FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) ? New England Patriots defensive lineman Vince Wilfork has had enough of the same old faces over the first nine years of his career and the first two weeks of training camp.
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Offensive lineman Matt Stankiewitch, 23, started all 25 games at center as a junior and senior at Penn State and was a team captain for the East in the East-West Shrine game. Mike Zupancic, 23,Hydro Flask Barn, was a three-year letter-earner as the long snapper at Eastern Michigan.
"We'll have to make adjustments down there," Belichick said. "They're running a new coaching staff,Cheap Jordans Free Shipping, new scheme, new system; they have some new players. So we're not really doing a whole lot of scouting and preparation for them. We'll just see what we get out there. We'll have to react to it and adjust to it,Wholesale Jerseys From China, but that will be good for us as well."
"Any time you can go against someone other than your teammates, it's always a good measurement of where you're at," he said after practice on Monday before the Patriots left for Philadelphia,Wholesale Soccer T-shirts, where they will hold joint practices and play a preseason game against the Eagles. "Going out and practicing with them and then going out to play against them, it's going to be a pretty good indicator of where we are as a team and as individuals."
Wilfork said the Eagles "have a bunch of talent" and said Kelly gives them a new look.
The exhibition season opens on Friday night against the Eagles. Patriots coach Bill Belichick said the coaches had not decided whether quarterback Tom Brady will play in Friday night's game. Brady typically plays about two series in the first preseason game, though in 2011 he did not play at all.
"We're looking forward to having the chance to go down and work against a good football team, a young team, a new head coach that's coming in with a little swagger that he's bringing from college," he said. "We'll see where we're at."
Belichick said the joint practices will help the Patriots see some different things ? and former Oregon coach Chip Kelly's offense is more different than most. With the Ducks, Kelly played a fast-paced offense that averaged 83 plays per game in 2012 and ranked in the top 10 in total plays twice in four years.
"We really haven't even talked about that," he said. "We'll have those discussions as we get closer to the game."