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Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from

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Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford, joined as always

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Speaker 1: by my trusted colleague West Hodkutz. We're coming to you

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Speaker 1: here from our studios at lambeau Field West. It's just

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Speaker 1: a few days away now, the season opener, Week one,

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Speaker 1: Packers Saints from Jacksonville, Florida. It will be a three

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Speaker 1: pm Central Time kickoff, our last show here before the

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Speaker 1: season gets underweigh, so we might as well start off,

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Speaker 1: dive right into it. Keys to victory offensive side of

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Speaker 1: the ball. What stands out to you protect Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 1: I mean that that's the biggest key, and it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a key here, Mike for the first month of

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Speaker 1: the season, no question about that. Very quite likely. Although

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Speaker 1: it seems like we've kind of broken the secret a

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Speaker 1: little bit, even though mattal For said he didn't want

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Speaker 1: to see the starters were on the offensive line, right,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of the worst kept secret now and it

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Speaker 1: is Josh Meyers and it's probably gonna be Roy s

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Speaker 1: newman at right guard. But this is an important game

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Speaker 1: for both of those guys because you have to imagine

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Speaker 1: Dennis Allen in the Saints. Those edge rushers, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: throw a lot at them. They're gonna run some stunts.

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Speaker 1: There's gonna be games you maybe see Demorrio Davis blitzing.

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Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of stuff that they want

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Speaker 1: to do to throw them off, especially early on, because

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Speaker 1: you want to see what these guys are going to

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Speaker 1: be able to give you, and for the agreement Packers perspective,

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Speaker 1: you have to be ready for that. And it's not

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Speaker 1: just on those two guys. It's gonna be on Matt

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Speaker 1: Lafleur with the play calling. It's gonna be with Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers and his checks. It's gonna be on Aaron Jones

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Speaker 1: potentially being able to step up and block a free rusher.

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Speaker 1: It needs it to be a team effort. In quite honestly,

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Speaker 1: those first ten fifteen scripted plays, seeing what the Packers

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Speaker 1: dial up to make life easy for those rookies and

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Speaker 1: allow them to get comfortable in this offense, well, let's

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Speaker 1: be honest here too. With David Baktier out for a

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Speaker 1: the Packers going with this, I guess you'd call it

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Speaker 1: the interior. If you don't want the first six, seven,

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Speaker 1: eight opponents, however many, it's going to be to uh,

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Speaker 1: to have to handle the blitz is. You're going to

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Speaker 1: have to handle all the stunts in the games. Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers will have to make defenses pay for trying to

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Speaker 1: do that kind of stuff. And this, this opener is

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Speaker 1: what will set the tone for that in a sense.

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Speaker 1: Now that's not to say, obviously with any team, any offense,

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Speaker 1: any phase of anybody's game, the first game of the

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Speaker 1: season does not define who you are for the next

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Speaker 1: sixteen after that, right, I mean there will be evolution,

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Speaker 1: there will be uh progress and improvement, especially with young players.

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Speaker 1: But the Packers can, the Packers can kind of put

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Speaker 1: on teams that just just are gonna think, oh, they've

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Speaker 1: got two rookie starters on the interior, let's do everything

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Speaker 1: we can to mess them up. Well, Aaron Rodgers is

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Speaker 1: going to have some counters for that. He's gonna have

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Speaker 1: good idea of what those answers are when those situations

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Speaker 1: of things, it's gonna be Aaron Rodgers, right. And to

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Speaker 1: be honest, I wrote this in our Insider inbox, the

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Speaker 1: fact that this game is not in the Superdome is

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Speaker 1: noise pollution that you're dealing with in that venue. And

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Speaker 1: let's just make a point too because and I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you're into it too much in today's discussion,

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Speaker 1: but Aaron Rodgers was very complimentary on Wednesday about Matt Lafleur,

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Speaker 1: how he's grown as a leader, how he's grown as

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Speaker 1: a play color, the way they've evolved this offense. So

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Speaker 1: it's not just the same thing every single time. All

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Speaker 1: due respect to Mike McCarthy, fantastic offensive, mine a lot

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Speaker 1: It's going to be in what Matt Lafleur does, what

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Speaker 1: Certainly last last season the Packers came out of the

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Speaker 1: you can't necessarily count on things carrying over obviously from

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Speaker 1: hang your hat on. Right. The Packers were the best

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Speaker 1: team in the NFC, second in the NFL last year

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Speaker 1: he said, he said, Hey, I want these guys, meaning

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Speaker 1: the coaches, to keep coming up with this new and

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Speaker 1: the red zone or gold zone is is is coach Hacketts.

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Speaker 1: So um, you know, Aaron's like, hey, keep keep dialing

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Speaker 1: tweaks and the adjustments you make things look a little

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Speaker 1: and Davante Adams really like the vibe of this Packers team.

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Speaker 1: But Aaron Rodgers just in in his demeanor and his

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Speaker 1: he strikes me as a guy who was ready to go,

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Speaker 1: and he's he's telling the coaches, Hey, call whatever you

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Speaker 1: And they have the horses to do it, right, I

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Speaker 1: mean Matt Lafleur and and Rogers at different intervals of

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Speaker 1: there was a lot of creativity. But it wasn't just

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Speaker 1: an interesting defense. Dennis Allen's a brilliant, you know, defensive mind.

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Speaker 1: I was commending him on our last show but they

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Speaker 1: have pockets of playmakers in this defense. Whether it's Davenport,

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Speaker 1: We heard about the issues at cornerback beyond Lattimore. They're

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Speaker 1: Orleans hinged on Zadarius Smith forcing that fumble from Taysom Hill.

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Speaker 1: That's what changed that game in the fourth quarter and

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Speaker 1: this moment. I say this to you every year, Mike.

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Speaker 1: It's incredible how quickly the off season goes and how

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Speaker 1: much we're back just focused on football again. And for

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Speaker 1: green Bay, Uh, this is the beginning of a gauntlet

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Speaker 1: and it's going to be a twelve leak gauntlet to

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Speaker 1: you know, speaking about the focus of that locker room,

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Speaker 1: the feel of this team right now, Davante Adams saying

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Speaker 1: it's the hungriest team that he's been around so far.

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Speaker 1: They know what's at stake this season, and it starts

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Speaker 1: Sunday against the Saints. Absolutely with that, we'll call it

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Speaker 1: a wrap on this edition of Packers Unscripted. Be sure

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Speaker 1: to follow all of our coverage of the team and

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Speaker 1: of Sunday's big season opener against New Orleans. Will have

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Speaker 1: it all for you on Packers dot com. For West,

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Speaker 1: I'm Mike. Thank you for tuning in. Everybody. We will

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Speaker 1: see you next time.