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Speaker 2: All right, welcome in to our very first Patriots Training
Speaker 2: Camp Cast at twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: It's Mike do So, Paul Parrel. Paul, thanks for joining me.
Speaker 4: Hey, thanks for having me on your little camp cast.
Speaker 4: I guess what is this year? Five twenty four for me,
Speaker 4: but twenty six overall. I think it's twenty fourth doing
Speaker 4: a camp cast.
Speaker 2: Well, here we are, and we, you know, got going
Speaker 2: today with the Patriots on the field, kind of like
Speaker 2: practice hour and a half session Paul little Yeah, sorter
Speaker 2: than we're kind of used to here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And you know, Jard Mayo talked a little bit
Speaker 4: about that on Tuesday, that he might fluctuate some of
Speaker 4: these times. And I think that the sort of the
Speaker 4: ramp up time, you know, I think they have some
Speaker 4: work that they probably want to get done, a set
Speaker 4: amount of you know, execution, and they want to see
Speaker 4: I think these first couple of practices will be a
Speaker 4: little shorter and then they'll gradually ramp it up. And
Speaker 4: I did think it was interesting before practice started today.
Speaker 4: They're eligible to be in pads after five days, so
Speaker 4: that would be Monday. Girod sort of indicated it might
Speaker 4: be around this time next week, so maybe, you know,
Speaker 4: a little bit later than that when they were in
Speaker 4: full pads for the first time. But we're getting ahead
Speaker 4: of ourselves a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we are a little bit, but you know, not
Speaker 2: the most competitive practices you might have seen one day one,
Speaker 2: kind of a continuation of OTAs in mini camp. But
Speaker 2: still some guys that showed up a couple good plays,
Speaker 2: and I want to start with Jalen Rager, who had
Speaker 2: really nice one handed catch down the field, had another
Speaker 2: catch later in practice.
Speaker 3: You know, it was kind of productive in OTAs two.
Speaker 2: Not a guy that's on the top of everyone's mind,
Speaker 2: but a guy that's just continuing to show up here
Speaker 2: in the offseason.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like they have a lot of very
Speaker 4: similar kind of players, not necessarily in skill set, because
Speaker 4: I think Rager is a little bit longer and faster
Speaker 4: than most of the other guys, but they have a
Speaker 4: lot of sort of middling kind of receivers. I think
Speaker 4: Rager has certainly done a nice job of separating himself
Speaker 4: from the pack in that regard. I thought Juju Smith
Speaker 4: Schuster also showed up a little bit today with that
Speaker 4: nice deep crosser. All of these passes we should we
Speaker 4: should add from Drake may So. I thought that was
Speaker 4: a good sign to sort of see him get the
Speaker 4: ball downfield a little bit in the athleticism on display
Speaker 4: a little bit. But you're right, I don't want to
Speaker 4: get anybody excited, not overly competitive, you know, in shorts
Speaker 4: and helmets today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know, a couple of housekeeping notes because
Speaker 2: you're obviously trying to read between the lines a little bit,
Speaker 2: you know, just some highlights, you know, for me, Kyle
Speaker 2: Dugart coming up with a tipball interception, he continues to
Speaker 2: kind of be around the ball. That's kind of a
Speaker 2: Kyle Dugger play, you know, not necessarily him jumping the route,
Speaker 2: but Johnny on the spot right place by time.
Speaker 4: It's exactly what your boy, Jabil Pepper said after practice.
Speaker 4: I don't know how we do it, you know, He's
Speaker 4: just always where we're supposed to be. And they Yeah,
Speaker 4: the defensive backs have a pretty friendly competition with those
Speaker 4: kinds of plays. Uh So he was a little upset
Speaker 4: that he's already behind, but yeah, it was really nice.
Speaker 4: The play was actually made by Jonathan Jones, good trail coverage,
Speaker 4: got the hand in in front of the intended target,
Speaker 4: ball goes in the air and right to Kyle Dugar.
Speaker 4: That was from Brissett. Probably a pass that Brissett was
Speaker 4: a little late with. You know, again, you know, the
Speaker 4: timing not expected to be at regular season pace on
Speaker 4: the first day of camp, but yeah, good to see
Speaker 4: Dougar around the ball as usual.
Speaker 3: Little housekeeping.
Speaker 2: Saw a lot of Michael and when you continues to
Speaker 2: be at right guard, you know, the lion is a
Speaker 2: big concern for Patriots fans. Wanted to know how that's
Speaker 2: all going to shake out. We saw, you know, they're
Speaker 2: working on the run game a little bit. They're more
Speaker 2: in the middle of the field, not the red zone,
Speaker 2: Paul like we've get used to im means those old
Speaker 2: Patriots practices. It felt like, hey, we're right in the
Speaker 2: red zone right away, opening it up maybe a little bit.
Speaker 2: We were speculating just allow on the offense maybe to
Speaker 2: connect on some plays, but I thought it was fine.
Speaker 3: Today there was nothing. You know, Rigger made a couple catches,
Speaker 3: but overall it felt like the first day of camp.
Speaker 2: They're feeling it out. There's not really a lot of
Speaker 2: fireworks to write home about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we should say it went Brisset, may Zappi,
Speaker 4: Milton and that was pretty much the rotation that we
Speaker 4: ended the spring with that continued today. And you're right,
Speaker 4: I do think I didn't even know what to do
Speaker 4: with myself, you know, not starting in the red zone,
Speaker 4: because I'm just it's so ingrained in my mind that
Speaker 4: that's the way that Bill always did it. They started,
Speaker 4: you know, the twenty or thirty, you know, early down,
Speaker 4: a lot of early down work, you know, and you
Speaker 4: saw what they want to do. You saw that the
Speaker 4: Alex Van Pelt offense wants to be that sort of
Speaker 4: zone stretch kind of plays where you know, it's it's
Speaker 4: extended handoffs, hard play, action, boots off of that. That's
Speaker 4: how they're looking to get explosive plays.
Speaker 3: So some of.
Speaker 4: Those things you start to see the seeds get planted
Speaker 4: today a little bit, and it was different not being
Speaker 4: in the red zone.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Well, new season, New studio, new head coach, new quarterback,
Speaker 2: A lot.
Speaker 3: Of new net's going on here, Paula. We're just getting started.
Speaker 4: So real quick. Yeah, just you know, just to continue.
Speaker 4: The attendance was really good today. The Patriots placed five
Speaker 4: guys on lists, four on PUP and that would be
Speaker 4: Cole Strange, Kendrick Bourne, Jake Andrews, and Scioni Taki Taki.
Speaker 4: Those four players did not practice today, are on PUP
Speaker 4: and Antonio Gibson starts on the Non Football Injury List
Speaker 4: n FI. So other than that, the other eighty five
Speaker 4: players were out there and accounted for. We did see
Speaker 4: Matthew Judon, we did see Devon gotcha, and we did
Speaker 4: see them taking part in some of the eleven on
Speaker 4: eleven stuff that they did, and that to me was
Speaker 4: a little different than last year with Judon specifically, who
Speaker 4: was obviously upset with his contract at this time a
Speaker 4: year ago and sort of chose to the hold in
Speaker 4: kind of thing. We didn't see any signs of that today.
Speaker 4: We'll see what happens next week when the pads are on. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Pop Douglas seeming to do a little bit of rehab work.
Speaker 4: Maybe two wasn't heavily involved, just something to keep an
Speaker 4: eye on, but that's gonna do us do it for
Speaker 4: us for day one here Patriots Training Camp Cast.
Speaker 2: Of course, what have we got? Twelve more practices to go,
Speaker 2: so we're just getting started here. We hope you guys
Speaker 2: will stick with us all through this summer as we
Speaker 2: take you through Patriots Training Camp twenty twenty four.
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