Carroll on Center Battle

Washington offensive coordinator Brennan Carroll spoke after day five of fall camp about the competition at center.

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00:00I was talking to Landon about just not being out there all the time and

00:06trying to get the line communications and changing the lines. How hard is that?

00:10Not too hard. We got a lot of time, a lot of meeting time to kind of make that up.

00:13We constantly making calls in the meeting room. He's done a great job of learning and

00:19studying the communications. He's been on for eight months, so for him that test

00:22shouldn't be too hard.

00:23And Landon's a sophomore by eligibility, but he's been around the program for such a long time.

00:27What can you say that gives him a role as a leader, just being around for a little bit?

00:31Yeah, obviously he understands the traditions and the foundation of this program.

00:35He's a great steward for the program, great kid, great teammate, so we're excited to have him.

00:44I know he's fired up about getting help.

00:46Is the center demand still as high as it was in the spring, having everybody need to have that opportunity?

00:51Or have you kind of narrowed that list of guys down?

00:54We had it from 11. We had 11 different centers that we were working with.

00:57We're down to about three or four guys that we're kind of working on, so that's helped us.

01:01DeAngelo joining the program has been a great help for us. He's played a lot of staff at the center.

01:06Zach's time from the spring that he topped in there for has been great for him.

01:12He's played a lot of staff at the center. Working with him for Summit Guard, too,

01:15giving him some nice opportunities there.

01:17Got some time, but DeAngelo at Guard plays well, too, so there's some great versatility inside.

01:23We got this thing going. We had six or seven scholarship guys out there practicing.

01:29Two of those guys should have been high school seniors, so to have 16, 17 healthy bodies out there is a great bonus for us.

01:38Happy to have him.

01:39Can you talk about Omar? He seems to have made a nice recovery from last year.

01:45He's had more time than other guys to recover.

01:48He was a little bit early on the timeline, so he probably could have done some things at the end of spring.

01:54We want to just protect him and make sure that he had a great summer.

01:58No setbacks during the summer months, and it's worked out well because he's been great all camp so far.

02:05No issues. He's just working, competing, trying to get better at the fundamentals as he's doing.

02:11So that plan's worked out so far.