{"id":12185,"date":"2017-08-05T15:26:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/?p=12185"},"modified":"2017-08-05T15:26:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:26:10","slug":"new-england-patriots-training-camp-practice-9-quick-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/2017\/08\/05\/new-england-patriots-training-camp-practice-9-quick-observations\/","title":{"rendered":"New England Patriots Training Camp Practice #9 Observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Patriots wrapped up their ninth practice of the 2017 training camp and their seventh practice in full pads in a row. The team ratcheted down the intensity today as the players had a full team scrimmage yesterday. Today the focus seemed to be on individual drills, the running game, and situational football. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jimmy Garoppolo continues to struggle a bit in practice and had some bad misses intermingled with some good throws. His consistency remains an issue. While many pointed this spring as this training camp where Jimmy G. may push Tom Brady a bit for the top QB position. But we haven\u2019t seen that and right now Brady remains far ahead of Garoppolo and Jacoby Brissett.<\/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. Matthew Slater was not seen. Mike Gillislee, Danny Amendola, David Jones and Nate Solder worked with the training staff of the lower fields. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Quick Hitters:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brissett had an ugly connection with Austin Carr during positional drills. Someone was way off the mark on the play. With the ball hitting the ground almost 10 yards behind Carr.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a comical ending, Rob Gronkowski jumped offside and was a good 10 yards downfield before realizing his mistake.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brandon Bolden and LeShun Daniels were getting a lot of work today with the running game in focus.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The defense was starting to show some exotic looks and were moving players around with some different fronts. With the younger players on the field, it shows that they are picking up the system well.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kony Ealy and Deatrich Wise had a nice stuff on a short yards running play where the offense tried to go to the outside.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brady hit Dwayne Allen on a nice play action fake down the seam during 11s.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Garoppolo had Tony Washington open streaking down the right sideline but overthrew him. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">D.J. Foster showed nice quickness on a cutback run to the left. The play was going to the right and he saw the flow and saw a big gap and jumped into it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jacoby Brissett launched a deep sideline pass to Foster that looked perfectly thrown but Jonathan Jones made a really nice recovery and tipped it away.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jones (yes Jonathan) then bobbled and dropped a kickoff<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Devin McCourty made a nice play of breaking up a deep post pattern that Jimmy G. threw to Tony Washington.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brady and Chris Hogan connected on a nice crossing route <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Hot Takes:<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Stephon Gilmore<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> spoke with the media after practice and said there are no friends on the field if they\u2019re wearing a different jersey. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere really are no friends on the field to me,\u201d he said. \u201cOnce I\u2019m on the field, we\u2019re not friends, but off the field, I am very respectful. I respect everybody on the team, talk to them&#8230;it\u2019s nothing personal. Just when I\u2019m on the field, I\u2019m super competitive and there are no friends.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12070\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12070\" class=\"wp-image-12070 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Gilmore-1024x720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Gilmore-1024x720.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Gilmore-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Gilmore-1536x1080.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Gilmore-2048x1439.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephone Gilmore says there are no friends on the field. (SBalestrieri photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Danny Amendola<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> told the media the reasons he re-signed back with New England. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI love playing for this city, I love playing for this team, and I love the atmosphere [Bill Belichick] brings,\u201d Amendola said. \u201cI want to play good football, and I feel like this is the place where I\u2019ll be able to challenge myself and play the best football I can, and ultimately that\u2019s why I\u2019m here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kfHGaGaWfu0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trey Flowers has kept his humble pie cap firmly on and spoke to the media about always trying to improve his technique. And Brandon Bolden cracked up the beat writers with his tales of having his baby daughter around. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;She&#8217;s great, eats and poops a lot. Who doesn&#8217;t want that?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Play of the Day: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Devin Lucien made a fantastic catch of Jimmy G. deep post throw in the pouring rain. \u00a0Lucien was running stride for stride with Cyrus Jones who had blanket coverage. The pass began to tail over Lucien\u2019s opposite shoulder and he made a tremendous adjustment in mid-air to snag the ball down with Jones all over him and somehow hold on. Great play by a young WR that needs those splash plays if he wants to make the roster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two plays later Garoppolo threw his worst pass of the day, badly overthrowing Tony Washington down the right sideline where Nate Ebner easily picked off the pass. That sequence has been Jimmy G\u2019s camp so far in a microcosm. One great play, one bad one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After practice, I was asked by Mike Petraglia to record some video on our observations from the session on the field for CLNS. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GSGEqbVt33U\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Follow me on Twitter <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveB7SFG\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@SteveB7SFG<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or email me at <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/patspub.patsfans.com\/stevebpatsfans@gmail.com\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stevebpatsfans@gmail.com<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listen to our <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/patriotsfourthandtwo\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patriots 4<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and 2<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> podcasts on blog talk radio as the writers Russ Goldman, Derek Havens and I from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PatsFans.com<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> discuss the latest Patriots news Wednesdays at 12 noon.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \u201cOnce I\u2019m on the field, we\u2019re not friends, but off the field, I am very respectful. 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