Two a day coverage with Mike Vickers and Rudy C.
Vickers covered the evening practice with words while Rudy C. scored
some great interviews with Coach Baldwin, DeAndre Wright, and Matt Streid. Enjoy it all!
The New Mexico Lobos
held a brief practice without pads on a breezy Friday night at the UNM
practice fields and prepared for Saturday afternoon's Fan Photo Day
live scrimmage. The offense, defense, and
special teams carried out walkthroughs in preparation for the scrimmage
and as you will hear in RudyC's interview with Coach Dave Baldwin the offense completed
installation of their entire package for this season.
LT Sylvester Hatten and C Ben Contreras are currently being held
out of practice, both with mild concussions. This
has allowed Coach Baldwin and OL Coach Jason Lenzmeier to shuffle the
deck and move certain players to new positions in an effort to find the
best 8 offensive linemen on the team (5 starters and 3 backups that can
play several positions). As of now Sr.
Matt Streid has been working back at tackle at times and So. Mike Cannon has moved to center. Contreras
should be held out of practice for one week and hopefully can resume
his progress toward starting at center quickly, allowing Jr. Erik Cook
to be moved to guard.
Following
the walkthroughs the Lobos broke into a brief 7 on 7 scrimmage and were
instructed to avoid contact and to make plays on the ball only. On
the very first play the UNM defense continued its impressive play as
Sr. CB Glover Quin intercepted Donovan Porterie's pass attempt. True freshman CB
Anthony Hooks added a pass breakup of his own while covering WR Daryl Jones later in
the scrimmage. The offense was able to
counter punch with great catches by Sr. WR Jermain McQueen and So.
Bryant Williams who nicely split So. CB Jerome Jenkins and
Fr. S Bubba Williams to make the reception.
After the brief 7 on 7 period the Lobos moved
into Rocky Long Stadium for
final walkthroughs. The
defense in particular was able to get a feel for the gameday play
calling system as Coach Long was signaling in the defensive coverages
from the sideline just as he will be when TCU comes to town on Aug. 30.
Be
sure to listen to RudyC's interview with Coach Baldwin below as he
brings us up to speed on the progress of the offense and answers many
of the key questions that Lobo fans have heading into the season opener.
Next up: Fan Photo
Day Scrimmage Saturday 4-6
pm. Gates open at 3 pm, free admission.
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