FOXBORO -- Seven snaps. There was a stretch of seven snaps in Wednesday's Patriots practice that carried with it all kinds of intrigue.
Had it not been for what Bill Belichick said earlier in the day, perhaps those seven snaps wouldn't have raised an eyebrow. But Belichick didn't rule out the possibility of a quarterback platoon for his team in 2020. And those seven snaps -- when Belichick and Josh McDaniels called for Jarrett Stidham and Cam Newton to alternate snaps, neither taking more than two consecutively -- served as a preview of what a platoon might actually look like.