For almost 25 years Bill Belichick has explained to us annually how the emphasis during spring practices is on teaching and not evaluation. But that's easy to forget when one side of the ball looks much different than the other and conclusions inevitably start to be drawn.
That was the case on Tuesday as the Patriots wrapped up their second day of mandatory minicamp in humid Foxborough. The defense was in control of most of the full 11-on-11 periods, and upon first glance it wouldn't be hard to determine that some of the problems we saw on offense a year ago are not necessarily in the past.