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Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.

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Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford. He is the one and only

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Speaker 1: wes Hodkoits. We're coming to you here from our studios

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Speaker 1: at lambeau Field West. The first preseason game is upon

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Speaker 1: US Packers versus the Tennessee Titans Thursday night, seven pm,

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Speaker 1: kickoff at lambeau Field. Let's get right into it. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of things to be paying attention to here

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Speaker 1: in the preseason opener. The first thing that comes to

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Speaker 1: mind for me is this backup quarterback battle Deshaun Kaiser

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Speaker 1: Brett Hunley. It's going to last throughout the preseason, all

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Speaker 1: four games, but this is sort of stage number one.

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Speaker 1: Since the beginning of time, Mike, since they decided they

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Speaker 1: want to do an exhibition season, going back to when

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Speaker 1: there was six games and fifth he practices in training camp.

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Speaker 1: The precinct games always seemed to come down to the

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks and seeing what these guys look like. Because, as

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Speaker 1: we talked about and some of the other videos we've done,

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Speaker 1: and even some of our discussions for stories, so much

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Speaker 1: of practice you only can make so much out of it.

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Speaker 1: I think there's conclusions you can draw. You see guys

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Speaker 1: like Jake Kumeuro stepping up. Um. You know, guys who

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Speaker 1: you thought were relatively obscure become sort of names. But

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you have to get

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Speaker 1: in the preseason action. I think the quarterback position epitomizes that.

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Kaiser, my first impression of him, has an NFL

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Speaker 1: caliber arm. You look at him standing, he looks like

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Speaker 1: an NFL quarterback, uh, and some good athleticism there. Now,

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Speaker 1: can he take everything he learned from last year with

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Speaker 1: the with the Browns and kind of getting thrown in

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Speaker 1: the fire and now working with Frank Signetti here in

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Speaker 1: adjustments and really show that he's grown as a player

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Speaker 1: still only twenty two years old, a lot of football

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Speaker 1: ahead of him. And then conversely with Brett Hunley also

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Speaker 1: fire in some reguard and seeing if he can be

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Speaker 1: her for it. Yeah, I think it's a matter of

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Speaker 1: seeing the progress from both of these guys. Brett Hunley

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Speaker 1: has nine starts from a season ago tape that he

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Speaker 1: was able to digest throughout the offseason. Running this offense.

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Speaker 1: There were some tweaks to the offense, some new things

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Speaker 1: to get adjusted to, but he's looking to show the

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Speaker 1: progress that he's made. And with Kaiser, he talked in

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Speaker 1: the spring about really how his fundamentals were kind of

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Speaker 1: broken down by this coaching staff. They changed a lot

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Speaker 1: of things with his footwork, some things with his mechanics,

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Speaker 1: all of that kind of stuff. And I think Aaron

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Speaker 1: little bit more comfortable for Kaiser. It looks like he's

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Speaker 1: starting to have a little bit more fun out there

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Speaker 1: on the field, doesn't need to isn't quite as bogged down, maybe,

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Speaker 1: so to speak, in the lack of success a year

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Speaker 1: It's an opportunity for him to take advantage of. The

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Speaker 1: Packers wanted a competition at backup quarterback to really find

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Speaker 1: who the best guy is going to be. If heaven forbid,

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Speaker 1: something were to happen again to Aaron Jers, and this

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Speaker 1: is the competition they've been looking for. So it's time

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Speaker 1: a scrub brush approach with their playbook this offseason. I

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Speaker 1: think for de Shaun Kaiser it's taking a scrub brush

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Speaker 1: approach to his rookie season because you go back Steve

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Speaker 1: Brett Farve did not have a great start with the

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons as a second round pick as well. So

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Speaker 1: for Kaiser, him being thrown in the way he was,

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Speaker 1: They felt like that's what gave them the best chance

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Speaker 1: year old quarterback that that entered the league early was

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Speaker 1: for Hunley too, in some ways, everything's gonna slow down

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Speaker 1: the two thousand seventeen season, when when you know all

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers had some very interesting comments at his locker

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Speaker 1: Geronimo Allison, D'Angelo, Yancey and Jake Kumero you mentioned him earlier,

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Speaker 1: from a lot of the other young receivers. Now, if

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Speaker 1: don't know what is. I mean. These guys are going

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Speaker 1: to be motivated enough, obviously, these young guys their first

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Speaker 1: I heard what you said. I'm going to get this

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Speaker 1: the same page with wall I'm glad you brought this

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Speaker 1: and you've covered Rodgers basically his entire career here, he

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Speaker 1: doesn't say anything for the sake of saying it. There's

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Speaker 1: always meaning behind it, there's a reason. And when he

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Speaker 1: was talking about that, yes, you can perseverate on what

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Speaker 1: his comments were about some of the young receivers and things.

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Speaker 1: But the thing I thought about was two years ago

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Speaker 1: While I believe at the time, I want to say

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Speaker 1: Geronimo Allison started to make plays. Geronimo Allison started to

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Speaker 1: the next Geronimo Allison. Not maybe necessarily from the stand

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Speaker 1: can't have any let up. We know how important these

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Speaker 1: then signed him to the offseason roster when when things

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Speaker 1: as I said in our Final Thoughts video, which will

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Speaker 1: And if he continues to make the impression that he's made,

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Speaker 1: this rous Well, and what's funny to me, Mike, In

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Speaker 1: no disrespect to the wonderful University of Wisconsin, Whitewater won

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Speaker 1: numerous Division three championships, but heck of a program. How

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Speaker 1: didn't get a Division one scholarship. Yeah. So, I mean

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Speaker 1: It's one of those things that once everybody's in here

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter where you came from, doesn't matter where you

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Speaker 1: And these guys are gonna be watched close. In a

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Speaker 1: similar message to for D'Angelo Yancey. He he had a

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Speaker 1: make this roster. And I think he's done some nice things.

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Speaker 1: I like how he operates in the slot. And Aaron Rodgers,

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Speaker 1: another position that will definitely be watching on the offensive

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Speaker 1: a lot of snaps at offensive tackle, left side, right side,

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Speaker 1: whatever you want to say on Thursday night, and uh,

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Speaker 1: it's it's a chance for them to make an impression

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Speaker 1: the new surface at lambeau Field. I know, family night,

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Speaker 1: playing a game. It's full sixty minute and everything. And

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Speaker 1: the Packers are actually going to play two games on

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Speaker 1: this new surface now in a span of eight days,

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Speaker 1: So you know, all the reports so far the surfaces

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Speaker 1: to see what it really looks like. I'm throwing a

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Speaker 1: nice little adjective there for you as well. From our

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Speaker 1: public relations court or public affairs coordinator, Katie Hermson, she

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Speaker 1: said it was cute. It was a cute field. It's acute,

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Speaker 1: so for for my for my money though, it's a pristine.

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Speaker 1: I was blown away by how nice it looked. I

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Speaker 1: the last one. Uh. It's it is a everything you

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Speaker 1: wanted to be and I'm excited to see how it

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Speaker 1: All right, With that, we will sign off on this

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Speaker 1: edition of Packers Unscripted. Be sure to follow all of

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Speaker 1: our coverage of the team and of Thursday nights game,

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Speaker 1: of course, on Packers dot com on Twitter. He is

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Speaker 1: a West hot I met Mike Spofford at Packers for

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Speaker 1: the team account. Thanks for tuning in, everybody, See you

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