{"id":12174,"date":"2017-08-03T13:35:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T17:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/?p=12174"},"modified":"2017-08-03T13:35:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T17:35:41","slug":"patriots-training-camp-practice-7-day-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/2017\/08\/03\/patriots-training-camp-practice-7-day-backups\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots Training Camp Practice #7 A Day for the Backups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Patriots wrapped up their seventh practice of the 2017 training camp and their fifth practice in full pads in a row. The crowd was a bit bigger than the past few days probably because it happened to be Tom Brady\u2019s 40th birthday and he was serenaded by the fans near the end of practice. But if you went today, expecting to see a large dose of Brady, then you were disappointed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the first few minutes of practice, Brady and nearly all of the first team offensive players retreated to the lower practice fields accompanied by the starting secondary players as well. And there they remained until the practice was nearly over. \u00a0Not much could be seen because the storage building outside the practice field was blocking the view. But what little could be seen was that the offensive linemen were pushing the sleds a few times and the rest seemed to be just standing around.Therefore, this was a day for the backups to the lion\u2019s share of the snaps today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bill Belichick said in his morning presser that the many players being dinged up have hurt the team\u2019s preparation. Perhaps he felt that the backups weren\u2019t progressing well enough and wanted to get them all the work. Regardless, it was the first time I\u2019ve seen this in the last ten years. Josh McDaniels went down to the lower fields and WR coach Chad O\u2019Shea called the plays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>No Shows<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Alan Branch, Dont\u2019a Hightower (PUP) and Andrew Jelks (NFI) didn\u2019t practice but were in sweats on the sidelines. Cody Hollister, Nate Solder, and Matt O\u2019Shaughnessy weren\u2019t seen. David Jones, Mike Gillislee, Chris Hogan, Malcolm Mitchell and Danny Amendola retreated to the lower fields for work with the training staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Quick Hitters:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">D.J. Foster had a concentration drop early in practice but had a very solid day both receiving and running the ball.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both the offense and the defense (Substitution issue) had to take a penalty lap today. Kony Ealy had to take one on his own.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jacoby Brissett made a nice throw on a crossing route to Matt Lengel who got separation <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Brissett then made another nice throw to Devin Lucien on a short comeback route, where he drilled the ball exactly on-time and on-target.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jimmy Garoppolo made a pair of nice deep throws to Lucien and Tony Washington.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Garoppolo had an interception where it looked like the ball was tipped at the line of scrimmage and was picked off on a nice head\u2019s up play by Cyrus Jones.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a strong start to camp, Jordan Richards has been getting picked on a bit the past few days. (more to that below)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kenny Moore had a really nice play (we\u2019re saying that every day), breaking up a pass to Tony Washington<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eric Rowe was getting first dibs in the slot today.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Austin Carr had a really nice catch on a deep sideline ball thrown by Jimmy G. over Jonathan Jones. Jones went down awkwardly but returned to finish practice.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stephen Gostkowski had a strong day. He was booming field goals from 45+ yards with plenty to spare. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Derek Rivers showed a nice job of setting the edge, defeating the block of Matt Lengel and stopped Foster behind the line after making him reverse his field.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>One on One Drills:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In what is becoming my favorite part of practice, albeit the hardest to see at the far end of the field, here are some of the battles we saw:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Geneo Grissom beat Max Rich with a speed move to the outside.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rich then turned the tables on Grissom later and stoned the big DE cold.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cole Croston battle Kony Ealy to a draw<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jacob Hollister stopped Harvey Langi who tried a speed rush<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Josh Augusta showed a good bull rush against Ted Karras in a good battle<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">James Ferentz stoned Woodrow Hamilton in another good battle of big men.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Play of the Day: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jacob Hollister burned Jordan Richards on a deep post for a 30-yard touchdown pass from Jimmy G. 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