CAMP REPORT Camp report July 29

[VeteranRamFan]

Made it in without any one checking for tickets. This place is still not organized but I’m not complaining.

No pictures today, just too difficult with the sun and bleacher position.

I’m taking a page from @dpjax playbook and will use voice to text.

Don’t expect any updates till tonight.

 

[VeteranRamFan]

Did get to meet the Quessenberry clan, mom and aunts and uncle waiting in line. Super nice and talkative family.

 

[Londoner]

This place is still not organized

But enough about ROD...

 

[VeteranRamFan]

Dotson only player on the field. Stretching.

 

[Ground Chuck]

Dotson only player on the field. Stretching.

Yes, with Dotson the only player on the field, I think it was good timing for you to decide to stretch. A man of your dignified age should keep limber.

 

[VeteranRamFan]

#17 Adams takes the field along with Pukka.

 

[VeteranRamFan]

Kam curl limping to the trainers table. Didn’t see what happened

 

[bubbaramfan]

Howdy folks, really good day at TC today. guys really got after it in scrimmages. Cam Curl came off limping, don;t know the extent of his injury, He didn;t return. Forbes looked like he strained a hammy Stafford on sidelines, AJajackson in pads and worked with OL but still no contact. Havenstien only player not at practice. Prolly Vet day off.

Day started with stretching, then some fielding of kickoffs and punts. Several guys doing the fielding. Covey, Smith and Mumpfield looking the best. Players separated into position groups working on various aspects of their position.

WR's going out for short, then medium, then long passes from QB's. Bennett and Garapolo throwing some good deep passes, Nacua dropped his long one from JimmyG, Tutu just missed a deep one from Bennett. Gotta say here Bennett is throwing the ball well and looked pretty good running the 2nd offense. We noticed Xavier Smith not working with the WR's. WR pecking order, Adams, Nacua, Atwell, Whittington, Mumfield Covey then Mario Williams.

A drill I haven't seen before at TC: One on one O lineman vs a D lineman. they face each other hand in the dirt and coach blows whistle and D guys tries to get by O guy. They were getting after it. Ford is a handful. He got by everyone but Avila and Dotson. They had a crowd around them so I couldn't make out most of who was facing who, Humphries and Leviston held their own. The players watching sure thought it was fun.

Scrimmages starting, 1st team O Humphries LT, Avila LG, Shelton C, Dotson RG, McClendon RT. 1st team D, Verse, Fisk, Turner. Young,
Speights, Landman (Green dot) Witherspoon (yeah he was out there) Durant, DWilliams Lake, Kinchens. turner and Ford alternated. (they did a lot of alternating). 2nd teams did a lot of switching around, One noticeable thing was Justin Dedich was the C on the 2nd team almost exculcivly. Limmer played RG on 2nd team OL. Reeder wore green dot for 2nd team D.

They ran a lot of plays, pretty evenly between run and pass. Only a few deep passes, Bennett to Davis Allen was the best, A TD. Adams making it look easy,

Left 20 min early to beat traffic. Im impressed with how this team looks on both sides of the ball. The OL looks good, (even Shelton, though Ford ate him up several times). The D looks stronger up the middle, Speights and Landman are a big improvement over Reeder and Rozeboom. Ford, Turner and Tyler Davis will make us forget Bobby Brown III. Humphries and Quesenberry looked OK. OL will be fine.

Players that stood out: Stetson Bennett looks more in control and decisive. Throwing tight spirals and tight ropes. He's much improved from last year. Furguson looks good, could improve his blocking though. Davis Allen looked good. TE is going to be a plus this season. And then there are the RB's. We have a three headed monster for a RB room. Williams, Corum and Hunter were all outstanding today. Corum looks faster and made some great moves today. JimmyG does a good job running the O. He doesn;t have the touch Stafford has but he gets the ball out and makes completions.

On Defense Ford and Landman are big improvements. The secondary kept tight reigns on the WR's. No one got burned.


All I can think of for now, maybe add some later if something comes to mind. VRF and I will be back at TC tomorrow. I;m guessing it will be a much lighter day cause they went after it pretty hard today.

bubbaranfan

 

[VeteranRamFan]

Here are my notes from today’s practice. Pads were on and there was some hitting going on.

It seems that the WR’s and DB’s each had their moments. Sometimes the WR’s won, sometimes the DB’s broke up the play. Defensive line is solid in run defense, hard to tell on a pass rush since they can’t hit the QB. O-line also looked pretty good, especially in pass-protection.

Everyone looked dialed in and wanted to make a play. It’s almost like they are ready to start the season right now. This team looks good. Good effort by all. Super Bowl here we come!

Dotson is the only player on the field doing stretching exercises on his own. Evans number 42 showed up full pads just standing on the sideline.

Looks like a sellout crowd today bleachers are filling up fast.

More players are now taking the field. right in front of us is 53 Landman and Dolac 56. They came out together.

All players are on the field now doing stretching exercises. Jared Verse just walked out to a huge ovation from the fans. He’s the only one that received an ovation from the fans.

Number 77 Alaric Jackson is out dressed in pads with his helmet doing warm-ups.

Don’t see Matt Stafford, Davante Adams, or Rob Havenstein. Saw Stafford later in civies on the far sideline and Adams took the field later. Never did see Havenstein.

Offensive line players just hanging out in the far end zone doing a little stretching and not much else. All other players are in the individual team drills.

Puka and Davante Adams take the field. Puka getting a big round of applause.

Eight different wide receivers are taking simulated punts/kickoffs.

#35 Hunter practicing punt returns along with about eight other players.

All three quarterbacks, throwing passes to wide receivers. No defense, receivers running comeback routes. Defense has left the main field and retreated to the baseball diamond for continual training.

Tight end group doing blocking drills with a sled. Number 18 Ferguson has some strength; he is pushing that sled and just throwing it around.

Puka on an out route, stumbles at the break, reaches up to catch the pass, slips through his hands.

Tutu Atwell on the deep seam route, pass from Bennett. Long Overthrow Tutu turned on the jets just off his fingertips, didn’t make the catch.

Individual O-line players and individual defensive line players are going one on one with blocking drills. Very spirited drill.

Number 15 Mumfield just broke #14 Durant ankles on a change of direction route.

Individual wide receiver drills with a defensive back one on one, very exciting! Quarterbacks are throwing dimes. Receivers are making catches. Defense is doing it best to break it up.

11x11 ones versus ones. Tutu down the left side line going deep and fast, Garoppolo long pass. Tutu got under it snagged it and then dropped it while falling to the ground.

Second team offense, second team defense, Bennett throws a strike down the middle to Ferguson. Nice catch!

Willie Lampkin playing right guard jumps offside. Bad snap by Center goes over Bennett‘s head. I think it was #67 Dedich as he was playing center with the 2’s.

Puna Ford pushing his way through the offensive line almost tackles Kyrene Williams in the backfield, Williams makes a nice cut up field, gains positive yards.

Hand off Kyrene Williams up the middle. He was smothered by Puna Ford and Jared Verse, maybe one yard.

Hunter gets some nice blocks goes up the middle for a good gain.

Kyrene with a great cut to the right, breaks it loose for positive yards.

Number 67 Dietrich is playing Center for the second team. I haven’t seen if Limmer is out there, but I’m sure he has been.

Landman late on coverage on an out route. He’s wearing the green dot at middle linebacker.

Verse escorted off the field by McKay after a relatively hard tackle on a receiver doing an out route. Ferguson is looking like the real deal. Good hands, great separation. He just seems to get open a lot.

A lot of players getting a lot of opportunities at different positions. Quesenberry playing left tackle couple plays.

Number 11 Garoppolo under pressure, should’ve been a sack, throws a high pass off the hands of 23 Corum into the hands of Quentin Lake. Touchdown defense.

Portable field goal post rolled out onto the field. Looks like we’re going to be doing some field goal or extra point practice.

Number 16 Carti is money. Kicking 40+ yard field goals with room to spare. Easily could be making these from 50-60 yards.

As far as Adams and Puka catching balls, it’s what they do and do it well.

Was talking with a lady next to us and she was calling for Jimmy G who turned and looked and waved. I think she feel in love with him right there. She kept saying he was a very good looking man. Bubba reminded her of the certain type of women JG has been known to date. She didn’t care, said he is still good looking.

Another fan in front of us helped us out with telling us Dedich was playing center. He made a comment about reading our post later. I asked him if he was a member of ROD. He said no but he does read the forum and then said he knew I was Veteran Ram Fan and Sam was Bubbaramfan! I guess we’ve made an impact!

Early practice tomorrow so it may just be a walk through. We’ll have to see.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. Hope I covered it all!

 

[majrleaged]

Great report. Thanks.

 

[dpjax]

Howdy folks, really good day at TC today. guys really got after it in scrimmages. Cam Curl came off limping, don;t know the extent of his injury, He didn;t return. Forbes looked like he strained a hammy Stafford on sidelines, AJajackson in pads and worked with OL but still no contact. Havenstien only player not at practice. Prolly Vet day off.

Day started with stretching, then some fielding of kickoffs and punts. Several guys doing the fielding. Covey, Smith and Mumpfield looking the best. Players separated into position groups working on various aspects of their position.

WR's going out for short, then medium, then long passes from QB's. Bennett and Garapolo throwing some good deep passes, Nacua dropped his long one from JimmyG, Tutu just missed a deep one from Bennett. Gotta say here Bennett is throwing the ball well and looked pretty good running the 2nd offense. We noticed Xavier Smith not working with the WR's. WR pecking order, Adams, Nacua, Atwell, Whittington, Mumfield Covey then Mario Williams.

A drill I haven't seen before at TC: One on one O lineman vs a D lineman. they face each other hand in the dirt and coach blows whistle and D guys tries to get by O guy. They were getting after it. Ford is a handful. He got by everyone but Avila and Dotson. They had a crowd around them so I couldn't make out most of who was facing who, Humphries and Leviston held their own. The players watching sure thought it was fun.

Scrimmages starting, 1st team O Humphries LT, Avila LG, Shelton C, Dotson RG, McClendon RT. 1st team D, Verse, Fisk, Turner. Young,
Speights, Landman (Green dot) Witherspoon (yeah he was out there) Durant, DWilliams Lake, Kinchens. turner and Ford alternated. (they did a lot of alternating). 2nd teams did a lot of switching around, One noticeable thing was Justin Dedich was the C on the 2nd team almost exculcivly. Limmer played RG on 2nd team OL. Reeder wore green dot for 2nd team D.

They ran a lot of plays, pretty evenly between run and pass. Only a few deep passes, Bennett to Davis Allen was the best, A TD. Adams making it look easy,

Left 20 min early to beat traffic. Im impressed with how this team looks on both sides of the ball. The OL looks good, (even Shelton, though Ford ate him up several times). The D looks stronger up the middle, Speights and Landman are a big improvement over Reeder and Rozeboom. Ford, Turner and Tyler Davis will make us forget Bobby Brown III. Humphries and Quesenberry looked OK. OL will be fine.

Players that stood out: Stetson Bennett looks more in control and decisive. Throwing tight spirals and tight ropes. He's much improved from last year. Furguson looks good, could improve his blocking though. Davis Allen looked good. TE is going to be a plus this season. And then there are the RB's. We have a three headed monster for a RB room. Williams, Corum and Hunter were all outstanding today. Corum looks faster and made some great moves today. JimmyG does a good job running the O. He doesn;t have the touch Stafford has but he gets the ball out and makes completions.

On Defense Ford and Landman are big improvements. The secondary kept tight reigns on the WR's. No one got burned.


All I can think of for now, maybe add some later if something comes to mind. VRF and I will be back at TC tomorrow. I;m guessing it will be a much lighter day cause they went after it pretty hard today.

bubbaranfan

Is that the old Oklahoma drill?

I agree, the D looked much stouter up the middle, they were stuffing a lot of runs yesterday.

Great report!

 

[dpjax]

I saw that as well in Ferguson was showing his strength in one on one drill against Colby Parkinson.

Promising to hear Jackson was out there in pads again,

You have much better pronunciation than I do, Great report!

 

[Pupped]

Thanks for the detailed report!!

I'm very excited about the Landman/Speights pairing... I think it could be a very solid group.. and, combined with Poona... makes them much tougher up the middle and in the run game.

VERY intrigued by how well Ferguson is doing according to various reports. It'll be a lot of fun if he's good enough to push them into more 12 sets.

So far... so good!

 

[Memento]

Thank you, everyone, for the reports! Out-of-towners like me (currently in Birmingham, Alabama at the moment) and everyone not at camp rely on those details, and we love hearing about how the players and coaches on our team are doing!

So, thank you again, everyone!

 

[Merlin]

A drill I haven't seen before at TC: One on one O lineman vs a D lineman. they face each other hand in the dirt and coach blows whistle and D guys tries to get by O guy. They were getting after it. Ford is a handful. He got by everyone but Avila and Dotson. They had a crowd around them so I couldn't make out most of who was facing who, Humphries and Leviston held their own. The players watching sure thought it was fun.

Doesn't surprise me that Ford is disrupting, as every time we've played that dude he's been a pain in the ass for our line. He is a massive upgrade over Brown. No pep talks needed to get effort out of Poona, and our DL is going to be a lot better not only from him but also from improved rotational depth.

Also agree our ILB room is upgraded, which is nice. Also I would expect them as a group to mostly improve as camp progresses, since Landman, Paul, and Dolac are all new to the room and learning the scheme.

I am surprised by Limmer being worked at Guard. Not that I think he is a bad option on the depth chart at Guard, mind you. But rather because I figured the Rams wanted to push him to improve his line calls. But if that was true, then they would have him at Center right now. I am certain of that. Which means the staff is not high on Limmer's future at Center. At least that's my read, meaning I am wrong in my expectations of what Shelton's addition meant, from the perspective of the staff. Of course there is time, so maybe he will end up in the Center mix. But this stuff matters I think in terms of approach. If they saw him as a Center they'd be working his mental side hard, they would not be throwing him in there at Guard.

Lastly I have a really good feeling about Bennett. When he's been at his best he reads and distributes with that smooth and catchable ball placed precisely where the target can RAC. Previous camps and preseason he hasn't looked anything like the dude who competed and won the job at Georgia over better athletes. But maybe this is the payoff year for the Rams taking a flyer on him. I'd like to see that because I don't trust Garoppolo. I don't think Jimmy is dedicated to his craft and you must be in order to sustain in a QB role under McVay. Bennett looks like he is making a move for that QB2 role.

 

[JonRam99]

I am surprised by Limmer being worked at Guard. Not that I think he is a bad option on the depth chart at Guard, mind you. But rather because I figured the Rams wanted to push him to improve his line calls. But if that was true, then they would have him at Center right now. I am certain of that. Which means the staff is not high on Limmer's future at Center. At least that's my read, meaning I am wrong in my expectations of what Shelton's addition meant, from the perspective of the staff. Of course there is time, so maybe he will end up in the Center mix. But this stuff matters I think in terms of approach. If they saw him as a Center they'd be working his mental side hard, they would not be throwing him in there at Guard.

I'm thinking that having Limmer next to Shelton could be a great way for him to learn line calls -- first hand. Shelton is right there next to him, shouting out the calls, so Limmer can see first hand what Shelton sees.
...assuming he's lining up next to Shelton, anyway, getting 1st team reps. If not, he's learning from... Dedich??

 

[WestCoastRam]

Doesn't surprise me that Ford is disrupting, as every time we've played that dude he's been a pain in the ass for our line. He is a massive upgrade over Brown. No pep talks needed to get effort out of Poona, and our DL is going to be a lot better not only from him but also from improved rotational depth.

Also agree our ILB room is upgraded, which is nice. Also I would expect them as a group to mostly improve as camp progresses, since Landman, Paul, and Dolac are all new to the room and learning the scheme.

I am surprised by Limmer being worked at Guard. Not that I think he is a bad option on the depth chart at Guard, mind you. But rather because I figured the Rams wanted to push him to improve his line calls. But if that was true, then they would have him at Center right now. I am certain of that. Which means the staff is not high on Limmer's future at Center. At least that's my read, meaning I am wrong in my expectations of what Shelton's addition meant, from the perspective of the staff. Of course there is time, so maybe he will end up in the Center mix. But this stuff matters I think in terms of approach. If they saw him as a Center they'd be working his mental side hard, they would not be throwing him in there at Guard.

Lastly I have a really good feeling about Bennett. When he's been at his best he reads and distributes with that smooth and catchable ball placed precisely where the target can RAC. Previous camps and preseason he hasn't looked anything like the dude who competed and won the job at Georgia over better athletes. But maybe this is the payoff year for the Rams taking a flyer on him. I'd like to see that because I don't trust Garoppolo. I don't think Jimmy is dedicated to his craft and you must be in order to sustain in a QB role under McVay. Bennett looks like he is making a move for that QB2 role.

Yeaaaah, I'd like to see how the next two weeks look with Limmer, I read this that he's not starting and they need to see what if anything he can do to be on the game day roster. But directionally, you may be right here.

McVay RAVES about Jimmy according to Jourdan - in regards to him processing things and executing the offense the way he wants. I don't see him going anywhere.

 

[So Ram]

Doesn't surprise me that Ford is disrupting, as every time we've played that dude he's been a pain in the ass for our line. He is a massive upgrade over Brown. No pep talks needed to get effort out of Poona, and our DL is going to be a lot better not only from him but also from improved rotational depth.

Also agree our ILB room is upgraded, which is nice. Also I would expect them as a group to mostly improve as camp progresses, since Landman, Paul, and Dolac are all new to the room and learning the scheme.

I am surprised by Limmer being worked at Guard. Not that I think he is a bad option on the depth chart at Guard, mind you. But rather because I figured the Rams wanted to push him to improve his line calls. But if that was true, then they would have him at Center right now. I am certain of that. Which means the staff is not high on Limmer's future at Center. At least that's my read, meaning I am wrong in my expectations of what Shelton's addition meant, from the perspective of the staff. Of course there is time, so maybe he will end up in the Center mix. But this stuff matters I think in terms of approach. If they saw him as a Center they'd be working his mental side hard, they would not be throwing him in there at Guard.

Lastly I have a really good feeling about Bennett. When he's been at his best he reads and distributes with that smooth and catchable ball placed precisely where the target can RAC. Previous camps and preseason he hasn't looked anything like the dude who competed and won the job at Georgia over better athletes. But maybe this is the payoff year for the Rams taking a flyer on him. I'd like to see that because I don't trust Garoppolo. I don't think Jimmy is dedicated to his craft and you must be in order to sustain in a QB role under McVay. Bennett looks like he is making a move for that QB2 role.

What a FREAKING JOKE !! Jimmy G not committed to his craft.TOTALLY opposite of how Mcvay feels about him. In fact Mcvay likes the way he is running the offense.Believes he is a starting NFL QB & says he will be again.
The funny thing is you might be spending a couple years posting about him as a Rams QB - LOL

Really don’t know what gutter you get your info from though.All reports on Jimmy G from training camp have been positive.

The other funny thing is how fast the tides(not Bama) the thoughts on Stetson have changed.From this crappy you tube person saying he is going to get cut & possibly getting beat out by the Dicker.

Then even Bubba Ram I believe posted about Reeder being the Green Dot(2nd string).

—Saw videos of from training camp? Not sure. Going to miss training camp,SO just going by what I see & hear from the outside from Rams camp.

 

[PARAM]

I am surprised by Limmer being worked at Guard. Not that I think he is a bad option on the depth chart at Guard, mind you. But rather because I figured the Rams wanted to push him to improve his line calls. But if that was true, then they would have him at Center right now. I am certain of that. Which means the staff is not high on Limmer's future at Center.

I don't know about that.....what better way to improve your line calls than being next to the guy making the proper calls? It's not like you're turning a WR into a DB.

 

[bubbaramfan]

So Ram off his meds again....