Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from
Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford, joined by the
Speaker 1: one and only West Hodkowitz. Were coming to you here
Speaker 1: from our studios at lambeau Field and West. The pads
Speaker 1: have gone on here in training camp. We have been
Speaker 1: witnessed to one padded practice, the uppers, the shoulder pads.
Speaker 1: We are will be watching our second padded practice when
Speaker 1: we skt out a lot of the studio here later
Speaker 1: this morning. I just wanted to get your impressions on
Speaker 1: the first workout in pads. What stood out to you? Well,
Speaker 1: the thing I always look for and you and I
Speaker 1: kind of have a little thing going. It's the most
Speaker 1: exciting period of any training camp practice from the beginning
Speaker 1: to the end, when you have the one on ones
Speaker 1: offensive line, defensive line, and then you got the routes,
Speaker 1: you know, the one on one's receivers, running backs, all
Speaker 1: that against against the dbs. Yeah, it's the most Unfortunately
Speaker 1: happens at the same exact time, so you can only
Speaker 1: pick one. You were over at the receivers and everything.
Speaker 1: I stayed back with the lineman and it is every year.
Speaker 1: It's one of my most favorite things to watch because
Speaker 1: it really is the monoemano part of this whole process. Now,
Speaker 1: it's not everything. You can excel in the drill and
Speaker 1: not be that great. You cannot do well in that
Speaker 1: drill and still end up being really a successful NFL player.
Speaker 1: I think back to Kyler Faker. Everybody gave Kyler Faker
Speaker 1: a lot of, you know, grief for how he didn't
Speaker 1: one on one Kyler Factro is a legitimate NFL football players,
Speaker 1: the rubb of the green, so to speak. But what
Speaker 1: I loved about this was you got a chance to
Speaker 1: see Josh Myers for the first time taking reps against
Speaker 1: Kenny Clark with their pads on. Both of those guys
Speaker 1: two bulls in a china shop going up against each other.
Speaker 1: I wrote about it an Insider inbox. For Shan Gary,
Speaker 1: he's always looked like a man in that drill, but
Speaker 1: I mean this year, you can see the speed to
Speaker 1: power that he has in his rush, especially as bull rush.
Speaker 1: But he also can be guys around the edges, some
Speaker 1: of these young guys too. I'll close on this. This
Speaker 1: is the first time we really get a sense of
Speaker 1: what the guys on like those third team offensive Lions
Speaker 1: have to offer. Now that might seem really rudimentary, but
Speaker 1: that's where a guy like Greg Van Rotting back in
Speaker 1: two thousand twelve started to emerge. That's where you start
Speaker 1: to notice that Don Barclays of the world, and ultimately
Speaker 1: then it starts to translate to preseason games. So it
Speaker 1: was a really fun first day of practice. That's funny
Speaker 1: that No, that's funny that you that as soon as
Speaker 1: you said Don Barkley, that was exactly the name I
Speaker 1: was thinking of. When you talk about those guys there,
Speaker 1: you know, they're a little later in that one on
Speaker 1: one drill. You know they're down there, you know, further
Speaker 1: down on the depth chart, really early in their careers,
Speaker 1: those undrafted guys, and and yeah, that's when they start
Speaker 1: to that's when they start to stand out. I made
Speaker 1: a comment in our three Things video after Tuesday's practice
Speaker 1: because I've been waiting for the pads to go on
Speaker 1: as far as the wide receiver's dbs, because I wanted
Speaker 1: to see this Juwan Winfrey, because he really was the
Speaker 1: star of the young wide receivers in the spring. When
Speaker 1: there's no pads, they're really the jams at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and all that kind of stuff. Well, now
Speaker 1: we're getting to that stage, and Juan Rinfey had a
Speaker 1: really solid day in his first one on ones with
Speaker 1: with the pads on going up against um, going up
Speaker 1: against Eric Stokes, the Packers first round draft pick. Now
Speaker 1: that being said, with the one on ones and as
Speaker 1: funds as fun as it is to watch, I will
Speaker 1: say this though, I take I take all of it
Speaker 1: with just that little bit of grain of salt, because
Speaker 1: I think for the one on one in the pass
Speaker 1: rush pass pro I think the defense is at a
Speaker 1: distinct advantage because there's no other traffic right the I
Speaker 1: mean the the defender can go whichever way he wants to.
Speaker 1: He's not going to trip over anybody else, right and right.
Speaker 1: The offensive lineman has to has that much more territory
Speaker 1: to guard the flip side. I think is true in
Speaker 1: the wide receiver DBS because there's no other route being run.
Speaker 1: There's no other traffic, so the wide receiver can go
Speaker 1: wherever he wants to go, and the d defensive back
Speaker 1: has that much more territory. He can't make a read
Speaker 1: off of anything else to get leverage anywhere. Every players
Speaker 1: cover zero, right, But that. But that's but because of
Speaker 1: those disadvantages with those guys, sometimes it's where you start
Speaker 1: to find out a little bit about guys and and
Speaker 1: just how um, just how talented they might be. So
Speaker 1: in that respect, it's, uh, it's really fun to watch.
Speaker 1: My thing I always think is the cheat code and
Speaker 1: that receiver d dedrill to is whenever they run the slant,
Speaker 1: It's like, what are you expecting him to do here?
Speaker 1: Is he really gonna be able to jump the slant
Speaker 1: when he's worried about the guy going on and go
Speaker 1: route with no safety help beyond I yeah, but it's
Speaker 1: but so you can't you can't take all of it
Speaker 1: at face value. But it's a heck of a drill,
Speaker 1: and it's and it's how guys, both in terms of
Speaker 1: the lineman and in terms of the receivers and dbs,
Speaker 1: how they can really start to lock down and refine
Speaker 1: some of their skills and and and work on certain
Speaker 1: techniques even if they don't work quite exactly right in
Speaker 1: that moment, they're still practicing and working on that stuff
Speaker 1: for when it's really gonna matter. And getting back to
Speaker 1: the lineman drills, you very rarely unless you know Jerry
Speaker 1: Montgomery wants a defensive lineman to work on one specific thing.
Speaker 1: They're always alternating. They'll run the Packers. They've made this
Speaker 1: adjustment a few years ago where they'll just run the
Speaker 1: rep twice. Back in the day, you'd run it once, reset,
Speaker 1: next group goes in. Now it's they run it twice,
Speaker 1: give them two different opportunities. Not only does that allow
Speaker 1: the offensive lineman and potential to make an adjustment, it
Speaker 1: allows for that chess match with the defense of Russia
Speaker 1: also making their own. Yeah, it's fun, it's fun to
Speaker 1: watch for sure. Well, we heard from quarterback Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. On Wednesday, the Packers had just to walk
Speaker 1: through practice, not open to the public, not open to
Speaker 1: the media. We did talk to a few players afterwards.
Speaker 1: In one of those was quarterback Aaron Rodgers. And interestingly,
Speaker 1: we've been kind of as a media core as a whole,
Speaker 1: we've been kind of trying to needle the defensive guys
Speaker 1: when we talk to them about like, hey, so what's
Speaker 1: different about Joe Barry's defense? You know, like, are you
Speaker 1: guys doing some different stuff or you know, are you
Speaker 1: being asked to do different things? And most of the
Speaker 1: guys are you know, It's like they're really not revealing anything.
Speaker 1: They're keeping keeping it very close to the vest. So
Speaker 1: yesterday I decided, what the heck I'm gonna ask Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers what he thinks is different about this Joe Berry defense,
Speaker 1: and we actually got a really interesting answer. The long
Speaker 1: and the short of it is that Rogers and then
Speaker 1: Alan Lazard also um sort of confirmed a little bit
Speaker 1: of what Rogers had said, which is that the biggest
Speaker 1: thing that the Packers offense and training camp right now
Speaker 1: is adjusting to with Joe Berry's defense is how they
Speaker 1: are disguising their past coverage. They're having a little bit
Speaker 1: of a difficult time figuring out exactly what type of
Speaker 1: coverage Berries back end is in on any given snap,
Speaker 1: and that seems to be that seems to be maybe
Speaker 1: one of the calling cards here is is that element
Speaker 1: I don't want to say surprise, but it's the element
Speaker 1: of disguise. Yeah, and that that was one of the
Speaker 1: more I mean, the whole press conference, all twenty minutes
Speaker 1: of it, were really illuminating. He touched so many different topics,
Speaker 1: whether it was you know, him reaching out to Jordan's
Speaker 1: love in the off season, let know everything okay is
Speaker 1: okay with it. Whether it was him actually reaching out
Speaker 1: to you know, actually having Randall Cobb in his house,
Speaker 1: uh and kind of sheltering him here was he finds
Speaker 1: his his new home in green Bay home he's going
Speaker 1: to have to overpay for the way that yeah, the
Speaker 1: market way. But that's a topic for another day. But
Speaker 1: what I really liked is I can't speak. What I
Speaker 1: really liked about the answer on Barry's defense was it
Speaker 1: got me thinking a little bit. He'd mentioned all the
Speaker 1: strength when you thought back to Dom, the fire zone
Speaker 1: concepts and nine and ten and and the things that
Speaker 1: they did that made them successful, and it kind of
Speaker 1: gave you a little bit of an impression on what
Speaker 1: Barry is going to bring to Green Bay and why
Speaker 1: right out of the gates that this could be a
Speaker 1: guy that could really be a difference maker for Green Bay.
Speaker 1: And you think about the heavy fronts that they had
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, you think about being able to disguise
Speaker 1: some of the coverage as well. The more pressure you
Speaker 1: present and the more you mix up what you're doing
Speaker 1: on the back end, the more it's going to cause
Speaker 1: the quarterback and also the offensive coordinate or a lot
Speaker 1: of grief trying to figure out, Okay, how do we
Speaker 1: play on the play clock here, and how do we
Speaker 1: also stay in front of what they're trying to do.
Speaker 1: You can see a lot of adjustability with what Barry
Speaker 1: is doing. And to hear Aaron Rodgers say that again,
Speaker 1: that's that's why I caught my That's why I caught
Speaker 1: my ear because the defensive players just hadn't really been
Speaker 1: saying much. But but Rogers was very upfront and saying
Speaker 1: this is different. He's he's been doing this for sixteen
Speaker 1: years now. This is a different type of defense that
Speaker 1: he's facing and training here. Yeah, and and that's that's
Speaker 1: what you want because this is where we ultimately see
Speaker 1: the reps. Right. We always talk about he get into
Speaker 1: preseason games. One of the reasons why Rogers and historically
Speaker 1: has not been, you know, really keen on playing a
Speaker 1: lot of the preseason is because everything does look the same.
Speaker 1: It We talked about the adjustments they make in one
Speaker 1: on ones, well, legitimately they basically are just rushing the
Speaker 1: same way, they're basically covering the same way. They just
Speaker 1: want to see what guys can do athletically and kind
Speaker 1: of make some judgments there and how they're holding their
Speaker 1: own They're not trying to show some of their undiscus.
Speaker 1: It looks for the upcoming season, these are the practices,
Speaker 1: these twenty some practices the Packers will have where Rodgers
Speaker 1: and the offense are gonna cut their teeth. And getting
Speaker 1: back to your point about Lazard that I thought was
Speaker 1: really interesting is that you know, he feels like the
Speaker 1: ceiling is high for the offensive group and also seeing
Speaker 1: what the defense is presenting. It's one of the reasons
Speaker 1: why when you hear all these guys talking day after day,
Speaker 1: press conference after press conference, there's a lot of swagger
Speaker 1: in that room right now that they have it in
Speaker 1: all three phases to make a championship run. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: Lazard made the comment as well with regard to adjustments,
Speaker 1: because there are so many things that are done on
Speaker 1: the fly offensively that you're reading what the defense is doing,
Speaker 1: and then the receivers are choosing their router, adjusting their
Speaker 1: route based on how they're reading the coverage. And he
Speaker 1: was saying it's actually it's been a little tricky to
Speaker 1: figure out exactly what whole where the holes are to
Speaker 1: get to in the coverages, where to where to sit
Speaker 1: down a route or where to break off a route
Speaker 1: here or there. So I thought that was interesting too,
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be an evolution of the to this
Speaker 1: as UM training camp continues. But but also earlier this
Speaker 1: week we heard from you know, a lot of fans asking, okay,
Speaker 1: what what is what's up with David baktr When is
Speaker 1: when is the Packers five time All Pro left tackle
Speaker 1: going to get back in action? And you talked about,
Speaker 1: you know, an illuminating twenty minutes at the podium. Batr
Speaker 1: is very very very entertaining, but made it very made
Speaker 1: it very clear. I thought the most interesting thing that
Speaker 1: he said not that he gave any kind of a timetable.
Speaker 1: He's not making any promises he's going to be back
Speaker 1: for week one or week two or whatever the case
Speaker 1: might be. But he said it was almost as though
Speaker 1: he said, it's not about whether he necessarily feels, you know,
Speaker 1: like all the way back to himself, like you know,
Speaker 1: he's going to be back to his all pro formed
Speaker 1: a hundred percent, or whether he's night for him, It's
Speaker 1: going to be the question of when when the doctors
Speaker 1: say when the doctors say that the surgery is where
Speaker 1: there were Coovery from the surgery is where it needs
Speaker 1: to be with your knee and with the graft, with
Speaker 1: the A C L and all that, and you're not
Speaker 1: at any greater risk of re injuring it. David Bactieri
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily care if he's only at only feels like
Speaker 1: he's seventy of himself. If that knee is good to go,
Speaker 1: and the docs says it's good to go, I think
Speaker 1: we're gonna see David Bactieri back out there. Yeah. It
Speaker 1: was funny listen to him too, because he did as
Speaker 1: probably as good a job as anybody is explaining what
Speaker 1: happens after you have a graph in the in the Yeah,
Speaker 1: and every everything they're looking at, everything that they're paying
Speaker 1: attention to. Yeah, if he was working in any other industry,
Speaker 1: in office job, a sportswriter, you know, down the block
Speaker 1: like my parents at Georgia Pacific, he's back on the job.
Speaker 1: You know, he's just he's he's back to work. But
Speaker 1: this isn't a normal job. It's not about how you feel.
Speaker 1: It's about also being cognizant of the fact that the
Speaker 1: atrophy in the knee when you do a surgery like that.
Speaker 1: The body isn't used to that. The body isn't used
Speaker 1: to oh, somebody else is going to come in and
Speaker 1: fix something. It's just used to scarring stuff up and
Speaker 1: fix sing it itself. So it's how a knee injury
Speaker 1: like that weakens the quad receps, it's weakening the calf,
Speaker 1: it's weakening everything around there, and you have to build
Speaker 1: that stuff back up. So for for box tr I
Speaker 1: just think I love the I absolutely love the approach
Speaker 1: he's taken to this because Brian Blaga had a good
Speaker 1: disposition about it. But Brian was pretty aggressive, like he
Speaker 1: wanted to be back out there and was making no
Speaker 1: bones about it. I mean, they had him back at
Speaker 1: the end of the preseason. But Brian also tore that
Speaker 1: the beginning of November. David's happened on New Year's Day
Speaker 1: or New Year's Eve. That's almost two months separation. So
Speaker 1: Dave also understands. Okay, you look at what Brian Blaga
Speaker 1: had to do to be ready for week one, and
Speaker 1: he was, you know, six eight weeks earlier than when
Speaker 1: Dave towards a c L. I think he trusts the doctors.
Speaker 1: I know he trust his rehab. He mentioned He's like,
Speaker 1: the best thing is I've had no setbacks. Everything has
Speaker 1: been all systems go. And then I also would say
Speaker 1: you have to think, if you're the Packers and you
Speaker 1: have to think of your box tr You look at
Speaker 1: Elton Jenkins standing in there at left tackle in his
Speaker 1: best position might be left guard. Heck, it might be
Speaker 1: center for all we know, but I mean that's not
Speaker 1: his natural spot, but dog on it. I mean, he
Speaker 1: really held his own there last year, and he's taking
Speaker 1: every rep there this training camp. The Packers have time.
Speaker 1: It's not like you and I are having to stand
Speaker 1: in at left tackle and Aaron Rodgers is, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of like chattering his teeth, worrying about who's going
Speaker 1: to be coming from his blindside. They have a good
Speaker 1: insurance policy. There, get your five time probably future Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame All Pro left tackle back, and and go
Speaker 1: from there. Yeah. I think the biggest indication we're going
Speaker 1: to find out is simply going to be the roster
Speaker 1: decision at the end of training camp. Right Because for
Speaker 1: those who don't quite understand this, David box Tr is
Speaker 1: on the physically unable to perform list. It's called the
Speaker 1: PUP list or pub list. Players who do not practice,
Speaker 1: they don't practice the first day of training camp, they
Speaker 1: generally they go on that list and they come off
Speaker 1: that list. Then as soon as they begin to practice. Well,
Speaker 1: we're not expecting to see David baktier during training camp,
Speaker 1: but then the Packers will have to make a roster
Speaker 1: decision at the end of training camp. Does David Baktieri
Speaker 1: go on the fifty three man roster or does he
Speaker 1: stay on PUP and go on to regular season PUP. Now,
Speaker 1: the reason that will be a big decision is because
Speaker 1: somebody who starts the regular season on PUP after having
Speaker 1: been on PUP all through training camp, has to miss
Speaker 1: the first six weeks of the regular season. That's a rule.
Speaker 1: So if the Packers feel like Botry will be back
Speaker 1: within the first six weeks, he'll be on the fifty
Speaker 1: three for week one, even if he's not necessarily going
Speaker 1: to play in week one, but he'll be on the
Speaker 1: fifty three because they're not going to if he they
Speaker 1: feel he's going to be ready, they're not going to
Speaker 1: just shut him down for the first six weeks of
Speaker 1: the regular season. That's the best way to read this, right, Absolutely,
Speaker 1: the one consideration you have to make though, is kind
Speaker 1: of like if you're at the grocery store and you're
Speaker 1: try d to stash that last bag of Dorito's on
Speaker 1: the list of your wife doesn't find out it win
Speaker 1: over two hund dollars. You have to be cognizant of
Speaker 1: the fact that if he does go on to regular
Speaker 1: season injured reserve, that means you're probably gonna have to
Speaker 1: cut somebody extra, go down to fifty two at the
Speaker 1: end of camp. You can't just put him on i R, okay,
Speaker 1: and then bring them back. No, there's still the difference
Speaker 1: between training camp i R and regular season i R. So,
Speaker 1: and if they do that they put him on the
Speaker 1: fifty three and then put him on i R, that
Speaker 1: would only be a minimum of three weeks that he
Speaker 1: would have to be out. So those are the different
Speaker 1: roster Those are the different roster maschinations that that that
Speaker 1: the Packers will figure out with box TR when the
Speaker 1: time comes on Labor Day weekend. And I think really
Speaker 1: the big decision is going to be that week after
Speaker 1: the Buffalo game, because now you don't have that last
Speaker 1: preseason game. They're not going to cut you know, in
Speaker 1: that typical Saturday weekend at the end of August, so
Speaker 1: there's a little bit more time for the training staff,
Speaker 1: the doctors and bok Tr himself to come together and
Speaker 1: see where things are at. Um be that as it may.
Speaker 1: As I said, I think that the Packers have the
Speaker 1: offensive line dep there too to be able to stem
Speaker 1: the tide. But certainly at some point, you know, he's
Speaker 1: he's a difference maker, he's the best in the game
Speaker 1: at what he does, and the Packers you don't want
Speaker 1: to have him back as soon as possible and as
Speaker 1: soon as safely as possible. And you mentioned Elton Jenkins
Speaker 1: is the guy who's who's holding down the fort there
Speaker 1: at left tackle here throughout training camp. That's going to
Speaker 1: be his spot until box Tr is back. We're seeing
Speaker 1: a competition here at guard with Jenkins, who's was a
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl left guard obviously last year, and you know
Speaker 1: has has played in so many different spots, but right
Speaker 1: now the coaches are rotating John Runyon, Ben Braden Lucas Patrick,
Speaker 1: three guys kind of for those two guard spots while
Speaker 1: Jenkins is playing left tackle. And from what we've seen
Speaker 1: so far, nobody's in a hurry to make a decision there.
Speaker 1: This looks like a competition that is going to continue
Speaker 1: to play out as we go through training. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: and there has been a very balanced competition, as you said. Now,
Speaker 1: the one caveat to all this is the fact that
Speaker 1: Lucas Patrick really is the backup center to so as
Speaker 1: you mentioned, they've been circling him out on some first
Speaker 1: team rep so that he can take the second team
Speaker 1: reps at center. And then in that case that's where
Speaker 1: Ben Braiden has been over at right guard with with
Speaker 1: John Runyan staying basically only at left guard, the competition
Speaker 1: there for that left guard those spot is really interesting
Speaker 1: because Runyan, I thought, really showed out last year, played
Speaker 1: well in a pinch, but never actually started a game.
Speaker 1: He was always just kind of called upon to finish.
Speaker 1: He was a finisher, closer, if you will. But you know,
Speaker 1: I said this during the one on one drill. The
Speaker 1: thing that I like about John the most is that
Speaker 1: he has incredibly broad shoulders. He might not have his
Speaker 1: dad's height in terms of it's funny me saying six
Speaker 1: it's not as though he's small, but yes, his dad,
Speaker 1: his dad had a little bit more of that. By golly,
Speaker 1: I mean, he has those broad shoulders and at the
Speaker 1: guard position. There are a couple one on run reps
Speaker 1: he was taking. I want to say it was against
Speaker 1: Tyler Lancaster and Lancaster kind of had to move on it.
Speaker 1: But the way you know, with how much space that
Speaker 1: that John takes up, he's able shift, move his feet
Speaker 1: and he won those two reps. Brandon is just a
Speaker 1: massive human being six ft six two. I think let's
Speaker 1: sat three twenty nine pounds. Uh. This is a guy
Speaker 1: that has bounced around a lot in the league. He
Speaker 1: was with the Packers in two thousand nineteen on the
Speaker 1: practice squad for a couple of months, got cut, ended
Speaker 1: up going to New England, found his way back to
Speaker 1: Green Bay, and the coaching staff seems to be really
Speaker 1: high on him. We've never spoken to him. We've never
Speaker 1: you know, there hasn't been an availability with him. We
Speaker 1: haven't really seen him really play that much because he's
Speaker 1: only been here during like the regular season portion of things.
Speaker 1: He hasn't really been there in camp. So uh interested
Speaker 1: to learn more about him. And he was a guy
Speaker 1: too during the offseason program when they were still feeling
Speaker 1: things out with the tackle situation. Took some reps at
Speaker 1: tackle too, so an interesting little guy to have involved
Speaker 1: there as well. Well. After one week of practice and
Speaker 1: thus far only one practice in pads, it is not
Speaker 1: a time to make any grand pronouncements. But there are
Speaker 1: two things I think that we have learned based on
Speaker 1: what we've seen with the reps and also what we've
Speaker 1: heard from from players, from from Matt Lafleur and whatnot.
Speaker 1: One is that it sure looks like the rookie second
Speaker 1: round pick Josh Meyers is going to be the starting
Speaker 1: center for this team barring something very unforeseen, because he
Speaker 1: is as he was in the spring now into training camp,
Speaker 1: he is taking every rep at center with the number
Speaker 1: one offense. And the other one is that it sure
Speaker 1: looks like when Joe Barry is going to have two
Speaker 1: inside linebackers on the field, it's going to be the
Speaker 1: youngster Chris Barnes, the second year undrafted guy from u C.
Speaker 1: L A. And then Devandre Campbell, the veteran that the
Speaker 1: Packers brought in um during the spring. Late in the
Speaker 1: spring towards the time of the mini camp. Those two guys,
Speaker 1: now they are going to be plenty of times there
Speaker 1: won't be two inside linebackers on the field together. But
Speaker 1: when there are two together, it sure looks like those
Speaker 1: are the two guys that are very much out in
Speaker 1: front of the rest of the compety. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: agree with that. And and you know, also this is
Speaker 1: these are guys. These are names that you're not gonna
Speaker 1: hear on your local you know series XM radio, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, I think we still have to do
Speaker 1: the read at But these are the positions that I think,
Speaker 1: really when you talk about the Packers putting together a
Speaker 1: championship type run, uh, this is where it's going to
Speaker 1: be decided. First, starting off with Josh Myers, I think
Speaker 1: that this was the perfect way to bring him along.
Speaker 1: Now there's no blueprint, you know, Corey Lindsley didn't take
Speaker 1: a single rep with Aaron Rodgers during the preseason and
Speaker 1: then he ended up snapping to him week one because
Speaker 1: of the injury to j. C. Treader in two thousand fourteen.
Speaker 1: But for Myers to be able to work with the
Speaker 1: first team offense, understand the communication role, getting a feel
Speaker 1: for Jordan's love while Aaron Rodgers was still you know,
Speaker 1: sitting out of the O t A s him for
Speaker 1: Rogers now to come in and work with the guy
Speaker 1: that has been immersed in this system now for three
Speaker 1: or four months. That is just incredibly invaluable. It was
Speaker 1: funny listening to box Tre talk about him a little bit,
Speaker 1: mentioning how the first time he saw him, he said
Speaker 1: to him, He's like, okay, so what's your deal your
Speaker 1: six ft five? Are you like a terrible athlete? Do
Speaker 1: you have bad footwork? Because why would you at that
Speaker 1: size be playing center? And then you just sort of
Speaker 1: get it. It doesn't make a lot of sense why
Speaker 1: he's at center. He looks like a freaking tackle. But
Speaker 1: he's smart, he's intelligent, and he is a good athlete
Speaker 1: and it fits him there. Chris Barnes, I think that
Speaker 1: says a heck of a lot about him, the fact
Speaker 1: that he's still the mic linebacker right, no question of
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. With all the competition at that position, he's
Speaker 1: still the guy in Devandre Campbell, as he talked about,
Speaker 1: he kind of fits where the Packers want to go
Speaker 1: with this defense. He's a guy that can cover tight ends,
Speaker 1: he can stay on the field and nickel and again
Speaker 1: we're talking about options. He's a guy that gives Joe
Speaker 1: Berry a lot of options for how he wants to
Speaker 1: settle that defense in the sub packages. Yeah. An interesting
Speaker 1: combination there of a young guy with veteran. A veteran
Speaker 1: who's you know, new to this team and this system.
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