Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford, joined by the one and only
Speaker 1: West Hodkowitz. Were coming to you here from our studios
Speaker 1: at lambeau Field West. Preseason game number two is upon
Speaker 1: us Thursday night, lambeau Field Packers versus the Pittsburgh Steelers,
Speaker 1: and it's possible that number twelve quarterback Aaron Rodgers could
Speaker 1: get a little bit of playing time here at the
Speaker 1: start of this game. Some other factors may go into that,
Speaker 1: but give us the update, you know, it's interesting. So
Speaker 1: obviously you were in the huddle with Rogers earlier this week.
Speaker 1: He said it is his intention to play in this game.
Speaker 1: He wanted to huddle at his locker, not on the
Speaker 1: practice field, just to clarify differentiate that uh and and
Speaker 1: he said he he really wants to get work in
Speaker 1: front of the land. Both field crowded. My mind immediately
Speaker 1: went to the fact that he hasn't played at lambeau
Speaker 1: Field since September of last season because then they went
Speaker 1: on the road for those games. Obviously, he got hurt
Speaker 1: in Minnesota and then came back in Week fifteen at Carolina,
Speaker 1: so that made me kind of look up the stats
Speaker 1: a little bit, and I was really surprised when I've
Speaker 1: realized that Rogers hasn't played a home preseason games since
Speaker 1: two thousand fourteen, just based on some of the corks
Speaker 1: with the schedule. You know, the Packers opened, uh, some
Speaker 1: on the road, or as some at home, closed some
Speaker 1: at home, So typically those second third games have been
Speaker 1: the games where he's played. But Mike McCarthy said, it's
Speaker 1: the goal for the Green Bay Packers to get him
Speaker 1: out there, get him on the field. There are factors
Speaker 1: that play into this, namely the offensive line and the
Speaker 1: health there. Can Brian Belaga suit up at right tackle
Speaker 1: a little more than nine months after tearing his a
Speaker 1: c L last November? Can you know David Baktiari make
Speaker 1: his way back. Both of those guys look really good
Speaker 1: in practice the last week and a half since they've returned.
Speaker 1: So if you can get them on the field, I
Speaker 1: think the odds, you know, really do increase quite a
Speaker 1: bit for Rogers being out there. But as Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: also said, you go back two years ago, they played
Speaker 1: a preseason game two with Rogers in there and Kyle
Speaker 1: Murphy a rookie at the time going up against Vonn
Speaker 1: Miller's So there's a lot of different things they have
Speaker 1: to consider, but I think everybody would be in an
Speaker 1: agreement that for Rogers it's in his best interest to
Speaker 1: at least get some snaps in this contest. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I would imagine he would get the most of his
Speaker 1: preseason work would come in the third game at Oakland
Speaker 1: next week. But there have been some instances in other
Speaker 1: years where that second preseason game he's played a series,
Speaker 1: maybe two. We'll have to see how it goes. As
Speaker 1: you said, the health of the offensive line. If David
Speaker 1: bak Try in his recovery from the ankle, if the
Speaker 1: doctors are saying David Bakti is only going to play
Speaker 1: six snaps, those might be the only six napster Adaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers plays, and it might might not even be a
Speaker 1: whole series if they're driving down. I mean, we don't
Speaker 1: know necessarily how this is going to go. But there
Speaker 1: are some other guys that we're kind of hoping maybe
Speaker 1: we'll see the first preseason action of the year. And
Speaker 1: some of those guys I'm talking about, jayro Alexander, Jimmy Graham,
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, who's back on the practice field from his
Speaker 1: hamstring injury. The whole Jimmy Graham Aaron Rodgers thing I
Speaker 1: think is the most interesting thing from the offensive side,
Speaker 1: because we've seen what they can do on the practice field.
Speaker 1: It's definitely coming along and you know, you'd like to
Speaker 1: see them, you know, connect a couple of times against
Speaker 1: an opponent and whether it happens this week or next
Speaker 1: week in Oakland. I've often said, Mike, and you know
Speaker 1: you've read you've read me, you know, writing this an
Speaker 1: inbox and what we've talked about it on shows in
Speaker 1: the past. To me, tight end pound for pound is
Speaker 1: probably one of the most difficult positions to play in
Speaker 1: today's NFL one because if you're a young guy, you're
Speaker 1: not getting those reps in college in two. If you're
Speaker 1: a veteran that's coming into a new location, it's not
Speaker 1: always just snap your fingers and ready set go and
Speaker 1: everything's fine. Joe Philman kind of talked about that a
Speaker 1: little bit when he met with the media on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: and that Jimmy Graham's uh five times, six time All
Speaker 1: Pro or Pro Bowl type player, Aaron Rodgers two time
Speaker 1: m v P in isolation. It just seems like the
Speaker 1: perfect marriage. But you know they need to get their
Speaker 1: fades together. They need to know how to run the
Speaker 1: route tree with each other and know what they're going
Speaker 1: to anticipate. I think Graham has done everything and more
Speaker 1: that Rogers could ask of him so far to this point.
Speaker 1: You and I see his competitiveness and practice every single
Speaker 1: time he's on the field. There's nobody, I think, on
Speaker 1: that field, maybe aside from Rogers himself, that really takes
Speaker 1: practice as seriously as Jimmy Graham. I mean, every touchdown
Speaker 1: he scores, it's a touchdown on game day, it almost
Speaker 1: seems like and he made a spectacular one hand of
Speaker 1: grab earlier this week in practice, and those are the
Speaker 1: kind of plays you look for because it's not just
Speaker 1: beating your man and winning your route, it's all the
Speaker 1: other games that go along with that. Jared Cook was
Speaker 1: able to accomplish that with Rogers late in the season.
Speaker 1: At times, Jamichael Finley did it. Now. Can Jimmy Graham
Speaker 1: come into this offense and sort of re emerge again.
Speaker 1: Is one of the NFL's top and most feared tight
Speaker 1: ends in this league, and he feels like this is
Speaker 1: the place that do it. Yeah, that was quite the
Speaker 1: the acrobatic catch and emphatic spike of the ball in
Speaker 1: the end zone there after that touchdown. He was pretty
Speaker 1: fired up on that one. What I've seen so far
Speaker 1: on the practice field from Rogers and Graham, it seems
Speaker 1: to me like it didn't take long for the middle
Speaker 1: of the field, the between the twenties stuff too, for
Speaker 1: them to connect and to really be on the same page.
Speaker 1: We've seen them hit the crossing routes, the seam routes,
Speaker 1: those kinds of thing. Not a hundred percent of the shine.
Speaker 1: It seems like the red zone, the you know, the
Speaker 1: tight quarters type of stuff in the red zone around
Speaker 1: the goal line is what has taken some more work
Speaker 1: and some more reps. And so you'd like to see,
Speaker 1: you know, the Packers get down there, say first down
Speaker 1: from the fifteen yard line. Okay, let's throw the fade
Speaker 1: to Jimmy Graham. Let's see if that get you get
Speaker 1: that timing down with a with a an opposing defensive
Speaker 1: back on the field, did you play Saturday like sixth
Speaker 1: grade basketball at all? I was right, and I've always
Speaker 1: been short, but I always remember in those specific specific
Speaker 1: instances there would always be that one kid that was
Speaker 1: like six two and it's like a sixth or seventh
Speaker 1: grade and just towers over everybody. You just put him
Speaker 1: in the middle of the court and he just you know,
Speaker 1: not quite dunks, but it's basically scoring on everybody. To me,
Speaker 1: that's what it kind of looks like a little bit
Speaker 1: at times with Jimmy Graham, not just in Green Bay,
Speaker 1: but over the course of his career, and that he's
Speaker 1: able to be a presence in the middle of the
Speaker 1: field because he is as tall as he is, as
Speaker 1: let athletic as he is. I mean when you factor
Speaker 1: in his his speed, his vertical jump, everything that that
Speaker 1: makes Jimmy Graham who he is, that catch radius is
Speaker 1: just ginormous and and I think you've seen some of
Speaker 1: those signs so far. Yes, you know, he is thirty
Speaker 1: thirty one, now he's in that that back you know,
Speaker 1: nine of his careers what we always talk about, but
Speaker 1: you've seen guys like Tony Gonzalez and and other players
Speaker 1: around this league be really effective into their thirties. And
Speaker 1: you know, the thing that's interesting about Graham is as
Speaker 1: much as was made of him not maybe having the
Speaker 1: explosive plays as much in Seattle, very underrated was how
Speaker 1: efficient and effective he was in the red zone and
Speaker 1: how many tough stones he ended up scoring. I think
Speaker 1: you've seen a guy evolved. I think you've seen him
Speaker 1: get smarter and again getting into an offense that Taylor
Speaker 1: is a little more tailored to him like it was
Speaker 1: in New Orleans. I think it's ultimately going to make
Speaker 1: him the player that the Packers think he can still be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: moving on to some other players, Jaire Alexander, Aaron Jones,
Speaker 1: a couple other guys I mentioned. We saw Josh Jackson
Speaker 1: quite frankly take advantage of the fact that Alexander and
Speaker 1: Kevin King did not play in the opening preseason game.
Speaker 1: Neither did Tremont Williams, and Josh Jackson, you know, lining
Speaker 1: up in the slot sometimes on the boundary really performed
Speaker 1: quite quite well. Excuse me, and maybe a little little
Speaker 1: bit of a fire under Jaire Alexander, not in the
Speaker 1: not in the necessarily the competitive sense, but in in
Speaker 1: the sense of, you know, hey, I want I want
Speaker 1: to get out there. I want to I want to,
Speaker 1: you know, really get ready for this season. And and
Speaker 1: you know, Alexander, another guy that the packers have lined
Speaker 1: up in some different spots. He seems pretty comfortable wherever
Speaker 1: they put him. So now let's see what happens against
Speaker 1: an opponent. Earlier this week in the locker room, Alexander
Speaker 1: was asked if there was any feeling of fomo at
Speaker 1: all with him not being in that game. Now, fomo
Speaker 1: is an acronym that I probably hate more than any
Speaker 1: other in the end of in that really the world
Speaker 1: right now or in the English language. Uh, but you know,
Speaker 1: he said, while there isn't. He didn't feel like he
Speaker 1: was missing out on anything. He was motivated to see
Speaker 1: Josh Jackson have that success and to be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: he did it. I can want to go in there
Speaker 1: and try to do it too. That's cool. Let's see
Speaker 1: what I can do. What I love the most about
Speaker 1: Jackson is I think a lot of people pigeonholed him
Speaker 1: till being a boundary outside cornerback and that's all he
Speaker 1: did because, as we talked about on the show earlier
Speaker 1: this week, that's what he did. In that one season
Speaker 1: where he started at Iowa. They didn't move him around.
Speaker 1: He wasn't a guy that started in the slot and
Speaker 1: then worked his way to the boundary like Kevin King
Speaker 1: did during his time at Washington. But I don't think
Speaker 1: you really can say what a guy's really capable of
Speaker 1: until you see it, unless it's already been shown in
Speaker 1: the college levels to extent, like what Alexander did a
Speaker 1: little bit at Louisville. I was really impressed by what
Speaker 1: I saw with Jackson when he pushed inside. I think
Speaker 1: he can be a press man boundary cornerback. You know why,
Speaker 1: because he looks like a press man boundary cornerback. And
Speaker 1: getting Alexander and his athleticism in this defense. Now again,
Speaker 1: you'll have to make sure everything checks out with a
Speaker 1: groin injury, but if he's on the field, whether it's
Speaker 1: on defense, whether it's even on special teams, punt returns
Speaker 1: potentially with ron zook Uh, he has a lot of
Speaker 1: ability and and it's gonna be interesting and fun to
Speaker 1: finally see it kind of get put to work a
Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, and potentially some important snaps here in
Speaker 1: the preseason coming up for Aaron Jones. He's missed some
Speaker 1: time with a hamstring injury. DeVante Mays is still out
Speaker 1: with a hamstring injury. Saw Jamal Williams score touchdown on
Speaker 1: a swing pass last week against Tennessee. But as we
Speaker 1: all know, Aaron Jones is going to miss the first
Speaker 1: two games of the regular season. He needs some work
Speaker 1: in the preseason. You have to get the other guys
Speaker 1: ready for weeks one and two, but you also want
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones to be ready when he's back in week three.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a delicate balance the Packers have to
Speaker 1: to uh to figure out here in terms of the
Speaker 1: reps and and the distribution. But I'm interested to see
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones get back into some game action. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: am too, And out of those three options that you gave,
Speaker 1: I think he's the one right now. I think it's
Speaker 1: probably the most up in the air as far as
Speaker 1: whether he's on the field against Pittsburgh. But that being said,
Speaker 1: him getting back into practice week was huge. So regardless
Speaker 1: of his availability on Thursday night, he plays, he doesn't play,
Speaker 1: I really want to see him in these next two
Speaker 1: games really try to build up some momentum there so
Speaker 1: that he has a base when he goes into that break.
Speaker 1: Unlike before probably about five six years ago, players who
Speaker 1: are going to be placed on the suspended list, they're
Speaker 1: able to stay with the team. Now they can't practice
Speaker 1: with them, they're not in meetings, but they can use
Speaker 1: the facilities. They can stay in the rotation, whereas before
Speaker 1: you basically got shipped off to a training center or
Speaker 1: something until you are allowed to come back. I think
Speaker 1: that's really gonna help Jones a lot. And one other thing,
Speaker 1: just to touch on with Jamal Williams. We talked so
Speaker 1: much about Time Montgomery and his receiving ability, and rightfully so.
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams is sneaky good and sneak effective as a
Speaker 1: pass catcher, and I think when you look at him
Speaker 1: in his skill set, I don't know how this is
Speaker 1: going to shape out. I don't know who's going to
Speaker 1: get the reps once the regular season start. But Williams
Speaker 1: is proficient as a pass blocker and he's profession as
Speaker 1: a ball catcher. So in addition to what he does
Speaker 1: as a running back, that's ultimately what keeps you in
Speaker 1: that that plans for being a three down guy down
Speaker 1: the line. Yeah, and what I pointed out this week
Speaker 1: in our Insider Inbox column that I really liked about
Speaker 1: that touchdown play of Jamal Williams against Tennessee is he
Speaker 1: made a guy miss in the open field. That was
Speaker 1: if there was one thing that was missing from a
Speaker 1: very impressive rookie season from Jamal Williams, it was making
Speaker 1: guys miss And to see that in the first preseason game,
Speaker 1: really the first time he catches a pass out of
Speaker 1: the backfield, I thought that was a really good sign. Um,
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Speaker 1: to some other guys here that we're going to have
Speaker 1: our eyes on Thursday night at lambeau Field. I mentioned
Speaker 1: this in our Final Thoughts video that that's on our
Speaker 1: website that previews the game in a in a much
Speaker 1: more condensed fashion than we do here on Unscripted. But
Speaker 1: one thing I always look for in the preseason. When
Speaker 1: you see a young player make a player too in
Speaker 1: a game, it gives them a headline, It gets them
Speaker 1: a lot of attention. You know, they're making a bid
Speaker 1: for roster spot all that stuff. What do they do
Speaker 1: the next game? Can they follow it up? Can they
Speaker 1: make some plays again? And in that respect, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about guys like Mark Quez Valdez, Scantling, Jake Kumero, Kendall
Speaker 1: Donnerson who had the strip of the running back, created
Speaker 1: a turn over there, Reggie Gilbert, you know, did some
Speaker 1: nice things. So now it's about following it up. It's
Speaker 1: it's it's about not just to being that flash player,
Speaker 1: you know, who makes that splash play every once in
Speaker 1: a while, but it's doing that on a consistent basis,
Speaker 1: because that's that's when everybody starts to really notice your performance,
Speaker 1: that hey, we can count on this guy to maybe
Speaker 1: make something happen every time we put him out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Velda's Scandling And there's been a lot of receivers
Speaker 1: that have come through here, uh in the last five
Speaker 1: six years, young guys, you know, trying to make this roster,
Speaker 1: trying to find roles on this offense. He has a
Speaker 1: long way to go. I'm not trying to say like
Speaker 1: he's finished product. I think he's had some you know,
Speaker 1: there was some drops before. There's some obviously the you know,
Speaker 1: different things that happened with being a rookie player. But
Speaker 1: I love his skill set. I just the speed and
Speaker 1: his size and uh, I know the story was written
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago about you know, him working with
Speaker 1: Randy Monster in the off season. He's just a guy
Speaker 1: who takes this incredibly seriously. And you know the work
Speaker 1: he put in this offseason, both on and off the field.
Speaker 1: I think you're seeing some of that translate now again though,
Speaker 1: much like with Jake Kumero too, it is really showing that, Okay,
Speaker 1: you had five catches for hundred and ten yards or
Speaker 1: whatever it was, can you have another performance, maybe not
Speaker 1: necessarily hundred ten yards, but can you have another you know,
Speaker 1: four catches sixty yards something that just shows the consistency
Speaker 1: factor of it, where you just don't appear and disappear
Speaker 1: some reliability, right exactly. For Kumero, he's in a position, Michael,
Speaker 1: you know what this is like for an undrafted guy,
Speaker 1: especially a guy that's coming off the practice squad. There's
Speaker 1: no room for error. There just isn't. You you have
Speaker 1: to be able to do it every single practice, every
Speaker 1: single preseason game. There just isn't a lot of time
Speaker 1: to take a breath. The thing that's impressive about him
Speaker 1: is he understands that he's been in Cincinnati, he's had
Speaker 1: a little bit of time in New England. He gets
Speaker 1: where he's coming from and what he needs to do
Speaker 1: to show that, you know what, I'm worthy of a
Speaker 1: spot on the fifty three man roster in last week,
Speaker 1: finishing that game with that big play. I know he
Speaker 1: lamented about the place, he felt like he didn't make
Speaker 1: over the course of the game, But to me, that
Speaker 1: just screamed the type of player, the type of playmaker
Speaker 1: that is going to find a way to make something happen.
Speaker 1: And he's done that all throughout the preseason. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he knows, as you said, he's got the experience in
Speaker 1: previous training camps, previous preseasons. He knows he can't just
Speaker 1: disappear now. He can't just ride on the coattails of
Speaker 1: a fifty two yard touchdown catch. As impressive as it was,
Speaker 1: great play by both the quarterback and the receiver, Tim
Speaker 1: Boyle hitting him right in stride there down the left
Speaker 1: side line at lambeau Field. But don't disappear. Now, go
Speaker 1: out and do something more and getting back to Veldes
Speaker 1: scantling just for a second. Heard it from two different players,
Speaker 1: very respected players, obviously in the locker room. Davantae Adams
Speaker 1: and Aaron Rodgers have both said the same thing about
Speaker 1: number eighty three. He plays fast, and you don't hear
Speaker 1: that about rookies, because rookies are usually kind of swimming
Speaker 1: in the playbook and trying to figure things out, and
Speaker 1: all the thinking slows them down. Both of those guys
Speaker 1: have been impressed, not to say that he hasn't made
Speaker 1: any mental mistakes or has been perfect or anything out there,
Speaker 1: but they've both been impressed with the fact that he
Speaker 1: plays fast. He gets off the line of scrimmage and
Speaker 1: uh and that's a heck of a start in you
Speaker 1: know what, is not a simple offense. And it seems
Speaker 1: to me, just watching that first preseason game, he's always
Speaker 1: looking to make a play. Uh If and if that
Speaker 1: play is just a ten yard hitch route or something
Speaker 1: like that, that's what the play is. But it just
Speaker 1: seems like there's something about him just watching him even
Speaker 1: in practice too, that you're only one mistackle away off
Speaker 1: something really special happening. Now has to work on some
Speaker 1: of the downfield stuff. Obviously the route running is something
Speaker 1: that's going to come with him in time, But in
Speaker 1: terms of just being able to to show your skill set,
Speaker 1: I thought that debut against the Titan showed exactly what
Speaker 1: he was all about. Yeah, I would agree. One other
Speaker 1: guy I want to talk about here west before before
Speaker 1: we call it a show, Davante Adams. If there was
Speaker 1: a play obviously with the starters or the bulk of
Speaker 1: the starters in the game last Thursday night, that that
Speaker 1: was the highlight, real play. It was the over the
Speaker 1: top throw Brett Hunley Malcolm Butler in coverage. You know,
Speaker 1: I looked back at it a couple of times. I
Speaker 1: thought this when I saw it, and then I wanted
Speaker 1: to confirm it by looking back at the film. But
Speaker 1: two things really really stood out to me about that
Speaker 1: play that illustrate just how good Davante Adams is. One
Speaker 1: he knew exactly where the ball was and but did
Speaker 1: not change his route and start fading towards the ball,
Speaker 1: because that allows the defender to get more into the path.
Speaker 1: He still eight on the path that he was on,
Speaker 1: knowing that he would sort of catch it over the
Speaker 1: outside shoulder. But by staying on the path he was on,
Speaker 1: he shielded Butler from having any chance of making a
Speaker 1: play on the ball. And then the other thing, which
Speaker 1: is something I've heard from a lot of the receivers
Speaker 1: and I've talked to Adams about this too, the technique
Speaker 1: right at the end what they call late hands, where
Speaker 1: he doesn't stick his hands out to catch the ball
Speaker 1: until the last possible second, because again that's a signal
Speaker 1: to the defensive back, is to when the ball is
Speaker 1: arriving and and when you you look at that play
Speaker 1: and the two things that he did in order to
Speaker 1: in order to make that catch. Heck of a throw
Speaker 1: by Brett Hunley. But what Davante Adams did to make
Speaker 1: that play work and to make it look so smooth
Speaker 1: and so easy, it's just another example of where he
Speaker 1: is right now in his career compared to a couple
Speaker 1: of years for me, pound pound for pound to throw
Speaker 1: that termount. Again, I think Davante Adam has had the
Speaker 1: best camp of anybody. What he's done consistently in a
Speaker 1: daily basis and practice has been fun to watch and
Speaker 1: and you know, to be honest with you, I think
Speaker 1: surprise some people to some extent that Davante was out
Speaker 1: there for that first preseason game, considering the eighteen players
Speaker 1: that were scratches of majority of those guys healthy starters,
Speaker 1: they just didn't want to just didn't want to put
Speaker 1: out there. Adams went out there and he bawled out
Speaker 1: and you know it was even the the forty eight
Speaker 1: yard is going to draw all the attention, but just
Speaker 1: that first catch for eight yards, I think it was
Speaker 1: just on a quick stop route. I believe it was
Speaker 1: with Brett Hunley to kind of get the drive moving.
Speaker 1: We talked so often Michael about you know it's about
Speaker 1: that first series. It's about that first first down. To me,
Speaker 1: Davante Adams is just instant energy in that way and
Speaker 1: and the one thing I just want to throw out there.
Speaker 1: I know he's always looked at at James Jones is
Speaker 1: a big brother of his and and those two are
Speaker 1: incredibly close. They got to spend that two thousand fifteen
Speaker 1: season together. To me, when I see Davante Adams, I
Speaker 1: see James Jones I see it taken to another level.
Speaker 1: I see the accountability, I see the catching, but just
Speaker 1: the athleticism of Davante Adams is just through this roof.
Speaker 1: And and for him to be able to be at
Speaker 1: this point in his career to work through what he's
Speaker 1: worked through and now be on the cusp of what
Speaker 1: appears to be becoming a superstar type player in a
Speaker 1: in a huge leader in that locker room. I just
Speaker 1: I'm really excited about I'm excited to see what he
Speaker 1: can do. I'm just excited to see where the trajectory
Speaker 1: of his career takes him. Because he's always had that confidence,
Speaker 1: in that mentality, and now that the health thing has
Speaker 1: kind of worked out for him, you're really being able
Speaker 1: to see his his star really shine. Yeah. And as
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers pointed out this week, his confidence in his swag.
Speaker 1: As Rogers put it, it's it's all natural. It's not
Speaker 1: it's not manufactured, it's not artificial. It's just who he is.
Speaker 1: But he also has the drive and the desire to
Speaker 1: back up the confidence that he naturally has in himself.
Speaker 1: And that's what I think makes him a special person,
Speaker 1: a special player. And for those who have you know,
Speaker 1: been fortunate enough to be at the practice field this summer,
Speaker 1: if you've gotten a chance to see him, like leap
Speaker 1: frog the referee, the thing that he does where he
Speaker 1: jumps over top of the I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: he and he does it when nobody's suspecting it, you know,
Speaker 1: the guy who the the official who gets jumped over
Speaker 1: like has no idea that it's coming. But but you know,
Speaker 1: after the Packer the Packers Titans preseason game, I tried
Speaker 1: jumping over garbage can in the concourse. There's video out there.
Speaker 1: We're not going to give it to Marvin to play,
Speaker 1: but let it be known I just didn't quite make
Speaker 1: it o Marvin. Marv may have to find that for us.
Speaker 1: But with that, we're going to sign off on this
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