New England will travel south beginning Tuesday and train in Palm Beach County, an hour from the Dolphins’ facility, instead of making the trip through Saturday, as is customary.
MIAMI GARDENS — Next Sunday, New England Patriots face the Miami Dolphins.
Before that, the Patriots will have to deal with the heat of Miami.
The next few days, the forecast for Foxborough, Massachusetts around 18 to 20 degrees Celsius and according to how the head coach of the Patriots, Bill Belichickthose are not the ideal atmospheric conditions to prepare your team for the humidity that awaits them in Florida on Sunday, when New England start the regular season in Miami.
That’s why the Patriots will travel south on Tuesday and train at the palm beach countyone hour from the facilities of the Dolphins. High temperatures will reach 32 degrees, with high humidity. As for the favorite sweatshirts of Belichickmight not be the best option.
“Put on sunscreen,” warned the coach of the Dolphins, Mike McDaniel.
Possibly they will pack the sunscreen together with all the equipment that the Patriots on his journey. It is not a completely alien concept. Patriots travel on game week; New England trained for a week Las Vegas last month, getting ready to duel once morest the Raiders in the preseason.
“I think it’s a combination of factors, but at the end of the day I think everything is well put here,” he said. Belichick. “So travel on Tuesday instead of Saturday. We will be there and we will concentrate on the Dolphins”.
In recent years, trips to Floridawhere the summer never ends, have not always turned out for a team used to winning like the Patriots and the weather might be a factor.
New England is 3-8 in his last 11 regular-season games in Floridaincluding losses by double-digit difference at 36th once morest Jacksonville in 2018, and 31st in Miami Gardens in 2014.
“It’s going to be amazing for the kids to acclimate to the heat,” he told reporters last week on Foxborough the defensive lineman of the Patriots, Of that Godchauxformer player of the Dolphins who knows how different the climatic conditions are in the south of Florida. “It’s either going to be a hot day down there or it’s going to be raining.”
REMEMBER JENKINS
Los Dolphins held a celebration of the life of Jason Jenkins at his stadium on Monday. Jenkins spent regarding 14 years with the Dolphins and eventually became the team’s vice president of communications. On August 27, he passed away unexpectedly at the age of 47.