Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford, sitting alongside my trusted colleague West Hodkowitz.
Speaker 1: Were coming to you here from our studios at lambeau
Speaker 1: Field West. The first preseason game for the Packers in
Speaker 1: nineteen is in the books. It turned out to be
Speaker 1: a victory over the Houston Texans after Houston had spent
Speaker 1: the bulk of the week in Green Bay. And I
Speaker 1: don't want to read too much into it, obviously, in
Speaker 1: a game where the vast majority of the starters for
Speaker 1: both teams didn't play, this really was a game about
Speaker 1: reserve players and backups fighting for spots. But if you
Speaker 1: want to look for anything that maybe hopefully for the
Speaker 1: Packers set some kind of a tone for nineteen, is
Speaker 1: that they were looking for turnovers and for better impact
Speaker 1: on special teams. And they got both of those in
Speaker 1: the Texans, and they got it right away. It wasn't
Speaker 1: one of those things where they needed to like go
Speaker 1: down to crunch time and then someone made a playing
Speaker 1: you know, the garbage moment in the ball game, and
Speaker 1: the you know, the decisions already at hand. They made
Speaker 1: three impact plays right off the bat, and then they
Speaker 1: did another one right when they came back after halftime.
Speaker 1: We could talk about the turnovers and takeaways on defense,
Speaker 1: but man, it was just like you could feel this
Speaker 1: collective sigh of relief when Econemius st Brown was able
Speaker 1: to force that muff punt early in the first quarter there.
Speaker 1: Last year, the Packers actually got off to a good
Speaker 1: start last year. They got a block punt right off
Speaker 1: the bat with Josh Jackson recovering it. Yeah, Week two
Speaker 1: against the Vikings, but it was all downhill from there
Speaker 1: and they weren't really ever able to re establish that momentum.
Speaker 1: To get a play like this, and to see a
Speaker 1: young receiver like st Brown make a play when you
Speaker 1: need them to it was important. I think it's something
Speaker 1: that the special teams unit when they looked to cut
Speaker 1: down and they woant umber of penalties they had last year,
Speaker 1: but also makes some impact plays that can change the
Speaker 1: course of a ball game. Uh st Brown did that.
Speaker 1: He got on the guy, he pressured him and then
Speaker 1: also had the presence of mind to be able to
Speaker 1: take the ball away and get the touchdown. Afterwards, he's
Speaker 1: talking to Tim Boyle and some guys after that Kadar
Speaker 1: Holman who had the interception, and they mentioned just how
Speaker 1: big those impact plays are, not just so trying to
Speaker 1: make the football team, but really dictating the tempo. It's
Speaker 1: one thing the Packers are able to accomplish against the
Speaker 1: Texas right off the bat. Yeah, I was really impressed
Speaker 1: with Holman's interception. That was another one of the early ones,
Speaker 1: and we had talked about him going into the game,
Speaker 1: guys like Kadar Holman, Tony Brown getting a lot more
Speaker 1: snaps in practice with with you know, ones and twos
Speaker 1: with Kevin King being out and uh, you know, Holman
Speaker 1: made a nice play there. Now, it was an under
Speaker 1: thrown ball, but he had talked about it was something
Speaker 1: he saw in practice against the Texans during the week,
Speaker 1: and then the recognition was there, so he undercut the
Speaker 1: route and boom, he took advantage of of a poor
Speaker 1: throw and got a big turnover in the red zone.
Speaker 1: You have to do that too. I absolutely love when
Speaker 1: he said that, because this is the preseason, it's training camp.
Speaker 1: But for guys like Holman that are trying to carve
Speaker 1: out a role in this defense, these are the moments
Speaker 1: you need to have along the way for him to
Speaker 1: be able to have that intelligence football i Q recall
Speaker 1: if you will, and then make it that play happen,
Speaker 1: will it to existence into a football game? That That's
Speaker 1: the one thing that really was missing from Holman's resume
Speaker 1: so far. He's been sticky good in coverage. He's incredibly fast.
Speaker 1: He just really hadn't had that big mark he takeaway.
Speaker 1: He was able to get that off of Joe Webb
Speaker 1: and then another guy really quickly to jump off of two.
Speaker 1: Raven Green is a player who right off the bat
Speaker 1: was playing with the first team unit, whether it was
Speaker 1: as deep safety when Darnell Savage was still out with
Speaker 1: the wisdom teeth or moving into the boxes that hybrid
Speaker 1: in the box safety linebacker role. Well, here's the young
Speaker 1: man coming through with a force fumble that ends up
Speaker 1: getting recovered by Will Redman. I mean, by all intents
Speaker 1: and purposes, Mike, if these practices, if that preseason game,
Speaker 1: there's anything to draw off of it, it's that Raven
Speaker 1: Green is going to have a role in this defense.
Speaker 1: That's the way it looks right now. Kind of like
Speaker 1: what the Tally did on offense, Green has done a
Speaker 1: lot of that on defense as a guy that you
Speaker 1: thought going into camp might be on the fringe. It
Speaker 1: looks like he's very much in playing. Yeah, well, it
Speaker 1: wasn't all sunshine and roses in the first preseason game.
Speaker 1: Because if there were a couple of things that the
Speaker 1: Packers definitely are looking to clean up as they head
Speaker 1: into their second preseason game this week in Baltimore, it's
Speaker 1: the penalties and the miss tackles. There were a dozen
Speaker 1: penalties for over a hundred yards Matt Lafleur counted, and
Speaker 1: when he went through the film, twenty four miss tackles
Speaker 1: that equated to about a hundred and sixty four yards
Speaker 1: of offense um or yards in general for the Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: So the tackles thing, I get it. Obviously you want
Speaker 1: to see guys tackle better than that. But when you
Speaker 1: look at it West, you know, three weeks of O
Speaker 1: t A, it is a week of mini camp, two
Speaker 1: weeks of training camp. These guys have played football for
Speaker 1: six weeks without tackling anybody. So okay, let's see what
Speaker 1: happens in Baltimore before we, you know, make any grand
Speaker 1: pronouncements about this is a major issue that the Packers
Speaker 1: need to fix. So let's see what happens in Game
Speaker 1: two the penalties. We saw a couple of things that
Speaker 1: our points of emphasis for the officials this year. One
Speaker 1: is offensive holding, because right away in the first quarter
Speaker 1: both teams were getting flagged for holding left and right.
Speaker 1: The officials really trying to get these guys to pay
Speaker 1: attention to their technique and what's going to be called
Speaker 1: this year. And then the other one to watch out
Speaker 1: for two. It was on Holman's interception, the blindside block
Speaker 1: Will Redmond. As Holman got up to return the interception
Speaker 1: one way, Will Redmond was running the other way to
Speaker 1: pick off a trailing player. Can't do that anymore. At
Speaker 1: least you can't block him forcibly. You could run that
Speaker 1: way and get in his way and try to prevent
Speaker 1: him from getting there, but you can't lay the guy out.
Speaker 1: That's gonna get a flag. That's going to be an
Speaker 1: obvious fifty yard penalty. The officials are watching for that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. I don't know if you realize this, Mike,
Speaker 1: but I'm now a officionado when it comes to understanding
Speaker 1: the blindside block. After having our conference last week with
Speaker 1: the officials, there you go the one thing you want
Speaker 1: to look for now on that play is you can
Speaker 1: stand in their way, you can shield them, is the
Speaker 1: way they describe it. Otherwise you can extend your hands,
Speaker 1: but if you throw the shoulder, if you lower your helmet,
Speaker 1: all that stuff is what the reps are gonna be
Speaker 1: looking for. And it doesn't matter if you contact him
Speaker 1: in the head or neck area or whatever. It's what
Speaker 1: you do if you're literally if it's what they're gonna
Speaker 1: call forcible contact and you're running towards the goal line
Speaker 1: that you're defending, if you're running the opposite way, so
Speaker 1: to speak, they're gonna flag it, right. And it doesn't
Speaker 1: like you just said, like if Mike Spofford's running on
Speaker 1: the football field like that and I throw my shoulder
Speaker 1: into you, which is typically a legal hit if it's
Speaker 1: in the course of play, like a defensive back going
Speaker 1: to hit a receiver after catching ball, all that's legal.
Speaker 1: But not on that one because the guy doesn't see
Speaker 1: it coming. So yeah, that's one thing that they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to clean up, no doubt about it. The packling
Speaker 1: I thought it was somewhat maddening, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: because if there was any time in which I expected
Speaker 1: them to miss a lot of tackles. It was going
Speaker 1: to be early on in the football game. They actually
Speaker 1: were pretty sharp there. I thought Raven Green, Tony Brown,
Speaker 1: uh Tye Summers and number of guys had really nice
Speaker 1: solo tackles in the open field. But maybe it's just
Speaker 1: the attrition, you know, conditioning. As the game wore on,
Speaker 1: it became a little bit more uh you know, hit
Speaker 1: or mess. Yeah. I think fatigue was definitely setting in
Speaker 1: with these guys when you look at the fact, you know,
Speaker 1: all these guys sharing reps in practice for these one hour,
Speaker 1: forty five minute two hour practices. Suddenly there's a three
Speaker 1: hour football game and a bunch of starters are resting,
Speaker 1: they're not taking any reps, and a lot of these guys,
Speaker 1: the twos and three, so to speak, are playing an
Speaker 1: entire football game. The miss tackles definitely piled up as
Speaker 1: the game went along, and I think conditioning was definitely
Speaker 1: a part of it. Yeah, And that's why I kind
Speaker 1: of feel for Thy Summers a little bit. I mean,
Speaker 1: say what you will, I know there were some places
Speaker 1: you wanted back in the second half. The guy played
Speaker 1: almost eighty snaps, found special teams in there one thing
Speaker 1: I want to point out, though I thought was really cool,
Speaker 1: it hasn't really come up to this week, is the
Speaker 1: Packers actually started cycling their offensive lineman during that game.
Speaker 1: Historically in those preseason games, you'll see the number one
Speaker 1: line or whatever's left of it, the number two line,
Speaker 1: and the number three line. They actually had guys like,
Speaker 1: for example, de Beer. Gerard de Beer started at right tackle,
Speaker 1: then came in again later in the game. You don't
Speaker 1: always see that kind of stuff. So I think where
Speaker 1: he came out for a while and then went back
Speaker 1: justin McCrae ended up leaving the game, came back in
Speaker 1: as a center for Manny Wilkins. I thought that was
Speaker 1: one way as far as the bigger guys concerned, to
Speaker 1: make sure that they can make it up for the
Speaker 1: whole game. Yeah, well, real quickly, Wes need to take
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Speaker 1: in better all Right, West, there is an injury situation
Speaker 1: here that we need to discuss with regards to the Packers,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately, very early in the Houston game, second year
Speaker 1: inside linebacker or in Works went down did not come
Speaker 1: back in the game. He was seen on the sideline
Speaker 1: with a big ice wrap over the the upper part
Speaker 1: of his his body, his chest shoulder area. The Packers
Speaker 1: have announced it as a chest injury. Matt Lafleur has
Speaker 1: not given any updates yet, saying they're still gathering information
Speaker 1: on the injury, something that's taking this long. Unfortunately, I
Speaker 1: don't think it's going to be good news whatever it's
Speaker 1: going to be at the end of this. But where
Speaker 1: the Packers are right now is that the picture has
Speaker 1: changed at inside linebacker. You mentioned Ye Summers. He led
Speaker 1: the team with ten tackles in the Houston game, probably
Speaker 1: could have should have had fourteen or fifteen to be
Speaker 1: the first one to admit it, because he did miss
Speaker 1: some in there. We've also seen Curtis Bolton, undrafted linebacker,
Speaker 1: undrafted rookie from Oklahoma. He's been working alongside Blake Martinez
Speaker 1: in practice. Summers has kind of been the signal caller
Speaker 1: with the helmet communicator and everything for the number two defense,
Speaker 1: a couple of other young guys James Crawford, Brady Show
Speaker 1: Olden in that mix as well at inside linebacker. Um,
Speaker 1: this Baltimore game is going to be a big one
Speaker 1: for that group. Because I don't want to make two
Speaker 1: grand of an announcement here, but in a lot of ways,
Speaker 1: maybe how this Baltimore game goes with these young inside
Speaker 1: linebackers will determine how strongly the personnel department is going
Speaker 1: to look outside to bring in another guy if or
Speaker 1: in Burke's injury is a long term deal. So there's
Speaker 1: a lot to pay attention here. Pay attention to here
Speaker 1: as far as what's going on and inside backer indubitably right,
Speaker 1: that's Mike Spotford. Word. Here's the thing. Last year when
Speaker 1: Burke's had the shoulder injury, that's where you saw them
Speaker 1: claim Antonio Morrison the next week after the Oakland game.
Speaker 1: So this, I think you hit it right on the head.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be a game where those young guys
Speaker 1: have to show that they can, you know, really hold
Speaker 1: down the fourth there so to speak. They want to
Speaker 1: keep that job in house. These guys are not only
Speaker 1: fighting for roster spots, they're fighting for playing time. They
Speaker 1: don't want to force the personnel department to look outside
Speaker 1: like they did last year totally. And and and the
Speaker 1: thing is is that let's just be honest. The guys
Speaker 1: that have come free, whether it be through a trader
Speaker 1: on the market, there typically there for a reason. This
Speaker 1: time of year, you're not going to find just another
Speaker 1: Blake Martinez or or and Burke's sitting out there. So
Speaker 1: from that perspective, if it is a long term issue
Speaker 1: here with Burke's, do you have to The thing that
Speaker 1: Mike Patton is gonna have to do, much like last year,
Speaker 1: is kind of shuffle the deck a little bit. I
Speaker 1: think they've made it pretty much a common thread in
Speaker 1: that defense now that you're going to see the safety
Speaker 1: playing in the box, specifically in those dime packages. You're
Speaker 1: you know, Raven Green's, Josh Jones is those type of
Speaker 1: ball players. The thing I like about Bolton is that
Speaker 1: he kind of gives that dimension. He's sort of an
Speaker 1: undersized inside linebacker six ft um, not your typical, you know,
Speaker 1: six six two eight kind of guy, and so, uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know a lot about him, to be quite
Speaker 1: honest with you, I know the Packer is very high
Speaker 1: on them. We'll see how that young man does realistically, though,
Speaker 1: I think this is a big time for James Crawford.
Speaker 1: Crawford talked about this offseason and he wanted to be
Speaker 1: more of an inside linebacker. He didn't want to be
Speaker 1: seen as a tweener anymore. He felt like he was
Speaker 1: settling into that position. Uh. This is a guy that
Speaker 1: I think is showing everything you want to see on
Speaker 1: special teams, aggressiveness, discipline, just sure tackling. It'll be a
Speaker 1: big camp for him showing what he can do there.
Speaker 1: And also for a guy like Summers. If Summers is
Speaker 1: going to be leading this defense on those second team units,
Speaker 1: especially in this game against Baltimore, that means that you're
Speaker 1: pretty much the next guy up behind Blank Martinez. And
Speaker 1: while Martinez has been incredibly durable for this defense, the
Speaker 1: loss of Burke's is one of the guys that makes
Speaker 1: it even more important that they have a guy that
Speaker 1: could step up it should something happen at number fifty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Summers is a really interesting one to me because we
Speaker 1: talked about when he was drafted in the seventh round
Speaker 1: out of TCU. He was a converted quarterback from high school.
Speaker 1: He started to learn defense in football as a college player.
Speaker 1: By the end of his college career, he was one
Speaker 1: of the best defensive players for Gary Patterson, who has
Speaker 1: had a really good defense at TCU for a long time. Now,
Speaker 1: he comes here to Green Bay as a late round,
Speaker 1: third day draft pick and he's learning a three four
Speaker 1: scheme for the first time. So there there's a there's
Speaker 1: a learning curve here with Summers, and I think that's
Speaker 1: I personally think that wearing the communication helmet and being
Speaker 1: the guy who's calling the signals, I think that speeding
Speaker 1: up the learning curve for him. I was talking to
Speaker 1: him last week and he feels a lot more comfortable
Speaker 1: with calling out you know, the checks and adjustments and
Speaker 1: and working on the stunts. And of course he gets
Speaker 1: fired up if he if the call is for him
Speaker 1: to blitz and go after the quarterback. We've seen him
Speaker 1: come free a couple of times on Family Night and
Speaker 1: in the preseason game. But this is a guy who's
Speaker 1: picking everything up really really quickly. Um. We know the
Speaker 1: athletic ability is there. Um he's uh, he's got an
Speaker 1: opportunity now in front of him, as does Bolton and Crawford.
Speaker 1: You know, as you mentioned um, but I think Summers.
Speaker 1: Summers is a guy who's made a pretty strong pression
Speaker 1: early on here, and uh, you know, let's see if
Speaker 1: he can continue to build on it. Yeah, Well, gives
Speaker 1: him a chance. Is sort of like when we talked
Speaker 1: about Tony Brown a little bit. Now, Summers didn't toss
Speaker 1: off the charts like Brown did with his forty and everything,
Speaker 1: but he tested really well. It's one of the reasons
Speaker 1: why he got drafted was just his speed. Has a
Speaker 1: pretty good vertical uh, and there were some questions coming
Speaker 1: out of whether or not he could play to those statistics.
Speaker 1: Be quite honest with you, Mike, I thought that was
Speaker 1: one thing that he did well in that game against Houston.
Speaker 1: He looked really quick. Laterally, he had some good sideline
Speaker 1: to sideline speed. The thing is, especially as a rookie,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna make mistakes, you want to make him
Speaker 1: in a hunter miles per hour, especially at that inside
Speaker 1: linebacker position we talked about in the past with Blake
Speaker 1: Martinez and even to some extent Burke's last year. You
Speaker 1: don't want to be hesitant. You want to be to
Speaker 1: be decisive, and I think Summers brings that to the table.
Speaker 1: The biggest thing that was being able to tie it
Speaker 1: all together. And you know, there's one thing about being
Speaker 1: aggressive in the tackle, it's another thing to miss the tackle.
Speaker 1: You have to be able to do it. Now, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna be facing Joe Webb every week, but you
Speaker 1: are going to face running backs with that type of
Speaker 1: speed and quickness that are going to be able to,
Speaker 1: you know, cut on you. So I just think these
Speaker 1: next three weeks are gonna be a big learning curve
Speaker 1: for him, big learning experience for him. And we'll see
Speaker 1: what you know, the packers can come up with their
Speaker 1: trying to find someone is sitting next to Blake Martinez. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Bolton is an interesting case too, as an undrafted guy,
Speaker 1: he didn't really become a full time starter in college
Speaker 1: at Oklahoma until his fifth year there. His red shirt
Speaker 1: junior year, he got injured a nasty ankle injury that
Speaker 1: cut that season short, and he had mentioned that there
Speaker 1: were some questions outside, not from internally but outside as
Speaker 1: to whether he'd even come back for his fifth year
Speaker 1: senior year. After the injury. He did come back. He
Speaker 1: was a starter, He was honorable mention all Big twelve.
Speaker 1: Ended up not getting drafted, but this is uh. You know,
Speaker 1: he's he's your classic undrafted guy who shows up every
Speaker 1: day with something to prove and uh, and he's getting noticed.
Speaker 1: He's working alongside Blake Martinez right now these last couple
Speaker 1: of practices. He's another guy to keep an eye on. Yeah, totally.
Speaker 1: And again, these guys that come in sometimes at that
Speaker 1: linebacker position inside outside, you find a gem or two
Speaker 1: there that can really solidify your defense. If they have
Speaker 1: the right mindset and they have enough athleticism, we get
Speaker 1: the job done. Yeah. Well, another thing, it wouldn't be
Speaker 1: a training camp or preseason show without talking about the
Speaker 1: wide receiver competition at some point here. But I bring
Speaker 1: it up, and I know we've talked about a lot.
Speaker 1: I bring it up right now because some things are
Speaker 1: changing with what's going on. Trevor Davis has been injured unfortunately,
Speaker 1: since the first joint practice with the Texans, so he's
Speaker 1: been out for about a week now. And we just
Speaker 1: saw eq St Brown uh in practice on Sunday. If
Speaker 1: I'm getting my days right, he dropped out of practice.
Speaker 1: The announcement was there's something with his knee that's bothering him.
Speaker 1: We don't really know what to the extent of it,
Speaker 1: but we've seen we're starting to see guys like Darius
Speaker 1: Shepard and Alan Lazard and others. They're making plays and
Speaker 1: they're getting noticed. And this this last three weeks, as
Speaker 1: far as how this wide receiver competition is going to
Speaker 1: sort itself out, is going to be really really interesting.
Speaker 1: Brian Goodkouin's last year, there wasn't an easy decision there
Speaker 1: because you had to make a tough call on whether
Speaker 1: or not to keep Jake Kumerou and then the three
Speaker 1: young receivers. He's had some tough decisions to make, which
Speaker 1: is the way you wanted to be. Packers have been
Speaker 1: very fortunate over the years that you know, they've been
Speaker 1: putting this position. Geron Wallison once put them in that
Speaker 1: position when he was a rookie, didn't end up making
Speaker 1: the team, but obviously he's turned into a contributor. It's
Speaker 1: funny because I think every year before camp, everybody does
Speaker 1: their little Okay, well, you're gonna keep this player and
Speaker 1: this player is going to get cut, and this is
Speaker 1: what the fifty three is gonna be looking like. You
Speaker 1: can't do that with the receiving corps in any season.
Speaker 1: But I think specifically, this year has proven it to
Speaker 1: be the case, really, Mike, all ten of those guys
Speaker 1: competing behind Davante Adams have had their moments this past week.
Speaker 1: It's sort of belonged to Alan Lazard, I feel, and
Speaker 1: that preseason game showed some really nice downfield speed. He
Speaker 1: said he's always been kind of dogged on a little
Speaker 1: bit for his speed, but I think you see some
Speaker 1: explosiveness and his ability to sort of hit the second
Speaker 1: third gear there heck of a touchdown grab on a
Speaker 1: really nice throw by Tim Boyle, and and with that
Speaker 1: type of size at six five being able to kind
Speaker 1: of box out um whatever that Lonnie Johnson, that defensive
Speaker 1: back from the Texas being able to box him over
Speaker 1: for the twenty seven yard touchdown. It also draw the
Speaker 1: defensive pass interference that helps set up that play that
Speaker 1: ended up getting him a four yard penalty. I think
Speaker 1: Lazard has been really solid this week, and Mike would
Speaker 1: be remiss if we didn't talk about Darius Shepherd. Daris
Speaker 1: Shepherd is the kind of guy that if you saw
Speaker 1: him at the mall, you would think he's probably a
Speaker 1: soccer player. He definitely looks like an athlete, but does
Speaker 1: not look like an NFL football player, which I think
Speaker 1: probably played in the fact that he was a tryout guy.
Speaker 1: He was not signed as a college free agent anywhere.
Speaker 1: That the guy just makes plays and his shifting nous
Speaker 1: underneath the league has shown that if you can stay
Speaker 1: healthy at that size and you can stay on the field,
Speaker 1: there is a place for those players. I think Darius
Speaker 1: Shepherd is a guy that practice one after another and
Speaker 1: now even this the preseason games with that hit that
Speaker 1: he took on that touchdown, has shown he can stand
Speaker 1: up to the rigors of this league and also be
Speaker 1: a consistent football player. One thing to keep an eye
Speaker 1: on whichever Davis being out and jo Will Davis being
Speaker 1: released this past week, it was Darius Shepard was the
Speaker 1: one taking punts in practice this week. If he shows
Speaker 1: something on those punt return units, man Derris Shepherd's gonna
Speaker 1: have a chance. Yeah. One other thing I want to
Speaker 1: say about the receiver competition. Um Geronimo Allison I thought
Speaker 1: was having a fairly quiet camp for the first couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, and then on Saturday, the first practice after
Speaker 1: the opening preseason game, I actually thought he had a
Speaker 1: very poor practice. He just dropped a couple of balls.
Speaker 1: He didn't look like the Geronimo alson we're used to.
Speaker 1: Number eighty one came out in Sunday's practice to play
Speaker 1: and he was all over the place. He made every
Speaker 1: play I thought. I thought he was the star of
Speaker 1: practice and really what was one of the longest full
Speaker 1: pads workouts the Packers have had throughout this camp. And
Speaker 1: whether it's you know, coming back from that injury that
Speaker 1: wiped out a good chunk of his season last year,
Speaker 1: everything about getting his feet under him, I think we're
Speaker 1: starting to see, based on what I saw on Sunday,
Speaker 1: we're really starting to see the Geronimo Allison that the
Speaker 1: Packers are going to be counting on in absolutely and
Speaker 1: there's a reason why that even after he had some
Speaker 1: of those struggles on Saturday, that the Packers had him
Speaker 1: still in there. When you go to your two minute offense,
Speaker 1: it's him. It's Davante Adams as Marquis about the scantling,
Speaker 1: it's Jimmy Graham that's gonna be the home base for them.
Speaker 1: And the nice thing about Allison is he does have
Speaker 1: that education on the outside to be able to be
Speaker 1: you know, solid out there. But man, he has conditioned
Speaker 1: his body, he's conditioned his mind to playing in the
Speaker 1: middle of the field and playing in that slop position.
Speaker 1: I think in that regard he's really shown something. He
Speaker 1: was making those spectacular catches again on Sunday that you've
Speaker 1: been wanting to see from him, and if he can
Speaker 1: build up some more of those in these next couple
Speaker 1: of practices. Again, this is a guy that I think
Speaker 1: is going to be looking to get back on that
Speaker 1: track he appeared to be on last year when he
Speaker 1: was on pace for a thousand yards before those injuries
Speaker 1: pumped it up. Yeah, I totally agree with you. Well
Speaker 1: with that, we're going to call it a wrap on
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