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Bobcats ease into tackling even as the team dons full pads
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THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT: Montana State can start a group of receivers this year that looks a little like a basketball front line – 6-5 Jaden Smith, 6-3 Lance McCutcheon, 6-2 Nate Stewart, and for good measure 6-5 reserve Tanner Trafton. It can field a lineup full of speedsters – Cam Garnder, Charles Brown, Andrew Patterson, and others. It can field a good-hands team – Coy Steel, Willie Patterson, Smith. MSU coach Brent Vigen likes the diversity of skill. "At that position you're going to get them in all shapes and sizes, but you want to have the ability to not always be small and not always be big, you have a mix, and guys within those different groupings that have some flexibility. I've been around it where you have a really good guy and you move him around, and it becomes pretty evident, or I've been around situations where you're really small and that's a bad thing, so I think we have the flexibility with our depth and the varying sizes and skill sets to put different groups out there and utilize different guys' strengths. That's the exciting part of that group, and there's some experience, some youth, it's a blend of just about everything."
SEEING RED (ZONE): Montana State used part of its time in contact periods Thursday working in high red zone situations (from the 10-yard line out to the 25). The situations were "regular downs" (first and second), but Bobcat coach Brent Vigen said working in the red zone is anything but regular. "What happens there is the game quickens up, the defense has to defend less length, certainly, and things just happen faster. From a quarterback perspective it's great to have those plays down there, and I think for the whole crew, on defense your angles change. We'll get down there (and work) in the red zone every other day now for the next several days."
TACKLE TALK: Everyone loves the first day of full-pad practices, particularly a head coach with old school sensibilities such as Brent Vigen, right? "Honestly, it's not much different" than the practice format the Cats operated under the previous five days, MSU's first-year head coach said after Thursday's first full-contact practice. "We did a tackling drill today, we didn't full-line tackle, but from pads popping relative to the last couple of days it was pretty similar. We'll tackle within some drills on Saturday, I suppose that's when it ultimately changes, but certainly it's more like football when you've got full pads on."
August 12 in Bobcat Football History
2019 - Casey Bauman was named MSU's starting quarterback after his performance in the team's first scrimmage. Bauman started MSU's first three games, then moved into a reserve role for the remainder of the season. 2017 - Chris Murray threw for 192 yards and two touchdown passes in MSU's final fall scrimmage. 2005 - Proclaiming that "everyone in Bobcat Nation thinks they're an expert on how we should use the tight end," Bobcat coach Mike Kramer cited Elliott Barnhart as the most likely successor to All-America Blake Wolf. Barnhart caught 19 passes in both 2005 and 2007, and 10 in 2006, and is currently a microbiologist with the Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center in Helena. 2003 - Preseason All-Big Sky center Nic Stevenson retired due to a shoulder injury. Stevenson helped anchor a Bobcat offensive line on a Big Sky Championship team in 2002. That move paved the way for Zach Wolf to stabilize the position somewhat. While the Bobcats opened each of the 1999-2000-2001 seasons with new signal callers, the team also started four centers between the McNeese State playoff game that closed 2002 and the Northern Iowa post-season contest that closed 2003. Wolf started most of MSU's games in 2003 and '04.
2021 POSITION PREVIEW: Specialists – After years of an intact group of specialists, a time was always coming that would call for a complete overhaul. That time has arrived, with Bryce Leighton arriving as MSU's punter and Luke Pawlak and Blake Glessner competing for kicking duties. Leighton looked good in the spring and possesses a booming leg. Stylistically he is different from his predecessor Jered Padmos, whose ability to vary punting styles made him one of the best in the Big Sky. Pawlak and Glessner may combine to hold down kicking chores. Pawlak spent a season at Kent State, and is considered extremely accurate, while Glessner's leg strength makes him an asset on kickoffs and longer field goal attempts. That will sort itself out during preseason camp. Tommy Sullivan enters the season as Montana State's long snapper, performing those duties well during the spring. Like Leighton, he was nationally-ranked in the Class of '19 and did nothing to dispel that idea during the spring.
Starters Returning: none. Other Lettermen Returning: none. Starters Lost: K Tristan Bailey, P Jared Padmos, LS Logan MacDonald. Redshirts: K Blake Glessner, P Bryce Leighton, K Luke Pawlak (transferred from Kent State), LS Tommy Sullivan.
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