"The deep ball is good.  A double move like that will take me six or so seconds to get to the outer edge of your passing range then," Bethany responded, to give Adam an idea of her open field speed.  "Just tell me where you want me to end up and if there's a specific way you want me to juke".  She did notice the other woman on the field while she talked the play over with Adam, as well as the man who'd just arrived on the practice field.

"Hi, I'm Ben Hope, TE. Want to throw a few?" said Ben to Bethany and Adam.
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"Hello Ben.  I remember seeing you on the bus.  Got all your paperwork filled out I take it?" Bethany responded to the man with a smile, referring to the practice contract.  "I'm Bethany Paulson.  Wide Receiver and Cornerback," she said added by way of introduction.  She was dressed in pads, but she had wanted to see how the full padded uniform felt when she was playing.  "We were just going to throw a few deep, though I'm sure we could alternate and I could switch between covering you and receiving," she suggested.  "That is, if Adam doesn't mind having a couple targets to throw to," she added.

"Sounds good to me," said Ben, looking over at the other man. "Adam? You OK with that?"

He stretched and jogged on the spot, getting warmed up ready to run.

Bethany stretched out a little bit and took stock of the newcomer.  He was tall, almost as tall as she was, though maybe he weighed a little bit more.  That wasn't out of the ordinary though, so the woman figured they were pretty evenly matched from a pure physical standpoint.  "So, I don't know exactly how they do the weight room here, but if either of you need a lifting partner either during the required time or off-hours, let me know.  Wouldn't mind a fellow ball catcher to work with," she said, lumping the tight end into the general receiving group.

"It would be appreciated. I like to run and swim as well, if you care for either. Wonder if there's a pool anywhere around here."

He looked round for a football.

"I'm good with either of those.  I'll admit I haven't met a lot of football players who actually like running or swimming.  Most I've worked with were way more into the idea that you got all the cardio you needed on the field and that you just needed the weight room and maybe a treadmill to warm up on," Bethany said to the man as they talked.  The talk was also giving her a chance to catch her breath, and while she wasn't tired, a break every few throws wasn't a bad thing, either.  "I would be surprised if there wasn't a pool somewhere around here, to be honest.  The facility seems to be pretty well equipped".

  Adam said something to the Kid that was handling footballs for them and  he ran down towards  the far end, where the other  woman stood.....

  Adam chuckles as Ben and Beth talked,well..I'll throw   as much as you folks  want to run..i had extra  reps  before the Bus came in, so i guess its my turn to throw,  Lets Try that Out  and Up, Beth... FAke the out at 9...I'll pump. as soon as i reload. I'll let it go to  your  Inside...if we do it in a game...I'll resd the saftey..but i like to keep it on your inside  so you face the field...

 By this  time the Kid   had reached  Kat and looked up at her with a grin,..Miss Dawlish? Adam  said you might  want to come down and meet the  two new players? Especially the  other girl...

  He grinned , and  ran back to  the far end to get back to his  job of  feeding footballs toi the thrower.

  Adam said "HUT"  and rolled a few steps to his  right, as she took a step to the outside  his arm flashed  foreard, but  held the ball, at the same  time  his feet dug into the turf  and he L:et the Ball Go down the right sideline, a high arc, with a very tight spiral that seemed as if it  wouild meet with Beth, around thier  45.

  As he wathed the throw, he said to Ben, welcome to the Dragons, Ben...Hope you are a passcatching Tight end. the others  seem to be  the blocking type...be a damn good thing if you were good at both...

 He watched the ball coiming down his eyes  going from Beth to the ball to see how close he would make it.

Bethany lined up for the route and took off when Adam called hut.  She ran to the nine yard line and cut sharply out for a single step, selling the move with a look in that direction with her head.  As quickly as she cut out, however, she juked up the field and to the inside to sell the route, as she was effectively on the same course as she was initially, just with the fake out to get rid of her imaginary defender.

After the juke, she arrived at the forty-five yard line just as the ball was getting there.  She had to slow just a tad as she turned her head to look the ball into her arms, and the woman continued running a few more yards before turning back around.  She gripped the football and threw a spiral back in the direction of the kid who was feeding footballs to the thrower.  She then continued her jog back to the line.

 He smiled  as she caught  it, he shook his head as he said to Ben,she bhad to wait on that one..not good..have to let it go a bit earlier...

   Alright Ben, Let me send her  down the other sideline, and we'll get you loose....

 When Beth  came  BAck he nooded,..good grab...now the other sideline...I'm gonna let it go sooner, so you don't have to slow  down...i hope...  he grinned.

 On "hut"..he rolled to  his  Left, Squared his shoulders and Fired the Ball after  a smaller  fake pump , taking a bit of the arc off the Ball the spiral  was ;looking like it might come down on the  other 49

Bethany nodded.  "Alright, the other side then," she said as she lined up.  She took off on the word hut and dashed down the field.  She juked again at the nine yard line, taking a hard cut out and looking that way with her head, just as if she was going to run that out pattern.  However, she cut just as quickly back as she did before and dashed forward.  Deep balls were something she was pretty good at.  She liked getting into these one-on-one matchups, as she tended to try and use her height and size to her advantage.

She looked up and back to look the ball in around the forty-nine yard line.  She didn't have to slow down on this one, and she continued down the field for those last few yards before again turning around.  She knew Adam wasn't the primary quarterback, and she knew he wasn't going to throw a deep, so while she hadn't adjusted her speed, she had expected the ball to land about there based on him releasing it sooner.

She ran back, throwing the ball to the kid in the process.  "Better that time," she said as she came closer.  "Didn't have to slow down that time".

 Adusting his helmet he nodded,well..if  i ever have to throw  that deep? Its gonna be , because  someone screwed up the coverage. I rather be catching those, then throwing them.

  Alright Ben...lets line you up on the right HAsh..start with a  Curl, then well do an out..then you guys  can alternate...how's that sound?

  Once Ben Is Lined Up, he says HUT.. the take a few steps to his right and  Fires the Ball, aiming  for the  breastplate on his chest.

"I'm the catching sort of TE, but I can tackle when the opportunity presents itself," Ben grinned, as he watched Bethany catch a couple of passes from Adam.

Then he took position, and ran the first pattern flat out at Adam's 'Hut' - curling in just at the right moment and gathering the ball in, gripping it eagle claw style and sprinting a few more yards before slowing and throwing it in a lazy spiral to the nearest ballboy.

"Nice throw, Adam - couldn't have missed it had I tried!" he called, jogging back down the field, breathing easily.

Bethany watched the play quietly, observing both it and the way that Adam set himself before he threw.  It was important information for her to gather from both an offensive and defensive standpoint.  "Nice catch there," she said to the man as he caught the ball.  "Just wait until I'm covering you though.  I promise it won't be so easy with someone tryng to steal the ball away," she commented with a small grin behind her mask.

 Adam's  eyes looked to Beth, a smile at the friendly Challenge she put out there..Aright Ben..Lets see the Out..Line up on the right Hash...make certain you drive out of that cut...and get your head around...I like to lead  folks coming out of the cuts? But sometimes the D-back is sitting on it, so it has to come into the Body..now?  I'm throwing this on your Cut...if yuour not Looking,  You'll feel it!

 At Hut  Adam took a straight Drop back..Three steps  and  Let go..the Ball on a line Just a step infront of  where Ben would be coming out of the break, Pad ( throat) high....

Ben took position, his sheer delight at just playing the game showing clearly. He ran the pattern on Adam's 'Hut' ending with a leap as the ball arrived, gathering it into his chest on the way back down.

"Not a bad veritical," Bethany said.  She walked forward a few steps and turned to face Adam.  "Alright, I'll go cornerback here and try to defend him," the woman suggested.  "Minimal contact though, and no tackling," she suggested.  They weren't doing a full contact drill, as fun as that could be.  She'd mostly be going for swatting the ball away or catching the ball, one of the two, though she'd settle for disrupting Ben's routes, too.  There were a bunch of different things she could do to disrupt the offensive player she was covering, after all.

  Adam  nods, Push him around,  just a whack on the back after the catch is good...Sims  will kill me  if i get two of his new players hurt in a extra credit  practice....

  He  and Ben stood there  and Adam  gave him a route. Ben would line up on the right Hash.


 As Beth Lined up shewatched the TE, waiting  for the 'hut'

"Right... let's dance, Bethany. Minimal contact - this time!"

Ben took post and waited for Adam's call. As it came he shot off towards the sideline then breaking back postwards, his eyes swivelling as he watched Adam, hands ready for the ball...

Bethany played some initial close coverage, keeping up up with Ben as he ran his route.  She kept to the inside of Ben, and showed that she was quick.  She watched the way he shifted his body for the break, and kept alongside the man with her speed.  As she broke, she brought her own hands up near her face and attempted to cut across Ben's body with the intent of either intercepting the ball or with knocking it away, whichever opportunity presented itself.  Being a wide receiver herself, she had better catching skills than most cornerbacks, so she liked to put herself in that position to cut across and steal the ball.

One notable piece of her blocking attempt was that she continued her movement downfield, in the event that she didn't block the ball, so that she'd still be able to tackle (or, in this case, touch) Ben so she didn't completely blow the coverage.

Ben reached out, half lunging as the ball burned in, not quite grabbing it but dropping a shoulder to keep Bethany away... then laughing aloud as she smacked him on the back.

"Nice love tap," he said. "I'm sure you could take me down if we were playing full contact... but I don't let go of the ball that easily..."

He grinned and tossed it to her.

"... except when you are on the same team!"
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 Adam's  drop stopped at three steps, hsi release  was hard, harder then  either of them felt in the  reps they had been doing..the Ball was a good two steps to the Inside of  ben amd  a bit over Helmet high...

 Which...was a good thing..the tall women Moved on the Ball, her  fingers  just get a nick on it, as did Ben's...the Ball bounced  harmlessly  down field  , the boy running like  a madman to get it..after tossing one of the others to Adam.

  Adam grabbed his face mask and Tugged it  down, mixed emotions on his face  as  he  gave his head a shake, Good Play on the  ball..dammit...Sorry Ben... bit too much inside...

 not that it mattered much,  Fillings  might have thried tpo throw it low...and Beth would have been going the other way..Steele would have layed the ball out there..and  it  still would have been  incomplete....

Let's  try another....

 Adam  motioned  for Ben to move to theLeft HAsh..once they were ready, he said  HUT.........

Having took a good look around the campus and then making his way towards the locker room, he found his name taped up on the locker door.  Having found a safe place to put his bags, he took the practice gear on without padding, gripped one of the helmets he found and made his way out to the field.

Being as pumped and excited as he was, he took a look at the ones already on the field and any other officials he may have overlooked.  He grinned pleasantly at the representative who brought over a practice contract to sign.  At least something was semi-official, which pleased him.

Being the "shadow" that he was known for, Lucas took a few steps towards the edge of the field and stood watching as things simply happened.  His helmet dangling from his crooked finger.

Bethany caught the ball and threw it over to the boy feeding the balls to Adam.  "Well, we'll see if we can't get you to give the rock up a little bit more freely to me today.  Though really, a tackle means I didn't do my primary job on defense, so I'll keep with trying to prevent you from sniffing the ball," she offered to the man with a competitive grin as she jogged back to the starting position.  "I'll hang around on defense for awhile, actually.  Keeps us both doing things," she suggested.

This time, she had a better idea of how Ben would run as a receiver, at least from a defensive point of view, so she was hoping to have a better chance at a deflection or an interception.  Lucas was noticed, and got a casual wave before she got ready for the next play.
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"Great stuff..."

Ben got set for the next pattern, now wise to just how determined and skilled Bethany was. He ran hard, cutting in and trying to anticipate the ball...