Need to focus on their own jobs

As the NFL settles into summer vacation mode, defensive lineman Richard Seymour remains unsigned. He has been linked to the Falcons, but as he told Sirius XM NFL Radio on Tuesday, there’s “really nothing new to report” on that front.

Before that update, he addressed an interesting question from Sirius’ Rich Gannon: would he consider returning to the Patriots, who traded him to Oakland in 2009?

Seymour’s answer was clear, and it reflected both his feelings and his sense of how the Patriots feel, too.

“I always felt like that chapter was closed when I left there,” Seymour said. “I’ve always been grateful for the time I spent there, and we had a great time together. I thought it worked well for both sides, but I kind of moved on from there.”  (And, as Seymour noted, the Patriots “moved on as well.”)

“I don’t think that will be anything that we see in the future,” Seymour said of a second stint with the club that drafted him in 2001.

While the Pats could perhaps use more defensive line depth, they will probably have to look elsewhere than to a player who was a key part of their three Super Bowl-winning teams.

Will the Aaron Hernandez situation serve as a distraction for the Patriots? Not according to one of their team leaders.

New England linebacker Jerod Mayo says the Patriots all know that they need to focus on their own jobs, and ignore any distractions about one of their teammates being involved in a homicide investigation.

“We always talk about ignoring the noise, and we’re doing the same now,” Mayo said. “Whether it’s good or bad, we always talk about ignoring the noise.”

Beyond that, Mayo has nothing to say about the Hernandez situation.

“I’m going to leave that one alone until everything’s done or whatever,” he said.

That’s just the kind of answer Bill Belichick would want.

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