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Speaker 1: dot com. All right, the sixth practice of Patriots Training
Speaker 1: Camp twenty twenty two is in the books, the second
Speaker 1: padded practice, and we are here to get you, guys
Speaker 1: cut up on everything that happened here at July Stadium
Speaker 1: today on Tuesday, August second. This is Mike Tusseau joined
Speaker 1: by Paul Pirillo, Evan Lazar Patriots dot Com. We're all
Speaker 1: out there today, guys. It was a hot one day
Speaker 1: two of PADS and I'm gonna start with you, PAULI
Speaker 1: what what What's a big takeaway you had from day
Speaker 1: two here in pads? A lot more of the defensive front,
Speaker 1: I think, really controlling the line of scrimmage. That to
Speaker 1: me was a constant both days, you know, running game,
Speaker 1: passing game, consistently pushing the pocket, making Mac Jones and
Speaker 1: Bailey Zappy sort of pulled the ball down and improvised,
Speaker 1: the offense not really looking overly cohesive, and I think
Speaker 1: it's all started up front. I think the defensive front
Speaker 1: front seven for the Patriots has really controlled things really
Speaker 1: in both days. Yeah, certainly not not great from the
Speaker 1: offense last couple of days, but not totally devoid evan
Speaker 1: of a couple of good plays, couple of guys standing
Speaker 1: out here and there, who are a couple of positive
Speaker 1: guys on the offense you think have had a good
Speaker 1: day day and a half. Here it seems like they're
Speaker 1: receiving Corps is trading off good days, right, which I
Speaker 1: think speaks to the fact that they might be one
Speaker 1: of those teams that has good depth but doesn't necessarily
Speaker 1: have that number one guy. And that's okay. One week
Speaker 1: it might be Kendrick Boring goes off, the next week
Speaker 1: it's Nelson Agalore, And today that's who it was in practice,
Speaker 1: going right down the right sideline against Justin Bethel and
Speaker 1: coverage and went right by him as you hope he would,
Speaker 1: and caught a deep ball from Mac Jones about forty
Speaker 1: five yards in the air. When the opportunity has been
Speaker 1: presented to them by the things going on up front,
Speaker 1: which I think we'll probably talk about it. As Paul
Speaker 1: just touched on the downfield passing has been a little
Speaker 1: bit more available, I would say, than what we saw
Speaker 1: last year. It does seem like Aglare and Mac have
Speaker 1: a little bit more chemistry going into year two. Taekwon
Speaker 1: Thoran can certainly get up the field, as we know
Speaker 1: Davante Parker has that element to his game as well.
Speaker 1: So stretching the field is one thing that again, when
Speaker 1: the offensive line is held up and everything has allowed
Speaker 1: them to do that, it has looked a lot better
Speaker 1: this year so far. So Paul mentioned the defensive front,
Speaker 1: and certainly Christian Barmore is a guy that everybody's got
Speaker 1: their eyes on. We've had a couple of days of
Speaker 1: one on one in pads. He's just a handful. I
Speaker 1: mean it doesn't win every rap, but he at least
Speaker 1: comes close. I think every time gobble us the offensive
Speaker 1: linemen that have to have to deal with him from
Speaker 1: a snap to staff basis. But overall, are you buying
Speaker 1: on the defensive front, and we have big questions on
Speaker 1: the secondary too, Are you buying on this defense right
Speaker 1: now in the type of performance, I don't know. It's
Speaker 1: hard to It's hard to really make that evaluation based
Speaker 1: off of how little we've seen. I do I buy
Speaker 1: on bar More, for sure. I think he's terrific, But
Speaker 1: I don't know if the defense's edge and play over
Speaker 1: the majority of the first week here has been about
Speaker 1: that or about the lack of execution on offense, which
Speaker 1: is to me precipitated by the stuff that you know,
Speaker 1: Evan talked about with you know, the transition that the
Speaker 1: offense is going through. We talked about a lot on
Speaker 1: Patriots Unfiltered as well. So I want to temper you know,
Speaker 1: the you know, the over the top praise of the defense.
Speaker 1: I think the defense has controlled things for the most
Speaker 1: part in every practice that we've seen, probably with the
Speaker 1: exception of the very first one. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: the offense is the one that's making some wholesale changes.
Speaker 1: So yeah, well the reserve judgment, Yeah, let's let's sit
Speaker 1: you up for that, Evan, and a little bit of
Speaker 1: the offensive wholesale changes. Uh, you know, just obviously we're
Speaker 1: Patriots dot Com. We're not we're not going to break
Speaker 1: down the we're not going to send out the laybook
Speaker 1: or anything. But you know, just generally, what have you
Speaker 1: kind of seen from the offense and how do you
Speaker 1: feel like they're kind of evolving? What direction are they
Speaker 1: pointing it. It's definitely more of a Shanahan e type
Speaker 1: of look to it from what we've seen over the
Speaker 1: last two padded practices in particular, and I think when
Speaker 1: you ever, you try to implement that type of scheme
Speaker 1: and not to sugarcoat it, because quite frankly, the running
Speaker 1: game for the first two days of PADS has not
Speaker 1: looked good. It's been a slow burn here. But you
Speaker 1: have patience, I think is the keyword right where when
Speaker 1: you're implementing a scheme like this, it is a very
Speaker 1: big difference from what they've done in the past, and
Speaker 1: it is a scheme that is predicated on timing the rhythm,
Speaker 1: the timing of the blocking upfront and the cutback lanes
Speaker 1: presented to the running backs and things like that. It
Speaker 1: all has to go in concert and that's going to
Speaker 1: take some time. And to steal from Bill Belichick, they
Speaker 1: don't play a regular season game tomorrow, so they have
Speaker 1: another month or here so or here to really work
Speaker 1: through some of those things. I think right now, what
Speaker 1: you're seeing with the offensive line in pass protection at times.
Speaker 1: Two is not physical limitations. It's not guys blowing blocks,
Speaker 1: it's not guys getting beat. It's more so, well, who's
Speaker 1: got that guy right? You know? What are we doing here?
Speaker 1: How we get into this block there? And figuring those
Speaker 1: things out is going to take time and repetition. I
Speaker 1: think that's a good point, because I don't I don't
Speaker 1: think it's as much about not being good enough as
Speaker 1: it is not really being sure what they're doing. I
Speaker 1: agree with Evan's assessment on that. The good news is
Speaker 1: from a health standpoint, just to get everybody up to
Speaker 1: speed on you know what's going on. They're they're pretty
Speaker 1: healthy roster. I mean it's still Brian Hoyder has been
Speaker 1: out the last couple of days. Bill Belichick said this
Speaker 1: morning doesn't expect that to be much longer. And then
Speaker 1: James White still on PUP and the two rookie offensive
Speaker 1: lineman Hines and Stuber are on NFI. But overall, you're
Speaker 1: starting to get the players that that open camp on
Speaker 1: lists back into the mix. We're seeing more Miles Bryant,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Jones, Jabrill Pepper has been a little slower acclamation
Speaker 1: and David Andrews has been out there taking reps eleven
Speaker 1: on eleven, so well, a lot of the league is
Speaker 1: sort of dealing with some health issues here at the
Speaker 1: start of camp. The Patriots are pretty healthy, all right. Well,
Speaker 1: that'll wrap up this edition of the Camp Cast. If
Speaker 1: you guys want even more, go over to Patriots Unfiltered
Speaker 1: episode we recorded today, two hours worth. We really dive
Speaker 1: deep into everything that's been going on here the first
Speaker 1: six days of practice. But we'll be back tomorrow with
Speaker 1: another edition. We got a couple more practices. They're going
Speaker 1: to be in stadium Friday night, and then next week
Speaker 1: the Giants come to town. We're just about a week
Speaker 1: away from the Patriots first preseason game, so hit us
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Speaker 1: guys on everything that happens out here at Lex Stadium.
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