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NFL Updates: Training Camp Tour with Insider Adam Caplan
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8/3/2024
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So, Adam Kaplan is our NFL insider and you can follow him on ExitKaplanNFL and he's leaving
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after this show today to go to, I believe, Los Angeles.
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He's flying from Philadelphia to Los Angeles tonight and he's going to be covering all
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these camps out in Southern California.
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It sounds pretty stacked, your schedule.
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Yeah.
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I've got the Raiders and Saints tomorrow and then I've got the Chargers hosting the Rams
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at the vault, the Chargers' new facility in El Segundo near LAX.
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Then I'll come to you after I...
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You and I will be back together on Monday.
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We should...
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It's either going to be Monday or Tuesday, but I'll have been to Jets and Commanders
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later in the week.
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On Monday, it's the Giants hosting the Lions and then I fly Monday night to see the Dolphins
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hosting the New Look Falcons, man.
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That's what it's all about.
01:00
A lot going on these next five or six days.
01:03
Wow.
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That is just incredible.
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So let's talk about some things today.
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Why don't we start with the kid May up in New England.
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They've been giving Brissette the majority of the QB1 reps, but now they're going to
01:18
let May do his thing a little bit.
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Yeah.
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We need to talk about this because I think what happens sometimes, people overreact.
01:25
Yes.
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Overall, Jacobi Brissette, barring something unforeseen, will be the start of week one
01:30
when they play the Bengals.
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However, however, Drake May has yet to get work with the ones.
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And Gerard May, our other head coach, did say this week the plan is soon to get Drake
01:40
May, the third pick overall, reps with the first team offense because that's when you
01:44
really know where he is.
01:47
You and I talked about this before the draft.
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I told you he'd be a top 10 pick, but he's a project.
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You don't want to rush it when you're an NFL team and you inherit a player you know is
01:55
a project.
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You don't want to rush it.
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But at some point, he's going to play this season and they want to see what it looks
02:01
like this coming week with the practices because right now, you get to the third week of training
02:08
camp then.
02:09
Okay.
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The following week, you got the first preseason game.
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They play the Eagles, right?
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They also have a joint practice with those Eagles in Foxborough and that's when you really
02:19
know when you ratchet it up.
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Practice to practice to practice.
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You get them reps with the first team.
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That's when you know.
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But before that, you're not going to know quite where he is.
02:29
You know from the practice tape and being with him every day, you kind of get a general
02:32
idea.
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But you want to see this great arm strength.
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He's a pretty good athlete, by the way, but he's very raw and he needs more work.
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But I'm very interested to see how he does with this first team offense.
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And by the way, a revamped wide receiver group with the Patriots.
02:47
When he came out of North Carolina, whatever, when we were watching him in college, he was,
02:53
you know, a top five quarterback that was going to be drafted in the NFL and everyone
03:00
talked about how big his arm was and how he could get out of the pocket and throw on the
03:06
run and that he could take off running and started doing more of that his last two years
03:12
in Chapel Hill.
03:14
What changed from like him being so talented and so automatic to hearing you say raw?
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All right, let's take the latter of what you talked about.
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You talked about him able to roll out and throw on the run and make great throws.
03:29
The problem was accuracy, bailing from the pocket when he shouldn't, staying in there.
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He's got enormous arm strength.
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Yes, he's an athlete.
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Sure.
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Certainly when you get pressure, he can run.
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You know that going.
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He could do that.
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But he's got to hang in there.
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He just had some habits.
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When I talk about being wrong, he had some habits that need to be cleaned up.
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They've got you Kobe Brissett there as an insurance policy, one of the best backup quarterbacks
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of the National Football League.
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Remember when he had to fill in for the Colts when Adler luck suddenly retired, he did a
03:58
very good job.
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This guy's been there and done that.
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He's also been drafted by the Patriots, so they know him very well, that organization.
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This is the perfect guy to mentor.
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Drake May, who's got a lot of work ahead of him.
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And the other thing is, look, they've revamped their receiver core.
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It's going to take them a while to develop chemistry, but the earlier they get him in
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there, Scott, and develop that chemistry, the better off they're going to be for the
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long term.
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Big things are expected from Jamison Williams in Detroit this year.
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Yeah, we need to talk about this because, look, the first two years, not great.
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First year, remember he's come out from the ACL injury, didn't do much.
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Only one catch last year, 24 receptions.
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But he was playing a ton of snaps to end the season.
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But third year, former first round pick.
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At some point, the light's got to go on, and what I'm told is, the light's going on.
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What I was told with him was, route running needed to improve, maturity needed to improve.
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He had to take a big step this offseason.
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He felt what I was told is the urgency, and then Ben Johnson, the Lions offensive coordinator,
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talked about it this week.
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And he basically talked about the next step.
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He's doing all the right things.
05:01
This kid is super gifted.
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You saw in the playoffs, he came on a little bit.
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And this is his season.
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You got Aman Ra, St. Brown opposite him, who signed that extension.
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You got Sam Laporta, the excellent tight end.
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If you like fantasy football like you and I do, this is the season for him.
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By the way, he's going late in drafts.
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He's going the second half of drafts because people don't, they're not sure whether to
05:21
trust him because he didn't have that great season last season.
05:24
But this is the year from what I understand, the maturity is hitting, the light has kind
05:28
of went on.
05:29
I'm expecting a big year for him.
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I'm expecting 60 catches or more from Jameson Williams.
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I can't wait to see if he takes his game to another level.
05:36
What about King Henry, how's it going so far with him and the Ravens?
05:40
All right.
05:41
I was there yesterday and I could tell you, Scott, I could tell you, as one person said
05:46
with the Ravens, how are teams going to defend us with Henry, as you mentioned, Lamar Jackson,
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his ability to throw and run, those two excellent tight ends and Mark Andrews and Isaiah Likely.
05:57
They've got so much going on here.
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And just watching practice, watch the defense to react, whether Lamar's going to hand it
06:03
off to Henry or is he going to roll out or run or throw the football?
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I'm so looking forward to what this offense looks like this season and what that division,
06:12
how the AFC North is going to handle it, man.
06:13
I get why they try to trade from a trade deadline.
06:17
Henry still has something left.
06:18
There's no question.
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And I can't wait to see what this offense looks like.
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It's going to look different though, because they've got a big time power back in Henry.
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I think one of the exciting things will be to see the same look as before is that the
06:29
Steelers beating him twice, beating him in Baltimore, beating him in Pittsburgh.
06:34
I think I'll go to the game in Pittsburgh.
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What a rivalry.
06:36
Adam, have a great trip out to Los Angeles.
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Have a safe flight.
06:41
We look forward to your reports again on Monday from Adam's summer circuit around the NFL.
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