1.  Belichick said Thursday Brady has plenty of areas to improve upon, including throwing mechanics, understanding the offense, play-action faking, and ballhandling.

2.  After a week of doing that, Bradley felt comfortable again with his throwing mechanics, releasing the baseball the way he was used to.

3.  Add to that an off-balanced throw after fielding a grounder and the combination forced him to change his throwing mechanics to compensate.

4.  He spent last year rebuilding his throwing mechanics, after flaming out in Cincinnati.

5.  He was coming off the reconstructive right elbow surgery and spent much of the summer re-learning throwing mechanics and re-conditioning his body to catch.

6.  In June, Hundley lost his job to rookie Angel Pena and spent nearly two weeks working solely with coach Rick Dempsey on his throwing mechanics.

7.  Peters gets a thumbs-up review from his coach because a broken thumb no longer impairs his throwing mechanics.

8.  He reported to spring training more than a month early to work on his throwing mechanics.