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Speaker 1: And on the eighth day, the pads came back on
Speaker 1: and the skies opened up. Welcome back to Gillette Stadium,
Speaker 1: Americ Sclovino joined by Paul Perillo on what was a
Speaker 1: very very fall like day, Paul, with the chill in
Speaker 1: the air, the overcast skys, the incessant rain throughout today's practice,
Speaker 1: and I think the weather did play a part in
Speaker 1: some of the performances we saw today. I do some
Speaker 1: pretty good tempo. I thought at times, especially early, they
Speaker 1: would do in a lot of work on the running game.
Speaker 1: But I do think the rain affected both the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: throwing the ball in the receivers catching yet. But probably
Speaker 1: not a bad thing in terms of, you know, Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick's mindset, you know, talking about the different conditions that
Speaker 1: they can't control. He talked about before practice, and it
Speaker 1: just offered another sort of set of circumstances for the
Speaker 1: players to deal with mentally, and in particular for Mac Jones,
Speaker 1: the rookie quarterback who played at Alabama, place where they
Speaker 1: don't typically get, you know, inclement weather down in the
Speaker 1: SEC and today I think was a little bit unusual.
Speaker 1: And we saw him a couple of times make some
Speaker 1: really great throws in bad weather, but also at times
Speaker 1: it looked like maybe the ball like squirted away out
Speaker 1: of his hand. He had some good moments today. I
Speaker 1: thought overall he was pretty strong, but he did definitely
Speaker 1: in my view, had some balls that got away mostly
Speaker 1: high as you would expect. Also had a play early
Speaker 1: on a little kind of a wheel route kind of
Speaker 1: thing to Hunter Henry, Yeah, where it looks like the
Speaker 1: throw came really short, like kind of scored out of
Speaker 1: his hands. A little funny. I'm wondering if maybe he
Speaker 1: didn't mean to throw it and it's just slipped out.
Speaker 1: A couple higher passes to one day Kendrick Boyne that
Speaker 1: went off his hands later in practice, a couple that
Speaker 1: were complete but just didn't really look right. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, Eric, you see some of the things
Speaker 1: that the coaches are probably excited about with him. Beautiful
Speaker 1: over the shoulder throw to James White early on, just
Speaker 1: a perfect drop in the bucket. You saw some signs
Speaker 1: from from from Mac Jones today that I think the
Speaker 1: reason why people are excited about him. I want to
Speaker 1: get back to James White in a second, but let's
Speaker 1: get to some housekeeping. In the attendance. We had a
Speaker 1: lot of people who weren't out there today. It was
Speaker 1: very thin down roster. We had, by my count, seventeen
Speaker 1: players and all who weren't including players who've been on
Speaker 1: the lists since the start of camp. But in addition
Speaker 1: to those guys and a couple of the veterans who
Speaker 1: got hurt during camp, like Ted Carris Akeem Spence, we
Speaker 1: added to that list, Nick Folk, everybody, Devin Ross and
Speaker 1: Dannel Ross, the two russ Yeah twins out there who
Speaker 1: I don't know we did. We didn't see them get
Speaker 1: hurt yesterday as far as we could tell. I didn't
Speaker 1: see anything happen to either one of those guys. The
Speaker 1: other two guys that you haven't mentioned, we kind of
Speaker 1: think we might know what happened to them. Yeah. Cody
Speaker 1: Davis also looked like he got a little bumping the
Speaker 1: knee yesterday, maybe trying to cover Gunnar Olshefsky on that
Speaker 1: deep ball that that Gunnard came down with was probably
Speaker 1: the play of the day on Wednesday, Davis looked like
Speaker 1: he got shaken up on that. And then Christian Barmore
Speaker 1: goes back a couple of days when he had loot
Speaker 1: ankle kind of thing looked at by the trainers. He
Speaker 1: was out there yesterday, but none other than the illustrious
Speaker 1: Fred Kirsch came up with a plausible scenario, actually came
Speaker 1: up with a good point, actually made a good point.
Speaker 1: He did on Wednesday it was, you know, no pads,
Speaker 1: a little bit slower tempo, almost walked through like maybe
Speaker 1: that's why Barmore remained out there, and then today when
Speaker 1: the pads went back on, he wasn't able to answer
Speaker 1: the bell. Okay, I want to get back to James
Speaker 1: White for a second, because this is a guy who
Speaker 1: obviously had a very traumatic twenty twenty for reasons other
Speaker 1: than the pandemic. We all know his story, and he
Speaker 1: became a free agent, resigned. But I think he's had
Speaker 1: you know, he's been one of the most reliable players
Speaker 1: out there, obviously a key player in the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: a few years back at the winning touchdown. He's been
Speaker 1: a reliable pass catcher. I thought he's had a tough
Speaker 1: start to this camp. Yeah, I don't think he's looked
Speaker 1: like himself. There have been some routes, some of those
Speaker 1: shorter routes. Now, I don't know how much of this
Speaker 1: has to do with the quarterbacks, because you know, Newton
Speaker 1: hasn't really shown to be consistently accurate, and obviously mac
Speaker 1: Jones is learning, so there are times when they're not
Speaker 1: on the same page. Maybe those are all strictly on
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks and not on James White, but a couple
Speaker 1: of passes I think have gone off his hands. He
Speaker 1: had a toss sweep to him today that he just slipped,
Speaker 1: yeah and fell. I mean, it happens to everybody, but
Speaker 1: it doesn't always happen to him, but it never happens
Speaker 1: to James White, and that's why it was noticeable. But
Speaker 1: I agree with you a little bit. I'm characteristic a
Speaker 1: little bit up and down to our camp for the veterans,
Speaker 1: So hopefully he can clean that up. A week from tonight, Paul,
Speaker 1: we have a game, not a practice talking about a game,
Speaker 1: and it's a preseason game, obviously, but we saw at
Speaker 1: the end of practice, say, a little bit more game
Speaker 1: like conditions we had down in distance. We had the
Speaker 1: referees out there again for what is this now, the
Speaker 1: third or fourth day? Yeah, third straight day, and it
Speaker 1: looked like we had a little bit of a more
Speaker 1: of an up tempo, sort of a two minute hurry
Speaker 1: up kind of scenario, maybe end of half kind of thing,
Speaker 1: and that sort of livened up the tempo or practice
Speaker 1: a little bit, even with the pouring rain coming down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and there was an opportunity. I thought it was interesting
Speaker 1: that that Mac Jones got to go first at the
Speaker 1: end of that practice. Then Cam came in afterwards, but
Speaker 1: both quarterbacks, I thought, um, not really there was up
Speaker 1: tempo like it was two minutes, but a lot of
Speaker 1: running plays, a lot of short dump boster backs and
Speaker 1: a lot of running plays during seven on seven, almost
Speaker 1: an extension of the of the spring the OTAs. But
Speaker 1: again I thought, you know, both guys, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of struggled a little bit with the conditions at times,
Speaker 1: and I think Mac looked a little bit better to
Speaker 1: me than Cam. Yeah, but overall, not as sloppy a
Speaker 1: practice as you might think, given how strong the rain
Speaker 1: was and how consistent it was throughout practice, So yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a factor, but I think overall we saw
Speaker 1: some some pretty decent things today, So that'll be a
Speaker 1: rap for Day eight. Tomorrow, we are going to be
Speaker 1: in stadium getting ready for next week a little bit
Speaker 1: with nighttime practice. Nighttime practice, and it's for season ticket
Speaker 1: members and Foxborough area residence only, so if you were
Speaker 1: from out of town and had designs on coming to
Speaker 1: practice tomorrow, you probably will be out of luck. But
Speaker 1: next week's supposed to be hot, summer like again. Paul's
Speaker 1: going to be very happy about that. He can put
Speaker 1: his short pants on again and we'll be there to
Speaker 1: cover it all. So for Paul Perillo, our producer Matt Morrell,
Speaker 1: we'll see you again soon here from Gillette Stadium. Thank
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