The Seattle Seahawks resume coaching camp follow on Monday. It’s their final full week of follow earlier than preseason begins on Aug. 15 versus the Dallas Cowboys. There can be extra padded practices than non-padded practices, and the competitors for roster spots will actually begin to warmth up within the days to come back.
Discipline Gulls will as soon as once more be at Seahawks this week, offering written and video content material over the following a number of days. Yours really and Bryce Coutts are set to attend Aug. 5 and Aug. 7 practices at VMAC, and on Aug. 8 we’ll be joined by Josh Hite to make it a Discipline Gulls trio for Soccer Fan Fest at Lumen Discipline. All of this, after all, is pending the air high quality not being utterly unhealthy because of the incoming smoke from the horrifying Spokane wildfires. To get prepped for camp, the three of us every listed three issues we’ll be listening to all through the practices.
Very first thing I’ll be listening to is the straight dropback passing sport. Clearly, you don’t present your entire playbook in camp, however final 12 months when Klint Kubiak was spamming under-center play-action and getting Tory Horton elevated work with the first-team offense, that proved related when the video games really occurred. An space the place I feel Brian Fleury can and arguably should enhance from Kubiak’s offense is the passing assault with out play-action. Seattle’s effectivity wasn’t horrible in non-PA but it surely wasn’t wonderful, and fewer so when Jaxon Smith-Njigba wasn’t focused. I’m curious to see if we’ll get a glimpse of extra operating again targets, three-step fast sport, slants, and shallow crossers with YAC potential.
Second on my “What/Who to watch for” checklist is the younger’uns within the secondary, extra particularly Julian Neal (who’s injured, so it could be moot on his half), Andre Fuller, Michael Dansby, and Bud Clark. Dansby has been heralded all through camp, so I’m intrigued to see if he can go from afterthought to an actual roster candidate. Clark has had a number of splash performs and labored with the starters over the weekend, and he has that nostril for the ball that may make him an intriguing and thrilling watch.
The very last thing I’m trying ahead to seeing is how Rylie Mills performs. He excited everybody along with his sack within the Tremendous Bowl, and he’s drawn rave evaluations in camp already. Mills could possibly be a significant a part of Seattle’s inside move rush. I’m curious to see how usually he traces up as a 3-tech vs. 5-tech.
The Seahawks usually hold 5 cornerbacks on the roster, and Devon Witherspoon and Josh Jobe are solidly locked in, however the remaining three spots are open for grabs. Will the rookies step up and declare them, or will the veterans like Noah Igbinoghene battle off the rookies? One other space I can be watching is the move rushers. With the rumors that the Seahawks have curiosity in one other veteran move rusher, I imagine a variety of that may rely on how the youthful move rushers are producing in camp and the preseason video games. Can these youthful gamers present the teaching workers that they will take that subsequent step?
Lastly, I can be watching the inside offensive line. The Seahawks usually hold 10 offensive linemen on the energetic roster, Gray Zabel, Jalen Sundell, and Anthony Bradford appear to have the staring gigs locked up, however the backup spots stay in competition. Will Olu Oluwatimi and Christian Haynes make the staff as soon as once more, or will Mason Richman, Bryce Cabeldue, and Beau Stephens present the coaches that they will step up? These are issues I can be searching for whereas I’m there.
After I’m on location at Seahawks coaching camp this week, there are three issues I’ll be watching particularly intently via my teaching lens.
The primary is the continued evolution of Seattle’s offense and what it seems to be like with Sam Darnold operating the present. We discuss this always: quarterback play is about way more than completion share or whether or not a throw finally ends up on a spotlight reel. I wish to watch Darnold’s ft, timing, eye self-discipline, command of the offense and the way rapidly he’s processing when the image adjustments after the snap. I’ll even be paying shut consideration to how Brian Fleury is placing this offense collectively the formations, motions, play-action ideas, RPO components and the way Seattle is creating solutions for the quarterback earlier than the ball is even snapped. Related to all of that’s my second main focus: the offensive line and safety. I wish to see communication, how they deal with motion and strain, whether or not the run sport is creating displacement and the way constantly the five-man unit is giving Darnold a clear platform. The Seahawks can have all of the weapons they need, however all the pieces offensively nonetheless begins with profitable up entrance.
The third factor I’ll be finding out is Mike Macdonald’s protection and the way a lot additional Seattle can take what has already develop into one of many defining identities of this staff. I’m going to be watching the small print that don’t at all times present up on a camp spotlight: pre-snap disguise, security rotations, communication, leverage, how defenders move routes off in protection and whether or not Seattle can create strain with its entrance with out always having so as to add our bodies to the frenzy. I’ll even be watching the competitors all through the roster as a result of camp isn’t merely about which participant makes the most important play on a given afternoon it’s about consistency. As a coach, I wish to see what occurs on the rep after a mistake. Does the participant right it? Does his method maintain up when he will get drained? Does he perceive the project or is he merely counting on athletic capacity? These are the small print I attempt to carry to my evaluation, and being on the bottom in Seattle this week provides me the chance to judge this staff past the highlights and actually see how prepared the Seahawks are for what comes subsequent.
And as a last reminder…
The Seahawks Syndicate quarter of myself, Bryce Coutts, Dan Viens, and Brandon Cain (who can be becoming a member of our podcasts just about this 12 months) are again for extra coaching camp podcasts! Our dwell reveals will broadcast from our particular recording space at Quick Style Brewing in SoDo! Emerald Metropolis Spectrum’s Corbin Smith can be a particular visitor on Aug. 5 at 7:30 pm PT. You’re all invited to all three recordings, however particularly our City Corridor fashion present on Aug. 7 at 7:30 pm, through which there can be a ticket giveaway by Dan for the Seahawks-Cowboys preseason sport.
Our final present is 2:30 pm PT earlier than Fan Fest on Saturday. Come grasp with us at Quick Style and/or meet us on the berm on these two VMAC days.
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