Night Train
07-30-2017, 04:17 PM
- QB's were getting lots of reps with only 3. Taylor had his moments hitting some long passes and being introduced to slant patterns. Not bad. Yates throws a nice ball in drills but seems to morph into Trentative when the 11 on 11 drills bring pressure. Lots of dump passes. Peterman threw some really nice balls and had a couple passes tipped resulting in INT's but didn't look bad at all. He has a way to go and did get some 2nd team reps.
- OL was the same 5 starters. Ducasse rotated in a couple times to spell Miller and Incognito. Henderson got some RT 1st team reps. Dawkins with the 2nd unit. They had their moments .
- O'Leary had some nice catches at TE. Clay was held out Sunday and they seem to be taking it easy with his trick knee. I did see Logan Thomas make a couple nice grabs. The rest were up and down
- McCoy has never looked better. Best player out there. O'Neal and Williams had some good runs. D is trying hard to strip them. They held on. Mike Tolbert laid some thunder on would be tacklers several times. He is a load. FB's were just blocking. DiMarco can block well.
- WR's - Sammy and Zay Jones are the best 2 out there by far. Rod Streater made a few spectacular catches but dropped a couple. Holmes is tall and looked OK. Dez Lewis had a couple great catches. The rest dropped too many but it's early.
- D showed 4-3 and 4-2-5 looks so the pre-season will show what they favor more. Shaq Lawson stood out. He looks very quick off the end and explodes into the backfield. Lineman looked solid but Dareus was out. The LB I liked was the 5th round pick Milano. He made several good plays anticipating the call and closed fast. Broke up a couple passes and had an INT. Alexander looked good.
- DB's- White is getting tested a ton. Had to cover Sammy and Jones in many 1 on 1 drills. He got beat sometimes and knock down several good passes. Kid has talent. Seymour and Leonard Johnson got lots of work. Safeties didn't jump out but it was the drills.
Punters kicked a lot on Sunday. Rehkow gets good hang time and just killed some punts. He also shanked a couple. Schmidt had some good ones and some shanks. To be continued. Hauschka has a live leg. Sitting on side, so couldn't see his accuracy. Looked fine.
Pace of practice is swift. HC does not just stand there and delegate. He's right out there doing individual coaching with the D. Played alot of Springsteen ( Born to Run, of course) and James Brown music loudly for effect. Perfect weather.
Summary - Way too early but it was good. My early thought is keep the FB DiMarco in there and use just Sammy and Jones at WR most of the time. Jones is more than ready. He separates with ease and runs razor sharp routes. Looks like a bargain in round 2. McCoy should be hidden in pre-season, ala Thurman. Let him wear a ball cap until the opener. Sammy looks completely healthy and fast. Ditto for Sammy. Hide him.
It's up to the fake games to show us more. The draft is looking better after what I saw this weekend. All have talent.
- OL was the same 5 starters. Ducasse rotated in a couple times to spell Miller and Incognito. Henderson got some RT 1st team reps. Dawkins with the 2nd unit. They had their moments .
- O'Leary had some nice catches at TE. Clay was held out Sunday and they seem to be taking it easy with his trick knee. I did see Logan Thomas make a couple nice grabs. The rest were up and down
- McCoy has never looked better. Best player out there. O'Neal and Williams had some good runs. D is trying hard to strip them. They held on. Mike Tolbert laid some thunder on would be tacklers several times. He is a load. FB's were just blocking. DiMarco can block well.
- WR's - Sammy and Zay Jones are the best 2 out there by far. Rod Streater made a few spectacular catches but dropped a couple. Holmes is tall and looked OK. Dez Lewis had a couple great catches. The rest dropped too many but it's early.
- D showed 4-3 and 4-2-5 looks so the pre-season will show what they favor more. Shaq Lawson stood out. He looks very quick off the end and explodes into the backfield. Lineman looked solid but Dareus was out. The LB I liked was the 5th round pick Milano. He made several good plays anticipating the call and closed fast. Broke up a couple passes and had an INT. Alexander looked good.
- DB's- White is getting tested a ton. Had to cover Sammy and Jones in many 1 on 1 drills. He got beat sometimes and knock down several good passes. Kid has talent. Seymour and Leonard Johnson got lots of work. Safeties didn't jump out but it was the drills.
Punters kicked a lot on Sunday. Rehkow gets good hang time and just killed some punts. He also shanked a couple. Schmidt had some good ones and some shanks. To be continued. Hauschka has a live leg. Sitting on side, so couldn't see his accuracy. Looked fine.
Pace of practice is swift. HC does not just stand there and delegate. He's right out there doing individual coaching with the D. Played alot of Springsteen ( Born to Run, of course) and James Brown music loudly for effect. Perfect weather.
Summary - Way too early but it was good. My early thought is keep the FB DiMarco in there and use just Sammy and Jones at WR most of the time. Jones is more than ready. He separates with ease and runs razor sharp routes. Looks like a bargain in round 2. McCoy should be hidden in pre-season, ala Thurman. Let him wear a ball cap until the opener. Sammy looks completely healthy and fast. Ditto for Sammy. Hide him.
It's up to the fake games to show us more. The draft is looking better after what I saw this weekend. All have talent.