Speaker 1: M Hi everyone, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford sitting next to my trusted colleague
Speaker 1: West Hodkowitz. Were coming to you here from our studios
Speaker 1: at Lambolefield and West. As we have recapped the bulk
Speaker 1: of the two thousand seventeen season, we've talked a lot
Speaker 1: about the new coaches coming in on offense and defense,
Speaker 1: peak performances on both sides of the ball for the
Speaker 1: Packers during the past season. But one area we didn't
Speaker 1: really touch on much that we need to hit on
Speaker 1: today and that's special teams. For a couple of reasons. One,
Speaker 1: there is a new special teams coach on board. Maurice
Speaker 1: Drayton will now be the assistant to special teams coordinator
Speaker 1: Ron Zook as Jason Simmons, his former assistant, has now
Speaker 1: moved up to UH to coach defensive back um with
Speaker 1: with Joe Witt and new defensive coordinator Mike Petton. But
Speaker 1: also because we need to give credit where credit is due,
Speaker 1: and that is for all the injuries that we talked
Speaker 1: about the Packers dealt with in tween the special teams
Speaker 1: to Ron's Zook's credit and Jason Simmons credit did not
Speaker 1: suffer from the Domino effect, so to speak. The Packers
Speaker 1: special teams held their own despite a constant shuffling of
Speaker 1: personnel that became the norm with all of the injuries
Speaker 1: and players going in and out of the line up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Mike McCarthy said right at his season ending news conference,
Speaker 1: I mean that that Zook had done a heck of
Speaker 1: a job with what he was given to work with.
Speaker 1: You gotta remember, Mike, this is a group that had
Speaker 1: a rookie punter that did not have any competition in camp.
Speaker 1: They had three different long snappers throughout the course of
Speaker 1: the season due to injuries, which I think that duo,
Speaker 1: together with some of those new those new positions and
Speaker 1: and some of that flux, I think somewhat contributed to
Speaker 1: some of the missfield goals and things of that nature
Speaker 1: from Mason Crosby. But the rest of this thing being
Speaker 1: able to help Trevor Davis end up being third. I
Speaker 1: believe it was in punt return average. The Packers were
Speaker 1: second the league in that category. After he had some
Speaker 1: of his issues during the preseasons with with fumbles. Um
Speaker 1: Vogel ends up resetting the Packers net average for punting
Speaker 1: this season, the fact that the coverage units ended up
Speaker 1: playing as well as they did despite a number of
Speaker 1: new people coming in there. You have to remember when
Speaker 1: when injuries hit and they hit the offense and defense hard,
Speaker 1: the guys that are stepping up typically are the guys
Speaker 1: that are contributors and special teams. So that required a
Speaker 1: lot of new players coming in from the practice squad
Speaker 1: and making contributions. In ron Zock made all those pieces fit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I really thought with regards to the Packers coverage units,
Speaker 1: you know nothing that was a huge splash play where
Speaker 1: you get a big turnover something they obviously like to
Speaker 1: be able to force a fumble you know once in
Speaker 1: a while set up the offense with a short field,
Speaker 1: but you also didn't have the types of breakdowns and
Speaker 1: coverage like what happened against the Indian app was colts
Speaker 1: in sen were really that that opening kickoff return for
Speaker 1: a touchdown and a and a long kickoff return also
Speaker 1: later in the game really hampered the Packers in in
Speaker 1: their their chances to win a ballgame. And then you
Speaker 1: mentioned Justin Vogel, the rookie punter undrafted out of Miami.
Speaker 1: I know, they want to work on some more things
Speaker 1: with him in terms of consistency and ball placement, but
Speaker 1: his work combined with the coverage units to uh to
Speaker 1: set a you know, a franchise record for net punting average,
Speaker 1: which statistically has been kept in the franchise record books
Speaker 1: since like the mid nineteen seventies. Um, that's something to
Speaker 1: hang your hat on, because we talked about it all
Speaker 1: season long. The leg talent, the raw talent to punt
Speaker 1: the football is there with Justin Vogel. Now if you
Speaker 1: get the if you add start adding a little better placement,
Speaker 1: a little more consistency, and then stay solid with the
Speaker 1: coverage units, that can really be a weapon for the
Speaker 1: pack Yeah, and that's gonna come with experience and time.
Speaker 1: I think you saw a young man come in here
Speaker 1: and look comfortable. And you have to remember the original
Speaker 1: plan for this season was they were going to have
Speaker 1: Jacob Chum coming back as the punter from last season
Speaker 1: and they had you know, Vogel as the undrafted rookie
Speaker 1: in there to compete. Well, Sum ends up sustaining a
Speaker 1: back injury that landed him on Packers injury reserved the
Speaker 1: entire season. UM. So whatever, happened there. The Packers decided
Speaker 1: not to bring in another kicker, another punter, and it
Speaker 1: was Vogel's job from that point on. And he was
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl alternate. I know I said this in
Speaker 1: a show last month, but if you're a Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: alternate as a punter, that's not the fan voting. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's tough to really get as a rookie to get
Speaker 1: that kind of uh name recognition. That that's people around
Speaker 1: the league taking notice of what this young man did.
Speaker 1: And I think it's impressive. Uh. And and for the Packers,
Speaker 1: I think they finished sixteenth and Rick Goslin's annual rankings
Speaker 1: of Special teams uh from where they were at a
Speaker 1: year ago. And despite some of those injuries, I think
Speaker 1: it said a lot about them that they were able
Speaker 1: to make that improvement. Yeah, and Ron's look and Jason
Speaker 1: Simmons and in coordinating those units. You know, let's not
Speaker 1: forget too, they had they had to replace Jay Rone Elliott,
Speaker 1: who did not come back. Um Blake Mark he knows
Speaker 1: was a guy that I thought was going to be
Speaker 1: a real special teams leader, and not that he can't be,
Speaker 1: but he ended up playing so much on defense they
Speaker 1: had to limit his special team snaps really I think
Speaker 1: compared to his rookie season, So that was another potential
Speaker 1: special teams leader that needs to be replaced. And then
Speaker 1: a guy like kentroll Bryce ends up going down with
Speaker 1: a season ending ankle injury midway through the year, So
Speaker 1: there were some there were some issues that had to
Speaker 1: be dealt with in terms of the guys that maybe
Speaker 1: you thought would be the bell cows on special teams,
Speaker 1: but all season long you still had Jeff Janis as
Speaker 1: a gunner on punt coverage, which was big and and
Speaker 1: you know other guys like Marwin Evans, another young safety
Speaker 1: you stepped up and performed well in those roles. So
Speaker 1: there are there are a lot of guys who have
Speaker 1: gotten the experience that I think ron Zook and now
Speaker 1: mour Ree Strait and Will will look to move forward with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and to other throw out there for you. Joe Thomas
Speaker 1: ended up missing about half the season with that hamstring injury.
Speaker 1: He's a big contributor in Quentin Rollins was the other
Speaker 1: gunner earlier in the season alongside Jeff Janis. They losing
Speaker 1: him as well. One other thing I want to throw
Speaker 1: him before we go to break I know the goss
Speaker 1: and rankings are amazing. The one thing I would like
Speaker 1: to see some people pay more attention to, though, is
Speaker 1: the on site kick recoveries. I think that's a stat
Speaker 1: that isn't normally talked about a lot. It's one of
Speaker 1: the things Mason Crosby does the best. Um So I
Speaker 1: think when you look at those rankings and things like that,
Speaker 1: that's another area too where if that category is in
Speaker 1: their Packers might have been even higher. Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: With that, we will go to a breakback with more
Speaker 1: on Packers Unscripted right after this. Welcome back to Packers Unscripted.
Speaker 1: Mike Spofford in this chair, Wes Hodkowitz and that one
Speaker 1: and West. I want to spend the rest of this
Speaker 1: show focusing on some of the Packers opponents coming up
Speaker 1: here in specifically the Packers NFC North opponents. Obviously that
Speaker 1: will be six of the sixteen games coming up this
Speaker 1: next season, as it always is. And when you look
Speaker 1: at what's going on in the NFC North, Packers changing
Speaker 1: around the coaching staff and new general manager, the Lions
Speaker 1: and Bears both getting new head coaches, the Vikings trying
Speaker 1: to figure out what's going on at quarterback? The NFC
Speaker 1: North is undergoing a lot of change, maybe more change
Speaker 1: than any single division in the entire NFL. So let's
Speaker 1: start with the Vikings. And uh, and I already said it,
Speaker 1: the quarterback question, that's the one that's on everybody's mind.
Speaker 1: With Minnesota, you've got case Keenum, Sam Bradford, Teddy Bridgewater,
Speaker 1: none of them under contract for what do you think
Speaker 1: the Vikings are gonna do? Yeah, it's gonna be Uh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be such a big question because certainly there's
Speaker 1: no way that the Vikings are able to return all
Speaker 1: three of those players, and depending on what kind of
Speaker 1: contract we're looking at with Bridgewater, may be difficult to
Speaker 1: get all, you know, two of them with all the
Speaker 1: sorts out. Sam Bradford has been a commodity in this
Speaker 1: league despite all the injury history. People agree that the
Speaker 1: pedigree is still there if he can get a little
Speaker 1: bit better luck. Now, here's the real real question is
Speaker 1: case Keenum. And and it's always so much fun to
Speaker 1: talk about the guy coming out of nowhere to lead
Speaker 1: you to a super Bowl, to lead you to an
Speaker 1: NFC championship game as a backup quarterback, but then what
Speaker 1: happens past midnight? And and what do you do? Do
Speaker 1: you do you do you really, you know, dedicate some
Speaker 1: resources to him. Do you try to keep them in
Speaker 1: the fold? Do you let them go like the Baltimore
Speaker 1: Ravens did with Trent Bilfer back in two thousand after
Speaker 1: they won the Super Bowl. These are decisions that Rick
Speaker 1: Spielman is gonna have to make. I give Spielman a
Speaker 1: lot of credit. He made that team, He built it.
Speaker 1: They knew what they had defensively, He found the pieces
Speaker 1: offensively to really deepen those positions, to make them competitive
Speaker 1: despite the loss of Sam Bradford, despite the loss of
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook. But now, Jeric McKinnon, you know, you look
Speaker 1: at Lettavius, Murray, Keena, what are these guys futures and
Speaker 1: what is this offense going to look like? In two
Speaker 1: thousand Yeah, and as we were going through the regular season,
Speaker 1: it was looking like, you know, boy, Case Keenum is
Speaker 1: going to be the guy in the future. It's almost
Speaker 1: like you forget about you know, Teddy Bridgewater and stuff.
Speaker 1: The way Keenum was playing regular season is passer rating
Speaker 1: is in the high nineties for for the entire year.
Speaker 1: Has the great miracle play to beat the New Orleans
Speaker 1: Saints in the playoffs. But then you know, the breaks
Speaker 1: are put on a little bit in terms of just
Speaker 1: how much money somebody's going to invest in case Keenum.
Speaker 1: After that NFC title game in Philadelphia, twenty eight out
Speaker 1: of forty eight, a couple of interceptions passerrating him sixty
Speaker 1: eight in the biggest game of the season, and the
Speaker 1: Vikings had their problems on defense in Philadelphia to that
Speaker 1: they didn't lose that game just because of case Keenum.
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, but people look at a performance
Speaker 1: like that in a big game, and whether it's the
Speaker 1: Vikings or another team. In the free agent market, then
Speaker 1: you just wonder, well, you know, how, you know, how
Speaker 1: much do you invest in a guy like case Keenum,
Speaker 1: Because from his point of view, you know, he this
Speaker 1: is his opportunity to cash in. He's got to make
Speaker 1: the most of this for for his career, his financial
Speaker 1: security and all of that, and uh, but it's really
Speaker 1: hard to gauge right now what the market is going
Speaker 1: to say about what he's worth, right And that's where
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the most difficult because if I'm his
Speaker 1: agent and I don't know who case Keendom's agent is
Speaker 1: off the top of my head, I'm going to teams
Speaker 1: and I'm saying, twenty two touchdown, seven interceptions in a
Speaker 1: terrible situation. And then my guy made the most of
Speaker 1: it and really showed that the potential that the St.
Speaker 1: Louis Rams thought he had when they gave him a
Speaker 1: first round tender all those years ago, that that potential
Speaker 1: is still there and that this is a guy that
Speaker 1: can manage a football situation and can win you games.
Speaker 1: Now here's the other side of this coin, though, Mike,
Speaker 1: is that Okay, let's say they would keep Keenam. Well,
Speaker 1: now you don't have Pat Shermer anymore. And Pat Shermer,
Speaker 1: for you gotta remember to three years ago North Turner,
Speaker 1: that whole situation blew up in their face in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: and he came in as the o C. They thought
Speaker 1: he was gonna be running offense, you'd have Zimmer with
Speaker 1: the defense. It didn't work. So now obviously John d.
Speaker 1: Filippiou from Philadelphia comes in another quarterback guy. But if
Speaker 1: Keenom's back, or if it's Bridgewater, can he mesh the
Speaker 1: way with those quarterbacks that Pat Shermer did and then
Speaker 1: also from Pat Shermer's perspective, depending on what the Giants
Speaker 1: want to do, are they potentially interested in Keenum having
Speaker 1: three quarterbacks all reaching unrestricted free agency at the same time.
Speaker 1: It's almost unprecedented and it is going to be a
Speaker 1: really big puzzle for them to figure out in terms
Speaker 1: of how they want to structure their offense and this
Speaker 1: team now going forward, because I think everybody's seen they
Speaker 1: have a defense that can compete if you can find
Speaker 1: the offense that can compliment it. Yeah, and head coach
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer has made no secret of his fondness for
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater. He loves Bridgewater, he loves the skill set,
Speaker 1: the leadership, the makeup all of that. But he hasn't
Speaker 1: played a game in two years now, coming off of
Speaker 1: that horrible, horrible knee injury from training camp in so
Speaker 1: I think the Vikings would like to keep Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: and still give him a shot at the long term job. Again,
Speaker 1: you have to find the right contract that he's that
Speaker 1: he would agree to and that makes sense for the
Speaker 1: franchise in order to do that. But then if you've
Speaker 1: sort of got Teddy Bridgewater waiting in the wings to
Speaker 1: be competing for that for that job, then where's the
Speaker 1: incentive for somebody like Keenum to sign a long term deal,
Speaker 1: because then you're like, well, do you believe in me
Speaker 1: or do you want to go with the other guy?
Speaker 1: You know, and those questions just aren't haven't been answered
Speaker 1: right now, and and we just have to see free
Speaker 1: agency begins about a month from now, and and you know,
Speaker 1: the draft is a couple of months away. I guess
Speaker 1: we'll just see what happens. The other wild card is
Speaker 1: you mentioned three guys going to unrestricted free agency. Does
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins end up coming into the discussion for the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings. It's not out of the question, not out
Speaker 1: of the question now that they do have some cap
Speaker 1: things coming up with all the guys that are getting
Speaker 1: paid on that defense. But yeah, the thing at the
Speaker 1: point I want to make lastly, just about Bridgewater, you
Speaker 1: can make a case other than a neck head injury.
Speaker 1: This is the most significant injury that has been sustained
Speaker 1: in the NFL over the last four or five years,
Speaker 1: and we have not seen him on the field. If
Speaker 1: it was me, I'd probably resigned Keenum. Hope that lightning
Speaker 1: can strike twice and then obviously still have Bridgewater in
Speaker 1: your back pocket. All right, with that, we'll go to
Speaker 1: a break back with more on Packers Unscripted right after this.
Speaker 1: H Welcome back to Packers Unscripted. Mike Spoffer here, West Hodko,
Speaker 1: It's all the way over there, West. Continuing our discussion
Speaker 1: about the Packers NFC North foes and the questions they
Speaker 1: are facing in the off season, let's move on to
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. And if there's the question that kind
Speaker 1: of burns for me with this team that I'm really
Speaker 1: curious to see how it shakes out, is now under
Speaker 1: new head coach Matt Patricia, the defensive coordinator of the
Speaker 1: New England Patriots, who has obviously a tremendous track record
Speaker 1: as a defensive coordinator. What is going to be the
Speaker 1: identity of this Detroit Lions defense? Because when I when
Speaker 1: I look back, I was looking at it this morning. Actually,
Speaker 1: you look back at that two thousand eleven Detroit Lions
Speaker 1: team that went to the playoffs. It was Matthew Stafford's
Speaker 1: first playoff team as the quarterback. There. You had a
Speaker 1: defensive line, you know, built on guys like Dominican Sue
Speaker 1: and Kyle Van and Bosch and Cliff Avril. You know,
Speaker 1: then over time you had Nick Fairly kind of stepped
Speaker 1: in for Kyle Van and Bosh, and then you had
Speaker 1: Ezekiel ansa kind of step in for Cliff Avril. But
Speaker 1: the identity of that defense for a long time was
Speaker 1: built on that defensive line, that that that front four
Speaker 1: that's kind of gone by the wayside. Now Sue is
Speaker 1: not there, fairly is not there. DeAndre Levy, the prolific linebacker,
Speaker 1: has not been the same that never really was able
Speaker 1: to come back from that horrible knee injury. This Lions
Speaker 1: defense needs an identity. What is Patricia gonna do here?
Speaker 1: And here's the other problem too. For all the issues
Speaker 1: that they've had in the inconsistency and all that um Terrell,
Speaker 1: Austin was seen is doing a pretty darn good job
Speaker 1: with that group. Well, now Austin goes to the Cincinnati Bengals,
Speaker 1: you still have Jim Bob Cooterer and it plays offensively.
Speaker 1: Patricia's not, you know, an offensive coach, he's by trade
Speaker 1: a defensive coach. So how is this all gonna fit? Uh?
Speaker 1: I'm very interested to see how this plays out because obviously,
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to judge, you know, a team
Speaker 1: off one season, because I think the Patriots that was
Speaker 1: a yeoman's effort that they put together defensively this year.
Speaker 1: I don't think that was the most talented group that
Speaker 1: they've had under Bill Belichick. Far from it, but you know, statistically,
Speaker 1: it wasn't a great year. So I think Patricia hit
Speaker 1: all the checked all the boxes in his his news conference.
Speaker 1: I think he showed personality. I thought it was very
Speaker 1: interesting that he TIEDI, you know, up the beard and
Speaker 1: the hair in all that. It seems like, you know,
Speaker 1: judging by t J. Lank's comments on Twitter and some
Speaker 1: of these guys that are responding well to him, I
Speaker 1: think what they did is they overcorrected. They had Jim Schwartz,
Speaker 1: they needed discipline, they bring in Jim Caldwell, and they
Speaker 1: probably lost some of the personality with with Patricia trying
Speaker 1: to find the middle ground there. Um, I'm very, like
Speaker 1: I said, very interested to see how this plays out, because,
Speaker 1: as we know with what the Minnesota Vikings have done,
Speaker 1: if you don't build a defense and se can compete
Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers, history has shown you're not going to
Speaker 1: be long for this division. Yeah, what the Lions do have,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, going for them. The most on defense
Speaker 1: is Darius Slay Absolutely like he is. He is one
Speaker 1: of the top cornerbacks in not only in the NFC
Speaker 1: North but in the entire NFC. They call him big
Speaker 1: play slave for a reason. He's he's he's a weapon defensively.
Speaker 1: But you need more than just one cornerback to build around,
Speaker 1: and you've got, uh, you know, Ziggy Ants as a
Speaker 1: pending free agent righties here lately. Yeah, he hasn't, he
Speaker 1: hasn't been resigned. He's been, you know, kind of one
Speaker 1: of your stalwarts off the edge there since since he
Speaker 1: was drafted very high carry hiders coming back off of
Speaker 1: his season ending injury as well. Right And then on
Speaker 1: the offensive side, you know, you've got Stafford, You've got
Speaker 1: Marvin Jones Jr. Um, You've got some weapons in place there.
Speaker 1: I think they still need to figure out what they're
Speaker 1: doing at running back in Detroit. You know, that's uh.
Speaker 1: And I even saw one headline, you know, wondering, depending
Speaker 1: on what happens with Levy on Bell in Pittsburgh, with
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions make a play in free agency for
Speaker 1: a guy like Levy on Bell to just fix this
Speaker 1: running game problem once and for all. That would obviously
Speaker 1: be the extreme measure, but really, running back is kind
Speaker 1: of the only question mark they have on offense because
Speaker 1: I think Matt Stafford's game continues to climb. I think
Speaker 1: he's I think he's he's continues to rise into that
Speaker 1: level of elite quarterbacks in this league. Yeah, he has.
Speaker 1: But I think the one thing we've learned based on
Speaker 1: when they made the playoffs and when they don't, is
Speaker 1: he needs help. And he's not a guy that's just
Speaker 1: going to be able to to cover up everything. He
Speaker 1: needs to have the pieces around him. He needs to
Speaker 1: have the offensive line. You know, I thought it was
Speaker 1: a really good move by them getting t J. Lang.
Speaker 1: He was a good fit for the program. Losing Riley Reef, though,
Speaker 1: I think, did hurt them any way. Uh And when
Speaker 1: you look at some of you know, how things turned
Speaker 1: out for that offensive line this season, you know, whatever
Speaker 1: you want to stay about pass protection, but running game wise,
Speaker 1: the pieces just haven't fit. And and you know, I
Speaker 1: think it's twofold. You know, a Mira Abdullah was a
Speaker 1: second round pick. I think if I'm them, I'd have
Speaker 1: to consider long and hard about looking at what Delvin
Speaker 1: Hook did looking with some of these other Sometimes you're
Speaker 1: gonna find Jordan Heyward or Jordan Howard excuse me, in
Speaker 1: the fifth round. That happens, but sometimes you do need
Speaker 1: to take one in the first. This might be a
Speaker 1: year for them to take a look at that receiving wise,
Speaker 1: I'm still happy with it because, as we've talked about
Speaker 1: numerous times, I think getting away from Kelvin Johnson has
Speaker 1: allowed Matthew Stafford to have a little bit more open
Speaker 1: mindset towards how he utilizes the receivers. Marvin Jones Jr.
Speaker 1: Could be a lot more consistent. I think you know,
Speaker 1: you know what you have in Golden Tap. So it's
Speaker 1: just trying to see exactly if you can be you know,
Speaker 1: a team that year in a year out is going
Speaker 1: to compete and you're not gonna have these ebbs and flows. Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we've got one more NFC North team
Speaker 1: to discuss, and that's Chicago Bears. We'll get to them
Speaker 1: after the breakback with more on Packers Unscripted. Right after
Speaker 1: this Welcome back to Packers Unscripted. Mike Spofford alongside West
Speaker 1: Hodkowitz and West the Chicago Bears, the last team in
Speaker 1: the NFC North that we need to discuss here, and
Speaker 1: I think if you break it down or focus it
Speaker 1: on one burning question for Chicago, it's can new head
Speaker 1: coach Matt Nagy keep Mitch true Bisky on the trajectory
Speaker 1: to become the franchise quarterback that he was drafted to become.
Speaker 1: That's really what it comes down to for Chicago, right
Speaker 1: it does to me. I actually think the number one
Speaker 1: storyline is still did Ryan Pace find the guy? Yeah? Um,
Speaker 1: you know, because the excuse was not excuse, but I
Speaker 1: know it was. The excuse last year was that John
Speaker 1: Fox wasn't the right guy for Mitchell Trabisky and they
Speaker 1: needed a t they needed a quarterback guy to be
Speaker 1: the head coach. Obviously, you know that there's the reports
Speaker 1: now that Brad Shoulders is going to be joining them
Speaker 1: there and him and Matt Nagy go back a long way.
Speaker 1: Obviously had the bond there with the Kansas City Chiefs
Speaker 1: Chief's offense. I thought, if you look over the past
Speaker 1: few years, how consistent they've been, how they got the
Speaker 1: most out of Alex Smith, it appears there in the
Speaker 1: process of you know, really grooming. You know, Mahomes now
Speaker 1: to be the next guy. Can Mitchell Robinsky do this thing?
Speaker 1: I think is the question we saw last year. You
Speaker 1: cannot judge a rookie quarterback by his first season. Jared
Speaker 1: Goff proved that. I'll be honest with you, I have
Speaker 1: some deep reservations about Robinsky from watching him last season.
Speaker 1: We'll see now whether or not he can be the guy.
Speaker 1: If Nagy can do it. I think that this is
Speaker 1: a real great contender that's waiting there in the NFC
Speaker 1: because what Vic Fangio has done with that defense over
Speaker 1: the last two or three seasons, with some of the
Speaker 1: lack of talent at times he's had in that secondary,
Speaker 1: has impressed me. Now, do they have an offense that
Speaker 1: can compliment that? Yeah, and I think your reservations on
Speaker 1: Trubisky are understandable, certainly. But at the same time, there
Speaker 1: were moments where you looked at Mitch Drabinsky during his
Speaker 1: rookie season you're like, yeah, that's why they drafted him
Speaker 1: number two overall, that's why Ryan Pace the GM basically
Speaker 1: staked his career he did on taking that trade going
Speaker 1: up from number three to number two, which people didn't
Speaker 1: even think he would have to do to get Trubisky.
Speaker 1: He did it anyway, and and gave up some some
Speaker 1: picks along the way in order to make sure that
Speaker 1: he got Trubisky out of North Carolina and uh and
Speaker 1: really the the future of the franchise. Hinges on the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks development, I agree with you with Fangio with what
Speaker 1: he's had to work with on the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball, with players they've lost, both players who have left,
Speaker 1: others who have gotten hurt. He's kept that defense competitive,
Speaker 1: they kept he That defense kept them in a lot
Speaker 1: of games when Trubisky maybe wasn't playing all that great,
Speaker 1: even one a couple of games for them, frankly. But
Speaker 1: but now it's it's it's about finding that well rounded
Speaker 1: team and that's Naggie's job to put together. And if
Speaker 1: Rubinsky is the guy, they got to get him some receivers.
Speaker 1: He has to have some people can catch that football. Yeah, receivers, definitely.
Speaker 1: With that, we'll call it a wrap on this edition
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