Quote Originally Posted by thedawginme View Post
Quality of our practices has been a main thing I've worried about with the new staff. You have to say Mullen ran good, efficient, high paced practices that were well organized. Visiting coaches were always impressed with how things were conducted. It's one factor in player development.

Comparisons in style are interesting to hear.
Funny you mention that. From the person I talked to that went to the practice, it was much faster than Mullen?s and extremely well organized. This was not coming from a Mullen hater. A clock was on every drill, everyone sprinted from one drill to the next, whether it be position drills or the 7on7 or 11on11 stuff. He said it was incredibly fast and everyone looked like they knew exactly what they were doing. A couple other notes:

Aside from some inaccuracy, which could be due to the wind or just rustiness, Fitz looked great physically. You would have had absolutely no idea whatsoever that he had been injured, if not for the tape and yellow jersey. He took all the no1 reps, just didn?t take on any contact of course. He sprinted from one drill to the next like everyone else and would cut on that ankle when he got to where he was going. No grimacing or anything like that.

Guidry and Jason look like a cut above the other receivers athletically. Guidry looked faster than he expected. Jason looked ready to contribute immediately. Said Jessie Jackson was the third most impressive looking, which surprised me.

Kylin Hill is a freakin beast. Aeris is great, but will be hard to keep Kylin off the field. Gibson looked good too.

Tight ends were very involved in the passing game on this day. A lot of stuff to get the ball out of the QBs hand quickly.

The most impressive looking athletes that stood out on defense were Willie Gay and Brian Cole. He said Cole was all over the place and we ran almost exclusively 4-2-5.

Coaches were very intense but positive. Would be on their player if they did something wrong but then would praise them when they corrected it. Said Jo Mo was not a rah rah guy during practice. Very calm and just took everything in, making notes and letting the position coaches coach. High energy from the position coaches.

Only ?negative? he noted, other than the inaccurate passing (from Key too) was he said you could tell Murphy was supposed to be in high school right now. NOT saying he is no good or can?t work is way up the depth chart, just that he looked like a high school guy among college athletes. I?m not surprised by this because he is an early enrollee after all, but it was notable to me becuase he didn?t say this about Jason.

There you go. Third practice, take it fwiw. The defense and O line were mostly on the far field, so less observations on them except for in the team sessions when they came back to the field closest to the complex. Still focused mostly on the offense.