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Speaker 3: welcome into another edition of the Patriots Training Camp Cast.
Speaker 3: And we just came off the field here a little
Speaker 3: while ago. Guys, it was a red hot day and
Speaker 3: we were in the red zone. How do you like that?
Speaker 1: Pretty good go ahead.
Speaker 2: Mike, I was giving Fred.
Speaker 3: Let's say I take that as a call from so
Speaker 3: the field a little bit condensed today, a longer session,
Speaker 3: a little bit so off the top though, some housekeeping stuff.
Speaker 3: Matthew Judahm back out there participating, Paul. Maybe not like
Speaker 3: you know, first one up in all the drills. He
Speaker 3: wasn't throwing T shirts out to anybody, but he was
Speaker 3: back out there, so maybe that's a positive sign things
Speaker 3: are headed the right direction.
Speaker 1: No, I absolutely took it that way. He was kind
Speaker 1: of like jumping into the the drills a little bit
Speaker 1: more than he was those first four days. We didn't
Speaker 1: see the interaction with the fans that we had seen
Speaker 1: early on in camp. But yeah, when they went seven
Speaker 1: on seven, eleven on eleven, he was out there, no
Speaker 1: full pads. So we'll see what happens on Friday when
Speaker 1: they're expected to be in full pads. But a good
Speaker 1: good sign that whatever, you know, whatever differences they had
Speaker 1: on Monday, they talked about it. Gered Mayo talked before practice,
Speaker 1: said they had a conversation and he was back out there.
Speaker 3: It's mere another guy back at practice center. David Andrews
Speaker 3: out for a couple of days. Some personal reasons he
Speaker 3: shared with everybody why he was out. So good to
Speaker 3: get the captain back out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was good to see him back out there.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if that had anything to do
Speaker 2: with the offense flowing better, but I thought just having
Speaker 2: your captain back out there, his presence being back out there,
Speaker 2: to me, it felt a noticeable shift in the offense
Speaker 2: and a good step in the right direction.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so stay on that line, Paul, And that's of
Speaker 3: course what you know, everybody wants to really know Drake
Speaker 3: may and Jacoby Brissett. And you know, I thought today
Speaker 3: that it was another you know, solid day. It wasn't
Speaker 3: you know. Of course, we're in the red zone, so
Speaker 3: things are about to get harder and tough. We've been
Speaker 3: used to that with Bill Belichick's practices, where we were
Speaker 3: in the red zone constantly, so there were tighter windows,
Speaker 3: but you know, some places to be made, both by
Speaker 3: Jacoby and Drake May.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was more of a low red zone day too.
Speaker 1: On Tuesday they were a bit closer to the twenty
Speaker 1: so makes it even more difficult for the passing game
Speaker 1: when it gets that condensed. Talked a little bit to
Speaker 1: Christian Gonzales and Jonathan Jones after practice about it. They
Speaker 1: thought the communication could improve. They both felt like there
Speaker 1: was some missteps there. I thought Tayekwon Thornton, you know,
Speaker 1: had a decent day, you know, finding his finding some
Speaker 1: gaps in some of those communication errors. And I do
Speaker 1: think both quarterbacks, and I know everybody wants to talk
Speaker 1: about May, both quarterbacks, I thought, had some moments. It
Speaker 1: wasn't great. There were some misfires too, but I thought
Speaker 1: it was a better day for Drake May today.
Speaker 2: I like how Paul brings up Taekwon Thornton because I
Speaker 2: know for me personally, I have ragged on him a
Speaker 2: lot on Patriots unfiltered of saying like, for me, that's
Speaker 2: a guy who I don't think is gonna make this
Speaker 2: fifty three men roster, but I think he's stacked together
Speaker 2: some really good days. He had two catches today over
Speaker 2: Christian Gonzales and one on ones. And to me, if
Speaker 2: he keeps playing like that, he could get one of
Speaker 2: those roster spots in the wide receiver room.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you bring it up to me. And
Speaker 3: that's just one of the points I made after these
Speaker 3: first group of practices over the first week, is that
Speaker 3: a lot of these wide receivers are, you know, making
Speaker 3: occasional plays Paul, But you know, it's it's just somebody
Speaker 3: hasn't really emerged as just like the guy consistently getting open,
Speaker 3: consistently catching. It's you know, sometimes you're making the catch.
Speaker 3: Sometimes we're seeing some drops. You mentioned, you know, Jalen
Speaker 3: Polk who's been very involved but had a kind of
Speaker 3: a double catch today on an which was a nice
Speaker 3: crossing round forty nice throll by Drake May. But you know,
Speaker 3: it just seems like that wide receiver room, it still
Speaker 3: seems like there's questions and pop Douglas getting more involved though,
Speaker 3: which is a good sign.
Speaker 1: Yeah. His first eleven on elevens of camp today, so
Speaker 1: that's a good sign that he's getting healthier. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think you've seen days where Rager was good and days
Speaker 1: where you know Douglas is starting to get involved now
Speaker 1: and you see the you know Polk, you've seen Baker.
Speaker 1: I think Thornton has had as many of those days
Speaker 1: as any of them. I don't think anybody has been
Speaker 1: consistently the best receiver running camp, but I think you're
Speaker 1: starting to see, as Tamara said, Thornton stacked some days
Speaker 1: here and there and he's come on now. I think
Speaker 1: he had a good camp last year. I think he
Speaker 1: had a good camp as a rookie. Unfortunately both times
Speaker 1: he was injured before the summer had ended. So we'll
Speaker 1: see if he can show not just the consistency in
Speaker 1: his performance, but the durability to stay out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I will say one person who's been silent in
Speaker 2: that room, in my opinion, is Juju, And for me,
Speaker 2: it's like you really can't afford it with splitting reps
Speaker 2: with twelve guys to be silent, to be dropping catches
Speaker 2: like he did. Drake May had one right in his hands.
Speaker 2: It was beautiful throat drops it and I feel like
Speaker 2: we saw too much of that last season and he's
Speaker 2: done a lot of that in camp so far. Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, I mean tracking the reps, just not getting a
Speaker 3: lot of opportunities, even with guys like Rager and Booty
Speaker 3: both getting out there and them getting some chances. One
Speaker 3: more slight change that we've kind of seen. The offensive
Speaker 3: line have been pretty consistent, but suddenly today Vederian Lowe
Speaker 3: stepping in at left tackle seemed like he did okay,
Speaker 3: but that kick Kayden Wallace down to left tackle with
Speaker 3: Drake may So Tamarak kind of to your point, maybe
Speaker 3: Kayden Wallace stepping in a left tackle kind of maybe
Speaker 3: helped stabilize things a little bit there on that second
Speaker 3: line where Antonio Moffi was still playing center. I mean,
Speaker 3: David Andes got in a little bit, but it just
Speaker 3: seemed like, you know, things were a little bit better
Speaker 3: today for Drake may in that second offense with you know,
Speaker 3: Kate Wallace stepping in a left tackle.
Speaker 2: I agree. I feel like we're winding down the days
Speaker 2: of seeing all the shuffling in and out on the
Speaker 2: offensive line. I feel like now that David Andrews is back,
Speaker 2: because I know we had Nick LeVert in there for
Speaker 2: back to back practices. As David Andrews is out. Now
Speaker 2: that we have him back, hopefully have him back in tomorrow,
Speaker 2: we're going to really start seeing the offensive line and
Speaker 2: shape out.
Speaker 3: Yeah. That's I mean, a hugely important thing, and I
Speaker 3: mean I think all of us feel a little bit
Speaker 3: encouraged just the progress they're making and hard to know
Speaker 3: for sure. We'll you know, start to get a better
Speaker 3: sense of it once we get into the preseason. Last
Speaker 3: thing kind of circle around. Devon Godshaw announced yesterday sign
Speaker 3: and a contract extension with the team. Paul he spoke today,
Speaker 3: you know, happy to get the deal done to also
Speaker 3: just announced before we shot this that they signed Mike Purcell,
Speaker 3: another big defensive line in an interior space seed type.
Speaker 3: A little bit surprising to me. I just thought, you know,
Speaker 3: if we're going to sign another defensive lineman now the
Speaker 3: Godshaw's all set, it might be a little bit more
Speaker 3: in the mode of Christian Barmore, but kind of you know, look,
Speaker 3: it's we talked about this on Patriots Unfiltered. It's kind
Speaker 3: of a move the Patriots just had to make after
Speaker 3: Barbore got hurt. Godshaw's a valuable piece on first and
Speaker 3: second down, and really this was probably what the end
Speaker 3: result was on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get some depth in the run stuffing department,
Speaker 1: so we'll see if Purcell has has something to offer.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think the Godschaw situation, he seemed really relieved,
Speaker 1: you know when he when he spoke about it after practice.
Speaker 1: I think it's stuff that players don't generally want to
Speaker 1: worry about, well, you know, once camp starts. So I
Speaker 1: think it if I think he said that, you know,
Speaker 1: his wife had sort of said, you know, just worry
Speaker 1: about what you what you can be grateful for, don't
Speaker 1: worry about what you don't have. So I think that's
Speaker 1: kind of the way the mindset that he had. And
Speaker 1: I give him credit because when he wasn't happy, unlike Judah,
Speaker 1: he was out there in the eleven on eleven's on
Speaker 1: Monday and Tuesday and then lo and behold it gets done.
Speaker 2: I really like the attitude that he's had throughout camp.
Speaker 2: Obviously one and more money seeing other teammates get deals done,
Speaker 2: but he held out, showed up, worked hard, and he
Speaker 2: didn't make a big fuss about it.
Speaker 3: So yeah, well another practice in the books. We're getting
Speaker 3: back into pads. We think tomorrow, Friday, Saturday, big big practices, Paul,
Speaker 3: These are important ones.
Speaker 1: I make or break, might say Mike.
Speaker 3: But continuing to hope that the team can stack some
Speaker 3: of these days together because you know, they've had some
Speaker 3: positive developments and hopefully they can continue to build because
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Speaker 3: next Thursday, so be sure to stay with us all
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