Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from
Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford. On the other
Speaker 1: screen is Weston Hodkowitz. We're coming to you from different
Speaker 1: locations here at lambeau Field, and it is Thursday, which
Speaker 1: is also schedule release day in the NFL, And while
Speaker 1: things are being prepped and discussed and talked about in
Speaker 1: anticipation of the evening NFL Network show on the schedule,
Speaker 1: we are going to put off talking about the schedule
Speaker 1: until our next show because, actually, Wes, there was an
Speaker 1: interesting off season day at Lambeaufield on Wednesday, the kind
Speaker 1: of day that doesn't happen all the time. And what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, of course, is the first news conference
Speaker 1: for a new QB one here in Green Bay. Jordan
Speaker 1: Love addressed the media in the lambel Field Auditorium along
Speaker 1: with teammates Kenny Clark and Aaron Jones, and just wanted
Speaker 1: to ask you for your impressions, your thoughts on Jordan
Speaker 1: Love at the podium, not that we haven't seen him
Speaker 1: there before, because he started a game. You know, he's
Speaker 1: gotten some playing time and preseason games and all that
Speaker 1: we've certainly you know, had many media sessions with him,
Speaker 1: but this was the first time, you know, with the
Speaker 1: official QB one title.
Speaker 2: So it's funny. This week, I've been going back over
Speaker 2: some of the things I've written about Jordan Love over
Speaker 2: the last three years, and I was going through a
Speaker 2: profile that I did on him after the draft in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty and actually, as I found out while doing that,
Speaker 2: Panini ripped off one of my quotes from that and
Speaker 2: put it on their trading card. So I really appreciate
Speaker 2: that without attribution. I may add, not better or anything,
Speaker 2: but that quote that they took was from David Yost,
Speaker 2: the former offensive coordinator at Utah State, and the quote
Speaker 2: he gave me back for that story is one that
Speaker 2: really resonated with me while he was at the podium
Speaker 2: on Wednesday, and it went like this, Mike, the kid
Speaker 2: is always going to be even keeled if you think
Speaker 2: any better, you know, listening to him, you would think
Speaker 2: his heart rate is like at about thirty good, bad
Speaker 2: or indifferent. Jordan Love is such. I mean, when you
Speaker 2: talk about the construct of a quarterback NFL, college, high school,
Speaker 2: whatever level you want to talk about, there is a
Speaker 2: certain amount of confidence, a certain amount of quiet calmness
Speaker 2: around them that I think you need to excel at
Speaker 2: this level, and Jordan Love has that. Mike, you asked
Speaker 2: me my perceptions, my thoughts, my my you know, takeaways
Speaker 2: from Jordan Love's presser for seventeen minutes. I thought he
Speaker 2: showed that he can be the face of this franchise.
Speaker 2: I thought he showed he can be the one standing
Speaker 2: up in front of the room and handling all types
Speaker 2: of questions. Jordan Love was asked six different ways from
Speaker 2: Sunday about handling pressure, and I felt like his comments
Speaker 2: were very salient in that there's always pressure. It doesn't
Speaker 2: matter if it's Aaron Rodgers, you're succeeding. It doesn't matter
Speaker 2: if your first round pick, doesn't matter if you're Brock Purdy.
Speaker 2: He didn't say that. I'm saying that the quarterback is
Speaker 2: always going to have that on his shoulders. Jordan Love
Speaker 2: is ready for that, Mike. And it was funny near
Speaker 2: the end of the presser, Mike Clemens, one of the
Speaker 2: radio guys, says to him, you know, people ask me
Speaker 2: about you and they don't really know you yet, and
Speaker 2: you know, basically just just what's he like. And I
Speaker 2: think to a certain extent. We do know what Jordan
Speaker 2: Love is like. He is a guy that is going
Speaker 2: to come in and he's going to do his job
Speaker 2: with a personality that I think resonates with that locker room.
Speaker 2: I'll give you something to talk about here. I won't
Speaker 2: steal everything, but the comment that Aaron Jones gave us
Speaker 2: about how you know for three years you haven't heard
Speaker 2: a peep out of this guy, right, I think speaks
Speaker 2: to the character of both the man and also the
Speaker 2: type of teammate that Jordan Love has been in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think what struck me the most, quite frankly,
Speaker 1: is that in some ways, and I'm not saying this
Speaker 1: as a knock on Jordan Love, but I wasn't. I
Speaker 1: wasn't struck by anything really in the press conference, and
Speaker 1: I think I think that's because, you know, we did
Speaker 1: see the same guy that we've seen when he's talked
Speaker 1: to the media at his locker during training camp or
Speaker 1: after a preseason game, or when he has been at
Speaker 1: the podium after some of his regular season action. Jordan Love,
Speaker 1: as you said, he's he's an even keeled guy, and
Speaker 1: that's that's who he is on and off the field.
Speaker 1: That really is the guy that the Packers now have
Speaker 1: commanding the offense. And he didn't walk out there as
Speaker 1: you know, for his for his first session with the
Speaker 1: media as QB one and and feel like, Okay, I
Speaker 1: have to win the press conference. I have to I
Speaker 1: have to answer all these questions so that you know,
Speaker 1: so that all the stories have you know, this certain
Speaker 1: angle or you know. He he didn't take that approach.
Speaker 1: He's he's just like, all right, you know, ask ask
Speaker 1: what you want to ask. I'm gonna give. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give my honest answers and and uh, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: move on with with my day because at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, he knows that it's not about what
Speaker 1: he says in front of the media. It's it's the
Speaker 1: it's the preparation he puts in, it's the way he
Speaker 1: acts around his teammates in the locker room. It's about
Speaker 1: going out on Sundays and winning football games when September
Speaker 1: rolls around, and and that's that's really all he's all
Speaker 1: he's focused on. And and uh, and yes, there is
Speaker 1: going to be that that face of the franchise labeled
Speaker 1: now that that he's the starting quarterback. But my favorite
Speaker 1: line of of the whole thing is, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: to follow up on what you said when he was
Speaker 1: asked all these different ways about pressure, because you know,
Speaker 1: he's following a four time m v P. You know,
Speaker 1: he he's only under contract for two more years, you know,
Speaker 1: with that extension, so he has to he has to
Speaker 1: prove himself and you know, the to for perhaps another
Speaker 1: contract and the pressure that comes with that. And he
Speaker 1: just said, you know, pressure, He's like, that's what I
Speaker 1: signed up for. That's what you sign up for when
Speaker 1: you decide to be a quarterback in the game of
Speaker 1: football and make your way all the way to the
Speaker 1: NFL to play the position. It comes with the territory.
Speaker 1: It's part of the deal. And he totally understands that
Speaker 1: he is not going to be He's not going to
Speaker 1: be overwhelmed, you know, by that aspect of it, because
Speaker 1: quite frankly, I don't think he thinks about it. He
Speaker 1: thinks about that those outside forces all that much. He's
Speaker 1: really he's focused on himself and he's focused on his teammates.
Speaker 2: This kid, ultimately, and I should say young man, he's
Speaker 2: not a kid. He's twenty four years old. But you know,
Speaker 2: he's going to be judged by what he does on
Speaker 2: the field, and I think Jordan understands that. He appreciates
Speaker 2: that he was talking about how he needs to protect
Speaker 2: the ball better, that the things that he needs to
Speaker 2: do as a leader, what he's basically expecting himself of
Speaker 2: himself in this twenty twenty three season. But one of
Speaker 2: the big comments I've made to you during this whole
Speaker 2: journey is for all the outside consternation over Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: and the Green Bay Packers and what was going to happen.
Speaker 2: Is he going to leave after twenty Is he going
Speaker 2: to leave after twenty one? Are they going to do
Speaker 2: an extension with him? Jordan Love never made that situation
Speaker 2: more difficult than it had to be. No One ever
Speaker 2: thought about, well what does that mean for Jordan Love.
Speaker 2: Love even said it. I think it was to your question.
Speaker 2: You know, after Aaron signed the extension, that was probably
Speaker 2: the moment where it was probably the hardest for him
Speaker 2: because now it's like, Okay, well I've put three years
Speaker 2: in here, what does this mean If Aaron Rodgers is
Speaker 2: going to be here for another three years, I'm clearly
Speaker 2: not going to be the guy Then but again that's
Speaker 2: not anything he raised really in the media. He's not
Speaker 2: gone around and made it about him. He was a
Speaker 2: humble servant to what the Green Bay Packers needed him
Speaker 2: to be during that time. And when his time did
Speaker 2: come in Philadelphia last November, it was nine passes, six completions.
Speaker 2: Aaron Jones joked about it probably should have been seven. Uh,
Speaker 2: But the kid was just always the same guy. I know,
Speaker 2: you always go to the podium after games and I
Speaker 2: go to the locker room, and Jordan stood at his
Speaker 2: locker in the away locker room. Now again a guy
Speaker 2: that typically just gets dressed and leaves and gets on
Speaker 2: the bus, grabs his food, he's all good to go.
Speaker 2: Well for that day, he had to sit at his
Speaker 2: locker for probably twenty minutes and answer questions from waves
Speaker 2: of media and same guy. So, to bring it back
Speaker 2: full circle, when David Yos gave me that quote, you know,
Speaker 2: you hear a lot of stuff. You and I will
Speaker 2: do these profiles on kids, you know, after you know,
Speaker 2: they get drafted to Green Bay, and you'll hear all
Speaker 2: sorts of things, some of them spot on some things,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe a little bit of you know, building
Speaker 2: up and don't want to say exaggeration, but you know, different,
Speaker 2: different information. David Yos's comments about that thirty Poulse Heartbeat,
Speaker 2: good bad are indifferent Jordan Love. That's what you see
Speaker 2: and that's what you're gonna get.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I need to clarify something here. So you're
Speaker 1: saying that a quote that only appeared in your story
Speaker 1: on Packers dot Com on Jordan Love showed up on
Speaker 1: a Jordan Trading card trading card.
Speaker 2: It's actually happened. It's happened three times now, believe it
Speaker 2: or not.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: I thought it was cute the first time, but then
Speaker 2: the next few it was like, oh wow, So Panini's
Speaker 2: just ripping these things off. Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess, uh they I guess they scour team
Speaker 1: websites looking for uh, looking for looking for things that
Speaker 1: they think are supposedly free.
Speaker 2: I like, at the very least, credit you or something,
Speaker 2: or credit packers dot com, give us something, Panini, I mean,
Speaker 2: just just ripping it and put it on the back,
Speaker 2: because like again, if it would be a quote that
Speaker 2: I got from a group interview and they whatever, but
Speaker 2: it's like all that was original content. Guys, Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're kind of walking out of the grocery store with
Speaker 2: the with the produce.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's that's what I wanted to clear. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, if it's a comment that was you know,
Speaker 1: said in a large press conference setting and you know,
Speaker 1: has appeared in lots of different you know, media articles,
Speaker 1: media outlets, whatever the case might be, like that, that
Speaker 1: feels a little different. But when it's something that's something
Speaker 1: that's exclusive, you know, to to one particular article that
Speaker 1: just that that seems that seems strange.
Speaker 2: Do you know where it was solicited? Mike? Where it
Speaker 2: was recorded in my bonus room at my house when
Speaker 2: we were in a.
Speaker 1: Panama Yeah, during Yeah, that's right, the post the post
Speaker 1: twenty twenty draft pandemic and we were all, yeah, we
Speaker 1: were all doing our work from home. So well, the
Speaker 1: uh another the other two players we heard from at
Speaker 1: the podium on Wednesday, as it relates to the Packers
Speaker 1: offseason program where they are right now, Aaron Jones and
Speaker 1: Kenny Clark. Obviously, Aaron Jones spoke of you know, his
Speaker 1: support for Jordan Love and and you know, really speaking
Speaker 1: for the entire locker room, and and Kenny as well
Speaker 1: that uh, that this is a locker room that that's
Speaker 1: behind this guy. You know, they're they're going to lay
Speaker 1: it out on the line for him. And and what
Speaker 1: struck me there is that they both spoke of just
Speaker 1: the the respect that they have for Love in terms
Speaker 1: of the way he went about all this, like what
Speaker 1: you were talking about before, how you know, he never
Speaker 1: you know, he never said anything even when there was
Speaker 1: so much uncertainty with with Aaron Rodgers signing a contract
Speaker 1: extension and Jordan Love doesn't know what that means for
Speaker 1: his future. He didn't cause he didn't cause a stir,
Speaker 1: he didn't cause a problem. And that that alone earned
Speaker 1: a certain level of respect in the locker room because
Speaker 1: Jordan Love proved that he's a team player. He's he's
Speaker 1: here in Green Bay to help the Packers win games
Speaker 1: in whatever way the Packers want him to help win games.
Speaker 1: And and I think that's going to go a long
Speaker 1: way in this transition obviously, you know, as the Packers
Speaker 1: are are, you know, making this youth movement so to speak,
Speaker 1: with a lot of veteran players who've been around for
Speaker 1: a while not not coming back, although the door isn't
Speaker 1: closed on all of them, but the locker room is
Speaker 1: definitely skewing younger, and there's a lot of guys in
Speaker 1: the locker room that didn't play a whole heck of
Speaker 1: a lot of years with Aaron Rodgers. So it's not
Speaker 1: as though the transition is going to be something traumatic
Speaker 1: or overly dramatic for those players. But for veteran guys
Speaker 1: like Kenny Clark and Aaron Jones who have been around
Speaker 1: for a while, they've made it very clear that they've
Speaker 1: got their quarterbacks back.
Speaker 2: You know, Mike, The thing that I loved about listening
Speaker 2: to Aaron Jones and Kenny Clark in that whole situation was,
Speaker 2: in a way the situation they are different. But my goodness, Mike,
Speaker 2: when you think of the path that Jones and Clark
Speaker 2: both came on, there are parallels to the situation that
Speaker 2: love finds himself. And Kenny it made sense, right. He
Speaker 2: plays a position where there's usually two or three of
Speaker 2: the guys on the field at the same time with
Speaker 2: him from his group, but he had to wait most
Speaker 2: of his rookie year to finally get some of bigger
Speaker 2: opportunities and then really came on late, then took off
Speaker 2: towards the second half of his second season. Aaron Jones
Speaker 2: every single week in twenty eighteen, and at the end
Speaker 2: of the twenty seventeen season was basically being asked do
Speaker 2: you want more touches? Do you need more touches? And
Speaker 2: he just kept smiling and saying, I will do whatever
Speaker 2: the team asks of me. You can tell both of
Speaker 2: those guys appreciated the tact and the approach that Jordan
Speaker 2: Love took in this situation. And again, when you're talking
Speaker 2: about this next step of this organization, this next step
Speaker 2: of this franchise, these are three of the players that
Speaker 2: I think you want. We talk so much about who
Speaker 2: do you want coming off the bus right who's the
Speaker 2: most intimidating? These are the three guys I think you
Speaker 2: want representing your franchise. And to add on one more
Speaker 2: thing with Jordan Love for people that want to make
Speaker 2: this Love or Rogers Rogers in Love, the fact that
Speaker 2: Love talked about how he spoke with Rogers afterwards, and
Speaker 2: Rogers telling him if you ever need anything, if you
Speaker 2: ever have a question, you still got my number, Still
Speaker 2: give me a call, Let's talk about it. I think
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers too also appreciated the approach that Love took
Speaker 2: to this thing that with his development process and now
Speaker 2: finally getting this opportunity in the very much same way,
Speaker 2: at least on the field as Aaron Rodgers did in
Speaker 2: two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, I think that's I think that's very well said.
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Speaker 1: subject I want to touch on here West before we
Speaker 1: go today, and that is as it relates to Kenny
Speaker 1: Clark speaking to the media yesterday. And I want to
Speaker 1: dial it back a little bit to when we heard
Speaker 1: from Brian gudakuns to a couple of weeks ago during
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft, and particularly when another first round pick
Speaker 1: was invested in the defense, in the selection of Lucas
Speaker 1: van Ness out of Iowa. The Packers are going to
Speaker 1: have a total of eight first round draft picks on
Speaker 1: the field as far as the starting or you know,
Speaker 1: if you consider the you know, twelfth and thirteenth guys,
Speaker 1: you know, with sub packages, essentially you're starting defensive unit
Speaker 1: eight first round draft picks. And Brian Gudokunz made no
Speaker 1: bones about the fact that the expectations for this unit
Speaker 1: are going to be very high, and even setting aside
Speaker 1: the fact that that is a unit that the Packers
Speaker 1: are going to be really counting on as they make
Speaker 1: this transition to Jordan Love at quarterback and the franchise takes,
Speaker 1: you know, takes this new road, and you know, you
Speaker 1: go back to last year and we had talked about it,
Speaker 1: where the expectations were very high for the defense and
Speaker 1: the offense was making this a big transition, not as
Speaker 1: big as this year, but still a significant transition without
Speaker 1: DeVante Adams, that wide receiver, that was going to be
Speaker 1: a big shift for the passing game, and there was
Speaker 1: a lot placed on the defense to you know, sort
Speaker 1: of hold up its end, at least in the early going,
Speaker 1: while the offense could settle into this new reality and
Speaker 1: get things going and and you know, really starting with
Speaker 1: the starting with the London game. You know, the Packers
Speaker 1: were out to a three and one start. Everything looked
Speaker 1: like it was all right. But then starting with the
Speaker 1: London game, you know, things started to go south for
Speaker 1: the defense and and it really didn't get back to
Speaker 1: playing the way everybody had hoped and planned until the
Speaker 1: stretch weren't run when the Packers were trying to steal
Speaker 1: a playoff spot there at the end. Kenny Clark, you know,
Speaker 1: is absolutely clear on what the expectations for this defense are.
Speaker 1: And hearing from him, it sounds like the defense is
Speaker 1: not going to run and hide from those expectations, even
Speaker 1: as even as for a unit that didn't live up
Speaker 1: to it last year, and he knows they didn't live
Speaker 1: up to it last year, but they aren't going to
Speaker 1: run and hide from those expectations. Again. The sense I
Speaker 1: got is it's like, yeah, the expectations should be high,
Speaker 1: Bring it on, we need to come through for this
Speaker 1: football team.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And that man, I mean Missus Clark. She raised
Speaker 2: that kid so well because it's not just about the
Speaker 2: football team. You go back at the end of last season,
Speaker 2: I think it was Jason Wilde who did a feature
Speaker 2: I did a story on Kenny talking about his own year,
Speaker 2: how he expected more out of himself. You know, it's
Speaker 2: never good enough, and he's never going to come up
Speaker 2: with excuses to talk about not meeting expectations. He knows
Speaker 2: what the expectations are being one of those eight first
Speaker 2: round picks right now on this roster, including Lucas Faness.
Speaker 2: The weird thing about the twenty twenty two season defensively
Speaker 2: for Green Bay was I think they were at their
Speaker 2: best in terms of the talent on the field early,
Speaker 2: but it was almost like after the Rashan Gary injury
Speaker 2: and also Eric Stokes, they had to reconfigure things. I
Speaker 2: felt like they were the better team, the better unit
Speaker 2: later in the season. They're gonna get Gary back. They
Speaker 2: need Rashaan Gary back, no questions about that. But I
Speaker 2: think it's about understanding where guys fit in this scheme
Speaker 2: and also where they're gonna get the most productivity from
Speaker 2: the corresponding pieces. You can have the eleven best players
Speaker 2: at their position together on the field, but if it
Speaker 2: doesn't act cohesively, if it doesn't meet with the scheme,
Speaker 2: if it doesn't if all the parts do not attach,
Speaker 2: it's going to be a tough ghost still, and I
Speaker 2: felt like in the second half they did a better
Speaker 2: job playing together as a unit. The other thing that
Speaker 2: Green Bay tapped into the second part of the season
Speaker 2: that I think was important was after Stokes's injury. Rasseul Douglas,
Speaker 2: to my eye, is his position's perimeter corner. I give
Speaker 2: him credit for try and slot. I know there's a
Speaker 2: lot of hubbub in the offseason about hey, could he
Speaker 2: go to safety? Let Rasseull Douglas be a perimeter corner.
Speaker 2: When he's a perimeter corner. The guy has what MI
Speaker 2: like eight interceptions and like what seventeen games as a
Speaker 2: packer at this point when he's playing outside, I mean right,
Speaker 2: he is a good compliment to what they're doing with
Speaker 2: jyr Alexander, especially with not knowing what's gonna happen with
Speaker 2: Eric Stokes. I think you need dog mentality players like
Speaker 2: Keishawn Nixon in this scheme. You know, you hope that
Speaker 2: both kway Walker gets another year better and Devondre Campbell
Speaker 2: being a little healthier this year is gonna help. But
Speaker 2: everybody gets it. Joe Barry, we haven't talked to him
Speaker 2: yet this offseason, but he gets it. The defense is
Speaker 2: the area of this team that is fortified right now.
Speaker 2: It is the area of the team that doesn't have
Speaker 2: to make you know, big strides with a young unit.
Speaker 2: They have experience coming back and they need to play
Speaker 2: to that experience level.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think what was so mysterious, not that
Speaker 1: we need to rehash everything with last year, but what
Speaker 1: was so mysterious about what was going on with the
Speaker 1: defense last year is that we constantly regularly saw spurts
Speaker 1: of really really good defensive play and what was expected
Speaker 1: of the team was visible at certain times, but it
Speaker 1: was It was never for a full game. It was
Speaker 1: never for a couple of games. I mean I think
Speaker 1: back to, you know, the the game against the Jets,
Speaker 1: the one that was right after the really tough loss
Speaker 1: in London. The Jets had like eight consecutive possessions and
Speaker 1: they scored three points. Now, the offense wasn't holding up
Speaker 1: its end in that game, but the defense was doing,
Speaker 1: you know, was doing what you thought you would do
Speaker 1: with a young quarterback like Zach Wilson coming into lambeau Field.
Speaker 2: But then as the.
Speaker 1: Game war on, you know, suddenly things start to change
Speaker 1: and the defense goes the other way. The game at Washington,
Speaker 1: you know, the Devandre Campbell gets a pick six. You know,
Speaker 1: at halftime, you know, everything's looking pretty good, and then suddenly,
Speaker 1: you know, when when the Packers really need some some
Speaker 1: stops in the second half to h to be able
Speaker 1: to win that game, then then, uh, you know, the
Speaker 1: snowball was going the wrong way down the hill. And
Speaker 1: you know, consistency is the hardest thing to uh to
Speaker 1: achieve in this league. We know that, right It's it's
Speaker 1: not even it's not even realistic to ask for consistency,
Speaker 1: but it's But for this defense, I think when you
Speaker 1: compare to last year, it's about trying to smooth out
Speaker 1: the ups and downs. You're going to have some ups
Speaker 1: and downs, but you know, the valleys can't be quite
Speaker 1: so deep and the peak the peaks can't be quite
Speaker 1: so far above what is you know, sort of like
Speaker 1: the normal standard of play. There needs to be there
Speaker 1: needs to be a leveling out of how things go
Speaker 1: so that so that the coaches, the players themselves, the
Speaker 1: other side of the ball, of the offense can know,
Speaker 1: you know, what they can count on from from the defense.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the biggest task that Joe Berry,
Speaker 1: his coaching staff and all of these veteran players in
Speaker 1: first round picks have on defense is to is to
Speaker 1: play a smoother or more reliable brand of football, not
Speaker 1: something that swings wildly from like, oh, that looks like
Speaker 1: the greatest defense you know ever to oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: it looks like they can't stop anybody, and and this
Speaker 1: game is completely going the wrong direction. So something, you know,
Speaker 1: some sort of a middle ground there, because if you
Speaker 1: can find that middle ground, you know the talent is there, Yeah,
Speaker 1: to play well enough to win games. And that's where
Speaker 1: the that's this Packers defense needs to get to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mike, you make so many good points in that,
Speaker 2: but I think your best one there is with the
Speaker 2: consistency piece, because what is consistency in this game? The
Speaker 2: offense are going to win at times, and if the
Speaker 2: offenses don't beat you occasionally, the referees will. There are
Speaker 2: things that are going to go against you in these games, right, yep,
Speaker 2: no question, but the important pieces. I think this is where,
Speaker 2: ultimately and probably why it made sense where Green Bay
Speaker 2: fell last year and a lot of the rankings was
Speaker 2: when they were stopping teams. Man, they were stopping teams,
Speaker 2: and then when teams got on runs like Heineke did
Speaker 2: in the second half against Washington, they were really having
Speaker 2: a difficult time getting them off the field. That's going
Speaker 2: to be the thing. Hey, team goes down, has a
Speaker 2: twelve play drive eighty yards, seventy five yards, gets a touchdown. Cool,
Speaker 2: whatever it happens. But the next series, you're looking for
Speaker 2: three and outs, you're looking to stop them at midfield,
Speaker 2: You're looking to get the ball back by in your direction.
Speaker 2: That's where I think the Packers defense needs to get
Speaker 2: to this season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's something that we'll be talking about, certainly
Speaker 1: all through training camp and through the early portion of
Speaker 1: the seasons as the offense makes the biggest transition it's
Speaker 1: had to make in fifteen years here with moving on
Speaker 1: to a new starting quarterback. So with that, we'll call
Speaker 1: it a wrap on this edition of Packers Unscripted. On
Speaker 1: our next show, we will talk everything about the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three schedule. We'll break it down from all sorts
Speaker 1: of angles for you. But until then, for Wes, I
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