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Speaker 1: All right, day four of Patriots training camps officially in
Speaker 1: the books. As the players are now doing their wind
Speaker 1: sprints over on the hill. This is Mike Douso joined
Speaker 1: by Paul Parlo Patriots dot Com. We're here with the
Speaker 1: camp cast. Catch you guys up on everything that happened today.
Speaker 1: And Paul, it seems a little bit of a continuation
Speaker 1: of the last two days. It felt like to me
Speaker 1: this was the toughest day for the offense. They had
Speaker 1: a couple of plays here and there, but overall, I
Speaker 1: think the defense owned the day. The offense just couldn't
Speaker 1: seem to find much of a stride or produce many
Speaker 1: big play is, notable plays, plays that got the crowd
Speaker 1: pumped up in a few days. It was a bit
Speaker 1: of a struggle for them today. Yeah, I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 1: I think again, the coverage was tight, you know, You're
Speaker 1: starting to see a lot of the same kinds of
Speaker 1: plays offensively, so you wonder if maybe the defense is
Speaker 1: sort of, you know, subconsciously understanding what's going on and
Speaker 1: what's happening. But I thought Malcolm Butler was pretty active today.
Speaker 1: First time I've seen a lot of him in coverage.
Speaker 1: He was with a group with Jalen Mills and Terrence
Speaker 1: Mitchell as the three corners, and I just thought, again,
Speaker 1: Mac Jones, Bailey z Appy the two quarterbacks with no
Speaker 1: Brian Hoyer for the second straight day, they had a
Speaker 1: hard time finding open targets and some of the throws
Speaker 1: were late. There were a lot of scrambles, a lot
Speaker 1: of off platform kind of stuff, and I think you're right,
Speaker 1: the defense really controlled things, so I wasn't totally devoid
Speaker 1: of good plays. Though I think maybe the play of
Speaker 1: the day though, might have been actually from Bailey z Appy,
Speaker 1: you know, hitting Christian Wilkerson down the field. So we
Speaker 1: talked about Brian Hoyer has been out the last couple
Speaker 1: of days. It hasn't been great for the offense, but
Speaker 1: it certainly has been an opportunity for Bailey Zappy to
Speaker 1: come in here get a number of reps. You know,
Speaker 1: he certainly had his up and down moments today as
Speaker 1: a rookie. You'd expect that, but did make a couple
Speaker 1: of throws and seems like he's you know, getting his
Speaker 1: feet wet right out of the gate here. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: lot of opportunity for him. Um, you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of reps now. You know again you see a little
Speaker 1: bit of what they saw, you know, in getting after him.
Speaker 1: You know in the draft, there are periods where you know,
Speaker 1: the ball comes he gets on the back foot, the
Speaker 1: ball comes out with authority, decisiveness with his throws, and
Speaker 1: his other periods that he's like, oh, there's a rookie.
Speaker 1: There's a guy who doesn't have a lot of experience
Speaker 1: in the league, so you expect a lot of that.
Speaker 1: But I think the overwhelming takeaway from me, I'm going
Speaker 1: to write about this a little bit later on today
Speaker 1: for Zappy is just the incredible opportunity that he's getting
Speaker 1: with all of these reps. A little of a spoiler alert,
Speaker 1: you know, a couple there are a couple of nice
Speaker 1: catches though, too, got to give some credit, you know,
Speaker 1: I thought you Kobe Myers had a nice contested catch
Speaker 1: in the end zone. Continuing great, continuing a strong couple
Speaker 1: of days as he's kind of bounced back on the
Speaker 1: scene here in the last couple of days. But I
Speaker 1: want to talk towards the end. We had a little sequence.
Speaker 1: I thought that you know, something's up a little bit.
Speaker 1: We have it down in the red zone here in
Speaker 1: eleven on elevens, mac Jones was able to find Hunter
Speaker 1: Henry on one of their better tds in the day,
Speaker 1: Kyle Dugger and coverage. He's been picked on a little bit.
Speaker 1: Come back. The next play Dugger picks off Mac probably
Speaker 1: would have been a pick six, although Justin Herron did
Speaker 1: put a very he ran about eighty yards with him
Speaker 1: down the sideline. Ben Watson Circuit two thousand and five.
Speaker 1: There if it's a play, though, Mike, that we talked
Speaker 1: to him. You and I talked about this yesterday that
Speaker 1: I don't think mac Jones has in his skill set
Speaker 1: that I think he's getting some bad habits on the
Speaker 1: practice field, and hopefully it's just one of these things
Speaker 1: like why I could do it in the practice field
Speaker 1: when he's scrambling around and he's looking to sort of
Speaker 1: throw it back the other way. He does not have
Speaker 1: that kind of arm strength, and this was as easy
Speaker 1: a pick six as you're gonna get. You know, Kyle
Speaker 1: Dugger jests completely undercutting the route as he sees Max
Speaker 1: trying to throw it a little bit across the grain.
Speaker 1: That led to push ups for the offense. This time,
Speaker 1: they had another play or two after that, and they
Speaker 1: went to the bread and butter that had worked so
Speaker 1: well the day that they were over ten that a
Speaker 1: little quick sprint out bang out in the flat. I
Speaker 1: thought Myers initially had a step on Marcus Jones, but Jones,
Speaker 1: with a great job or recovering, was able to get
Speaker 1: over there and break up the play. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: might have been a little bit early with the contact.
Speaker 1: Coud to tell from this far away, but just to
Speaker 1: see the defense sort of remember that easy little sprint
Speaker 1: out touchdown they allowed a couple of days ago. They
Speaker 1: made sure it wasn't easy this time. Yeah, the offense
Speaker 1: might have squeaked a couple of plays out at the
Speaker 1: end of the previous practices, but not today. The defense
Speaker 1: finishes with a flourish. They look good. But of course, Paul,
Speaker 1: the good news is this represents the end of the
Speaker 1: non padded portion of training camp. So we're expecting on Monday,
Speaker 1: we'll be back here be full pads, so start to
Speaker 1: be some hitting. Maybe you can extrapolate a little bit
Speaker 1: more from what's going on down in the practice fields.
Speaker 1: But great crowd. If you have a chance, be sure
Speaker 1: to get out here. Next week. They're scheduled to practice
Speaker 1: Monday through Thursday, and then Friday night is scheduled to
Speaker 1: be the in stadium season ticket holder and Foxborow resident practice,
Speaker 1: So if you're able to get to that, always a
Speaker 1: nice time inside Gillette Stadium as well. But otherwise, great
Speaker 1: crowd today, and unfortunately they didn't quite get the offensive
Speaker 1: fireworks they might have been hoping to see. As we're
Speaker 1: watching Mac go off the field here to wrap up practice.
Speaker 1: So as always, Paul and I will be back after
Speaker 1: each session just to catch you guys up. You don't
Speaker 1: have a chance to listen to us blab on and
Speaker 1: on the whole live show, you can get five minutes
Speaker 1: quick here and find out exactly what happened to the practice.
Speaker 1: So we will be back on Monday with a full
Speaker 1: recap of the full padded practice. For now, Mike do so,
Speaker 1: Paul Parto signing off, We'll catch you next time. Thank
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