He had his best practice since then on Thursday, recording six receptions on eight targets during 11-on-11s. After having a difficult first season in New England, Smith got off on the right foot last week, making impressive receptions over emerging safety Kyle Dugger during last Friday’s practice. Tight end Jonnu Smith has also been one of the other standouts in training camp so far. Meyers also showed some diversity in his catches, making a couple of receptions down the field and being on the receiving end of quick strikes from Jones.
He caught all five passes thrown his way from Jones during 11-on-11s. Thursday was another day in which the fourth-year receiver shined. Jakobi Meyers continues to stand out in training camp. In addition to getting beat in the ground game, the offensive line allowed a pair of sacks and a pair of pressures during Thursday’s 11-on-11 drills. The change in scheme required offensive linemen to be more mobile and athletic as opposed to the inside run game the Patriots have usually used.
It’s also fair to point some blame to the offensive line, too. Other top back Rhamondre Stevenson was limited so he didn’t take part in the drill, which led to backups Ty Montgomery and Kevin Harris getting carries during the drill. Top running back Damien Harris was stuffed a pair of times, with one coming on a zone run and the other coming out of the shotgun. There appeared to be multiple reasons for Thursday’s poor rushing performance. It was more of the same on Thursday. Of the seven called runs during 11-on-11 drills, four appeared to be stuffs, at least if tackling was allowed. They didn’t have much success doing that. The story out of the first two padded practices was that the Patriots were adding in some zone runs, where running backs get the ball in a single-back formation and run toward the outside of the offensive line. Hoyer went 2-for-3 in the session, while Zappe completed all four of his practices. In the brief 7-on-7 period, Jones completed all three passes. He did have a nice throw to Tre Nixon on a play-action pass, but it was dropped.īrian Hoyer returned to practice, but didn’t take part in 11-on-11s. As for Zappe, he was only 1-for-4, getting sacked in his other dropback. The Patriots worked some play action with Jones and Zappe in the second 11-on-11 session, getting a few completions out of it. While he completed 7-of-9 passes, many of the completions were shorter throws, with the defense getting a would-be sack, forced a throwaway, and forced Jones to scramble on three other plays. Jones’ lone incompletion in the session came on a deep pass to Nelson Agholor, with rookie corner Jack Jones making a nice play on the ball to force an incompletion.Īs expected, Jones didn’t have as easy of a time when he went against the top defensive unit later on in 11-on-11s.
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He also had some zip on quick throws to Smith and Meyers, and he completed a pass 15 yards down the field in a tight window to Meyers, too.īill Belichick Live Press Conference 8/4: He connected on deep throws to Jonnu Smith and Ty Montgomery. He connected with Jakobi Meyers for a catch over the middle. Jones completed 8-of-9 passes during that drill, throwing the ball to several spots across the field. But the second-year quarterback did what you would hope he would do in that kind of spot. In the first 11-on-11 session, Jones and the first-team offense went up against the second defensive unit. Patriots coach Bill Belichick didn’t outright say it, but he heavily implied on Wednesday that the team was moving back to pads because the passing game wasn’t working well in the first two padded practices. Mac Jones and Bailey Zappe both had improved practices in shells, which led to their best practice so far in pads on Thursday. Here are five observations from Thursday’s practice. This came after going back to shells to work some things out on Wednesday, and it appeared to work - somewhat. All rights reserved.FOXBOROUGH - The New England Patriots put the pads back on for Thursday’s practice, their eighth so far of training camp.
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