Optional seven-on-seven observations (7/26/12)
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 10:45 pm
The Mustangs got together with some players from Texas A&M-Commerce Thursday for an optional seven-on-seven session. Some notes:
• QB Garrett Gilbert took the first snaps with the offense. With the TAMC defense playing back, Gilbert threw a lot of short passes over the middle and in the flats, leading three touchdown drives, connection on short scoring passes to RB Zach Line, WR Kyle Guinyard and WR Darius Johnson.
• QB Garrett Gilbert's accuracy on deep balls is becoming almost commonplace. On one play, he fired a high pass of about 50 yards toward WR Keenan Holman, who was streaking down the right sideline. The ball landed perfectly in Holman's right hand, but he was unable to hold on ... because a TAMC defender was dragging Holman down by his left arm (he still almost made the catch with one hand). The players from each team debated whether a flag would have been thrown. What was beyond debate was the perfect pass from Gilbert. A couple of drives earlier, he connected with WR Jeremy Johnson on a deep pass (of about 40 yards) along the sideline when Gilbert dropped the ball over two defenders who had Johnson pressed in to the side boundary. Johnson leaped high to make an acrobatic catch, and while players agreed that his foot came down just out of bounds, it was, again, the pass and the reception that were significant.
• S Hayden Greenbauer stopped a TAMC drive with an interception on the goal line that he returned to almost the 20-yard line.
• Unquestioned catch of the day: WR Austin Fuller ran in to the back left corner of the end zone, where he waited for a pass with a cornerback on his left shoulder. Fuller out-leaped the defender (by a lot), but because his left arm was pinned against his side, he reached across his body and over the cornerback with his right arm, tipping the ball and falling to the ground ... where he was able to reach out with his left hand and make the grab while lying flat on his back.
• QB Garrett Gilbert took the first snaps with the offense. With the TAMC defense playing back, Gilbert threw a lot of short passes over the middle and in the flats, leading three touchdown drives, connection on short scoring passes to RB Zach Line, WR Kyle Guinyard and WR Darius Johnson.
• QB Garrett Gilbert's accuracy on deep balls is becoming almost commonplace. On one play, he fired a high pass of about 50 yards toward WR Keenan Holman, who was streaking down the right sideline. The ball landed perfectly in Holman's right hand, but he was unable to hold on ... because a TAMC defender was dragging Holman down by his left arm (he still almost made the catch with one hand). The players from each team debated whether a flag would have been thrown. What was beyond debate was the perfect pass from Gilbert. A couple of drives earlier, he connected with WR Jeremy Johnson on a deep pass (of about 40 yards) along the sideline when Gilbert dropped the ball over two defenders who had Johnson pressed in to the side boundary. Johnson leaped high to make an acrobatic catch, and while players agreed that his foot came down just out of bounds, it was, again, the pass and the reception that were significant.
• S Hayden Greenbauer stopped a TAMC drive with an interception on the goal line that he returned to almost the 20-yard line.
• Unquestioned catch of the day: WR Austin Fuller ran in to the back left corner of the end zone, where he waited for a pass with a cornerback on his left shoulder. Fuller out-leaped the defender (by a lot), but because his left arm was pinned against his side, he reached across his body and over the cornerback with his right arm, tipping the ball and falling to the ground ... where he was able to reach out with his left hand and make the grab while lying flat on his back.