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Training Camp-Cast 8/6: Maye / Offense Find a Rhythm, Defense Shows Strong vs. Daniels, Full Joint Practice Breakdown · Patriots Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: We were fresh off the fields from behind Jellette Stadium
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: where the Patriots and Commanders got into it for almost
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: two hours in a joint practice.
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  Speaker 2: Let's break it all.
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  Speaker 1: Down, Patriots training camp, cast and guys. I might say
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: this is the ultimate show of the summer, the joint
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: practice wrap up. There was a ton going on in
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  Speaker 1: the field. Hard to take it all in. Paul, I
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: talked to you right after practice. We both felt a
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  Speaker 1: little over overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 3: But I do think right next to overwhelmed is very encouraged,
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  Speaker 3: very optimistic. I thought there was a lot of good competition.
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  Speaker 3: I know, that's the cliche, that's what all the players thought.
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  Speaker 3: It was good to be good to be in a
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  Speaker 3: competitive environment. We got a couple of scraps. Mike Rabel
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  Speaker 3: was part of those scraps, but back and forth. I
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  Speaker 3: thought there was some periods where the Patriots looked really good,
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  Speaker 3: some periods not so good. I think that's what you're
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  Speaker 3: looking to see. Much much different case from last year,
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  Speaker 3: So I think a lot to be optimistic about.
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  Speaker 4: I agree, Yeah, that was my number one takeaway.
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  Speaker 5: It was it was a lot different than the Eagles
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  Speaker 5: joint practice that we had that we keep bringing up
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  Speaker 5: that's the bar of let's not go with that in
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  Speaker 5: that direction. And the Patriots offensively, DUSA had his eyes
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  Speaker 5: mostly on the defense, so times the offense a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: I thought Drake may for ninety nine point nine percent
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  Speaker 5: of this practice was really good. The end we'll get
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  Speaker 5: to it wasn't a great ending for the offense, but
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  Speaker 5: the optimistic view is that Drake looked like he was
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  Speaker 5: in rhythm. Him and Pob Douglas early was a connection
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  Speaker 5: that the commander simply just could not stop. And then
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  Speaker 5: the offensive line I thought held its own. I thought
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  Speaker 5: it was okay, was a dominant no, but it was
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  Speaker 5: more than okay. Nothing like that Eagles practice last year.
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  Speaker 5: Will Campbell seemed to fare pretty well. Jared Wilson fared
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  Speaker 5: pretty well. So I come out of this practice feeling
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  Speaker 5: like the Patriots showed well overall. I know, we get
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  Speaker 5: into who won the practice and all that good stuff.
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  Speaker 5: I just think it was a good positive day and
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  Speaker 5: a good step forward.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I felt similar about the defense. I
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  Speaker 1: thought Washington had a pretty good start right out of
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  Speaker 1: the gate, where you saw Jayden Daniels hitting some quick
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  Speaker 1: passes to Zacher.
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  Speaker 2: But I felt like it got progressively.
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  Speaker 1: Better as I watched, and I mean this the second
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  Speaker 1: and last possession where they ran a couple of read
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  Speaker 1: options which they just felt like they covered well.
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  Speaker 2: They ran well. There was one run by the number eight.
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  Speaker 1: They're they're running back Robinson, Robinson who they got the
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  Speaker 1: edge on one of them and it looked like he
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  Speaker 1: was gone.
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  Speaker 2: So there were some moments, but felt like they were
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  Speaker 2: ninety two.
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  Speaker 1: Those two guys Harold Landry, Christian Barmore in the backfield
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  Speaker 1: a lot tonga, real tough up front, Robert Splaine getting
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  Speaker 1: a hand on a ball, punching that up in the air,
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  Speaker 1: making some plays on the ball. So just competitive and
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  Speaker 1: again i'll highlight I don't want to jump right to
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  Speaker 1: Alex Austin at the end, but the competitive team portion
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  Speaker 1: right at the end, forty five seconds from the twenty
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  Speaker 1: five yard line, got to punch it in. Came down
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  Speaker 1: to the end, fourth down play, another Alex Austin.
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  Speaker 2: Come up with.
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  Speaker 3: That series was excellent. I thought both defenses did well
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  Speaker 3: in that final series. To Evans's point, that was the
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  Speaker 3: one point one percent that he wasn't thrilled with. Drake
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  Speaker 3: may I would agree, and I thought the pass rush.
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  Speaker 3: I thought the coverage was a little leaky. I thought,
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  Speaker 3: you know, at times, Mike watched definitely more of the defense,
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  Speaker 3: so I would go with his assessment over mine because
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  Speaker 3: I was just sort of head on a swivel watching,
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  Speaker 3: trying to take it all in. But I definitely noticed
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  Speaker 3: barmore in the backfield. I noticed, even with some of
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  Speaker 3: the secondary groups, some different numbers Joshua Farmer, Elijah Ponder,
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  Speaker 3: guys you know, showing up in the backfield that we
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  Speaker 3: hadn't really seen a lot of. So the word today
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  Speaker 3: that I keep coming back to was competitive. They were
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  Speaker 3: far more competitive than we've seen in the recent past.
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  Speaker 1: Just a highlight, real quick Ivan Joshua Farmer, he stood
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  Speaker 1: out to me. He was a guy that is really surging,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit banged up earlier in camp, coming on
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  Speaker 1: getting some quality reps the last couple of days, and
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  Speaker 1: then today it seemed like a translated so that rookie
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  Speaker 1: providing some good depth on the defensive line.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you shout at him out.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah me too.
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  Speaker 5: We both talked about Farmer getting in the backfield a
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  Speaker 5: few times today and I agree with do so maybe
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  Speaker 5: a little bit of a slow star for him health
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  Speaker 5: wise in training camp wasn't always out there to start camp.
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  Speaker 4: But hopefully he's coming on.
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  Speaker 5: And that's another rookie that you can add into Campbell
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  Speaker 5: and Henderson and Wilson and Williams and now Farmer. Like,
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  Speaker 5: if you get some of these rookies and you get
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  Speaker 5: four or five guys that can all at least be
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  Speaker 5: a rotational player for you, that's a good draft class
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  Speaker 5: out of the shoot so far. But I'll go back
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  Speaker 5: to Drake because I just want to reiterate. I just
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  Speaker 5: thought he was great for the majority of this practice.
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  Speaker 5: He had one stretch where he hit Pop Douglas on
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  Speaker 5: a little shallow cross or the beginning of practice. Pop
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  Speaker 5: Douglas was like unguardable. They couldn't get their hands on him.
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  Speaker 5: And he hit a little shallow crosser where Pop got
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  Speaker 5: some open field, you know, he had some open grass
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  Speaker 5: in front of him. A nice explosive play. Then Drake
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  Speaker 5: had a little side up, stepping up off platform throw
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  Speaker 5: with some pressure to Pop Douglas on a crossing route
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  Speaker 5: and then he hit Austin Hooper up the scene for
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  Speaker 5: a completion in sequential order, like three plays right in
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  Speaker 5: a row. Boom, boom, boom, and I thought he was
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  Speaker 5: really sharp. And with Drake, when you start to get
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  Speaker 5: into you know, he's pumping guys off and he's looking
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  Speaker 5: guys off and he's moving around like that's.
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  Speaker 4: When you can tell that he's feeling it a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: And he said it after the you start to get
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of a rhythm, you could see.
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  Speaker 4: It absolutely, and I felt like that was a really
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  Speaker 4: good stretch for him.
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  Speaker 1: Kishan Boodie as well, I think I'm watching a really
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  Speaker 1: nice shoulder on the sideline.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's really good at that play. I think
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  Speaker 3: he just has good, good body control, good footwork, which
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  Speaker 3: is so funny because the first thing everybody remembers about
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  Speaker 3: him is not getting that second foot in bounds in
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  Speaker 3: his first ever game in the NFL. And I think
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  Speaker 3: he's done a really good job of that.
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  Speaker 1: One other play, just to highlight with the twos, when
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  Speaker 1: they got up in that twenty five yard line in
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  Speaker 1: first play from scrimmage, Josh Jobs Josh Dobbs drops back
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  Speaker 1: throws one right in the bucket to mac Hollins. Great catch,
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  Speaker 1: one play, one touchdown and they're right off the field.
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  Speaker 2: That was nice, nice showing from the two.
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  Speaker 3: Which made my pre practice prediction or actually assertion that
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  Speaker 3: Joshua Dobbs I think has come on a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: That was the throw of the day.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, beautiful, and Mac Collins coming on a little bit too,
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  Speaker 5: Dus pumping him up in the free game and I
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  Speaker 5: felt like he had I want to say, three or
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  Speaker 5: four catches in team from both quarterbacks and with Drake
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  Speaker 5: a nice hole shot in the cover two hole along
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  Speaker 5: this sideline out with anticipation that he hit him on
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  Speaker 5: and then he had the big one from Dobbs. So
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  Speaker 5: playing a lot today, Diggs was limited in and out
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  Speaker 5: a little bit during team drills, so Matt Collins got
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  Speaker 5: quite a bit of run and this was the most
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  Speaker 5: noticeable practice for him as well.
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  Speaker 4: So he was definitely on the on the standouts or
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  Speaker 4: the positive side.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so let's talk about that last play from Drake,
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  Speaker 1: because last couple practices I've mentioned in stadium, we saw
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  Speaker 1: Drake throw an interception to Alex Austin to end that practice.
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  Speaker 1: Competitive periods on Monday, similar kind of results, not quite
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  Speaker 1: finishing strong.
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  Speaker 2: That was one of my keys today coming in.
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  Speaker 1: They come in for their forty five seconds from the
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  Speaker 1: twenty five He's completion to Hunter Henry.
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  Speaker 2: A completion de Booty just misses diggs On trying to
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  Speaker 2: throw the fade, and then a tipball.
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  Speaker 1: Interception, which you know, Drake said, these are the things
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  Speaker 1: that will happen Bobby Wagner. But you know, still, for me,
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  Speaker 1: it's just that's a third day in a row where
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  Speaker 1: we've seen them kind of sputter a little bit at
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  Speaker 1: the end, and I don't want to take away from
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  Speaker 1: the great practice that they had, and they punched back
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  Speaker 1: a lot, but that's the one that leaves the taste
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  Speaker 1: in your mouth at the end of this practice.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's unfortunate. And I think back to
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  Speaker 3: something Evan said when we had the you know, the
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  Speaker 3: show before the practice about how hard it is to
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  Speaker 3: sort of look at it at practice because you just
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  Speaker 3: go in live. That's a play that the interception is
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  Speaker 3: a player. I want to see sort of from the backside,
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  Speaker 3: kind of see what Drake was looking at. He talked
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  Speaker 3: about he gave a lot of credit to Bobby Wagner,
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  Speaker 3: you know, for having good eyes on the play. I
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  Speaker 3: think he said he tried to put a little extra
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  Speaker 3: zip on it to get it through and wasn't able
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  Speaker 3: to do. But I'd like to see it and say like, well,
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  Speaker 3: should you have been trying to do that or should
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  Speaker 3: you have gone somewhere else, Because there's no question that
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  Speaker 3: I felt that Pop had a step on Mike Sandras
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  Speaker 3: still and would have been a touchdown had had the
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  Speaker 3: ball not been deflected. So it might be a mental error,
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  Speaker 3: it might be a physical mistake. You know, we don't
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  Speaker 3: know if you don't get a chance to see it
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  Speaker 3: in a couple of different ways.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, May said after practice that he probably should have
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  Speaker 5: moved Bobby Wagner with his eyes a little bit more,
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  Speaker 5: held him in the middle of the field. Looked like
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  Speaker 5: Wagner dropped out and was like a free player, just
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  Speaker 5: like a spy or a robber, just sitting in the
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  Speaker 5: middle of the field where Drake's eyes and Pop separated
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  Speaker 5: so quickly on the slant that I think Drake just
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  Speaker 5: immediately went to the slant and it brought Bobby Wagner
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  Speaker 5: to the party and he just tipped it up in
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  Speaker 5: the air in the passing lane and Sandra is still
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  Speaker 5: caught the tip pass So right, look like a right idea,
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  Speaker 5: but with a veteran heady player like Bobby Wagner. You
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  Speaker 5: have to maybe give him a little quick look off first,
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  Speaker 5: or you start left and then go right. Just try
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  Speaker 5: to move him with your eyes in some way, shape
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  Speaker 5: or form to open up that passing window. It's also
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  Speaker 5: possible he just didn't see him, which sometimes happens to
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  Speaker 5: dropping out of the rush and you just don't see him.
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  Speaker 5: So that was, like I said, you could put up
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  Speaker 5: nine ten great throws from Drake today and then that's
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  Speaker 5: the one blemish towards the end of practice.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody else did you guys saw standard.
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to mention Travon Henderson, who every now
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  Speaker 1: and then I was looking over at the offensive sideline
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  Speaker 1: out side of the ball, and I would you see
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  Speaker 1: some nice runs by him. I also saw a drop
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  Speaker 1: which was a great throw by Drake in the end zone.
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  Speaker 2: I mean dropping the bucket.
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  Speaker 1: You could tell hendersons are trying to find it, couldn't
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  Speaker 1: quite hang onto it.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, Henderson continues just to show up with his.
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  Speaker 3: Tough day for him catching the ball. He had a
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  Speaker 3: couple of drops, but I would look at it on
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  Speaker 3: the positive side of saying these are the these are
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  Speaker 3: kinds of plays that I think he's going to be
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  Speaker 3: able to make catching the ball. It happens now you
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  Speaker 3: end up dropping passes all the time. That becomes a problem.
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  Speaker 3: But to me, the bigger thing is the execution in
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  Speaker 3: the red zone and getting open the way he did
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  Speaker 3: on that little fade, little little wheel in the end zone,
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  Speaker 3: he was wide open. Again. I don't think the linebacker
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  Speaker 3: is going to be able to handle him.
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  Speaker 1: No. One other thing I should point out it seemed
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  Speaker 1: like he instigated a little bit of a fight with
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  Speaker 1: some of his pass blocking, which of course we've talked
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  Speaker 1: about all spring. Tre Van Henderson coming in with pass
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: blocking sounded like the Commanders took maybe a little exception
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  Speaker 1: to some of his pass blocking.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, little scrum broke out.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, not to be the football guy here.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody's talking about Mike Rabel getting in the scrum trying
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  Speaker 5: to break it up. But the thing that stood out
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  Speaker 5: to me is that Henderson put the blitzer on his
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  Speaker 5: butt and that's what started the d tire thing. And
• 10:00
  Speaker 5: that's what we wanted to see out of him at
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  Speaker 5: such a standout trait of his game from college and
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  Speaker 5: to see it translating into the pros is a really
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  Speaker 5: good sign just for his ability to play on third down,
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  Speaker 5: because when you get into the NFL, you see the
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  Speaker 5: blitz looks that these NFL defenses are going to send
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  Speaker 5: your way compared to the college game. That's why a
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  Speaker 5: lot of rookie running backs don't play in the passing
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  Speaker 5: game early on in their careers. So if Henderson can
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  Speaker 5: hold up in pass pro, then you can put them
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  Speaker 5: on the field in those types of situations. So that
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  Speaker 5: stood out to me. His speed always stands out. But
• 10:31
  Speaker 5: a couple of other things, just on the offensive line.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Marcus Bryant continues to get some work at
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  Speaker 5: ride tackle. No Morgan Moses today, so it was split
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  Speaker 5: between Trey Jacobs and Marcus Bryant, And at this point
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  Speaker 5: I would give maybe a little bit of an edge
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  Speaker 5: to Marcus Bryant. I think he took yeah, yeah, I
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  Speaker 5: think he might have fared better. And then there was
• 10:49
  Speaker 5: one period where Ben Brown took center reps over Garrett Bradbury.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if that was performance related, injury related,
• 10:58
  Speaker 5: who the hell knows, but he did do it, so
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  Speaker 5: that's worth noting as well. So there's some different shuffling
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  Speaker 5: there on the offensive line.
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  Speaker 4: But for the most part.
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  Speaker 5: You saw that same group of Campbell, Wilson, Bradbury on
• 11:11
  Speaker 5: WNU and then the rotating right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well, great stuff, a lot of fun
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  Speaker 1: out there on the fields today.
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  Speaker 2: Be sure to check out.
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  Speaker 1: We'll all be writing a little bit more, dive into
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  Speaker 1: some more of the details of this practice. As we said,
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: plenty to see and of course, the first preseason game
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  Speaker 1: of the summer is going to kick off Friday night
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: here at Gillette Stadium against the Commanders, so be sure
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: to tune in early six pm. Will be the Tom
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: Brady statue unveiling, then Paul and I for the pregame show.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be right on the tail of that as well,
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  Speaker 1: take you right into the game and get you ready
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: for that. As for practice and the camp cast will
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: be back on Sunday for the last Patriots training camp
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: practice of the.
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  Speaker 2: Summer, so we'll see you then. But first we'll see
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  Speaker 2: on Friday night for the first preseason game against the Commanders.