One of the storylines with the Patriots this season has been Cam Newton and his outgoing personality that has rubbed off on the team.
Speaking on The Greg Hill Show Friday, defensive captain Devin McCourty said the team gets different personalities each and every year and just because Tom Brady is gone, doesn't mean it's a different culture.
“I feel like everyone wants to create a new way of life now that Tom is gone, but a lot of the stuff we do here is still the same. The culture hasn’t changed," he said. "I just think any time you have new people in the locker room, you have new personalities. Things change, things just don’t stay the same. I was a lot different when we had Aqib Talib here, Martellus Bennett, LeGarrette Blount, those guys all carry pretty big personalities.
"When that is gone and new players come in, the team just moves towards the personalities in the locker room. I would say this year we’ve had quite a bit of change throughout the team with personalities. It’s just different. For me, we’re a lot younger than before and that creates just a little bit of a different personality and culture, I guess.”
As for the Titans having a COVID-19 outbreak, McCourty still feels safe with what the Patriots and league are doing.
“No, I think that is what it is - we’re playing in a pandemic," he said. "Obviously, it’s been shocking because we haven’t had to deal with that the first few weeks of the season. We’ve done really well. I think it was a reminder that we’re still in a pandemic and those things still happen. I saw this morning the President and the First Lady tweeted out that they have coronavirus — they tested positive. I think it’s just a reminder that this virus affects everybody and anybody. I still feel like we have a really safe environment with what we’ve done to protect each other and we just have to keep doing it, doing a good job of it and understand if it does happen we can’t really avoid it.”
The Patriots will travel to Kansas City to take on the Chiefs this weekend.
