and Oh, Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here along with Dana

T. T.C. T.O. Performance Center following the first padded

practice checking off another box en routes to the NFL season. We got to have at least one

padded practice first before we get there and it was certainly padded. That is one of the big takeways.

Yeah, they practiced and they had pads on and I heard them popping.

Those are the big analysis.

Now let's go through some of the things that we took away from today.

I think for starters is that the

offense looked a heck of a lot better when they didn't have pads and you couldn't

do anything. Brian Flores is going to test the quarterbacks and he is going to test them a lot and we saw that today

with both Sam Darnold and J.J McCarthy having a bit of a tough time running the offense

but Sam Darnold was maybe significantly worse.

Now he's going up against the first team.

It was Wons versus Wons in situational drills,

but I would say it was a pretty tough day for Sam

Donald with his first time at full speed in Kevin O'Connell's offense

versus Brian Flores' defense.

Yeah, not something to write home about.

I also don't think it's necessarily a cause for concern the sky is falling, but

first day of pads, I was hoping to see kind of a continued ascension of Sam

Arnold, to see his arm on display,

to see his decision-making on display

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