My takeaways from Spring Practice today

Was able to catch practice today, lots of high school coaches here given its coaches weekend. Here were some things I got from today's practice:

-Guice didn't dress today but was walking around and was with the team. No boot, no limp, but wasn't running. If anyone was melting, I wouldn't freak out, he looked to be fine.

-intensity, instensity, intensity. The coaches were constantly yelling and getting the guys going. There was a lot of movement and the coaches never let up. Canada is as intense as the videos and clips show. You can just tell he is a high energy guy who realizes what he has at his disposal.

-Coach O had little to do with the offense, I know this sort of common knowledge now but after being scarred from the Miles era, it was refreshing to see coach O stay with the Dline while leaving the offensive coaches alone.

-Darrel Williams is the real deal. He looks the part, definitely lost some weight and gained some speed. Should be a really nice backup for Guice. Also Rashard Henry had a nice practice with a long touchdown run, dont know too much about him other than he's a walk-on.

-QBs: Danny had himself a really nice practice. I was impressed with his pocket presence today. Was one play in their simulated scrimmage period where there was inside penetration and he juked the rusher and stepped up and delivered a 40+ yard TD to D.Davis. He had some poor throws in some of this individual drills be he seems to be improving. Lindsey Scott seems very atheletic, he had 3-4 plays where he was able to roll out and gain 10-15 yards on a scramble, but he didn't have a standout day throwing the ball today. McMillan seems confident and may have taken the lead for the backup spot behind Danny. Overall, the QBs weren't perfect by any means but they looked lively today.

-Defense: didn't get to see much of the defense today, but did see the secondary in their scrimmage period. Toliver looks to be much improved which should prove useful this season. Dline looked like they were really getting after the quarterbacks today.

-Devin White is a monster

-Offense looks vastly different. Lots of different sets and motions. Did see some I formation and under center sets today. Narcisse still is struggling with taking the snap under center, saw him fumble a snap in one of his first reps. Drake Davis will be a force to be reckoned with.


Cliffs: practice had loads of energy and intensity, lots of new blood and ideas, QBs improving, defense looked good with little I saw.