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Training Camp-Cast 7/26: High Intensity and Big Plays Highlight Day 4, Full Practice Recap · Patriots Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: The intensity was back up at Patriots training camp on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Big plays on both sides of the ball. Let's break
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  Speaker 1: it all down. Welcome everybody to the Patriots training camp
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  Speaker 1: cast on Mike you So, joined by Paul Perlo and
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  Speaker 1: Evan Lazarre and guys. This was just a fun practice,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fun, some big plays.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I think both sides of the ball had some moments,
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  Speaker 1: but Paul would stood up most of you today.
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  Speaker 3: I thought Drake may mainly made some nice passes downfield.
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  Speaker 3: First time we really got to see him throw it
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  Speaker 3: a little bit, say, beyond the ten yard mark with
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  Speaker 3: any sort of consistency. There was ups and downs, and
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  Speaker 3: that's why I think the coaches will probably be happy
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  Speaker 3: because I think both sides of the ball had things
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  Speaker 3: to be encouraged about, but also plenty of things.
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  Speaker 2: To try to correct. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Big play of the day probably a big throat to
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  Speaker 4: Pop Douglas.
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  Speaker 5: Play of camp so far, exactly what we all love
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  Speaker 5: to see from Drake, you know, off script, rolling to
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  Speaker 5: his right, flicked it off of one foot like fifty
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  Speaker 5: to fifty five yards in the air to Pop Douglas,
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  Speaker 5: and you could see it developing. You're like, oh, he's
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  Speaker 5: going to get behind the safety there, and Drake put
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  Speaker 5: it right on them. So it was exactly the offscript
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  Speaker 5: play that you're probably imagining in your head is exactly
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  Speaker 5: what it looked like on the field. So that was
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  Speaker 5: really good to see. But like Paul said, and there's
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  Speaker 5: some ups and downs. Like I thought, there were some
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  Speaker 5: incompletions in this practice, maybe a few more than what
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  Speaker 5: we seen in previous practices from Drake, but overall you
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  Speaker 5: saw some of those deep bombs down the field, which
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  Speaker 5: is what we wanted to see as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the first two days of practice was primarily focused
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  Speaker 1: on first and second down, a lot of completions, not
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  Speaker 1: a lot of incompletions, balls hitting the ground. Today they
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  Speaker 1: add in third down a little bit more aggressive, so
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  Speaker 1: I think the pressure was on a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: figuratively and you know, literally on the field with some
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  Speaker 1: of the defensive players getting in the backfield. Robert Splane,
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  Speaker 1: key On White, Milton Williams, those guys were all again
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  Speaker 1: disruptive at times, but again the offense still managed to
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  Speaker 1: make some place.
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  Speaker 2: I would totally agree.
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  Speaker 3: I thought the running backs got free a few times
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  Speaker 3: on the linebacker. Splane did show some. I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: think you had back to back plays we had nice
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  Speaker 3: you know, pass perps, but on the downfield stuff, I
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  Speaker 3: thought they were susceptible. That's why I think it's probably
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  Speaker 3: a good sign. We've talked about a couple of times
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  Speaker 3: in the last few years about how we would come
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  Speaker 3: in from these days while the defense just dominated today,
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  Speaker 3: or you know, the defense looked like they were out
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  Speaker 3: to lunch today. Today, I thought there was kind of
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  Speaker 3: some ups and downs for both sides. Pass protection, we'd
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  Speaker 3: be my number one concern still, and I just can't
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  Speaker 3: wait for Monday so I can stop giving the caveat
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  Speaker 3: of well, they're not in pad, so we don't know yet.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, Evan, we got a little bit of a
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  Speaker 4: precursor today.
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  Speaker 2: There were some one on ones.
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  Speaker 1: Usually that those drills reserved for when the pads do
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  Speaker 1: come on. Seems like they're setting the stage a little
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  Speaker 1: bit for that. But you know, as much as the
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  Speaker 1: team periods might have been inconsistent with the protection.
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  Speaker 4: You did see some good stuff in those individual drills.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I thought Will Campbell had two really good reps at
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  Speaker 5: left tackle against you frontline players, Kean White, Anthony Jennings,
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  Speaker 5: so that was good to see. Anybody that tries to
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  Speaker 5: beat Will Campbell around his edge, it's tough. When you
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  Speaker 5: get a beat, it's usually to the inside, which we
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  Speaker 5: saw maybe once or twice in the team period. So
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  Speaker 5: I'm with Paul, it's a it depends on which way
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  Speaker 5: you want to look at it. From Deuce's perspective, his
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  Speaker 5: defense and his pass rush was getting after it. From
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  Speaker 5: the offenses perspective, there definitely was some pressure on the
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  Speaker 5: quarterback today during the team periods that needs to be
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  Speaker 5: cleaned up, especially I would say the free runners's it's
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  Speaker 5: one thing to get beat on the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 5: That's going to happen from time to time, you know,
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  Speaker 5: from time to time. But today I thought there were
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  Speaker 5: two three instances where guys were coming in free unblocked,
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  Speaker 5: and those are the ones that you want to get,
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  Speaker 5: you know, taken care of there.
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  Speaker 1: Now, if you and I watched practice together, I want
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  Speaker 1: to highlight something. I don't know if Paul saw this
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  Speaker 1: or if this caught your eye, but noticed a little
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  Speaker 1: bit maybe extra rotation going on with the safety position.
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  Speaker 1: Usually the first team defense or whatever you want to
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  Speaker 1: call them, the top line guys or out there. But
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  Speaker 1: seemed to me today and Ev and I were talking
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about Paul don't know this if you
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  Speaker 1: notice this, but it seemed like they and ja Bill
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  Speaker 1: Peppers was a little banged up too. I think for
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  Speaker 1: a moment maybe that played into it, but it seemed
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  Speaker 1: like the safety position, guys like Craig Woodson, Jalen Hawkins,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Marcus Dep's getting maybe a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: reps than some of the other positions.
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  Speaker 4: And if you can comment on that.
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  Speaker 6: A little bit, yeah, absolutely, And we said this off there.
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  Speaker 5: I believe they're trying to find that third safety, you know,
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  Speaker 5: who is going to be that guy when it's dime situations,
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  Speaker 5: third downs, not only to be that third safety, but
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  Speaker 5: more specifically to play up top as that free safety
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  Speaker 5: potentially in the deep part of the field, especially the
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  Speaker 5: middle part of the field. So that I think is
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  Speaker 5: something that they're still looking for. They probably just my
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  Speaker 5: breed on it. Kyle Dugger and Jabrill Peppers, you know
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  Speaker 5: what they're good at, and they're better closer to the
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  Speaker 5: line of scrimmage, they're better playing in the box. They're
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  Speaker 5: better when they're moving downhill instead of moving backwards. And
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  Speaker 5: my guess is that they're trying to allow those guys
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  Speaker 5: to do what they do best. But in order to
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  Speaker 5: do that, they have to find a third safety who
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  Speaker 5: can play the deep part of that field, you know,
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  Speaker 5: Deron Harmon, Devin mccordy type roles. So I think they're
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  Speaker 5: still looking for that, not that they don't have it,
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  Speaker 5: but they're just still trying to figure out who that is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the Kyle Dugger part of this is something I've
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  Speaker 3: noticed since day of camp. When they go nickel or
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  Speaker 3: you know, the multiple defensive backs. There have been a
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  Speaker 3: lot of occasions where he's come out. So I didn't
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  Speaker 3: really notice Pepper's getting nicked up at all today. So
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  Speaker 3: you guys might be right about that, but I totally
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  Speaker 3: agree with Evan's assessment. You got to find out what
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  Speaker 3: the other guys can do. They need someone who sort
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  Speaker 3: of profiles to that old Devin mccordy kind of style,
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  Speaker 3: and you're going to find out if Hawkins can do it.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna find out if the rookie Craig Woodson can
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  Speaker 3: do it.
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  Speaker 2: They got a lot of reps today. I did notice that.
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  Speaker 1: Tug a little housekeeping, Paul, you've been here longer than
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  Speaker 1: Evan and I have, and I've never quite seen Morgan
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  Speaker 1: Ramandre Stevenson weren't there for the start of practice. They
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  Speaker 1: came in about halfway through, and then they hopped right
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  Speaker 1: into the team drills.
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  Speaker 2: I was surprised.
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  Speaker 3: They're clearly they were trying to keep them fresher because
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  Speaker 3: they might they probably both dealing with something because they
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  Speaker 3: spent some time warming up with some trainers late. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if there's anything more to it than that,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, you're right. As soon as the first team
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  Speaker 3: period came, they were both in there. A matter of fact,
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  Speaker 3: I think Stevenson carried the ball on like the second
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  Speaker 3: play and Morgan Moses was at left tackle to.
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  Speaker 2: Start the first team period. So yeah, it was a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of an odd setup. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: A couple other at right tackle, yeah, yeah, a couple
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  Speaker 1: other pieces that It looked like Jilani Tobai left uh.
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  Speaker 1: He experienced a calf injury during the spring which limited him.
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  Speaker 1: Initially he was able to come off, but maybe a
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  Speaker 1: setback for him today. He left, did not return. Carlton
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  Speaker 1: Davis looked like he was rehaving as well. Seems like
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  Speaker 1: he's on some kind of plan where they're you know,
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  Speaker 1: day on, day off kind of thing.
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  Speaker 4: We'll see, we got a day off coming up. Pad's
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  Speaker 4: coming up if he then.
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  Speaker 2: Is able to go.
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  Speaker 1: And lastly, no Jalen Polk, which continues to be a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a disappointment. He now missed this whole
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  Speaker 1: first chunk of the first four practices, disappointing for.
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  Speaker 4: Him in his second season. Then he hasn't been able
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  Speaker 4: to get going.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be hard to play catch up.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, So you don't want to look too much into
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  Speaker 5: these early days of camp with Carlton Davis because Carlon
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  Speaker 5: Dave's obviously going to be here and he's going to
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  Speaker 5: contribute and play a big role. But it has given
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  Speaker 5: us an opportunity, I suppose to see who are the
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  Speaker 5: next men up at corner and Alex Austin and Marcus
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  Speaker 5: Jones are definitely the two guys that have been playing
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  Speaker 5: the most when Carlon Davis is and here Austin just
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  Speaker 5: immediately goes into that outside cornerback spot opposite a Gonzalez
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  Speaker 5: with with Marcus Jones in the slot and in those
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  Speaker 5: three corner looks.
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  Speaker 6: So there's some intel there.
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  Speaker 5: But I also just think Carlton Davis is one of
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  Speaker 5: those guys that has had some injuries in the past,
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  Speaker 5: and they might look at it and say, these maintenance days,
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  Speaker 5: as Mike Rabel described it the other day, maybe that's
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  Speaker 5: what's best for him to try to keep him healthy
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  Speaker 5: for the entire season. So maybe it will be a
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  Speaker 5: one day on, one day off thing for Carlton Davis
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  Speaker 5: in camp.
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  Speaker 4: So we just had a little bit of a kicker
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  Speaker 4: period as well. Eight total kicks.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't double check these, I mean, this was from
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  Speaker 1: our purse, but we had Borgalis two for four and
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  Speaker 1: then we had Romo three for four and without what
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  Speaker 1: you saw down below.
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  Speaker 2: So it was fun.
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  Speaker 3: There were some questions, I mean, and I'm not making
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  Speaker 3: fun of anyone because it's kind of hard to really determine.
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  Speaker 3: I had Borer Gallas three for four and I had
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  Speaker 3: Romo four for four. I'm not telling you I'm right
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  Speaker 3: and you're wrong. Did he definitely Borgyles definitely if he
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  Speaker 3: missed two.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised. The first two very close.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, So we had those two, the first one definitely,
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  Speaker 6: and they.
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  Speaker 2: Will both go in sideway. I don't like that.
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  Speaker 3: I was I felt better the last two they were
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  Speaker 3: more traditional with the height that you're looking for and
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  Speaker 3: over end. So maybe he sort of got rid of
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  Speaker 3: those jips that because I don't like the way that
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  Speaker 3: some of those kicks came off his foot.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I said to Evan.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the first two questionable at best, and then
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  Speaker 1: that third one was a fifty yarder and he kind
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  Speaker 1: of felt like he needed it and it did feel
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  Speaker 1: like he hit that one, So you know, something to
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  Speaker 1: keep an eye on these kicker competitions. You never know
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  Speaker 1: quite how it's all going to come together. But we'll
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  Speaker 1: see if he can turn it around next week. So guys,
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  Speaker 1: anything else I'm missing. Of course, we're going to go
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  Speaker 1: into pads on Monday.
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  Speaker 4: We all are excited for that for sure.
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  Speaker 1: This felt like a really good practice though, to set
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  Speaker 1: that up the competition up tick. Both sides were punching back.
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  Speaker 1: Both sides made plays. I think both are going to
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  Speaker 1: go into Monday's practice saying hey, let's keep the total
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  Speaker 1: petitive level.
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  Speaker 2: Totally agree with that.
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  Speaker 3: I have one final thing that I'll just say about
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  Speaker 3: the receivers. You know we're talking all about, you know,
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  Speaker 3: all the different competitions. I think to Mario Douglas has
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  Speaker 3: had a really good start to camp, and I thought.
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  Speaker 2: Today was probably his best day.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna everybody's gonna talk about the bomb, and that
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  Speaker 3: was the play that stood out to me too. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not telling you shouldn't be excited about a play like that,
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  Speaker 3: but just some plays on the sideline, some plays, you know,
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  Speaker 3: jumping up in traffic, sitting in some soft spots in
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  Speaker 3: the zone. I just think he's been really active and
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  Speaker 3: he's caught everything thrown his way to Mario Douglas has
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  Speaker 3: been a very productive player for them, and that's what
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people thought that he could be in
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  Speaker 3: Josh mcdiniels's offense.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he looks looks the part and then some of
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  Speaker 5: that slot receiver role. And I think there were some
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  Speaker 5: doubts maybe by some people, if he exactly fit the
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  Speaker 5: McDaniels prototype to play inside at a high volume in
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  Speaker 5: a high volume targets guy with his body type. But
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  Speaker 5: he's just looked fantastic. I mean it's not even just
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  Speaker 5: that he's getting open. He's also making some incredible catches,
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  Speaker 5: like acrobatic, you know, over his kind of what I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Talking about, things that would think could be in his
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  Speaker 2: skill set.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think we actually posted one of those
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  Speaker 5: from earlier in the week that you can see on
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  Speaker 5: our social medias. But it's really, uh, that's what stood
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  Speaker 5: out to me the most is you know, you can
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  Speaker 5: get open. You know, he's got juice, he's got speed,
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  Speaker 5: and you can separate. But his ball skills have been
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  Speaker 5: tremendous in this camp so far as well. So he
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  Speaker 5: always seems to have good camps because he's so fast
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  Speaker 5: and shifty that when you can't get your hands on him,
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  Speaker 5: it's really hard to cover him. But these feel real,
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  Speaker 5: more real than some of those just little seven yard
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  Speaker 5: in cuts and slants and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: We got room, Yeah, we got room where you know,
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  Speaker 3: you know what when you see it's you know, it
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  Speaker 3: looks the right way, it looks the right way.
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  Speaker 4: It's plenty of room at my bandwagon always.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's going to wrap up this first what prologue
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  Speaker 1: of practices, the helmet and shells version, and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to get into Paths on Monday. If you're not able
• 10:39
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• 10:41
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