Got the opportunity to go to the scrimmage on Saturday and thought I'd share some notes I jotted down this morning.

Please excuse the mostly unorganized formatting and NB4 "holy wall of text" comments

Offense
1) Ahkil Crumpton and John Fitzpatrick were your offensive MVP’s
- Crumpton caught a swing pass and juked two starting db’s (Reed and somebody at corner/star) that made the entire crowd go “whoaaaaaa” then nearly scored from 75 yards away
- Fitzpatrick had a td and a couple other long receptions and ran over Speed at the end of one of them
- Fitz’s one td was form third string qb

2) James Cook is going to be electric in space, but definitely looks too small to be a between the tackles guy. Just a natural catching the ball.

3) Neither qb did anything particularly special, but there was no attempt to establish a ground game (foundation of the offense) and I assume we were extremely vanilla with the amount of fans present, so they weren’t exactly in an advantageous situation
- Fields definitely tried to make a few big plays at times when not needed. For example, he scrambled around for a while and heaved a 60 yard bomb to Holloman in triple coverage, though it landed safely out of bounds. He sure does throw a pretty ball though
- Fields had two batted balls intercepted, with a couple other batted balls that fell to the ground
- He did have a great td to Mecole in redzone work, rolled out to his right with Mecole streaking across the back of the endzone
- Fromm didn’t do much either, but he had a great play where he escaped pressure, rolled right, and found Fitzpatrick wide open over a lb that turned into a big gain

4) Jayson Stanley got more deep ball attempts than Mecole, Ridley, and DRob combined, which was pretty lame
- DRob didn’t get much action other than a couple of hitch routes that I saw, but he did have one catch that turned some heads

5) Lots of shuffling across the O line, but saw Trey Hill get a lot of reps at first string LG. Granted, Baker moved over the LT at that point, like we’ve seen in recent practice reports
- Salyer got mostly center work from what I saw

6) Really sucks about Zeus. We were all commenting about how you couldn’t even tell the guy was 8-9 months removed from an ACL early in practice. Didn’t even notice him get hurt either

Defense
1) Stokes played almost every single snap (maybe even all of them) with the 1’s at corner opposite Baker
- Campbell seemed to be working with Baker the whole time, so it looked like they were either getting him personal coaching with Baker, or training him to be Baker’s backup

2) Star:
- Saw a lot of W. Grant at star early on, even when the offense was in 3 WR sets, so it wasn’t just meant to be a run stuffing defense
- Gibbs played a lot
- Poole wasn’t out there with the 1’s as much as I expected

3) Quay Walker is a physical freak. He threw somebody down to the ground pretty hard chasing down the sideline
- ILB in general was a revolving door. Taylor, Natrez, Rice, Crowder, Walker, Tindall all worked with the 1’s and 2’s in various rotations. Didn’t see Hunter or McBride get above the 3rd team

4) RLIII cut the dreads, but he was flying around out there. He and Reed are going to be quite the safety duo. Really need both of those guys to stay healthy all year
- Otis Reese is also a freak
- Chris Smith made a few plays

5) On one of Fields’ batted balls, Malik Herring made a diving one handed grab to pick it off. Dude is quite the athlete

Special Teams
Quite the up and down day here

1) Backup kicker (Buce) nailed a 50 yarder. Hot Rod missed one I think, there were lots of made field goals though

2) Camarda boomed his first punt 55 yards, returned 9 yards; boomed his second one 50 with no return. He then proceeded to shank the next two. He's gotta be the guy though, just needs to figure out some consistency.
- Other punters were not impressive

3) Jayson Stanley got reps as second team PR and KR. Thought I was watching Reggie Davis