In limited action Lawrence looked comfortable moving the offense. Morse is giving me Brad Meester vibes and he looks like a great fit.

Etienne had a nice receiving TD and Bigsby looks like he has his confidence back and poised to give us a boost in 2024. He has some nice runs and a big return. 

Parker Washington was electric in the return game. He put them boys on roller skates and took some ankles on his 74 yard kick return. If the defender didn’t come back from out of bounds after getting his ankles broke in half, Washington would have took it to the house. 

Blake Hance played like a backup. He was getting bulldozed which caused a couple of runs to get stuffed. On one pass play I couldn’t figure out what Hance was looking at but him and Morse was doubling the NT and it looked like Hance was expecting a stunt from the left side but he had his head turned to the left while helping Morse double the nose tackle, and at one point he appeared he thought the football was already thrown and he just stopped playing and stood there. It’s kinda tough to explain what he was doing.

Brian Thomas had a nice grab, but the coaches will be on his back about blocking and not being engaged during running plays. You see it happen every play in high school football when the ball is snapped for whatever reason, players will take 2 or 3 steps and begin to block, only to stop and watch what is happening. I don’t want my 1st round pick getting rolled up on during the preseason but I hope he gets that worked out come week 1. He’s a big bodied receiver and needs to be able to block and be aggressive and not trying to watch the game during a run play. Atleast run a dummy route and occupy the CB. It’s also a give away other teams will pick up in film study because Thomas ain’t firing off the line and then engaging in a block. I’m betting they will have that cleaned up by next week. Other than that he had a big time catch.

It was encouraging to see Abdullah chase down Wentz for a sack. He looks like he bulked up since last year.

Gipson was gettin active out there. I like his motor flying around. 

Muma had a series where he made 2 back to back solo tackles. One of them a back swung out of the backfield and Muma hit him with a text book tackle. 

Cam Little can boom the football.

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