UPDATED Saturday Scrimmage Report

by Juco All-American on Aug 9, 2008 2:20 PM EDT

Today was another beautiful day in Oxford with the rebels practicing in full pads. A lot of fans showed up to the practice giving the day's events a feeling of a small high school game or even a Southern Miss home game. And for those of you who didn't show up: don't worry. I know we called you out, but you've probably got a lawn to mow or an adorable neice in town. We're cool, whatever.

Be patient. We have some pictures and maybe even a video to show you later today.

Our Notes:
1. Nathan Stanley continued to be impressive. He has to get used to the speed of the game, but his throws are on the money. While he did not get nearly as many snaps as Snead or Tapp (and the snaps he did get were mostly runs) he still proved to us that he has SEC potential.

2. All of the running backs had good days. We have some talent there. Brandon Bolden had the best day of them all and Enrique Davis played hard too. What is really remarkable about those two is they are usually pretty hard to bring down. They run hard and never, ever shy away from contact.

3. Ashlee Palmer and Allen Walker are awesome. During sprints, Palmer was yards ahead of every other linebacker and showed why he's on our first team.

4. Snead was alright. He's better than Stanley and Tapp, but he's just not performing the way we had hoped (and no, we weren't the people that were expecting over 3k yards, 25 tds, and 10 INTs). If he stays healthy and remains consistent, however, he'll win more games for us than Michbert Spurlane or Breth Schadams ever sniffed at winning.

5. The Wild Rebel was run today with both McCluster and Bolden getting shots running the ball. They didn't run anything spectacularly tricky out of it, but we imagine they're saving that stuff for the closed practices.

6. Kentrell Lockett had two sacks and earned himself a fair amount of reps as a first teamer.

7. Andrew Harris and Markeith Summers had good days. Mike Wallace opened the scrimmage by reeling in a deep pass from Snead.

8. Marr still looks rough. Powe also looks rough, but not nearly as rough as Marr. Powe needs to pick up some speed and soon. During sprints he was disappointing, at best. Also, during the sprints, a loud, old white lady behind us was screaming "Go Jerrell! You can do it!" She even let out a big "YAAAAAAAAAAYYY" when he finished the drill. Listen, lady; give it a rest. Most of us didn't wait three years only to cheer on a jiggly third-teamer as if he were our tee-ball playing stepson. A couple of us nearly stood up to scream "C'MON, DAMMIT! LOWER YOUR HAUNCHES AND RUN, POWE" just to spite her.

9. The kickers were on the money with their kicks. We cannot remember a missed field goal for today.

More to follow later today.

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Thanks for the report. I really think our LB's are going to become one of the strengths of the team. Also, does anyone else think Snead has kind of an awkward release?

by Anonymous on Aug 9, 2008 3:35 PM EDT reply actions

I was not impressed with Stanley at all today. I thought Enrique looked the best among the backs.

by Skink on Aug 9, 2008 4:58 PM EDT reply actions

Thanks for the information and I enjoy the reports because, among other reasons, you haven't professed man love for players looking good on the hoof.. However, given that Snead doesn't appear to be living up to expectations, what are your expectations for him? If it's not a QB that turns out 3000 yards, 25 TDs and whatnot (pre-season, he can't get there yet as we all know), what are you looking for out of Snead? What would constitute living up to your expectations?

by Elijah Craig on Aug 9, 2008 6:01 PM EDT reply actions

Elijah,

Cool name.

Oh, and your question. Well, if he simply throws more touchdowns than interceptions (21 to 20, even) he would be living up to our expectations. We haven't had that in a while, if you'll recall.

by Red Solo Cup Admin on Aug 9, 2008 6:41 PM EDT reply actions

"A couple of us nearly stood up to scream "C'MON, DAMMIT! LOWER YOUR HAUNCHES AND RUN, POWE" just to spite her."

That's some top shelf interwebsing.

by jack stefano on Aug 9, 2008 7:09 PM EDT reply actions

Snead was 12-16 for 215 yards...what the fuck else do you want him to do to be impressed? It appears turning water into wine may be about the only thing.

by The One That Got Away on Aug 9, 2008 10:52 PM EDT reply actions

Those numbers were against the 2nd team defense. He also threw some bullshit intentional grounding passes (in practice) and had some that were simply way off the mark.

But whatever. Numbers don't tell the whole story. He had a couple of impressive passes but most were just dumps to the (wide open) fullbacks or halfbacks. You know, the kinda shit Billy Tapp couldn't fuck up.

Also, we wrote "he's just not performing the way we had hoped" not "he didn't perform the way we had hoped," meaning that, all practices considered, he's been underwhelming.

by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Aug 10, 2008 12:46 AM EDT reply actions

Oh, and don't get us wrong. We love Snead and we're glad to have him. We also think he has the potential to emerge as an elite SEC quarterback. I guess we just got our hopes way up while completely ignoring 2 things: he's a RS Soph and he's in a new system.

by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Aug 10, 2008 12:50 AM EDT reply actions

More power to the woman cheering for Powe.

He deserves it. No he may not be the starting DT monster so many thought he would be.. God bless him for busting his ass so he can finally put on the red and blue

by Anthony on Aug 10, 2008 1:10 AM EDT reply actions

I don't think the RSC guys were knocking Powe per se. I think they just saw this woman as an obnoxious kool-aid sipping fan. I don't know about you, but judging from their older posts and such I don't feel that they're anti-Powe or anything. Yeah, they pick on him a lot but we all should on occasion. It's therapeutic.

by The Godfather of Soul on Aug 10, 2008 1:58 AM EDT reply actions

Oh I agree... If there is anyone who could be considered a RSC addict it's me.

I love this site.

and I know they weren't picking on him that bad.

by Anthony on Aug 10, 2008 4:48 AM EDT reply actions

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