Patriots Training Camp- Tuesday August 23rd

[ashley]

Joint practice today with the Raiders. Should be in pads. Looking forward to seeing Lil Jordan practicing with the first and second units, also curious to see how our O-line is configured. The Raiders don't have a great defense, but do have two excellent edge guys who can get after the qb.

Also, we have two roster moves that need to be made today by 4:00pm. As always, we have you covered here!!!

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[ashley]

Some practice information from yesterday: Agholor continues to have a great camp and Lil Jordan having reps with Mac-moving up the depth chart. For all those doing their 53 man projections, I might think hard about including him.

Interesting note about Herron

 

[ashley]

Good article on Lil Jordan-who's becoming everyone's binky:

Perry: Lil'Jordan Humphrey making his case with Patriots

Wideout Lil’Jordan Humphrey has made a strong impression this preseason with the Patriots. Our Phil Perry details how the 6-foot-4, 225-pounder could make an impact this year — including at the tight end position.

www.nbcsports.com

 

[Sicilian]

Did we determine yesterday if the times they're reporting for practices are West or East coast times?

 

[SHOWTIME15]

Good article on Lil Jordan-who's becoming everyone's binky:

Perry: Lil'Jordan Humphrey making his case with Patriots

Wideout Lil’Jordan Humphrey has made a strong impression this preseason with the Patriots. Our Phil Perry details how the 6-foot-4, 225-pounder could make an impact this year — including at the tight end position.

www.nbcsports.com

Lil Jordan turning into Big Jordan...

 

[Sicilian]

Lil Jordan turning into Big Jordan...

Eh they call me Lil Jordan. But don't let my name fool ya! In real life... I'm VERY big.

 

[Zuma]

Did we determine yesterday if the times they're reporting for practices are West or East coast times?

I think it was EST actually…just nobody reported anything for a while….and when they did …meh.

 

[WinstonSmith]

Lil Jordan turning into Big Jordan...

This is concerning being that they're in Vegas...

 

[NG Pats Fan]

I wanna hear more about davante Parker

 

[ashley]

I wanna hear more about davante Parker

Having a solid camp. Seeing him show up quite often in the red zone and 50/50 balls. He's been good/dependable so far. He's getting a lot of looks from Mac, see below:

Reception leaders from Mac through T/C: not including yesterday's practice:

Jakobi Meyers 35
Jonnu Smith 23
Nelson Agholor 19
DeVante Parker 19

 

[ashley]

 

[Hammer of Thor]

NFL calendar says this applies to the Active/NFI list too, which is what Andrew Stueber is on. So they could move him to this list as part of the final 2 drops to 80.
2022-23 NFL Important Dates | NFL Football Operations

 

[Sicilian]

Do we have anyone left who's still eligible for this?

EDIT: @Hammer of Thor answered me above.

 

[BradytoMosstoGronk]

Lil Jordan about to become a mainstay in patriot households. Do we shout LJ or the full thing when he scores?

 

[Brotherblues]

Wouldn't it make more sense to let teams move injured guys to reserve/pup before the 80-man deadline?

 

[PatsFan2]

Good article on Lil Jordan-who's becoming everyone's binky:

Perry: Lil'Jordan Humphrey making his case with Patriots

Wideout Lil’Jordan Humphrey has made a strong impression this preseason with the Patriots. Our Phil Perry details how the 6-foot-4, 225-pounder could make an impact this year — including at the tight end position.

www.nbcsports.com

Lil'Jordan Humphrey Draft and Combine Prospect Profile | NFL.com

All Combine and Draft-Related Analysis, News, Video, and Biographical Information for Lil'Jordan Humphrey

www.nfl.com

His Draft profile seems very similar to Jakobi Meyers guys who kinda lack that top end speed but knows how to get open Hmmmm. Seems like he works really well from that Slot might be where to Pats want to maximize his talents. Lil Jordan knows how to use that Big Body over the middle.

 

[ashley]

Some backup O-lineman love:

 

[PatsFan2]

Some backup O-lineman love:

No we ain't taking any chances with Russey making our PS we've seen enough. Andrews is getting a little long in the tooth nice heir apparent.

 

[ashley]

Great read by Barth: what to watch for in the joint practices:

What to watch for during Patriots-Raiders joint practices

What to watch for when the Patriots and Raiders meet for a pair of joint practices in Las Vegas this week.

985thesportshub.com

 

[Hammer of Thor]

Wouldn't it make more sense to let teams move injured guys to reserve/pup before the 80-man deadline?

Maybe. There’s a school of thought out there that says it’s too hard to organize and run practices and drills with 90 people. The current system is a compromise. 10 years ago, training camps had 80 man rosters but NFI and PUP guys didn’t count against it. When players were activated from the list, someone needed to be cut. It created a little bit of roster management annoyances for coaches and GMs, who had to cut someone consistently during camp, or just be short players a lot (not filling out roster to maximum 80 people). So the 90 man roster was a compromise to solve that problem - 90 players instead of 80 but the NFI and PUP counted. And in some years, the Pats had so many of these guys they effectively had less than 80 healthy guys practicing at various points in camp.

Anyhow, the argument is: if you let these guys be moved to the reserve PUP or NFI list earlier, they shouldn’t be able to replace them because the ultimate target training camp roster count is 80, that it was expanded to 90 explicitly to handle these people. Not saying I buy it, but that’s the argument - and it gets paired up with the whole “90 people is too many to organize and run practices with” argument.