Report: Training Camp Day 2
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Day two of the 2016 Washington Redskins Training Camp is in the books, and it is safe to say that the story from today was the defense. With the weather abating from the scorcher that was day one, the Redskins took the field today and had noticeably more energy and zeal, and it was reflected in the level of play during team drills.
Here are our key observations from day two.
- It is fair to say that if Bashaud Breeland and Josh Norman enter the regular season like they’ve played so far, the Redskins will have an elite tandem at the Cornerback position. Both Breeland and Norman had huge plays today, and forced Kirk Cousins to checkdown to his safety valves on a majority of passing downs.
- Speaking of huge plays, Bashaud Breeland had by far the play of the day; matched up one-on-one versus DeSean Jackson in full 11-on-11 drills, Kirk Cousins dialed up the long ball and Jackson did what Jackson does best. He created separation from Breeland 7 yards past the line of scrimmage with a quick in-step that saw him streaking towards the endzone seemingly wide-open. Breeland, however, recovered almost immediately and flashed the kind of top-end closing speed we haven’t yet seen from him, honed in on the ball, and fully outstretched and mid-air broke the (admittedly slightly underthrown) Cousins pass up, knocking the ball incomplete and bringing Defensive Backs Coach Perry Fewell bounding over to Breeland full of praise.
- With Preston Smith skipping the afternoon to attend a funeral, Houston Bates stepped up to play Outside Linebacker opposite Ryan Kerrigan with the first team unit, and flashed some very promising signs. Although he didn’t get around Trent Williams for the would-be sack in drills, he challenged Williams more than any other edge-rusher appeared to be able to do today.
- Second round rookie Sua Cravens continues to play as an Inside Linebacker, working with Martrell Spaight on the second unit. Cravens had himself a very impressive day today, picking off a Colt McCoy checkdown (yes, a checkdown was picked off) and also hustling to Vernon Davis to force a fumble after Kirk Cousins completed a pass over the middle to the Tight End.
- Kendall Fuller spent most of the day with the second unit, as there wasn’t much usage of a nickel Cornerback in the 11-on-11 team drills. Fuller looks to have fully recovered from his knee injury, and moves freely and unimpeded.
- Another player who looks to have fully recovered from injury is Tight End Niles Paul, who saw work today mainly with the first team, and presented himself well. He caught a few very tough catches in contact and appears to have a good cohesiveness with Cousins when Cousins gets flushed out of the pocket.
- Speaking of Cousins getting flushed out of the pocket, a good example of the nuances of Training Camp occurred when Stephen Paea correctly read a bootleg playaction fake, and hemmed Cousins in all the way to the sideline. If it was a live-tackling full contact drill, Paea would have had the tackle for a loss (or forced Cousins to throw it away). Instead, Cousins took advantage of the fact that Paea wouldn’t dare to hit him, and tip-toed along the sideline to stay in bounds, before running the ball upfield for what looked like a big gain. The crowd liked it, but again; it was a dead play due to Paea’s previous efforts.
- As he is known to do, Running Backs Coach Randy Jordan rotated multiple backs through with the first-team offense during different drills today, including Chris Thompson, Matt Jones, and Keith Marshall. All three backs looked strong, healthy, and agile. But again; no pads and no tackling today, so take that with a grain of salt.
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Join us again tomorrow for day three of training camp, where it is anticipated that players will be putting on the pads for the afternoon session for the first time this year.
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