COMMENTARY
Five takeaways from the Patriots’ preseason opener, which saw Bill Belichick’s team score 26 unanswered points and post a 26-17 victory in spite of neither Tom Brady nor Rob Gronkowski taking the field…
HOYER STRUGGLES EARLY
With Brady’s preseason debut limited to leading the team out of the tunnel prior at the start of the night, the duties behind center were tasked to Brian Hoyer. And after an offseason in which so much time was spent discussing the Patriots’ decisions and future related to the quarterback position, Hoyer’s early performance was not particularly reassuring.