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Speaker 1: we're coming to you live from the side of Gillette Stadium,
Speaker 1: where we just wrapped up the Patriots and Panthers first
Speaker 1: joint practice of the summer. This is Mike Dousou joined
Speaker 1: by Paul prlo Evmosar Patriots dot Com. Here for another
Speaker 1: training camp cast. Get you caught up on this practice
Speaker 1: and today, guys, tempers ran a little hot, but I
Speaker 1: think we saw some good things out of the Patriots
Speaker 1: offense a little bit, just a little bit of consistency.
Speaker 1: Maybe not so much in the run game, but overall, Paul,
Speaker 1: I felt like it was a pretty good day for
Speaker 1: the Pats. Yeah, I thought I was most impressed with
Speaker 1: the defense too. You know, we keep talking about you
Speaker 1: know the defense looks good. Is that because the Patriots
Speaker 1: offense is struggling? Well, I thought the defense today looked
Speaker 1: just like it does in most other training camp practices.
Speaker 1: I thought they had pretty good coverage. I thought the
Speaker 1: defensive line in particular really controlled most of the eleven
Speaker 1: on eleven play. I thought they had a lot of
Speaker 1: pressure on both Bigger Mayfield and Sam Arnold. I thought
Speaker 1: the defense was really solid and evan. For you from
Speaker 1: the offense, what it stood out to you today, seemed
Speaker 1: like a pretty good day for Mac and made some
Speaker 1: nice connection, especially the DeVante Parker. This to me was
Speaker 1: the most in rhythm the passing game has looked. It
Speaker 1: wasn't always the most successful yet, especially on the ground,
Speaker 1: I would say, but in terms of the passing offense,
Speaker 1: I thought Mac looked the best, throwing the ball down
Speaker 1: the field on time, in rhythm, hitting guys in the hands.
Speaker 1: A couple of good deep completions to DeVante Parker early on.
Speaker 1: They opened up with the play action period and he
Speaker 1: was hitting guys Jacoby Myers on a cross or in
Speaker 1: cut to Taekwon Thornton that fade down the sideline to
Speaker 1: DeVante Parker again, got that twice in this practice. A
Speaker 1: nice corner out to Jacoby as well later on. So
Speaker 1: a more aggressive, more successful Mac Jones pushing the football
Speaker 1: down the field more in this practice than I think
Speaker 1: any other practice that we've seen all summer long. I
Speaker 1: know Paul might disagree with me a little bit on
Speaker 1: being so bullish on the passing offense, but I thought
Speaker 1: in general this was as in rhythm, as in sync
Speaker 1: as Mac Jones as looked all summer. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: a couple of days of it. I mean, even yesterday's reduced,
Speaker 1: you know, sessions seemed a little bit of that. Still
Speaker 1: didn't love what I saw out of the running game.
Speaker 1: Weren't a lot of holes being opened up. Thought maybe,
Speaker 1: you know, the Patriots would have an option, an opportunity
Speaker 1: to do that. But however, we're seeing now as the
Speaker 1: fans are getting ready for autographs. But we did see
Speaker 1: some couple a couple of skirmishes, some people thrown out
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkerson, Kendrick Bourne, later James Ferns among the Patriots.
Speaker 1: I guess not totally surprising to see the tempers boil over. Paul,
Speaker 1: you've been doing these joint practices. Not an uncommon occurrence
Speaker 1: to see some of that. Yeah, I mean we've seen
Speaker 1: it periodically. I thought today was a little bit more
Speaker 1: like extended. You know, Chicago was probably the worst one
Speaker 1: I've seen in terms of an actual incident, but this one,
Speaker 1: it started, it boiled over, it continued. Then a couple
Speaker 1: of plays later there was another one, and a couple
Speaker 1: of plays after that there was another one. I thought
Speaker 1: there were several opportunities that the coaches had to bring
Speaker 1: their teams together sort of, you know, calm it down.
Speaker 1: It didn't really seem like that that worked, and it
Speaker 1: wasn't until the very end, the last couple of team
Speaker 1: periods where it seemed like they settled down and just
Speaker 1: and just went and played football. But you know, the
Speaker 1: players and coaches talked at length yesterday about, you know,
Speaker 1: the desire to see somebody different in the competitive juice flowing.
Speaker 1: We saw her a little of that today, and that's
Speaker 1: what I was most encouraged about, you know, for both
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball for the Patriots. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I do think the Patriots clearly had the better of
Speaker 1: play today, both offensively and defensively. I don't think there's
Speaker 1: any question about it. So much to look at, and
Speaker 1: at one point there's six different group drills going on.
Speaker 1: You don't know where to look any any last thoughts
Speaker 1: here to take away from this practice before we take
Speaker 1: a look at tomorrow's joint session. Yeah, it is. Looking
Speaker 1: at my notes now about pressures, run stops, tackles for
Speaker 1: loss for the Patriots defense. I had quite a few
Speaker 1: of just across the board in eleven on elevens. Matthew
Speaker 1: Judon in the backfield a bunch. I thought, Devon Gotshaw
Speaker 1: continues to be strong in the middle. Dietrich wise had
Speaker 1: a few pressures, and then they started bringing some of
Speaker 1: those safety blitzes and a little bit more exotic looks
Speaker 1: as well and getting some pressure with those. It looked
Speaker 1: like that matchup last year in Week nine against Carolina
Speaker 1: where the Patriots just absolutely dominated the Panthers up front
Speaker 1: and held them to six points. This had a very
Speaker 1: similar feel. And if you're Carolina, you're a Panthers beat
Speaker 1: reporter us, but Carolina version of it. You come away
Speaker 1: from this practice just I don't know what you get
Speaker 1: from this quarterback competition right now, because neither Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: nor Sam Darnold practice particularly well. It looks like Baker
Speaker 1: is high on all of his throws. It looks like
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold is still seeing ghost set times always thrown.
Speaker 1: So it's not a good comment, but It does put
Speaker 1: in perspective We've been harsh and rightfully so for some
Speaker 1: of these practices the Patriots offense, Mac Jones, how he's
Speaker 1: looked this summer. Mac looked like the best quarterback on
Speaker 1: the field by far out here today. Compare it to
Speaker 1: the two starters whatever you want to call them in Carolina.
Speaker 1: I know there's not the two best quarterbacks in the
Speaker 1: league or anything like that, but I think it does
Speaker 1: put some perspective on where the Patriots are and where
Speaker 1: Mac is that he definitely outperformed two guys that are
Speaker 1: clearly struggling in Carolina. Well, one day of joint practice
Speaker 1: is down, a couple more to go this week we'll
Speaker 1: have tomorrow. We will be back on Patriots Unfiltered, So
Speaker 1: if you can't make it down here, it was a
Speaker 1: great crowd today, lots of people down here enjoying this.
Speaker 1: We will be live starting nine fifteen tomorrow on Patriots
Speaker 1: dot com. So we got you covered with all of that.
Speaker 1: So it should be another interesting day. See how the
Speaker 1: temperature is tomorrow in terms of the tempers and if
Speaker 1: they're able to settle in. But a good day of
Speaker 1: work and I'm sure productive is the coaching staff is
Speaker 1: able to get a look at the film. So that'll
Speaker 1: do it for this edition of the camp Cast. We
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