WEBVTT - #389 Packers Unscripted: That's a wrap 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:20.720 Hi, everyone, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com. 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:23.279 I am Mike Spofford. He is the one and only 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:26.119 wes hod Kouits. We hope you have rung in the 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:30.680 new year in a fun and celebratory fashion. West. We 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:33.920 are going to wrap up the season here on our 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:36.839 show today. I know everybody's got questions about what's going 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:39.080 on with the head coaching sirch, who are the Packers 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:43.000 talking to? Who are the leading candidates. Rather than speculate 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:46.920 on who may or may not be interviewing coaching candidates 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:49.360 the Packers may or may not be interested in, We're 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.280 gonna leave that whole discussion until a hire is made. 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.880 So with that, this will be our wrap up show 0:00:55.920 --> 0:01:00.360 for the season, and then we will come back when 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:04.280 a new head coach is in place at So that's 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:08.720 the plan here going forward. Um, but some awards here 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.640 we can hand out for the season. A handful of them. 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:13.920 Will rattle through these quickly. I'm gonna give you the 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:17.280 advantage because I'm gonna let you pick first every time, 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:21.160 and then I have to pick somebody different. But but 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:23.920 here we go. First, one offensive m v P for 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.399 the Green Bay Packers. You know, I was hoping we 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.160 get Marvin down here with our little unscript ese that 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:32.400 he can be like handing out to each individual person. Uh, 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:34.040 we'll have to you know, this is I think a 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:36.360 first or second annual thing. So maybe we'll do that 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.760 next year, have like little unscript awards that we can 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:42.720 bestow onto people. Producer of the Year is Marvin by 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:47.680 the absolutely unequivocally easiest decision we'd have to make, um 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.920 other than Davante Adams as the Packers offensive m v P. 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.320 You can make a case, Michael that Davante Adams was 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:56.840 the top receiver in the league this year, and there 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:59.840 was a bevy of them. Michael Thomas broke the single 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.840 season yardage record for New Orleans this past year. That 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:06.240 says a lot considering how much that they have thrown 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.239 the ball over the years. But the thing about Davante Adams, Mike, 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.000 from day one, he put pen to paper on that 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.400 contract extension last December, and he said he wanted to 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:17.600 make sure that everybody knew that he was worth it. 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.200 The numbers, the number being paid it well is something 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:23.920 that goes along with playing well. But the thing that 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:27.520 motivates him the most is to be a top notch, 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:30.040 top flight receiver. He did that this year a hundred 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.760 and eleven catches, six yards, thirteen touchdowns. One of the 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:37.200 most consistent performers in the entire NFL this season and 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:39.120 for the Green Bay Packers their offensive m v P. 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:41.280 I think the thing that impressed me the most about 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.959 Adams season is what you just said about the contract, 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.040 that he did it the year after he signed that contract. 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:49.679 He not only lived up to the contract, but I 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:51.920 think exceeded it in so many ways in terms of 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:55.040 the consistency, in terms of the big plays. Obviously the 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:58.440 numbers this season, when you look at the whole combination 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.560 of catches, yards, and touchdowns, that will go down as 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.040 one of the best seasons in the history of the 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.720 Green Bay Packers for wide receiver. So that's saying a lot. 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.679 In the interest of picking somebody else for offensive m 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:12.600 v P, I'm gonna go with left tackle David bok Try. 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:17.239 I think he was the UH rock on that offensive line, 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:20.760 both box tr and Corey Linsley in my opinion, but 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:22.920 I'll go with box Tr because of that duty at 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:26.320 left tackle protecting Aaron Rodgers blindside, and I think we 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.360 saw bok t take his game a little bit to 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.960 another level this year. In terms of the run blocking, 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.680 I think that the past blocking has always been there, really, 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:39.280 I would say, starting at a super consistent level from 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:43.960 his second season in after that that rookie year when 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.720 he got thrown in there. But he's gone to another 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:49.640 level now with the run blocking, and I think that, um, 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:52.560 that only bodes well here for the Packers offense moving forward. Yea. 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.320 And the fact that he did it, you know, playing 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.720 for his own Nixon bruises. And that's the other thing 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:58.600 I was going to say to yeah, no question, and 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.000 I just I you know, I'll be honest with you. Obviously, 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:04.240 I don't watch every left tackle in the league. As 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:06.080 much as I love to grind film, I'm not you know, 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.400 you know, honing in on how you know, certain guys 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.920 get out of their back pedal and different techniques. But 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.360 box tr for this offense and what they need with 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.920 Aaron Rodgers is the perfect left tackle. He's a franchise 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.239 left tackle and he's continued to elevate his game every 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.840 single season now, six seasons in the NFL. Alright, defensive 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:24.640 m v P. Who you got, you know, I hate 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.000 to keep cherry picking here, But Kenny Clark has to 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:30.360 be that guy. When you look at a first round 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:34.240 caliber player, a guy that when you draft him, there's 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.919 high expectations. You want a guy that is going to 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:41.880 you know, be a a lynch pin on your entire roster. 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.320 Kenny Clark has been that guy. It's unfortunate the elbow 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:48.080 injury happened. If not for that, he would have set 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.440 a new career high in tackles. He said his goal 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:53.480 this year was to get seventy tackles official tackles and 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.960 NFL UH stack column, which I mean if you know 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.880 anything about a one tech or three tech nose to 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:01.880 on this league, it's difficult to get those kind of 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.000 numbers because a lot of times you're taking on double 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:07.640 teams and you're opening up you know, blockers and for 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.599 your for your defenders behind you. Clark doesn't do that. 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.600 He eats him up himself. So to have fifty five tackles, 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.800 a career high six sacks, three passes, defense also forced 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:21.640 to fumble Kenny Casey bolt that life Clark at twenty 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.320 three years young. You look at his resume that he's 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:27.320 built in three short NFL seasons, He's gonna be a 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.520 good one man. Yeah, I can't argue with that choice 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.400 at all. I agree with you, Kenny Clark is the 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.120 defensive m v P of this team. In the interest 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:37.800 of picking somebody different, I'm gonna go with Blake Martinez. 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.279 And it's not even so much about the statistics. I know, 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.080 improving from one sack to five sacks the way he 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:45.880 was used in Mike Petton scheme definitely a step in 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.120 the right direction from Martinez. He's still racked up a 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.679 bunch of tackles, maybe not quite as many as last 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.960 year as the previous year. But the reason I will 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:57.359 say Martinez here is because with a new scheme, a 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.320 whole new system being brought in, we saw on this 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:06.080 Packers defense in minimal communication misques, and I think that 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:09.760 goes to Martinez and the way he commanded the huddle, 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.640 the way he led things from a communication standpoint in 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:14.840 the middle of the defense. I think that spoke a 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:18.680 lot to the level of improvement that the defense made 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:22.800 overall sixteen starts thirty two consecutive over the last two seasons. 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:26.200 For Martinez, I know he wants playoffs, and that's ultimately 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.520 the goal for everyone on this roster, But I think 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:30.799 when he sits at home after the season, cannot help 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:32.760 but be proud of the year that he put together. 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.520 There really wasn't a de facto number two. Certainly Antonio 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.440 Morrison jumped into that spot. Is that every down linebacker 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.400 in the few snaps when Martinez was out with injury 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.840 this year, But you need a guy like him that's 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:49.440 going to be able to envelop Mike Petton's system and 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:52.880 be able to disperse that to the entire defense. He's 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:54.880 been that player and Michael the other thing is too. 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.040 I don't want to throw anybody under the bus. I'm 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.960 not meaning to disrespect anybody, but there was a number 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.520 of years there where dom Capers, with the way that 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.560 this defense was built, they were using converted outside linebackers 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.400 at inside backer. They had to do some mix and matching. 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.600 They were looking for a guy that could handle the 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:14.600 three down role. Martinez has done that. Now. Certainly, you 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:16.640 know there's always room for improvement with his own game, 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:18.280 and he's the first one to tell you that. But 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.760 his ability to kind of calm the seas there after 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:23.400 a number of years where that was considered one of 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.120 their primary needs, I think speaks really highly of him. Yeah, 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.960 those two guys from the two thousand sixteen draft class 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:32.360 clearly becoming part of the foundations of this Packers defense 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:36.680 moving forward. Okay, category number three breakout player of the year, 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:38.840 you got one. Let's stay with the two thousand sixteen 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:43.120 NFL draft, should we shall we? Kyler Facrol alright? Ten 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:46.800 and a half sacks for him this season, Much like 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.320 with Kenny Clark. They wrote down those goals with coordinator 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.440 Mark Mike Petton at the beginning of the season, and 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.960 he marked down that he wanted double digit sack totals 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:58.200 and considering there was only three individuals who have achieved 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:00.679 that for the Green Bay Packers defense over the last decade, 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.280 a lofty goal, but he said he really embraced that. 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.720 And then here you go to three sack performances this year, 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:09.120 ten and a half on the season. For everything that 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.120 Kyler Facral has had to kind of weather with the 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.720 outside noise, with some of the doubters with him getting 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.480 taken the third round back in two thousand and sixteen, 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:20.520 to see him have the year that he had, really 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.480 strong campaign for him and now going to be a 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:24.920 building block for the Packers as they look to make 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.560 that next step now with those pass rushers this offseason, 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:29.400 all right, and I'm gonna go in the two thousand 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.080 seventeen draft and I'm going with Aaron Jones here as 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.360 the breakout player. Now, we all knew what the potential was, 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.560 and I think we started to see that. But I 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.640 say started to see that because I think that Jones 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:45.200 still has more to give here. He needs to continue 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.920 to work on that lower body, be able to you know, 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:51.280 build it up to withstand a full sixteen game schedule. 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.840 Obviously that didn't work out with with getting injured right 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.160 towards the end of the regular season here, but he's 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.959 still had over seven d yards rushing eight rushing touchdown. 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.200 I think there's even more he can do in the 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.320 passing game as well moving forward, depending on obviously whatever 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.839 offensive system comes in here. But this is a guy 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:10.600 when he's got the ball in his hands and a 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.880 little bit of space west, he's he's a special player. 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.200 And I think potentially if that health part of it 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.520 holds up, I think he can have the ball in 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:21.320 his hands even more in Yeah, just keep him off 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:24.160 a soldier field and he'll be fine. There's been nourability 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:30.559 issues Okay, point taken, point taken. Alright, another category here, 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:33.360 Comeback Player of the Year. It's like, it's really easy 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:35.439 to pick Brian blog here, and I'm gonna leave him 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:37.880 on the vine for you to potentially pick. I'm gonna 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.439 go with a shot Brelan though um And the reason 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:42.960 I bring up Breland is he had one whale of 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.800 the two thousand eighteen. This is a guy that had 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.040 played basically every snap for Washington the last four years. 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.439 Looks like he's on the verge of finally getting rewarded, 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:55.760 signing a lucrative contract with Carolina. This freak heel injury 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.360 flares up from some kind of skin graph he had 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:01.560 when he was a kid. They he fails the physical, 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:05.040 the Panthers void the contract, and he ends up having 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:08.120 to sit out until September. He comes into Green Bay 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.439 without any training camp. He has to weather growing injury, 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:13.720 a hamstring injury. But at the end of the day, 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:17.320 Michael twenty tackles and two interceptions and seven games five 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.040 starts for the Green Bay Packers this season. I just 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:22.120 was really impressed with how this young man came in 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.520 and carried himself. We'll see exactly where Brian Goodaquints wants 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:27.560 to do this offseason, But by no means would I 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.480 be disappointed to see him come back. I think he 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.520 has a lot of potential. He also gives you a 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:33.600 lot of flexibility with his ability to either play in 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.160 the slot or at boundary cornerback. Yeah. All right, Well 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:38.320 you were supposed to make up my mind for me 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.480 because I had two guys in mind, and then you 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:43.760 didn't do that. So I'm gonna throw two comeback players 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.600 at you. Brian Bulaga is definitely one to come back 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:49.880 as quickly as he did from the second torn a 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:53.679 c l of his career, which happened in November. Was 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:57.200 back on the field for Week one. As we said 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.040 all season long, I tipped my hat. I give him 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.320 a ton of credit. I know there were some other 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:04.840 Nixon bruises that he dealt with along the way and 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.000 wasn't able to play in every game all the way along, 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:13.120 but um, but his his comeback from November to what 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.560 he was able to do in I thought was impressive. 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.600 The other one Rmon Williams. He came back right, come 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:21.160 back to come back player. He came back to Green 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:24.280 Bay and was a really, really important and valuable part 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.760 of this defense and making this transition, I think to 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.880 the new scheme. His versatility could play the boundary, play 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:31.960 the slot. He moved to safety for the back half 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:35.600 of the season. All these things communication issues were certainly 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:39.600 something that we're um a forte of his as well, 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.640 So so I tipped my cap also to Trmon Williams 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:44.760 in the comeback category. The other thing I love about 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.400 it too, he said from day one of the offseason program, Mike, 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.480 he wasn't coming back just to be a veteran old 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.600 guy in the room that was just going to lead 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:54.480 these guys emotionally. He wanted to be out there and 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.640 he wanted to play. But at the same time, if 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.280 I was Joe W. JR. If I'm Jason Simmons, I 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.200 am pointing to that man right there, twelve years into 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.200 his NFL career, a former undrafted free agent, had to 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:09.000 earn everything the hard way. The fact that he's still 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.920 doing what he's doing and how he's doing it should 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.720 be a lesson to Kevin King and JayR Alexander Josh 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.280 Jackson showing these guys about, okay, if you want to 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.079 be a player that lasts a decade in this league, 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:22.000 take note of what this guy is doing in the 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.080 fact that he's still doing it at a high level. Yeah, 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.600 no question about it. All right, Rookie of the Year, 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:30.000 I'm gonna go with JOYR Alexander. That one, I think 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:31.800 is pretty obvious when you look at the season he 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.240 put together. I was talking to him during the final 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:37.560 locker room session and sort of revisiting this year. Much 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:41.480 like Kevin King as his rookie year, Alexander had to 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:43.720 end up getting a lot of the tough assignments he was, 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.240 you know, the shutdown corner. Really the last six weeks 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:47.839 of the season. He said it got to the point 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.920 that he would go into the Wednesday meeting room knowing 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:54.120 just already feeling that they were going to have him 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:57.160 match up against certain receivers. He just was brace for it. 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.080 And he was doing that at twenty one years old. 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.600 You know, he meant he wants to have more interceptions. 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:03.880 He should have more interceptions. One of those got taken 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:07.760 away from an egregious call early this season. Um, but 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.880 the fact is is that he doesn't back down if 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:13.280 he can get some of these soft tissue things figured out. 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:17.280 I just I think you're looking at a big playmaker here, 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:19.360 and Joe Wild Jr. Said it himself. I mean, if 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:21.400 you can get him and Kevin King on the field together, 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:23.800 what a tandem that's gonna be for this Packers defense 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.480 in secondary. Couldn't agree more with that comment from Wit 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:28.640 and couldn't agree more with your selection as Rookie of 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.120 the Year. I will pick a another player on the 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:34.360 offensive side of the ball, though, and that's Marquez Valdes Scantling. Now, 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.000 I really liked what I saw out of both Valdes 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.679 Scantling and e q st Brown as rookie wide receivers. 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.240 They both had their moments throughout the course of the year, 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:46.320 but just based on overall production in the numbers thirty 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.080 eight catches over five hundred yards receiving, I'll go with 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:52.680 Valda's Scantling here. The biggest thing that I like about 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:56.600 him just from a raw physical skill standpoint, is the 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.120 one thing he can't coach in that speed He's He's 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.480 got it. I think I think it's something that could 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.560 be a huge asset for this offense moving forward. He's 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:07.559 the kind of receiver that the Packers haven't had around 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:10.120 here in a while. In the for the bulk I 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.120 would say of the Aaron Rodgers era, a guy with 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:15.240 that kind of just open field, flat out speed, I'm 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.640 excited to see what he can do going forward. Legitimate 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.080 home run threat every time he touches the ball. I 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:22.200 think one thing the Packers did better during the second 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:23.640 half of the season is getting him the ball in 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.040 open space doesn't always have to be a go route. 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.400 You can do things underneath the potentially get let him 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:32.400 get separation and let him break away from guys. I 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.800 really wish that the one thing that is gonna I 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:37.760 wanted to see that defensive line together. I wanted to 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:41.080 see Mohammed Wolkerson and Kenny Clark and Mike Daniels operate. 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.400 I've really wanted to see what this offense could do 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.720 with MVS being sort of a change of pace player 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:51.520 you had. That's a really good point. If if you 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:53.600 have Allison and Cobb the bulk of the year with 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.640 Adams and as you say, then then Valdes Scantling is 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.520 uh is that changeup you can throw in there as 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:03.040 a perime her option? Yeah? That that unfortunately was the 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.280 thing offensively that just never was able to materialize because 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.760 of the injury issues. Yeah, if you have that. That's 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.040 something that if you're a secondary coach or defensive coordinator, 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:13.120 eighty three comes on the field, you gotta change what 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.640 you're planning to do out there, because he can just 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.000 go one on one, beat your cornerback and are you 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.360 keeping another safety over there? If you do that? How 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:22.280 does that open up the rest of the field. He's 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.160 gonna be a great player in this offense, though, I 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.360 think him and st Brown, you know, Jamon Moore has 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:28.440 a lot of potential as well. Seeing how those young 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:30.280 guys develop is gonna be really exciting to watch going 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:33.000 into two thousand nineteen. All Right, our last category here 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:36.840 before we get to a little bit of NFL Playoffs 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:40.480 preview Play of the Year. What do you like? Yeah, 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:42.880 so I basically came down to two. You had a 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:46.200 couple too, so I'm gonna go with the two. Uh. Defensively, 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.440 to me, it's still that Kevin King interception. I just 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.520 loved it. I loved the grittiness of that defense. San 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:55.000 Francisco Monday Night Football. Yes, it was a tough game. 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.640 They had to rally to beat San Francisco team that 0:15:57.640 --> 0:15:59.080 I think a lot of people on papers thought they 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:01.400 should have just Wallow and been done with it. That 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:03.760 didn't happen, so they had to work their way back. 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.600 They get you know, the forty niners are driving a 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:08.880 little bit, and you know you have Beth Thord sort 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:10.880 of put up a fifty fifty ball and Kevin King 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:12.560 makes them pay for it. You started to see the 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:15.800 legitimate playmaking ability of King, not just the coverage, but 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.480 what he could do as a pass catcher in this league. 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:20.640 I mean, you know, again he has to work through 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:23.240 some injury issues, but that that was such a great play. 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.960 And then the first game of the year, the Randall 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.080 cop catch. You have to, you know, put that in 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:32.480 the conversations. Completes the comeback over the Bears, the best 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.440 victory the Packers had in two thousand eighteen against a 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:39.000 team that went on to only lose four games. Unfortunately, again, 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.160 injuries kind of you know, reared their ugly head and 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:43.400 things didn't go the way that Cobb wanted it too 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.000 in two thousand and eighteen. But what a great reminder 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.720 of that Aaron Rodgers, you know, battery with with Randall 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:51.880 Cobb and how effective that was for the Packers for 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:53.760 so many years. Yeah, and I will just throw this 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.080 out there before I give you my selection, I think 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.880 the uh the play that gets overlooked from the twin 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:03.680 eighteen season that really was something was also from Week one, 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:07.680 the touchdown past to Geronimo by Aaron Rodgers. Tremendous throw, 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:12.520 tremendous catch. Unfortunately that ended all too early in with 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.480 Allison getting injured. But Allison too, I mean before you 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:16.919 ended up having that, I think it ended up being 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.080 a soft muscle injury or no, it was a core 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:21.480 muscle injury. I think it was the fact that I 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:23.080 think every I don't have the stance up in front 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:24.800 of me. I think all of his starts, it was 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.560 five catches for at least sixty yards when you're looking 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:29.800 at the number three heck even a number two receiver 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:32.080 in this offense, he was That's the hallmark of it. 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:34.119 And Allison was really on pace for that. That was 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:35.800 a shame that he wasn't able to finish it up. Yeah, 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:37.520 he was off to such a great start. But my 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:39.040 pick for play of the year, and this is a 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.640 little unusual because I'm actually picking one from a game 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:46.600 that the Packers lost, but the touchdown pass in Seattle 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.040 on Thursday Night Football to Robert Tanya in the fifty 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:51.760 four yard or not only the first catch and first 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:56.280 touchdown for the undrafted tight end in Tanyan, but the 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.760 kind of play that was, you know, quite frankly, was 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:00.800 kind of a throwback play, a to the to the 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:04.680 Aaron Rodgers scrambled drilled days of old where he gets 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.639 out of he gets out of the pocket and heaves 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.800 it downfield and makes you pay because because he was 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:14.000 able to extend the play and and uh, I really 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:16.159 thought at the time, and it happened in the end 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:18.120 zone that was kind of right in front of us, 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:20.760 like where our press box seats were, so that was 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:22.720 the end zone where we were kind of sitting, and 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:25.080 we saw that. I thought that was the play that 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.680 was going to catapult the Packers to a huge Thursday 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.960 night victory on the road in Seattle, and and really 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:33.760 kind of turned the whole season around. Unfortunately that didn't happen, 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:36.879 But it doesn't take away from, at least from, in 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:40.080 my opinion, how amazing a play, how amazing a touchdown 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:44.000 that was Big Bob Tanyans baby boy Bobby Bobby is 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:47.480 Aaron liked to refer to him in discussions as the 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:50.440 season went along. Um. All right, hey, before I forget here, West, 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:54.600 the powerful noise canceling technology that helps NFL coaches block 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:57.240 out eighty tho screaming fans can get you closer to 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:00.639 the music you love. Learn more at www dot bos 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:04.159 dot com. 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