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Saturday Practice Notes April 14
What a difference a week makes. After the defense dominated last week the offense really turned the tables on them today. Jimmie Ward made a nice diving interception on the first possession and then it was pretty much all offense as they scored early and often. First team, second team, didn’t matter. A few observations:

-Quite a few guys sat out today including Leighton Settle, Nabal Jefferson, Joe Windsor, Jhony Faustin, Michael Santacaterina, Videl Nelson, Gervaise Porter and Courtney Stephen. Plus the long term guys Jason Schepler, Jared Volk, Tyler Loos and Zach Anderson. And Anthony Wells only played a little and Jayme Wells was with the baseball team.

-Lynch and McIntosh both looked good. Lynch threw some absolute pills into tight windows and McIntosh has a real nice touch on the deep ball. It was a very good day for those guys.

-All of the running backs did a nice job and more guys got touches with Settle out today. He was dressed by the way. Besides Akeem Daniels who was solid, every back did something positive including Bowers, Womble, Stingily and most of all James Spencer. He ripped off some real nice runs including a beautiful ankle breaker for a touchdown in the red zone drill. Spencer is interesting, he gives us a different look from the other backs.

-The first team O-line today was Ryan Brown, Logan Pegram, Mike Gegner, Matt Battaglia and Matt Krempel and they remained together for the entire scrimmage.

-Martel Moore made a sick catch down the left sideline with Demetrius Stone all over him although they called offensive interference on the play. It was still a great catch. Anthony Johnson had a great day and scored on a long catch and run. Troy Torrence, the walkon who was moved from safety, had a couple of nice catches and a nice end around too. He plays fast. Juwan Brescacin had a nice TD catch where he just overpowered the corner as he should with his size.

-Eakes and Semisch continue to impress at tight end, the former making a few nice catches and the latter catching a TD pass. Eakes really gets downfield well and may give us our first tight end receiving threat since maybe Jake Nordin. It’s been awhile. Nothing wrong with road graders but catching the ball helps too.

-The first team D-line had Donovan Gordon paired with Ken Bishop. Interesting that Gordon was ahead of Frank Boenzi who worked with the two’s. Otherwise the D had all of its regular starters except for Demetrius Stone subbing for Jhony Faustin. After the first unit they mixed and matched a lot on D. Bobby Winkel, Victor Jacques and Boomer Mays were the backers with the second unit today and they even worked Ryan Gorrell some at middle backer. We are thin at linebacker and could use some help from Mike Cotton or someone else this fall.

-The kicking game looked very good, both kickoffs and field goals. And some real nice punts inside the 10 yard line. Tommylee Lewis was the primary punt returner today. Yes!

I won't be there next week so someone please give us the 4-1-1 on the Spring Game. Go Huskies!
04-14-2012 04:34 PM
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RE: Saturday Practice Notes April 14
Thanks for the great review.
04-14-2012 05:23 PM
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Yea...thanks for a great review. It's nice to read about the team practices.
04-14-2012 05:48 PM
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RE: Saturday Practice Notes April 14
Gorrell is supposed to be very fast. Interested to see how Mays plays. He could be a sleeper at LB
04-14-2012 08:01 PM
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Thanks for the report.


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(04-14-2012 04:34 PM)NIU1981 Wrote:  -The first team D-line had Donovan Gordon paired with Ken Bishop. Interesting that Gordon was ahead of Frank Boenzi who worked with the two’s.

Kinda curious about Gordon. He's listed at 275 this year. Last year, they showed him at 304. I want our guys to be quick, but a 30 lb. loss seems like a lot for a DT. How did Gordon look during the scrimmage?
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(04-15-2012 10:48 AM)huskiebob Wrote:  
(04-14-2012 04:34 PM)NIU1981 Wrote:  -The first team D-line had Donovan Gordon paired with Ken Bishop. Interesting that Gordon was ahead of Frank Boenzi who worked with the two’s.

Kinda curious about Gordon. He's listed at 275 this year. Last year, they showed him at 304. I want our guys to be quick, but a 30 lb. loss seems like a lot for a DT. How did Gordon look during the scrimmage?

Like the rest of the D-linemen Gordon looked good for about the first three possessions and then got steamrolled the rest of the day. The offense seized the momentum and never let go.
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