Latest / Patriots Unfiltered / Training Camp Cast 8/3: Day 8 Recap, Offense Continues Progress, Defense Pushes Back

Transcript

Training Camp Cast 8/3: Day 8 Recap, Offense Continues Progress, Defense Pushes Back · Patriots Unfiltered

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: This is the Patriots Training Camp Cast. The Patriots Training
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Camp Cast is your source for all the news from
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Patriots training Camp.
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: Well, I do still watch the news.
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: Practice is over, but the writers of Patriots dot com
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: have you covered.
• 0:18
  Speaker 3: What did I miss yesterday?
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: Now here to review today's practice. The writers of Patriots
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: dot Com.
• 0:22
  Speaker 3: Mike or So and Paul Perlo here again following day
• 0:26
  Speaker 3: eight of Patriots training camp and when Bill Belichick starts
• 0:29
  Speaker 3: to talk about stacking the days, Mike, this particular camp,
• 0:32
  Speaker 3: Camp twenty three is stacking the days because it's every
• 0:36
  Speaker 3: day out there. The weather has been absolutely fantastic, Probably
• 0:40
  Speaker 3: not quite as warm as maybe the coach would like,
• 0:42
  Speaker 3: but beautiful conditions out here in Foxborough. In the physicality
• 0:46
  Speaker 3: to me, full pads, second day in a row. The
• 0:49
  Speaker 3: physicality is what stood out to me today in terms
• 0:51
  Speaker 3: of tackling to the ground. Mike, we haven't seen a
• 0:53
  Speaker 3: lot of that over the years. I think offensively, I
• 0:57
  Speaker 3: think they continue to sort of build a little bit
• 0:59
  Speaker 3: of momentum here a couple of wrinkles. What were your
• 1:02
  Speaker 3: first impressions today?
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. I thought the first, you know, big
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: takeaway was just the offense being a little you know,
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: continuing to kind of develop, looking like they're you know,
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: finding their stride a little bit, some some nice a
• 1:12
  Speaker 2: bunch of eleven on eleven periods that they were working
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: on various stuff. One particular throw, you know, by Mac
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: up the sideline. I've been saying, I want to see
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: a deep throw to Trey Nixon. Really beautiful ball, nice catch.
• 1:22
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: It was one of those weird reps though, where only
• 1:25
  Speaker 2: half the line was rushing, and you know, so it
• 1:26
  Speaker 2: was a little bit weird. It wasn't perfect, but otherwise,
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: I'm with you. I thought it was great to see
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: another day of pads, great to see someone on ones again,
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: seeing that physicality pile up, and you know, with the
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: in stadium practice schedule for tomorrow, looks like they're going
• 1:39
  Speaker 2: to be off at least as far as media access
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: goes for the weekend. So it was a good day
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: probably to get some physicality in.
• 1:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And one of the wrinkles that I, you know,
• 1:46
  Speaker 3: sort of alluded to was Mac Jones. The first handful
• 1:51
  Speaker 3: of team reps. Eleven on eleven reps was dealing with
• 1:54
  Speaker 3: the quote unquote starting offensive line, but the two number
• 1:58
  Speaker 3: two receivers, So you know Mike mentioned the big throat
• 2:01
  Speaker 3: to Trey Nixon. He was he had Nixon and Douglas
• 2:03
  Speaker 3: and Booty and those guys to work with, and Bailey
• 2:07
  Speaker 3: Zappi was behind the second offensive line but had Juju
• 2:11
  Speaker 3: and Parker and Born. So I thought that was a
• 2:14
  Speaker 3: little bit of a wrinkle that maybe Bill Belichick and
• 2:16
  Speaker 3: Bill O'Brien dialed up today, and then it sort of
• 2:18
  Speaker 3: went back to the normal groupings at the end when
• 2:21
  Speaker 3: they started doing some of their down in distance. They
• 2:23
  Speaker 3: worked a lot of second and third down today and
• 2:26
  Speaker 3: then down in the red zone. So I agree, I
• 2:28
  Speaker 3: thought there was a little bit more rhythm. It seems
• 2:31
  Speaker 3: like the rhythm is coming a little bit more every
• 2:33
  Speaker 3: day in terms of timing, and one guy in particular,
• 2:37
  Speaker 3: it looks like he's developing a little bit of a
• 2:38
  Speaker 3: rapport with his Juju. Smith Schuster, who had another touchdown
• 2:42
  Speaker 3: say in a little tunnel screen well designed, really caught
• 2:45
  Speaker 3: the defense by surprise in the red zone. So I
• 2:48
  Speaker 3: think those are some building blocks to work with for
• 2:52
  Speaker 3: both bills.
• 2:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would, I would just run down some of
• 2:54
  Speaker 2: the depth issues because it's certainly notable that Matthew Judon,
• 2:57
  Speaker 2: Trent Brown haven't really been participating in physical portions of
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: practice whatever that has to be done doing with But
• 3:04
  Speaker 2: I would say vermondra Stevenson back in the mix today
• 3:06
  Speaker 2: a little bit getting some so they upped him a
• 3:09
  Speaker 2: little bit. But you know, it's just a lot of
• 3:11
  Speaker 2: guys kind of limited chasing Hines another one who's you know,
• 3:14
  Speaker 2: hasn't really been participating. So just some offensive line depth
• 3:17
  Speaker 2: and they're continuing to have to shuffle guys in and out.
• 3:20
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure where, you know, are they looking for
• 3:23
  Speaker 2: answers or are they just trying to put guys in
• 3:25
  Speaker 2: of who they have healthy right now?
• 3:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so little that's a good point that you make.
• 3:29
  Speaker 3: I'll just the bookkeeping that we'd like to do every podcast.
• 3:32
  Speaker 3: Ti Montgomery, Terres Hall, and Cole Strange again, you know,
• 3:36
  Speaker 3: you know, missing practice. Montgomery and Strange came back on
• 3:40
  Speaker 3: the field late, probably last twenty twenty five minutes, helmets
• 3:46
  Speaker 3: in hand shirts on no pads, both with sleeves on
• 3:49
  Speaker 3: their left leg. So it looks like they're probably both
• 3:52
  Speaker 3: dealing with some sort of left knee injury would be
• 3:54
  Speaker 3: my guess.
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: Still a good sign they're out.
• 3:57
  Speaker 3: There, so they they probably getting closer and to your
• 4:00
  Speaker 3: point about the offensive line, it again was Cody Russy
• 4:04
  Speaker 3: and Antonio Maffi, not Bill Murray. Murray was going with
• 4:08
  Speaker 3: the later groups, and you mentioned Hines sort of mixing
• 4:10
  Speaker 3: in with those groups too, So you know, again, it's
• 4:15
  Speaker 3: kind of curious to me the whole Trent Brown, Matthew
• 4:19
  Speaker 3: Judhon plan. For the lack of a better word, Julian
• 4:23
  Speaker 3: Edelman on hand today looked like he talked to the
• 4:25
  Speaker 3: team a little bit at the end of practice. One
• 4:30
  Speaker 3: thing we should note, not exactly sure what happened here.
• 4:33
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you saw something differently from up top.
• 4:35
  Speaker 3: Jack Jones looked like he dove broke up or at
• 4:39
  Speaker 3: least bothered Kendrick Bourn enough on an out route and
• 4:43
  Speaker 3: got up and celebrated it. And then all of a
• 4:45
  Speaker 3: sudden he's walking with Jabrill Peppers back to the locker room.
• 4:50
  Speaker 3: That was at about let's say about ten twenty, and
• 4:53
  Speaker 3: he went to the locker room about ten forty five.
• 4:56
  Speaker 3: He comes back, spent the time on a knee by himself.
• 5:00
  Speaker 3: Matt grow went over and talked to him for a
• 5:02
  Speaker 3: little bit. Jalen Mills had some conversations, but he really
• 5:06
  Speaker 3: didn't do anything the rest of the practice. I'm not
• 5:08
  Speaker 3: exactly sure what was going on. Did you see anything different? No,
• 5:11
  Speaker 3: that was pretty much how I saw it.
• 5:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just, you know, it looked to me
• 5:14
  Speaker 2: like Pepper's kind of arm around him, like giving him
• 5:16
  Speaker 2: some veteran advice. It seems like Pepper's kind of emerging
• 5:18
  Speaker 2: is a little bit more of a leader this year.
• 5:20
  Speaker 3: But yeah, tough to say.
• 5:21
  Speaker 2: And obviously there's so many issues right now, you know,
• 5:23
  Speaker 2: overhanging Jack Jones this season that you just you wonder
• 5:26
  Speaker 2: he needs to kind of, you know, be stacking days
• 5:29
  Speaker 2: with positivity, and I don't think today probably was one.
• 5:32
  Speaker 2: So I guess we'll see what the fallout is over
• 5:33
  Speaker 2: the next couper.
• 5:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and just you know, one of those things that
• 5:36
  Speaker 3: we haven't seen a lot of. I alluded to the
• 5:37
  Speaker 3: tackling to the ground. Christian Gonzalez came up and made
• 5:41
  Speaker 3: a really nice play. It probably got the big biggest
• 5:44
  Speaker 3: reaction of the day from any any of the plays.
• 5:47
  Speaker 3: Kind of recognized a little little swing pass in the flat,
• 5:50
  Speaker 3: came up, darted, chopped the legs right out for a
• 5:54
  Speaker 3: for a lost tackle for loss, and that seemed to
• 5:57
  Speaker 3: get a lot of energy on the defensive side. But
• 5:59
  Speaker 3: even the the little you know, the pursuit drills, the
• 6:01
  Speaker 3: ball kit. You know, there's one ball carrier, one tackle.
• 6:04
  Speaker 3: They usually tap on the hip. They were tackling to
• 6:07
  Speaker 3: the ground today and by the way, not surprisingly unless
• 6:10
  Speaker 3: they knocked him out of bounds. To Mario Douglas, no
• 6:12
  Speaker 3: one was able to tackle him. But they did knock
• 6:15
  Speaker 3: him out of bounds a couple of times. So some
• 6:18
  Speaker 3: different wrinkles to the drills that we've seen over the years.
• 6:20
  Speaker 3: I thought that was interesting.
• 6:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Douglas has just been all over the place. I mean,
• 6:23
  Speaker 2: it's just you know, he's always in motion, he's fast,
• 6:26
  Speaker 2: he's he's going to be, I think, an asset to
• 6:27
  Speaker 2: this team. I mean, I don't want to jump the
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: gun and say, you know, not only is going to
• 6:30
  Speaker 2: make the team, but he's going to be part of
• 6:31
  Speaker 2: the offense this year. But based on you know, Taekwon
• 6:33
  Speaker 2: Thornton being down in the lower field, opportunities are presenting
• 6:36
  Speaker 2: themselves and I feel like Davis and over the last
• 6:38
  Speaker 2: two days Booty a little bit have taken made.
• 6:41
  Speaker 3: A nice catch. I don't know if he was in bounds,
• 6:43
  Speaker 3: but that was a nice play, nice catch on the
• 6:45
  Speaker 3: back corner of the end zone, so he's building a
• 6:48
  Speaker 3: little momentum. He admitted that he got off to a
• 6:50
  Speaker 3: little bit of a slow start and feels a little
• 6:52
  Speaker 3: bit more comfortable. So we'll wrap up Day eight with
• 6:56
  Speaker 3: those comments. Just le f yi for our loyal followers,
• 7:01
  Speaker 3: because I know there are millions of you. Tomorrow, on Friday,
• 7:05
  Speaker 3: the Patriots are scheduled to have their in stadium practice
• 7:08
  Speaker 3: open to Foxborough residents and season ticket members only inside
• 7:13
  Speaker 3: Jillette Stadium. That's tomorrow night, six thirty ish scheduled to
• 7:18
  Speaker 3: get underway. So if you're looking for our podcast tomorrow
• 7:21
  Speaker 3: and you're not sure where it is, it won't be
• 7:23
  Speaker 3: coming until around, you know, probably nine o'clock or so.
• 7:27
  Speaker 3: So you want to make sure, I know, everybody be
• 7:29
  Speaker 3: waited with baited breath to hear what say correct, So
• 7:34
  Speaker 3: until then, that's going to put a wrap on Day eight.