NFLs StepChild Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 I posted this over n the addicts board, but thought I'd share my report with you guys as well. Below is the thread. NFLs StepChild Standing And Cheering in the Front Row Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Westchester County, NY Posts: 1,701 Well it was overall an uneventful practice. Nobody really stood out as a cut above the rest. Solid yet unspectacular day. My focus today was all about the offense, so forgive the onesided report. QBs: .................................. Favre, looks like Brett spent the whole day in Jets Playbook 101. He was attached to the hip of Schotty and/or Daboll for most of the day. He had some very nice throws and was looking ok overall, still a bit rusty but yeah it was definitely Favre out there. Soon as he gets acclimated and shakes off the rust and knows the playbook, he'll be back to business. He squeezed a terrific throw in between 2 defenders to Cotch for a long gain, I'd put it at about 35+ yards. He can thread the needle still, but it got me thinking, man Favre is going to be Favre and make those throws even when it may not be the best idea. But then right after that he went through his progressions and saw nothing and threw it away. He also launched an absolute missile to Cotch for a long TD, I think it was put in there to wow the crowd and it did. They went nuts. Kellen did not impress me much at all today. He did not force anything and played within himself which is a very good sign in my book, but he also just took what the defense gave him, but failed to hit his WRs in stride and they had to adjust by going down for balls or cutting off their routes. Not good stuff. Wonder if he is dejected by the Favre arrival. Ratliff continues to do well an has been effectively moving the offense on his reps. He was crisp and clean and got the ball out to his guys in stride. I wasn't buying it till I got to see it with my own eyes, but the hype is real, we may b e sitting on something here. Ainge. I am not sure that Ainge did much of anything, I did not see any of his reps if he had any, but that may have had something to do with this hot little blonde girl sitting in front of me. WRs:........................................ Coles was spotted working with Favre during QB drills, the whole chemistry thing seems to be a priority to both of them. He made some solid catches and was able to make a second move after the catch. This could be a career year for Coles. Other than finally seeing him have time to make a second move after securing the ball, he vas vintage Coles. Cotch made a couple of big grabs in practice. I wont gush, but we all know his capabilities, and I am thinking that Coles and Cotch could resemble Jimmy Smith and Keenan McCardell of years past. Color me a total homer. Clowney. Nothing special today, noticed a few drops. He had a nice PR during drills. Henry. Did he even get on the field? Damn that blonde was hot. Stuckey. Couple nice catches. Nothing great. Wallace Wright. Couple drops as well. Some short catches to move the chains. B.Smith. Dare I say it, he looked good pretty decent today. Made some nice catches and ran good routes. A hot seat will do that to a guy. Overall, I saw nothing that jumped out from any of these guys other than Cotch/Coles producing as expected. Wright is not going to be a WR for us, purely a ST guy. He looked ok during drills but not fluid, a bit stiff and dropped the balls. Clowney and Stuckey I didn't get such a good read on, but again they didn't make me take notice of them. TEs:.................................... Keller - Yup he can catch. Few medium routes that were decent gains. I didn't see Franks do much and Baker had some nice cathces as well. OLINE!!! ....................... Man are these guys impressing me. They all seemed to be having a blast out there and protecting a living legend under center may have a lot to do with that. Brick and Faneca were joking around a lot and Mangold was steeley eyed and concentrating on everything. Woody had to run a lap for a false start I believe. By now you've all heard about the fumbled center exchange with Brett and Mangold as well, so I'll leave that alone other than saying when Nick and Brett were making the rounds the crowd was in great spirits and was really giving them the business in there but all in good fun. Backups did not get noticed by me, so I can only assume that is a good sign. Except #59 HOLY COW, this guy is HUGE. I think it was the new guy Thaddeus Coleman. He just was standing on the sidelines for the practice watching, but he was one of the guys staying late to work on technique after the practice. More on that later. RBs: .............. Nothing to report. They are who we thought they were. Solid practice by all. Nothing new that hasn't been rehashed here 100X. On my limited attention to the Defense, I can tell you that Rhodes and Revis looked very good. Rhodes got after a nice pass to Cotch and cut it down killing a long play. Revis mixed it up on one play with a RB early and then started shoving him back on the ground after the play was dead and was being quite aggressive in his coverage. Good fun playing football or does Revis have a mean streak??? Either way, he looked very good. But is this shocking? No. Also from the No Duh list was Harris impressing on a "sack" of Ratliff. Who also looked pretty good you ask? Well Miller looked decent in coverage as did Elam, BT had a nice play getting pressure on the passer, and #47 was running around and causing redirection quite often on a lot of plays. Who was #47? Nobod knew...maybe something to watch for. Specials were good. Nuge was drilling them and looking very solid. He did have one play however that our Block team was getting penetration and Kris Jenkins almost got a block on it, but Nuge got it off. Kick was beautiful, then CLANG!!! Hits the lower crossbar. Nuge also was warming up with Graham on the side of the bleachers before practice started and tried to punt the ball to Graham, it shanked nicely and landed a foot from the fence dividing the crowd and the field. Many hands were up trying to catch the ball. Nobody did. Guess that's why they are on that side of the fence huh.... Oh yeah, ineresting note. Montgomery was long snapping for a while to Graham. Dearth then took over, but good to see Montgomery is capable of doing it if need be. Looked like his snaps need work. Placement was fine but speed of delivery was bad. Balls seemed to take forever to get to Graham. Hung in the air like a Penny lob...needs to be much much faster if we want to not get punts blocked should he need to take over for any reason. A POST PRACTICE, PRACTICE!!! I went to the back of the field after practice died down and watched some of the defensive coaches and offensive coaches working with guys who needed help on their techniques. Who was there? Ratliff, Kinlaw (RB#23) who I thought was Jesse Chatman till the guy next to me corrected me, Montgomery, McChesney, Jehruu Calcrick, Posiack, Ropati Pitoitua, the behemouth #59, oh yeah and Gholston. They all practice run plays over tackle again and again until they got things right. They must have run it 15 to 20 times imo. Hermann, Sutton and Cox were all there and Gholston was getting a lot of work. I'm not sure they ever did get the play completely right, but they were absolutely killing themselves on every play. The best matchup was easily Jehruu (as a blocking FB) and Gholston as an OLB were colliding full force and were seemingly trying to kill each other. Jehruu won that battle as he scurried off after the battle and left Gholston dehydrated and possibly with his bell rung. Gholston stayed behind for a few minutes down on a knee after everyone else went back in to the building. He was talking with a staff member the whole time, but I couldn't tell you who he was, may have just been the water boy. Pitoitua was getting chided, pestered and flat out harrassed (all in a good way mind you, all in fun) by on of the coaches/trainers in an effort to motivate him. It did not sem to do much. He was invisible. If I can think of anything else, I'll add to the posting. Any questions? Jetses Season Tickets, First Deck Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 510 47 is that rookie UFA from Rutgers...Renkart. Is VG showing any signs of unleashing some of his athletic skill? NFLs StepChild Standing And Cheering in the Front Row Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Westchester County, NY Posts: 1,701 VG was looking very quick out there, they had him working very hard on his coverage when I saw him out there. The coaches are investing a lot in him in that regard. He has been 100% full bore from what I saw today. This kid was grinding out every play. He looked smooth and was getting to the ball, but he is clearly not aware of the coverages just yet. All reaction and no reading the play. Ahtleticism is on full display though. In time... Honestly I think they need him to be at a point where they are compfortable with him enough to leave him out there in coverage because of their complex schemes. If he is solely viewed as a pass rusher, than teams will always have a read going into the play as to where the pressure is coming from, and where the soft spot in the defense is going to be. Eric wants to have the QB guessing at every turn and having both OLB's capable of playing Zone and getting after the QB, along with the threat of an inside blitz from Harris, it should be enough to rattle the QBs into mistakes. KentuckyJet Standing And Cheering in the Front Row Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 1,712 Great report Step! # 47 made a great play in Cleveland the other night too. He is impressive. So was Caulcrick. Now with you saying that he gave our #1 pick a hard time blocking him to the point of dehydration, I am really impressed. I especially appreciate your fairness and honesty in describling the play of Ratliff and Kellen. I hope that RATLIFF does great for us. I also hope that Kellen gets a chance to show his true talent. We could be ina win-win situation with those guys on our team backing up Favre. Speaking of blondes, how could you let her distract you from watching the Jets? Aw, I'd do the same thing! LOL Your report is great! Did MURELL play much? That guy is quick and so is Cummings#54. NFLs StepChild Standing And Cheering in the Front Row Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Westchester County, NY Posts: 1,701 I did not see or notice either Murrell or Cummings, sorry. Caulcrick and Gholston were colliding full force and neither was backing down, it was awesome to see it. I really hope we make room for Caulcrick. __________________ J-E-T-S! It's not exactly a passion, it's generally more of a sickness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aec4 Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 this thread is useless without pics (of the hot blond) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NFLs StepChild Posted August 10, 2008 Author Share Posted August 10, 2008 LOL, you'll have to use your imagination boss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoFlaJets Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 good stuff Step...no wonder you're a great poster...JA has a lot of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJ Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Thanks dude - we get just a sliver of Jets stuff here in Chi even with the Brett hype Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Thanks. Great report. I think Marcus Henry is dinged and hasn't been practicing. #47 should be Renkert, the recently signed LB from RU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BP Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Great job! thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Jet Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Great report dude. Can't wait to see this offense on the field, it should be (Hoping all things go to plan) VERY fun to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aec4 Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Great report dude. Can't wait to see this offense on the field, it should be (Hoping all things go to plan) VERY fun to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawngnome o-line Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 A few other notes.. Ratliff ran many plays in the 2nd QB slot....really starts to ask the question on who will be our backup. I think we still might be in competition, but here for teh backup and not the starter. Ratliff is playing great ball right now....throwing two great seam routes to Brad Smith definitely raised an eyebrow today. Stuckey had a strong practice...he catches ball from all 3 qb's against all three levels of CB's. He will be the slot guy in my opinion. His skills are perfect for this office. Brad Smith had a really strong practice as well...but know that he will be the 5th or 6th option on this teamout of the backfield after Coles, Cotch, Stuckey, Keller, and Whatever RB is in the backfield. Jed Pociask also went for a 75 yard TD catch and run, of which 65 yards were after the catch. Grant it, it was a defensive mistake and coverage error, but he did take the ball and run which was entertaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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