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FanPostsFanShotsAbout the Site List of Patriots Twitter AccountsWrite For Pats Pulpit!New User Welcome and Commenting GuideCommunity GuidelinesMastheadTopics Patriots Off-Season CoveragePatriots Opinion/AnalysisPatriots NewsPatriots Draft CoverageSportfolio ManagementFiled under:VideosPatriots First Read“Always redefine what success is to you”: Watch Patriots defensive backs Devin and Jason McCourty give Rutgers’ 2019 commencement addressNew Damien Harris NFL Draft ,3commentsThe Super Bowl champions delivered a 20-minute address to the class of 2019.EDTShareTweetShareShare“Always redefine what success is to you”: Watch Patriots defensive backs Devin and Jason McCourty give Rutgers’ 2019 commencement addressNew England Patriots defensive backs Devin McCourty and Jason McCourty returned to their alma mater yesterday to served as Rutgers’ 2019 commencement speakers and also receive honorary degrees: the McCourty brothers, who are not just Super Bowl champions but also active in the community, can now call themselves Doctors of Humane Letters. After receiving the degrees, the two addressed the crowd of more than 47,000.The McCourtys, who graduated from Rutgers a year apart — Jason in 2009 and Devin in 2010 — but re-joined each other when the Patriots traded for Jason last season, talked about their journey from college to the NFL and to becoming involved in charitable causes. One of the recurring themes of their 20-minute speech was success and how it can be defined and found in various ways, and despite multiple obstacles in its way.“Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. The power of positive thinking can change your life,” said Devin. “I know chasing goals can be scary. You may be doing things for the first time in your family’s history. You may be following in the footsteps of someone great. But do you think we’d be standing here, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Paul Robeson’s graduation, if he let fear and doubt step in the way of being great?”“Would the Patriots have won six Super Bowls if Bill Belichick listened to other people and put [Tom] Brady back on the bench?” continued the three-time world champion. His twin brother then added that success always needs to be redefined by each individual.“At some point Damien Harris Buffalo Bills Jersey , you’re growing up and might think, ‘If I can make a lot of money, I’ll be successful.’ You make some money and realize success isn’t about that,” said Jason. “You think if you make it to the NFL, it’s a success. You make it there, but quickly you say, ‘I want to be a starter,’ and that becomes success. Then it’s, ‘I want to win a Super Bowl,’ and that becomes a success. So we want to talk to the graduating class about always redefining what success is to you.”The brothers also spoke about their experience at Rutgers, how their upbringing without a father influenced them Youth Drew Bledsoe Jerseys , and how they want to be defined not just through their success on the gridiron: “People often speak about legacy,” Jason said. “And when they mention our legacy, I sure hope they don’t only mention football.” The team captain receives a $400,000 roster bonus."One year ago, Matthew Slater entered the free agency market before ultimately returning to the New England Patriots on a two-year, $5.2 million contract. That contract, however, was essentially a one-year deal with a team option for the second season — an option the Patriots had until to the start of the 2019 league year to pick up or else the veteran would become an unrestricted free agent for the second year in a row.This time, New England did not let it happen: the team exercised the $400,000 roster bonus that triggers the second year of Slater’s deal, one that hits the Patriots’ salary cap with $2.9 million. Seeing the reigning world champions do that is no surprise whatsoever. After testing the free agency waters last offseason Drew Bledsoe Jerseys Stitched , the seven-time Pro Bowl selection produced a very good season in 2018 en route to earning his third Super Bowl win.Overall, Slater appeared in all 19 of New England’s games in 2018 and was on the field for 67.5% of the club’s special teams snaps (second most on the team behind only Nate Ebner). Once again proving himself one of the best gunners in all of football, he finished the season with 14 tackles (also trailing only Ebner) and fielded multiple kicks to give the Patriots’ defense good field position — twice that happened during the club’s playoff run.With Slater returning, the Patriots keep investing in their kicking game units on the same day that the club reportedly brought back Brandon Bolden. Like Slater, Bolden is playing primarily on special teams and should bring quality and depth to a unit that could very well lose some of its core contributors from last year: Albert McClellan, Ramon Humber and Chris Hogan are all free agents, while kick returner Cordarrelle Patterson already left to join the Chicago Bears.Keeping Slater around is therefore a no-brainer, despite him turning 34 in September. As he showed last year, however, he can still perform at an elite level.

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