Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to Packers unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am like Spofford, joined by my trusted colleague West Hodkuitz.
Speaker 1: We're coming to you here from our studios at lambeau
Speaker 1: Field and West a little bit of travel news to
Speaker 1: talk about. In a couple of months, We're going to Canada.
Speaker 1: We're going to Canada. Baby. I don't know the last
Speaker 1: time you were in Canada. What was the last time
Speaker 1: you're in Canada? Um? I was in Canada somewhere a
Speaker 1: year or two after I got married. We actually crossed
Speaker 1: the border at like Niagara Falls. Sure, so I actually
Speaker 1: been to Canada more recently than you have. I was
Speaker 1: in there in two thousand and twelve, before I started
Speaker 1: my freshman year at Bayport High School. My parents were like,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go on a big family trip. So we did.
Speaker 1: We drove up, we of up, crossed over. I believe
Speaker 1: we're in Toronto briefly, but then the big part of
Speaker 1: the trip was in Niagara Falls. Got a chance to
Speaker 1: see that. That was seventeen years ago. Michael A lot
Speaker 1: has changed. Excited to be going to Winnipeg for the
Speaker 1: first time. Yeah, Winnipeg Manitoba will be the site of
Speaker 1: the Packers Raiders preseason game August twenty two. It will
Speaker 1: be the third preseason game of the four in green
Speaker 1: based schedule. Now technically this is Oakland's home game, yeah,
Speaker 1: within their preseason schedule. I G field, I believe is
Speaker 1: that the name of it thirty three thousand, thirty three
Speaker 1: thousand seat venue. It is the home of the Winnipeg
Speaker 1: Blue Bombers of the CFL, And uh, I'll just be
Speaker 1: curious to see how the whole thing gets set up
Speaker 1: because the CFL has, you know, the larger field and
Speaker 1: everything compared to the NFL, so they have to kind
Speaker 1: of remark everything and reline it, have the goal posts
Speaker 1: in the right spot, you know, all that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: So it'll be neat trip. I think from what I
Speaker 1: was looking at too, it looked like Winnipeg has like
Speaker 1: is it like a twenty one day roads, Like they're
Speaker 1: not going to be home for like one something. So
Speaker 1: that's what sort of lent itself to being able to
Speaker 1: do this. But that being said, I am going to
Speaker 1: be very interested to see what the setup is like.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers said he was excited about it. He's never
Speaker 1: been to Winnipeg either, so that'll be a need for
Speaker 1: him to do that for the first time. He said.
Speaker 1: He still hopes that doesn't mean they won't be able
Speaker 1: to go to London, though he would still like to
Speaker 1: do that. There are a lot of guys in the
Speaker 1: Packers locker room who would like to who would like
Speaker 1: to make that trip to London. Hopefully it happens at
Speaker 1: some point. But my bigger thing is is it's the preseason.
Speaker 1: You and I have been through this so many times.
Speaker 1: A lot of times we end up in Kansas City.
Speaker 1: A lot you and I are going out in Tennessee.
Speaker 1: You get those same sort of core teams that you're
Speaker 1: traveling to usually in the midwest of the a f C.
Speaker 1: So have a chance to throw a little bit of
Speaker 1: a curveball in there and go check out Canada. I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a need experience, something totally different.
Speaker 1: But the big thing is it is going to be
Speaker 1: interesting to see how they are able to format at
Speaker 1: CFL stadium to fit in NFL teams needs. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: just for the historians out there, the last time the
Speaker 1: Packers played a game in Canada preseason August of n
Speaker 1: played the Buffalo Bills in Toronto. It was yeah. Yeah, Actually,
Speaker 1: the as everyone knows, the second of the back to
Speaker 1: back Super Bowls in the five years, Packers played a
Speaker 1: preseason game in Toronto against the Buffalo Bills. That's the
Speaker 1: last time they crossed the border. Which year were they
Speaker 1: in Asia? Tokyo? Yeah, Tokyo was I'd have to look
Speaker 1: that that was it was, it was in It was
Speaker 1: in the nineties. It was lying around there for a bit.
Speaker 1: I was not aware that the Toronto Argonauts, right, Yes,
Speaker 1: the Toronto Argonauts of the CFL. Yes, but the Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills hosted a preseason game, so that that would be
Speaker 1: twenty two years ago if my sports math is correct.
Speaker 1: It was interesting this week and the announcement was made
Speaker 1: by Winnipeg that that they're going to be going out
Speaker 1: there for this the Raiders and Packers will be coming
Speaker 1: out for this game. It was interesting though, around the
Speaker 1: building this last week hearing some of the players talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, setting up their their passport, you know, going
Speaker 1: through and having to do that. I had to do it.
Speaker 1: I haven't had I haven't been out of the country
Speaker 1: in fifteen years or ten, twelve years now, So it's
Speaker 1: like I had to go through the process too, so
Speaker 1: it's different. It's going to be a new experience. But hey,
Speaker 1: I mean, anytime you can get up to the the
Speaker 1: Great White North in August, you gotta take advantage of it. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: getting back to the business at hand right now, for
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers, it is week three of O
Speaker 1: T As. We had an opportunity on Tuesday of this
Speaker 1: week to watch another practice practice that was open to
Speaker 1: the public, open to the media. We got to see
Speaker 1: head coach Matt Lafleur cruising around the practice field on
Speaker 1: his golf cart and all that. We don't need to
Speaker 1: get into that whole thing too much. He's obviously going
Speaker 1: to hope that his recovery goes along as quickly as
Speaker 1: possible so that he can be in a walking boot
Speaker 1: and be able to get around in that fashion as
Speaker 1: opposed to um the golf cart scenario as a training
Speaker 1: camp unfolds later on. But uh, a big couple of
Speaker 1: big highlights now again, as we talk about it's O
Speaker 1: T A is there's no pads. We're only seeing one
Speaker 1: practice a week. But if you had to point a
Speaker 1: one offensive highlight from that practice on Tuesday, A heck
Speaker 1: of a throw and catch Aaron Rodgers to Jimmy Graham
Speaker 1: over the middle of the field. Preston Smith, the outside linebacker.
Speaker 1: I thought he actually had pretty good coverage on the
Speaker 1: play and the ball just in the perfect spot and
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham reaches out full extension and not only makes
Speaker 1: the catch in his fingertips but keeps his feet and
Speaker 1: you know, would have had a pretty monster gain. There
Speaker 1: um interesting thoughts though. What I want to get to
Speaker 1: about this with Jimmy Graham because we don't hear from
Speaker 1: him much. He's not crazy about talking to the media,
Speaker 1: which I personally think is unfortunate because the times I
Speaker 1: have talked to him, I think he's a very engaging guy.
Speaker 1: It's a very interesting guy, has a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of really intriguing things to say, and a good conversationalist.
Speaker 1: But his choice. So we hear a lot about Jimmy
Speaker 1: Graham from other people, and we heard one of the
Speaker 1: things we heard from head coach Matt Lafleur after that
Speaker 1: Tuesday practice was that Jimmy Graham is kind of a perfectionist.
Speaker 1: He in learning this new offense and trying to do
Speaker 1: everything right on the practice field. He gets kind of
Speaker 1: down on himself when things don't go so well, and
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur said he's been trying to work on him
Speaker 1: to say, hey, you know, you're a veteran leader on
Speaker 1: this team. You know things are going to go wrong
Speaker 1: when we're learning. Everybody's learning this thing from scratch and
Speaker 1: learning it brand new. You just have to take it
Speaker 1: in stride. You have to be a leader. He really
Speaker 1: likes the energy and enthusiasm and everything that Jimmy Graham
Speaker 1: brings to practice, but he's trying to channel it maybe
Speaker 1: in a little bit different way, and I'll be interested
Speaker 1: to see. Aaron Rodgers certainly spoke of a lot of
Speaker 1: confidence that he's looking for a bounce back year from
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham. Yeah, Graham has made no bones about it.
Speaker 1: I mean he wants to have a more successful two
Speaker 1: thousand nineteen than two thousand and eighteen. He talked about
Speaker 1: at the end of last year, and then again he
Speaker 1: mentioned it at his Cornell tournament this past weekend talking
Speaker 1: with reporter that you know, he wants to be able
Speaker 1: to bounce back. He feels like he can still run
Speaker 1: the way he's always ran in certainly he's still six
Speaker 1: ft seven and two ur and sixty pounds or whatever
Speaker 1: he is. And it was interesting listening to Rogers disgust
Speaker 1: Graham because he said, you know, one thing, and I
Speaker 1: mentioned this at the end of last year. Graham didn't
Speaker 1: talk to the media a lot, and he also didn't
Speaker 1: make many excuses. He had a knee injury that we
Speaker 1: saw happen. I think it was in a training camp
Speaker 1: practice pretty early on that he ended up being on
Speaker 1: the injury report for the entire year. The thumb got
Speaker 1: a lot of interest late in the season because he
Speaker 1: had to wear the splint, but the knee was basically
Speaker 1: an issue for a while year long. Aaron Rodgers mentioned
Speaker 1: he's back to being healthy again. It's one of the
Speaker 1: reasons why he believes he's gonna have a lot more
Speaker 1: successful two thousand nineteen in his second year with the
Speaker 1: Packers and getting back to that plane practice, it was
Speaker 1: It was interesting listening to Preston Smith talked about in
Speaker 1: the locker room because he was actually kind of proud
Speaker 1: of himself the way he originally handled the zone drop.
Speaker 1: He thought he had help over the top, though, and
Speaker 1: as he found out, he most certainly did and when
Speaker 1: you're Jimmy Graham and you get that kind of mismatch,
Speaker 1: that's what happens. So for for Graham to be able
Speaker 1: to build on that, I think is going to be important.
Speaker 1: And the other thing is too, Mike. You listen to
Speaker 1: Robert Tonyan and you know some of these guys that
Speaker 1: talk about him, uh in how open he is with
Speaker 1: being able to to be sort of an open book. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's incredibly hard on himself, wants to be a perfectionist,
Speaker 1: but he's always there too for for the young tight ends.
Speaker 1: I thought that was a really important thing last year
Speaker 1: for Tanya and being able to work with Lewis and
Speaker 1: also with Graham, and hearing Jay Sternberger talk a little
Speaker 1: bit this past week, he also said that, you know,
Speaker 1: he's been very similar in that capacity as well well.
Speaker 1: A couple other things on Graham. I know Rogers downplayed it,
Speaker 1: but you have to believe that the injury, the knee
Speaker 1: injury you talked about with Graham, and obviously the knee
Speaker 1: injury Rogers was dealing with right from week one last season.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of missed practice time in there,
Speaker 1: so I have to believe that that had an effect,
Speaker 1: had an impact in some respect on what Jimmy Graham
Speaker 1: was able to do in his first year with the Packers.
Speaker 1: But the other reason I brought up the point that
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur made about kind of that perfectionist thing and
Speaker 1: and how he's working so hard to do everything just
Speaker 1: right the first time. It makes you wonder. At least
Speaker 1: it makes me wonder. And I don't want to get
Speaker 1: into a whole bunch of, you know, psychological analysis, but
Speaker 1: you look at it, Jimmy Graham's first year with Seattle
Speaker 1: when he left New Orleans was not all that good.
Speaker 1: His first year with Green Bay was not up to
Speaker 1: his standards. You wonder if this whole thing, this whole
Speaker 1: thing about how he's been going about learning a new
Speaker 1: offense and putting a lot of pressure on himself to
Speaker 1: get everything right the first time and to be that
Speaker 1: veteran guy that everybody needs to look to immediately, you know,
Speaker 1: to to be the guy to follow. If that hasn't
Speaker 1: worked his advantage, I guess, is what I'm saying. And
Speaker 1: maybe now if Matt Lafleur is able to to channel
Speaker 1: those things in in a little bit more positive direction,
Speaker 1: if we might end and with good health, we might
Speaker 1: see a little bit different dynamic between Aaron Rodgers and
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham and year two. I'm glad you brought that up,
Speaker 1: because I wrote that article at the end of last season.
Speaker 1: It was actually right after Graham made the comments of
Speaker 1: that he wasn't happy with You know, the numbers are
Speaker 1: what they are, but he wasn't happy with the way
Speaker 1: he played. We tend to romanticize, and I'm guilty of
Speaker 1: it too. The fans, in myself romanticized Jared Cook's time
Speaker 1: his season in Green Bay. We think so much about
Speaker 1: Dallas and how well he played in the playoffs and
Speaker 1: down the stretch. You sometimes forget Jared Cook had like
Speaker 1: three yards receiving that year before he had that injury
Speaker 1: that kept him out for six weeks. He really had
Speaker 1: sort of been a non factor through the first month
Speaker 1: of the season. He came on against Washington and down
Speaker 1: the stretch, but early on it was difficult so often,
Speaker 1: and for good reason. I was talking about Brian Goodkin's
Speaker 1: about this two weeks ago tight end position. It takes
Speaker 1: time to learn as a rookie. It also takes time
Speaker 1: to learn as a veteran, and for guys that are
Speaker 1: moving into a new scheme in a new offense, and
Speaker 1: I think that plays in't exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Graham's second year in all those spots that you mentioned
Speaker 1: was always were impactful than the first. So I think
Speaker 1: being able to see what he can do now with
Speaker 1: getting those reps with Rogers and them knocking on what
Speaker 1: that he stays healthy, where that relationship goes in, what
Speaker 1: kind of chemistry that generates on the field. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: as I say, as much as we don't necessarily hear
Speaker 1: from Graham directly in the media, we know he cares
Speaker 1: about it. He takes a lot of pride in what
Speaker 1: he does, and what little he has said about last season,
Speaker 1: he wasn't happy about it. So um, let's see what happens.
Speaker 1: I mean, being able to see exactly where all these
Speaker 1: young guys go. I think, for me, Mike and all
Speaker 1: my time on the beat, this is the most exciting
Speaker 1: the tight end room has been because it really does
Speaker 1: seem to be a big emphasis on it based on
Speaker 1: what we're seeing with Matt. Yeah, I think and and
Speaker 1: and bringing in a third round draft pick as a
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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers. Okay, getting back to Tuesday's open practice
Speaker 1: and the highlights they're in. Defensively, an interception that probably
Speaker 1: goes for a pick six, I would think the way
Speaker 1: things looked on the practice field, Tim Boyle unfortunately got
Speaker 1: picked off by linebacker James Crawford. Now the interesting thing
Speaker 1: here because when I mentioned Tim Boyle and James Crawford,
Speaker 1: obviously this is not a one's This was not a
Speaker 1: ones versus ones eleven on eleven situation. But it's not
Speaker 1: the first time in O T as we've seen James
Speaker 1: Crawford intercepted pass. This is a young g This is
Speaker 1: a young guy. Wes, second year out of the University
Speaker 1: of Illinois and undrafted rookie a year ago who walked
Speaker 1: into Packers training camp essentially two weeks late. He was
Speaker 1: signed on August eight, the day before the first preseason game,
Speaker 1: managed to make the fifty three man roster as an
Speaker 1: undrafted rookie, became kind of a dynamo on special teams
Speaker 1: for the Packers. Now, Blake Martinez and Oren Burks very
Speaker 1: clearly the one too at inside linebacker right now in
Speaker 1: Mike Patton's defense, but as far as the reinforcements behind,
Speaker 1: James Crawford looking like he's in line to potentially be
Speaker 1: the number three, to be the first guy called upon
Speaker 1: um to replace one of those two if something were
Speaker 1: to happen. He's uh that we hear the phrase a
Speaker 1: lot making the most of your opportunity, It applies to
Speaker 1: James Crawford, Uh, up and down the line here. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about Crawford, but first off, I
Speaker 1: just want to talk about how much. I love Tim Boyle.
Speaker 1: We're in the media, myself and two other reporters were
Speaker 1: in the media scrum. They're talking to to Crawford after
Speaker 1: practice on on what would that be Wednesday? Tuesday, Isy,
Speaker 1: and Boyle sneaks up behind h He's like, guys, it
Speaker 1: was one interception. I mean, just it just one interception.
Speaker 1: What's the big deal? And then he gave was making
Speaker 1: a joke and then gave Crawford a little bit of
Speaker 1: a high five on it. But I just I love Boil,
Speaker 1: I love his disposition about things. But as far as
Speaker 1: Crawford is concerned, what a jump? And again, you can't
Speaker 1: We're not handing out trophies. We're not gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: many camp wraps up here. We're not going to put
Speaker 1: on tuxedos and give away our awards for the off
Speaker 1: season program. But this is what you want to see
Speaker 1: from a young man like this. And I asked him
Speaker 1: about that too. Last year at this time, he wasn't
Speaker 1: in Green Bay. He was ven close. He was still
Speaker 1: two months away from getting to Green Bay. So he
Speaker 1: said that, you know, he got here. I think it
Speaker 1: was I want to say it was August six or
Speaker 1: something like that was like a weeker and a week
Speaker 1: and a half in and he had to pick up.
Speaker 1: But the one thing he was able to go back
Speaker 1: to was the special teams. Yeah, all the playbooks are difficult.
Speaker 1: You and I can't just go out there and play
Speaker 1: for a lot of reasons, but I mean we can't.
Speaker 1: You can't just get in a camp and just expect
Speaker 1: to be able to do everything right. But special teams
Speaker 1: are the ones you can rely a little bit more
Speaker 1: on instincts. I thought Crawford showed good instincts. I thought
Speaker 1: you saw his aggressiveness in that game against Kansas City
Speaker 1: is how he earned himself a roster spot. That being said,
Speaker 1: the rest of the year was sort of trial and
Speaker 1: error with him. This is a guy who started at
Speaker 1: safety when he first got to Illinois, playing special teams
Speaker 1: and doing a little bit of safety, ended up moving
Speaker 1: to linebacker, finished his career at defensive end, and last
Speaker 1: year was rotating between the inside and outside linebacker rooms.
Speaker 1: Kirk Oliver Datti mentioned that, Okay, he said a little
Speaker 1: bit more with the inside linebackers this year, and I
Speaker 1: think that cross training, I think that experience making him
Speaker 1: kind of fire all those waves in his head of
Speaker 1: what his responsibilities are have made him a better player,
Speaker 1: and he showed some playmaking ability. I didn't get any
Speaker 1: comments I should have. I forgot to ask if he's
Speaker 1: going to mention that to his uncle and see what
Speaker 1: Charles Woodson would think of all those interceptions. But that
Speaker 1: being said, it was pretty impressive to see him doing
Speaker 1: that well. He had a really funny comment and talking
Speaker 1: to you, because I listened to the audio of your
Speaker 1: your interview with him with those other reporters that he
Speaker 1: was kind of joking that last year when he was
Speaker 1: brought in couple of weeks into training camp, he was
Speaker 1: expected to know the playbook without ever having seen it,
Speaker 1: Like he just has to get out there and you know,
Speaker 1: and you know, on the third or fourth string defense
Speaker 1: or whatever in camp and try to make some plays.
Speaker 1: So being here throughout the whole offseason and kirkol of
Speaker 1: a Dotty, the new inside linebackers coach, mentioned that putting
Speaker 1: him an inside linebacker is the best place to learn
Speaker 1: the defense because there are you don't It's not just
Speaker 1: about your responsibility. When you're an inside linebacker, you have
Speaker 1: to know a lot more about the defensive front. You
Speaker 1: have to know about what the outside linebackers are doing.
Speaker 1: You have to know what the safeties are doing behind you.
Speaker 1: So he's absorbing all those xs and ohs right now
Speaker 1: and certainly making making the most of what he's able
Speaker 1: to do with the second string defense on the field
Speaker 1: here in O. T A. S. But the interesting thing
Speaker 1: when you look back at his rookie year, and I
Speaker 1: was just I looked up the stats. We know it
Speaker 1: wasn't a good year on special teams for the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers and tea. But if there was a bright spot,
Speaker 1: it was this guy. Thirteen coverage tackles, which was tops
Speaker 1: on the team. He also had a fumble recovery on
Speaker 1: special teams. And the other thing I looked up west
Speaker 1: those twenty six special teams penalties the Packers had last year.
Speaker 1: Crawford only had one out of those twenty six. It
Speaker 1: was an illegal formation he lined up wrong on on
Speaker 1: a certain play. But all of the the holding, an
Speaker 1: illegal block in the back, and all those other penalties
Speaker 1: that piled up on the Packers special teams last year,
Speaker 1: he wasn't flagged for any of that. This is a
Speaker 1: guy that I think Sean Menninger, the new special teams
Speaker 1: coordinator is really going to be relying on to be
Speaker 1: one of those bell cows on special teams. And then
Speaker 1: Kirk Oliver Dott, he's going to continue to work with
Speaker 1: him to learn the defense to be one of those
Speaker 1: next guys to step in at inside linebacker when they
Speaker 1: need somebody. Yeah, and I like his body type too.
Speaker 1: I mean you can kind of see me. He's not
Speaker 1: a he's not a huge guy, but he sort of
Speaker 1: has that movable athletic frame that lends itself to be
Speaker 1: ineffective on special teams, but also if he gets called
Speaker 1: in a pinch on defense. One story I want to
Speaker 1: tell really quickly, going back to two thousand thirteen. It
Speaker 1: seems like it's always the season I go back to.
Speaker 1: But you're talking about how a guy comes in he's
Speaker 1: expected to know the playbook right away. Packers had an
Speaker 1: opening at safety. There was a guy who came in.
Speaker 1: I don't even remember who what his name was. It
Speaker 1: was like the first or second day at camp. I
Speaker 1: think he was from Sacramento State. He was there for
Speaker 1: two practices and I remember Joe Witt kept getting on.
Speaker 1: It wasn't Joe Wyte, it was Joe Witt and Darren
Speaker 1: Perry with some of the ball handling drills they were doing.
Speaker 1: They kept getting on him. They mentioned his name a
Speaker 1: couple of times. That young man was gone in like
Speaker 1: a day or two. He was. If you either know
Speaker 1: it or you don't, you gotta put in your hours,
Speaker 1: you gotta stay up at night watch it. The next
Speaker 1: guy to come in was Chris Banjo. Banjo wasn't even
Speaker 1: the next guy up. He was the guy after the
Speaker 1: next guy up. And for Banjo to come in did
Speaker 1: the same thing that Crawford did, was able to pick
Speaker 1: up what he needed to pick up, learn at the
Speaker 1: pace he needed to learn, and then go from there.
Speaker 1: The reason I bring up Banjo here is because I
Speaker 1: think the Packers one thing they need to do this offseason.
Speaker 1: I don't know who it's going to be, but I
Speaker 1: think you need to have two or three, maybe even
Speaker 1: four if you can find him on the roster. Have
Speaker 1: those kind of spots for the Banjos, the Bushes, the Crawfords,
Speaker 1: where you don't know exactly what their impact is going
Speaker 1: to be on offense or defense, but guys that are
Speaker 1: going to play the core for special teams units and
Speaker 1: give you that versatility, give you that dependability. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of times when these errors and these these
Speaker 1: miscuse and these penalties flare up, is when you start
Speaker 1: putting in new guys at new spots. If you have
Speaker 1: somebody that takes the lead of that room, you know,
Speaker 1: a leader, a charger, someone that's going to be able
Speaker 1: to play discipline and show guys the way it needs
Speaker 1: to be done. That's gonna make you better. The best
Speaker 1: special teams units of Packers have had during my time
Speaker 1: here have had those players. I think Crawfords a step
Speaker 1: towards getting back to that. Yeah, And obviously it helps
Speaker 1: when the players on offense and defense stay healthy because
Speaker 1: then there isn't as much lineup shuffling, which then puts
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on special teams with all the
Speaker 1: shifting around and and we've seen it when that happens,
Speaker 1: it's very hard to have any kind of consistent special
Speaker 1: teams play, and the Packers obviously looking to improve in
Speaker 1: that area. But before we go here West, we started
Speaker 1: the show to talking about our upcoming trip to Canada.
Speaker 1: But there's a British invasion of lambeau Fai coming this weekend.
Speaker 1: Sir Paul McCartney coming in with are you going to
Speaker 1: the show? I'm not. I'm not either, but okay, well
Speaker 1: my parents are going there and they're very excited. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: do they have a favorite Beatles song or a favorite
Speaker 1: Paul McCartney song. You know, that's a great question. I
Speaker 1: forgot to ask my mom. Hey, Jude was always played
Speaker 1: in my house growing up. We joked about there are plenty,
Speaker 1: plenty of great ones. Blackbird, the Blackbird one is my favorite.
Speaker 1: That's you know. If if if I was in Green Bay,
Speaker 1: I would be there, but some stuff came up here
Speaker 1: that I will be out of town. But I I'm
Speaker 1: very much looking forward to I know there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people here excited about it. At some point here
Speaker 1: in these upcoming years, I got to get to a
Speaker 1: lambou Field event. I still haven't been to one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I went to the Billy Joel concert a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, but I will not be going to UH
Speaker 1: to see Paul McCartney. Just for the record, I'm a
Speaker 1: Penny Lane fan. The Fireman rushes in from the pouring rain.
Speaker 1: It's very strange. I've always liked that's you that was
Speaker 1: playing on the Would that be? Would that be the
Speaker 1: like the disc spinner back there, to the turntable. Turntable
Speaker 1: that was yeah, back in that day. Me showing my
Speaker 1: young age here and not being able to get that
Speaker 1: correct alright, Well, with that, we will call it a
Speaker 1: wrap on this edition of Packers Unscript. Would be sure
Speaker 1: to follow all of our coverage of the team on
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