Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford, joined as always by Wes hod Kowitz,
Speaker 1: and we are very pleased to have special guest Larry
Speaker 1: mccaren with us as well. We are here at the
Speaker 1: Indiana Convention Center in downtown Indianapolis, coming to you from
Speaker 1: the NFL Scouting Combine and guys. Yesterday we heard from
Speaker 1: Packers GM Brian Goodacunstan head coach Mike McCarthy, and one
Speaker 1: of the big topics of conversation was the new contract
Speaker 1: extension that the Packers are working on with quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: Goudacon has made it pretty clear that this is something
Speaker 1: they would like to get done this offseason. West We
Speaker 1: talked about it in a previous show that the Packers
Speaker 1: want to do this with two years left done Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers contract, the same time frame in which they executed
Speaker 1: his last extension. In what are your thoughts on where
Speaker 1: this is headed? It makes total sense for the Packers
Speaker 1: from that perspective. Obviously, is Good said, this is the
Speaker 1: best player in the NFL. It's not going to be inexpensive.
Speaker 1: It's something that you have to get done. The The
Speaker 1: interesting part of it though, is that you do have
Speaker 1: the two years left on the deal. So what does
Speaker 1: that allow you to do. It allows you to spread
Speaker 1: out the signing bonus, It allows you to be more
Speaker 1: manageable with the cap hit. We all saw what Jimmy
Speaker 1: Garoppolo's cap hit ended up being with the San Francisco
Speaker 1: forty Niners when a player is going into unrestricted free agency.
Speaker 1: Then you also saw what the Jacksonville Jaguars did in
Speaker 1: extending Blake Bordles and how they were able to reduce it.
Speaker 1: So having that under control, but also taking care of
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, the franchise quarterback, is really the penultimate thing
Speaker 1: I think on this offseason, in addition to trying to
Speaker 1: figure out, you know, what direction the team's going to
Speaker 1: take in two thousand eighteen. Yeah, and now, Larry you
Speaker 1: said yesterday, this is obviously a no brainer. The Packers
Speaker 1: are going to extend Aaron Rodgers. He is going to stay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, right, So, but this is kind of a
Speaker 1: tricky thing because you want to get this done, but
Speaker 1: you also want to leave at least some financial flexibility
Speaker 1: to continue to upgrade the team and make another run
Speaker 1: of the Super Bowl. Oh absolutely. And there's a couple
Speaker 1: of points about the whole thing. Number one, the markets changed.
Speaker 1: They have to do this. I mean Aaron Rodgers, believe
Speaker 1: it or not. At one time when he signed his deals,
Speaker 1: highest payer player in the league, and now he's under
Speaker 1: page So they got to do something to keep the
Speaker 1: big guy happy, which they are doing. The other thing
Speaker 1: is it's all as Brian Gudun said yesterday very appropriately,
Speaker 1: it's all part of the puzzle. They got to know
Speaker 1: how this piece fits before they can make a lot
Speaker 1: of other decisions as far as people they asked to
Speaker 1: take pay cuts, people they may not be able to afford.
Speaker 1: All those types of issues can be determined to some
Speaker 1: extent when they find out how big a piece of
Speaker 1: the salary cap pie he's going to go to one
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, and he certainly deserves it. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: on russ Ball to structure this contract in the way
Speaker 1: that's going to work for the packers, as he has
Speaker 1: done over the years many times. And good Kun said
Speaker 1: they're looking at all kinds of different scenarios in terms
Speaker 1: of how this could play out and what the immediate
Speaker 1: cap hit is going to be on this new deal
Speaker 1: and what sort of flexibility would give them in order
Speaker 1: to make other moves. You don't know exactly how this
Speaker 1: is going to play out and when the contract is
Speaker 1: going to be signed. As I talked about last week, West,
Speaker 1: it's hard to believe that for me anyway, that Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers would sign this deal before Kirk Cousins, who's the
Speaker 1: top quarterback in free agency heading into free agent? Hey,
Speaker 1: I mean exactly, I'm just being real here. I mean,
Speaker 1: if i'm if I'm Aaron Rodgers, if Kirk Cousins is
Speaker 1: gonna calculate if he's going to become the top guy
Speaker 1: and and surpassed Jimmy Garoppolo's deal, and Garoppolo's deals surpassed
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. Can you believe those two names are in
Speaker 1: the same sentence? Yeah, crazy quarterback. I'm sorry, No, No,
Speaker 1: that's okay. But you're right. But as the salary cap
Speaker 1: goes up and the importance of the quarterback position certainly
Speaker 1: doesn't diminish in this league, you've got to take care
Speaker 1: of your guy when you have your guy, absolutely, and
Speaker 1: you look at how the cap has swelled, you know,
Speaker 1: in the last five years. I always tell that story
Speaker 1: over and over again. The day I started on the Packers,
Speaker 1: be two thousand and twelve, it was a hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty million dollars in the cap. The way it's going
Speaker 1: right now, hundred and seventy eight million is what it's
Speaker 1: looking like going into two thousand and eighteen. What does
Speaker 1: that mean? It means the price of pokers going up
Speaker 1: for quarterbacks and you have to be in lockstep with that.
Speaker 1: And because of that, with all these teams we saw
Speaker 1: going back to the Joe Flacco deal with the Baltimore Ravens,
Speaker 1: with all these teams trying to find the guy, and
Speaker 1: then when you feel like you have a guy that
Speaker 1: can be the guy, you're gonna get paid. So what
Speaker 1: the measures are not only just for the Cousins contract,
Speaker 1: but you have Drew Brees out there yet. Agi McCarron's
Speaker 1: a name that you're not hearing talked about here at
Speaker 1: all because nobody wants to get in trouble. But that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a very interesting one to follow in March fourteenth,
Speaker 1: and much like in two thousand thirteen when the Packers
Speaker 1: took Carrion Rodgers, that extension in the lead up to
Speaker 1: the two thousand thirteen NFL Draft days before, hours before it.
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna see all those pieces fall and
Speaker 1: then everything go from there. Yeah. And the other thing
Speaker 1: that the Packers will certainly be watching Packers fans is
Speaker 1: what Minnesota is going to do at quarterback. They decided
Speaker 1: not to franchise Case Keenum, Teddy Bridgewater, Sam Bradford. At
Speaker 1: this point, they're all headed to free agency. There's word
Speaker 1: that the Vikings are going to get in on the
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins thing. You got any feeling, Larry as to
Speaker 1: what the Vikings are gonna ultimately do at quarterback zero,
Speaker 1: And to be honest, don't care. All I know we're
Speaker 1: not m financially. The world is coming to it alright.
Speaker 1: With that, we're going to toss it to a break
Speaker 1: back with more on Packers Unscripted from the NFL Scouting
Speaker 1: Combine right after this. Welcome back to Packers Unscripted. Mike Spofford,
Speaker 1: along with Wes Hodkowitz and Larry McCarron, coming to you
Speaker 1: from downtown Indianapolis at the NFL Scouting Combine. Now, as
Speaker 1: we talk about the Packers salary cap situation heading into
Speaker 1: teen West, one of the other topics that came up
Speaker 1: and talking with general manager Brian Goodacunts yesterday was Jordy
Speaker 1: Nelson and Randall Cobb and their cap numbers, along with
Speaker 1: obviously the extension to given to Davante Adams at the
Speaker 1: end of the regular season. Packers have a lot of
Speaker 1: money in invested right now at wide receiver. Gouda Kuntz
Speaker 1: wasn't making any proclamations as to what's going to happen,
Speaker 1: but he sounded to me like a GM who is
Speaker 1: very determined to make this work because he likes what
Speaker 1: the Packers have in Randall Cobb and Jordy Nelson, and
Speaker 1: he said he doesn't want to see really good football
Speaker 1: players walk out the door. Yeah, And I think Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy echoed those comments as well in terms of just
Speaker 1: being able to look at the situation, the landscape of
Speaker 1: the NFL receiver and keeping in mind what a lot
Speaker 1: of these guys are making now on the market. Jarvis
Speaker 1: Landry being the newest of that group with the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: They knocked out the biggest thing they had to right
Speaker 1: at the end of the season with Davante Adams and
Speaker 1: getting that extension done. Jordy Nelson was up front right
Speaker 1: from the beginning, saying that he's going to make more
Speaker 1: money than Elson ever did on a contract. Jordi did
Speaker 1: a lot of contracts underneath value. If you go back
Speaker 1: to his first extension back in two thousand eleven, I
Speaker 1: believe it was, and then the next one he did
Speaker 1: and believe it was two thousand and fourteen. By doing that,
Speaker 1: it allowed the Packers to get ahead of those things,
Speaker 1: and that's one reason why they're in the position they've
Speaker 1: been in where the cap hasn't really come into question
Speaker 1: a lot. Randall cob toughier for him, another injury kind
Speaker 1: of riddled season, but they know what he can do,
Speaker 1: and he's still only gonna be twenty eight years old
Speaker 1: going into two thousand eighteen. That unit, the chemistry that
Speaker 1: they have with Aaron Rodgers, you can't produce that overnight.
Speaker 1: And I think that's something that both Good Cuts McCarthy
Speaker 1: really value. Yeah, and we'll see what happens financially, Larry,
Speaker 1: as you talked about, maybe there will be some pay
Speaker 1: cuts with some guys and whatnot. But I don't like
Speaker 1: to put words in the quarterback's mouth, but I gotta
Speaker 1: leave he wants this receiving Corps, Davante Adams, Jorty Nelson,
Speaker 1: Randall Cobb and others. He wants to keep it intact
Speaker 1: here coming back from that colibone injury. Yeah, well I
Speaker 1: found it interesting. I was reading an article just by
Speaker 1: chance the other day and one of the Cowboy executives,
Speaker 1: I see enough he's related to Jerry Jones. I don't
Speaker 1: know how that was talking about Tony Romo and when
Speaker 1: you have and not that Tony Romo is even in
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers Lee's but when you have the guy at quarterback,
Speaker 1: you kind of get it's a collaboration and go and
Speaker 1: work together, and you sit down and say how far
Speaker 1: do you want to go? And you know what that
Speaker 1: does for those around you? How much can you work
Speaker 1: with us? And I think Aaron Rodgers will always go
Speaker 1: down as a team player. He wants quality around him,
Speaker 1: and I think he'll do what every candid his end
Speaker 1: to make it a camp friendly deal so they packers
Speaker 1: can address other people. And certainly they got a situation
Speaker 1: rising in the wide receiver group, as you guys have detailed,
Speaker 1: where they're paying everybody at the top three guys, they're
Speaker 1: paying them top receiver money. So what's gonna happen there.
Speaker 1: We don't know. I thought yesterday the comments from Brian
Speaker 1: and Mike said one thing, they like these guys, but
Speaker 1: they're still leaving their options open and seeing what develops. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Packers definitely want to improve as well. They're here
Speaker 1: at the draft to maybe find the next Jordy Nelson
Speaker 1: or the next Davante Adams, who three or four down
Speaker 1: the year, three or four years down the road, we
Speaker 1: might be talking about as the as the guy getting
Speaker 1: the next contract and for the future, maybe from the
Speaker 1: second round of the from the second that that's that's
Speaker 1: been a pretty good one. We'll we'll see what happens there.
Speaker 1: But um, but I think I think the Packers are
Speaker 1: going to try to do whatever they can to keep
Speaker 1: this group together because when you look at the first
Speaker 1: five games of West, the Packers are four and one.
Speaker 1: Jordy Nelson had six touchdown catches in those five games.
Speaker 1: I mean, there was nothing wrong with the offense at
Speaker 1: that stage. No, there wasn't, and Aaron Rodgers was looking
Speaker 1: like a legitimate m VP candidate at that point in time.
Speaker 1: There were four and one going into that game against
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings, The thing that stands out to me
Speaker 1: the most when you look at that, really that partnership
Speaker 1: between Nelson and Rodgers is the fact that that is
Speaker 1: the longest tenured quarterback receiver duo in the league and
Speaker 1: it's not even close. So for him, and he said
Speaker 1: it at the end of the season two, he still
Speaker 1: thinks there's a lot of Jews left with Jordy Nelson.
Speaker 1: Randall Cobb, I thought really did come on at the
Speaker 1: end of last season was really an important piece against
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers. So to see what they can get
Speaker 1: and obviously it's a big caveat, and there's always hypotheticals
Speaker 1: with injuries, but to see what they have with those
Speaker 1: three guys giving it one more shot, I think it
Speaker 1: might be worth it. But again, those are all decisions
Speaker 1: that Brian Goody Clints is probably gonna have to make
Speaker 1: here in the next two weeks figuring out that vision
Speaker 1: for two thousand eighteen. Yeah, and you mentioned the Carolina
Speaker 1: game and Larry. If anybody is wondering about Randall Cobb
Speaker 1: and where he is, all you have to do is
Speaker 1: look at that touchdown catch on that little scramble play
Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers down and Arolina. Randall Cops still brings
Speaker 1: a lot to the table. Yeah, he does. And the
Speaker 1: thing he brings his suddenness. And ironically enough, since we're
Speaker 1: here at the scouting combine, that's one of the things
Speaker 1: they think they can measure, but they really can't because
Speaker 1: there's a difference in that because you think about it
Speaker 1: when you can pre plan it and you see where
Speaker 1: the cones are at and you're they're measuring change in direction.
Speaker 1: But mentally you can pre program yourself to get around
Speaker 1: him and things like that. But in the heat of battle,
Speaker 1: when we've seen it's like Randall Cops got eyes in
Speaker 1: the back of his head. He just makes moves. You
Speaker 1: don't know where those moves come from. And it's like
Speaker 1: he's got terrific vision and he can translate it to
Speaker 1: the quickness of his feet. But you can't plan that.
Speaker 1: That's a reaction type suddenness. And while they've tried to
Speaker 1: measure it today, they're not converted. The next few days
Speaker 1: they're not going to be able to not like Randall
Speaker 1: Cop dosn't. Yeah, and you mentioned it West. The second
Speaker 1: round has been really that that was where Ted Thompson
Speaker 1: found all of his wide receivers. You go back to
Speaker 1: Greg Jennings. James Jones obviously was the third rounder, but
Speaker 1: Jordy Nelson, Randall Cobb, Davante Adams all second round picks.
Speaker 1: Do you see the Packers maybe making a move Brian Gudakunsta,
Speaker 1: you know, going along those same lines. Not this year,
Speaker 1: but I think it's still in the cards for them
Speaker 1: potentially look at that position again. They have had success
Speaker 1: in the middle rounds too. When you look at a
Speaker 1: guy like James Jones, but right now and I think
Speaker 1: you look at some of the other needs they have
Speaker 1: depending on what they do at fourteen, I'd be surprised
Speaker 1: if it's this year, but I guess you never really
Speaker 1: quite know. Yeah, and Larry just quickly your thoughts. We've
Speaker 1: been talking about the guys at the top, but the
Speaker 1: Packers have some other receivers who are still looking to
Speaker 1: grow in their careers. Trevor Davis, Geronimo Allison, guys like that.
Speaker 1: What did you see from them in as you look ahead?
Speaker 1: Young guys trying to go n Morrells and Michael Clark,
Speaker 1: I mean, guys with some interesting raw tools, but then
Speaker 1: you got to get out there and do it and
Speaker 1: you got the thing. We watched so consistently with young
Speaker 1: guys regardless of position, but especially a wide receiver living
Speaker 1: and learning on the job. So many times guys that
Speaker 1: were drafted the Packers even drafted in the second round,
Speaker 1: it took him a year. Now, those guys come with
Speaker 1: a lot of bona fides and a pedigree and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. And some of the guys we we're talking about,
Speaker 1: we're undrafted free agents, and so living and learning on
Speaker 1: the job and how quickly you can do that basically
Speaker 1: determinant what kind of career you're gonna had in the
Speaker 1: NFL because of the patients level is only so much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll give you a couple of scholarship years so you
Speaker 1: can live and learn on the job, but man, we
Speaker 1: gotta see performance at some point. That's what I saw. Yeah.
Speaker 1: With that, we'll toss it to a breakback with more
Speaker 1: from the NFL Scouting Combine on Packers Unscripted right after this.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Packers unscripted from downtown Indianapolis at the
Speaker 1: NFL Scouting Combine, Mike Spofford with Wes Hodkowitz and Larry McCarron. Guys,
Speaker 1: we've been talking all about offense for the first couple
Speaker 1: of segments of the show. Here let's switch gears to
Speaker 1: the defensive side west Mike McCarthy said that we were
Speaker 1: all in a lunch downtown here with some other reporters
Speaker 1: that cover the Packers with Brian Goodacunsten, Mike McCarthy, and
Speaker 1: one of the really interesting lines that Mike McCarthy used
Speaker 1: with regards to the defense, he says, Hey, I'm sick
Speaker 1: and tired of the defense on this team being like
Speaker 1: the step child, and uh, upgrading the defense. That's one
Speaker 1: of the biggest reasons, one of the biggest things the
Speaker 1: Packers are looking for here in India. It's a two
Speaker 1: sided approach. Mentally, it's telling the players that are coming back,
Speaker 1: you're not the step child. You're in this thing too.
Speaker 1: And two, it's finding the tools and the resources to
Speaker 1: pair with those guys to get the most out of them.
Speaker 1: So I think you look at a lot of the
Speaker 1: bright spots that defense last year that didn't exactly translate
Speaker 1: to a statue or to production. I mean the year
Speaker 1: that Kenny Clark had Blake Martinez was number two in
Speaker 1: the league and tackles, I mean, you did have a
Speaker 1: relati Si the productive season out of Clay Matthews, but
Speaker 1: overall it just wasn't enough. So now telling them and
Speaker 1: having that challenge, it was there since January four. He
Speaker 1: went out there. He said, we need the defense to
Speaker 1: be just as good as the offense. That's the mentality.
Speaker 1: They're not in the back seat. We don't want them
Speaker 1: to be in the back seat. And if you go
Speaker 1: back and look at it, I think there's been five
Speaker 1: times since two thous I should say since the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers have finished in the top ten and total
Speaker 1: offense and total defense. Three of those times they ended
Speaker 1: up in the Super Bowl. The odds are really in
Speaker 1: their favorite thing. Get that accomplished. Yeah, and Larry, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if you heard it the same way I did.
Speaker 1: But one of the other comments that I thought was
Speaker 1: really poignant from Mike McCarthy was when he talked about
Speaker 1: the defense being like the thermostat of the team. And
Speaker 1: what I heard from that is that as a head coach,
Speaker 1: he's looking for some consistency and some reliability on the
Speaker 1: defensive side, because the offensive side is where things maybe
Speaker 1: are going to swing a little more wildly. You can
Speaker 1: have your big, huge offensive days and then other days
Speaker 1: where things just don't go right. The defense is the
Speaker 1: one that needs to kind of be the steady hand.
Speaker 1: That's what the head coach is looking for. Actually, I
Speaker 1: think I would disagree on this. I don't look at
Speaker 1: that comment as a steady hand. When he talked about thermostat,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's talking about aggression and things like that
Speaker 1: goes back to defense has got to be better than
Speaker 1: the offense. That's what he said a couple of months
Speaker 1: ago or whenever at the season under okay to me, Okay,
Speaker 1: the locker room, who's the kings of the barnyard On
Speaker 1: a lot of teams, when you talk about physical, tough,
Speaker 1: that's on the defensive side. Those guys kind of strut
Speaker 1: around the locker room and they look at the offense like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, anytime we want, we can line you
Speaker 1: up and kick your button. I mean. And then on
Speaker 1: a lot of teams, guys, a lot of teams, that's
Speaker 1: the way it is. The rough and tumble guys are
Speaker 1: on defense now, fortunately for the Packers, and it's helped them.
Speaker 1: They got some rough and tumble dudes on offense. And plus,
Speaker 1: leadership starts with performance and the offense is performing at
Speaker 1: a higher level than the defense. And you know, and
Speaker 1: that's when you get this step child there. You need
Speaker 1: defensive guys like mc daniels, got that chest out, bring
Speaker 1: it on, And I think that's what and when you
Speaker 1: talk about it's kind of like where a special teams
Speaker 1: are an indicator of a team's attitude because how had
Speaker 1: they cover, how had they play? Things like that? That
Speaker 1: was the sense I got when you look at a
Speaker 1: thermostat of football team, Hey, are we a rough and
Speaker 1: tough outfit? I mean, are we gonna out hit people?
Speaker 1: We're gonna do things like that, you know, the the
Speaker 1: core of the game. Usually your defense can be an
Speaker 1: indicator that I might be wrong. But that's where I
Speaker 1: told him, Yeah, and Wes, you brought up guys like
Speaker 1: Kenny Clark and Blake Martinez. We talked with Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: about you know, those are the types of guys who
Speaker 1: are making that next step in their careers. They did
Speaker 1: the second year jump that we've always talked about. But
Speaker 1: now the next step is for them to become the
Speaker 1: core players on this team, the next Mike Daniels, the
Speaker 1: next Clay Matthews or Nick Perry, guys like that and
Speaker 1: Clark and Martinez. There's gonna be a lot on those
Speaker 1: two guys in team based on what he did last season.
Speaker 1: And let's be honest, Mike, the Green Bay Packers in
Speaker 1: two months time could take Marcus Davenport, they could take
Speaker 1: some of these top guys at number fourteen in the draft. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: where they're gonna go in two thousand eighteen is gonna
Speaker 1: be driven by those second and third year players. History
Speaker 1: has proven that. You go back and look at the
Speaker 1: success Mike Petton had with the New York Jets. A
Speaker 1: lot of it, especially in those early years, was making
Speaker 1: do with what he already had in creating stars out
Speaker 1: of that the Darrell rivas Is of the world. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that they need to Marius Randall to become
Speaker 1: that player, but the more you get out of those guys,
Speaker 1: the more you can harness that ability is ultimately I think,
Speaker 1: going to take this defense to where they wanted to be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Larry, do you subscribe to the theory as well? Obviously,
Speaker 1: the Packers are here, the free agency's coming up there
Speaker 1: here for the draft, They're going to make player acquisitions
Speaker 1: to improve the team. But do you also subscribe to
Speaker 1: that theory that the greatest improvement is going to come
Speaker 1: from the guys who are already in the locker room.
Speaker 1: That's usually been the case. History says as much. And
Speaker 1: to expect a draft class, even one, if it winds
Speaker 1: up numbering twelve two weeks fact, it's gonna totally change
Speaker 1: everything about the team for the better. Well, those are
Speaker 1: awfully big expectations. Now, can you hit on a few?
Speaker 1: You hit on a few, you know, the difference between
Speaker 1: winning and losing and good and not so good, not
Speaker 1: a great deal. And you get started on the right foot,
Speaker 1: and you get guys kind of rallying and believing, and
Speaker 1: suddenly a guy or two that can make a player
Speaker 1: two can make a big difference. Yeah. Absolutely, With that,
Speaker 1: we will throw it to a break back with more
Speaker 1: on Packers Unscripted from the NFL Scouting Combine right after this.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Packers Unscripted from the NFL Scouting Combine
Speaker 1: in downtown Indy, Larry McCarron, Mike Spofford, and Wes Hodkowits
Speaker 1: and West before we go, Ted Thompson, former Packers general manager,
Speaker 1: actually not here at the NFL scouting combine. I can't
Speaker 1: even imagine. Maybe one was the last time he wasn't
Speaker 1: at a scouting comment. Probably not, but um, but Brian, Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe Brian Goodacoon is telling us that that Ted Thompson
Speaker 1: is is, you know, getting back to his roots, doing
Speaker 1: some scouting projects, still very involved in what's going on
Speaker 1: here with both pro and college side. It's almost like
Speaker 1: the kind of you know, kind of tailored a position
Speaker 1: to himself. I've kind of looked at it as almost
Speaker 1: like a special projects type role that he's taken on
Speaker 1: in the lessons. You've heard it so many times when
Speaker 1: Goodacus was talking with us, the lessons that he took
Speaker 1: from Thompson are really something that guides him. He's going
Speaker 1: to be his own GM. But having Thompson still there,
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a big benefit. And he
Speaker 1: also doubled down on that too, saying that this isn't
Speaker 1: gonna be a one year arrangement. It's for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 1: He sees Ted Thompson being a part of that personnel department. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and in terms of in terms of getting back to
Speaker 1: his roots, you gotta believe that that Ted Thompson, he
Speaker 1: didn't always like going to the podium and all that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Larrea, I think he likes even more
Speaker 1: being in the background, in the shadows right now being
Speaker 1: here I am listen to me. I mean, that wasn't right,
Speaker 1: but I thought it was really interesting when Brian Bruticans
Speaker 1: is up there and we all there's an unwritten rule
Speaker 1: or a written rule fromwhere don't ask ted about any
Speaker 1: player because he's not going to tell you, And don't
Speaker 1: even ask him about a position because he ain't gonna
Speaker 1: tell you that either, certainly, and I thought it was interesting.
Speaker 1: Yesterday Brian Grudgin's right away was asked about the strength
Speaker 1: of the draft and he actually said something. He actually said,
Speaker 1: I think it looks pretty good in the secondary, in
Speaker 1: the interior, offensive line. He said those things, and I thought, well,
Speaker 1: we can tell there's a new guy of the polity.
Speaker 1: And now that we actually heard two positions that we're
Speaker 1: probably ball faced live he's just throwing us off, but
Speaker 1: we actually heard positions mentioned. He's giving me something, yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. But with that we're going to call it
Speaker 1: a wrap on this edition of Packers Unscripted. Be sure
Speaker 1: to follow all of our coverage of the Packers and
Speaker 1: the Scouting Combine on packers dot com. We will be
Speaker 1: or the rest of the week and through the weekend
Speaker 1: for Larry and Mike and Wes. Will see you next time.
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