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Kolb May Be At Workout Today And It’s Good Timing

Eagles quarterback Kevin Kolb is supposed to be at the Eagles OTA practice todaywhich will be a good thing because things got rather sloppy at the end of the practice on Thursday.

The rookie OTA’s were going well last week until it got to the end of the Thursday practice.¬† I was surprised up to that point by the play of the two young quarterbacks, Mike Kafka and Joey Elliott.

Kafka shows that he has played in this offense during his college career.

At the end of Thursday’s practice, it seemed that every mistake the rookies could possibly make, they started making.¬† Something went wrong every play.¬† It was either the defense jumping offsides or somebody was moving on the offense before the snap.

The motions were off, or they were lined up in the wrong formation.

There are a couple of key reasons that it happened.¬† I think it’s hard for young players to concentrate for extended periods of time.¬† Each morning at 8am, the young players go into meetings for two hours where the coaches put in new plays and new defenses.¬† The rookies brains might have reached overload from all the plays, defenses and adjustments.

The other factor was fatigue, which causes young players to lose their concentration.  It was good to experience this now because these kids got a good taste of the NFL.  You must be able to concentrate despite being overloaded with information and fatigued.

This is the reason Andy Reid and his coaching staff put the rookies through these mental workouts.¬† They’re able to go through this learning without pads and without the veterans around, so they can catch up mentally and possibly be ready to challenge for starting jobs or playing time when training camp opens in July.

That Thursday practice will serve as a great education session for rookie quarterbacks Kafka and Elliott who had done a solid job of running the Eagles offense until things came apart.

I haven’t seen him in any live drills but the Eagles might finally have themselves a ball player in offensive tackle King Dunlap.¬† The 6’8″ skinny as a bean pole tackle put on thirty pounds of muscles in his arms which are extremely long.

It’s too soon to give him the thumbs up but he’s might be able to fight off the bull rush which humbled him when Richard Seymour employed last year in the Eagles-Raiders game.¬† He won’t be asked to start but he may not be an adequate backup.

They have him working on both sides, so you’re probably going to see him if one of the tackles goes down.

GCOBB

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drummerwinslow
drummerwinslow
May 24, 2010 6:24 am

After Winston Justice’s evolution, I give Juan Castillo the benefit of the doubt. If he’s holding on to a guy, he must see something in him.

Paul Mancini
Paul Mancini
May 24, 2010 6:31 am

I think K Dunlap, F Tupou and M McGlynn all make big strides this camp/preseason and will
create more competition and better depth along the Offensive Line…
I would not be surprised to see these 3 make the team and McGlynn possibly taking snaps at Center come Opening Day while J Jackson continues to recover from injury/surgery

phillywill
phillywill
May 24, 2010 6:56 am

kafka takes over in 2 yrs

Paul Mancini
Paul Mancini
May 24, 2010 7:42 am

Kafka gets beats out by Purdue’s Joey Elliot as the 3rd String QB and gets released in August.
Doug Collins makes his first genios move as Sixer’s Coach picks-him and and becomes the 3 Point Shooting threat off the bench that the Sixers haven’t had since Sedale Threat days…

drummerwinslow
drummerwinslow
May 24, 2010 2:30 pm

Paulman, I hope you’re right, because if our offensive line is not improved, especially the center position, Kolb (nor any other QB, for that matter) will have a snowball’s chance.