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Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

Patriots Training camp observations: Takeaways from red-zone practice period, and plenty of WR talk

Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

NBC Sports Boston

Tom E. Curran, Mike Vrabel, Afc, 2024 Nfl Draft, Football, Afc East, New England Patriots, Nfl, News, Sports News, Jerod Mayo, Phil Perry, Sports, Drake Maye, Patriots Nation, Ja'lynn Polk

4.8756 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Tom Curran and Phil Perry discuss what they saw Monday at Patriots training camp. Who looked the best during the red-zone period? How will Kendrick Bourne’s injury impact the WR room? And why it’s looking unlikely the Commanders will trade Terry McLaurin.

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0:00.0

Tom Curran's Patriots Talk Podcast.

0:14.9

Hey, what's up, everybody?

0:19.0

I didn't hear any intro music, but I am told I am up, and I am expressing to you right now the deepest apologies for being a tad tardy.

0:27.2

Okay, it's 406.

0:28.8

That's six minutes later, and if we were working on Tom Coughlin time, that's 11 minutes late.

0:34.1

Meanwhile, welcome into Tom Caron's Patriots Talk podcast, workshopping a few ideas on how to include Phil in that.

0:40.7

So I'm going to go with today, welcome into Tom Carnes Patriots Talk podcast, also starring Phil Perry.

0:47.4

Appreciate that.

0:48.3

Okay, long, long tiring practice today.

0:50.8

After two days off, those days followed Friday's in-stadium scrimmage.

0:55.9

We'll talk about that scrimmage.

0:57.7

Red zone work today.

0:59.4

A standout day for Trayvion Henderson.

1:01.5

Another cornerback injury.

1:03.5

And the wide receiver room gets a little bit of a shakeup.

1:06.8

First off, here's Mike Vrable on what he was hoping to see during Monday's practice.

1:12.4

It's Monday. We're focusing on the red zone, focusing on being real precise down there, not going backwards, not hurting ourselves, defense, you know, defending every blade of grass, making sure that we undercut when we receive all the details for the red zone that are going to hopefully help us in the season. That's what my focus is, getting back

1:30.7

to fundamentals. And then, you know, when Friday comes around, I'll try to do my best

1:35.4

to let everybody know.

1:38.8

All right, Philly, Phil. Would you see out there today? I mean, it was a good, long practice,

1:43.1

plenty of competitive periods. And, well, give it to you. Yeah, a lot of competition. I mean, it's great. You get to see a fully padded practice. Obviously, they're on a tackle under the ground. But when you get the number of 11-on-11 reps that we saw today and situational football that we saw today, you know, that's really useful for us.

2:02.2

You know, I thought the end of the practice was really sort of encapsulating of the kind of

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