Speaker 1: Patriots are back in pads for a six time in
Speaker 1: eight days. As the intensity continues to ramp up. Aj
Speaker 1: Brown and Christian Gonzalez are going at it, and the
Speaker 1: defense finished the day with a flourish let's get into it.
Speaker 1: Welcome everybody to the Patriots camp cast, and we're back
Speaker 1: for practice number eleven. That's right, Paul, we've crossed the
Speaker 1: halfway point of training camp and the intensity and the
Speaker 1: heat continue to dominate this practice.
Speaker 2: I was a little surprised that we got out there.
Speaker 1: We're kind of expecting them dial back a little bit,
Speaker 1: maybe in shells, but they were back in pads, getting
Speaker 1: after another competitive practice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe we switched those shells and pads days. We'll
Speaker 3: see what they're in tomorrow, but pads again today after
Speaker 3: the walk through yesterday and a lot of team drills
Speaker 3: that that was one of the things that we noticed.
Speaker 3: I think the last couple of practices in full pads
Speaker 3: is a lot of team a lot eleven on eleven,
Speaker 3: not as much of you know, the seven on seven's
Speaker 3: and the one on ones and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: So they did one quick period of that in between
Speaker 3: eleven on eleven's, but a lot of just put the
Speaker 3: ball down and let's play. And I think we're at
Speaker 3: that point of practice of training camp where we got
Speaker 3: to make a game like at this point, I think
Speaker 3: that's what we saw today with a two minute drill
Speaker 3: at the end too.
Speaker 2: I did think there was an overall sort of lull.
Speaker 4: There was definitely more intensity on the defensive side, particularly
Speaker 4: in the secondary. I think you mentioned in the tease
Speaker 4: Mike finishing with a flourish how about three interceptions on
Speaker 4: three consecutive plays to close out practice, So I definitely
Speaker 4: thought there was a little more juice on defense, but
Speaker 4: you can definitely see the wear and tear starting to show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's talk about that a little bit.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Christian Zalaz aj Brown matchup continues to
Speaker 1: just the camp so fun to watch their competitive with it.
Speaker 2: I thought Gonzalez kind.
Speaker 1: Of owned the day up until that two minute when
Speaker 1: AJ Brown did come down with a little bit of
Speaker 1: a contested catch there.
Speaker 2: But that matchup to me has been so much fun.
Speaker 1: You see Christian Zalez talking about it after practice, talking
Speaker 1: a little trash back and forth. But as we like
Speaker 1: to say, iron sharpens iron, seems like those guys are
Speaker 1: making each other better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the hope.
Speaker 3: I thought Brown got behind him on one and Drake
Speaker 3: May kind of threw the wrong shoulder and it didn't
Speaker 3: give AJ Brown the best ball. But overall, I think
Speaker 3: Gonzalez has kind of controlled the deep part of the
Speaker 3: field and given up a lot of the underneath stuff
Speaker 3: da Aj Brown. And that's been sort of the chess
Speaker 3: match that you've seen back and forth. So it's been
Speaker 3: interesting to see those two guys. I can't think of
Speaker 3: really a matchup in a Patriots camp that's that star
Speaker 3: studded where it's really one v one the whole practice
Speaker 3: with two guys going against each other. So I guess
Speaker 3: we could get philosophical and talk about like well the
Speaker 3: safety and against the quarterback or something, but like truly
Speaker 3: going one on one like that, rep after rep after
Speaker 3: rep has been a ton of fun just to watch.
Speaker 3: You say, iron sharpens iron. There's different types of levels
Speaker 3: of iron sharpens iron. This is a high up there iron.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was great to hear it. I don't
Speaker 2: know my iron spell, but.
Speaker 4: Gonzalez talked about it too, you know, he said it's
Speaker 4: you know, he started, he was like, it's good on good, yeah,
Speaker 4: And I think he want like he was going to
Speaker 4: say great on great, but I don't think he wanted
Speaker 4: to put himself in that category. And then he said,
Speaker 4: it's definitely a number one receiver in the NFL against
Speaker 4: the you know, a number one corner. So he talked
Speaker 4: about how you can't help, but you know, sort of
Speaker 4: get motivated by that and accept the challenge. I do
Speaker 4: think for the most part during camp, I think Gonzalez
Speaker 4: has had the upper hand. I share Evans's viewpoint on
Speaker 4: that one deep ball down the sideline. I would have
Speaker 4: liked to have seen that play unfold a little bit
Speaker 4: differently to see just how good the coverage was and
Speaker 4: if the ball was where I.
Speaker 2: Think Brown was expecting it.
Speaker 4: I think that may have been another one of those
Speaker 4: plays where you see two guys fighting for the ball,
Speaker 4: who wins, but the throw wasn't necessarily where it needed
Speaker 4: to be. But a lot of fun to watch those
Speaker 4: two guys compete.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's talk about that.
Speaker 1: In the last you know, two minute trio they put
Speaker 1: with like one twenty up on the clock, you can
Speaker 1: tell they're you know, being conscious, hand in the ball back,
Speaker 1: you know, doing all the things you need to do.
Speaker 2: Got off to a good start and you hit.
Speaker 1: Hunter Henry for a little game, a little checkdown to
Speaker 1: Remandra got stopped short. That was then Brown comes up
Speaker 1: with the catch. They clock it, and that's when things
Speaker 1: went sideways. Yeah, Marcus Jones comes up with a pick.
Speaker 1: And then the final play of Drake May's eleven on
Speaker 1: eleven there in the red zone was Kevin Bayern dropping
Speaker 1: into coverage where it looked like Drake May was maybe
Speaker 1: throwing into a party down there, just like there or
Speaker 1: a lot of Bob's. Kevin Byrt's dropping back like he's
Speaker 1: fielding a punt, went up and got it.
Speaker 4: I'm going to say that was the worst play that
Speaker 4: I've seen Drake May have of all summer.
Speaker 2: I'm going to give a single worst rent potentially a
Speaker 2: context out.
Speaker 3: I wonder if that was like fourth down in the game.
Speaker 3: I think it may have been, because like that to
Speaker 3: me seemed like a hail Mary.
Speaker 2: Absolutely think it may have been. And I still would
Speaker 2: say it was the worst throw that I've seen him make.
Speaker 3: All threw it to Hunter Henry, who's probably the tallest
Speaker 3: guy out there, and he kind of just threw it
Speaker 3: up in the end, so it.
Speaker 2: Gave him no opportunity to make a player.
Speaker 3: I mean, there was three blue shirts in the way,
Speaker 3: so it would have been hard the pick to Marcus
Speaker 3: Jones had I thought it was just a really good
Speaker 3: read and a good play by Marcus Jones to kind
Speaker 3: of jump in front of I think it was Booty,
Speaker 3: but yeah, it just kind of beat.
Speaker 2: Him to the spot there.
Speaker 3: But I would agree it was not a good good
Speaker 3: ending to practice unless he heard defense guy deuce and
Speaker 3: you want to say it was a good ending to.
Speaker 2: Practice either way.
Speaker 3: But what I did like about the two minute drill
Speaker 3: to start was like that those were the like easy
Speaker 3: money throws.
Speaker 2: The first down, yeah, first first, Yeah, that defense.
Speaker 3: Is always give you those little checkdowns, and everybody's trying
Speaker 3: to push the ball down the field and get it
Speaker 3: all at once, and they were able to matriculate it
Speaker 3: into a scoring area of the field and then that's
Speaker 3: when it went sideways. So a good start to the
Speaker 3: two minute drill, I thought in terms of the patients
Speaker 3: that Drake may show to get the ball down the
Speaker 3: field into it area where he could throw it into
Speaker 3: the end zone and then obviously not a good finish.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Buyer makes the interception, the defense celebrates energy
Speaker 1: is high, Tommy DeVito, the two's coming.
Speaker 2: In celebration for Kevin Byrd by the way, we'll get
Speaker 2: to that.
Speaker 1: But then Tommy DeVito comes out very next play, John
Speaker 1: Saunders picks him off.
Speaker 5: I don't even know where that ball was going, like
Speaker 5: I probably Tommy DeVito's was. Yeah, I don't even know
Speaker 5: who the intended receiver was on that one. Gay Back
Speaker 5: is flashed inside as well on Demetrious crown Over. I
Speaker 5: thought AKIS noticed him a couple of times today getting
Speaker 5: pressure on the quarterback.
Speaker 3: So that was that play. To me, I want to
Speaker 3: give Drake mayn out and say that maybe he was
Speaker 3: thrown up.
Speaker 4: It may have been a desperation play. Yeah, I agree
Speaker 4: with you that I had the looks.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The other two interceptions we were not good.
Speaker 1: Well, let's let's talk about a little bit of housekeeping
Speaker 1: stuff because we said the heat, a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: six padded pack practices they're getting after it, you know,
Speaker 1: some injuries. Romeo Dobbs missed the second day, walked through yesterday,
Speaker 1: was not out there today. Carlton Davis continues to miss practice.
Speaker 1: Will Campbell was spotted yesterday with an arm brace on
Speaker 1: he didn't participate in eleven on eleven's Marcus Bryant got
Speaker 1: in there at left tackle.
Speaker 2: A little bit hat tip to Marcus Bryant.
Speaker 4: He was out there a lot of plays, not just
Speaker 4: the ones that left tackle. He was with some of
Speaker 4: the secondary groups at different spots too, And again, that
Speaker 4: was a tough day to go through that had a
Speaker 4: little hat tip to Marcus Bryant today a little extra duty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's had a pretty good camp.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, I think there's still ways to
Speaker 3: go with his pad level and you know, his ability
Speaker 3: to square up guys in the run game off the ball,
Speaker 3: but I think he's had a solid camp and is
Speaker 3: really the fourth tackle now, I think pretty solidified there.
Speaker 3: I did think it was interesting that he got the
Speaker 3: reps at left tackle over Caleb Lomoo. Now maybe they
Speaker 3: wanted Lomu to work at right tackle today and so
Speaker 3: that was why they did that, But Will Campbell working
Speaker 3: off to the side, didn't participate, and it was Marcus
Speaker 3: Bryant that got the call up to the first team
Speaker 3: left tackle instead of Lomu. So just a little bit
Speaker 3: notable to me that they went to Bryant out. But
Speaker 3: right now, if I had to make a roster projection.
Speaker 3: He's the fourth tackle that I think is on the
Speaker 3: team right now.
Speaker 1: Let's get a couple other just little notes. Evan, you
Speaker 1: mentioned gay backus getting some run with the ones. Seems
Speaker 1: like his workload is increasing a little bit. Charles Woods
Speaker 1: getting you know, with the first team at cornerback without
Speaker 1: Carlton Davis there, he's been their top option.
Speaker 2: He walked off hopefully.
Speaker 1: He related, that's what we hope one days like this, Paul.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Kendall Vildor gets in there and he's.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that one was he related. He
Speaker 2: went down.
Speaker 3: He was covering Tomorroo Douglass in the slot and I
Speaker 3: think he got picked off by like a linebacker or
Speaker 3: something in the middle of the field and he went
Speaker 3: I saw him go down, and uh, he got back
Speaker 3: up though it wasn't like a non contact injury, which
Speaker 3: makes me think that it was like he just kind
Speaker 3: of got right into or something.
Speaker 1: Like him and Jim Whale and you know, walking off together.
Speaker 1: He's under his own power, so hopefully he's okay. But
Speaker 1: you know, opportunity for Kendall Vildor to get in there. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Paul, your guy Channing Canada getting some some options.
Speaker 1: It seems like those cornerbacks.
Speaker 2: Doesn't want to head Yeah one brand uh, but a lot.
Speaker 1: Of those guys getting run at that, you know, even
Speaker 1: Kobe Minor as well, you know, just they've had some
Speaker 1: injuries there. Davis has been out, so opportunity. It's an
Speaker 1: interesting position where it seems like there's a bunch of
Speaker 1: guys one of those competitions on the roster of where
Speaker 1: I feel like everybody's kind of in the mix.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I still think.
Speaker 3: Charles Woods is the guy that's gonna be the fourth corner,
Speaker 3: third rotational outside guy. It's really a competition. To me,
Speaker 3: are they going to keep five of them? Are they
Speaker 3: going to keep six of them? And who are those players?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: I I still feel like Prunty has done enough so
Speaker 3: far that if it's between him and like a Kendallville door,
Speaker 3: I'd probably keep punting just for the upside and the
Speaker 3: youth and the fact that you just drafted him.
Speaker 2: But it's an interesting spot to look at.
Speaker 3: I would say those corner and linebacker are the two
Speaker 3: spots where we've seen the most kind of competition. At
Speaker 3: the back of the roster. Seems like Muma's really taken
Speaker 3: a step ahead.
Speaker 2: Of everybody else.
Speaker 4: They started I think the first team period in what
Speaker 4: would I guess be the actual base defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, three linebackers, and Muma was the third. Yeah.
Speaker 4: To your point, some of those sort of secondary positions
Speaker 4: that we've been talking about are starting to clarify themselves.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well that'll do it for practice number eleven. We
Speaker 1: back on Friday. For practice number twelve. It is open
Speaker 1: to the public, so if you're around here, come on down.
Speaker 1: Of course, we all have our eye on that Indianapolis
Speaker 1: Coach joint practice coming up on Tuesday.