Bill Belichick Reveals Why This is Big Week For Patriots in Training Camp

Bill Belichick has gone on record as saying that this week is one of the most important in regards to the training camp. The New England Patriots have been struggling to get back on track ever since the disappointing 2019 season. Cam Newton is one of the singees that have come in ready to go.

Bill Belichick has been rather quiet on how things are going so far, however. But he obviously has a pretty good idea on what is going on currently. Training camp has always been a good way for the coaches and others to get a good idea of what they players have to offer.

They were working towards getting the players ready after a more than tedious off season.

Coach Belichick talked about what he has seen so far.

“We’re heading into our second week here,” Belichick said before Moday’s practice. “This is a big week for us, individually in units and collectively as a team, to really start to show some progress.

“This will be multiple times, at least second, third, maybe fourth time through on a lot of things that we’re doing, whether that’s plays or techniques or situations, things like that. So I think that the team is starting to feel comfortable with, again, whether it be their assignment or the way they’re doing it or coaching points and so forth. Now we really need to see those things start to come together this week on all levels in all three phases of the game, and also being able to manage and operate the game from a coaching standpoint.”

Bill Belichick Reveals Why This is Big Week For Patriots in Training Camp

There are only 20 days left until the regular season kickoff for the Patriots.

“We all have a lot of work to do,” Belichick said. “I think we’re in position, hopefully, to string some good days together and have a lot of little things start to fit together in the overall big picture. But we’ll see how that goes. That’s where we need to be moving toward.”

He also talked about trying to simulate an off season during the COVID crisis.

“Of course, the week before the Miami game will be a Miami preparation week, so we’ll just have to decide how we feel like we can best utilize our time and our opportunities to do the many things that we need to do prior to the start of the season,” Belichick said. “We know we’re not going to be able to get them all in, so we’ll have to prioritize what we can do and when and how much we want to do it.

“Those are interesting discussions. Everything has merit, but we don’t want to stand out there and, I would say, overwhelm the players with a million things and do so much that we’re not good at anything. So we’ll just have to manage all the things involved, including getting physically ready to go, but at the same time, trying to be smart about that and not doing too much, too soon. We’ll have to take it here in short windows — two or three days at a time is really how we’re looking at it from a coaching staff standpoint.”