Afternoon Practice – Almost A Trashcan Challenge
Posted by Matt Terl on August 5, 2009 – 5:50 pm
Afternoon practice was more interesting for the insanely long injury report than for anything else notable that happened. Again, many of these guys would’ve been able to play if this were a regular season game, almost all of them did conditioning drills on the side, and some of them are already scheduled to return to practice tomorrow, but here’s the list:
- Lorenzo Alexander (foot)
- Alfred Fincher (groin; also now sporting a stylish mohawk)
- Malcolm Kelly (hamstring)
- Anthony Montgomery (knee)
- Reuben Riley (ankle)
- Carlos Rogers (calf)
- J.D. Skolnitsky (hamstring)
- Devin Thomas (hamstring)
- Randy Thomas (knee)
- Eddie Williams (hamstring)
- Mike Williams (groin)
Phillip Daniels, Cornelius Griffin, and Albert Haynesworth didn’t practice, but that’s what’s become expected at second practices.
Kelly, as you can see above, was one of the ones who did some work on the side — and after practice as well.
The post-practice drills were particularly interesting, mainly because they replaced a promising trashcan challenge between Jason Campbell, Colt Brennan, and Chase Daniel. The trashcan was set up in the back corner of the endzone, and the quarterbacks were out around the 10-yard line. Campbell went first, dropped back, and missed. Brennan was next, and he hit on his first try.Then there was a huddle of some kind, and then next thing anyone watching knew — me and the TV guys who were filming, basically — the quarterbacks were throwing fade routes to the wide receivers in the back of the end zone.
“It was gonna be best out of five,” Campbell told me, “but then the receivers came back out so we just started throwing fades to ‘em. We’re gonna regroup and do it again tomorrow after practice.”
“Colt’s claiming that he won just because Coach Meidt and Coach Hixon wanted us to throw to the receivers instead,” Daniel added, “but we’re definitely picking back up tomorrow.”
Brennan looked disappointed at the change in plans. “We started throwing before we could properly set terms, so I wasted a perfectly good trashcan shot,” he said.
The other two high points of Brennan’s day were the long touchdown to Santana Moss in morning practice, and the high five with Coach Jim Zorn that followed.
“It was nice,” he said of the high five. “It’s a progression from where I started. A lot of times even when you complete a pass, you still have to be coached. There’s very few times you get to turn around and get a high five, so it was nice that that happened. It gave me a good feeling on the inside.”
With those things in the past, I asked if anything else exciting had happened today and Brennan shrugged. “I threw a ball into a trashcan. After that, you can pretty much call it a day.”
Campbell, meanwhile, seemed pleased to be getting work in with Kelly. “We’re just trying to work on timing, getting the big guy up in the air to make plays,” he said, “get him used to seeing the throw. Malcolm just has great hands for attacking the ball, which is good.”
And in the end, Campbell did get the ball into the trashcan. A trashcan, anyhow. It happened on his first fade throw, and it just took Santana Moss to get it there.
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