Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford and he is the one and
Speaker 1: only wes Hodkoits. We're coming to you here from our
Speaker 1: studios at lambeau Field and West. Final show of the
Speaker 1: week and the annual Green Bay Packers Rookie Orientation is
Speaker 1: upon us. And for those who are not familiar with it,
Speaker 1: kind of an annual tradition. Really, Mike McCarthy has has
Speaker 1: had this type of format, uh you know, call it
Speaker 1: Rookie Weekend. Some people like to call it Rookie Mini Camp,
Speaker 1: although it's not really a mini camp. Um. It's a
Speaker 1: it's a combination of welcome to the Green Bay Packers
Speaker 1: to all the rookies, which is the draft picks, the
Speaker 1: undrafted rookies, as well as a bunch of tryout players
Speaker 1: who are hoping to land a rookie free agent contract.
Speaker 1: But it's all so an introduction into being an NFL
Speaker 1: football player. It is Mike and and that's the one
Speaker 1: thing you know, Mike McCarthy has constantly preached this is
Speaker 1: really the preamble to an NFL career. They teach you
Speaker 1: how to practice in Green Bay. They teach you the
Speaker 1: routine in Green Bay and you finally it's it is
Speaker 1: that integration into the Packers locker room. And Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: says it every year, once Saturday night comes around, you're
Speaker 1: ready come Monday morning. You remember this team. Now, you're
Speaker 1: still a rookie. You still have a lot of growth
Speaker 1: and a lot of maturing to do from that perspective,
Speaker 1: but you're expected to be caught up to speed. They
Speaker 1: aren't looking for big plays this week, and it's sure
Speaker 1: it helps if you're an undrafted free agent or a
Speaker 1: tryout guy. Yeah, if you're if you're a Troy out guy,
Speaker 1: you want it. You want to turn some heads if
Speaker 1: you can. But the biggest thing is trying to limit
Speaker 1: them out of mental errors and take what you're learning
Speaker 1: in those pre practice meetings and in the individual corrections
Speaker 1: and carried over on the field the show come Monday morning,
Speaker 1: you deserve to be on that ninety man roster. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They get an introduction to the a book both on
Speaker 1: the offensive and defensive side. And I've always thought it
Speaker 1: was interesting. I've never actually seen it, and it's kind
Speaker 1: of on you know, the the electronic um, you know,
Speaker 1: the playbook is essentially electronic now on tablets and and whatnot.
Speaker 1: But in the in the pre tablet days, you know,
Speaker 1: I always pictured it as you know, the playbook for
Speaker 1: rookie Orientation is like one of those folders that you
Speaker 1: have for like your fifth grade class. And then when
Speaker 1: you show up on Monday, when all the veterans are
Speaker 1: back for offseason workouts, then you get the big binder,
Speaker 1: you know, with the with the whole like, here's the
Speaker 1: whole thing, you know, Okay, go study now and figure
Speaker 1: it all out. So um, but they get you know,
Speaker 1: they get a couple of practices, they run a handful
Speaker 1: of plays. You know, it's just you know, parts and
Speaker 1: pieces some of the basic things and in the in
Speaker 1: the scheme. But really it's not even so much about
Speaker 1: introducing the scheme as what you started with, which is
Speaker 1: learning how to practice. This is how we practice, This
Speaker 1: is what the practice routine is like. These are the
Speaker 1: fundamental drills, these are the eleven on eleven drills, and uh,
Speaker 1: it's giving them a taste of that so that when
Speaker 1: the O t A s begin at the end of
Speaker 1: this month, um, they've had at least an introduction to
Speaker 1: to practicing as an NFL player, because you're just in
Speaker 1: shorts and helmets. There's no paths, there's there's a lot,
Speaker 1: there's all there's a way to practice in a non
Speaker 1: contact way that has to be taught in a sense.
Speaker 1: And this is an opportunity, Michael, for these guys to
Speaker 1: really start to get to know their position, coaches, what's
Speaker 1: expected of them. Because here's the thing, let's just be honest.
Speaker 1: You only have so many hours during the offseason program
Speaker 1: to work with Clay Matthews and to work with Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers and all of these veterans that are available. Once
Speaker 1: O t A start, once those practices start, once mini camps,
Speaker 1: the two mandatory mini camp practices because they usually end
Speaker 1: up canceling the third. When you're on the field, you're
Speaker 1: focused on getting those guys ready to make sure that
Speaker 1: they know what changes are coming, so that once training
Speaker 1: camp comes, everybody's off and running. So for those rookies,
Speaker 1: that's when you're taking the back seat again. So this
Speaker 1: is your chance to be in the spotlight. It's your
Speaker 1: chance to be the focal point and the attention of
Speaker 1: these coaches. Because yeah, once once you get to mini
Speaker 1: camps and O t A s, you certainly are a
Speaker 1: part of the classroom and you're gonna you know, that
Speaker 1: is gonna be expected, but you're not gonna have as
Speaker 1: much of that hands on, one on one attention. That's
Speaker 1: what these two days are all about. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: mentioned the limited amount of hours. These are players who
Speaker 1: are coming from you know, hours restrictions in the n
Speaker 1: c a A where you know it's the twenty hours
Speaker 1: a week total or whatever it is that you can
Speaker 1: be involved with football. They get they get a taste
Speaker 1: now on a rookie orientation like this of you know,
Speaker 1: you have meetings in the morning, then you have a practice,
Speaker 1: then you have more meetings after practice. Like it's a
Speaker 1: full work day. You know, you're in here at between
Speaker 1: seven and seven thirty in the morning, and those you
Speaker 1: know late meetings sometimes aren't wrapping up until after dinner.
Speaker 1: And you know it can be you know, and that's
Speaker 1: what training camp is like. Training camp is is a
Speaker 1: full day. It's not even just an eight hour day.
Speaker 1: And these are guys who are coming from you know,
Speaker 1: the football part of their day was a portion in
Speaker 1: college and then you have class and studying and and
Speaker 1: you know, training to able and all that kind of
Speaker 1: stuff in uh you know that follow all the all
Speaker 1: the n c A rules, So it's it's an adjustment
Speaker 1: from that standpoint, and this is where they get their
Speaker 1: first their first taste of it. Yeah, the the number one.
Speaker 1: I think I could cover the team for another thirty years.
Speaker 1: And one of my favorite quotes in regards to a
Speaker 1: workday schedule is going to go from Brett Hunley last
Speaker 1: season when he talked about Now, mind you you get
Speaker 1: the whole situation there with daylight saving time, but he
Speaker 1: mentioned there are stretches during the regular season where he
Speaker 1: won't see sunlight. He's in before the sun comes up
Speaker 1: and he's gone way after it's gone down. So for
Speaker 1: these young guys that you hear it every single year,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure come the end of the month at
Speaker 1: O T A S you're gonna hear JR. Alexander, Josh
Speaker 1: Jackson talk about it. It's a business. Now, it is
Speaker 1: your job, it is your livelihood. You get in here.
Speaker 1: There are books and pens and papers and all that
Speaker 1: fun stuff, but it's dedicated towards football. It's the exciting
Speaker 1: part of this because now you get to master your craft.
Speaker 1: But it also is that realization that for ten twelve
Speaker 1: hours whatever it ends up being. This is your livelihood
Speaker 1: now and it's your soulfa yeah, And they get their
Speaker 1: heads spinning a little bit with regards to the playbook,
Speaker 1: but then they get a couple of weeks to digest
Speaker 1: it before those o t a start when they really
Speaker 1: have to, you know, figure out how to do this
Speaker 1: with the veterans on the field at the same time.
Speaker 1: But with that, we're going to go to a break
Speaker 1: back with more on Packers Unscripted right after this. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to Packers Unscripted. Mike Spofford in this chair, Wes
Speaker 1: Hodkowits in that one, and West. We spent a lot
Speaker 1: of the week obviously talking about the Packers draft picks,
Speaker 1: eleven of them at all, first chance to to see
Speaker 1: them in person here this weekend with rookie orientation, but
Speaker 1: also a handful more than a handful of the undrafted rookies,
Speaker 1: the the the underdogs, the long shots, however you want
Speaker 1: to term it, in terms of their fight for a
Speaker 1: roster spot to to eventually try to get on that
Speaker 1: fifty three or even on the practice squad at the
Speaker 1: end of training camp. There are always a couple of
Speaker 1: compelling stories that that come out of that bunch. And
Speaker 1: and uh and one of them that we've come across
Speaker 1: is the big defensive tackle from Northwestern, Tyler Lancaster uh
Speaker 1: six ft three pounds bench press thirty six reps of
Speaker 1: two pounds at northwesterns pro day. Wasn't invited to the Combine,
Speaker 1: but that number thirty six would have ranked like fourth
Speaker 1: at the combine. Runs a sub five forty yard dash.
Speaker 1: This is a big guy with some agility and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he's trying to make it here on what
Speaker 1: is really the deepest, you know, maybe toughest position group
Speaker 1: to crack here with the Green Bay Packers. But it
Speaker 1: really curious to see just what his chances are going
Speaker 1: to be. Well, first off, Michael, don't be humble here
Speaker 1: when you say, excuse me, we uncovered you uncovered in
Speaker 1: a phenomenal story on Packers dot Com. Be sure to
Speaker 1: check that out. It's up in Live as we speak.
Speaker 1: Two things to this one. In my opinion, I don't
Speaker 1: know if he has the young man has a nickname.
Speaker 1: I seeing him walk around the locker room on Thursday.
Speaker 1: To me, he's the Juggernaut. I mean, he is just
Speaker 1: complete muscle and build. He looked he just he looks
Speaker 1: the part. He's solid. He is a solid defensive tackle.
Speaker 1: The second part to this you mentioned it in the
Speaker 1: year a little intro. My favorite part every year of
Speaker 1: college free agency is the stories. I think a Gilbert
Speaker 1: Pina back in two thousand thirteen who stepped away from
Speaker 1: football two years to take care of his mother, who had,
Speaker 1: you know, been basically bedridden because of her diet. I
Speaker 1: believe it was diabetes. I think of Andy Milumba who
Speaker 1: came to this country, didn't know how to speak English,
Speaker 1: went to went to Eastern Michigan on scholarship, didn't know
Speaker 1: how to speak English, had to learn it while he
Speaker 1: was in college. I think about all these litany's year
Speaker 1: and year and after, you know, year and year out,
Speaker 1: and I think Tyler Lancaster stories one of those that
Speaker 1: is right up there in the conversation. The guy had
Speaker 1: a phenomenal career at Northwestern. Know you talked to his
Speaker 1: former teammate Dean Lawry about him and in the kind
Speaker 1: of player and the kind of character that he has
Speaker 1: got the number one on his chest given to the
Speaker 1: guy that best exemplifies, you know, the values of the
Speaker 1: Northwestern football program, but also his own story his father
Speaker 1: getting diagnosed with I believe it was oral cancer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: um at stage four actually four diagnosed. He still finds
Speaker 1: a way to get to the northwesterns games this year
Speaker 1: despite the pain and everything he was going through, and
Speaker 1: he passes away in January. This is a young man,
Speaker 1: as he said, it motivated him and he thinks a
Speaker 1: lot about what his father is telling him. And I'll
Speaker 1: say this, Mike, Green Bay Packers. I don't know how
Speaker 1: everything's gonna work out on the field, but this is
Speaker 1: a guy that is going to give every single ounce
Speaker 1: of his being to prove that he's an NFL football player. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's interesting because what I tried to chronicle in the story,
Speaker 1: and hopefully I was successful, is is the motivations that
Speaker 1: are driving this kid are coming from different directions. There
Speaker 1: is there is the his his father, who he called,
Speaker 1: you know, the biggest Tyler Lancaster fan on the planet
Speaker 1: was his dad. He says he knows that his dad,
Speaker 1: right now looking down on him, is ecstatic, is doing
Speaker 1: back flips about the fact that he's with the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers, but his dad is also saying, Hey, it's
Speaker 1: time to go do it now, you know, this is
Speaker 1: just this is just stage one. And the other part
Speaker 1: of the motivation for him is you mentioned it. The
Speaker 1: number one on his jersey that he got to wear
Speaker 1: at Northwestern UM a tradition with that program, with Pat
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald's program, the the team votes on the one player
Speaker 1: who gets the number one jersey. Now, there aren't a
Speaker 1: whole lot of guys in college football who are three
Speaker 1: and fifteen pounds wearing jersey number one. You look at
Speaker 1: the pictures of Lancaster last year during the Northwestern games
Speaker 1: and it looks out of place. But he took a
Speaker 1: heck of a lot of pride in the fact that
Speaker 1: his teammates voted him to wear that number one jersey
Speaker 1: because it's about the work ethic, it's about the character.
Speaker 1: It's about the on and the off the field, and
Speaker 1: how you represent the university and how you represent being
Speaker 1: a Wildcat. And there are a lot of people who
Speaker 1: really look up to this kid, and I shouldn't say kid,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of people who look up to
Speaker 1: Lancaster and they want him to see his dream through.
Speaker 1: They want to see him make it in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And he said, you know, you put on that number
Speaker 1: one jersey. You cannot quit ever, you cannot let up.
Speaker 1: You have to give it everything you have because that's
Speaker 1: what that number one jersey is, and that's what he's
Speaker 1: gonna do, trying to take this long shot road to
Speaker 1: a roster spot with the Packers. Absolutely, Mike, And I'll
Speaker 1: be honest with you too. Uh. You know, I was
Speaker 1: sitting there what would be Thursday night, reading your story,
Speaker 1: have my son next to me, and I got kind
Speaker 1: of emotional at times reading it because here's the thing
Speaker 1: is that my dad's fifty six. Um, I know your parents,
Speaker 1: I believe are in their seventies now. Correct. This is
Speaker 1: a young man that is at Northwestern, one of the
Speaker 1: most prestigious schools in the country. Uh, he is trying
Speaker 1: to get through his final year of college and he's
Speaker 1: trying to perform at a high level in knowing what
Speaker 1: his father was going through at that same exact time.
Speaker 1: I'm thirty years old, Mike. I don't think I could
Speaker 1: handle that, let alone being twenty two or twenty three.
Speaker 1: And yeah, he said he didn't have the big plays,
Speaker 1: and he gets why scouts didn't go after and and
Speaker 1: really seek him out. But I think if you look
Speaker 1: at that and the fact that he was held in
Speaker 1: such high regard, there's a reason for that. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he had an opportunity at Northwestern. I think he maximized it,
Speaker 1: even if the stats didn't say so in terms of
Speaker 1: the big play production. And now he's gonna come to
Speaker 1: Green Bay in the defense that I think those are
Speaker 1: the type of guys. And we'll see how his story
Speaker 1: unfolds here, but those are the type of guys. Those
Speaker 1: are the type of college freeders that have succeeded ultimately
Speaker 1: with the Packers. Yeah. I found the interview that I
Speaker 1: had with him very refreshing. And not to say that,
Speaker 1: you know, it obviously works for some guys who are
Speaker 1: undrafted to say they're going to go out and try
Speaker 1: to prove everybody wrong. He actually was like, Hey, the
Speaker 1: scouts got it right. I did you know. I only
Speaker 1: had a few sacks during my college career, a couple
Speaker 1: of force fumbles. I didn't have all the big splash plays.
Speaker 1: I was a run plugger. I was, you know that
Speaker 1: that run stuff for guy taken on the double teams,
Speaker 1: doing my job letting other guys on the defense make plays.
Speaker 1: That's not necessarily enough to get you noticed, for a
Speaker 1: team to invest to draft pick in you. So he
Speaker 1: knows he needs to do more. He's excited about being here.
Speaker 1: He actually, you know, watched the last few rounds of
Speaker 1: the draft with the Packers had having come here on
Speaker 1: a pre draft visit and fell in love with this place.
Speaker 1: Really had a great conversation with Jerry Montgomery. He was
Speaker 1: hoping you the Packers were going to draft him or
Speaker 1: nobody else was, so that he could sign here as
Speaker 1: a free agent. He really thinks in in the new
Speaker 1: scheme and system, you know that maybe that will unleash
Speaker 1: a little bit more in him. Yeah, and if you
Speaker 1: haven't a chance to check that on Packers dot com,
Speaker 1: it's a phenomenal story that thanks. I appreciate that. West.
Speaker 1: With that, we're going to go to a break back
Speaker 1: with more and Packers Unscripted right after this. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to Packers Unscripted. Mike Spofford here, Wes Hodka, it's over there.
Speaker 1: We's another undrafted story here that's a that's a pretty
Speaker 1: good one and one that you've chronicled on our website
Speaker 1: as well. The quarterback a lot of attention always on
Speaker 1: UM Eastern Kentucky Tim Boyle. Make sure I say that right.
Speaker 1: Tim Boyle Um. Now this is uh, this is the
Speaker 1: guy that Packers signed him right after the draft prompted
Speaker 1: them to release Joe Callahan. So now they're back to
Speaker 1: four quarterbacks on the roster. Took kind of a roundabout
Speaker 1: way from a geographical standpoint to get to to get
Speaker 1: to where he is. But to tell us a little
Speaker 1: bit about his story, Well, here's the thing that's really
Speaker 1: interesting about Boyle. Um. You hear Eastern Kentucky and sometimes
Speaker 1: people get thrown off by that when it's an FCS
Speaker 1: school or somebody like that. Boyle started his college career
Speaker 1: at Yukon and he was originally committed to play at
Speaker 1: Boston College BC. And he had a remarkable high school
Speaker 1: career Xavier High School in Connecticut, born and raised out
Speaker 1: there on the East Coast. UH one three consecutive state championships.
Speaker 1: Had contributed to the final two including how to Fun
Speaker 1: dominal year. One of the top players in the state
Speaker 1: in that year that they won their last state title,
Speaker 1: and I believe it was two thousand twelve. He goes
Speaker 1: to Connecticut, stays home and it was a whirlwind that
Speaker 1: he went through their three different head coaches in three
Speaker 1: different years. He actually was the first UH freshman true
Speaker 1: freshman to start right away off the bat in two
Speaker 1: thousand thirteen and since two thousand three. But it was
Speaker 1: an ebb and flow. Injuries were an issue, and consistency
Speaker 1: was an issue, and he even mentioned, I mean, there
Speaker 1: was kind of this sort of looking behind your shoulder
Speaker 1: in terms of okay, are they gonna pull me if
Speaker 1: something goes wrong and they put somebody else in. In
Speaker 1: credit to him, he actually rode those waves for three
Speaker 1: years when one coach. When one coach gets fired, the
Speaker 1: class usually transfers, but he stuck it out. His thought
Speaker 1: process was if I if I stick around long enough,
Speaker 1: if I stayed and continue to do the right things,
Speaker 1: my time will eventually come. It never really did, though.
Speaker 1: He ends up getting hooked up with Eastern Continent Hockey
Speaker 1: through a connection to his former quarterbacks coach at Yukon,
Speaker 1: and last year started all eleven games from them. He
Speaker 1: looks like an NFL quarterback six ft four two or
Speaker 1: thirty pounds. He has all the intangibles from that perspective,
Speaker 1: good arm, live arm, and now we'll be trying to
Speaker 1: make that jump to the next level. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: found it interesting because you pointed out in your story
Speaker 1: that one of his best games at Eastern Kentucky was
Speaker 1: excuse me, against Western Kentucky. And if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: Western Kentucky's quarterback was drafted. Was he the name Escapes?
Speaker 1: But but so you know, there was kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: a quarterback matchup two guys that you know that have
Speaker 1: have a little bit of a potential future. And uh
Speaker 1: and he performed pretty well in uh in a pretty
Speaker 1: big spotlight game he did. And he actually played pretty
Speaker 1: well against Kentucky too during that process. Uh. And here's
Speaker 1: the thing. Let me see here. Mike White, Yeah, from
Speaker 1: Mike White from Western Western picked in the fifth round
Speaker 1: by the Cowboys. Uh. Yeah. He has a live arm
Speaker 1: and he can make throws. The biggest thing I think
Speaker 1: the Packers are gonna work with him on is probably
Speaker 1: the decision making side of it. He did a thirteen
Speaker 1: interceptions last year. But we talked about this couple days ago. Mike.
Speaker 1: When you're dealing with UFAs or late round picks, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be some flaws. I think if you look at
Speaker 1: his makeup, though, there's a lot to work with. He
Speaker 1: ran a four seven forty at his pro day. Um
Speaker 1: put up, I forget what it was on the bench press,
Speaker 1: but had a nine nine broad jump. I mean, he
Speaker 1: has a lot of the measurements that you look for
Speaker 1: in an NFL quarterback in the pedigrees there. This is
Speaker 1: not a guy that just overachieved and now is getting
Speaker 1: some notoriety. He's a guy that's had the makeup to
Speaker 1: be in perform at this level. And he said too,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's really close friends with Bryan Jones, who
Speaker 1: played at Yukon. He was the guy that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: draft in the first round of two thousand fifteen. After
Speaker 1: that remarkable combine tested through the roof there. He's had
Speaker 1: a lot of different guys that he's reached out to
Speaker 1: the sort of cue him into what this is gonna
Speaker 1: be like and what to expect to the next level.
Speaker 1: And the fact that now he gets to work with
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, he said, I mean, that's just the cherry
Speaker 1: on top for him. Yeah. An interesting thing about his
Speaker 1: story that I'll be I'll be curious to follow is
Speaker 1: that a lot of times, you know, these guys, big
Speaker 1: time college players, they have a lot of success, they've
Speaker 1: never really failed and then they get into the NFL
Speaker 1: and how are they going to handle their first failure.
Speaker 1: This is a guy who's failed. I mean, things went
Speaker 1: south at Connecticut and things did not go well. He
Speaker 1: had to kind of pick up the pieces in a
Speaker 1: sense and get things back on track during his college
Speaker 1: career just to get to this point. So you wonder,
Speaker 1: is that something you know, just as being part of
Speaker 1: his background, that is he tries to make his way
Speaker 1: here in the NFL, is that something that can help
Speaker 1: the experiences have molded him. And he said, in high
Speaker 1: school he learned how to win. In college, he learned
Speaker 1: how to deal with adversity. And now taking both of
Speaker 1: those lessons, he hopes that that's something that's really going
Speaker 1: to galvanize him now that he goes into the NFL. Alright,
Speaker 1: with that, we're going to go to another break back
Speaker 1: with moren Packers Unscripted right after this Welcome Back to
Speaker 1: Packers Unscripted Mike Spofford alongside West, hod Kowits and West.
Speaker 1: Before we go, I wanted to touch on one thing
Speaker 1: that's making a little bit of news in the NFL
Speaker 1: at large, and that's the discussion of what might be
Speaker 1: happening with the kickoff um. Different proposals being thrown out.
Speaker 1: There is something that the league's owners are going to
Speaker 1: discuss very earnestly at their their next meeting, which is
Speaker 1: later on in May. But we've heard a lot of things,
Speaker 1: you know, in terms of trying to change the kickoffs
Speaker 1: so that it's not so dangerous that the concussions come down,
Speaker 1: because all the studies they've done show the propensity for
Speaker 1: concussions compared to other regular plays from scrimmage, it's heightened
Speaker 1: on kickoffs because of the high speed collisions. So they're
Speaker 1: talking about maybe, you know, the players on the kicking
Speaker 1: team don't get a running start. They have to stand
Speaker 1: at the thirty five yard line. You know, when the
Speaker 1: ball is kicked. We're seeing the n c A going
Speaker 1: to uh any kind of a fair catch inside the
Speaker 1: twenty five yard line. On a kickoff, the ball is
Speaker 1: at the same as a touchback. Maybe the NFL adopts
Speaker 1: something like that, maybe not. Do you have any sense
Speaker 1: of of what the final result of of all these
Speaker 1: machinations are going to be? I said to this to
Speaker 1: you a couple of days ago, and and I'll be honest, man,
Speaker 1: if you sent me on a debate podium. I think
Speaker 1: I think the best option is just to get rid
Speaker 1: of it and really and to just go to if
Speaker 1: you're going to do an onside kick, you do an
Speaker 1: onside kick. But otherwise you just you just the play
Speaker 1: starts at or the twenty for that matter, whatever you want.
Speaker 1: And the reason why I say that isn't necessarily because
Speaker 1: even the concussion issue, I just think of, you know,
Speaker 1: I really do. I go back to Jonathan Franklin in
Speaker 1: two and the fact that this is a guy that
Speaker 1: was a fourth round pick. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people expected him to push Eddie Lacey for that starting
Speaker 1: job going into the season, and his career ended on
Speaker 1: a kickoff return and what was not a scary looking event.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like this this thing where he got carded
Speaker 1: off the field. He had the whatever you want to
Speaker 1: call I don't know if it was stenosis or whatever,
Speaker 1: and that was the end of it. So I've really
Speaker 1: struggled with this a lot, and I've tried to come
Speaker 1: up with different options, But to me, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's that's that's kind of what I keep coming back to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what the NFL has to figure out in terms
Speaker 1: of and they're talking about not eliminating it completely. And
Speaker 1: you have to maintain some sort of kickoff because of
Speaker 1: the onside kick possibility, because you have to have a
Speaker 1: way for a team that's behind multiple scores in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter to get to score and then get the
Speaker 1: ball back right away. You know, you can't take that
Speaker 1: part out of the game. So a lot of work
Speaker 1: to do here and something I think will continue to
Speaker 1: discuss down the road. You would lose the surprise on
Speaker 1: side kick element, but I think in the long run
Speaker 1: that looks to me to be the best situation. We'll
Speaker 1: see what happened. Yeah, well the story to to see
Speaker 1: how it unfolds. But with that, we're going to sign
Speaker 1: off on Packers Unscripted. Be sure to follow all of
Speaker 1: our coverage of the team on Packers dot com on Twitter.
Speaker 1: He's at west Hod I'm at Mike Spofford at Packers
Speaker 1: for the team account. Thanks for tuning in, everybody. We'll
Speaker 1: see you next