パッカーズトレーニングキャンプレポート – 10日目!!!

パッカーズトレーニングキャンプレポート – 10日目!!!

[Music] What is up Packers Nation? Welcome in to an all new episode of the Packad Podcast. I’m your host Andy Herman. You can follow me on Twitter, andyherman NFL. You can find the podcast at Packadayodcast. Thanks as always for being here. We’re going to be breaking down practice 10. Practice 10 already of Packers Training Camp in great detail today. Before we get there, today’s show is brought to you in part by Luigi’s frozen pizzas. There are legitimate arguments in our household between the ultra thin crust and the fresh dough pizza. Uh, usually we go pepperoni. Uh, my son likes pepperoni, my other son likes cheese. We usually take half of the pepperonis and move it to the other half. So, we get double pepperoni on one side, cheese on the other. But, we cannot decide legitimately whether we want the fresh dough or the ultra thin crust because they’re both incredible. and we kind of go back and forth and this is a regular occurrence. But I have good news for you. 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Shout out to Carson Dweller for becoming an allnew packet podcast YouTube member as well. If you haven’t checked out those memberships yet, now is the time. Lots more membersonly content coming. We’re going to get to our membersonly Q&A uh later this week. And yeah, lots of lots of great content out there for members. Plus, you get early access to videos. So, make sure to check that out. Green Bay Packers as we kind of transition over to what happened on Tuesday and then some of the news and notes surrounding the team. They did have a transaction on the day. Lita Smith, you may remember him never so slightly training camp as well as a practice squad player in the past. He is back offensive lineman, interior offensive lineman, does have some center ability. Remember, there have been a variety of pretty terrible snaps uh especially from the the third stringers I would say. Um that’s been a problem. So maybe they’re looking at somebody at center who can be a little bit more reliable when it comes to snapping the football. Not sure exactly the the calculus as to why they decided to bring him back, but something tells me that might be a part of it, but they bring him back prior to that preseason game this week. We’ll see how involved he is. But Lita Smith in in order to bring him in, they had to make a corresponding move. And that move was unfortunately releasing Sam Brown Jr. with an injury designation. Sam Brown Jr. was having a nice start to camp. What probably happened here is that his injury was going to make it so that he was not going to be able to compete through the remainder of camp or at least miss a huge chunk of it and it kind of just put him behind the eight-ball. They released him with that injury designation. Uh he will revert back to their injured reserve list and then they’ll likely work out some sort of u you know uh injury waiver from there uh in a settlement from there so that Sam Brown Jr. still gets a little bit of that money. But we’ll see how that kind of goes moving forward. But out is Sam Brown Jr. in is offensive lineman Lita Smith. Around the league, Jordan Addison, Vikings wide receiver, suspended for the first few games of the season. That was the expected outcome, but it is now official, a three-game suspension for Jordan Addison. As far as practice goes, a variety of injury news and notes per Matt Laflur, nothing long-term for Rasheed Walker. Uh, some really good news. Quay Walker was back doing some team drills. He was limited overall. He didn’t do a ton, but just the fact that Quay Walker was out there doing actual teamwork, you know, being involved in the 11on1vens was a great sign. And I would expect that to kind of continue to ramp up. Clearly would not play in the preseason game this upcoming week would be my guess. But uh either way, great to see him out there doing some teamwork and he said that he would be ready for week one. So that’s a good sign for Quay as well. Meanwhile, Tucker Craft returned to practice and this kind of fit with what Matt Laflur said. Matt said that they’d give him a couple days off and then hopefully that groin injury would kind of resolve itself. They said he was trying to practice through it. He looked back to himself. Didn’t seem to have any sort of, you know, injury issues going on and hopefully that groin injury is behind him. But great to see Tucker Craft out there. As it was noted by Bill Huber the other day, uh Nate Hobbs did have that surgery. He’s going to be out for the next few weeks. There is hope, I guess optimism that he can be back for week one of the regular season. Anytime it is a knee injury, uh, you know, to a corner and that there’s surgery involved, that’s never a great sign. It’s great that it’s precautionary. It’s great that it’s a few week injury and that he’s expected back for week one, but we’re going to have to see how he recovers from this. He was able to stand up in the locker room. It sounds like per Matt Schneman, he was walking around with a pretty good limp in the locker room, but hopefully three weeks and he’s back. That Lions Packers game is a big one in week one and you would love to see Nate Hobbs out there. Meanwhile, it’s a bone bruise for Emanuel Wilson and that ends up being very good news. Wilson said that he thought he tore his ACL, so this is a much better alternative. He of course was not out there at practice, but uh good news overall that it was not anything more structural for Emanuel and just that bone brew. So hopefully he can get back sooner rather than later. Players not practicing included Emanuel Wilson, Dantavian Wixs, Nate Hobbs, Rasheed Walker, Travis Glover, Kamal Haden, Aaron Mosby, Marshon Lloyd, Christian Watson, Colin Oliver, John Williams, and then Messiah Swinson was out new with an illness. Hopefully nothing there long term for Swinson. Just with the illness should be back sooner rather than later. Your starters on the day before we get to starters, just really quick, the Packers did release their official depth chart. Don’t read anything into it. It is not something that the Packers spend much time on. Matt Laflur basically has the PR team kind of put it together. There’s some interesting stuff on there. Kamal Haden is the clear number four uh corner. Emanuel Wilson is the clear number two running back. There there’s some interesting things, but do not read anything into it whatsoever. Your starters of the day do make a little bit more of an interesting scenario because there are the ones that are actually out there on the field. Jordan Love at quarterback, Josh Jacobs and Chris Brooks in the pony package at running back. Tucker Craft at tight end, Matthew Golden, and Romeo Dobs at wide receiver, Jordan Morgan, Aaron Banks, Elton Jenkins, Shawn Ryan, and Zack Tom along the offensive line. Your defensive line was Gary Clark, Wyatt LVN. We get to linebackers in a second. Nixon and Valentine at corner, Williams and McKenna at safety. I noted that, you know, some point this offseason. I think I mentioned it on the Packaday radio show the other day as well, which make sure you’re checking that out also, 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. uh Monday through Friday. It’s awesome. On today, Wednesday, we’re you talking to Aaron Negler. If you missed that one, you can check it out over on YouTube on the Packaday radio show as well. But I talked recently about how I thought if there was a threeman linebacker room at or package sometime this year with Isaiah Simmons, Quay Walker, and Edin Cooper that I think it would be the fastest linebacker core or like trio on the field in the history of the NFL. I think it legitimately I I don’t know what would possibly beat it and we saw it. We saw it on the field to start practice today. Koi Walker back flanked by Edin Cooper and not Isaiah McDuffy but Isaiah Simmons and just a unbelievably fast linebacker trio. Uh starting with the ones today. That is a really fun group. That linebacker group in particular was flying around as you can imagine. We’ll talk about some of the plays. I I don’t have this one later, but Isaiah Simmons made a couple nice plays in the flat again getting from point A to point B in just ridiculous break neck speeds. Edin Cooper had a play we’ll talk about as well. Just a unbelievably fast linebacker core with Simmons, Quay, and Cooper alto together. Uh lot of rotations today on offense and on defense. There were just some weird things. You would see Xavier McKini go out. We saw some threeman safety looks with Javon Bullard, Evan Williams, and Zayn Anderson. Uh, we saw Aaron Banks at one time with the number TWS with a Bizarro lineup like Anthony Beltton was there at right tackle. It was just some weird stuff that it was really hard to kind of keep track of what mattered, what didn’t, where what it really felt like is a they’re probably trying to get some of these backups ingrained a little bit more that are about to play a lot this week. Remember, it’s a game week. You kind of usually attack this a little bit differently. The guys that are going to play a lot, you kind of want practicing a little bit more. So, I think you’re starting to see a little bit of mixing and matching here. I think you’re still trying to see guys get their reps. So, I think that’s probably what happened with Aaron Banks is they still wanted him to get some reps. They had some other guys like Jacob Monk and Donovan Jennings get some time with the ones and therefore they wanted Banks to still get those. So, they put him a couple plays with the twos. I wouldn’t read anything into it. Just was one of those bizarro practices where you did see a lot of mixing and matching between the ones, the twos, sometimes even the threes on offense and on defense. Let’s get to our player of the day. I’m I’m going Jordan Love on this one. There were three huge plays that we’re going to talk Well, two huge plays. One really nice play that we’re going to talk about in just a moment. He was 13 of 20 overall. Uh so what 65% completion percentage. He did come up short on his two-minute drive, which we’ll talk about. I thought there was maybe a little bit of opportunity there. There were a couple throws here and there. He missed a checkdown, but he was under pressure and the checkdown wasn’t going to go anywhere anyway. Uh there was one throw over the middle that he completed, but in a game probably would have been a little bit of a hospital ball. In a real game, he may not have thrown that knowing it was a hospital ball. So there’s a couple things. I wouldn’t say it was a perfect day from Jordan Love, but when you have a few of the throws that he had in some big moments, it is worth noting that Jordan had some unbelievable plays in this practice. Let’s start let’s start with the the lesser of the three, which is still, I thought, a pretty cool play. Jordan, it’s a it’s like a third down. I I forget. They they went through a variety of third and eights. Like they just went third and eight, third and eight, third and eight. Offense versus defense. Um and then they also had some scenarios where just throughout the course of like move the ball periods and and two-minute drills where some third downs came up as well. I think it was in the third third and eight period, but either way, it was a third down and right around that down and distance uh for Jordan. and he buys a little bit of time in the pocket and it’s Xavier McKini one-on-one versus Malik Heath and McKini is on Heath like he’s he’s pretty pretty darn close to him to the point where we’ve learned and everyone knows you don’t you don’t really throw towards Xavier McKini when he’s in the vicinity in that sort of range because he is much more likely to end up with the ball than your receiver is. Well, he’s guarding Malik Heath. You can also kind of tell that McKenna is watching Love and he’s like Love’s kind of scanning the field and he’s looking where if he comes across the middle or something that he might have the opportunity to come off of Malik Keith and maybe go jump the route. Jordan sees Malik and while he’s kind of looking downfield. I wouldn’t call it a full no look pass, but it’s more like corner of the eye and he’s I think he’s trying to bait almost Xavier McKini to think he’s still looking over the middle and then without like any what I would say like tell whatsoever. He just whips it right to Malik Keith and who’s right at the sticks guarded pretty tightly by Xavier McKini and fits it in there. Heath gets the ball, picks up the first down, and you could tell McKenna after the play was like he couldn’t believe it because he’s like he he had Heath in coverage and he I don’t think he thought for a second that Jordan was going to throw it there because he was in the vicinity and just caught him kind of looking for just a second, got his eyes going over there, and then just absolutely rifled it in to Malik Keith for a first down. So, I thought that was a pretty cool play. And you could tell McKini on that one was like, “All right, all right, you got me on that one. Not bad. Number 10. Uh, but you know, you could tell McKini wanted maybe that one back a little bit, but that was I thought a cool play from Jordan. That was one of the three, the the lesser of the three. The next one was one of my favorite Jordan throws of all that I’ve ever seen him, you know, throw and and one of the best anticipation throws that I’ve ever seen. Um, you we’re in two-minute drill and it starts off and there’s no timeouts in this situation. and you’re at your own 40, you’re down by seven, and the defense is pretty heavily protecting the sidelines because the one thing you can’t do is allow a play down the field and or you really any play to get out of bounds. And this is about a 25 yard play where he’s throwing to Jaden Reed along the sidelines to lead him there and get him out of bounds. I talked about this on the live show afterwards, but I’m in line with this throw and Jordan steps back. I think he was probably in shotgun. Probably took a fivestep drop out of shotgun and just throws it on a line. Good enough air under it right to the sidelines and he throws this ball and I’m looking at it and I’m like the heck is he going with this because he threw it with confidence. Like you could tell he threw this thing like he had in, you know, bad intentions for the defense in mind. And I’m just I’m scanning the field and I’m like there’s no there’s I’m like where’s it? And then Jaden Reed cuts inside, hands catch right along the sideline, tow drag, swag, first down, 25 yards out of bounds. No, like 7 seconds off the clock. Talk about the perfect start to a two-minute drive. You get not only a 25 yard pickup, you get not only a out of bounds, you get a first down, you I mean, you get everything that you’re looking for on this play. And the capital A anticipation throw, as QB school would say, this was a monster capital A anticipation throw by Jordan Love. I mean, he threw this thing from what like it looked like before Jaden Reed was even getting ready to go out of his break. Put exactly the right pace on it. Threw it to exactly the right spot. Jaden Reed cuts it off at the right moment. Beautiful timing. Catches the ball with his hands. two feet down in or inbounds and then gets out of bounds to stop the clock. That like I said, one of my favorite throws I’ve ever seen Jordan Love make a huge anticipation throw. Just an absolute be that it’s pretty rare. I was talking about this as well, but it’s pretty rare where I’m like, holy bleep like where my jaws drop into the ground. We’re going to talk about another big play in just a moment. You know, big deep balls down the field, these things happen and things like that, but these tight window throws where there’s no room for m for error. There’s no margin for error and you throw at that level of anticipation. That was a A+ plus throw from Jordan Love. And then you have another third down situation and the defense brings an allout blitz and Jordan Love does his thing where he knows he’s getting pressured. He knows he’s going to get a receiver open, so he, you know, gets the ball, takes a few steps back, and then as the pressure’s coming, fades a little bit more, throws a deep one. Romeo Dobs, fantastic route, post route, breaks open, gets through both safeties, Evan Williams and Javon Bullard on the play. Love finds him and Rome really accelerates through this catch. Fingertip catch, you know, down along, you know, by his waist. Love put it out there for him. Dos went and got it. raced into the end zone. Uh, you know, easily it was a few steps beyond Evan Williams and Javon Bullard at that point. Big- time play by Romeo Dobs. Phenomenal throw under pressure by Jordan Love and a huge touch. I want to say it was like 45 yards on that particular play. So, some really, really big- time throws for Jordan. Like I said, not a perfect day, uh, but when you have that level of, uh, you know, throw that you’re you’re making some some very big time throws and some big time moments, that certainly was able to get you to that player of the day status. and to me definitely stood out at Tuesday’s practice. Three plays of the day. We talked about uh Jordan Love to Reed on the anticipation throw. We talked about Love to Dobs on the deep post. There was one other play of the day. It was in the two-minute drill for the twos. And Malik Willis also drove his team down the field. It was a fourth and 10. And they’re on the 15 yard line. There’s very minimal time left. And Micole Hardman beats Kalin King. I think it was maybe like a little out and up or e either way, you know, gets open into the end zone kind of p near the pylon and Malik Willis leads him out there perfectly. Puts the exact right air underneath it. Hardman catches it with relative ease. Again, beats Kalin King on the play. Gets the the game what would have been kind of like a tying touchdown or at least they’re down seven. They get six points. We’ll talk about what happened on the two-point conversion in just a little bit, but that was a fantastic catch. And Micole Ardman has just been clutch as clutch gets in these, you know, sort of late game situations. Going back to mini camps, remember he had back-to-back days where he had the mini Hail Mary catch and then he had another one um I forget the exact situation and scenario on that one, but he had another uh catch right at the last moment in a very similar situation to this. Now we like leave it to Micole Hardman if you need something big at the end of a game. He’s shown so far that he’s able to come up with those big plays. Had another one. But a beautiful play from Malik Willis to Micole Hardman. Hey everyone, I have to tell you about this new game-changing product that I’ve been using before a big night out called pre-alcohol. Now Zbiotics pre-alcohol prebiotic drink is the world’s first genetically engineered prebiotic. It was invented by PhD scientists to tackle rough mornings after drinking. Here’s how it works. 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Beat by Micole Hardman for the touchdown in kind of a key scenario on fourth and 10. Can’t allow him to get behind you like that. So definitely a little bit of a hang with him day from Kayen King who’s had a good camp so far. This one was a little bit tougher. Hopefully he bounces back through the remainder of this weekend, of course, in camp moving forward. Savon Williams had a really nice catch along the sidelines and a couple uh run plays that he was given that he got, I don’t know, maybe five to six yards on on both of them. Nothing crazy. There’s no big- time noteworthy Seavon Williams play here. It very much felt like he was much more involved with the ones though than we have seen so far. So, love seeing Savon Williams get a little bit more ingrained in the offense. It feels like he’s getting more and more confidence as time goes on as well. So, I’m excited about that. Also, we did see one play from Seavon Williams as a gunner on special teams, at least one that I noticed, and he got down there instantaneously. Not sure how viable that is for him moving forward if he’s going to get a look at that, you know, full time. But on the one rep that I saw, he looked really darn good doing it, which you can imagine, 6’4, super fast, good physicality. If he can get past that initial jammer, he’s going to be down there on that returner pretty quickly, and he was on this particular play. Uh, a very rare, very rare uh airmma snap from Elton Jenkins. Jenkins, I thought, has been really good playing center ever since coming back from the the injury issue that he had. But on this particular play, uh, we we know all about the the bad snaps that have happened primarily again from Donovan Jennings and some of the backup centers and things like that. This is the first one from Jennings, but uh or sorry from Jenkins, but Jenkins did have one that he airmailed to Jordan Love. LVN coming up with his daily sack or daily big play. He had another wouldbe sack uh very early on in practice, either the first or second play. And then Rashan Garry uh had one that probably also would have been a sack I think right after that. So backto-back good good really nice plays from defensive ends LVN and Rashan Garry. I did ask Matt Laflur prior to practice of like what LVN’s doing better with his pass rush plan uh to you know you help get him to the quarterback more and it was an interesting answer from Matt. He basically said of like it’s more of the mentality that LVN’s trying to be a bit too perfect and that he just sometimes, especially with, you know, all the gifts that he has. He just needs to go. Doesn’t always have to be perfect. Just use those gifts that he has to get to the quarterback. Thought that was kind of an interesting uh answer there from Matt Laflur. Javon Bullard has struggled in coverage. We can we can officially say that. The good news is the the real issues in coverage for Bullard have come in one-on- ones, which isn’t real. It’s not exactly how you’re going to be utilizing him. He’s going to be playing a lot of zone defense. He’ll play some safety. He’ll play some in nickel as well. Uh but it it’s not as big of an, you know, egregious error from Bullard, but he got beat up twice by Jaden Reed pretty darn good in one-on- ons. And that has been a common occurrence. Like if you see Javon Bullard in one-on- ons, I I don’t know that he’s won one of them yet. Like it it’s been that brutal in one-on- ones for for Javon. So he needs to work on his coverage, his one-on-one coverage for sure. That’s been something that’s been a problem. He was involved in the play to Romeo Dobs on the deep 45 yard bomb. Don’t have all 22 of it. Don’t know how he was in that position. If it was more on Evan Williams, if it was more on Javon Bullard, if it was kind of split between the both of them, or maybe it’s just a great play by the offense. Don’t know for sure, but he was definitely involved in that play as well. That that you want to see Javon get a little bit better when it comes to the coverage. Something that was an issue in 2024 and has been an issue so far in camp a little bit as well. Thought Malik Willis bounced back in a really nice way today after having a a rough last week. He had a you know what, three maybe even four interception day during the course of the week and then had the three interception day at family night. I thought today he settled in much more, made some big-time throws, including that play to Micole Hardman. Had a fun run play that we’ll talk about in just a moment as well. But I thought this was a really nice bounceback day for Malik Willis. A player that we don’t talk about a lot who’s had a really nice camp has been Deselin Alexander. Desyn Alexander has come up with at least one play, one big play at pretty much every single practice so far. This is one of those players, we’ve talked about it. He’s a practice squad guy probably. I don’t think he has any real legitimate chance to to break the 53. I I love having him on the practice squad if that’s where he ends up because I think you can legitimately call him up if you need him as like a number four number five defensive end. You need to give him, you know, five to 10 snaps as a rotational guy. I think he’s good enough to handle it. I really do. If you can kind of stack that on the practice squad as like your sixth, seventh guy, that’s a that’s a nice thing to have overall. So, yeah, he’s he’s had a really strong camp. He was one of the players they picked up a year ago that when we did our tape or when I did my tape study on him, I really liked what I saw. He did enough to make it on the practice squad last year, make it into another season with Green Bay, and he’s having an even better training camp this year than he did a season ago. I would expect that there’s a very strong chance that he ends up on the practice squad again this year. Nir Stackhouse continues to make a name for himself. had a big-time run stuff uh along the defensive line. And then in the one-on-one periods with defensive lineman and offensive linemen going one-on-one, he got the best of Jacob Monk on both of his one-on-one rushes and won both of those pretty easily against Jacob Monk. Thought Jordan Morgan had a nice day from what I saw. There was one particular drive I was trying to keep a little bit better of an eye on him. He had a play against uh Kingsley Nigbar and then Baron Serell where he won both of those reps pretty easily. Not like I was again keeping an eye on him every single play, but from what I did see, I thought he looked much better. It wasn’t even that he was looking like terrible or anything like that, but I thought he had a really nice day of practice from what I could tell. And again, you can see the footwork, you can see the movement ability, just kind of learning again the nuances of playing in the NFL, but thought today was a good day from Jordan Morgan. And then Jaden Reed, if it’s not Jordan Love for player of the day, Jaden Reed very much involved in that conversation as well. He looked phenomenal in the one-on- ones. Had that big-time anticipation play. you’re just starting to see him get involved more and more within the offense as well. Thought it was a really nice day from Jaden Reed. Some other noteworthy plays, the one-on- ones we talked about a little bit, Jaden Reed got the best of Javon Bullard twice. He easily beat him for a touchdown. And then Bullard actually did a great job on the second one-on-one, jamming him at the line of scrimmage. Reed got a little bit off balance, regained his balance, then still beat Bullard and still came up with the reception on that play. Romeo Dobs and Carrington Valentine had some really fun battles in one-on-one. Carrington Valentine at one point had a past breakup against Romeo Dobs. And Carrington Valentine went on to talk some real serious smack. And Romeo Dobs responded by completely toasting him for a touchdown and and said uh they had three reps on the day. Dos one two. Uh Carrington Valentine won one. And Romeo was uh happy to tell everyone that he was, you know, he went two and two two uh two of three or two and one on the day against CV. CV could only hang his head after the play. So, a lot of smack talk after the second one from CV. Romeo Dobs dusted him for a touchdown on the final one. Johnny Lumpin also had a pretty sweet mossing of Evan Williams. Evan Williams had great coverage and Lumpin just went up over Evan Williams, mossed him a little bit and came down with the ball for a big reception in those one-on- ones as well. Adrian Cooper had your daily tackle for loss where he is just teleporting into the back field out of absolutely nowhere and comes up with a big play. Uh today’s was on Josh Jacobs. Chris Brooks had an inside run that was the uh single sauciest run that I’ve seen in Chris Brooks’s time in Green Bay. A little bit of a wiggle in the hole that I didn’t know that he necessarily possessed. So that was a great sign from him. We know he does all the other stuff, right? Catches the ball to the back field. great pass protector, run blocker, can play a little special teams, and he’s a good runner. But if he adds a little bit of sauce to that and can show that he’s got a little bit more dynamic play making ability than what we even saw, that’s a huge sign for Chris Brooks as well. Again, he continues his trajectory to making this 53man roster. And then Brandon McManis did in fact miss a 50 plus yard. It dinkked off the left upright, but he had multiple clutch kick opportunities in two-minute drills. He made all of those. And uh he still he had multiple 50 yarders throughout the course of the day. Only missed the one and that was again off the left upright just barely missing that one. He he remains pretty freaking impressive throughout the course of training camp and family night so far. Your two-minute drills, we talked about Jordan’s a little bit. He had that big time anticipation throw to Jaden Reed. He did get all the way down to I think the 20 yardd line. had four plays in a row uh you know that where he needed to get the first down or had some opportunity and just it ultimately went for and out fizzled out at the end. There was one play where I thought maybe he had the opportunity to hit Josh Jacobs right near the pylon. It would have been a really tough throw. I think Jacobs afterwards was frustrated that the ball didn’t quite get there because I think he felt like he worked himself open right into that corner of the end zone, but uh just just outside ended up out of bounds falling incomplete and ultimately the defense won that first two-minute drive. The next one was the one where uh you had Willis to Hardman for the touchdown at the last moment. It was fourth and 10, 15 yd line. Basically no time left. Had to have it. And again, Willis to Hardman to go down by one. They decide to go for two. It’s a read option play and he makes the read inside, decides to keep it, keeps it to the outside and then, you know, Julian Hicks goes to fake block on the play and then releases to the end zone. And when I say this looked like a a you know side winder in baseball like like the drops all the way down and uh and throw like he dropped all the way down to his side did a sidearm throw in the back of the end zone to find Julian Hicks for the two-point conversion and the win for the number TWS. That was a really great drive for Malik Willis. You then had a situation where you had no timeouts. the ball was at the 50 and you needed to get in field goal range, get a spike, and stop the clock in time so that McManus would have a field goal attempt. Love hit Jaden Reed 15 yards over the middle uh in that two-minute drill. Again, continuously having a nice day for Jaden Reed, but 15 yards to get to the 35 yd line, setting up about a 52 yard field goal for the win. McManus drills that one. Then you had the same situation, one of my favorite plays of the day. Just love the creativity. You’re you’re third and it’s a third and 10 situation. You’re at the 50 yard line or sorry, first and 10. You’re at the 50 yard line. There’s again 15 seconds left and you have to be able to get into field goal range and stop the clock. So the defense is covering of course, you know, to make sure that you can’t get that short middle of the field so that you can get the ball and get the spike. And they’re covering the sidelines really well. But what they didn’t expect was a run play. And the run play is they go quarterback power with Malik Willis. Now you’ve got, you know, a three-man line. You’ve got one guy wide ning basically to the opposite side. He’s not involved in the play. You’ve got a defensive tackle and then you’ve got one more defensive end. You’ve basically got a two-man line that you have to worry about. You’ve got your full fiveman offensive line blocking with Malik Willis running power. They get a full line going to the right side. He runs power behind it. He picks up a first down, gets out of bounds, stops the clock, gets McManus into field goal range, and he of course drills it. And then you had another situation where uh Love had the opportunity. It was at the 40 yardd line. There was, I think, 10 seconds left, maybe 15, and no timeouts, and you got basically one shot to get a little bit extra yardage. Uh, Love couldn’t complete the pass on that particular play. I think it was to Golden, just ended up incomplete. Uh, so it stays at the 40. McManus comes in for a 57 yard. Dude hit it like I It could have been 90 and I think that thing might have made it. He crushed that thing. 57 yard right down the middle and this thing is still way up on the net when that thing crossed over. Just incredible leg strength and just with ease with absolute ease for Brandon McManis. Some other miscellaneous notes, Cory Valentine was back wearing number 35. He was primarily working with the threes. Did have a nice pass break up on the day. Jamon Johnson, the rookie offball linebacker, undrafted free agent with the twos, was actually getting some work with the mic at the mic position. Uh, you know, so you had Christian Welch, Tyron Hopper as the outside linebackers and then Jamon Johnson, the rookie as the mic. And then when they went to Nickel, Johnson went off the field and it was just Welch and Hopper as your two linebackers. And then last but not least, no word from Matt Laflur on if the starters will play this Saturday against the Jets or not. We’ll take a look at it once we get there. My I’m I’m my gut says no that they’re not going to, but we’ll see what Matt decides to do and if any of these starters, some will, of course, but the main ones, Jordan Love, etc. We’ll see if they actually get any time. Again, my gut tells me no, but we shall see moving forward. All right, that is going to do it for me today. Thank you so much for joining me. 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