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camp practice of twenty twenty two. What's up everybody? This is Mike do So and Evan Lazarre coming at you Patriots dot Com and Evan second day of joint practices. I thought overall, Patriots were maybe a little bit better. Similar kind of end strong finished for the Patriots with a nice big touchdown to to Hunter Henry. But overall this kind of caps the training camp season. I think we're all a bit happy to get on to to real games after Friday night. But overall, what were your
big takeaways from today? I thought it was a little bit more even between the two teams. It was pretty clear yesterday that the Raiders controlled play and won the day if I hate doing that with practice, but one the day, if you will, Today it was a little bit tougher to decide who won the day. I think I just kind of give it a toss up. Both
teams made some plays. I think the one thing that you saw with the Patriots offense that you do like and has been consistent even yesterday, is when they get into that two minute hurry up mode and it's just Mac Jones directing traffic with him in the shotgun and throwing the football down the field. It just seems better. It seems a little bit more streamlined, simplified, to use a Bill Belichick term, and it just seems like the
operation moves a little bit better. I wonder when they hurry it up like that, And I think Mac alluded to this when we talk to him after practice that there's not as much thinking. You know, you're throwing the football. You know you got to get the ball out, you know you got to move the ball down the field, and it's just kind of boom boom boom boom boom, right.
And I wonder if maybe some of the things that we're seeing is overthinking and maybe getting a little bit too much into the weeds when they get into the middle of the field. So you like to see them move the ball in the hurry up. You like to see the red z own stuff that was a positive for them today. That defensively, the pressure has been pretty consistent on Derek Carr both days, which was a good thing.
But in particular Jalen Mills, Jonathan Jones, Miles Bryant, especially once they got into the real eleven on elevens of practice, I felt like it was a little bit of a bounce back day for that trio against Davanta Adams and Hunter Renfro and Mac Collins for the Raiders, says their top three receivers yesterday, Clearly Davante Adams was the best player on the field. He was still pretty dark and good today, but it was a little bit less of
a dominance for Adams. Yeah, you know, it's it's funny you mentioned about Mac and you know, just to digress from a second from the training camp observations, and we
talked about this yesterday. I think that's like a caveat to consider that the Patriots certainly know when Mac Jones looks good and what he's comfortable doing, and you're right, like throughout practice or you know, throughout the summer during practice when they ran that kind of stuff that we know Mac Jones has experienced that though we know he's good.
We've seen some RPO hints too. They look okay, and so you know, they're not going to get into the regular season, and can you trying to beat a dead horse that of things that are not working, they're going to put mac Jones in position to be successful. So I think, for me, as I think about more and more about this, how things are going to look in a couple of weeks in Miami, a little bit of optimism of just you know, hey, hopefully they're going to
lean into what they know. They certainly have some some time to figure it out. You mentioned defensively. I thought, Matthew Judean, you know, continues to just be in the backfield a lot, making big plays. Hard to miss him with a red sweatshirt on and the middle of the heat. But of course it wasn't it wasn't as bad today. I didn't think, uh, not not quite as blazing as it was the first day, but just want to you know, some housekeeping stuff. Attendance was the same, so the same
group of guys. Of course, we saw some of those moves yesterday with Stubor and Ronnie Perkins being moved as well as Howard Langie wasn't there again, Taekwon Thornton and Christian Wilkerson as well. So also some injuries to kind of talk about during camp or I don't know if they're injuries, but just guys who you know limped off at certain point. Damian Harris came off early. Didn't see him come back. We saw at Nelson Aghalore and Isaiah
Win both lead practice. They came back onto the field, didn't participate anymore, though Nelson still spoke to the media afterwards, so that's probably a good sign. But definitely some injury things to monitor here as we go into the last game. Yeah, you hope that some of those things are just maybe the heat and just kind of exhaustion overall because of how hot it is out here camping right, something like that. I think for Nelson in particular, it looked like maybe
that was the issue. Damian Harris did go down early. Looked like he tweaked something in a positional drill, making a cut. So you just hope that that isn't something more serious for him. But I think overall the health of the camp, they came out of this. I know Tai Kwon is a big one right, and that's that sort of is the buzz killed in like a big role killer, but it just the one hanging over it.
But I think the you know, kind of relating this to what we saw over the last two days, I'm still waiting to see some explosive elements from the Patriots offense. And although it was not as often necessarily as it was yesterday for the Raiders offense, you still have those moments where Davante Adams gets behind a defender or mac Hollins caught a touchdown pass on Terrence Mitchell down the field today, and they were clearly two days in a row,
the more explosive downfield passing attack. And for the Patriots without Tai Kwon, with Nelson Agore really being the only deep threat now on the team that's healthy, you're just waiting to see that. Like it's great to see some of the drives that we saw and the two minute these meticulous you know, move the chains, dink and dunk
it down the field. And we've seen that work here obviously in the past, so it's not to look down on that, but you just would like to see maybe a little bit more down the field from the starting offense in particular. I actually thought today at times that he had Mac had some clean pockets and had some time to operate, and there was a lot of checkdowns, throws into the flats, throws underneath the defense to Jacoby
Myers or the backs, and not a whole lot. I think there was one scene pass to Hunter Henry on that final drive that got them Yeah, that got them down on there, which was good, right, But other than that, it wasn't a whole lot down the field. Well, you know, let's jump into I just I was the amount of work that they got in today that that's what stood
out to me. Just eleven on eleven sessions. There wasn't really the breakup with punt and kickoff a little bit early, but it was essentially one on ones, maybe a session of like with the teams working on there with their own punt teams, and then it was just eleven on elevens. They were in the middle of the field, they were in the red zone, they were in situational at the end.
That's what I kind of came away with was how many guys are going to actually play Friday night because looking at these last two practices and especially today, they got so much good work. And you mentioned Jacoby Myers. I thought he was, you know, one of the stars of practice. Came down a number of contested catches, which, as you said, you'd like to see maybe a little bit more explosiveness. That's you know, not as closely contested as some of those were. But certainly Jacoby Myers was
a star today. Yeah. Yeah, two big catches in the end zone, kind of over the shoulder balls that he fought off, some tough, tight coverage against the first one in particular, moreg the safety for the Raiders. He was right on top of him and Jacoby was able to bring in the pass. And between that play, I think there was the second Jacoby touchdown as well, and then Hunter Henry's touchdown to end practice. You saw some energy from the offense and particularly from Mac Jones. A celebration,
an actual celebration by the offense. And I say that like it's you know, we haven't seen it because we haven't we haven't really seen. Yeah, we did, we did it right, and I think that that's something that they needed quite frankly. And you mentioned the workload over the last two days. You hear Josh McDaniel's talk about it. You hear Bill Belichick talk about it as well yesterday, more so with McDaniel's going this morning before practice, and a lot of what they are saying is the finish
of the play. They can control the finish of the play, so there's no tackling to the ground, there's no hitting the quarterbacks, and they're are a lot less potential for in It's still football, but there's a lot less potential for injuries. And I think that that has been why these joint practices have really taken over training camp in the preseason and replaced a lot of these preseason games.
I saw today that Buffalo is not even playing Josh Allen in the third preseason game, right, And like some of those things are going on all around in the league. You wonder about Mac on Friday Night as well, because he can get these live reps and these joint practices with the red jersey on and they don't have to worry about their starting quarterback getting hurt. But he's still
getting live reps against another team. And I think that that's why these joint practices are just all over the league. I mean, everybody's doing them now and it's it's interesting though because these ones, in particular, these were closed to the fans, So the fans watched the games, they don't get to watch the joint practices, which is another interesting element to it as well. Well. I mean, we were so far away wet, we only got to watch about
a portion of it. But but let's run down the last two periods because I think those you know, have been strong. Certainly yesterday Josh McDaniels said today, you know, hey, the Patriots won those last sections. Yesterday, we you know, are talking about finishing strong, and they did finish strong. So nice acknowledgement from from the Raiders coach there. But you know, a little bit of a missed opportunity. I think for the defense it was I think it put
about fifty seconds on the clock. They were about at the forty yard line and it was essentially, you know, try to get in from there. Uh. They forced a couple in completions. They set up a fourth and five, it was like whoa, you know, they might get off the field, not even allow Then Hunter renfro struck a gang came up with a big catch and then they were able to convert with a touchdown. So you know, not an ideal finished. But I think, like you said at the top, the defense showed a little bit of
fight today. Certainly the pressure from you know, Oocha and Judeon continues to show up. I feel like they're just they're going to be the huge keys, and of course we knew that. And and one more guy to point out, Christian Barmore, who I'll let you talk about Josh talking about him, but he's he's another big piece. Yeah, Josh talking about Dylan Parham, their rookie guard going up against Christian Barmore and one on ones yesterday's kind of a
hey rookie, welcome to the NFL type of moment. And I thought there was a play is actually the play that Davante Adams caught a touchdown on Jack Jones in a game. I think Barnmore might have a sack on that play, or at least was right in Derek Carr's face. And when you're in these practices, of course you have to pull up if you're a defender. So if Barmore comes through and lights up Derek Carr as he's throwing the ball down the field to Davante Adams, is that
past complete, is it not? Those are the things that are a little bit different about a game situation. So I saw Barbmore split that double team just you know, shot the gap right through two guys get in the backfield Judean for two days. I thought Judan was one of the best players on the field for the Patriots, and he was in the backfield a ton. So that's good to see. Uch's speed rush always tough in these
practices for opposing tackles to block josh Ucha. I would say that for the Raiders, Hunter Renfro had a great day. Davante Adams is always good, but Hunter Renfro is also somebody that I think deserves a lot more pub And Max Crosby was in the backfield a lot for the Raiders defense. And you look at that right tackle aition with Isaiah Winn being banged up throughout training camp. Justin Haran got the nod today over Yadney could just and Max Crosby had his way with poor justin a little bit.
A lot of like raising his arm. You know, that's usually how you know in practice these are like what are you gott into the quarterback? Usually look at the guy he raised his hand like, hey, I did it. Yeah, so let's go, you know, wrap up here, um with the final drive for the Patriots, so the same kind of situation. I'll just kind of, you know, run through what I had you know, written down, with a little
crosser to Stevenson and Henry. Hunter Henry up the seam a spike to stop the clock and incomplete, found Myers again in the middle, missed Kendrick Bourne and then uh four seconds left second and nine uh found Hunter Henry in the back of the end zone. As you mentioned earlier, big celebration for me. You know this this might not actually mean anything, of course, but it was just a nice moment to wrap up training camp, to wrap up
joint practices. You saw all the team run over and celebrate with Hunter Henry, who you know had had to probably an underrated strong day today as well. As I mentioned, you know, two catches on that final drive and you know it's all on the line. So a great finish for the Patriots offense and a nice kind of cap
on training camp overall. Yeah. Absolutely, And you'd like to see the seam pass in particular, because I feel like that wasn't in the offense as much as it should have been last year between Henry and John who Smith. They should be able to hit some throws up the seams to the tight ends. So it's good to see that.
And I really like to throw by Mac on the touchdown because there was a defender between Mac and Hunter Henry, and he put just enough touch on it to get it over that second level and drop it into Henry, who made a nice catch at the back of the end zone, you know, kind of going above his head and toe tapping in the back of the end zone. You mentioned the celebration and get I can't. I feel like this is maybe something we will not talk about in two weeks and once they played Miami and it
was gonna care it won't matter whatsoever. But for how to use his word, how frustrated Mac Jones has been at times with how things have gone offensively, and yesterday he was frustrated. It was visible at the end of practice. I think it was kind of like a silver lining that they ended act us on that touchdown drive. But
he had clear moments of frustration. I remember particularly he threw an interception to Jayon Brown and he actually walked off the field for a second to kind of collect himself and then he came back to the rest of the group today to see Mac not just you know, running around and kind of celebrating. I think that was something that was really good to see. Well, that'll for us from Vegas another you know, really productive couple of days.
We'll see how the team does on Friday. This is the last chance we got to see them, so from there on out, it's as good as anybody's guess what they're doing behind the scenes. So thanks for joining us. This will do it for the campcast for this summer, and of course turn into Patriots Unfiltered all through the season. We got you covered with all things Patriots. Thank you for downloading this podcast, Subscribe on Apple, google Play, and everywhere else you listen. Like the show, please rate and
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