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Training Camp-Cast 7/25: Heat up but intensity down, Walk thru notes, Takeaways after 3 practices. · Patriots Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: Day three at Patriots training camp. The heat was up,
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  Speaker 1: the intensity was down, but.
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  Speaker 2: We still got some takeaways for you. Let's do it.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome everybody to the Patriots training camp cast I Mike
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  Speaker 1: do So, joined by Evan Lazar and Paul Perillo. And
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  Speaker 1: we just got off the field a hot field, I
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  Speaker 1: would say, day three of Patriots training camp, and guys,
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  Speaker 1: we dialed down the intensity. It was a walkthrough, no
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  Speaker 1: helmets at all, just sneakers. Seems like they're putting things
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  Speaker 1: in place for tomorrow. Some third down work, but overall,
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of takeaways.
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  Speaker 2: But probably a couple.
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  Speaker 3: Paul I would say, yeah, I mean, obviously the intensity
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  Speaker 3: wasn't there, but you know, I think you get some work,
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  Speaker 3: you get some foundation with the third down package. And
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  Speaker 3: now I would agree with you that I would expect tomorrow,
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  Speaker 3: you know, all three downs would get some work. Deal.
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  Speaker 3: I would think of some extra team periods as you
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  Speaker 3: get ready for the real start of camp at the
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  Speaker 3: beginning of next year.
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  Speaker 4: We keep moving the gold football backers and mondays football's back.
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  Speaker 4: I need to take balls back on the Hall of
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  Speaker 4: Fame game and then football is back again. Week one.
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  Speaker 3: Listening to the like Garrett Bradberry was like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you get some back to school kind of vibes, you
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  Speaker 3: know when he was talking about this stuff. But like
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  Speaker 3: all the other offensive lineman, they're looking to start some contact.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean to me though, what was on display, it's
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit of how much mental goes into
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  Speaker 1: football and how much they need to coordinate. We've seen
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  Speaker 1: two days of practices where they're working on first and
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  Speaker 1: second downs, swing passes, short stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Today they started to do some third down work.
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  Speaker 1: But you just see so much action going on, guys
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  Speaker 1: being coached where to be working on maybe some of
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  Speaker 1: the finer points. So have I know you were up top,
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  Speaker 1: you had the bird's eye view. What did you glean
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  Speaker 1: from up there?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think the biggest thing from a practice like
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  Speaker 4: this is just depth chart and you know where they
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  Speaker 4: see guys fitting into the big picture. And we hadn't
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  Speaker 4: seen a ton of you know, Deuce his third down
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  Speaker 4: package over there on defense and where exactly everybody was
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  Speaker 4: going to be at. So we saw some like standard nickel,
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  Speaker 4: but we also saw some three safety looks and Jabriel
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  Speaker 4: p playing in the box a little bit, so some
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  Speaker 4: different things there. And then I would just say offensively.
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  Speaker 4: From that standpoint, Stefan Diggs, Pop Douglas and Kaishan Boody
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  Speaker 4: have been pretty consistently the top three receivers on offense.
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  Speaker 4: Now we'll see if Kyle Williams can maybe start to
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  Speaker 4: push a Kaishan Boody potentially there at some point. But
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  Speaker 4: between those three guys and whatever they got in store
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  Speaker 4: for Jared Wilson, like, those are the things that are
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  Speaker 4: catching my eye on offense.
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  Speaker 3: So that was one thing that caught the eye of
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  Speaker 3: Mike and I today was Jared Wilson. We've seen and
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  Speaker 3: we talked about earlier in the week. He comes in,
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  Speaker 3: it's usually left guard for Cole Strange, then the next
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  Speaker 3: play he goes to center. Today he was doing a
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  Speaker 3: little right guard as well. So, yeah, I think they're
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  Speaker 3: giving him every opportunity to win a job, and if
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't, I think it's clearly on the track. But
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  Speaker 3: he's going to be the top backup at any of
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  Speaker 3: those three interior positions.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I couldn't agree more. And I was a little
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  Speaker 4: wary of if he was going to be able to
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  Speaker 4: push this early for a starting job because of his
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  Speaker 4: inexperience in college. But they seem to really like him,
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  Speaker 4: and obviously they drafted him in the third round, so
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  Speaker 4: of course they do. But especially in these practices, he's
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  Speaker 4: way more involved with the starters of the first team offense,
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  Speaker 4: and I ever expected him to be at all three
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  Speaker 4: interior spots today.
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  Speaker 2: So it's interesting to see that Rabel pointed.
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  Speaker 1: Out, sorry, Paul, the kind off you're going to say
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  Speaker 1: the same thing Abel's pointed out. He's a guy didn't
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  Speaker 1: really do much in the spring, and now he's been
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  Speaker 1: able to get in there and get some experience, so
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  Speaker 1: positive sign.
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  Speaker 3: Thought.
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  Speaker 1: It was interesting though that that offensive line rotation, even
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  Speaker 1: though it was a walkthrough, remained the same. You still
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  Speaker 1: saw some Trey Jacobs at right tackle, so they're continuing
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  Speaker 1: to give those guys opportunities. A couple housekeeping things though,
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  Speaker 1: Carlton Davis back at practice.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit of an interesting journey for him over
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  Speaker 2: the start of the season. Start on NFI that came.
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  Speaker 1: Right off was here, missed yesterday, but now back today.
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  Speaker 1: Admittedly in a walkthrough though, so we'll see if he
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  Speaker 1: said it was sort of part of a plan. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't think anything whatever he's dealing with physically, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think it is too serious.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, piggybacking on those comments that Mike made
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  Speaker 3: before practice back to Jared Wilson, was you know, he
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  Speaker 3: was asked about Jalen Polk, who has not really done anything,
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  Speaker 3: hasn't really been seen very much, you know, in the
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  Speaker 3: first three days, and he talked about it's not the
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  Speaker 3: end of the world to miss practice, but when you
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  Speaker 3: do come back mentally and physically, you need to be
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  Speaker 3: not to show a huge drop off. And then he
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  Speaker 3: brought it back to Jared Wilson, saying, like Wilson and
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  Speaker 3: he sort of went back to Polk, who didn't do
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  Speaker 3: much in the spring, was able to hit the ground
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  Speaker 3: running when he was physically ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, another guy, Jalen Polk. Again, he wasn't there
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  Speaker 1: today as well. Tomorrow work looking a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a ramp up hopefully. But guys, I just this was
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  Speaker 1: a low key walkthrough, but three days of practice. I
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  Speaker 1: know we can't say anything definitive yet about the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five Patriots, but just what are some general impressions
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  Speaker 1: that you've taken away from the team so far.
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  Speaker 3: Energy. I feel like everybody's buying into what they're selling now.
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  Speaker 3: In fairness, I felt like that last year though there
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  Speaker 3: was a lot of positive comments with regard to Gerrod
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  Speaker 3: Mayo and the way he was setting practices up. But
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  Speaker 3: I have been struck with a lot of comments. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Christianell has talked about just the energy level that that
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  Speaker 3: Mike brings to practice every day. That was a comment
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  Speaker 3: that stood out to me. And then some of the
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  Speaker 3: guys that he picked, you know, to come in. You know,
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  Speaker 3: a guy like Robert Splaine. You hear Marcus Jones call
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  Speaker 3: him the commander, you know, and we see you know,
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  Speaker 3: we saw him with Splain. I'm talking about now, spend
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  Speaker 3: some time with your guy Jabrill, Peppers and Dugger sort
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  Speaker 3: of pointing and you know, getting everybody on the same page.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's sort of a consistent, combined effort that
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  Speaker 3: everybody's pulling in the right direct the same direction.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, just a piggyback off of that. I just feel
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  Speaker 4: like a lot of the big veterans that they brought
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  Speaker 4: in in free agency, Milon Williams, Robert Splaine, Stefon Diggs,
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  Speaker 4: just so far and it's only been a couple of days,
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  Speaker 4: they seem, as advertised to me, at least you know
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  Speaker 4: they passed the eye test out there. You can tell
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  Speaker 4: that those guys made some money in the off season
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  Speaker 4: for a reason, And we're brought in for a reason,
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  Speaker 4: not only just playing, but also just leadership and communication
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  Speaker 4: like the things that Paul was talking about with Splain.
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  Speaker 4: I'd throw Harold Landry into that group as well. So
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  Speaker 4: that's a good sign and hopefully that continues. But those
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  Speaker 4: guys were brought in to really elevate the floor of
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  Speaker 4: this team and push this team into a much better
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  Speaker 4: position to take advantage of bad football, as Mike Rabel
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  Speaker 4: likes to say, and it seems so far like they're
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  Speaker 4: doing just that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: For me, just to point out something different, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: encouraged about the offense right now.
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  Speaker 2: And again three days of practice. Today was a walk through.
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  Speaker 1: They haven't had pads on any of that stuff, but
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  Speaker 1: just the look of the operation.
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  Speaker 2: Drake May's confidence.
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  Speaker 1: Paul, you always said when Tom Brady was here, the
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  Speaker 1: ball never hit the ground. We haven't really seen the
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  Speaker 1: ball hit the ground much. We haven't seen bad throws. Again,
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  Speaker 1: let's temper that with a lot of short stuff. We're
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  Speaker 1: not trying to force things just yet. Maybe we'll get
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  Speaker 1: into that tomorrow as they get into third down and
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  Speaker 1: the Temple picks back up. But overall, I just feel
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  Speaker 1: encouraged about the first three days. Drake looks comfortable. Stefan
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  Speaker 1: Diggs has had a number of catches and seems like
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  Speaker 1: Drake is looking for him, and even some of the
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  Speaker 1: other guys that you didn't quite know what to expect.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Douglas had a nice day yesterday, So overall, it seems
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  Speaker 1: like things are starting to come together.
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  Speaker 2: If you guys would agree, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well that's gonna do it for today, and
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna come back tomorrow though, I no worries, and
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  Speaker 1: we're looking for a longer practice. I think it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be about two hours and a lot of TeamWorks, so
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  Speaker 1: there'll be a lot more I think to digest tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: So of course we'll be back with another Patriots Training
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  Speaker 1: Camp cast to keep you guys updated on everything going
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  Speaker 1: down here at training camp.