Man, all of the sudden, just like that, practice one is over. It was a great day out there as first practices always are. Full of energy, full of excitement. This came on fast and the practice went fast. Really clean. I was proud of our coaches and staff, as well as our players, just for really understanding kind of the things we’re trying to accomplish today. Not just the execution on the football field when it came to running our concepts and our players, but the transitions. It’s new for everyone, and I thought the guys did a great job.
You could see the want-to, the desire. It was there through the effort they gave. So I thought it came together in a nice way. They protected each other, which is a big thing when it comes to our practice habits. We want to be healthy and be able to improve every play, and the only way to improve is by being out there. So I think that’s one of the key things in what we’re doing all season long is being really intentional in what we’re doing, whether it’s building relationships or how we practice — creating those habits that are what we call championship habits. And I think they did a really nice job with that today.
We were doing it today. So we had it out there. With supply and demand across the country, we aren’t able to have as many as what the max would be. But we had a couple quarterbacks with that in. I haven’t heard any
I don’t know that it answers all the concerns you might have when it comes to some of the things that people will say it automatically fixes — maybe sign-stealing and things like that. Because I think there are other ways it could go the other way, just with being intentional and trying to get a call and being able to echo it through your defensive headset. I could go on and on with that. But it was good. I think the quarterbacks were just getting used to it, I saw them a couple of times putting their hand up to their helmet and listening, but for the most part it seemed clean.