amid an up-and-down training camp<\/a> and struggled to contain Vikings edge rusher Jonathan Greenard, which isn’t the best sign for the fourth overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n“If there’s a conversation happening now in those meetings at the Omni Hotel (where the Patriots are staying in Minnesota), my guess is when it comes to the offense, it has to start with the offensive line,” Perry added. “Because not only do you have issues at left guard, we just talked about the issues Will Campbell had on the left side dealing mostly with Jonathan Greenard — who’s a very good player, don’t get me wrong, but this isn’t Myles Garrett, this isn’t Maxx Crosby, this isn’t T.J. Watt.<\/p>\n
“(Greenard) is a good player, but he’s the kind of player who Will Campbell will see on a regular basis over the course of his rookie season at left tackle. So, just a down day for a rookie whose head might be spinning a little bit in the dog days of camp.”<\/p>\n
The good news for the Patriots? Despite an onslaught of pressure from the Vikings, Maye went turnover-free in both sessions.<\/p>\n
“Big picture in terms of your quarterback, that to me is the positive,” Perry said of Maye. “He kept his poise, kept his wits about him, zero turnovers over the course of two practices against a very difficult-to-match-up-with type of defense. That has to be the most encouraging takeaway from these two days of work against the Minnesota Vikings.”<\/p>\n
It may take time for the offensive line to jell, and for Campbell and Wilson to adjust to the speed and physicality of NFL defenses. But if Maye can continue to handle pressure in a positive way, that bodes well for the Patriots’ ability to weather the storm against aggressive defenses like Minnesota’s.<\/p>\n
Also in this episode: <\/p>\n
Breaking down Day 2 of joint practices in Minnesota\u00a0<\/p>\n
Stock Watch after two days with the Vikings\u00a0<\/p>\n
What’s going on with Stefon Diggs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Expectations are high for the 2025 New England Patriots under first-year head coach Mike Vrabel. But if they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[833,7,1178,259,1167,249,2326,2094,7933,6,208,20419,351],"class_list":{"0":"post-290345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-drake-maye","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jared-wilson","11":"tag-minnesota-vikings","12":"tag-new-england","13":"tag-new-england-patriots","14":"tag-newengland","15":"tag-newenglandpatriots","16":"tag-next-pats-podcast","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-patriots","19":"tag-patriots-training-camp","20":"tag-will-campbell"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}