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Speaker 1: This is the Patriots Catch twenty two podcasts with Evan

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Speaker 1: Lazar and Alex Barth.

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Speaker 2: And Lazarre. Hello, everybody nailed it? Joined us always by

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Speaker 2: our bark. Here is Evan Lazar and Alex bars eighty

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Speaker 2: eight to forty one? Was that one on a napkin?

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Speaker 1: I was about but then he threw back to me

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Speaker 1: too quickly the other one And and by the way,

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Speaker 1: shout out.

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Speaker 2: To whoever put in the chatay rowling, shout out to

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Speaker 2: what Hello everybody, and welcome into a new edition of

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Speaker 2: the Patriots Cast twenty two podcasts here on Patriots dot Com.

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Speaker 2: Evan Lazar joined us always by Alex Barth. Even though

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Speaker 2: we're not we're not live live okay, So don't don't

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Speaker 2: call in, don't email in, don't don't blow up the

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Speaker 2: phones for morell because there's nobody to speak to on

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Speaker 2: the air. So just putting that out there again. This

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Speaker 2: is like one of those things where we need to

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Speaker 2: like have a written disclaimer at the top too, right,

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Speaker 2: like this isn't live okay, uh so don't don't get lost.

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Speaker 2: But the idea behind this show and Alex and I

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Speaker 2: were trying to think of a way to do something

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Speaker 2: that's that is what we call in the biz evergreen, right,

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Speaker 2: you don't have to worry about breaking news or something

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Speaker 2: like that, making it uh not relevant anymore. So we

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Speaker 2: thought what a great idea would be is to break

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Speaker 2: down how Alex and I watch training camp practices, what

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Speaker 2: our routines are, what are what things we're looking for

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Speaker 2: out on the football field during practice, so that when

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Speaker 2: you guys hopefully come get an opportunity to come down

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Speaker 2: to Patriots training camp here at Gillette, you can watch it.

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Speaker 2: I hate to call us pros, but media pros, not

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Speaker 2: saying football how the nerds. That's a better way of

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Speaker 2: putting it. How the nerds watch it. That that's the

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Speaker 2: goal here. We're also gonna have some fun with it.

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Speaker 2: We'll give you a couple of little tricks of the

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Speaker 2: trade to make sure that you have a good day.

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Speaker 2: One one is particularly important that I'll get to you

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Speaker 2: in a second. And also some of our favorite lunch spots,

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Speaker 2: because usually practices around ten and it gets out around

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Speaker 2: noon twelve thirty. If you stay for autographs after practice,

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Speaker 2: and it's perfect opportunity to go to Patriot Place or

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Speaker 2: some of the nearby spots to grab lunch afterwards. If

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Speaker 2: you're coming with your family for come with your kids,

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Speaker 2: it's great. But let's start with the football side of it.

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Speaker 2: So I have a couple of things, a couple things

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Speaker 2: the nitty gritty of how we watch practice. So I

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Speaker 2: think one of the biggest things that I can can't

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Speaker 2: We kind of give off the impression that we see

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Speaker 2: everything at a training camp practice. And I'm here to

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Speaker 2: tell you that anybody that says that they saw everything

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Speaker 2: it's impossible to see everything. It's two fields. They're on

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Speaker 2: of football field, right Like, there's no way you're going

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Speaker 2: If you do come to camp and you feel like

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Speaker 1: Like you're watching on one field and hear a big

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Speaker 2: And that's sort of how I go approaching it.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes the other thing is like a lot of us,

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Speaker 1: like I work with Matt dolofense, so we'll be like,

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Speaker 2: big x's and O is play design all that kind

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Speaker 2: of stuff. In reality, camp is more about players than plays.

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Speaker 2: They're running a lot of their base formations, a lot

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Speaker 2: We're not getting into game planning, they're not getting into

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Speaker 2: best part of covering the team. But it's hot, it's sticky,

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Speaker 1: So definitely bring binoculars because that's.

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Speaker 1: So I in terms of items to bring sunscreen, yes, binoculars,

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Speaker 1: And then the other thing, make sure your phone's charged

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you see, like if Bill's working one on one

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Speaker 1: So I think so there's there's different kinds of practices,

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Speaker 1: the ball based on the place. If they're moving the

431
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Speaker 1: ball they're at like the more layers there are, the

432
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Speaker 1: more stock you should put into that drill.

433
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Speaker 2: Basically, Yeah, and then you also have to think about

434
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Speaker 2: or look at you talked about looking at the coaches

435
00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:30,400
Speaker 2: during team drills during eleven on elevens, Belichick will often

436
00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:35,600
Speaker 2: call out situations. And that's another sort of patriot centric

437
00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:37,280
Speaker 2: thing that you know. I've been to a bunch of

438
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Speaker 2: joint practices and now at this point, they don't do

439
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Speaker 2: that as much as far as they can tell, at

440
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Speaker 2: other places. Now, in Vegas they did it because you

441
00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:47,000
Speaker 2: know who's coaching Vegas, right, But in other places they

442
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Speaker 2: don't do it quite as much. But what you'll see

443
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Speaker 2: is is you'll see a bill kind of bark out

444
00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:55,679
Speaker 2: some things of like thirty seconds left on the clock,

445
00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:58,359
Speaker 2: it's first and ten, you're at your twenty five, you

446
00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:01,720
Speaker 2: need a field goal to win the and they'll literally

447
00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:06,159
Speaker 2: play out the entire situation. They'll drive the football and

448
00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:11,000
Speaker 2: it goes either way. Sometimes Alex, they they just move

449
00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:12,720
Speaker 2: the ball to the spots just to go through the

450
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Speaker 2: motions of the drill. Right. Sometimes it's truly competitive and

451
00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,399
Speaker 2: like the defense has an opportunity to get a stop

452
00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:20,280
Speaker 2: and if they get to stop, the defense wins the drill.

453
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Speaker 2: And sometimes the offense just moves the ball anyways, just

454
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Speaker 2: so that they can practice the situation. So thirty seconds

455
00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:32,239
Speaker 2: ago balls on the twenty five you need to get

456
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Speaker 2: into field goal range and they'll play it out. They'll

457
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Speaker 2: go down the field and then they'll sub off the

458
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Speaker 2: offense for the field goal team and they'll force a

459
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Speaker 2: field goal up and if it goes through, it goes through.

460
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Speaker 2: So there there's a lot of that at a Patriots practice.

461
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Speaker 2: A lot the Patriots, don't you mentioned like putting the

462
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Speaker 2: ball in the middle of the field and just do

463
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Speaker 2: an eleven on eleven to do The Patriots do that

464
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Speaker 2: sometimes for sure, but they don't do as much of

465
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Speaker 2: that as some other teams do, I don't think, because

466
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Speaker 2: a lot of their stuff is strictly situational. Last thing

467
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Speaker 2: for me, maybe if you.

468
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Speaker 1: Haven't got I got one more.

469
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Speaker 2: Yeah, last thing for me. If you're gonna come to

470
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Speaker 2: early training camp, like first couple of days, it's not

471
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Speaker 2: gonna be in pads. They put that out there first

472
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Speaker 2: and foremost. Second thing every single year that I've covered

473
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Speaker 2: the team, which for camp, the full game it's been nineteen,

474
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Speaker 2: so that's what four years now. Yeah, this is going

475
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Speaker 2: on five. They have started with red zone and every single.

476
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Speaker 1: No, we started in eighteen. We covered a super Bowl, dude, I.

477
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Speaker 2: Know, but it wasn't a camp at eight you were, No,

478
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Speaker 2: it wasn't.

479
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Speaker 1: You were definitely had a couple practices late in the year. Okay,

480
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Speaker 1: they started in red zone every single time. Yeah, every time.

481
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Speaker 2: If they don't start in red zone, it will be

482
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Speaker 2: the first time that Paul Perillo said that they haven't

483
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Speaker 2: started in red zone in like twenty years. Eight. I

484
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Speaker 2: don't think that they barely did non red zone stuf.

485
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,120
Speaker 2: Last year. Everything was in red zone. So get prepared

486
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Speaker 2: if you're gonna come for the very first practice on

487
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Speaker 2: July twenty sixth, to it not be padded and for

488
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Speaker 2: them to live the entire time inside the twenty.

489
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Speaker 1: They're gonna live in red zone. Whenever you come.

490
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Speaker 2: They do a lot of red ze. Yeah.

491
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Speaker 1: The last thing I would say, it's gonna sound very

492
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Speaker 1: predictable coming from me. Uh, be careful judging a playoff

493
00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:10,800
Speaker 1: single mistake. Yeah, And there's two reasons for that.

494
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Speaker 2: One is that everybody's susceptible to this because it does

495
00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,879
Speaker 2: stand out in your right, it's impossible for it not to.

496
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Speaker 1: So one. This is a classic belichickism. It's okay to like,

497
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Speaker 1: everybody's gonna make mistakes, don't make the same mistake twice.

498
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Speaker 1: And that's what I watch for. Right, Tom Brady got

499
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Speaker 1: picked off in training camp.

500
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Speaker 2: At times it happened.

501
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Speaker 1: What they want to see is do you learn from

502
00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,359
Speaker 1: that mistake and do you prevent yourself from making it again.

503
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Speaker 1: You've got to remember, like And the other thing is

504
00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:39,880
Speaker 1: sometimes there's instances where they're trying things. This is an

505
00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:43,919
Speaker 1: experimental kind of atmosphere where you can fool around things.

506
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Speaker 1: They may say, hey, Mac, you know, try throwing this

507
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Speaker 1: route on this concept and see what happens. And he

508
00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:50,280
Speaker 1: might get picked and everybody goes, oh, Mac Jones threw

509
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Speaker 1: a pick. Well, the coach might told him to throw

510
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Speaker 1: the ball. Throw the baller and see what happens, right,

511
00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:56,320
Speaker 1: and things like that, or sometimes it's and this is

512
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Speaker 1: I don't know if the Patriots do this, but I

513
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Speaker 1: know there's other teams that do this at certain players ready,

514
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Speaker 1: Like for instance, to get Mac ready, they may go

515
00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:05,040
Speaker 1: to Trent Brown and eleven on eleven peer and say,

516
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,680
Speaker 1: let you down through the snap just let you done

517
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:09,760
Speaker 1: through and it looks like Trent Brown took a snap off,

518
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 1: but they wanted Mac to have to deal with that pressure.

519
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,480
Speaker 1: And people go, oh, so you're excusing Trent Brown. He said, no,

520
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:17,400
Speaker 1: it can happen to anybody. But yeah, they may tell

521
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:20,320
Speaker 1: a corner. Hey, just you know, just fall off, fallfter out,

522
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,400
Speaker 1: fafter out. We want to see things.

523
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Speaker 2: Like That's a big one. Is especially late in the

524
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Speaker 2: practice when they are go to like more like a

525
00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:28,679
Speaker 2: glarth fied walk through. Yeah, a lot of the times

526
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,280
Speaker 2: they are just letting them catch it, like right, it's

527
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Speaker 2: not a true live drill. I think that that's a

528
00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:36,160
Speaker 2: really good point that that this is a hard thing

529
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Speaker 2: to decipher.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's not like it's really not Oh this

531
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Speaker 1: player messed up, he's done. It's is the same Are

532
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Speaker 1: you seeing the same player making the same mistake or

533
00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 1: trailing or like, is the same player putting himself in

534
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:52,920
Speaker 1: the same bad spot repeatedly? That's when you get into it.

535
00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:55,920
Speaker 1: One bad play sometimes and sometimes guys have bad plays.

536
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Speaker 1: It's not to excuse all of it. One bad play.

537
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Speaker 1: You can't write a guy off because one day a

538
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 1: chance makeup for it. And two you don't know what

539
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 1: the scheme was, the situation, the story I always tell

540
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:06,840
Speaker 1: and I don't This wasn't one where the coaches told

541
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:08,440
Speaker 1: him to do it, like that's something that happens. This

542
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 1: is one where I think a guy made a bad mistake.

543
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:12,960
Speaker 1: I was a training camp. I used to go every

544
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Speaker 1: here with my dad. I was a training camp two

545
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Speaker 1: thousand and nine. He was kind of late in the summer,

546
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Speaker 1: and they were padded and they were doing red zone

547
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:21,399
Speaker 1: and it was a rough day for the defense, and

548
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:22,879
Speaker 1: you could tell they were getting frustrated. I think there

549
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,159
Speaker 1: was a fight earlier in the day and it was

550
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Speaker 1: the ones against the scout team. And Brady drops back

551
00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 1: and this journeyman defensive end comes flying around and clocks

552
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,320
Speaker 1: him Tom Brady, and he had a run two laps.

553
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Speaker 1: I think it's the only time I've ever seen a

554
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:38,879
Speaker 1: player run two laps for like one mistake. And my

555
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 1: dad leans over. So that guy's not making the team.

556
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Speaker 2: It was Rob Nikovic.

557
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Speaker 1: So you know it's like if a guy makes one

558
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Speaker 1: bad play, yeah, you can say he made a bad play,

559
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Speaker 1: but clearly Rob Nikovitch made the team. Clearly he overcame

560
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,720
Speaker 1: that because the rest of that camp, he was excellent.

561
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 1: He was great that year. So that's why again, it's

562
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Speaker 1: not about oh, this guy made a bad play, let's

563
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,199
Speaker 1: move him down the depth chart. It's I keep like,

564
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 1: I keep seeing this guy coming up on the wrong

565
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 1: end of a drill. It's that kind of thing. And

566
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,200
Speaker 1: it may not be he may not be making these

567
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 1: massive mistakes, but it's like, man, you know, it feels

568
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,680
Speaker 1: like four or five times today, I've seen this corner

569
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 1: in coverage when a ball gets completed.

570
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:21,639
Speaker 2: It's that and maybe they're not.

571
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:23,960
Speaker 1: He's not clearly getting beat, but it's like he's allowed

572
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 1: a bunch of catches today, or you know, I just

573
00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,119
Speaker 1: this edge rusher has not shown up. It's been a

574
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:30,119
Speaker 1: good day for the defense, but this edge rusher is not.

575
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,359
Speaker 1: That's more what you're looking for than just oh he

576
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Speaker 1: made a bad play.

577
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 2: He sucks. Yeah, I think that just to wrap this up,

578
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 2: and then we'll get into some of the the fun

579
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,480
Speaker 2: suggestions here. Yeah. The one of the harder things to

580
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 2: do as well is to decipher what is truly live

581
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 2: and what is is not are what or what's like

582
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 2: you know, sort of the line of lines that you

583
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,120
Speaker 2: were saying, like they're telling them to do this right right,

584
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 2: So a lot of the time we get you know,

585
00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 2: a perfect example just happened at the end of the spring.

586
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Speaker 2: They're doing a job what i'd call jog through, which

587
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,879
Speaker 2: is a walk through, but they're at least kind of

588
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 2: trying to put some pace to it. They're jogging around

589
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 2: and Mac Jones just kind of lazily flicked the ball

590
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 2: out into the flat because it's not a live drill,

591
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:19,359
Speaker 2: it's not meant to be a live drill. And Kyle

592
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 2: Duggar jumped in front of the pass and returned it

593
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 2: for a pick six. Yeah, and Mac kind of got

594
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,360
Speaker 2: on him about it, and after the practice he kind

595
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 2: of mentioned it in his press conference as well. And

596
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,359
Speaker 2: I'll give credit to the beat. Most of the guys

597
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 2: said Mac threw a pick six at the end of

598
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,439
Speaker 2: practice to Kyle Duggar, but it looked like it was

599
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 2: it wasn't a live drill, Like, don't take it seriously.

600
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 2: So when those things happen, you got to be able

601
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:51,359
Speaker 2: to try to keep in mind or decipher that that

602
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,200
Speaker 2: wasn't actually live. Kyle dugger shouldn't have picked that off.

603
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,919
Speaker 2: It wasn't the point of the drill, and that was

604
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,399
Speaker 2: just that wasn't something to hold against Mac like you

605
00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 2: herew that in. Right. There's also instances where they might

606
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 2: be practicing hail mary's, and of course the hail mary

607
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,399
Speaker 2: might get picked off or heile mary might go for

608
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,160
Speaker 2: a touchdown or whatever. It might be a horrible decision

609
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 2: that he's throwing at hell Mary into three defenders, right,

610
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 2: But that was the drill. It wasn't like Mac just

611
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 2: chucked it up. It just that they were running a

612
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:18,400
Speaker 2: hell Mary.

613
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,199
Speaker 1: There's even time I know, So I don't know if

614
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 1: the Patriots have done this. I know I went to

615
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Speaker 1: a a Bills training camp when I was up in

616
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Speaker 1: New York. This was years ago, so like pre Josh

617
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,800
Speaker 1: Allen and all that, and there was one where like

618
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 1: three plays and I forget who the quarterback was that

619
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,400
Speaker 1: it was like their third string quarterback, like the guy

620
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 1: like never made it in the league. But like three

621
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 1: plays in a row, the guy throws a pick and

622
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:39,879
Speaker 1: we're sitting there like what's going on?

623
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 2: It's terrible.

624
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 1: Nobody was close. And then we found out because some

625
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,159
Speaker 1: day I knew like intern for the team whatever, it

626
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:49,399
Speaker 1: was a interception return drill. Oh, so is everybody. I

627
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 1: remember everybody walked in. I remember seeing Bill's writers being like,

628
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: this was one of the worst periods I've ever seen.

629
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 1: He couldn't stop but throwing interception and I don't know

630
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 1: if the Patriots do that not. At the point is

631
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,919
Speaker 1: like you never really know. So again, it's kind of

632
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 1: that consistency thing. Are you seeing it throughout the day?

633
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,640
Speaker 1: If you go multiple days, you continuing to see it,

634
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,239
Speaker 1: that's more what you're looking for.

635
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 2: Well, that was a lot of information, but hopefully it

636
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 2: was helpful, and I think the biggest the biggest thing

637
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:15,120
Speaker 2: that we could suggest, other than to bring sunscreen, that's

638
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 2: the biggest thing I could suggest. But other than that,

639
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,159
Speaker 2: the biggest thing that we could suggest is have a

640
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,000
Speaker 2: game plan, just like they do right, come into practice

641
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,360
Speaker 2: or go into every single drill with a plan of

642
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 2: this is what I'm watching, this is what I'm focusing on,

643
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 2: and stop trying to see the forest because you're not

644
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,920
Speaker 2: going to be able to so just focus on the trees, right,

645
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,360
Speaker 2: And I think that's that's the hardest part. And we're

646
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 2: like I said, you know, we have the benefit of

647
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 2: being able to split up duties with our colleagues and

648
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 2: also going every single day. So it's different for us

649
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 2: in that respect than it is for somebody coming out

650
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 2: to camp once. All right, a couple of more fun

651
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 2: things here. Yeah, what what's like your your favorite activity

652
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 2: to do while you're down here other than going into practice. Like,

653
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,800
Speaker 2: if I had to make a suggestion just to I

654
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 2: would say, if you have the time, if you're looking

655
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 2: for to kind of make a day out of it,

656
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 2: the Pats Hall of Fame.

657
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, go to the hall. Go to the hall, and

658
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 1: a lot of people just like I want to walk around.

659
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 2: I don't want to watch the movie. Watch the movie.

660
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 1: Watch them there's a movie before you go in.

661
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 2: It's the best part. I love the movie.

662
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: I get at one point in my life I could

663
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 1: like quote a word for it. Have you been fifteen minutes?

664
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: Have you been to Cooperstown? I have?

665
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 2: Okay, So they have a little movie there as well.

666
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 2: It's you I know. But I'm not saying it's better.

667
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, like, when you go to a Hall

668
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 2: of fame, you go to you watch the movie.

669
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 1: It's autumn in New England.

670
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 2: That's how it's That's how it starts.

671
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 1: If that's not enough to sell, if that doesn't give

672
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 1: you chill, And there's like do you want to narrate it?

673
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 2: Or I probably could. I used to be able to

674
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 2: prose good.

675
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 1: There's like like high shot and they're panning over like

676
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 1: Cranberry bogs, and you see the trees are like.

677
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 2: Orange and brown?

678
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: Do you know we in New England? So good every time.

679
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 2: The first time that I learned about the Cranberry bogs

680
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 2: were when I started working here. I had no idea

681
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 2: those even exist.

682
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 1: I mean I grew up down the ship like I

683
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: grew up, you know in Sharon, Cranberry bogs in Sharon,

684
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 1: ocean sprays right behind.

685
00:29:58,040 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 2: You can go watch you can go look at the

686
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 2: craw Brady box up at Patriot Place in the in

687
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 2: the back. That's true, they're behind.

688
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 1: I don't want to call it a hike because it's

689
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 1: a fun block. It's a nice walk. It's a little

690
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:11,479
Speaker 1: bit of a walk probably in the summer is probably tough.

691
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 1: I normally do that like in the fun.

692
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 2: All right, most important lunch recommendations. Okay, this is important.

693
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 2: This is really what we're talking about here.

694
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 1: So I at Patriots Place. Yeah, I really like Anchildo's

695
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: it's a good suggestion, which it used to be a

696
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 1: mos if you're familiar with it, that's like obviously Burrito

697
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: the Middle five Guys is and uh, what is that still?

698
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 1: I want to say, bunch of places around. Yeah, Anchelito's

699
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: is good. Bartloui is always good. If you're like staying

700
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 1: late you want to do dinner. Saga is a LATCHI

701
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 1: play sushi. That spot's really good. But if you just

702
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 1: want to grab like a quick lunch on your way in,

703
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 1: the spot is.

704
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 2: Good food Store. We gotta go to Good Food I.

705
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 1: Have been going there since I was in high school.

706
00:30:57,840 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 1: It's a US, so it's I used to go there

707
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 1: when I was in high school and I see like

708
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 1: my grease there. Yeah, and now I go there.

709
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 2: But that's you can't wrong. Don't undersell how popular you

710
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:13,760
Speaker 2: are at good food Store. I walk in with Alex

711
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 2: a good food store and you would think the freaking

712
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 2: mayor of Shamnon.

713
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 1: You are going to see odds are if you go

714
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 1: to good food storre you're gonna be either see somebody

715
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 1: went to high school with or somebody went to high

716
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 1: school with with parents.

717
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, every time somebody knows Alex and we walk into

718
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 2: Good Food Store full disclosure. We try to go every

719
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 2: Friday during the season to flow. Yeah, it's a mandate,

720
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 2: we know. And we go to Good Food Store for

721
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 2: lunch in between practice and a media availability in the afternoon.

722
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 2: You have a little bit of a gap there most

723
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 2: of the time, a couple of hours and we go

724
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 2: to Good Food Store and we both get the same

725
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 2: thing every single time, which I think is al we.

726
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: Don't we we don't change our or we get different things,

727
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: but like each.

728
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 2: Week, Yeah, so I typically go with the honey turkey sandwich. Yeah,

729
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 2: which Morella, who knows my turkey sandwich order, is not

730
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 2: going to be surprised at all by this. It's smoked honey, turkey, honey, mustard, lettuce.

731
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 2: You know you. I'm not a big like veggies guy.

732
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 2: But like, you can get the works on it. You

733
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 2: can get cheese on it if you want. And but

734
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 2: but Alex gets the samwich. Yeah.

735
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:14,719
Speaker 1: Well no, So there's a couple when you go in

736
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 1: on the wall, they have like all the big posters

737
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 1: of all their sandwiches.

738
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 2: Alex Bartha is gonna be on there some.

739
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 1: No, it's called the Blackjack. I hope they don't change it.

740
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: It's called the blackjack. That's what I get. But there's

741
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 1: like a little like all the sandwiches that you I

742
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 1: had the other sandwiches there at other times you cannot

743
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 1: go wrong.

744
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 2: It's it's really freaking good. It's really good. We had

745
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 2: Matt Dolla from ninety eight five. He came with us

746
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 2: last year for the first time, and even he had to.

747
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 1: Everybody who goes rolls their eyes because they're like, oh,

748
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 1: you're definitely over hyping it, and then they get the

749
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: sad one with you, like it's no way it's this good,

750
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: and then you win, You're like, that's good.

751
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 2: There's also jersey mikes. There's also jersey mikes. That's that's

752
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 2: the uh, I can't do jersey mikes like that. I

753
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 2: gotta go No. I know that's your spot wall pull

754
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 2: right at the end of root one. But if you're

755
00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 2: going in Patriot Place, Angelito is a game sensitive stomach,

756
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 2: like I do, they'll be prepared for afterwards.

757
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 1: But so I would say, of all the like, there's

758
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 1: some like obviously good like sit down places, right, but

759
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 1: if you just want to like go in grab food,

760
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: keep your day going, like like grabbing gold places, I

761
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 1: don't think you beat the Toledo's up there. It's it's

762
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 1: it's really good.

763
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 2: It might be the kid in me, but Red Robin

764
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 2: still does it for me a little bit. I mean,

765
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 2: I like that. That's different.

766
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 1: It's like you're sitting down or like committing Toledo's. It's

767
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: a burrito place. You get your bawl or your burrito.

768
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 2: It's just like a Chipotle, but it's nicer than better. Yeah.

769
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 2: But if I'm sitting down at Patriot Place, I'm still

770
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 2: going to the Red Robin. I am. I like Barlouis.

771
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: I like, I can't remember what it's called that. It

772
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 1: used to be CBSC and they've changed the game so

773
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 1: many times. Sport Club now CBS Sports Club, whatever it is. Yeah,

774
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:47,720
Speaker 1: that place is pretty good.

775
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 2: That I think. If I if I had to watch

776
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 2: a game at Patriot Place, not that we have to

777
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 2: do that.

778
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 1: Do you remember our first year we covered a gate,

779
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: covered a game from there with drags. It was that

780
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 1: Lions game.

781
00:33:57,960 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, they got killed.

782
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: They got killed by bad game. Bentley got hurt.

783
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 2: That was awful. Yeah, but that that's Uh. Those are

784
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 2: the most important recommendations we give. And good food store

785
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 2: if you're just looking for like a sandwich. You know,

786
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 2: in and out. You're not looking to really spend a

787
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 2: ton of time. It's worth the drive down the street.

788
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 2: It's not it's not in Patriot Place, but it's like

789
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 2: ten minutes away. Yeah, it's It's it's a like a

790
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 2: local spot. So you're not going to I love Jersey Mice,

791
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 2: but you're not going to Jersey Mice. You're not going

792
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:30,360
Speaker 2: to Panera like it's it's one of those like authentic

793
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 2: to the to the area. So TVs Sports Scenes is

794
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 2: no longer there. It's called the Harp. Now that's right.

795
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 2: Well I love the Heart by the Garden, So there

796
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 2: you go. Are they expecting I'm not gonna we work

797
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 2: with Patriot Place. I'm not taking shots at the people

798
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 2: Patriot Place. But are they expecting people to like go

799
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,320
Speaker 2: out like they do in Boston at the Harp placed.

800
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 2: I'll go to the Harp before Celtics game just for dinner.

801
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 2: Yeah oh really, Yeah, I didn't know it was like

802
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 2: a place like that.

803
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,160
Speaker 1: Oh yeah no, they got good food. I assume it's

804
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 1: the same. I'm gonna assume it's same. Men, you were

805
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 1: close to it, So yeah, the Harp down by the

806
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 1: Garden is really good food. People don't know that, but

807
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: they do so. I again, if the food is anything

808
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 1: like that, that's definitely a spot you can go.

809
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 2: Okay, well that they just opened that. I'm still going

810
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,359
Speaker 2: to Red Robin, all right, I'm pretty sure the Red

811
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 2: Robin still does the unlimited fries if you sit down,

812
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 2: get as many fries as you want.

813
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:19,319
Speaker 1: I remember the Onion Ring Tower.

814
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 2: So there's like seventeen different like huge burgers that you get.

815
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 2: I mean that like you're in for it. You know

816
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 2: you're gonna you're gonna.

817
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: See that you have if you're doing Red Robin or

818
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 1: or the Harp or like one of these sit down

819
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: place or even Angelitos because it's heavy. It's a burrito

820
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 1: that's after practice. Do not do that before practice. Well,

821
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:41,799
Speaker 1: you are gonna hate yourself. I'll give you.

822
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,240
Speaker 2: Want one more spot. Yeah, it's good. So it's it's

823
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:46,280
Speaker 2: probably about the same drive as good food stores.

824
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:47,880
Speaker 1: Not at Patch place, but if you go to Ward's

825
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:50,359
Speaker 1: Berry Farm and Sharon, oh we we've been there before. Yeah. Yeah,

826
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 1: they also have really good sandwiches. You can sit outside.

827
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: Smoothies are amazing. Uh, that's another good spot around here.

828
00:35:56,560 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 2: You might also see many deuce deuces works at words.

829
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:03,319
Speaker 2: He does. I gotta go to it. I've been meaning

830
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:05,279
Speaker 2: to go there. Now I really gotta go, he does.

831
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 2: And is is your ice cream spot too far away?

832
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 2: Like that? Oh Cridge Crescent Ridge?

833
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 1: I mean it's if you really want to make a

834
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:15,879
Speaker 1: day of it, like at the end of the day,

835
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:17,799
Speaker 1: it's on the other side. It's like, so you got

836
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,400
Speaker 1: to drive. I guess it's not that far because you

837
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 1: come up Route one. You basically got to drive through Sharon.

838
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 1: You gotta drive all the way across Sharon. But yes,

839
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 1: there's an ice cream place called the Crescent Ridge. It

840
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 1: was I think it was Time or CNN did this

841
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:33,440
Speaker 1: big thing a couple of years ago. That was the

842
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: one hundred best ice cream place in America and Crescent

843
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:38,399
Speaker 1: Ridge came in second. And I've been to the place

844
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 1: that came in first, and I didn't think it was

845
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 1: very good. Crescent Ridge is the best ice cream you'll

846
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 1: ever have. If you really want to wrap up your

847
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: day in style, you go to Cridge.

848
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 2: What can you tell he's from Sharon or can you

849
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 2: tell you's from Sharon? You know I'm from around here.

850
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 2: I know where to go. What's the what's so bad

851
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 2: about It's good dhen Alex and I first started working together.

852
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 2: He gave me, you know, I had the whole lowdown.

853
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 2: I knew where to go to eat for lunch, it's important,

854
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 2: and all those types of things. So there we have it.

855
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,279
Speaker 2: That's that's our Patriots training camp day. If we had

856
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 2: to sum it up, you got get to practice a

857
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 2: little bit early. You don't have to be there an

858
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 2: hour early. Well, I guess with the fans that you

859
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 2: if you want a good spot.

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Speaker 1: If you're going on the weekend, do you want to

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Speaker 1: get there pretty early. If you're coming during the week

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Speaker 1: especially like after the first day, it's it's not too bad.

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Speaker 1: But if you're coming on the weekend, either show up

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Speaker 1: really early or if you show up like right on

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Speaker 1: time and you're part of that later group, you might

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Speaker 1: get in the overflow, which is up on the rams, right.

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Speaker 2: So come a little bit early. I would say, it

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Speaker 2: doesn't have to be two hours. You don't have to

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Speaker 2: camp out, but come a little bit early. The second

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Speaker 2: thing that I would say, you know, all the things

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Speaker 2: that we said about, you know, try to focus in

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Speaker 2: on little things that practice. Try to see the trees,

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Speaker 2: not the forest. This isn't you know, you're not gonna

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Speaker 2: be able to see everything, and most importantly, post practice

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Speaker 2: launch it at Good Food Store. We're giving Good Food

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Speaker 2: Store the top spot. And I'm sorry Jersey Mikes, please

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Speaker 2: don't take it personally. I still love you, but we're

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Speaker 2: giving Good Food Store the top spot and that does

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Speaker 2: it for our training camp. FAQ. This was fun. I'm glad.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad we did this. This was fun, a little

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Speaker 2: bit different, a little bit outside the box. But Alex

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Speaker 2: and I will be back next week on Thursday, same time,

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Speaker 2: same place to break down training camp. Well maybe same time.

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Speaker 1: We don't know same time because we don't know what

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Speaker 1: the practice schedule is going to be true, but it'll

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Speaker 1: be at some point on Thursday afternoon.

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Speaker 2: To break down training camp. Can you believe it? We

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Speaker 2: made it. We made it, folks, We made it through

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Speaker 2: the NFL offseason once again. Football will be back. I'm excited,

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Speaker 2: Alex is excited. We're living it up and we'll be

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Speaker 2: back next Thursday to break down all of the happenings

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Speaker 2: out at Patriots training camp and hopefully we'll see you there.