Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from
Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford, joined as always
Speaker 1: by my trusted colleague West Hodkowitz. We're coming to you
Speaker 1: here from our studios at lambeau Field and welcome back, West,
Speaker 1: and welcome back from Canton, Ohio. You were spending the
Speaker 1: weekend on assignment, as we like to say, covering Leroy
Speaker 1: Butler's Hall of Fame induction in that wonderful town of Canton.
Speaker 1: Give us your thoughts, your impressions. How did how did
Speaker 1: the weekend go? What did you think? Well, the weekend
Speaker 1: was great, But I just have to mention before we
Speaker 1: get started here. It's amazing to me. This is why
Speaker 1: I love about the human condition. Right, we sat here
Speaker 1: a week ago, we did Unscripted. Then you and I
Speaker 1: like to ping pongs in the universe, go off and
Speaker 1: just sort of bounce and do our own thing. I'm
Speaker 1: covering the Hall of Fame. You're doing Family Night by yourself,
Speaker 1: and then we just kind of get this gravitational pull
Speaker 1: back and once again it's training campaign. Here we are. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love how that happened, the stuff that I did,
Speaker 1: the stuff that I wrote the stuff that you wrote,
Speaker 1: um Leroy Butler's Hall of Fame celebration, it was exactly that.
Speaker 1: It was a celebration, and just as I talked about
Speaker 1: last week very fervently, just to see him get his
Speaker 1: moment was really special. Going to the party on Saturday.
Speaker 1: The teammates that showed up, former head coach Mike Sherman,
Speaker 1: just a nice uh homage to to everything he accomplished
Speaker 1: throughout his career, and and Leroy actually even allowed me
Speaker 1: to take a picture with the bus too. So it
Speaker 1: was a pretty neat weekend. I don't know how many
Speaker 1: times you're ever gonna have an opportunity to be able
Speaker 1: to actually be positioned next to a Hall of Fame bust,
Speaker 1: and certainly now it has taken his rightful place in Canton. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think an interesting aspect of this is
Speaker 1: uh with with Gilbert Brown being one of Butler's co
Speaker 1: presenters and everything that Leroy has said about Gilbert, and
Speaker 1: then seeing you know, what Gilbert said in the media
Speaker 1: about Leroy, and then the video, the part of the presentation,
Speaker 1: everything that was that was put together. I think there
Speaker 1: there's maybe an appreciation that that didn't exist before that
Speaker 1: people just weren't necessarily aware of how close Leroy and
Speaker 1: Gilbert were not only as teammates, but but as friends.
Speaker 1: And you know, you don't think of a you know,
Speaker 1: a big defensive lineman and a defensive back who doesn't
Speaker 1: you know, they don't play the same position, They didn't
Speaker 1: spend all that time in meeting rooms together, you know,
Speaker 1: as players and whatnot. But these guys have gotten awfully
Speaker 1: close and and Gilbert was truly honored to do what
Speaker 1: he did for Leroy and Camp. Yeah, they're brothers. And
Speaker 1: and you know, Gilbert even mentioned I thought he just
Speaker 1: absolutely hit his presentation out of the park. I thought
Speaker 1: so too. I thought it was fantastic energies the storytelling.
Speaker 1: It's such a small window that they have to do
Speaker 1: it now. But I mean, I thought he couldn't a
Speaker 1: thousand words couldn't have summed up what he did in
Speaker 1: those two minutes. And you know, recounting the story about
Speaker 1: how he's driving and here's that GiB Roy is getting in.
Speaker 1: He stops the car and he's shouting, you know, it's time,
Speaker 1: It's about time. And it's true because this is a
Speaker 1: guy that he was quieter when they first when he
Speaker 1: first went to Green Bay, his blocker was positioned next
Speaker 1: to Leroy Butler. And as he said in my feature
Speaker 1: last week, I mean everybody and their mother wanted to
Speaker 1: talk to Leroy Butler back then. So I mean trying
Speaker 1: to get a three and sixty pound man into his
Speaker 1: locker to be and you know what those old packer
Speaker 1: locker rooms look like. It was not easy for life
Speaker 1: being Gilbert Brown when he was younger. He mentioned to
Speaker 1: me and that story. You know, he ran his mouth
Speaker 1: too much. But the two became incredibly close friends to
Speaker 1: be able to have Leroy or I should say Gilbert
Speaker 1: and Genesis, LeRoy's wife presenting him. His father in law
Speaker 1: was the one that took, you know, help unveil the bust. Uh.
Speaker 1: Just a community affair. And I gotta give a lot
Speaker 1: of credit to Leroy too. At the party that night,
Speaker 1: he did like a thirty minute like almost like a
Speaker 1: stand up routine, it seemed like at times. But well,
Speaker 1: he was the star of the show. He deserved every moment,
Speaker 1: every moment that he got, He absolutely deserved it. Right.
Speaker 1: He had the jacket on and he actually the thing.
Speaker 1: I gave a lot of respect for him. He brought
Speaker 1: up every single member of his family, from his children,
Speaker 1: his six daughters, and and also talking about his his
Speaker 1: you know nephews and you know uncles and aunts and
Speaker 1: and father in law, mother in law. It was just
Speaker 1: he wanted everybody to be a part of it. And
Speaker 1: he closed by bringing up all the teammates that he
Speaker 1: had that came to the party, thanking each and one
Speaker 1: of them and reminding everybody, like he did in his speech,
Speaker 1: if it wasn't for these guys right here, I'm not
Speaker 1: in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. They're the ones
Speaker 1: on my days where I wasn't the top notch safety
Speaker 1: I need to be. They were the ones that picked
Speaker 1: me up. I wish Leroy would have probably been a
Speaker 1: little bit more about himself, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: because I think it sometimes gets understated how good he
Speaker 1: was as a player. But his big message that weekend,
Speaker 1: going back to what his mother told him, is it's
Speaker 1: not about you. You're not the headline. It's everybody that
Speaker 1: helped you. And Butler certainly did that. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: and I were we were texting back and forth at
Speaker 1: different times throughout the weekend when you were on the trip,
Speaker 1: and as we talked about on last week's show, like
Speaker 1: I was in Canton for fives in Shriman and for
Speaker 1: Jerry Kramer's. I wish I could have gone for Charles
Speaker 1: Woodson's last year, but the COVID restrictions and whatnot, um
Speaker 1: eliminate to that possibility. But um, as somebody who's been
Speaker 1: there a couple of times, and I know you were
Speaker 1: excited to go cover Leroy. If you work in this league,
Speaker 1: you cover this league as a as a writer, as
Speaker 1: a commentator. You have to see Hall of Fame and
Speaker 1: Shrineman weekend at least once. You have to see what
Speaker 1: it's all about, the gold Jacket ceremony, the the actual
Speaker 1: Enshrineman in Tom Benson Stadium, not just watching it on TV,
Speaker 1: but to be there for it and to feel the
Speaker 1: energy of that crowd when the different Hall of Famers
Speaker 1: give their speeches and you and you have the different
Speaker 1: pockets of the crowd that that are you know, very
Speaker 1: you know, intensely listening and yelling and screaming and celebrating
Speaker 1: their guy, you know up there on the stage. There's
Speaker 1: something about there's something about being there for something like
Speaker 1: that that that that the television broadcast is great a
Speaker 1: job as they do on ESPN and NFL network. With
Speaker 1: that the television broadcast can't capture it. And and I'm
Speaker 1: thankful that I've gotten to go a couple of times,
Speaker 1: and now you've gotten to go. And we'll see. We
Speaker 1: talked last week about maybe some other possibilities here in
Speaker 1: the near future, maybe one of us gets to go again.
Speaker 1: But it's it's quite the time, it really was, and
Speaker 1: you know, just mentioning this too before we move on
Speaker 1: to back to the current day, modern day packers. I
Speaker 1: was chatting with Mark Murphy on our way back to
Speaker 1: Green Bay, and one of the things I said to
Speaker 1: him that really struck me the most was going back
Speaker 1: to that gold Jacket ceremony. It's one thing to see
Speaker 1: Kurt Warner and Steve Young and guys that you know,
Speaker 1: Charles Woodson, guys that are very visible. It was another
Speaker 1: thing for me seeing the truth, not that these guys aren't,
Speaker 1: but the other legends of the game that aren't as
Speaker 1: much in the public eye. It was really cool seeing
Speaker 1: Kelvin Johnson again. Kelvin Johnson isn't out doing all these endorsements.
Speaker 1: Kelvin Johnson's outliving his life. And kind of re emerges
Speaker 1: for this. Lawrence Taylor, even Ted Hendrix, you know, the
Speaker 1: former Packers linebacker spent that one season with Green Bay.
Speaker 1: Seeing him up there, you know, Fred belichnikof I mean,
Speaker 1: just so many different guys that it's like, that's what
Speaker 1: the sport is all about. Yeah. Absolutely, Well, while you
Speaker 1: were in camp, and as you mentioned, I was in
Speaker 1: the press box at lambeau Field on Friday night covering
Speaker 1: the annual Family Night practice. I'll just I'll share a
Speaker 1: few observations on offense and on defense. On the offensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball, I thought the two stars of
Speaker 1: the night were seventh round wide receiver Samari Toura and
Speaker 1: then also quarterback Jordan's Love. And starting with Toura, he
Speaker 1: he just he had one of those practices that you know,
Speaker 1: where a guy's presence is being felt in all these
Speaker 1: different segments of practice kind of start to finish. He
Speaker 1: had a really nice touchdown grab in the one on ones,
Speaker 1: then he had another another nice difficult sliding catch, a
Speaker 1: touchdown grab in the eleven on eleven when they were
Speaker 1: you know, close to the goal line, and then he
Speaker 1: hauled in a bomb from Jordan's Love. You know, Jordan's
Speaker 1: love with Davante Wyatt right in his face. Love let
Speaker 1: it Go too had gotten behind the defense. He makes
Speaker 1: the catch and completes it for a fifty plus yard touchdown.
Speaker 1: For all the talk, and rightfully so, about Romeo Dobbs
Speaker 1: and what he's doing, and all the curiosity about Sammy
Speaker 1: Watkins and and where this will go and Al Lazard
Speaker 1: sort of getting taking hold of that number one receiver job.
Speaker 1: Samore toure Um made a little bit of a statement
Speaker 1: on family and to say just say, hey, don't forget
Speaker 1: about me. I know, I'm the seventh round pick. And
Speaker 1: and we haven't seen Christian Watson on the field yet,
Speaker 1: the second round pick Um, but Toura showed some playmaking
Speaker 1: ability and it's going to be interesting to see. Now.
Speaker 1: Can he take something like that family night practice under
Speaker 1: the lights and carry it over into the preseason games
Speaker 1: which start Friday night in San Francisco. Yeah, And and and
Speaker 1: without you know, putting down any kind of you know,
Speaker 1: guarantees or qualifiers, I have no reason to believe he can't.
Speaker 1: This is something that to ray, since he was drafted,
Speaker 1: he's been making these type of plays. He's been having
Speaker 1: these type of practices, and that's what has impressed me
Speaker 1: the most about him and Dobbs is the fact that
Speaker 1: these guys just don't flash, they sustain, and Tore hasn't
Speaker 1: been as probably as exceptional as Dobbs been. Dobbs and
Speaker 1: made so incredible catches for fourth year or fourth round
Speaker 1: rookie draft pick. But to that, the statement I keep
Speaker 1: making Mike, and I don't want to just continue to
Speaker 1: be a broken record, but it was really true, is
Speaker 1: that every play that has been offered to him, every
Speaker 1: opportunity that has been given, he has made the most
Speaker 1: of that. He has capitalized on it. He's made a
Speaker 1: lot of those catches that you expect a guy competing
Speaker 1: for a roster spot to make. And if you flash
Speaker 1: this thing back to two thousand twelve, where everybody was
Speaker 1: drooling over DeAndre Burrell and Tori Gurley, but you had
Speaker 1: a real set four or five up on top. Uh.
Speaker 1: I believe Samaria to Ory would be a big head er,
Speaker 1: bigger headline that then he's been so far, just based
Speaker 1: on the fact that there are all these other names
Speaker 1: and all this other uncertainty at that position that people
Speaker 1: tend to gravitate more towards that. But if this was
Speaker 1: old school football, where you maybe have your top three
Speaker 1: pretty much solidified and those young guys are getting more
Speaker 1: opportunities to really you will work with the ones I
Speaker 1: think too, Ray would be a guy that probably would
Speaker 1: get a little bit more attention. That being said, Uh,
Speaker 1: this is going to be the proving ground. Now. Jordan's Love,
Speaker 1: we know, is going to start on Friday against the
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty Niners. I would imagine he's going to
Speaker 1: have a young offensive line in front of him, He's
Speaker 1: gonna have young receivers that he's gonna be throwing too,
Speaker 1: and probably young guys in the backfield. Uh, this is
Speaker 1: where you want to see to Ray, and I would
Speaker 1: assume Dobbs will be out there to really carry over
Speaker 1: everything they've done over the last five months and put
Speaker 1: it to an actual in game setting. Yeah. And the
Speaker 1: same goes for Jordan's Love as he is about to
Speaker 1: uh to start the preseason opener Friday night in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: I thought Love had a really really good practice um
Speaker 1: on Family Night, just just a lot of the timing
Speaker 1: and and uh um, just the the comfort that he
Speaker 1: showed in the offense and all that it really seemed
Speaker 1: to to come together on Friday night against you know,
Speaker 1: even going against the twos, and we'll talk about what
Speaker 1: this Packers defense has been doing in practice lately in
Speaker 1: a minute, But even going against the twos, you know
Speaker 1: that that's still a pretty decent defensive unit. And I
Speaker 1: thought he was, he was, he was really performing well.
Speaker 1: Then on Monday on the practice field, things didn't go
Speaker 1: well for Jordan's Love. He had some more of those hiccups.
Speaker 1: And I think I think with Love, we're just waiting
Speaker 1: to see. Now. He got those first two preseason games
Speaker 1: last year under his belt, he got his first regular
Speaker 1: season start, played the second half against Detroit in that
Speaker 1: regular season finale. Now he's back with with another off season,
Speaker 1: another training camp of growth. What sort of what sort
Speaker 1: of level is Jordan's Love going to establish? Right? What
Speaker 1: is what is what sort of consistency can he established
Speaker 1: through these preseason games. I think that's the thing to watch. Nobody,
Speaker 1: as you said, he's going to have a young offensive line,
Speaker 1: young playmakers around him, and all of that in these
Speaker 1: preseason games. Nobody's expecting him to look like a Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer out there in the preseason. But can he
Speaker 1: can can he level things out a little bit instead
Speaker 1: of going through some of the some of these ups
Speaker 1: and downs that we continue to see in practice. What's
Speaker 1: going to be his level of play in the competition
Speaker 1: in those preseason games. That's what we're waiting to see.
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right. But I also remember going back to
Speaker 1: two thousand and twelve when Graham Harrold probably needed to
Speaker 1: have a really memorable performance in the finale to lock
Speaker 1: down the number two job. The guy went and completed
Speaker 1: like sixteen of eighteen passes for two or twenty yards
Speaker 1: or whatever against Kansas City starting defense in the first
Speaker 1: half with all guys that were either going to be
Speaker 1: on the practice squad or barely on the roster. That's
Speaker 1: the thing here. You're going to face good defenses. You're gonna,
Speaker 1: at least for a couple of series, you're going to
Speaker 1: see some stars out there, and you're gonna have young
Speaker 1: guys around you. How do you rally those guys? As
Speaker 1: you said, Mike, you did it three times and it
Speaker 1: was right on level consistency, even Keel. That's what you're
Speaker 1: looking from from Jordan's love, because we've seen the guy
Speaker 1: now for two and a half years he can make
Speaker 1: the throws, he can stand tall in the pocket. He
Speaker 1: is fearless. I mean, this guy's not panicking back there.
Speaker 1: He He definitely has the right temperament in that regard.
Speaker 1: It's about making the right decisions in that blink of
Speaker 1: an eye, that millisecond, making sure that you protect the football.
Speaker 1: That's going to be the big key for Love and
Speaker 1: honestly the thing I want to see more than anything
Speaker 1: else with him, like let it go, trust yourself, way
Speaker 1: within the system. Keep up the tempo, because when Jordan's
Speaker 1: Love plays on tempo, he's a first round pick. You
Speaker 1: see it every time. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, Um. I want
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Speaker 1: Fifty years of better Um family night. On the defensive side,
Speaker 1: I thought two guys that definitely caught my eye. Were
Speaker 1: surprise surprised the two first round picks from Georgia. I
Speaker 1: thought Quay Walker Um really showed up. Um just you
Speaker 1: got to see a little bit of of that of
Speaker 1: sort of that sideline to sideline range that he's got.
Speaker 1: You see the speed that he has, and he nearly
Speaker 1: and this is you know, the difference between Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: and other quarterbacks. Walker nearly had a deflection, if not
Speaker 1: an interception of a red zone past him Marcedes Lewis,
Speaker 1: but Rogers was able to just zip it, you know,
Speaker 1: right past him. And uh. And that's you know, that's
Speaker 1: a great lesson, a great learning moment for for a
Speaker 1: young first round pick like that. With Wyatt, I mentioned
Speaker 1: the play where Jordan's Love hit the big bomb to
Speaker 1: tour a Um. DeVante Wyatt put a spin move on
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage and then was bearing down
Speaker 1: on Jordan's Love right and it's practice, He's not going
Speaker 1: to be able to bury the guy. Um, but you
Speaker 1: got a chance to see that the quickness of a
Speaker 1: three hundred pound man. That's why Devontae Wyatt was a
Speaker 1: first round pick. Um off a defense that had plenty
Speaker 1: of guys to choose from right in the first round.
Speaker 1: That kind of quickness off the line of scrimmage at
Speaker 1: three hundred pounds, Devantae Wyatt is starting to show it
Speaker 1: more and more on the practice field, and again that's
Speaker 1: another thing I'm interested to see. What does he look
Speaker 1: like now in the preseason games. Well, let's be honest
Speaker 1: about something, Mike. The the area or why it needs
Speaker 1: to catch up. Where he's gonna have to to grow
Speaker 1: is the run defense aspect. But he does look like
Speaker 1: a guy in terms of past Nickel, maybe even Dime
Speaker 1: I think can contribute from day one in that way.
Speaker 1: He's bigger, but he reminds me of Mike Daniels, where
Speaker 1: for Mike that was his building block was the fact
Speaker 1: that he could press the pocket, he could get inside pressure,
Speaker 1: and then he rounded out the rest of his game
Speaker 1: from there. That's what I see with why it why
Speaker 1: it looks like he has all the traits you want
Speaker 1: to see. It has been an absolute treat watching him
Speaker 1: in the one on one drills because even if he
Speaker 1: doesn't quote unquote win the rep, he's given those guards
Speaker 1: and center headaches. He just is because he's just a
Speaker 1: ball of energy, it's not just bullrushes, it's spin moves
Speaker 1: from a guy his size. It's being able to you know,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe even you know, swim pass guys. He's
Speaker 1: had a couple of those secks too, And to do
Speaker 1: that in short area is very difficult. Like you see
Speaker 1: outside linebackers doing that, but when you have all that energy,
Speaker 1: all those bodies in between, it's difficult to pull those
Speaker 1: things off. So again that story I did right before
Speaker 1: I left on Kenny Clark talking about, you know, these
Speaker 1: guys are gonna make my life easier him, t J. Slaton,
Speaker 1: jarn Reid. I have to imagine now, I'm sure Brian goodcaute,
Speaker 1: everybody's you know, praying that these guys can all stay healthy,
Speaker 1: get the bubble wrap out. But the Joe Barry, you know,
Speaker 1: Jerry Montgomery have to be salivating behind the scenes here
Speaker 1: at the thought of what this whole group can do
Speaker 1: in Unison. Because Dean Lowery has looked really good through
Speaker 1: the first week camp, Kenny Clark is doing what Kenny
Speaker 1: Clark always does, and t J. Slayton looks like a
Speaker 1: ball player, so to see why it doing that great
Speaker 1: Very quickly moving on to Quay Walker, He's been everything
Speaker 1: I think we wanted to see from him. Practice on Monday,
Speaker 1: we got to see Devondre Campbell batting a past two
Speaker 1: almost a near interception came down. He's putting his hands
Speaker 1: down two guys that's six ft four with that kind
Speaker 1: of speed. You talk about Lowry getting the past deflections,
Speaker 1: you talk about some of the stuff that happens to
Speaker 1: the trenches. There are rows of hands that these quarterbacks
Speaker 1: are gonna have to throw past this season. Well, this, uh,
Speaker 1: this Packers defense in general as a whole, has particularly
Speaker 1: in Monday's practice, which was which was a full pads,
Speaker 1: lots of eleven on eleven including two minute drills and
Speaker 1: the whole thing. After the players had Saturday off and
Speaker 1: then more of a jog through type practice on Sunday,
Speaker 1: So they really went at it on Monday, and this
Speaker 1: Packers defense was given Aaron Rodgers and company a lot
Speaker 1: of problems. I mean the offense. They made some plays
Speaker 1: here and there, as they always do, but that offense
Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers never found any kind of a rhythm
Speaker 1: on the practice field like we've seen year after year
Speaker 1: after year. They didn't find any kind of that rhythm
Speaker 1: on Monday against this Packers defense, and one guy who
Speaker 1: absolutely jumped off the chart in terms of what he
Speaker 1: did in one practice was Jaire Alexander. Now Alexander take
Speaker 1: he's taken some reps off here and they're resting his
Speaker 1: body some different things, but he was full go, all
Speaker 1: out on Monday on the practice field, and whether you're
Speaker 1: talking the one on ones when he was going up
Speaker 1: against Romeo Dobbs and Sammy Watkins in the eleven on eleven,
Speaker 1: he handled Almazard and Watkins both on deep routes. Um.
Speaker 1: J Alexander really came to play on Monday, and he
Speaker 1: showed for for as strong as this Packers cornerback group looks,
Speaker 1: there is no question who the alpha dog is in
Speaker 1: that cornerback room because j R. Alexander showed it on
Speaker 1: the practice field Monday. There are a handful less than five,
Speaker 1: I think, guys that I can think of where I've
Speaker 1: watched him on the practice field and I've seen them
Speaker 1: being a zone where it doesn't matter who the receiver
Speaker 1: is who. But the defense looks like they are just
Speaker 1: so in cell belief immersed in it that they're going
Speaker 1: to stop the play. And there's about a two minute
Speaker 1: stretch near the end of practice. I was watching team
Speaker 1: periods that everyone's just glowing about Jay. I didn't tweet
Speaker 1: it all during that moment. I just watched him and
Speaker 1: whether he's playing off, whether he's jamming, whatever he's doing,
Speaker 1: it's just so effortless. You know, I've watched for years
Speaker 1: my cornerbacks that are they're kind of in their own head.
Speaker 1: And it's not just Green Bay, I'm saying league wide,
Speaker 1: where you know, they're trying to make sure the footwork
Speaker 1: is right there, trying to make sure that their hands
Speaker 1: are in the right spot off the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: And Jaire Alexander, it's just I don't want to make
Speaker 1: it sound disrespectful, but it's almost like he's on autopilot
Speaker 1: and he's just an impenetrable wall to be able to
Speaker 1: pass through, because if you beat him, he's going to
Speaker 1: catch up. If he's out within arms reach of you,
Speaker 1: he's going to find his way to the ball in
Speaker 1: terms of getting his hands on it, and he does
Speaker 1: it all without really being grabby. Yeah, it's he's He's
Speaker 1: the total Axander. To me, what I've seen when I
Speaker 1: when I watch a practice, like he the way he
Speaker 1: performed on Monday. He has an amazing way to combine
Speaker 1: an intensity to what he's doing with everything looking so natural,
Speaker 1: and that's just not normal. I mean, normally, you know,
Speaker 1: guys crank up the intensity and then you see it's
Speaker 1: like they're exerting all this extra effort and and and
Speaker 1: everything like that. And Alexander has a way that he
Speaker 1: can turn up the intensity and still just let his
Speaker 1: natural athletic ability take over. And that's what makes him
Speaker 1: a special player. That's what makes him one of the
Speaker 1: top cornerbacks in this league. And you know, now he's
Speaker 1: getting paid like and of course too, and it's fun
Speaker 1: watch him practice again unabated, like you said, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: there was a little bit of a hiccup there whatever
Speaker 1: you wanna call it, with the tightness. But you know,
Speaker 1: even last year when he was trying to get back
Speaker 1: into the groove again, he's you know, he's not wearing
Speaker 1: pads for a time. He's only doing individual stuff. Alex
Speaker 1: r Alexander was going on Monday, and you hope it
Speaker 1: can be that way the rest of the way because
Speaker 1: if he's ready and he's a game week one, all
Speaker 1: those pieces everybody that's available to the on the defense,
Speaker 1: especially that Nickel. It starts with yeah, absolutely, Well with that,
Speaker 1: we're going to call it a wrap on this edition
Speaker 1: of Packers on Script, and be sure to follow all
Speaker 1: of our coverage of the team training camp. We've got
Speaker 1: it all for you on Packers dot Com leading into
Speaker 1: Friday night's preseason opener against San Francisco, and we'll have
Speaker 1: another show previewing that game coming up soon. So for West,
Speaker 1: I am Mike, thank you for tuning in. Everybody, We'll
Speaker 1: see you next time.