Speaker 1: The Patriots are back on the practice fields after two
Speaker 1: days off, they get ready for joint practices with the
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts. Let's break it down.
Speaker 2: Welcome everybody to the Patriots Training Camp cast presented by
Speaker 2: New Balance. And yes, we had a weekend off, we
Speaker 2: were back on the field today. Intensity dialed down a
Speaker 2: little bit after a bunch of padded practices in a row.
Speaker 2: Paul would say, this was, as you said, walking off
Speaker 2: the field, maybe putting things in place to have a
Speaker 2: good practice tomorrow against the Indianapolis.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what it looked like to me, was some
Speaker 3: prep work for what they're going to see with the Colts.
Speaker 3: That looked like the first offense and defense were working
Speaker 3: separately against you know, some of the backup players. My
Speaker 3: inference there would be that they were probably running against
Speaker 3: Colts stuff on both sides. I thought the tempo was
Speaker 3: a little slower as well, even when they did you know,
Speaker 3: ones against ones. Later on, a lot of red zone
Speaker 3: work with that, some two minute stuff, some situational work.
Speaker 3: So all in all, you know, kind of uneventful, but
Speaker 3: you know, you got to have the you got across
Speaker 3: these days off. It's coming together.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say, most of practice was at best
Speaker 4: three quarter speed, like they weren't going full speed, but
Speaker 4: first scout team type of stuff. As Paul said, I
Speaker 4: thought of really training camp and not only the practice tomorrow,
Speaker 4: but a lot of these guys are obviously going to
Speaker 4: play on Thursday night in the preseason opener too, so
Speaker 4: you don't want them going and completely cold without knowing
Speaker 4: at all what the Colts are going to run and
Speaker 4: what they're going to do. So not a full game
Speaker 4: prep like you will see in the regular season, but
Speaker 4: they at least get a little bit of taste of
Speaker 4: what Indianapolis is going to bring here tomorrow, so you know,
Speaker 4: a couple of highlights. Carlton Davis being back was exciting.
Speaker 4: It was good to see that, but for the most part,
Speaker 4: it was more about participation attendance than what actually happened.
Speaker 3: I was a little surprised to see Davis based on
Speaker 3: what Mike Grabil said on Friday about not seeing him
Speaker 3: till the end of next week. Maybe he meant more
Speaker 3: in terms of, you know, the full full Carlton Davis
Speaker 3: because he did little more than positional stuff today. Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, Christian Barmore as well, that's the second practice, he's missed.
Speaker 1: Charles Woods wasn't out there Kendo wldor taking his snap.
Speaker 1: I thought he had a couple nice plays there down
Speaker 1: in the red zone. Also thought of Eli Reraredan gets
Speaker 1: some chances. The two tight ends set down to the
Speaker 1: reds out end were caught, some caught some passes there
Speaker 1: from Drake. But again a lot of rotation going on
Speaker 1: with these guys, so it's hard to like, you know,
Speaker 1: really discern who's rising, who's falling, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: But it is obvious who's getting the chances With Drake Man,
Speaker 1: I think that's what's you know, most important. But Eli Reridan,
Speaker 1: and we got to mention too, of course Hunter Henry
Speaker 1: signing a two year extension today reportedly, So rare it
Speaker 1: In now in the mix. Maybe I think we'll probably
Speaker 1: see a lot of him over the next couple of days,
Speaker 1: you know, tomorrow, and then into the preseason.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think it is. You know, we
Speaker 3: keep talking about the cliche of you know, rere it
Speaker 3: In is more of a pass catcher, you know, Arkin
Speaker 3: is more of the blockers. So you're starting to see
Speaker 3: now when it's two tight end looks and it's rared
Speaker 3: In and Henry. It's probably spread, you know, maybe some
Speaker 3: some some passing going on when Arkin's out. There are
Speaker 3: a lot of first downs that we've seen in these
Speaker 3: team periods have featured Tan or Arkin. Obviously you're looking
Speaker 3: more to the run game, so probably looking to get
Speaker 3: some of those trends bucked a little bit, figure out
Speaker 3: some ways around it. But yeah, I think reard In
Speaker 3: has made some slow but steady progress, if that's fair.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I would say the same thing about Romeo Dobbs.
Speaker 4: There's a little baby steps each day. It's not, you know,
Speaker 4: Gangbusters quite yet, but I think that he's getting a
Speaker 4: little bit better and better each day. And I see
Speaker 4: Drake May figuring him out a little bit more. You know,
Speaker 4: he's more of a strong at the catch point, go
Speaker 4: get the ball, put it on him type of player
Speaker 4: than what they had was Tefon Diggs, who is more
Speaker 4: of a route runner and separator. So just a little
Speaker 4: bit of a transition there in that zerole. But I
Speaker 4: see every day Dobbs kind of getting a little bit
Speaker 4: more and more comfortable. I thought he had to highlight
Speaker 4: a practice at the end over Christian Gonzalez in the
Speaker 4: back of the end zone. That was a really nice catch,
Speaker 4: maybe his best play at camp to date. And I
Speaker 4: thought that he got behind Kendallvilledor, but the ball was
Speaker 4: thrown a little bit inside. If that I had been
Speaker 4: on his outside shoulder, I think that might have been
Speaker 4: a deep ball too. So a little bit of flash
Speaker 4: from Romeo Dobbs. I know I've been small sea concerned
Speaker 4: about it, but I'm getting you know, it was like
Speaker 4: twelve size pomp. Maybe now it's like ten. You know,
Speaker 4: you get a little bit smaller each day, which is
Speaker 4: what you want to say.
Speaker 1: It helps when you make a catch over Christian Gonzalez,
Speaker 1: but again, you know, just showing up. And it's a
Speaker 1: good sign Paul too, because he missed a couple of days.
Speaker 1: We don't know exactly what Michael Vverbel said. It was
Speaker 1: a good thing, personal thing that he was not out there.
Speaker 1: A little worried briefly that he was maybe hurt, but
Speaker 1: seemed like he picked right back up and is building
Speaker 1: some momentum.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I would agree with Evan's assessment. I thought
Speaker 3: he was he was open at times and then he
Speaker 3: made plays that you show that that kind of physicality
Speaker 3: that he has at the catch point and the one
Speaker 3: in the end zone. I was not quite as impressed,
Speaker 3: but almost so with a little two minute work, very
Speaker 3: end of practice, catches a little sideline route on you know,
Speaker 3: back shoulder kind of a route with with Gonzalez again,
Speaker 3: you know, tightly in coverage. You know, Christian's been pretty
Speaker 3: physical in his coverage. That's doobs his game. He's able
Speaker 3: to sort of show his strong hands on those soul
Speaker 3: I would agree I arrow up on Dobbs.
Speaker 1: I know it wasn't full speed too, but it seemed
Speaker 1: like they were getting a j brown away from Gonzales
Speaker 1: a little bit today and he was having on maybe
Speaker 1: a little bit more success, especially you know on the
Speaker 1: crossers and stuff. But he continues to show up overall.
Speaker 1: I think we're watching for, you know, is Barmore probably
Speaker 1: not going to be back out there tomorrow. Will Campbell
Speaker 1: was back out there today, so that's a good sign
Speaker 1: for his participation tomorrow. I'll just say right now, you know,
Speaker 1: him and Lomu two pieces I'm really excited to see tomorrow.
Speaker 1: You know, not just the one on one stuff, but
Speaker 1: the team stuff as well. How do they hold up
Speaker 1: against you know, real NFL competition.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that Lomu right now is in a
Speaker 4: little bit of a competition with Marcus Bryant.
Speaker 3: I really do.
Speaker 4: And I know that people are going to say, oh,
Speaker 4: he's a first round pick versus a seventh round pick,
Speaker 4: it shouldn't be a competition, but that's where we're at
Speaker 4: and Marcus Bryant today, it's kind of a left tackle
Speaker 4: day for Caleb Lomu. So Marcus Bryant taking a lot
Speaker 4: of those Morgan Moses snaps at right tackle, and Moses was,
Speaker 4: you know, load managing or whatever we want to call it.
Speaker 3: So we'll see.
Speaker 4: I thought in one on ones Lomu looked a lot better.
Speaker 4: He's three and oh today, but he was at left,
Speaker 4: which we know he's comfortable at left. So the question
Speaker 4: is is, you know, how does his development on the
Speaker 4: right side catch up to where he's at on the
Speaker 4: left side. But Marcus Bryant continues to be in the
Speaker 4: mix for that swing tackle job, so it'll be interesting
Speaker 4: to see how that plays out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well that's going to do it for
Speaker 1: this Monday, Big Day Tomorrow, joint practice against the Indianapolis Colts.
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