WEBVTT - Training Camp-Cast 7/28: Maye Heats Up, Boutte Makes Highlight Catch, Injury Updates 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.200 Break May on corks a deep pass to the receiver 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:04.560 who just keeps making place here early in training camp. 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:07.760 Let's break it all down. 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:17.279 Welcome everybody to the Patriots training camp cast presented Buying 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:19.360 New Balance. We were here after day four where it 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:21.560 really kind of felt like and Christian Gonzalez said this, Paul, 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:23.040 felt kind of like the first day of camp, a 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:25.360 little hot in tensity, seems to be ramping up a 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:26.080 little bit, would you. 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:28.600 Think, Yeah, they ran at a lot of eleven on 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.600 eleven plays. I thought there were like four sets of 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:34.680 plays for Drake May and the regulars on offense in 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:39.160 two different periods. So I would agree that humidity was 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:41.440 was sky high. Today it did feel a little bit 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:42.400 more like training camp. 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:44.680 We had shells on, so a little bit of thudding, 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:46.640 a little bit of one on ones. Was watching the 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:50.120 big boys down there during seven on seven, so a 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:52.680 little bit more juice today. I thought the first three 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.760 days Franklin was a little bored. I was like, what, well, 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:57.360 you wake me up when we get to you know, 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:59.600 the real stuff. And then today I felt it a 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:01.560 little bit. He felt that training camp juice just a 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:02.080 little more, and. 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.000 We talked to have yesterday on the rap show we 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:06.039 did was you know, Drake maybe a little sluol start, 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:08.840 just missing some guys early, not a big deal early practice, 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:11.039 And almost felt that way today where he missed AJ 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.039 Brown on a pass. You know, a couple were high 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:14.880 and then all of a sudden it seemed to kick 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:17.520 in a gear. He hit Kayshan Boody on a deep pass. 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.560 And you know, before we talk about Drake, let's just 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.039 talk about Kasehan Boody because we talked so much about 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:24.480 him this offseason and this guy has just continued to 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:26.560 make place. He's been the best receiver in camping and 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:29.280 every day, including today, he just continues to make plays. 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:30.880 Yeah, I would agree with that. I think he's been 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:33.600 the best receiver in camp so far. Now we'll see 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:35.560 you on SAJ Brown gets on the same page with 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:38.000 Drake may a little bit more. But just in terms 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.240 of what we're watching. Two long touchdowns today. One of 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:42.800 them looked like a bus, but one of them ran 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:45.600 right by Kevin Byron made a tough over the shoulder 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.920 catch like we've seen him make a million times in games. 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.320 And you just keep seeing him open all the time. 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:53.880 You look up and Kaishan Boody's making a play down 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:56.800 the field, even caught one from de Vedo today in 0:01:56.840 --> 0:02:00.240 the whole shot, so it was another really good day 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:02.920 from him. And I agree with your Drake May assessment. 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.000 Maybe a little slow to start, but I thought the 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:08.400 last couple of team periods for Drake May looked like 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.160 Drake Drake May May. 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.200 I would add to Mario Douglas, to the group of 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:15.840 guys that seemed to be showing up every day, a 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.320 lot of crosses. Today he got the better. I thought 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:20.800 of Marcus Jones a couple of times coming across the middle, 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.360 and that connection seems to be there. We've seen this 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:27.840 a lot in the summer with with Douglas, you know, 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.480 I think he's got fresh legs and he's a hard 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.000 guy to keep track of. But Booty and Douglas stand 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:36.280 out on the positive side. And then we sort of 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.800 alluded it's been a little bit slower with aj Brown 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.760 and Romeo Dobbs. You know, I think Evan on Sunday said, 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.200 you know, maybe a small sea concerned. I think it's 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:48.079 still slow with Dobbs. Doesn't seem to be a lot 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:51.280 of connections unless they're specifically dialing something up for him, 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.400 a quick screen off motion or something like that. So 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.120 I think it's been slower with those guys, but Booty 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.040 and Douglas, those guys have been productive. 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.000 We've seen a little bit from Brown. I mean, look again, 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.760 first pass of practice in eleven's Drake goes his way, 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:05.880 kind of overshot him a little bit. But you know, 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.160 to your point, Paul felt similar to me in that 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:11.160 kind of the design stuff, the quick game, that's where 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.280 they're finding aj Brown, but when they're kind of looking 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.919 a little more Downfield's sound like they're on the same page. 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:17.880 And I thought Charles Woods did a nice job on 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.840 him today. You know, Carlton Davis was kind of out 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:24.760 of the lineup at times. You know, Christian Gonzalez continues 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.679 to be you know, virtually every play of full team 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:29.960 work he's he's been out there. We got to hear 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.680 from him after practice. Not surprisingly, he's going to keep 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.640 all that between himself and the front office, his team 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.480 in the front office. But I do think that it 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:42.600 hasn't necessarily looked smooth. There's been a lot of I 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:46.000 tend to be a quarterback apologist under normal circumstances, but 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:48.400 certainly Drake May coming off the season that he came 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:50.200 off of. I'm going to say some of these passes 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:51.840 that look a little off, a little high, I'm going 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.280 to put on the receiver when the receiver's new, and 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.600 right now I think Brown's still trying to catch up. 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:00.520 Yeah, there was one Brown curl he curled in. Drake 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:02.520 May threw it out, you know, he threw it to 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:04.720 his outside shoulder. Brown was looking for it on his 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.640 inside shoulder, and you just wonder what those like is 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.960 that by week five, weeks six, week seven, we're probably 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:14.360 not talking about those little communication things. The other one 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.120 I thought Elijah Ponder got and Drake May's face really 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.839 quickly off the snap on a little stunt and that's 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.719 why that throw was erin. So a couple of things 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.719 like that, you know, maybe some underneath stuff, but I 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:27.720 look at it with AJ Brown. A lot of the 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.279 things that we're seeing are, well, where's your landmark on 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:32.160 this play? Like where are you going to be on 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.160 that one? You know, where's where are you going to 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.560 break the route off? And you know things like that. 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:38.400 That type of stuff. That's what this time of year 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:40.880 is about. They'll get that all ironed out. I'm not 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:42.680 really super concerned about that yet. 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.679 Just two more player observations for me. Just trade on Henderson. 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:47.560 Anytime you get the guy the ball in space. He 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.480 is just an absolute missile. I love watching him run 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.039 up the sidelines. I'm broken plays. But the guy that 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:54.880 I'm you know, encouraged by and it hasn't and I 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.760 mentioned him earlier this week, is Eli Meritan, who you 0:04:57.760 --> 0:04:59.320 know showing up with a couple catches here. I know 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.440 it's been a little bit slow with him. It's a 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.720 big need for the team though, and seeing him start 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:05.520 to you know, today we soon settling the zone, kind 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:07.360 of finding those crease. I think it's a good sign. 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:08.960 You used to see him start to catch some balls. 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.200 I'm gonna throw Tanner Arkin in that group. I continue 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:14.560 to see him out there early in these team periods. 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:16.839 You know, they opened up a lot of those team 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.839 periods with running plays. He's on the field, so I 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:21.640 think they have a role carved out for him in 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:23.800 their minds. I think it's his to win. You know, 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.280 there's a long way to go. We're obviously just underway here. 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.200 Pads haven't even come on. But there's a need obviously 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.680 for a blocking tight end, and he absolutely fits that 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:32.920 profile a guy. He's huge. 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.520 Yeah, I've been impressed by rared and I think right 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:37.480 now when he runs with the twos with the veto, 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:39.920 he looks better than everybody else around him. And we'll 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:42.719 see if that can translate to him going up against 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.120 the starting defense and if he's still making plays. But 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.200 you mentioned, you know, the zone settle, that he had, 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:50.520 those little heady things with his receiving, you know, instincts 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:52.320 and feel like those are the things you look for 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:54.920 with young receivers. A lot of these tight ends, especially 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.560 guys that are drafted high. They all can run, they 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:59.880 all have good frames on him, they all have good hands, 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.400 things like that. But the question is, you know, between 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.320 the ears, are they going to be able to work 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.679 the middle of the field and find those soft spots. 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:09.440 So I was impressed by Rodan again today. I thought 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:10.719 that he flashed a few times. 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:12.600 One last thing, I mean, it seems like maybe some 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:14.680 injuries starting to I don't want to say pile up, 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:16.719 but maybe the first injuries a camp. We saw Carlton 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.120 Davis left. That meant Charles Woods got in there. And 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.160 then Charles Woods looked like he got a little banged up. 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.240 Could be a spot of concern there at the cornerback spot, 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.000 but I'm not going to panic guys, because we saw 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.599 Carlton Davis do this many times last summer. 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.599 Before he always I do think that it did solidify 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:36.480 that hierarchy at corner where I do think that Charles 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:38.320 Woods is kind of in his own tier as the 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.760 fourth corner you have, you know, Gonzales, Davis, Marcus Jones. 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.520 That's one tier, that's the S tier. Then I think 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.760 the next tier is Charles Woods by himself right now 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:49.800 is a guy that's really going to be on this team, 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.719 I think. And the guys that are competing for roster 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.919 spots or the following tier, you know, the Kendallvilldors, the 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.039 Kobe Minors, Karan Prunty. So I think Charles Woods is 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.479 kind of ahead of that group, but not quite in 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.800 the starter you know, S tier group. But we'll see 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:06.719 if he's out there tomorrow or I guess Thursday. 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:08.880 Yeah, well that is Thursday, and their pads are supposed 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:10.720 to come on. However, rain might be in the forecast, 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:12.960 so if you're planning on coming down here to Jillette Stadium, 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:14.920 be sure to check patriots dot com to see if 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.160 the practice does move inside, it will be close to 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:18.680 the public, and I don't know if we'll even do 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:21.240 a live show during that, so hopefully the rain holds off, 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.080 you'll tune into US Live. We'll break that whole practice 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:26.280 down as things get to ramp up a little bit 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:28.280 in intensity with the onset of pads.