Speaker 1: M Hi, everybody, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford, sitting next to the one and
Speaker 1: only West Hodkowits were coming to you here from our
Speaker 1: studios at lambeau Field and West. The preseason is almost over,
Speaker 1: one game left to go. Next week it will be
Speaker 1: the regular season. It will be more Packers Unscripted more often.
Speaker 1: But before we get to that, we do have one
Speaker 1: preseason game remaining against the Kansas City Chiefs Thursday night
Speaker 1: at lambeau Field, after which the Packers will trim the
Speaker 1: roster to fifty three players also build a ten player
Speaker 1: practice squad over the weekend. As we head into this,
Speaker 1: we know the starters are not going to play against
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. The ask majority of your regulars are are
Speaker 1: going to be on the sidelines. So who are some
Speaker 1: of the guys to watch for to keep an eye
Speaker 1: on here as the preseason wraps up? Well, it's really
Speaker 1: interesting way because I know some people when you look
Speaker 1: at the final preseason game, there's some trepidation. There's people
Speaker 1: that get anxious. They just want to get to that opener.
Speaker 1: I personally, and this is just maybe my own personality
Speaker 1: coming out. But this is to me the most compelling
Speaker 1: week of the entire season, probably other than if you
Speaker 1: get to the playoffs or a week seventeen down the
Speaker 1: line kind of matchup. And the reason is is because
Speaker 1: you have ninety players on this roster right now, fifty
Speaker 1: three will be on the roster going into Chicago, forty
Speaker 1: six are gonna play. That's almost less than you know,
Speaker 1: almost half. So the stakes are so high. And the
Speaker 1: NFL there's no minor leagues that's an affiliate. You're either
Speaker 1: in or you're out, or you're on a practice squad.
Speaker 1: So seeing who steps up in these circumstances is always
Speaker 1: the most compelling thing to me. Now beyond that, I
Speaker 1: have to go back to the wide receivers, just because
Speaker 1: it's been such a tight knit competition from beginning to end.
Speaker 1: So I look at a guy like Darius Shephard trying
Speaker 1: to make his final statement of this preseason. I look
Speaker 1: at you know, if Alan Lazar doesn't play, that maybe
Speaker 1: means more reps for Jamon Moore trying to still state
Speaker 1: his case to be on this roster. If Jake Kumero play,
Speaker 1: see if he can make a couple more catches here
Speaker 1: and there, I think we're gonna see all three of
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks, the backup quarterbacks Deshaun Kaiser, Tim Boyle, Manny Wilkins,
Speaker 1: seeing which receiver that they can develop a poor with
Speaker 1: and kind of get some momentum built that position. For me, Mike,
Speaker 1: the receiver spot has been the one I followed this
Speaker 1: entire camp, and I'm excited to see how it finishes
Speaker 1: out on Thursday night. Yeah, and I think the one
Speaker 1: that a lot of people are going to have their
Speaker 1: eye on. You mentioned it at the backup quarterback spot,
Speaker 1: Deshaun Kaiser, Tim Boyle, Manny Wilkins. Tim Boyle made as
Speaker 1: strong a statement as he could in Winnipeg that he
Speaker 1: should be the number two quarterback on this route Suster.
Speaker 1: We don't know if the Packers are going to keep
Speaker 1: two or if they're going to keep three. That's another
Speaker 1: decision that will have to be made over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Deshaun Kaiser brought up with reporters. He's perfectly aware of
Speaker 1: the situation. He knows this is his first time of
Speaker 1: his three years in the NFL that he's going into
Speaker 1: the final preseason game and he doesn't actually have a
Speaker 1: roster spot locked up. He has to convince the brass,
Speaker 1: so to speak, that he should be on this fifty
Speaker 1: three man roster. So it's a different circumstance, a different
Speaker 1: situation for him as well. I'm not sure Matt Lafleur
Speaker 1: did not reveal this week with reporters who's going to
Speaker 1: start the game, whether it's going to be Boil, whether
Speaker 1: it's going to be Kaiser. My guess is that it's
Speaker 1: going to be Kaiser because Boyle got the start last week.
Speaker 1: I think he probably goes back to Kaiser for this one.
Speaker 1: But regardless if your Kaiser, you need to state your case.
Speaker 1: If you're Boil, you need to follow up what you
Speaker 1: did in Winnipeg and show that that one really, really
Speaker 1: good quarter of a ball was not just some flash
Speaker 1: in the pan. It's a great point. And the thing
Speaker 1: that stands out to me most about this position in
Speaker 1: particular is Brian Goodicin has talked a little bit about
Speaker 1: it when he was addressing the media on Tuesday and
Speaker 1: saying that you know, there's always times where you know
Speaker 1: guys are gonna surprise you. Matt Lafleur touched on it too,
Speaker 1: and you know a guy jumps off the page and
Speaker 1: makes the roster. Quarterback to me is the position that
Speaker 1: perfectly encapsulates that. In my time on the beat, I've
Speaker 1: seen guys win their job. In that last preseason game,
Speaker 1: Graham Harold did it. I think you look at Scott
Speaker 1: Tolzien solidified himself and some of those matchups. Brett Hunley
Speaker 1: did it a few times as well. And then you
Speaker 1: also saw a guy like Vince Young who looked poised
Speaker 1: to be that number two quarterback. Things kind of fell
Speaker 1: apart in the preseason finale against Kansas City in two
Speaker 1: thousand and thirteen and he was cut. So for Kaiser
Speaker 1: and Boyle, Boyle said it perfectly, I mean, there can
Speaker 1: be no let up. He doesn't care what his passer
Speaker 1: rating is. He doesn't really care about what's going to
Speaker 1: happen this weekend. He has one thing that he controls
Speaker 1: and that's how he performs in this game on Thursday.
Speaker 1: And for Kaiser, you were the huddle with him this week.
Speaker 1: I mean he understands a sense of urgency that goes
Speaker 1: along with us the media huddle, by the way, not
Speaker 1: the huddle on the field. But he's a smart guy.
Speaker 1: He knows what happened last week. He knows he needs
Speaker 1: to be able to come out and and turn that
Speaker 1: around and kind of rebuild some of that momentum and
Speaker 1: show that he is the quarterback that the Packers traded
Speaker 1: for last year and then lastly Manny Wilkins. I'm sure
Speaker 1: it's kind of champing at the bit right now hoping
Speaker 1: to get an opportunity as well. I mean, his his
Speaker 1: chances have been kind of, you know limited here due
Speaker 1: to the competition between Boyle and Kaiser. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that all three of those guys are gonna have
Speaker 1: a chance to ball out, and whoever comes out of
Speaker 1: that most likely is going to be on this roster
Speaker 1: in a couple of days. Yea, And those quarterbacks are
Speaker 1: going to have a different voice in their helmet. Uh
Speaker 1: as far as the play calling goes on Thursday night,
Speaker 1: because Matt la Fleur told reporters he's stepping back from
Speaker 1: the play calling for this final preseason game, which is
Speaker 1: a common practice amongst head coaches who are play callers.
Speaker 1: They like to in that final priest season game take
Speaker 1: a little bit broader view, a different get a different
Speaker 1: perspective during a game of their team. Matt Lafleur saying
Speaker 1: he wants to see just how the whole operation is going,
Speaker 1: how the communication is working between players, between coaches, from
Speaker 1: players to coaches and all of that. So he's handing
Speaker 1: off the play calling duties two quarterbacks coach Luke gets
Speaker 1: for this game, and he specified he didn't choose offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Nathaniel Hackett simply because Hackett has called plays in
Speaker 1: NFL games before. So this is an opportunity to for
Speaker 1: Gets to spread his wings a little bit, get his
Speaker 1: feet wet in um a new coaching duty, so they'll
Speaker 1: be that dynamic as well. The quarterbacks position coach is
Speaker 1: going to be the one calling the plays in the helmet,
Speaker 1: but a lot of NFL coaches do this, and Matt
Speaker 1: Lafleur even said two years ago when he was Sean
Speaker 1: mcveigh's offensive coordinator with the Los Angeles Rams, what McVeigh
Speaker 1: was the play caller that for two of the preseason games,
Speaker 1: McVeigh handed off the play calling to him. So that's
Speaker 1: how he got started with learning that whole aspect of things.
Speaker 1: So a neat opportunity for Luke Getsy, but also uh
Speaker 1: for Matt Lafleur as a first time a head coach
Speaker 1: to step back a little bit and just see really
Speaker 1: get a look at what he's built over the last
Speaker 1: few months and where his team is before those roster
Speaker 1: decisions are made. And that's important word you through in
Speaker 1: their Mike team. This is the first time that Matt
Speaker 1: Lafleur has been responsible for the entire operation offense, defense
Speaker 1: and special teams. So one of the reasons I always
Speaker 1: like this when Mike McCarthy would do it and he
Speaker 1: would usually hand the reins of the offensive coordinator is
Speaker 1: it not only allows him to look at the skill
Speaker 1: position players and the offensive line, but it gives him
Speaker 1: a chance to take a look at the defense. And
Speaker 1: as much as you and I were just talking about
Speaker 1: the position battles on the offensive side of the ball,
Speaker 1: the stakes are even higher defensively, with you know, the
Speaker 1: cornerback position, inside linebacker. There's so many different spots that
Speaker 1: that guys want to prove themselves and Matt Lafleur wants
Speaker 1: to get an eye on those guys as well. For
Speaker 1: gets these perspective. This is incredibly valuable for him to
Speaker 1: have this opportunity because he is a quarterback at heart,
Speaker 1: and obviously he has the report that he does with
Speaker 1: these guys in the quarterback room. But the fact that
Speaker 1: now he's gonna be able to actually be in their
Speaker 1: headset go through these plays that he's been installing with
Speaker 1: him for the last couple of months. I think that's
Speaker 1: going to be an interesting dynamic, and I'm sure the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are looking forward to being able to have that
Speaker 1: sort of take on things as well. Yeah, well, a
Speaker 1: couple other positions I want to talk about. You mentioned
Speaker 1: one of them inside linebacker, because there's some uncertainty here
Speaker 1: or in Burke's it sounds like his injury is not
Speaker 1: necessarily long term. Yet there isn't a specific timetable on
Speaker 1: exactly when he's going to be back from that chest injury.
Speaker 1: We haven't really gotten any kind of definitive update on
Speaker 1: Curtis Bolton and what's going on there so with his knee.
Speaker 1: So you have Ty Summers the seventh round pick. You
Speaker 1: have James Crawford the special teams as, you have Brady Sheldon.
Speaker 1: It's a really interesting mix of guys and you don't
Speaker 1: know who all is going to make this roster and
Speaker 1: who isn't. Because out of this bunch, I thought Crawford
Speaker 1: had the best bring through the o t a s
Speaker 1: we We've seen Thy Summers come along and really show
Speaker 1: up in the preseason games, but now Brady Sheldon in
Speaker 1: this last preseason game also showed up and now he's
Speaker 1: got something to build on here going into the fourth one.
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure how this inside linebacker position is
Speaker 1: necessarily going to shake out, and the injuries will factor
Speaker 1: into it, but the Packers are going to be taken
Speaker 1: a close look. I think at all three of these
Speaker 1: guys in this final preseason game. They are And it's
Speaker 1: not even really to me about even that second inside
Speaker 1: linebacker spot right now, the guy that's in with Blake
Speaker 1: Martinez and first and downs, first and second down situations,
Speaker 1: to me, Mike, is the Packers trying to identify. Okay,
Speaker 1: knock on wood. Blake Martinez plays every single snap you
Speaker 1: want them to the season, But do you have somebody
Speaker 1: on this roster that can handle that job, can handle
Speaker 1: those responsibilities being the communicator in that inside linebacker room.
Speaker 1: I think that's the task that Tye Summers, James Crawford,
Speaker 1: and Brady Shelton have to step up to right now,
Speaker 1: because without Martinez being in this game, they're probably all
Speaker 1: going to get an opportunity here there to lead their
Speaker 1: respective units. Who's going to step up to that challenge.
Speaker 1: I really liked how to Tie Summers responded. Last week.
Speaker 1: He had a rough outing against Baltimore. There were some
Speaker 1: issues that he had late in the game against Houston,
Speaker 1: but he chimont. He had ten tackles. Nobody else on
Speaker 1: the defense had more than four, basically played the entire
Speaker 1: game due to some of the situations they fell into.
Speaker 1: Your heart hurts for Curtis Bolton. You hope he gets
Speaker 1: another opportunity here to showcase what he's doing, because he
Speaker 1: got off to a really good start. But the fact
Speaker 1: of the matter is the Packers have a game to
Speaker 1: play now and in a week and they need somebody
Speaker 1: that's gonna be able to step into that role. Tie Summers,
Speaker 1: Brandy Shelton, and James Crawford have to show in this
Speaker 1: game that they can be accountable and do that and
Speaker 1: not make the the Packers think about that waiver wire
Speaker 1: this weekend. Yeah, and another spot, getting back to the
Speaker 1: offensive side for a minute here before we move on
Speaker 1: West at the running back position, Aaron Jones, Jamal Williams.
Speaker 1: Both of those guys are going to go into the
Speaker 1: regular season without having carried the ball in the preseason. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jones not playing. And I actually asked Matt Lafleur in
Speaker 1: one of his press conferences this week about Jamal Williams,
Speaker 1: because of all the time he had missed during camp,
Speaker 1: is he going to, you know, get him into a
Speaker 1: game here before the preseason's out and he's and he
Speaker 1: said no, they don't really have any plans to play
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams either. So how is how does this uh,
Speaker 1: you know, settle itself with the third running back spot.
Speaker 1: You've got Dexter Williams, the sixth round pick out of
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. You've also got Trey Carson, who has carried
Speaker 1: quite a bit of the load here in the preseason.
Speaker 1: With Danny Vitally presumably on this roster, with the way
Speaker 1: we've seen Matt Lafleur in this offense want to use
Speaker 1: the fullback, and with what Vitality has done, even though
Speaker 1: we missed some time in camp with an injury, with
Speaker 1: what he's done on the practice field. If Danny Vitality
Speaker 1: is on this team, and if you're keeping upwards of
Speaker 1: potentially four tight ends, I'm not sure you can keep
Speaker 1: more than three traditional running backs, which means between Dexter
Speaker 1: Williams and Trey Carson, who are the guys really kind
Speaker 1: of in the running for the number three spot, one
Speaker 1: of them has to go. I agree because the Packers
Speaker 1: that was one of the things last year is that
Speaker 1: they were able to go a little deeper on tight end.
Speaker 1: They were able to go a little bit more at
Speaker 1: running back because they didn't have a fullback. I didn't
Speaker 1: carry one through the final cuts, so vitally. The one
Speaker 1: thing you really like about having vitality too is that
Speaker 1: he can give you a guy that potentially could play
Speaker 1: on third downs, could be accountable in pass protection, and
Speaker 1: also really Flash is a pass catcher as long as
Speaker 1: he's healthy. He's got that all around skill set. I
Speaker 1: think he has a skill set that you really want
Speaker 1: from the fullback position in two thousand nineteen. That being said,
Speaker 1: I think last year in the past couple of seasons
Speaker 1: have proven why you need a number three running back
Speaker 1: as well. Aaron Jones and Jamal Williams their opportunities as
Speaker 1: rookies came from being the guys that were sort of
Speaker 1: working their way up the depth chart. So yeah, Dexter
Speaker 1: Williams has flashed as a runner. I really think he's
Speaker 1: very instinctive. I love what he does between the tackles,
Speaker 1: but there's been some drops and there's been some past
Speaker 1: protection issues. Trey Carson is sort of the antithesis of that.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been the guy that's and really strong
Speaker 1: in terms of what he's done as a pass protector.
Speaker 1: But the yardage in yards per carry aren't really um
Speaker 1: you know, maybe what jump off the page to you.
Speaker 1: So those two guys are and you know they're gonna
Speaker 1: be running this thing right down to the wire. And
Speaker 1: don't forget about Keith Ford too. This is a guy
Speaker 1: who played in the NFL last season, and if he
Speaker 1: has a couple of big carries in this game, that's
Speaker 1: gonna make the Packers think about that as well. So
Speaker 1: it is. It's gonna be a really interesting battle to
Speaker 1: see all three of those guys and what they potentially
Speaker 1: could do in this ball game. Yeah, all right, Well,
Speaker 1: before we move on to what's going to be happening
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Speaker 1: we believe in better. Okay, So, the final preseason game
Speaker 1: will end somewhere in the neighborhood of ten thirty PM
Speaker 1: on Thursday. I'll try, I'll try to make sure that
Speaker 1: happens between then and three o'clock Central time on Saturday.
Speaker 1: The Packers will have to trim their roster to fifty
Speaker 1: three players. Now, this can happen a number of different ways.
Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is there are guys
Speaker 1: who are hurt who could go on injured reserve that
Speaker 1: trims a roster spot. There will obviously be guys who
Speaker 1: are released. There's always a chance you could see some
Speaker 1: trades for a draft pick or something like that. All
Speaker 1: those kinds of things could happen. But it all has
Speaker 1: to happen by three o'clock on Saturday afternoon because the
Speaker 1: Packers have to be at fifty three. And presumably you're
Speaker 1: gonna see two players, Greg Roberts and Ibrahim Campbell go on, pup. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's it's gonna be just a myriad of all these
Speaker 1: different things happening that the Packers are gonna have to
Speaker 1: start through. It was interesting though, because I went to
Speaker 1: the locker room and I talked to a couple of
Speaker 1: guys this week about what that experience has been like.
Speaker 1: Robert Tony, and I thought was one of the guys
Speaker 1: I really wanted to go to because his first two
Speaker 1: seasons he got cut by the Detroit Lions and then
Speaker 1: he ended up and the Packers roster and back to
Speaker 1: back years. There are actually a very few of those
Speaker 1: guys in the locker room if you really think about it.
Speaker 1: Tremont Williams is one of them guys that have been
Speaker 1: on both sides of that equation, and it's just so
Speaker 1: one of the when I opened the show talking about
Speaker 1: why this is such a compelling time of the year
Speaker 1: for me, it's so interesting listen to what that day
Speaker 1: is like for people, and in two thousand nineteen, everybody
Speaker 1: wants to be on their phones, everybody wants to be connected.
Speaker 1: Most of these guys are completely withdrawn. Tyler Lancaster spent
Speaker 1: his morning the day he got cut last year in
Speaker 1: the weight room at lambeau Field, eating breakfast, just around
Speaker 1: the facilities, doing everything he could to keep his mind
Speaker 1: off things until he ended up getting the bad news.
Speaker 1: Robert Tanian and Jake Kumero. They went to a driving range,
Speaker 1: they played video games and waited out the entire day
Speaker 1: until both of them realized that they had made the team.
Speaker 1: So it's just it's one of these things that you
Speaker 1: put all your focus. Like I said with Tim Boyle,
Speaker 1: everything is on this game on Thursday night, but as
Speaker 1: soon as it ends, there's sort of this adrenaline dump
Speaker 1: and now you're just kind of waiting to see exactly
Speaker 1: what's going to happen. And to throw one more wrinkle
Speaker 1: into that equation, Packers have a to prepare for on Thursday,
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be cut your team, and then you
Speaker 1: know you're running a hund twenty towards the Bears. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with the shortened week, with the Packers opening the season
Speaker 1: against the Bears in Chicago on next Thursday, everything gets
Speaker 1: compressed and the other part that will be happening over
Speaker 1: the weekend while the bulk of the team is going
Speaker 1: to start its practice week on Sunday to prepare for
Speaker 1: the trip to Chicago. You have I believe it's a
Speaker 1: twenty hour waiver period from that three o'clock on Saturday
Speaker 1: afternoon until eleven am Central Time on Sunday morning, that
Speaker 1: all players who are not vested veterans who have been
Speaker 1: released are on the waiver wire. Teams can make waiver
Speaker 1: claims base and the claim order is essentially the same
Speaker 1: as the draft order. So the Packers are twelve in
Speaker 1: the waiver claim order, just as they had the number
Speaker 1: twelve overall pick in the draft. And that's the other
Speaker 1: thing that can factor in here, West is that guys
Speaker 1: can make the team on Saturday, but then if the
Speaker 1: Packers claim somebody and then they are awarded that claim,
Speaker 1: that player has to go on the fifty three man
Speaker 1: roster and then somebody else has to go. So a
Speaker 1: player can make the team on Saturday and then find
Speaker 1: out on Sunday that they aren't on the team. Then
Speaker 1: what happens after that is after eleven am on Sunday,
Speaker 1: then you can start signing guys to practice squad contracts,
Speaker 1: and you could build up to a ten player practice squad.
Speaker 1: Two of the veteran exemptions that are allowed on the
Speaker 1: practice squad. So there there's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 1: it's for is it okay? Because originally it was it
Speaker 1: was two and now okay, so now they've increased it.
Speaker 1: See I learned something. No, that's okay. But there will
Speaker 1: be a lot of roster maschinations and everything going on
Speaker 1: over the weekend at the same time that the team
Speaker 1: is going to start preparing for this trip to Chicago.
Speaker 1: It's going to be a total cluster. And the one
Speaker 1: thing that's nice for the Packers is the Bears are
Speaker 1: gonna be going through the exact same thing. It does
Speaker 1: make you wonder. For the most part, the Packers filled
Speaker 1: their practice odd with guys that were with them in camp.
Speaker 1: They'll bring in a few guys here and there. I
Speaker 1: think this year, more than any other, it's probably gonna
Speaker 1: be really important to be able to keep as many
Speaker 1: in house guys as you can so they know the system,
Speaker 1: so they can get right into practice on Sunday and
Speaker 1: not let there be any kind of, you know, let down.
Speaker 1: The other thing that's interesting too about this particular year.
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right that is one of the most heartbreaking
Speaker 1: things about the fifty three is the guys that lose
Speaker 1: their jobs the next day. It happened to b. J.
Speaker 1: Coleman in two thousand thirteen. He ends up being the
Speaker 1: number two quarterback for a day, and then they went
Speaker 1: and signed Seneca Wallace and then he was let go.
Speaker 1: Miles White and two thousand and fifteen finally made the
Speaker 1: initial roster on his third try, and then James Jones
Speaker 1: comes in. The one thing that is nice though with
Speaker 1: it isn't nice because I'm sure Brian Goodaquin would rather
Speaker 1: just be able to designate players right now. But you know,
Speaker 1: you're probably, you know, maybe going to carry through a
Speaker 1: guy like Econimius st Brown through the final cuts and
Speaker 1: then you can put them on I R. You can
Speaker 1: designated a return. That's just an example. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that's what they're gonna do, depending on what the timeline
Speaker 1: is with Warren Burkes. So there is one thing that
Speaker 1: if you do claim a player, that's another thing you
Speaker 1: could potentially do is moving those guys to I R
Speaker 1: and have him designated to return and having that flexibility,
Speaker 1: right and as we know, it's it's the nature of
Speaker 1: the Beast. But the way the injury situation and as
Speaker 1: you say, the designated to return, the guys that aren't
Speaker 1: necessarily out for the entire season but the Packers want
Speaker 1: to keep them have a chance to get them back
Speaker 1: on the field in October and November. That all plays
Speaker 1: into these roster decisions and the waiver claims and who
Speaker 1: maybe ultimately ends up on the practice squad as opposed
Speaker 1: to the fifty three because a guy can be on
Speaker 1: the fifty three then he gets waive, but then if
Speaker 1: he clears waivers, maybe they want to bring him back
Speaker 1: to the practice squad. So there's all kinds of things
Speaker 1: that are going to be going on over the weekend
Speaker 1: and uh um. But at the same time, the personnel
Speaker 1: department is dealing with all that, the coaching staff and
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and company so to speak, are going to
Speaker 1: be dealing with Hey, got three days of practice Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
Speaker 1: and that plane leaves for Chicago on Wednesday. And that's
Speaker 1: the number one thing that I'm excited about. What this
Speaker 1: whole thing is that all the focuses going to be
Speaker 1: on that matchup, that game, and all those guys trying
Speaker 1: to make the roster. And once they figure out that
Speaker 1: fifty three man roster, a lot of those guys on
Speaker 1: the bubble, well then they moved to the background and
Speaker 1: everything's on Aaron Rodgers and these starters that we haven't
Speaker 1: seen this preseason. It's exciting. It's exhilarating. And I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what, Mike, I mean. You want to talk about
Speaker 1: the most anticipatory you know, seven eight days that you're
Speaker 1: gonna have all season. Um, this is going to be
Speaker 1: quite the turnaround. But as Matt Lafleur also mentioned the
Speaker 1: fact that they were able to go on a normal
Speaker 1: schedule and have Thursday after Thursday after Thursday games, he
Speaker 1: feels like that sets him up pretty well for being
Speaker 1: able to get in a remotely normal schedule. Then going
Speaker 1: into that game against Chicago, Yeah, then you get to
Speaker 1: at least take a little bit of a breath for
Speaker 1: a couple of days after a Thursday night opener before
Speaker 1: guess what, the Minnesota Vikings are coming to Lambo in
Speaker 1: week two. So no rest for the weird and we're
Speaker 1: often running all right well with that, we will call
Speaker 1: it a wrap on this edition of Packers Unscripted. Be
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