Andy Reid and his staff were shoving as much as they could down the throats of their young playmakers this weekend.
The Start Of Get Maclin Ready
You can see that they want the kids to contribute and do it from the get go.
Here’s how Reid explained it.
“This is just the first step. We introduce three days worth of install and in training camp they’re going to have 10 days worth of install. Now they are going to come back for the OTAs and the passing camps [and it’s] important that they retain what they’ve learned in this camp here. In these camps you work mostly on the pass game, because it’s a non-contact camp. Once we get all the run game in on top of that, we introduced it in this camp, but once we get everything in that part of the game, they have to learn [that] also.”
The kids are headed home now and they’ll be back in a couple of weeks to got back to work.
Wide receiver Jeremy Maclin has the longest ways to go and he’s more of a luxury here because the Birds have receivers in place. I did see progress in him and he’s special athlete with more than enough confidence.
Reid compared what DeSean Jackson had to do last year to get up to speed with the offense compared to what Maclin has to do this year.
“It was probably closer for Jackson, or easier for him to transfer over to this offense. They were very similar to the one he ran at Cal. Missouri was more of a spread offense. The intermediate routes in the spread offense really don’t take place like they do in this offense. It’s either down the field or shorter, breaking routes. It looked like he didn’t have any problem learning, or running the routes. He seemed to pick up on things fast. He’s a real smart kid. I think their first minicamps were very similar.”
Maclin is not phased by the challenge at all. He told me, “don’t worry about it, we got this” talking about himself, McCoy and Ingram and their ability to master this offense.
