Training Camp-Cast 8/17: Day 14 Recap, Final Joint Practice with Panthers

we did it. We made it through Patriots training camp here at Jillette Stadium, with the final joint practice with the Carolina Panthers wrapping up today on Wednesday, which will conclude open access here Achilette Stadium from Patriots training Camp. But we are here to recap what happened in the final day of joint practices. This is Mike doussou joined by Paul Parillo, Evan Lazar Patriots dot Com. We've been here for three weeks, guys. We watched plenty of football yesterday.

The Patriots really seem to have a great day, especially defensively they carried to play today. Paul, it feels like things kind of maybe regressed a little bit more towards the mean. Better day for the Panthers made things a little bit harder for the page treats offense. Yeah, and I don't think the Patriots were bad by any means today, but I thought it was a little bit more even. I thought there was some plays made on both sides. It started really with the one on ones before they

even got into team. I thought the defensive backs on both sides were getting their hands on a lot of the passes. There was some ficiness again, unfortunately, some guys left practice early for the second day in a row. But I thought overall, Carolina was much much more competitive today than they were on Tuesday. Yeah, it looks you know, keep an eye on Christian Wilkerson. He took a kind of it looked like a blindside hit and during drills

and did not return. I only saw him, unfortunately, on the ground, so we of course hoped that that he's all right. A couple more guys were tossed again today, but they were able to rectify the situation and get practice back on track without any further issues. Having one guy for me that stood out today if Nelson Agilore had a beautiful catch, three guys around him another strong day for him, Who in your book stood out today? I was gonna go Nelson at it beat me to it.

I thought the first one was a nice ball from Mac and he's created some separation. In the second one, like you said, there's three guys in the area and he was able to come away with the football somehow. I think there's been a lot of speculation that Nelson Aglare might be a trade asset, somebody that they might move because Taykwon Thornton has excelled it so far in training camp, and I think that's really premature. I would

be careful about moving on from Aglare. I don't think that the Patriots are in a position yet at wide receiver where they have enough NFL talent that shipping out an actual NFL receiver is in a spot. They're not in that spot of the right. So Nelson Aglare is clearly an NFL receiver you can go out in games and in practices and make plays in the passing game, and I would just be wary of moving on from that, especially with DeVante Parker's injury history, the fact that Tayklon

Thornton is a rookie. I think Aglare is going to be in the mix, and I love the fact that they keep on throwing him slot fades and fade routes from more condensed alignment so that he's not just stuck on the boundary all the time. I think those are good throws for Mac and I think that they create a little bit more separation that way. No, Paul not, I wan't to talk a little bit of the run game.

I mean, Patriots offense continues to you know, not quite look like it's all clicking on all centers in the run game, and today it looked like Carolina had a better day in the run game as well. Of course, Christian McCaffrey plays a role in that he's a dynamic NFL player, But overall, what you're feeling on the run game, both sides of the ball coming out of this, uh yeah,

I'm just watching. There's some opportunity stuff still going on in the field as we're as we're taping the podcast here, and I do I do agree the running game is still a work in progress. I think that was the phrase I used yesterday when I wrote about it, and I think Damian Harris had talked about it in similar tones. After practice with very few exceptions, guys that they really

haven't been very many holes. You know, you see, there are times when you know, maybe a little little toss, you know, looking for a crack on the edge where they might you know, they might have had. I thought they had a push on one top today to Damian Harris. That probably would have been a four or five yard game, you know, So good solid production there. But for the

most part, I think that's still coming. And you did see for the first time I think in camp I thought you saw some signs that the Patriots were a little vulnerable on some of the running plays today that Carolina ran, both with Deonta Foreman and obviously with Christian McCaffrey. Well, these two teams aren't done yet. They will take the field here Gillette Stadium seven pm on Friday night for the Patriots second preseason game. Should be something to watch.

Fastiness of these two and it does sound like the Patriots starters are gonna get some run in that game. So I think it's gonna be a little bit more of the ones than what we saw. Certainly no ones really last in the openers, so I think we're gonna see some some mac Jones drives on Friday night. Well,

it was a productive two days of a practice. Maybe a few more fights than we would have liked, but overall got a really good glimpse of what the Patriots have been working on and how it's starting to come together. Of course, that'll continue next week and to join practices in Las Vegas against the Race and then the final preseason game against the Raiders that Friday night as well. So that'll do it for this week's campcast. We will be back next week with a campcast for you from

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