FOXBORO, Mass. – One is a promising pick in the 2019 draft.
Another is a dynamic former superstar who seeks to prove that her battered body still has magic.
The third is a backup partner, but you know your current environment very well.
Three other quarterbacks are vying to upgrade Tom Brady as the new England Patriots starter. This is what makes his festival, the first in Foxboro, Mass., from the era before Drew Bledsoe, so fascinating.
Ask Brian Hoyer, who took a look at his war opposing Cam Newton and Jarrett Stidham later at camp on Thursday.
“I think the smart look is that we’re all others,” Hoyer said. “We all bring other things to the table, and we can appreciate those things about others and get to know others well, help others, and push others. I think that’s a smart thing to do.
“And that’s what happens, when you have the so-called quarterback festival – I mean, look, we’re not all here to not communicate with each other. We’re all informed of others. We look at when a user leaves and we are informed of their representative and vice versa.
“And it’s wonderful. It’s wonderful to meet Cam, meet Last Year’s Jarrett and my other partner Spartan ,fourth row rookie Brian Lewerke, put him under my protection and look at him with the other boys. »
As the Patriots’ oldest quarterback and the highest experienced in the New England offensive, this is the Pats’ seventh educational camp, 34, two for 24-year-old Stidham and one for the 31-year-old. Old Newton-Hoyer is asked to be a competitor and mentor this summer. He said those potentially competing roles “weren’t hard to balance.”
“Listen, we’re all looking to be the most productive for the team and also do what’s most productive for the team,” Hoyer said. ‘Then, for me, clearly with Jarrett and Cam and even Brian Lewerke, (I’m just looking) to use the wisdom I’ve accumulated over the years of play in this attack and with those guys when they want.’
The Patriots have consistently shot their 3 most productive field marshals so far in the camp, Stidham gaining less practice on Thursday after launching back-to-back intercepts in 11-on-11 exercises. Thanks to 4 practices that have been opened to unsevered hounds through the team, there is still no clearly explained favorite to claim the starting position (Newton would possibly be in that direction).
In none emerges until September 13, it was assumed that the Patriots could use a platoon technique to start the season with several quarterbacks involved in the game plan. Head coach Bill Belichick said Wednesday that he would “definitely consider” anything that could help his team, adding a setup of two quarterbacks.
Hoyer, who shared QB’s duties with Johnny Manziel during his time with the Cleveland Browns, said it was anything he was preparing for.
“As Coach Belichick says, he’ll do what he thinks is most productive for the team,” Hoyer said. “And I have a lot of confidence in him and the training team. It’s something I played a little bit in Cleveland with Johnny Manziel, so it’s not something I haven’t dealt with yet.
“And it’s about, look, as you see in training, we’re rotating the quarterback, so it prepares you to enter, locate the stage and run the game in the most productive way you can. This scenario. .. If I play in a game and leave the check-out time and return to the third check out, I just have to go in and run in that scenario, no matter what happened before that.”
Hoyer has shown impressive ball accuracy in intensity in the camp, but struggled for much of Thursday’s session, from 0 out of 4 with an interception of 7-7 and 6 of 11 in 11.