It was a two-hour session that had a lot of passing drills. Nate Burleson struggled some, had three or four dropped balls over the course of the two practices. Free agent Travis Brown had a blatant dropped ball while wide open in the middle of the field. I thought Jordan Kent looked pretty good, as did Courtney Taylor and Ben Obomanu.

Hugh Millen had a funny observation about the tight ends: If you took their names and numbers off their jerseys, would you even know who is who? (or is that whom?) They all look essentially the same, between 6-4 and 6-7 and weighing about 250-260 pounds. Will Heller stands out because he is 6-6, 270, but everybody else, including John Carlson, looks essentially the same. Somebody asked earlier how Jeb Putzier looked, so I watched him specifically this practice. He looked pretty good, and Matt Hasselbeck commented afterward that he obviously is a veteran, knows what he is doing and is in the right places.

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Julius Jones looks quick, as does Justin Forsett. Jones got a lot of the action in this practice. Hasselbeck said they are running a bunch of new plays to take advantage of the new personnel. He also said that while it is a little weird not having Shaun there, most players have gotten used to the turnover in the NFL and they just move on. He admitted he did not expect as much turnover as there has been, but that's the way it is so they deal with it.

We watched long snapper Tyler Schmitt for a while and his snaps are crisp and seemingly effortless. I was going to interview Plackemeier to get a scouting report but ran out of time. I'll try to get to that tomorrow.

Baling said he watched Mike Solari coach the offensive line for a while and said he is a huge improvement. I talked to Solari a little after practice, and he said the primary reason he was hired is because he is familiar with the West Coast offense, which he brought to Kansas City from San Francisco, where he said he missed Holmgren by a year. But he knows the system and he knows what Holmgren wants to run. He said they are not changing schemes so much as trying to teach the line how to play as one unit, so that if somebody is hurt they can plug somebody else in and not miss a beat.

Matt said he has had a lot of meetings with new QB coach Bill Lazor and that they have covered essentially everything. They are getting to know each other still, but they things are going well. I asked him if he would prefer throwing the ball as much as he did last year or going back to a more balanced attack, and he said that essentially at some point in the season you are going to have to run the ball. You have to. And so he is glad they addressed that need.