Around the nfl: Pre season week 1

[Pigskins]

These refs sound like nervous wrecks when announcing penaltys, anyone else think so?

[skinsfaninok]

yeah they seemed like it..

[skinsfaninok]

on a serious note... Arizona is in TROUBLE... And on behalf of Andy Reid that guy was a genius when trading Ncnabb and Kolb.. They loaded up on picks for 2 guys that couldn't even play anymore..

[SFREDSKIN]

Originally Posted by Dirtbag59

Lol @ Vinny
Chicago Bears WR Devin Thomas tweets he's retiring at 25 - ESPN Chicago

Retiring from what? Modeling? His so called NFL career was very short lived, he sucked that's why Vinny drafted him

[CultBrennan59]

The refs are going to quietly be a major story in the nfl this year with lots of blown calls.

[skinsfaninok]

Originally Posted by CultBrennan59

The refs are going to quietly be a major story in the nfl this year with lots of blown calls.

If.... They actually go with it

[Alvin Walton]

So how long until we trade Cousins to the Cardinals?

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by Dirtbag59

Lol @ Vinny
Chicago Bears WR Devin Thomas tweets he's retiring at 25 - ESPN Chicago

Nice. Announcing retirement by Twitter is like breaking up with your girl via a text message.

Retiring now? He's peaking...had some nice special teams plays for the Giants last year...in fact, he got them to the Super Bowl by causing that butter-fingered rookie for the Niners to fumble again.

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by Alvin Walton

So how long until we trade Cousins to the Cardinals?

Yeah, we'll take a comparable deal to the Kolb trade....Patrick Peterson.

[30gut]

Dolphins QBs are reported getting over 120 reps per practice

for those who've been to TC whats a guesstimate on our QB rep numbers?

[MTK]

Originally Posted by 30gut

Dolphins QBs are reported getting over 120 reps per practice

for those who've been to TC whats a guesstimate on our QB rep numbers?

Throwing or just overall?

[MTK]

I asked John Keim on Twitter how many reps RG3 gets, he said

not sure of the count. obviously it's a lot. normal for a starter.

[30gut]

Thanks again, I should have been more clear but I was curious about throwing reps against defenses (7-7, 11-11).

And tell Keim thanks, although he obviously didn't give the question/answer much thought.

I'm curious how many reps he's getting vs other QBs especially considering the tempo of the offense.
Philbin runs a decidedly up tempo offense by design with the aim of running more plays in actual games.
I'm sure that has a transfer effect towards the amount of available reps in their practices vs non-uptempo teams.

gotta run

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by 30gut

Dolphins QBs are reported getting over 120 reps per practice

for those who've been to TC whats a guesstimate on our QB rep numbers?

Divided up how,warm ups included?

[MTK]

Philbin runs a crazy up tempo practice, definitely not the norm.

Peter King talks about it here

I really like how the Dolphins practice.

I wrote about this in my Dolphins training-camp postcard (cheap plug ), but wanted to expand on it here. I've seen some interesting, fairly new things on this trip. The Jaguars' Big Uglies doing yoga in the locker room after practice, for instance. But the smartest thing I've seen so far is the practice regimen of Joe Philbin. He doesn't want to keep his players on the field for the full three-hour allotment for padded practice because of the south Florida heat. But while they're out there, he wants to max out the number of plays because he's trying to get the three quarterbacks competing for the starting job as much work as he can wedge into a two-and-a-half-hour practice.

Here's how he changes it up to get the play count up: On a full field, the coaches line up at the 50. One full team plays 11-on-11 heading north on the field; when I was there, David Garrard piloted the first offense against the defense. As soon as Garrard ran a play and the whistle blew, ending the play, the coaches turned around to see an entirely separate 11-on-11 play, the offense led by rookie quarterback Ryan Tannehill. When that play ended, boom, the coaches turned around and Garrard was calling signals for his next play. And so on. Ten plays per period per 11-on-11 unit, so 20 in all -- in maybe four or five minutes.

In the first five practices this summer, Philbin's coaches scripted what he called 572 competitive plays. Because of the hurry-up concept, the players ran 657. That's an extra 85 plays -- 17 per day.

"I've never seen it before,'' said GM Jeff Ireland. "The tempo's earth shattering.''

Garrard was very good the day I saw him, throwing well on the run and hitting Wallace on a deep go. And very determined. "I've got a fire in my belly to finish my career the right way,'' said Garrard, released just before the Jacksonville opener last year. Which, by the way, still hurts. "They introduced me at the team luncheon as the starting quarterback, and as soon as we get back after the luncheon I'm told to go see [coach] Jack Del Rio, and he says, 'We feel it's best to go in a different direction.' They threw me under the bus, which I didn't appreciate.''

Now he has a chance to climb out from under the bus and get the last laugh. But he'd better be fast about it.

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