-DB Tariq Thompson has an AC strain but is fine. No surgery needed. Practiced today.
-Noble Hall is fully cleared and practiced.
-Chase Jasmin practiced very lightly with a big brace on. Rocky said he would play if there was a game this week.
-Rocky said he wanted at leaat one wide receiver to take over this spring but it's still wide open. There's decent depth but...
-It appears as though the staff is really going to push Ryan Pope this offseason because Zach Thomas took a lot of first team reps.
-During a defense only period I noticed that Rocky had Zach Arnett AND Ernie Lawson simultaneously give signals to the defense. They gave different signals, which was weird, so I asked Rocky if they were signaling to their own position groups. They weren't.
Instead, one coach was "live" and the other wasn't. One was real and the other was fake gibberish. This is preparation for the ASU game since Coach Gonzales and White know the signals.
Rocky doesn't plan to switch his own signals, so he's going to develop a pattern that the players on the field know which signals to actually look at. The coach giving the true live signals could change any series, any set of downs, any quaters or numerically like every five plays etc.
That could be a problem if one or two players get mixed up and read the fake signal on a given play. Today, there was one instance where Parker Baldwin was reading Arnett's signals for multiple plays before asking, "wait, Coach Lawson isn't live?"
They plan to try it again tomorrow.
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-Noble Hall is fully cleared and practiced.
-Chase Jasmin practiced very lightly with a big brace on. Rocky said he would play if there was a game this week.
-Rocky said he wanted at leaat one wide receiver to take over this spring but it's still wide open. There's decent depth but...
-It appears as though the staff is really going to push Ryan Pope this offseason because Zach Thomas took a lot of first team reps.
-During a defense only period I noticed that Rocky had Zach Arnett AND Ernie Lawson simultaneously give signals to the defense. They gave different signals, which was weird, so I asked Rocky if they were signaling to their own position groups. They weren't.
Instead, one coach was "live" and the other wasn't. One was real and the other was fake gibberish. This is preparation for the ASU game since Coach Gonzales and White know the signals.
Rocky doesn't plan to switch his own signals, so he's going to develop a pattern that the players on the field know which signals to actually look at. The coach giving the true live signals could change any series, any set of downs, any quaters or numerically like every five plays etc.
That could be a problem if one or two players get mixed up and read the fake signal on a given play. Today, there was one instance where Parker Baldwin was reading Arnett's signals for multiple plays before asking, "wait, Coach Lawson isn't live?"
They plan to try it again tomorrow.
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