jimmy garoppolo is coming back to his old stomping grounds this sunday as the two and three patriots look to bounce back after a putrid loss against the denver broncos cam newton looked far from his best in that game so how is he hoping to totally redeem himself this weekend we have a better you know a better preparation you know method with this week you know not making any excuses i'm just saying you know we we put ourselves in a better situation to win cam sounded happy to be back in a normal week of practices something the patriots haven't had for weeks he also sounded happy to have several players coming off ir in the covid list what he didn't sound so happy about his own performance i just haven't been just haven't been good and i haven't i haven't matched enough good plays together for for my liking and that's what it comes down to we'll see if he can turn that around sunday but on this warm fall new england day we had cornerback stephon gilmore repping another local team with a pompom beanie what does he like about hockey i like the fights to be honest can't argue that patriots niners kicks off at 4 25 sunday afternoon and we'll see how the patriots look after finally getting that practice in reporting from foxborough megan adelini the boston herald