The New England Patriots don’t appear to care anymore.
Effectively, that’s at the least how followers would possibly interpret the stories and rumblings that emerged after New England’s 34-15 loss to the Miami Dolphins on Sunday.
At the very least three Patriots reporters — Boston Herald’s Andrew Callahan, Boston Sports activities Journal’s Greg Bedard and MassLive’s Mark Daniels — made be aware of the temper within the visiting locker room at Onerous Rock Stadium. Their reporting in all probability gained’t sit nicely with Patriots followers.
“That was one of many lighter #Patriots locker rooms after a nasty loss I can keep in mind,” Callahan posted on X on Sunday afternoon. “Not a contented locker room, however extra gamers smiling and joking than regular to say it felt at the least accepting of the blowout and their actuality at 3-9.”
Daniels wrote in a MassLive column: ” … Simply across the nook, it was a distinct scene with a number of gamers on offense smiling and laughing with each other. It was a wierd scene for a workforce that was embarrassed by the Miami Dolphins. Though not everybody was completely happy — a number of gamers have been upset — the sounds of sunshine laughter crammed the aspect of the room the place offensive gamers obtained dressed.”
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Bedard shared a lot of the identical when he appeared on 98.5 The Sports activities Hub’s postgame protection. Bedard stated he felt the group was “unbothered” by the consequence. He did be aware, nevertheless, that he doesn’t suppose the workforce has tuned out Patriots head coach Jerod Mayo.
“One factor I did need to point out to you guys: I might say my greatest takeaway from being within the locker room was that I assumed – my opinion, that is my opinion from being in there and I’ve been in a bunch of various locker rooms over my 20-year profession – I assumed that the locker room appeared to be unbothered by at present’s consequence,” Bedard stated on the radio. “I used to be stunned. Perhaps it’s as a result of it was 31-0 and so they had been serious about it for some time, had come to appreciate the battle was misplaced earlier on. I don’t know. However I used to be stunned at how talkative, there have been extra smiles than you’ll suppose. I might say Drake Maye undoubtedly, from what I noticed, took the loss onerous. There have been actually some guys that took the misplaced onerous. However I might say on the entire I assumed that the locker room appeared slightly unbothered by the entire loss and I’m undecided the way to course of that.”
Each Daniels and Bedard included rookie quarterback Drake Maye as somebody who didn’t react the identical as his lighthearted teammates. No gamers have been talked about by title in any of the three stories.
