We are fresh off the fields from behind Gillette Stadium where the Patriots and commanders got into it for almost two hours in a joint practice.

Let's break it all down.

Patriots Training Camp Cast and guys, I might say this is the ultimate show of the summer.

The joint practice wrap up. There was a ton going on in the field. Hard to take it all in. Paul, I talked to you right after practice. We both felt a little overwhelmed. Overwhelmed. But I do think right next to overwhelmed is very encouraged, very optimistic. I thought there was a lot of good competition. I know that's the cliche. That's what all the players taught. It was good to be in a competitive environment. We got a couple of scraps. Mike Rable was part of those scraps, but back and forth. I thought there was some periods where the Patriots look really good, some periods not so good. I think that's what you're looking to see. Much, much different case from last year. So I think a lot to be optimistic about. Yeah, I agree.

Yeah, that was my number one takeaway.

It was a lot different than the Eagles joint practice

that we had that we keep bringing up.

That's the bar of let's not go in that direction.

And the Patriots offensively, Dusa had his eyes mostly

on the defense.

So I'll just talk the offense a little bit. I thought

Drake May for 99.9% of this practice was really good. The end we'll get to. It wasn't a great

ending for the offense, but the optimistic view is that Drake looked like he was in rhythm.

Him and Pop Douglas early was a connection that the commander simply just could not stop.

And then the offensive line, I thought, held its own. I thought it was okay. Was it dominant? No,

but it was more than okay. Nothing like that Eagles practice last year. Will Campbell seemed to

fare pretty well. Jared Wilson fared pretty well. So I come out of this practice feeling like

the Patriots showed well overall.

I know we get into who won the practice and all that good stuff.

I just think it was a good positive day and a good step forward.

Yeah, I mean, I felt similar about the defense.

I thought Washington had a pretty good start right out of the gate where you saw

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