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Spring Practice Summary: 3/22

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Them 2nd string safeties... woof. Bolden and Smith can’t get here soon enough. It’ll look a lot better at full strength with Carter, Bolden, Hall, D Smith, and K Smith. Kennedy at center is kind of interesting. Why put a player whose biggest weakness is strength on the interior? His *** needs to hit that weight room hard.
 
1mg of Epi said:
What we’re reading about is to be expected for first spring practice in pads. That being said... did you expect to NOT have concerns about the OL.
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Exactly. The OL isn’t going to get fixed overnight. These guys have been around some pretty horrible coaching and that’s not to say Barry is going to be much better but either way it’s going to take time. Defense is and always should be ahead at the start of any practices. Especially with everyone on offense learning a whole new scheme. There’s a lot more thinking going on right now on the offensive side. The whole defense will pretty much be the same and the players know the scheme.
 
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It’s only day 3 of spring. Hopefully Jon Ford is getting stronger vs our OL continuing their poor play. Looking forward to fall camp
 
Depth at Safety....
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Stefan Adams said:
Pads went on today during the Hurricanes' third spring practice. After individual drills, the team huddled around midfield to kick off the first day of pads with a hyped up Oklahoma drill. It was a lot of fun and the kids enjoyed it. It was hard to see since the entire team was circled around and the media had to stay off to the sidelines, but Jarren Williams won his 1-on-1 and the team got really fired up.

Speaking of Williams, he opened up the second part of practice with the one's and Miami was practicing their goal-line set, which featured a lot of Realus George and gave us our first chance to see the O and D-Line in a competitive format. DeeJay Dallas was first up at RB and Brevin Jordan was the first tight end out, with Will Mallory joining him when Miami went with two tight ends. A clear top performer from this drill was DT Jon Ford, who looks much stronger at the point of attack in his third season at Miami. He was very disruptive and blew up at least two plays in the backfield against the first team O-Line. Butch Barry was mixing and matching with the offensive line (see depth chart below) and Tommy Kennedy got a look at center today. Nesta Silvera bull-rushed Kennedy and knocked him back pretty good on one rep. Concerns about Kennedy's strength were valid and he is just not big enough right now to hold up.

In individual drills throwing, I thought the QB's looked much more consistent overall as a group today compared to day 1, hitting their targets in stride for the most part. Tate Martell struggled at times throwing the out routes to the sidelines.

There were no 7-on-7 or 1-on-1 drills today.





Injuries: Safeties Robert Knowles and Derrick Smith were out today. DT Tyreic Martin limped off towards the end of the goal-line drills and was assisted by the training staff. LB Zach McCloud participated on a limited basis during individual drills.

First Team Offensive Line

LT: DJ Scaife
LG: Navaughn Donaldson
C: Corey Gaynor
RG: Zalon’tae Hillery (rotated with Campbell and played some RT during goal-line)
RT: John Campbell

Second Team Offensive Line

LT: Kai-Leon Herbert (Zion Nelson rotated in during goal-line)
LG: Cleveland Reed
C: Tommy Kennedy
LG: Zach Dykstra
RT: George Brown

First Team Defense

DE: Jon Garvin
DT: Pat Bethel
DT: Jon Ford
DE: Scott Patchan
MIKE: Shaquille Quarterman
WILL: Michael Pinckney
STRK: Romeo Finley
CB Trajan Bandy
S: Amari Carter
S: Gurvan Hall
CB: Al Blades

Second Team Defense

DE: Gregory Rousseau
DT: Tyreic Martin (Nesta Silvera rotated in during goal-line drills)
DT: Jordan Miller
DE: Jahfari Harvey
MIKE: BJ Jennings
WILL: Waynmon Steed
STRK: Gilbert Frierson
CB: DJ Ivey
S: James Murphy
S: Gannon Feldman
CB: Nigel Bethel
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Excellent work Stefan! Thanks for the videos. Who would you say stood out the most on Offense and Defense in the first practice in pads?
 
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It's only day three, but some of the info coming out of practice is very encouraging. I have no doubt that we're going to see significantly better QB play this year. Last year, we were one decent QB away from at least a 9-3 record. I do have some worries about our depth on the DL and at S, but I think we'll be able to mask them with some decent personnel management.
 
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