WEBVTT - #661 Packers Unscripted: Covering all bases 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:10.879 Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:14.120 Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford, joined as always 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:16.640 by my trusted colleague West Hodkowitz. We're coming to you 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:20.640 here from our studios at lambeau Field and welcome back, West, 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:24.079 and welcome back from Canton, Ohio. You were spending the 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:28.400 weekend on assignment, as we like to say, covering Leroy 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:33.159 Butler's Hall of Fame induction in that wonderful town of Canton. 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:36.239 Give us your thoughts, your impressions. How did how did 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:38.120 the weekend go? What did you think? Well, the weekend 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:39.800 was great, But I just have to mention before we 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:41.639 get started here. It's amazing to me. This is why 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:44.280 I love about the human condition. Right, we sat here 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.000 a week ago, we did Unscripted. Then you and I 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.720 like to ping pongs in the universe, go off and 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:51.479 just sort of bounce and do our own thing. I'm 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:53.840 covering the Hall of Fame. You're doing Family Night by yourself, 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:56.520 and then we just kind of get this gravitational pull 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.400 back and once again it's training campaign. Here we are. Yeah. 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:01.200 I love how that happened, the stuff that I did, 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:03.080 the stuff that I wrote the stuff that you wrote, 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.960 um Leroy Butler's Hall of Fame celebration, it was exactly that. 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:09.759 It was a celebration, and just as I talked about 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:11.880 last week very fervently, just to see him get his 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:14.559 moment was really special. Going to the party on Saturday. 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:17.959 The teammates that showed up, former head coach Mike Sherman, 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:22.960 just a nice uh homage to to everything he accomplished 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:25.800 throughout his career, and and Leroy actually even allowed me 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.120 to take a picture with the bus too. So it 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:29.960 was a pretty neat weekend. I don't know how many 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:31.880 times you're ever gonna have an opportunity to be able 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.240 to actually be positioned next to a Hall of Fame bust, 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.520 and certainly now it has taken his rightful place in Canton. Yeah, 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:41.039 I think I think an interesting aspect of this is 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:44.800 uh with with Gilbert Brown being one of Butler's co 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.840 presenters and everything that Leroy has said about Gilbert, and 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.680 then seeing you know, what Gilbert said in the media 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.640 about Leroy, and then the video, the part of the presentation, 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.840 everything that was that was put together. I think there 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:02.040 there's maybe an appreciation that that didn't exist before that 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:06.120 people just weren't necessarily aware of how close Leroy and 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.800 Gilbert were not only as teammates, but but as friends. 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:11.720 And you know, you don't think of a you know, 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:15.200 a big defensive lineman and a defensive back who doesn't 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.440 you know, they don't play the same position, They didn't 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.960 spend all that time in meeting rooms together, you know, 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:24.359 as players and whatnot. But these guys have gotten awfully 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.480 close and and Gilbert was truly honored to do what 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.240 he did for Leroy and Camp. Yeah, they're brothers. And 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.760 and you know, Gilbert even mentioned I thought he just 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.400 absolutely hit his presentation out of the park. I thought 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:38.280 so too. I thought it was fantastic energies the storytelling. 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:40.280 It's such a small window that they have to do 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:42.600 it now. But I mean, I thought he couldn't a 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.320 thousand words couldn't have summed up what he did in 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:47.960 those two minutes. And you know, recounting the story about 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.359 how he's driving and here's that GiB Roy is getting in. 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:52.680 He stops the car and he's shouting, you know, it's time, 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:56.120 It's about time. And it's true because this is a 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.440 guy that he was quieter when they first when he 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.919 first went to Green Bay, his blocker was positioned next 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:03.760 to Leroy Butler. And as he said in my feature 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.480 last week, I mean everybody and their mother wanted to 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:08.440 talk to Leroy Butler back then. So I mean trying 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.280 to get a three and sixty pound man into his 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:11.880 locker to be and you know what those old packer 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:15.280 locker rooms look like. It was not easy for life 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.360 being Gilbert Brown when he was younger. He mentioned to 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:20.040 me and that story. You know, he ran his mouth 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:23.440 too much. But the two became incredibly close friends to 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:25.880 be able to have Leroy or I should say Gilbert 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.239 and Genesis, LeRoy's wife presenting him. His father in law 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.480 was the one that took, you know, help unveil the bust. Uh. 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.880 Just a community affair. And I gotta give a lot 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:36.880 of credit to Leroy too. At the party that night, 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.480 he did like a thirty minute like almost like a 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.680 stand up routine, it seemed like at times. But well, 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.720 he was the star of the show. He deserved every moment, 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:49.200 every moment that he got, He absolutely deserved it. Right. 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.240 He had the jacket on and he actually the thing. 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:53.080 I gave a lot of respect for him. He brought 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:56.680 up every single member of his family, from his children, 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:00.400 his six daughters, and and also talking about his his 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:04.040 you know nephews and you know uncles and aunts and 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.160 and father in law, mother in law. It was just 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.160 he wanted everybody to be a part of it. And 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:11.080 he closed by bringing up all the teammates that he 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.480 had that came to the party, thanking each and one 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.840 of them and reminding everybody, like he did in his speech, 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.160 if it wasn't for these guys right here, I'm not 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.479 in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. They're the ones 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.680 on my days where I wasn't the top notch safety 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:25.480 I need to be. They were the ones that picked 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:27.760 me up. I wish Leroy would have probably been a 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:29.800 little bit more about himself, to be honest with you, 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.400 because I think it sometimes gets understated how good he 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:34.719 was as a player. But his big message that weekend, 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:36.719 going back to what his mother told him, is it's 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:39.599 not about you. You're not the headline. It's everybody that 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.680 helped you. And Butler certainly did that. Yeah, and you 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.080 and I were we were texting back and forth at 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.000 different times throughout the weekend when you were on the trip, 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:49.960 and as we talked about on last week's show, like 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.520 I was in Canton for fives in Shriman and for 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.080 Jerry Kramer's. I wish I could have gone for Charles 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:59.480 Woodson's last year, but the COVID restrictions and whatnot, um 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:03.560 eliminate to that possibility. But um, as somebody who's been 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:05.400 there a couple of times, and I know you were 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:09.239 excited to go cover Leroy. If you work in this league, 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.760 you cover this league as a as a writer, as 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:15.800 a commentator. You have to see Hall of Fame and 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.240 Shrineman weekend at least once. You have to see what 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.880 it's all about, the gold Jacket ceremony, the the actual 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.200 Enshrineman in Tom Benson Stadium, not just watching it on TV, 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:27.600 but to be there for it and to feel the 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:31.880 energy of that crowd when the different Hall of Famers 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.880 give their speeches and you and you have the different 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:38.440 pockets of the crowd that that are you know, very 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:43.200 you know, intensely listening and yelling and screaming and celebrating 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.640 their guy, you know up there on the stage. There's 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.640 something about there's something about being there for something like 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:52.520 that that that that the television broadcast is great a 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:54.920 job as they do on ESPN and NFL network. With 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:58.640 that the television broadcast can't capture it. And and I'm 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:00.760 thankful that I've gotten to go a couple of times, 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:03.640 and now you've gotten to go. And we'll see. We 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.400 talked last week about maybe some other possibilities here in 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:08.320 the near future, maybe one of us gets to go again. 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:10.599 But it's it's quite the time, it really was, and 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.039 you know, just mentioning this too before we move on 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.880 to back to the current day, modern day packers. I 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.440 was chatting with Mark Murphy on our way back to 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:20.520 Green Bay, and one of the things I said to 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:22.360 him that really struck me the most was going back 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:25.280 to that gold Jacket ceremony. It's one thing to see 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:27.560 Kurt Warner and Steve Young and guys that you know, 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.760 Charles Woodson, guys that are very visible. It was another 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.040 thing for me seeing the truth, not that these guys aren't, 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.800 but the other legends of the game that aren't as 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.320 much in the public eye. It was really cool seeing 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:42.320 Kelvin Johnson again. Kelvin Johnson isn't out doing all these endorsements. 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:45.200 Kelvin Johnson's outliving his life. And kind of re emerges 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:48.640 for this. Lawrence Taylor, even Ted Hendrix, you know, the 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.159 former Packers linebacker spent that one season with Green Bay. 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.800 Seeing him up there, you know, Fred belichnikof I mean, 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.359 just so many different guys that it's like, that's what 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:59.280 the sport is all about. Yeah. Absolutely, Well, while you 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.040 were in camp, and as you mentioned, I was in 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:05.239 the press box at lambeau Field on Friday night covering 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:08.760 the annual Family Night practice. I'll just I'll share a 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:12.880 few observations on offense and on defense. On the offensive 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.520 side of the ball, I thought the two stars of 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:21.080 the night were seventh round wide receiver Samari Toura and 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:25.200 then also quarterback Jordan's Love. And starting with Toura, he 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:28.560 he just he had one of those practices that you know, 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:32.160 where a guy's presence is being felt in all these 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.680 different segments of practice kind of start to finish. He 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:37.720 had a really nice touchdown grab in the one on ones, 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:43.080 then he had another another nice difficult sliding catch, a 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:46.000 touchdown grab in the eleven on eleven when they were 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.400 you know, close to the goal line, and then he 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.200 hauled in a bomb from Jordan's Love. You know, Jordan's 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:54.000 love with Davante Wyatt right in his face. Love let 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:56.440 it Go too had gotten behind the defense. He makes 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.840 the catch and completes it for a fifty plus yard touchdown. 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:03.440 For all the talk, and rightfully so, about Romeo Dobbs 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.960 and what he's doing, and all the curiosity about Sammy 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.520 Watkins and and where this will go and Al Lazard 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:12.320 sort of getting taking hold of that number one receiver job. 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:16.120 Samore toure Um made a little bit of a statement 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.440 on family and to say just say, hey, don't forget 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:20.640 about me. I know, I'm the seventh round pick. And 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:22.960 and we haven't seen Christian Watson on the field yet, 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:27.040 the second round pick Um, but Toura showed some playmaking 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.760 ability and it's going to be interesting to see. Now. 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.560 Can he take something like that family night practice under 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:35.839 the lights and carry it over into the preseason games 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.040 which start Friday night in San Francisco. Yeah, And and and 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.240 without you know, putting down any kind of you know, 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.760 guarantees or qualifiers, I have no reason to believe he can't. 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:46.320 This is something that to ray, since he was drafted, 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:48.480 he's been making these type of plays. He's been having 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:51.320 these type of practices, and that's what has impressed me 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.320 the most about him and Dobbs is the fact that 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:57.120 these guys just don't flash, they sustain, and Tore hasn't 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.640 been as probably as exceptional as Dobbs been. Dobbs and 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:03.000 made so incredible catches for fourth year or fourth round 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:06.280 rookie draft pick. But to that, the statement I keep 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.360 making Mike, and I don't want to just continue to 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:10.400 be a broken record, but it was really true, is 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.880 that every play that has been offered to him, every 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:17.120 opportunity that has been given, he has made the most 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.880 of that. He has capitalized on it. He's made a 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.199 lot of those catches that you expect a guy competing 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.600 for a roster spot to make. And if you flash 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.199 this thing back to two thousand twelve, where everybody was 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.120 drooling over DeAndre Burrell and Tori Gurley, but you had 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.199 a real set four or five up on top. Uh. 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.719 I believe Samaria to Ory would be a big head er, 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:39.000 bigger headline that then he's been so far, just based 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:40.920 on the fact that there are all these other names 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.480 and all this other uncertainty at that position that people 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.400 tend to gravitate more towards that. But if this was 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:49.280 old school football, where you maybe have your top three 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.360 pretty much solidified and those young guys are getting more 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.000 opportunities to really you will work with the ones I 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.240 think too, Ray would be a guy that probably would 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.600 get a little bit more attention. That being said, Uh, 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:02.959 this is going to be the proving ground. Now. Jordan's Love, 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.280 we know, is going to start on Friday against the 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.760 San Francisco forty Niners. I would imagine he's going to 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:09.640 have a young offensive line in front of him, He's 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:11.679 gonna have young receivers that he's gonna be throwing too, 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.280 and probably young guys in the backfield. Uh, this is 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:15.720 where you want to see to Ray, and I would 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:18.480 assume Dobbs will be out there to really carry over 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:20.520 everything they've done over the last five months and put 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.240 it to an actual in game setting. Yeah. And the 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.720 same goes for Jordan's Love as he is about to 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:29.160 uh to start the preseason opener Friday night in San Francisco. 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.079 I thought Love had a really really good practice um 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.400 on Family Night, just just a lot of the timing 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:39.120 and and uh um, just the the comfort that he 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.520 showed in the offense and all that it really seemed 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.320 to to come together on Friday night against you know, 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:46.560 even going against the twos, and we'll talk about what 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:49.120 this Packers defense has been doing in practice lately in 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.720 a minute, But even going against the twos, you know 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.520 that that's still a pretty decent defensive unit. And I 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.640 thought he was, he was, he was really performing well. 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:59.840 Then on Monday on the practice field, things didn't go 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.840 well for Jordan's Love. He had some more of those hiccups. 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.000 And I think I think with Love, we're just waiting 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:08.560 to see. Now. He got those first two preseason games 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:11.000 last year under his belt, he got his first regular 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:14.120 season start, played the second half against Detroit in that 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:18.360 regular season finale. Now he's back with with another off season, 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:22.280 another training camp of growth. What sort of what sort 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:25.160 of level is Jordan's Love going to establish? Right? What 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:29.440 is what is what sort of consistency can he established 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:32.720 through these preseason games. I think that's the thing to watch. Nobody, 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:35.520 as you said, he's going to have a young offensive line, 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.760 young playmakers around him, and all of that in these 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.840 preseason games. Nobody's expecting him to look like a Hall 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:44.319 of Famer out there in the preseason. But can he 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:47.480 can can he level things out a little bit instead 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:49.560 of going through some of the some of these ups 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.040 and downs that we continue to see in practice. What's 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.719 going to be his level of play in the competition 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.360 in those preseason games. That's what we're waiting to see. 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.960 You're absolutely right. But I also remember going back to 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:04.360 two thousand and twelve when Graham Harrold probably needed to 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:08.600 have a really memorable performance in the finale to lock 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:10.840 down the number two job. The guy went and completed 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.120 like sixteen of eighteen passes for two or twenty yards 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.560 or whatever against Kansas City starting defense in the first 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:17.520 half with all guys that were either going to be 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:21.439 on the practice squad or barely on the roster. That's 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:24.760 the thing here. You're going to face good defenses. You're gonna, 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:26.920 at least for a couple of series, you're going to 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.439 see some stars out there, and you're gonna have young 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:31.920 guys around you. How do you rally those guys? As 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:33.880 you said, Mike, you did it three times and it 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:38.120 was right on level consistency, even Keel. That's what you're 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.880 looking from from Jordan's love, because we've seen the guy 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:42.360 now for two and a half years he can make 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.600 the throws, he can stand tall in the pocket. He 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:47.320 is fearless. I mean, this guy's not panicking back there. 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:49.840 He He definitely has the right temperament in that regard. 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.680 It's about making the right decisions in that blink of 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:56.280 an eye, that millisecond, making sure that you protect the football. 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:58.240 That's going to be the big key for Love and 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:00.400 honestly the thing I want to see more than anything 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:04.640 else with him, like let it go, trust yourself, way 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:06.880 within the system. Keep up the tempo, because when Jordan's 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.200 Love plays on tempo, he's a first round pick. You 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:12.760 see it every time. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, Um. I want 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.079 to take care of some sponsor business before we shift 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.120 gears to the defensive side. 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Um just you 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.200 got to see a little bit of of that of 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.000 sort of that sideline to sideline range that he's got. 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:02.520 You see the speed that he has, and he nearly 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:04.920 and this is you know, the difference between Aaron Rodgers 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:09.800 and other quarterbacks. Walker nearly had a deflection, if not 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.720 an interception of a red zone past him Marcedes Lewis, 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.160 but Rogers was able to just zip it, you know, 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:19.400 right past him. And uh. And that's you know, that's 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:22.400 a great lesson, a great learning moment for for a 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:25.280 young first round pick like that. With Wyatt, I mentioned 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.480 the play where Jordan's Love hit the big bomb to 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:32.560 tour a Um. DeVante Wyatt put a spin move on 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:34.760 at the line of scrimmage and then was bearing down 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.040 on Jordan's Love right and it's practice, He's not going 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:40.360 to be able to bury the guy. Um, but you 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:44.920 got a chance to see that the quickness of a 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:48.520 three hundred pound man. That's why Devontae Wyatt was a 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:51.840 first round pick. Um off a defense that had plenty 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.240 of guys to choose from right in the first round. 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.040 That kind of quickness off the line of scrimmage at 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.240 three hundred pounds, Devantae Wyatt is starting to show it 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:02.680 more and more on the practice field, and again that's 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.640 another thing I'm interested to see. What does he look 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.400 like now in the preseason games. Well, let's be honest 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:10.560 about something, Mike. The the area or why it needs 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:12.440 to catch up. Where he's gonna have to to grow 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.480 is the run defense aspect. But he does look like 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.280 a guy in terms of past Nickel, maybe even Dime 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:20.640 I think can contribute from day one in that way. 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.240 He's bigger, but he reminds me of Mike Daniels, where 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.600 for Mike that was his building block was the fact 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.320 that he could press the pocket, he could get inside pressure, 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:30.200 and then he rounded out the rest of his game 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:32.320 from there. That's what I see with why it why 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:34.440 it looks like he has all the traits you want 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:37.520 to see. It has been an absolute treat watching him 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:39.200 in the one on one drills because even if he 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:42.520 doesn't quote unquote win the rep, he's given those guards 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:46.000 and center headaches. He just is because he's just a 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:50.400 ball of energy, it's not just bullrushes, it's spin moves 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.160 from a guy his size. It's being able to you know, 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.640 you know, maybe even you know, swim pass guys. He's 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.160 had a couple of those secks too, And to do 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:02.160 that in short area is very difficult. Like you see 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:04.960 outside linebackers doing that, but when you have all that energy, 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.200 all those bodies in between, it's difficult to pull those 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.920 things off. So again that story I did right before 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.600 I left on Kenny Clark talking about, you know, these 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.280 guys are gonna make my life easier him, t J. Slaton, 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:22.119 jarn Reid. I have to imagine now, I'm sure Brian goodcaute, 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.480 everybody's you know, praying that these guys can all stay healthy, 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:28.960 get the bubble wrap out. But the Joe Barry, you know, 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:32.000 Jerry Montgomery have to be salivating behind the scenes here 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.000 at the thought of what this whole group can do 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.720 in Unison. Because Dean Lowery has looked really good through 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:38.960 the first week camp, Kenny Clark is doing what Kenny 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.720 Clark always does, and t J. Slayton looks like a 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.480 ball player, so to see why it doing that great 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:48.200 Very quickly moving on to Quay Walker, He's been everything 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:51.720 I think we wanted to see from him. Practice on Monday, 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.600 we got to see Devondre Campbell batting a past two 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.240 almost a near interception came down. He's putting his hands 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.280 down two guys that's six ft four with that kind 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.920 of speed. You talk about Lowry getting the past deflections, 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:04.240 you talk about some of the stuff that happens to 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.920 the trenches. There are rows of hands that these quarterbacks 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.520 are gonna have to throw past this season. Well, this, uh, 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:14.960 this Packers defense in general as a whole, has particularly 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:18.000 in Monday's practice, which was which was a full pads, 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.919 lots of eleven on eleven including two minute drills and 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:24.439 the whole thing. After the players had Saturday off and 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.000 then more of a jog through type practice on Sunday, 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.639 So they really went at it on Monday, and this 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.760 Packers defense was given Aaron Rodgers and company a lot 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:35.800 of problems. I mean the offense. They made some plays 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:39.280 here and there, as they always do, but that offense 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:41.760 with Aaron Rodgers never found any kind of a rhythm 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:45.639 on the practice field like we've seen year after year 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:48.159 after year. They didn't find any kind of that rhythm 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:51.320 on Monday against this Packers defense, and one guy who 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:55.879 absolutely jumped off the chart in terms of what he 0:17:55.920 --> 0:18:00.320 did in one practice was Jaire Alexander. Now Alexander take 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.560 he's taken some reps off here and they're resting his 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:08.359 body some different things, but he was full go, all 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:10.800 out on Monday on the practice field, and whether you're 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:13.119 talking the one on ones when he was going up 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:17.520 against Romeo Dobbs and Sammy Watkins in the eleven on eleven, 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:23.040 he handled Almazard and Watkins both on deep routes. Um. 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.199 J Alexander really came to play on Monday, and he 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:32.040 showed for for as strong as this Packers cornerback group looks, 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:35.959 there is no question who the alpha dog is in 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:38.840 that cornerback room because j R. Alexander showed it on 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:43.280 the practice field Monday. There are a handful less than five, 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:45.360 I think, guys that I can think of where I've 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:48.960 watched him on the practice field and I've seen them 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:55.040 being a zone where it doesn't matter who the receiver 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:57.840 is who. But the defense looks like they are just 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:03.120 so in cell belief immersed in it that they're going 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:05.560 to stop the play. And there's about a two minute 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:08.240 stretch near the end of practice. I was watching team 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:11.919 periods that everyone's just glowing about Jay. I didn't tweet 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:14.600 it all during that moment. I just watched him and 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:18.760 whether he's playing off, whether he's jamming, whatever he's doing, 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:24.119 it's just so effortless. You know, I've watched for years 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:26.520 my cornerbacks that are they're kind of in their own head. 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:28.520 And it's not just Green Bay, I'm saying league wide, 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:31.360 where you know, they're trying to make sure the footwork 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:33.040 is right there, trying to make sure that their hands 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:34.840 are in the right spot off the line of scrimmage. 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:37.639 And Jaire Alexander, it's just I don't want to make 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:40.240 it sound disrespectful, but it's almost like he's on autopilot 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.840 and he's just an impenetrable wall to be able to 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.720 pass through, because if you beat him, he's going to 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:49.240