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Report: Bailey Zappe ‘blindsided’ by Patriots’ decision to waive him

The New England Patriots shocked a lot of people when they moved on from second-year quarterback Bailey Zappe, only to add him to their practice squad the next day.

During Thursday’s “Patriots Unfiltered” podcast, Patriots.com’s Evan Lazar reported that Bailey Zappe’s camp was “blindsided” by the team’s decision to move on from him on cutdown day.

When asked if there was a conversation held prior to the cut, Lazar chimed in saying “there was not” a conversation prior to the decision, thus leaving Zappe’s camp blindsided.

“The word that I got from somebody in Zappe’s camp was blindsided.