Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford sitting alongside the one and only
Speaker 1: Wes Hodkowits were coming to you here from our studios
Speaker 1: at lambeau Field and West. Interesting way to start the
Speaker 1: show here, because we've spent a lot of time talking
Speaker 1: about the Packers top two draft picks cornerbacks Jiar Alexander
Speaker 1: Josh Jackson. We've also spent a lot of time talking
Speaker 1: about the three wide receivers that were drafted on the
Speaker 1: third day of the NFL Draft. There was a guy
Speaker 1: picked in between all of that that we really haven't
Speaker 1: talked about a whole lot. But he's a guy who
Speaker 1: could play a pretty important role on this Packers defense.
Speaker 1: And Tea and I'm talking about linebacker or and Burke's
Speaker 1: from Vanderbilt. Now we have to see, obviously when the
Speaker 1: pads go on in the summer of the preseason games
Speaker 1: and how he fits into what Mike Petton wants to do.
Speaker 1: But this could be a pretty important draft pick for
Speaker 1: the Packers. See here's the thing. Like you obviously are
Speaker 1: a draft expert, I always this is you know, all
Speaker 1: two fifty six guys who come off the board, none
Speaker 1: of them surprised. I'm more about the first two rounds,
Speaker 1: and once you get out of the first two rounds,
Speaker 1: that's where it. Sometimes it's like, Okay, you recognize some
Speaker 1: of these guys, but others you don't. Burke's is a
Speaker 1: guy I, to be honest with you, didn't know a
Speaker 1: whole lot about and then hearing his story and listen
Speaker 1: to him talk, you know, you talk about him starting
Speaker 1: as a defensive back and playing safety and eventually moving
Speaker 1: over to linebacker. So, to be quite honest with you,
Speaker 1: when he came into the locker room for the first
Speaker 1: availability with the media, I was anticipating guy that probably
Speaker 1: looked a little bit more in the form of Josh Jones,
Speaker 1: a full you know, six ft one, six ft two,
Speaker 1: uh safety, But you know a guy that mirrors more
Speaker 1: of a safety. I look at Burks now and it's like,
Speaker 1: how did that guy ever played defen because he is ripped. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got some size. There is nothing small, you know
Speaker 1: whatsoever about his stature and in how he fills out.
Speaker 1: He looks like an inside linebacker. And now you bring
Speaker 1: him in and he has those measurables. The kind of
Speaker 1: things you look for in those hybrid tendencies. It just
Speaker 1: seems to me when you also, you know, factor in
Speaker 1: Burke's is his um you know, intelligence, and coming from Vanderbilt,
Speaker 1: this is a guy who appears to be built for
Speaker 1: defenses in two thousand eighteen. Yeah, and he played safety
Speaker 1: initially atte Vanderbilt, as you mentioned, but that was about
Speaker 1: twenty pounds ago. He said he played safety when he
Speaker 1: was around two fifteen, And really he's one of these
Speaker 1: guys whose body was still maturing and still developing through
Speaker 1: his college years. He didn't come out of high school
Speaker 1: with really that that full grown male adult body, so
Speaker 1: he was still growing and really because his body was
Speaker 1: still maturing, that's partly what led to his position changes
Speaker 1: along the way, going from safety to outside linebacker and
Speaker 1: then event chually to inside linebacker. What's interesting to me
Speaker 1: about Burke's is I think this sets up very well
Speaker 1: because you, you and I are much the same way,
Speaker 1: and we're always a little skeptical of just how much
Speaker 1: rookies can play in the NFL, how much will they
Speaker 1: really contribute right away? And what intrigues me about Burke's
Speaker 1: is that coming from Vanderbilt, he has the smarts to
Speaker 1: learn the playbook. We've seen that with other guys to
Speaker 1: Blake Martinez from Stanford, time Montgomery coming from Stanford, those
Speaker 1: guys were ready to jump in right away. So he's
Speaker 1: got that going for him. He's changed positions a lot
Speaker 1: along the way, as we just mentioned, He's played a
Speaker 1: lot of different spots on defense. And then on top
Speaker 1: of that, he actually said in meeting with the media
Speaker 1: here in Green Bay for the first time that his
Speaker 1: coaches um his head coach Derek Mason at Vanderbilt also
Speaker 1: doubled as the defensive coordinator when he was there, and
Speaker 1: then also his inside linebackers coach his final year in
Speaker 1: Chris mar Both of those guys focused on teaching their
Speaker 1: players the entire defense they're they're coaching and teaching wasn't
Speaker 1: about here's your position and here's your responsibilities. You know,
Speaker 1: just do your job. It was about understanding the big picture.
Speaker 1: So he's coming in really with UH with the type
Speaker 1: of background that can allow potentially a young player to
Speaker 1: hit the ground running, so to speak. And again I
Speaker 1: don't want to speak for how he's going to necessarily
Speaker 1: fit in with what Mike Petton wants to do. But
Speaker 1: my point is that I think on the mental side
Speaker 1: of things, he's going to be ready if they find
Speaker 1: a role for and it's such an important role to
Speaker 1: be able to have that that mental capacity and not
Speaker 1: only process that information, but to be prepared for what
Speaker 1: you're going to see on a given day because of
Speaker 1: what your responsibilities are in coverage, what the potential responsibilities
Speaker 1: are as a blitzer. He said he did that occasionally
Speaker 1: they're being able to defend the run. It is the
Speaker 1: one position inside linebacker where you basically have a hand
Speaker 1: in everything, and for the most part, it's pretty balanced
Speaker 1: across the board and what your responsibilities are. You can
Speaker 1: be better in one area than another, but you better
Speaker 1: not be deficient in one area, otherwise you're going to
Speaker 1: get exposed. Uh. With Burke's coming into the league now,
Speaker 1: As you said, I always am very cautious making expectations
Speaker 1: too high for rookies because you and I have seen
Speaker 1: a time and time again, Mike, if you go into
Speaker 1: a season and you're counting on rookies to play out
Speaker 1: of their mind, you're probably not going to get to
Speaker 1: where you want to go. You have to have plan A,
Speaker 1: Plan B, Plan C, and Sometimes you're gonna get Casey Hayward.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you're gonna get Greg Jennings. Sometimes there's gonna be
Speaker 1: these guys that step out and ball out their first year.
Speaker 1: But for Burks, I think the important thing is understanding
Speaker 1: the jump he is making now going from Vanderbilt and
Speaker 1: as it is, talented and experience he wasn't in that
Speaker 1: defense now, trying to understand what Mike Petton is trying
Speaker 1: to do and what his role is going to be here.
Speaker 1: That being said, all of those experiences pulled together are
Speaker 1: going to be really helpful for him and being able
Speaker 1: to really take his game and transfer it to the
Speaker 1: next level. Yeah, and this potentially sets up well for
Speaker 1: him because we've heard both ha Ha, Clinton Dicks and
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy use the phrase likable and learnable when it
Speaker 1: comes to Mike Patton's defensive schemes. So from that stamp point,
Speaker 1: he may not there may not be the complexities initially
Speaker 1: that a player has to decipher compared to say, Dom
Speaker 1: Caper's defense. And it's interesting when you compare with Blake Martinez.
Speaker 1: He picked up capers scheme from the mental side of it,
Speaker 1: he had it down, but even he admitted his rookie
Speaker 1: year then he was out there almost thinking too much,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't until his second year that he really
Speaker 1: cut himself loose and really felt more comfortable. You wonder
Speaker 1: with with a different scheme and just a different way
Speaker 1: that Mike Petton goes about it, will that process be
Speaker 1: accelerated potentially with a player like Burke. The strength is
Speaker 1: the whole with Mike Petton's defense, and that he ties
Speaker 1: all those concepts together. He did in New York, he
Speaker 1: did in Buffalo to some extent, he even did it
Speaker 1: in Cleveland, and I think him bringing in his scheme
Speaker 1: now into Green Bay. If he can weave all of
Speaker 1: those different components together and have his type of players
Speaker 1: in that scheme, I think they're going to get to
Speaker 1: where they want to go. But the big thing for Burke's,
Speaker 1: because we saw it with a guy from Stanford like Martinez,
Speaker 1: is taking it one day at a time and making
Speaker 1: sure you understand what you're doing before you're going out
Speaker 1: there trying to do it, and no question about it.
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 Hodkowits in that one. West.
Speaker 1: Looking back on Rookie Orientation Weekend, we've talked a lot
Speaker 1: about the rookies, obviously, but there are also a handful
Speaker 1: of guys who participate in that who are not necessarily rookies,
Speaker 1: but they're eligible to participate because they haven't been on
Speaker 1: the active roster. They haven't played in enough NFL games
Speaker 1: to be ineligible for for a Rookie orientation type of system.
Speaker 1: And one of those players that is definitely worth discussing
Speaker 1: here is tight End Emmanuel Bird. The Packers um haven't
Speaker 1: really added to their their tight End depth chart this
Speaker 1: year beyond Jimmy Graham and Lance Hendricks at the top
Speaker 1: of things. And uh, Um, you wrote a fantastic story
Speaker 1: on our website, packers dot Com outlining the background of
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Bird, a story that hadn't really gotten out there
Speaker 1: in terms of everything that he's overcome with with his
Speaker 1: family and how he was raised. I don't want to
Speaker 1: steal your thunder. Go ahead and tell us what you
Speaker 1: what you discovered in the story that you wrote. Well,
Speaker 1: this starts off for me actually going back to last
Speaker 1: preseason and I don't know if you remember that, but
Speaker 1: Bird comes in as a street free agent. He got
Speaker 1: cut by the Chiefs, and the Packers brought him in,
Speaker 1: and I was really impressed by the kid. He did
Speaker 1: everything he possibly couldn't make the team. Caught every pass
Speaker 1: throwing his way, didn't matter if it was Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: Joe kl and he was catching it. Packers cut him,
Speaker 1: He goes back home, almost gets into teaching. They bring
Speaker 1: him back in November on the practice squad, and then
Speaker 1: at the end of the season, he has that performance
Speaker 1: against the Detroit Lions twenty nine yards and ends up
Speaker 1: having a really fine outing. And I talked to him
Speaker 1: after the game, So those quotes, because that was the
Speaker 1: end of the season. Yeah, I kind of stashed for
Speaker 1: an offseason story. And I remember being at the Combat
Speaker 1: and Chase Lytton, who was the quarterback for Marshall, which
Speaker 1: is where Bird played, He was talking to the media
Speaker 1: at a side table, and I wanted to ask him
Speaker 1: about Michael Clark, the big phenom you know, came in
Speaker 1: former basketball player, ends up being on the roster, and
Speaker 1: I remember that Bird also had gone to Marshall, so
Speaker 1: I asked Linton about him. And his face just lit up,
Speaker 1: No pun intended the moment I brought up his name
Speaker 1: and he just said, he's the most humble and one
Speaker 1: of the hardest working people I've ever met. And getting
Speaker 1: a chance to talk to him a little bit mentioned
Speaker 1: you know, he has a really interesting backstory. So that
Speaker 1: allowed me to go back to his bio. It wasn't
Speaker 1: like I did this great sleuthing on the story or anything.
Speaker 1: And it turns out that Bird had lost his mom
Speaker 1: when he was six years old, and then the woman
Speaker 1: who raised him, his aunt, Um Claudia Marshall, She passed
Speaker 1: away during his junior year of college. Father is not
Speaker 1: really involved in his life. Those were the bedrock for
Speaker 1: him and his brother Roscoe, who was a year older
Speaker 1: than him. And getting a chance to talk to Manuel
Speaker 1: and Roscoe about this and what they've gone through, basically
Speaker 1: watching their mom die at a young age. She had
Speaker 1: an asthma attack. She ends up being transport to the ambulance,
Speaker 1: dies on the way to the hospital, gets raised by
Speaker 1: their aunt, a single mother, herself them and her their
Speaker 1: older sister, getting and welcomed into their family, and getting
Speaker 1: a chance to talk to him man about what this
Speaker 1: has been like and all this pales in comparison, Mike,
Speaker 1: when you look at trying to make a roster as
Speaker 1: an undrafted free agent whatever. The big goal for them
Speaker 1: was just trying to get a free college education. Roscoe
Speaker 1: went and played at eight. Are you Sorry? You a
Speaker 1: b Alabama Birmingham? They shut down the program at the
Speaker 1: same time that his aunt comes down with cancer. She
Speaker 1: was a two time breast cancer survivor and mistastasized to
Speaker 1: her jaw, and both of those guys were still playing
Speaker 1: college football at the time when she passes away. There's
Speaker 1: so many layers to the story. But just seeing Emmanuel's
Speaker 1: approach to everything going back to last summer and even
Speaker 1: you know, no matter how insurmountable it is to make
Speaker 1: the roster, he overcomes that. After understanding the backstory a
Speaker 1: little more, it gives you a better appreciation for exactly
Speaker 1: who this guy is. Yeah, and I know you and
Speaker 1: I are are in the business of of chronicling the
Speaker 1: stories and and trying to get to know these guys
Speaker 1: a little bit. And you know, but when you when
Speaker 1: you get to know one of these guys in that
Speaker 1: respect and tell that story, it's hard not to root
Speaker 1: for him and um, And I know we can't really
Speaker 1: do that. That's not our job to cheer for certain guys.
Speaker 1: But but I think I think a lot of people,
Speaker 1: a lot of Packers fans who have now read the story,
Speaker 1: and if you haven't read it, be sure to check
Speaker 1: it out on Packers dot com. Emmanuel Bird will be
Speaker 1: become a little bit of a fan favorite as one
Speaker 1: of these underdog type guys. And you mentioned all the
Speaker 1: different layers to the story, you mean, the other layer
Speaker 1: to it, aside from everything with the family, is just
Speaker 1: the fact that this is a guy he started out
Speaker 1: at junior college, then he was yeah, then then wanted
Speaker 1: to go to Alabama Birmingham to join his brother, but
Speaker 1: they shut down the program, so then he had to
Speaker 1: find another place to go play, ends up ends up
Speaker 1: playing at Marshall. You know, gets into the NFL, is
Speaker 1: an undrafted player. I mean that path alone to be
Speaker 1: where he is right now is pretty remarkable. And then
Speaker 1: when you add in all of the family and personal stuff,
Speaker 1: the trials and tribulations that that that he's gone through.
Speaker 1: I you know, he's an impressive young man. And I
Speaker 1: can't imagine just how how mentally strong he is. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, he'll be able to handle whatever is thrown
Speaker 1: at him. Yeah, and he has his degree, you know.
Speaker 1: And he said one of the big things his aunt
Speaker 1: wanted to see was him and his brother walked across
Speaker 1: the stage. Unfortunately she wasn't able to do that, um
Speaker 1: in the you know, literal sense. But the fact that
Speaker 1: both of those brothers finished their degrees, that was her
Speaker 1: super Bowl, as Roscoe said. And one of the other
Speaker 1: things I was really sad too, is the fact that
Speaker 1: when she was having her cancer, that this seerge surgery
Speaker 1: to remove the cancer from her job part of her
Speaker 1: jaw was the same time that Emmanuel was supposed to
Speaker 1: go to Marshall. But it was so important to her
Speaker 1: for those kids to finish their degrees. She wasn't asking
Speaker 1: anybody to come in and stay with her. She wanted
Speaker 1: them out. She wanted them prospering. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Claudia Marshall is gonna be someone that's definitely gonna stay
Speaker 1: with both of those those kids for a long long time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Bird will be will be certainly making a strong
Speaker 1: push for a roster spot here in his second year
Speaker 1: in the NFL. With that, we will go to a
Speaker 1: break Back with moren Packers Unscripted. Right after this Welcome
Speaker 1: Back to Packers Unscripted. Mike Spofford here, Wes Hodker wits
Speaker 1: there West. If there's a theme to this show, I
Speaker 1: guess it's the it's the forgotten guys, the forgotten stories
Speaker 1: amongst the Packers. And there's another one here that's worth
Speaker 1: talking about because, as we mentioned, the Packers drafted three
Speaker 1: wide receivers on the third day of the draft, but
Speaker 1: there's a fifth round draft pick at wide receiver from
Speaker 1: last year who spent his entire rookie season on the
Speaker 1: practice squad, never made an appearance on the active roster
Speaker 1: like Michael Clark did, like Reggie Gilbert did at the
Speaker 1: end of last year. Wasn't one of those guys fifth
Speaker 1: round draft pick out of Purdue And I'm talking about
Speaker 1: D'Angelo Yancey. And this is this is an interesting story
Speaker 1: because the competition at wide receiver for however many spots
Speaker 1: are available this summer through training camp in the preset
Speaker 1: is going to be pretty intense. It's going to be
Speaker 1: really fun to watch. And uh. Talking to D'Angelo yancy
Speaker 1: this past weekend as he again participated in in rookie
Speaker 1: orientation as a practice squad hold over. He's uh, he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to. He's saying, hey, don't count me out.
Speaker 1: He's not going to. Uh, He's not going to back
Speaker 1: down from anybody. This is a guy who's going to
Speaker 1: throw himself into this fight for for a roster spot,
Speaker 1: and he feels like he's way more ready for it
Speaker 1: now than he was a year ago. Yeah, and uh,
Speaker 1: I mean you and I have said this since the
Speaker 1: day that the Packers drafted D'Angelo Yancy. He has a
Speaker 1: swagger about him, and he has a really good size
Speaker 1: for the position. I mean, he is I think we
Speaker 1: use a lot of comparables last year to James Jones, Um.
Speaker 1: You know, Jamon Moore probably fits some of those well,
Speaker 1: but he's a bit taller, a bit a bit more
Speaker 1: full you know, fuller. But Yancey had some good plays
Speaker 1: last year. It was just the consistency side of it
Speaker 1: that I think kind of held him back in trying
Speaker 1: to make that jump from Purdue UM and being what
Speaker 1: was really just a big play possession receiver. A lot
Speaker 1: of overtop stuff, I mean, some of that, some of
Speaker 1: those things you're not going to get away with in
Speaker 1: the NFL, and I think Yancey found that out, especially
Speaker 1: during the first three weeks of training camp. I remember
Speaker 1: doing a story on him last August, you know, as
Speaker 1: he was sort of mounting a little bit of a
Speaker 1: push to make the roster near the end of it,
Speaker 1: saying like, I don't think I fully you know, understood,
Speaker 1: I think he appreciated the opportunity. I don't think he
Speaker 1: fully understood just how much of a change it was
Speaker 1: gonna be. You know, in an NFL camp, playing NFL
Speaker 1: teams and a bunch of guys that are all hungry
Speaker 1: to carve out their spots. He's in a really interesting
Speaker 1: spot now. As you pointed out in your story. I
Speaker 1: mean last year he was able to get a lot
Speaker 1: of work with Aaron Rodgers when he was working with
Speaker 1: the scout team. Uh And realistically, it's wide open behind
Speaker 1: Davante Adams, in Randall Cobb, all of these guys. Nobody
Speaker 1: is locked into a roster spot. No, there's a across
Speaker 1: the board competition for those three four you know spots. However,
Speaker 1: many of the packers decided to roll with Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he is, as you mentioned, a big moment for him
Speaker 1: was last year late in the season when Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: was coming back from the broken collar bone. Rodgers took
Speaker 1: a few practices where he was the Scout team quarterback.
Speaker 1: Yancey was a Scout team wide receiver all season long
Speaker 1: because he was on the practice squads. He was always
Speaker 1: on that look team, you know, being the Scout team
Speaker 1: offense for the number one defense. But getting those practices
Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers, I sensed in talking to him that
Speaker 1: kind of gave him a little boosting his confidence that
Speaker 1: that in working with Rogers, he it's sort of reaffirmed
Speaker 1: that he's doing some things right. He's remade his body
Speaker 1: a little bit. He's dropped about fifteen pounds from where
Speaker 1: he was. He says he feels a lot a lot smoother,
Speaker 1: a lot a lot faster, getting in and out of
Speaker 1: his brakes better, all that kind of stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: and and everything about the uh, you know, the game
Speaker 1: slowing down for him as well. Now this is the
Speaker 1: I he had. I believe it was around nineteen yards
Speaker 1: per catch his his final year at Perdue. He certainly
Speaker 1: made some big plays, but he found out last year
Speaker 1: a couple of things. One he uh, he said he
Speaker 1: didn't really take seriously, that every rep in practice is
Speaker 1: like a game rep. That's how you have to go
Speaker 1: about it when you're trying to make an NFL I
Speaker 1: think I think he appreciates that a little bit better now.
Speaker 1: And the other thing is he's also learned there's no
Speaker 1: such thing as status. His comment was, you know, when
Speaker 1: the helmet goes on, there are no favorites. He was
Speaker 1: a fifth round draft pick who got cut um, So
Speaker 1: that's the whole you know, there is no status. It
Speaker 1: worked against him in a sense last year because his
Speaker 1: draft status really didn't matter. Well, he looks at it
Speaker 1: as you know. Now it can work in my favorite
Speaker 1: because just because the Packers drafted these other three guys,
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that they're going to keep them over me.
Speaker 1: If I go out and perform, I'll get the spot.
Speaker 1: And it's it's the healthy attitude to take. And I'm
Speaker 1: interested to see what he does. Yeah, And and it
Speaker 1: just touched really briefly on the Rogers scout team thing.
Speaker 1: You and I. It seems like every year, every summer
Speaker 1: we talked about this. When Aaron Rodgers is running the
Speaker 1: scout team, there's nothing scout team about it. It's Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers versus the world. It doesn't matter who else is
Speaker 1: on the field with him. He's going out there to win.
Speaker 1: So that competitiveness you have to imagine it's going to
Speaker 1: go far now as Yancy goes into uh, probably the
Speaker 1: biggest summer of his life trying to show that he's
Speaker 1: an NFL receiver. All Right, with that, we will go
Speaker 1: to another break back with more and Packers Unscripted right
Speaker 1: after this. Welcome back to Packers Unscripted Mike Spofford joined
Speaker 1: by Wes Hodkowitz and West. Before we get too far
Speaker 1: away from the NFL Draft, there's one other thing we
Speaker 1: should toss out there for discussion. It's something that Mark
Speaker 1: Murphy has addressed in his monthly column on Packers dot
Speaker 1: Com called Murphy Takes five, and that is the possibility
Speaker 1: of Green Bay hosting the NFL Draft at some point.
Speaker 1: And now to clarify where things are in that process. Initially,
Speaker 1: the Packers had applied to host the draft right around
Speaker 1: this time in nineteen area. I think there was some
Speaker 1: sentiment to maybe try to get it for nineteen with
Speaker 1: that coinciding with birthday of the Packers in August often
Speaker 1: coming up. But the Packers decided to delay their application,
Speaker 1: and now they have applied to host the Draft in
Speaker 1: either or, And one of the big reasons behind that is, UH,
Speaker 1: the Brown County Arena just across the street here from
Speaker 1: lambeau Field is being replaced by a new exposition center
Speaker 1: and that is supposed to be finished by that time frame,
Speaker 1: so that would be something that could be incorporated then
Speaker 1: a new facility incorporated into However, green Bay would host
Speaker 1: the Draft, so some interesting goings on there. And you know,
Speaker 1: we won't know anything obvious see for quite a while.
Speaker 1: But I don't know about you. I think if the
Speaker 1: city of Green Bay hosted the NFL Draft, that'd be
Speaker 1: pretty cool. I think it would be really neat, and
Speaker 1: especially since there's no chance, uh in this lifetime that
Speaker 1: we're gonna see the Super Bowl come here for obvious reasons,
Speaker 1: I think this would be a really good consolation, and
Speaker 1: it would have been cool for the hundred year to
Speaker 1: be able to host it. But you know, Title Town
Speaker 1: is still in the infancy of this project. It made
Speaker 1: so many strides with it, but yet there's still a
Speaker 1: lot to be you know, parceled out and figured out
Speaker 1: and implemented. UH, and then obviously, as you mentioned the
Speaker 1: exhibition hall as well, UM is going to go a
Speaker 1: long way, uh and being able to develop everything. There's
Speaker 1: hotels coming up everywhere. It seems like there's like two
Speaker 1: going up right now on the east side of Lambo.
Speaker 1: So the hotel thing is another aspect of this that
Speaker 1: needs to get short up. But you can see all
Speaker 1: of the steps are moving in the right direction to
Speaker 1: this possibly being uh, you know, a reality at some point.
Speaker 1: And honestly, Mike, it's the most storied franchise in the
Speaker 1: history of the league. Um, it means so much to
Speaker 1: the NFL, it only makes sense that at some point
Speaker 1: it will find its way to Green Bay, Wisconsin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it will at some point. When exactly that's
Speaker 1: going to be is is very hard to say, but uh,
Speaker 1: but you know, you look at what's been done so
Speaker 1: far with this traveling, you know thing, with hosting the draft.
Speaker 1: Chicago Philadelphia both did a great job. Dallas had it
Speaker 1: based in the stadium in in Jerry's world there that
Speaker 1: sort of almost took it to a new level in
Speaker 1: terms of the fan intensity and and the fan involvement
Speaker 1: and everything. So kind of a new standard here now
Speaker 1: for for these cities coming up in and nineteen or
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to host it, will see what happens. It's
Speaker 1: only increased the awareness and popularity of it, and I
Speaker 1: think it's also avoided it from getting stale, to bring
Speaker 1: some new life to the project. Absolutely. With that, we
Speaker 1: are going to sign off on this edition of Packers Unscripted.
Speaker 1: To be sure to follow all of our coverage of
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Speaker 1: team account. Thanks for tuning in, everybody. We'll see you
Speaker 1: next time. M HM.