Patriots Players are Having a Good Old Fashioned Workout-Off

Over the weekend I posted about Brady running Julian Edelman and N’Keal Harry through receiver drills. And I may or may not have mistaken his backyard in Brookline for his ranch in Montana. Which is what I get for posting on the Saturday morning of a holiday weekend where I cracked my first beer at noon on Friday and my last beer about 20 minutes ago. But I apologize for nothing. Because Brady’s ranch in Montana isn’t a place. It’s a state of mind. Like Heaven. Or the beach in a beer commercial.

Anyway, not to be outdone by himself, Brady is now somewhere in the palm trees. Where exactly? I won’t hazard a guess. Maybe his and Gisele’s place in Costa Rica. Brazil perhaps. Let’s just call it what Jimmy Buffett referred to as St. Somewhere. The important thing is that he’s down there with his helmet, his Resistance Band Guru Alex Guerrero and a giant chip on his shoulder in the shape of a 7th Lombardi trophy. Once again putting the world on notice that he’s not done. He’s strapping on the gauntlet with the six rings on it, snapping his mighty fingers and bringing balance to the universe. Dread it. Run from it. Destiny still arrives.

Which leads us to what his main targets are up to. Because he might be running in the sand, but Edelman and Harry continue to work up here in the raw chill of an unseasonably cold post-Memorial Day New England:

Yeah, no big deal. Just the highest drafted wide receiver in the Patriots Dynasty era getting 1-on-1 coaching from the most precise route runner in the business. And what time of year is it? Between OTAs. Mandatory practices aren’t even until mid-June and the Patriots skill position guys are trying to do the impossible: Outwork Tom Brady. File that away, anyone who’s complaining that at the age of almost 42 after playing into February each of the last three years and with almost two full seasons worth of postseason games in his career, that Brady isn’t doing the non-mandatory workouts. That doesn’t make him any less of a leader. Because his work ethic is contagious.

It’s worth noting that there is someone who wasn’t happy to see Edelman and Harry trying to perfect their game:

So those guys better right this wrong. When you’ve got 2019’s top graded cornerback looking to workout with you, you don’t forget to invite him. Steel sharpens steel and all that. Just not during the Bruins games. Because Stephon Gilmore sees Edelman’s Celtics shirt and raises him this:

God help me, I love these teams.