Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from
Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spoffer, joined as always
Speaker 1: by my partner in crime, Weston Hodkowitz. We're coming to
Speaker 1: you here from different locations at lambeau Field and Wes.
Speaker 1: Yesterday we saw the first of two joint practices with
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots. The second one will take place
Speaker 1: shortly after we get done recording this episode, and then
Speaker 1: there will be the preseason game, obviously on Saturday night
Speaker 1: at lambeau Field. So I'll just throw it out to
Speaker 1: you right off the jump here. What were your initial
Speaker 1: impressions of the joint workout on Nichki Field on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: I'm actually gonna hide on Wednesday. On Wednesday, I'm getting
Speaker 2: them all next up to myself.
Speaker 1: We don't know what day of the week it is
Speaker 1: around here.
Speaker 3: It's funny. I have to tell this story quick. So
Speaker 3: we're coming up here to shoot the show this morning.
Speaker 2: And I got into the elevator with Katie Hermson, our
Speaker 2: wonderful manager of public affairs, and she says to me,
Speaker 2: she goes, Wes, where are you going?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: Where can I get you them? Like five?
Speaker 2: She's like what's on five. I'm like me, for the
Speaker 2: last four months, me has been on five, and here
Speaker 2: we are once again. She also mentioned or I was
Speaker 2: trying to say goodbye to her, and I was like,
Speaker 2: have a terrific and then completely blanked on what day
Speaker 2: it was as well. So we're off to a great
Speaker 2: rip roar and start here this morning, Michael. But to
Speaker 2: your point too, of these practices, to everything associated with that,
Speaker 2: I'll be honest with you, Mike, I don't know how
Speaker 2: you felt about it. We can probably talk discuss it
Speaker 2: in this platform. But that was to me one of
Speaker 2: the better, maybe the best joint practice I've seen the
Speaker 2: Packers conduct. I felt like in every phase for two
Speaker 2: hours and twenty seven minutes, there was a lot of
Speaker 2: great work that was being done. I really enjoyed watching
Speaker 2: Bill Belichick's team practice because one of the things I
Speaker 2: think gets taken for granted. Everybody's like, Okay, well, you
Speaker 2: know you gotta do all this new age stuff. You
Speaker 2: gotta you know, have these, you know, incredible jugs, machines
Speaker 2: that can show you how Case Keenum throws a football.
Speaker 3: You can do all these different things. Watching the first.
Speaker 2: Team period when I was down with the defense going
Speaker 2: against the number one offense for the Patriots.
Speaker 3: The Patriots just run.
Speaker 2: The ball over and over and over again, and eventually
Speaker 2: they start passing too. But so much of it is
Speaker 2: old school football fundamentals, and it kind of reminds me
Speaker 2: a little bit of the way Rich Basacia coaches on
Speaker 2: special teams, where it's like you got to get the
Speaker 2: operation down before you get into the execution. And that's
Speaker 2: what was one of my biggest takeaways from this. Now,
Speaker 2: if I can separate myself from the practice for a minute,
Speaker 2: as I wrote for one of our stories on Packers
Speaker 2: dot com, the historical significance of this is probably the
Speaker 2: thing that hits home the most for me. The fact
Speaker 2: that you have Bill Belichick at seventy one years old,
Speaker 2: a surefire first ballot Hall of Famer whenever that day comes,
Speaker 2: probably at some point here gonna become the winningest coach
Speaker 2: NFL history, lead his New England Patriots to Green Bay
Speaker 2: for the first time for two joint practices, and the
Speaker 2: Green Bay Packers and them want to respect and admiration
Speaker 2: on this side of things. From Matt Forstaff, I thought
Speaker 2: that was super cool too. There felt like a lot
Speaker 2: more connectivity in that joint practice than I think any
Speaker 2: of these other ones we've experienced over the last four years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's certainly a lot of mutual respect going both directions.
Speaker 1: For obviously the history and tradition and everything that is
Speaker 1: associated with Lambelefield and the Packers in Green Bay. And
Speaker 1: then on the other side, what Bill Belichick and the
Speaker 1: Patriots have accomplished over the last you know, twenty years,
Speaker 1: twenty five years, it's been pretty pretty remarkable. And these
Speaker 1: teams will they squared off last season last year in
Speaker 1: the regular season, and you know, Belichick has always made
Speaker 1: those comments whenever he walks into Lambelefield. He's a head
Speaker 1: coach with as much appreciation for the history of this
Speaker 1: game as anyone. And as much as he doesn't like
Speaker 1: to do press conferences and answer questions from the media,
Speaker 1: you start asking him about history and he will talk
Speaker 1: and talk and talk. He absolutely loves it, and.
Speaker 2: He smiles like that was the first thing I thought
Speaker 2: was really cool when he kind of cracked a smile
Speaker 2: the first time he was asked about it was Dennis
Speaker 2: Crowsey that I believe asked him. And obviously Belichick's been
Speaker 2: around a long time forty nine consecutive years as a
Speaker 2: coach and NFL record in some capacity coaching in the league.
Speaker 3: And he kind of smiled when he's like.
Speaker 2: No, it's still cool, you know, especially with these these
Speaker 2: joint practices. And what I love about Belichick too, is
Speaker 2: there's so many guys. And he's talked about the Packers
Speaker 2: several times over the years, but including last year leading
Speaker 2: up to the game at Lambeau. But they'll be like, Okay, Lombardi, Lambeau, Hudson, No, man,
Speaker 2: this guy's talking about Clark Kinkle, he's talking about cecil Isabel,
Speaker 2: He's talking about some of the greats in this team's
Speaker 2: you know, illustrious history, but maybe not the everyday names
Speaker 2: that a lot of fans know about, especially from the
Speaker 2: twenties and thirties and forties, the Cliff Crystal expertise sort
Speaker 2: of era. He has a great appreciation for it, and
Speaker 2: I don't think for that fact it's a surprise that
Speaker 2: he's been as successful as he's.
Speaker 3: Been for so long.
Speaker 2: And you know, whatever, it was nineteen consecutive winning seasons
Speaker 2: and everything that the Patriots have accomplished in Matt Lafleur,
Speaker 2: speaking before practice on Wednesday mentioned too, He's like, you know,
Speaker 2: we originally pursued them with the idea of doing these
Speaker 2: joint practices, and really goes back to just having a
Speaker 2: deep respect and admiration for what Belichick has done. And
Speaker 2: if you see a guy who's been this successful for
Speaker 2: this long and then obviously the way that the Patriots
Speaker 2: conduct their business, you want to be able to tap
Speaker 2: into that a little bit. And on Belichick's side of things,
Speaker 2: the ultimate competitor, he said, yeah, NFC, we don't see
Speaker 2: these guys very often. It's an uncommon opponent. There's really
Speaker 2: nothing to be gained or lost from that work against
Speaker 2: the Packers, so why don't we go for it. This
Speaker 2: is becoming more and more prevalent right now in the NFL. Mike,
Speaker 2: I mean, you look any given day on Twitter, it
Speaker 2: seems like it's the Panthers and the Jets, and it's
Speaker 2: the Texans and the Dolphins, and more and more of
Speaker 2: these teams are doing it, and obviously there's a reason
Speaker 2: for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is becoming the way of the NFL preseason
Speaker 1: and getting to the practice itself. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: eleven on eleven work and just to give fans an
Speaker 1: idea of how this works. If you weren't in Green Bay,
Speaker 1: if you're not able to attend a joint practice, you
Speaker 1: have Nichkie Field all the way along the backside of
Speaker 1: the Dona Hudson Center. And when they go to eleven
Speaker 1: on eleven, at one end of the field is the
Speaker 1: Patriots offense against the Packers defense. At the other end
Speaker 1: of the field is the Packers offense against the Patriots defense.
Speaker 1: So from our perspective, from a coverage side of things,
Speaker 1: we have to divide and conquer. So, as you said
Speaker 1: you were down watching the Packers defense, I was on
Speaker 1: the other end of the field watching the Packers offense,
Speaker 1: and a couple of things really stood out to me.
Speaker 1: One Bill Belichick really decided to challenge Jordan Love and
Speaker 1: the Packers with his defensive scheme. He was bringing blitzes,
Speaker 1: he was just guising things, he was changing things up.
Speaker 1: He was challenging the Packers' running backs in terms of
Speaker 1: their blitz pick up and just everything with regards to
Speaker 1: the protection scheme. And in the early going the first
Speaker 1: couple of sequences of eleven on eleven with Jordan Love
Speaker 1: at quarterback, there were a lot of checkdowns Love wasn't
Speaker 1: finding anything open. They were trying to figure out things
Speaker 1: with the protection. He was just taking what was there
Speaker 1: the outlet. The outlet receiver usually a running back. But
Speaker 1: then the Packers started to get their legs under them
Speaker 1: a little bit offensively, and when they moved into the
Speaker 1: red zone work I thought Jordan Love really started to
Speaker 1: cut it loose. He hit a really nice pass to
Speaker 1: Luke Musgrave kind of over the top on a seam
Speaker 1: route for a touchdown. Then he hit Romeo Dobbs over
Speaker 1: by the pylon, the front pylon for a touchdown. Dobbs
Speaker 1: made a really really good catch against some pretty good
Speaker 1: coverage and got his feet in. The officials there's actually
Speaker 1: a true NFL officiating crew that is here and they'll
Speaker 1: be doing the game on Saturday night in lambeau Field.
Speaker 1: The officials had to talk about it for a while,
Speaker 1: and they're right over in front of all of the
Speaker 1: fans that are there at Nichki Field trying to convince them. No,
Speaker 1: he had his feet and it was a touchdown. They
Speaker 1: talked about it and they gave Romeo Dobbs the touchdown,
Speaker 1: So that got a pretty good ovation. He also hit
Speaker 1: a nice pass in the back of the end zone
Speaker 1: to Jaden Reid. That would have been a touchdown except
Speaker 1: the New England defender made a really nice play and
Speaker 1: actually was able to shove Reid out of bounds as
Speaker 1: he went up in the air to make the catch,
Speaker 1: and he got shoved out of bounds before he could
Speaker 1: get his feet back down. But I thought, for as
Speaker 1: much as Belichick's defense was challenging the Packers, giving them
Speaker 1: some really good work with the pass protection and the
Speaker 1: blitz pickup, I thought when they got in the red zone,
Speaker 1: I thought Jordan Love and the offense started to click
Speaker 1: a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I'll be honest with you, Mike, he watched that
Speaker 2: touchdown pass he had to Dobbs. I mean the stunts
Speaker 2: in the corner blitz, the slot blitz they were throwing
Speaker 2: at him. There was a lot for the offensive line
Speaker 2: and Love to be able to count for on that,
Speaker 2: making sure that all the bodies and hats are covered for.
Speaker 2: What I like the most also is how Love built
Speaker 2: all of that up until the final two minute drill. Now,
Speaker 2: the Packers were unable to get the forty yard field goal.
Speaker 2: Anders Carlson, you missed it from what the referees said
Speaker 2: down there, I didn't get a good look at it.
Speaker 2: But the fact is is that Love had three completions
Speaker 2: the Dobbs on that series. I believe it was two
Speaker 2: others to Watson. He really got humming that second half
Speaker 2: of the practice, and I thought that really showed up
Speaker 2: as far as the Packers' defense was concerned. A very
Speaker 2: interesting day for them because, as it turns out, Devondre
Speaker 2: Campbell has an ankle injury misses practice, so that meant
Speaker 2: that Kway Walker had to become the mic going up
Speaker 2: against the Patriots offense. Now, Walker's done plenty of it.
Speaker 2: He's been in that role before. The Packers have purposely
Speaker 2: kept him in, usually an extra series in the preseason,
Speaker 2: to make sure that he gets those reps. DeAndre missed
Speaker 2: four games last year. Walker handled a lot of that.
Speaker 2: But suddenly he's in the charge of the defense, working
Speaker 2: alongside Isaiah McDuffie. But one positive for Green Bay was
Speaker 2: they got jyr Alexander back for some of those team
Speaker 2: periods and the first playof I talked about this on
Speaker 2: three things. He's lining up at left cornerback. They try
Speaker 2: to throw a pass an out route to Kendrick Bourne
Speaker 2: and Jaieir is just sticky glue all over them, just
Speaker 2: breaks that pass up in completion. Later on, they try
Speaker 2: to test him in the end zone coming across on
Speaker 2: kind of an over route, and it looked like the receiver,
Speaker 2: I don't have my notes in front of me, I
Speaker 2: can't remember who it was, but it looked like the
Speaker 2: receiver had it.
Speaker 3: Jaiere battles and battles in battles.
Speaker 2: And as the receivers going to the ground drops the ball,
Speaker 2: and the referees again, as you were talking about with earlier,
Speaker 2: some of the things that the Dobs play, the referees
Speaker 2: discussed it, and all the ball came out and packers
Speaker 2: defenders going nuts, and Jaiere's just being Jaiere because that's
Speaker 2: who he is. And I just felt like, defensively, this
Speaker 2: is such an important time right now for Green Bay
Speaker 2: because they're learning about who they are and what direction
Speaker 2: they're going to be headed. And Rasull Douglass had a
Speaker 2: good day, although he lamented not being able to pick
Speaker 2: off mac Jones in the final two minute drive that
Speaker 2: would have ended that series.
Speaker 1: I think Rasul Dougla gets upset every time, that's the way,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't intercept it. I mean, every ball that
Speaker 1: has thrown in his direction, he thinks it's his, He
Speaker 1: thinks it should be a pick and he yeah, and
Speaker 1: he gets he gets pretty fired up if he can't
Speaker 1: snag the iront No.
Speaker 2: But I think it's cool though, because you look at it.
Speaker 2: You have Kenny clark Is out right now at the
Speaker 2: back injury. You have Devondra Campbell out right now with
Speaker 2: the ankle, at all these levels of the defense. The
Speaker 2: Packers are working through some stuff right now, but they
Speaker 2: still have young guys that are stepping up, and I
Speaker 2: think that's going to lead into these preseason games. I
Speaker 2: think that's going to lead into, you know, trying to
Speaker 2: build that identity going into the season. The one thing
Speaker 2: that I think is going to be very different than
Speaker 2: past years. And again I don't think there's a right
Speaker 2: or wrong approach to how they've handled the preseason, but
Speaker 2: these are a lot of young guys that do need
Speaker 2: the work and certainly they're getting it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And a couple other things to point out too.
Speaker 1: I Mean when I talk about, you know, the challenges
Speaker 1: with the pass protection and the blitz pick up, these
Speaker 1: are the kinds of things you don't usually get in
Speaker 1: a preseason game because teams don't want to put yeah,
Speaker 1: all of those you know, different looks, exotic looks and
Speaker 1: different changeups that they throw at offenses. They don't like
Speaker 1: to put that on film for all of their opponents,
Speaker 1: you know, to look at and prepare for for the season.
Speaker 1: So you get that in a joint practice that you
Speaker 1: don't necessarily get in a preseason game. I should say too,
Speaker 1: And you mentioned that Jordan Love kind of got things
Speaker 1: going in the two minute drill, had a good series there.
Speaker 1: I think also what helped set him up for that was,
Speaker 1: I guess what we would call the play of the
Speaker 1: day offensively, he was able to connect on a deep
Speaker 1: ball with Christian Watson for really what would have been
Speaker 1: a seventy five yard touchdown, and Love talked about it afterwards.
Speaker 1: It was a route concept that they've they've worked on it,
Speaker 1: They've tried to hit it multiple times here during training
Speaker 1: camp so far, and they've never been able to connect
Speaker 1: on the deep shot. Either the deep shot goes incomplete
Speaker 1: or Love has to take the shorter throat to Romeo
Speaker 1: Dobbs because he's the other receiver in the two man
Speaker 1: concept with Watson. Well, this time, you know, fired at
Speaker 1: downfield and it was right on target for Watson in
Speaker 1: stride behind a couple of defenders and he would have
Speaker 1: taken off and scored from there seventy five yards away.
Speaker 1: So that was that was pretty cool to see and
Speaker 1: got quite the ovation from the fans at in Itchgie
Speaker 1: Field very quickly.
Speaker 2: Just to throw in here too, I was talking when
Speaker 2: we were talking about Russell Douglas after locker room afters
Speaker 2: I believe it was Pete Doherty that asked him about
Speaker 2: that play.
Speaker 3: He's like, you know, how did you think your quarterback did?
Speaker 2: And you know he hasn't had a lot of those
Speaker 2: moments you know, during you know, practices so far or whatever.
Speaker 2: However Pete worded, I don't want to put words as well.
Speaker 2: But Rasseulle's answer to was, well, that was because he
Speaker 2: was going against us. I mean, yeah, he's from doing great.
Speaker 2: I mean that's the type of play that we expect
Speaker 2: him to make. But Brazil's side of things is like, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: we don't want to make in the plays against us,
Speaker 2: but yeah, he's fully capable of doing it against other defenses.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, for sure. One other note too, with
Speaker 1: regard to the Packers defense, is the search for a
Speaker 1: starting safety continues, because, as we talked about, it was
Speaker 1: Rudy Ford for a while, then it was Jonathan Owens
Speaker 1: through Family Night and the first season game. Now to
Speaker 1: various more free agents signing from back in the spring.
Speaker 1: Originally I believe a third round draft pick of the
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers a hand full of years ago.
Speaker 1: He's now running with the ones alongside Darnell Savage at safety.
Speaker 1: So so just something to keep an eye on as
Speaker 1: these last couple of preseason games wrap up and the
Speaker 1: Packers get down to roster cutdown time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and if you ask for Soul Douglas, he's the
Speaker 2: starting safety too in this defense. So we'll have to
Speaker 2: keep an eye on that now. I'm just kidding. No, Hey, listen,
Speaker 2: they've run through this where they've been given all these
Speaker 2: guys opportunities.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Now it looks like Tarvarius Moore is the next guy
Speaker 2: up in that rotation. Dude had a lot of speed.
Speaker 2: I mean you talked to him back in the spring.
Speaker 2: I mean that was his calling card early on before
Speaker 2: I believe it was the achilles injury. Trying to remember
Speaker 2: it was it acla ending injury.
Speaker 1: It was it was for more, it was an achilles
Speaker 1: and it was a kiss. Go it was an achilles.
Speaker 2: My brain and memory isn't completely yet, No, But I
Speaker 2: mean guy had a lot of speed and he came
Speaker 2: back last year, didn't get a ton of opportunities defensively.
Speaker 2: But I mean the guy that's still always been where
Speaker 2: he's trending with this thing. He's a third round pick
Speaker 2: that feels like he can compete for a job at
Speaker 2: that spot.
Speaker 3: Him Jonathan Owen's Rudy Ford.
Speaker 2: Early in camp, they've kind of gone through this where
Speaker 2: they've given almost all these guys like a week or
Speaker 2: so to work back there. Daln Levitt's still available in
Speaker 2: his gains is injured right now. But you know, Anthony Johnson,
Speaker 2: I thought, has made a lot of big improvements here
Speaker 2: the last few weeks. It'll be very interesting to see
Speaker 2: what he could potentially provide in the last two preseason games.
Speaker 2: Matt lafore complimented what he's done on special teams. Now
Speaker 2: I want to see it maybe translate a little bit
Speaker 2: more to the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 3: It's dude, you wrote it or I wrote it. You
Speaker 3: edited it.
Speaker 2: This is as wide open as any position battle on
Speaker 2: the roster because the separation between what could be a
Speaker 2: starting safety and potentially not even being on this roster.
Speaker 2: It's tight because you're not gonna be able to keep
Speaker 2: everybody and only two guys are going to be able
Speaker 2: to start. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely Well, I want to take a look ahead to
Speaker 1: the preseason game coming up on Saturday night, but I'll
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Speaker 1: fifty years of better. All right, Wes preseason Game number
Speaker 1: two Saturday night at lambeau Field. As far as I'm concerned,
Speaker 1: this is what I always look for when it comes
Speaker 1: to the second preseason game. I look at the guys
Speaker 1: who were the standouts, particularly young players who were the
Speaker 1: standouts in the first preseason game, and you ask the
Speaker 1: question can they do it again? Can they keep it going?
Speaker 1: Now that's not to say Ken Emmanuel Wilson run for
Speaker 1: an eighty yard touchdown again, that's probably not going to happen.
Speaker 1: But can he do what he did the six carries
Speaker 1: one hundred and eleven yards, two to touchdowns. Can he
Speaker 1: build on that? Can he continue to show progress? Can
Speaker 1: Sean Clifford as the number two quarterback? Can he also
Speaker 1: show progress? Maybe protect the football a little bit better,
Speaker 1: but without losing that that aggressiveness and attack mentality that
Speaker 1: allowed him to be so productive. And we talked about Carrington.
Speaker 1: Valentine Malie Heath is another one, the undrafted rookie receiver.
Speaker 1: He made a great catch in the two minute drive
Speaker 1: from Clifford against the Patriots in the first joint practice
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. Caught it right by the front pilon of
Speaker 1: the end zone. He thought he had a touchdown as
Speaker 1: he was crashing to the ground. They actually ruled him
Speaker 1: down kind of inside the one yard line. Would have
Speaker 1: been one of those that goes to replay. Of course,
Speaker 1: we don't have.
Speaker 3: Yet the pylon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it was a touchdown. I thought it
Speaker 1: was a touchdown.
Speaker 3: But if you would have fumbled a turnover though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, story for another day. Yeah, but it was
Speaker 1: something that would have gone to replay regardless. There was
Speaker 1: no dispute that he caught the ball, beautiful catch and
Speaker 1: it was a great catch on a nice throw from
Speaker 1: Sean Clifford against some pretty tight coverage. So Ken maleiek Heath,
Speaker 1: who's an undrafted rookie for Ole Miss, you know, fighting
Speaker 1: for a roster spot in this receiving corps. Can he
Speaker 1: build on what he's done and then show something under
Speaker 1: the lights at lamb befill Those are the kinds of
Speaker 1: things that we'll be watching for in this second preseason game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and for me, I think one of my biggest
Speaker 2: keys to this thing and what I'm going to be
Speaker 2: keeping an eye on is these guys that are playing
Speaker 2: to trying to play catch up right now. You know,
Speaker 2: when you look at Jake Hansen, was out for a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks with the elbow injury. Well now he's back,
Speaker 2: He's running as the number two center again. The Packers
Speaker 2: are looking for guys to step up in that interior
Speaker 2: offensive line. Could Jake Hanson be a potential solution for them?
Speaker 2: Grant Dubo's you mentioned you know a guy like Millie
Speaker 2: Keith who's been balling out. Well, here's Grant coming back
Speaker 2: after missing months with that back injury. Well, he's making
Speaker 2: plays in practice. Now he's trying to make a bid
Speaker 2: for a roster spot after missing so much time. I
Speaker 2: actually think I've been really surprised at how well he's
Speaker 2: looked after really never having an NFL practice before until
Speaker 2: training camp.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's remarkable.
Speaker 2: It wasn't even a part, wasn't even participating in the
Speaker 2: rookie mini camp, right and here he is now, you know,
Speaker 2: trying to make a run like that. It stinks that
Speaker 2: Bo Melton went down with the hamstring injury. You hope
Speaker 2: that's not too serious for him and he can get
Speaker 2: back here before the end of camp, because I thought
Speaker 2: he was putting together some good snaps. One of the
Speaker 2: questions I asked, going back to what evidently is just
Speaker 2: going to be the Rusull Douglas show, was asking sewell
Speaker 2: about all these young guys who have stepped up. Yes,
Speaker 2: we talked about Carrington Valentine, but you know what has
Speaker 2: that done to bring out more out of you know,
Speaker 2: Schamar John Charles and William Hooper, who had three pass
Speaker 2: deflections last week after Corey Ballentine went out. These young
Speaker 2: guys I think have really taken that push in that
Speaker 2: that little jolt of hey, if this guy's raising his
Speaker 2: level of his game, I have to do likewise in
Speaker 2: this pursuit of a fifty three man roster spot. We
Speaker 2: are two weeks away from having to worry about an
Speaker 2: active roster right now, Mike. But I am telling you,
Speaker 2: in my time covering this team, there's been some years
Speaker 2: where it's been pretty okay getting down to sixty fifty
Speaker 2: three players. There are so many guys on both sides
Speaker 2: of the ball, and on Rich Pasaccia's special teams where
Speaker 2: it's like, man, where do you cut the fat here?
Speaker 2: There's been a lot of young guys who have stepped up,
Speaker 2: and that's probably the thing I'm looking to see.
Speaker 3: What separates these guys.
Speaker 2: Who makes a play on special teams, who makes the
Speaker 2: big catch, Who is the next Emmanuel Wilson that bus
Speaker 2: free for an eightyr touchdown? All those answers are coming
Speaker 2: on Saturday night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. And when it comes to those roster decisions,
Speaker 1: the personnel department, they look at the entire package, right,
Speaker 1: They look at all of the work that's done in practices,
Speaker 1: they look at the work that's done in the preseason games.
Speaker 1: It's not about just flashing here and there. It's about
Speaker 1: the entire body of work and what you've been able
Speaker 1: to show, and then those difficult decisions are made. But,
Speaker 1: as you said, a couple weeks away until we get
Speaker 1: to that point, still two more preseason games, and that's
Speaker 1: a lot of snaps for a lot of young players
Speaker 1: to show what they've got.
Speaker 2: And I'm a date our show a little bit because
Speaker 2: we haven't talked to Matt Lafleur yet, but very interested
Speaker 2: to see too the number one offense.
Speaker 3: What does it look like? Who plays?
Speaker 2: Does Jordan Love get a chance to get some snaps
Speaker 2: inside Lambefield?
Speaker 3: We don't know.
Speaker 2: I doubt they're actually going to say that outright, But
Speaker 2: the fact of the matter is is that I thought
Speaker 2: that was really beneficial work last week two series. They
Speaker 2: didn't overdo it. They gave them a chance to run
Speaker 2: that offense down the field. I have to imagine that
Speaker 2: Jordan Love came out of that feeling pretty good in Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Do you try to extend that now into Green Bay?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And we'll just have to see what they decide
Speaker 1: in that regard, but with that we will call it
Speaker 1: a rap on this edition of Packers' Own Script. You'd
Speaker 1: be sure to follow all of our coverage of the
Speaker 1: team training camp, joint practice is the preseason game coming
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