Mike Tanier’s Senior Bowl Report: Wednesday’s North Team Practice

The North and South squads follow very different practice schedules. Mike Shanahan and the South coaches make offensive and defensive players face off early in practice, so we can cut to the chase and start watching Quinton Coples and Cordy Glenn try to kill each other. Leslie Frazier's North squad starts with special teams drills, then individual position drills, then offensive and defensive play instillation, before finally getting down to 7-on-7 and 11-on-11 drills. If you like one-on-one matchups and heated competition, you like the South's practice style. If you like watching the offense run plays at half-speed against other offensive players pretending to be the defense, then you are easily entertained. Individual offensive line drills did provide some insight, as coach Ryan Silverfield singled out Mike Adams (OT, Ohio State) for practicing much better than he did on Tuesday. "Mike was a hundred times better today," he said as Adams fired out from the gate an...