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Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from

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Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford, joined as always

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Speaker 1: by my trusted colleague West and Hodkowitz. We're coming to

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Speaker 1: you hear from our studios at lambeau Field and West.

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Speaker 1: Week one has finally arrived. Are you ready for this?

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Speaker 2: I am. I know you can make a lot of

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Speaker 2: jokes here about how long the offseason was, and you know,

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Speaker 2: training camp and everything, But to me, this is almost

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Speaker 2: more like the Christmas Morning kind of thing that it's like,

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Speaker 2: we know how good this team can be. We've seen

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Speaker 2: the potential and all these things. But when you have

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Speaker 2: one of the youngest rosters in the National Football League,

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Speaker 2: as much as you and I can pontificate about the

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Speaker 2: various different possibilities of this team, you want to see

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Speaker 2: it on in the football field. And what better way

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Speaker 2: from the Green Bay Packers and the Jordan love Ara

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Speaker 2: to kick things off than going down to Soldier Field

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Speaker 2: to play their longest rival. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, And I've done a little bit of research and

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be writing about this later on in the week.

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Speaker 1: This is actually the twenty fifth time that the Packers

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Speaker 1: and Bears will open a season against one another. I

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Speaker 1: believe the current count is the Packers have the lead

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Speaker 1: thirteen wins, ten losses, one tie. Some of those have

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Speaker 1: been significant. You know, the Packers and Bears played the

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Speaker 1: first game at lambeau Field, The Packers and Bears were

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Speaker 1: the first game of the Vince Lombardi era, the first

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Speaker 1: game of the Mike McCarthy era, a lot of those,

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Speaker 1: and the first game of the Matt Lafleur era, and

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Speaker 1: now the first game of the Jordan Love era with

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Speaker 1: him taking over for Aaron Rodgers. And now it'll be

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Speaker 1: interesting because you know, there's going to be all of

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Speaker 1: the excitement, all the build up, all of the nerves

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Speaker 1: and all that. But I think what one thing that

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Speaker 1: I think will really work to Jordan Love's advantage in

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Speaker 1: this situation on Sunday at Soldier Field is that he

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Speaker 1: has actually started an NFL game before, and he did

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Speaker 1: it on the road at Arrowhead Stadium in a tough

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Speaker 1: place to play. So as much as there is so

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Speaker 1: much anticipation for this game and signaling the transition to

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Speaker 1: the new era at starting quarterback, at least from Jordan

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Speaker 1: Love's perspective, everything about going through the pregame and the

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Speaker 1: preparation and knowing that you're going to go out there

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Speaker 1: and play four quarters against an opponent with the crowd

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Speaker 1: against you and all that kind of stuff. He's been

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Speaker 1: through it before, and I think that that is at

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Speaker 1: least a little bit of something that he can hang

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Speaker 1: his hat on as he makes this momentous start.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a lot a bit of something,

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Speaker 2: to be honest with you, because when you're a young

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Speaker 2: quarterback that has been the understudy for Aaron Rodgers for

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Speaker 2: three years, the opportunities to play were few and far between,

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Speaker 2: especially early on in twenty twenty when there was not

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Speaker 2: a preseason. But I thought that when you look at

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Speaker 2: every step of Jordan Love's journey from the first preseason

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Speaker 2: to that game against Kansas City Spots start in twenty one,

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Speaker 2: playing a little bit against Detroit later that same season

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Speaker 2: in the second half when the Packers already had their

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Speaker 2: seed wrapped up, and then lastly last year against Philadelphia,

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Speaker 2: every single time I thought you saw progress from him,

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Speaker 2: not just in the stat books, but in how he

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Speaker 2: carried himself as a quarterback, in the way in which

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Speaker 2: he played the position. This is going to be a

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Speaker 2: hostile environment because the Chicago Bears and their fans, they're

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Speaker 2: going to be energized. As much as you and I

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Speaker 2: think have talked about, you know, expectations on the Detroit

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Speaker 2: Lions this year as they've continued to make this progress

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Speaker 2: underneath Dan Campbell. The Bears feel likewise. They feel like

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Speaker 2: with Justin Fields, they have their quarterback of the future.

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Speaker 2: They feel like they've drafted well, They've made the right signings.

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Speaker 2: Are they going to be a team that's going to

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Speaker 2: contend for a Super Bowl this year? I wouldn't think so,

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Speaker 2: But they believe they should go into this game and

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Speaker 2: against the Packers, and from the Packers' perspective, from Love's perspective,

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Speaker 2: what better way to put your stamp on things than

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Speaker 2: going back down into Soldier Field and continue in this

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Speaker 2: winning streak that Matt Lafleur has been I'm sure he's

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Speaker 2: but eight tries against the Chicago Bears and eight victories

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Speaker 2: so far, Green Bay has really controlled the tempo of

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Speaker 2: this thing, and obviously, now that's something that Jordan Love

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. And let's talk about this Bears team a

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Speaker 1: little bit because it is the second year of the

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Speaker 1: Matt Eberflus era as the head coach. Luke Getzi, the

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Speaker 1: in Chicago, working with Justin Fields. He is in his

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Speaker 1: are a lot of hopes and aspirations for Justin Fields

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Speaker 1: to make some major strides this year. Now, this is

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Speaker 1: a young man, he bleeve. He rushed for over a

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Speaker 1: the quarterback position. I think the word out of Chicago

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Speaker 1: is that they would like Justin Fields to not have

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Speaker 1: he certainly does have the arm to do that. And

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Speaker 1: one thing the Bears did to help him significantly in

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Speaker 1: wide receiver from Carolina, who may not be a household

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Speaker 1: eleven hundred receiving yards. This is the most accomplished offensive

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Speaker 2: Well, and you can't really draw too much out of

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Speaker 2: the preseason, right, but I thought some of the early

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Speaker 2: He's going to be looking to achieve. But even the

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Speaker 2: Cole Kmet just got a you know, extension, got rewarded,

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Speaker 2: part of this thing too. I think the Bears have

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Speaker 2: tried to figure out this offseason. Okay, what does Justin

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Speaker 2: what areas can we take what he's already done well

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Speaker 2: just didn't really have a lot of guys that fields

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Speaker 2: You're right, Mike. Last year he ran for eleven hundred yards.

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Speaker 2: You know, he threw for seventeen touchdowns. But at the

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Speaker 2: end of the day, the Bears still worth three and fourteen.

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Speaker 2: It didn't translate to wins. They needed to deepen out

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Speaker 2: think when you see someone like more come in that

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Speaker 2: feeling that this is one of those number one receivers

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Speaker 2: you know, kind of pick up for what they've lacked

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and in the backfield. The Bears have now seemingly

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Speaker 1: have turned things over to Khalil Herbert as their number

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Speaker 1: one running back that David Montgomery is gone. He's now

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Speaker 1: actually with division rival Detroit, and Herbert as a guy,

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Speaker 1: I don't have his exact statistics from last year in

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Speaker 1: packs of punch, I guess is maybe the best way

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Speaker 2: No, I mean he's a little powerhouse. I mean five

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Speaker 2: were talking about last year with his stats. He ended

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Speaker 2: That's one thing that I thought last year the Bears

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Speaker 2: sort of saw is Okay, David Montgomery's our guy for

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Speaker 2: the way that this offense was built originally. It's that

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Speaker 2: Matt Forte type back right, and obviously Herbert is not

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Speaker 2: a little bit this offseason. Montgomery ends up with the

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Speaker 2: Detroit Lions, and the Bear said, you know what, we

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Speaker 2: like what we have in house. We're going to continue

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Speaker 2: to develop this guy. Now, what's always going to be

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Speaker 2: interesting is I looked at the pairing of fields in

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Speaker 2: you know, not so much thunder and lightning, but just

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Speaker 2: has the past two seasons for the most part, you know,

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Speaker 2: and years to come.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, on the defensive side of the ball for

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Speaker 1: the Bears, it's definitely been a I guess you'd almost

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Speaker 1: say an ongoing transition over the last couple of years

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Speaker 1: But what catches your eye when you look at this

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Speaker 1: Bears lineup on the defensive side is the three off

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Speaker 1: And of course I don't want my you know, Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: the that sort of seems to be what the core

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Speaker 2: It reminds me the old Don Hodkoitz go learn how

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Speaker 2: That's probably what this is gonna be like for Green Bay.

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Speaker 2: an insider inbox congratulations to you, is the Packers have

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Speaker 1: William from Colorado. I appreciate, I appreciate you bringing that

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Speaker 1: or watching this show and the clarification has been made.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad you did that. You're an upstanding citizen, You're

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Speaker 2: a man of honor. I will say this though, it

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Speaker 2: had been twenty one years now since the last time

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Speaker 2: a player has been drafted out of UC Davis, Right,

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Speaker 2: so they've had forty thousand students a year or whatever.

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Speaker 2: The last time is two thousand and two. You're not

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Speaker 2: gonna guess, so I might as well just.

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Speaker 1: Tell no, I'm not gonna be able to get hast.

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Speaker 2: Ties to the Green Bay Packers. Really, former Packers quarterback J. T.

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Speaker 2: O'Sullivan was the last player to get drafted out of

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Speaker 2: UC Davis, not by the Packers, by the Saints.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I was gonna say he wasted by New Orleans,

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Speaker 2: Though, Now you have andres Carlson, who you know, he

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Speaker 2: comes from a kicking family. Him and his brother were

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Speaker 2: what the kickers at Auburn for a decade. But I

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Speaker 2: love that. That's what I always love. You know, these

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Speaker 2: specialists U see Davis Azusa, Pacific Old Dominion, you know

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Speaker 2: br Hatcher when he was here in camp. Like you

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Speaker 2: get these guys that aren't like from the big Power

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Speaker 2: five schools, that get an opportunity, and certainly from Wheland

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Speaker 2: if you had any chance to check out the story yet,

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Speaker 2: be sure to do that because he has an incredible story, yes,

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Speaker 2: and such a little part of it is actually his

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Speaker 2: he's done to make his dream come true here and

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Speaker 2: obviously you hope for the best for the kid.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, one of many young players that will take

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Speaker 1: the field for the Packers that soldier field in Week one.

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Speaker 1: On our next show, we'll get to the keys to

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Speaker 1: victory and break things down a little bit more with

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Speaker 1: another look at this Packers Bears matchup, but for now

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Speaker 1: we'll call it a rap. On this edition of Packers Unscripted,

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Speaker 1: be sure to follow all of our coverage of the

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Speaker 1: team throughout Week one. We will have it all four

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Speaker 1: for you on packers dot com for Wesi, Am Mike,

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Speaker 1: thank you for tuning in everybody. We will see you

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Speaker 1: next time. Mm hmm