2025 East-West Shrine Bowl Practice Notes: Day Four West Team

2025 East-West Shrine Bowl Practice: Day Four West Team

All the signs keep coming up Trey for the 2025 East-West Shrine Bowl week of practices. Not that this is about me. It’s all about the guys on the field (something the first broadcast team didn’t understand). However, humor me on one last storytime because I do think it’s important for you the viewer to trust the source of the information you’re reading. Everybody has an opinion on these draft guys but more people people should evaluate the evaluator before deciding their opinion matters.

I’m beginning to sense a theme. It keeps repeating itself over and over again.

You know, the part where Trey has to be the bad guy and it’s later revealed that I’m actually the good guy?

Remember that time I told you that Jim Nagy was a corrupt jackass?

Bet you didn’t have this on your bingo card for this week?

You’re reading this currently ^. Nagy took a dump on all of the players at the East-West game and Eric Galko (who runs the Shrine Game) thankfully had enough courage to call him out for it.

If you don’t get why this is a big deal, let me further explain that for you.

What Nagy did should be a fireable offense. It is essentially the equivalent of a fireman showing up to his job and dumping gasoline on the house. Nagy’s ONE job is to hype up the players. To do something like this has to be viewed as fireable. It’s a total sin given the nature of his job. It’s totally insane if he doesn’t lose his job for this. It’s even more insane the Jets gave this guy a real interview.

Oh, and how about this cheese…

By the way, I agree. The new crew did a fantastic job.

Just a tad curious if the broadcaster switch was just a coincidence… Looking forward to discussing that and more during the future interview with Shawne Merriman!

Feel free to comment on this part. Would you like to see a future podcast collab with Zach Wolchuk and Voch Lombardi? Seems only right given the circumstances.

K. I promise I’m done now. Let’s get to the notes!

I mentioned throughout the week that it seemed like the West team practice was a bit more intense at the start. Well, that flipped on the final day of practice. The West team started to tune it down and really lock in for the game on Thursday. The West team did mostly walkthrough stuff while the East got after it today. I thought Shane Bowen probably has the right approach and will be interesting to see if that translates to the game.

There really wasn’t much to dissect in this game. Some competitive red zone stuff. Otherwise, a lot of slow motion stuff. The notes will be brief because of that. Don’t worry, we have the behind the scenes film this year and that content will be coming at you in the near future.

Quarterbacks:

None of these guys are probably draftable. I’d still take Garbers. Brady Cook might have him slightly beat in the arm power category but he throws the best ball and feels like he’s the most repeatable in his movement skills.

Cook is showing one big fatal flaw during these practices. Guy stared down the same receiver over and over again. No nuance and feel in that area.

Running Backs:

The running backs in this group really caught the ball well today. Lots of targets. No bad drops.

Wide Receivers:

Pitt’s Mumpfield needs to change his last name to meh. Sure looks like an undrafted free agent. Bad drops by him while they’re not even running full speed.

Jacolby George is the steady eddy. Made a house call during hurry up mode.

Will Sheppard finally showed up and did something. It was a play that sums up who he is. He plucked a contested catch out of the corner of the end zone. That’s what he can do when it goes well for him.

Not sure I need to add more than what I’ve said on Ricky White. He’s proved he can play.

Tight End:

Luke Lachey is still a mystery to me. Maybe it’s the helmet that’s throwing me off. He’s definitely slow to react. First step painfully slow. Hasn’t been super sure handed either on just catching balls through air. Better football player than practice guy. When they actually start playing real football, he looks more comfortable.

Offensive Line:

No one on ones. It is what it is.

Defensive Line:

Boston College can’t help himself. He gets horny off being overextended. Can’t see how it works out for Cam Horsley.

Linebackers:

Teddye Buchanan with some serious hops. Dude went up there batting a ball to the ground in the team setting.

Jackson Woodard just passes the test in everything he does. Looked really good again in pass coverage.

Cornerbacks:

Robert Longerbeam continues to impress. Never a time where he goes into give this guy a map mode. He’s within striking distance of covering his guy every time.

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