Yesterday, the Freaklings and I drove up for the 1st day of practice. Players were in shorts, jerseys and helmets. BGFan, Falcon Fanatic and I sat under one of the trees in folding chairs and took in the action.
Omar looked great. Anthony Turner looked good as well. The WR's looked F A S T! Brandon Jones was flying all over the field and Cory Partridge looked fine. The best catch of the day was Luke Alexander making a twisting catch from an Omar pass thrown behind him. He reached back and snagged it nicely. Looks like we'll be possibly running some shovel pass plays to the backs and some option plays with WR's. Omar just towers over most people on the field.
Van Johnson was very impressive on D as he had a couple PBU on deep balls. BGFan made the comment that "Our DB's are keeping up with the WR's....which is a good thing!" Good to see Deaudre Perry out on the field.
The O line will not be an area of concern. We have some serious studs in the trenches. John Lanning looked pretty good doing the shot gun snaps.
Teddy Piepkow picked off Omar during 7 on 7 drills and the D looked solid.
Timchenko needs a bit of work...the kid has a pretty strong leg but his accuracy was off a bit. Fry looked solid punting.
All in all, good practice to get things rolling! I AM READY FOR FALCON FOOTBALL!!!!!
FF & BGFan,
Thanks for hangin with us! Even though Fricker's sucked, still was a good time hangin at the Doyt. I don't think we'll be going to Fricker's again.
Myles for now.
GO FALCONS!!! 26 days....
