Observations from Day 1 of Patriots Training Camp

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00:00Can I give you a few more takeaways from training camp today?

00:03You already had a later post.

00:04Yeah, please.

00:05But I found some stuff in here interesting.

00:06Sorry.

00:07Sorry, we're going to give it to you anyway.

00:08Cora's like, let's talk about my good baseball team.

00:10Cora's like, please.

00:11Yeah, please.

00:12Go ahead.

00:12Thank God camp's here.

00:14Number one, I meant to detail this earlier.

00:15Jared Wilson, the third-round pick out of Georgia, the second-third-round pick,

00:19in addition to Kyle Williams, was getting some top reps with Drake May at center.

00:23So maybe he's in the mix as a first-team center and or guard.

00:28He kind of moved around a ton of the offensive line while he was at Georgia.

00:32But maybe he's a center, which would shift either Bradbury or Strange.

00:35Yeah.

00:36Hopefully Strange right out of there.

00:38I mean, Bradbury, it seemed like that was a poorly kept secret.

00:44Is Andrews retiring?

00:45Is he getting cut?

00:46Whatever.

00:46But Andrews wasn't going to be back.

00:48And then they're like, oh, they really want Garrett Bradbury.

00:50And you're like, all right.

00:51But the Vikings didn't want him anymore.

00:53Not at all.

00:54And according to all the PFF stats, he's the worst pass-blocking center in football.

00:59And you're like, he's our guy.

01:00I'm like, well, hopefully they have another option.

01:03We have a year-two franchise quarterback.

01:05Yeah.

01:05Let's bring in the guy who can't protect at all in the past.

01:08No, he's the worst at it.

01:10So that's why a middle-round rookie, if they identified him and they want him,

01:15give him a shot.

01:16Look, I acknowledge.

01:17I don't love the offensive line, but I acknowledge mid-season we could look at it

01:21and say, you drafted a left tackle, fourth overall in Will Campbell.

01:25You found a center in the third round.

01:27I mean, that's possible.

01:27I wouldn't wager on it.

01:29I'm not holding my breath on it.

01:30But I acknowledge that's possible.

01:32And I didn't expect him to be in the mix, top center, on day one of training camp.

01:35I'd say that's a good sign.

01:37Here's another good sign from GRD.

01:38All right.

01:39Didn't detect any hint of a limp from Diggs.

01:41Neither did I.

01:42No.

01:43You know me.

01:43I have hawk-like vision.

01:45If something's limp, I'm spotting it.

01:48But he says.

01:50Is that your superpower?

01:51That's right.

01:52The Fantastic Five.

01:53No, no.

01:53Adam Jones.

01:55I'm the rock-hard man, is what we established earlier today.

01:58Good point.

02:00GRD says he did detect a little hitch in the spring.

02:02That's like Andy Hart was watching tape right away and detected a little hitch.

02:06He thought so.

02:07So there's that.

02:09No, he looked great.

02:09He was leading the drills.

02:10I thought he looked tremendous.

02:11In fact, he did more stuff than I even thought.

02:13100%.

02:13I thought yesterday we got a very positive update and we talked about what Vrabel said.

02:17And we're like, all right, that's a positive update.

02:19But it's still sort of TBD as to what he does.

02:22And maybe, like, he does every other drill.

02:24And you're like, all right, he's still out there.

02:25But he was, like, front of the line showing the younger guys how to do it.

02:28And then he was out there during 11-on-11s and Drake May was looking for him.

02:31So, no, really with that stuff, I'm very pleased.

02:35Giardi also said he saw a lot of Keyon White around the quarterback, which ties into the bad.

02:41Pass protection less than optimal.

02:43We read that from Bedard, Callahan, and others.

02:45He says some would even say subpar.

02:47Oh, boy.

02:47A lot of heat off the tackles.

02:49He says Dobbs was spraying throws here, there, and everywhere.

02:52He was terrible.

02:53Which I did notice.

02:54He was bad.

02:55He also, he makes a good point.

02:56He said, I didn't notice any of the receivers that are fighting for jobs and playing time.

03:00He says Polk was conditioning only, but Baker, Board, and Booty were all out there.

03:04None of those guys flashed, which I'd agree with.

03:06Chisholm had one nice catch.

03:08Kyle Williams had one very noticeable catch.

03:10Two total.

03:11Diggs, I noticed as well.

03:12I didn't notice any of those.

03:13Oh, it was Diggs and Williams, I would say.

03:15And then Drake May, pretty sharp, except for the one kind of overthrow that Peppers almost picked off.

03:22That's kind of what jumps out to me mainly.

03:24And then, yeah, how bad the second offense looks.

03:26But that's sort of a secondary thing.

03:28So, there's a big-time competition, not only for playing time, but just roster spots at the receiver position.

03:35And it seems like Kyle Williams, who's probably already going to go in, like sort of, you know, he's going to get the benefit of the doubt.

03:41He's going to get any kind of tiebreaker.

03:43But even still, he kind of separated himself from that group of second and third-year receivers.

03:47Yeah.

03:47It's one day at training camp.

03:49You know, who knows what it actually means at the end of the day.

03:52But Williams flashed.

03:53And that's good.

03:54The other side of that coin is none of those other guys did, which that shouldn't be a surprise.

03:57None of them were good last year.

03:59Right.

03:59None of them were good.

04:00I would have been surprised.

04:01Uh.

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