Speaker 1: The Patriots had a walk through on day three, but
Speaker 1: don't worry. We're here to break down what we've seen
Speaker 1: over the first three days of Patriots training camp.
Speaker 2: Let's get into it.
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Speaker 1: Day three f they went down to a walk through.
Speaker 3: Not a ton to sitting sound too excited about that.
Speaker 2: I was excited about it. Though it seemed like they
Speaker 2: were getting a little bit into third down.
Speaker 1: You know, you've seen both sides of the ball putting
Speaker 1: some tweaks in still some first second down stuff, so
Speaker 1: you know, I thought this was an opportunity maybe to
Speaker 1: regroup a little bit and just how we're feeling about things.
Speaker 1: First though, generally heard from Mike Rable this morning. You
Speaker 1: were in there, I was out pumping the crowd up.
Speaker 1: Would you take away from Brable this morning?
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of.
Speaker 3: Gay back as questions as you could imagine about his
Speaker 3: contract and reports about his contract. But I think the
Speaker 3: biggest takeaway was, you know, somebody asked him if he
Speaker 3: was in jeopardy of missing the season or anything like that,
Speaker 3: and he said that he doesn't anticipate that at all.
Speaker 3: So I think that we're hoping that we're gonna see
Speaker 3: Gay back as sooner rather than later. It seems like
Speaker 3: that's the general sentiment some off season award winners, if.
Speaker 2: You're into that sort of thing to it.
Speaker 3: A lot of the year two guys got recognized. Will Campbell,
Speaker 3: Jared Wilson, Kyle Williams in Elijah Ponder were the four
Speaker 3: guys that they gave off season awards too. So we're
Speaker 3: able just highlighting the fact that last year's rookies really
Speaker 3: came in this offseason and stepped things up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, important players too.
Speaker 1: I mean, guys you're looking forward to hopefully make a jump,
Speaker 1: especially Elijah Ponder here as we see you know, Acus Landry.
Speaker 2: Hopefully they work their way back in little housekeeping though.
Speaker 1: Reggie Gilliam back at the walk through, of course it's
Speaker 1: just to walk through.
Speaker 2: But I think he said it was a veteran rest day. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like a maintenance da.
Speaker 3: I think some of these guys Morgan moses, it was
Speaker 3: another one that he put in this category. But I
Speaker 3: wouldn't be surprised if we see a lot of those
Speaker 3: older guys Hunter, Henry, Morgan Moses, you know, players like
Speaker 3: that that some days they might not do as much
Speaker 3: as others.
Speaker 1: You gotta get your fullback ready for that day one
Speaker 1: of pads when you're going to probably put the ball
Speaker 1: on the goal line and there's going to be some
Speaker 1: some collisions going on. But you know, overall, we've now
Speaker 1: watched three practices and you know middle pads are going
Speaker 1: to come on this week, so we're all excited for that.
Speaker 1: But still a lot to take away. And I would
Speaker 1: just start with the secondary. Think you have most of
Speaker 1: those guys coming back. You added Kevin Bayern, coming off
Speaker 1: his third All Pro season, led the NFL seven interceptions.
Speaker 2: We've seen those guys active early.
Speaker 1: Thankfully, Christian Gonzalez has been out there participating, but he's
Speaker 1: been around the ball. We heard from AJ Brown today
Speaker 1: talking a little bit about their matchup.
Speaker 2: On the first day.
Speaker 1: Craig Woodson comes up with an interception, we heard from
Speaker 1: him today. You know, felt good to get his hands
Speaker 1: on the ball this early in camp.
Speaker 2: Carlton Davis with a pass break up.
Speaker 1: Instagram Romeo right down the line, and you know, even
Speaker 1: Marcus Jones just flying all over the place.
Speaker 2: I mean, his speed and how will they use him?
Speaker 1: Just really impressive early days of camp to me, These
Speaker 1: guys are the key takeaway.
Speaker 2: They've been kind of dominating.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it feels like all off season because we as
Speaker 3: we do, we talk about the concerns and things that
Speaker 3: might prevent us from, you know, hoisting a Lombardi Trophy
Speaker 3: in February, and we talked so much about the pass
Speaker 3: rush and the lack of edge rushers and things like that. Well,
Speaker 3: it helps when you're you know, the quarterback has to
Speaker 3: hold the ball because the secondary is you know, got
Speaker 3: everybody locked down. So I think that that's what you're
Speaker 3: hoping is that there's a lot invested in this back end,
Speaker 3: with Christian Zales maybe even being more invested in Christian
Speaker 3: Zalez here soon. But carl and Davis is under contract,
Speaker 3: Marcus Jones is under contract, You signed Byered, you draft Woods,
Speaker 3: and so there's a lot of guys that they've invested
Speaker 3: a lot in. And I think what you hope is
Speaker 3: that the playoffs last year were a precursor to what's
Speaker 3: going to happen this season where you can blitz a
Speaker 3: little bit more. You can get exotic up front to
Speaker 3: get guys free in the pass rush, even though you
Speaker 3: don't necessarily have that Miles Garrett type maybe the quarterback
Speaker 3: having to hold the football a little bit extra that
Speaker 3: will allow the pass rushers to get home.
Speaker 1: Second thing, I want to talk about just the wide
Speaker 1: receiver group because I think it's a really stack group.
Speaker 1: And you know, we talked a lot about kase Shaan
Speaker 1: Boody this offseason, and here's Kishan Boody first two days
Speaker 1: of practice coming down with tough catches.
Speaker 2: It's what he does.
Speaker 1: Just keeps showing up, keeps making plays. But you know,
Speaker 1: I just I watch you have you got the two
Speaker 1: fields going. They've got Kyle Williams going, They've got Mac Collins,
Speaker 1: they've got Pop Douglas heavily involved. Of course, all eyes
Speaker 1: are on AJ Brown and Romeo Dobbs, the new guys
Speaker 1: to see how they're fitting in. But you know, this
Speaker 1: is a year where not just the talent has improved,
Speaker 1: but they still have a lot of depth.
Speaker 2: And I'm just that's what.
Speaker 1: I'm most curious about going through camp. How does that
Speaker 1: all play out and who ends up sticking and really
Speaker 1: being the core guys that they're gonna roll with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good point, and I feel like at
Speaker 3: times in practice I see guys running with groups that
Speaker 3: I wouldn't expect them to run with because there's so
Speaker 3: much depth there that they just need to get Mac
Speaker 3: Collins a rent. So he might be repping with Tommy
Speaker 3: DeVito and you're like, wait a second. Mac Collins is
Speaker 3: a veteran guy in this league that caught the only
Speaker 3: touchdown in the Super Bowl the Patriots scored, and he's
Speaker 3: repping with the twos and threes. That's a little odd,
Speaker 3: but they have so much depth at that position, as
Speaker 3: you mentioned, And I'll admit it, all off season, I've
Speaker 3: been kind of on the trade caseh on booty train,
Speaker 3: but he's winning me over. And I think you two things. One,
Speaker 3: he deserves a lot of credit for that. He deserves
Speaker 3: a lot of credit for showing up. And I think
Speaker 3: he showed up the same way in Mini camp, in
Speaker 3: shape and just making plays and making impossible to move
Speaker 3: on from him. And I think he deserves a lot
Speaker 3: of credit for that. And the other thing, you know,
Speaker 3: you see him Aj Brown, Romeo Dobbs moving around the
Speaker 3: formation a lot, and guys running routes out of the slot,
Speaker 3: sometimes running routes outside, and I'm starting to see, Okay,
Speaker 3: maybe we can figure this thing out where you know
Speaker 3: Keaishan BOUDI sometimes he's the big slot. Sometimes AJ Brown
Speaker 3: is the power slot, and they just kind of move
Speaker 3: off that exposition a little bit more than what they
Speaker 3: have in their past. So I'm warming up to it.
Speaker 3: I think that there's a you know, they're exploring different
Speaker 3: ways to try to get all three of those guys
Speaker 3: on the field at the same time.
Speaker 1: Last thing, Drake May I mean, let's talk about him
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yesterday Kevin Bier said defense usually starts
Speaker 1: out a little bit in front of the offense. I mean,
Speaker 1: I thought over those two practices. I mean, he made
Speaker 1: some throws, but I think he also missed some throws.
Speaker 1: I think he you know, there was a there was
Speaker 1: a blitz yesterday Carlton Davis off the edge. It looked
Speaker 1: like they kind of got him on that one. Maybe
Speaker 1: a little bit of a slow start for Drake. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't want to push the panic button or anything
Speaker 1: like that. We just heard from AJ Brown who's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're not really letting them throw it yet, So you know,
Speaker 1: the best just still yet to come. But I think
Speaker 1: he's kind of set the stage here for this second
Speaker 1: week of training camp. As we get the pads on,
Speaker 1: we start to look forward to join practices for you know, Drake,
Speaker 1: AJ Brown, Romeo Dobs start to turn up the volume
Speaker 1: a little bit and start making some plays.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought what Aj Brown said about him not
Speaker 3: really throwing the ball a ton yet it kind of
Speaker 3: rung true to me because it's just he's a rhythm
Speaker 3: quarterback and I think that, you know, it might be
Speaker 3: hard for him. Are going to get three reps here,
Speaker 3: three reps there, and then we're going to hand it
Speaker 3: off and like all these different things that they're doing,
Speaker 3: and they don't just play, and at some point in
Speaker 3: training camp, we're going to get a string of eighteen
Speaker 3: straight Drake May reps and we'll see the real Drake
Speaker 3: May that we saw all of last season. So I'm
Speaker 3: not concerned about it by any means. I would also
Speaker 3: mention AJ Brown, Romeo Dobbs a little bit of Eli
Speaker 3: rerit into new faces, new guys that he's thrown the
Speaker 3: football to. So I think if I'm not concerned, but
Speaker 3: if there's one thing I want to see a little
Speaker 3: bit more of, it's some chemistry with those new guys.
Speaker 3: I think that all three of those guys, especially Brown, dobs.
Speaker 3: It might be a little bit of a slower burning
Speaker 3: before we start to see them really efficient and hitting
Speaker 3: on all cylinders because they're getting used to each other.
Speaker 3: And that's another thing that Brown talked about was communication
Speaker 3: and knowing where the ball is going to be, if
Speaker 3: the coverage is in a certain area, and you know
Speaker 3: those little details that right now, that's the time of
Speaker 3: year to work it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Well that's day three.
Speaker 1: You'll walk through, probably ramp the pace up a little
Speaker 1: bit more on Tuesday with Wednesday will be an off day,
Speaker 1: and then we're looking at pads at the end of
Speaker 1: this week because we continue to ramp up in training camp.
Speaker 1: So we'll be back tomorrow with more takeaway from Patriots
Speaker 1: training camp.