DR Goes Camping (Practice #6 Report)

[Buffalo716]

11 minutes ago, njbuff said:

Wonder how Vonte Davis looks out there?

 

When I went the secondary as a whole was great. Definitely the strength of the team

 

hes a veteran, his goal is definitely to make it through TC and preseason un injured

[3rdand12]

1 hour ago, eball said:

 

You are certainly entitled to your opinion but I would imagine the Bills' coaches have spent a considerable amount of time thinking about the topic.  Also, Ducasse was abused by Kyle today but by all accounts has been solid otherwise -- and played pretty well the 2nd half of last season.

 

I fear you are a victim of "groupthink" when it comes to Vlad the Impaler.

Or perhaps Bills are finding out by fire he does kinda suck at execution..

#groupthink says hi : )
moving him to LG is odd as if they are trying to make it work.
Groy and Miller have my uninformed biased vote. they paid Bodine to play. let him play center

1 hour ago, Buffalo716 said:

 

Did you go or did you read that report?

 

and getting a RS shirt year is not horrible... it can do wonders for your body and mind...

 

Theilen went from UDFA to PS to a top 10 receiver 

and Diggs is the one who got paid : (

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

just great info.
not too many surprises i suppose.
thank you again Mr Rhino ☺️

Edited August 1, 2018 by 3rdand12

[K-9]

1 hour ago, Jay_Fixit said:

I’ll admit it, I have a preseason boner.

SCHWING!

[2020 Our Year For Sure]

I'm thinking that even if Ducasse starts rhe opener Wyatt Teller may well take over at some point in-season.

[Kelly the Dog]

That didn't seem deranged at all. Thanks for the deets, G.

 

It's tough for sure to tell from one practice but we need these reports.

 

It's an interesting conversation to decide if one side of the team which is clearly better, should be going full blast against the lesser side, which needs the practice. McD is saying he's not holding the D back. The offense better not get too frustrated not being able to make plays and move the ball. It's a tough choice.

[26CornerBlitz]

1 minute ago, Kelly the Dog said:

That didn't seem deranged at all. Thanks for the deets, G.

 

It's tough for sure to tell from one practice but we need these reports.

 

It's an interesting conversation to decide if one side of the team which is clearly better, should be going full blast against the lesser side, which needs the practice. McD is saying he's not holding the D back. The offense better not get too frustrated not being able to make plays and move the ball. It's a tough choice.

 

The opposing defenses certainly won't hold back so it doesn't seem like such a tough choice to me. 

[Kelly the Dog]

5 minutes ago, 26CornerBlitz said:

 

The opposing defenses certainly won't hold back so it doesn't seem like such a tough choice to me. 

It's practice though. They need to get the plays down and they can't if they don't have time. It's a tricky business.

[26CornerBlitz]

Just now, Kelly the Dog said:

It's practice though. They need to get the plays down and they can't if they don't have time. It's a tricky business.

 

I get your point, but they haven't brought the heat in a sustained way in any practice before today.  Might as well test the offenses mettle to see how they respond.  

[Kelly the Dog]

Just now, 26CornerBlitz said:

 

I get your point, but they haven't brought the heat in a sustained way in any practice before today.  Might as well test the offenses mettle to see how they respond.  

Yeah I don't mind it at all for a full day once in awhile, just not all the time.

[eball]

4 minutes ago, Kelly the Dog said:

It's practice though. They need to get the plays down and they can't if they don't have time. It's a tricky business.

 

1 minute ago, 26CornerBlitz said:

 

I get your point, but they haven't brought the heat in a sustained way in any practice before today.  Might as well test the offenses mettle to see how they respond.  

 

Yeah, I get the feeling this was a "measuring stick" day and we won't see this at every practice.

[3rdand12]

1 minute ago, eball said:

 

 

Yeah, I get the feeling this was a "measuring stick" day and we won't see this at every practice.

ebb and flow with reps

 build confidence

 and challenge.

   i think a good practice lets each side turn it up a notch at some point

[mead107]

Awesome reporting. 

 

Thank you 

[That's No Moon]

3 hours ago, joesixpack said:

 

PM me

 

It's particularly disgusting today for only being 85 degrees.  87% humidity on a sunny day is uncalled for.

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

5 minutes ago, That's No Moon said:

It's particularly disgusting today for only being 85 degrees.  87% humidity on a sunny day is uncalled for.

 

Scrotal tea for certain. And it's been like this for WEEKS.

[Johnny Hammersticks]

I just read Astro’s TC notes on Facebook.  Pretty good stuff, as usual.

 

Thanks again, OP.

[That's No Moon]

3 minutes ago, joesixpack said:

 

Scrotal tea for certain. And it's been like this for WEEKS.

Could be worse. We haven't had a run of high 90s/low 100s yet.

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

2 minutes ago, That's No Moon said:

Could be worse. We haven't had a run of high 90s/low 100s yet.

 

Where I'm at it's humid probably 300 days out of the year. Hot and humid, mild and humid or cold and humid. Dry is a very rare condition here.

 

[Putin]

7 hours ago, quinnearlysghost88 said:

i appreciate that Allen is an under center QB, but he hasn't seemed to handle the blitzes well. i'd rather he learns to adjust and make the quick play, over having to keep him in shotgun all of the time.

I thought he played pro style offense in Wyoming ? 

[NewEra]

Really appreciate the write up.  Very well done.  Thank you.

 

seems like our OL sucks or our DL is very good.  Might be both.  Sack sack sack sack sack.  Ugh

[stevewin]

Didn't see this thread initially - re-posting some of my random observations from today here:

 

Went to camp today.  Didn't spend a ton of effort trying to focus on anything/everything - just a few general observations

 

- Tremaine Edmunds is huge.  I mean like a giant.  When the defense is lined up it is as if you are playing Madden and there some kind of new setting (GIANT) that makes a player blow up cartoonishly to twice the size of everyone else.  It's hard not to look out onto the field and notice him standing out every time.  It's like he's been CGI'ed onto the field.  Between my son and my Dad and myself, one of us must have pointed to him on the field and said "Look at him - he's huge!" at least 10 different times throughout the course of practice - even just standing next to people on the sideline.  It is crazy
His interception was a great moment.  A great play on the ball and he got mobbed by his D teammates celebrating just bonkers afterwards

 

- On the flip side - I was not prepared at all for how small Kerley was - like real small.  Honestly just seeing him today I felt I would be surprised if he ended up being any kind of impact player - but it was just one day.  Still couldn't get over how small he was - for some reason I thought he was a bigger body slot guy

 

- Foster just stood out to me for some reason - just looks the part of a real WR

 

- Zay was sprinting full speed width-wise across the field for a bit.  Didn't look limited at all - nothing on his knee.  He was being worked hard by the trainers - part of me wondered if they weren't unofficially giving him a little extra sauce for his transgressions

 

- This to me was definitely a practice where the old "defensive is ahead of the offense" was certainly true.  The defense dominated in my view - the offense could get nothing going regardless of the QB/group.  Offense looked pretty sloppy - rushed plays, dropped passes, only short gains when there were gains.  Again hard to gauge at this point what percentage is defense playing well vs. offense playing poor

EDIT: There was a portion of practice where the offense was running through plays with no defense (while the defense was on the other side of the field simulating getting lined up and back on the ball against a hurry-up offense).  At one point I also wondered if part of the issues of the offense today was that they maybe they went deeper into the playbook and were running some of the plays live for the first time.

Note also there was a portion where the defense purposely had two Dlinemen sit and not rush - and generally the offense still had problems completing passes in that drill

 

- At times the defense was imposing their will so badly I told my son the offense needs to just air some balls out just to get the D off them a bit.  One of Allen's last reps he went to throw a quick out and immediately faked it and pulled it in and took off the other way down the field untouched.  We weren't sure if that was a called play or he did it himself - but it was obvious the D was really selling out going downhill all the way for this practice

 

- None of the QBs looked great (see defense dominated bullet above), but AJ looked to me to be the most steady/consistent of the 3 today.  Mostly a lot of short stuff - but that is pretty much all anyone could muster against the D.  He just seemed in control.  Allen had the barely missed flea flicker, and seemed kind of off rhythm most of the day.  With the threes, you can see sometimes guys are not really helping him at all.  With the ones, it almost seemed he wasn't on the same page/comfort level most of the time - seems like with the lower reps with the ones he also has to battle the unfamiliarity of playing with them.  At times when Peterman throws he looks like he is heaving a soggy overripe watermelon.  When the QB's are throwing side by side it is amazing to see the difference between Allen's ball and Peterman's when they are together - at one point my son pointed over to the drill and remarked how much faster Allen's ball got there compared to Peterman's

 

- After practice the entire OL stayed on the field for a long time going through things.  The three QBs also stayed on the field - Allen and Peterman throwing and AJ frolicking with his toddler - and wife .  Off on the far side practice field two lone players went off by themselves to hit the sled.  One was Mat Boesen - and he came back after a while.  There was another guy over there that at first I didn't pay attention to - but after a while every once in a while I would look over and it was ridiculous he was still over there by himself just punishing a sled over and over - and I looked closer and saw his number was twenty something and I'm like wait - is that a friggin DB?  It was number 21 in your programs.  Poyer must have been over there by himself for a good 15 minutes just launching himself into a sled.  After a bit, Siran Neal went over to join him - then they eventually quit.  Seeing Poyer do that today really stuck with me - the guy was just killing it after a full practice - punishing his body off on a side field mostly by himself where no one could see it (it wasn't for show).  It was pretty impressive

 

- My son positioned himself above the tunnel after practice, and when Beane walked out my son yelled "UNCW!" (Beane's alma mater and where my son went to school the last two years - actually my son met him there this Spring) and Beane immediately looked up and my son tossed him his hat and Beane signed and threw it back.  My son then yelled "Go Seahawks!" which Beane smiled at, but earned my son some quizzical stares from those around him in the crowd (UNCW Seahawks!) He also got Proehl to sign after tossing it to him - my daughter goes to UNC and now my son has a hat with Bills UNC/UNCW related sigs 

 

- There was a group of 20-somethings trolling Rodak after practice - they kept shouting his name across the field as the press was gathered for on field interviews - "RODAK!" - "I know you can hear me!" - and maybe threw a "Patriot lover!" or two in there.  It was pretty awkward/funny

 

- There was a female fan in the stands with a sign screaming for Poyer after practice.  He was off on the other field after practice as I said, but as things were really winding down, out of nowhere Poyer came out of the tunnel with his shirt off - looking for the lady - someone must have said something to him about her.  He jumped up on the rail and gave her a shirtless hug and took a pic with her.  Was a very cool moment. 

Edited 1 hour ago by stevewin  

Edited August 1, 2018 by stevewin