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Speaker 3: That's right, Paul Perlo, Mike do so with you. At
Speaker 3: the conclusion of day seven and the second time, Mike
Speaker 3: that we've seen the team in full pads, I thought
Speaker 3: this practice was maybe not quite as physical and intense
Speaker 3: with all the running that the first one with pads was,
Speaker 3: But the energy I thought over the last half of
Speaker 3: this workout was probably about as high as I've seen it.
Speaker 3: A lot of jaw jacking going on between the offense
Speaker 3: and defense, a lot of competitiveness. There was actually some tackling.
Speaker 3: I I'm not sure it was supposed to be by design,
Speaker 3: but I thought the last hour or so today was
Speaker 3: was pretty fun stuff to watch.
Speaker 2: It was. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 4: We had one on ones, you know, offensive defensive line
Speaker 4: going against each other. We had defensive backs and linebackers
Speaker 4: covering wide receivers, running backs, tight end, so a lot
Speaker 4: to see and I got to be honest, it's the
Speaker 4: first day I've felt encouraged about the offense. I thought
Speaker 4: they're starting to strength some plays together. Certainly the last
Speaker 4: I guess, the second and last sequence before they actually
Speaker 4: went on the goal line in red zone Eleven's was
Speaker 4: a nice sequence they had. The first play was you know,
Speaker 4: contested catch to Parker over Gonzales.
Speaker 2: I know some debate was he pushing off what they
Speaker 2: called it or not? You know, it's a bread and
Speaker 2: butter play for them at this point. I'm not really
Speaker 2: that would they have called it or not?
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely in question. I've seen many times that does
Speaker 3: not get called.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we know that they got that in the bag.
Speaker 2: But still they completed it.
Speaker 4: Tough play for Christian Gonzalez, you know, Juju Smith Schuster
Speaker 4: then in the back of the end zone probably you know,
Speaker 4: just one of the best red zone plays that we've
Speaker 4: seen so far.
Speaker 2: So a nice touchdown for them. They were all really excited.
Speaker 4: Juju talked about it after practice that you know, the
Speaker 4: defense have been getting them, they finally got them. So
Speaker 4: just to you know, I know a lot of people
Speaker 4: were kind of hyping things up on offense yesterday. I
Speaker 4: didn't really feel that way, but today I feel like,
Speaker 4: you know, there's some progress in their starting to strength
Speaker 4: in places.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree with you. I thought that that
Speaker 3: string was was probably the highlight, and then even after
Speaker 3: that in terms of enthusiasm, more defense, pushing back on
Speaker 3: the On the final goal line plays, they could not
Speaker 3: really run it in. They got in I think on
Speaker 3: the last of four attempts that looked like Pierre Strong
Speaker 3: sort of squirted his way through low. But even that
Speaker 3: was a struggle. And these plays were from the one
Speaker 3: so they the defense did a good job of bowing
Speaker 3: up there when they needed to, so some good stuff.
Speaker 3: Like to me, what really stood out to me was
Speaker 3: the energy in the enthusiasm that was generated that started.
Speaker 3: I thought with the one on ones. During one on ones,
Speaker 3: the ball really, I mean, you should complete virtually every pass,
Speaker 3: and that was the case. The wide receivers, with the
Speaker 3: entire field to work with and no pass rush to
Speaker 3: prevent them from getting open. Uh, did a great job
Speaker 3: of getting open and they were happy about it. And
Speaker 3: I don't think that the defensive backs were happy with
Speaker 3: the results, you know, with the the the ensuing celebrations
Speaker 3: that were going on, so that I think sort of
Speaker 3: started it and then that left the I thought the
Speaker 3: intensity at that level the rest of the way, which
Speaker 3: is really nice to see. I thought there was some
Speaker 3: good Jews today, just real quick again, no time Montgomery,
Speaker 3: you know that's five in a row now, terres Hall
Speaker 3: for the third time. Still not seeing any cold strange
Speaker 3: you know in any of these reps. And a lot
Speaker 3: of guys heading down to the lower fields for some
Speaker 3: rehab work, you know, Trent Brown still not really doing anything,
Speaker 3: Judeon really still doing a lot of that stuff. Taekwon
Speaker 3: Thornton today spent a good amount of time on the
Speaker 3: lower field. So some of the Remondra didn't get any
Speaker 3: carries again with the pads on, so some some good
Speaker 3: news bad news there. I would say that with the
Speaker 3: intensity in the in the overall energy level I thought
Speaker 3: was great in the last half, but I'd like to
Speaker 3: see some of these guys maybe get get healed up
Speaker 3: and get back in the mix.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: There was one one one in particular, one on one
Speaker 4: where I think DeVante Parker put like six moves on
Speaker 4: a guy and it was about seven seconds into.
Speaker 2: The revent and then they completed it. They were like
Speaker 2: all right, but Pop Douglas.
Speaker 3: They had the nineteen ninety four Dallas Cowboys offensive line.
Speaker 3: That play would have gone off without a hitch. But
Speaker 3: other than that, I'm not sure.
Speaker 4: YEA nice downfield catch by Pop Douglas though, you know,
Speaker 4: so they had some places trade got a point out tree.
Speaker 2: Nixon too had nice play with Zappie too downfield.
Speaker 3: Nice nice throw by Yeah, and I thought, you know,
Speaker 3: for the first time really even going back to the spring,
Speaker 3: Jack Jones was doing a lot of chasing today, but
Speaker 3: a lot of biting. We've seen that a little bit,
Speaker 3: the over aggressiveness. I thought Nixon easily got past them
Speaker 3: on that deep ball that you're talking about, Mike, and
Speaker 3: there was another one in the end zone that he
Speaker 3: kind of got left behind. A lot of Marcus Jones
Speaker 3: today too in the in the secondary with Christian Gonzales,
Speaker 3: which I thought was interesting. Some different looks and we're
Speaker 3: getting some mixing and matching as Evan Lazart comes in.
Speaker 3: So before we just talk about it anymore, this minutia, do
Speaker 3: you agree with Mike and I would kind of. We
Speaker 3: were enthused about the enthusiasm at the practice today.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Look, I wanted to come in here because yesterday
Speaker 5: I ride on the offense for two straight hours on Unfiltered.
Speaker 2: And you wanted to come make sure.
Speaker 5: I'm not I don't have too big of an ego
Speaker 5: to think that they listened to me rag on them
Speaker 5: and that's what fueled their best practice of training camp
Speaker 5: so far. But maybe I'll take credit for it anyways.
Speaker 5: But the biggest thing is is that yesterday I try
Speaker 5: to give it to people straight, and yesterday I felt
Speaker 5: like a little bit overblown. How great there are a
Speaker 5: good offensive.
Speaker 3: Day this I couldn't believe the reactions that we got
Speaker 3: after we were done with our radio right.
Speaker 5: And now today the reason why I didn't want to
Speaker 5: go there yesterday is because I was like, let's wait
Speaker 5: and see if they can actually put together a really
Speaker 5: good day on offense. And today I thought that they
Speaker 5: put together a really good day on offense. And it
Speaker 5: wasn't just as I'm not tired to take away from him,
Speaker 5: because he was good, Mac and the and the starters
Speaker 5: were good all three rounds. We were kind of lighting
Speaker 5: up the defense at one point, and that is I
Speaker 5: think what you really haven't seen from this team in
Speaker 5: I want to say, almost years at this point is
Speaker 5: a day in trading camp where you can say a
Speaker 5: clear decisive victory for the offense over the defense, if
Speaker 5: you're into that sort of thing. And I thought what
Speaker 5: really stood out to me out of all of it
Speaker 5: with Mac is you started to see a lot of
Speaker 5: the plays that Bill O'Brien, a lot of his core
Speaker 5: concepts in the passing game, just hitting exactly how he
Speaker 5: draws him up when he puts him on the whiteboard,
Speaker 5: throws to kasiki to juju. Those are the types of
Speaker 5: plays over the middle of the field that that's the
Speaker 5: Bill O'Brien offense. That's that's when the ball is out
Speaker 5: on time, how they create separation with different alignments and
Speaker 5: you know, stack with stack alignments, bunches, things like that.
Speaker 5: Those are the types of things that he really bases
Speaker 5: his entire shotgun passing offense off of. And I thought
Speaker 5: today they were clicking, they were hitting it on time,
Speaker 5: they were getting open. There was guys that were legitimately
Speaker 5: getting open.
Speaker 3: I thought they were causing some confusion today, which may
Speaker 3: be as important as anything because we know that you know,
Speaker 3: they don't have that stud that's just gonna go out
Speaker 3: and win every one on one matchup. I thought that
Speaker 3: touchdown to Juju. Clearly there was a lot of pre
Speaker 3: snap confusion in the secondary. Mills and Jonathan Jones were
Speaker 3: going back and forth, they were moving. Jones was late
Speaker 3: sort of adjusting to what Mills was telling him to do.
Speaker 3: Something to keep an eye on. By the way, we've
Speaker 3: talked a lot about this sort of on an abstract level,
Speaker 3: what happens without Devin mccordy back there. You know, they're
Speaker 3: telling us there's a lot of different guys that can
Speaker 3: do that. So just something to keep an eye on.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to pretend to tell you who was
Speaker 3: wrong and why on that plate, but I just saw
Speaker 3: a lot of talking pre snap and then a guy
Speaker 3: break open for a nice touchdown, beautiful toe tap in
Speaker 3: the back of the end zone. One of the best
Speaker 3: players of the entire camp.
Speaker 5: Out of everything that I think Bill O'Brien does that
Speaker 5: i've seen now that we've got to actually watch a
Speaker 5: Bill O'Brien offense in practice. His stress that he puts
Speaker 5: on coverage rules, like in those types of situations with
Speaker 5: the way that receivers release off the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 5: you're covering a slot receiver, so you most of the
Speaker 5: time expect him to break inside and then all of
Speaker 5: a sudden he's breaking outside, but then he's breaking back inside.
Speaker 5: And these types of things really confuse switches at the
Speaker 5: line of scrimmage or you know, different types of ways
Speaker 5: that defenses guard stacks, you know, two receiver sides, bunch formations,
Speaker 5: things like that, and it makes it so easy for
Speaker 5: the quarterback to see the receiver winning early in the
Speaker 5: down because he knows, Okay, this guy's got body positioning
Speaker 5: on the defender, He's going to break one way and
Speaker 5: the defender is going to be you know, out leveraged,
Speaker 5: and I'm just going to be able to make this
Speaker 5: throw quickly. And those types of plays, Juju said at
Speaker 5: the end of at his press conference, I asked him
Speaker 5: about the touchdown and he was like kind of over
Speaker 5: the moon about it, Like he was like, oh, he
Speaker 5: finally We've been working on that, and we've been working
Speaker 5: on it on the side field during special teams periods.
Speaker 5: We've been talking about how can we get the defense
Speaker 5: on this, and Mac made the check and we finally
Speaker 5: pulled one over on the defense, and I think that
Speaker 5: they were they were pretty elated about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think the group overall, and that was
Speaker 3: my big takeaway today was I think that they felt
Speaker 3: they felt good about themselves, and it probably was the
Speaker 3: first time they could say that after a full week
Speaker 3: of practices, we're going to be back at it here.
Speaker 3: There's no no rest for the weary right now. It's
Speaker 3: still every day. So we're gonna have practice again tomorrow,
Speaker 3: same time. Nine five tip. As they say for turning
Speaker 3: camp practices, we don't call it a kickoff because there's
Speaker 3: no actual kickoff. So any any last uh.
Speaker 4: Strange not no close strange today, you know, just worth
Speaker 4: bringing up that.
Speaker 2: But otherwise, I think they were good.
Speaker 4: And you know, Tyric Pitts, their new addition to wide receiver,
Speaker 4: was out there, made a catch.
Speaker 3: I see kind a nice crosser from Tracey mcswili.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so right in the mix there, and uh and otherwise,
Speaker 4: I just I'm gonna we never talk about it, but.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give Brandon Schoolers shout out. I just I
Speaker 2: think it deserves to be highlighted.
Speaker 4: They've had two one side kicks they've tried to swing
Speaker 4: on him this this practice, you know, preseason schedule. He's
Speaker 4: picked up both of them. It's just watching him in practice.
Speaker 4: He's like a good player, you know.
Speaker 2: I know that must regret asking. Yeah, I'm sorry, but
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 4: Think I want to highlight Brandon Schooler there for a second.
Speaker 5: Did you guys do any line D line one on one?
Speaker 3: Well, I didn't, You know, I wanted to talk to
Speaker 3: you about that because that's not where you guys were
Speaker 3: that definitively, so you could maybe talk about that. Uh,
Speaker 3: we'll talk about it off there. I mean, I don't
Speaker 3: want to drag the podcast too far, but I will
Speaker 3: say end of practice, the goal line stuff, there was
Speaker 3: some mixing and matching in the offensive line. Bill Murray
Speaker 3: was out at times, they had Cody Russy. I think
Speaker 3: Mafi Tonio Maffi was in where he has been, but
Speaker 3: they sort of mixing and matching left guard, right guard.
Speaker 3: Some changes really for the first time because it's been Mariy,
Speaker 3: you know, I wonder if maybe he's nursing whatever was
Speaker 3: bothering him at the end of that practice the other day,
Speaker 3: or if it's time if these rookies, you know, Russy's
Speaker 3: a second year guy, Mafy, maybe these guys took a
Speaker 3: week and now they're ready to sort of sort of
Speaker 3: assert themselves.
Speaker 5: Yeah, those goal line run periods. That with this offensive line,
Speaker 5: with how many guys are injured, that is a huge mismatch.
Speaker 5: The Patriots defensive starting defensive line against all these backups
Speaker 5: and rookies and things like that. The missing three starter,
Speaker 5: that's a mismatch. But you mentioned the one on ones
Speaker 5: just quickly. Kean White had by far the best one
Speaker 5: on one pass rush rep during that period. Go outside inside,
Speaker 5: move on Connor McDermott, and I don't think McDermott got
Speaker 5: a hand on him, I mean just went right around him.
Speaker 5: That was That was one of the better reps of
Speaker 5: the period. And to the point about Bill Murray, he
Speaker 5: got beat both times that he went in one on one.
Speaker 5: So I do think that it's time Mafi is he's
Speaker 5: just a cinder block, like he's just a stout identity raft.
Speaker 3: That was the one that really stood out to us.
Speaker 3: Out of those three guys, he he most looked the part.
Speaker 3: So we'll watch that. I think it's time to start
Speaker 3: really taking notice of who's playing in those spots with
Speaker 3: those young guys and seeing if they're ready to move in.
Speaker 3: So we'll be back tomorrow and we'll give you all
Speaker 3: the latest at Patriots training camp.