If you watch a practice, then you realize just how little work the backups get. Even Seneca Wallace doesn’t get very much action. He probably splits the reps 1:5 with Hasselbeck. David Greene threw the ball in a tight end drill when the other quarterbacks were working on something else. Greene also gets a few (literally 3-4) snaps in most team drills, and Derek Devine had a couple in one drill.
Matt Hasselbeck is looking good. He was moving around just fine with no lingering ill effects from the injuries last year. He did have to throw the ball away a few times because the defense got to him on a safety blitz drill. He scrambled for a long gain on one play and slide after the run, hamming it up. He then took a few bows and the crowd was into it. He was showing off his skills from practicing on a slip-and-slide yesterday under John Olerud’s instruction. That seemed obvious to me at the time, but apparently the local reporters needed Hasselbeck to tell them.
Seneca Wallace looked alright. There isn’t a lot to base it on, but overall he plays like a decent backup quarterback, and completes most of his passes when he is in there. He did throw a pass right into the line yesterday. I am not sure if a defender got a hand up or if it hit an offensive or defensive lineman in the head. Either way, it was one of those really low passes he throws every once in awhile. Greene looked fine, but really only threw it to the tight ends in that one drill, and completed a few screen passes in another drill.
Derek Devine looked terrible again. I am pretty sure he is the one that threw the incomplete pass that hit Joe Newton, who didn’t catch it and then fell down. Devine also fumbled a snap from Austin King. Holmgren yelled at them, but I couldn’t tell if it was at Devine, King, or both.
Running Backs
The running backs were working on the passing game more than anything else. The most notable thing was probably the four-wide, single-back (Leonard Weaver) sets that the offense was running against the nickel defense. That looks like something they plan on using a lot this year on third down.
They also ran a screen drill with all of the running backs rotating through, but it was mainly Alexander and Weaver. Morris didn’t participate that much and neither did Strong. Parry and Weeks were out there just as much as those two. The running backs worked with the offensive tackles at the start of practice on a chip drill. The back would help the tackle by chipping the DE (it was really another tackle as a mock DE), and then go out for a pass in the flat.
In the redzone drill, Alexander “dropped” a pass in the endzone. It wasn’t the best thrown ball or an easy catch. He was right on the sideline with a defender on top of him, and he was lucky to get his hands on it.
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