Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford and he is the one and
Speaker 1: only Wes Hodkowits were coming to you here from our
Speaker 1: studios at lambeau Field and West. On our last episode,
Speaker 1: we spent a fair amount of time talking about some
Speaker 1: of the comments Aaron Rodgers made at his locker following
Speaker 1: the last public o t a practice of the spring.
Speaker 1: But one area that he touched on that we didn't
Speaker 1: quite get to was what he said about the Packers
Speaker 1: young cornerbacks, specifically your Alexander Josh Jackson, the top two
Speaker 1: draft picks, and with his tongue at least partly planted
Speaker 1: in his cheek, he sort of tossed out a warning like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm coming after you guys in training camp. This could
Speaker 1: get pretty interesting in late July. What do you think?
Speaker 1: This is the thing I enjoyed the most. As we're
Speaker 1: getting done with the offseason program. You always think every
Speaker 1: year about who's most excited about training camp. It says
Speaker 1: probably a lot about your football team. When it's your
Speaker 1: fourteenth year quarterback, is the one that is most excited
Speaker 1: about the upcoming training camp? Aaron Rodgers without a shadow
Speaker 1: of a doubt. I don't want to speak for you.
Speaker 1: For me personally and all the years I've covered sports,
Speaker 1: he's the most competitive person I've ever seen. I think
Speaker 1: that goes almost without saying that I would, I would
Speaker 1: have to agree. So, you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: hoot and holler and going on over in the cornerbacks
Speaker 1: and defensive backside of the locker room. Jo your Alexander
Speaker 1: not short on confidence whatsoever. Josh Jackson not as vocal,
Speaker 1: but you can tell a very confident individual as well.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is looking forward to this. And I'll say
Speaker 1: this too. That competition, that's something I think we really
Speaker 1: need to see. I mean, when you're getting into training camp,
Speaker 1: you need both of those two sides, offense defense, pushing
Speaker 1: and pulling against each other. H Aaron Rodgers is going
Speaker 1: to bring it. And the nice thing is, regardless of
Speaker 1: how this turns out, those two young quarterbacks are going
Speaker 1: to be going against the game's very best. There is
Speaker 1: no better way to get ready for a season than
Speaker 1: have that a kind of opportunity. Yeah, if you're Mike Petton,
Speaker 1: you absolutely love the fact that your top two draft picks,
Speaker 1: those two young cornerbacks on the defensive side are going
Speaker 1: to be able to get ready for their rookie season
Speaker 1: in their rookie training camp, going up against the best
Speaker 1: quarterback in the league, and it's a it's an opportunity
Speaker 1: for them that that they certainly don't take lightly. Alexander,
Speaker 1: I believe it was the prior week he had an
Speaker 1: interception against Rogers when we were there watching practice at
Speaker 1: the at the public workout. But even he said he
Speaker 1: took it with a grain assault. Hey, it's just practice.
Speaker 1: I know, guys are working on stuff as far as
Speaker 1: routes and timing and stuff. And he was pretty excited
Speaker 1: about that interception though, and he said, you know, he
Speaker 1: just looks forward to making some more plays when they count. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And Ahmad Thomas also had an interception during that practice,
Speaker 1: and I think the jubilation and celebrations that happened afterwards.
Speaker 1: They love it when they get Rogers they have, They
Speaker 1: absolutely love it. There's a lot of entergy you there.
Speaker 1: But he he's right, you do take it with a
Speaker 1: grain assault, and one interception in one offseason program practice
Speaker 1: does not make a career. However, and I wrote about
Speaker 1: this an Insider inbox this week, Mike. That is the
Speaker 1: thing that stands out to me though about Alexander. The
Speaker 1: small things that you can actually take out of this
Speaker 1: is his closing speed. It's remarkable, and he has incredible
Speaker 1: quick twitch and that interception that he had, uh seemed
Speaker 1: like there's a little miscommunication there between Rogers and Geronto
Speaker 1: Allison on a back shoulder, but Alexander's ability to react
Speaker 1: to that and pick it off in a red zone period.
Speaker 1: If this would have been a game simulation, that's a
Speaker 1: potential pick six. That really impresses me because it shows
Speaker 1: headiness there with a young player, and it also shows
Speaker 1: the one thing you can't quite coach, which is even
Speaker 1: if you see it, can you get to it? And
Speaker 1: I think Alexander is shown he definitely has that kind
Speaker 1: of ability. Yeah. I mean we heard when the Packers
Speaker 1: drafted him all about his ball skills, and that was
Speaker 1: that was a perfect example of it. When you mentioned
Speaker 1: the quick trip twitch, the reaction to when he's got
Speaker 1: a chance to make a play on the ball and
Speaker 1: in that particular instance he made it. You mentioned his
Speaker 1: confidence before the swagger, whatever term that you want to use.
Speaker 1: One thing that I think is interesting about these two guys,
Speaker 1: and I don't mean to continue talking about them like
Speaker 1: two p's in a pod, but in a sense that
Speaker 1: they're probably going to be connected like that throughout theirs
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. But both of these guys
Speaker 1: strike me as very, very confident young players who believe
Speaker 1: that they belong in the NFL. They just carry themselves
Speaker 1: very differently in that respect. Alexander much more outgoing. He
Speaker 1: you know, he talks a lot. He does have a
Speaker 1: little bit of that swagger on the practice field. Josh
Speaker 1: Jackson much quieter, much more reserved, but in my opinion,
Speaker 1: no less confident in what he can do out there
Speaker 1: on the field. Yeah, exactly. That is the thing that
Speaker 1: stood out to me, even going back to the scouting combine,
Speaker 1: when we're listening to him talk there in Annapolis. He
Speaker 1: is very sure about himself and what his abilities are.
Speaker 1: He talked about himself in February as if he is
Speaker 1: the best cornerback in this draft class, even though we
Speaker 1: only had that one year of really true production as
Speaker 1: a starting cornerback at Iowa. Now coming to Green Bay,
Speaker 1: he said it. Since the beginning, I think there is
Speaker 1: a little bit of chip on the shoulder there for him,
Speaker 1: wanting to prove that he was the best cornerback, a
Speaker 1: first round draft pick type caliber player, and yet he
Speaker 1: lasted till the middle of the second round, which the
Speaker 1: Packers felt was a great value pick to get him
Speaker 1: there for sure, And if they didn't, they wouldn't have
Speaker 1: taken him in that spot, you know, with already having Alexander,
Speaker 1: so with both of those young guys coming in, with
Speaker 1: Tremon Williams, Devon House coming back, Quentin Rollins made it
Speaker 1: back in the off season program from the Achilles injury.
Speaker 1: They have fourteen guys I think I counted in the
Speaker 1: entire secondary, including the defensive backs, with NFL experience. Now
Speaker 1: in addition to the young guys they brought in. They
Speaker 1: wanted depth at that position. They wanted to give themselves
Speaker 1: more cushion at that position. They accomplished that this summer.
Speaker 1: Now the task for Alexander and Jackson is going to
Speaker 1: be rising up that depth chart in training camp and
Speaker 1: showing that they can contribute right away, No question, I
Speaker 1: bought it. With that, we'll go to a break back
Speaker 1: with more on Packers unscripted right up to this Welcome
Speaker 1: back to Packers unscripted Mike Spofford in this chair, Wes
Speaker 1: Hodkowits and that one west last week another topic that
Speaker 1: we didn't quite get to, maybe in the most timely
Speaker 1: fashioned but we heard for the first time really since
Speaker 1: he was hired from new defensive coordinator Mike Petton, and
Speaker 1: we got a little bit of insight into his philosophy,
Speaker 1: which also told us a little bit about how things
Speaker 1: have gone this offseason, both in free agency and the
Speaker 1: draft in terms of the Packers priorities. Because a very
Speaker 1: interesting thing that he said in talking about the pass rushes,
Speaker 1: he values inside pass rush equally, if not more so,
Speaker 1: than the edge rush, which is where all the attention
Speaker 1: obviously is the Clay Matthews and the Nick Perry's of
Speaker 1: the world. But that inside pass rush, he's really building
Speaker 1: this defense, building this past defense around collapsing the pocket,
Speaker 1: isn't he He is? And when he said that, I
Speaker 1: honestly was fist bumping a little bit, because I've been
Speaker 1: trying to tell people this that since January, you know,
Speaker 1: an insider in box, and when people ask, because everybody
Speaker 1: thinks of pass rush, they think abo outside linebackers, and rightly,
Speaker 1: so I get that That's a big part of the equation.
Speaker 1: But you gotta look, the only thing we have to
Speaker 1: go off of until pet and talked last week, was
Speaker 1: the fact that you had these transactions, you had these
Speaker 1: roster moves. You have to be able to read the
Speaker 1: tea leaves a little bit there. Mohammed Wilkerson getting added
Speaker 1: at what could conceivably be the Packer's biggest position of strength.
Speaker 1: What does that tell you? The fact that they drafted
Speaker 1: two cornerbacks with our first two picks when there were
Speaker 1: outside linebackers on the board, what does that tell you?
Speaker 1: This is a part of the plan. They aren't just
Speaker 1: neglecting or or just you know, diverting their attention away
Speaker 1: from certain areas. The Packers feel like if they have
Speaker 1: Clay Matthews and Nick Perry healthy, along with the returning
Speaker 1: players they have there, that is the necessary compliment to
Speaker 1: the inside rush. The Packers went out, they got Wilkerson,
Speaker 1: they have Mike Daniels coming back office first Pro Bowl,
Speaker 1: Kenny Clark coming off of a breakthrough season, the quickest
Speaker 1: way to the quarterbacks through the middle of the field.
Speaker 1: I say that time and time again. They feel like
Speaker 1: they have the horses to do it. Yeah, it'll be
Speaker 1: interesting to see how this develops now, because what it
Speaker 1: comes down to for any defensive coordinator is, in a
Speaker 1: scheme sense, he's trying to scheme things to get certain
Speaker 1: guys in one on one matchups and then you win
Speaker 1: that one on one to get to the quarterback and
Speaker 1: disrupt the play, disrupt the timing, whatever it might be.
Speaker 1: Mike Patton likes his chances with Kenny Clark, Mike Annals,
Speaker 1: Mohammed Wilkerson in some combination, maybe two of them on
Speaker 1: the field, maybe all three in certain situations at the
Speaker 1: same time, but one of those guys getting a one
Speaker 1: on one opportunity against an interior offensive lineman and beating
Speaker 1: him and getting to the quarterback. Now, the flip side
Speaker 1: of it is, if the defense becomes so reliant on
Speaker 1: the inside pass rush, of course offenses are going to adjust,
Speaker 1: they're going to start to take that away. But then
Speaker 1: that means you're outside guys absolutely have to be able
Speaker 1: to win one on one. And now Clay Matthews, Nick Perry,
Speaker 1: we know their injury history. The guys who are behind
Speaker 1: them when they're called upon are going to have to
Speaker 1: step up and win those one on ones. Whether you're
Speaker 1: talking about Chris odom or Kyler Facral or Vince Bagel
Speaker 1: or Kendall Donnerson, the seventh round pick who was the
Speaker 1: only edge rusher of the Packers took in this last draft.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, West and I said
Speaker 1: this in our Insider Inbox column. It comes down to
Speaker 1: winning a one on one because at some point the
Speaker 1: the the offense is going to take away what you
Speaker 1: do best. So then when you have a one on
Speaker 1: one somewhere, that guy gotta win. And this is the
Speaker 1: thing I look at to Mike outside linebacker. They have Perry,
Speaker 1: they have Matthews. Two first round picks have done in
Speaker 1: a long time at the league. Both have had over
Speaker 1: ten SAX seasons. The one difference, because everybody talks about
Speaker 1: two thousand four, the one difference is Julius Peppers. I
Speaker 1: don't care which way you break it down. He was
Speaker 1: the difference maker. He's not here anymore. But trying to
Speaker 1: act like the rotation is just suddenly so much different
Speaker 1: or just so much on a so much more unaccomplished.
Speaker 1: And in the past, that's a lie that that that's
Speaker 1: it's not it's not true. And I've said it time
Speaker 1: and time again. I've covered this team when Desmond Moses
Speaker 1: started six games at outside linebacker in two thousand twelve.
Speaker 1: You've seen Frank Zambo starting on a Super Bowl team.
Speaker 1: Got a sack in the Super got a sack. They
Speaker 1: got contributions from guys to complement what they had. Kyler
Speaker 1: Facker is the third round pick, Vince Biegel's a fifth
Speaker 1: round pick. They like what they have in Reggie Gilbert.
Speaker 1: If those guys Gilbert Gilbert was the other guy was
Speaker 1: trying to think of, and I neglected to mention it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean those guys are gonna fact during into this.
Speaker 1: Kendall Donnerson coming in as well. They have a core there.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, they need Claim Matthews
Speaker 1: and Nick Perry to stay healthy. But it's one of
Speaker 1: the things that's really bothered me about this offseason, people
Speaker 1: asking repeatedly about the depth that outside linebacker. They've gone
Speaker 1: into seasons with less. Yeah, so I we'll see how
Speaker 1: it goes. They needed. There isn't a Julius Peppers type
Speaker 1: player there. I mean, there's only one of those guys
Speaker 1: in the entire league. But to act like this outside
Speaker 1: rush is just so much vastly different from when they
Speaker 1: want a super Bowl or in two thousand and eleven.
Speaker 1: It's it's not true. Yeah, and maybe the one guy
Speaker 1: as far as the inside passed us that we don't
Speaker 1: even really know yet what he brings to the table
Speaker 1: as montrevious. Absolutely a third round draft pick last year,
Speaker 1: he's now in that mix with Daniels, Clark, Wilkerson and
Speaker 1: Dean Lowry who's coming into his own now in his
Speaker 1: third season. So a lot to look forward to here
Speaker 1: in Adams. The reason they draft him in the third
Speaker 1: round last year. Obviously there's a run block, you know,
Speaker 1: run defending element to it, but it was his pass
Speaker 1: rush inside pass rush. They liked him there. They think
Speaker 1: he's explosive. You have a chance to show it now
Speaker 1: in acamp alrighty with that, we'll go to another break
Speaker 1: back with more on Packers Unscripted right after this. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to Packers Unscripted. Mike Spofford here, Wes Hodko, it's there,
Speaker 1: wes Um. We talked a lot about Justin McCrae and
Speaker 1: where he's headed now on this Packers offensive line and
Speaker 1: the opportunity in front of him. Another guy sort of
Speaker 1: lumped into that same category with McCrae in some senses
Speaker 1: with the way things went last year as Lucas Patrick. Now,
Speaker 1: unfortunately he's going to be known as the guy who
Speaker 1: hit the line drive off Clay Matthew's face and broke
Speaker 1: his nose and sent him to the operating room for
Speaker 1: surgery and all that. But aside from that something I'm
Speaker 1: sure he doesn't feel too good about, and it does
Speaker 1: and wishes and wishes wouldn't have happened. But um, he's
Speaker 1: had an opportunity here this spring because Lane Taylor, starting
Speaker 1: left guard, has been out with an ankle injury. Packers
Speaker 1: being a little cautious with that, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: saving Taylor, just letting him get healthy for training camp.
Speaker 1: But that means Patrick has taken a lot of reps
Speaker 1: with the number one offensive line at left guard. Now
Speaker 1: I see him from a starting job perspective, competing at
Speaker 1: right guard with with Justin McCrae to try to get
Speaker 1: into the starting lineup. But whatever position, if you're taking
Speaker 1: reps with the number one offensive line, that's a good
Speaker 1: way to uh to to continue developing and progressing in
Speaker 1: your career. Yeah, and this is a young man to
Speaker 1: Mike that finished last season starting at right guard when
Speaker 1: Jerry Evans ended up having to set out a couple
Speaker 1: of games. Um and you know, dealt with the hand injury,
Speaker 1: was wearing a club. He was knocking on wood that
Speaker 1: that won't be an issue. He's had to deal with
Speaker 1: it twice now so far during his short tenure in
Speaker 1: Green Bay. But here's the thing that's interesting about it. Mike,
Speaker 1: him and Justin McCrea are really good friends. They've developed
Speaker 1: into you know, their roommates, uh that you know, they're
Speaker 1: just they've grown incredibly close. But yet their story has
Speaker 1: sort of been tied together the entire time. Last year,
Speaker 1: it appeared that they both were competing for one spot.
Speaker 1: They end up both making the roster due to some
Speaker 1: injury situations, and both sort of came out of nowhere
Speaker 1: to contribute in some shape or former fashion. Patrick is
Speaker 1: probably one of the more unique stories you're gonna find.
Speaker 1: I wrote about it last year, we talked about it
Speaker 1: on the show. The fact that he was a guy
Speaker 1: that when he graduated from Duke a really productive career
Speaker 1: for them, didn't even get an undrafted free agent offer.
Speaker 1: His only tryout opportunity was in Green Bay even then
Speaker 1: he didn't get a contract out of rookie camp. He
Speaker 1: had to go back home, was planning the next step
Speaker 1: of his career and you know, and then got the
Speaker 1: call back to football. And he's really not taking that
Speaker 1: for granted. His mindset has stayed the same the entire time.
Speaker 1: He's still a tryout guy, trying to make the most
Speaker 1: of that. At the same time, he understands the opportunity
Speaker 1: before him right now and that both he and mccraine
Speaker 1: not only are gonna have a chance to potentially started
Speaker 1: right guard, but have a chance to be that number
Speaker 1: five or number six guy on the offensive line. And
Speaker 1: he said every single rep he's taken this offseason, he's
Speaker 1: gone back afterwards, he's talked with Lane Taylor. He's helping
Speaker 1: him walk through exactly all the progressions. Last year was
Speaker 1: a nice building block for him to come up and
Speaker 1: step up in spite of the club. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, he has loftier goals and one of them
Speaker 1: is to, you know, go into training camp here and
Speaker 1: compete for a starting job. Yeah. I remember talking to
Speaker 1: him last year at the end of the regular season,
Speaker 1: after he had he had essentially played the last two
Speaker 1: games because he stepped in after the very first snap
Speaker 1: of the Minnesota game in Week sixteen, played the rest
Speaker 1: of that game, and then started against Detroit. So those
Speaker 1: two games the most important um snaps that he's put
Speaker 1: on film in his NFL career so far, and he's
Speaker 1: doing it with a club on his hand. And I
Speaker 1: remember asking him, you know, so, do you feel like
Speaker 1: you know you're even able to show in that film,
Speaker 1: like what kind of player you are? And and he
Speaker 1: said no, I mean, he knows he can play better.
Speaker 1: He knows that if he's healthy and has the full
Speaker 1: use of both of his arms, both of his hands,
Speaker 1: that he's got more to give. Even though he held
Speaker 1: up just fine in those in those two games, considering
Speaker 1: all the circumstances. So this is an interesting guy to watch.
Speaker 1: As you said, teams are always looking for those reliable backups,
Speaker 1: swing guys that can play multiple positions if they don't
Speaker 1: crack the starting lineup, but but they can be ready
Speaker 1: to step in there. Now. He's not a guy who
Speaker 1: has experience at tackle, but certainly on the on the interior,
Speaker 1: he's the guy who's going to have a very good
Speaker 1: chance to uh to make his mark on the Packers,
Speaker 1: and he gives you versatility too because he picked up
Speaker 1: that center position along the way. I go back to
Speaker 1: that Minnesota game, Mike, I still don't know how he
Speaker 1: wasn't just an absolute turnstyle. Looking at those defensive tackles
Speaker 1: that they have, the stuff that Mike Zimmer throws at you,
Speaker 1: the fact that he was able to hold up to
Speaker 1: it really impressive. And you know, talking with about Patrick
Speaker 1: with Corey Lindsley this past week, Lindsley said, you know,
Speaker 1: even though he was a tryout guy, you could see
Speaker 1: from the beginning that this guy belonged and that there
Speaker 1: was something there that people just hadn't seen. And I
Speaker 1: think his time has gone on here. Some of the
Speaker 1: stuff he's done this off season two increases hip flexibility. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's really showed that he's not he wasn't a camp body.
Speaker 1: He's not a roster you know, at the edge of
Speaker 1: the roster guy. He's a guy that's here to compete
Speaker 1: and you know, hopefully, you know, turn this thing into
Speaker 1: a long career. Alright. With that, we will go to
Speaker 1: another break back with more and Packers Unscripted right after this.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Packers Unscripted. Mike Spofford alongside West Hodko.
Speaker 1: It's West final segment today. Definitely need to mention because
Speaker 1: we talked the other day about the fact that we
Speaker 1: were recording our three hundredth episode of Packers unscripted. For
Speaker 1: those who are the podcast listeners, not the television watchers,
Speaker 1: this is podcast number three, and I know that's created
Speaker 1: some consternation about from the the loyal podcast listeners will
Speaker 1: where are these long lost episodes that supposedly aired and
Speaker 1: we weren't able to listen to them on the website. Well,
Speaker 1: it's just a matter of timing. There were a couple
Speaker 1: of I believe it was Monday episodes if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: before Monday night football in a preseason games. Yeah where
Speaker 1: because the podcast wouldn't be available until the next day
Speaker 1: because the game was played in between. It would be
Speaker 1: useless for podcast listeners to listen to a game preview
Speaker 1: after the game has been played. So they weren't podcasts,
Speaker 1: and that's why we have the discrepancy in the number
Speaker 1: of episodes versus the number of podcast But anyway, now
Speaker 1: we've hit three hundred in both, so so here we go.
Speaker 1: But to wrap up today, the Packers this past week
Speaker 1: did their annual team building exercise where they surprised the
Speaker 1: players and say, hey, guys, no practice today, Let's all
Speaker 1: hop on the bus and go have some fun somewhere.
Speaker 1: And they went back to an activity that they've done
Speaker 1: at other times in past years, which is to go
Speaker 1: clay shooting with um On out at the out at
Speaker 1: a local range just outside of Green Bay here in
Speaker 1: Little swam Coo. You went out to kind of take
Speaker 1: in some of the action and stay safe. But but
Speaker 1: what were your impressions of the whole excursion Little Creek
Speaker 1: Lodge and never all my years of living in Green
Speaker 1: Bay in northeast Wisconsin, obviously I'm not a big outdoorsman,
Speaker 1: so I didn't know what existed. But it is out
Speaker 1: there and it it was a cool experience and it
Speaker 1: was fun getting to see the guys that do this
Speaker 1: like recreationally, like Jake Ryan. Um. Yeah, I've been I've
Speaker 1: been out there in the past in past years when
Speaker 1: they've done this, and there are some guys who are
Speaker 1: awfully good marksman. There are three different types of players.
Speaker 1: I figured out by the being out there for two
Speaker 1: hours with them. They're the guys that do it recreationally.
Speaker 1: I think Jake Ryan among them. It sounds like Joe Carriage,
Speaker 1: although I didn't see him, it sound like Joe Carriage
Speaker 1: is very good. The fullback. Um, there's the second guys
Speaker 1: which are probably naturals to it, like Lance Kendricks. Kendrick
Speaker 1: said he doesn't really get out to, you know, these
Speaker 1: kind of ranges very often, but he credited his marksmanship
Speaker 1: to call of duty. So the video game, I'm sure
Speaker 1: you're familiar with that a game place. And then three
Speaker 1: there's the guys that have never done this before. Uh
Speaker 1: you know, Fortunately there's there's officers at every station that
Speaker 1: helped them with loading and telling them what to do
Speaker 1: and with safety locks and all that. But they are
Speaker 1: not going to hit the broadside of a bar. So uh,
Speaker 1: seeing all those different types of personalities, it's interesting to watch.
Speaker 1: And I followed a couple of groups around, including one
Speaker 1: with offensive line coach James Campen and Dean Lowery was
Speaker 1: one of those guys that he went basically half the
Speaker 1: day without hitting anything, but when he finally did, the
Speaker 1: entire group just went nuts. So it's those kind of
Speaker 1: small victories too in themselves that that lead to some
Speaker 1: neat bonding experiences. Yeah, and if people wonder, Okay, how
Speaker 1: does this actually you know, help in the team building
Speaker 1: and the bonding experience. They group these guys into teams
Speaker 1: for the day. They sort of have a very informal competition.
Speaker 1: But it's uh, it's having offensive coaches on a team
Speaker 1: with defensive players. It's having wide receivers on a team
Speaker 1: with defensive lineman. Guys that they're not in the meeting
Speaker 1: rooms with each other, they don't know each other as well.
Speaker 1: It's a big football team, it's a ninety man auster.
Speaker 1: It's hard to get to know everybody. This is an
Speaker 1: opportunity based on how they pair guys up in the
Speaker 1: teams of four or five players and coaches for for
Speaker 1: a little more interaction than maybe they would normally have
Speaker 1: through the course of of a football day. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: are several veterans I talked to that they're meeting some
Speaker 1: of these rookies and first year players for the first
Speaker 1: time during these excursions, and you find some interesting bonding
Speaker 1: opportunities among them, chance to tell their stories. And they've
Speaker 1: done this in the past. They've gone bowling, they've had
Speaker 1: you know, Olympic type events. Um, you know, going back
Speaker 1: to two thousand eight, I think they did paintballing dodgeball.
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy always tries to find ways to sort of
Speaker 1: take guys out of their element a little bit, and
Speaker 1: then the nice thing about it too, As Leans Kendricks said,
Speaker 1: it's a day to get away from the practice field,
Speaker 1: but sometimes can go a long way. For these guys,
Speaker 1: it definitely can. With that, we're going to call it
Speaker 1: a wrap on this edition of Packers Unscripted. Be sure
Speaker 1: to follow all of our coverage of the team on
Speaker 1: Packers dot com on Twitter. He's at west Hot, I'm
Speaker 1: at Mike Spofford at Packers for the team account. Thanks
Speaker 1: for tuning in, everybody, See you next time. The b