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Speaker 3: It is week one of the regular season, and that

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Speaker 3: I thought the special occasion of week one you have

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Speaker 1: Is that what it is?

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Speaker 2: My favorite guests. Oh so that's just where it wears

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Speaker 1: Fourteen last year, something changed. Yeah, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 3: Obviously you did play in Green Bay. They haven't had

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Speaker 1: that that they can play with and what do you think.

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Speaker 1: I Look, I think Tyleek's got a ton of potential.

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Speaker 1: I do, and we only got to see him for

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Speaker 1: you know, what, was it, maybe twelve fifteen snaps against

432
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Speaker 1: Atlanta like a month ago. Yeah, you know, I think

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Speaker 1: that Tyleek missed a lot of the offseason, right this guy, Remember,

434
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Speaker 1: like we talked about it before the show, this guy

435
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Speaker 1: played sixteen games last year. Yeah, I mean that's a

436
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Speaker 1: full NFL season, right almost. I know they're seventeen now,

437
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Speaker 1: but like, that's that's a lot to be able to. Okay,

438
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Speaker 1: now I'm going right into the combine. Now, I'm going

439
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Speaker 1: right into the draft. Now, I'm going right into ot is. Now,

440
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Speaker 1: I'm going right into the Like, you don't really get

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Speaker 1: a time off. So I'm not trying to say it's

442
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Speaker 1: a neg, but I think ty Leak is like probably

443
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Speaker 1: glad that the season's finally here and like I get

444
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Speaker 1: to finally get into a rhythm, you know what I mean.

445
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Speaker 1: I'm not like you're still going to be in that

446
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Speaker 1: grind phase. Don't get me wrong, but it's not like

447
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Speaker 1: it is, you know, in the offseason in training camp

448
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Speaker 1: when you're a young player and there's just so much

449
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Speaker 1: coming at you. I think the game's going to probably

450
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Speaker 1: start slowing down for him a little bit. But I

451
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Speaker 1: love the potential that he has, especially when it comes

452
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Speaker 1: to stop in the run. I think that's going to

453
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Speaker 1: be maybe his bread and butter early on, much like

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Speaker 1: it was with a Lee McNeil when he was a

455
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Speaker 1: young player. Was like, dude, go out there, eat up blocks,

456
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Speaker 1: free up our linebackers. Don't get pushed, you know, three

457
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Speaker 1: yards off the ball. Just go hold your ground and

458
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Speaker 1: get off blocks and make some plays. And he's shown

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Speaker 1: the ability to do that, and I think that that's

460
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Speaker 1: what this defense, especially in the run game, really revolves around.

461
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Speaker 1: Its you have a linebacker as a defensive coordinator, a

462
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Speaker 1: lot of the thing is going to be, hey, like,

463
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Speaker 1: our linebackers are here to make the tackles. You guys

464
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Speaker 1: go eat up the blocks and let the linebackers clean

465
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Speaker 1: it up. Let him go finish it up and entire

466
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Speaker 1: League's definitely a guy that fits that mold. So I'm

467
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Speaker 1: excited to see what he can bring. I'm excited to

468
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Speaker 1: see what DJ reader taking that next step. It sounds

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Speaker 1: like Coach said, man like just kind of a sneaky dominant.

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Speaker 1: The camp play, yeah, like just a sneaky like yeah yeah,

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Speaker 1: dominant training camp out of a veteran guy like Roy Lopez,

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Speaker 1: another guy that excited to watch what he can bring.

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Speaker 1: I think that, you know, if those guys all stay

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Speaker 1: healthy and they can play the style of football that

475
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Speaker 1: Kelvin wantson to, they're gonna be really really tough to

476
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Speaker 1: run the football on. You're gonna have to find really

477
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Speaker 1: unique and creative ways as an offensive coordinator to find

478
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Speaker 1: some holes on that defense. And especially like we already mentioned,

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Speaker 1: you know, with the linebacker group they have, and with

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Speaker 1: the safeties that they have that aren't afraid to come

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Speaker 1: get their nose dirty. And you know, same with the

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Speaker 1: Meek Robertson. I mean, everybody on that defense, they're not

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Speaker 1: afraid to tackle.

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Speaker 2: It's a pretty requisit.

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Speaker 1: They almost take it like personal when you try to

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Speaker 1: run the football on it, you know what I mean,

487
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Speaker 1: take it like a slap in the base, like you're

488
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Speaker 1: gonna try to run the book. So but I love

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Speaker 1: that attitude. I love the I love the uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of the characteristics that Kelvin Shepard wants to build

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Speaker 1: on that defense.

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Speaker 3: And they've got a good test this week with Josh

493
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Speaker 3: Jacobs as a top five rushing attack from Green Bay

494
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Speaker 3: last year. And just to finish up your point on

495
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Speaker 3: ty Leak too, is he can impact the game without

496
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Speaker 3: eating up the stat sheet, you know, Oh yeah, And

497
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Speaker 3: that I think will be the one thing that you

498
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Speaker 3: watch with ty Leek playing on the other side of

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Speaker 3: line of scrimmage, you know, forcing disruption of plays. Maybe

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Speaker 3: you don't make the tackle, but you make the back

501
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Speaker 3: go the other way because you're on the other side

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Speaker 3: of the line of scrimmage. You take up those that

503
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Speaker 3: double team to allow the linebacker or someone else on

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Speaker 3: that defensive line to free up. So it might not

505
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Speaker 3: look crazy on the stat sheet, but he can impact

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Speaker 3: the game otherwise.

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Speaker 1: And that's just being you know, a role player. Like

508
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Speaker 1: nobody's expecting you to come out and go get two

509
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Speaker 1: sacks and ten quarterback hits and you know, four PFLs,

510
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Speaker 1: Like you're not expected to do that as a young player,

511
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter, first round draft pick, undrafted gat like, go

512
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Speaker 1: out there, know your role in this defense, and then

513
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Speaker 1: we can start throwing things more things at you when

514
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Speaker 1: you can go prove that you can be that consistent player.

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Speaker 1: So I'm with you. I mean it doesn't. You know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people they look at the statue, Oh yeah,

517
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Speaker 1: zero tackle, zero quarterback hits like yeah, you know, like

518
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Speaker 1: he didn't have he didn't do anything. But then you

519
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Speaker 1: watch the film and you're like, man, like the guy

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Speaker 1: wrecked the game without even having a tackle. Like that's demoralizing, right.

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Speaker 1: So I think he's definitely got that ability to go

522
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Speaker 1: out there and you know, play that role and you know,

523
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Speaker 1: dude do whatever he can to help this defense start

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Speaker 1: out with the banguns Sunday. I'm excited.

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Speaker 3: It's Week one, it's lambeau Field, it's intra division.

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Speaker 2: Beautiful weather, beautiful weather.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's it's exciting. That's football's back, no doubt,

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Speaker 3: no got we got football rolling. I appreciate you taking

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Speaker 3: the time as always, very informative, one of my favorite

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Speaker 3: guys to have on. Appreciate you always.

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Speaker 1: Thanks thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the twenty M Huddle podcast.

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Speaker 3: I am very happy to welcome in one of my

534
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Speaker 3: favorite NFL beat reporters in the entirely, Rob Damowski does

535
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Speaker 3: a great job covering the Green Bay Packers for ESPN. Rob,

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Speaker 3: thanks for joining me so not much really, happening in

537
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Speaker 3: Green Bay over the last week.

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Speaker 4: Huh oh dam, I'm just all quiet, just getting ready

539
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Speaker 4: for the season. They didn't trade for a all pro

540
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Speaker 4: pass rusher, they didn't pay him one hundred and eighty

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Speaker 4: eight million dollars. They didn't give up two first round

542
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Speaker 4: picks and one of their Pro Bowl defensive tackle. Oh wait,

543
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Speaker 4: they actually did to get to Mike H. Park to

544
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Speaker 4: get Micah Parsons here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just your first initial thoughts of the trade.

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Speaker 3: Obviously you lose a player in Kenny Clark who here

547
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Speaker 3: in Detroit. He was a guy that these coaches raved about,

548
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Speaker 3: that you had to prepare for, that was in the

549
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Speaker 3: center of that defense.

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Speaker 2: Obviously a Pro Bowl player.

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Speaker 3: But you pick up a guy on Micah Parsons that

552
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Speaker 3: you can now pair with Rashaan Gary, guy who had

553
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Speaker 3: fifty two and a half saxes first four years and

554
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Speaker 3: league's average thirteen a year. Just what does it mean

555
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Speaker 3: for Green Bay's defense?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, a couple of things. Let's say Kenny Kenny Clark's

557
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Speaker 4: first great player, but look, he was about to turn

558
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Speaker 4: thirty years old, didn't have his best year last year.

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Speaker 4: You know, the Packers like to be young. They're probably

560
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Speaker 4: going to be the youngest or one of the youngest

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Speaker 4: teams in the league again this year, so that part

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Speaker 4: of it made sense. The part that was so unpackers

563
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Speaker 4: like was giving up two first round picks, Like they don't.

564
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Speaker 4: This is a draft and develop organization. The last time

565
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Speaker 4: that they traded a first round pick for a player

566
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Speaker 4: was when they traded one for Brett Favro in nineteen

567
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Speaker 4: ninety two, so it does not happen very often, and

568
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Speaker 4: then they traded two of them. But look, the biggest

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Speaker 4: weakness in my opinion, and I think in a lot

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Speaker 4: of people's opinions coming out of last season, was the

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Speaker 4: pass rush, and they really didn't do anything significant in

572
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Speaker 4: free agency in that regard. They didn't draft a pass

573
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Speaker 4: rusher until Day three, and the only real significant change

574
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Speaker 4: they made was that they changed defensive line coaches and

575
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Speaker 4: brought in DeMarcus Covington, who had been with the Patriots

576
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Speaker 4: for quite a while, to try to get guys like

577
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Speaker 4: Rashan Gary and Lucas van Ness to be more productive.

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Speaker 4: But that was basically it. So going into the season,

579
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Speaker 4: it was still a at least a perceived weakness on

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Speaker 4: this team, and they sure waited until the very last minute,

581
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Speaker 4: but I guess better late than ever, and certainly to

582
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Speaker 4: get a player of Parsons caliber. You mentioned the numbers.

583
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Speaker 4: The last time the Packers had a one player with

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Speaker 4: a double digit sack season was the year before Michael

585
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Speaker 4: Parsons came into the NFL. So Rason Garis had some

586
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Speaker 4: nice production, but I think he's had nine nine and

587
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Speaker 4: a half a couple of years. But the last double

588
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Speaker 4: digit sack guy I believe was Zadarius Smith in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 3: What is a fan base thought about this edition because

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Speaker 3: from the outside looking him from a guy from Detroit,

591
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Speaker 3: I look at this and I think, Wow, the Packers

592
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Speaker 3: think they're one player away. You know, obviously they've got

593
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Speaker 3: some of the pieces on offense, really steady offensive line,

594
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Speaker 3: some of the pieces on defense. Was this a move

595
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Speaker 3: that was made kind of like, Hey, I think we're

596
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Speaker 3: one piece of way where we can challenge Detroit for

597
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Speaker 3: the NFC North and we can we can get to

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Speaker 3: a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 4: The thing is General manager Brian Uncuns has said in

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Speaker 4: the past, but we've talked about trade deadline stuff that

601
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Speaker 4: he didn't He's like, we're never one you're never one

602
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 4: player away. Well, he said it again after this trade,

603
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Speaker 4: and it's one of his go to lines. But it

604
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Speaker 4: sure does seem like they thought this was the final

605
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Speaker 4: or one of the final pieces to get them there

606
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Speaker 4: in terms of like popularity. The draft was here, right,

607
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Speaker 4: they drafted Matthew Golden in the first round, and he

608
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Speaker 4: walked across that stage here and it was chaos, Like

609
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Speaker 4: people went crazy because, as you know, the Packers haven't

610
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Speaker 4: drafted a receiver in the first round here since two

611
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Speaker 4: thousand and two, like the longest and any team has

612
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Speaker 4: gone without a first round receiver, and the crowd went

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Speaker 4: crazy for that. If they had set up that same

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Speaker 4: draft stage in the parking lot of Labou Field on

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Speaker 4: Friday when Micah Parsons arrived and walked him across, I

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Speaker 4: think it would be just as kick crazy of a reaction,

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Speaker 4: if not more so. I mean, people here are I

618
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Speaker 4: don't think they could be more excited than they are

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Speaker 4: about those two moves.

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Speaker 3: Especially will those fans get to see Michael Parsons on

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Speaker 3: the field when they kicked that ball off at four

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Speaker 3: to twenty five Eastern time on Sunday.

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Speaker 5: It's a great question.

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Speaker 4: Obviously, you know he didn't participate in any of training

625
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,440
Speaker 4: camp or really any of the off season stuff because

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Speaker 4: of either the contract and or a back injury one

627
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Speaker 4: or both of those. You know, people have questioned whether

628
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Speaker 4: he has a back injury. Of his agent, you know,

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Speaker 4: said this week that he does have a back injury,

630
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Speaker 4: and then he received started receiving treatment for it when

631
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Speaker 4: he was with the Cowboys. I can tell you that

632
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Speaker 4: the plan is for him to play on Sunday, but

633
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Speaker 4: the question is how much it'll depend on how he

634
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Speaker 4: feels by the end of the week. But the start

635
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 4: of his time here, he was able to do some

636
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Speaker 4: individual drills and from what talking to a bunch of

637
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Speaker 4: the players, that was expected to ramp up as the

638
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Speaker 4: week went on. So, you know, unless there's a setback,

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Speaker 4: I would expect him to play at least some.

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Speaker 5: I mean, he's not going to play sixty or.

641
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Speaker 4: Seventy plays, but it wouldn't surprise me if he played

642
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Speaker 4: fifteen twenty twenty five snaps on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: All right, Rob, enough of that default stuff.

644
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Speaker 3: Let's get do the fun stuff, right, the skill positions

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Speaker 3: on offense and the thing everybody wants to talk about, right,

646
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Speaker 3: Jordan Love dealt with a thumb injury.

647
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Speaker 2: I believe it was missed a lot of training.

648
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Speaker 1: Gamp.

649
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Speaker 2: How is he for Week one and any concerns there

650
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Speaker 2: at all.

651
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Speaker 4: Well, it's his left thumb, and as everyone knows, he's

652
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Speaker 4: a right handed quarterback.

653
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Speaker 5: So I mean it's you know, if you're.

654
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Speaker 4: Gonna if you're gonna hurt a finger on any of

655
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Speaker 4: your hands, it's better to be the non throwing hand

656
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 4: right now, it does, you know, he he was handing

657
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Speaker 4: off a little weird like balls that he would normally

658
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Speaker 4: hand off like this way he's with his left hand.

659
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Speaker 4: He sort of had to turn sideways and use his

660
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Speaker 4: right hand, and they were sort of deciding if that's

661
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Speaker 4: the way he was gonna have to do it uh

662
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Speaker 4: in the game, or or if they were just trying

663
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Speaker 4: to protect it from any contact and practice, he did

664
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Speaker 4: say he's gonna have to have it braced up, which

665
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Speaker 4: is gonna limit some of the mobility. But he was

666
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Speaker 4: able to take snaps, you know, from the center, was

667
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Speaker 4: able to catch shotgun snaps from what we've seen, with

668
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Speaker 4: no issues. So I wouldn't think there'd be anything from

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Speaker 4: an injury standpoint. Now you mentioned he you know, he

670
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Speaker 4: missed so much time in camp. That's that's part of

671
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Speaker 4: it that might be a concern. But the second part

672
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Speaker 4: of that is most of their receivers have been hurt

673
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Speaker 4: or missed so much time during camp. Jane Reid barely

674
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Speaker 4: practiced during training camp, D'antavian Wicks barely practiced. Christian Watson,

675
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Speaker 4: of course, is out will will miss at least the

676
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Speaker 4: first four weeks and probably a little more while he's

677
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Speaker 4: recovering from the ACL injury. So it basically left Romeo

678
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Speaker 4: Dobbs as the only real returning experience receiver that was

679
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Speaker 4: there every day. And I mentioned Matthew Golden, the first

680
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Speaker 4: round pick. He has been everything that they could have

681
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Speaker 4: wanted so far. I mean, Tim, I don't think he

682
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Speaker 4: dropped a pass in any practice that we saw the

683
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Speaker 4: entire summer. He runs routes smoothly, he catches it clean,

684
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Speaker 4: he gets open. You know, obviously he's a rookie, he's

685
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Speaker 4: never played in an NFL regular season game before, but

686
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Speaker 4: from what we've seen, he looks to be the real deal.

687
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Speaker 4: So there is that. But again, he has not had

688
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Speaker 4: a ton of reps with Jordan Love either, So I

689
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Speaker 4: think the question with the offense and the quarterback is

690
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Speaker 4: not so much the injury, but just the time away

691
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Speaker 4: this summer, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, And to your point, you looked at Green Bay

693
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Speaker 3: and the receiver corps. I think seven and a half

694
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Speaker 3: percent drop percentage that was number one in the NFL

695
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 3: last year. I think twenty five drops were third overall.

696
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Speaker 3: That was an issue.

697
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Speaker 2: So they went and got Matthew Golden.

698
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Speaker 3: And from what you're saying, he's your version of Jamison

699
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Speaker 3: Williams and how they can use him. And we know

700
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Speaker 3: here in Detroit just what that means for an offense

701
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Speaker 3: and what it means for everybody else. But I'm curious

702
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Speaker 3: about save On Williams too. He's a guy that I liked,

703
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 3: your third round draft pick, A big body guy. How

704
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Speaker 3: has he been and how of Matthew and Savean kind

705
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Speaker 3: of worked themselves into the mix.

706
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Speaker 4: So Savan Williams is another guy who's missed a ton

707
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Speaker 4: of time. He's when he first got here in the

708
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Speaker 4: after the draft, was going through the offseason stuff, he

709
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 4: was wearing a red jersey, which here means no contact

710
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 4: because he had his shoulder injury. They were easing him

711
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Speaker 4: back in from that, and then early in camp had

712
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 4: a hamstring injury. So has missed a ton of time.

713
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Speaker 4: He is back and has been back here for the

714
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 4: last little bit practicing. But again, a guy who hasn't

715
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Speaker 4: had a lot of work, hasn't had a lot of reps.

716
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Speaker 4: But I can tell you from just a physical standpoint,

717
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 4: like he's the biggest, longest, lankiest, you know, just big

718
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 4: bodied looking receiver that they have on this roster. But

719
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Speaker 4: he's also athletics, shifty and all that. It's not like

720
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 4: he's big and slow. He is big and fast, and

721
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Speaker 4: it would not surprise me if they try to find

722
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Speaker 4: ways to use him in you know, jet sweep and

723
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Speaker 4: end around, you know, even out of the backfield stuff.

724
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Speaker 4: But again, the problem there is that he just doesn't

725
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Speaker 4: have a lot of reps under.

726
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Speaker 5: His belt right now.

727
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Speaker 4: So he could be a guy who if he does

728
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Speaker 4: play and is able to go, it's it's again it's

729
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Speaker 4: a small package of fifteen twenty plays or something like that.

730
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Speaker 2: That'll be one of my favorite matchups to watch on

731
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Speaker 2: Sunday is just how those new weapons and especially after

732
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Speaker 2: what you described, you know, see him from Golden and

733
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Speaker 2: how he fits in this Detroit secondary is probably the

734
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Speaker 2: best secondary that I've seen in my sixteen years covering

735
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 2: the team going into a season just from a talent

736
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Speaker 2: and depth standpoint, so that should be a fun matchup. Rob.

737
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Speaker 3: I'm curious on this those smart people in Las Vegas

738
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 3: when once you guys made the trade for Micah Parsons,

739
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, Green Bay clicked ahead of Detroit

740
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 3: as the favorite for you know, the NFC North title.

741
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Speaker 3: I'm curious, how are people responding in Green Bay to

742
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 3: kind of that?

743
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, and you know, Tim, what the expectations

744
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 4: are around here. I mean, they call this place title town.

745
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 4: And while most cities, probably a lot of fan bases

746
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 4: would be fine and be happy with the trajectory that

747
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 4: the Packers are on. You know, they made the quarterback

748
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 4: change obviously to Jordan Love. The first year, they win

749
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 4: nine games and win a playoff game. Last year they

750
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 4: win eleven games. But I'll tell you what, people are

751
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 4: impatient around here. And I think that you know, even

752
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 4: before or the Mica Pyson's trade, I mean, they were

753
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 4: from at least from the fans from the outside, there

754
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:06,479
Speaker 4: were a lot of there was a lot of pressure

755
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 4: on this team. You know, they've they've sort of done

756
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 4: step A, but they really haven't taken step B. Or

757
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 4: c and that's you know, getting to an NFC championship

758
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 4: game or get into a super Bowl. And to me, like,

759
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 4: you know, there's some people who call this entitled town

760
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 4: because the fans think they're entitled to, uh, you know,

761
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 4: twelve thirteen wins every year and playing for a chance

762
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 4: to go to the super Bowl. But that is the

763
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 4: reality here and that's the expectation. So I do think

764
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 4: this is a bit of a it's not a make

765
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Speaker 4: or break year, but it's definitely an important year, uh

766
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:41,959
Speaker 4: for this organization and to see where they're going as

767
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 4: a football team.

768
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Speaker 2: All Right, I want to end with this one, and

769
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Speaker 2: I like to end this one quite a bit.

770
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Speaker 3: But Rob, I'm curiously being the first week of the season,

771
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 3: there's a lot of new faces, a lot of guys

772
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 3: change change spots. Is there a guy that maybe is

773
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 3: an onlines fans radar that that maybe jumped out to

774
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 3: you a little bit in camp, or somebody that can

775
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 3: play have an impact Sunday that maybe isn't isn't kind

776
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 3: of one of those guys you go in game planning.

777
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 4: For, will he give you a two real quick one

778
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 4: on each side of the ball. Luke Muskraves is a

779
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 4: third year tight end, has been hurt a ton and

780
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 4: you guys have seen Tucker Kraft make a bunch of plays. Well,

781
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 4: they think they have both those guys healthy.

782
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:19,919
Speaker 5: Now.

783
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 4: Musgrave is more athletic than Kraft, to be honest with you,

784
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 4: but they haven't been able to show it. So don't

785
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 4: be surprised if you see eighty eight Luke Muskrave getting

786
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 4: a lot of opportunities. And then on the other side

787
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 4: of the ball. He's new to the other side of

788
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 4: the ball, but he's not new to fans. Bou Melton

789
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 4: was a receiver here in the last two years. He

790
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 4: made the transition to cornerback and they didn't do it

791
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 4: until the last week of the offseason program. So the

792
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 4: June Mini caamp moved into cornerback. He not only made

793
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:48,879
Speaker 4: this team, but right now is probably either number three

794
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 4: or four on the cornerback depth chart. You knew him

795
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:55,839
Speaker 4: as number eighty as a receiver, You're gonna see him

796
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,879
Speaker 4: as number sixteen as a cornerback. And keep in mind

797
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,759
Speaker 4: his brother Max Melt a cornerback in this league for

798
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 4: the Cardinals, so there's cornerback in the family. But he

799
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,800
Speaker 4: had never played it before in college or the NFL,

800
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 4: and he's going into one his third or fourth NFL season.

801
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Speaker 2: I love those stories.

802
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:13,359
Speaker 3: I love the fact that it's Week one, that we're

803
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,320
Speaker 3: talking about real football and we've got a monster NFC

804
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 3: North matchup Week one. One of these teams is going

805
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:20,959
Speaker 3: to be able to send a message to the other

806
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 3: into really the rest of the NFC North, whether it's hey,

807
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 3: we're still on top Detroit or Green Bay saying hey

808
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 3: look at us two, we've arrived. It should be a

809
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 3: fun one.

810
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Speaker 1: Rob.

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Speaker 3: Thanks so much for taking the time. You are absolutely

812
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:34,479
Speaker 3: one of the best in the business in my book,

813
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 3: and I appreciate it.

814
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 5: No problem at all. It's my pleasure him.

815
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the twentyment of Huddle podcast The Man

816
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Speaker 3: Next to Me. No, it needs no introduction. In the

817
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Speaker 3: Left Tackle Extraordinar Taylor Decker. Ten years Is that crazy

818
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 3: to think about ten years?

819
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 6: Yeah, because you know, I still feel young, at least

820
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 6: when I get going after my warm up. But to

821
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 6: think it's like it's almost been a third of my

822
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 6: life I've been in the NFL. That's that's crazy. And

823
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 6: ten years is always a big goal of mine. So

824
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 6: I've been super fortunate. You know, you know, I've worked hard,

825
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 6: but I've also been fortunate and lucky in other instances.

826
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Speaker 3: Max out that pension, right, Yeah, yeah, big dude, I

827
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Speaker 3: gotta we got to talk about it to your kids.

828
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Speaker 1: You.

829
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 3: I love it in training camp when the families and

830
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 3: the kids come. Your daughter is getting big and your

831
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:30,319
Speaker 3: your son eight months old standing up? Now, just how

832
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 3: has having kids, having a family? How's that grounded you

833
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 3: a little bit?

834
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 2: How's it?

835
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Speaker 1: How's it changed you?

836
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 6: It's a big perspective shift, because when you go home,

837
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 6: you like, if you had a bad day, it doesn't matter,

838
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 6: and it's not because it doesn't matter, but you want

839
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 6: to go be there and you want to be present

840
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,360
Speaker 6: with those kids. And you know, when your daughter's shown

841
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 6: you rocks that the groundhog left her in the front

842
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 6: yard because she left cauliflower out for him, Like, how

843
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 6: can you not be excited about that?

844
00:36:58,840 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 1: Right?

845
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 6: It's been you know, a good like stressfully for me

846
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 6: to be able to go there and be able to

847
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,360
Speaker 6: kind of turn off the football player and and just

848
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 6: be dad. And like, my wife's the same way. She's like,

849
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 6: you know, whenever you're done, she's like, don't feel any

850
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 6: pressure for me like, you got to keep playing. I

851
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 6: just want you to be happy and do what you

852
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 6: want to do. So and then you get the little

853
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,800
Speaker 6: the little babies and you get to see them growing,

854
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,400
Speaker 6: and it's definitely perspective shift.

855
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,359
Speaker 3: Does it change you as a player a little bit?

856
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's made me want to like go home,

857
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:31,879
Speaker 6: Like like I'm gonna do my work when I need

858
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 6: to here, but when it's time to go home, I'm

859
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 6: gonna go home. We're not going to stay here and

860
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 6: just to stay here and just do extra stuff, just

861
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Speaker 6: to do extra stuff to prioritizing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's

862
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 6: it's it's allowed me to prioritize and then also prioritize

863
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 6: my family because when I can pour into them, they

864
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 6: can pour back into me and I can give more

865
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:49,320
Speaker 6: as a player.

866
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 3: You know, we've been so used to the offensive line

867
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 3: kind of being that that steady force, right and no

868
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,399
Speaker 3: question marks. We know they're gonna be you know, that

869
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:00,359
Speaker 3: unit one of the best units on the team. Put

870
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 3: three new starters on the offensive line, there's a few

871
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 3: question marks going into the season. Obviously, Graham is a

872
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 3: veteran guy. He's played thirty eight you know, snap or

873
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 3: thirty eight games at center, but just curious how you've

874
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 3: seen it come together with three new starters, and and

875
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 3: and just kind of what your guys approach is heading

876
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 3: in the season.

877
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 6: Well, I think the big thing is when you play

878
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 6: next to guys for a certain amount of time, you

879
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 6: get that nonverbal communication that we're just kind of used to.

880
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 6: And I think when you start out next to a

881
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 6: new guy, that nonverbal has to start out as verbal

882
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 6: until you get a bead for you know, what's this

883
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:38,959
Speaker 6: guy going to do? How is he going to play

884
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 6: this block? Does he understand the concept of this play

885
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 6: or the technique of this defensive tackle, whatever it may be,

886
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:48,800
Speaker 6: and then it turns into nonverbal. You know, for me, Christian,

887
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 6: I got to play next to him last year and

888
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 6: then he was obviously on the team last year, so

889
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 6: I was I was excited to play next to him

890
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 6: because you know, I see he's got he's got some ability.

891
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,359
Speaker 6: But I think the big thing leons communication because those

892
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 6: guys have the talent and the physical ability, but we

893
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 6: need to function as a group.

894
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 3: And we saw him get a couple of starts and

895
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 3: he played terrific when he got the opportunity. Where have

896
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 3: you seen him maybe make his biggest jump from year

897
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 3: one to year two, because you remember, yeah, being back,

898
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 3: you know in the day, that's usually where a player

899
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 3: takes their biggest leap is your one to year two.

900
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 3: Where's Christian maybe made that jump?

901
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 6: In your opinion, I would say his footwork, like, let's

902
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 6: slow down your footwork and let's get it clean. Because

903
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 6: he he is a physical presence out there. He has

904
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 6: confident in his ability out there. That's huge if you

905
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 6: want your guards to be physical players who want to

906
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 6: go out there and hit people.

907
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: And he has that.

908
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 6: He's got every bit of that, which makes me excited

909
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 6: to play next to him because that benefits me. Yeah,

910
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 6: and you know, I even told Hank last year, you know,

911
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 6: I would love to play next to him, you know,

912
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:50,839
Speaker 6: And I only have to play one game next to him,

913
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 6: but I saw, like some like I saw what he

914
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:55,360
Speaker 6: wants to be as a player, and I know he

915
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 6: will only get better from there. So I was excited

916
00:39:57,680 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 6: to be able to play, to be able to start camping,

917
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 6: be able to play next to him. Not that I

918
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,719
Speaker 6: was practicing early camp, but I knew that that's what

919
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 6: the plan was. And then it was up to him

920
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 6: to you know, earn the spot, and he did that,

921
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 6: so I'm excited to play next to him.

922
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 3: From my perspective, that line really started to come together

923
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 3: once you came back and that you were out, you know,

924
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 3: the first week dealing you know, with the shoulder rehab

925
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:19,280
Speaker 3: from from the off season surgery. But it really started

926
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 3: to gel and you guys got a good month of

927
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 3: work in training camp. You feel like that unit's had

928
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 3: a good spot right now. Absolutely week one.

929
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, And I you know, not to you know,

930
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:32,760
Speaker 6: give myself too much credit, but I played in this offense.

931
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:34,319
Speaker 6: I've played with these guys. I've played with Graham, I've

932
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:36,399
Speaker 6: played with Pine, I've played with Jared. There's a level

933
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,839
Speaker 6: of familiarity there. And then there was some guys kind

934
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:40,759
Speaker 6: of in and out of the in the lineup at

935
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,840
Speaker 6: that left tackle spot. And then I think it's helpful

936
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 6: for our young guys too to be able to play

937
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 6: in between veteran players. So Christian gets to play in between,

938
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 6: and Take gets to play in between guys who have

939
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:53,239
Speaker 6: played a lot of ball and me, Graham and Pe

940
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 6: have played a lot together. Yeah, so I think it's

941
00:40:56,480 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 6: you know, just a level of familiarity with everybody and

942
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,919
Speaker 6: then yeah, I think it kind of started to take off.

943
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 6: But I don't think that's all credit to me. I

944
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 6: think we were just growing as a unit as well.

945
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:11,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, what do you thought of Tate the first time

946
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:12,920
Speaker 3: we saw him? I think we got a peak of

947
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,799
Speaker 3: him in Atlanta, had that kind of pancake.

948
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:17,880
Speaker 2: Block and you see, they called him a dirt.

949
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:20,239
Speaker 3: Bag, you know, coming into into the league, and you

950
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 3: smile because you love that about an offensive lineman, and

951
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 3: you talked about you love that about a guard. The

952
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 3: physical physicality, what have you seen in the rook and

953
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 3: is he going to kind of just step right in

954
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:30,239
Speaker 3: and is he a fit in that room?

955
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 5: Oh?

956
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 6: Absolutely absolutely. I think the big thing about him, similar

957
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 6: to Christian is he wants to play physical and he

958
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,840
Speaker 6: will play physical, and he is confident out there. Like

959
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 6: similar to Christian, I feel like their mindset's pretty similar

960
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 6: out there where you kind of got to go out

961
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:46,719
Speaker 6: there and do the dirty work. Hey, we're going to

962
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 6: ask you to pull and kick out this defensive end

963
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 6: ten times, and they want to do it. So as

964
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 6: far as his demeanor, like he may have been nervous

965
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 6: at times, or he may have been you know, mentally

966
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 6: fatigue or something like that, but you would never know

967
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 6: it based on how he carries himself, very professional about

968
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 6: how he goes up about his business and as far

969
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 6: as like assignments and picking that up. For a lot

970
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 6: of rookies that can be an issue because we're a

971
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:10,799
Speaker 6: complicated offense. He's been just fine.

972
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 3: Maybe one of the more underrated moves of the offseason.

973
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 3: With Ben obviously going to Chicago and Aaron going to

974
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 3: New York, you kind of thought maybe there'd be some

975
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 3: staff members leaving and stuff.

976
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 2: Just how big was it that.

977
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 3: That Hank returned to you guys, especially with kind of

978
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:32,319
Speaker 3: some of the new newness you guys got going on

979
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 3: that line. But to me, that was one of the

980
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 3: more underrated moves this offseason was retaining him. He's one

981
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:39,960
Speaker 3: of the best offensive line coaches in the league. What

982
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 3: does he mean to that room and how big was

983
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 3: it to get him back.

984
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 6: I mean, you cannot overstate how important Hank is, not

985
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:52,760
Speaker 6: only for his prowess and his knowledge as an offensive

986
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 6: line coach, but how well he manages the guys in

987
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,799
Speaker 6: our room. Being a guy that played a long time

988
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 6: in the NFL, the way he manages us and manages

989
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:05,399
Speaker 6: motivating us like. He's phenomenal, and I don't I don't

990
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 6: want to play for another offensive line coach because I've

991
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 6: been with him.

992
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: For a long time.

993
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 6: Yeah, and we have a level of trust and we

994
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:13,759
Speaker 6: have a good level a good sense of communication with

995
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 6: one another. I mean, he's he's brilliant as an offensive

996
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:19,840
Speaker 6: line coach. That's why it's really good if you're an

997
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:21,840
Speaker 6: interior alignment to be in this offense. You get to

998
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 6: work with Hank, You're gonna learn a lot and he's

999
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 6: gonna put a lot on your plate. But it's gonna

1000
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 6: be good for you down the road. And then just

1001
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:31,239
Speaker 6: me just being able to work with him again. Again,

1002
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 6: I'm so used to him, I don't want to work

1003
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:33,319
Speaker 6: with anybody else.

1004
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, what have you seen from Hutch and Marcus?

1005
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 3: You know, going against those guys for for a month.

1006
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 3: We obviously didn't get to see Marcus a lot last

1007
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 3: year because of injury. But that's the twin Towers over there.

1008
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:46,719
Speaker 3: And look, you and Penney are are one of the

1009
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 3: best tackle duos in the league. What's the potential for

1010
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 3: Aiden and Marcus on the other side in terms of

1011
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:54,479
Speaker 3: an edge duel.

1012
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:56,319
Speaker 6: I think they could be one of the best in

1013
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 6: the NFL as well. Really, obviously, you know everybody was

1014
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 6: question Mark is aiden going to be healthy? He was

1015
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 6: healthy and ot as I had. I did some of

1016
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 6: the OTA practices. I I remember the first practice like, oh,

1017
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 6: he's just fine. And I remember I think I saw

1018
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 6: Shep had a media day where he was talking about

1019
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 6: I see a better player.

1020
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: I do too. Really, I mean, he he just.

1021
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 6: Turned it up a notch and it's really unbelievable. You

1022
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:24,320
Speaker 6: know what he was able to do with his recovery

1023
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:26,719
Speaker 6: to not only get back to where he was but

1024
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 6: also improve. And then with Marcus, I'm of the opinion

1025
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 6: that when healthy, he is the best athlete on the defense. Really,

1026
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 6: I think he is a phenomenal athlete. You look at

1027
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 6: some of his measurables and his numbers in the weight

1028
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 6: room and running. I mean, he's off the charts. He

1029
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:45,359
Speaker 6: just he's just had bad luck with his health, right,

1030
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 6: And I think the way he plays the game, he

1031
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 6: plays the game hard and he is super physical, so

1032
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 6: he beats up his body. So as long as we

1033
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 6: can keep him, keep him going, I think he's going

1034
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 6: to be super valuable because I get a lot more

1035
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 6: reps in him than Aiden, right, and he's got a

1036
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 6: ton of ability. I just hope he's able.

1037
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 1: To show it.

1038
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 3: By the way, that was a buck guy given a

1039
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:09,800
Speaker 3: kudos to a wolverine.

1040
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 1: Maybe real quick.

1041
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:14,880
Speaker 3: Just to finish up, I asked you about the defense

1042
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:17,319
Speaker 3: as a whole, because from the outside looking in every

1043
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,759
Speaker 3: day at training camp, it looked to me like a

1044
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:23,320
Speaker 3: defense that's really improved. Obviously they've got to stay healthy,

1045
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:26,760
Speaker 3: but really they've got talent at all three levels Taylor,

1046
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 3: and the secondary is maybe the best secondary that they've

1047
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 3: had since I've been covering the team in two thousand

1048
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 3: and nine. So just your your thoughts of the defense,

1049
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 3: what you saw over training camp, and what they could

1050
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 3: potentially be.

1051
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:43,240
Speaker 6: It feels to me, I don't know all their calls,

1052
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 6: it feels to me that they're more aggressive than they've

1053
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 6: ever been. And I think that's because I'm sure Shep

1054
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:51,920
Speaker 6: believes I got the guys who can handle this. Yeah,

1055
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:53,800
Speaker 6: I have guys who can hold up in man coverage

1056
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 6: if I need them too. I have guys that can

1057
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 6: win one on ones or beat double teams in the

1058
00:45:57,080 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 6: pastors if I need them to. Like you said, there's

1059
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 6: guys that ever level who are arguably the top at

1060
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 6: their position. So they seem very aggressive and and they're

1061
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 6: they're going on the attack. So it's it's been a

1062
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:11,400
Speaker 6: challenge and there were some I mean, there were definitely

1063
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:14,839
Speaker 6: some growing pains for us as an offense early on

1064
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:16,799
Speaker 6: in camp. Once we were able to iron those out,

1065
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 6: it was good for us.

1066
00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 3: How do you like Giants offense?

1067
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 5: Well?

1068
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 6: For me and as part especially as part of as

1069
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 6: far as the run games concerned, Hanks, the run game coordinators,

1070
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 6: So not a lot of that has changed for me.

1071
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:30,960
Speaker 6: And then past game is like, it's your pass blocking,

1072
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 6: you're past blocking. So I know there's things that from

1073
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 6: from from Johnny's background that he's gonna like and he's

1074
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:40,319
Speaker 6: gonna want to bring. Yeah, I know that there's concepts

1075
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 6: that you know, I'm not gonna like, Oh this is

1076
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 6: the concept. There's concepts that he likes, and there's philosophies

1077
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 6: that he has as far as how we're going to

1078
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Speaker 6: operate as an offense. But I think bringing him in

1079
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 6: was the idea was we're not gonna scrap everything. Yeah,

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00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 6: we're gonna let him out his flavor and he's gonna

1081
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 6: do his thing as the OC but we also know

1082
00:46:57,239 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 6: what we've been good at here, So where's gonna be

1083
00:46:58,960 --> 00:46:59,839
Speaker 6: some continuity as well?

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Speaker 3: And I thought he said it good when we first

1085
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 3: talked to him. He said, look, this was the number

1086
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:05,640
Speaker 3: one offensive league last year. I just don't need to

1087
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 3: screw it up.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm gonna have some things that I like

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Speaker 2: to do.

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00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:11,239
Speaker 3: A lot of the pre snap motions and getting guys

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00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 3: in space and creating one on one matchups.

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Speaker 2: You know, that's the Gruden era, that's the West Coast offense.

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Speaker 2: That's what he does.

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00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:18,879
Speaker 3: But I think he was smart to say, look, we've

1095
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:21,640
Speaker 3: got a lot of talent, let's just do what we've

1096
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:23,840
Speaker 3: been doing that successful. You're going to add your wrinkles.

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00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:27,279
Speaker 3: And I don't think that the normal fan we'll see

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00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 3: a whole lot of differences in the I.

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Speaker 6: Don't think they will. No, I don't think they will

1100
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Speaker 6: is And a lot of it's it's the nuance. Maybe

1101
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 6: it's like route detail, route depth, yeah, something like that.

1102
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Speaker 6: Maybe it's man beaters versus zone beaters. Maybe it's different

1103
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:41,640
Speaker 6: checks against zero that he likes. You know, there's gonna

1104
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 6: be a lot that people aren't They're not going.

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Speaker 1: To reice it.

1106
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Speaker 3: You know, all right, let's finish with this one. Division

1107
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:50,520
Speaker 3: matchups are big, but how big is this one?

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Speaker 2: Week one?

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00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 3: Not only just to set the tone for the season,

1110
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Speaker 3: set a statement to the to the division, to the

1111
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 3: rest of the NFC, but look, according to Vegas, these

1112
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:00,800
Speaker 3: are the two teams that are favor to win the

1113
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 3: NFC North. How big of a test is this week one?

1114
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 3: How important is this game Week one? You still got

1115
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 3: sixteen after it, so it's not make or break. But

1116
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,320
Speaker 3: does it down there to you guys? Does it seem

1117
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:14,720
Speaker 3: like a bigger Week one than than normal?

1118
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:18,440
Speaker 6: Bigger than normal? You know, I'm not going to, like,

1119
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 6: you know, blow it up to be bigger than it is.

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00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:22,800
Speaker 6: I mean, it's a football game, but yeah, is a

1121
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 6: divisional game, and those divisional games are very important, Yeah,

1122
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Speaker 6: as far as you know later in the season and

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Speaker 6: postseasons concerned. And this is a team that we know,

1124
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 6: they're super talented, they're super young, and they got playmakers,

1125
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 6: so it's gonna be fun and playing there, like, we

1126
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 6: get to play in the field and that's a good

1127
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 6: home field advantage. You know, we've had some success there

1128
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 6: over the years, But that doesn't make it any easier

1129
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 6: to go in there and try to get a win,

1130
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Speaker 6: especially week one, so you know it's it's it's gonna

1131
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:52,279
Speaker 6: be a great matchup and I expected to be ager game.

1132
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 3: What does Micah bring to that defense?

1133
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 6: I think the biggest thing. Obviously he's a superstar, superstar

1134
00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:01,400
Speaker 6: pass rusher. But now they have two guys on the edge.

1135
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Speaker 6: Obviously getting rid of Kenny Clark, like you know, you

1136
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 6: don't have as big of a presence in the interior,

1137
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 6: but there are also some young guys on the interior.

1138
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Speaker 6: But when you have two guys on the edge, like

1139
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 6: a lot of teams just have one, and it's like

1140
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 6: you can game plan for that. But then they got

1141
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Speaker 6: Rashaun Gary on the other side who's been a pro bowler,

1142
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Speaker 6: So that's you want to stay ahead of the sticks basically, yeah,

1143
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 6: and you want to go first down, second down, first

1144
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:24,319
Speaker 6: down if you can, and then when they're out there,

1145
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Speaker 6: you have a planform.

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Speaker 2: Well, it should be fun.

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00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:30,839
Speaker 3: Football is back Green Bay on a Sunday lambeau Field

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Speaker 3: Week one. There doesn't really get better than that. Taylor,

1149
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Speaker 3: thanks for taking the time, good luck this season.

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Speaker 6: Thank you