Turning Up The Heat

"Ladies, you CAN'T be first, but you CAN be next! "

   

Today was the last regular practice for this Spring.  Man, where has the time gone?  It seems like we just started.  We used this day to grease everything we were going to need Thursday night.  We have been hitting our special teams pretty hard all week, and today we hit punt return, kickoff return and a little punt team for good measure.  Coach Miller is really the special team guy for us, and he is pretty good at it.  I was receiving special "proposed depth charts" on each special team (via E Mail) before the Spring even started.  Although I have never seen it, I think he has a special football program on his computer to list personnel and the backups for each position.  Personally, I am not a special teams guru. Miller will ask me to help him personally with P.A. T. (Point after Touchdown) and Punt Team, but he knows I have my hands full with flip boards, wrist bands, color cards, footballs, and offensive personnel; therefore, he leaves me alone for the most part.  I will jump in where I can to help, but as far as strategy is concerned,  its all Miller. 

I think we are in pretty good shape for Thursday.  Even though we lost a few days of practice due to rain,  we have rebounded nicely.  Both sides of the ball looked sharp today.  Offensively, we surprised ourselves and prepared a nice package for the match-up.  We will be starting Hakeem at QB, and hopefully, Hatch will get some reps as well.  Other than bragging rights, The Spring game really means nothing.....officially.   However, we still want to win this game to get us off on the right foot.  We could be playing The Panther Might Mite team, and we would still want to win the game.  

Tomorrow we have our walked-thru for the game.  The kids will come out dressed in Helmets, Shirts and Shorts.  We will stretch, have a very short Indy, a very short unit, and then a short team period.  Then we will have a game situation scrimmage.  We will run a full offensive series , then the defense will get their reps.   We will hit every special team tomorrow as well.  If everything goes well, we should be off the field by 4:30.


More Tomorrow.

GZ