Speaker 1: Hi everybody, and welcome to this Labor Day weekend edition
Speaker 1: of Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford.
Speaker 1: He is Wes Hodkowitz. We're coming to you here from
Speaker 1: our studios at lambeau Field and West. Since they did
Speaker 1: the roster cuts on a Tuesday, we figured why not
Speaker 1: we'll post a Packers Unscripted on a Saturday. Let's just
Speaker 1: keep changing things up, right, Nothing about this week is normal. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: don't don't fight it, just roll with it, right, just
Speaker 1: roll with it. So well, Hey, I want to start
Speaker 1: today's discussion though, talking about the Packers Wide Receiver group.
Speaker 1: You have a story that UH posted on our website
Speaker 1: Packers dot Com talking about this group collectively. Now we
Speaker 1: know who the number one is, Davante Adams. We talked
Speaker 1: on our last show about the number six, Malie Taylor
Speaker 1: and him securing that last roster spot at the position.
Speaker 1: The real intrigue with this position group is those four
Speaker 1: guys in the middle, obviously talking about Marcos Valdi, Scanling,
Speaker 1: Al Lazard, Randall Cobb and A Marii Rodgers. It's a
Speaker 1: very interesting collection in the type of collection of receivers
Speaker 1: in terms of the varied skill sets and experience levels
Speaker 1: and all of that. The type of collection the Packers
Speaker 1: haven't really had around here for quite a while long time.
Speaker 1: And you know, I go back to two thousand fifteen.
Speaker 1: Remember Mike McCarthy and his staff are kind of catching
Speaker 1: some flak because it was a lot of the same
Speaker 1: eleven personnel. Now, I think a big thing about that
Speaker 1: is that was pretty definitive who their top three receivers are,
Speaker 1: who their tight end was, and ultimately who they're running back.
Speaker 1: Was just to clarify, eleven personnel is one running back,
Speaker 1: one tight end, and three wide receivers. That's what you're talking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and yeah, it wasn't so much for a lack
Speaker 1: of creativity. It's just that that those are kind of
Speaker 1: the options, right. What I like about the way the
Speaker 1: Packers have built this thing over the last two or
Speaker 1: three years is even wrote in the story it's more
Speaker 1: of a menu than it is a depth chart. Because,
Speaker 1: as Mark was Abolt the Scantling said, in a lot
Speaker 1: of these guys have talked about this offseason, nobody does
Speaker 1: basically the same thing as another guy. You're not mixing
Speaker 1: your personnel for the sake of getting different guys on
Speaker 1: the field, You're mixing your personnel depending on what kind
Speaker 1: of look you want to give the defense. Now that
Speaker 1: extends to the tight end rooms with Robert Tonyan, with
Speaker 1: Mark with Mercedes Lewis. That extends to the backfield with
Speaker 1: three very different running backs, different body types at that position.
Speaker 1: But most importantly, I think it's receiver because you have
Speaker 1: the downfield threat of Mark was Veld, this Scantling, a
Speaker 1: guy that has developed more as a route runner and
Speaker 1: an underneath receiver. You have the goon Alan Wizard, a
Speaker 1: guy that does the nitty gritty stuff but also can
Speaker 1: also burn you for a hundred yards too if he
Speaker 1: needs to know. Randall Cobb I think is gonna be
Speaker 1: a really intriguing fit. He gives them the slot receiver
Speaker 1: the Packers really have lacked since he left the first time.
Speaker 1: And then a Mari Rodgers, certainly the rookie third round pick.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be Davanta Adams. You're gonna see a lot
Speaker 1: of DAVANTAE sees that if he's healthy. But the four
Speaker 1: guys on the field with Adams or three, if you
Speaker 1: end up seeing a lot of Aaron Jones, that's where
Speaker 1: the entrgue lies with this Packers offense. Yeah, I really
Speaker 1: loved that line, that that term from Matt Lafleur when
Speaker 1: I had asked him after the Buffalo Bills after the
Speaker 1: last preseason game just about the receiver group in general,
Speaker 1: because this was actually before we knew who the sixth
Speaker 1: was going to be. But I asked him about, you know,
Speaker 1: knowing essentially going into training camp barring injury, we knew
Speaker 1: who the top five receivers were going to be that
Speaker 1: would make this roster, and what he thought of the group,
Speaker 1: and he kind of went through him one by one
Speaker 1: and he used that term goon for Alan Lazar. Now,
Speaker 1: I took it as sort of a comparison to to
Speaker 1: like the in hockey, where you call a guy, you know,
Speaker 1: a goon because he kind of he stirs it up
Speaker 1: and he's kind of the enforcer and you know, willing
Speaker 1: to do the dirty work and whatnot, as you said,
Speaker 1: But it's also a term of endearment in some respects
Speaker 1: because that's not all at the guy brings to the table, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's part of his role. And Alan
Speaker 1: lazarren is probably the best blocking receiver that the Packers have,
Speaker 1: but yet we've seen him make plenty of plays down
Speaker 1: the field, a couple of big ones against the Saints
Speaker 1: last year before he got injured, made the big clinching
Speaker 1: touchdown against the Rams in the playoff game last January
Speaker 1: when he got behind the defense. So um, I'm really intrigued,
Speaker 1: especially because Lazard had the injury last season where he
Speaker 1: missed such a big chunk of time coming off of
Speaker 1: a big game when he when he did get hurt,
Speaker 1: I'm really intrigued to see where things go with him,
Speaker 1: and then obviously with Velde's scantling MVS. I mean, I know,
Speaker 1: I know there's skepticism amongst the fan base because they
Speaker 1: remember the drop passes and some of the frustrations and
Speaker 1: all this, and and I'll say this, I think I've
Speaker 1: said it an insider inbox and in other places as well.
Speaker 1: You and I are at training camp practice every day,
Speaker 1: and this is the first time I can remember since
Speaker 1: Valdes's scantling has been here where it felt like on
Speaker 1: pretty much a daily basis, he was a presence on
Speaker 1: the practice field. There were in past summers, and I'm
Speaker 1: not saying he had bad training camps, but in past
Speaker 1: summers there would be two, three, four days in a
Speaker 1: row where you kind of didn't really notice him where
Speaker 1: he was. Yeah, he's running his routes and taking his reps,
Speaker 1: but he's not really there. This summer, it felt like
Speaker 1: he was there, like every day there, there was a
Speaker 1: presence there and uh and I think it certainly bodes
Speaker 1: well for for what could be ahead for MVS. A
Speaker 1: couple of things I really like about MBS. One that
Speaker 1: he never gets enough credit for it. Guys really durable.
Speaker 1: I mean, he doesn't miss much time. That's true. It's
Speaker 1: been out there and forgot that. That's that fast. Typically
Speaker 1: if you run in the four three's you can have
Speaker 1: some hamstring injury, flat ups. That's the guy that takes
Speaker 1: care of his body. He makes sure that he's accountable
Speaker 1: to his teammates and and really brings it every single day.
Speaker 1: But more importantly, everybody wants to talk about, Okay, there
Speaker 1: was a drop there, there's a drop there. Can you
Speaker 1: live with them? All that stuff that that has happened
Speaker 1: in the past. But what I want fans and people
Speaker 1: that challenge them to remember is make sure you remember
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay game, or make sure you remember some
Speaker 1: of these other games too, because those are the games
Speaker 1: that the opponent is having to watch on film. Those
Speaker 1: are the examples where this is where this guy is
Speaker 1: going to beat you. This is what you have to
Speaker 1: take into account when eight three is on the field,
Speaker 1: and what makes him so dangerous. I feel in this
Speaker 1: offense is when you have a possession, you know, receiver
Speaker 1: like Alan Lazard. When you have a superstar like Davante Adams,
Speaker 1: the number six ranked player amongst his peers of the
Speaker 1: National Football League right now, He's not just a guy
Speaker 1: that you can just put a safety over the top
Speaker 1: of MVS that is, and just try to take him
Speaker 1: out of a game. You don't have as many resources
Speaker 1: to do that. In the secondary. You have to be
Speaker 1: cognizant of where he is and you've gotta be really
Speaker 1: careful with how you handle that matchup. This is not
Speaker 1: an easy game. It is a difficult position to play.
Speaker 1: The important thing with MBS is for all the orbs
Speaker 1: that have converged over him over time, he's been able
Speaker 1: to pull through all of it. And I thought he
Speaker 1: had one of his best performances in the Packers uniform
Speaker 1: in the NFC title game. I don't even go back
Speaker 1: to last year's training camp, like the two guys, I said,
Speaker 1: it was him and it was Rashan Gary. I thought
Speaker 1: MBS had a better camp this year, but he really
Speaker 1: did stand out to me last year with what he
Speaker 1: was doing, giving you signs that, Okay, he's gonna bounce
Speaker 1: back from that nineteen season. Remembers telling people if if
Speaker 1: Gary and MBS don't perform, I don't know what the
Speaker 1: preseason or what the training camp is even good for,
Speaker 1: because to me, those guys really stood out, and I
Speaker 1: thought you saw him take a step last season. I
Speaker 1: think going into year four, you're gonna see him take another. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would agree with you. It certainly seems to be
Speaker 1: setting up that way. And you and I were noticing
Speaker 1: this before Aaron Rodgers made all of the nice compliments
Speaker 1: that he said about MVS and what Matt Lafleur said,
Speaker 1: and all of those comments are genuine. I'm just the
Speaker 1: point I'm trying to make is that you and I
Speaker 1: were noticing this on the practice field before his teammates
Speaker 1: and whatnot. We're talking about him like this is definitely
Speaker 1: something that noticed with him, and now it has to
Speaker 1: carry over from training camp from the practice field to
Speaker 1: the games. We have to see that. Obviously, these guys
Speaker 1: didn't play in the preseason games for good reason, so
Speaker 1: we need to see it carry over. But everything is,
Speaker 1: everything is setting up, The stage is being set here
Speaker 1: for something that that could be a pretty big year
Speaker 1: for MVS. And they are gonna have a really difficult
Speaker 1: defense to contest with with Dennis Allen's group there with
Speaker 1: the Saints here in a week and a half, no question.
Speaker 1: But I'm really Mike, the thing I'm most excited to
Speaker 1: see is that Monday afterwards when NFL g s I
Speaker 1: s puts up there played playing time stats, seeing how
Speaker 1: they allocate these reps, seeing which receivers play, how much
Speaker 1: they play, who's in the backfield, who's that tight end there? Again, Mike,
Speaker 1: there were years where it's like, okay, well you can
Speaker 1: kind of jot down Jordan Davante Randall. They're all going
Speaker 1: to play about sixty seventy snaps. It's not like that anymore,
Speaker 1: and it's something that could change week to week. It's
Speaker 1: not like we're gonna look at the snap counts for
Speaker 1: week one and go, Okay, this is how they're going
Speaker 1: to do it all year. No it's going to be
Speaker 1: a week to week thing in this offense. As you said,
Speaker 1: it's it's a menu of receivers with with all the
Speaker 1: different things that they bring to the table. So from
Speaker 1: a matchup standpoint, from a game plan standpoint, things could
Speaker 1: really change UM week to week with what mattel Fleur,
Speaker 1: Nathaniel Hackett and these offensive coaches want to do. UM
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Speaker 1: Late this past week Thursday evening, a long awaited Packers
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame induction ceremony delayed by the pandemic and whatnot,
Speaker 1: rescheduled multiple times. All that Packers Hall of Fame induction
Speaker 1: for Charles Woodson and Al Harris, and well, I what
Speaker 1: I wrote about on our Packers website. Both of those
Speaker 1: guys talked about it that. Uh, it's almost two fitting
Speaker 1: that these two star cornerbacks go into the Packers Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame together because u um, they really were. They
Speaker 1: only played together in games on the field essentially for
Speaker 1: four years two thousand six through two thousand and nine,
Speaker 1: but that was a special pair that the Packers had
Speaker 1: on the field together and it was neat to see
Speaker 1: them get this honor together. Great job are you covering that.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you giving me off on Thursday, you know,
Speaker 1: afternoon and evening, be able to get home a littlettle
Speaker 1: bit earlier to my family. But here's the thing I love,
Speaker 1: and no one talks about this enough. The mid two
Speaker 1: thousands things were kind of in shambles there with the
Speaker 1: Packers cornerback contingent. There was a miss draft picks, there
Speaker 1: was some you know, Mike mackenzie basically demanding a trade. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the contract situation, all the issues they had, their Al
Speaker 1: Harris was the constant. They made that trade in what
Speaker 1: two thousand three two in from Philadelphia, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: in two thousand twenty one, I never see the Eagles
Speaker 1: making that trade anymore. That was more like they were
Speaker 1: so loaded at cornerback, but with how many cornerbacks you
Speaker 1: need now in today's NFL. Who knows if that deal
Speaker 1: ever gets done. But what I loved about it is
Speaker 1: he was the constant for six seven years in that
Speaker 1: secondary and in two thousand and six they bring in
Speaker 1: Charles Woodson. Two guys from very different paths, different walks
Speaker 1: of life, but how they came together, and as Woodson
Speaker 1: kind of talked about the work that they were willing
Speaker 1: to put in, the grind that they were willing to chase,
Speaker 1: that's what kind of binded them and for them in
Speaker 1: Woodson set it from his first conference call when the
Speaker 1: announcement was made, he wanted to go in with Al Harris.
Speaker 1: It took a little bit longer than I think everybody expected,
Speaker 1: but he gets that honor. You can tell how much
Speaker 1: this is the guy that just went into Canton like
Speaker 1: earlier this month, you are last month. Now. You can tell, though,
Speaker 1: how much this honor means to him too, and in
Speaker 1: the path that he has traveled. It was a cool
Speaker 1: night and I'm glad that obviously he was able to
Speaker 1: enjoy it with a close friend. Yeah, it was really
Speaker 1: interesting hearing Woodson kind of tell the story of how
Speaker 1: they would they would go to practice, and Al and
Speaker 1: Charles would kind of look at each other and go, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna work today, all right, Yeah, it's time to work.
Speaker 1: And what they meant by that is they were just
Speaker 1: going to take all the reps at cornerback with the
Speaker 1: number one defense being out there, and they weren't going
Speaker 1: to let the younger guys like rotate, and they were
Speaker 1: just going to take them all. Maybe on a hot day,
Speaker 1: he said, they would take a playoff. Yeah, exactly. They
Speaker 1: let Grammont Williams or Jared Bush or one of you know,
Speaker 1: one of these younger guys slip in there once in
Speaker 1: a while, but that was you know, and those are
Speaker 1: the kinds of things that we didn't necessarily see because
Speaker 1: during regular season practice as reporters, we don't get to
Speaker 1: watch the eleven on eleven. So you hear these you
Speaker 1: hear these stories after the fact about how during that
Speaker 1: eleven on eleven work in the regular season, those guys
Speaker 1: really did go to work. And Al Harris wanted to
Speaker 1: be a Pro Bowler every single year and he did
Speaker 1: get a couple of Pro Bowl honors. And Charles Woodson
Speaker 1: talked about how it's it's so clear shape we hear
Speaker 1: it so often about players saying, you know, the competition,
Speaker 1: this and that, that they push each other to be better.
Speaker 1: And I'm not I'm not dismissing it, but we do
Speaker 1: hear it so often. The thing about Charles and al
Speaker 1: As it was very, very real. They really did, They
Speaker 1: really did push each other because they were both trying
Speaker 1: to be the best in the game at the same position,
Speaker 1: and they were on the same team, you know, and
Speaker 1: they got they got to practice together, play together on
Speaker 1: a daily, on a weekly basis, and that's a that's
Speaker 1: a really that's a really interesting set of four years.
Speaker 1: And I also look back as well that two thousand
Speaker 1: and six to two thousand nine will end with al
Speaker 1: obviously going you know, going back to two thousand three,
Speaker 1: and then Charles staying with Green Bay through two thousand
Speaker 1: and twelve. Those guys played through and came back from
Speaker 1: a lot of injuries. The their their toughness. It's it's
Speaker 1: no surprise that head athletic trainer Brian Engle, affectionately known
Speaker 1: as Flee, is the guy that Charles Woodson chose to
Speaker 1: present him for Hall of Fame induction. Because Woodson was
Speaker 1: in the training room a lot he was dedicated to
Speaker 1: getting out there absolutely as often as he could. When
Speaker 1: you look at the track record of these two players,
Speaker 1: and Fleet called them, pound for pound, two of the
Speaker 1: toughest guys he's ever come across in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: and and Flea has been here for twenty five years
Speaker 1: in the Packers training room. The their dedication to being
Speaker 1: out there for their teammates, they did not until Al
Speaker 1: Harris had the knee injury in two thousand nine the
Speaker 1: a c L and until Charles Woodson had the broken
Speaker 1: collar bone in two thousand and twelve, which was the
Speaker 1: second time he had broken a collar bone after doing
Speaker 1: so obviously in Super Bowl forty five. Until those major injuries,
Speaker 1: those guys you could count on one hand the number
Speaker 1: of games that they missed as members of the Packers.
Speaker 1: Their their their dedication to their craft was exceptional. I
Speaker 1: remember in two thousand and eight two UH I was
Speaker 1: reading I believe it was either Pete Doherty rooted or
Speaker 1: robbed Demoskas when I was working at the Press, because
Speaker 1: that when the report came out that Al Harris had
Speaker 1: the ruptured spleen, and I remember thinking to myself, that
Speaker 1: sounds like the worst injury you could ever possibly have.
Speaker 1: And the way that these guys persevered through this. I
Speaker 1: mean even Charles Woodson. I mean, the guy breaks his
Speaker 1: collar bone in the Super Bowl and I'm sure there's
Speaker 1: a lot of adrenaline, no question about that, especially even
Speaker 1: when he wasn't playing with you know, them being that
Speaker 1: close to a super Bowl title. I sometimes look at
Speaker 1: these guys and I go, you know, as someone that's
Speaker 1: never broken a bone, he's never torn in a c
Speaker 1: L Like, how do you get yourself up? You know,
Speaker 1: not just the fact that you get an injury, you
Speaker 1: rehab it, but then want to come back after that.
Speaker 1: They're just they're cut from a different cloth. They're different
Speaker 1: types of dudes. And you know, I'll say it for
Speaker 1: the last time. I've been saying this all offseason about Woodson,
Speaker 1: but the amount of professionalism that he showed throughout his career,
Speaker 1: this is a guy that if you're not going to practice,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna be hurt all week and rehabbing all week,
Speaker 1: do you know how much film stud do you have
Speaker 1: to do? How much preparation has to go in when
Speaker 1: you're not actually out there getting the physical reps? You
Speaker 1: know too, you know, Wednesday through Friday. Charles Woodson was
Speaker 1: always always prepared. He's the only guy. He's the only
Speaker 1: guy I've ever seen who could who could miss as
Speaker 1: much practice as he missed in order to try to
Speaker 1: keep his body healthy and then and go play at
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl on Sundays every single week. It was.
Speaker 1: It was remarkable what he did and up until what
Speaker 1: two thousand nine times. I mean, the guy was on
Speaker 1: an island a lot of times too. I mean it's
Speaker 1: it's about as obvious as it gets in the National
Speaker 1: Football League if you're not up to par playing one
Speaker 1: on one against some of these guys, and Woodson did
Speaker 1: it better than anyone. Yeah. Well, that that segways to
Speaker 1: one other topic. I want to get to here before
Speaker 1: we sign off, because I answered a question in Insider Inbox.
Speaker 1: There was a fan writing in and I apologize I
Speaker 1: don't remember his or her name at the moment, but
Speaker 1: just wondering, you know, what, what's the status of the
Speaker 1: Packers secondary right now? Kind of asking some questions about it,
Speaker 1: and and I actually you know, and partly Charles and
Speaker 1: al going into the Hall of Fame, you know, this
Speaker 1: is this is what triggered my memory. But in looking
Speaker 1: at the Packers, if you look at the top six
Speaker 1: defensive backs on this roster, and I'm talking about the
Speaker 1: four at corner, Alexander King, Stokes, and Sullivan, and then
Speaker 1: you're two starting safeties Amoson Savage. I honestly think and
Speaker 1: you can you can correct me if you have a
Speaker 1: different perspective on this, but I think this is this
Speaker 1: is as strong a top six group in the secondary
Speaker 1: as the Packers have had since for for my money,
Speaker 1: going back to two thousand and nine, which is when
Speaker 1: the top four corners were Woodson, Harris, Tremont, Williams, Jarrett Bush,
Speaker 1: and you're starting safeties where Nick Collins and Atari Bigbie,
Speaker 1: I couldn't find a top six. I couldn't find a
Speaker 1: top six that to me compared going into a season
Speaker 1: with the top six that the Packers have here four
Speaker 1: teens close just because you had Casey Hayward and Devon
Speaker 1: House kind of struggling. You can only get one of
Speaker 1: those eyes on the field, which Tremont playing in the slot.
Speaker 1: But the safety position just wasn't as strong. Yeah, I mean, haha,
Speaker 1: came on late throughout the season you had Mica there,
Speaker 1: but yeah, no, no question about it. I guess I
Speaker 1: was thinking more of micah As as a corner or
Speaker 1: not not as much as he was playing bass, and
Speaker 1: then he was going back in the sub packages. But
Speaker 1: he was at the embasy of that position. Haha. It
Speaker 1: was a rookie to your actual point, though, it is
Speaker 1: an incredibly deep six and the amount of resources to
Speaker 1: put into that position as well, right, I mean you
Speaker 1: have a first round pick in Darnell Savage, two first
Speaker 1: round picks and Jire Alexander Eric Stokes. Uh, Kevin King
Speaker 1: was as close as you can get to being a
Speaker 1: first round pick at number thirty three, and then Adrian
Speaker 1: Amos being you know, paid and rewarded the way he
Speaker 1: was in two thousand nineteen. It's a good group. The
Speaker 1: other guy to keep an eye on is gonna be
Speaker 1: Henry Black at this point in time. Looks like he'll
Speaker 1: be that dime guy. Uh if if Amos moves into
Speaker 1: the you know, into the box. But my eyes are
Speaker 1: on Eric Stokes this season, Mike, and he's gonna have
Speaker 1: to be ready because JR. Alexander pitty me in professionalism.
Speaker 1: Kevin King, when he's healthy, he can get the job
Speaker 1: done outside. But we know how This goes with the
Speaker 1: cornerback position. At any given time, you might have to
Speaker 1: make an adjustment and Stokes has to be ready for it.
Speaker 1: And that's why Rogers tested him the way he did.
Speaker 1: That's the reason why Davante Adams tested him the way
Speaker 1: he did. This is going to be an excellent opportunity
Speaker 1: for him to grow here these first few weeks, but
Speaker 1: at any given moment, that young man needs to be
Speaker 1: ready to contribute. Yeah, I think it's going to be
Speaker 1: interesting to see with Joe Berry's defense, because there's there's
Speaker 1: certainly plenty of of dime defense with six defensive backs
Speaker 1: that's played in the NFL these days, and when you
Speaker 1: have Henry Black Vernon Scott as as your reserve safeties,
Speaker 1: and as we talk about with um, these top four
Speaker 1: cornerbacks the Packers have, it will be interesting to see
Speaker 1: when Joe Berry calls the dime, is it going to
Speaker 1: be three corners three safeties or is it going to
Speaker 1: be four corners to safeties And maybe they maybe they'll
Speaker 1: do that interchangeably depending on certain matchups with with the
Speaker 1: opponent and whatnot. So the way the game is played
Speaker 1: these days, you see six defensive backs on the field
Speaker 1: quite a bit, and not just on third down. It
Speaker 1: actually happens um on on some other downs as well.
Speaker 1: That's something to watch here from a personnel standpoint as
Speaker 1: the Packers move into And that's why Amos was so important,
Speaker 1: you know, especially last year him having to kind of
Speaker 1: pick up that hybrid linebacker role when Raven Green got hurt.
Speaker 1: He's a guy that is a really good cover safety,
Speaker 1: but also is can you know, take on a running
Speaker 1: back in the you know, in the trenches if he
Speaker 1: needs to to A really underrated player. I know the
Speaker 1: team realizes his value, but I think widely throughout the
Speaker 1: National Football League understanding that yes, this was a former
Speaker 1: fifth round pick, but Adrian Ames is one of the
Speaker 1: best at his position. He's going to be such an
Speaker 1: important lynch pin as well for this defense. And honestly, Mike,
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see it all come into you know,
Speaker 1: fruition this season. They have the pieces, they feel like
Speaker 1: they have the coordinator. Can the Packers really make that
Speaker 1: push to be in the dominant unit. Yeah, well, we
Speaker 1: shall see. And as we return to the studio next week,
Speaker 1: we'll start previewing a Week one against the New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 1: With that, we'll call it a wrap on this edition
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