Preseason week 2 Review

I can describe how I feel about tonight in two words and those words would be utterly devastated.

Going into this game I wanted to see three things happen.  Our offensive line look capable of standing strong against a tough front seven of the Green Bay Packers, our defensive line be able to get pressure on Aaron Rodgers, and lastly for no huge injuries to take place.

Everything was going great at the beginning.  Our offensive line looked alright, creating some nice holes for Beanie to run into and giving Kolb ample time to look downfield.  The Packers may have been playing vanilla defense tonight, but even their vanilla defense is pretty dang good.   The defensive unit started off strong, with Dockett getting a great hit on Aaron Rodgers early, followed by a Campbell sack and Dockett finished off what he started earlier and got a sack on Rodgers.  I was really impressed with both of our starting units against the defending Super Bowl champs............and then it happened, on his one and only run of the night Ryan Williams got rolled up on from behind and never got up.  You could see him clutching his leg right from the beginning and it was a depressing sight to see.  The young talented rookie getting carted off the field while hanging his head down.  I can't describe how sad this makes me as Ryan Williams is probably one of the nicest guys out there and I hate to see this kind of thing happen.  Reports are he has a ruptured patella tendon and is out for the year.  This kid has all the heart, drive and determination in the world, and I hope he has a speedy recovery and expect to see him back here next year.

Despite that bad news, Kolb looked good, Skelton looked shaky and left the game with an ankle injury but I doubt it's serious.  Bartel seems to have secured the number 3 spot, as he played a majority of the 3rd and 4th quarter, was pulled for Max Hall who got all of 4 plays before Bartel was put back in.  Beanie had some nice runs and Fitzgerald made an amazing catch early on.

A guy I have been hyping up for awhile O'Brien Schofield looked really impressive flying around the field on both special teams and defense.  He had a vicious hit on special teams, a solid hit on Matt Flynn and came back shortly after and forced a fumble on a nice rush around the edge.  Personally, I think he'll be starting before we know it but it's hard to know if he fully understands all aspects of the game right now.

That's pretty much it for the big stuff that happened, sorry for not writing about Peterson but he didn't really do that much good or bad and I think by far the biggest news of the night is the loss of Ryan Williams.