04-09-2014, 01:34 PM
These Bloomgren comments with Drukarev may provide context to what he's talking about:
https://stanford.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1629593
Of course, Elway rather famously lined up behind the guard in his first snap for the Broncos, so basic errors when being tossed into the deep end of the pool aren't necessarily damning.
Quote:Kelsey Young, a new entrant to the running back group this spring, has impressed the coaching staff with his play this spring. In fact, Young has been the most productive running back on the Cardinal roster so far this spring.
"Yeah, I'd say that's fair to say," Bloomgren said. "Very fair to say. Because he is so explosive, he is doing so much better with his footwork patterns and just being great with his tracks in his eyes. That's something that a young Kelsey Young certainly didn't have two years ago. He's always been an explosive runner but now he's reading things out and then when he does hit it, oh my goodness, he is hard to deal with. He's seeing defenders really well and any time he can get loose in space, it's a really bad deal for the defense."
Quote:"With Ryan you can imagine coming back for session two and being thrown right into the fire, everything was just I think very overwhelming to him (the first) Monday and Tuesday," Bloomgren said. "What's been really nice is to see things slow down for him in terms of mentally being able to make the right checks get us in the right play. And then the other thing is we had typical errors in those first couple of practices like center/quarterback exchange. It's hard to run a football play if we don't get the snap. It's great that those things have really cleared up a lot. That's a big deal."
https://stanford.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1629593
Of course, Elway rather famously lined up behind the guard in his first snap for the Broncos, so basic errors when being tossed into the deep end of the pool aren't necessarily damning.
