Patriots cornerback Jason McCourty doesn’t know why the team decided to practice Thursday morning. But he doesn’t know why the team wouldn’t have practiced, either. …
Patriots cornerback Jason McCourty doesn’t know why the team decided to practice Thursday morning. But he doesn’t know why the team wouldn’t have practiced, either. “I feel like right now, myself, and I know a lot of other guys I’ve talked to in the locker room right now, we’re just lost, man,” McCourty said after practice. “It’s almost like a sense of hopelessness.” Several NFL teams, including the New York Jets and Green Bay Packers, elected to cancel practice Thursday in the wake of the shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man who was shot seven times in the back by police in Kenosha, Wis. Their decisions came the day after the Milwaukee Bucks elected not to play their playoff game against the Orlando Magic, sparking a wave of postponements across the NBA, WNBA, MLB, and MLS. The Patriots went about business as usual Thursday morning, while the team attempts to determine the best course of action. “If we cancel practice today on a Thursday, do we cancel practice tomorrow on a Friday?” McCourty said. “What’s going to get us to go out and practice the next day? If we cancel practice today, we sit around, we discuss race, we discuss what happened to Jacob Blake, or we talk about what’s continuing to happen in our country for hundreds of years, but then we go out and practice tomorrow, nobody cares.
