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Training Camp-Cast 7/30: First Day in Pads, Maye-Brown Connection Heating Up, Kyle Williams with Catch of the Day · Patriots Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: It was the first day of pads for the Patriots
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  Speaker 1: and the Drake may Aj Brown connection seems to be growing,
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  Speaker 1: but it was another young receiver that had to play
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  Speaker 1: the day. Let's break it down. Welcome everybody to the
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  Speaker 1: Patriots training camp cast presented by New Balance. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: the pads finally came on today. It was a little
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  Speaker 1: wet out there, Paul, but that didn't stop the boys
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  Speaker 1: from getting it after.
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  Speaker 2: It, No, And you know, you'd like to see that
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  Speaker 2: kind of physicality. And you know, who are the guys
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  Speaker 2: that had the biggest smiles on their faces when the
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  Speaker 2: practice was over, Corey Durden defensive tackle, Caleb lomu mic
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  Speaker 2: O and who offensive lineman. These guys, you know, all
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  Speaker 2: three of them talked about how you know this is
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  Speaker 2: real football, the running game.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Time to get some hands on other people and enough
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  Speaker 2: of those passing camps from the spring.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I have my eye on the one on
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  Speaker 1: ones with the offensive line, defensive line. I think you're
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  Speaker 1: watching the wide receivers and the cornerbacks maybe a little
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  Speaker 1: closer as they broke into one on one drills. And
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  Speaker 1: I thought, you know, at least as far as that
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  Speaker 1: first session good day for the offensive line.
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  Speaker 3: I thought a lot of nice wins.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Will Campbell started off right off the top
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  Speaker 1: with Raymond Jones, really nice stop by him, and overall,
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  Speaker 1: I think most of the wins went to the offensive
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  Speaker 1: side of the ball, whereas when we got into the
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  Speaker 1: team period later, I kind of felt like the defense
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  Speaker 1: was kind of running things a little bit better, especially
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  Speaker 1: early on against the run.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly the running game. I thought there were a
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  Speaker 2: couple of positive runs here and there.
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  Speaker 3: But they were sporadic. For the most part.
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  Speaker 2: I thought the defense did a good job of plugging
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  Speaker 2: those holes and stuffing the runs.
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  Speaker 3: But I agree with you little I saw.
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  Speaker 2: I thought Caleb Lomu had a couple of good reps
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  Speaker 2: in those one and ones too. So the tackles off
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  Speaker 2: to a good start, which we kind of prefaced during
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  Speaker 2: our Patriots Unfiltered show when we were talking about it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you're you're probably a little you.
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  Speaker 2: Get some question mark still on the edge spots, so
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  Speaker 2: you would hope that your your offensive tackles would get
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  Speaker 2: the better of it, and I think they did.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk about that Drake may aj Brown connection.
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  Speaker 1: That summing overall, we've all been waiting, you know, caught
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  Speaker 1: a couple of nice slants today. I mean nothing crazy,
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  Speaker 1: not like you know these over downfield kind of shots,
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  Speaker 1: but they're mostly in the red zone today, or they
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  Speaker 1: entirely in the red zone today, But a couple of
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  Speaker 1: nice connections there between Drake and AJ Brown maybe give
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  Speaker 1: fans a little bit of hope.
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  Speaker 3: That, you know, they're going to work through it.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to figure out that that relationship.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be something to keep an eye on, Mike when
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  Speaker 2: we move forward. Is this going to be something of
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  Speaker 2: a red zone connection that they can rely on? You know,
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  Speaker 2: they struggled a little bit in the red zone at times,
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  Speaker 2: both offensively and defensively last year. The plays today were designed.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I know that they always say there's no
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  Speaker 2: such thing as a pass play that's designed to go
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  Speaker 2: to one guy other than a screen. But when there's
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  Speaker 2: like this quick play action turn throw, you know the ball,
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  Speaker 2: you know it's three step drop play action balls out slant,
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  Speaker 2: you know, right at the goal line, sliding into the
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  Speaker 2: end zone. That play is designed to be a slant
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  Speaker 2: backside to AJ Brown. So those were the kinds of
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  Speaker 2: plays we saw for I think there were four completions.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know if they were all touchdowns,
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  Speaker 2: but they were all just sort of routine the way
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  Speaker 2: that you would expect it to be with a guy
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  Speaker 2: like Drake May and aj Brown. Romeo Dobbs also had
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  Speaker 2: to catch, but Brown was the one who stood out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then mentioned at the top, I've been looking
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  Speaker 1: for Kyle Williams to maybe show up. Still a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a quiet day for him, but yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: catch of the day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, two touchdowns with Tommy DeVito in each corner. The
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  Speaker 2: second one I think is probably the one you were
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  Speaker 2: talking about. Mike, just a nice twisting, leaping one hand, grabs,
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  Speaker 2: spins himself, contorts his body sort of lands, and he
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  Speaker 2: was feeling pretty good about himself when he got up,
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  Speaker 2: you know, celebrated.
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  Speaker 3: Flipped the ball in the air. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I think Kendall Vildor is the guy in coverage there,
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  Speaker 2: so it's not like he's way down the depth chart.
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  Speaker 2: Vildor is a you know, a veteran NFL cornerback, so
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  Speaker 2: you know, good sign for him. Eftin Chisholm also had
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  Speaker 2: one in the other corner shortly after.
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  Speaker 3: Where he sort of fought off.
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  Speaker 2: Coverage for Mike Brown on a on a quick out
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  Speaker 2: showed some physicality on the place. So you know, maybe
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  Speaker 2: you know all his talk that we have about how
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  Speaker 2: deep this wide receiver room, maybe for once we know
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  Speaker 2: what we're talking about.
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  Speaker 3: Because they have a lot of guys that have made made.
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  Speaker 1: Catches and just good to see those guys make plays
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  Speaker 1: because that's what they got to do. They're getting, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe some secondary reps and they're making plays and when
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  Speaker 1: the ball comes their way, big catch like that, I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure it's gonna stand out on the highlight film. Christian
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  Speaker 1: Ganzalez is another guy we talked about coming into this one.
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  Speaker 1: Paul weren't sure if he was gonna fully participate. He
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  Speaker 1: did everything again today and he's playing at a really
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  Speaker 1: high level too. He's engaged, you know it. I guess
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be and I'm not normally I'm making my snart, snide,
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  Speaker 1: sarcastic remarks to the media. That's the story of training
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  Speaker 1: camp is Christian Gonzales, in his contract, in his level
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  Speaker 1: of participation. This was another milestone today. The pads come on,
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  Speaker 1: are you gonna be physical? Are you gonna you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: keep playing the way you did before, you're gonna are
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  Speaker 1: you gonna worry about your health? Nope, nothing changed, he
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  Speaker 1: said nothing would change on Tuesday. Nothing changed.
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  Speaker 2: He was really really tight on AJ Brown in a
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  Speaker 2: couple of plays today, one on ones in the red zone.
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  Speaker 2: When you were watching the big Uglies down in the trenches. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he was blanketing Aj Brown on some of
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  Speaker 2: those routes. So I didn't see any noticeable change when
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  Speaker 2: they did full teen periods. Christian Gonzalez was out there
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  Speaker 2: every rep.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So the they were in pads today seem like
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  Speaker 1: they're easing into it a little bit. Red zone, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of running focused on that kind of thing. They're
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  Speaker 1: probably going to stay in pads tomorrow, probably start to
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  Speaker 1: amp things up a little bit, especially in the passing game.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're able to get down here, it should
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  Speaker 1: be a great practice on Friday,