[kravix]

Here are my thoughts from Day 3 practice.

QB-

Schuab looked good. He had one real bad pass to AJ in double coverage that was just up for grabs. Another, either he overthrew a timing pass to AJ that would have been a TD or AJ was off. The rest were mstly short throws with zip and accuracy.

Sage looked solid.

I have to disagree with pk about Boyd, he didnt seem to make read progressions, was staring down his recievers, and made some piss poor throws because of it.

I didnt catch Brinks.

WR-

AJ didnt get huge seperation today, but he was still AJ and made some good cathces and there were a few times he got his seperation after Schuab had made his read there.

Walter looked great. He caught a ton of passes, although he did drop one very short. He made a great diving catch to.

Davis was getting decent seperation and showed his ability to run good routes catching some shorter passes.

David Anderson dropped a few passes, had at least one good catch but looked shakey.

I didnt catch JJ or Williams so Im not sure there.

JJ seemed to be limping around alot during ST practice. His return looked pretty decent, but there was a flag on the play that most likely would have brought it back.

RB

Green looked good. If healthy he is the best RB on the roster. He had some good runs and some bad ones.. But I think more of it was the OL or DL than him.

Brown looked bad. He had one decent play to the edge, but other than that he came up short.

Slaton looked good at times and worse at others, there were a few plays he had Kubiak on him for dancing a bit in the backfield. Little rookie things but all together very primising.

Taylor looked ok. Nothing great or bad about him.

Walker....... Wow. He looked better than any of the other RB's out there. It didnt matter if he was taking reps with the 1's, 2's, or 3's. He was just getting it done, and looked faster than any of the other RB's. I think he knows that he is a long shot and his bringing it.

OL

Our running game looked pretty sad today, most of the decent runs were outside or cut backs from the running back to go the opposite direction. I have to say that this is probabaly due to no cut blocking in practice and learning the new system.

Brown looked good and like someone else said his explosion to the second level is fast. There was one really great run play where he hit his man, drove him, released and made it to the LB by the time the RB was hitting the hole he made.

Gibbs was on fire, but I didnt hear the wonderful specifics that Kieth heard the other day. Maybe it was the music they pumped in?

I agree with pk.. Butler was struggling and wasnt doing very well.

Winston held up very well againt MW when they lined up in thier pass rush package.

DL

Just some general observations. They seemed to play the run good on the inside, but not so good on the outside.

The pass rush package was Mario, Weaver, Amobi, Colvin.. Left to rigt. They did pretty good, there were definatly a few plays that would have been sacks. There was one where Mario and Colvin colapsed the outsides at about the same time, it was pretty.

I have to say that I didnt see Mario comming off the ball any faster than last year. He still seemed like the last man moving, altough I was only really able to catch him when he was lined up a LDE. He still played great, I just didnt see the explosion off the ball I though I would.

Okam is huge.

TJ seems to have gotten over his slow meandering everywhere, and seemed pretty peppy the whole practice.

LB

I didnt really catch much of them, but it did seem like thier coverage over the middle was pretty solid, and thier presence at the line and outside was good.

Johhny Holland is intense. He is always coaching and the players seemed to respond to him very well. Most of the mistakes the LB's made they knew it right away to. The LB's dont take a single minute off, whether its indivdual drills or anything else. They were all full speed and intense.

DB

I was slightly worried about this, and after today I am still worried.

Bennet was awesome, he stuck AJ at the line and kept with him all the way down the field. He deflected anther short pass, and looked good every play I watched him.

I only watched Reeves on one play I think. He pressed AJ at the line pretty good and stayed on him ok. He didnt get burnt, but I think that had the play lasted a bit longer he may have gotten beat.

Fletcher was meh. He seemed to get beat often, and his only good play was a press on AJ at the line and keeping with him, although had the safety not been there on the play AJ would probably have caught it and taken it home.

I didnt catch much of Molden, he did seem to be very active though.

Demps played ok from what I saw.

#29, he wasnt even on the list and i didnt catch his name, had a good break up and almost int, but it was against 2-3 string guys.

All in all there were no big passes, and coverage seemed pretty good, especially with the starters. DRob and Faggins were there cheering on the other DB's and helping them the whole time. DRob did warmups and stuff with the team, he was full speed and never limped.

I agree with pk that the practice seemed some what slugginsh and today was much cooler than yesterday it seemed. I dont think Kubiak was very happy either as he seemed more and more agitaed as the practice progressed.