Welcome to another edition of Irish Illustrated Insider, brought you by Irish Illustrated.com.

I'm Pete Sampson, joined with Tim Preester and Tim O'Malley, and we're finally into training camp.

The season is here, sort of.

Four days in, we saw day one.

We'll be back out on the practice field on Thursday

and Saturday to watch two full practices. So we did get a pretty deep first impression, I thought,

last Friday at Culver Academy's, Tim, guys that impressed you, or I think maybe even more

stories or developing themes that struck you from day one.

I think some of the guys that jumped out, we touched upon this a little bit in our

instant analysis after the game, but clearly Deshaun Kaiser, he was the most accurate

quarterback, period, not just the most accurate of the second and third quarterbacks.

He had a really good day throwing football.

Did he have a really good day the next day and the day after that?

We don't know that for sure.

So we're still speculating a little bit, but we do have a little bit to go on.

I mean, clearly, Tori Hunter was a real quality receiver when we saw him on Friday.

And I want to say this about Max Redfield, and I think I said this to Tim.

This is the Max Redfield that I expected to see two years ago, physically, athletically, the way he moves around the football field. This is the guy. This is the five-star guy that we expected. So those are some of the guys. I mean, clearly, Corey Holmes had a good day catching in the football, and then moments later he lined up wrong on the wrong side of the field.

So still showed a little bit of youth,

but it was encouraging for him to show that he's catching the football well.

I think overall the theme I would take away is if this is probably making a leap with one practice,

but if you were to put this roster out there last year with the depth that they've kind of created, I don't think you lose four straight in November.

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