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Some Training Camp Notes 7/30
Jul 30 2012 10:41 PM | KendrickPanther in Carolina Panthers
Today was a rough day for the Kendrick Panther. Had trouble getting a good view, tons of people there and they love to stand in front of wherever I sit. I'll post what I can....
-Steve Smith watched today
-Thomas Davis watched and had a long sock on one leg. Dunno if it was for injury or style
View attachment: TD LEG.JPG
(Paint Skillz)
-Ron Ron said #96 Ron Edwards would sit out tonight but he was def out there at least partially participating
-Gamble looked good to go all practice
I couldn't get a good angle for number on mos of the position drills so I can't really comment. With that said...
Team Drills:
-Padded practice but still very little hitting, no big hits
-Was hard to follow "1st Team/2nd Team/Etc..." at times they really mixed things up tonight
-Captain and Gamble did get the bulk of "first team" snaps
-On three straight plays Cam completed passes against the Captain...
-I'm sure someone tweeted Jared Green's bomb TD but the play developed really slow, would have been a sack
-Armanti has looked pretty solid. If only he had another 7 years to develop...
-Greg Hardy got pancaked by #73 Bruce Cambell on one play
-#31 Reggie Smith had a sack on Cam, no contact but he got there on a Safety blitz
-Cam threw a pick, the receiver didn't do him any favors but Gamble broke up the pass and Beason scooped the deflection. Cam ran Beason down and put a lick on him. Made me groan personally
-Kuechly continues to be in the correct position on every play. I remember Dan Connor's rookie camp and he was nothing compared to this guy.
-The Offense has been expanding on formations since the first practice. Saw a trips right, tons of motion, even Greg Olsen lined up as a wide reciever
-Tolbert has been playing the "Shockey Role" more with the 1st team than Gary Barnidge
-They continue to work on the read option and Cam always makes the correct call. He froze CJPAYDAY and handed off to Stew for a big gain
-The offense caught the D in a blitz and ran the perfect screen play for a TD, Stewart the receiver.
-Cam's throwing is an afterthought. He's accurate on almost all of his throws, the receivers just need to catch those rockets. Reminds me of Favre in the 90s.
-#7 hardly gets any reps. When he does it's usually embarrassing. Not worth talking about.
-Greg Olsen made tons of catches tonight. All beautiful balls from Cam and Derek Anderson.
-I believe Brandon Hogan picked off someone tonight. Was hard to read the number with the dreads.
-At one point the D blitzed everyone, instead of throwing it into the dirt, Cam tried to escape the pocket and took a hit. Another moment that made me groan.
-Cam handed off to Pilares on a read option, he then pitched to Louis Murphy for the reverse. I don't think it would have worked in live hitting.
-Joe Adams had a very nice play where he sat down in the zone for a ~25 yard catch
-Frank Alexander was getting good pressure but hard to judge that kind of thing in camp
-I saw at least one 3-4 look tonight. Applewhite on the left and Greg Hardy on the right, had a bad angle for the 3 down lineman.
-Didn't notice Josh Norman tonight, may have just been my bad view but I never noticed him
-Darius Butler was getting 1st and 2nd team work a ton tonight
-#33 Tauren Poole dropped an easy one tonight, he heard footsteps with his back to the safeties
-Brockel got plenty of first team snaps motioning around and helping in protection
-Barnidge had a few nice catches but mostly in the 2nd team
-Several times the offense has motioned the RB out to go 5 wide. The RB then stays at the line of scrimmage for a quick screen pass, Cam never throws to them but there they are.
Line Drills:
-I didn't have a good view of these but I did see #99 Frank Kearse restrained, I think he got a little physical with Bruce Cambell but not certain.
Big Picture Observations:
-We are blitzing Safeties and Linebackers a lot more in this camp
-Motion and read option are big parts of our offense thus far
-Kuechly is light years ahead of most rookies
-The offense is winning most of the plays but contact is minimal. We all know defenses thrive on contact.
-Our running backs all look great, even the ones that won't make the team
I'll add a couple pictures of the action. If you click them, they get bigger.
View attachment: Kendrick Panther Entry 2.JPG
View attachment: Kendrick Panther Entry 3.JPG
View attachment: crowd.JPG
-Steve Smith watched today
-Thomas Davis watched and had a long sock on one leg. Dunno if it was for injury or style
View attachment: TD LEG.JPG
(Paint Skillz)
-Ron Ron said #96 Ron Edwards would sit out tonight but he was def out there at least partially participating
-Gamble looked good to go all practice
I couldn't get a good angle for number on mos of the position drills so I can't really comment. With that said...
Team Drills:
-Padded practice but still very little hitting, no big hits
-Was hard to follow "1st Team/2nd Team/Etc..." at times they really mixed things up tonight
-Captain and Gamble did get the bulk of "first team" snaps
-On three straight plays Cam completed passes against the Captain...
-I'm sure someone tweeted Jared Green's bomb TD but the play developed really slow, would have been a sack
-Armanti has looked pretty solid. If only he had another 7 years to develop...
-Greg Hardy got pancaked by #73 Bruce Cambell on one play
-#31 Reggie Smith had a sack on Cam, no contact but he got there on a Safety blitz
-Cam threw a pick, the receiver didn't do him any favors but Gamble broke up the pass and Beason scooped the deflection. Cam ran Beason down and put a lick on him. Made me groan personally
-Kuechly continues to be in the correct position on every play. I remember Dan Connor's rookie camp and he was nothing compared to this guy.
-The Offense has been expanding on formations since the first practice. Saw a trips right, tons of motion, even Greg Olsen lined up as a wide reciever
-Tolbert has been playing the "Shockey Role" more with the 1st team than Gary Barnidge
-They continue to work on the read option and Cam always makes the correct call. He froze CJPAYDAY and handed off to Stew for a big gain
-The offense caught the D in a blitz and ran the perfect screen play for a TD, Stewart the receiver.
-Cam's throwing is an afterthought. He's accurate on almost all of his throws, the receivers just need to catch those rockets. Reminds me of Favre in the 90s.
-#7 hardly gets any reps. When he does it's usually embarrassing. Not worth talking about.
-Greg Olsen made tons of catches tonight. All beautiful balls from Cam and Derek Anderson.
-I believe Brandon Hogan picked off someone tonight. Was hard to read the number with the dreads.
-At one point the D blitzed everyone, instead of throwing it into the dirt, Cam tried to escape the pocket and took a hit. Another moment that made me groan.
-Cam handed off to Pilares on a read option, he then pitched to Louis Murphy for the reverse. I don't think it would have worked in live hitting.
-Joe Adams had a very nice play where he sat down in the zone for a ~25 yard catch
-Frank Alexander was getting good pressure but hard to judge that kind of thing in camp
-I saw at least one 3-4 look tonight. Applewhite on the left and Greg Hardy on the right, had a bad angle for the 3 down lineman.
-Didn't notice Josh Norman tonight, may have just been my bad view but I never noticed him
-Darius Butler was getting 1st and 2nd team work a ton tonight
-#33 Tauren Poole dropped an easy one tonight, he heard footsteps with his back to the safeties
-Brockel got plenty of first team snaps motioning around and helping in protection
-Barnidge had a few nice catches but mostly in the 2nd team
-Several times the offense has motioned the RB out to go 5 wide. The RB then stays at the line of scrimmage for a quick screen pass, Cam never throws to them but there they are.
Line Drills:
-I didn't have a good view of these but I did see #99 Frank Kearse restrained, I think he got a little physical with Bruce Cambell but not certain.
Big Picture Observations:
-We are blitzing Safeties and Linebackers a lot more in this camp
-Motion and read option are big parts of our offense thus far
-Kuechly is light years ahead of most rookies
-The offense is winning most of the plays but contact is minimal. We all know defenses thrive on contact.
-Our running backs all look great, even the ones that won't make the team
I'll add a couple pictures of the action. If you click them, they get bigger.
View attachment: Kendrick Panther Entry 2.JPG
View attachment: Kendrick Panther Entry 3.JPG
View attachment: crowd.JPG
18 Comments
That is all.
I'm eager to see Murphy and how he can be in our offense.
Thank you friend.
Lol I don't even have texting, much less data. I'm a simple person.
Hey Joe...how bout contributing a lil more for money ...than guys who do it for free.
For Joe it's a job. For us it's a passion.
That's what she said.
Sorry, had to.
Tolbert looks like a tank out there. Had a few really nice runs. I only saw him get bottled up once and even then it was about 5 yards down field.
Ajirotutu had a few nice catches. All of them were in the short to intermediate range.
Cam looked like Cam; including a couple overthrown balls. One was to Olsen that would've gone for about 30 yards.
D-Will and Stewart both looked good running but like others have said, there wasn't a much contact for a full padded practice.
Darrell Green's big TD catch that was tweeted about ad nauseum was a seriously blown coverage by a safety. Looked like Godfrey but can't be sure (had a fat girl standing in front of me yelling at her kid to sit down and shut up most of the time).
Barnidge had some nice catches. Lots of pre snap motion with him.
There was a lot of linebacker blitzing this practice. Keuchly got around the edge clean on one play that would've been a knockdown at least.
Speaker of Keuchly, he's got great instincts and he was taking a lot of coaching during the individual drills. You could tell he was getting it. Each rep was better than the last.
Didn't see much out of the secondary. Norman didn't do anyting to stand out to me (not sure how early he got hurt). Captain got abused quite a few times. Murphy got him twice in three plays.
Overall, the offense was owning the defense. Hopefully as they get used to being back in pads the defense will start stepping up.
Got some great pictures of the guys walking down to practice. I'll try to post some when I get home today.
Last note, to the guy standing where the players sign autographs with a cooler full of mini-helmets begging for every player's signature, get the hell out of the way and let the kids get in there.