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bubbaramfan TC report 7-30-18

Howdy folks! Let me preface this report by letting you all know I have no background in journalism and am a Neanderthal and self taught on computers. Please forgive mis-spellings, bad sentence structure and punctuation.

Great day at Irvine, upper 80's and not a very large crowd. Hooked up with VetRamFan, had a beer (and no more) and sat on the south side of 2nd field. half way through Elvis from RamsFans United joined us. The team came out and stretched for about 15 min. then boke off into groups. OL and DL on south end of field 1 away from our vision. We had Coach Fassell and ST doing punts and kickoff coverage in front of us. Lots of players, mostly bottom tier, interchanging reps. Hekker focusing on directional punts, Cooper, Fred Brown and Kendal Thompson stayed back to field punts.
Most punters keep both hands on the ball until the foot comes up and hits it. Hekker is unusual in that he releases the ball from his grip about shoulder height, letting drop, putting either back or forward spin on the bal lwith his hands before it hits his foot, giving the ball direction when it comes down on the field. Was fun to watch him do this in practice.

Whistle at 15 min and group rotation. We get LB's for tip drills. One coach throw a ball about 10yds, another then tips in up, and players then try and recover while the other set up return. good drill.

whistle rotation. TE's and RB's short passes over middle w/ no D from #9 Perez #86 Mitchell is slow. Hemingway and Everrett quickest. Higbee biggest.

Whistle, rotation. 11 on 11. 1st team OL Whitworth, Saffold, Sullivan, (yes, Sullivan is OK and took a lot of snaps today), Brown and Havenstien. Gurley, Goff. WR's alternated between Woods, Cooks, Kupp, Reynolds, Cooper and Thompson. Defense 1st team rotated a lot of players in and out, with Bockers and Suh getting snaps at first then being pulled and Westbrooks, Joseph-Day and Omairus Bryant getting work with the ones. I saw a lot of switching around and different guys getting reps at different positions. Trevon Young, and John Franklin Myers saw a lot of work at DE. Franklin-Myers impressed me. He is quick off the snap and gets around the edge. Mixed up the LB's but Littleton, Hagar and Ebukam played with the ones.
Good pass rush but Goff gets the ball out quick. Good timing with wr's. Gurley is fast. Several deep balls Cooks got a TD, Reynolds dropping balls, at least three he should have caught. Thompson never even got a look.
Woods clearly the best WR today.

2nd team 11 on 11 started off with an OL of Demby LT, Noteboom LG (next play they switched and continued switching for several plays), Blythe C, (several plays , then Allen), Neary, Womac LG, and Corneilius Lucas at RT. Lucas played exclusively at RT. I didn't see anyone else but Hav and Lucas at RT. I don't think D Williams dressed, injury? Demby, Noteboom and Lucas looked to hold their own. Allen at QB, Brown, Davis and Kelly rotating snaps. Brown looks leaner and caught pass out of backfield, Davis has good lateral movement and is quick, but Kelly is fast and fights through traffic, got a TD. Going to be a battle between Davis and Kelly. TE's Higbee, Everett and Hemmingway all took snaps with ones. All got targets and all had receptions. Higbee a drop he should have had.

DB's Peters and Talib are the real deal. Great competition with WR's. they feed off each other. Hill and Peterson looked very good. Peterson getting in and getting his hands on the ball had an INT.

LB's, I think every one of them get in with ones or twos. this is getting sorted out still. Longacre got reps and then got sat. He looks fine.
11 on 11 over 40 minutes

Whistle, group rotation. 2minute drill. they did this in a kind of slow motion, with McVay jumping around on the field yelling instructions and pointing at people. , Clearly trying to get something across. Wished I could have heard what he was saying.

whistle, rotation. FG attempts with a D rush. I think this was a first for TC and Zuelien. Ball snapped at 35, making it a 45-7 yd FG attempt. GGreg nails the 1st three, putting the ball on the roof of the endzone bleachers. Greg's back is "back".

Whistle rotation. We didn't get to see much of the OL or DL. they were on the other field furthest from our view. We walked around to the endzone where McVay was in serious teaching mode of Goff, Allen QB, Kupp, Cooks, Woods and Gurley. He had Goff and Allen taking long snaps and getting it out of their hands as fast as possible, flinging it sidearm to one of the four. Curious drill.

That's all for now from my notes. There will be much more and VetRamFan and I decided we get more out by posting back and forth. Vet and I can't remember everything, but by posting we remember bits and pieces later so I'll be adding more later as it comes to me.

They have an off day tomorrow, and I intend to go again on Wednesday.