Practice 8/7

[Calibull]

General observation below. Will provide more when I get time.  Busy day.

For those who have never seen a practice it is interesting. I followed the quarterbacks for the most part and this is how the two hours unfolded for them.

1 quarterbacks warm up and work with their coach. All positions are working with their position coaches. 

2- quarterbacks take work with running backs. 

3 quarterbacks O line and running back work together. 

4 quarterbacks work with receivers. 

5 quarterbacks work with tight ends

 6 quarterbacks work with tight and and receivers. 

7 quarterbacks work with running backs and receivers. 

8 quarterbacks work with running backs receivers and tight ends

9 all offensive players work together

10 7 on 7 drills. 

11. 11 v 11 drills.

Whenever the offensive line was in coach hope would be yelling at them to press the pace faster. Good to see in my opinion.

 

Yeah... It's good to hear coach Hope is yelling and pressing those guys.  Takes pressure to make a diamond.  While I don't think our offensive line is poised to push the world around, they can make themselves a solid unit.  They don't have to be special, just good enough to get it done.  I'm sure coach Hope will pay off... I think he was a great acquisition. 

[SANJAY]

Quick correction. Everywhere I said Bronson should have been Rodney Adams. I had their numbers reversed.

[GoBulls84]

You may have mentioned it earlier in the thread, but how was Flowers' deep ball looking? Last year he left (IMO) a little too much air under the ball, has that improved?

[JupiterBull]

Punt returners are 87 (bronson), 34, 22 and 26.

can't recall all names.

Adams is 87.  I think Bronson is 81.  Unless they changed #s

[JupiterBull]

Encouraging to hear about Flowers.  If he can do what we haven't seen in the past few years...run, then tuck OR dump to a parallel receiver or toss it deep when the safeties suck in...he could be deadly.  

 

We have speed at the skill positions, but for years, receivers have not fought hard to give scrambling QBs a target. If receivers fight, it'll REALLY make QF and Bench threats, and keep the D's honest.  This, of all things, gives me hope, if nothing else, for an offense that doesn't bore us to death.

 

Thanks, Sanjay.

[SANJAY]

My overall position comments.  Remember it's just one day in shorts and shirts and no hitting.  As noted above there's a lot of stuff happening and I was live posting so I probably missed stuff. 

QB- Flowers had hood velocity on his throws. Lot less air under the ball on long passes.  Still seems to aim throws instead of throwing.  A couple of his best decisions were pulling the ball down and running. His legs will be a weapon. 

Bench- looked good in drills. Deep ball arm strength is a concern. Looked worse in 11 man. Had a near pick in 7 man by deatrick Nichols.  Had a tipped ball intercepted by Zach Bullock. 

RB- mack looked good and bigger. Same good vision but appeared better when D had to respect Q as a run threat.

Johnson- looked good.  Plowing through people may be where he shines. 

Tice- did not see him much. Did see him take a lap after a false start.

TE- Price - did not see him do much.

Pope- couple dump off catches.  Looks big and strong.

Dillon- kid is huge and athletic.  Could put 20+ pounds on without worries. 6'5" and dove and caught one thrown low.  A catch after which the coach got on Flowers saying "How tall is he? Throw it up to him. " if he develops he will be a weapon unlike anything usf has ever had.

WR- Rodney Adams looked really good. As noted above all my comments about Bronson should have been for Adams. 

Legree looked good too. Really good hands and quickness. Should be a solid opposite adams.

Stanley clerveaux has great hands. Also, he seems real smooth and somehow has space to catch even though he's not blazing. Reminds me of SJ Green.

Tyre McCants- probably the player I was most excited about in the 2014 class.  He looked good. Has a brace on the left knee which may have been the acl knee. Made a couple moved in 7 man where you could see the electricity.  I'm not sure how much he will contribute coming off the injury.

Evan Wilson - Runs great routes, good hands and great feet in catching in bounds.  (Did I hit all the white WR cliches? ) I didn't see too much of him in the 7 or 11 man drills.

OL- Kofi amichia looked bigger and did well in the parts I saw. 

Clarion Nelson- humorous note, he rolled his shorts legs and his shirt up as much as possible.  Guess he was hot.

Overall- the D was getting good pressure in the 11man.  Interior is young and they struggled a bit with locating the rushers.

Defense- spent too much time on offense to have watched real closely other than what I posted previously. 

Special teams- punting game will be strong. Punt returns-  best were Adams and Hassan Childs.

[Bulls On Parade]

Dillon is a huge target in the middle. Seems to have decent hands.

I thought CWT said he has really impressed.

6'5" 245lb freshman...yeah he could be a beast in this conference

[SANJAY]

You may have mentioned it earlier in the thread, but how was Flowers' deep ball looking? Last year he left (IMO) a little too much air under the ball, has that improved?

Much better this year. Less air and more zip dee.

[SANJAY]

Punt returners are 87 (bronson), 34, 22 and 26.

can't recall all names.

Adams is 87. I think Bronson is 81. Unless they changed #s

Yeah I realized after I got it wrong a dozen times.

[GoBulls84]

 

You may have mentioned it earlier in the thread, but how was Flowers' deep ball looking? Last year he left (IMO) a little too much air under the ball, has that improved?

Much better this year. Less air and more zip dee.

 

That was one of my bigger concerns for Flowers, so I'm glad to hear it seems he's improved on that.