Thoughts on the Spring Game

#1 Next time remember to wear sunscreen
#2 Our Offense looks awful...or
#3 Our Defense looks amazing

But realistically I was surprised by what I saw today, reading other peoples first hand experiences doesn't really work because I was caught off guard after reading all about the 1st and 2nd scrimmages, so if you can head over and check out the spring game stream from bceagles.com. Either way here is what I took away.

Offense:

Quarterback
Dominique Davis is the clear front runner @ QB, they all looked pretty poor to be honest but Davis was the least of 3 evils, Boeks numbers were inflated for some reason and he showed that in his line today but even more so in his play. Tuggle, was in all honesty, just as bad another blog is reporting him as saying he just hit a cold streak today but his passes were off target, he looked uncomfortable and made some poor decisions.
Davis meanwhile seems to have added some zip to his passes, we aren't seeing the same 5-yard touches that he threw last year. He had some amazing throws but there was pretty much nothing really over 10 yards though there were attempts. I just get the feeling this might be an offense similar to Dana Bible and TOB.

Running Backs
Surprisingly did not look good, Haden was pulled out early which suggests that he might be injury prone again, Harris made one or two solid runs and the rest were 1-2 yard flops. Smith rattled off one very impressive 13 yarder. Most of our rushing came from the QBs though, which might not be a horrible thing considering most of the "tackles" came from tags that would never bring them down in a real game

O-Line
Pass protection looked good, run blocking looked weak, not much else to say really

Receivers
Oddest surprise of the day. I had a feeling that we would really just see a cycle of about 6 guys and that seems to be the case. Clyde Lee was a disappointment but oddly enough Billy Flutie really impressed. He made some stellar catches and was DD's go-to-guy (I don't know why his numbers weren't reported but if I had to guess I would say 6-7 catches for 50-75 yards). The other stand-out was RS Fr Pantale, absolutely amazing plays on the ball, he went up for some, he grabbed and turned with others and looked decent in run-blocking.

Bad news: yeah Offense didn't score once, that can't be good

Defense:
No point in really doing a unit by unit break down the D-Line looks stout and I think we'll see a rotation of guys including a rather jacked individual prowling the sidelines (looked like Dillon Quinn, but if it wasn't there was one freak of a human that Herz and Scafe both seemed to be doing a lot of chatting with). Alex DiSanzo impressed at LB but look to Dan Williams and Darius Bagan to get a fair amount of snaps as well as the LeGrande on passing situations (probably the next Kevin Akins, smaller speedy S/LB hybrid). My sleeper pick, Distaso seems to have been relegated to 3rd-string, ahh such is the life of a walk-on.
One Bad note: We need to work on some hands drills with some of these boys, I'm talking 6-8 balls that should have been intercepted but were dropped instead (which speaks little about what our offense was doing.

I'll post more on the draft tomorrow in hopes that one of the other guys might go in a late round.