Yesterday's Practice.

Sorry I didn't write about yesterday's practice last night. I took Jesse out to the House of Teriaki for Sushi instead. Delicious

Yesterday was cold and wet. It rained earlier in the day, but stopped a little before three. I sent out an email letting everybody know that practice was not cancelled and implored people to fucking show up. Not too many listened. I think that we ended up with 13 A teamers who could play, which is utterly indefensible. We can't get anywhere as a team if the team doesn't show up. But I don't want to keep on that rant right now; I don't have much to say about it that I haven't said already.

In spite of low numbers, we had a pretty good practice. We had some drills that we ran pretty hard, and I'm feeling rather sore right now as a result. With lower numbers, our lines were shorter and we had much shorter breaks. We ran the endzone drill, but practiced holstering throws when a man at the cone put a hand up to symbolize a poaching defender. I laid out for a big catch at one point and really knocked the wind out of myself, to the point where I felt nauseaus and had a headache for ten or fifteen minutes after. We ran two five pulls, with limited success, and then did a full field huck drill that was a lot of fun. I didn't throw all that well in the huck drill, but I think that was because I was overthinking my throws instead of just cutting myself loose and going for it. At the very end of this drill, Jeff laid out and hurt himself in some way (his shoulder?). He couldn't move his hand, so he went to Health Services. I have no idea how that turned out, but I hope he's alright.

We are going to start having the injured people not show up to practice. Presumably, they will be working out or going to a doctor or something rather than sitting on our cold sidelines, but I really don't trust that too many people will do this. If I can't trust them to show up for practice, how can I trust them to be working hard when their team isn't even present to hold them accountable? Either way, the idea behind all of this is to prevent them from distracting the players who actually Are working hard. It does really suck to be running your ass off only to look towards the sideline and see eight of your teammates joking around about something stupid. I don't know how this new system will work out, but hopefully it'll be alright.