Which all but makes Jimmy Garoppolo the presumed starter under center when the regular season opens in Foxborough against the Steelers on Sept. 10.Not that he's thinking about it.
"We're not really looking that far ahead," he said on Thursday when asked if he was ready to start.
"I don't think anyone is. It's the first day of training camp, got with the guys and it felt good to get out here with all of them."
Garoppolo has clearly been trained well since joining the warm embrace of Bill Belichick and his school of media manipulation: say nothing in many words.
Somewhere up there, the cliche gods are writhing in pain.
"Just take it one day at a time," he told reporters. "You can't focus on everything at once because it'll overwhelm you, so you just gotta take it one day at a time, focus on the little things, focus on improving every day."
Reality did afford him the opportunity, however, to at least admit that he finds himself in a vastly different position this time around than he's been in before. Playing some snaps in the preseason and in garbage time after the Patriots ruined somebody in the regular season is not quite what he may find himself subjected to this autumn.
"This year, it's completely different and I've got different goals," he said.
The first of which is to get New England as close to a 4-0 record as possible for when a bitter Tom Brady returns to the fold as the Patriots pursue their fifth Super Bowl run.
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