Good morning, and here are our Sunday Patriots news 8-13 and notes for this week. The NFL is back, albeit in the preseason, but it has been great to see live football again.
The first preseason game is in the books, where the Patriots lost to the Houston Texans 20-9. However, preseason isn’t about final scores. The team wants to see what their younger players can do in a game setting, especially if they aren’t getting a ton of snaps in the training camp practices.
That being said, this one looked a lot like last season. The defense played well, but the offense, behind a patchwork offensive line, was stuck in neutral.