Kristen Miller

I really was interested in betting the Saints yesterday.

And then I get an alert, Nathan Shepherd, Kristen Miller are added as questionable with an illness.

Another, like, uh, later in the night, another defensive lineman with an illness, questionable.

There's something going through the Saints defensive line that's enough to keep me off of it.

And he pulled-

Christian Boyd? Oh, Kristen Miller.

Yeah, Kristen Miller, yeah.

Good player.

Hopefully, um, he was a healthy scratch last week, which was very odd.

Christian Boyd has had a strong season, just didn't have a strong game in this one.

And then Kristen Miller was inactive.

And we got our opportunity to speak with Kellen Moore on Tuesday, the day after the game, and asked him a little bit about why it was that Kristen Miller was not active for that matchup.

Although he was healthy, he practiced limited on Thursday, practiced limited on friday and then had a full participation day on saturday so as one of our everyday or club members cameron observed practice much more or at least appeared to be much more involved than pete werner was who actually played in the game now to pete werner's credit and to the saints credit here pete werner of course has many years of experience while um Kristen Miller has two NFL appearances so far in the regular season, but has had some promising appearances in the meanwhile.

And you wonder just how much of a difference he might have been able to make based on the performances now that hindsight is 2020 based on the performances that the interior defensive line had.

Otherwise, the big reason.

for uh kristen miller not participating kellen moore said was because of a lack of time on task coming back from that toe injury but with two limited practices in a full practice it does strike up a little bit of curiosity in terms of just how much opportunity was needed there in order for him to be and this has been the buzzword of the week so i don't mean to use it this way but in order for him to be prepared to contribute here in this matchup.

So we'll see.

Um, it should be noted the Saints were missing both Caden Ellis and Carl Granderson, who probably their best two-run defenders as I was thinking about that watching this game.

And Bernie Jennings out, Kristen Miller out, a lot of guys.

Yeah, yeah, Kristen Miller is the nose they drafted this year who's been... banged up yeah so which was a big part of reason why i picked atlanta i i flipped it when i saw the injuries ahead of nfl live like that's just those are just not i i don't know if the result would have been different if they had played but i do think they would have had a much better shot as in terms of this run defense they were pretty outmanned um i guess really quickly before we flip to the other side of the ball on the saints defense like this is a defense that albeit with those guys has given up some pretty big performances on the ground To be fair, it was against Detroit and Baltimore, and this is Atlanta.

Those are maybe like three of the four or five best run games in the NFL.

So do you think this run defense is as abysmal as it has looked, or do you think it's a product of injuries and just very difficult competition?

I haven't been impressed with Tyree Wilson, but you're going to have to play him now, assuming Anthony can't get out there.

The good news is you did get Kristen Miller and Berion Brown back to practice.

Berion was dealing with a hamstring injury, missed last week.

Kristen Miller was dealing with a toe injury, missed the last two weeks.

Those two limited along with tight end Noah Fant and also safety Julian Blackman.

Yeah, Julian is a

If Barry Allen Brown can't go, you'd see Jaden Price back there, but we'll have to watch.

The other two, Kristen Miller, defensive tackle, dealing with a toe issue.

That injury cropped up at Friday's practice.

He did not play in Week 2, and he's starting to become a player that you talk about as... injury prone right like he's a guy who missed the first part of camp because of an injury he missed a handful of practices he missed the time in the preseason with various ailments you know it's just not a good sign when you see a guy getting hurt repeatedly different issues so we'll see but he's just a guy to keep an eye on for now you do have depth of the defensive tackle position so it's not the end of the world if he does miss time but definitely not what you want to see early on in the guy's career.