Thursday practice notes

by **PonyPride** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 7:54 am

Turf is damp - lot of receivers slipping in passing drills.

by **PonyPride** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 7:59 am

Cole Loftin looks pretty smooth. No knee brace.

by **PonyPride** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 8:03 am

Beasley (hand) still out.

by **PonyPride** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 8:18 am

4 on 1 special teams drills showing speed of Der'Rikk Thompson, who started to right, reversed fields, beat all four coverage guys (DBs and LBs) to left sideline and outran everyone up sideline.

by **PonyPride** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 8:21 am

Jeff Reinebold coaching special teams. Seems to have no problem with effort, but demanding players go longer to finish plays rather than giving up too early.

by **PonyPride** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 8:25 am

Nice catch: serving as RB on scout offense, Uchenna Nwabuike came across middle, twisted to snag pass behind him.

by **PonyPride** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 8:29 am

Keenan Holman has made several nice catches, including a few over shoulder/head on deep routes. Looks nothing like the guy who arrived in the fall.

by **Mitch McConnell** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 8:53 am

PonyPride wrote:Cole Loftin looks pretty smooth. No knee brace.

Love it! Just my opinion -- but I maintain that he is better than Cole Beaseley. Nothing against Beaseley because he is good chain mover. I just think Loftin is a tougher player. It's a shame the injuries really robbed him.

by **Higher Authority** » Sat Apr 09, 2011 3:14 pm

Better than the guy who had 87 catches, 1,060 yards and 6 touchdown catches last year?

Nothing against Loftin, but what has he done to suggest he is better? Beasley is the #1 guy going into the season.

by **Junior** » Sat Apr 09, 2011 11:27 pm

Higher Authority wrote:Better than the guy who had 87 catches, 1,060 yards and 6 touchdown catches last year?

Nothing against Loftin, but what has he done to suggest he is better? Beasley is the #1 guy going into the season.

I would agree. Beasley has skins on the wall.

by **PonyTales** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 2:00 am

Lots of them â€” Beas is a stud.

by **ALEX LIFESON** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 9:17 am

PonyTales wrote:Lots of them â€” Beas is a stud.

He needs to cut down on the crucial drops though. Pony Up!

by **Mitch McConnell** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 5:29 pm

It would really be important for the people who are arguing for Beasley to ACTUALLY read and comprehend what I wrote.

I'll try this again. In my opinion, Loftin is the better player. Now, he probably won't be and is probably way down on the depth chart because how everything is unfolding.

HAD HIS HEALTH NOT BEEN THE ISSUE, he would have been the better possession receiver than Beasley is. I have no ill will against Beasley. He's done fine. He drops some passes when he shouldn't but who doesn't?

There's no way to evaluate them now, but I'm sure people will now pick this apart for whatever reason.

Good grief.

by **Junior** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 9:04 pm

Please explain why your opinion that loftin is better trumps my opinion that beasley is better.

I don't disagree that we'll never really know given the injuries, but you always seem to want to discount other people's opinions pretty quickly sometimes.

I will give you the fact that that's half the fun on here, though. It would suck if we all agreed with each other.

by **Higher Authority** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 12:36 am

Mitch McConnell wrote:It would really be important for the people who are arguing for Beasley to ACTUALLY read and comprehend what I wrote.

I'll try this again. In my opinion, Loftin is the better player. Now, he probably won't be and is probably way down on the depth chart because how everything is unfolding.

HAD HIS HEALTH NOT BEEN THE ISSUE, he would have been the better possession receiver than Beasley is. I have no ill will against Beasley. He's done fine. He drops some passes when he shouldn't but who doesn't?

There's no way to evaluate them now, but I'm sure people will now pick this apart for whatever reason.

Good grief.

I did read your original post. My question stands: what has Loftin done (and again, I have nothing against him â€”Â hope he comes up huge) to suggest he is better than Beasley?

Don't tell me how great he was at Aledo. Almost everyone on the team, including Loftin and Beasley, were stars in high school. So what have you seen that makes you consider him the better player?

I'm not arguing it. Maybe he is the better player. I'm just wondering what you have seen that has helped you form that opinion.