WEBVTT - #783 Packers Unscripted: Train keeps moving 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:18.560 Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:22.040 Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford, joined as always 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:24.360 by my trusted colleague Wes Hodkowitz. We're coming to you 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:28.000 hear from our studios at Lambellfield and West. The training 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:31.120 camp train keeps rolling along here. I feel like I've 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:34.920 been hit by it a couple of times, especially these 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:37.320 last couple of days with the hot and humid weather 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:41.519 out there at Raynichki Field. But before we get to 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:46.959 our observations of what we have seen through that steamy 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:50.440 weather on the practice field, Packers are going to be 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:55.560 wearing a white helmet. They are against the Houston Texans 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:59.160 on October twentieth. That was announced this morning. The winter 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:06.000 Warning eight October all white. The white out uniforms now 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:10.440 include a white helmet. Personally, I think they look pretty sharp. 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:13.479 I would not want the Packers to wear them all 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:18.679 the time, but for one game a season, I think 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:19.320 it's pretty cool. 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:21.759 Well, so it's the old chocolate cake analogy. I mean, 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.000 you enjoy having chocolate cake for dessert every once in 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:25.280 a while, you don't want to eat it for every 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:28.360 single meal, right, That's how that usually goes, but I 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:30.640 love them. I was excited about it when this all 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:33.880 started to kind of rumble up. And and I'll tell 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:35.520 you what too, I think it's gonna be such a 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:37.480 cool thing because the big promotion that's gonna be tied 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:39.840 to this with the Texans game is everybody in the 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:43.000 crowd wearing white as well, eighty thousand fans. If that 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:45.400 can come to fruition and have everybody get that buy 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:46.800 in with it going into the game, I think it 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:49.320 could be a really neat atmosphere. I've always felt even 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:53.120 with the yellow, the gold helmets, the honey gold that 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:58.000 those are such a cool look under the lights with 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.920 the you know, the full white uniform. But I think 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:04.240 you know, these type of matchups, man, and you find 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:06.320 ways it's kind of like the college football sort of 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.799 fervor entering into the National Football League a little bit, 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:11.120 just to find ways to kind of amp up, you 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:13.800 know what. Otherwise could be somewhat just of a typical 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:15.880 October football game. I think it'll raise the stakes a 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:16.280 little bit. 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:18.560 Yeah, I mean it'll be interesting to see, you know, 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:20.840 so many fans that come to lambeau Field and they 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:24.320 wear you know, the home jersey, of their favorite player, 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:27.120 like will they go get the road jersey so that 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.200 they wear the white you know, to to fit in 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:30.560 with the white out thing. I think it's going to 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.720 be pretty cool too, So something to look forward to. 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:37.480 Quick shout out to our people too. Our social team, 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:41.840 our digital team did an amazing job, Lauren Anderson Stone. 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.880 Some of the photography that Evan Siegel got just an 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:49.160 awesome package and awesome rollout. Kudos to them on how 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:54.679 they went about unveiling this on Thursday morning. There you go, yep, 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:56.040 I know what day of the week it is. 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:01.560 I'm not sure I do. Kudos to that career. Some 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.960 pretty cool stuff on the field West. There have been 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:09.440 two more practices since our last show, and I think 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:12.720 in a very general sense, and we'll get to maybe 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.480 talking about some more specific players as the show goes along, 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.920 but in a very general sense, we're starting to see 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:23.280 Jordan Love and this number one offense find its rhythm 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.959 a little bit, Jordan Love getting his training camp legs 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:30.440 under him, so to speak. After observing for the first 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:34.079 four practices. Now he's been involved in running the number 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:37.280 one offense for four practices, we're starting to see the 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:40.080 offense make some of the plays that we're accustomed to 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:41.160 see them making. 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:44.520 And everybody getting involved in that playmaking as well. That 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:48.840 was as I walked away from the practice field on Wednesday, 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.960 I was thinking a lot about how you think about 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.680 the forty seven yard pass to Christian Watson, something that 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.400 him and Love had talked about because they saw the 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:01.760 safety's up, They're going to try to take advantage of it, 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.640 go for a big explosive play. It seems like more 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.840 often than not in these practices, Love has been hitting 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:11.280 Watson on some type of game breaker, some type of 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:16.080 explosive play. You look over at Jaden Reid, he doesn't 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.360 run the right route in one of the two minute periods, 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:22.200 but him and Love are able to connect on the field. 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.880 Love scrambles to buy time. You can even see him 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:27.920 pointing out there where what he wants Reid to do. 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:31.080 Lofts a twenty two yard pass and then they keep 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.600 it what ends up being a touchdown producing drive going, 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.479 which was finished off with don Tavian Wicks in the 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.120 back of the end zone. Love then throws just an 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.640 absolute laser on the two point conversion to convert because 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:44.840 there wasn't a kicking day, so they were down seven, 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:48.080 they had to go for two. There were so many 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:50.200 and then I mean Romeo Dobbs is as steady as 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:54.159 they come. So for Love to reconnect and get that 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.800 chemistry and get back and sync with his top four 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.719 wideouts again, I think has been so encouraging. And yeah, 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:03.119 it's not flawless, as Love talked about Xavier McKinney baited 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.719 him into an interception during one of the team periods, 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.479 but by and large, this offense, just seeing how it 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:13.560 operates now with Love back under center, it's been so smooth. 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:18.039 Yeah, and offensively. Looking at the guys up front, a 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.440 couple of comments that are worth making here. One is 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:23.880 that in that competition at right guard between Jordan Morgan 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:27.320 and Sean Ryan, we're seeing Jordan Morgan, the rookie first 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.719 round pick from Arizona, is the first guy up now 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:34.920 and he's been taking more of the first team reps 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:39.160 than Sean Ryan has. Now, you know, things can always 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.800 change once the preseason game get games get going and 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:43.880 all that, but it is a little bit of a 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:49.040 shift in that in how those reps are being divided, 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:51.800 and so that's worth keeping an eye on with regard 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:55.640 to Morgan and a guy that we haven't talked about 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:59.839 but certainly deserves to be talked about, is Rashid Walker 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:04.960 left tackle. Because the assumption was when Jordan Morgan was 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:09.200 drafted in the first round with that twenty fifth overall 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.680 pick that the Packers used in April, that Okay, here's 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:16.080 the competition for Rashid Walker at left tackle. The former 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.719 seventh rout pick who settled into that job last year 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.160 did a fine job. He's going to have to hold 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:24.920 off a first rounder. Well, he basically held him off 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:28.159 through OTAs in mini camp because, as we heard from 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:31.359 Adam Stenovich, when the coaches sat down leading up to 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:34.440 training camp to look at things and decide, Okay, we 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:36.880 have a first round draft pick on the offensive line. 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.599 We want him to be able to compete for a 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:44.360 starting job. Where is his best opportunity to compete and 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.320 get himself into the lineup as a rookie first round pick, 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.240 they decided it was at right guard, not at left tackle. 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.120 And that tells you all you need to know about 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.359 how the Packers and this coaching staff and this offense 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.960 feel about Walker as he now enters year three, really 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.800 year two in terms of his playing but year three 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:03.520 in the NFL. 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:05.960 It's the beautiful thing about the National Football League. We 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.479 just got done. I just got done going through the 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.960 top four receivers on the Packer step chart, the plays 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.080 that they're making, and then a lot of times with 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.960 offensive linemen, particularly the tackles, the less you hear about 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:18.920 them through the first week of training camp, the less 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.200 you hear about them in games, the better it is. 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.440 That's how Zach Tom got noticed because it was almost 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:24.920 like a week or two into it a couple of 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.200 years ago, it was like, Wow, so this guy just 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:30.720 doesn't really do anything wrong. This kind of plays the 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.680 position and holds his guy at bay in a lot 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.840 of ways. You know, Walker has been able to do 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:39.600 that as well. And you know he's facing extremely difficult 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.520 competition in the form of Preston Smith and Rashawn Gary 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:46.400 and really high level edge rushers in this National Football 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:50.000 League in practice on a daily basis, and yet you 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.960 can see how that has sort of fortified his game. 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.240 I thought Larry mcchaern in our Three Things video, I 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.000 watched that same exact play Larry did. He broke it 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.760 down more from the fundamentals the footwork and the body 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:05.320 be balanced, but just watching him stand up to Presto Smith. 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:10.600 There is no wide eyed glare there. He understands what 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:15.040 his assignment is. He executes it and over and over again. Mike, 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:18.240 I think back to the twenty twenty three draft and 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.440 the fact that I say the twenty twenty two draft, yeah, 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:23.720 and the fact that you know he goes in the 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.680 seventh round, and I remember looking up Sheet's name afterwards 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:28.720 and seeing these mock drafts from a year earlier that 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.720 Adam as a potential first rounder. Right. I can't tell 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:35.040 you everything that went into those that three hundred and 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:39.199 sixty five day switch, but because it's nothing wrong. The 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.520 guy didn't do anything wrong in a lot of ways. 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:44.120 It's kind of like the Kailin King deal. But that 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.719 being said, I think solely but surely, he's proving this 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:51.439 guy was supremely underdrafted and the Packers really seem to 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.439 have found a guy that could be a really lockdown 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.280 offensive lineman for them for years to come. 0:08:56.440 --> 0:09:00.480 It's interesting, though, because because it speaks to the Horton's 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:04.560 and the value of player development, because during Rashid Walker's 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:08.480 rookie year, we were all saying, typical seventh round pick, 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:10.679 He's not gonna play. He's got a long way to go, 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.120 et cetera. And and he didn't play. He played what 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.760 was it like, four snaps on special teams his entire 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:21.480 rookie season. That's all he saw the field. But he developed, 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:25.840 he stuck with it, you know, he you know, then 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:29.800 he sort of gets thrown into it when David Baktiari 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:35.440 goes down again last season, and uh, and now you know, 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:37.360 and then there was for a while there was the 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:41.360 job sharing thing between Walker and yash Naim last season, 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.640 but you know he sort of, you know, put that 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.920 to rest and uh and lock down that position for 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.040 the stretch run last year and and uh and now 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.559 here he is. So uh so hats off to Walker 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:57.280 and uh, if he becomes, if he becomes what it 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:00.600 looks like he's going to be going to become, could 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:02.640 be one of the one of the most amazing seventh 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.440 round picks. You know, you know, there have been some 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:08.400 good ones in history here since the reduction of the 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.960 seventh seventh round draft. When you're talking about guys like 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.120 Scotty Wells at center and Donald Driver at wide receiver 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:16.720 and Mark Tauscher at offensive tackle, and guys like that 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:21.040 he could be talked about maybe maybe in in that 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:21.880 that same realm. 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.440 Yeah, and certainly you know ways to go for him, 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:28.280 but the fact that he's playing a premium position as 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.320 good as Mark was, as good as Scott Wells was. 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:33.120 We're talking about left tackle. 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:34.960 Yeah, that is one of these and that that that 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.920 is kind of what changes the the dialogue about it 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:38.480 a little bit. 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.400 And and before we pivot, just to throw a shout 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.959 out there to Shordan Morgan as well. This guy being 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.280 planted in at right guard the first time he's playing 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.040 that position. You were talking about how that rotation kind 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:52.520 of stopped in the practices we've watched this week so far, 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.720 where he's been kind of just he's he's a right 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.199 guard right now. That's where they're keeping him. I think 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.240 that's a credit to him that he's actually showed own 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:02.400 that too. That Okay, even though I came in here 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.160 as a tackle, I want to play tackle. I was 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.240 a college left tackle. He has stepped up to that 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.040 challenge and the Packers have allowed him to be in 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.600 that role different rounds in which they were selected. But 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:15.040 in a lot of ways, it does remind me of 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:20.080 John Runyon, who was in all big ten tackle miss 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:22.880 two time, all big ten times, and he actually had 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.720 to come in and I don't want to say learn guard, 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.600 but that was like, that's where you're gonna be. Yeah, 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:30.240 and he ended up. You saw the contract he got 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:32.000 this offseason. He made the most of it. Yeah. 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:35.480 Absolutely. One other quick note on offense before he shift 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:40.280 gears to the defense. You mentioned the top four wide receivers, 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:45.240 the chemistry, the way things are developing and evolving with 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:47.920 Jordan Love, But there's a guy further down the depth 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:51.679 chart at wide receiver who's potentially gonna make for a 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:55.800 very difficult decision for the Packers personnel folks when it's 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:58.240 all said and done here. Obviously it's early in training camp. 0:11:58.280 --> 0:11:59.880 We haven't even gotten a family night or the pre 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:05.000 season games. But Grant Dubo's I don't want to I 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:07.400 don't want to say I don't want to overplay it 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:09.800 and make it sound like he's been a superstar every day. 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:11.200 Well, you and you and I have been. 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.079 Doing this for a long time, and more than when 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:16.760 there's a guy, when there's a guy who shows up 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:21.240 and makes a player two every day on the practice field, 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.000 you can't help but notice it and then you can't 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.800 help but watch him a little bit more. Right, Grant 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:30.280 Dubo's is starting to do that. Can he continue it? 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:34.480 Can he make the push from after essentially a red 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:36.520 shirt year as a rookie where he was a seventh 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:40.440 round pick, dealt with injury issues, spent the whole season 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:43.560 on the practice squad. But he's making a run out 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:45.120 a roster spot, at least from what I've seen. 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:46.880 I'll tell you what, Mike, if you just flashed the 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.680 calendar back for a year, if you look at it 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:54.319 like an eight hundred race, eight hundred meter race and tracks, 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:58.160 two trips around the track, right the guy due to 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:01.400 that back injury, they were already one lap into that 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.400 thing by the time he even got on the field. 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:07.000 But you saw him run that one lap that he ran, 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:09.960 and he did it in a pretty good time. Grant 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:13.840 Dubo's last offseason, last training camp, those two preseason games 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:16.480 he got in, those handful of practices looked good. The 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.960 problem was Packers end up having guys like Malik Heath. 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:22.840 They had three, you know, rookie draft picks that came in, 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.079 they had all the bow Melton was back. They had 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:30.400 so much competition at that position. Yeah, it's all still there, 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.400 and Grant Dubo's comes out in this first week of 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.520 training camp with the reps that he's gotten, with the 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:40.200 reps he's received, and he showed yet I was a 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.760 part of that triover rookie draft picks last year. I 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.840 was pretty darn talented coming out of Charlotte. I was 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:49.640 a big play machine. And seeing him high point that ball, 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:54.600 they in one of the number two team periods on Wednesday, 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:57.840 they get a free play. Sean Clifford goes back, he 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:02.000 throws him just a beautiful ball down the sideline. Du 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:03.400 Bo's is double covered. 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:05.160 Yeah, two defenders. 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:08.080 Evan Williams and Zane Anderson are both in coverage there 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:11.559 and not like playing off they're right there. But Doubo's 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:16.360 times his jump perfectly high points it comes down. You 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.880 know you're paying for that type of catch, and the 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:23.600 way he landed on his body and bounces right back 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.640 up and just the way the offense responded to that. Yeah, 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:28.240 And it hasn't just been that, It's been some of 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:29.840 the slant routes, some of the things he's doing. He 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:33.600 has a really natural physique and frame for the receiver position. 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.160 You could see that from the beginning, but what he's 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.080 been able to do with it in a competition that 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:42.800 has seven former draft picks, eight guys with NFL experience, 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:45.560 Grant Dubo's is very much in this thing. 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:49.080 If he's able to make the Packers fifty three man roster, 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:52.600 and even if even if he's on the practice squad again, 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.040 but who knows, he could end up be end up contributing, 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.240 as you know Bo Melton did last year when he 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.240 made the switch from the practice squad of the active roster. 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:02.400 However this thing works out, he becomes a heck of 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.120 a story. You when you look back at you mentioned 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:08.640 Charlotte Packers drafted him out of Charlotte, but before that 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:10.880 he was at a small school I believe it was 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:15.400 called Miles College. Yeah, on Alabama. That a Division two 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:19.600 school that essentially canceled cancels football during COVID, like it 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:23.400 just went away, and his football career might have been 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:26.520 completely over at that point, like nowhere to go, nothing 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.520 to do. He ends up making his way to Charlotte, 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:33.040 get gets a Division One opportunity there, becomes one of 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:36.960 the last players picked in the twenty twenty three NFL Draft, 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:40.960 and and here he is in probably the most crowded 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:44.920 position group on the Packers roster, on the playoff contender's roster, 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.320 and he's making some noise on the practice field and 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:48.960 trying to make a run out of roster spot. It's 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:53.360 pretty cool to see. On the defensive side. A few 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:55.760 guys were talking about and I'll mention them quickly. I'll 0:15:55.840 --> 0:16:00.920 let you elaborate if you want to. Eric Wilson turned linebacker. 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:05.480 He's become very quickly a special teams leader for the Packers. 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:09.080 But he's also not exactly getting budged out of that 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:13.040 third off ball linebacker spot in the four to three 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.760 base And when you watch practices, you watch the eleven 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.360 on eleven, he's around the ball all the time. And 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.840 every time you see him near the football, especially on 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:25.040 a running play, you're reminded, Yeah, this guy had one 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.840 hundred plus tackles one year with the Minnesota Vikings as 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:31.320 a starting linebacker, even though he's not a household name 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:35.680 by any means. You mentioned Xavier McKinney earlier. He got 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.480 an interception against Jordan Love yesterday. The day before he 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:42.520 dropped that interception, he got the goal line, so he 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:44.320 kind of got his revenge a little bit. He was 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.280 able to hang on to the one get the pick there. 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:49.320 And with all the other safeties that the young safeties 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:52.040 that have been making plays, Xavier McKinney's starting to make 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:55.120 his too, and he'd would almost have two interceptions in 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:57.400 a row in practices if he'd hung onto the one 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:03.880 on Tuesday. And then King Lenigbari, his his story in 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.879 terms of his injury was was something that, as we 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:10.000 talked about in the spring, just unheard of in a sense. 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:14.480 But he's out there running around getting pressures, knocking down 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:17.040 passes at the line of scrimmage like like he was 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.919 never injured at all. And uh, and I think, you know, 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:24.080 knock on wood with Enigbari in that knee. If everything, 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:28.600 if everything truly is okay, he's going to be a 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:32.200 key player in the edge rushing rotation for this defense. 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:35.879 Yeah, I want to just mention quickly to you. You know, 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.240 obviously I think brab Demovsky might have been on that 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:44.880 that huddle as well. Uh. I really appreciate how informative 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:47.919 and Inggbari was on where he's at physically, because at 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.359 first he was a little bit guarded about what exactly 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:53.040 had happened with the knee in the locker room on Wednesday, 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:55.240 he went into a bit more detail. You know, he 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:58.119 did say, Yeah, the a cl is partially torn and 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:01.840 there was a time where that happens. You have to 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.879 get it repaired. Football's over. It is what it is. 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:09.720 But you know, he went through the rehab, He developed 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.600 the muscles around the injury, around the knee, strengthened the leg. 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:14.199 He feels like he's in the best shape of his 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:17.600 life right now. And I didn't get a chance to 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:20.280 ask him this myself. I would have been interested to 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:22.680 think to see what he thought in his mind when 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:24.680 he had that rep. I believe it was against Luke 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:28.800 Tanuda in practice on Wednesday, where I mean he pulls 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:31.959 off like the spin move type thing looked quick, explosive, fast. 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:34.320 The offensive lineman could not get a hand on him, 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:36.320 and he won the rep for a sack. He goes back, 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:39.360 defensive players just mauling him, high fives, all that type 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:42.080 of thing. This is a guy that six months ago 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:44.600 was sitting in the Dallas locker room with the towel 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:47.520 over his head, thinking that the twenty twenty four season 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:49.200 is probably not in the cars for him, at least 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:51.919 not most of it. And here he is filling out. 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:53.760 We're talking with all these positions, Mike, and it just 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:56.080 seems like you look down the list of the Green 0:18:56.119 --> 0:19:00.159 Bay Packers man. Yes, receiver is re supremely stacked, but 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:04.240 like outside linebacker now, defensive end is a very talent 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:08.080 rich position. And even though you have Lucas van s there, Uh, 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:10.480 Andigbari is still right at the top of that rotation 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:13.320 as well. It's an exciting thing for this Packers defense 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:15.440 and I'm excited to see what he does with this opportunity. 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:16.920 It's a day to day thing, he said, he's just 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:19.280 got to keep monitoring where this thing goes. But from 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:21.840 what we've seen on the practice field, kings Landing Bari 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:23.840 looks like, you know, nothing had ever happened. 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:26.800 Yeah, and Uh and I should I should mention as 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:28.679 well with regard to the defense when I bring up 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:32.040 Eric Wilson, that Isaiah McDuffie has been holding down that 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:37.040 spot with the number one defense alongside kway Walker with 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:40.239 with that off ball linebacker group Edger and Cooper. I 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.439 believe I saw him drop out of practice yesterday. We 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:45.320 haven't really had a time we're taping this, so we 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:47.560 haven't really gotten an update as to as to what's 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:51.320 up with that. But but yeah, I mean. 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:53.080 Hats on Tuesday, we'll have an update. 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:57.480 Hats off to McDuffie and Wilson because because those guys, 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:01.360 those guys have you know, have held onto their spots 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:04.840 with the number one defense thus far in training camp. 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:08.400 They deserve a lot of credit for that. So quickly 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:11.840 was some sponsor business series XM. NFL Radio delivers hard 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:14.840 hitting analysis and up to the minute NFL news that 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:17.760 true football fanatics need twenty four to seven, three sixty 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:19.919 five and had cousin subs. We have something for everyone 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:22.880 like our Wisconsin cheese curds, mac and cheese, golden fries, 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:25.280 and creamy shakes, all paired with your favorite sub or 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:29.200 sub and a bowl cousin subs. Fifty plus years of better. 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:35.040 Last thing before we go. Next up after today's practice. 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:38.000 Next up will be Family Night under the Lights Lambeufield 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:42.120 Saturday Night. Just wanted to get your thoughts on kind 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:44.960 of what are you going to be watching for from 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:47.760 the press box? Our first, my son, our first, our 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:51.960 first foray, our first foray into the press box in 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:55.800 twenty twenty four. What are you gonna be watching for? 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:58.040 Well, other than my son, we'll be attending his first 0:20:58.040 --> 0:20:59.600 family night. Very excited about that. 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:01.520 Does he like fireworks? 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:04.280