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Speaker 2: All right, welcome into another edition of the Patriots Camp Cast.
Speaker 2: Training Campcast, they should say, Paul, and today I felt
Speaker 2: like drab Mayo spoke before practice kind of felt like
Speaker 2: a challenge of defense a little bit.
Speaker 1: He said.
Speaker 2: You know, the offense has had a good couple of days.
Speaker 2: We talked about it on yesterday's wrap up show, and
Speaker 2: it felt today a little more evenly matched, but probably
Speaker 2: a little bit more towards the defense. No question, the
Speaker 2: offense had some moments, but overall, I would say defense
Speaker 2: play a little bit more solid today, made things harder.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, I mean I would say so that said,
Speaker 3: I still think the quarterbacks, both Bressett and may threw
Speaker 3: the ball pretty well. I thought, you know, I thought
Speaker 3: there were some plays to be made, and you know,
Speaker 3: sometimes the receivers made them, sometimes they didn't. But I
Speaker 3: would agree with you overall, coverage was much better to
Speaker 3: say you didn't see guys running free.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Timarrow, what's who stood out to you today?
Speaker 1: Yeah. I liked how Mayo opened up and said, you know,
Speaker 1: the offense responded well to the heat yesterday, but the defense,
Speaker 1: like he said historically two days ago, that the defense
Speaker 1: usually has a head start in camp. Jabrill Peppers yesterday
Speaker 1: year guy Mike. He said, I like the way we
Speaker 1: compete yesterday, but as a defender, they made too many plays.
Speaker 1: So I think today I liked Hearn and I liked Hawkins.
Speaker 1: I think both of them had a great days. A
Speaker 1: couple pass breakups, but which are questionable because I thought
Speaker 1: the wide receivers had a lot of drops today. They
Speaker 1: did that a lot of drops today.
Speaker 2: And we probably we've talked about the sloppiness in camp,
Speaker 2: and I didn't. I think I saw maybe one pre
Speaker 2: snap thing where it was a rehuddle, but there were
Speaker 2: a number of drops today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they were fall starts. Again. There were situations
Speaker 3: where I think the time management because you're starting to
Speaker 3: see a little bit more of the two minute hunter.
Speaker 3: Henry talked about it after practice. They're starting to get
Speaker 3: a lot of that situational stuff involved in the practices
Speaker 3: and probably the best hunter, Henry. The best play for
Speaker 3: the team today was a last second diving touchdown catch
Speaker 3: by Henry, who I thought, by the way, was very
Speaker 3: good in this practice, but I thought it may have
Speaker 3: been after the time it expired, So that's the kind
Speaker 3: of situational stuff. The play before that, with the clock running,
Speaker 3: is a short throw on the sideline, didn't really get
Speaker 3: them all that much closer to the end zone, didn't
Speaker 3: get out of bounds, and really created a sort of
Speaker 3: hectic final play. Maybe they got the playoff in time.
Speaker 3: Preset did a nice job of just floating one to
Speaker 3: an area and allowing this tight end to go and
Speaker 3: make a play diving catch by Henry.
Speaker 2: You mentioned it was situational for my vantage point. I
Speaker 2: looked up at the clock, two seconds left, clock running,
Speaker 2: look back beat, couldn't tell for sure if they got
Speaker 2: it off. But another session I just wanted to quickly
Speaker 2: mention was I thought, you know Drake May's best period
Speaker 2: of the day, which was red zone seven. On seven,
Speaker 2: you had a touchdown to Jalen Polk, you had eighty
Speaker 2: seven look like he dropped the TV, and then an
Speaker 2: easy one to Baker, So you know, just some completions,
Speaker 2: and again it's seven on seven, but I thought overall
Speaker 2: that was Drake's strongest period of the dates.
Speaker 1: Marit was that the one where they ended in the
Speaker 1: fifty eight yard field goal. Maybe I can't remember, No, no, different.
Speaker 2: One, No, I think that was that was earlier and
Speaker 2: earlier eleven on eleven bit which was Joey Slid hit
Speaker 2: a fifty eight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, I thought definitely Drake May was better
Speaker 1: in the seven on sevens. I feel like when they
Speaker 1: were in the two minute kind of hurry up type
Speaker 1: of offense, there were a lot of mistakes, miscommunication, throwing
Speaker 1: the ball out of bounds, potentially sacks here and there.
Speaker 1: I thought that definitely sped him up a lot, which
Speaker 1: you know, that's something we were wondering in a real
Speaker 1: game like setting, how is Drake May going to handle
Speaker 1: all the time that they spent working on his technique. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think it was after the Hunter Henry touchdown, Drake
Speaker 2: May went and didn't do much a throwaway, miss baker,
Speaker 2: miss seven, sack and complete. I just wrote ick on
Speaker 2: the last play.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the two minute drills after Brissetts and Brissettes, I
Speaker 3: mean to be fair, was kind of shaky, even though
Speaker 3: it ended up in a touchdown. The other two series
Speaker 3: it was it was May and then Joe Milton four
Speaker 3: and out, so they didn't really get the ball moving all.
Speaker 3: But I do think, like I said, and I know
Speaker 3: there's been some sort of talk that we're not necessarily
Speaker 3: covering May the way we should. It's kid gloves. I mean,
Speaker 3: he made three or four throws today that I thought
Speaker 3: were pretty good throws that didn't get caught, and one
Speaker 3: of them was that one to Mitchell Willcox and you're
Speaker 3: talking about I mean that was a tough throw in
Speaker 3: traffic down the seam in the end zone, tight tight
Speaker 3: windows down in the red zone, and you know Willcox,
Speaker 3: so I actually think has been playing pretty well has
Speaker 3: to make that catch for him. I thought there was
Speaker 3: another one on the two minute drill and a nice
Speaker 3: out route to Juju. He got his feet tangled up
Speaker 3: with the defensive back and ended up falling down. The
Speaker 3: pass was perfectly thrown, but you know, it looks like
Speaker 3: one of those like, well, where was he throwing that one?
Speaker 3: Because there was no one there to catch it. So
Speaker 3: I thought May threw the ball well at times. But
Speaker 3: to me, the story of the day was the pressure
Speaker 3: from that front seven again was too much and there
Speaker 3: were some guys out. No chukes today you had Vederian
Speaker 3: Lowe staying at left tackle, Cayden Wallace at right tackle.
Speaker 3: Those guys struggled. I thought Kayden Wallace in particular struggled
Speaker 3: protecting the passers today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's round out some of the personnel pieces today
Speaker 2: because there were, you know, some new absences. You mentioned
Speaker 2: Chusa Kora for Calvin Anderson, and now a Korfo was there.
Speaker 2: I think we saw him there but just didn't participate.
Speaker 2: But Calvin Anderson, who went down briefly yesterday with an
Speaker 2: ankle injury, got back up, re entered the lineup. He
Speaker 2: was missing probably not the biggest.
Speaker 3: He had a sleeve on the lake. Yeah, so my
Speaker 3: guess is dealing with something with his calf one Thornton.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there he goes igguess kind of just what are
Speaker 1: we doing here? Because I feel like it's the same
Speaker 1: thing with him. He has a great camp and then
Speaker 1: he disappears and you're just like, Okay, what's going on here?
Speaker 1: So he did show up to practice a little bit
Speaker 1: into practice, but he wasn't dressed. He was just on
Speaker 1: the sideline. So I'm hoping it's nothing serious because he's
Speaker 1: had a great couple of days and so now it's like,
Speaker 1: hopefully he's not taking a step backwards with potentially an injury.
Speaker 2: It's the same thing we talk about Paul. With these
Speaker 2: young receivers, it's, you know, you got to stay out there,
Speaker 2: you got to be consistent. I mean, Polk, Baker, those
Speaker 2: guys have been out there every day, at least as
Speaker 2: far as training camp.
Speaker 3: Jalen Polk made some tough catches today. I don't know
Speaker 3: if any of them really counted because you know, one
Speaker 3: of them was in the back of the end zone,
Speaker 3: he was out of bounds, and then one of them
Speaker 3: was on a sideline on a quick, quick diving catch
Speaker 3: on the sideline. They gave him credit for the catch.
Speaker 3: I thought he caught it. But two really good catches
Speaker 3: for Jalen.
Speaker 2: Poll strong hands with him, Marcus Jones, Josh Bledsoe continue
Speaker 2: to be out they come out and watch, you know again,
Speaker 2: put Marcus Jones with Taekwon Thorton, and it's, you know,
Speaker 2: just disappointing for these young guys, especially guys that have
Speaker 2: been drafted in the past. Couple of years that have
Speaker 2: the traits that this team needs, the speed, you know,
Speaker 2: certainly with Marcus Jones, we've been excited to see him
Speaker 2: get a chance to this new kickoff. He's now out,
Speaker 2: so team will have a day off tomorrow, maybe a
Speaker 2: chance for them to get a little bit healthy.
Speaker 3: But it'd be a bad sign if you didn't see
Speaker 3: Marcus Jones back on Monday. But I would say, you know,
Speaker 3: when guys leave the lineup, it gives opportunities, and I
Speaker 3: think Marcellus Dial has gotten some some more reps and
Speaker 3: he's got some competitiveness to him.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think he's the guy that stands out to me
Speaker 3: almost every day when.
Speaker 1: Paul brings up opportunit. I think this is an opportunity
Speaker 1: for Jalen Rager to show why he's valuable, not just
Speaker 1: on offense, but on special teams. You've seen him in
Speaker 1: there a lot returning those punts, so I think it's
Speaker 1: an opportunity for him to potentially make it because he
Speaker 1: can fill in from Arkis Jones.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just one of the last guy I want to mention.
Speaker 2: I thought number two kJ Olsbourne. I think some good
Speaker 2: practices from catches today. In the end, zone. He's one
Speaker 2: receiver that you know, feels like he's coming on. I
Speaker 2: don't know for sure how he fits into the whole
Speaker 2: big picture. Is he an outside He's probably not an
Speaker 2: outside guy, And I think that's really what they need,
Speaker 2: you know, to make this offense truly functional and lethal,
Speaker 2: is to have somebody who can get downfield. I know
Speaker 2: some people have been talking about Javon Baker, and I
Speaker 2: don't want to pump the brakes on him, but I
Speaker 2: think a lot of the buzz with him is coming
Speaker 2: from one on ones in team periods. He's not very consistent.
Speaker 2: He has some moments. I know today Drake May threw
Speaker 2: one up. It just it didn't even look like he
Speaker 2: had any separation. It wasn't even closed. So, you know,
Speaker 2: so between him, between Taykwon Thornton, just some questions, I
Speaker 2: would say, remain kind of a wide receivers.
Speaker 3: Absolutely agree. Cool.
Speaker 2: Well, we got a day off tomorrow and then we'll
Speaker 2: be back at it next week as we build up
Speaker 2: to the Patriots first preseason game. They'll welcome the Carolina Panthers,
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