The overthrow on the sideline was a poor pass. He was WFO, no need for it to be thrown high.
The miss in the endzone is a tougher call. Not the greatest pass, but when it's in the EZ...sure want to see those plays made.
The announcer was talking about Adams "fully extending" for the ball on that play, but I didn't see that. I might buy 'fully reached', but it looked like if he had leapt for the ball, he would've had a better chance of getting to it.
cuqui posted:And
@AdamSchefter: At this time next week
I'M READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL
The return of Tolzien.
Davante Adams, who dropped a pass earlier in 2-minute drill, drops another Aaron Rodgers pass in end zone. Rough camp so far.
While you watch #Packers Family Night, 41-year-old Henry Burris is playing for Ottawa @REDBLACKS. On Packers practice squad 15 years ago.
Wow, Henry Burris. I remember him. He also played for the Bears for a couple years after he left the Packers. I remember their fans really hated his guts.
Pack-Man posted:Wow, Henry Burris. I remember him. He also played for the Bears for a couple years after he left the Packers. I remember their fans really hated his guts.
Didn't he used to wear a waffle on his head?
First MM "pad level" reference of the year at the 7:30 mark!
bvan posted:LMAO @ "REDBLACKS"!
Like the UW-Eau Claire Blugolds, my alma mater too lazy to actually come up with a mascot.
oldschool posted:Rough camp so far.
Both Adams and Janis have really done nothing to distinguish themselves so far in camp. Presently the third best receiver to me appears to be Abby.
Adams not stepping up might be the least surprising development so far. The guy is blessed with a lot of talent, but that's only going to get you so far.
Janis! is still Janis! He makes unreal plays but then makes a boneheaded play or drop. Still, his skills are intriguing and the guy is nails on special teams. For that reason he should stick.
All Abbrederis does is make plays. It's really a shame he's been so injury prone. Then again, you could say the same thing about Monty.
I don't know if I would call Monty "injury-prone". He was a rookie and had a pretty big injury but I hadn't known him to have issues like that in college. Abby, on the other hand, has had a number of injuries, most notably the concussions. I wouldn't consider them similar.
Montgomery had an injury history at Stanford as well.
Pretty sure Ty Montgomery had some issues both his sophomore and senior seasons at Stanford. I recall reading about it pre-draft and that's the main reason he wasn't selected earlier in the draft.
He can be an electric player but much like Abbrederis it doesn't matter if you can't stay on the field.
Just to be clear - I like Monty and supported the pick. I'm not sure he can be counted on though given some of the injury issues in the past.
Ok, i hadn't heard that about Monty.
The way this is shaking out I wouldn't exactly call WR position strong.
Yeah, I'm not too terribly impressed by this WR crew. The DB's on the other hand...
After 1 week I wouldn't exactly call the WR position strong.
Who is our go-to on 3rd and long? Hopefully Cook can get back in the kitchen soon.
I think I'm starting to understand the necessity for pre -season games. The WR position this year is Exhibit A on that.
Hey, we have a game in 6 days.
WR's are fine.
Didn't realize some people are expecting, DeAndre Hopkins, Dez Bryant & Antonio Brown talent.
Drops. Always believed this was a mental issue and not a physical one, at least for those who made it to the NFL.
Last season, Rodgers completed 73.6 percent of his throws in the first three games of the season -- well ahead of his most accurate season (68.3 percent in 2011) and the NFL single-season record (70.62 percent by Drew Brees in 2009) – the Packers receivers had combined for only one dropped pass (by Davante Adams in Week 3 against the Chiefs).
In the next eight game, the Packers had 23 drops -- the most in the league over that stretch.
It was not just DA, Cobb had his share of drops as well in 2015. Jones too.
I saw the passes to Duhvante last night, and while not perfect passes, yes if he going to shut people up he's going to have to find a way to make those catches. I do however agree with H5 and others who remind us, it's ONE week of TC.
If I'm looking at this as a glass half full:
1.) Randall Cobb looked good and is fully healthy and looks ready to go. He also did an interview last night where he admitted he was doing too much and was trying to be like Jordy or other WR's he wasn't last season. He looks much more relaxed and seems mentally in a great place so far.
2.) Abby was impressive last night but also all of last week. Yes, we all know the injury history but as of NOW he's healthy and looks so much more polished vs last year. So let's focus on the reality NOW. He's healthy and he looks good.
3.) I thought Dick Rod looks good as well. He's never going to have the athleticism/speed of Jared Cook or Finley, but that's why Cook is there. I think GB's options at TE are going to open a part of the field we haven't seen since Finley was here.
4.) Speaking of Cook, according to local radio talk here, he may be one of the earliest of come off the PUP...as early as this week. It'll be quite interesting to see how the timing goes with AR and Cook. There is no doubting he's a very big, fast target.
Lastly, MM again reiterated over the weekend no one on the PUP list (including Jordy or Monty) appears to be a long term concern. He fully expects all of them to come off the PUP and will be participating in TC. So, take that FWIW.
From Demovsky this morning on Adams:
"The first one I definitely should've come up with," Adams said after practice. "I think I just misjudged it in the lights. It kept soaring up. The other one was a stretch. I laid out for it but couldn't come up with up."
Nevertheless, it's been a productive camp for the much-maligned third-year player.
There was a deep ball in practice last week that he hauled in -- even if cornerbacks coach Joe Whitt's claim that Adams pushed off were true -- that was among the most impressive catches of camp.
"That is an earn-his-trust type of play," Adams said, referring to Rodgers. "That's what I'm looking for in practice. Obviously I want to try to make the catch regardless. Those balls down the field, we've got to capitalize down the field. So if in practice I have to get a little bit of a guy's shoulder -- I might have pushed a little bit -- but those I've got to make sure I'm coming up. And to catch a ball like that, I'm coming back to the huddle and he's like 'Tae, that's exactly what I need'. At the end of the day, it's get the ball. If I've got to give somebody a little love tap in the process, then that's what it is."
However, there was another practice play in which he lost a ball that cornerback Quinten Rollins stripped away.
"You look for players, particularly route-running in his case and putting himself in position to be thrown to, [and] I think he's doing a very good job of that that," Packers coach Mike McCarthy said.
"I think Davante's off to a good start," he added.
Although he caught 50 passes in 13 regular-season games last year, he never put together the kind of game-changing performances he did as a rookie when he had 100-yard games in wins over the Patriots and Cowboys, the latter in a playoff game. He followed his rookie year with a strong offseason after which coach McCarthy called him the MVP of the 2015 offseason.
Then Adams badly rolled his left ankle in Week 2 last year against the Seahawks. He tried to play the next week against the Chiefs but lasted just three plays and then missed the next three games. He finally showed signs of production again late in the season with four catches for 54 yards in the regular-season finale against the Vikings. He started the wild-card game against the Redskins with four catches for 48 yards before he injured his knee in the third quarter. That injury kept him out of the divisional playoff loss at Arizona.
"It killed me," Adams said of the way his season ended.
He's healthy now and doing everything he can to stay that way. Once Nelson and Ty Montgomery come off the physically unable to perform list, the true battle for the No. 3 receiver spot will begin. But Adams already is facing a challenge from Jared Abbrederis, who stood out in practice last week; Jeff Janis, who is gaining Rodgers' trust; and rookie Trevor Davis, who made an early impression.
"I think he's had a good start," receivers coach Luke Getsy said last week. "He's come back with a fire behind him. He's attacking the meeting room, he's attacking the practice field, the individual periods, everything. There's a fire lit inside of him, and he's ready to rock and roll. He's got to continue to grow every single day though."
YATittle posted:bvan posted:LMAO @ "REDBLACKS"!
Like the UW-Eau Claire Blugolds, my alma mater too lazy to actually come up with a mascot.
Ha. I always wondered about that. I thought the BluGold was a basterdized version of when a GoldFinch and a Bluejay get together.
UW-Eau Claire: beautiful campus! I am a Titan! UW-Oshkosh....the problem is the initials...the logo first looked like UW-O....or UW-zerO as my friends from other campuses used to say....I think they changed the logo since.
Ah...good times...good times!
For this weeks HOF Game:
Via Zak Keefer of the Indianapolis Star, Colts coach Chuck Pagano said he was playing everyone in Sunday’s preseason opener at the Hall of Fame Game, including quarterback Andrew Luck.
Luck missed nine games last year with a variety of injuries, so a bit of knocking the rust off seems reasonable. But the Packers likely won’t take the same approach, considering what a fan of the extra preseason game quarterback Aaron Rodgers is.
Luck has declared himself 100 percent recovered from last year’s laundry list of problems (which included a lacerated kidney). So maybe he just wants the extra game to work up an authentic preseason aroma.
The JUGS drill was fun to watch. Abby's hands: the ball never moved once it hit. Cobb: almost as good. Davis: almost as good as Cobb. Others: not so much. Adams better battle or he'll move down the list pretty quickly. Gotta think they'll hold onto Davis somehow (we need the speed as it showed when Jordy went down last year), stash TM on either PUP or designated IR.
packerboi posted:From Demovsky this morning on Adams:
"I think he's had a good start," receivers coach Luke Getsy said last week. "He's come back with a fire behind him. He's attacking the meeting room...
People wondering why Adams gets more PT than Abby or Janis or why James Jones got more PT than them despite being significantly slower, this is likely the reason. This offense puts such a premium football IQ from the receiver position, reading defenses and making adjustments, that they would rather play someone who is less athletic but will be in the right spot. They don't need to dumb anything down, the burden falls on the receiver to learn the offense and do the job they get paid to do.
One guy who is flying under the radar that actually impressed me was Justin Perillo. He doesn't look any quicker or faster, but he caught EVERYTHING last week. He made some pretty difficult catches in traffic. I won't be surprised if he beats out Backman for the #3 TE job, Backman didn't really impress me. He wasn't bad, but he didn't do anything to make me think he's earning more playing time.
In the scrimmage I watched Saturday, Backman had a nice play. Good route, catch and acceleration after the catch.
It's just, on anyone, practice really is just practice. The receivers know they are not going to get decapitated. Unlike games. That's what I mean by needing the preseason: the coaches need it to fully evaluate each player.
Other stuff from Saturday and Family Night:
*Martinez looks like the real deal physically and mentally. Assignment sure, he doesn't play like a rookie in any way that I saw.
*Lowry is a mountain. Really stands out in a group. Also held is own in the contact drills I saw, in a lunchpail kind of way.
*Can't help but cheer for Geronimo. He was just chomping at the bit the whole time I watched. Standing on the sidelines he never stops moving. Visibly excited to be there. Looks like Randy Moss kinda.
*Probably means nothing, but I found it interesting: Davante and Janis standing next to each other: Janis doing all the talking. Keeps looking over at DA, who looks like he's blowing him off, just staring straight ahead.
*Eddie's got a zip in his step that was missing last year.
*Rodgers plays the crowd pleaser role well. The QB's were introduced last and drew the most cheering. He's The Man and he knows it.
*Security at practice yells at you if they think you're making movies, even when you're only taking pictures (he he). Practice was 6 deep at the fence and the autograph line stretched a full block.
Last year, 1 week into TC, WR was a strong position and many were talking about they might keep 6... and could they stash Myles White on the PS...
Geronimo would be great PS material. He's done some nice things thus far but is pretty raw.
Perillo's hands at TE have never been an issue. He has great, soft hands. But he lacks speed and his blocking isn't great. It'll be quite interesting to see what the new TE coach can do, if anything, with him.
*Lowry is a mountain. Really stands out in a group. Also held is own in the contact drills I saw, in a lunchpail kind of way.
How short did his arms look compared to everybody else?
Is this supposed to eliminate the drops?
#Packers receivers taking new approach to fundamentals under new WRs coach Luke Getsy.
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Fedya posted:*Lowry is a mountain. Really stands out in a group. Also held is own in the contact drills I saw, in a lunchpail kind of way.
How short did his arms look compared to everybody else?
What struck me about his arms was how big they are across the top of the bicep. His arms look like big fat legs. From the elbow to the top is a triangle. He's huge. Not workout or buff huge, just all-natural huge.