Fall Camp Practice #2 Recap

We've got more goodies on Day 2, though as Coach Tedford mentioned, "day two was more of a typical day two."

We're fortunate to a number of sites reporting in on Fall Camp action, though yesterday's practice was closed to the media.

CalBears.com was able to witness some plays during 7-7s however, with a few notable plays being the following:

"• A pair of would-be long touchdown passes from Zach Kline to Chris Harper, one each in a team session and a one-on-one matchup

• A long hookup in the corner of the end zone from Zach Maynard to Maurice Harris, with the left-handed quarterback running to his right and finding his wide open cousin for the score

• A long touchdown pass from Allan Bridgford to Richard Rodgers

• A spectacular acrobatic catch by Nathan Phillip during 7-on-7 work

• Big plays by the defense, including interceptions from Willie Fletcher, Josh Hill and Joel Willis, and a fumble recovery by Mustafa Jalil."

I'm reading about a lot of would-be TD passes. Given that it's only the second day of practice, I'm not too concerned about our secondary, but...the Cal fan in me has me paranoid about the secondary.

After the jump, check out some more hits and quotes on yesterday's session.

The Bear Insider has a full breakdown of Coach Tedford's 20 minute interview with the media.

It seems people can't stop asking Coach Tedford about his visit to the New England Patriots to meet with Coach Belichick to better undertand their offense and how to utilize their tight ends.

"On his time in New England: Earlier this year Tedford travelled to visit the New England Patriots to study and observe many things, including how practices were run and professional drills were used, but specifically added that, " ... part of the reason to go there too was (to study) their ability to utilize tight end play, because they've done such a great job of that." In this context Tedford mentioned tight ends Richard Rodgers and Spencer Hagan as potential difference makers." So it seems that Tedford was also able to glean more than just Tight End use and how the Patriots ran a team from an organizational standpoint. That's exciting news. I'm not sure how open the Patriots have been in allowing these opportunities to other collegiate coaches, but any time you can get a chance to witness the inner workings of one of the most successful professional football teams in the past decade, you got to think that's going to result in some good things.

Ryan Gorcey at BearTerritory.net has a nice writeup of new linebacker Khairi Fortt's first sitdown with the media.

In it, Fortt mentions how he had already been considering transferring out of Penn State prior to the breaking news of the Jerry Sandusky related sanctions. Says Fortt:

"Over these past couple weeks, it's been crazy. I felt, for me, that I needed a change," says Fortt. "I wasn't happy with my situation at Penn State, and it has nothing to do with the current coaches that are there right now, because they did a wonderful job of improving the program over these past seven months that they've been there. I just had to make a change for myself, and I felt like it was needed. It was on-the-field issues, but also off-the-field. Me and my family came to the consensus that this was the best fit for me."

In an interesting contradiction, Fortt states that he had initially be contacted by the coaching staff, but Tedford has told the media that Fortt had first reached out to the coaching after the sanctions came down at PSU. The order to which is fairly irrelevant, but somewhat interesting for those who have wondered whether the coaching staff was proactive about reaching out to Fortt.

Overall, the team isn't in pads yet, working only in helmets, though they'll be dressed in shells today and Tuesday, and will go full pads for the first time on Wednesday. Hoping for no injuries but some hard knocks then.