Here’s what Patriots receiver Demario Douglas had to say during his press conference on July 28, 2025
On how the first day in pads feels:
“It felt good to see our running backs, to talk the ball. It had been a lot of passing in this practice, but it feels good to see them boys run that ball and see our O-line block.”
On how different a day like today feels and if today was a day everyone circles and feels like football:
“No, facts. We’re back in the pads. It’s real football. We’re back to real football. ”
On how he’s feeling:
“I’m feeling good. Just doing what I do. I’m having fun out there.”
On how much he’s enjoying Josh McDaniels:
“I’m enjoying it. I go out there, I can run routes. You feel me? I go out there, he tell me, ‘Hang loose.’ And I just get open.”
On the fact they have goals but how competitive things are at his position:
“Man, everybody’s talented in our room. You see it in everybody as they get a chance to show what they can do. But the room is packed. I feel like the better whoever’s at the bottom, the better the person at the top going to be just because it’s competition. I feel like we’re all pushing each other to get better.”
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On how he feels having Stefon Diggs being out there to take the attention away is going to be:
“It’s going to be good. They’re going to have to put whoever their dog is on him or whoever their dog is on me or whoever their dog is on… So I feel like either way, we’re going to come out to play. Whoever game plan is to cover Steph or cover me, I feel like we’re going to have something to dial it up.”
On as he continues to prepare for the season, how much he’s grown:
“I feel like, for me, I’ll say leadership. I’ve been growing in the classroom, helping others out. I feel like that was what I needed as a part of my game. As I teach somebody else, I’m learning myself. I feel like when I’m out there and I see something somebody else do, I’ll be like, I can coach it up now. I feel like I got in that playbook a lot.”
On the fact he had a scramble the other day where he broke off his route – Kyle Williams called it ‘fast break football’ and how comfortable he is in those situations:
“Man, a lot. If you all see my Liberty film when I was with Malik Willis, he was scrambler. So that was a lot in our game. And a lot of the blurs, what we call in Florida, the blurs, it was off a fast break.”
On if he can take us through the play from Saturday:
“Yeah, I had a cross across the field, and I seen Drake come out, and I’m at the top, so I just went. We had that,.. we’re building that connection. And well, he already knows I’m going, he’s going to throw it.”
On how much more comfortable he is doing that:
“No, adjusting good. I feel like it takes time, a little bit. The league is faster than college, but man, it’s a game at the same time. It’s the same game. It’s different, but just a different speed.”
On his connection with Drake Maye and what’s different about it going into year two:
“Confidence with each other. I feel like we worked out together off the field, and I feel like that brings the confidence on the field. I feel like we brought that to the field.”
On what this means to him:
“It’s a blessing. Just to show that my hard work doesn’t go unnoticed. But I’ve been working and it shows.”
On the fact this is a new offense for everyone and what it’s been like going through it:
“That would not come to the part of all of us actually learning the offense just so we could teach it to the next person. I feel like some of the coaches, this is a new offense to them, too. And as they learn it, they learn with us, and they give us ways to learn it easier. It could be hard to some, but our coaches do a great job of putting it in a way that we all understand.”
On his comfort level with it:
“It’s good.”
On which former players McDaniels has shown him film of:
“Oh man, it’d be different players. Jacobi Myers, Edelman. I’ve even seen a Duke route with Mack Hollins, and I was surprised that he ran that. But just to see that different players can run any position as long as you add some sauce to it. So it was a lot of players that he showed me, but it was good. ”
On how he found out that he was an offseason winner:
“Well, in the big room. In the big room, the coach was calling it out. And I mean, I wasn’t surprised with how hard I pushed, but it’s a blessing.”
On what was part of him earning that award:
“I changed as a person, as of, like I said, growing in the classroom and becoming that leader. I wasn’t a vocal leader back then, but now I’m not scared to say, ‘Come on, I expect more out of you.’ I feel like they’ve seen that growth. I mean, watching film, they probably knew I could play, but it was like that different step, that extra step that I took.”
On where that came from:
“Just the room. I’m not the youngest one anymore. I feel like I’m a little bit older, so the young guys come to me and ask me questions. It’s my job to know the answer. So I learned every position. Just in case somebody, we line up and somebody have a question, I just tell them. I tell them, ‘This is what you got.’ I feel like that’s when we build that confidence with each other. ”
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This transcript was done based on the available footage and is subject to typographical errors. If you spot anything, please let me know in the comments below.)
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