and chemistry down with those guys. That’s just kind of how we did it. We were fortunate enough to have some guys.”
Hoyer signed a one-year contract with New England back in March to begin his third stint with the team. He could figure to be a vital piece in the quarterback room, as he has the most experience with the new England Patriots playbook.
“We were having these virtual meetings and said, ‘look, if anyone’s in town normally we’d be doing this right now and we have to be smart about it.’ So we kind of put that together,” Hoyer said Friday. “Once Cam came along we had one or two more sessions with people coming back into town. Now, we’ve been back in the building. It’s been good. Look, this is the NFL and teammates change from year-to-year. There’s always additions, subtractions. People come into the room, you embrace it and you move on. You’re teammates and one day at a time.”
Both of these quarterbacks will be important pieces in their own right as it relates to the quarterback room. What roles they will play during the course of the 2020 season remains unclear at this time.
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