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It's Elam and Douglas with the 1s.

This one is closed to the public but the beat reporters are there.

Sorry for the grainy screenshot but that body control is unreal.

This is going to look so good on Sundays. Allen has never had a WR capable of these kinds of plays.

MVS is the only true field stretcher on the roster though, and his salary is fully guaranteed. For those 2-3 practices where he wasn't with the 1s at all I wondered if he would be the first guaranteed signing since OJ Howard to manage to lose his roster spot, but now that he's firmly back in with the starters I am back to thinking he is a roster lock. He has a set role in the offense as a field stretcher, and while he may represent the bare minimum that you can get out of that role it is a necessary role and no one else on the roster is even ostensibly competing against him for it. Hamler I think is a PS lock. He'll be our emergency call up if Samuel ever gets injured. Sounds like Hardy is winning the kick return job and has shown enough on defense to warrant a spot on the roster, so that leaves Hamler as a redundant player.

Looks like it will be a lighter practice because of the heat.

FWIW the concern with the missed 58 yarder isn't just that it missed, it's that it apparently was a complete shank, a low wobbler that had zero chance of going in. In the modern NFL you'd like to have at least a chance of hitting those. We lost a game last year because the opponent's kicker hit a 60 yarder in the driving rain. Having that capability is an underrated massive advantage and we are very unlikely to have that this year. I'll take it as a win if he can at least get back to consistency on the 30-50 yarders. But beyond 50 I'm not going to have any confidence until Bass earns it.

Like I said, impossible not to have total confidence in Bass this year.

I don't know man, hard to have an iota of confidence that Bass can hit any critical kicks this year.