Even after Tom Brady’s departure, new-look Patriots ‘have a great opportunity,’ Matthew Slater says

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Longtime New England Patriots captain Matthew Slater acknowledged Monday that the staff will be forced to form a new id without quarterback Tom Brady. In carrying out so, he said it will rely on some previous standbys.

“I you should not consider the objectives modify at all. The regular won’t modify at all. The pillars that we stand on, they you should not modify at all,” Slater instructed reporters on a meeting connect with.

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“If you go into the year with a defeatist way of thinking, then you can’t count on to be profitable. We have a excellent option. We have a whole lot of very good soccer players. We have a incredible coaching workers. … We have to go into the year expecting far more from ourselves than everyone outdoors the making expects from us. We have to go in with the same drive, the same target, the same resolve. If we you should not, you should not even move foot in the making, because we are now going to be defeat.”

At the same time, Slater observed the obvious: The void Brady leaves is huge.

“When you chat about Tom and every thing he is intended to this group, and our staff, a whole lot of our id around the previous twenty several years has been centered about him. Any time you changeover absent from a player like that, it really is a tall undertaking,” he said, adding that the main experience he experienced towards Brady is “gratitude.”

“You have to find a way to offer with that personally and method it. I consider as a staff, naturally, we are going to have to method that Tom is gone. Do it in a nutritious way, and be ready to go on,” added Slater, who is now the longest-tenured player on the staff (thirteen seasons).

“We’re going to have to be ready to find a new id for ourselves. I consider portion of that id is going to be crafted on items we have always stood for and will continue to stand for as lengthy as this group is led by the people today it really is led by. Which is going to be selflessness, hard function, carrying out what is actually very best for the soccer staff, serving just one an additional, not owning any level of expectation that items are going to be handed to us.”

Slater, 34, has been the Patriots’ psychological chief in the latest several years, provided the accountability by mentor Invoice Belichick to handle the staff in the locker place immediately after victories. He agreed to a two-year agreement extension in mid-March, and his leadership will acquire on added value in a put up-Brady locker place.

“Absolutely there is going to be an evolution that occurs within just our locker place, an evolution that occurs within just our offense,” he said. “That time was going to appear in some way, form or form. What the void is, how we fill it, I can’t actually speak to that correct now. I consider it really is significant guys continue to be within just them selves.”

Among the those who slide into that classification is 2019 fourth-round draft option Jarrett Stidham, the quarterback who could be using around for Brady.