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Has anyone been able to catch ne practices so far to give an insite on the progress of our offense
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I was at practice on Saturday, things looked okay. It is a difficult judge due to the nature of our offense. For example:Originally posted by Grinch View Post
In 2007 everything was opened up, practices looked great, smooth, and flawless. Sanders threw the ball around in 7-7 or in bones and it looked like an NFL practice.
The last 3 years (4 including this year) the plays have been much more play action related, usually started with some sort of spring option development (a strenth of P Grace and Rennie), so to see the fluidity of the offense from a far is difficult.
I will say this, the "routine" throws looked as though they were completed with much more ease. By routine I mean 5 yard out passes, throws to the flats, quick slants, etc... the long ball still looks suspect, but that being said, we were kind of spoiled with Sanders and before a couple years with Helming so it won't look great.
Seeing the "routine" balls thrown better makes me feel a lot better than I did at the end of last year...Illinois State Fan at a St. Louis White Castle 3:45AM Saturday March 6th:
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Sounds like progress how about the developement of our O-line, n we've been asking for Rennie 2 be able to hit the quick slants to get our playmakers da ball so i'm hopin this progress continues, I've been hearing that the 1st team Offense has been going up against the first team Defense so i think thats a big plus also to get us ready for a promising seasonComment
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I was at practice the other day & #14 Lanpher threw the best ball in drills. Then when they went to coverage drills Rennie was right on the mark on almost every pass. I was amazed at the timing it takes to run this offense, esp. with so much counter motion out of backs, wide outs, & tight ends. Kind of tough to really tell much from practice. Best quote I heard came from Farley when he was working drills with outside line backers & coverage of tightends. He told a young player, " I don't want you to smile at him I want you to knock him on his a**!"
They took #3 Fuller off on a cart with either an ankle or knee injury.
Anyone know if they are scrimmaging Saturday & if so when?"I know the CUBS will play in the world series one of these years, I only hope I'm still alive to see it !"
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This is what people were missing last year with Rennie...no, he doesn't have the arm strength Grace does, he doesn't need too. It's pretty damn hard, especially with how fast our WR are, to step in and in 27 practices be able to be on target with passes in our system...especially when you have a play action, or possibly even to decide if it is a run or pass depending how the defense plays the snap.Originally posted by Durf73 View Post
With Rennie having a full season, and off season to work out as the #1 QB, I expect much progress.
If he has the same passing season as he did last year, in terms of TD/INT ratio, I'll stop "defending" him.Comment
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What time is practice today?"I think they're very good," Farley said of the preseason top 25 Hawkeyes. "But so are we."Comment
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hows Austin Ebertowski doingComment
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very interestingComment
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I have to laugh at the fact he used a photo of the Marshalltown/IC High state final game from 2009 as his backdrop of the dome....
Neat photo other than that.Comment
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i was wondering if that was the dome because the roof was gone but it was a very interesting picture.Comment
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It is promising to see things like that, meaning the "campaign begins." With today's ability to market using internet media we have to stay ahead of the game and use all advantages we can. People in the media, and our sports information director are around to influence people to look at our players and the things they can do. At our level of football they are very influential in the post season accolades and career advancement (professional sports related anyway) of our athletes.
I think I have said this before on here but I will say it again. I had dinner with Reed Doughty from the Washington Redskins a couple of years ago out in Virginia. He knew that I had played at a small school as well (Reed is from Northern Colorado) and he told me bar none the only reason he was in the league was due to his school's SID pushing so hard to get him drafted. He got drafted in the late rounds and the rest was history, he said if he hadn't been he would have been brought in by someone as an undrafted free agent and probably suffered the same fate that most of them do...Illinois State Fan at a St. Louis White Castle 3:45AM Saturday March 6th:
"White Castle?" "more like Black Castle..."
You stay classy Redbirds.Comment
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The question/concern I have is if that is actually being done by the UNI SID? I don't see anything on the UNI website about it. If ti is being done by the SID, I am cool with it. If it is being done by Rennie or a friend of his on their own blog, then that raises questions about individual vs team honors. I don't remember there being much hype for Sanders his senior year and he still finished second in the voting.Comment
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i think its very cool and i really hope its bein circulated because on one end your right about wondering if it makes a person lean more towards individual performance other than team, but it also promotes the school alot when people are out there doing things like this. so i hope to see more work like this with other teammates maybe even coaches, make UNI a household name outside the midwest. I wonder if i can get a shirt made from thisComment
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I also like the one done for Boothby very creative http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_GsLBd28of...0/boothby2.jpgComment
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