NORWOOD, Mass. — The Patriots will spend the subsequent few months making an attempt to repair their roster, however that received’t be the one factor beneath building at Gillette Stadium.
New England lately introduced plans to assemble a brand-new, stand-alone coaching facility for the unique use of the staff. It’ll be a three-level construction that may greater than double the sq. footage of the staff’s present footprint positioned at One Patriot Place — that includes a diet middle, a participant lounge, an open-space locker room, an expanded weight room that may open instantly onto three redesigned follow fields, new workplaces and, doubtlessly, an area for households to collect on the day of video games.
Andressa Jones hopes so, anyway.
Andressa, who’s the spouse of Patriots cornerback Jonathan Jones, lately opened an area of her personal to deal with kids and households — “Joyville Indoor Playground” — and believes a facility supplied by the staff might go a great distance in serving to out households new to the world.
“It will be big, as a result of quite a lot of the wives on the staff don’t actually know the world — they don’t have folks round right here,” Andressa stated Saturday. “It’s at all times good to discover a place we are able to all meet collectively, carry the youngsters — so doing it within the stadium is a superb thought.”
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The Patriots, for many who aren’t conscious, have been lambasted within the NFLPA’s final two “Participant Crew Report Playing cards.” New England ranked twenty ninth out of 32 groups in 2024, with a number of votes coming instantly from members of the group within the nameless 1,706-player survey.
Jonathan Jones can’t say he was one in every of them, however actually does admire that adjustments are being made.
“It’s one factor the group has achieved a terrific job of – realizing the assist system of the participant is essential,” Jonathan stated. “It’s clearly a enterprise they usually’re centered on successful soccer, however they perceive that caring for the household, caring for the gamers’ assist system makes it simpler for the fellows to concentrate on soccer. That’s one thing the group has achieved a terrific job with.”
New England’s stand-alone facility will probably be one thing new to the group, however not across the league. It’s simply Robert Kraft’s manner of maintaining with the occasions — although he was a tad late.
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