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As I mentioned in another thread, I'm in Denver on holiday and went along to the Broncos TC yesterday. I haven't been to a Ram camp, but am an avid reader of what the guys on here have posted about them, and some aspects of Bronco camp were different to what I expected. One or two made me wonder about differences in how teams perform once things get real.
Differences?
Fans had no choice where to sit. It was like the parking lot, you move between white lines until you reach an empty spot and the you have to sit there. The grass bank we all sat on gave a good view of the two main training fields, though.
No red shirts for QBs.
4 zebras who threw flags during 7 on 7s, 11 on 11s and full scrimmage. Relatively few PIs called, but there were a few. Made me wonder if they are more disciplined because of it.
A lot of time practising red zone throws, both in small groups and 11 on 11. Zebras ruled on whether receivers got both feet down in the corners. Do we spend that much time on this?
Scrimmages had play clock running and some had down markers. If the O didn't make the first down they had to kick. They nailed a couple of huge FGs albeit in the thin air here. Do we regularly practice with a play clock and zebras? Wondered if we would get fewer delay of game, offside, false start etc if we did?
Apologies if many of those things are common in Rams TC.
Apart from that, they practised catching punts ( no surprise after they fumbled 2 at Seattle) and still looked ropey at it and did the same sort of position group exercises I heard about the Rams doing. There was a funny incident between Bradley Roby and D. Thomas. Roby defended a ball to DT then obviously said something because DT soft punched Roby in the face. There was more yap, then Roby beat him again on the next play. More talk from Roby, then DT lines up opposite the other corner on the next play!
One last observation, though not Rams-related. Manning looked good in the drills, but didn't complete much in the scrimmages. If I was watching Foles do that I might have been a bit worried, Broncos D might be pretty good. Osweiler, who played well v the Hags last week, looked really good against the 2nd D all morning. Their 2nd D may not be good, or the Broncos might have a pretty good replacement for when Manning retires. Watching Manning throw read zone passes and move the chains in team scrimmages for 2 years must have taught him plenty.
Differences?
Fans had no choice where to sit. It was like the parking lot, you move between white lines until you reach an empty spot and the you have to sit there. The grass bank we all sat on gave a good view of the two main training fields, though.
No red shirts for QBs.
4 zebras who threw flags during 7 on 7s, 11 on 11s and full scrimmage. Relatively few PIs called, but there were a few. Made me wonder if they are more disciplined because of it.
A lot of time practising red zone throws, both in small groups and 11 on 11. Zebras ruled on whether receivers got both feet down in the corners. Do we spend that much time on this?
Scrimmages had play clock running and some had down markers. If the O didn't make the first down they had to kick. They nailed a couple of huge FGs albeit in the thin air here. Do we regularly practice with a play clock and zebras? Wondered if we would get fewer delay of game, offside, false start etc if we did?
Apologies if many of those things are common in Rams TC.
Apart from that, they practised catching punts ( no surprise after they fumbled 2 at Seattle) and still looked ropey at it and did the same sort of position group exercises I heard about the Rams doing. There was a funny incident between Bradley Roby and D. Thomas. Roby defended a ball to DT then obviously said something because DT soft punched Roby in the face. There was more yap, then Roby beat him again on the next play. More talk from Roby, then DT lines up opposite the other corner on the next play!
One last observation, though not Rams-related. Manning looked good in the drills, but didn't complete much in the scrimmages. If I was watching Foles do that I might have been a bit worried, Broncos D might be pretty good. Osweiler, who played well v the Hags last week, looked really good against the 2nd D all morning. Their 2nd D may not be good, or the Broncos might have a pretty good replacement for when Manning retires. Watching Manning throw read zone passes and move the chains in team scrimmages for 2 years must have taught him plenty.
