Speaker 1: This is the Patriots Catch twenty two podcasts with Evan
Speaker 1: Lazar and Alex Barth.
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Speaker 2: what Hello everybody, and welcome into a new edition of
Speaker 2: the Patriots Cast twenty two podcasts here on Patriots dot Com.
Speaker 2: Evan Lazar joined us always by Alex Barth. Even though
Speaker 2: we're not we're not live live okay, So don't don't
Speaker 2: call in, don't email in, don't don't blow up the
Speaker 2: phones for morell because there's nobody to speak to on
Speaker 2: the air. So just putting that out there again. This
Speaker 2: is like one of those things where we need to
Speaker 2: like have a written disclaimer at the top too, right,
Speaker 2: like this isn't live okay, uh so don't don't get lost.
Speaker 2: But the idea behind this show and Alex and I
Speaker 2: were trying to think of a way to do something
Speaker 2: that's that is what we call in the biz evergreen, right,
Speaker 2: you don't have to worry about breaking news or something
Speaker 2: like that, making it uh not relevant anymore. So we
Speaker 2: thought what a great idea would be is to break
Speaker 2: down how Alex and I watch training camp practices, what
Speaker 2: our routines are, what are what things we're looking for
Speaker 2: out on the football field during practice, so that when
Speaker 2: you guys hopefully come get an opportunity to come down
Speaker 2: to Patriots training camp here at Gillette, you can watch it.
Speaker 2: I hate to call us pros, but media pros, not
Speaker 2: saying football how the nerds. That's a better way of
Speaker 2: putting it. How the nerds watch it. That that's the
Speaker 2: goal here. We're also gonna have some fun with it.
Speaker 2: We'll give you a couple of little tricks of the
Speaker 2: trade to make sure that you have a good day.
Speaker 2: One one is particularly important that I'll get to you
Speaker 2: in a second. And also some of our favorite lunch spots,
Speaker 2: because usually practices around ten and it gets out around
Speaker 2: noon twelve thirty. If you stay for autographs after practice,
Speaker 2: and it's perfect opportunity to go to Patriot Place or
Speaker 2: some of the nearby spots to grab lunch afterwards. If
Speaker 2: you're coming with your family for come with your kids,
Speaker 2: it's great. But let's start with the football side of it.
Speaker 2: So I have a couple of things, a couple things
Speaker 2: I want to talk about. Then we'll get into like
Speaker 2: the nitty gritty of how we watch practice. So I
Speaker 2: think one of the biggest things that I can can't
Speaker 2: stress enough, and I think sometimes we I'm going to
Speaker 2: couple lumpus all in so I'm not calling out anybody individually.
Speaker 2: We kind of give off the impression that we see
Speaker 2: everything at a training camp practice. And I'm here to
Speaker 2: tell you that anybody that says that they saw everything
Speaker 2: that happened at a training camp practice is lying. Yes,
Speaker 2: it's impossible to see everything. It's two fields. They're on
Speaker 2: a two field. It's ninety guys, it's two hundred yards
Speaker 2: of football field, right Like, there's no way you're going
Speaker 2: to see everything. Don't come to camp, and don't be demoralized.
Speaker 2: If you do come to camp and you feel like
Speaker 2: you miss stuff, it's it's tough.
Speaker 1: Like you're watching on one field and hear a big
Speaker 1: cheer all of a sudden because something happened on the
Speaker 1: other field that happens. It happens to all of.
Speaker 2: Us, and that's that's a big thing because we get
Speaker 2: lucky and that we cover the team and so we
Speaker 2: get to come every single day. So if I didn't
Speaker 2: really watch the defensive line much on Monday, I can
Speaker 2: come back and Tuesday can be the defensive line day.
Speaker 2: And that's sort of how I go approaching it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes the other thing is like a lot of us,
Speaker 1: you know, we're not the only one from our outland, right, So,
Speaker 1: like I work with Matt dolofense, so we'll be like,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna watch the you know, if it's
Speaker 1: the ones on offense and the ones on defense or
Speaker 1: a different field, I'm gonna watch the offense, you watch
Speaker 1: the defense, or I'm gonna watch this I'm gonna watch
Speaker 1: this player, you watch this player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So what we do with Deuce and I, I'm
Speaker 2: usually more the offense guy, and he's usually more because
Speaker 2: he's more interested in the defense. I'm more interested in offense,
Speaker 2: so he'll watch defense a lot of the time. I'll
Speaker 2: watch offense, or like during O line and D line
Speaker 2: one on one, sometimes the be doing cornerback and receiver
Speaker 2: one on one. So we'll split it up. And that's
Speaker 2: something that I think is an advantage of us covering
Speaker 2: the outlet, you know, covering for outlets that have multiple
Speaker 2: people to be able to watch practice. So don't be demoralized,
Speaker 2: don't think, don't get your hopes up that you're gonna
Speaker 2: see everything and then come and feel like, ah, dang,
Speaker 2: like I miss so much. That's that's gonna happen. The
Speaker 2: second little thing that I have here is I'm a
Speaker 2: big scheme guy. All you guys know that I'm a
Speaker 2: big x's and O is play design all that kind
Speaker 2: of stuff. In reality, camp is more about players than plays.
Speaker 2: They're running a lot of their base formations, a lot
Speaker 2: of their base concepts in terms of the actual drawing
Speaker 2: out of the plays right, the play design, all of
Speaker 2: it is pretty much rudimentary stuff to an NFL team.
Speaker 2: We're not getting into game planning, they're not getting into
Speaker 2: exotic blitzes, they're not getting into all these crazy you know,
Speaker 2: double passes and all that kind of stuff. So what
Speaker 2: you're really going out there to do is focus on
Speaker 2: who looks good, what players popping. You know, when when
Speaker 2: Christian Gonzales goes up against DeVante Parker and Uh and
Speaker 2: Juju and some of the top receivers on the team,
Speaker 2: or when we get into joint practices. You might not
Speaker 2: be there, but if you live in Nashville, in or
Speaker 2: in the Green Bay area, you can come. It's there
Speaker 2: open to the public. You can come when Juju or
Speaker 2: excuse me, Christian Gonzales goes up against Christian Watson at Lambeau, right, like,
Speaker 2: that's gonna be a big matchup. So it's more about
Speaker 2: players than plays. The other last thing and this one's
Speaker 2: more tongue in cheek, but I gotta say it. Bring binoculars, binoculars.
Speaker 2: I don't know can people people can bring binoculars. I
Speaker 2: think so. If not, don't bring binoculars, but I think
Speaker 2: they can. Now, this is real. This is the real,
Speaker 2: And I know it's it's sort of a joke, but
Speaker 2: it's I cannot stress this point enough. You absolutely positively
Speaker 2: need to come to training camp with sunscreen. If you
Speaker 2: don't come with sunscreen or properly apply sunscreen before coming
Speaker 2: to training camp, you will look like a red lobster
Speaker 2: by the end of the day. Every single beat writer
Speaker 2: under the sun, myself, Alex, we have all out how
Speaker 2: many times have one of us gotten toasted out at
Speaker 2: trading camp. It happens every year. It happens even if
Speaker 2: you apply sunscreen. Sometimes there's not a lot of shade,
Speaker 2: there's not a lot of cover from the sun. You
Speaker 2: are gonna get your that sun's gonna come beaten down
Speaker 2: on you. And the one thing you'll say about camp, uh,
Speaker 2: I love camp. It's my favorite time of the year.
Speaker 2: We get to watch practice. As you know as two
Speaker 2: football nerds, this is this is it. This is the
Speaker 2: best part of covering the team. But it's hot, it's sticky,
Speaker 2: it's humid. It's New England in August and it's and
Speaker 2: it's sunny and you're gonna get burnt if you don't
Speaker 2: wear sunscreen. People and you can being binocular.
Speaker 1: So definitely bring binoculars because that's.
Speaker 2: That's that whenever somebody starts out anew on the beat,
Speaker 2: if they if they say that and reaches out to
Speaker 2: me and asks me for for tips for training camp,
Speaker 2: binoculars is my number one thing.
Speaker 1: So I in terms of items to bring sunscreen, yes, binoculars,
Speaker 1: yes it unless you're gonna get there really early and
Speaker 1: you're gonna end up on the bleachers. Bring like a
Speaker 1: blanket or something to sit on the on the hill,
Speaker 1: which I think is better. Or if it's one of
Speaker 1: those days where it's overflow and you can get up
Speaker 1: on the ramps. That's my favorite spots. Yeah, I love it,
Speaker 1: So we do the shows from up on the ramps.
Speaker 1: I'm spoiled being up there as I miss going up there.
Speaker 1: And then the other thing, make sure your phone's charged
Speaker 1: because you're gonna want to look up, oh, who's this player?
Speaker 1: And they'll give you a roster and like have your
Speaker 1: roster ready too, but you're gonna want to look up
Speaker 1: where'd they get this play? Where did this guy come from?
Speaker 1: What did this guy do last year? Right? You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of new players, and for you know,
Speaker 1: for us, it feels a little less new. I kind
Speaker 1: of remind myself about this one because this is what
Speaker 1: I was doing all spring. I'm on my phone, like
Speaker 1: because you know, we as the guys come in, we
Speaker 1: learn about them. But then you get there and you're like, oh, wow,
Speaker 1: they're playing this guy here. How much did he play
Speaker 1: there last year? I want to look this up and
Speaker 1: that up. So charge definitely, you want a charged phone, absolutely.
Speaker 2: All right, So what what tip do we have in
Speaker 2: terms of like actually viewing live play.
Speaker 1: So the best advice I ever got on this when
Speaker 1: I covered you know, we went to college and I
Speaker 1: covered the team there and the coaches were we got
Speaker 1: to watch every day like all season, all the practices,
Speaker 1: and the coaches were super awesome about helping me learn
Speaker 1: the game. And I think the best advice I got
Speaker 1: from them is if you really want to know what's important,
Speaker 1: because it's hard to say, like, Okay, just watch this
Speaker 1: at practice because different days are all about different things.
Speaker 1: Watch what the coaches are watching. So look at Bill,
Speaker 1: look at Girod, look at Bill O'Brien, look at Steve
Speaker 1: right where are their eyes? Yeah, and then go where
Speaker 1: their eyes are because those are the guys that are
Speaker 1: making the decisions. Those are the guys that are going
Speaker 1: to build a team, Those are the guys that are
Speaker 1: going to come up with the game plans. So if
Speaker 1: you want to try to like get ahead of it
Speaker 1: and really learn what they're thinking, you've got to watch
Speaker 1: what they're watching. And now they have the luxury if
Speaker 1: they go back and they watch film of the whole
Speaker 1: day and they'll see everything. But what are they looking
Speaker 1: for what are they looking for, See where they're looking,
Speaker 1: and then look at that because odds are that's probably
Speaker 1: pretty important. And it's all sorry to add another it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you see, like if Bill's working one on one
Speaker 1: with a player, you might notice, right, this is a
Speaker 1: couple of times he's pulled this guy as side and
Speaker 1: he talked to him, Or Bill O'Brien, same thing. He's
Speaker 1: pulled the same receiver aside three or four times and
Speaker 1: talked to him. Clearly there's an interest in that player
Speaker 1: more so than just the base level. So honestly, look
Speaker 1: at the coaches and look at what they're looking at.
Speaker 1: That's generally where my eyes go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great point. And I think one of
Speaker 2: the coolest things that you hear about about coach Belichick
Speaker 2: is he he's the exception to my number one thing
Speaker 2: when we started this of you can't see everything. Somehow
Speaker 2: Bill sees pretty much everything. Like he has that ability
Speaker 2: to watch an eleven on eleven sequence with and he
Speaker 2: can correct all twenty two guys. It's incredible. Yeah, I've
Speaker 2: never seen anything like it. We are not that gifted, right,
Speaker 2: So when I watch camp again, it kind of goes
Speaker 2: back to what we were saying earlier. I tend to
Speaker 2: try to focus on like one area of the field. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And I try to narrow my scope because things, especially
Speaker 2: when they get into team drills, it's too fast, and
Speaker 2: I don't it's too fast to dissect it to the
Speaker 2: point where you can call out everything that happened. So
Speaker 2: I will look at the secondary for one play, then
Speaker 2: I might look at the trenches for another play, and
Speaker 2: kind of go back and forth. I also tend to
Speaker 2: because I'm an offense guy and I like quarterbacks and receivers.
Speaker 2: I tend to try to play quarterback a little bit too,
Speaker 2: and like kind of look at the coverages and the
Speaker 2: route combinations and try to figure out where the ball
Speaker 2: should be going, and seeing where the quarterbacks go and
Speaker 2: then trying to either reverse engineer why did they go
Speaker 2: there or figure it out from there.
Speaker 1: I would say on top of that, And I generally
Speaker 1: go back and forth between, Like sometimes I have the
Speaker 1: binoculars and I'm on one player, and then sometimes I
Speaker 1: just put the monoculars down. I say, I just want
Speaker 1: to watch, Like I said, I can't see everything, but
Speaker 1: you can get the general flow will play, Like I
Speaker 1: want to see how this whole thing plays out, route combinations,
Speaker 1: things like that. Yeah, no, oh, what you're watching before
Speaker 1: the play. You don't want to go what you don't
Speaker 1: want to do. I learned this the hard way my
Speaker 1: first year. You don't want to go into a play
Speaker 1: saying all right, I'm just gonna wait and see what happens.
Speaker 1: And I'm just gonna look to where the actions because like,
Speaker 1: you can follow the ball, but if you're following the
Speaker 1: ball to the catch point, by the time the ball's caught,
Speaker 1: that receiver has already made his play. If you're you know,
Speaker 1: following the ball and somebody gets a sack because there's
Speaker 1: no you don't tackle the quarterback. But you saw the
Speaker 1: player get sacked. You didn't see what he did, right,
Speaker 1: You didn't see the movie put on, so and sometimes
Speaker 1: you'll miss it sometimes, you know, I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: I want to watch this receiver on this play, and
Speaker 1: I get the binoculars out and I can't even see
Speaker 1: what's going on at the line, you know, in the box.
Speaker 1: I'm just watching the receiver and then to run And
Speaker 1: I just watched a run off that sucks. It happens sometimes,
Speaker 1: and that's why I also, you know, it's another point
Speaker 1: I'll get too bigger. Know the drills listened for the drills,
Speaker 1: but before each play kind of decide, I'm gonna use
Speaker 1: the binocas, I'm gonna watch this guy, I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: him down and I'm gonna watch all this or I'm
Speaker 1: gonna watch Trent Brown on this player, I'm gonna watch
Speaker 1: Taekwon Thornton on this player, I'm gonna watch Christian Gonzalez.
Speaker 1: Decide before the play happens what you want to watch,
Speaker 1: because if you wait until the play starts, like you said,
Speaker 1: it's very faster.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and with the in the trenches in team drills, frankly,
Speaker 2: sometimes you're not going to see what the blocking scheme
Speaker 2: is if you if you know how to dissect blocking schemes,
Speaker 2: like if it's you know, a gap player, if it's
Speaker 2: his zone player, if it's a there's a polar like that.
Speaker 2: Sometimes the runner just kind of comes out of the
Speaker 2: line of scrimmage and you're just like, oh, oh, they
Speaker 2: he got through right, like you know they You we
Speaker 2: don't have the benefit of the film, like we can't
Speaker 2: go back and watch practice film like the like the
Speaker 2: team does. So there's that what's some of the like
Speaker 2: standard drills. I think some people like don't necessarily people
Speaker 2: know that level, so maybe yeah.
Speaker 1: So I think so there's there's different kinds of practices,
Speaker 1: and there's different drills within the practice. So I think
Speaker 1: it's important to know that there's non padded practice, padded practice,
Speaker 1: and joint practices, and.
Speaker 2: They they're they're waited.
Speaker 1: You put a lot more stock into what you see
Speaker 1: to padded practice than in a non pad practice. The
Speaker 1: joint pract are the cream of the crop.
Speaker 2: That's like it, right, So those are like glorified preseason game.
Speaker 1: If if you think an offensive lineman had a bad
Speaker 1: day and an odd padded practice, you'd miss something like
Speaker 1: you just you can't go off of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Within that, I mean there's three kind of umbrella drills
Speaker 1: and then we'll break down from there. There's generally there's
Speaker 1: is sometimes you might see some other numbers, but there's ones,
Speaker 1: there's fives, and there's seven. Yeah, so ones is one
Speaker 1: on one and that can be receiver corner, that can
Speaker 1: be a nine ozer line.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you get like the ball.
Speaker 1: Carrier linebacker safety drill where it's like tackling in space.
Speaker 2: I also like the personally they do. Sometimes they do linebackers,
Speaker 2: safeties versus tight ends and running.
Speaker 1: Backs, which I like one on ones yeah so so,
Speaker 1: but but you'll have guys going one on one. Ye,
Speaker 1: you'll have seven on seven or I think some people
Speaker 1: call it shells or scale U skeleton, and that's basically
Speaker 1: that's only a passing drill and it's the quarterback and
Speaker 1: there's a center there, but he doesn't do anything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's quarterback, center and five skill position players and then
Speaker 1: it's seven place in the secondary. And that's more so used.
Speaker 1: You're not evaluating off sevens. It's very rare evaluating off sevens.
Speaker 1: That is a all right, we're gonna that's essentially the rehearsal.
Speaker 1: All right, this is what we want the concepts to
Speaker 1: look like. Let's get the timing down, let's get the
Speaker 1: rhythm down, and then you get into eleven's which is
Speaker 1: exactly what it sounds like, eleven on eleven live reps.
Speaker 1: This is it when they go like sometimes it's a
Speaker 1: long practice all a minute. Sometimes with the chat in
Speaker 1: the tent, there were chatting or you know, whatever, What
Speaker 1: do you think of this?
Speaker 2: What do you think of that?
Speaker 1: How is your day eleven's happened the game one. Everybody
Speaker 1: stops what they're doing. You're watching eleven. So eleven padded practices,
Speaker 1: eleven drills padded practice. That's where it's being decided. That
Speaker 1: is as close to real football as you're gonna get.
Speaker 1: That's the stuff you want to watch. And then i'd say,
Speaker 1: on top of that, you'll if you listen, you'll usually hear.
Speaker 1: So they're on a clock and there's a clock, you
Speaker 1: can see it. There's a scoreboard, and that's how long
Speaker 1: each drill is. And sometimes they go a little over.
Speaker 1: But there's a big horn at the end of each
Speaker 1: session and somebody calls out what the next drill is?
Speaker 2: Sticks? Is it sticks? Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And he's got a massive voice.
Speaker 2: Is it just him? Sometimes?
Speaker 1: I think other people?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well the echobs sticks is the is the tall
Speaker 2: black you'll see sis.
Speaker 1: He's tall, he's got a beard, he's got an airhorn,
Speaker 1: he's got a big booming voice, and he'll yell out
Speaker 1: with the drill is and.
Speaker 2: Sometimes he's the Patriots equipment manager. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we don't know what it means. Sometimes it's like
Speaker 1: a code word. But sometimes he'll be like he'll say
Speaker 1: like run fits, run fits. It's like, all right, they're
Speaker 1: practicing runs. So what I said before about if you're
Speaker 1: gonna pick one player and watch, if you hear Stix
Speaker 1: call out something that says run in it, probably don't
Speaker 1: watch a receiver during that period because odds are they're
Speaker 1: just doing runs. If you hear something about like during sevens,
Speaker 1: don't watch the center. You don't need to watch the
Speaker 1: center during sevens. Yeah, some and some drills are both.
Speaker 1: Some drills are running and passing, and then you have
Speaker 1: to decide. But if you can kind of hear what
Speaker 1: he's saying, or you watch a couple of reps, you
Speaker 1: might get an idea, and it can be more narrow
Speaker 1: than run or pass. It might be outside run, it
Speaker 1: might be screens, it might be this, it might be that.
Speaker 1: If you get a better idea of what they're doing,
Speaker 1: it helps you know what to look for and look
Speaker 1: for where the action is really gonna be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's a really good point. I think that
Speaker 2: early on, for everybody, it's not it's not just don't
Speaker 2: take it like like it's just you. For everybody, early on,
Speaker 2: figuring out what the heck is going on is a
Speaker 2: challenge it's a lot and if you didn't play football
Speaker 2: growing up at like like in high school or something
Speaker 2: like that, you're you're really looking at something that's a
Speaker 2: completely different language in a lot of ways. You mentioned
Speaker 2: one on ones uh, skeleton or seven on seven as
Speaker 2: some people call it, eleven's Uh. The Patriots are a
Speaker 2: team that does does do some nine on seven as well,
Speaker 2: and nine on seven is typically running. Some teams call
Speaker 2: it inside six. I think the Patriots called old school
Speaker 2: nine on seven.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: That's usually seven blockers against nine defenders. And it's a undrill.
Speaker 2: So there's that too. And then the Pats, as you
Speaker 2: probably would expect, do quite a bit of open field
Speaker 2: tackling stuff as well. But what they're not necessarily tackling
Speaker 2: to the ground in those drills, But what they're trying
Speaker 2: to do is they're trying to play the leverage right,
Speaker 2: so play to help or play to the sideline. So
Speaker 2: you'll often hear coaches yell during those drills, and that
Speaker 2: those drills get intense, like the coaches try to get
Speaker 2: on guys during that portion and they'll yell things about,
Speaker 2: you know, force them to your help for them to
Speaker 2: you know, play your leverage things like that, and they're
Speaker 2: talking about as either your help is either in the
Speaker 2: middle of the field, like you're trying to funnel him
Speaker 2: into the help defender in the middle of the field,
Speaker 2: or you're trying to use the sideline as your help
Speaker 2: and that might be where your leverage is at, so
Speaker 2: you're taking that outside leverage position to push them back
Speaker 2: out to the sideline. Those are some of the other
Speaker 2: kind of nuanced drills that I think that they do.
Speaker 2: They did some new drills in the spring of some
Speaker 2: conditioning stuff. I don't know if we're going to see
Speaker 2: that in camp.
Speaker 1: I got that last day when they were doing all
Speaker 1: that running.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that might that might just be a spring thing
Speaker 2: because it is more of a conditioning camp than it
Speaker 2: is a real football camp. So I think the other
Speaker 2: couple of things that I wanted to mention were just
Speaker 2: some of the other like tells that you can kind
Speaker 2: of pick up on music. Music is key, yes, because
Speaker 2: the Patriots they try to simulate a game environment, so
Speaker 2: they used music as crowd noise essentially, and you can
Speaker 2: tell that they are really ramping it up during team
Speaker 2: drills during elevens is Alex laid out when the music starts.
Speaker 1: Going right because they want to make it tough to communicate.
Speaker 2: So when you hear bon Jovi or it tends to
Speaker 2: be like eighties rock, right, I wonder who's picking it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it tends to be like some bon Jovi or something
Speaker 2: like that. Every once in a while you can tell
Speaker 2: the players have the ox cord and it will be
Speaker 2: rap or something like that.
Speaker 1: Or Luke Colms if it's David Andrews. There's that one
Speaker 1: day the spring where it was all Luke Colms stuff.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and I would just add on top of
Speaker 1: that goal line too, is another sign that they're really
Speaker 1: ramping up. Like music and goal line means okay, like
Speaker 1: I said before, you had like one seven's, eleven's and
Speaker 1: then there's another and then padded and unpadded. The other
Speaker 1: factor here is music, no music, and where are they
Speaker 1: on the field? Are they doing?
Speaker 2: Two minute?
Speaker 1: Are they doing? You know?
Speaker 2: If they bring out the downs.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they do eleven on eleven, they just do it
Speaker 1: in the middle of the field, right, and they just
Speaker 1: keep resetting the ball at the same spot. But sometimes
Speaker 1: you'll see they'll bring out down markers and they'll move
Speaker 1: the ball based on the place. If they're moving the
Speaker 1: ball they're at like the more layers there are, the
Speaker 1: more stock you should put into that drill.
Speaker 2: Basically, Yeah, and then you also have to think about
Speaker 2: or look at you talked about looking at the coaches
Speaker 2: during team drills during eleven on elevens, Belichick will often
Speaker 2: call out situations. And that's another sort of patriot centric
Speaker 2: thing that you know. I've been to a bunch of
Speaker 2: joint practices and now at this point, they don't do
Speaker 2: that as much as far as they can tell, at
Speaker 2: other places. Now, in Vegas they did it because you
Speaker 2: know who's coaching Vegas, right, But in other places they
Speaker 2: don't do it quite as much. But what you'll see
Speaker 2: is is you'll see a bill kind of bark out
Speaker 2: some things of like thirty seconds left on the clock,
Speaker 2: it's first and ten, you're at your twenty five, you
Speaker 2: need a field goal to win the and they'll literally
Speaker 2: play out the entire situation. They'll drive the football and
Speaker 2: it goes either way. Sometimes Alex, they they just move
Speaker 2: the ball to the spots just to go through the
Speaker 2: motions of the drill. Right. Sometimes it's truly competitive and
Speaker 2: like the defense has an opportunity to get a stop
Speaker 2: and if they get to stop, the defense wins the drill.
Speaker 2: And sometimes the offense just moves the ball anyways, just
Speaker 2: so that they can practice the situation. So thirty seconds
Speaker 2: ago balls on the twenty five you need to get
Speaker 2: into field goal range and they'll play it out. They'll
Speaker 2: go down the field and then they'll sub off the
Speaker 2: offense for the field goal team and they'll force a
Speaker 2: field goal up and if it goes through, it goes through.
Speaker 2: So there there's a lot of that at a Patriots practice.
Speaker 2: A lot the Patriots, don't you mentioned like putting the
Speaker 2: ball in the middle of the field and just do
Speaker 2: an eleven on eleven to do The Patriots do that
Speaker 2: sometimes for sure, but they don't do as much of
Speaker 2: that as some other teams do, I don't think, because
Speaker 2: a lot of their stuff is strictly situational. Last thing
Speaker 2: for me, maybe if you.
Speaker 1: Haven't got I got one more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, last thing for me. If you're gonna come to
Speaker 2: early training camp, like first couple of days, it's not
Speaker 2: gonna be in pads. They put that out there first
Speaker 2: and foremost. Second thing every single year that I've covered
Speaker 2: the team, which for camp, the full game it's been nineteen,
Speaker 2: so that's what four years now. Yeah, this is going
Speaker 2: on five. They have started with red zone and every single.
Speaker 1: No, we started in eighteen. We covered a super Bowl, dude, I.
Speaker 2: Know, but it wasn't a camp at eight you were, No,
Speaker 2: it wasn't.
Speaker 1: You were definitely had a couple practices late in the year. Okay,
Speaker 1: they started in red zone every single time. Yeah, every time.
Speaker 2: If they don't start in red zone, it will be
Speaker 2: the first time that Paul Perillo said that they haven't
Speaker 2: started in red zone in like twenty years. Eight. I
Speaker 2: don't think that they barely did non red zone stuf.
Speaker 2: Last year. Everything was in red zone. So get prepared
Speaker 2: if you're gonna come for the very first practice on
Speaker 2: July twenty sixth, to it not be padded and for
Speaker 2: them to live the entire time inside the twenty.
Speaker 1: They're gonna live in red zone. Whenever you come.
Speaker 2: They do a lot of red ze. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The last thing I would say, it's gonna sound very
Speaker 1: predictable coming from me. Uh, be careful judging a playoff
Speaker 1: single mistake. Yeah, And there's two reasons for that.
Speaker 2: One is that everybody's susceptible to this because it does
Speaker 2: stand out in your right, it's impossible for it not to.
Speaker 1: So one. This is a classic belichickism. It's okay to like,
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna make mistakes, don't make the same mistake twice.
Speaker 1: And that's what I watch for. Right, Tom Brady got
Speaker 1: picked off in training camp.
Speaker 2: At times it happened.
Speaker 1: What they want to see is do you learn from
Speaker 1: that mistake and do you prevent yourself from making it again.
Speaker 1: You've got to remember, like And the other thing is
Speaker 1: sometimes there's instances where they're trying things. This is an
Speaker 1: experimental kind of atmosphere where you can fool around things.
Speaker 1: They may say, hey, Mac, you know, try throwing this
Speaker 1: route on this concept and see what happens. And he
Speaker 1: might get picked and everybody goes, oh, Mac Jones threw
Speaker 1: a pick. Well, the coach might told him to throw
Speaker 1: the ball. Throw the baller and see what happens, right,
Speaker 1: and things like that, or sometimes it's and this is
Speaker 1: I don't know if the Patriots do this, but I
Speaker 1: know there's other teams that do this at certain players ready,
Speaker 1: Like for instance, to get Mac ready, they may go
Speaker 1: to Trent Brown and eleven on eleven peer and say,
Speaker 1: let you down through the snap just let you done
Speaker 1: through and it looks like Trent Brown took a snap off,
Speaker 1: but they wanted Mac to have to deal with that pressure.
Speaker 1: And people go, oh, so you're excusing Trent Brown. He said, no,
Speaker 1: it can happen to anybody. But yeah, they may tell
Speaker 1: a corner. Hey, just you know, just fall off, fallfter out,
Speaker 1: fafter out. We want to see things.
Speaker 2: Like That's a big one. Is especially late in the
Speaker 2: practice when they are go to like more like a
Speaker 2: glarth fied walk through. Yeah, a lot of the times
Speaker 2: they are just letting them catch it, like right, it's
Speaker 2: not a true live drill. I think that that's a
Speaker 2: really good point that that this is a hard thing
Speaker 2: to decipher.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's not like it's really not Oh this
Speaker 1: player messed up, he's done. It's is the same Are
Speaker 1: you seeing the same player making the same mistake or
Speaker 1: trailing or like, is the same player putting himself in
Speaker 1: the same bad spot repeatedly? That's when you get into it.
Speaker 1: One bad play sometimes and sometimes guys have bad plays.
Speaker 1: It's not to excuse all of it. One bad play.
Speaker 1: You can't write a guy off because one day a
Speaker 1: chance makeup for it. And two you don't know what
Speaker 1: the scheme was, the situation, the story I always tell
Speaker 1: and I don't This wasn't one where the coaches told
Speaker 1: him to do it, like that's something that happens. This
Speaker 1: is one where I think a guy made a bad mistake.
Speaker 1: I was a training camp. I used to go every
Speaker 1: here with my dad. I was a training camp two
Speaker 1: thousand and nine. He was kind of late in the summer,
Speaker 1: and they were padded and they were doing red zone
Speaker 1: and it was a rough day for the defense, and
Speaker 1: you could tell they were getting frustrated. I think there
Speaker 1: was a fight earlier in the day and it was
Speaker 1: the ones against the scout team. And Brady drops back
Speaker 1: and this journeyman defensive end comes flying around and clocks
Speaker 1: him Tom Brady, and he had a run two laps.
Speaker 1: I think it's the only time I've ever seen a
Speaker 1: player run two laps for like one mistake. And my
Speaker 1: dad leans over. So that guy's not making the team.
Speaker 2: It was Rob Nikovic.
Speaker 1: So you know it's like if a guy makes one
Speaker 1: bad play, yeah, you can say he made a bad play,
Speaker 1: but clearly Rob Nikovitch made the team. Clearly he overcame
Speaker 1: that because the rest of that camp, he was excellent.
Speaker 1: He was great that year. So that's why again, it's
Speaker 1: not about oh, this guy made a bad play, let's
Speaker 1: move him down the depth chart. It's I keep like,
Speaker 1: I keep seeing this guy coming up on the wrong
Speaker 1: end of a drill. It's that kind of thing. And
Speaker 1: it may not be he may not be making these
Speaker 1: massive mistakes, but it's like, man, you know, it feels
Speaker 1: like four or five times today, I've seen this corner
Speaker 1: in coverage when a ball gets completed.
Speaker 2: It's that and maybe they're not.
Speaker 1: He's not clearly getting beat, but it's like he's allowed
Speaker 1: a bunch of catches today, or you know, I just
Speaker 1: this edge rusher has not shown up. It's been a
Speaker 1: good day for the defense, but this edge rusher is not.
Speaker 1: That's more what you're looking for than just oh he
Speaker 1: made a bad play.
Speaker 2: He sucks. Yeah, I think that just to wrap this up,
Speaker 2: and then we'll get into some of the the fun
Speaker 2: suggestions here. Yeah. The one of the harder things to
Speaker 2: do as well is to decipher what is truly live
Speaker 2: and what is is not are what or what's like
Speaker 2: you know, sort of the line of lines that you
Speaker 2: were saying, like they're telling them to do this right right,
Speaker 2: So a lot of the time we get you know,
Speaker 2: a perfect example just happened at the end of the spring.
Speaker 2: They're doing a job what i'd call jog through, which
Speaker 2: is a walk through, but they're at least kind of
Speaker 2: trying to put some pace to it. They're jogging around
Speaker 2: and Mac Jones just kind of lazily flicked the ball
Speaker 2: out into the flat because it's not a live drill,
Speaker 2: it's not meant to be a live drill. And Kyle
Speaker 2: Duggar jumped in front of the pass and returned it
Speaker 2: for a pick six. Yeah, and Mac kind of got
Speaker 2: on him about it, and after the practice he kind
Speaker 2: of mentioned it in his press conference as well. And
Speaker 2: I'll give credit to the beat. Most of the guys
Speaker 2: said Mac threw a pick six at the end of
Speaker 2: practice to Kyle Duggar, but it looked like it was
Speaker 2: it wasn't a live drill, Like, don't take it seriously.
Speaker 2: So when those things happen, you got to be able
Speaker 2: to try to keep in mind or decipher that that
Speaker 2: wasn't actually live. Kyle dugger shouldn't have picked that off.
Speaker 2: It wasn't the point of the drill, and that was
Speaker 2: just that wasn't something to hold against Mac like you
Speaker 2: herew that in. Right. There's also instances where they might
Speaker 2: be practicing hail mary's, and of course the hail mary
Speaker 2: might get picked off or heile mary might go for
Speaker 2: a touchdown or whatever. It might be a horrible decision
Speaker 2: that he's throwing at hell Mary into three defenders, right,
Speaker 2: But that was the drill. It wasn't like Mac just
Speaker 2: chucked it up. It just that they were running a
Speaker 2: hell Mary.
Speaker 1: There's even time I know, So I don't know if
Speaker 1: the Patriots have done this. I know I went to
Speaker 1: a a Bills training camp when I was up in
Speaker 1: New York. This was years ago, so like pre Josh
Speaker 1: Allen and all that, and there was one where like
Speaker 1: three plays and I forget who the quarterback was that
Speaker 1: it was like their third string quarterback, like the guy
Speaker 1: like never made it in the league. But like three
Speaker 1: plays in a row, the guy throws a pick and
Speaker 1: we're sitting there like what's going on?
Speaker 2: It's terrible.
Speaker 1: Nobody was close. And then we found out because some
Speaker 1: day I knew like intern for the team whatever, it
Speaker 1: was a interception return drill. Oh, so is everybody. I
Speaker 1: remember everybody walked in. I remember seeing Bill's writers being like,
Speaker 1: this was one of the worst periods I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: He couldn't stop but throwing interception and I don't know
Speaker 1: if the Patriots do that not. At the point is
Speaker 1: like you never really know. So again, it's kind of
Speaker 1: that consistency thing. Are you seeing it throughout the day?
Speaker 1: If you go multiple days, you continuing to see it,
Speaker 1: that's more what you're looking for.
Speaker 2: Well, that was a lot of information, but hopefully it
Speaker 2: was helpful, and I think the biggest the biggest thing
Speaker 2: that we could suggest, other than to bring sunscreen, that's
Speaker 2: the biggest thing I could suggest. But other than that,
Speaker 2: the biggest thing that we could suggest is have a
Speaker 2: game plan, just like they do right, come into practice
Speaker 2: or go into every single drill with a plan of
Speaker 2: this is what I'm watching, this is what I'm focusing on,
Speaker 2: and stop trying to see the forest because you're not
Speaker 2: going to be able to so just focus on the trees, right,
Speaker 2: And I think that's that's the hardest part. And we're
Speaker 2: like I said, you know, we have the benefit of
Speaker 2: being able to split up duties with our colleagues and
Speaker 2: also going every single day. So it's different for us
Speaker 2: in that respect than it is for somebody coming out
Speaker 2: to camp once. All right, a couple of more fun
Speaker 2: things here. Yeah, what what's like your your favorite activity
Speaker 2: to do while you're down here other than going into practice. Like,
Speaker 2: if I had to make a suggestion just to I
Speaker 2: would say, if you have the time, if you're looking
Speaker 2: for to kind of make a day out of it,
Speaker 2: the Pats Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: Yeah, go to the hall. Go to the hall, and
Speaker 1: a lot of people just like I want to walk around.
Speaker 2: I don't want to watch the movie. Watch the movie.
Speaker 1: Watch them there's a movie before you go in.
Speaker 2: It's the best part. I love the movie.
Speaker 1: I get at one point in my life I could
Speaker 1: like quote a word for it. Have you been fifteen minutes?
Speaker 1: Have you been to Cooperstown? I have?
Speaker 2: Okay, So they have a little movie there as well.
Speaker 2: It's you I know. But I'm not saying it's better.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, like, when you go to a Hall
Speaker 2: of fame, you go to you watch the movie.
Speaker 1: It's autumn in New England.
Speaker 2: That's how it's That's how it starts.
Speaker 1: If that's not enough to sell, if that doesn't give
Speaker 1: you chill, And there's like do you want to narrate it?
Speaker 2: Or I probably could. I used to be able to
Speaker 2: prose good.
Speaker 1: There's like like high shot and they're panning over like
Speaker 1: Cranberry bogs, and you see the trees are like.
Speaker 2: Orange and brown?
Speaker 1: Do you know we in New England? So good every time.
Speaker 2: The first time that I learned about the Cranberry bogs
Speaker 2: were when I started working here. I had no idea
Speaker 2: those even exist.
Speaker 1: I mean I grew up down the ship like I
Speaker 1: grew up, you know in Sharon, Cranberry bogs in Sharon,
Speaker 1: ocean sprays right behind.
Speaker 2: You can go watch you can go look at the
Speaker 2: craw Brady box up at Patriot Place in the in
Speaker 2: the back. That's true, they're behind.
Speaker 1: I don't want to call it a hike because it's
Speaker 1: a fun block. It's a nice walk. It's a little
Speaker 1: bit of a walk probably in the summer is probably tough.
Speaker 1: I normally do that like in the fun.
Speaker 2: All right, most important lunch recommendations. Okay, this is important.
Speaker 2: This is really what we're talking about here.
Speaker 1: So I at Patriots Place. Yeah, I really like Anchildo's
Speaker 1: it's a good suggestion, which it used to be a
Speaker 1: mos if you're familiar with it, that's like obviously Burrito
Speaker 1: the Middle five Guys is and uh, what is that still?
Speaker 1: I want to say, bunch of places around. Yeah, Anchelito's
Speaker 1: is good. Bartloui is always good. If you're like staying
Speaker 1: late you want to do dinner. Saga is a LATCHI
Speaker 1: play sushi. That spot's really good. But if you just
Speaker 1: want to grab like a quick lunch on your way in,
Speaker 1: the spot is.
Speaker 2: Good food Store. We gotta go to Good Food I.
Speaker 1: Have been going there since I was in high school.
Speaker 1: It's a US, so it's I used to go there
Speaker 1: when I was in high school and I see like
Speaker 1: my grease there. Yeah, and now I go there.
Speaker 2: But that's you can't wrong. Don't undersell how popular you
Speaker 2: are at good food Store. I walk in with Alex
Speaker 2: a good food store and you would think the freaking
Speaker 2: mayor of Shamnon.
Speaker 1: You are going to see odds are if you go
Speaker 1: to good food storre you're gonna be either see somebody
Speaker 1: went to high school with or somebody went to high
Speaker 1: school with with parents.
Speaker 2: Yeah, every time somebody knows Alex and we walk into
Speaker 2: Good Food Store full disclosure. We try to go every
Speaker 2: Friday during the season to flow. Yeah, it's a mandate,
Speaker 2: we know. And we go to Good Food Store for
Speaker 2: lunch in between practice and a media availability in the afternoon.
Speaker 2: You have a little bit of a gap there most
Speaker 2: of the time, a couple of hours and we go
Speaker 2: to Good Food Store and we both get the same
Speaker 2: thing every single time, which I think is al we.
Speaker 1: Don't we we don't change our or we get different things,
Speaker 1: but like each.
Speaker 2: Week, Yeah, so I typically go with the honey turkey sandwich. Yeah,
Speaker 2: which Morella, who knows my turkey sandwich order, is not
Speaker 2: going to be surprised at all by this. It's smoked honey, turkey, honey, mustard, lettuce.
Speaker 2: You know you. I'm not a big like veggies guy.
Speaker 2: But like, you can get the works on it. You
Speaker 2: can get cheese on it if you want. And but
Speaker 2: but Alex gets the samwich. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well no, So there's a couple when you go in
Speaker 1: on the wall, they have like all the big posters
Speaker 1: of all their sandwiches.
Speaker 2: Alex Bartha is gonna be on there some.
Speaker 1: No, it's called the Blackjack. I hope they don't change it.
Speaker 1: It's called the blackjack. That's what I get. But there's
Speaker 1: like a little like all the sandwiches that you I
Speaker 1: had the other sandwiches there at other times you cannot
Speaker 1: go wrong.
Speaker 2: It's it's really freaking good. It's really good. We had
Speaker 2: Matt Dolla from ninety eight five. He came with us
Speaker 2: last year for the first time, and even he had to.
Speaker 1: Everybody who goes rolls their eyes because they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're definitely over hyping it, and then they get the
Speaker 1: sad one with you, like it's no way it's this good,
Speaker 1: and then you win, You're like, that's good.
Speaker 2: There's also jersey mikes. There's also jersey mikes. That's that's
Speaker 2: the uh, I can't do jersey mikes like that. I
Speaker 2: gotta go No. I know that's your spot wall pull
Speaker 2: right at the end of root one. But if you're
Speaker 2: going in Patriot Place, Angelito is a game sensitive stomach,
Speaker 2: like I do, they'll be prepared for afterwards.
Speaker 1: But so I would say, of all the like, there's
Speaker 1: some like obviously good like sit down places, right, but
Speaker 1: if you just want to like go in grab food,
Speaker 1: keep your day going, like like grabbing gold places, I
Speaker 1: don't think you beat the Toledo's up there. It's it's
Speaker 1: it's really good.
Speaker 2: It might be the kid in me, but Red Robin
Speaker 2: still does it for me a little bit. I mean,
Speaker 2: I like that. That's different.
Speaker 1: It's like you're sitting down or like committing Toledo's. It's
Speaker 1: a burrito place. You get your bawl or your burrito.
Speaker 2: It's just like a Chipotle, but it's nicer than better. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But if I'm sitting down at Patriot Place, I'm still
Speaker 2: going to the Red Robin. I am. I like Barlouis.
Speaker 1: I like, I can't remember what it's called that. It
Speaker 1: used to be CBSC and they've changed the game so
Speaker 1: many times. Sport Club now CBS Sports Club, whatever it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that place is pretty good.
Speaker 2: That I think. If I if I had to watch
Speaker 2: a game at Patriot Place, not that we have to
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 1: Do you remember our first year we covered a gate,
Speaker 1: covered a game from there with drags. It was that
Speaker 1: Lions game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they got killed.
Speaker 1: They got killed by bad game. Bentley got hurt.
Speaker 2: That was awful. Yeah, but that that's Uh. Those are
Speaker 2: the most important recommendations we give. And good food store
Speaker 2: if you're just looking for like a sandwich. You know,
Speaker 2: in and out. You're not looking to really spend a
Speaker 2: ton of time. It's worth the drive down the street.
Speaker 2: It's not it's not in Patriot Place, but it's like
Speaker 2: ten minutes away. Yeah, it's It's it's a like a
Speaker 2: local spot. So you're not going to I love Jersey Mice,
Speaker 2: but you're not going to Jersey Mice. You're not going
Speaker 2: to Panera like it's it's one of those like authentic
Speaker 2: to the to the area. So TVs Sports Scenes is
Speaker 2: no longer there. It's called the Harp. Now that's right.
Speaker 2: Well I love the Heart by the Garden, So there
Speaker 2: you go. Are they expecting I'm not gonna we work
Speaker 2: with Patriot Place. I'm not taking shots at the people
Speaker 2: Patriot Place. But are they expecting people to like go
Speaker 2: out like they do in Boston at the Harp placed.
Speaker 2: I'll go to the Harp before Celtics game just for dinner.
Speaker 2: Yeah oh really, Yeah, I didn't know it was like
Speaker 2: a place like that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah no, they got good food. I assume it's
Speaker 1: the same. I'm gonna assume it's same. Men, you were
Speaker 1: close to it, So yeah, the Harp down by the
Speaker 1: Garden is really good food. People don't know that, but
Speaker 1: they do so. I again, if the food is anything
Speaker 1: like that, that's definitely a spot you can go.
Speaker 2: Okay, well that they just opened that. I'm still going
Speaker 2: to Red Robin, all right, I'm pretty sure the Red
Speaker 2: Robin still does the unlimited fries if you sit down,
Speaker 2: get as many fries as you want.
Speaker 1: I remember the Onion Ring Tower.
Speaker 2: So there's like seventeen different like huge burgers that you get.
Speaker 2: I mean that like you're in for it. You know
Speaker 2: you're gonna you're gonna.
Speaker 1: See that you have if you're doing Red Robin or
Speaker 1: or the Harp or like one of these sit down
Speaker 1: place or even Angelitos because it's heavy. It's a burrito
Speaker 1: that's after practice. Do not do that before practice. Well,
Speaker 1: you are gonna hate yourself. I'll give you.
Speaker 2: Want one more spot. Yeah, it's good. So it's it's
Speaker 2: probably about the same drive as good food stores.
Speaker 1: Not at Patch place, but if you go to Ward's
Speaker 1: Berry Farm and Sharon, oh we we've been there before. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they also have really good sandwiches. You can sit outside.
Speaker 1: Smoothies are amazing. Uh, that's another good spot around here.
Speaker 2: You might also see many deuce deuces works at words.
Speaker 2: He does. I gotta go to it. I've been meaning
Speaker 2: to go there. Now I really gotta go, he does.
Speaker 2: And is is your ice cream spot too far away?
Speaker 2: Like that? Oh Cridge Crescent Ridge?
Speaker 1: I mean it's if you really want to make a
Speaker 1: day of it, like at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it's on the other side. It's like, so you got
Speaker 1: to drive. I guess it's not that far because you
Speaker 1: come up Route one. You basically got to drive through Sharon.
Speaker 1: You gotta drive all the way across Sharon. But yes,
Speaker 1: there's an ice cream place called the Crescent Ridge. It
Speaker 1: was I think it was Time or CNN did this
Speaker 1: big thing a couple of years ago. That was the
Speaker 1: one hundred best ice cream place in America and Crescent
Speaker 1: Ridge came in second. And I've been to the place
Speaker 1: that came in first, and I didn't think it was
Speaker 1: very good. Crescent Ridge is the best ice cream you'll
Speaker 1: ever have. If you really want to wrap up your
Speaker 1: day in style, you go to Cridge.
Speaker 2: What can you tell he's from Sharon or can you
Speaker 2: tell you's from Sharon? You know I'm from around here.
Speaker 2: I know where to go. What's the what's so bad
Speaker 2: about It's good dhen Alex and I first started working together.
Speaker 2: He gave me, you know, I had the whole lowdown.
Speaker 2: I knew where to go to eat for lunch, it's important,
Speaker 2: and all those types of things. So there we have it.
Speaker 2: That's that's our Patriots training camp day. If we had
Speaker 2: to sum it up, you got get to practice a
Speaker 2: little bit early. You don't have to be there an
Speaker 2: hour early. Well, I guess with the fans that you
Speaker 2: if you want a good spot.
Speaker 1: If you're going on the weekend, do you want to
Speaker 1: get there pretty early. If you're coming during the week
Speaker 1: especially like after the first day, it's it's not too bad.
Speaker 1: But if you're coming on the weekend, either show up
Speaker 1: really early or if you show up like right on
Speaker 1: time and you're part of that later group, you might
Speaker 1: get in the overflow, which is up on the rams, right.
Speaker 2: So come a little bit early. I would say, it
Speaker 2: doesn't have to be two hours. You don't have to
Speaker 2: camp out, but come a little bit early. The second
Speaker 2: thing that I would say, you know, all the things
Speaker 2: that we said about, you know, try to focus in
Speaker 2: on little things that practice. Try to see the trees,
Speaker 2: not the forest. This isn't you know, you're not gonna
Speaker 2: be able to see everything, and most importantly, post practice
Speaker 2: launch it at Good Food Store. We're giving Good Food
Speaker 2: Store the top spot. And I'm sorry Jersey Mikes, please
Speaker 2: don't take it personally. I still love you, but we're
Speaker 2: giving Good Food Store the top spot and that does
Speaker 2: it for our training camp. FAQ. This was fun. I'm glad.
Speaker 2: I'm glad we did this. This was fun, a little
Speaker 2: bit different, a little bit outside the box. But Alex
Speaker 2: and I will be back next week on Thursday, same time,
Speaker 2: same place to break down training camp. Well maybe same time.
Speaker 1: We don't know same time because we don't know what
Speaker 1: the practice schedule is going to be true, but it'll
Speaker 1: be at some point on Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 2: To break down training camp. Can you believe it? We
Speaker 2: made it. We made it, folks, We made it through
Speaker 2: the NFL offseason once again. Football will be back. I'm excited,
Speaker 2: Alex is excited. We're living it up and we'll be
Speaker 2: back next Thursday to break down all of the happenings
Speaker 2: out at Patriots training camp and hopefully we'll see you there.