I was one of 3 QBs there. One of the other QBs was from California trying out. The other QB was going out for both QB and WR and I don't think he played a day of college football in his life. I think he was from a flag football team and wanted to tryout.
One of the Louisville Fire coaches had invited me down to the tryout, because he had seen me play in college. He is also a coach for Anderson University who is in our conference in college.
Since the coach already knew me and had seen me play he didn't need me to run the 40 or do any of the other drills, he just wanted to see me throw again. Even though the turf was wet from it raining the entire day before the tryout, the balls stayed pretty dry.
The main part of the tryout was the one on one drills. The tryout was for QBs, WRs, DBs, and some RBs. So the WR would run routes while the DB would try to cover them. Since this is an open tryout everyone wanted to show off their speed so most of the receivers were running deeper routes. Luckily I'm pretty good at throwing deeper routes. So I got a chance to show to the rest of the coaches that I could throw the ball pretty far and still have some accuracy with my throws.
Overall the tryout went really well. I was clearly the best QB there and the coach said that I did very good. At the end of the tryout they brought everyone together and announced that they would call the people they liked and wanted to invite them to another private workout in January or February. They said that the private tryout would actually be a workout with the team, just like a mini camp in the NFL. Then after 2 days of practicing with the team they would decide if they wanted to keep you or not.
So I'm expecting a call, but they didn't give a time frame on when you would get the call though. As of right now there is another team looking at me, but I just had to send in film for that team. I guess it is still pretty early to be getting teams together. Most teams in this league get together in March and the games start in April and runs through August.
So I'll keep you posted with all this stuff. Here are some pics that they put up on their website from the tryouts. Later.
