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Training Camp-Cast 7/24: Offense Stacks Solid Day, DeMario Douglas Pops, Kicker Competition Begins · Patriots Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: We're starting to stack days here at Patriots training camp.
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  Speaker 1: What went down in day two? Let's break it down.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to the Patriots training camp. Cast is
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  Speaker 1: deuced Perrillo and Evan Lazarre and guys. Another day of
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  Speaker 1: practice here, Day two of Patriots training camp. I think another,
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  Speaker 1: you know, pretty solid day for the offense. Overall, That
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  Speaker 1: to me is the headline. We want to know how
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  Speaker 1: Drake May is going to look. We want to know
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  Speaker 1: how these you know, new pieces are going to fit
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  Speaker 1: in around him along the offensive line and at the
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver position. A lot of short stuff, Paul, but
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  Speaker 1: they complete a bunch of passes, and a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: Guys were active.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is two days now where the ball is
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  Speaker 3: not hitting the ground on every other pass, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So I do think there's some positive steps made offensively.
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  Speaker 3: The thing that I continue to say is my big
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  Speaker 3: takeaway is I just watched Drake May. I look and
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  Speaker 3: I see a more confident, more comfortable quarterback than I
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  Speaker 3: saw at this time last year. Physically, we'll figure out
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  Speaker 3: when the pads come on and the pass rush if
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  Speaker 3: every thing is going.
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  Speaker 2: To go as smoothly.
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  Speaker 3: But I think he looks to be a much more
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  Speaker 3: and a much better spot mentally in with the offense.
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  Speaker 2: He looks like a different guy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just highlighting one player. I thought Pop Douglass had
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  Speaker 1: a pretty nice day. Real nice catch from Josh Dobbs.
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  Speaker 2: Was active. What'd you see from the offense.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we actually posted the catch that we can go
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  Speaker 4: ahead and see the ladder on the sideline, So it's
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  Speaker 4: a good catch. But I think in general, you just
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  Speaker 4: see the vision of Pop Douglas in this Josh McDaniels
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  Speaker 4: offense as that primary slot receiver and that ability obviously
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  Speaker 4: with the short area quickness to get open, but also
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  Speaker 4: starting to get a good feel for the options of
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  Speaker 4: the routes that he's going to be running and you
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  Speaker 4: know when to sit and when to run across the
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  Speaker 4: field and when to break out or break in or
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  Speaker 4: all these different variations of how we've seen that role
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  Speaker 4: used in the past. That Pop Douglas looks like he
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  Speaker 4: fits the suit of somebody that could play that role.
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  Speaker 4: You know, like you guys said, a lot of short
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  Speaker 4: passes today, a lot of kind of situational you know,
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  Speaker 4: we're going to get the ball out quickly screened throws
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  Speaker 4: to the flat. So I'm not going to come away
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  Speaker 4: from this practice thinking that there's a ton to glean
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  Speaker 4: from all the other elements of it. But at the
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  Speaker 4: same time, I feel like he found completions and that's
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  Speaker 4: the most important thing for Drake may.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you mentioned the screen passes, some dump off passes,
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  Speaker 1: but it gave an opportunity to Remandra Stevenson to have
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  Speaker 1: a couple of plays. Trevon Henderson continues to to me,
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  Speaker 1: looks like he just floats. I mean, he just is
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  Speaker 1: a fast, explosive player. Excited to see what he looks like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, once the pads come on. Another thing I
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  Speaker 1: want to highight to Paul. A little bit of rotation
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  Speaker 1: going on, you know, both sides of the ball. Some
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  Speaker 1: guys pull him back a little bit here and there.
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  Speaker 1: Morgan Moses came out again, you know, some rotation on
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  Speaker 1: the interior, the line, Christian Barmore getting a little extra
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  Speaker 1: work on the side. It seems like the coaching staff
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  Speaker 1: is taking, you know, proactive approach maybe to managing some
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  Speaker 1: of these guys reps in the early go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's been interesting the first two days we've seen,
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  Speaker 3: you know, rookie Jared Wilson comes in about halfway through
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  Speaker 3: the first team period and he goes today, he went
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  Speaker 3: to left guard for Cole Strange, then took one play there,
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  Speaker 3: then he moves inside, replaces Garrett Bradbury at center while
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  Speaker 3: col Strange comes back, and at the same time, Trey
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  Speaker 3: Jacobs has taken some reps at right tackle and replace
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  Speaker 3: with Morgan Moses. During these rotations, Moses didn't really seem
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  Speaker 3: to under you know, know exactly why the rotation's happening,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, he understands that you need to build depth,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, he talked about last year the Patriots
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  Speaker 3: had a lot of injuries on the offensive line, so
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  Speaker 3: the idea of getting as many guys prepared and repped
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  Speaker 3: on the offensive line makes a lot of sense. So
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  Speaker 3: we'll see if that's something to keep an eye on
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  Speaker 3: moving forward. But right now, it's I find it interesting
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  Speaker 3: that Jared Wilson is being given some reps early on.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a good sign for the rookie.
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  Speaker 1: If you were high on him, let's see.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I wanted to pick you back off that because
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  Speaker 4: this is really encouraging to me that Jared Wilson, the
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  Speaker 4: coaching staff is already saying we need to find a
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  Speaker 4: role for this kid on the field somewhere, whether it's
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  Speaker 4: at left guard or it's at center. And after he
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  Speaker 4: had a pretty limited spring, I was a little bit
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  Speaker 4: concerned that he was going to be too mentally behind
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  Speaker 4: to be able to can tribute right out of the
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  Speaker 4: gate as a rookie. So I don't know if he's
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  Speaker 4: gonna win a starting job necessarily for week one, but
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  Speaker 4: he definitely could elevate the talent of the offensive line.
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  Speaker 4: A freak athlete, a really good player at Georgia last year,
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  Speaker 4: a playing center almost exclusively at Georgia. So I would
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  Speaker 4: be really excited if Jared Wilson, top one hundred pick
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  Speaker 4: earns a starting job. That means that he is really
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  Speaker 4: that talented and really that good and has gone out
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  Speaker 4: and earned it. On your defense, though, Deducer are some
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  Speaker 4: moving parts as well. Today, I don't know if you
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  Speaker 4: wanted to get to yeah, well, let's.
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  Speaker 1: Stop hop in with Carlton Davis, who began early last
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  Speaker 1: week on NFI, came off yesterday, practiced yesterday, was not
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  Speaker 1: out there today. Some opportunities then for Alex Austin a
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  Speaker 1: couple other guys to step in will continue to monitor
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  Speaker 1: that situation with Carlton Davis.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe something going on there, Paul.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not sure exactly what landed him on NFI
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  Speaker 3: in the first place to open camp when they arrived,
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  Speaker 3: and then by the time the first day came he
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  Speaker 3: was he was out there yesterday and taking part. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, like you said, it gives opportunities to these
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  Speaker 3: other guys. Alex Austin is one of them, and I
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  Speaker 3: thought it was interesting, you know, and some of the
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  Speaker 3: nickel looks that they had when they first started rotating.
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  Speaker 3: Kyle Dugger was coming off the field initially, and Jalen
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  Speaker 3: Hawkins was coming on, and Marcus Jones was coming on,
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  Speaker 3: so there's some mixing and matching. I think the secondary
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  Speaker 3: has an opportunity to be a strength of the team
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  Speaker 3: if some of these pieces can fall into place. But
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  Speaker 3: they're going to have to find some depth spots, like
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  Speaker 3: you know, like Alex Austin I meant to say, and
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  Speaker 3: he's going.
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  Speaker 2: To have to give them some quality reps.
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  Speaker 1: It's a little hard to discern sometimes when you're in
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  Speaker 1: training camp and there's so many guys rotating in and
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  Speaker 1: out and you don't know, like what's based on just
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  Speaker 1: trying to give guys opportunities, trying to give some guys,
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  Speaker 1: you know, different looks, playing in different positions, those kind
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  Speaker 1: of things. I enjoy trying to decipher it, Evan, but
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  Speaker 1: it's impossible to do, and you just have to take
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  Speaker 1: in the totality of camp as you get going. But defensively,
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  Speaker 1: not as disruptive as they might have been the first day,
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  Speaker 1: but still I think there's a lot to feel good
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  Speaker 1: about on the defensive side of the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: The other one with Christian Barmore, I think is worth
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  Speaker 4: monitoring as well. He was off on the side field
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  Speaker 4: with a coach trainer and you know, kind of going
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  Speaker 4: through some things on his own, which is what we've
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  Speaker 4: seen when guys are limited and aren't participating fully in
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  Speaker 4: team drills. So we saw a lot more Jeremiah Farms
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  Speaker 4: today and that's another one of those guys to Paul's
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  Speaker 4: point that you know, if there's injuries on the defensive
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  Speaker 4: line or just rotationally, Jeremiah Farms had a nice year
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  Speaker 4: last year. You're hoping that he can be one of
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  Speaker 4: those rotational pieces to spell a Milton Williams or a
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  Speaker 4: Christian Barmore. Kiris Tanga on early downs potentially as well,
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  Speaker 4: So still some moving parts there. I still have really
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  Speaker 4: been on defense. I really liked what I've seen out
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  Speaker 4: of Harold Landry, and I don't know if he's getting
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  Speaker 4: a lot of buzz just because he's a veteran player
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  Speaker 4: and it's not Stefan Diggs or Drake may or something
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  Speaker 4: along those lines. But he's the first guy out there
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  Speaker 4: to start practice every single day by like thirty minutes.
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  Speaker 4: This morning, I think he was out there at nine
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  Speaker 4: to forty five and practices didn't start till ten fifteen.
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  Speaker 4: So he's a tone setter. He's somebody that I thought
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  Speaker 4: has practice pretty well. Looks like he's in great shape.
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  Speaker 4: So maybe they are getting the hero Blandri from a
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  Speaker 4: couple of years ago when Rabel was in Tennessee instead
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  Speaker 4: of the guy last year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I think that's everything I had on my list. Guys,
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  Speaker 2: anything else that stood out to you in this practice?
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  Speaker 3: As we chance to see the kickers at the very end,
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  Speaker 3: it looked like from our vantage point that the rookie
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  Speaker 3: Andy burg Awis went three for four. It looked like
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  Speaker 3: he missed his last one wide left, and Parker Romo
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  Speaker 3: was four for four by most of the reports.
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  Speaker 2: Again, kind of hard to tell, you know, for sure,
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  Speaker 2: windy day two.
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  Speaker 3: That's what's being reported. Yeah, so, and we didn't get
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  Speaker 3: to see the kickers on opening day. We saw him
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  Speaker 3: a little bit today.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, five second hang times for Bryce parent for those people.
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  Speaker 1: That get those five second hangtimes. Well again, two days
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  Speaker 1: in the books. Officially Tomorrow was supposed to be a scorcher, guys,
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  Speaker 1: but don't worry. Will be back out there at practice
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  Speaker 1: taking everything in and then you can tune in shortly
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  Speaker 1: after practice wraps up for another edition of
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  Speaker 2: The Patriots Trading Camp Cast