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 Hodko. It's coming to you
Speaker 1: here from our studios at lambeau Field and West. This
Speaker 1: is the final week of the Packers off season program,
Speaker 1: final week of O t a S. As a result,
Speaker 1: this is also our final show. I guess you could
Speaker 1: say of the off season. We will be back when
Speaker 1: training camp rolls around. But wrapping up the off season
Speaker 1: here this final week, veterans essentially excused from the on
Speaker 1: field O t a work, So this week is one
Speaker 1: that is very much focused on the young players on
Speaker 1: this uh. This Packers ninety man roster and UH just
Speaker 1: another opportunity for young guys to get their feet under them,
Speaker 1: to learn the playbook a little bit more, to get
Speaker 1: ready for we're training camp when they will be fighting
Speaker 1: for those roster spots. Absolutely, and I want to talk
Speaker 1: about Jordan's Love. I want to talk about Josh Meyers.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about Eric Stokes and all these
Speaker 1: young guys. I got a chance to get some reps
Speaker 1: during these three days of O t S. But before
Speaker 1: we get there. I want to talk about Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: for a minute now. This is voluntary. Guys were excused.
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur even said it a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: if you participate in the virtual portion of this week,
Speaker 1: you'll still get credit for being here. I believe that
Speaker 1: was one of the things he mentioned. So Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: was excused. And it's not that Aaron Jones is there,
Speaker 1: he's making a statement. This is I just want to
Speaker 1: offer this into evidence for exactly why the Green Bay
Speaker 1: Packers made it such an emphasis to resign this young
Speaker 1: man back in March. Because running backs it's a tough position, Mike,
Speaker 1: it's tough to get paid, it's tough to last. But
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones is different. He's different as a playmaker on
Speaker 1: the field, he's different as a guy in the locker room,
Speaker 1: and for everything that he's been through this offseason. I
Speaker 1: just thought it was very adding that that guy stuck
Speaker 1: around finished this thing out. And as I said to
Speaker 1: you even at one point in the practice, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you ever wanted a better example of seeing one
Speaker 1: guy just kind of being a notch above you know,
Speaker 1: everyone else, it was kind of Aaron Jones out there,
Speaker 1: the way he moves the plays, he makes a little
Speaker 1: bit of a man among boys. He was just a
Speaker 1: little delf there with all the rest of these young
Speaker 1: guys on the roster. No offense to anyone paid running
Speaker 1: backs in the league. Now he's dealing with a bunch
Speaker 1: of guys who are rookies, first year players, and guys
Speaker 1: trying to make this roster, and here's Aaron Jones out
Speaker 1: there doing his thing. I just thought that was an
Speaker 1: incredible testament to him. And again, for as difficult as
Speaker 1: I know this offseat and has been for him these
Speaker 1: last three months have been for him, just to see
Speaker 1: him out there kind of brought a smile to my
Speaker 1: face as you and I walked out on a Clark
Speaker 1: hainkle Field on Tuesday. Yeah. Well, a couple of those
Speaker 1: young guys that we'll talk about here, you and I
Speaker 1: writing about them on Packers dot com this week. We'll
Speaker 1: start with second round draft pick Josh Meyers at center.
Speaker 1: And I know we talked about this a little bit
Speaker 1: on an earlier show, but when you look at you
Speaker 1: look at collectively everything we saw through the O T
Speaker 1: A S, through minicamp, all of the reps that Josh
Speaker 1: Myers took in, particularly in the eleven on eleven where
Speaker 1: he was the center with the number one offensive line.
Speaker 1: However it was constructed for that given day or that
Speaker 1: given practice period. The number of times that he was
Speaker 1: taking the snaps as the number one center, it sure
Speaker 1: looks like they are going to give this young man
Speaker 1: every opportunity to be the starting center on the offensive
Speaker 1: line as a rookie. Do you get that. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying anybody's handing him the job, but he's going to
Speaker 1: be given He's going to be given the chance to
Speaker 1: nail down this job as a rookie. That's the sense
Speaker 1: I get. It's not even future tense, Mike, it's past tense.
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at how they use these six
Speaker 1: practices that you and I were able to go and watch. Now. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Elton Jenkins was there for the early Porsche the offseason
Speaker 1: program was out of it the second half of it,
Speaker 1: but Lucas Patrick, John Runnyan Jr. There are number of
Speaker 1: guys that could have factored into that center spot. The
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers made it a point that Josh Myers
Speaker 1: is going to take these reps. It reminds me of
Speaker 1: the same exact thing they did with j C. Tread Or,
Speaker 1: you know, and some of these other guys where they
Speaker 1: drafted them and there they committed them to that position.
Speaker 1: And I just feel like, again, he's going to have
Speaker 1: to earn this. We got to see what it looks
Speaker 1: like when the pads go on. But from a mental
Speaker 1: aptitude perspective, and just the way that he plays that position,
Speaker 1: and coming from the program that he did, Josh Myers
Speaker 1: seems to have what it takes from a pure on
Speaker 1: paper perspective to be a year one starter. And the
Speaker 1: fact that Green Bay had all these other options they
Speaker 1: could have looked at for the center position, the fact
Speaker 1: that they gave him that sort of acknowledgement. This offseason program,
Speaker 1: I think speaks volumes about where they view him right
Speaker 1: now and where they think he could be later this summer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when you when you watch the videos looking at Josh Meyers,
Speaker 1: his his sessions with the media, We've had a couple
Speaker 1: of them now. The way he talks about his game,
Speaker 1: his coach, the way he wants to go about learning everything,
Speaker 1: all the ins and outs of the offense, and and
Speaker 1: just the way he handled himself and he carries himself.
Speaker 1: You can see why the Packers like this guy and
Speaker 1: why they invested a second round draft pick in him.
Speaker 1: The other thing I will say is that again, nobody's
Speaker 1: nobody's handing in the job. But if Josh Meyers through
Speaker 1: training camp in the preseason can prove that he he
Speaker 1: is the guy at center, that he can be the
Speaker 1: guy to hold down that job, it really simplifies a
Speaker 1: lot of things for the for the Packers. Because we've
Speaker 1: talked about, Okay, guys like Elton Jenkins, Billy Turner, Lucas Patrick,
Speaker 1: their versatility, their ability to play multiple positions has been
Speaker 1: extremely valuable and will continue to be extremely valuable. But
Speaker 1: if Josh Meyers can nail down the center position so
Speaker 1: that Lucas Patrick doesn't have to focus as much attention
Speaker 1: there and can focus on guard, Elton Jenkins doesn't have
Speaker 1: to try to play every position, but maybe he's going
Speaker 1: to fill in at left tackle if Boxer he's not back,
Speaker 1: But also then you know he can focus on guard
Speaker 1: and maybe left tackle. Billy Turner in that respect also
Speaker 1: maybe gets to focus that much more of his attention
Speaker 1: at right tackle, which, as we've talked about, he proved
Speaker 1: last year of all the different spots he can play
Speaker 1: and play well. Right tackle is probably his best fit
Speaker 1: in his best spot, particularly in this offense and the
Speaker 1: way it runs. If Josh Meyers can't be the guy,
Speaker 1: the Packers will figure out a way. They will, But
Speaker 1: it just feels like if he can be, things start
Speaker 1: to simplify a lot on the offensive line. It it
Speaker 1: reduces the number of options and combinations that you have
Speaker 1: to consider, which I think is going to be helpful
Speaker 1: for all those players as as valuable as they've been
Speaker 1: with their versatility. Well, and a few things to this.
Speaker 1: First and foremost relates to Myers. The fact that he
Speaker 1: has been at center. That has opened the door for
Speaker 1: how Green Bay has wanted to use the rest of
Speaker 1: that offensive line. And what I mean by that isn't
Speaker 1: just okay, here's this guy is gonna go there. This
Speaker 1: guy's gonna go there. No, it's allowed it. So it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: what are our different guard combinations that we want to try.
Speaker 1: Who are the guys we want to run at the
Speaker 1: tackle positions. Knowing that you may not have David Baktiari
Speaker 1: in the early part of this season, could have him
Speaker 1: guessing that's what he's planning to do, but you just
Speaker 1: don't know until a guy gets cleared. So that's where
Speaker 1: you saw Billy Turner at left tackle. You saw Elton
Speaker 1: Jenkins at left tackle. The two guys that have basically
Speaker 1: been pretty stationary where Myers at center and Lucas Patrick
Speaker 1: at right guard, which is valuable for Lucas to a
Speaker 1: guy that's still only really been entrenched as a one
Speaker 1: year starter, just getting to learn one position after being
Speaker 1: in a rover roll for a number of years. So
Speaker 1: all that stuff is important. But seeing the rest of
Speaker 1: this competition way out, Royce Newman getting some number one
Speaker 1: snaps throughout the spring, Ben Braden kind of coming out
Speaker 1: of nowhere for a lot of people being able to
Speaker 1: get some work at left tackle after Elton Jenkins was missing.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be where this sort of fire is flamed
Speaker 1: throughout training camp and trying to figure out what the
Speaker 1: best combination of five is going to be. Because, as
Speaker 1: you and I have said since the day we wrote
Speaker 1: our position by position series going into the draft, even
Speaker 1: before Josh Myers is a member this roster, Green Bay
Speaker 1: has a lot of ways they can go on this
Speaker 1: offensive line. In the more guys that can get pegged
Speaker 1: into certain spots that starts to clear that picture up
Speaker 1: now for the two thou season. Yeah, I think that's
Speaker 1: gonna be something definitely to watch in training camp quickly.
Speaker 1: Here West Serious x M NFL Radio delivers hard hitting
Speaker 1: analysis and up to the minute NFL news that true
Speaker 1: football fanatics need. Seven three turning our attention here to
Speaker 1: first round draft pick Eric Stokes, and UM, just to
Speaker 1: let everybody know, there is a story on Josh Myers
Speaker 1: that is on Packers dot com. There's also one on
Speaker 1: Eric Stokes written by you. I did the Myers when
Speaker 1: you did the Stokes one on Packers dot com. We've
Speaker 1: talked a bit about Stokes already and UM, but some
Speaker 1: of the angle that you took with regard to your
Speaker 1: story I thought was interesting because when you look at
Speaker 1: the whole picture here, you know the athletic ability, all
Speaker 1: of the all those physical traits that Eric Stokes is
Speaker 1: bringing into his young career in the NFL. And then
Speaker 1: for a three day minicamp last week, he gets to
Speaker 1: work side by side with Jayar Alexander, one of the
Speaker 1: best cornerbacks in this game and a guy who was
Speaker 1: a rookie and a very young player, not that long ago, right,
Speaker 1: and then combine that with the fact that his position
Speaker 1: coaches Jerry Gray, a former Pro Bowl player himself and
Speaker 1: then a longtime coach in the NFL who has coached
Speaker 1: a number of Pro Bowl and All Pro defensive backs
Speaker 1: through a rather distinguished coaching career. Eric Stokes couldn't ask
Speaker 1: for a better situation almost when. And that's not to
Speaker 1: take anything away from, you know, from Kevin King and
Speaker 1: Shannon Sullivan and what those guys are going to bring
Speaker 1: to this secondary. I'm not discounting that at all. But
Speaker 1: in terms of a young guy learning the ropes and
Speaker 1: figuring it out and finding his role in this defense whatever,
Speaker 1: that's going to be his rookie year. To to have
Speaker 1: Alexander on one shoulder, so to speak, and Jerry Gray
Speaker 1: on the other, it's it's a perfect setup. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: Shamar John Charles is in the same spot right now,
Speaker 1: to the fifth round pick on Appalachian State. Apple Acchian State.
Speaker 1: I always mess that up, well, depending on who you
Speaker 1: talked to, a mess set up. But the thing about
Speaker 1: when you look at everything with Stokes is he jumps
Speaker 1: off the page. You know, the way he broke out
Speaker 1: in his true junior year, the forty time that he
Speaker 1: registered all of those things made him a first round pick.
Speaker 1: It's it's just it does you know in the size
Speaker 1: and all that. But I think what I witnessed the
Speaker 1: most during this offseason program was one the value of
Speaker 1: this for young players. Uh you can even just tell
Speaker 1: the way that he's talking. I mean, yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: long way for Stokes to go. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: information that has to go osmosis from Jerry Gray passing
Speaker 1: it down to his first round pick here, but just
Speaker 1: listening to the way Gray talked about it and listening
Speaker 1: to the lessons that Stokes has already learned, because yeah,
Speaker 1: you're not tackling, Yeah you're not doing all those type
Speaker 1: of things, but understanding what you're seeing on the field
Speaker 1: in a blink of an eye, with how fast the
Speaker 1: pieces are moving out there. In translating that to what
Speaker 1: how you react to a play, that's the step man.
Speaker 1: That's where a guy goes from playing with his athleticism
Speaker 1: and his natural talent wixed with you know, some fledgening
Speaker 1: cornerback skills at the college level to doing what your
Speaker 1: Alexander has done now in the national Football League, And
Speaker 1: I think that's what I like the most about Stokes
Speaker 1: and and listen to him talk and the enthusiasm and
Speaker 1: the energy, even getting you know, sometimes jumping over a
Speaker 1: word or two because he's so excited about you know
Speaker 1: what he's saying. I just get the feeling. You can
Speaker 1: tell why the Packers when they sat down with this guy,
Speaker 1: when Jerry Gray had the conversations with this guy in
Speaker 1: the pre draft process, why they liked him so much.
Speaker 1: Now you talked about the way this lines up in
Speaker 1: the secondary, this is picture perfect. He has Alexander and
Speaker 1: Great to learn from, but he also has Kevin King
Speaker 1: and Shandon Sullivan and you know Will Redman. In the dime.
Speaker 1: There's all these guys, Josh Jackson returning as well. There's
Speaker 1: these guys competing for playing time. So it's not like
Speaker 1: Green Bay's just saying, Okay, Stokes, you have to be
Speaker 1: a first your starter. You're gonna be starting on the perimeter.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have time to learn here. And as he
Speaker 1: goes kind of climbed that depth chart. But in terms
Speaker 1: of just low pressure, you know, high upside in terms
Speaker 1: of what learning in an offseason program, I just think
Speaker 1: it was set up for him perfectly. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it's uh, he he's going to be He's going to
Speaker 1: be one to watch in uh in training camp, just
Speaker 1: you know, especially when I'm most curious. I think when
Speaker 1: the pads go on. He he mentioned um, you know,
Speaker 1: and you quoted him in the story talking about how
Speaker 1: he's he's so much more accustomed to being a press
Speaker 1: man corner. And so I'm very interested when the pads
Speaker 1: go on because obviously all of the all of the
Speaker 1: stuff through the spring is nonpadded, but when he when
Speaker 1: he is actually jamming wide receivers at the line and
Speaker 1: you know, the contact you know, ramps up a little
Speaker 1: bit when you get to that stage of training camp.
Speaker 1: I'm really interested to see just just how he looks, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, because he's certainly shown to this point he
Speaker 1: looks like he belongs. But then you also want to
Speaker 1: see those guys take take the steps, take those strides
Speaker 1: from what they do as a rookie in the spring
Speaker 1: with all kinds of promise too then tow then what
Speaker 1: they show when they're out there in eleven on eleven
Speaker 1: with with all of the you know, all the big dogs,
Speaker 1: and you could see why he was a press man
Speaker 1: corner at Georgia with his size and his speed that
Speaker 1: is tailor made for the sec and being able to
Speaker 1: be physical the line of scrimmage but also have the
Speaker 1: quickness and acceleration to make up for it. You know,
Speaker 1: if a guy gets behind you at all, especially at
Speaker 1: that level where quarterbacks probably aren't throwing balls on a
Speaker 1: you know, a rope like you're gonna see at this level.
Speaker 1: So it makes total sense, but you need more in
Speaker 1: That was one of the big messages that Jerry Grace
Speaker 1: said with the entire cornerback room last year was making
Speaker 1: sure they understand zone man, press off. There's so many
Speaker 1: different components that they have to master and we actually
Speaker 1: really don't know what the big emphasis is going to
Speaker 1: be yet with Joe Barry, Yeah what what this is
Speaker 1: all gonna look like? But certainly, uh, those lessons and
Speaker 1: being able to understand what's expected of him when he
Speaker 1: isn't directly in a receiver's face, those are things that
Speaker 1: are going to pay dividends down the road. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: with all the focus on the young players on the
Speaker 1: roster this last week here the offseason program, I want
Speaker 1: to I want to toss a question at you, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll talk about this more when we come
Speaker 1: back and get behind these microphones again during training camp.
Speaker 1: But I'm just curious your thoughts on these young guys
Speaker 1: that we know we're going to be fighting for roster
Speaker 1: spots and whatnot based on what you saw this spring.
Speaker 1: Are there guys that have sort of piqued your interest?
Speaker 1: I'll call them the under the weeder guys and maybe
Speaker 1: the fans, don't you know, they're not the household names,
Speaker 1: not a lot of the guys that we've been talking about,
Speaker 1: the draft picks and whatnot. But these under the radar
Speaker 1: guys that you think are gonna be are gonna be
Speaker 1: worth watching when training camp here rolls around. Yeah, Marv
Speaker 1: is gonna love this from the production standpoint of overlaying
Speaker 1: video with the Patrick Taylor's of the world here making
Speaker 1: sure we have some of that available. But there are
Speaker 1: there's there's probably a list of five or six guys
Speaker 1: that have intrigued me. It starts with Patrick Taylor. This
Speaker 1: guy is a he looks like James Starks, but with
Speaker 1: probably twenty more pounds on his body. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: just a full grown man. He's a guy that I
Speaker 1: still think would have been a draft pick a year
Speaker 1: ago had it not been for that List Frank or whatever.
Speaker 1: He was dealing with with the foot that basically kept
Speaker 1: him out for almost like a year and a half,
Speaker 1: but he got back at the end of last season.
Speaker 1: They you know, obviously they made the move with Mike Weber.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a three man race right now for
Speaker 1: that number three running back job, and he's fully entrenched
Speaker 1: in that. The guy that I think probably heightened his
Speaker 1: draft his stock in the off season program more than
Speaker 1: anyone those Jowan Winfrey, who was a guy that was
Speaker 1: on the practice squad for basically of last season, was
Speaker 1: a pickup. Has some NFL experience before, but when you're
Speaker 1: talking about slot receivers and guys who can do things
Speaker 1: across the middle, Winfrey made a lot of impressive catches
Speaker 1: this spring. I think he really helped his case. And
Speaker 1: and just seeing some of these other guys on the
Speaker 1: offensive line, I mean, we can't really derive a lot
Speaker 1: of information, but seeing Simon Stepanek for the first time
Speaker 1: in pads, uh not pads, but it's the first time
Speaker 1: in a uniform after last year missing the entire year
Speaker 1: with the torn a c L. Those first impressions are important,
Speaker 1: and I just feel like with some of these guys
Speaker 1: that the Packers kind of red shirted last year, seeing
Speaker 1: which ones now can mount a push for a roster spot,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be really compelling theater come August. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: made a list of a few guys here as far
Speaker 1: as this young player category, and both Patrick Taylor and
Speaker 1: Juwan Winfrey were on it. And again we just talked about,
Speaker 1: you know, with Eric Stokes and when the pads go on,
Speaker 1: and and and the press coverage obviously it's sort of
Speaker 1: almost goes without saying with regard to the running back
Speaker 1: and getting into the preseason games like we've mentioned before,
Speaker 1: but with a guy like Winfrey, that's also you want
Speaker 1: to see when the pads go on, when it gets
Speaker 1: more physical at the line of scrimmage, can he still
Speaker 1: get open and be making the catches, making the plays
Speaker 1: that he made during the spring, Right That's the that's
Speaker 1: the next step that that these guys have to stake
Speaker 1: to take. So he's certainly on my list. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: throw one other one at you as far as a
Speaker 1: young returning player, and we've talked about the competition that
Speaker 1: there's going to be at the cornerback position, you know,
Speaker 1: with Josh Jackson in the mix and and Eric Stokes
Speaker 1: and Kudar Home in six round picks in recent years.
Speaker 1: But Stanford Samuels undrafted, undrafted a year ago, he flashed,
Speaker 1: you know, made a couple of plays here in uh
Speaker 1: in this o t a mini camp um period of
Speaker 1: time in the spring and uh and you know this
Speaker 1: is this, this is a young man I think is uh,
Speaker 1: He's he's going to have a spotlight on him, I
Speaker 1: think even more so in the preseason games maybe than
Speaker 1: than in practice. Obviously you've got to prove it in
Speaker 1: practice to you know, to earn that playing time. But
Speaker 1: but for a guy who for a guy who accomplished
Speaker 1: what he accomplished in college and was kind of a
Speaker 1: surprise to not get drafted. And then with all with
Speaker 1: you know, all these young guys, you know, second year guys.
Speaker 1: You could call him that that missed everything from a
Speaker 1: rookie offseason standpoint and a rookie preseason standpoint because of
Speaker 1: COVID and everything last year. These are the guys that
Speaker 1: are going to be really interesting to watch. And Stanford
Speaker 1: Samuel's at cornerback is on my list A couple of
Speaker 1: things that I love that pick. Sanford Samuels was one
Speaker 1: of my guys last year. I actually in my unofficial
Speaker 1: fifty three, I actually had him on it last year.
Speaker 1: I was really impressed by the camp he put together,
Speaker 1: and I love his backstory. The one thing that hurt
Speaker 1: him was the forty time and and that was something
Speaker 1: that you know how that works at this league, Mike,
Speaker 1: is that sometimes scouch latch onto height, wait forty bench reps,
Speaker 1: and they don't let it go um and sometimes it
Speaker 1: ends up being right. But in sometimes I think, as
Speaker 1: I even wrote about Insider Inbox this week, they tend
Speaker 1: to overthink things. Ben Braden's a guy that they kind
Speaker 1: of overthought things with. No matter if Ben Braden becomes
Speaker 1: a starting caliber NFL offensive lineman or not, I don't
Speaker 1: think it matters. He already made it this far. He's
Speaker 1: already been in the league this long. And this is
Speaker 1: a guy that originally from NFL dot Com, got a
Speaker 1: chance to be in an NFL training camp. They didn't
Speaker 1: even say a chance to like try to make a roster.
Speaker 1: They were saying a chance to be on a ninety
Speaker 1: man roster and I think sometimes people latch onto certain
Speaker 1: attributes about guys and they just hold them to that
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of guys to look at. But
Speaker 1: Stanford Samuel's and then another guy I'll throw out there
Speaker 1: too is kaban Into. Uh. You know, last year had
Speaker 1: an unfortunate injury right at the beginning of the season,
Speaker 1: kind of derailed any hope he had of being able
Speaker 1: to play. Got to practice a little bit, but wasn't
Speaker 1: able to be in any games. As former receiver from
Speaker 1: Colorado State, I believe they have a really deep cornerback
Speaker 1: room with Kadar Holman coming back from injury. He was
Speaker 1: back during the training the off season program. You look
Speaker 1: at it with Josh Jackson being in that competition, there's
Speaker 1: so many ways that it can go and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be really interesting see which of those young guys in
Speaker 1: the cornerback room can kind of make a push uh
Speaker 1: this training camp to get a roster spot, because inevitably, Mike,
Speaker 1: every year it happens. Yeah, it does, it does. And
Speaker 1: with with regard to how different everything was last year
Speaker 1: through the off season and training camp, it's all it's
Speaker 1: almost like this year there's there's this larger pool of
Speaker 1: the potential surprise guys you know, to be competing for
Speaker 1: those spots on the fifty three and and you know,
Speaker 1: realistically the sixty three, you know, with the with the
Speaker 1: practice squad, harverd many players are going to be on
Speaker 1: the practice squad? Is it going to be sixteen? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That that's a That's another really interesting factor here, because
Speaker 1: love it, because yeah, with the withe Man off season roster,
Speaker 1: but fifty three and sixteen on the practice squad, you're
Speaker 1: not you don't necessarily really now, some of them you're
Speaker 1: going to get from elsewhere, right because your scouts have
Speaker 1: uncertain guys that are going to be on the waiver
Speaker 1: wire and whatnot. But you don't necessarily you don't You're
Speaker 1: not necessarily gonna lose as many guys because of so
Speaker 1: many opportunities to bring guys back to the practice. And
Speaker 1: we could talk for two hours about all my reasons
Speaker 1: why I love the changes they've made with the practice squad.
Speaker 1: I've already talked about them in the past. But the
Speaker 1: other thing, and I'll close on this, Mike, that Green
Speaker 1: Bay had to figure out. I know there was a
Speaker 1: lot of consternation, a lot of discussion about the quarterback situation,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers not being here, Jordan's loved taking of the
Speaker 1: teams that we saw. But one way or another, whether
Speaker 1: or not twelve is back for training camp or not,
Speaker 1: green Bay needs to find a number three quarterback or
Speaker 1: could potentially be a number two quarterback. And I really
Speaker 1: like in the span of basically six weeks, eight weeks,
Speaker 1: two months, they acquired all these guys. Blake Bortles, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of you know, a guy that has experienced with
Speaker 1: Nathaniel Hackett, has played at the game's highest level, has
Speaker 1: been in an NFC championship game. They go and get
Speaker 1: Kurt Ben Kurt, a guy that was on a practice
Speaker 1: squad and injury reserve for three years with Atlanta learning
Speaker 1: from you know, Matt shob and in Mattie Ice. And
Speaker 1: then joke Jake Delagata Dolla Gala six ft seven. If
Speaker 1: the guy would end up making a roster, would be
Speaker 1: the second tallest quarterback in Packer's history, like in a
Speaker 1: you know, a height race with three other guys to
Speaker 1: be the second tallest quarterback in NFL history. So they've
Speaker 1: acquired different types of talent. I thought quarterback is one
Speaker 1: of those positions to that really emphasize what this time
Speaker 1: of the year is all about because we haven't seen
Speaker 1: it for a number years. Because you know who the
Speaker 1: number one is gonna be, you know who the number
Speaker 1: two is gonna be. But but just finding players in attributes,
Speaker 1: in things that you like in guys. Not everybody's gonna
Speaker 1: make it to camp, not everybody's gonna make it to
Speaker 1: the first preseason game. But you have to cast a
Speaker 1: wide net at these positions, the specialist positions as well
Speaker 1: to figure out what you have to put together that
Speaker 1: best fifty three and that best six team man practice
Speaker 1: squad come September. Yeah, well, when we come back for
Speaker 1: training camp, we will certainly be breaking down all the
Speaker 1: position competitions the way we see them shaping up. We'll
Speaker 1: preview those on the website leading up to training camp
Speaker 1: with a with our second round of position by position
Speaker 1: series that we do every year. One is pre draft,
Speaker 1: one is pre training camp because you you know, you
Speaker 1: really felt but yeah, absolutely, it's it's it's definitely been. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's definitely been an interest interesting offseason here in Green Bay.
Speaker 1: But with that, we're going to call it a wrap
Speaker 1: on this edition of Packers Unscripted. Be sure to follow
Speaker 1: all of our coverage of the team and all the
Speaker 1: preview coverage leading up to training camp next month. That
Speaker 1: will all be there for you on packers dot com
Speaker 1: for Wes. I am Mike, thank you for tuning and
Speaker 1: everybody and we will see you at camp.