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Tim O'Malley with Tim Priester and Pete Sampson at Jack Freeman Studios.

And guys, we have seen a fair amount of practice the last few days.

And despite some red zone struggles, we even saw a touchdown in a live scrimmage.

Yes.

Yeah, it was a nice improvisational play off script.

So it wasn't something that Sanford, Denbrock, or Brian Kelly had drawn up that Malik Zaire throwback pass to Tony Jones Jr., which for me was the play of the day of the practice that we saw on Saturday.

You know, overall, the Red Zone, that was just, that was alarming to watch how bad they were.

I think the quarterbacks in one session were 0 of 9, and then in the second session,

I think completion-wise were probably 3 of 9 or 3 of 10, but only one touchdown of those 3.

The other two were sort of tap-down tackles.

And then, you know, we asked Brian Kelly, obviously, about it after practice,

and he downplayed it like

it's no big deal. But after the last six years, I don't know how you can't look at that and feel like, yeah, this is still a big concern. Yeah, and of course, there's no running game involved. I know some people asked it was a seven-on-seven. You didn't have offensive alignment, but I thought it was, you know, on one hand you'd say, okay, it's young receivers, that's why they're not getting

open.

It's not the quarterbacks.

But there's some young DBs involved, too. And I realize the field is compressed down that close to the goal line and in the end zone. But I thought Kelly kind of, I mean, to me this is tipping your hand because he talked about having two really good

quarterbacks, and we agree with that. But he said, you know, one quarterback changes the play

at the line of scrimmage and it's a success. The other one, add libs, and it's a success. Well,

who's he going to choose? He's going to choose the guy that he can feel comfortable with that

he knows can change the play and make a play as opposed to an ad lib because you can't count on that all the time. But yeah, it is disturbing because it's a one-on-one situation down there and the defense was winning the one-on-ones. Yeah, it's compressed, but it's one-on-one. That offsets it. The defense, I mean, the corners probably know a little bit about what the plan is down

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