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Training Camp Cast 8/1: Day 6 Recap, Focus on Passing Game · Patriots Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: 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 1: Now Here to review today's practice? The writers of Patriots dot.
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  Speaker 3: Com Day six in the books here in Foxboro. A
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  Speaker 3: little bit of a slower pace today, Mike. You so,
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  Speaker 3: Paul Perla with you. We're not at a slower pace, Mike.
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  Speaker 3: But I thought the team, after a pretty physical practice
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  Speaker 3: on Monday, sort of dialed it back. They were back
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  Speaker 3: in shells today. I would say the first half of
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  Speaker 3: the practice was a little bit of a slower tempo,
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  Speaker 3: looked like some instructions and walked through, and then I
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  Speaker 3: thought they picked it up toward the end. I thought
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  Speaker 3: the intensity on both sides sort of got back. Just
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  Speaker 3: we'll start off with overall impressions, Michael.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, over impressions, I thought, you know, kind of more
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  Speaker 2: of the same, I guess, is what I would say.
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  Speaker 2: An inconsistent day for the offense. You know, had one
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  Speaker 2: nice contested throat to Devonte Parker up the sideline.
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  Speaker 1: You've seen that a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Another one to Hunter Henry that was actually pretty nice,
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  Speaker 2: but some clunkiness kind of remained.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of check down.
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  Speaker 2: Seem like a lot of work on screens today, so
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  Speaker 2: maybe that was definitely was part of it. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of that, a lot of those kind of plays, So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, nice day for the defense, though. I thought
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  Speaker 2: they got their hands on some balls. Mac Wilson making
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  Speaker 2: a nice play there during practice, But like you said,
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of a dial back version, some eleven
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  Speaker 2: on eleven work, a little bit of red zone, but
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  Speaker 2: otherwise hoping we get you know, back to Pats tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: maybe pick up the intensity.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree with that, and I did. I
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  Speaker 3: thought mac Wilson was one of the standouts defensively, and
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  Speaker 3: I think that kind of speaks to it. I think
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  Speaker 3: I'm probably gonna write about this a little bit after
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  Speaker 3: our show. Is just sort of the versatility along that backside.
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  Speaker 3: I listened to Adrian Phillips talk after practice and he
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  Speaker 3: talked about all the things the offense can do with
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  Speaker 3: the motions and the different personnel groupings and the multiple
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  Speaker 3: receiver sets and they can really dial it up. And
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  Speaker 3: I think that's really true of the defense specifically on
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  Speaker 3: the backside with all of those safeties, linebackers, and some
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  Speaker 3: of them like guys like Wilson and Mapu a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of both. So I did think Wilson stood out
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  Speaker 3: with those things. We should do a little bookkeeping here.
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  Speaker 3: We talked about the first padded practice on Monday. It
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  Speaker 3: took its toll. We talked a little bit about that
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  Speaker 3: yesterday with Bill Belichick talking to the whole team sort
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  Speaker 3: of about practice tempo. Not surprisingly, some of those guys
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  Speaker 3: that we didn't see finished practice yesterday were not out
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  Speaker 3: there today. I did not spot Jalen Hurd, Brad Hawkins,
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  Speaker 3: terres Hall chasing Hines and of course Time Montgomery for
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  Speaker 3: now what the fourth day in a row. Also a
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  Speaker 3: lot of guys that were out there really weren't taking part.
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  Speaker 3: Trent Brown, Scotti, Washington, Cole Strange was on the field
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  Speaker 3: but did not take part in anything. So I do
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  Speaker 3: think that for padded practice took a toll a little bit. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you have physicality.
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  Speaker 2: It's unfortunate, and I mean i've you know, not that
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  Speaker 2: we've seen really much a jail and hurt other than
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  Speaker 2: the one touchdown catch the other day. But I said
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  Speaker 2: I think I said it on the light show, like
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  Speaker 2: he just intreaused me a little bit. He's got good size,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just disappointing because this is a guy that
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  Speaker 2: always had the measurables but just couldn't stay healthy. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's almost kind of the same thing with
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  Speaker 2: Montgomery with two guys that maybe you had some hopes for.
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  Speaker 2: Clearly Montgomery's, you know, your hopes for him are higher
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  Speaker 2: than what they were for heard, but a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a disappointment there for him.
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  Speaker 1: I did see Brad Hawkins kind of he was well.
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  Speaker 3: He came back up from the field. They went down
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  Speaker 3: to the lower field. A lot of these guys. I
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  Speaker 3: did not see Herd at all. I did not either,
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  Speaker 3: but I saw at least at some point I think
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  Speaker 3: everybody else, maybe not Terres's Hall either, but I don't
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  Speaker 3: think I did see Chasing Hines come back from the
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  Speaker 3: lower fields. Trent Brown came out not in uniform. He
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  Speaker 3: has his uniform jersey, but no helmet.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on there?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's something, you know, And it's another thing that
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  Speaker 3: Phillips was asked about someone you know, Jude On looks
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  Speaker 3: like he's on this program, and Stevenson might be on that,
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  Speaker 3: and he's just like, you know, that's that's their their
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  Speaker 3: they deal with Bill. And you know, someone said you
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  Speaker 3: might call it load management. He goes, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: what you'd call it, but I'm not on any of that.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I think it is something to sort of
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  Speaker 3: keep an eye on. I mean, I would just highlight too.
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  Speaker 2: And and I mean remondra Stevenson looked like, you know, an
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  Speaker 2: active participant today. He didn't really see any padded action yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: He put they put him down on the field too.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean one part of it for me is
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  Speaker 2: just jude On and Remandre and Trump Brown are at
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  Speaker 2: three positions where they really don't have any depth. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it is a drop off after those guys. You know,
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  Speaker 2: no disrespect to josh Uja, but those are three key
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  Speaker 2: guys that, especially the tackle position. I mean right now,
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  Speaker 2: it just seems like they're kind of scrambling along the
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  Speaker 2: offensive line trying to figure out what can happen. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we're six practices in Paul and we've got you know,
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  Speaker 2: Riley Reef is playing left tackle.
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  Speaker 1: It's and Connor mcgermi's playing right right tackle, and and
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  Speaker 1: who's their other tackle? After that? I don't, Andrew Stuber,
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  Speaker 1: I guess so.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's just it's, uh, I think of all
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  Speaker 2: the things that have been concerning, and we could talk
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  Speaker 2: about inconsistency on offense and you know, they really haven't
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  Speaker 2: been able to push ball down the field at all,
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  Speaker 2: just the tackle and the overall offensive line depth. Now
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  Speaker 2: with cold strange heard, it's a big concern this soon.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't agree more about your point about depth because
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  Speaker 3: you certainly see and you know, someone would say, well,
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  Speaker 3: I mean they were missing these guys yesterday and obviously
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  Speaker 3: the performance was well yeah, and what happens if you're
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  Speaker 3: missing those guys and it's not like a ton of
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  Speaker 3: guys are out, but you see at the spots that
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  Speaker 3: you talked about, edge, rusher, running back, offensive line, specifically tackle,
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  Speaker 3: there's not a lot behind the guys that you're relying on.
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  Speaker 3: So you don't have to get ten, twelve, fifteen guys
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  Speaker 3: on IR to be in trouble. You can get the
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  Speaker 3: wrong three and it could really, you know, sort of
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  Speaker 3: disrupt the Apple card a little bit. But I did
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  Speaker 3: think that the practice tempo toward the end was a
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  Speaker 3: little bit higher. I agree with your assessment Mike. I
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  Speaker 3: thought the defense again continues to sort of you know,
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  Speaker 3: even the plays. I thought that the play that you
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  Speaker 3: talked about with Parker very well defended by Gonzales. You know,
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  Speaker 3: good catch by good catch by Parker. That's that's what
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  Speaker 3: he's known for. He goes up and makes those plays
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  Speaker 3: from time to time. And I continue to think that
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  Speaker 3: the best player on offense for the Patriots throughout campus
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  Speaker 3: hunter him. I think he's the guy who shows up
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  Speaker 3: most often, you know, and I think they're still searching.
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  Speaker 3: I think Mac had a couple today that he got
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  Speaker 3: confused on. Certainly the one that almost got picked off.
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  Speaker 1: That one is that Marcus Jones. Marcus Jones came off
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  Speaker 1: of his guy.
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  Speaker 3: I thought he really confused from It was a seven
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  Speaker 3: on seven from up above.
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  Speaker 2: Two saw it and it was like, I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: said it out loud. I'm like Juju, like he had
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  Speaker 2: him and he missed him, and you know, it allowed
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  Speaker 2: Marcus Jones able to close. There was also you know,
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  Speaker 2: a deep shot to Kendrick Bourne which wasn't complete.
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  Speaker 1: It was a pretty ball. I mean, I just liked
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  Speaker 1: at least he was, you know, kind of trying to
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  Speaker 1: push it down the field, and I'll keep.
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  Speaker 3: Going credit you know, and I've been critical of Marcus Jones.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I see.
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  Speaker 1: Marcus Jones is a step or two behind.
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  Speaker 3: But Bourne had him beat and you know, I mean
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  Speaker 3: Mac overthrew him.
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  Speaker 1: It happens.
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  Speaker 3: Nice to see them taking some shots today. Yeah, any
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  Speaker 3: any last thoughts before we wrap this one up.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's it. I'd like to get you know, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, I think they need to get healthy. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what's up with Calvin Anderson.
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  Speaker 2: Bill was asked about him, but I just I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, not that he's the savior, but you just
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  Speaker 2: you need some you need some other depth.
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  Speaker 1: And I really I shudder to think what happens.
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  Speaker 2: If you got to go into the season with with
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  Speaker 2: Riley Reef at left tackle and Connor McDermott right tackle.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's it's it's a little bit scary. I agree.
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  Speaker 3: I agree. So the depth is an issue we will
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  Speaker 3: continue to monitor as these days go on. But like
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  Speaker 3: like Bill says, with Stack in the days, you know,
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  Speaker 3: day six in the books, We'll be back tomorrow.