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Training Camp-Cast 8/6: Day 11 Recap, Prepping for Preseason, Tackle Health Concerns & Practice Standout Plays · Patriots Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: This is the Patriots Training Camp Cast.
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  Speaker 2: The Patriots Training Camp Cast is your source for all
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  Speaker 2: the news from Patriots Training Camp.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I do still watch the news. Practice is over,
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  Speaker 1: but the writers of Patriots dot com have you covered?
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  Speaker 3: What did I miss yesterday?
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  Speaker 4: Now here to review today's practice?
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  Speaker 1: The writers of Patriots dot Com.
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  Speaker 5: All right, welcome into another edition of the Patriots Training
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  Speaker 5: Camp Cast. I'm Mike do So, joined by Paul Perillo
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  Speaker 5: and Tamara Brown, and we are literally right off the field.
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  Speaker 5: We haven't even compared notes. Paul, I don't even know
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  Speaker 5: what you thought of this practice today.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean, this could go anywhere.
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  Speaker 4: I have no idea what you guys, So let's dive in.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, we know there's a game in a couple
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  Speaker 5: of days, and I, you know, I felt it was
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  Speaker 5: a little bit dial back in places. There was you know,
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  Speaker 5: there were some plays made here and there, some of
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  Speaker 5: them like out of bounds maybe that were kind of whoa.
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  Speaker 5: But otherwise I didn't really feel that great about this practice.
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  Speaker 5: It felt kind of like slogging. And you know, again
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  Speaker 5: like you've talked a lot, Paul about the the rhythm
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  Speaker 5: of it, and it just it felt plotting a lot
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  Speaker 5: of the times, and there were some big plays that
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  Speaker 5: we'll get into that were that were kind of nice
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  Speaker 5: and encouraging. But overall, I just felt like, this feels
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  Speaker 5: like a couple of days before a game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I thought because they were so physical yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: I felt like they dialed it back a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: It was much more passing today than yesterday. And I
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  Speaker 3: thought there was some moments here or there. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I think there were times when you see Drake May
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  Speaker 3: get in a rhythm, and generally those are seven on seven's,
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  Speaker 3: not not the full team, but you see it, you
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  Speaker 3: see some of the things that people are excited about.
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  Speaker 3: Still a work in progress, but yeah, there were some
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  Speaker 3: outstanding catches made today. Whether or not they were all,
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  Speaker 3: you know, all in about, I think most of them were.
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  Speaker 3: There was one toward the end that I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 3: was out of bounds, but like, there was a couple
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  Speaker 3: of really really nice catches, athletic plays made during the
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  Speaker 3: course of the day. And again, I thought the defense
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  Speaker 3: more often than not was in control. Yeah, we'll get
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  Speaker 3: into it stood out too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's up to me? And I hate to be
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  Speaker 2: a little bit nitpicky. Here was Drake May in the
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  Speaker 2: situational periods. I think he's still a bit bumpy there,
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  Speaker 2: kind of a roller coaster especially, you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: it was like under a minute, fifty eight seconds whatever
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  Speaker 2: it was, But the supporting cast didn't help him. There
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  Speaker 2: were a lot of drops. There's a bad snap, So
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to blame it all on him, but
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  Speaker 2: those seemed to be the areas where he can have
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  Speaker 2: some growth. And obviously the preseason game coming up have
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  Speaker 2: plenty of opportunities to get reps. But he is showing
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  Speaker 2: flashes throughout practice that good to see.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, let's let's highlight some of these stories that
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  Speaker 5: we're talking about. I mean, seven on seven May with
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  Speaker 5: a couple I just I wrote dimes it to Booty
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  Speaker 5: and to our friend. We haven't really seen jahean Bell
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  Speaker 5: a couple of nice throws. Again, kind of hard from
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  Speaker 5: my vantage point.
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  Speaker 3: To see if I gave him a touchdown because the
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  Speaker 3: first time I've noticed jehem Bell in camp, so I
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  Speaker 3: figured out they give me an opportunity to strow write
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  Speaker 3: about him. But yeah, I know exactly the play you're
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  Speaker 3: talking about came right at us in the the know
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  Speaker 3: what all tents, and I agree with Samara's assessment of
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  Speaker 3: the of the hurry up. The two minute drill is
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  Speaker 3: continuing to me to be sort of plotting for both
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  Speaker 3: both quarterbacks. And there was one play, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 3: trying to find. I think it was with Brissett. You know,
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  Speaker 3: they had a fourth down and they complete a pretty
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  Speaker 3: sizable seam route to kJ Osborne and Osbo just keeps
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  Speaker 3: running and I'm like running, like there needs to be
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  Speaker 3: a situational awareness in that kind of a you know, spot,
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  Speaker 3: And I thought that you get the first down, there's
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  Speaker 3: no time to celebrate. I think they ended up resetting
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  Speaker 3: the clock where he would have been sort of stopped.
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  Speaker 3: So like like like you said, it wasn't like it
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  Speaker 3: was without any plays at all. Offensively. There were some
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  Speaker 3: plays made, just not enough of them. And I do
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  Speaker 3: think Tamara mentioned a snap issue. I think that the
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  Speaker 3: rain today in Foxboro casts some problems handling the ball.
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  Speaker 3: I thought the long snapping we should add that Tucker
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  Speaker 3: Addington was was added to the roster. His snaps were
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  Speaker 3: a little erratic today. I thought they had some hard
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  Speaker 3: time and there was a fumble I think by Kevin Harris.
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  Speaker 3: There was a couple of fumbled exchanges involving the quarterbacks
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  Speaker 3: and some guys on jet sweep. So I thought the
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  Speaker 3: rain created some adversity.
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  Speaker 5: Today, Let's keep building off of that because Javon Baker
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  Speaker 5: had which this is a crazy catch, I mean and
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  Speaker 5: back and when that's the one?
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  Speaker 4: Was that the one you were talking about in on
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  Speaker 4: that one? It couldn't tell, but yeah it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was parab completely parallel to the ground. He makes
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  Speaker 3: that diving catch, then he drops like three us.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's just like, yeah, that was and that
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  Speaker 5: was you talked about samaraw with Drake May where Drake
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  Speaker 5: fired I think a couple passes that you know in
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  Speaker 5: his area. It's hard to say, but you could tell
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  Speaker 5: the wet ball was definitely coming into it.
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  Speaker 2: It's strange because it's like those diving acrobatic catches. You
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  Speaker 2: see his catch radius and his strong hands and Javon Baker,
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  Speaker 2: but then it's something with the short passes that he
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  Speaker 2: drops them. And I will say a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: passes were behind him. There were a few moments where
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  Speaker 2: I know Fred brought up next to me a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of times, like why is he throwing the ball behind
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  Speaker 2: the guy? Yeah? But still you.
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  Speaker 3: Got to credit the quarterback guru.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, good observations.
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  Speaker 5: And I mean, of course, the team has a game
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  Speaker 5: coming up, so I just noticed a lot of rotation.
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  Speaker 4: There were you know, kind of maybe a little bit more.
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  Speaker 5: We talked a lot about the rotation, Paul, but like
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  Speaker 5: even along the offensive line, there were, you know, some
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  Speaker 5: guys working in a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm glad you brought that up.
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  Speaker 2: City.
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  Speaker 3: So looked like he was at his normal spot at
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  Speaker 3: left guard during the war through period at the beginning
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  Speaker 3: of practice. Then when they went team it was Michael Jordan,
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  Speaker 3: not that one and not the actor, this Michael Jordan.
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  Speaker 3: He and I thought he actually looked pretty good. I
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  Speaker 3: thought on the move some of those zone plays that
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  Speaker 3: Evan talks about all the time.
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  Speaker 4: I thought he was leading.
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  Speaker 3: On a Kevin Harris sort of off tackle play on
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  Speaker 3: an inside zone. I thought he got out and made
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  Speaker 3: a kicked out, made a big block to remove Jelani
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  Speaker 3: Tavai out of the hole, which was was one of
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  Speaker 3: the rare running plays that I thought looked like it
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  Speaker 3: had some positive yardage. So something to keep an eye
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  Speaker 3: on there. Venerian low continues just like five days in
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  Speaker 3: a row now, at left tackle for low Calvin Anderson
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  Speaker 3: back at right tackle. So you know, it's two days
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  Speaker 3: in a row, kind of the same group at the beginning,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and then Jordan mixing in. So we'll see
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  Speaker 3: how that goes Thursday. But to me, the big takeaway
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  Speaker 3: was Drod Mayo saying that, you know, everybody who's healthy
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  Speaker 3: is going to play Thursday night in the preseason opener.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Kate Wallace who kind of banged up during practice,
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  Speaker 5: got looked at, did go back to back, but you know, again,
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  Speaker 5: and we had a similar situation with Calvin Anderson earlier
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  Speaker 5: in the week.
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  Speaker 4: They're very banged up.
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  Speaker 5: They went out, they signed another left tackle this week,
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  Speaker 5: but you know, otherwise, you just wonder how they're going
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  Speaker 5: to go into this game with kind of the tackles.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's an uncertain situation even with everyone healthy,
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  Speaker 5: and now with a couple guys banged up, you're kind
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  Speaker 5: of limited a quarters four again just watch, so really
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  Speaker 5: some attrition there at tackle is kind of building up
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  Speaker 5: to Marrow. It makes me wonder, you know, how you're
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  Speaker 5: gonna juggle it when you get into this preseason game
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  Speaker 5: where you're gonna have guys like Zuri Henry, you know,
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  Speaker 5: playing extensive snaps.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's going to make it tough to get
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  Speaker 2: a good assessment of Drake may especially because we've only
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  Speaker 2: seen him in practice with like the second string type
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  Speaker 2: of guys. But if you keep getting thin because of
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  Speaker 2: these injuries, then it's like those guys are going to
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  Speaker 2: end up playing with Jacoby Brissett too. So I think
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be tough to assess the quarterback play
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  Speaker 2: when the offensive line is still bad.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, And I mean I did think they had some
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  Speaker 5: periods today where there were you know, pretty good protection
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  Speaker 5: for Presette, but not a lot you know, just not
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  Speaker 5: a lot of continuity, not able to really stack drives.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's what I'm most interested to see with
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  Speaker 5: that Jacoby Brissette offense. Can they stack a drive, you know,
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  Speaker 5: in real time? And it's not make a play stop
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  Speaker 5: all right? He said, you know, it's just you never
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  Speaker 5: felt that real kind of game scenario yet in practice, and.
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  Speaker 3: Whenever they do sort of get in the rhythm. To me,
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  Speaker 3: it's all the short, quick throws. It's little hooks, it's curls,
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  Speaker 3: it's slants. There's nothing that's you know, takes any time
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  Speaker 3: to develop, so you know some of those deep overs
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  Speaker 3: that you know, you see the crossing routes that that
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  Speaker 3: you know that that that a VP system is supposed
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  Speaker 3: to be about. We haven't really seen a lot of
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  Speaker 3: that yet.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, let's wrap up with some housekeeping notes.
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  Speaker 5: I mean twenty four Josh Bledsoe back in uniform, so
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  Speaker 5: a little boost there to the safety group. Marcus Jones
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  Speaker 5: remains out. The rest of the group that that has
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  Speaker 5: been out remains out. Marte Mapu among others. Matthew Judahm
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  Speaker 5: we got to you know, was out there initially, not
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  Speaker 5: in pads today, looked like he just had shells to me,
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  Speaker 5: did not have a helmet, disappeared for a portion after stretching,
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  Speaker 5: reappeared on the sidelines, not really participating.
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  Speaker 4: To me, this felt again like a little bit of
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  Speaker 4: a shift.
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  Speaker 5: He's been out there, he's been participating, been a good
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  Speaker 5: you know, the good the you know, the good employee kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of We heard from him yesterday and sound like a
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  Speaker 3: guy with that was overly pleased and yeah, he spent
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  Speaker 3: some time talking to joke him and the outside linebackers.
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  Speaker 3: Coach Wilkins Drewe.
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  Speaker 4: Drew Wilkins ye from ball was close.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, spent a lot of time talking to those guys
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  Speaker 3: did not have pads on today, did not take part.
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  Speaker 2: It's definitely very misleading when you listen to him in
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  Speaker 2: his press conference yesterday and then you see him out
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  Speaker 2: of practice. He obviously sounds like he is going to play,
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  Speaker 2: but maybe that means hey, I'm just going to play
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  Speaker 2: in the games and practice.
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  Speaker 1: When I want to.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, this is it, folks.
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  Speaker 5: Preseason has finally arrived, so stay tuned here Patriots dot com.
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  Speaker 5: We'll have the pregame show, Paul and I will be
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  Speaker 5: on there in the postgame show, of course, and then
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  Speaker 5: these training camp casts will be back next week. We're
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  Speaker 5: anticipating maybe Sunday, something going on there, We're not sure,
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  Speaker 5: but certainly Monday, and then a joint practice Tuesday. It's
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  Speaker 5: hard to believe. Training camp just flying along. So enjoy
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  Speaker 5: the game on Thursday night, and we'll be back.
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