WEBVTT - Training Camp Cast 8/3: Day 8 Recap, Offensive Continues Progress, Defense Pushes Back 0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:09.039 This is the Patriots Training Camp Cast. The Patriots Training 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:11.200 Camp Cast is your source for all the news from 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:12.440 Patriots training Camp. 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:14.320 Well, I do still watch the news. 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:17.320 Practice is over, but the writers of Patriots dot com 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:18.279 have you covered. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:19.040 What did I miss yesterday? 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:22.239 Now here to review today's practice. The writers of Patriots 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:23.200 dot Com. 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:25.919 Mike or So and Paul Perlo here again following day 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:29.640 eight of Patriots training camp and when Bill Belichick starts 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:32.800 to talk about stacking the days, Mike, this particular camp, 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:36.839 Camp twenty three is stacking the days because it's every 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:40.160 day out there. The weather has been absolutely fantastic, Probably 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:42.400 not quite as warm as maybe the coach would like, 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:46.519 but beautiful conditions out here in Foxborough. In the physicality 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:49.159 to me, full pads, second day in a row. The 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:51.840 physicality is what stood out to me today in terms 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:53.800 of tackling to the ground. Mike, we haven't seen a 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:57.520 lot of that over the years. I think offensively, I 0:00:57.520 --> 0:00:59.400 think they continue to sort of build a little bit 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.200 of momentum here a couple of wrinkles. What were your 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:03.160 first impressions today? 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:04.640 Yeah, I agree. I thought the first, you know, big 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:06.880 takeaway was just the offense being a little you know, 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.680 continuing to kind of develop, looking like they're you know, 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.120 finding their stride a little bit, some some nice a 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:14.800 bunch of eleven on eleven periods that they were working 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:17.399 on various stuff. One particular throw, you know, by Mac 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:18.920 up the sideline. I've been saying, I want to see 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:22.200 a deep throw to Trey Nixon. Really beautiful ball, nice catch. 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:22.800 You know. 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.080 It was one of those weird reps though, where only 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:26.800 half the line was rushing, and you know, so it 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.320 was a little bit weird. It wasn't perfect, but otherwise, 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:31.160 I'm with you. I thought it was great to see 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:34.160 another day of pads, great to see someone on ones again, 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:36.640 seeing that physicality pile up, and you know, with the 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.520 in stadium practice schedule for tomorrow, looks like they're going 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:41.479 to be off at least as far as media access 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:42.760 goes for the weekend. So it was a good day 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:44.080 probably to get some physicality in. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.720 Yeah. And one of the wrinkles that I, you know, 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:51.040 sort of alluded to was Mac Jones. The first handful 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.960 of team reps. Eleven on eleven reps was dealing with 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:58.080 the quote unquote starting offensive line, but the two number 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:01.080 two receivers, So you know Mike mentioned the big throat 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.680 to Trey Nixon. He was he had Nixon and Douglas 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:07.200 and Booty and those guys to work with, and Bailey 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:11.120 Zappi was behind the second offensive line but had Juju 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:12.959 and Parker and Born. So I thought that was a 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:16.120 little bit of a wrinkle that maybe Bill Belichick and 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.480 Bill O'Brien dialed up today, and then it sort of 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:21.160 went back to the normal groupings at the end when 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:23.800 they started doing some of their down in distance. They 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.000 worked a lot of second and third down today and 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.840 then down in the red zone. So I agree, I 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.200 thought there was a little bit more rhythm. It seems 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.280 like the rhythm is coming a little bit more every 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:37.200 day in terms of timing, and one guy in particular, 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:38.880 it looks like he's developing a little bit of a 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.400 rapport with his Juju. Smith Schuster, who had another touchdown 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.919 say in a little tunnel screen well designed, really caught 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.600 the defense by surprise in the red zone. So I 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.519 think those are some building blocks to work with for 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:52.840 both bills. 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:54.240 Yeah, I would, I would just run down some of 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.560 the depth issues because it's certainly notable that Matthew Judon, 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.960 Trent Brown haven't really been participating in physical portions of 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:04.360 practice whatever that has to be done doing with But 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:06.760 I would say vermondra Stevenson back in the mix today 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:09.799 a little bit getting some so they upped him a 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:11.799 little bit. But you know, it's just a lot of 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.880 guys kind of limited chasing Hines another one who's you know, 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.839 hasn't really been participating. So just some offensive line depth 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.760 and they're continuing to have to shuffle guys in and out. 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.080 I'm not sure where, you know, are they looking for 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:25.640 answers or are they just trying to put guys in 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:27.079 of who they have healthy right now? 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.600 Yeah, so little that's a good point that you make. 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.720 I'll just the bookkeeping that we'd like to do every podcast. 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:36.400 Ti Montgomery, Terres Hall, and Cole Strange again, you know, 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:40.840 you know, missing practice. Montgomery and Strange came back on 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:46.200 the field late, probably last twenty twenty five minutes, helmets 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:49.240 in hand shirts on no pads, both with sleeves on 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.400 their left leg. So it looks like they're probably both 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:54.560 dealing with some sort of left knee injury would be 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:55.080 my guess. 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.320 Still a good sign they're out. 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:00.240 There, so they they probably getting closer and to your 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:03.840 point about the offensive line, it again was Cody Russy 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:08.200 and Antonio Maffi, not Bill Murray. Murray was going with 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.600 the later groups, and you mentioned Hines sort of mixing 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:15.240 in with those groups too, So you know, again, it's 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:19.000 kind of curious to me the whole Trent Brown, Matthew 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:23.279 Judhon plan. For the lack of a better word, Julian 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.680 Edelman on hand today looked like he talked to the 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:30.360 team a little bit at the end of practice. One 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:33.200 thing we should note, not exactly sure what happened here. 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:35.760 I don't know if you saw something differently from up top. 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:39.560 Jack Jones looked like he dove broke up or at 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:43.080 least bothered Kendrick Bourn enough on an out route and 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.760 got up and celebrated it. And then all of a 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:50.120 sudden he's walking with Jabrill Peppers back to the locker room. 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.880 That was at about let's say about ten twenty, and 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.200 he went to the locker room about ten forty five. 0:04:56.279 --> 0:05:00.200 He comes back, spent the time on a knee by himself. 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:02.360 Matt grow went over and talked to him for a 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:06.080 little bit. Jalen Mills had some conversations, but he really 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.479 didn't do anything the rest of the practice. I'm not 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:11.800 exactly sure what was going on. Did you see anything different? No, 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:12.960 that was pretty much how I saw it. 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:14.039 I mean, it's just, you know, it looked to me 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.240 like Pepper's kind of arm around him, like giving him 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:18.760 some veteran advice. It seems like Pepper's kind of emerging 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:20.240 is a little bit more of a leader this year. 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:21.520 But yeah, tough to say. 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:23.680 And obviously there's so many issues right now, you know, 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.880 overhanging Jack Jones this season that you just you wonder 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.239 he needs to kind of, you know, be stacking days 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.200 with positivity, and I don't think today probably was one. 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:33.680 So I guess we'll see what the fallout is over 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:34.159 the next couper. 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:36.120 Yeah, and just you know, one of those things that 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:37.880 we haven't seen a lot of. I alluded to the 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:41.440 tackling to the ground. Christian Gonzalez came up and made 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:44.040 a really nice play. It probably got the big biggest 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.480 reaction of the day from any any of the plays. 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:50.839 Kind of recognized a little little swing pass in the flat, 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:54.400 came up, darted, chopped the legs right out for a 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:57.040 for a lost tackle for loss, and that seemed to 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.000 get a lot of energy on the defensive side. But 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.960 even the the little you know, the pursuit drills, the 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.799 ball kit. You know, there's one ball carrier, one tackle. 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.159 They usually tap on the hip. They were tackling to 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:10.360 the ground today and by the way, not surprisingly unless 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:12.680 they knocked him out of bounds. To Mario Douglas, no 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.039 one was able to tackle him. But they did knock 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:18.080 him out of bounds a couple of times. So some 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.839 different wrinkles to the drills that we've seen over the years. 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:21.640 I thought that was interesting. 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:23.840 Yeah, Douglas has just been all over the place. I mean, 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:25.960 it's just you know, he's always in motion, he's fast, 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:27.920 he's he's going to be, I think, an asset to 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:29.240 this team. I mean, I don't want to jump the 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:30.640 gun and say, you know, not only is going to 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:31.720 make the team, but he's going to be part of 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:33.840 the offense this year. But based on you know, Taekwon 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.240 Thornton being down in the lower field, opportunities are presenting 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.599 themselves and I feel like Davis and over the last 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:41.480 two days Booty a little bit have taken made. 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:43.120 A nice catch. I don't know if he was in bounds, 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:44.760 but that was a nice play, nice catch on the 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:48.520 back corner of the end zone, so he's building a 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.440 little momentum. He admitted that he got off to a 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.640 little bit of a slow start and feels a little 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:56.080 bit more comfortable. So we'll wrap up Day eight with 0:06:56.200 --> 0:07:01.200 those comments. Just le f yi for our loyal followers, 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:05.120 because I know there are millions of you. Tomorrow, on Friday, 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.279 the Patriots are scheduled to have their in stadium practice 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:13.280 open to Foxborough residents and season ticket members only inside 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:18.240 Jillette Stadium. That's tomorrow night, six thirty ish scheduled to 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.640 get underway. So if you're looking for our podcast tomorrow 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:23.360 and you're not sure where it is, it won't be 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:27.120 coming until around, you know, probably nine o'clock or so. 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.000 So you want to make sure, I know, everybody be 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:33.800 waited with baited breath to hear what say correct, So 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:36.280 until then, that's going to put a wrap on Day eight.