Monday Husky Practice Report
by Lear Pilot on Apr 6, 2009 8:04 PM PDT
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What a fun afternoon, great weather, a beautiful campus and HUSKY FOOTBALL!!! You can't beat it.
This was my first time attending a college football practice and my head is still spinning. There was so much going on that it's pretty hard to process it all. If you are watching Jake to see how he's doing, you probably just missed what everybody else did. I was really impressed by the coaching staff, they were EVERYWHERE and they were working their tails off. The practice was as advertised, high paced, very organized and activity everywhere. They really did a great job of optimizing the time they had on the field. I loved the energy from the coaches and especially the players. After a big play or a big hit the players are really getting excited and congratulating the player. The players REALLY seem to be enjoying the competitive atmosphere.
QB's - I love offense, passing and scoring, so I spent a lot of time watching the QB's, WR's and RB's. I especially love QB's, there's just something about the field general that sets the tone for the rest of the team.
Jake looked pretty good, Ronnie looked average and well, I hope we don't have to go deeper than that. Jake hit a few long passes, and they were placed perfectly. His short to medium range accuracy looked good, only saw one pass over thrown. He did have two passes that make you wonder what he was thinking, but from the sidelines it could easily have been a WR running the wrong route or a hundred different things. Ronnie just seemed average, some throws were great, some weren't so hot. I saw Luther Leonard throwing some long passes, and he either is working on his release or really needs to work on his arm strength if he wants to stay at QB. Either way its VERY early in practice and I expect great things out of Sark and Nuss.
WR's - I saw the play were D'Andre Goodwin caught a medium long pass over the middle and almost had everybody beat, but one guy grabbed him from behind (very similar to a horse collar tackle) and you could hear D'Andre scream and grab his hamstring. Vince Taylor made some nice catches, along with Kearse and Augilar. Boyles had some nice plays, and had a few where he got his butt chewed out. TE's looked good, Middleton had several nice catches and a very good stretched out grab, no drops from him that I saw.
RB's - Curtis Shaw will be the starting TB next season, mark my words. He had some very nice carries, one ending with him laying a HIT on the defensive player trying to stop him, by far the best offensive hit of the day. Griiffin had several good runs, one in which he juke the defender out of his shoes and then grabbed a bunch of yards after it. Bronson looked pretty solid, I wouldn't be surprised if he gets some solid playing time.
The play of the day: Cody Bruns caught a pass over the middle and immediately got his clock cleaned by Victor Aiyewa. The best part of the play, as soon as it happened the defense was all over Aiyewa celebrating the big hit. At the same moment the offense was all over Bruns celebrating the fact that he hung on to the ball. To me it really summed up what the coaches are striving for: PASSION and COMPETITION!!!
So far I really like what the coaches are doing, I even saw a few plays that will use Jakes legs, which tells me they are smart enough to use his talents. I don't want to go into details, but one play and formation will make Crazi cry. Those of you that know his likes and dislikes can figure it out.
Hopefully you guys find this info useful, I'm sure I'll pass on more as it comes back to me.
GO DAWGS!!!
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Players I thought really stood out:
Nate Williams – Had some very nice hits and a great pic
Curtis Shaw – See above, I’m pretty excited about his potential
Daniel Teo-Nesheim – Always hustling and always creating havoc
Jake Locker – Looked pretty solid for a new system, his release is looking quick
Players who had a bad day:
The offensive line – looked like they had their hands full with the defensive line
D’Andre Goodwin – Just because he got injured, I really hope it isn’t too serious
Tripper Johnson – Doesn’t look very fast, got out run a few times.
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Celebrity sightings:
Hugh Millen, CJ Wallace, Chris Fetters, and Scott Eklund (from dawgman, Spelling?). I saw 4 guys who looked like coaches in Skyline garb, but didn’t get close enough to tell, so who knows.
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Defensive Tackles
Lear: How does that area look? Who’s starting to stand out and who’s not?
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I was looking just because you asked
but to be honest, I really didn’t see anything that jumped out at me. Overall the defensive line had their way with the offensive line, but I didn’t see anybody stand out or grab my attention. That being said, Everette Thompson was playing on my side of the field, and he really seemed to be getting the better of the right tackle, which I think was mostly Drew Schafer.
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"Kick the tires and light the fires!"
and DTN
that guy always seems to be in on the play
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I think...
…that’s why they want to move him around. Keep the defense off balance with their blocking schemes and such.
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Who was on the field...
…when they moved Teo inside? I realize it’s tough to see everything. Hell it’s tough to see much of anything at practice! I mean I had trouble sometimes just identifying guys and some plays, can be pretty average with no one standing out. Just curious though if you happened to notice.
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Thompson and Darrion Jones
are the other two who I recall seeing playing DE. You are totally right, with the high pace of practice it was difficult to keep track of who was in and who was out on any given play.
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"Kick the tires and light the fires!"
and the practice jerseys are...
…unmarked aren’t they? I guess you can tell be numbers but it can be difficult, I’ve tried myself and unless a guy makes a huge play, individually you can lose things in the pile up. Oh well great that you could make it on such a gorgeous afternoon on the beautiful shores of Lake Washington watching our DAWGS!! What could be better?!
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It was a great afternoon
I really had a good time. Jerseys are unmarked, speaking of which I saw a guy in a red jersey #10 who was returning punts. Before everybody gets too excited, he was NOT white, and he was a little short than D’andre Goodwin. I’m still trying to figure out who it was.
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Was it that Long kid?
He’s a speed merchant.
by doubledeucedawg on Apr 9, 2009 1:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Could be
but I haven’t seen a roster with a #10 that is not a QB.
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Could have been one of the other new CB's
I do know it was a CB, just don’t know which.
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"Kick the tires and light the fires!"
Text Book Perfect Practice Report
That was a text book perfect practice report!
I urge any of you guys that take in a practice to post your impressions like Lear just did.
The things I like are all the positives. There are always going to be negatives and he pointed them out without ripping any of the kids.
Another important thing is Lear didn’t report on any schemes the team is working on. We want to keep that type of stuff off the Internet.
Once again….great job!
I've got a REALLY long day tomorrow
So I don’t expect to be on the blog at all, if anybody has questions feel free to ask, I’ll get back to you as soon as I can, probably Wednesday morning.
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"Kick the tires and light the fires!"
Bitchen, fricken, . . .
. . Camaro! (an old punk song my brother would play with his guitar ad nauseum) It means: AWESOME!
The best part of practices for me was, “The Teachable Moments”. The precision like timing of STOPPING play/practice and gathering all the pertinent groups of teams (most of the time, the ENTIRE team) to relay something profound AND intense to the player in specific, however TO EACH AND EVERY PLAYER IN UNIFORM more importantly. It’s a time where Coach makes it a point to drive home EXPECTATION, rules, and not let this “window of opportunity” pass by. Which is very very important because, as the entire coaching staff and team must listen, understand, and embody “the lesson”- it absolutely leaves no doubt that if it just so happens to ever occur again, the player OR coach cannot use the excuse that “they didn’t know?”. (that’s out the window)
Player will make mistakes, sometimes over and over. Meting out of punishment is ultimately determined by intent, scope, timing, and ramification. But the whole “Oh, I forgot! or Oh I didn’t know” WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.
Stay on board boys! (speaking to the players). It keeps getting better and better.
Next thing you know, you’re men in the community of the world. All these hard and painful days . . . .????. .. .you’re gonna miss like something fierce!
Comer4tide to Nico2.0: "How come I've never heard of any of your random songs?"
Todd to Comer: "Because if you had, he wouldn't listen to it. BOOM. Roasted."
Nico to Todd: "Shouldn't you be off voguing somewhere?"
Totally forgot!
Excellent write-up Lear! Really, I read your words like I was living it. Totally lovin’ it.
Good job my man!
Comer4tide to Nico2.0: "How come I've never heard of any of your random songs?"
Todd to Comer: "Because if you had, he wouldn't listen to it. BOOM. Roasted."
Nico to Todd: "Shouldn't you be off voguing somewhere?"
@ practice
I went for a Jog with my fiancee and stopped by to watch practice for 25 mins, I watched the running backs and thought Paul Homer had a nice day.
Fullback
I just assumed that with all the nice runs the fullback had to have a hand in that. Always nice to give credit to the blockers.
Blocking has never been a problem for Homer. I think right now he is getting the opportunity to do a lot more and is doing it well.
by John Berkowitz on Apr 7, 2009 8:56 AM PDT up reply actions
Homer, Sylvester, & Togi
I thought all three fullback I saw looked pretty good. Obviously Homer is a very solid blocker, I even saw him catch a few short passes. Now that I think about it, I don’t think I saw any drops from the fullbacks.
I kept seeing #41 getting reps and had to look at the roster to see that it was Tobias Togi. Didn’t see anything spectacular, but didn’t see anything bad either. It’ll be interesting to see if he gets any playing time.
"Bow Down to Washington"
"Kick the tires and light the fires!"
Catching fullbacks and great run-blocking/pass catching TE's. . .
. . . .are critical to the Chow/Sark pro-style offense. It gives the offense 3 fall-back weapons on the misdirection plays.
These plays produce mad yardage and can only be successfully utilized no more than 3 – 5 times a game. The other times, those misdirection plays are used as decoys.
40+ yardage touchdowns and easy first downs.
Comer4tide to Nico2.0: "How come I've never heard of any of your random songs?"
Todd to Comer: "Because if you had, he wouldn't listen to it. BOOM. Roasted."
Nico to Todd: "Shouldn't you be off voguing somewhere?"
by BixBeiderbecke on Apr 8, 2009 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions
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