Latest / Patriots Unfiltered / Training Camp-Cast 7/30: Day 6 Recap, Offense Continues Progress, Matthew Judon Update
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- 0:22Speaker 3: here to review today's practice?
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- 0:26Speaker 4: All right, welcome into another edition of the Patriots Training
- 0:29Speaker 4: Camp Cast. I might do so, joined by Evan Lazar
- 0:31Speaker 4: and Paul Perillo. And we just got off the field,
- 0:33Speaker 4: guys from another padded practice, our second one in a row,
- 0:37Speaker 4: a little bit longer session. It felt kind of to me, Paul,
- 0:39Speaker 4: like we're really just trying to hit that those dog
- 0:41Speaker 4: days this summer. Get the reps in Drake Mate took
- 0:43Speaker 4: a lot of reps today and again it felt like
- 0:45Speaker 4: an okay day for the offense. I don't want to
- 0:47Speaker 4: understated it to overstate it, but okay, they're showing some progress.
- 0:49Speaker 3: I mean even I would say, but yeah, I do
- 0:51Speaker 3: think there's some progress being made. You're seeing I think
- 0:55Speaker 3: with the pads on the past, protection has been a
- 0:58Speaker 3: little bit better, and that's to be expected. You should
- 1:01Speaker 3: be able to block a little bit better when you're
- 1:02Speaker 3: actually allowed dare I say to block, and I think
- 1:05Speaker 3: it has been and I think there were some signs
- 1:08Speaker 3: of production at you know, at times. Did a little
- 1:10Speaker 3: red zone work today? Mike, You're right, there was, you know,
- 1:14Speaker 3: sort of longer periods. I thought of eleven on eleven
- 1:17Speaker 3: and there was one point where Drake May doubled up,
- 1:20Speaker 3: So yeah, I thought they got some good work here.
- 1:21Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:22Speaker 4: Everyone talked about Drake May a little bit of a
- 1:23Speaker 4: down day yesterday. Would you see from him today?
- 1:25Speaker 2: Oh?
- 1:25Speaker 1: I thought he got the ball out a little bit
- 1:27Speaker 1: faster today than what we saw yesterday. But in general
- 1:29Speaker 1: we talked a lot about this on Unfiltered. Also, it
- 1:32Speaker 1: just feels like processing wise, he's maybe still a beat behind.
- 1:36Speaker 1: And when you watch a quarterback like Jacob Brissett who's
- 1:39Speaker 1: not only been in the league for a while but
- 1:40Speaker 1: also played in this offense before in twenty twenty two,
- 1:43Speaker 1: you do start to see the difference a little bit
- 1:45Speaker 1: of not necessarily the talent or the physical tools, but
- 1:49Speaker 1: just when it's run on time and it's run on rhythm,
- 1:52Speaker 1: what it looks like with Jacob Brissett versus what it
- 1:54Speaker 1: looks like with a guy like Drake May who's still
- 1:56Speaker 1: trying to learn the system. So to me, a lot
- 1:58Speaker 1: of the things and we could probably dissect a million
- 2:01Speaker 1: things that that Drake May could or couldn't do better.
- 2:03Speaker 1: But to me, right now, the number one thing is
- 2:06Speaker 1: to get him mentally processing the game a little bit
- 2:10Speaker 1: faster and seeing things a little bit quicker, and then
- 2:12Speaker 1: you'll start to won't see all those camp reports of
- 2:15Speaker 1: well Drake May was, you know, five for eleven or
- 2:17Speaker 1: three for eleven today and eleven on elevens if he
- 2:20Speaker 1: starts to be a little bit more on time.
- 2:22Speaker 4: Now, Paul, there's another quarterback too, Joe Milton. I thought
- 2:24Speaker 4: he was okay today.
- 2:25Speaker 3: I mean I thought he was really good today.
- 2:27Speaker 4: He's getting some reps. What did you see?
- 2:28Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he took you know, Zapi took some
- 2:30Speaker 3: reps early in the third uh, the third time around,
- 2:34Speaker 3: and then it was later in Milton. I thought he'd
- 2:37Speaker 3: gotten a little bit of a rhythm. I thought, really
- 2:39Speaker 3: nice slant to Juju Smith Schuster for a touchdown. There
- 2:42Speaker 3: was some enthusiasm. I mean, he's one of those guys that, yeah,
- 2:46Speaker 3: he's got kind of the infectious enthusiasm. I'm not telling
- 2:49Speaker 3: you it means anything. Beyond that he threw the ball
- 2:51Speaker 3: pretty well today, but I thought he was dealing.
- 2:54Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 2:54Speaker 1: The one thing I'd say about Milton he was in
- 2:57Speaker 1: college for six years and he's three twenty four years old,
- 3:01Speaker 1: And even with him to Drake, you can sort of
- 3:04Speaker 1: tell the difference between a guy that was really experienced
- 3:08Speaker 1: and played a ton of college football versus the guy
- 3:10Speaker 1: that really was only in college football for three true years.
- 3:13Speaker 1: And even the ball tends to come out a little
- 3:15Speaker 1: bit more on time with Milton. So it's not to
- 3:18Speaker 1: say that Milton's ahead of Drake or like it's better
- 3:20Speaker 1: or anything like that, but you see the experience, like
- 3:23Speaker 1: of the two guys, and I feel like with Milton
- 3:26Speaker 1: that those ten years that he's s already six years
- 3:28Speaker 1: that he's spent in college, you kind of see that
- 3:30Speaker 1: a little bit with him a little bit more mature.
- 3:32Speaker 4: Yeah, so a little bit of housekeeping stuff. Guys, we had,
- 3:34Speaker 4: you know, Jabil Pepper's out of practice. We did see
- 3:36Speaker 4: him kind of walk on field later. Marty map who
- 3:38Speaker 4: continues to be an observer as well. Christian Barmore, of course,
- 3:42Speaker 4: not expecting to see him. Matthew Judon a little bit
- 3:44Speaker 4: of display yesterday from him, he was not out there
- 3:46Speaker 4: at all today. Devon Godshaw continues to practice though, and
- 3:50Speaker 4: you know, just for me, the big point is, it's
- 3:51Speaker 4: just it's kind of a tough blow over the course
- 3:54Speaker 4: of the last twenty four hours to feel like, you know,
- 3:56Speaker 4: you got a little bit more drama with Jude On going.
- 3:58Speaker 4: We were hopeful that Godshaw is going to get done,
- 4:00Speaker 4: but we don't know when we're ever going to see
- 4:02Speaker 4: Barmore again out here, and now we have Peppers out.
- 4:05Speaker 4: Just not a great twenty four hours for the team,
- 4:06Speaker 4: especially on the defensive side of the ball, with how
- 4:08Speaker 4: that's all going with their personnelity.
- 4:10Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, the Judon thing I think sort of
- 4:13Speaker 3: is front and center for me. I mean, it wasn't
- 4:15Speaker 3: a good look yesterday. I thought with the way he
- 4:19Speaker 3: sort of in front of the media, in front of
- 4:21Speaker 3: the public was just sort of openly saying I'm not
- 4:25Speaker 3: going to practice and what are you going to do
- 4:27Speaker 3: about it? And then I thought he kind of backed
- 4:29Speaker 3: tried to back drive Mayo into a corner. I don't
- 4:32Speaker 3: think it's a coincidence that we didn't see him today.
- 4:35Speaker 3: I would just add also, David Andrews didn't practice for
- 4:38Speaker 3: the second straight day, which put Nick Leverett at center.
- 4:41Speaker 3: So that's unfortunate because that offensive line had started to
- 4:44Speaker 3: develop a little cohesion with the same tackles with Chukes
- 4:48Speaker 3: and the rookie Caden Wallace. Wallace on the left side,
- 4:51Speaker 3: a corpf we on the right, but no David Andrews.
- 4:53Speaker 1: Yeah, I think with the Judon thing. To me, we've
- 4:56Speaker 1: been talking about this Mike a Ton today, it just
- 4:59Speaker 1: puts into person effective the pass rush and the lack
- 5:02Speaker 1: of you know, just to make it about football for
- 5:04Speaker 1: a second, the lack of juice that they have a
- 5:06Speaker 1: little bit right now in the pass rush without Judah
- 5:08Speaker 1: and Christian Barmore out there is a teeny bit concerning
- 5:12Speaker 1: I don't want to like be alarmist about it, but
- 5:14Speaker 1: you know, I charted the one on ones between the
- 5:16Speaker 1: O line and the D line, and I had nine
- 5:18Speaker 1: straight wins for the offensive line. And this is an
- 5:21Speaker 1: offensive line that all offseason we've been telling you guys
- 5:24Speaker 1: isn't very good on paper, and you know some people
- 5:27Speaker 1: have ranked it I think thirty first, thirty second in
- 5:29Speaker 1: the league on paper in terms of the talent that
- 5:32Speaker 1: they have and the guys that they have in camp
- 5:34Speaker 1: right now.
- 5:35Speaker 4: U J.
- 5:36Speaker 1: Jennings a quality wise, Keon White are having a tough
- 5:39Speaker 1: time getting off blocks in the one on one pass
- 5:42Speaker 1: rush drills, and that just puts in perspective how important
- 5:45Speaker 1: those two guys are for this team.
- 5:47Speaker 4: Yeah, so we're covering the big pieces here. We talked
- 5:49Speaker 4: about Drake May, We talked about the quarterback, Jacoby Brissett,
- 5:51Speaker 4: We talked about the offensive line, some of the concerns
- 5:53Speaker 4: on defense. The other big thing for this team of
- 5:55Speaker 4: the receivers. And it's just a big group and we've
- 5:58Speaker 4: kind of been talking about how there's been such rotation.
- 6:00Speaker 4: I mean, just everybody's kind of playing with everybody. Some days,
- 6:03Speaker 4: some guys are making plays other days or not. I
- 6:05Speaker 4: just want to ask both of you guys, like, who's
- 6:07Speaker 4: one guy to you that's just kind of stood out
- 6:09Speaker 4: in terms of tight ends, wide receivers. Just one guy
- 6:12Speaker 4: that's caught your eyes over the last couple of days
- 6:14Speaker 4: as pads have come on And Paul, you can say
- 6:16Speaker 4: nobody if he.
- 6:17Speaker 3: Well, you know why I think that it's I'm going
- 6:20Speaker 3: to say the opposite of nobody. I'm gonna say different days,
- 6:23Speaker 3: I've seen different guys like I thought on Monday, Taekwon
- 6:25Speaker 3: Thorton kind of stood out to me. I think earlier
- 6:28Speaker 3: when there was no pads on, Rager was making some plays.
- 6:30Speaker 3: I think the two rookies have had days where they've
- 6:33Speaker 3: I thought that Polk was a little bit better today
- 6:35Speaker 3: than I've seen him, whereas Baker wasn't as good as
- 6:38Speaker 3: I've seen him in other days. So I wouldn't say nobody.
- 6:40Speaker 3: I would say nobody consistently every day.
- 6:43Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 6:43Speaker 3: Is that fair?
- 6:44Speaker 2: Sure?
- 6:44Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a fair way to put it. I feel
- 6:46Speaker 1: a lot of the same things. I think we're in
- 6:48Speaker 1: lockstep on the receivers. The one guy I would just
- 6:51Speaker 1: kind of highlight, though, I am excited about Javon Baker
- 6:54Speaker 1: a little bit just because of the way he moves
- 6:56Speaker 1: and the type of athlete that he is. It might
- 6:58Speaker 1: not be consistent yet day in and day out and
- 7:01Speaker 1: rep in and rep out, and that's sort of how
- 7:03Speaker 1: I thought he would be in his NFL career, you know,
- 7:06Speaker 1: looking at some of the comps, like, you know, one
- 7:08Speaker 1: guy that I stuck out to me that also happens
- 7:10Speaker 1: to be UCF guys, Gabe Davis, who like will have
- 7:13Speaker 1: a game where he has one hundred and fifty yards
- 7:14Speaker 1: and then the next week he's not even on the field.
- 7:17Speaker 1: It feels like, and I kind of feel the same
- 7:19Speaker 1: way about Javon Baker in these practices. But when he
- 7:22Speaker 1: is explosive and he's on like he was yesterday, at
- 7:26Speaker 1: times you notice him that he moves a little bit differently,
- 7:29Speaker 1: and Pop Douglas moves differently too, but he's smaller, you know,
- 7:32Speaker 1: Javon Baker moves differently at six one hundred and ninety
- 7:35Speaker 1: five two hundred pounds, so he's got some size and
- 7:38Speaker 1: he's got some explosiveness and that that's a good quality
- 7:40Speaker 1: to have. So I'm excited about him, you know, not
- 7:43Speaker 1: trying to get too ahead of ourselves, but having those
- 7:46Speaker 1: two guys flashed, you know, Polkin Baker as much as
- 7:48Speaker 1: they have, is not necessarily things that we've seen out
- 7:51Speaker 1: of rookie receivers in a Patriots training camp right away,
- 7:54Speaker 1: certainly not with Nikhil Harry as we were all here
- 7:57Speaker 1: for that, and then even with Taekwon it was like
- 7:59Speaker 1: kind of like a play here, a play there, whereas
- 8:01Speaker 1: those two guys feel like they're involved and they're getting
- 8:04Speaker 1: targeted every single day.
- 8:05Speaker 3: And I will say today was the first time we
- 8:07Speaker 3: saw Douglas in a competitive rep. He did some seven
- 8:10Speaker 3: on seven's, caught a pass in natural so he wore
- 8:13Speaker 3: a red non contact jersey today. Obviously getting closer.
- 8:16Speaker 4: Yeah, he's another one that she just jumps off the field.
- 8:18Speaker 4: He's got some quickness and certainly it's the skill that
- 8:20Speaker 4: the Patriots offense needs. But the team will be off
- 8:23Speaker 4: on Wednesday. We're through six practices here. We think we
- 8:25Speaker 4: got seven left with a joint practice, so we're about
- 8:28Speaker 4: at the halfway point Wednesday off day, and then we're
- 8:30Speaker 4: anticipating three more action pack practices, probably a couple with
- 8:33Speaker 4: pads as well. So be sure to stay tuned here
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