Joker Phillips has been impressed with the communication of his team so far in Spring Practice as Day 3 concluded on Friday.[PRBREAK][/PRBREAK]
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“We’re getting faster, understanding how to practice,” Phillips said. “There’s a lot more energy, they’re communicating. All sports, you have to be able to communicate. The thing about ours, because you have 11 guys, you have a lot of things going on. You have to have everyone communicating because there are 11 guys who have to get the message.
“That’s the thing that I like. They have a lot of energy, they’re communicating, echoing all the calls. We’ll see how fast we play tomorrow.”
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Phillips has also been impressed with how vocal the coaches have been as well. Motivation is key and it sounds like all of the coaches are supplying a lot of energy.
[QUOTE]”That’s one of the things a coach has to have, has to have some juice,” Phillips said. “Our guys are practicing with juice and when the coaches are (having enthusiasm) it feeds to the players.”
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I have always thought the Cats have a shot to win games when they can hit the long ball. If the Cats can extend the passing game and hit some deep balls, the running game can be more efficient. Sounds like Joker wants to do the same thing.
[QUOTE]”We have to stretch the field,” Phillips said. “We have to get people (defenses) off of us. Defenses last year compressed us. We have to keep people off us by throwing the ball downfield, just take shots, throw it up. We have big receivers. We have great size out there, just throw it up and let those guys go make a play for us.”
“They (quarterbacks) made some throws and missed some throws (during Friday’s practice),” Phillips said. “We’re throwing way too many to the defense, but the defense is doing a good job of holding up receivers and shortening those windows, so the quarterbacks have to make better decisions.”
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The Cats plan on having a 10 minutes scrimmage at the end of practice tomorrow. Hopefully we will know more about the QB situation, but it sounds like [URL=”http://aaronsukfootballblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/videos-from-practice-no-2.html”]Mike Hartline has the early lead.[/URL]
I am almost sure Phillips won’t rock the boat too much early as you have to figure Hartline is going to get first shot behind center. I just hope each QB pushes each other to get better, because having the best guy out there is the most important thing. I just want to win football games!!!
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