Let's have them anyway . some interesting bits from Blogservations:
Blogservations Day 10: Jags join Pats camp fun
--The second group of linemen included Waddle,
Karras,
Ferentz,
Croston and
McDermott.
McDermott has seen his reps go up a notch over the late couple practices . that can't be said for
Tony Garcia.
-- Continuing to be one of the more physical Patriots defenders of the summer,
Elandon Roberts put a pop on Jags running back Corey Grant that sent the third-year player to the ground in team action.
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Deatrich Wise Jr. worked some rushes from between the guard and tackle. On one such rep Wise was engaged with the guard when the tackle stepped down to help out and knocked the rookie defensive end to the turf with alarming ease. Clearly Wise was caught off guard by the two-man block and will need to become more aware of such schemes if he's going to continue to get reps as an interior rusher.
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Derek Rivers continues to be somewhat quiet in his reps, many still coming with him playing on two feet in space rather than as a DE with his hand in the dirt.
ST
-- When the Patriots were on kickoff return
Dion Lewis was the first guy back deep with
Rex Burkhead as the off returner. The next group had
Cyrus Jones with
James White.
-- The teams both worked on the kickoff/kickoff return game in the workout. Interesting that
Jaguars kick returners would hold a ball in their hands prior to Stephen Gostkowski's kickoff, and then toss it behind them before the live ball actually arrived. Could be they wanted to ensure a return even if the kick was too deep/unreturnable, but hard to tell for sure.
--Late in team action NE ran its field goal unit on for a clock-sensitive field goal attempt by
Gostkowski. He missed the first long attempt from 55-plus wide left, but JAX was called for a penalty. Gostkowski then missed left again from 5 yards closer.
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injury alert
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Vincent Valentine was down on one knee and gesturing to his back while being looked at by the medical staff. It did not appear that he took any more reps for the remainder of the workout and was seen walking down the sideline with a member of the training staff.
-- Cornerback
Eric Rowe took early reps as the third corner, but then was sidelined later to an apparent ailment, seemingly a lower-body issue.
