Tuesdaze — Last Open Practice

Tuesday’s open practice was well attended by fans and media types alike, with appropriate set-ups for live shots, an extended cell phone call into a talk show, and the water girls staying busy due to the heat. The black tarp around the fence and the sunken nature of the West side of the practice field ensures a lack of breeze to the players were any to be available.

Reggie Herring is extremely entertaining and possibly not long for this earth if he continues to exert himself in this heat like he did today. He is colorful, explaining to one player that “Superman isn’t real, he lives in comic books, and you ain’t Superman.”

Howard, Hillis, and company look good. I’m liking the running backs. Quarterbacks have more than a ways to go, with Casey Dick actually providing some impressive moments while serving up balls to the backs and tight ends against the linebackers and safeties. He puts the ball in good places I noticed. Robert Johnson is obviously ahead of Chris and Cole, and fortunately we have many practices days ahead for all, as it appeared many more were needed.

Monk and the other receivers have promise, but that remains a big “we’ll see” with me. Cornerbacks will struggle. As it goes in football, the story will be in the offensive and defensive lines, and nothing happened today to provide any insight to that.

So there you go. No plays, alignments or schemes revealed. A fun time was had by all.