Dont’a Hightower Offers Important Advice To Patriots’ Younger Players

Young NFL players could really use an advice early in their career. Well, Dont’a Hightower has an advice for your Patriots players and they should use the best of it. Time is of utmost importance in the NFL. Things go really fast in the league and veterans know it best.

The New England Patriots pay a lot of attention to “tiny bits”. Bill Belichick won’t let things slip down his hands. He has a complex system on both sides on the field. Bill Belichick and his staff keep telling everyone to use the best of their time. It’s time to take a bigger challenge and everyone knows it.

Dont’a Hightower has the ultimate advice

Hightower has been part of the Patriots since 2012. He knows knows pretty much everything about the team. The veteran is here to share his knowledge with the members of the 2021 Patriots. What’s the best advice for young players? Hightower was loud and clear. Get the best of the time they spend with veterans.

“Just to be a sponge,” Hightower told reporters Wednesday. “The meetings are gonna go fast, and that’s what are OTAs and minicamp are for. Because in training camp we don’t have time to stop and slow down or go back. Coaches have got staff meetings and stuff, so your time is limited to learn, so just to continue to be a sponge. A lot of the older guys, we’re not trying to keep secrets or anything whether it’s LG (Lawrence Guy) or Dev (Devin McCourty) or the older offensive linemen with David (Andrews) and Shaq (Mason). We realize that you’re kind of only as strong as your weakest link, so we’re just trying to pull everybody along and get as much information as far as everybody’s able to grasp it and retain it.”

Patriots had the first practice of training camp. Everyone did a good job and Belichick got to see different sides of players’ performance. The Patriots will take the new season with a big plan on the table. It’s time to win a Super Bowl.