Training Camp Jottings 8/2

Players were in shells again today. Sorry I wasn't able to attend and update practice yesterday.

• Percy Harvin looks smooth. Good to see him out there. Look for pictures of him that I'll upload once I'm done with this.
• Jackson was no where in site, not even on the sidelines. Darrell Bevell acted as the third QB in QB/C exchange drills.
• Harvin got a chance to field some punts immediately, but saw the first one bounce off his hands over his head as he misjudged it.
• The kick return mainly consisted of interchanging players working on reverse tosses. Harvin recovered nicely and didn't muff any more kicks after the first botch.
• As was the story last training camp, Ryan Longwell doesn't have to do much as Taylor Mehlaff has handled nearly all the kicking duties during camp. I didn't even see Longwell today.
• Harvin, I'm saying his name a lot, caught his first pass of training camp in WR drills. A welcome site from our last first round WR.
• Sidney Rice looks outstanding this year and appears faster. The knee looks like a non-issue. He mad a Moss-esque leaping catch in the end-zone in QB-WR drills. I thought the ball was overthrown for sure.
• In Harvin's first action in 7 on 7's and 11 on 11's he was used on an end around. It was the first play they worked on in group installs. Expect to see Harvin get plenty of touches this season. They have plays designed for him.
• I'm not sure if it's what they're engraving in his head, but Sage Rosenfels seems to check down way to often. In 7 on 7's he tried to wedge one into Kleinsasser, but it was broken up as he was surround by 3 defenders. The next play he found Shank on a dump off and then tried forcing a short pass to Wade who was surrounded by defenders as well, followed by another dump to Jimmy K.
• John David Booty didn't fare much better as he looked indecisive and had a couple plays blown dead indicating a sack. He overshot an open Garrett Mills in the back corner of the end zone as well followed by an incompletion to Nick Moore
• Sage did find Percy Harvin for a TD in 7 on 7's on an inside route.
• He also found AP for 5 and Harvin again for about 10.
• In the first 11 on 11 action, Sage found Harvin across the middle for about a 20 yard gain as he got inside Marcus McCauley.
• On his next throw, Rosenfels was picked off but I couldn't see the interceptor due to it being on the 2nd field and the giant camera crane thing being in the way.
• Glenn Holt beat Karl Paymah and rookie safety Devon Hall and hauled in a nice long pass from Booty.
• Just throwing this out there... Anthony Herrera looks like Rick Ross.
• Random funny site of the day. Loadholt standing next to WR Vinny Peretta. Picture Shaq next to Spud Webb.
• Outside of one bad drop, Shiancoe looks great and is having a good camp. He caught a TD from Rosenfels in the 2nd of 7 on 7's.
• JDB is not in a competition with Rosenfels despite what I heard a fan commenting on. Not a chance Booty beats out Sage.
• Adrian Peterson and Bernard Berrian also added TD's in 7 on 7's.
• The scare of the day came when Ben Leber collided with Benny Sapp causing both players to lay on the ground for a few minutes. They would both get up and walk off under their own power.
• Ray Edwards had a "sack" against Rosenfels in 11 on 11's. I quotationed that because plays are just blown dead and the QB's aren't even touched.
• Heath Farwell picked off a JDB pass and took it to the house. His knee appears fine too.
• Booty overthrew Jaymar Johnson who beat Paymah and Hall down the right sideline. Hall nearly picked it off.
• Sage completed a pass to Shiancoe in front of a diving Chad Greenway.

Other than that it was a pretty uneventful practice, but I do have some more pics to upload. A lot of action took place on the 2nd field or on the other side of the field so my vantage point kind of sucked today.