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Speaker 3: Mike or So and Paul Perlo here again following day
Speaker 3: eight of Patriots training camp and when Bill Belichick starts
Speaker 3: to talk about stacking the days, Mike, this particular camp,
Speaker 3: Camp twenty three is stacking the days because it's every
Speaker 3: day out there. The weather has been absolutely fantastic, Probably
Speaker 3: not quite as warm as maybe the coach would like,
Speaker 3: but beautiful conditions out here in Foxborough. In the physicality
Speaker 3: to me, full pads, second day in a row. The
Speaker 3: physicality is what stood out to me today in terms
Speaker 3: of tackling to the ground. Mike, we haven't seen a
Speaker 3: lot of that over the years. I think offensively, I
Speaker 3: think they continue to sort of build a little bit
Speaker 3: of momentum here a couple of wrinkles. What were your
Speaker 3: first impressions today?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. I thought the first, you know, big
Speaker 2: takeaway was just the offense being a little you know,
Speaker 2: continuing to kind of develop, looking like they're you know,
Speaker 2: finding their stride a little bit, some some nice a
Speaker 2: bunch of eleven on eleven periods that they were working
Speaker 2: on various stuff. One particular throw, you know, by Mac
Speaker 2: up the sideline. I've been saying, I want to see
Speaker 2: a deep throw to Trey Nixon. Really beautiful ball, nice catch.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: It was one of those weird reps though, where only
Speaker 2: half the line was rushing, and you know, so it
Speaker 2: was a little bit weird. It wasn't perfect, but otherwise,
Speaker 2: I'm with you. I thought it was great to see
Speaker 2: another day of pads, great to see someone on ones again,
Speaker 2: seeing that physicality pile up, and you know, with the
Speaker 2: in stadium practice schedule for tomorrow, looks like they're going
Speaker 2: to be off at least as far as media access
Speaker 2: goes for the weekend. So it was a good day
Speaker 2: probably to get some physicality in.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And one of the wrinkles that I, you know,
Speaker 3: sort of alluded to was Mac Jones. The first handful
Speaker 3: of team reps. Eleven on eleven reps was dealing with
Speaker 3: the quote unquote starting offensive line, but the two number
Speaker 3: two receivers, So you know Mike mentioned the big throat
Speaker 3: to Trey Nixon. He was he had Nixon and Douglas
Speaker 3: and Booty and those guys to work with, and Bailey
Speaker 3: Zappi was behind the second offensive line but had Juju
Speaker 3: and Parker and Born. So I thought that was a
Speaker 3: little bit of a wrinkle that maybe Bill Belichick and
Speaker 3: Bill O'Brien dialed up today, and then it sort of
Speaker 3: went back to the normal groupings at the end when
Speaker 3: they started doing some of their down in distance. They
Speaker 3: worked a lot of second and third down today and
Speaker 3: then down in the red zone. So I agree, I
Speaker 3: thought there was a little bit more rhythm. It seems
Speaker 3: like the rhythm is coming a little bit more every
Speaker 3: day in terms of timing, and one guy in particular,
Speaker 3: it looks like he's developing a little bit of a
Speaker 3: rapport with his Juju. Smith Schuster, who had another touchdown
Speaker 3: say in a little tunnel screen well designed, really caught
Speaker 3: the defense by surprise in the red zone. So I
Speaker 3: think those are some building blocks to work with for
Speaker 3: both bills.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would, I would just run down some of
Speaker 2: the depth issues because it's certainly notable that Matthew Judon,
Speaker 2: Trent Brown haven't really been participating in physical portions of
Speaker 2: practice whatever that has to be done doing with But
Speaker 2: I would say vermondra Stevenson back in the mix today
Speaker 2: a little bit getting some so they upped him a
Speaker 2: little bit. But you know, it's just a lot of
Speaker 2: guys kind of limited chasing Hines another one who's you know,
Speaker 2: hasn't really been participating. So just some offensive line depth
Speaker 2: and they're continuing to have to shuffle guys in and out.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure where, you know, are they looking for
Speaker 2: answers or are they just trying to put guys in
Speaker 2: of who they have healthy right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so little that's a good point that you make.
Speaker 3: I'll just the bookkeeping that we'd like to do every podcast.
Speaker 3: Ti Montgomery, Terres Hall, and Cole Strange again, you know,
Speaker 3: you know, missing practice. Montgomery and Strange came back on
Speaker 3: the field late, probably last twenty twenty five minutes, helmets
Speaker 3: in hand shirts on no pads, both with sleeves on
Speaker 3: their left leg. So it looks like they're probably both
Speaker 3: dealing with some sort of left knee injury would be
Speaker 3: my guess.
Speaker 2: Still a good sign they're out.
Speaker 3: There, so they they probably getting closer and to your
Speaker 3: point about the offensive line, it again was Cody Russy
Speaker 3: and Antonio Maffi, not Bill Murray. Murray was going with
Speaker 3: the later groups, and you mentioned Hines sort of mixing
Speaker 3: in with those groups too, So you know, again, it's
Speaker 3: kind of curious to me the whole Trent Brown, Matthew
Speaker 3: Judhon plan. For the lack of a better word, Julian
Speaker 3: Edelman on hand today looked like he talked to the
Speaker 3: team a little bit at the end of practice. One
Speaker 3: thing we should note, not exactly sure what happened here.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you saw something differently from up top.
Speaker 3: Jack Jones looked like he dove broke up or at
Speaker 3: least bothered Kendrick Bourn enough on an out route and
Speaker 3: got up and celebrated it. And then all of a
Speaker 3: sudden he's walking with Jabrill Peppers back to the locker room.
Speaker 3: That was at about let's say about ten twenty, and
Speaker 3: he went to the locker room about ten forty five.
Speaker 3: He comes back, spent the time on a knee by himself.
Speaker 3: Matt grow went over and talked to him for a
Speaker 3: little bit. Jalen Mills had some conversations, but he really
Speaker 3: didn't do anything the rest of the practice. I'm not
Speaker 3: exactly sure what was going on. Did you see anything different? No,
Speaker 3: that was pretty much how I saw it.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just, you know, it looked to me
Speaker 2: like Pepper's kind of arm around him, like giving him
Speaker 2: some veteran advice. It seems like Pepper's kind of emerging
Speaker 2: is a little bit more of a leader this year.
Speaker 3: But yeah, tough to say.
Speaker 2: And obviously there's so many issues right now, you know,
Speaker 2: overhanging Jack Jones this season that you just you wonder
Speaker 2: he needs to kind of, you know, be stacking days
Speaker 2: with positivity, and I don't think today probably was one.
Speaker 2: So I guess we'll see what the fallout is over
Speaker 2: the next couper.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and just you know, one of those things that
Speaker 3: we haven't seen a lot of. I alluded to the
Speaker 3: tackling to the ground. Christian Gonzalez came up and made
Speaker 3: a really nice play. It probably got the big biggest
Speaker 3: reaction of the day from any any of the plays.
Speaker 3: Kind of recognized a little little swing pass in the flat,
Speaker 3: came up, darted, chopped the legs right out for a
Speaker 3: for a lost tackle for loss, and that seemed to
Speaker 3: get a lot of energy on the defensive side. But
Speaker 3: even the the little you know, the pursuit drills, the
Speaker 3: ball kit. You know, there's one ball carrier, one tackle.
Speaker 3: They usually tap on the hip. They were tackling to
Speaker 3: the ground today and by the way, not surprisingly unless
Speaker 3: they knocked him out of bounds. To Mario Douglas, no
Speaker 3: one was able to tackle him. But they did knock
Speaker 3: him out of bounds a couple of times. So some
Speaker 3: different wrinkles to the drills that we've seen over the years.
Speaker 3: I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Douglas has just been all over the place. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's just you know, he's always in motion, he's fast,
Speaker 2: he's he's going to be, I think, an asset to
Speaker 2: this team. I mean, I don't want to jump the
Speaker 2: gun and say, you know, not only is going to
Speaker 2: make the team, but he's going to be part of
Speaker 2: the offense this year. But based on you know, Taekwon
Speaker 2: Thornton being down in the lower field, opportunities are presenting
Speaker 2: themselves and I feel like Davis and over the last
Speaker 2: two days Booty a little bit have taken made.
Speaker 3: A nice catch. I don't know if he was in bounds,
Speaker 3: but that was a nice play, nice catch on the
Speaker 3: back corner of the end zone, so he's building a
Speaker 3: little momentum. He admitted that he got off to a
Speaker 3: little bit of a slow start and feels a little
Speaker 3: bit more comfortable. So we'll wrap up Day eight with
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Speaker 3: until then, that's going to put a wrap on Day eight.