Camp Report 8/2/14

Camp Report 8/2/14 Fan Fest at Edward Jones Dome

***** DISCLAIMER***** This is from memory. No notes were taken due to location of Practice!

Players not participating: Christian Bryant; Johnny Millard; Kadeem Jones, Jarrid Bryant; Janoris Jenkins, James Laurinaitis, William Hayes, Barrett Jones, Davin Joseph, Lamarcus Joyner; Rodger Saffold; Brian Quick, Trey Watts

Sammy Brown dressed and participated in unit drills, no team drills

Isaiah Pead dressed, and participated in unit drill as well as Special Team drill, no team drills (offense)

Jake Long and Scott Wells participated in the unit drills, limited reps in teams drills

James Laurinaitis sighting, IN A WALKING BOOT

Michael Brockers (foot/ankle) leave practice early with injury….. YES again today!

FULL PADS for the first time in 2014

Offense:

1st Unit: Started team drills with Long , Robinson, Wells, Joseph, Barksdale

· This unit got more reps in live drills and seem to be progressing.

o Once Wells and Long sat down, Barnes took virtually all the snaps at Center, due to B. Jones not being active

o Davin Joseph was back at his customary RG spot

o Mike Person manned the LG spot with Robinson moved out to LT.

o Another day featuring Austin and Bailey with the “1’s” with Kenny Britt sprinkled in on the 3 WR sets.

Defense:

1st Unit: Long Brockers Langford Quinn; MLB- Dunbar SLB- Ogletree; WLB- Armstrong; Johnson; McGee; McLeod; McDonald

· With Laurinaitis out, Dunbar took all the reps at MLB, with Armstrong taking the WLB reps

· With Jenkins out, McGee took his reps, and with Joyner out, Woodard came in and McGee slid to the Nickel

· When Brockers went out with the ankle issue, Aaron Donald stepped in with the “1’s”

2nd Unit: Sam Carrington Conrath Sims Steward Bates Wilson Woodard Gaines C. Davis Alexander

· With Armstrong moving up, Lawrence Wilson moves up to take the WLB reps with Bates and Steward at the other 2 LB spots

Theme of the day: “Where’s Waldo? Or half the starters for that matter?”

Again, many of the main characters are M I A.

Special Teams:

Kickoff Return

1st Unit:

Daniels Steward Armstrong Bates Reynolds C. Davis Harkey Barnes Conrath Cunningham Pead (returner)

2nd Unit:

Alexander Wilson Ogletree Dunbar A. Hill Blake Brodine Washington Watts Veltung (returner)

3rd Unit:

Moe Schiller Harris A. Cunningham Sabino Woodard Rhaney Sam Gaines Givens (returner)

Kickoff Coverage:

1st Unit: McDonald Daniels B. Cunningham McLeod Zuerlein Bates C. Davis Harkey Reynolds McGee

7 on 7 & 11 on 11 Drills:

Highlights:

PLAY OF THE DAY: Bradford to Britt on a 60 yard bomb – perfectly thrown Britt catches it in stride, behind Woodard

Stedman Bailey PLAYER of the day!!!! He and Bradford had something going early and often in the 11 on 11. First two plays went for 22 and 25 yard gains.

LB Aaron Hill (a local kid from Lutheran HS in St. Charles, MO) had a big day…. Would have registerd TWO sacks and had a nice INT off of Austin Davis

Greg Zuerlein had the crowd roaring during FG session hit his first 5, from distances that started out at 35, gradually moving back to hitting one EASILY from 55

o Attempted TWO 65 yard kicks only to fall short, but the crowd AND teammates were cheering him on!

Offense as a whole moved the ball very well in the 11 on 11 drills.

Lowlights:

Offense gets stuffed TWICE at goalline.

Brockers going down for the second day in a row with an ankle issue.

Revolving door on the O-Line. Just too many guys missing practices.

Shawn Hill falls down while in drop back, and ends up doing full somersault

CAMP OBSERVATIONS:

* Pass blocking drill with TEs and RBs in blitz pickup *

o Armstrong squared off with Bennie Cunningham and took exception to being blocked and spun around on 1st rep. Shoving match ensued. Followed by the biggest collision of 2014 on next round. Armstrong came full speed at Cunningham trying to just over power him, only to be stood up, and stopped in his tracks by Bennie Lots of trash talking and finger pointing, and surprise, plenty of antics from Armstrong. Bottom line he got STUCK by Cunningham and didn’t take it too well.

o Stacy was hit and miss, whiffing completely twice, and getting a good block on the 3rd

o Mason, well, let’s just say it’s a good thing he can run the ball

o Ogletree was unblockable. It was like anyone trying to block him was just standing in quicksand.

o There was a Jared Cook sighting blocking a LB. Yes, I said he BLOCKED a LB

o Harkey is a beast