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Seahawks Notebook: Little-Known TE Makes an Impression in Camp

By Scott M. Johnson, For the Kitsap Sun
August 2, 2006


"Rookie QB Covers Kicks

Rookie quarterback Travis Lulay looked like he might be adding to his repertoire Tuesday afternoon.

At the request of the coaching staff, the Montana State product joined a special teams practice and helped chased down kickoffs.

Lulay is an athletic quarterback who ran the 40-yard dash in 4.6 seconds during pro workouts last spring.

"I’d like to think I’m an athlete," he said. "One of my favorite quotes is from Brett Favre: ‘I’m not a quarterback; I’m a football player.’""

That sounds like they are looking for reasons to keep him around

Lulay, lulay, lulay, lulay

BobcatBulldog wrote:Seahawks Notebook: Little-Known TE Makes an Impression in Camp

By Scott M. Johnson, For the Kitsap Sun
August 2, 2006


"Rookie QB Covers Kicks

Rookie quarterback Travis Lulay looked like he might be adding to his repertoire Tuesday afternoon.

At the request of the coaching staff, the Montana State product joined a special teams practice and helped chased down kickoffs.

Lulay is an athletic quarterback who ran the 40-yard dash in 4.6 seconds during pro workouts last spring.

"I’d like to think I’m an athlete," he said. "One of my favorite quotes is from Brett Favre: ‘I’m not a quarterback; I’m a football player.’""

That sounds like they are looking for reasons to keep him around

Lulay, lulay, lulay, lulay

That is great

BobcatBulldog wrote:Seahawks Notebook: Little-Known TE Makes an Impression in Camp

By Scott M. Johnson, For the Kitsap Sun
August 2, 2006


"Rookie QB Covers Kicks

Rookie quarterback Travis Lulay looked like he might be adding to his repertoire Tuesday afternoon.

At the request of the coaching staff, the Montana State product joined a special teams practice and helped chased down kickoffs.

Lulay is an athletic quarterback who ran the 40-yard dash in 4.6 seconds during pro workouts last spring.

"I’d like to think I’m an athlete," he said. "One of my favorite quotes is from Brett Favre: ‘I’m not a quarterback; I’m a football player.’""

That sounds like they are looking for reasons to keep him around

Lulay, lulay, lulay, lulay

This doesn't sound promising if they are having him run down kicks? Usually the #3 QB on a team won't be doing special teams as they want to get him allt the reps/practice they can at QB so they can see what he can do. Never know though I guess.

There has been cases of third string QB's playing special teams to earn their spot. Just off the top of my head are Danny White and Tom Tupa

CARDIAC_CATS wrote:

BobcatBulldog wrote:Seahawks Notebook: Little-Known TE Makes an Impression in Camp

By Scott M. Johnson, For the Kitsap Sun
August 2, 2006


"Rookie QB Covers Kicks

Rookie quarterback Travis Lulay looked like he might be adding to his repertoire Tuesday afternoon.

At the request of the coaching staff, the Montana State product joined a special teams practice and helped chased down kickoffs.

Lulay is an athletic quarterback who ran the 40-yard dash in 4.6 seconds during pro workouts last spring.

"I’d like to think I’m an athlete," he said. "One of my favorite quotes is from Brett Favre: ‘I’m not a quarterback; I’m a football player.’""

That sounds like they are looking for reasons to keep him around

Lulay, lulay, lulay, lulay

This doesn't sound promising if they are having him run down kicks? Usually the #3 QB on a team won't be doing special teams as they want to get him allt the reps/practice they can at QB so they can see what he can do. Never know though I guess.

It's not all bad. Usually a QB "can't" cover kicks. I wasn't expecting Lulay to make the team as the No. 3 QB, but hadn't considered him at a different position. I can see him making it as a special team's gunner, holder on xtra pts. That would give Seattle an emergency QB, def. back, receiver.

Sounds like the position Holmgren put Seneca Wallace in a couple of years back, now that I have more time to reflect

I think that anything Travis can do to diversify himself will be beneficial. Especially after watching the Day 4 training camp highlights on the Seahawks website. Travis wasn't even mentioned as battling for the # 3 spot. They only referred to David Greene and Gibran Hamdan.

catamaran wrote:There has been cases of third string QB's playing special teams to earn their spot. Just off the top of my head are Danny White and Tom Tupa

Cody Pickett-49ers last year was on the kick off team making tackles.

I saw in the paper yesterday or the day before that the Seahawks waived a Center. Good news for Bolton.

Ponycat wrote:I saw in the paper yesterday or the day before that the Seahawks waived a Center. Good news for Bolton.

Unless the waiver center was Bolton.

crazycat wrote:

Ponycat wrote:I saw in the paper yesterday or the day before that the Seahawks waived a Center. Good news for Bolton.

Unless the waiver center was Bolton.

No, it caught my eye as well and it wasn't Bolton.

Just visited the Seahawks' page on espn and the pic that came up was that of Lulay during warm-ups. Also one of Bolton on espn.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/teams/pho ... 6&team=sea

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/teams/pho ... 5&team=sea

The Day 4 Wrap on www.seahawks.com talks about back up QBs and it doesn't even mention Lulay. Probably not a good sign.

He may not be in the running for backup, but if they choose a backup, they may decide to keep someone like him for 3rd. String and release the other that got beat out for backup. He will more than likely make less money and they have to believe they will rarely ever play the 3rd. string anyway.

http://blogs.thenewstribune.com/media/0 ... mgren2.mp3

In the middle of the interview Holmgren gets asked a question about TL and says a few good things and about how tough it is for a rookie qb on his team. (At least he didn't say he's trying real hard and has a big heart and leave it at that.)

http://blogs.thenewstribune.com/media/0 ... mgren2.mp3

In the middle of the interview Holmgren gets asked a question about TL and says a few good things and about how tough it is for a rookie qb on his team. (At least he didn't say he's trying real hard and has a big heart and leave it at that.)

tetoncat wrote:He may not be in the running for backup, but if they choose a backup, they may decide to keep someone like him for 3rd. String and release the other that got beat out for backup. He will more than likely make less money and they have to believe they will rarely ever play the 3rd. string anyway.

True, but they mentioned Wallace, Greene, and some other guy I'd never heard of. For what it's worth.

crazycat wrote:

tetoncat wrote:He may not be in the running for backup, but if they choose a backup, they may decide to keep someone like him for 3rd. String and release the other that got beat out for backup. He will more than likely make less money and they have to believe they will rarely ever play the 3rd. string anyway.

True, but they mentioned Wallace, Greene, and some other guy I'd never heard of. For what it's worth.

Hamdan is the other guy you're talking about - he was the NFE Offensive MVP. Greene isn't that good.

I hope Lulay makes the practice Squad, but you have to understand that all clubs bring in 4 or 5 QBs, even if they are set with their first 3. The first 3 or 4 weeks of training camps has a lot of throws that are needed. First there are a lot of receivers (before the cuts) that they want to look at, and they don't want to overthrow their number 1 and 2 QBs (which appear to be locked at Seattle). So they have 3 others to spread the throwing around.

My hope is they keep three QBs (like most teams on the main squad) and they drop the 4th, and keep Travis as a practice squad guy (and then sponser him in Europe next Spring).