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Speaker 3: Well, the Patriots were back at it after a day off,
Speaker 3: Day ten of training camp, back in shells here at
Speaker 3: sunny and warm Jillette Stadium. Evan Lazar, Mike do So,
Speaker 3: Paul Perlo with you. Kind of an interesting day. I
Speaker 3: thought it was a little bit choppy coming off the
Speaker 3: day off.
Speaker 2: I thought the.
Speaker 3: Execution was a little little sloppy overall.
Speaker 2: Just I'll let you guys open it up with first impressions.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought a little bit more of a I
Speaker 4: don't want to say, a step back. I think the
Speaker 4: offense was a little definitely uneven today, and especially the
Speaker 4: two's David was missing from practice, and I think that
Speaker 4: that's just that's the big theme for me right now
Speaker 4: is just the offensive line and the attrition and how
Speaker 4: much can you really kill the offense at this point
Speaker 4: with what they're dealing with upfront. But you know that said, couple,
Speaker 4: you know, middle of the field, eleven sessions, the red zone,
Speaker 4: long red zone session. Not a lot of production today
Speaker 4: from the offense and not a lot of like, you know,
Speaker 4: really well executed passing plays.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I figured out why Matthew Judon hasn't been practicing. It's
Speaker 5: because he recx practice when he does practice. So he
Speaker 5: was out there again today full tilt after reworking his
Speaker 5: contract that got announced on Friday night, and I had
Speaker 5: him down for three sacks and maybe like ten snaps
Speaker 5: that he was out there, and a lot of them
Speaker 5: came off the right side. I ran a one t
Speaker 5: and stunt one straight up pass rush on Connor McDermott
Speaker 5: right around him. So I'm with you on the offensive line.
Speaker 5: I wanted to be a little bit positive out of
Speaker 5: the gate and just say the red sleeves are back
Speaker 5: and they look good and it's amazing how he just
Speaker 5: stepped right in and it was like he never left
Speaker 5: for the defense. And I think that that's what you
Speaker 5: wanted to see, was this defense what it was going
Speaker 5: to look like and how the pieces were going to
Speaker 5: fit together, And we got a little bit of that today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree with you too, on the offensive line,
Speaker 3: you know, with you know strange. Now Andrew's out and
Speaker 3: we haven't seen a WINU yet, so the whole three start,
Speaker 3: you know, projected starters on the inside are out. But
Speaker 3: to Evan's point, it was the edges that you know,
Speaker 3: it seemed to be the issue with Jude On, but
Speaker 3: I thought that really kind of took away mac Jones
Speaker 3: and Bailey z appy. I didn't think they either one
Speaker 3: of them had a lot of really good opportunities to
Speaker 3: sit back, get on the back foot in the pocket
Speaker 3: and let one rip. They did a few, and there
Speaker 3: was some There was some good balls occasionally, but they
Speaker 3: were few and far between. I did think the defense
Speaker 3: had a strong date. I thought Gonzales was much more
Speaker 3: active today than what we've seen I thought the last
Speaker 3: couple of days, and I was kind of worried, like
Speaker 3: is he kind of slipping down? You know, I know
Speaker 3: it's early, but sometimes you're getting camp and it's it's tough,
Speaker 3: it's a grind.
Speaker 2: But he was.
Speaker 3: He was really around the ball today. The interception was
Speaker 3: like a ridiculous athletic play. I mean, now you could
Speaker 3: look that two ways. Great play by Gonzales, no matter
Speaker 3: how you look at it, but the other the other one.
Speaker 3: And this is something I've been noticing a lot more
Speaker 3: of just receivers in the same spot. I see it
Speaker 3: more and more. I saw it several times today and
Speaker 3: one of our guys, Taekwon Thowton, seems to be involved
Speaker 3: with a lot of those those times.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think another just point out athletic play Mike Kasiki,
Speaker 4: nice one handed catch along the along the sidelines Gabil
Speaker 4: Peppers was funny after practice saying, hey, we got to
Speaker 4: go to the table.
Speaker 2: We'll see if he came down with it.
Speaker 4: But but a real nice athletic play from Kasiki. I
Speaker 4: thought had a couple you know, starting to maybe I
Speaker 4: don't want to say overstated, probably best practice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, start to.
Speaker 4: Stand out a little bit, and you know, starting to
Speaker 4: show some of that, you know, just kind of unique
Speaker 4: body type athleticism that he has. So I think that's
Speaker 4: you know, good sign that that he's starting to show
Speaker 4: a little bit too.
Speaker 5: Yeah. On the interception for Gonzalez, it was Kaishan Boudi
Speaker 5: and to Mario Douglas in the same area, two rookie receivers.
Speaker 5: You think maybe there was a little bit of a
Speaker 5: miscommunication or they ended up too close to each other.
Speaker 5: Like Paul was saying, it looked like it was a
Speaker 5: post wheel, and you would just sort of like to
Speaker 5: see Douglas clear it out a little bit more, you know,
Speaker 5: and that up the field and get out of the
Speaker 5: picture a little bit faster than he did. But I
Speaker 5: think what's interesting about Gonzales is that we've seen him
Speaker 5: make some more plays on the ball, whereas last week
Speaker 5: it felt like he just was a little bit of
Speaker 5: a tick slow at the anticipation when the ball was
Speaker 5: coming his direction and he was around the area. It
Speaker 5: wasn't like he was getting burned, but he wasn't making
Speaker 5: plays on the football. Today he started making some plays
Speaker 5: on the ball. But one positive I did think from
Speaker 5: the offense, that forty yard pass from Mac Jones to
Speaker 5: DeVante Parker was the highlight of the day.
Speaker 2: And boy, it's what he does. Yes, that's what he do. Yeah.
Speaker 5: But I thought it was progress because you know, last
Speaker 5: week we saw Mac Jones Devonte Parker split two safeties
Speaker 5: a corner in a safety excuse me, on a deep
Speaker 5: post and Mac tried to lead him into the back
Speaker 5: of the end zone and Parker's just not fast enough
Speaker 5: to catch up to the football. So this time he
Speaker 5: just put it on a silver platter for him over
Speaker 5: Jack Jones and allowed Devonte Parker to go up and
Speaker 5: climb the ladder and pluck the ball out of the air.
Speaker 5: That's how he's going to win. He had Jack Jones
Speaker 5: on his back throwing him or leading him into the
Speaker 5: end zone. That causes him to have to catch up
Speaker 5: to the football instead of just high pointing it and
Speaker 5: doing what he does best. So I like that little
Speaker 5: bit of progress with the chemistry that he's now throwing
Speaker 5: it to a spot for DeVante Parker versus trying to
Speaker 5: lead him into the end zone.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I would agree that was clearly the play of the day,
Speaker 3: and it was kind of like a two minute drill
Speaker 3: and I think it was one of those, you know,
Speaker 3: sort of desperation kind of plays, but the execution was
Speaker 3: really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: You know, there was like thirteen seconds left on the clock. Yeah,
Speaker 5: Mac had just spiked it to stop the clock. Maybe
Speaker 5: they were down four, Maybe that was the situation.
Speaker 3: And you know, I think you're right, and I think
Speaker 3: it may not have had to be in the end zone.
Speaker 3: That's well, like a lot of times those plays like, well,
Speaker 3: you know, they just kind of throw it up there
Speaker 3: and one day they're supposed to catch it.
Speaker 2: One day the defense is supposed to knock it down.
Speaker 3: But this play I thought actually was pretty close to normal,
Speaker 3: like a real play. And you know, again, depending on
Speaker 3: which side you're you're hoping looks good, it's good play
Speaker 3: for the offense, not such a good play for Jack Jones,
Speaker 3: but yeah, it was. It was definitely the play of
Speaker 3: the day. Mike, you have you don't have to raise
Speaker 3: your hand, Mike, you can just make open.
Speaker 4: And I I just thought I wanted to make sure
Speaker 4: we mentioned Jonathan Jones was missing from practice.
Speaker 3: So Ti Montgomery, Matthew Slater, Jonathan Jones, David Andrews cole
Speaker 3: strange with a five that we're not seeing interesting with
Speaker 3: Jones and Slater did not dress for the in stadium
Speaker 3: practice Friday night. You wonder if Bill's just sort of
Speaker 3: given those guys an extended veteran kind of rest. I
Speaker 3: don't know or or I'm not aware of anything that
Speaker 3: Jonathan Jones or Slater is dealing with, but you know, well,
Speaker 3: we'll keep an eye on it. The next two days
Speaker 3: was kind.
Speaker 2: Of a theme.
Speaker 5: Guys gets here and there, we're getting into the into
Speaker 5: the real, the real dreads of training camp. Now I
Speaker 5: don't like that other phrase, so I'm trying to think
Speaker 5: of a different phrase, the dog days. You don't like dogs. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's why I don't like dog days. That's doors because
Speaker 5: it makes you half dogs. No, I just I don't know.
Speaker 5: I feel like there's a negative contation.
Speaker 3: One other thing that I that I noticed, and I
Speaker 3: don't have anything, Well, two things I should say. The
Speaker 3: defense at one point I think was guilty of maybe
Speaker 3: not being on the same page substitution and wise Bill
Speaker 3: sent the entire defense for a lap, So that was,
Speaker 3: you know, sort of noteworthy. But the other thing, and
Speaker 3: I don't know have any idea what it means or
Speaker 3: what they were talking about. But Bill Belichick and Bill
Speaker 3: O'Brien spent I saw that about ten minutes after practice,
Speaker 3: maybe more, just the two of them talking at length.
Speaker 2: So I don't know. Maybe it's like, you know, you
Speaker 2: call that an offense.
Speaker 3: I do think that's how the conversation goes.
Speaker 5: I'm not trying we have no idea what was no
Speaker 5: So that's why I'm not trying to speculate. But you
Speaker 5: mentioned at the beginning that there was a little bit
Speaker 5: more of receivers on top of each other and spacing
Speaker 5: issues today and timing issues today. And you do wonder
Speaker 5: if he said to hey, they were talking about, Hey,
Speaker 5: let's not let these bad habits become regular habits. Right
Speaker 5: Like we saw a little bit of this today. We
Speaker 5: had were really on a good upward trajectory last week,
Speaker 5: you know, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, I looked like strong practices
Speaker 5: or Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, I should say, let's not let
Speaker 5: this creep in where all of a sudden, we're letting
Speaker 5: this stuff go because we got a couple good days
Speaker 5: of practice.
Speaker 2: Mike anything else, No, I'm good. I think I just
Speaker 2: clocked in.
Speaker 4: Marcus Jones was out there, you know, getting reps again
Speaker 4: on the outside kind of for Jonathan Jones.
Speaker 2: So this is kind of a rotation that they're doing.
Speaker 4: No Jack Jones really out there, so it's between him
Speaker 4: Miles Bryant. They're kind of just experimenting with those two guys.
Speaker 4: But hopefully Jonathan Jones is back soon.
Speaker 2: I think he's imporn.
Speaker 3: Piece way down to two more training camp podcasts that
Speaker 3: we have Monday Tuesday, the final two days that the
Speaker 3: public will be allowed into practice.
Speaker 2: So it's like basically two weeks and.
Speaker 3: That's all she wrote. So we will be back tomorrow
Speaker 3: with Day eleven.