Speaker 1: And we are off on Patriots training camp for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six. We're here to break down practice number one.
Speaker 1: All right, the first practice is in the books and
Speaker 1: we're here to break it down.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 3: Pretty exciting day.
Speaker 4: I would say, you're already under the weather.
Speaker 5: It's on the day, Day one. I spent the whole
Speaker 5: night last night preparing for today.
Speaker 6: So let's go. And now he's like all horse and
Speaker 6: scratchy throat.
Speaker 4: I can barely get it out. I'm just gonna lean into.
Speaker 1: It for It'll get better as as we go.
Speaker 6: Along, I promise.
Speaker 2: But let's start with a little bit of news. Of course,
Speaker 2: Gay Bacchus report that he had signed. We spent so
Speaker 2: much time talking about him not being signed. Paul good sign.
Speaker 1: Reports are he's gonna be here sooner than later.
Speaker 6: Great news. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Jordan Schultz reported, you know, the middle of the practice
Speaker 5: that it looks like a four year deal he's signed sealed.
Speaker 5: Hopefully we'll get to see him out on the field quickly.
Speaker 5: You know, you never know how long it takes. I
Speaker 5: think Mike Grabel has been pretty forthcoming with that. They
Speaker 5: haven't really seen Acus, so they don't know what kind
Speaker 5: of condition he is physically, but hopefully that can be
Speaker 5: a shorter run up and you get them out on
Speaker 5: the field and you know, pads next week. Hopefully by
Speaker 5: that time, you know, we're starting to see and hear
Speaker 5: from gay Acus.
Speaker 3: Yeah, go Sunshine for a second.
Speaker 4: Hopefully ten years from now we're talking about, Hey, remember
Speaker 4: when gay Acus didn't sign his rookie contract right away
Speaker 4: and there's a little hole out thing going on, and
Speaker 4: now we're fitting.
Speaker 3: Them for a red jacket Like who would have thought? Right?
Speaker 3: Like that? That's what you hope.
Speaker 4: Now, Paul brought up some of the injury stuff that
Speaker 4: could still be lingering, and that's what I'm most interested
Speaker 4: in now, you know. Mike Rabel on Friday said, well,
Speaker 4: we haven't seen him, so we don't know if he's
Speaker 4: one hundred percent healthy and ready to practice.
Speaker 3: So now that they can get him in the building.
Speaker 4: Does he end up on pup NFI something like that
Speaker 4: or is he just out there you know, maybe on
Speaker 4: Sunday and we're just ready to go. That's the hope.
Speaker 4: But now that's the next domino to drop here. Is
Speaker 4: he healthy and is he able to stay off one
Speaker 4: of those lists?
Speaker 2: Yes, we'll see when we see gave back a set
Speaker 2: on our field.
Speaker 1: The other part, Christian is as we're wondering if he
Speaker 1: was kind of repeat what he did in mini camp,
Speaker 1: which was individual drills, then would not have been a
Speaker 1: team drills. But Paul, he was out there in team
Speaker 1: drills as well. Maybe a sign of good faith that
Speaker 1: maybe negotiations are head in the right direction.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but it's positive.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 5: This might be even better news if you ask me
Speaker 5: that he was out there at first eleven on eleven rep.
Speaker 5: He's got aj Brown locked up down the sideline. You know,
Speaker 5: I would say a mediumish back shoulder fade, but he's
Speaker 5: right there in Brown's pocket. He was doing eleven on
Speaker 5: eleven work that we did not see during the spring.
Speaker 5: So that's a really good sign. A lot of his
Speaker 5: teammates were asked about what that meant, and they all
Speaker 5: said the same thing, that he's a team first guy
Speaker 5: and he wants to be here, and he's got all
Speaker 5: the things that are.
Speaker 6: Important football wise are important to him. Great sign.
Speaker 4: Yeah, before practice, you know. Robert Kraft also said that
Speaker 4: the Patriots have offered him a huge contract that would
Speaker 4: reset the cornerback market, most biggest contract in Patriots history,
Speaker 4: I think where the exact words as well. So hopefully
Speaker 4: both sides are sort of getting to a negotiation point
Speaker 4: where they might get a deal done.
Speaker 3: So I was surprised.
Speaker 4: I thought we were going to see a little bit
Speaker 4: spring Gonzo that was going to be in positional drills,
Speaker 4: maybe a walk through here and there, but not in
Speaker 4: the full live eleven on eleven. So when he was
Speaker 4: out there for that, I can't imagine that he would
Speaker 4: be doing that this early in training camp if they
Speaker 4: were worlds apart on a contract.
Speaker 3: So hopefully that means they're getting closed.
Speaker 7: So we move on to the field, not you know,
Speaker 7: the most action packed practice you would assume the first
Speaker 7: practice of training camp early down work, run work, Paul,
Speaker 7: But you mentioned the first play aj Brown, Drake may
Speaker 7: look in his way Christian Zalez and coverage kind of
Speaker 7: you know, wasn't complete, but maybe a sign of what's
Speaker 7: to come.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I think that you're going to see
Speaker 5: those two, you know, hooking up quite often this summer.
Speaker 5: But you know, one of the things that we saw
Speaker 5: quite often last year was him looking deep down field
Speaker 5: for Kishon Booty and you know, first time that they
Speaker 5: looked his way diving catch, you know, and Booty's open
Speaker 5: behind the coverage and I think looked like maybe a
Speaker 5: zone like I don't know, it was hard to tell
Speaker 5: Byered and Woodson was sort of over in that area.
Speaker 5: But nice diving catch. Helmet pops off, certainly the biggest
Speaker 5: reaction from the crowd today. A strong crowd too to
Speaker 5: open it. Beautiful day, perfect conditions to open camp. But
Speaker 5: Kayshawan Boody just continues to you know, you throwd me
Speaker 5: the ball and I'm going to catch it, and you
Speaker 5: guys can figure out where I fit into the offense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a great way to put it, because I
Speaker 4: thought in the spring when he showed up for Mini
Speaker 4: camp as well, right away he was catching passes down
Speaker 4: the field just like he was last year. And I
Speaker 4: saw him a few times line up inside the formation
Speaker 4: in today's practice. So he's lining up everywhere. He's catching
Speaker 4: bombs still from Drake May. So you know, this is
Speaker 4: one that I've sort of flip flopped a little bit on,
Speaker 4: like I'm getting a little bit warmer to the idea
Speaker 4: of like let's just figure this out. Keep them, Yeah,
Speaker 4: just keep them and we'll figure out a place to
Speaker 4: play him and they'll move around, and you know, they'll
Speaker 4: keep guys fresh by having four or five guys.
Speaker 3: That you trust that can play.
Speaker 4: I also thought Bob Douglas had it a couple of
Speaker 4: catches today, smoked Mike Brown on one where they got
Speaker 4: matched up into man.
Speaker 3: In the slot.
Speaker 4: So both those guys making plays out there today on
Speaker 4: Day one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Romeo Dobbs, well, a couple of catches.
Speaker 1: I mean, not a lot, you know, not a lot
Speaker 1: exciting today, but he stood out.
Speaker 6: Good sideline stuff too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you you mentioned one that was a fastball from
Speaker 5: Tommy DeVito that he snared, and then he had a
Speaker 5: nice you know, just sort of I like to call
Speaker 5: them Patriot plays, plays that looked like.
Speaker 6: Tom Brady used to run them.
Speaker 5: Just a routine twelve yard out from Drake made to
Speaker 5: Romeo Dobbs on the on the left side on the
Speaker 5: right sideline for the offense. Just routine and that's what
Speaker 5: you want to see. Nice smooth, you know, smooth hookup
Speaker 5: where everybody looked like they were in the right spot. So, yeah,
Speaker 5: it's still helmets and shorts and stuff like that, but
Speaker 5: I thought there was some some plays to be made
Speaker 5: on both sides.
Speaker 6: The defense made some plays as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, anything else I have stood out to you.
Speaker 3: Just do you want to go offense offside line? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think that that would be the next thing. It
Speaker 3: wasn't a major.
Speaker 4: Change from the spring left to right Campbell Vera, Tucker
Speaker 4: Wilson on whenuses, but we did see a little bit
Speaker 4: of a rotation there at right tackle and Caleblomo repping
Speaker 4: exclusively at right tackle. I had one rep as the
Speaker 4: jumbo tight end that we saw but repping at right tackle,
Speaker 4: but he didn't. He wasn't the first guy up with
Speaker 4: the ones to rotate in for Moses, but then he
Speaker 4: eventually rotated in a couple of times for Moses as well.
Speaker 4: But I thought it was notable at least today's practice.
Speaker 4: And this is the best part of camp is we'll
Speaker 4: see how it builds. You know, does he move someplace
Speaker 4: else tomorrow, But for right now he's on that right
Speaker 4: tackle plane.
Speaker 1: It seems like, all right, well that's going to do
Speaker 1: it for episode one of the Camp Cast, presented by
Speaker 1: a New Balance.
Speaker 2: We'll be back tomorrow