Sam Bradford Finally Has A Sam Bradford Night
by ccmachine on Aug 26, 2010 10:28 PM CDT
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PrintBreaking into the NFL has been a bit tough for Sam Bradford. Going into Thursday night's game against the New England Patriots at Foxborough, the former Sooner quarterback's inaugural NFL pre-season had been marked by sacks, sacks and more sacks as he ran for his life behind a second unit offensive line that would make the 2009 OU line look good. That was before Thursday night though when Bradford got his first start and produced a much different result.
On the Rams' first drive of the night Bradford was 4-for-4 passing including a 32-yard toss to Donnie Avery and a 5-yard yard touchdown pass to Michael Hoomanawanui. It was the first touchdown pass of Bradford's NFL career and while there will be no official record of a preseason game it was still pretty significant.
Three possessions later Bradford would strike again. This time it was a 12-yard pass to Hoomanawanui to cap off a short 38-yard drive in which he only threw two passes, completing them both. At the end of the night Bradford was 15-22 (68.2%) for 189 yards and two touchdowns in just one half of play.
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Sam looked very good in his first start as a Ram. He completed his first 6 passes and the 7th was a drop. The didn’t seem to have a problem taking the ball from center so maybe they’ll find something else to complain about; He threw well on his roll out passes TE needs a knick-name, too long to pronounce for me but made a couple of mice catches. Only bad pass i recall was a floater to thje sideline that was just a little to high, but probably should have been caught.
I for one would appreciate some wr’s with names I recognize – amendola and gilyard are familiar but the rest I’m cluess. Finally, after jackson, run game looks WEAK
Good luck Sam, saw obvious improvement in this last game. Keep it up, and increase your life insurance coverage just in case.
Team FIRST, Effort SECOND, Talent THIRD, Selfish NEVER
Really complimentary article
From Brian Burwell in the St. Louis paper this morning. Highly recommend.
"We call him The Hammer." - Bob Stoops on Ronnell Lewis
That definitely looked like Sam
Very accurate, good reads, made the right check downs. Only a couple of bad passes. The one the stuck out was right at the end off the half. Had an open receiver for a TD (would have made 3 for the half) and led him too close to the sideline when he didn’t need to, but overall a great performance. Exactly what the Rams expected and wanted I’m sure. Hated to see Avery go down. Hopefully not too serious (but he was taken off on a cart. Not a good sign) because he is one of their experienced wr’s with some real speed.
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