"WhitePatriots News Opinion and Analysis Contribute! 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 ManagementPatriots First ReadThis Patriots/Game of Thrones comparison will make you watch Season 8 differentlyNew White Adam Butler Jerseys ,10commentsWho should we be rooting for?EDTShareTweetShareShareThis Patriots/Game of Thrones comparison will make you watch Season 8 differentlyAfter 595 days of waiting, the final season of HBO’s Game of Thrones starts tonight. I decided, to celebrate, I was going to give a list of the characters that fits each member of the team, or at least a few. I was having a really hard time matching up players with human characters. The problem I ran into is that there are too many different agendas of the people on the show. 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They are the unstoppable force that everyone is scared of, and the scary story that the fans of the 31 other teams tell their kids about. Even still, there are people who do not believe in their existence (greatness). Without going too far down the GoT rabbit hole, there are many theories that the White Walkers may not be the bad guys, here is a link to one article talking about just that. The first question you might have is: Who is the Night King? The answer is simple. It’s Bill Belichick. Everyone follows his lead, and he strikes fear into the hearts of every opponent, without uttering a single word in press conferences. He is the architect behind everything that has been built here, and while Tom Brady is surely one of the higher level Whites, but, ultimately, Bill is the ruler. There was a massive wall built of false accusations White Elandon Roberts Jerseys , trumped up cheating charges, and overzealous punishment, in an attempt to keep the rest of the league safe. After winning their third Super Bowl after Deflategate, the Patriots have destroyed that wall, and everyone, whether or not they want to, is forced to confront the fact that they are real and have been here all along. Now, with the rest of the world united against them, we’re in for the best battle in television history. People will tell their grandchildren of the time when the Night King and his army took on, not only a single army, but the entire world. Whatever the outcome of the upcoming battle Elandon Roberts Jerseys 2019 , Winter is no longer simply approaching, Winter is here. Pat is a co-host of The Patriot Nation PodcastInteract with him on Twitter @plane_pats The first-year Patriot returned to practice today." NFL training campPatriots AnalysisPatriots Training Camp CoverageMichael Bennett on Bill Belichick: “Whatever he asks me to do, I’ll do it because I know he respects me as a human being”New,8commentsRelated: Michael Bennett returns to Patriots practice, makes his training camp debutEDTShare this storyShare this on FacebookShare this on TwitterShareAll sharing optionsShareAll sharing options for:Michael Bennett on Bill Belichick: “Whatever he asks me to do, I’ll do it because I know he respects me as a human being”TwitterFacebookRedditPocketFlipboardEmailPhoto by Fred Kfoury III/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesWhen the New England Patriots opened their training camp on Thursday, defensive lineman Michael Bennett was nowhere to be found. He also was absent on Friday and Saturday, missing all three practice sessions because of a personal matter. On Sunday, finally, the 33-year-old returned to the field and immediately showed why the Patriots went out to acquire him via trade from the Philadelphia Eagles earlier this offseason.After what was just his fourth practice in a Patriots uniform — Bennett sat out the voluntary portions of spring workouts — the veteran defender stepped in front of the press to talk about his arrival at camp. One of the biggest topics, naturally White Kyle Van Noy Jerseys , was his prior absence. And while Bennett would not go into any detail as to why the team excused him the last three days, he did speak highly of head coach Bill Belichick and how he handled the situation.“I just had a family issue that I had to go take care of,” Bennett told the reporters present. “I was lucky Coach Belichick... it’s nice when you have a coach that sees you as a human, sees you as a human being, not just a number and you’re able to go talk to him, tell him what’s going on, and you’re able to go take care of it. That just makes you want to play harder for a coach. When he believes in you, and lets you take care of your family first.”While Belichick is the no-nonsense coach in the NFL — the man who fired up the crowd at the 2017 Super Bowl parade with a ‘no days off’ chant — he also regularly shows that he can connect with his players on a more personal level as well. Bennett experienced this first-hand now, but as he recalled today, he was less sure about it all when he first approached the future Hall of Famer about receiving a practice exemption.“I think everybody’s always concerned about how their boss is going to take into consideration if something happens back home,” Bennett said. “But when you have a boss who respects you as a man Kyle Van Noy Jerseys 2019 , it’s easy to go out there and play for him like that. I think for me, that’s easy to look him in the eye. And whatever he asks me to do, I’ll do it simply because I know he respects me as a human being and I respect that.”Bennett, who is on his fourth team since joining the NFL as an undrafted rookie in 2009, is expected to play a considerable role for a Patriots defense that lost Trey Flowers in free agency this offseason. His return and how glowingly he subsequently spoke about Belichick certainly adds further intrigue to his acquisition and first year in New England.