And of course the game. Man, I've looked a little and the Eagle's favor. All right, we'll gon do now said at the Lambeau Field. Here for head coach Chip Kelly. Wow, shots shots fired? What are you looking at? Something to Uh? No, I thought Sam played well. You know, I thought he was really poised out there. I had a real good command of what we were doing, really located the football. Uh.
I thought he played really well for us. We just talked about, you know, a couple series, so just see how it would, see how it was going to express itself. So I thought, after we had three drives, you know, three touchdown drives, we felt we felt comfortable with that. We got some good working for him. So now Kiko tried to run around his legs bothering him a little bit. So he tried to run around a little bit pregame, and uh just didn't feel a hundred percents, so held
him out. No, I don't think it's his No, it's not his knee, it's not his an. It's just he got a little naggy kneed leg injury. I don't know particularly what he is, a tendonitis or something like that. So he should be fine. Sorry for anyone out there that had any galas at Sam Rader coming in here, visits all that times. I didn't have any debts on Sam, so I know, I'm not concerned with what people else I think. So I was concerned with those three insidebackers
can go as him. We'll go into Atlanta having not played plays. Yeah, it's not a concern for us. I think we got real good death and inside unders. I mean, they you got to look at the film. But I think you know, we're we're we're, Um, we did some nice things tonight. We need to continue to build on it, you know. Um, we still haven't didn't have Zac. You know. I think he's he's another component that we can add to it. Um, Josh sat out tonight. He's another guy
that we can add to it. So um, but I was pleased with how they played in the three series that those guys were in there. Yeah, he's got a leg. He he he just kind of tweaked it on Tuesday. We were just being precautionary with him. If we were playing a game, he would have kicked tonight. So he's he's It's nothing that we're overly concerned with it gave Kipson reps so um, but if it was if he had a kick, he could have kicked the night really pretty
Yeah he did. I thought he was sharp, you know, and I think, uh, starting round in the form, you know, he's he's uh, he's always seems like he's going north and south. You know, I think there's um. But he also I think people forget. I think he had fifty five catches last year, but he's a real good receiver out of the back, so he had you know, I think in that first couple of drives he had six carries and two catches, so he touched the ball eight
times in those in those first three drives. But uh, you know, you're starting to see that explosion that that um we've all seen, you know, from the other side. Now, it's good to have him on our side. Yeah, we're not really game planning, and I don't think they were game planning through, so you know, you can't say, hey, they were, you know, I think they just kind of look out and they got a personnel out there and they're kind of you know, just looking at it to
its um. But I think Darren and we've talked about trying to get the ball in his hands more and obviously you know you hit him on a shallow crossing route that's a three or four yard pass and he turns it into a big game. So, um, you know, he's just like a great weapon to have in your shot on the two point conversions. Yeah, we just want to try and to see, you know, get a couple of things on tape. We can take a look at
him tid. I don't know where the breakdown was on the on the first one, but we'll take a look at film and see what happened. Now he could have gone back in What else do you want to see at a saw to go back now? I think, like anybody, I mean, there's just we always can continue to improve. So I think as we get uh you know, every day, I think. And that's the great thing about Sam is that he's not going to rest on anything he's got to. Um, you know, he's come back from and missed a lot
of football coming into this. But I think he's playing well right now, but he can always get better and UM be sharper and you know that's that's the thing I love about. And he'll be back out in the field on Monday. Um, firing it around, trying to trying to trying to get better, trying to get a better report the receivers, get a better understanding of where they are. Um, so there's there's still a lot of a lot of things for us to work on. That was our move,
That's what we did this week. That was just his turn. And you know, we still got two weeks before we play Atlanta and we finalize that. But we've we've used a lot of different combinations and um, you know, try to make an educated decision on what's the best best combination of five out there when we go to Nicols.
Now we just it just how it's expressed itself. We still have two more two more weeks of training and we'll still go ones on ones, you know this week where we get a chance to you know, seeing guys matched up with Jordan and some of those guys that were put in the slot. So feel you feel good about what these guys are. Yeah, we still got two weeks, so we're we're I think we're all comfortable in our
progression in terms of where we are. So obviously it's quick. Yeah, his first year play well he yeah, he did it in college, So I you know, I think Sam's just shocked. Sam's a really good football part of so I think he's he's been real comfortable in it. I think he enjoys it. So defense practice, yeah, I don't put a whole you know, stock, I don't think there's a lot of game planning that goes on in games like this. I know we didn't do a ton. I know Mike
probably didn't do a ton. You're still trying to get better, so you know, you didn't. They didn't have specific matchups and kind of how they did things. They're just kind of running their stuff more running our stuff. So first game, yeah,
I mean I think they were Okay, I didn't. I really, when we're looking at inside linebackers, unless they make a splash player like a sack or an interception of things like that, you really got to look at the tape so specifically a quarterback, but plays that give any um tangible when it comes to making it. Now, we were just trying to see what going for two was like, so I no, I mean we didn't. We didn't look
at it that way. So defensive, a few big plays the same, Yeah, that's the you know something we gotta it's a little bit to do with the rush and a little bit to do with the coverage in terms of being able to close it down turn it back to your help. But those are things usually we've we've been a very good defense against screens. I think our defensive line does a great job sniffing those out. So uh. And then sometimes it may be the play call may have been a real jet rush up field and they're
getting upfield. Um, but you know, sometimes you gotta give I think green Bay called them at kind of the appropriate time. I think it was one of those games we get a couple of screens on them. It kind of it was one of those deals where they where everybody seemed like they were getting upfield towards the quarterback. So I think the screens helped. So thanks guys,