Tom Curran's Patriots Talk Podcast.

Hey, what's up, everybody?

Welcome to Tom Curranns Patriots Talk Podcast.

I don't have what's known in the biz as an IFP.

That's an internal feedback bureaucracy.

Or the thing that goes in your ear to let you know when the producers are telling you to go ahead.

Phil has his because he came prepared.

I didn't.

Be that as it may, welcome in to the first day of

padded training camp 2025. It got for real. The news of the day, Christian Gonzalez, had to leave

practice with some type of a leg malady after defending Stefan Diggs and one of the first 11 on 11 snaps.

We're going to get to that and the fallout from that. But Phil, big time, big time, red zone and running game day as Patriots put on their pots and their shoulder pads and got after them. Yeah, they sure did. A lot of physicality, as you might expect, some good hard running, I thought from all three of the top Patriots running backs from Andre Stevenson, Antonio Gibson, and the rookie, Tr, Travian Henderson. I thought the offensive line, Tom, actually held its own. This is a defense that we think will be very good. But I thought they did a pretty good job of clearing space and allowing those runners to get to the second level. I think if you're Mike Vrable and you're watching that offense and the offensive line, you're probably pretty happy with how today went. And that's what Mike Vrable advised us. As media members, when I asked him on what we should be looking for, he said, why don't you look for this stuff, you idiots? You know, to me, it's critical at the line of scrimmage, right? Just being able to make contact, there's going to be a stillmate. There's two professional players lined up across

from each other. Who can re-engage, who can reset their feet, maybe get a little extra movement.

You know, how do we play on, do we stay on our feet? Can we practice like this and stay on our feet?

We've got a bunch of guys falling on the ground.

I'd rather not see that. I just don't think that good teams end up practicing that way.

And again, just the urgency in which we move around practice, that there's, we're in and out of the

huddle. The players are running on and off the field. Those are all things that I think are critical.

I think that translate to the field, to the game me right where you know you're not standing 10 yards behind the ball you're you're coming from the sideline and we're communicating

the personnel and the quarterback has to echo that those are the types of things right now that

we're trying to build.

Before we go any further, I want to let you know it's piping hot right now. This is a very hot table. My calves are going up in flames as we speak, but we're happy to have this spot at the

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