Donovan McNabb had a pretty good morning practice, but his backup, Kevin Kolb, was inaccurate, inconsistent, and indecisive.
He skipped at least one pass over the middle to an open Danny Amendola, and completely missed a throw so badly that I’m not sure for whom it was intended. However, to be fair, it wasn’t all bad. In the one-on-one drills he had some very nicely placed balls.
The problem seemed to come in the 11-on-11 full-speed drills. Even in the “thud drills” he seemed to do okay, but when it was 11-on-11 and full-speed he looked lost, and indecisive.
In one play during the thud portion, he did a very nice job of shuffling to his left to escape the pocket, then finding Lorenzo Booker sitting in between the linebackers for a good gain.
However in almost the same play in the full-speed drills, he shuffled out to his right, and instead of seeing the open running back in the middle, he instead tried to strong-arm the ball to a covered receiver, where Dimitri Patterson knocked the ball down, nearly intercepting it.
On the other side of the ball, Stewart Bradley wasn’t real great in coverage.
On a few occasions he allowed Brent Celek to run away from him, while at other times allowing receivers to cut underneath him on the drag pattern for a big game.
He seemed to pick it up and fill well in the running game during the full-contact drills, but again the pass coverage was lacking. Pass coverage is a known weak area for Bradley. The Eagles will need to work with him and make sure that gets straightened out if they want to win on defense this year.
A guy that most will probably say had a bad morning was Lorenzo Booker, but I disagree. He had a couple drops, but they were just mental errors. Both times it looked like he was trying to run before he had the ball. That may come from the talk that he must impress to make the team, so he’s rushing.
If he just slows down and plays, I honestly think he’ll be just fine. He ran fairly well in both the thud and full-contact sessions. When the inside wasn’t there, he did a good job of bouncing to the outside and making something happen. He looked fast, and he played fast.
He might have been a bit too quick to bounce to the outside, but he made it work most of the time, so it’s a bit hard to complain about it.
