NFL notes: Is Bill Belichick now practicing load management at Patriots training camp?
Through 10 practices, Patriots training camp has been an exercise in the familiar -- welcome back, Bill O'Brien -- and in firsts. Most changes, particularly O'Brien's return, have been welcome and productive. But certain scenes have stupefied, even rankled, some ex-players; namely, how Bill Belichick could be content with Matthew Judon, Trent Brown and Rhamondre Stevenson sitting out a combined dozen practices before the team's first preseason game.