Two practices.
That’s all the Patriots decided they needed from their mandatory minicamp, a scheduled three-day stretch they capped with a surprise paintball outing Wednesday before sending players into their summer break. Before then, more than 80 players reported for practices on Monday and Tuesday, the most competitive and intense sessions of the spring. Mac Jones led the offense for all but one period of team drills, while the defense predictably had the upper hand.
What else did we learn from that practice and Monday’s session? Here were the top four takeaways from Foxboro:
