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Training Camp at Halas Hall truly beats the hell out of going there for OTAs. The whole is experience is fan friendly and extremely well executed. Anyway on to things I witnessed today...
Teven Jenkins:
Teven was standing, rocking, shifting his weight side to side and he put his hands on his hips multiple times. He can stand up straight without assistance. Great practice Teven!
The first group I watched were the outside linebackers. Trevis Gipson is long, lean and muscled. His movements are smooth. I watched him work on rip moves, swim moves and bending the edge. I have a good feeling about this guy. He definitely looks the part.
Mack looks to be in amazing shape and it is cool to see a guy with his reputation work so hard in drills.
Quinn was moving well and he can definitely bend.
This was a baby bend.
So I heard the sled popping and there were two distinct sounds. When Hicks hit it and then everyone else. The violence and explosion when Hicks fires out to strike the sled with his hands is just different than the other lineman. More on Hicks later...
So they ran some one on ones with each of the three Bear QBs. Usually this is like shooting fish in a barrel for the offense. Dalton and Fields completed most of these reps. Mr. Slice and Dice really struggled and had several of his passes defended. These were the last reps for Foles all day.
Cole Kmet:
He has taken a big jump since last year. He moves extremely well for his size and is catching everything. Also, he's playing with an edge. He was knocked out of bounds during 11 on 11 and gave the DB a shot which almost started a large skirmish. Dalton looks for him all the time. Andy feeds tight ends. Kmet also reached back and plucked a ball with his hands that was well behind him and turned upfield for a nice gain. The pass was from Dalton.
Mooney:
He looked good early in practice and then hit a rough patch that included two consecutive drops. He is sleight. His legs are tiny but he's incredibly fast and he's shifty.
Montgomery:
He ran hard all day and does appear noticeably quicker. This dude can really cut and he runs with a low center of gravity. it's easy to see why he breaks so many tackles.
Williams:
Great pick up! He has great hands and runs good routes for a RB.
Herbert:
He's easily making this team. He also runs hard, has excellent balance and vision. He probably had more carries in live drills than any other back. He had some productive kick off reps against the Dolphins too. One might have been TD. I didn't hear a whistle and he made it through the pack. He did fumble one kickoff return but he recovered it.
Brian Johnson (back up kicker): He made about ten kicks in a row out to fifty yards and split the uprights right down the middle on each one. Only one was not high up in the net. He might grab a job somewhere in the league He has a big, accurate leg.
Interior first team o-line:
They opened up some holes today. A couple of them were huge. Most of the openings were created by Whitehair and Mustipher.
Jesse James and Jesper Horsted: Both of these guys had multiple catches all of them from Fields. You can tell Fields trusts James and he pushed the ball to him several times. Horsted caught some passes in the seam that would have gone for big gains.
Dazz Newsome: I saw him catch one ball on the sideline in 11 on 11. He didn't get many reps.
Byrd:
He caught a TD from Dalton on a corner route in red zone drills. Earlier he dropped a slant behind the LBs that hit him right in the hands.
The Bears D:
They were chippy as hell today. In red zone, Hicks was pushing into the backfield on almost every snap and believe me, he was telling the Dolphins about it. Mack came across quickly off the right edge and stopped Tua for a sack. I'm not sure why you would roll out toward Mack but they did and Mack blew it up.
Anybody that believes the Bears should cut or trade Hicks should stop posting on this forum. This dude is ready for opening day. He will dominate this year.
I saw Graham and Shelley both make solid plays on the ball. However, Tua really does kind of suck.
Omar Kelly - Dolphins Beat Writer:
I saw him take multiple hits of what must have been Crack!
Ridley:
He's still the other Ridley.
Fields:
The three best players out there today were Fields, Hicks and Mack. Guys, he looks every bit the part of a franchise QB. He seems cool and confident. He wasn't perfect early but once he found his groove, he was almost unstoppable. He's a pocket first guy and I watched his head as he went through his progressions and went to his third read several times. He was making plays all day.
There was a rep where he was flushed left and threw back across the field to hit Horsted who was wide open.
At the end of the day we had "The Series." The red zone reps that blew everyone away. I gave my description in the training camp thread. The whole tool kit was on display. Decisiveness, accuracy, velocity and pin point ball placement... And that foot speed!
4 plays - two passing TDs, one running TD and one perfect pass dropped by Ridley in the corner of the end zone...
That was my day. It was pretty cool.
Teven Jenkins:
Teven was standing, rocking, shifting his weight side to side and he put his hands on his hips multiple times. He can stand up straight without assistance. Great practice Teven!
The first group I watched were the outside linebackers. Trevis Gipson is long, lean and muscled. His movements are smooth. I watched him work on rip moves, swim moves and bending the edge. I have a good feeling about this guy. He definitely looks the part.
Mack looks to be in amazing shape and it is cool to see a guy with his reputation work so hard in drills.
Quinn was moving well and he can definitely bend.
This was a baby bend.
So I heard the sled popping and there were two distinct sounds. When Hicks hit it and then everyone else. The violence and explosion when Hicks fires out to strike the sled with his hands is just different than the other lineman. More on Hicks later...
So they ran some one on ones with each of the three Bear QBs. Usually this is like shooting fish in a barrel for the offense. Dalton and Fields completed most of these reps. Mr. Slice and Dice really struggled and had several of his passes defended. These were the last reps for Foles all day.
Cole Kmet:
He has taken a big jump since last year. He moves extremely well for his size and is catching everything. Also, he's playing with an edge. He was knocked out of bounds during 11 on 11 and gave the DB a shot which almost started a large skirmish. Dalton looks for him all the time. Andy feeds tight ends. Kmet also reached back and plucked a ball with his hands that was well behind him and turned upfield for a nice gain. The pass was from Dalton.
Mooney:
He looked good early in practice and then hit a rough patch that included two consecutive drops. He is sleight. His legs are tiny but he's incredibly fast and he's shifty.
Montgomery:
He ran hard all day and does appear noticeably quicker. This dude can really cut and he runs with a low center of gravity. it's easy to see why he breaks so many tackles.
Williams:
Great pick up! He has great hands and runs good routes for a RB.
Herbert:
He's easily making this team. He also runs hard, has excellent balance and vision. He probably had more carries in live drills than any other back. He had some productive kick off reps against the Dolphins too. One might have been TD. I didn't hear a whistle and he made it through the pack. He did fumble one kickoff return but he recovered it.
Brian Johnson (back up kicker): He made about ten kicks in a row out to fifty yards and split the uprights right down the middle on each one. Only one was not high up in the net. He might grab a job somewhere in the league He has a big, accurate leg.
Interior first team o-line:
They opened up some holes today. A couple of them were huge. Most of the openings were created by Whitehair and Mustipher.
Jesse James and Jesper Horsted: Both of these guys had multiple catches all of them from Fields. You can tell Fields trusts James and he pushed the ball to him several times. Horsted caught some passes in the seam that would have gone for big gains.
Dazz Newsome: I saw him catch one ball on the sideline in 11 on 11. He didn't get many reps.
Byrd:
He caught a TD from Dalton on a corner route in red zone drills. Earlier he dropped a slant behind the LBs that hit him right in the hands.
The Bears D:
They were chippy as hell today. In red zone, Hicks was pushing into the backfield on almost every snap and believe me, he was telling the Dolphins about it. Mack came across quickly off the right edge and stopped Tua for a sack. I'm not sure why you would roll out toward Mack but they did and Mack blew it up.
Anybody that believes the Bears should cut or trade Hicks should stop posting on this forum. This dude is ready for opening day. He will dominate this year.
I saw Graham and Shelley both make solid plays on the ball. However, Tua really does kind of suck.
Omar Kelly - Dolphins Beat Writer:
I saw him take multiple hits of what must have been Crack!
Ridley:
He's still the other Ridley.
Fields:
The three best players out there today were Fields, Hicks and Mack. Guys, he looks every bit the part of a franchise QB. He seems cool and confident. He wasn't perfect early but once he found his groove, he was almost unstoppable. He's a pocket first guy and I watched his head as he went through his progressions and went to his third read several times. He was making plays all day.
There was a rep where he was flushed left and threw back across the field to hit Horsted who was wide open.
At the end of the day we had "The Series." The red zone reps that blew everyone away. I gave my description in the training camp thread. The whole tool kit was on display. Decisiveness, accuracy, velocity and pin point ball placement... And that foot speed!
4 plays - two passing TDs, one running TD and one perfect pass dropped by Ridley in the corner of the end zone...
That was my day. It was pretty cool.
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