Exploring some New England Patriots hot topics in the form of a mailbag:
@MikeReiss It's my recollection that Belichick gives the team at least one day off of OTA's towards the end of the offseason program. Is there a way to go back the last several years to see how many times this has occurred. Thanks.
This is a common occurrence for Bill Belichick to either cancel some final practices (-- one recent example was 2015)-- or simply not even schedule them at all. There have been years where the Patriots don't use the full allotment of voluntary practices, so while a practice might not have technically been called off, it was never on the schedule to begin with.