Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford. He is my trusted colleague West Hodquits.
Speaker 1: We're coming to you here from our studios at lambeau
Speaker 1: Field West. We are back from Winnipeg, and I'm not
Speaker 1: quite sure what to call what happened in Winnipeg, but
Speaker 1: there were there was a a problem with the field
Speaker 1: and a football scrimmage broke out or something like that,
Speaker 1: because as we all know by now eighty yard field,
Speaker 1: there was a problem in the end zones. Both teams
Speaker 1: basically decided to rest all their starters. It was a
Speaker 1: battle of the backups from the I was gonna say
Speaker 1: opening kickoff, but there wasn't even an opening kickoff, so
Speaker 1: I can't even say open. But anyway, bottom line, Packers
Speaker 1: and Raiders played preseason Game three, but it actually looked
Speaker 1: a lot like more like a preseason game one because
Speaker 1: none of the starters were in the game. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was funny too because I was talking to him Boil
Speaker 1: about this after the game and he said, it's probably
Speaker 1: the closest thing he's played to a backyard football game
Speaker 1: since he was a kid. Because there were no goal
Speaker 1: posts interns. Well there were goal post but you can
Speaker 1: kick field goals, but there were no kickoffs, I should say, Uh,
Speaker 1: you had the issue at the end zones, so you're
Speaker 1: throwing between the ten and zero goal line, ten on
Speaker 1: each end of the field. So all of that stuff
Speaker 1: made it for kind of a wild deal. But as
Speaker 1: you said, the most important thing is Mike. For a
Speaker 1: lot of young guys on this roster, it was another opportunity.
Speaker 1: It was another opportunity to go out there and show
Speaker 1: that they belong and when final cuts get made next week,
Speaker 1: that they deserve to be on the fifty three man rosters.
Speaker 1: So while it had such unique circumstances surrounding the game,
Speaker 1: the goals and objectives for the players that were suited
Speaker 1: up were very real. Yeah, And we had talked heading
Speaker 1: in to that game about a couple of guys who
Speaker 1: were due to injuries, were making their preseason debuts in
Speaker 1: Game three, and I thought both of them came out
Speaker 1: of that game with exactly what they were looking for.
Speaker 1: And I'm talking about Trevor Davis and Josh Jackson, one
Speaker 1: player on each side of the ball for the Packers.
Speaker 1: Trevor Davis, I tell you we talked about him when
Speaker 1: he got back into practice coming back from the stinger injury,
Speaker 1: how he kind of picked up where he left off. Well,
Speaker 1: he took everything that he was doing in practice and
Speaker 1: he did it in the game. He if you were
Speaker 1: to pick one star of the game, aside from quarterback
Speaker 1: Tim Boyle, who I think we'll get to, but Trevor
Speaker 1: Davis was the guy who really shine on this night.
Speaker 1: Trevor Davis was the star of this game, regardless of
Speaker 1: the other positions and whatnot, because of what he could
Speaker 1: potentially mean to this offense and to this team should
Speaker 1: he be on the fifty three a week from now.
Speaker 1: He is dynamic, he is versatile, and now he's contributing
Speaker 1: as a receiver. I honestly believe, Mike, if you just
Speaker 1: showed me the film of Trevor Davis running routes back
Speaker 1: in two thousand sixteen as opposed to where he is
Speaker 1: at today, I think there's a night and day difference.
Speaker 1: And it's not just being able to be crisp and
Speaker 1: be able to be accountable and exactly where you need
Speaker 1: to be. The guy is catching everything. He has made
Speaker 1: up for lost time, and I thought it was very interesting.
Speaker 1: He said this after the game. You know, he sort
Speaker 1: of need to remind everybody of where he was before
Speaker 1: that stinger against Houston and in the path he had
Speaker 1: been on, and he needed to be able to put
Speaker 1: that production into a game. If you wouldn't have known
Speaker 1: any better, you would have thought Trevor Davis would have
Speaker 1: been out there the entire training camp, had not missed
Speaker 1: two weeks, had been out there and being able to
Speaker 1: get five catches for seven eight yards and a touchdown
Speaker 1: eighteen yards off of reverse, a seventeen yard punt returned
Speaker 1: the guys of the number one gunner right now and
Speaker 1: punt coverage, Trevor Davis is in all the exact spots
Speaker 1: he needs to be to put himself on this active roster. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's definitely stating his case that that there is a
Speaker 1: place for him, both on offense and on special teams
Speaker 1: on this roster. I want to say one more thing too,
Speaker 1: because he's not here anymore, and and certainly things did
Speaker 1: not go the way they wanted to, but Trevor Davis
Speaker 1: had a massive advocate in ron Zoock last year, and
Speaker 1: this is a guy that really believed in his talent,
Speaker 1: not only just as a returner, but spoke very highly
Speaker 1: of him as a football player. If this ultimately ends
Speaker 1: up playing out the way Trevor Davis wants it to,
Speaker 1: I think you need to keep ron Zuck in the
Speaker 1: back of mind because that guy stumped pretty hard for
Speaker 1: him to be on that roster. Yeah, and with with
Speaker 1: all the injuries and everything that he dealt with last year.
Speaker 1: When other teams in a lot of those types of
Speaker 1: instances just move on from a young player, Packers have
Speaker 1: stuck with Davis and it looks like it could pay
Speaker 1: dividends for them. Josh Jackson missed the first few weeks
Speaker 1: of training camp with a foot injury, was brought back
Speaker 1: in very slowly in terms of working his way up
Speaker 1: to eleven on eleven um, and as we had mentioned
Speaker 1: last week, kind of a forgotten guy in this whole
Speaker 1: cornerback mix. As Tony Brown has come on as the
Speaker 1: rookie sixth round picked from Toledo, Kadar Holman showed some things.
Speaker 1: Even Chandon Sullivan an undraft a guy, but Josh Jackson,
Speaker 1: he gets in and early in that game, a couple
Speaker 1: of past breakups, a couple of nice play defensive plays downfield.
Speaker 1: He's got his feetback under him. Again, he did exactly
Speaker 1: what he needed to do in this game. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure in this whole cornerback rotation how it's going to
Speaker 1: shake out when the real games start, but Josh Jackson
Speaker 1: at least had that opportunity to to say, Hey, everybody,
Speaker 1: I'm still here. So it was interesting. I talked with
Speaker 1: him in the locker room on Sunday and he mentioned,
Speaker 1: you know, there was still some rust he had to
Speaker 1: knock off. He was thrilled with his performance, but all
Speaker 1: things considered, in the time he missed with the foot
Speaker 1: injury and the fact that those were really his first
Speaker 1: tried and true, repeated snaps he's taken with the defense
Speaker 1: one play after another. Was actually in a game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in a sequence. I thought he played pretty dang well.
Speaker 1: I thought so too. To have to pass deflections um
Speaker 1: from what I remember off the top of my head,
Speaker 1: not really any catches given up or allowed. I just
Speaker 1: thought it was very consistent performance for him, something to
Speaker 1: build on, and let's be honest, Mike. I wrote it
Speaker 1: in the story that we posted on Packers dot Com
Speaker 1: on Monday, the Packers this is a guy that played
Speaker 1: sixteen games from last year started ten of them in
Speaker 1: this secondary Josh Jackson was a very big part of
Speaker 1: this scheme and had he not been injured at the
Speaker 1: beating of the camp, would have been out there with
Speaker 1: the defensive sub packages. So question not sure exactly where
Speaker 1: things are at with Kevin King yet Josh Jackson is
Speaker 1: going to be in the mix for snaps in those
Speaker 1: nickel and dime based defenses and and seeing how that
Speaker 1: all shuffles out with Jaire Alexander and Tony Brown. We've
Speaker 1: said it time and time again, Mike, you need options
Speaker 1: at that position, and Josh Jackson gives the Packers another
Speaker 1: one of them. Yeah. Well, another guy we need to
Speaker 1: talk about in terms of really stepping forward in this
Speaker 1: game against Winnipeg. He's the guy who got the starting
Speaker 1: nod at quarterback with Aaron Rodgers and the number one'es
Speaker 1: on offense resting and it's Tim Boyle. And we will
Speaker 1: see how things play out this week with the preseason
Speaker 1: finale against Kansas City. But this is the first time,
Speaker 1: I guess you could say, West that we've really seen
Speaker 1: what could be a a flip in the quarterback pecking
Speaker 1: order here. Tim Boyle made his case with a really
Speaker 1: really solid performance in Winnipeg to potentially be the number
Speaker 1: two quarterback behind Aaron Rodgers. I have two thoughts on this.
Speaker 1: The first one is boil was exceptional. Started slowly, almost
Speaker 1: had a pick in the first or second series. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the first the first quarter was not going well, and
Speaker 1: then suddenly in the second quarter, three consecutive touchdown drives.
Speaker 1: I don't you know, I don't care if the goal
Speaker 1: lines the ten yard line or the regular goal line.
Speaker 1: Three consecutive drives that end in touchdowns. That's that's doing something.
Speaker 1: That's production. And I don't want to put words in
Speaker 1: Tim Boyle's mouth, but just watching him and talking to
Speaker 1: him a little bit after the game, to me, that
Speaker 1: is probably the most confident he's looked in the Packers uniform.
Speaker 1: Once he got that first touchdown producing series, it was
Speaker 1: important for them to come back and get another one.
Speaker 1: He had some nighte s down field passes. Uh. He
Speaker 1: was not afraid to take chances. He stood in the pocket,
Speaker 1: he stood tall, made the throws he had to make,
Speaker 1: and he cut down in some of the erratic nature
Speaker 1: that had been sort of plaguing him in the past
Speaker 1: with some of those downfield throws. I just thought it
Speaker 1: was an exceptional performance by him. The other thing I
Speaker 1: want to point out to more so than any other
Speaker 1: quarterback I can think of, maybe going back to Matt Flynn,
Speaker 1: Matt Flynn's probably the best example of this. The path
Speaker 1: the Packers have taken with Tim Boyle, and this is
Speaker 1: a credit to Mike McCarthy who and his staff and
Speaker 1: now with what Matt Lafleur has done, I think this
Speaker 1: is one of the most even keeled, balanced development of
Speaker 1: a quarterback that I can remember in Green Bay. Last year,
Speaker 1: Tim Boil didn't play a lot during the off season.
Speaker 1: He didn't see a lot of snaps during training camp,
Speaker 1: and played, you know, a little bit near the end
Speaker 1: of camp where you really got to see him play
Speaker 1: an extended amount of snaps. They were really careful with him,
Speaker 1: but you saw enough to warrant him being on the
Speaker 1: fifty three all year. This offseason they tested him more
Speaker 1: and as you said, they have him pushing for that
Speaker 1: number to spot. Right now, there's one game to go,
Speaker 1: there's a lot that's still on the line between him
Speaker 1: and Deshaun Kaiser. But I just thought Tim Boyle's performance.
Speaker 1: If you're Matt Lafleur, in this coaching staff and you're
Speaker 1: looking for signs that this guy has taken that next step.
Speaker 1: I thought you definitely saw them in Winnipeg. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think what stood out to me, and it's not just
Speaker 1: the numbers, the hundred and thirteen quarterback rating, which is
Speaker 1: very impressive and all that, but when Boyle got into
Speaker 1: the second quarter, overcame that slow start, started moving the
Speaker 1: ball on a consistent basis. You could see he got
Speaker 1: into a rhythm and that's the confidence you were talking about.
Speaker 1: He was dropping back, planning his back foot and letting
Speaker 1: that thing go. And that type of rhythm has been
Speaker 1: quite frankly and a lot of it has to do
Speaker 1: with the players around you too. In preseason, you can
Speaker 1: end up playing with third string, fourth string guys and
Speaker 1: all that. That's all part of it, but that kind
Speaker 1: of rhythm has been so rare for a Packers backup
Speaker 1: quarterback in the preseason. I honestly thought that it was
Speaker 1: the best quarter of football I've seen by a Packers
Speaker 1: backup corps her back in the preseason in at least
Speaker 1: a handful of years. And we saw some nice flashes
Speaker 1: from Brett Hunley. We've seen some flashes from Deshaun Kaiser,
Speaker 1: But in terms of three consecutive drives where the quarterback
Speaker 1: was really in a rhythm and seemed to be in
Speaker 1: command of everything that was going on in the field,
Speaker 1: that's what really stood out. Yeah, it was the most
Speaker 1: impressive quarter I've seen from a backup quarterbacks since. As
Speaker 1: I mentioned before, Graham Harrold keeping his job at the
Speaker 1: end of two thousand twelve preseason when he had like
Speaker 1: a sixteen of eighteen performance against Kansas City starters that
Speaker 1: helped him stay on the roster in the time in
Speaker 1: which he really needed that. I just thought Boyle was confident.
Speaker 1: I talked to Justin McCrae about this afterwards in the
Speaker 1: locker room, the way he handled the huddle, his composure,
Speaker 1: giving a really unorthodox set of circumstances that he was
Speaker 1: forced into with the field, with the fact that Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers ended up not playing in that game when there
Speaker 1: was some thought that he might, uh, he adjusted to that,
Speaker 1: He made it work, made it work for him, and
Speaker 1: now he's put himself in a position in the number
Speaker 1: two battle will work itself out. But I just think
Speaker 1: a performance like that it keeps him in the conversation
Speaker 1: to stay on the fifty three and continue telling the
Speaker 1: Packers that, you know what, whether I'm two or three,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to shake it out to be, didn't
Speaker 1: mean to rhyme that I deserve that opportunity and your
Speaker 1: you don't want to part with me just yet. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: we've got some more things to talk about from the
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Speaker 1: the bad news out of Winnipeg West is that the
Speaker 1: Packers came back to Green Bay with a bunch of injuries. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: and we don't really have time to talk about all
Speaker 1: of them, but some of the key ones that jump
Speaker 1: out um Equinimius st. Brown a nasty looking ankle injury
Speaker 1: on a play where he took a hit where that
Speaker 1: was actually penalized a helmet shot and uh but it
Speaker 1: wasn't the head injury that we all thought at first,
Speaker 1: ended up being that his ankle got messed up there.
Speaker 1: Curtis Bolton the undrafted rookie out of Oklahoma who seemed
Speaker 1: to be in line to be that second inside linebacker
Speaker 1: in the base package alongside Blake Martinez. He goes down
Speaker 1: with a knee injury. Alan was already young wide receiver
Speaker 1: trying to make a bid for a roster spot. He's
Speaker 1: now in the concussion protocol. And we saw a first
Speaker 1: round draft pick, Rashawn Gary also leave the field, although
Speaker 1: what looked kind of scary at first, he ended up
Speaker 1: sitting up his his head kind of bent back awkwardly
Speaker 1: when he was got getting in a tackle. But then
Speaker 1: he was able to sit up. They didn't need to
Speaker 1: stabilize his neck or do any of those kinds of things,
Speaker 1: and he was able to to walk off the field.
Speaker 1: We don't have a whole lot of information on these
Speaker 1: injuries just yet, but some of these, you know, and
Speaker 1: this is just the reality of training camp in a preseason,
Speaker 1: some of these injuries are going to impact the final
Speaker 1: roster decisions a week from now. Yeah, in some regard,
Speaker 1: and that's the unfortunate thing. And you're really you're happy
Speaker 1: to see that Gary appears to be fine. He was
Speaker 1: walked around in the locker room seeming He was in
Speaker 1: good spirits on Sunday. Um, so you knock on Wood
Speaker 1: that everything's going to be fine with him in the
Speaker 1: bright future that he has the NFL. The thing that's
Speaker 1: tough for Bolton and Lazard and even e q C.
Speaker 1: Brown to some extent is he all these guys were
Speaker 1: fighting for roster spots, they were fighting for roles, and
Speaker 1: now you have an injury latent camp that kind of
Speaker 1: complicates that. Bolton is the one that your heart really
Speaker 1: hurts for, though, because he was an undrafted rookie that
Speaker 1: was getting snaps with the ones at the time of
Speaker 1: the injury. It almost reminds me in a way of
Speaker 1: two thousand fourteen or fifteen whenever that was that Joe
Speaker 1: Thomas had kind of looked really impressive early in camp
Speaker 1: and he ends up having the knee injury against Tennessee.
Speaker 1: So for Bolton's sake, you hope it's nothing major. He
Speaker 1: was talking to the media on Sunday. He said, the
Speaker 1: hope is that it's not a significant injury, but there
Speaker 1: still really isn't a timeline. Yeah, there seems to be
Speaker 1: still some uncertainty as to exactly what's going on and
Speaker 1: what his prognosis is moving forward, so you have to
Speaker 1: wait and see there in the interim time, Summers has
Speaker 1: thrown back back into the limelight. A guy like Raven
Speaker 1: Green is a hybrid linebacker safety type, is going to
Speaker 1: be in there. Brady Shelton, the practice squad over holdover
Speaker 1: from last year, gonna have a chance to shine. And
Speaker 1: and even James Crawford, who was a pretty and trench
Speaker 1: special teamer trying to show that he could be a
Speaker 1: you know, uh an asset on defense. So this last game,
Speaker 1: because I'd imagine, especially with Blake Martinez kind of working
Speaker 1: through some stuff even though he was practicing Sunday, I
Speaker 1: think this is gonna be the Thie Summer Show again
Speaker 1: on Thursday against Kansas City and proving that the seventh
Speaker 1: round pick out of almost by u t CC deserves
Speaker 1: a spot. Yeah. Well, and to Summer's credit, because we
Speaker 1: had talked through the first two games about how he
Speaker 1: had racked up a bunch of tackles, but he'd also
Speaker 1: missed his share of tackles, and he was the first
Speaker 1: one to say both of those games he should have
Speaker 1: had more tackles than the stat sheet said. Well, he
Speaker 1: cut down on the miss tackles. He was much more
Speaker 1: sound fundamentally. He did lead the defense and tackles once
Speaker 1: again um in Winnipeg. But even though maybe he didn't
Speaker 1: have any of the blash plays or the flashy plays,
Speaker 1: because of the fundamentals and cutting down on the miss tackles,
Speaker 1: it was probably his best performance. Well. And here's the thing, Mike,
Speaker 1: that you have to realize with the inside linebacker position
Speaker 1: in two thousand nineteen, the splash plays are great. You
Speaker 1: want to have them. It's how you end up making
Speaker 1: a career for yourself as a first and second down linebacker. Though,
Speaker 1: you just need the consistency side of it. You need
Speaker 1: to be able to to either tackle your guy or
Speaker 1: hold him up for the scrum, not lose them, not
Speaker 1: let him get behind you. Um be gaps, sound, be fundamental,
Speaker 1: use your technique. That's what the Packers want. That's actually,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you. Jake Ryan took some some
Speaker 1: hits at times from people, but he was consistent in
Speaker 1: that way. You could count on him against the run.
Speaker 1: Blake Martinez is the coverage you know, third down linebacker
Speaker 1: right now. He's the guys on the field every play
Speaker 1: or in Burke's has those tendencies, But right now you
Speaker 1: just need something that's gonna stem the tide because in
Speaker 1: those sub packages you have Raven Green, they're hoping that
Speaker 1: they're gonna get Ibraheim Campbell back at some point. You
Speaker 1: have the defensive backs that can help you out. So
Speaker 1: for Summers, I thought it was an encouraging performance because
Speaker 1: he just looked a lot more consistent. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: mentioned the next guy that I want to talk about,
Speaker 1: and that's Raven Green, who we've been talking about him
Speaker 1: since the beginning of O t A s how he
Speaker 1: came back from the ankle injury, who kind of rebuilt
Speaker 1: his upper body, essentially put on about ten pounds. UM
Speaker 1: just looks physically larger, physically stronger. He's been playing safety
Speaker 1: as well as that hybrid linebacker role in the dime
Speaker 1: defense or whatever type of sub package that Mike Petton
Speaker 1: calls there. And with the roster move the Packers made
Speaker 1: releasing or waving I guess I should say, to be
Speaker 1: technically accurate, waving Josh Jones, the former second round pick
Speaker 1: from North Carolina State. UM, the door now is wide
Speaker 1: open for Raven Green to take the job that he's
Speaker 1: been working on and that he has stepped into and
Speaker 1: filled so well throughout this offseason, throughout this training camp,
Speaker 1: and start doing it in the real games. Raven Green
Speaker 1: was a very accomplished safety at James Madison fourteen interceptions
Speaker 1: school record. He did everything he could to put himself
Speaker 1: on the NFL radar. But I just feel like this position,
Speaker 1: this hybrid role that's in the box kind of slot
Speaker 1: cornerback linebackers position for him is tailored to a skill
Speaker 1: set perfectly. Now he's in a unique spot because he's
Speaker 1: also the next man up behind Adrian Amos and with
Speaker 1: Darnell Savage back there, but in the interim playing that
Speaker 1: role in that that that package that we've seen become
Speaker 1: so prevalent throughout this defense and defenses across the league.
Speaker 1: This is a key time for him. And it's also
Speaker 1: unique in that he's had a full off season because
Speaker 1: of Josh Jones not being here during O T A man,
Speaker 1: he was here many Cans, but during O T s
Speaker 1: in the off season program, this gave him a chance
Speaker 1: to settle into that role a little bit and he's
Speaker 1: going to be a key player for this Packers defense
Speaker 1: this season. They need him to be that in addition
Speaker 1: everything he offers on special teams as a personal protector
Speaker 1: and in things of that nature. Yeah, and I wrote
Speaker 1: a story about him after Sunday's practice. It was posted
Speaker 1: Sunday evening on packers dot com if you want to
Speaker 1: check it out. It was an interesting conversation as locker
Speaker 1: me and a couple of other reporters. Two things really
Speaker 1: stood out to me in terms of what he said.
Speaker 1: One is that all of this stuff with kind of
Speaker 1: playing hybrid linebackers, sometimes blitzing, playing against the run, he
Speaker 1: didn't do any of that at James Madison. He was
Speaker 1: the center fielder. That's how he got a school record
Speaker 1: fourteen interceptions. But that's all he did in college. And
Speaker 1: now this versatility and everything that is becoming his calling
Speaker 1: card as a young NFL player, it's all new to him.
Speaker 1: But he's loving it. He you know, he's really fitting
Speaker 1: what the Packers are are asking him to do. Excuse me.
Speaker 1: And then the other the other thing is just the
Speaker 1: coming back from that injury, that ankle injury. He last
Speaker 1: year he was making a name for himself a little
Speaker 1: bit on special teams. He had five coverage tackles, he
Speaker 1: had a forced fumble, a big turnover in the San
Speaker 1: Francisco game, But then he started to get some more
Speaker 1: snaps on defense. When some injuries hit, he was getting
Speaker 1: snaps at safety. Things were looking a lot more promising.
Speaker 1: Then suddenly, boom, he goes down with the ankle injury.
Speaker 1: He ends up on injured reserve. I believe he missed
Speaker 1: the last six games of that was not easy to
Speaker 1: come back from. But what he said is that he
Speaker 1: actually learned a lot from the experience in terms of
Speaker 1: really what it takes to be a pro. And not
Speaker 1: to say that, you know, he wanted to get hurt,
Speaker 1: but he said, really he feels like because of the
Speaker 1: injury and everything he had to do to come back
Speaker 1: from it, he's a better player now then if he
Speaker 1: had never gotten hurt in the first place. And I
Speaker 1: thought that was a really interesting perspective because because a
Speaker 1: lot of at the time that had happened, you wonder,
Speaker 1: are we ever going to hear from Raven Green again?
Speaker 1: Because it wasn't It was a difficult injury, and and
Speaker 1: he's a young, undrafted guy who's just trying to make
Speaker 1: his way. Well here he is. He's back, and he's
Speaker 1: gonna be on the field quite a bit for Green Bay.
Speaker 1: Glad made that little bit of a comment there, because
Speaker 1: there is a decision every GM has to make when
Speaker 1: you're dealing with an undrafted type player, and I kind
Speaker 1: of call it that Cris Banjo Mackinton door Lean decision,
Speaker 1: where you know, Chris Banjo got hurt, the Packers moved
Speaker 1: on and that was a mistake. He's become a really
Speaker 1: solid special teams player for New Orleans and also a
Speaker 1: backup that rotates in with that secondary Mackinton door Lean.
Speaker 1: The Packers put as an I R and they brought
Speaker 1: him back desonator return. It never really quite worked out
Speaker 1: for him. You need to find that line of demarcation.
Speaker 1: It's not easy to really grasp. But I like that
Speaker 1: the Packers stayed consistent with green They went back to
Speaker 1: what they saw from him in the beginning and they
Speaker 1: trusted that, Okay, he's going to come back from this
Speaker 1: injury and he becomes he can become a player. Because
Speaker 1: let's be honest, Mike, when a guy's coming off he's
Speaker 1: a second year player coming off an ankle injury, there
Speaker 1: might be some apprehension to have him with the starters.
Speaker 1: They're going back out into the offseason program. Packers didn't
Speaker 1: have any of that. And I think for everything we've
Speaker 1: seen from Raven Green, he's rewarded um for some of that,
Speaker 1: uh you know that dedication and trust and you know,
Speaker 1: knock on wood for him. He put the injuries behind
Speaker 1: him and this can be a productive season. Yeah. No
Speaker 1: GM ever bats a thousand with those types of decisions,
Speaker 1: but they certainly like to see the players who reward
Speaker 1: their faith in them because this is the kind of
Speaker 1: thing that happens almost every year. Absolutely, and and and
Speaker 1: I let's be honest. I mean, you fill out a
Speaker 1: fifty three man roster, you're gonna have undrafted players. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have unproven players. You have to trust them and
Speaker 1: they have to produce. Yeah, alright, well, with that, we
Speaker 1: will call it a wrap on this edition of Packers Unscripted.
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