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Training Camp-Cast 7/29: Offense Strikes Late, Injury Absences Hit Secondary, Full Day Six Practice Recap · Patriots Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: The Patriots are back in pads and it was another scorcher.
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  Speaker 1: We'll break it all down for you.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go Welcome everybody to the Patriots Training Camp cast.
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  Speaker 2: We just got off the field from the Patriots six
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  Speaker 2: training camp practice and guys Harold Landry said afterwards he
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  Speaker 2: felt like the defense had a good day, and I
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  Speaker 2: think I would agree with him.
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  Speaker 3: How about you, Paul, I would totally agree. Thought it
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  Speaker 3: was a step forward. And I think when you take
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  Speaker 3: into consideration that you're starting cornerbacks Christian Gonzalez and Carlton
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  Speaker 3: Davis aren't a part of a day where it was
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  Speaker 3: almost predominantly passing game in the red zone, and I
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  Speaker 3: thought the defense got the better of things considering that
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  Speaker 3: you're missing your best player on defense. I think it
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  Speaker 3: was absolutely a step forward for the defense.
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  Speaker 4: It's one of those practices where, again, if you bottle
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  Speaker 4: up like three or four drakeros and put it on
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  Speaker 4: a highlight reel, you're going to say, Wow, Drake Mayland
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  Speaker 4: created practice.
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  Speaker 5: But overall, I.
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  Speaker 4: Agree with you that there wasn't a whole lot of
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  Speaker 4: passes completed outside of those really nice throws coupled a
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  Speaker 4: Stefawn Diggs one of Kyle Williams in the bucket. That
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  Speaker 4: was a beauty, But overall a tight red zone, so
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  Speaker 4: you're not gonna complete a ton of passes down there
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  Speaker 4: most of the time. But I'd agree with you too
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  Speaker 4: that the defense controlled today.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the difficulty ramped up.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, yesterday we were first and second down in
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  Speaker 2: the red zone. Today they added in third down. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of work down there, I mean a lot of
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  Speaker 2: reps for those guys. To me, though, Paul, it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: necessarily the pass rush or the pressure. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 2: certainly were moments where the pass rush got in on
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  Speaker 2: Drake May.
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  Speaker 1: But I think he was just a little off today.
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  Speaker 2: One of those practices where it felt like, even in
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  Speaker 2: seven on sevens early on, he was missing some guys and.
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  Speaker 1: Just not a great day from Drake May.
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  Speaker 2: He's been great, I would say, through the start of camp,
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  Speaker 2: but was today was a day where it felt like
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  Speaker 2: maybe it.
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  Speaker 5: Wasn't his best.
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  Speaker 3: I would totally agree with you, I thought, especially in
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  Speaker 3: the seven on sevens, I thought he was erratic.
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  Speaker 5: I thought he missed some guys.
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  Speaker 3: I think he had Hunter Henry and team, you know,
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  Speaker 3: heading toward the corner back line.
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  Speaker 5: The end zone.
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  Speaker 3: I think he just overthrew it, And like Kevin said,
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  Speaker 3: there are also some plays where you know, I thought
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  Speaker 3: he like layered a beautiful throw. The other side line
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  Speaker 3: of booty couldn't have been any more perfect. So it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't like it was all bad offensively. And because of
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  Speaker 3: those personnel, you know, absences that we talked about, you
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  Speaker 3: had a chance to see some different numbers and names today.
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  Speaker 5: DJ James was one of them.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I don't know exactly where he fits into
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  Speaker 3: the equation, but we talked a lot about Alex Austen
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  Speaker 3: and you know, Isaiah Bold and Marcellus Dial. I thought
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  Speaker 3: took a step forward yesterday. DJ James was very competitive
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  Speaker 3: in coverage todays and undrafted rookie I don't really know
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  Speaker 3: a whole lot about I think he's an undrafted rookie.
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  Speaker 5: Well, gonna keep my eye on him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, not a lot of wide open passing windows.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, everything was contested as you would expect it
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  Speaker 2: to be in the red zone. But even still, again,
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  Speaker 2: Harold Landry felt pretty good about how the defense played.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would like to see more DJ James as
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  Speaker 4: a name that has crept up in one on ones
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  Speaker 4: and things like that with some pass breakups, but today
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  Speaker 4: some couple more in team drills and eleven out eleven's
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  Speaker 4: against the you know, frontline receivers for the Patriots. But
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  Speaker 4: on the positive note for the offense, outside of some
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  Speaker 4: of the highlight throws for Drake May, I just think
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  Speaker 4: we have to mention the rookie offensive linemen are just
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  Speaker 4: really starting to stack some terrific days together. I thought
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  Speaker 4: Campbell again was solid today, but Jared Wilson really was tremendous,
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  Speaker 4: especially in one on ones, shut down Milton Williams and
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  Speaker 4: Christian Barmore to go three to zero and his three
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  Speaker 4: reps and one on ones, and I just am coming
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  Speaker 4: to the conclusion with Wilson he's one of your best
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  Speaker 4: five in terms of blocking.
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  Speaker 5: Now at center.
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  Speaker 4: There's been some issues with the snaps with both Wilson
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  Speaker 4: and Garrett Bradbury, and that battery of quarterback center is
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  Speaker 4: a big mental load on a rookie. But in general,
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  Speaker 4: I just can't come away from these practices with any
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  Speaker 4: other conclusion of Jared Wilson's one of your best blockers
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  Speaker 4: on the offensive line already, so finding a spot for him,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's at left Carter center I think is a
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  Speaker 4: must at this point.
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  Speaker 3: So I would just I want to correct myself, DJ James,
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  Speaker 3: first year player out of Auburn, not a rookie, not
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  Speaker 3: an undrafted rookie. I would agree with the overall assessment
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  Speaker 3: in some of these situation, you know, specifically at center
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  Speaker 3: might be working themselves. Garrett Bradbury got nicked up a
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  Speaker 3: little bit late in this practice.
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  Speaker 5: He got stepped on, he came out, did not do
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  Speaker 5: the conditioning run.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll see if that costs him any practice time
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  Speaker 3: moving forward.
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  Speaker 5: But the exchange is something to watch. I thought it
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  Speaker 5: was Bradbury today.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but that has been an issue virtually every practice
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  Speaker 3: has been at least one snap that ends up on
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  Speaker 3: the ground.
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  Speaker 5: You got to clean that up.
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  Speaker 4: And it's from under center, too, which is obviously harder
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  Speaker 4: for a lot of younger centers. I should mention, like
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  Speaker 4: Jared Wilson, Georgia goes under center a little bit more
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  Speaker 4: than your traditional college program these days. But still I
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  Speaker 4: probably could count maybe twenty times that I saw Jared
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  Speaker 4: Wilson snapped the ball from under center last year at Georgia.
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  Speaker 4: So most college teams are gun teams predominantly so that's
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of an adjustment to a pro style
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  Speaker 4: offense to be as under center as the Patriots are
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  Speaker 4: going to be.
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  Speaker 5: So it's something to watch for.
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  Speaker 4: Might be easier for him to play guard as a
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  Speaker 4: rookie because center is a little bit more taxing. But again,
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  Speaker 4: I just thought he looked terrific today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so a couple housekeeping things. Austin Hooper returned. He
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  Speaker 2: had started the year on pup. Good to see him
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  Speaker 2: out there.
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  Speaker 5: Got tops so in full team.
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  Speaker 2: But the headline of courses, Carlton Davis has been out.
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  Speaker 2: We've only really seen him on a walk through this
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  Speaker 2: first week now. Christian Gonzalez was out as well. I
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  Speaker 2: think report Jordan Schultz reporting that hamstring issue a couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks. It's about what we thought. But still it
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  Speaker 2: gives an opportunity. You guys talked about some of the
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  Speaker 2: younger guys and we'll see tomorrow. I think we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: stick around similar kind of practice plan. Is the offense
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  Speaker 2: able to punch back a little bit, and I think
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  Speaker 2: that's what we're setting up for this training camp. It's
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  Speaker 2: been back and forth. I think a lot of these
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  Speaker 2: last two practices, especially feels like the offense made some place,
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  Speaker 2: feels like the defense made some plays today, felt like
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  Speaker 2: the defense made the majority of the plays.
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  Speaker 1: Now it sets up tomorrow, can the offense bounce back?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely?
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  Speaker 3: I think that even some of the plays the offense
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  Speaker 3: did make today were pretty well defended and they had
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  Speaker 3: a high level of difficulty to them.
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  Speaker 5: Time for the offense to respond.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what else you're looking for, Evan as we get
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  Speaker 1: ready here.
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  Speaker 4: For Yeah, I would just mention, you know, Melton Williams
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  Speaker 4: and Christian Barmore have been mainstays there in the middle,
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  Speaker 4: but today I thought that sometimes they got handled a
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  Speaker 4: little bit, And I just wonder, especially with Milton Williams
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  Speaker 4: and Morgan Moses as well. I just flipping it over
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  Speaker 4: to the offense and defense, the two free agent signings
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  Speaker 4: that I'm interested to watch a little bit more and
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  Speaker 4: see if maybe they just kind of get a rhythm
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  Speaker 4: at some point going in training camp. Morgan Moses I
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  Speaker 4: believe might have left practice.
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  Speaker 5: Halfway through surely today.
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  Speaker 4: So like, I'm feeling great about the rookie offensive lineman,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Bradberry and Moses, the two veterans that they
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  Speaker 4: brought in to upgrade this offensive line. Maybe moving a
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  Speaker 4: little bit in the other direction. So I'd like to
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  Speaker 4: see those two guys bounce.
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  Speaker 2: Back, all right, well to beat Another practice tomorrow and pads.
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  Speaker 2: We'll look forward to that, see if the offense is
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  Speaker 2: able to bounce back as we get going here, wrapping
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  Speaker 2: up the main part of the training camp. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: into preseason and joint practices next week. Stick with us
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  Speaker 2: throughout camp, though. We'll have these training camp casts after
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  Speaker 2: every practice.