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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 by my

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Speaker 1: trusted colleague Weston hod Kowitz, were coming to you here

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Speaker 1: from our studios at lambeau Field and West. The two

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Speaker 1: thousand twenty one NFL Draft is in the books. It

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Speaker 1: was a busy three days here at six Lombardi Avenue.

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Speaker 1: There was another story, obviously that dominated a lot of

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Speaker 1: the NFL landscape with regard to what is going on

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Speaker 1: between the Packers and Aaron Rodgers. And I don't know

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Speaker 1: how this is going to work out. What I do

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Speaker 1: know is this you and I aren't going to solve

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Speaker 1: the problem, So we're not going to spend time talking

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Speaker 1: about it. Instead, we're going to talk about the Packers

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Speaker 1: draft from this past weekend. Nine selections in all, one

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Speaker 1: trade up. As the Packers had gone into the draft

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Speaker 1: with ten selections, came out with nine. You did you did?

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Speaker 1: You nailed? I? I said they would still get ten.

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Speaker 1: I thought there'd be a trade up and a trade back.

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Speaker 1: We didn't get the trade back. We got the trade up,

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Speaker 1: so they end up with nine. I want to break

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Speaker 1: this down for today's show. At least into two segments.

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Speaker 1: The first two days of the draft, the first three rounds,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll move on to day three. The first

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Speaker 1: couple of days, the Packers get Eric Stokes, the cornerback

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Speaker 1: Amari Rodgers the wide receiver from Clemson. Brian Goudakin's trading

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Speaker 1: up seven spots in the third round, surrendering one of

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Speaker 1: his fourth round picks in order to get the wide

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Speaker 1: receiver from Clemson. What were your thoughts here after the

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Speaker 1: first two days, because when we went into this, we

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Speaker 1: were talking, okay, you know the priority positions offensive line,

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Speaker 1: defensive line, cornerback, and then kind of right underneath that

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Speaker 1: maybe would be wide receiver. Well, out of those four,

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Speaker 1: the Packers came out of the first two days of

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Speaker 1: the draft addressing three of those. I think things worked

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Speaker 1: out about as well as they could have hoped. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Packers never draft for need. They always say that

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Speaker 1: it's not about needs. But I will say after the

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Speaker 1: first five rounds, really they hit on all of them.

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Speaker 1: They hit on I think every position that you and

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Speaker 1: I talked about, maybe with the exception of inside linebacker,

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Speaker 1: but as you and I have also talked about, that

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Speaker 1: hasn't been a position where they've put a lot of

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Speaker 1: draft draft capital in, at least in the last five

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Speaker 1: this was exactly what Green Bay needed to do. The

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Speaker 1: positions where they didn't necessarily have a pressing need, but

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Speaker 1: they wanted more competition. They got competition at with Eric

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Speaker 1: Stokes coming in now from Georgia. Guy, It's so funny.

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Speaker 1: For all those years it was always like, oh wow,

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Speaker 1: he runs like a four or four two or something

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Speaker 1: like that. These guys are getting faster and faster and faster.

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Speaker 1: There's just more people now that are breaking sub for

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Speaker 1: threes and it's just like all those pictures in Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball. I can throw ninety eight minur now, like

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Speaker 1: every team in Major League Baseball has them. Now every

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Speaker 1: you went you know you had you know Jyry Alexander

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Speaker 1: a guy that really I thought came on towards the

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Speaker 1: but can play a number of positions. I think when

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Speaker 1: there is a great opportunity for him to build into

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Speaker 1: lot of things to figure out there. Josh Meyers getting

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Speaker 1: a little bit because that's the highest the Packers have

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Speaker 1: a guy though that also comes from Ohio State that

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Speaker 1: because we talked a couple of years ago when Brian

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Speaker 1: Eric Stokes is exactly that type of draft pick because

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Speaker 1: you look, you look at his college career, it's like

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Speaker 1: see these stats that he's breaking up a bunch of

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Speaker 1: He was the guy that analysts are saying, well, that

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Speaker 1: Jairo Alexander type that can be a big time cornerback

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Speaker 1: this is in relation to the trade with the Marie Rogers.

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Speaker 1: Because because the rest of the band has been held together,

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Speaker 1: And to throw Stokes in that room now, he said

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Speaker 1: that also shows you, Mike, how far this thing has gone.

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Speaker 1: Jaire Alexander was the eighteenth overall pick and everybody's kind

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Speaker 1: of wondering, Okay, who is this kid? Is he too small?

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Speaker 1: The Green Bay loses Corey Linsley in free agency, longtime

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Speaker 1: going to be a starting center for the Green Bay Packers,

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Speaker 1: where things are going. I don't know if we've ever

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Speaker 1: to centers and guards are not. They're not the Scottie

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Speaker 1: think I think Seattle was actually the one I want

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Speaker 1: just asked Davante Adams. But when you're anchoring game after game,

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Speaker 1: draft him. They cleared him second round pick. That's a

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Speaker 1: big pick to use on a center. But furthermore, you know,

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Speaker 1: Green Bay ended up going with three offensive linemen in

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Speaker 1: this draft. They took three offensive lineman last draft. You

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Speaker 1: don't know when you're gonna get David Botr back. Maybe

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Speaker 1: at it on paper, now, I'm not saying it's it's

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Speaker 1: but one through ten. Now, there's a lot of investment

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Speaker 1: there were so many years Mike where it was just like, hey,

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Speaker 1: we will get to a lot more of Day three

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Speaker 1: of the Packers Draft, rounds four through seven on our

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Speaker 1: next show, but four now, we'll call it a wrap

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Speaker 1: on this edition of Packers on Script, and we should

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Speaker 1: have follow all of our coverage of the team. Everything

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Speaker 1: Packers dot com for West I Am Mike. Thank you

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