WEST PALM BEACH — Rhamondre Stevenson sure sounds like a man who believes the Patriots have worked the bugs out of their running game.
With Josh McDaniels departing, Bill Belichick decided to add some new zone running schemes to the playbook — hello, Shanahan offense — and things didn’t get off to the smoothest start. There were runs stuffed at the line of scrimmage often during training camp, and some of that carried into preseason play.
But with the season opener in Miami looming, Stevenson boasted confidence in where the ground game has gotten to.
“The beginning of camp, we were working a lot on the run game and seeing what we needed to fix, things like that.