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Training Camp Cast 7/31: Day 5 Recap, First Day in Pads, Injury Concerns · Patriots Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: The Patriots Training Camp cast is your source for all
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  Speaker 1: the news from Patriots Training Camp. Well, I do still
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  Speaker 1: watch the news. Practice is over, but the writers of
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  Speaker 1: Patriots dot com have you covered?
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  Speaker 2: What did I miss yesterday? Now here to review today's practice.
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  Speaker 1: The writers of Patriots dot.
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  Speaker 2: Com sadly, that's back to just Mike do So and
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  Speaker 2: Paul Parole having too good for us today. Mike, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: day five of training camp, but day one of padded
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  Speaker 2: practice here in Foxborough, and I thought we got a
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  Speaker 2: chance to see some physicality here. A lot of work
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  Speaker 2: on the running game, a lot of work on screens
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  Speaker 2: and some of the timing stuff with the with the
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  Speaker 2: blocking combinations. You know, we'll we'll get into some of
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  Speaker 2: the uh fallout from that a little bit later, but
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  Speaker 2: you're overall first impressions of the first day in PATS.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just another instance of you always want one more.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you get the first day of of of
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  Speaker 1: mini camp and OTAs and you want to get the
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  Speaker 1: training camp and you get in training camp and I
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  Speaker 1: just want to get pads, and you get pads on
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  Speaker 1: like today and you're like, but I want to really
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  Speaker 1: physical practice. So I mean, I feel like they eased
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  Speaker 1: into it a little bit. It wasn't I felt like
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  Speaker 1: this overwhelming physicality pack throughout. But that's probably smart and
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  Speaker 1: I think as you as you hinted at. Unfortunately, Cole
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  Speaker 1: Strange left practice and spent plenty of time in the
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  Speaker 1: athletic training section of the Yates of Hell. Did not
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  Speaker 1: return to practice. He was one of a few guys
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  Speaker 1: that walked over there, so certainly the most significant and
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  Speaker 1: anytime the pats come on, you're a little bit wary
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  Speaker 1: about about these injuries are going to happen. So hopefully
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  Speaker 1: he's not gone too long. It was a good sign
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  Speaker 1: he walked back out to practice, was watching, wasn't carted off,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't didn't disappear, so hopefully his prognosis.
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  Speaker 2: So just to continue with the book keeping time. Montgomery
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  Speaker 2: missed his third practice in a row, so not a
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  Speaker 2: good sign for him. We also were did not see
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  Speaker 2: Jake Andrews for the second straight day, and we'll add
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  Speaker 2: terres Hall to the mix. But rookie Kaishan Booty was
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  Speaker 2: back out there, had a couple of catches, had a
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  Speaker 2: couple of plays.
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  Speaker 1: Here and there.
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  Speaker 2: I would say it was probably was most noticeable that
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  Speaker 2: really of camp so far. I want to bring up
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  Speaker 2: the terres Hall thing. I thought Evan brought up a
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  Speaker 2: good point during the Unfiltered broadcast that we had live
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  Speaker 2: just sort of one of those random guys that's missing
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  Speaker 2: a practice out of nowhere. No word on whether or
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  Speaker 2: not they added anybody to the roster Ezekiel Elliott or
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  Speaker 2: anyone else. But sometimes when you see those kinds of things,
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  Speaker 2: you put two and two together and wonder if they
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  Speaker 2: were making a roster spot. So we'll keep an eye
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  Speaker 2: out for terres Hall. Yeah, later and we'll see there's
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  Speaker 2: any news to come out of that.
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  Speaker 1: Well. It was I mean, yeah, it was on display
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  Speaker 1: Paul with ramondra Stevenson kind of doing conditioning work today
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  Speaker 1: along with Matthew Judon and Trent Brown as well. So
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  Speaker 1: three big names, but you know, with Romandre down in
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  Speaker 1: the lower field, you were down to really three backs
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  Speaker 1: with Pierre Strong, Kevin Harris and JJ Taylor. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of an audition for those guys, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's an opportunity for them. Something we brought
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  Speaker 1: up on the show was just you know, do you
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  Speaker 1: bring a guy in or do you kind of let
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  Speaker 1: this marinate for a second and give Strong and Harris
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to get a bunch of carries here, especially
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  Speaker 1: as the Pats came on. So you know, it was
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  Speaker 1: it was pretty good. I don't want to say Strong
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  Speaker 1: both moment.
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  Speaker 2: Both popped a little bit. Now, it wasn't perfect. I thought,
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  Speaker 2: you know, toward the end of practice they had some
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  Speaker 2: goal line runs. I thought Strong in particular, made a
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  Speaker 2: really nice jump, cut in a hole and got himself free.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you would have made it into the
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  Speaker 2: end zone. I think he started about the eight yard
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  Speaker 2: line but picked up some yards. I thought Harris had
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  Speaker 2: a couple of tough runs down by the goal and
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  Speaker 2: we saw a little of that, yep, last season in
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  Speaker 2: his very limited work that he was a tough goal
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  Speaker 2: line guy. Ball security gonna be important for those guys
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  Speaker 2: if they want to be getting the ball. The hands
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  Speaker 2: in the ball a handful of times you certainly can't
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  Speaker 2: put it on the ground, So we'll keep an eye
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  Speaker 2: out on that. But I did think it was a
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  Speaker 2: good start for those guys and the lineman on both sides.
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  Speaker 2: You talked about Trent Brown, Mike, we saw a lot
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  Speaker 2: of different guys, you know, you see Riley Reef and
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  Speaker 2: Connor McDermott. I know Evan was talking a lot about
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  Speaker 2: McDermott during the broadcast. Then you had when Cole Strange
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  Speaker 2: goes out, you have Atonio Maffi getting a lot of
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  Speaker 2: reps at left guard, So hats off to those guys.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see any real breakdowns, you know, there was
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  Speaker 2: a lot of mixing matching. Really interesting the goal line.
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  Speaker 2: You saw Andrew Stuber come in as an extra guy.
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  Speaker 2: A little unbalanced look they had a full back, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know at times on the field, so I thought
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  Speaker 2: you saw some different things in some different play designs
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of motion and you know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of swing passes that they were working on too. So
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  Speaker 1: it's just, you know, it wasn't really the most dynamic
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  Speaker 1: day in terms of the pure passing offense MAC to
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  Speaker 1: wide receivers. Not a lot of that today, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of you know, hitting guys low. Maybe that's by design,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, I would just say generally it continues
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  Speaker 1: to kind of be a work in progress on offense.
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  Speaker 1: As much as I like the design, and it seems
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  Speaker 1: like they're coordinated and you know, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: motion and things going on that I think are really
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  Speaker 1: nice and are going to help them get into good position.
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  Speaker 1: But again, so far, not a lot of huge, dynamic
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  Speaker 1: offensive playmakes kind of more about pads, physicality, running and
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  Speaker 1: all that.
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  Speaker 2: It looked like the passing game today that they did
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  Speaker 2: was all predicated on the run. Yeah, you know, run
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  Speaker 2: the ball a couple of times. We're gonna set something
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  Speaker 2: up with play action to look if we can leak
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  Speaker 2: a guy in the flat uncovered. At times I thought
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  Speaker 2: it worked. At other times it looked like the defense
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  Speaker 2: was a step ahead. Yeah, but yeah, I thought it.
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  Speaker 2: You put it right. There was nothing really down for
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  Speaker 2: very few downfield shots. I did think there was one
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  Speaker 2: such attempt that Zappi missed. I think it was Zappi
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  Speaker 2: overthrew Douglas one. Douglas had a step on Marcus Jones,
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  Speaker 2: probably about a twenty yard crosser. He looked like he
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  Speaker 2: was he was ahead of the coverage there. But not
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  Speaker 2: a lot of those kinds of opportunities today, And I
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  Speaker 2: thought an overall a pretty physical practice for the guys
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  Speaker 2: up front, a good way to get their feet. Wet
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  Speaker 2: Bill brought everybody in. I would say about twenty past eleven,
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  Speaker 2: maybe there was probably about another I don't know, half
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  Speaker 2: hour left of practice at that point. Sort of had
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  Speaker 2: a message to the team a little less than a
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  Speaker 2: half hour. I'm not exactly sure what it was. He's
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  Speaker 2: meeting with the team again right now as they're getting
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  Speaker 2: ready to go off the field, so maybe just sort
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  Speaker 2: of stressing the fundamentals of taking care of the body,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the physicality is ramping up and being ready
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  Speaker 2: for this next stretch.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, taking care of each other too. I mean that
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  Speaker 1: was another thing we're speculating. You know, before you get
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  Speaker 1: kind of into goal line, let's make sure, you know,
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  Speaker 1: tempers don't get out of control. I know there's been
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  Speaker 1: some as always fights around the league that are going off,
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  Speaker 1: so they've avoided that stuff so far. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a solid day as far as the running game, offensively,
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  Speaker 1: getting things in order, and you know, we'll see tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: maybe we'll get some more one on ones. That'd be
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  Speaker 1: the I think what everybody really excited to watch, receiver, cornerback,
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  Speaker 1: full field, you know, really get a sense. I mean
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  Speaker 1: it's really hard for the cornerbacks and those drills, but
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  Speaker 1: I think it's always just fun for us to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, we're going to be back, just to
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  Speaker 2: let everybody know, be a little bit later.
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Practice is at twelve thirty, so Mike and I will
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  Speaker 2: not be giving you our podcast until bit a little
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  Speaker 2: bit later, probably closer to three o'clock or so tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're looking for that, don't don't think we
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  Speaker 2: sure changed you. We'll we'll be along shortly. As I
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  Speaker 2: like to say, good stretch of practices coming up, Mike,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna get sort of a ward of attrition right now.
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  Speaker 2: They're scheduled. That could change, but they're scheduled to practice
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  Speaker 2: Sunday through Friday, so six days in a row, which
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  Speaker 2: is a rare stretch certainly in recent years. I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to seeing if it sticks with that and then
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  Speaker 2: sort of how the team responds to it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, two days in a row down, and of course
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  Speaker 1: sounds like the team's in stadium practice be Friday night
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  Speaker 1: once Beyonce gets out of here. So yeah, this is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a big week, and then you're kind of
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  Speaker 1: on to the Texans and then joint practices and really
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  Speaker 1: the summer will be over before you know it.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So we'll be back at it tomorrow. Tune
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  Speaker 2: in and make sure you catch us. Then