This was only the second time the Patriots’ OTAs session was made public to the media. During an earlier media conference, coach Bill Belichick noted the team would have a lighter practice day. So things were a bit slower than usual on the football field.

WBZ-TV's Dan Roche recaps a lighter -- but still fierce -- day of Patriots practice in Foxboro.

On a day when Canadian wildfire haze hung over the backfields at Gillette Stadium, Bill Belichick tried to temper things before his team took the field for OTAs. “We’re going to tempo things down a little bit today,