The New England Patriots are not any strangers to NFL guidelines violations and the newest, this time within the offseason, has value the workforce two OTA practices.

For any New England Patriots followers hoping to get a primary report of what the workforce is trying like this offseason from the media at OTAs, you’re going to have to attend.

Thursday, Might 25 was alleged to be the primary scheduled OTA observe open to the media. As an alternative, that observe was surprisingly canceled on Wednesday afternoon. It seemingly got here out of nowhere, however a couple of hours later, we came upon why it was canceled.

In response to Mike Reiss of ESPN, the Patriots have been docked two OTA practices for a violation of offseason guidelines. Thursday’s observe is the primary they misplaced and there will likely be one other subsequent week that can not be happening.

Followers suppose Patriots are successful Tremendous Bowl after being punished for ‘dishonest’

Maybe the 2 greatest dishonest scandals in NFL historical past each concerned the New England Patriots with Spygate and Deflategate. In fact, after Spygate got here to mild in September 2007, all of the Pats did was reel off an undefeated common season earlier than falling to the Giants within the Tremendous Bowl. Then, in 2015 when Deflategate’s material occurred within the AFC Championship sport. Belichick and Co. went on to win one other Lombardi Trophy.

So with the Patriots again to “dishonest”, followers have been fast to joke (or perhaps not a lot) that Belichick and New England have been positively again and going again to the Tremendous Bowl.

Maybe the funniest addition to the dialog was a response to the query of what the principles violation was, to which one quick-witted particular person replied “Drafting a punter and kicker in the identical draft.” That’s, certainly, worthy of punishment.

Alas, we don’t know what rule the Patriots really violated to obtain this punishment. And whereas the jokes are nice, the very fact of the matter is that New England seems to have a methods to go earlier than they’re really again within the Tremendous Bowl dialog.