The Bills practice was kind of vanilla yesterday. The offense worked mostly on passing. They started with some short passing. Then, they seem to switch to audibles and JP audibled while they tested everyone being on the same page and understanding his audible. They did fairly well. Afterward, most of the WRs did drills on their own and believe it or not, the worst WR in these drills was Josh Reed. Even the undrafted guys were making the catches, but Josh Reed consistently dropped the pass thrown at him 3 consecutive times in 3 different drills. Each time he dropped it, he had to go back to end of the line and wait til the rest finished the drill and then he would have to repeat it. The 2nd time, he tended to catch it...but still, in all 3 drills he dropped the ball??? Aiken looked really good. He only missed one pass that lead him a little too much.
I couldn't see much of the Defenses drills as they went to the farther field away from me.
On the O-line front…I've been questioned about Preston, as my last report on him was less than favorable and against what the media seem to be reporting of him. But once again, I saw him getting pushed around by everyone. Sam Adams once again put on a clinic - and for those that have mentioned that we should get Corey Simon and dump Adams next year, Adams is FAR from done! He consistently got through the defenders and reached the QB just about *EVERY* time!!! In fact, there was once when he was by Preston and tapping the backup QB (Woodbury) before he had finished his 3 step drop. Someone next to me asked what happened, b'cse Woodbury had stopped and didn't throw his pass. And someone answered him - Sam already tapped him. And sure enough, Sam was in the backfield just standing there. In fact, there were several times Sam reached the backfield and just stood there (tired of tapping the QB and letting them get some passes done) until the QB made his pass. Let me reiterate...Sam Adams is FAR FROM DONE!!! Later, on more individual O-line/Dline drills, Preston was pushed back several times by others as well. Peters occasionally did well and occasionally faltered. Virtually none of the Oline did well except one that seem to improve consistently over the drills. I did not recognize the number (#74) so I had to look it up…David Pruce??? As time passed, he seem to do better - let's hope the backups step it up a bit soon.
Toward the end of training camp, the entire defense and offense got together and played. JP took the team about halfway down and then Holcomb was put in. They seem to allow a certain amount of plays for each QB and see how far they could take it. JP and his team were quick and fast paced, but as they went to backups you could see the play and even the decision making slowing down.
Coy Wire had a nice interception play on a tipped ball that was thrown over the middle a little too high for Moulds. Mould tried to tip it and then come down with it, but it tipped slightly behind him and Coy dove quickly and got it. Good heads up play for Coy.
The RBs were not featured as much today as they focused on passing. My friend had intended to see Gates but he was one of the least featured backs. For the few things they did do with RBs, Shaud was the main guy today. And he looked as fast and speedy/elusive as ever. Lee had a few catches and runs here and there but clearly, Shaud was the main guy they were looking at yesterday. And he did well. On one run play, Shaud got behind a lineman, and you couldn't even see him. He ran for a good 15 yards before they whistled the play down with a touch tackle.
Lindell did practice some kicks and made 3 out of 4 kicks staring from 40 yds away and moving up to 50. He did okay, but I still don’t get a feeling of confidence with him.
That's about all there was to report. As I said, a pretty uneventful practice day and some people even commented about being bored.
Perhaps the Bills feel that are ready for their up and coming Colts test this Saturday and are just taking it easy until then...
I couldn't see much of the Defenses drills as they went to the farther field away from me.
On the O-line front…I've been questioned about Preston, as my last report on him was less than favorable and against what the media seem to be reporting of him. But once again, I saw him getting pushed around by everyone. Sam Adams once again put on a clinic - and for those that have mentioned that we should get Corey Simon and dump Adams next year, Adams is FAR from done! He consistently got through the defenders and reached the QB just about *EVERY* time!!! In fact, there was once when he was by Preston and tapping the backup QB (Woodbury) before he had finished his 3 step drop. Someone next to me asked what happened, b'cse Woodbury had stopped and didn't throw his pass. And someone answered him - Sam already tapped him. And sure enough, Sam was in the backfield just standing there. In fact, there were several times Sam reached the backfield and just stood there (tired of tapping the QB and letting them get some passes done) until the QB made his pass. Let me reiterate...Sam Adams is FAR FROM DONE!!! Later, on more individual O-line/Dline drills, Preston was pushed back several times by others as well. Peters occasionally did well and occasionally faltered. Virtually none of the Oline did well except one that seem to improve consistently over the drills. I did not recognize the number (#74) so I had to look it up…David Pruce??? As time passed, he seem to do better - let's hope the backups step it up a bit soon.
Toward the end of training camp, the entire defense and offense got together and played. JP took the team about halfway down and then Holcomb was put in. They seem to allow a certain amount of plays for each QB and see how far they could take it. JP and his team were quick and fast paced, but as they went to backups you could see the play and even the decision making slowing down.
Coy Wire had a nice interception play on a tipped ball that was thrown over the middle a little too high for Moulds. Mould tried to tip it and then come down with it, but it tipped slightly behind him and Coy dove quickly and got it. Good heads up play for Coy.
The RBs were not featured as much today as they focused on passing. My friend had intended to see Gates but he was one of the least featured backs. For the few things they did do with RBs, Shaud was the main guy today. And he looked as fast and speedy/elusive as ever. Lee had a few catches and runs here and there but clearly, Shaud was the main guy they were looking at yesterday. And he did well. On one run play, Shaud got behind a lineman, and you couldn't even see him. He ran for a good 15 yards before they whistled the play down with a touch tackle.
Lindell did practice some kicks and made 3 out of 4 kicks staring from 40 yds away and moving up to 50. He did okay, but I still don’t get a feeling of confidence with him.
That's about all there was to report. As I said, a pretty uneventful practice day and some people even commented about being bored.
Perhaps the Bills feel that are ready for their up and coming Colts test this Saturday and are just taking it easy until then...
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