Jimi & others, twitter reports from practice (8/11)

Jim Fadler

@jimiramsboy

Justice Cunningham taking Brodine’s place with the early tight ends, Greg Reid and Marcus Roberso out early also #ramscamp

Givens and asst. We coach Kenan Smith out early again…getting off the line today #ramscamp

Saffold still in a ball cap, Pead has a helmet on, I believe I saw Trumaine in shorts no helmet earlier #ramscamp

At least at this point Brandon McGee is a full go #ramscamp

Trumaine on the field with a helmet #ramscamp

Kendricks running on the side without pads #ramscamp

Langford taking part in all Dline drills so far #ramscamp

Special teams drills on the far field…Dline and Qb’s on the near field #ramscamp

Oline joins them….Brandon Washington still not dressed #ramscamp

Saffold at least doing warm up drills with the rest of the offense. Including stretches with his shoulder #ramscamp

Chris Long does a somersault into the middle of the stretching drills #ramscamp

Kendricks has his pads on now and with the rest of the squad #ramscamp

Dline hitting the sleds, no Brockers today. He has a ball cap on #ramscamp

Oline running the hill no Barrett Jones. More resistance today by those pushed. Boudreau animated #ramscamp

Dline very happily working on which shoulder to take so as not to lose the gap and edge #ramscamp

Coach Waufle conjuring up Muhammad Ali footwork today #ramscamp

And for those ho saw the game….linebackers working on tackling angles in a cone drill #ramscamp

Now the linebackers working with pads and keeping their gaps…coaches watched the game film #ramscamp

Frank Bush and Coach Williams putting linebackers through the drills. Williams and McGinnis with the Dbacks now #ramscamp

Only a brief glimpse but it looked like JL55 out of the boot #ramscamp

11 on 11 at the far field #ramscamp

McGee and Tru got the first team corner reps #ramscamp

Shaun Hill having a good day so far #ramscamp

Demetrius Rhaney needs a ton of weight room work and technique but there is talent there. Barrett Jones has th pedigree #ramscamp

Offensive tackle depth though continues to be very worrisome. Person is very slow out of his stance #ramscamp

TJ with a nice break up of a long pass #ramscamp

Rams need a tackle version of Davin Joseph on the roster #ramscamp

Sammy Brown getting significant time with the second string….pass of the day from Sam to Quick on a very long corner route #ramscamp

Just noticed Darren Woodard on the side in a ball cap #ramscamp

Gilbert really drills a nice dig to Bailey. …ample arm strength but he is not looking anyone off. #Ramscamp

And just as I typed that he looks the linebackers and safeties right into a pass break up #ramscamp

Defense is completely losing tight ends or receivers dragging short across the field….no one even close #ramscamp

Bailey, Cunningham, Austin and Bayer all wide open on drags #ramscamp

Qb’s and tight ends come to the near field….working on routes and outs. Oline working on picking up stunts #ramscamp

Punt block routine on the far side….Coach Fassel kicking a beach ball #ramscamp

McGee with a nice tip away on a long pass to Austin #ramscamp

To me Alex Bayer is ahead for the fourth tight end #ramscamp

Reynolds getting some second team reps at tailback #ramscamp

Gilbert not lighting it up in the last half of the session today #ramscamp

He did hit a decent fade to Jordan Harris right as I wrote that. Defense has jumped offside several times today

Just saw a flash of the old Quick…..dropped a nice pass from Sam in traffic #ramscamp

For a “run down” linebacker Dunbar gets a nice drop….bats away a pass #ramscamp

Sam looks left, looks left comes back to Cook in the right seam…..TD #ramscamp

Not sure of th exact number but it seems Aaron Donald getting a lot of reps with the ones today #ramscamp

And the defense is still jumping offside #ramscamp

Passing shell drill….Travis Bond takes a swing at a Dline on the other end #ramscamp

Rhaney send the rusher wide while on the other end Britt shows Quick how to run a dig #ramscamp

The Rams can life Joseph into a guard and Grob or Saffold to tackle…but I would prefer to leave both alone #ramscamp

That appears to be it #ramscamp

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So I hear that the announcers on the game Friday night were less than charitable toward Brian Quick. Especially his effort on an early deep ball from Hill. I don’t have the benefit of replay but have tried to remember the play as best I could. I also asked my son about it.

At the time I didn’t think anything remarkably bad or poor about his effort. In fact I thought at the time it was simply overthrown and not catchable. I may be wrong about that but seeing it live gave me no reaction.

I have always maintained that in practice he has shown up and vastly improved. But I have also tempered it with the expectation that he has to show it in a real game.