Tom Curran's Patriots Talk Podcast.

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Welcome to the Tom Cairns Patriots Talk Podcast.

It's a Thursday.

The Patriots engaged in a walkthrough today. I'd say about 75 minutes they were out there. So not a lot of activity. There was on field nose, however, Phil. Big Mac Holland, 6'4 wide out who had 37 catches last year for the Buffalo Bills. Once had 57 for a Josh McDaniels- lead team out in Las Vegas was on the field.

He's off a pup list.

We're going to get to him a little bit more later.

Phil has a lot of thoughts on that and the wide receiver room in general.

But first, we had access to Drake May, and I decided to go where you probably ought not go.

I asked him about the fact that he hasn't thrown a pick yet.

Here's Drake. What is that? You know how in baseball you're not supposed to talk about it?

I'm going to picture as a no later. Yeah. Oh yeah. Is the same thing apply if you guys went through

six practices of training camp, but that's the phone pick? You know, I think it's one of those things where I'm trying to take care of the football and maybe they could have had a few here and there. I think PEPMAY should have one of the first, you know, practice. I joke a little bit about it, but yeah, I think that's a goal of ours to occur the football and I think, you know, not trying to, like I said, Like I said, yeah, throw off the perfect game or no hitter, but I think that's part of. I'm not scared to throw it.

I'm still not. curve the football. I think, you know, not trying to, like I said, yeah, throw off the perfect

game or no hitter, but I think that's part of. I'm not scared to throw it. I'm still not gun-shy. All right, Phil, got to love to hear that because that's something we've been talking about, the fact that he has not been gun-shy, and I've mentioned it a few times, something I observed long, long time ago back in 2002.

Tom Brady was trying to find out in his second season, what can I get away with here? And I think that's something that every quarterback has to learn after that first year of trying to get their feet in the water and flop around the shallow end with the swimmy's on the arms. Can I swim in this water? Well, do you think he maybe got some of that out of his system as a rookie? Because right now, he's taking really good care of the football. I mean, he brought up an example, I think, to, I don't know if it's humility or what, to bring up the fact that, you know, it hasn't been perfect. Trebril Peppers almost picked me off on day one. It was like two weeks ago.

Like, he's thrown a lot of passes that have been in competitive situations since then,

and we could count on one hand, maybe a couple of fingers, the number that might have been picked off.

It's really amazing when you think about that, because he is throwing to what we would not call the most electric group of receivers in terms of getting

open. He's throwing against good corners for the most part, even though the two top guys have

been out. But a capable defense, it's pretty astounding. It's locked too. I would think it's probably

some of that. But I would think Tom, he's throwing about, we could go back and check the numbers. But it's got to be somewhere close to 60-ish competitive passes over six competitive practices. And to have zero picks to me is certainly noteworthy because we've also seen some of those other throws that down the field throws. He's not just been a check down Charlie. The off-platform rollout throws. And they've either been in the right place or when he's missed and he has missed. I thought a couple of days ago, Tom, he had some spray misses. So I don't know if you've got to get like some more talcum powder down the pants of your center's there. You're dealing with some wet footballs there. We've seen that before Tom Brady. The aforementioned Don Brady used to hate it when the football would get a little slippery, slimy, grimy under there. Well, especially because of where the moisture emanated from. Exactly. So that's what I'm saying. I don't know if that was the situation that propped up the other... Scientifically known as Assy as Swampius. Yes. But whatever the reason, thank you, Jeremy.

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