No Welker, no Hernandez, no Gronk? No taking it easy
PHILADELPHIA—One by one, over and over, drill after drill, over two practices in two days at another team’s facility, the New England Patriots’ receivers caught balls from Tom Brady. Rookies, youngsters, veterans, newcomers, incumbents, wide receivers, tight ends, Swiss Army Knife-types. Brady kept throwing, somebody in a blue jersey kept catching, a Philadelphia Eagles defender kept getting left behind.
None of the receivers was Wes Welker, Brandon Lloyd, Rob Gronkowski or Aaron Hernandez.
These, then, are the names to remember, for now: Danny Amendola, Julian Edelman, Aaron Dobson, Kenbrell Thompkins, Quentin Sims, Zach Sudfeld and Daniel Fells, to name a few. They all took differing paths to the Patriots, they’re all on the spot to pick up where the absent receivers left off, and they all are in the middle of a crash course in chemistry, with each other and with Brady.
They also are on a mission to render those missing receivers invisible, as irrelevant as the organization is treating them, except Gronkowski. In fact, Amendola was asked, it’s not even worth the effort to mention their names here and now, is it?
“Probably not,’’ Amendola answered, with a squint and a smile.
by Sporting News
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