This is the Patriots Training Camp Cast. The Patriots Training Camp Cast is your source for all the news from Patriots training Camp. Well, I do still watch the news. Practice is over, But the writers of Patriots dot com have you covered? What did I miss yesterday? Now here to review today's practice? The writers of Patriots dot com, all right, day one, Patriots Training Camp twenty twenty two. In the books, I might do. So. This is Paul Pirillo with me as always, and we are high above
the fields of Gillette Stadium's practice facilities. And Paul, we just got through the first practice. There were actually some things to watch, good crew, not a lot of not a lot of missing faces that we weren't expecting, and pleasant surprise and some nice plays. A couple of nice plays, especially, I think DeVante Parker probably let's start at the top with him, a couple of nice touchdown catches, celebrating with the crowd. It seems like his kind of contested catchability
was immediately onto play. Yeah, I thought, just as advertised. You know, there's the kinds of the plays. I think he victimized a couple of the rookies, Marcus Jones and Jack Jones on a couple of plays and what I really liked, um, we talked about this a lot during our broadcast, was just the energy that he and Kendrick Bourne in particular brought to the field after these plays, a lot of enthusiasm running over to the crowd, getting
the crowd into it. I thought it was a little subdued for the most part in terms of the crowd, but not when those guys were involved. They really got things going and the crowd sort of followed suit after that. Absolutely, you mentioned Marcus Jones, somebody we didn't really see in the spring, was recovering from injury. He was out here. It looks like he's a full go, which is good news. Another rookie who showed up with a couple of nice
catches too, Taekwon Thorte. Not you know, not overwhelming production here, but day one a camp, a little bit involved, second round pick, guy with some speed that you can clearly see jump off the field. Any of the other you know rookies, guys that kind of caught your eye here in the early going, Paul, you know, Marcus Jones would
be the one. I know you mentioned him. He was a you know, involved in punt returns and you know how much I like these these electric kind of guys that can that can provide a boost, a jolt of energy. So I was glad to see him get a chance. Kyle Dugger, who I've been looking for in that regard for three years now. So those guys, you know, getting a chance to handle some punts. But I'm gonna give you not a rookie, Mike, but a guy who you've been pointing out is Josh Bledsoe. And I think he
continues to sort of get some opportunities. Jabill Peppers still on pup, so there's a little bit of an opportunity here to get some reps early on, and he was active, He had a nice pass defense, looked like Belichick was talking to him a little bit right after that, so I think he's shown up a little bit. Josh Bledsoe. Yeah, it's a name Patriot fans will be familiar with, not quite the same position or body type, but certainly we'll all enjoy seeing a Bledzo on the back of a
Patriots jersey. Here, we're still watching the team, kind of a little get together. Paul big thing we've been talking about all season. Josh McDaniels is gone, everybody wants to know how are the Patriots going to replace him? We got a little bit of a taste of it in the spring, and it seems like it kind of carried over here today. What we saw then, we're seeing kind of Now, why don't you lay out for us exactly what it seems like that the mechanics of the offensive
operation are here? Yeah, you know, just from a personnel point, you know, we talked a lot about the offensive line with with brown and wind sort of switching spots that remains in place, and something we talked about extensively last summer, Mike, and you brought this up late in the broadcast. All red zone. Yeah, you know, all red zone work again Seven on seven's full team even running game kind of
you know, they were looking on some running fits. So that's probably a continuation of the install that we saw in the spring. You know, it's just sort of you know, sprinkling a little the red zone stuff now too. You know it it's I always find it hard to sort of, you know, make any wide you know, sort of wide sweeping evaluations off of these shorts and T shirts kind of things. But you're starting to see it come together
a little, but the progress is being made. And I think the red zone work today was you know, what would they go about ninety minutes today and it was almost entirely in the red zone. Well, let's wrap it up just with you know, a little couple observations on defense, I mean, turnover a cornerback, turnover a linebacker. Uh. It seemed like a lot of different guys in the mix, Ray Kua, McMillin coming off of the pup list, Mac Wilson,
Jawan Brentley. Of course in the mix, Malcolm Butler. We saw Jayala Mills have a have a nice interception or sorry, nice pass breakup? Um who got the interception later? That was Joan Williams got the the interception later in the way. So a lot of guys kind of rotating in overall. Anybody you know defensively that that stood out to you? Uh in that creep Yeah, I thought that those guys that you mentioned periodically showed up with some uh you know,
some some place here and there. But uh, it looks like Terrence Mitchell is a guy that seems to be I don't want to say first in line, but he's getting the first opportunity. We know Mills is probably going to be one of you know, if you say there's there's three starting corners, like you know, right, it looks like Mills is going to be handling one of those responsibilities. Terrence Mitchell today looked like he was with him a lot, So you know, we'll see if Malcolm Butler gets more
opportunities moving forward. He was victimized by Nelson Agalore a nice little back back corner fade, you know, latent practice. Mac dropped it in the bucket. As they like to say, that's football talk for those I don't understand these things. Yeah, I don't want to speak over your head and technical Okay, well hey it was, you know, maybe not the most eventful practice, certainly, a lot of stuff happened, some great plays, guys getting the crowd pumped up. So we're excited. We're
gonna be back here every single day. Tune in Live Patriots Unfiltered, nine fifteen am. Right at the start of practice. We'll have an hour plus a video show you some of warm ups, give you a glimpse of all of these guys. A lot of great things going on down on the field, not only football wise, but some special things. You'll see on Patriots dot com later today as well,
so we'll be back tomorrow. If you can't tune in for the full live broadcast, just tune in right here to the camp cast and we'll get you caught up in about five minutes of all the big plays and players that happen in each day's camp So, for my colleague Paul Perell, this is Mike do so we will catch you tomorrow on the campcast. Thank you for downloading this podcast. Subscribe on Apple, Google Play, and everywhere else you listen. Like the show, please rate and review us.
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