New England Patriots quarterbacks Tom Brady, left, and Jimmy Garoppolo sign autographs during training camp in Foxborough, Mass., on Saturday, Aug. 1.Michael Dwyer/The Associated Press
PATRIOTS
Foxborough, Mass.
Tom Brady still has that competitive fire.
Brady's trash-talking and celebrations highlighted the fourth day of New England Patriots training camp Sunday.
Cornerback Malcolm Butler served as Brady's foil on the second straight practice in pads. Butler, whose goal-line interception of Seattle's Russell Wilson sealed the title for New England in February, began chirping during drills.
Brady later completed a pass to Julian Edelman and let Butler have it.
Brady took the vast majority of first-team snaps, even as he faces a four-game suspension for his alleged role in tampering with footballs during last season's AFC title game.
Brady turns 38 on Monday.
COWBOYS
Oxnard, Calif.
Cowboys defensive end Jeremy Mincey is expected to end a brief holdout over a contract extension by participating in practice Sunday at training camp.
Dallas coach Jason Garrett said Mincey would get lighter work after missing the first three days of camp, including the first padded practice Saturday.
Garrett declined to discuss details of a conversation with Mincey, but the eighth-year player wants an extension after leading the team with six sacks and providing stability to an improving defence.
The 31-year-old Mincey, who showed up at the team's training camp site Saturday night, is set to earn $1.5-million U.S. in the final year of a two-year contract. He faced a $30,000 fine for each day missed.
EAGLES
Philadelphia
Sam Bradford was full-go on the first day of training camp.
Bradford took snaps, fired passes and participated in all the quarterback drills with the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday. He didn't even wear a clunky knee brace on his twice-surgically repaired left knee.
"It's a big step," Bradford said. "It's been almost a year since I've been on the field full-speed. It was a really big first step and first day. Each day I'm out here I'm going to get more comfortable."
Bradford has no limitations and even joked he may start scrambling.
"You guys might even see me pull one and run it up the middle," he said.
GIANTS
East Rutherford, N.J.
General manager Jerry Reese says the New York defence is going to surprise people this season, even without injured star defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul.
Speaking to reporters for the first time since players reported, Reese refused to say much Sunday about Pierre-Paul, whose status for the season is in question after injuring his right hand in a fireworks incident on July 4 in Florida.
The Giants have not been allowed to examine the injury. Their contact with the 26-year-old whom they designated a franchise player earlier this year also has been limited.
Reese said his heart goes out to Pierre-Paul after the traumatic, life-changing accident, and he wishes him nothing but the best. He would not comment when asked about him playing this season.
WASHINGTON
Richmond, Va.
General manager Scot McCloughan says a "thorough, thorough, thorough" vetting of Junior Galette left the Washington team "very comfortable bringing him on board," despite off-field problems that led the New Orleans Saints to cut the outside linebacker.
"He has to walk the line, and he knows that," McCloughan said Sunday. "If he doesn't, then he's gone."
McCloughan's first news conference of training camp came two days after Galette signed a one-year, $745,000 contract. He was released by the Saints last Monday.
Galette was arrested in January after an alleged domestic dispute. Charges were dropped, but the episode remains under review by the NFL, which is also reviewing a video that shows a man resembling Galette in a fight on a beach.