Friday Camp Rundown and Views!

[Daseal]

Hey guys,

People seemed to like to hear what I said about Monday so I'll do another, not quite so lengthy, rundown. Yet again, I'd like to preface this post by saying I understand that it is training camp, I understand players will be rusty/learning so I'm not saying this is solid, just my feelings from what I saw today. It's not the end of our season if we look bad here!

First of all. The running backs stole the fire today. Watch out Portis, Jesse Lumdson (sp? I know if you sound it out it's like that!) and ROCK CARTRIGHT are really pushing for their roster spots. Making great moves, hitting holes well. All in all great performances out of both. Don't get me wrong, Portis put the moves on some folks too.

Second of all, Quarterbacks. Mark Brunell was playing better, but still overthrowing a lot of receivers and was pretty off target, but the important thing is hes making progress. Campbell was really winging those balls in there. Perfect balls into double coverage. Campbell throws what seems to be an extremely accurate ball, then out of no where way overthrows his receiver. Hopefully he'll get rid of that soon.

The Linebackers looked improved, but our defense needs some more swagger. I'm just not seeing the defense in practice I hope to see on the field. Granted, everything is very vanilla at this point. But hopefully they'll get a bit more intense soon.

I was concerned about our pass catchers, but no longer. MOss is looking great, Lloyd looks amazing, Randel El has been solid. All the WRs have been playing hard. Taylor Jacobs ran hard today, made some good catches. He was also the only WR who after practice, took his pads and helmet off. Went to the coach, and started working on his route and got more coaching. Which I can respect after just standing in that sun for two hours. I can't imagine running that out. BTW, The Rod Gardner we thought we had is back. Watch out for #87 this year -- Mr. Robert Johnson. I never realized how huge this guy was. And catching passes. Great thing to see.

Any questions or comments? Let me know!