00:00and we are now joined from the practice field by patriots receiver pop douglas hello how you doing
00:06see i like this pop want to know where we're at capello points way up here we're up here
00:10see he's the only guy to do that it's like the sixth interview we did that means he's he's in
00:15tune with everything hey so far so good pop uh good camp so far compared i'm not comparing it
00:20to the other ones but you played in two different offenses here in your first two years it hasn't
00:25gone that well for the team and for some personal numbers but things look good so far right no
00:29yes sir looks good so pop uh this morning your head coach mike vrabel talked about how hard you
00:37worked in the off season how frequently you were in the building one of the off season award winners
00:41and had a lot of high praise for you what's it been like playing for mike vrabel and being around him
00:46these last several months man it's a blessing you know i always preach that you know coach brave he's
00:52a player's coach he's on the field with us i've never had a a head coach on the field with us you
00:57know chasing us around and stuff like that when i seen that man i just knew man it's going to be
01:02different this year and uh josh mcdaniel's being in the mix here i'm sure you've looked a lot of the
01:06old tape julian edelman wes walker troy brown made a living in that slot does that get you excited oh
01:12definitely man i i'm so ready to go out there man i come to practice excited every day just to see what
01:17what new play i'm going to make this you know uh today did you drop weight in the off season you look
01:22pretty cut off nah yeah i've been working i've been working a little more you're like born you're
01:27born you can't wait to take your shirts off no but yeah kb kb got me uh over here ready to take
01:33my shirt off because i've been working to be working on my abs all right uh so when we listen
01:38to drake talk about working with josh he goes back and he's watched tape patriots offenses over the
01:44years have you done any any of that going back and watching receivers over the years that have played
01:49within josh's offense to see what things you could pick up oh most definitely uh josh and you know
01:54my uh coach td they make good uh cut-ups for me just in case you know i come out to practice and
01:59they want something you know something extra on the route you know uh he showed me different ways i
02:04could run a route just to show the defense a different look and uh for like coach td and you
02:10know coach josh mcdaniel's they've been doing a great job of showing me cut-ups of the old receivers
02:14you know doing these same routes who which receivers you got edelman in there who do you got
02:19yeah i got edelman i got uh like chur brown uh uh jacoby myers uh jacoby myers definitely recent
02:26recently so i watch him a lot just because he he has that same swagger on the field as me and i i
02:32like it how about welker you know like a hundred catch guy yeah yeah with welker for sure
02:37you know what happens when that when that happens for you you get paid
02:43yeah yeah does the uh does the preciseness of the offense does that strike you like it's they
02:50expect you to be in a certain spot at a certain time where you may float another other past years
02:55not correct uh i feel like that's what that's what uh this offense is you know made of you being in
03:00the right spot and the ball gonna come get open the ball gonna come so uh as long as i keep showing
03:05that on the film man i hope the ball come i pray the ball come the big play on saturday sorry to
03:09jump you the big play on saturday the the deep one where drake had the off-platform throw
03:14was that was that a cold route was that a post or was that a busted coverage and no that that was uh
03:18we call that scramble drill okay that fast break right there uh had to cross a route and you know
03:23uh drake left the pocket and that's when i i go and uh because i'm i'm at the top and i go and man
03:29drake found me and we actually went over that and we uh executed it so the terminology is something
03:35that a lot of people talk about the language is a little different with josh has it been difficult
03:39to learn uh new offensive language to be out there in the huddle and be ready to go um not not really
03:47for me uh i feel like i kind of had this offense my rookie year under bill ob so coming back it was
03:52definitely different terminology but i could pair it up with you know that that offense back then so
03:58uh it wasn't too hard but definitely the terminology you just got to really get in that book once you get
04:02in that book and you actually learn i feel like it come easy when you're on the field you go outside
04:06i mean you go out there and play with confidence do you like the heat yeah i'm from florida all right
04:10how much did you talk to drake this offseason and how much more comfortable are you with him
04:15coming into this year man we actually got together you know uh in north carolina uh he got all the guys
04:20together man that's what we needed i feel like that that built all our confidence together and we
04:26connect on a lot of plays and i feel like that came from that offseason us getting together
04:30get together and you know throw with each other we're talking to patriots receiver pop douglas
04:34uh this camp it just talk about the vibe of your team and where you guys are at in your head it just
04:40feels like i don't know it's it's fresh everybody's feeling good everybody's really focused man i love
04:45the energy we're close in the uh locker room that that's what make us good man i feel like we
04:50offense and defense we know each other names you know and uh that that's that's what we need
04:54as a team and i feel like we're close we're close it feels like you guys are always on the move even
04:59in stride stretch is that fair to say like nobody nobody's taking a knee or sitting down during any
05:04drill oh yeah no we're always on the move i think that's what we need uh you know stay conditioned
05:09get well conditioned man you know that that's always been the picture of motto man we we're gonna
05:13come out there be very conditioned and ready to play all right pop we'll keep working hard it's been
05:18a great camp so far we're looking forward to seeing you out there thanks pop thank y'all all right
05:22pop douglas patriots receiver had an excellent camp to this point making plays day after day
05:28had the big one that so referenced on saturday scramble drill and that wasn't a scramble drill
05:33he is impressed so far short guy goes closest uh closest to you they take off the deepest ones
05:39they come back to you pretty standard yeah it's been a good camp to this point and uh
05:45well we hope it continues for him
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