Hello, everybody. Welcome to another post-practice report. I am Brian Nemhouser. You can find me on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, all the places, ad hoc blogger.

And today you find me at the VMAC after the CX just finished their first padded practice.

Excuse me there.

And some interesting stuff to talk about.

It was an interesting day because, you know, normally when pads come on, you start to get a little bit more feisty, a little more, obviously, a more physical.

I didn't see that as much today.

Obviously, it was more physical, but I didn't see things get pushed to the edge.

In fact, I would say there was some more feistiness in the past couple practices than I saw

today.

Generally speaking, I would say the defense seemed to win the day.

And it was interesting. I was just talking to coach Mike McDonald. I was asking about Abe Lucas and Robbie Uts in the run game and

whether or not he felt those guys in the run game. And he said, frankly, no, you know, he just didn't

think that they ran the ball that well today. If he hadn't have said that, I think you would have heard from a lot of other folks

that the Seahawks seem to run the ball pretty well today.

In fact,

part of the reason I asked that question is because I saw Abe Lucas seal some edges

and clear some pass for Kenneth Walker.

I saw Robbie U.

It's just blow a guy up on a play later practice. So it's possible that, I mean, Coach McDonald sees different things and is in different places. Like a lot of times, he doesn't watch the 1V1 drill. So, you know, I've asked him a couple things about that. And he's like, well, I wasn't there. So I'll see the film maybe. But he also knows what is the intent of any given play on both sides of the ball.

He talked about that today.

He's kind of got to cheat.

So he always knows what's going on on both sides.

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