Saturday

[The Jackal]

I think you need to listen to what the coaches are saying - Clay mentioned lots of guys out nothing serious. And a little weariness showed yesterday. This has been a hard pre-season with a lot of tackling. So yesterday was not indicative of wants going on—in the scrimmages and practices.

I'm not arguing with Apaladin but Furman has raised the speed of the receivers. I've seen it first hand in two practice sessions. Plus - I'll take Brian Bratton's option, he likes this group a lot.

The other thing to keep in mind - this is a large group of players and Clay has said over and over we're repping a lot of players on offense. That ends as of Monday as they start to prep for A&T and the other teams Furman will face.

It's always been my understanding of these scrimmages under Hendrix that he is interested in seeing reps for some of the younger guys to make a determination about who is going to get more of the focus in practice as the season starts.

[DeepPurple]

It was mostly around the passing game and against our excellent defense who has our O pretty figured out. There was not a lot of slamming our big backs up inside. My understanding is we will start concentrating more with 1st and 2nd team reps going forward. We have to be able to run the football, our OL will be better, IMO. If we are able to run the FB, play action will be dangerous.

[bj93]

It was mostly around the passing game and against our excellent defense who has our O pretty figured out.

Along with every other defense we play against.

[The Jackal]

It was mostly around the passing game and against our excellent defense who has our O pretty figured out. There was not a lot of slamming our big backs up inside. My understanding is we will start concentrating more with 1st and 2nd team reps going forward. We have to be able to run the football, our OL will be better, IMO. If we are able to run the FB, play action will be dangerous.

Looking at last spring's numbers, our passing game wasn't terrible. We threw for an average of 180+ ypg, which is a decent number of an offense wanting to do what we want to do.

If we can cut down on the negative plays on first down and limit turnovers, I think we'll be fine.