Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from
Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford, joined by my
Speaker 1: trusted colleague West and Hodkowitz. We're coming to you here
Speaker 1: once again from different locations at lambeau Field and Wes.
Speaker 1: The Packers twenty twenty three mini camp has concluded. The
Speaker 1: off season program for twenty twenty three is also done.
Speaker 1: As you and I are recording this episode, the players
Speaker 1: are out at a paintball activity, firing away and having
Speaker 1: some fun. I wanted to get your thoughts though, as
Speaker 1: far as wrapping up this offseason program. This entire twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three season is going to be all about the
Speaker 1: transition to Jordan Love. So I will just throw it
Speaker 1: out there to you as an open ended question. What
Speaker 1: were your impressions of Jordan Love based on what we
Speaker 1: got to see in this offseason world?
Speaker 2: Good work, strong work, and I felt, like, you know,
Speaker 2: one of the things he touched on when he had
Speaker 2: his last media availability with us was two biggest points
Speaker 2: of emphasis. The first one on the field was the
Speaker 2: throwing on the run. That was something that him and
Speaker 2: Tom Clements Connor Lewis that entire room talked about going
Speaker 2: into this offseason program, they wanted to be able to
Speaker 2: test him a little bit more there. They did a
Speaker 2: ton of drills in that area of the field early
Speaker 2: in the camp and then obviously that kind of naturally
Speaker 2: translates to what you know, the team period and seven
Speaker 2: on seven as well. That was one area of Jordan
Speaker 2: Love's game he felt like he really needed to grow
Speaker 2: in this offseason.
Speaker 3: They put the work into it. The other one is
Speaker 3: more mental.
Speaker 2: It's more from a leadership perspective, and that is the
Speaker 2: responsibility that comes with being QB one and Jordan Love
Speaker 2: now is officially the face of the franchise. It's just
Speaker 2: it goes hand in hand. And I thought he hit
Speaker 2: that out of the park this offseason. I mean since
Speaker 2: the beginning of the off season program. Might many times
Speaker 2: since the time that that trade happened with Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2: How many times did Jordan Love speak three? Four times?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Uh. He is a guy that has that He's quieter,
Speaker 2: but it's a quiet confidence about him. And I feel
Speaker 2: like that's really going to translate and kind of hit
Speaker 2: down to all those different levels of the offense. In
Speaker 2: the entire locker room, there are going to be you know,
Speaker 2: good days and bad days. There were a few more
Speaker 2: interceptions I think this offseason program than maybe we'd seen
Speaker 2: when during the.
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers era.
Speaker 2: But I think it's also understanding, you know, getting those
Speaker 2: reps in and trying to learn from him. And that's
Speaker 2: going to be the biggest key for Jordan Love in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three is what he learns from his first
Speaker 2: year as a starting quarterback in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And what stood out to me the most this spring,
Speaker 1: in addition to what you just mentioned, and as actually
Speaker 1: something that you also wrote about in the Insider Inbox column,
Speaker 1: I saw a young quarterback who was willing to cut
Speaker 1: it loose. Yeah, you know, I mean I did. It
Speaker 1: didn't feel to me watching the practices we got to
Speaker 1: watch when they were and when the offense was in
Speaker 1: eleven on eleven, when they were doing seven on seven,
Speaker 1: the truly competitive stuff, even though it was without any
Speaker 1: pads on. He wasn't holding back. You know, this wasn't
Speaker 1: This wasn't Jordan Love. You know now that now that
Speaker 1: it's his offense to run and he's QB one, that
Speaker 1: he's suddenly just going to become check down Charlie and
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, and and be hesitant to uh,
Speaker 1: you know, to take his shots down the field to
Speaker 1: let it rip. Now, we'll see what happens in training
Speaker 1: camp when when it's eleven on eleven, when all the
Speaker 1: guys are there, when the pads go on, and the
Speaker 1: competitiveness of practice, you know, kind of cranks up and
Speaker 1: gets to another notch. But I thought that's what exactly
Speaker 1: he did, what exactly what he had to do this
Speaker 1: spring in terms of in terms of not be afraid
Speaker 1: of anything, you know, take some chances and and uh
Speaker 1: and challenge challenged himself as well as challenged the defense
Speaker 1: down the field. I mean, yeah, there were some interceptions,
Speaker 1: some things didn't go that well. That's what you look
Speaker 1: at on the film. That's how you learn, that's how
Speaker 1: you grow as a quarterback. And I thought the way
Speaker 1: I thought the way he approached it, not saying with
Speaker 1: a not saying with a careless attitude, but not being
Speaker 1: too careful and just and just playing the game in
Speaker 1: an aggressive manner. I liked what I saw on the
Speaker 1: field in a spring.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I said it from the beginning.
Speaker 2: Micah, I feel like there is he there's more of
Speaker 2: a gunslinger element to how he plays the game of football. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: I think you're going to see that a little bit more,
Speaker 2: probably with love than he did with Rogers.
Speaker 3: You have to curtail that.
Speaker 2: But of all the criticisms because the originally reason it
Speaker 2: came up in inboxes, people saying, well, he's not one
Speaker 2: to throw down field. Well, one, you don't know that
Speaker 2: you've seen him, you've barely seen him play quarterback. I
Speaker 2: know that for a fact. But two, he is more
Speaker 2: than willing to put the ball downfield. That is not
Speaker 2: a trepidation whatsoever. That play he had Mike in Tuesday's
Speaker 2: practice where it's a seven on seven drill. You know
Speaker 2: they're inside the Donal Hudson Center, so they're being careful.
Speaker 2: Nobody who was wanting to get hurt here thirty nine
Speaker 2: days away from the start of training camp. But that
Speaker 2: throw he had to Christian Watson, his arm strength, the
Speaker 2: trajectory of the ball, Christian Watson's speed, and his ability
Speaker 2: to catch it and stride and go downfield. That was
Speaker 2: one of the best pass and catches I've seen in
Speaker 2: my time covering the Green Bay Packers in a in
Speaker 2: an you know, offseason practice period, regardless of who the
Speaker 2: quarterback is. The kid has all the intangibles of a
Speaker 2: first round pick. It's going to be understanding the riggers
Speaker 2: and the day to day and everything that's involved with it.
Speaker 2: Because this isn't a boxing fight, you know, it isn't
Speaker 2: It isn't going to be one of these things where
Speaker 2: you got to go play once and then lkac again
Speaker 2: in three months. Yeah, it's gonna have to do it
Speaker 2: every single week starting in July. So hopefully it gets
Speaker 2: a chance to reset here these next five six weeks,
Speaker 2: come back fresh for training camp because Mike, when they
Speaker 2: report back and the calendar starts to count down to
Speaker 2: that first preseason game, you know, that's when things really
Speaker 2: get real.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Matt Lafleur even said it in his
Speaker 1: his final address to the media before that second mini
Speaker 1: can't practice that that when training camp rolls around, it's
Speaker 1: it's go time. There's there's no there's no holding back,
Speaker 1: I mean, and that's one of the things that's a
Speaker 1: it's a big transition for the rookies where you know,
Speaker 1: OTAs is kind of learning and and it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: you know, you make a mistake. We'll talk about it.
Speaker 1: Let's you know, let's work our way through it. In
Speaker 1: training camp. You know, when they're eleven on eleven, they're
Speaker 1: running play after play after play. It's it's a it's
Speaker 1: it's a fast paced, competitive, get ready for the season, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, type of environment. And uh you know, Jordan
Speaker 1: Love has obviously been through that before, not as not
Speaker 1: as QB one, and he did it, you know, at
Speaker 1: least in this uh this mini camp setting. We did
Speaker 1: see as we had talked about on our previous show,
Speaker 1: Jay r Alexander Rasul Douglas who had not been it
Speaker 1: participate aiding in the voluntary ot as they were here
Speaker 1: as the starting cornerbacks in mini camp. It made for
Speaker 1: some uh I guess you'd say some any anytime Ja
Speaker 1: or Alexander, Jay or Alexander and Rasul Douglas are both
Speaker 1: on the field, there's going to be energy and spirit
Speaker 1: to a practice. You're going to hear a lot of
Speaker 1: barking and chirping, and that's just the way they go
Speaker 1: about it. And uh so it was you could definitely
Speaker 1: feel their presence was back on the field. But that's
Speaker 1: also that was also important stuff, particularly in the seven
Speaker 1: on sevens for for Jordan Love to uh, to challenge himself,
Speaker 1: to challenge the defense, to to challenge his receivers to
Speaker 1: go to go make some plays against those guys before
Speaker 1: U before training camp gets here, and uh and it
Speaker 1: gets a lot more serious in terms of preparing for
Speaker 1: the season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: I thought it was one of those, uh sort of
Speaker 2: litmus tests, those barometers for where a young quarterback.
Speaker 3: Needs to be. And I thought, you know, there was
Speaker 3: going to be some battles there.
Speaker 2: I thought you saw, you know, Ji Alexander as as
Speaker 2: Love talked about, he kind of baited into one in
Speaker 2: the two minute drill being able to get that pickoff
Speaker 2: of him. But that big pass to Christian Watson that
Speaker 2: that was over Alexander as.
Speaker 1: Well, who says zone defense never works, right, that was
Speaker 1: that was a that was a zone call and Job
Speaker 1: baited him into the into the kind of that honey
Speaker 1: hole throw down the sideline and then boom interception and
Speaker 1: that that ends the two minute drill. And that's those
Speaker 1: are the kind of plays that that guy's like number
Speaker 1: twenty three can make.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 2: And I also like that going back to Tuesday's practice
Speaker 2: inside the dun Hudson Center, you know that that red
Speaker 2: zone period where the defense is winning that drill one
Speaker 2: after another. Right, they're within the first you know what,
Speaker 2: ten to fifteen yards of the end zone. But then
Speaker 2: Love just throws an absolute dime on kind of a
Speaker 2: corner fade to Romeo Dobbs. Dobbs makes a phenomenal catch
Speaker 2: on the play that was over jyr Alexander's coverage too,
Speaker 2: so ragged it dragged.
Speaker 1: His feet kept his feet in bounds on that one too,
Speaker 1: right in the corner.
Speaker 2: Yep, Yeah, I mean in that kind of look, Mike,
Speaker 2: I mean credit to Corey Ballentine and and you know Schamar,
Speaker 2: John Charles and all these young corners that have been
Speaker 2: in here. Keishawn Nixon was here for a lot of
Speaker 2: these practices too, But the game's different when it's a
Speaker 2: two time All Pro out there. And I feel like
Speaker 2: that's really strong work for Love to get now as
Speaker 2: he prepares to see that type of look every single
Speaker 2: day of August.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no question about it. Well, a couple other topics
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Speaker 1: one item that we had talked about on our last
Speaker 1: show in terms of previewing Mini Camp actually did come
Speaker 1: to fruition, and that we got to see rookie sixth
Speaker 1: round draft pick and kicker Anders Carlson in a couple
Speaker 1: of field goal periods here during Mini camp. One was
Speaker 1: inside the Hudson Center on Tuesday with all the rain outside.
Speaker 1: Another was on Wednesday when the players are back out
Speaker 1: on Nichkie Field. And the first thing I'll say about
Speaker 1: Andres Carlson is leg strength is not a problem. Exactly
Speaker 1: why he is a kicker who was drafted, not one,
Speaker 1: not one who ended up going the undrafted route. The
Speaker 1: young man has a big leg.
Speaker 2: You know. It was funny, Mike, because we talked all
Speaker 2: off season program, when are we going to see Andrews Carlson?
Speaker 2: When are we going to see Andres Carlson kick because
Speaker 2: they've just been something. It's one thing I like actually
Speaker 2: that Bisacci does is it's very procedural. Right. I've seen
Speaker 2: them take take more reps at field goal kicks without
Speaker 2: actually kicking the ball than any other time in my
Speaker 2: ten years covering this team. I mean, he does it religiously,
Speaker 2: making sure guys know they're blocking assignment, making sure you
Speaker 2: see what the snap looks like, the hole looks like that,
Speaker 2: everything else is there other than the kick, because ultimately,
Speaker 2: you do want to keep these guys healthy and you
Speaker 2: want to keep the you know, kicking and punting legs strong.
Speaker 2: That being said, we got to see Anders Carlson kick
Speaker 2: a lot of field goals on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Speaker 3: On Tuesday, he's booming these things, but.
Speaker 2: They're inside the Don Judson Center, so you're kind of like, okay,
Speaker 2: you know what is it? This is perfect conditions, no issues. Well,
Speaker 2: then he goes out to the practice field on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: In Mike, there was one period where they're doing some
Speaker 2: seven on seven work, but Carlson is practicing the operation
Speaker 2: right in front of us, and he is kicking probably
Speaker 2: seven eight feet in front of us. And I use
Speaker 2: this as my insider inbox headline, I mean, the ball
Speaker 2: just torpedoes off his foot. Yeah, you know again, I'm
Speaker 2: not going to put this guy in the Packers Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame. We got a long way to go. We
Speaker 2: got to see what the field goal accuracy looks like.
Speaker 2: But from a pure fundamental standpoint, after hearing Rich Basacci
Speaker 2: and Brian Gudikuntzen all these guys talk about this young
Speaker 2: man's leg strength, Holy moly, Anders Carlson has a foot
Speaker 2: on him, and it would Lastly, I'll just quickly say
Speaker 2: I was talking to Colby Wooden, his teammate at Auburn, who,
Speaker 2: by the way, I didn't know this until he mentioned it.
Speaker 2: They also were locker mats within one of each other
Speaker 2: at Auburn, too, so very familiar feeling for both of
Speaker 2: those guys being next to each other in Green Bay.
Speaker 2: But he said, yeah, I mean, the thing you got
Speaker 2: to understand about Durors he kept calling him Durres, is
Speaker 2: that you know the amount of athletic ability that this
Speaker 2: young man has mixed with his work ethic and how
Speaker 2: much him and his brother really live, breathe and eat kicking.
Speaker 2: It gives him a really solid chance now to be
Speaker 2: able to follow in Daniel's footsteps in the NFL. And
Speaker 2: B I think the type of you know, kicking prodigy
Speaker 2: that a lot of people predicted him to be when
Speaker 2: he succeeded him at Auburn.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And what really caught my eye and watching him
Speaker 1: with the field goals and we saw him I believe
Speaker 1: in the two practices. In terms of charting it, he
Speaker 1: made eleven out of twelve from several distances from extra
Speaker 1: point distance all the way to fifty plus on a
Speaker 1: couple of those kicks. What really caught my eye was,
Speaker 1: particularly on the long distance kicks, that it looks pretty
Speaker 1: effortless with him. It's not it's not like it's not
Speaker 1: like you're seeing this, uh you know this big wind
Speaker 1: up and and like you know, maximum effort and you know,
Speaker 1: a grunt when he kicks the ball or anything like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's whether he's kicking, whether he's kicking a
Speaker 1: thirty three yard extra pointer or a fifty three yard
Speaker 1: field goal, it looks, uh, it looks pretty easy in
Speaker 1: that that you know that that leg doesn't look like
Speaker 1: there's a whole lot of effort going into it. And uh,
Speaker 1: just from from the appearances it was. It was impressive
Speaker 1: to watch, as you said, everything with regard to accuracy
Speaker 1: and kicking in lambeau Field. When the winds start to
Speaker 1: swirl in November and December and all that, he's gonna
Speaker 1: have a lot of stuff to work through, just like
Speaker 1: just like any young player making that transition. But but boy,
Speaker 1: you can certainly see why the Packers were high on
Speaker 1: him as a prospect despite you know, looking strictly statistically
Speaker 1: at some of his numbers from Auburn that you know,
Speaker 1: the the the percentages and whatnot didn't necessarily jump off
Speaker 1: the page. And you know, there was some injury history there.
Speaker 1: This was a prospect that the Packers really really like
Speaker 1: and we got to see why they like it.
Speaker 3: Well, that was one thing I talked with wood In
Speaker 3: about too.
Speaker 2: It would be more of a concern, I think if
Speaker 2: it was okay structurally, this kid's you know, he's kicking
Speaker 2: his back out.
Speaker 3: He's kicking his leg. It's the freak injuries that happened there.
Speaker 2: I mean, trying to recover an onside kicked, hearing your
Speaker 2: ACL that's just bad luck, right, and then spending your
Speaker 2: senior year trying to kick while having a knee brace
Speaker 2: on your plant leg. I mean, just things that kickers
Speaker 2: are not necessarily used to or really natural to them.
Speaker 3: But as you said, Mike, and it.
Speaker 2: Is it's worth bears repeating the fact that he does
Speaker 2: it so effortlessly.
Speaker 3: What does that matter? Why is that such a big deal?
Speaker 2: Because the more you got a strain to kick that ball,
Speaker 2: the more likely it is you're gonna mishit it. You're
Speaker 2: gonna lose that accuracy piece. When you are able to
Speaker 2: be free flowing, in natural with your kicking motion, that's
Speaker 2: how you get it right down the pipe. That's one
Speaker 2: thing I learned from Mason Crosby. When everything else lines up,
Speaker 2: the distance and power takes care of itself. I mean,
Speaker 2: obviously there's a Justin Tucker's in the world. I'm sure
Speaker 2: can probably just kick it from anywhere on the field
Speaker 2: and make it well.
Speaker 1: You see guys like Justin Tucker, they make that extra
Speaker 1: effort when he's trying a sixty six yard or whatever.
Speaker 1: But when it's you know, fifty five or fifty eight
Speaker 1: yards and in anywhere in there, you know Justin Justin
Speaker 1: Tucker doesn't look like he's trying all that hard either.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's where this all comes together and we'll
Speaker 2: have to see how this thing looks in training camp.
Speaker 2: But I think it's really interesting that the rookies, you
Speaker 2: know that the Packers drafted there. How funny is it
Speaker 2: that here we are going into training camp now and
Speaker 2: that's the only other spe that's the only specialist position
Speaker 2: where the Packers don't have multiple guys at it's Anders
Speaker 2: Carl and the Packers are going to be looking for
Speaker 2: him to win that job this summer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, one last topic before we sign off for
Speaker 1: the off season. We did get to hear after Wednesday's
Speaker 1: practice from Rashawn Gary, the fifth year outside linebacker, first
Speaker 1: comments to the media since injuring his knee the torn
Speaker 1: acl at Detroit last November, and the story on the website.
Speaker 1: I wrote a quick story after the interview on Wednesday
Speaker 1: after that after the practice, he's not making any promises
Speaker 1: in terms of a timeline. He was asked, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: can you be back for week one? How about training camp?
Speaker 1: You know where things at? And he just said multiple times,
Speaker 1: I'll be ready when I'll be ready. But what I
Speaker 1: took from that it was more of it was more
Speaker 1: of how he said it and the attitude that he
Speaker 1: was carrying and answering those questions. He sounded very upbeat
Speaker 1: and positive. He likes the track that he he is on.
Speaker 1: And if there's one thing we know about Rashon Gary,
Speaker 1: it's that if there is anything he can do in
Speaker 1: terms of his rehab, if there's anything the medical staff
Speaker 1: is going to let him do to try to get
Speaker 1: his work his way back any faster, he is going
Speaker 1: to do it because he's an absolutely relentless worker. And
Speaker 1: it sounds like, you know, things are pointing in a
Speaker 1: positive direction in terms of his return at some point,
Speaker 1: hopefully early in the twenty twenty three season.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Mike if I've ever seen someone who
Speaker 2: seems to enjoy the grind more than Rashon Gary.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I'm sure he doesn't want to be having to go
Speaker 2: through a rehab right now, but when you talk about workouts,
Speaker 2: when you talk about going the extra mile, when you
Speaker 2: talk about practice, this young man gives it as all
Speaker 2: Mike and I have been. There was a moment after
Speaker 2: he got done with this presser. His scrum was on
Speaker 2: one side, I was over at Jordan Love on the
Speaker 2: other and I'm looking at him as he's walking back,
Speaker 2: you know, getting all other things together. And I'm like, dude,
Speaker 2: if I didn't know any better, I would think that
Speaker 2: Rashaun Gary is perfectly fine and in the best shape
Speaker 2: of his life. I mean, that's how he looks right now.
Speaker 2: He doesn't look like a guy that's rehabbing an ACL.
Speaker 2: He looks like a guy that's ready for week one.
Speaker 2: Don't go running away with that. It's still going to
Speaker 2: take time. You need to make sure that the ACL
Speaker 2: is strong and everything. But the guys you can tell Mike,
Speaker 2: he has not taken a day off. If there's something
Speaker 2: that he's allowed to do, something that he's cleared and
Speaker 2: greenlit to do, he is going to do those activities.
Speaker 2: Oh and then, by the way, spent a lot of
Speaker 2: time here this offseason was around all these young guys.
Speaker 2: Kingsley and Igbari is learning from that, Lucas van Ess
Speaker 2: is learning from that, every single young guy in there, Mike,
Speaker 2: much like with Preston Smith, Rashawn Gary has been that
Speaker 2: guiding light in that force. And if you have a teammate,
Speaker 2: a star, a leader like him that is putting in
Speaker 2: all that effort and we don't know when he's going
Speaker 2: to be back to the field.
Speaker 3: Well, how much does that motivate.
Speaker 2: You when you're the one they're going to be counting
Speaker 2: on until Rashawn is back, until number fifty two is
Speaker 2: running through that tunnel again. I just think it raises
Speaker 2: the awareness and heightens the energy and urgency of everybody
Speaker 2: on that defensive side of the ball because Mike, as
Speaker 2: we've heard all these guys talk about Preston Smith, jyr Alexander,
Speaker 2: Darnell Savage, Kenny Clark, everybody talked about all last season
Speaker 2: didn't fully meet their expectations and where they.
Speaker 3: Want to see this thing go.
Speaker 2: Now in twenty twenty three, when Gary gets back, he
Speaker 2: is going to be hell fire in Brimstone trying to
Speaker 2: take down the opposing quarterback. And I think everybody else
Speaker 2: that understands, Okay, this is the work that Rashawn's putting in.
Speaker 2: While I'm healthy and I'm ready to go, I have
Speaker 2: to make sure that I'm playing to that standard as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no question about it. And oh also, in the
Speaker 1: midst of all the rehab and everything else, he found
Speaker 1: time to finish up his class work and get his
Speaker 1: degree from the University of Michigan. He graduated in ann
Speaker 1: Arbor at the end of April. So congratulations to Rashaun
Speaker 1: gary on that that was a promise he had made
Speaker 1: to his mother when he left school early, entered entered
Speaker 1: the NFL draft with with some you know, time in
Speaker 1: college still left to go. So congrats to him there.
Speaker 1: This is we've talked about it Wes on this show.
Speaker 1: You know, on an annual basis, we've seen the progression
Speaker 1: from a Shaun Garry a couple of sacks as a rookie,
Speaker 1: handful of sacks his second year, approaches double digits his
Speaker 1: third year, and then he was going like gangbusters last year.
Speaker 1: He had six sacks in the first eight games. And
Speaker 1: it wasn't even just the sack numbers, but you know,
Speaker 1: but just the pressures, the constant pressure on the quarterback,
Speaker 1: the impact he was having on opposing quarterbacks. I think
Speaker 1: he even had you know, there might have been at
Speaker 1: least one one sack or something that was wiped out
Speaker 1: by a penalty I think early in the season last year.
Speaker 1: But he's on pace for double digits and who knows
Speaker 1: what he would have had. But then the injury happens
Speaker 1: in game number nine, halfway through the season in Detroit,
Speaker 1: and suddenly it all comes to a screeching halt. But
Speaker 1: you just get the you just get the sense that
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, Rashaan Gary is gonna
Speaker 1: make this, this ACL injury and the whole rehab and
Speaker 1: recovery just a blip on the radar screen in terms
Speaker 1: of in terms of where his career is going. And
Speaker 1: and this Packers defense. I mean, Matt Lafleur even said,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, I'm sort of you know, looking out
Speaker 1: of the corner of my eye every day at what's
Speaker 1: going on with Rashaan Gary's rehab when he's off to
Speaker 1: the side during practice. How's he looking, how's he doing?
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody wants to see this guy back in
Speaker 1: full force, and we'll just have to see what the
Speaker 1: ultimately what the timeline is. But this Packer's defense, all
Speaker 1: of his teammates are going to be excited to get
Speaker 1: him back on the field at some point this coming season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and not that Rashan Gary needs any extra motivation,
Speaker 2: because I think the kid has that naturally ingrained in
Speaker 2: him that has already been uploaded into his you know,
Speaker 2: memory bank. But the fact is he is also going
Speaker 2: to you know, he's entering a contract year. He's playing
Speaker 2: on that fifty year option right now. When you were
Speaker 2: talking about what might have been had he not got hurt,
Speaker 2: you don't know what extensions look like. You don't know
Speaker 2: what those guaranteed contract look like. Whenever he is cleared,
Speaker 2: whenever he's good to go, he's playing for that next
Speaker 2: contract too. So I just think there's so many things
Speaker 2: go in the right direction for him, and whatever happens,
Speaker 2: you don't have to worry about Rashawn Gary. You don't
Speaker 2: have to worry about what his motivation level is going
Speaker 2: to be, like how he's going to approach things. The
Speaker 2: kid is absolutely one hundred and ninety percent all ball
Speaker 2: and for the Green Bay Packers, they need him back.
Speaker 3: They need that pass rush.
Speaker 2: I think if he's able to get back here at
Speaker 2: some point, I don't know when, first half the season, whenever.
Speaker 2: You know, you think about the possibilities with Lucas Vannas,
Speaker 2: you think of the possibilities with all those guys. There's
Speaker 2: so many different things that Green Bay Packers can do
Speaker 2: and it's right there for them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, it's it'll be something to watch when whenever
Speaker 1: we do see Rashaun Gary get to get back on
Speaker 1: the field. It's going to be a big story for
Speaker 1: this team and a big lift for this twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three Packers defense whenever that does happen. So with that,
Speaker 1: we're going to call it a rap on this edition
Speaker 1: of Packers Unscripted, which also puts a rap on the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three off season. We will be back at
Speaker 1: some point just prior to training camp to to preview
Speaker 1: what will be coming up when when things hit full
Speaker 1: speed in training camp in late July, and hopefully, Wes,
Speaker 1: hopefully we won't be talking to each other, you know,
Speaker 1: through a computer screen. Maybe we'll be both back in
Speaker 1: the studio kind of with our old setup. We're crossing
Speaker 1: our fingers.
Speaker 3: I won't be here.
Speaker 1: Crossing our fingers. That will be the case. We can
Speaker 1: get back to the traditional way that that we produce
Speaker 1: this show.
Speaker 3: So the way the Good Lord in exactly.
Speaker 1: So with that, for Wes, I am like, thank you
Speaker 1: for tuning in everybody, and we will see you next time.