March 4, 2008

The Baylor football team drilled for 130 minutes Tuesday afternoon in full pads on the grass practice fields at Floyd Casey Stadium. It marked the Bears' third spring workout and their next to last before spring break starts at the end of the week on the Baylor campus.

"We are bouncing around and enjoying the game, that's what you are supposed to do," said Baylor head coach Art Briles. "At the same time, we have to become a confident football team. We have to expect good things to happen and demand that they happen from a student-athlete standpoint. They have to place high standards on themselves with performance and produce on the field.

"But, I think the effort is great and the intensity is good," he added. "We've got good guys. I like our guys. They want to do well. What we have to do is lead them that way. We have to get them to the promise land. That's why we are here."

The Baylor staff continues to give reps to four quarterbacks, senior Kirby Freeman, junior Blake Szymanski, sophomore Tyler Beatty and freshman Robert Griffin, something Briles expects to continue after the team returns from spring break.

"We haven't really set a timeline, we are just going to play it out and see how it goes," Briles said. "We are working at a decently high pace. As the knowledge comes and the skill level prevails, we'll work through it that way."

The Bears will take Wednesday off, then return to the practice field on Thursday afternoon for a workout that will include some scrimmage work with live contact.

"We'll have live work on Thursday," Briles said. "We still won't block below the waist and we'll try not to tackle below the waist as well as we can, but we have to get in there and get dirty a little bit. So, we'll get dirty a little bit."