I found this on the other board, figured it is well worth mentioning.
"The following thoughts are in no order whatsoever, so bear with me. And keep in mind we had no jersey numbers to work off of, so it's hard to get an idea of who was who, other than the biggies.
Santonio is uncoverable. UN-COVER-A-BLE. Period. One play, Fox was covering him, probably a 5 yard cushion. As Santonio went by, Fox grabbed a massive handful of shirt, and held it for probably 2 full seconds. Santonio still broke lose to the corner of the end zone for a score. He’s unbelievable. He and EJ got into a little pushing/shouting match – no big deal, though. The rest of the team was laughing it off.
Marcel Frost in no way looks as big as I pictured. Dragonknight could probably tell you a bit more about him, but the few plays I was watching, he looked very, very good. Nice hands. I believe it was Freeman who was trying to cover him in one on one drills, near the end. Frost simply beat him. Carpenter lined up in 7-7 I bet no more than 3 inches from Frost’s hand, and stayed with him step for step.
Bobby Carpenter is huge, like enormous huge. AJ Hawk is huge. Didn’t see Schlegal….
I was planning on writing a whole long post about Smith v. Zwick, but there’s really no point. Neither stood out in any way. Smith had a tendency to have poor accuracy, often throwing high or low. Zwick must room with Stan White or something – I bet he hit him no less than 8 times in 20 minutes. Both have strong arms, but I was not blown away by either of them.
If Roy Hall was there, I couldn’t tell who he was. Certainly didn’t stand out.
Bam Childress is very short. Dropped a couple sure catches, then made a move on Dustin Fox that Charles Woodson couldn’t cover. Up and down with Bam. But he can talk trash…lol.
There was another receiver w/dreads like Holmes, who I believe must have been Dukes. Very polished receiver, we got a good one there.
The most surprising player of the day was Tony Gonzales. There is no way he plays defense. He showed me very good moves and great speed, which we knew all along. What stood out was his physical play – he pushed off (very discreetly, I might add – they teach that well), bumped and shoved, and got open time and time again. No less than 3 really nice TD catches for him, from both QBs. Even more, when he lined up, he was telling the other WRs what coverage the D was in, what to check off to, etc. Really showed well today.
EJ Underwood is better than Chris Gamble. Amazing speed on this kid. I only saw him and Santonio against each other a couple times, and he held his own pretty well. Got beat once, picked off Zwick once. In one on one, someone, might have been Hall, ran about a 10 yard out. EJ covered him so close I literally could not see daylight between them. Incomplete pass. I like EJ
Youboty wasn’t practicing today, don’t know why.
The linemen were “working” out. Not very heated at all, just easing through things. Mangold was in charge there, for sure. He was yelling out what to do and keeping things moving.
Curt Lukens was much taller than I imagined. He was definitely at LB, looks like he’s put on weight, too."
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I'm a bit concerned about Dustin Fox though...
"The following thoughts are in no order whatsoever, so bear with me. And keep in mind we had no jersey numbers to work off of, so it's hard to get an idea of who was who, other than the biggies.
Santonio is uncoverable. UN-COVER-A-BLE. Period. One play, Fox was covering him, probably a 5 yard cushion. As Santonio went by, Fox grabbed a massive handful of shirt, and held it for probably 2 full seconds. Santonio still broke lose to the corner of the end zone for a score. He’s unbelievable. He and EJ got into a little pushing/shouting match – no big deal, though. The rest of the team was laughing it off.
Marcel Frost in no way looks as big as I pictured. Dragonknight could probably tell you a bit more about him, but the few plays I was watching, he looked very, very good. Nice hands. I believe it was Freeman who was trying to cover him in one on one drills, near the end. Frost simply beat him. Carpenter lined up in 7-7 I bet no more than 3 inches from Frost’s hand, and stayed with him step for step.
Bobby Carpenter is huge, like enormous huge. AJ Hawk is huge. Didn’t see Schlegal….
I was planning on writing a whole long post about Smith v. Zwick, but there’s really no point. Neither stood out in any way. Smith had a tendency to have poor accuracy, often throwing high or low. Zwick must room with Stan White or something – I bet he hit him no less than 8 times in 20 minutes. Both have strong arms, but I was not blown away by either of them.
If Roy Hall was there, I couldn’t tell who he was. Certainly didn’t stand out.
Bam Childress is very short. Dropped a couple sure catches, then made a move on Dustin Fox that Charles Woodson couldn’t cover. Up and down with Bam. But he can talk trash…lol.
There was another receiver w/dreads like Holmes, who I believe must have been Dukes. Very polished receiver, we got a good one there.
The most surprising player of the day was Tony Gonzales. There is no way he plays defense. He showed me very good moves and great speed, which we knew all along. What stood out was his physical play – he pushed off (very discreetly, I might add – they teach that well), bumped and shoved, and got open time and time again. No less than 3 really nice TD catches for him, from both QBs. Even more, when he lined up, he was telling the other WRs what coverage the D was in, what to check off to, etc. Really showed well today.
EJ Underwood is better than Chris Gamble. Amazing speed on this kid. I only saw him and Santonio against each other a couple times, and he held his own pretty well. Got beat once, picked off Zwick once. In one on one, someone, might have been Hall, ran about a 10 yard out. EJ covered him so close I literally could not see daylight between them. Incomplete pass. I like EJ
Youboty wasn’t practicing today, don’t know why.
The linemen were “working” out. Not very heated at all, just easing through things. Mangold was in charge there, for sure. He was yelling out what to do and keeping things moving.
Curt Lukens was much taller than I imagined. He was definitely at LB, looks like he’s put on weight, too."
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I'm a bit concerned about Dustin Fox though...