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Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love (10) does a Lambeau Leap after finishing a drill during Family Night on Saturday. Tork Mason / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Defensive Domination: Everything That Happened at Packers Family Night

Originally posted on Green Bay Packers on SI
By Bill Huber | Last updated Aug 3, 2025 1:43 AM ET

Until the final moment of Packers Family Night, the only Lambeau Leaps completed by the offense on Saturday were by the quarterbacks who successfully threw the football into a hoop.

A hoop, of course, is an inanimate object. The Green Bay Packers’ defense was animate and adamant.

“We played great,” safety Xavier McKinney said. “I thought we just did a good job of being on our details. Obviously, we didn’t run much of our stuff – everything was pretty simple – but everybody did their job and we went out there, played fast, ran to the ball. We could have done a little bit better with getting the ball – punchouts, getting some interceptions – but, for the most part, we played clean and I thought it was good.”

The offense scored one touchdown all night. On the final play of the practice, Taylor Elgersma completed a 23-yard touchdown pass to receiver Will Sheppard. That was it. Meanwhile, Omar Brown had three interceptions and Carrington Valentine and Kalen King had one apiece.

With the Packers streaming the practice online, coach Matt LaFleur kept his best offense locked in a vault.

“I would say it was pretty vanilla tonight,” he said. “The way we treat it is no different than a preseason game. You’re still running your system and plays that you practice, but there’s not a whole lot of window dressing to it.”

So, as he was eager to join his family outside for fireworks, he wasn’t overly concerned about the slog that it was for Jordan Love and the No. 1 offense.

“I just want to see guys go out there and compete and, if given opportunity to make plays, then we expect them to make those plays,” LaFleur said.

Jordan Love’s Day

Jordan Love didn’t get the No. 1 offense into the end zone, which isn’t good. On the other hand, he was 17-of-25 passing, which isn’t bad.

Love started 5-of-5 passing, including a completion to tight end Luke Musgrave to convert a third-and-6. Later, with the offense starting with the ball near its own goal line, there was a period in which the goal was to get two first downs. Love got it done by completing 3-of-4 passes, with a pair of completions to Musgrave getting the required first downs.

In 2-minute, Love and the No. 1 offense started at the 25 with 2:00 on the clock and one timeout. After a completion to Musgrave, Love went deep to Matthew Golden but the ball was over Golden’s head and Carrington Valentine made a tremendous interception in which he reached as far as he could to grab the ball before it hit the ground.

The offense got a mulligan with a series against the backups. Starting at the 35 with 1:34 on the clock, Love drove the offense to the necessary field goal. First, it was a 10-yard completion to Golden. Next, facing third-and-7, Love completed passes of 6 yards to Malik Heath and 9 more to Heath for a first down on the defense’s 37 with 36 seconds remaining.

Love then fired one to Romeo Doubs for a gain of 18 to the 19. Two incompletions preceded an 8-yard pass to Golden to set up Brandon McManus for a 29-yard field goal.

Player of the Day: Omar Brown

As a freshman at Northern Iowa in 2019, Omar Brown was an FCS All-American after intercepting six passes. That included a career-high two interceptions against Illinois State.

Family Night wasn’t a game, but he intercepted three passes on Saturday. After his third pick, All-Pro Xavier McKinney put his arm over Brown’s shoulders. What did he say?

“Man, just keep balling, just keep being consistent,” Brown said. “We’ve still got a long camp ahead of us, got a preseason game coming up, so really just keep stacking days and keep balling and keep being consistent.”

This article first appeared on Green Bay Packers on SI and was syndicated with permission.

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