Quickie Camp Notes, Day 4

DAY 4

– Not a cloud in the sky. Hot as hell of course.
– Shaq Calhoun and Isaiah Prince get a warmup together. Jakeem Grant and Kenny Stills. There are themes to these pre-practice warm ups.
– No change to PUP list. We “assume” there are no changes from yesterday. (Haven’t gotten our injury update yet)
– No Coach Flores availability today.
– PUP guys remain the same. Chase Allen OUT today.
– Far field work today.
– Some football players are big. Jaryd Jones-Smith is bigger. He’s distracting in person.
– Linebackers doing Indy drills with those giant exercise balls. There is something you don’t see every day.
– Indy drills.
– QB warmup goes off good. Rosen has been 1,000 times better the last two days with his warmup regiment.
– Sharp indy work from the WR’s. It’s not always like this. Good looking team today.
– Give me 53 Jakeem Grants. Watching practice would give you a stroke.
– No Special Teams work so far. Looks like lite work in pads today.
– You can tell that Allen Hurns has had success in the NFL before. Lock as the slot guy? So far, it looks that way.
– Matt Haack taking snaps as a punter…..and throwing several pass routes. I have been watching camp practices since the Shula days. Never seen a punter doing a full pass warmup.
– Not much going on today.
– Tunsil, Reed, Kilgore, Davis, Mills…since day 1. Could change. Michael Dieter is a worthy prospect. Noticeable.
– 11v11. Finally.
– Nate Orchad gets blocked into Fort Myers. Ballage runs past. Big gain on the left side.
– Josh Rosen sails one over the head of Isaiah Ford.
– Fitzy nearly pick sixed by Jerome Baker.
– This was an awful 11v11 stint.
– This is new. 1v1 at the goal line.
– Special Teams work for the first time today.
– 7v7 time.
– This is discouraging.
– From the 15 now. Rosen checks down. Rosen hits Ballage on the wheel route for a TD. Ballage laid out for it. Ball had to be delivered hot. Safety was there. Good stuff finally.
– Jaryd Jones-Smith is at RT on 2nd team. Doing well. There is no pass rush of note.
– HEY! BIG HEAD DON SHULA MASCOT IS HERE.
– First sack of camp! Rosen had nothing. Left side of 2nd team line collapsed.
– The sunny way to look at this: This is a running team. They might be really good at it too. QB play just not there. Yet.
– Defense is just beating the crap out of the Offense, save for a few moments.
– Entire defense made to run to the T.N.T. wall. Looked like an alignment/substitution issue.
– They set up 5 trash cans to represent the offensive line for some defensive drills. There is a joke in there somewhere.
– Andrew Van Ginkel. Good at football. Been strong at the point of attack, holds ground, sticky tackler.
– Entire offense made to run to the T.N.T. Wall. Good. Stay there.
– This is a bad practice. It Happens.
– 2nd team offense can’t gain a yard on the ground.
– Bad practice.
– T.N.T. WALL count: Defense 2x, Offense 1x.
– It’s finally over.
– Offensive assistants hold court.
– REMINDER: NO PRACTICE TOMORROW, MONDAY. They and WE are back at it on Tuesday.

Practice MVP: Andrew Van Ginkel, Akeem Spence, Davon Godchaux
Struggled: The entire Offense.

Alfredo Arteaga (@UptownReport) is one-third of the trio that does the Three Yards Per Carry (@3YardsPerCarry) podcast.