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00:00No Bradbury, it's Ben Brown at center, and it's Jared Wilson at left guard,

00:04which to me lets you know not only did he pass by guys like Cole Strange

00:10and Caden Wallace, who's working more at guard in this camp

00:12than a year ago where he was a tackle,

00:15without your starting center, quote-unquote, Garrett Bradbury here today,

00:18it tells me they're looking at him at guard.

00:21Yeah, well, I'll tell you what.

00:22It seems like the draft class has a chance to be even better than we thought,

00:26and it went in with pretty high expectations,

00:27and we keep focusing on the first three picks.

00:30Might be more than that.

00:31I mean, if they end up with two starting offensive linemen,

00:35as Bedard said, both on the left side, too.

00:37If you get Campbell and Wilson, your left tackle, your left guard,

00:41on the first two days of the draft, it is pretty –

00:43I mean, we're a long ways from knowing if that's what it's going to be,

00:46but if that's what it is, that would be great.

00:48It is trending towards – obviously it's early,

00:51but it's trending towards those two guys being more impactful

00:53than even Henderson and Williams as of right now.

00:57Right, like Williams is at his ups and downs, but you do have Diggs,

01:00you do have Pop Douglas, you do have Kayshaun Booty,

01:03so it seems like three guys might be ahead of him as far as the depth chart

01:07and as far as just opportunities on the field are concerned.

01:10And then running backs, it's been kind of hard for me to tell,

01:13but I feel like Ramondre is leading all the drills.

01:15You still have Gibson.

01:17So Henderson, you know, there's been praise for Henderson.

01:20Obviously he comes out of college as a really good pass blocker,

01:22which will get him on the field sooner rather than later.

01:25But that's kind of a crowded backfield.

01:28And so if you're looking for immediate impact,

01:30it might come more from the offensive lineman.

01:32No, I think that's fair.

01:33You know, Henderson right now, I mean, he's mixing in with the first team,

01:36but you're right.

01:37He's behind Ramondre Stevenson.

01:38He's behind Gibson when we see a lot of these drills.

01:41He's actually out here with Gibson returning kicks right here,

01:44or the up man returning kicks with Gibson.

01:47Kyle Williams feels like he is fourth-ish.

01:50Yeah.

01:50On the depth chart, it's probably him or Kendrick Bourne right now.

01:53He feels a touch behind Keyshawn Booty, never mind.

01:57Pop Douglas and Steph Diggs at the top of the depth chart,

01:59and that's before Mac Hollins is out there.

02:00He's another guy missing today, still on PUP.

02:03So that's probably the right way to say it.

02:05Like the guys who are going to make the biggest impact the quickest,

02:09at least on offense, maybe Woodson, the eraser, mixes in on defense.

02:12Yeah, that's another one.

02:13Maybe your kicker.

02:14Hopefully your kicker.

02:14Hopefully your kicker, though the report's on him.

02:17I was locked in on that earlier too.

02:18Yeah, haven't been good.

02:18He's six for six yesterday, but everybody's like,

02:20yeah, they weren't close kicks.

02:22I wasn't super locked in on that, to be honest.

02:23It was a shaky six for six, many were calling.

02:26Yes.

02:26Which I guess, you know, it's a results business, Jones.

02:28If he's making his kicks, he's making his kicks.

02:30But I guess it wasn't with a lot of confidence.

02:33But, yeah, these two guys have been going back and forth.

02:36But, yeah, the rookie class, I mean,

02:38they needed help on the offensive line, clearly, desperately.

02:41And what's funny is, what was the guy's name?

02:43Was it Jonah Williams?

02:44The reports were, in the second round, instead of Henderson,

02:47they really wanted another guard.

02:49Oh, no, no, no.

02:49Not Jonah.

02:50No, no, no.

02:50The guy who Miami drafted.

02:52Yeah, what the hell was his name?

02:52I don't remember.

02:53It doesn't matter.

02:53He went pick 37.

02:54Yeah, but he was a guard.

02:56So they wanted another guard after taking Campbell.

03:00And they may have gotten it in Wilson a few rounds later.

03:02So, I mean, we'll see.

03:04But he's trending in the right direction.

03:06Well, I think he's going to be one of your five on the O-line.

03:09I mean, the way things are trending now, and again, it can all change.

03:11Like, day one, Will Campbell didn't look great, we told you.

03:14Day two, he looked better.

03:15So we're just kind of reacting to that.

03:17I think he's one of your five.

03:18I think the way they're utilizing him, that's pretty clear.

03:20But without Bradbury today, him lining up at left guard

03:23and Ben Brown getting reps at center,

03:24who got a lot of reps at center last year for this team, not good ones,

03:29I would say that's telling you they're looking at him as their left guard.

03:32And that would be my takeaway early on.

03:34Who do you think is the leader for center?

03:36I think it's probably Bradbury.

03:38Yeah.

03:38You know?

03:38Yeah, well, that is, and we sort of start,

03:41we started the show with Mike Vrabel's, like, little media availability,

03:44and he does seem to talk about the veteran guys,

03:50kind of lumps the veteran guys together,

03:51and some are just not out there in cases,

03:54or some are getting shut down a little bit.

03:56So between Carlton Davis, Morgan Moses, Garrett Bradbury,

04:00I don't know, he didn't seem overly concerned, did he?

04:02He was just sort of like, hey, we got a plan, you know, for all these guys.

04:04Meanwhile, we're up here, we're like, ah, where's Davis?

04:06How come he's not out there?

04:07Morgan Moses is leaving.

04:09Is he not the right tackle?

04:10Because Curran made me feel a little bit better yesterday when I was like,

04:13is there a chance that Moses isn't the guy?

04:14He's like, no, no, no, Moses is the guy.

04:16It's, you know, whether he's still good or not and remains healthy,

04:20but he's like, there's no doubt in Curran's mind that he'll be the right tackle.

04:23Week one, Morgan Moses, right tackle.

04:25I feel a little better after listening to Vrabel today about Carlton Davis.

04:28Yeah.

04:28Like, it sounds more like management than anything.

04:31Gonzalez, we keep hearing, Curran said it yesterday, day-to-day.

04:35Garisian reported the same thing.

04:36She said day-to-day.

04:37So that feels like that's coming out from the team that Gonzalez should be back sooner rather than later.

04:42Curran even said maybe for joint practices next week, which I think would be tremendous news if he's back out there for that.

04:47So, no, I largely feel better about the injury situation.

04:51We'll monitor it with Bradbury and certainly how they're sort of managing Morgan Moses on a pitch count there on the right side.

04:59You mentioned the other rookies, though.

05:00Kyle Williams, Phil Perry also does a stock up, stock down every day on NBC Sports Boston.

05:05One of his downs yesterday was Kyle Williams, who he said was on the receiving end of one of the prettiest passes all day.

05:11Drake May lofted a touchdown pass down the right sideline to Williams that was perfectly dropped in the bucket.

05:16He said prior to that, and we talked about these reps in real time when they happened,

05:21Williams dropped a back shoulder pass from May that hit him in the hands,

05:24and he's had occasional drop issues at Washington State as a collision,

05:28and he's had multiple passes go through his hands at this point in camp.

05:32He had a great day one.

05:33Since then, I feel like largely when you notice him, it is for something like that.

05:38A drop pass or there was one throw in the right corner yesterday that I thought May missed him on.

05:42I would put that more on May than on him, but it hasn't looked like that after a strong showing on day one

05:48where he's making catches on the sideline on Christian Gonzalez.

05:50I mean, after day one, we were talking about it might be a Diggs-Williams one-two punch.

05:54That hasn't really looked super locked in between he and May.

05:57No, unfortunately not.

05:58Now, he does have game-changing speed, so you wonder if are there certain packages

06:02that McDaniels will feel comfortable using him, and maybe he's like a big play guy.

06:06It doesn't feel like he's going to be a guy that's getting a bunch of snaps necessarily,

06:11but there's a long way to go.

06:12There's the joint practices.

06:14There's three preseason games where I assume Diggs plays little to none.

06:19Matt Collins is going to play little to none.

06:21So that might be an opportunity for Kyle Williams to kind of shine a little bit

06:25because you can't be the guy that drops passes when you don't even get that many thrown your way, right?

06:30Like it's going to be just fewer and fewer.

06:32But he does have a skill set that I don't know if anybody else on the team has.

06:37So, you know, that combined with being the third-round pick, like he's for sure on the team.

06:42It's just a matter of, all right, how much are we going to see him on the field?

06:456-1-7, 7-7-9, 7-9-3-7.

06:48Good day for the rookies yesterday.

06:50Offensive line coming around the last couple of days, it felt like, in full pads.

06:54Lighter practice today.

06:55We'll see how much we can read into it.

06:56Walk-through scheduled for tomorrow.

06:58And then they're in the stadium on Friday night for season ticket holders.

07:01There's another walk-through type of environment.

07:03So it should be a lighter couple of days here for the Patriots.

07:05Jones and Keith taking it all in live at Gillette, brought to you by McFarlane Energy.

07:10We'll come back to your phone calls on this.

07:11We'll also get to the Boston Red Sox.

07:14The warning signs, Keith, or the signs anyway, are that this deadline could be a bit of a letdown.

07:20We're getting closer and closer.

07:22We are getting too close.

07:23I mean, what time is the deadline tomorrow?

07:24I should know this.

07:25I've heard mixed things.

07:26We're a little over 24 hours away.

07:27It's 6?

07:286 o'clock.

07:296 o'clock.

07:30You know what?

07:32That means Breslau has more time than I thought.

07:33It should be like 2 or 3.

07:35That's what I would think.

07:36Why are we waiting until 6 o'clock?

07:37Okay, good.

07:38Off day tomorrow.

07:39Breslau's got until—you got until 6, Craig.

07:41I'll tell you, if the Akin Ucho gets to play the sounder throughout the show, I'm going

07:44to be pissed.

07:45If we don't get to play the trade sounder at all, and they save all the trades to after

07:482.

07:48Oh, I think we're going to be able to play the trades sounder.

07:50Well, yeah.

07:50We have a full trade deadline program tomorrow.

07:53I don't know if you want—yeah.

07:54Okay.

07:55You think trades tomorrow?

07:56Are you predicting a trade tomorrow?

07:58A good one?

07:58Or a trade?

07:59How about this?

07:59Let me ask you two questions.

08:00Don't make a trade.

08:01Will they make a good one?

08:02I'm starting to doubt that.

08:03Do you expect a Major League Baseball trade between 10 and 2 tomorrow?

08:07Yes.

08:07No.

08:07Do you expect a—

08:09Wait, what?

08:10What did he say?

08:10That was—

08:11Do you expect a Red Sox trade between 10 and 2 tomorrow?

08:14Yeah.

08:15No.

08:15Okay.

08:16I expect both.

08:17That's very optimistic.

08:18Now, I don't know if I expect, again, what we would consider a worthwhile Red Sox.

08:21I mean, Breslau made a lot of trades last year.

08:23A trade is a trade.

08:24It's not going to be a good sounder.

08:26Yeah.

08:26Nick, you don't have to play it, but do you have the sounder ready?

08:29Sure.

08:30Okay.

08:30Just in case.

08:31Sure.

08:32Just in case.

08:33All right.

08:34I just wanted to make sure that you have it, because you never know.

08:36Trades could happen today, for God's sakes.

08:38I mean, Nick, Keith is locked in.

08:39He's got his binoculars.

08:40I have my binoculars.

08:40This is my best day yet.

08:41Keith is as locked in as could be.

08:43What do you mean, sure?

08:44Back there.

08:44Yeah, sure.

08:45I guess I got it.

08:45I saw Mike Vrabel coaching up Milton Williams and Christian Barmore one-on-one.

08:49I saw that.

08:50Nice.

08:51He's pulling some of the defensive linemen, doing some individual work with them.

08:55How about that?

08:55Mike Vrabel, very hands-on coach.

08:57I'm liking what I'm seeing from here.

08:59It's a whole new experience with binoculars.

09:01It's just completely different.

09:02It's like my first practice.

09:05This is incredible.

09:06I can actually see the numbers now.

09:08I know who's out there.

09:09We'll see what else.

09:10What a thrill.

09:11Keith cannot glean and pass along through the binocs.

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