Monday Report

First of all there were numerous guys out today…some if soft cast walking boots. I got a chance to talk to one of the professional reporters whom we will term…..In the Nick of Time who said none of the injured were serious.

QB-I tried to pay attention to Sam’s plant foot and see if pushing off caused him any issues and there were none. I have not heard if he is playing Friday but I would expect it to be one series if that.

Hill had a really nice play that I mistakenly credited to Gilbert. Threw to Bayer on a crossing pattern where Bayer was bracketed and by a linebacker and a safety. Hill just dropped it in over the linebacker and it was about as good as I saw today.

Early on the Rams were running a series of deep out with just QB and receiver…it seemed Gilbert really labored to get the ball deep

RB-I have heard some camp observers commenting on Tre Mason’s penchant for trying to cut everything back or to bounce to the outside. Early on that was very evident. I think every snap he took until late he attempted to cut back. The last rep I saw him get he busted straight up the middle, found the crease and drove into the secondary.

They did try to use him late in motion to the outside as a receiver with little success.

Stacy is ready, lets roll.

WR/TE’s-Pettis got into a fight with Joyner late in practice….which is time to point out that Pettis still seems to have a role on the team and still has an amazing catch radius. There was a play where he went in motion and tried to turn up the field that it was alarmingly evident that his speed just isn’t there. Now that the Rams finally have some professional caliber NFL type wide receivers you can see how his lack of speed holds him back even with his other skills.

Speaking of which at one point I turned to my friend and said…”Britt is the first NFL professional caliber bona fide wide receiver Sam Bradford has had since Mark Clayton….which of course was Mark Clayton’s cue to come up and sit beside and tell us….”Hi I’m Mark Clayton.” He was in town for business concerning his new electronics venture and just coincidentally picked that moment to come up….that or the universe is calling to me.

Givens was out very very early doing some extra route running work with one of the quality control guys…it was extremely hot and he was working his ass of on pivot routes.

The tight end I touted early Justice Cunningham had some drops….Alex Bayer a 6:04 rookie out of Bowling Green looked much better. He is always out early with Harkey and Brodine.

I made mention of a rookie named Jordan Harris out of a small New England school called Bryant on twitter last week and made a smart ass remark about not knowing where it was….and then promptly got buried by tweets back to me about both Jordan Harris and where Bryant was located….and today he dropped everything in sight so there Bryant.

Oline-Wells and Long took part in almost every drill that I could track. Mike Person got his ass, hat and colon handed to him trying to block Quinn in the line vs line drills.

Demetrius Rhaney has some ability and you can see it most of the time, run blocking is more his forte at this point and in the line vs line drills he really has issues at time.

Barrett Jones sat out the day. Timmy Barnes consistently got turned in pass rushing drills and really did not look good at all. Even the UDFA’s worked him over.

DLine-Follow me on this one rep that really got my attention.

Its in the match-up drill, Oklahoma drill, quasi Okalahoma drill or Oline vs Dline drill or whatever you want to call it.

Its Quinn vs Person….Quinn comes up out of his stance and does a stutter step and Person slides to his left to cut Quinn off. Quinn then counters with what looked like but surely could not have been a 5-6 foot stride and got the outside of Person’s left shoulder. At that point he planted his right foot and drove to what would have been a sack…yet again of the QB.

Robert Quinn hardly sporting.

Everyone around me ooohed and aaahed even Mark Clayton.

Linebackers-Ray, Ray will be the next one to get into a fight with the offense. The line of the say was “conflict and drama” when they first went to 11 on 11.

JoLonn Dunbar plays a pretty good MLB>

DBs- It was as they all have been so far supposed to be a thud or touch drill.Joyner wasn’t the only one having issues with that…..TJ and Eugene Sims were popping pads all day long. Greg Reid played much better today and even had a pick on a sideline route late in the day. He also got a lot of work as a PR

K-Zuerlein got some work in today trying to nail the tower guys.

Fisher supervised a fake kick drill at one point where Hekker moved up under center and Zuerlein shifted to his tailback….somehow I don’t see them pitching out to Greg.