Thursday Morning Post-Practice Update
August 06, 2009, 12:04 pm Link To This Post
News & Notes
Unlike Tuesday morning, players were in full pads for the morning session. Several veterans got the morning off and were not at practice but are scheduled to practice tonight. The healthy vets who sat out were CBs Charles Woodson and Al Harris, LB Aaron Kampman, NT Ryan Pickett, WR Donald Driver and TE Donald Lee.
For the first time in camp, LB/TE Spencer Havner switched from the white offensive jersey to the green defensive jersey and worked as a backup linebacker. He had been working strictly as a tight end thus far. Havner is on several of the special teams units as well.
Special teams coordinator Shawn Slocum was using a megaphone to communicate to the players during one of the special teams drills.
When punting from out of their own end zone, Jeremy Kapinos and Durant Brooks got off to a rough start. After one solid kick by Kapinos, Brooks shanked two out of bounds and Kapinos shanked one as well. The poor efforts elicited groans from the crowd. Both punters got straightened out and improved after that, with Kapinos hitting one to the opponents' 40-yard line and Brooks booting one to the opposing 37. Both of those were roughly 60-yard punts. After moving the line of scrimmage out to the 15, Brooks boomed another one nearly 60 yards, to the opposing 27.
The No. 1 offense scored once again in the 2-minute drill, driving 65 yards in just over a minute. The situation had the offense down 13-7 with 1:22 left and two timeouts. With the defense jumping offsides, QB Aaron Rodgers took a shot deep down the field to TE Tory Humphrey that S Aaron Rouse intercepted, but the turnover was nullified by the penalty. Rodgers then hit WR Greg Jennings for 14 yards, WR Ruvell Martin for 22 yards, and Jennings again for a 12-yard TD with 18 seconds left on the clock.
QB Brian Brohm got his crack at the 2-minute drill as well, and things looked promising when he found TE Evan Moore wide open for a 50-yard gain down the sideline to the 11. A pass interference call then made it first-and-goal around the 2, but then the drive stalled out. Brohm's QB draw was stopped at the 1, a lob into the back of the end zone to WR Jake Allen was caught but out of bounds, a throwaway to avoid pressure brought up fourth down, and then a pitch to RB Kregg Lumpkin was fumbled and recovered by DE Ronald Talley.
Plays of the Day
LBs Jeremy Thompson and Desmond Bishop almost had interceptions. Thompson jumped up at the line of scrimmage and got two hands on a Brohm pass, but couldn't bring it in. Bishop was downfield in coverage and cut nicely in front of the receiver on an underthrown ball, but he couldn't secure the knee-high pass.
On offense, WR Jordy Nelson made a nice spin move out of a stop route to avoid CB Trevor Ford and find a lot of open field. TE Jermichael Finley made another big catch from Rodgers, beating the coverage of S Charlie Peprah. Jennings' first catch in the 2-minute drill was a tough grab in traffic while falling onto his back.
Injury/participation update
Players on the one-a-day schedule -- S Atari Bigby, C Scott Wells, T Chad Clifton and DE Cullen Jenkins -- did not practice, though Bigby took a few snaps in the opening jog-through in his shorts.
CB Jarrett Bush (abdominal), G/C Duke Preston (back) and G Daryn Colledge (thigh) all returned to practice, but Bush dropped out again later. S Anthony Smith and CB Pat Lee also dropped out, but their injuries weren't specified.
Remaining out were RB Brandon Jackson (shoulder), LB Nick Barnett (knee), LB Brad Jones (back), WR Patrick Williams (hamstring), DE Johnny Jolly (ankle) and NT B.J. Raji (unsigned).