Speaker 1: Ye. Welcome to Packers Unscripted. I am Mike Spoffer, joined
Speaker 1: today by a very special guest, Aaron Nagler. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the show. Well, thanks for having me. I couldn't believe
Speaker 1: I got in the door. It's pretty impressive. This is
Speaker 1: a nice set up you guys got. Well, Aaron is
Speaker 1: here for covering Packers training camp for the first couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. We thought we'd take advantage of his visit
Speaker 1: to get him on the show and talk a little
Speaker 1: Packers football. Aaron, We're coming off of Family Night last
Speaker 1: Friday night, kind of the big moment, you'd say, in
Speaker 1: training camp before that first preseason game. A lot of
Speaker 1: different standouts on both sides of the ball, But I
Speaker 1: want to start on the offensive side. What caught your
Speaker 1: eye on Family Night? Well, it's interesting. I know a
Speaker 1: lot of headlines have been generated around the receivers, you know,
Speaker 1: Trevor Davis, et cetera. But I'm gonna go with Dexter
Speaker 1: Williams and I don't think he had an standing evening.
Speaker 1: I mean, he had his ups and downs, but continually
Speaker 1: through camp so far, and then particularly on Family Night,
Speaker 1: you saw him in Blitz pick up. Really know his
Speaker 1: assignments have them down. And you've been around a long
Speaker 1: time watching Packers rookie backs come in and just be
Speaker 1: completely overwhelmed when it comes to picking up the blitz, right,
Speaker 1: I think it's really encouraging to see where he is
Speaker 1: at this point. Yeah. Well, certainly nobody wanted Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: and Jamal Williams to have to sit out the time
Speaker 1: that they have with some minor injuries. But it's been
Speaker 1: a heck of an opportunity for Dexter Williams, a sixth
Speaker 1: round pick out of Notre Dame, coming into camp as
Speaker 1: the number three running back, to not only get reps
Speaker 1: with the number one offense, but just the sheer volume
Speaker 1: of opportunity getting Yeah, and I mean this can be
Speaker 1: really important for a young guy that the Packers they
Speaker 1: drafted him for a reason, they want to find where
Speaker 1: he fits in this offense. Even though you know Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones when healthy is going to be the number one
Speaker 1: guy here. But where do you see Dexter Williams perhaps
Speaker 1: fitting into this mix. Well, he does seem to be
Speaker 1: such a perfect scheme fit. A lot was talked about
Speaker 1: after the draft about the zone scheme in his place
Speaker 1: in it and his ability to stick his foot in
Speaker 1: the ground and get up field when he sees that crease.
Speaker 1: And you've seen that on the practice field. You've seen
Speaker 1: where you know, he hits his aiming point and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden he spies that little cutback and he's gone. Um.
Speaker 1: It is interesting. Jamal Williams obviously has been out much
Speaker 1: longer than Aaron Jones has. I do wonder if that
Speaker 1: gives Dexter Williams a bit of an opportunity to maybe
Speaker 1: become Obviously, I don't think he's going to be splitting
Speaker 1: carries with Aaron Jones anytime soon, but it could give
Speaker 1: him a bit of a crease to wedge himself in
Speaker 1: there to be the guy who's in the rotation. And
Speaker 1: the longer Jamal is out, you never know what these injuries,
Speaker 1: but the longer he's out, the more opportunities Dexter has
Speaker 1: to put stuff on tape and to make the coaching
Speaker 1: staff more comfortable with him. I could see him being
Speaker 1: a guy who gets, you know, five six touches a game,
Speaker 1: at least early on in the season. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's definitely a possibility, and we'll see how the rest
Speaker 1: of this preseason goes. But with Jamal Williams out as
Speaker 1: long as he has been to this point, you would
Speaker 1: certainly think that Dexter Williams is going to get a
Speaker 1: big opportunity in this opening preseason game against the Houston
Speaker 1: Texans to really cement what he's done in the first
Speaker 1: couple of weeks of training camp. Elsewhere offensively, you mentioned,
Speaker 1: obviously the receivers Trevor Davis and Jake Kumer. I thought,
Speaker 1: simply continued continued what they've been doing all training camp
Speaker 1: in terms of their bids to to make this team
Speaker 1: and to get into the receiver rotation. The other thing
Speaker 1: I thought that stood out, and I know Matt Lafleur's
Speaker 1: kind of was joking in a couple of press commerce
Speaker 1: is about how the officials were a little generous with
Speaker 1: the with where they were spotting the ball and how
Speaker 1: many yards they were giving the offense here and there.
Speaker 1: But I thought in one of the move the ball
Speaker 1: drills and in the two minute drive, I thought this
Speaker 1: path Ker's offense, the ones with Aaron Rodgers at quarterback,
Speaker 1: I thought they looked as smooth and efficient as they've
Speaker 1: looked really throughout camp. And the thing that stood out
Speaker 1: to me about it more than anything, was the way
Speaker 1: Rogers was spreading the ball around. It was Adams, then
Speaker 1: it was Kumero, then it was Jimmy Graham, and it
Speaker 1: was Geronimo Alison. That ball was going to four or
Speaker 1: five different receivers within a given drive. That's exactly what
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur wants, right, Yeah, and the ability. It's funny
Speaker 1: because we saw early on in camp it was the
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and Davante Adams show. I mean, day in
Speaker 1: and day out, it was clear. And some of that
Speaker 1: is because obviously Davante is the number one guy in
Speaker 1: the progression, so you're gonna if he's open, he's gonna
Speaker 1: get the ball. And Davante Adams is open a lot.
Speaker 1: But as camp has gone on, you've seen Aaron really
Speaker 1: start to work with these other guys, really spreading it out,
Speaker 1: like you said, and I do think I mean it's
Speaker 1: funny because you've seen one guy we haven't talked about
Speaker 1: in that mixes Uh Vitality, the fullback who has been
Speaker 1: a legit receiving weapon. I mean, people traditionally don't think
Speaker 1: of the fullback as a receiver, but he certainly has
Speaker 1: been so far in camp in this offense. You talk
Speaker 1: about Matt Lafleur's hopes and dreams for this offense. Not
Speaker 1: only is he going to spread it out to all
Speaker 1: these different receivers, but he can play with personnel in
Speaker 1: a way. Okay, you bring a fullback in you think
Speaker 1: as a defensive coordinator. Okay, I got a counter with power,
Speaker 1: I got a counter with going big, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, we saw it the other day where
Speaker 1: Vitality motions out of the backfield into the slot and
Speaker 1: then runs a wheel route. I mean, that's not traditionally
Speaker 1: what you're looking for from your fullback. It's all over
Speaker 1: the place, and I think all the receiving options are
Speaker 1: starting to gel with the quarterback and that's exciting. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I think for those who want to read more
Speaker 1: about the fullback position, West actually has a story on
Speaker 1: our website right now about Vitality and everything that's been
Speaker 1: going on in training camp, going back to the very
Speaker 1: first day of camp. As I think you know, right,
Speaker 1: and that's what I was going to say. The very
Speaker 1: first pass in eleven on eleven in this training camp
Speaker 1: went to day anybody tell you? And I actually mentioned
Speaker 1: that in our Three Things video that we do with
Speaker 1: Larry and John that it's like, if you want to
Speaker 1: sign that there's a place for a fullback in this offense.
Speaker 1: Look at the very first play of eleven on eleven
Speaker 1: in this training camp. But as you said, it's not
Speaker 1: just the fullback leaking out as like a checkdown guy.
Speaker 1: That there is some of that, but there is also
Speaker 1: the fullback running a wheel route or even running down
Speaker 1: the scene, like down the hash and if it's there
Speaker 1: and if it's the right matchup, Roger's gonna throw the
Speaker 1: ball at direction. What's great is it On Sunday they
Speaker 1: ran Vitality down the scene and he was wide open,
Speaker 1: I mean wide open. Rogers hays something for a big game.
Speaker 1: So that tells you, you know, the defense is so
Speaker 1: worried about those other receiving options. If Aaron can get
Speaker 1: those going, they're going to forget about the fullback because
Speaker 1: you're not as a defensive back or a defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: It's just not You're the primary guy you're gonna be
Speaker 1: focusing on. You're gonna be rolling coverage to Adams. You're
Speaker 1: gonna be worried about Jimmy Graham up the same and
Speaker 1: then here comes vitality screaming wide open, and it's a
Speaker 1: lot of possibilities. Yeah, well before we switch gears to
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Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. When it comes to Family Night,
Speaker 1: what caught your eye? You know, there were a number
Speaker 1: of plays where you know, you always like to watch
Speaker 1: the young guys, you know. Aaron Rodgers mentioned it at
Speaker 1: his locker last week in regards to what he was
Speaker 1: looking forward to for Family Night, And you want to
Speaker 1: watch the young guys how they respond to being under
Speaker 1: the lights. It's such a big crowd for a practice. Um,
Speaker 1: I thought a couple of guys too, In particular, Montravius
Speaker 1: Adams had a play where he was so quick off
Speaker 1: the ball he completely ruined everything they were trying to
Speaker 1: do on offense. And then Rashan Gary, I think, holy cow,
Speaker 1: you see the athleticism you see the burst, you see
Speaker 1: the pot stability is the ceiling, as scouts like to say,
Speaker 1: is so so high because he can do. No man
Speaker 1: that big and that's strong should be running that fast.
Speaker 1: And there are so many instances where and some of
Speaker 1: this was against the two, so you take it with
Speaker 1: a grain of salt, right, He's just wrecking things and
Speaker 1: closing on the ball so quickly. You do think this
Speaker 1: is a major chess piece for Mike Patton. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: that's what I was going to say. And I mentioned
Speaker 1: this in our Insider Inbox column the other day because
Speaker 1: a lot of people are asking about Gary West, and
Speaker 1: I have been talking about him a lot because he
Speaker 1: does stand out on the practice field almost every day.
Speaker 1: But it's time for Rashaan Gary to get more reps
Speaker 1: against number one offensive because because the twos and the threes,
Speaker 1: he has nothing left to prove against those. I mean,
Speaker 1: he stole to beer Soul yesterday on the practice field.
Speaker 1: There are just moments where he is a complete mismatch
Speaker 1: for some of these, you know, and that's these guys
Speaker 1: are doing work. They're doing you know, They're every rep
Speaker 1: is valuable. You're gonna learn something from both sides of
Speaker 1: the ball. But if you're continually winning with ease, okay,
Speaker 1: it's time to let's let's see him go against Ryan
Speaker 1: Bolago or David Batari, Right yeah, I mean it's it's
Speaker 1: definitely gotten to that point, and I think we're going
Speaker 1: to see that as camp goes along, and certainly he's
Speaker 1: going to get reps in the preseason games, hopefully when
Speaker 1: the other team has its number one offensive line out there.
Speaker 1: Obviously the other thing with regards to family and on
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball, a couple of big interceptions. UH.
Speaker 1: Packers working on their cornerback depth, which now Kevin King
Speaker 1: has another hamstring injury, he's dealing with it. The depth
Speaker 1: at the cornerback position is going to be important, and
Speaker 1: UH we saw Tony Brown with a pick six. He
Speaker 1: jumps the sideline route, uh snags Deshaun Kaiser's pass and
Speaker 1: takes to the house and then kedar Holm in the
Speaker 1: rookie sixth round pick out of um A heck of
Speaker 1: a heck of a play. He attacks a essentially I
Speaker 1: don't know if you call it a slant or a
Speaker 1: stop route either way, but he gets the deflection, the
Speaker 1: ball pops way up in the air and then Chandon
Speaker 1: Sullivan another uck he comes and makes a diving interception. Um.
Speaker 1: A really good play by by both players there. But
Speaker 1: these guys number twenty and twenty nine, and they happened
Speaker 1: to be consecutive on the roster. But Tony Brown and
Speaker 1: dar Holman, these are two guys who could end up
Speaker 1: playing some important roles on this defense going forward. You
Speaker 1: mentioned Kevin King being out, Tony Brown steps in with
Speaker 1: the ones on stirring Sunday's practice. So you know that's
Speaker 1: the confidence the coaches seem to have in him. And
Speaker 1: I think for good reason. Anybody who has uh come
Speaker 1: here from Cheese Had TV knows. I've talked Tony Brown
Speaker 1: up all summer. I thought he got limited playing time,
Speaker 1: even more a little more playing time towards the end
Speaker 1: of the year last year. UM. I think people, most
Speaker 1: fans maybe remember him for the penalties, the two penalties
Speaker 1: earlier in the season last year. But I'm here to
Speaker 1: tell you this kid can play. He's got everything they
Speaker 1: need in Petton's defense, manning man defense especially, UM. And
Speaker 1: I don't I think he's picked up right where he
Speaker 1: left off. He's continuing to be I think he's an
Speaker 1: ascending player, and I'm with you. I mean, I've had
Speaker 1: a lot of kind of pushback for the pick six,
Speaker 1: people saying, oh, it was a poor throw, but there
Speaker 1: are no poor throws on Sundays in the NFL weekend
Speaker 1: a week out. There are poor throws. Job back is
Speaker 1: to take advantage of it. That's exactly what he did. Um.
Speaker 1: I'm really excited about Tony Brown and I Holman. What
Speaker 1: a find. This kid can play some man defense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: obviously that's pretty important in Mike scheme. He's an aggressive,
Speaker 1: in your face corner. Another guy who's getting some reps
Speaker 1: with the ones. So it's clear that the work they've
Speaker 1: done this offseason is starting to translate here when the
Speaker 1: pads are on, they're they're going in live situations. And
Speaker 1: I mean, so far, and it's still very early, but
Speaker 1: so far, these guys are answering the bell. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: I talked with Tony Brown after practice on Sunday. I'm
Speaker 1: actually working on a story for later in the week
Speaker 1: with as you said, him stepping in for Kevin King
Speaker 1: and working with that number one Nickel defense as a
Speaker 1: boundary corner. I talked to him about how things got
Speaker 1: off to a bit of a rocky start last year.
Speaker 1: He had that really bad on sportsmanlike conduct. But but
Speaker 1: what I what I asked him about when a when
Speaker 1: a brand new undrafted guy comes on the team and
Speaker 1: basically that's his his first foray onto the field in
Speaker 1: a game, and you make a really really bad and
Speaker 1: what a lot of people would consider a stupid mistake
Speaker 1: like that. I asked him to, you know, did you
Speaker 1: think you were even gonna be able to stick around here?
Speaker 1: And the fact that he did and he and he said, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, he obviously made the case that Okay, I
Speaker 1: gotta learn from it. It's not going to happen again, etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 1: But the fact that the Packers stuck with him says
Speaker 1: something about his talent, because there are a lot of
Speaker 1: guys in that situation with really no pedigree. They make
Speaker 1: a mistake like that in the game that the team
Speaker 1: ends up losing there on the street and the GM
Speaker 1: is finding another guy on the roster to replace him
Speaker 1: the next day. That didn't happen with Tony Brown, and
Speaker 1: that says something about what this personnel department thinks he
Speaker 1: can become. Absolutely, I mean, like I said, I've think
Speaker 1: all the tools and the talent are there. And it's funny.
Speaker 1: People remember the penalty, but they don't remember he's celebrating
Speaker 1: because he makes He makes a great play on third
Speaker 1: down which should have got them off the field, but
Speaker 1: it didn't because of penalty. But it just he the
Speaker 1: kid makes plays. He is in position more often than not.
Speaker 1: And if you're going to test him, and you got
Speaker 1: to think if for whatever reason, he has to play,
Speaker 1: you know, significant minutes this season. Well, people aren't going
Speaker 1: after Alexander. They're going to go after Tony Brown. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're going to attack. So hey, good luck to you,
Speaker 1: because I think this kid is gonna be up to
Speaker 1: the challenge. Yeah, and this is a kid he likes
Speaker 1: to trash with a with Aaron Rodgers no less two.
Speaker 1: He likes to try to get it. He said, you
Speaker 1: like completing one on him, so he shuts up. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Well we got a few more minutes here, Aaron. And
Speaker 1: you've been here since the start of training camp. I
Speaker 1: think you're you're here through the first preseason, right after
Speaker 1: the I'll be here through the Texans preseason game, then
Speaker 1: I fly out on Friday. Okay, well, just give me
Speaker 1: your general observations. This is the first we've really seen
Speaker 1: this Matt Laflor offense in eleven on eleven, full contact
Speaker 1: type of work. What are your overall impressions from from
Speaker 1: a scheme perspective, What jumps out at you in terms
Speaker 1: of what you're seeing out there. Well, it's funny. The
Speaker 1: watchwords have been the phrase that both he and Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers have kind of glommed onto repeatedly as work in progress,
Speaker 1: and I think that's certainly what we've seen so far,
Speaker 1: especially recently on Sunday. The defense just owned the offense,
Speaker 1: and I think part of it They're going against a
Speaker 1: very talented group on the defensive side of the ball,
Speaker 1: so I think there was always going to be a
Speaker 1: bit of stubbing your toe as you get going. When
Speaker 1: things start flowing on offense, and they have in like
Speaker 1: bits and pieces here and there. It's exciting to watch,
Speaker 1: and you do get that sense of they could hurt
Speaker 1: you any possible way, like whether it's at one point
Speaker 1: they were working five wide, which is kind of a
Speaker 1: very Mike McCarthy esque looking thing, but they can go
Speaker 1: there if they want. And Aaron was so great. My
Speaker 1: was Patton was trying to bring all these blitzes, and
Speaker 1: they were working on picking up pressure in an empty situation,
Speaker 1: Aaron just picks it apart or they go power and
Speaker 1: they're running that zone scheme, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you got these backs with holes open and you see
Speaker 1: like the possibilities, and then bootleg action off of that,
Speaker 1: which is the Shanahan tree staple from the quarterback um,
Speaker 1: and then you've got all the receiving options. I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be slow going, and I know people want to.
Speaker 1: I think the sense I get from some fans is, well,
Speaker 1: it's the Sean McVeigh offense. It's the Kyle Shanahan offense.
Speaker 1: We're gonna look like that, right, And I just don't
Speaker 1: think it's that simple. I think it will be a
Speaker 1: bit kind of stop and start fits and starts as
Speaker 1: the season begins. But the potential you can see it
Speaker 1: each and every day on the practice field there. It
Speaker 1: will take a bit for it all to gel, but
Speaker 1: once it does, it's going to be scary. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: one thing our colleague John Coon has talked about a
Speaker 1: lot in our Three Things videos and other play is
Speaker 1: all of the shifts and motions that we're going on
Speaker 1: with this offense. And you see you see jet sweep
Speaker 1: type action with the wide sometimes sometimes they get the ball,
Speaker 1: sometimes they don't. And those are the kinds of things
Speaker 1: that you know, they're they're running the bootleg action and
Speaker 1: things like that off of that. There's they're just there
Speaker 1: are so many things going on, you know, so to
Speaker 1: speak that and and that's what Matt Lafleur means when
Speaker 1: he talks about the the illusion of complexity, because for
Speaker 1: the players out there, it's not necessarily complex for them,
Speaker 1: but it's throwing a lot of the motions at the
Speaker 1: defense to get them to to distract them essentially, get
Speaker 1: them off their keys and uh, and to get them
Speaker 1: think something is coming when it's something else that is
Speaker 1: built off of something that was run four or five
Speaker 1: plays ago. Um, that kind of thing. Most offenses are
Speaker 1: like that, I just in terms of in terms of
Speaker 1: how they build off of other things, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. There's so much you talk about, like the
Speaker 1: shifts in the motion. Yeah, that's that's what that's And
Speaker 1: it's funny because you've seen and I think it kind
Speaker 1: of got onto the La Fleur's skin last week where
Speaker 1: there were like a number of plays in succession where
Speaker 1: there were pre snap penalties. You know, guys moving early,
Speaker 1: or two guys move at the same time, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Things you just can't have. And I think it's to
Speaker 1: be expected when you're incorporating everything we're talking about here.
Speaker 1: It's it's very new for some of these guys, and
Speaker 1: so I think you stepped back and you look at
Speaker 1: it thirty feet You're like, yeah, of course this is
Speaker 1: going to happen. This is how you've got to expect
Speaker 1: to begin. But if you're the head coach, you've got
Speaker 1: to demand that they clean this up because you can't.
Speaker 1: It's got to get sharp. And it's interesting. It's a
Speaker 1: fun juxtaposition when you're out there with all the music
Speaker 1: that the floor has going from the moment I mean,
Speaker 1: from the moment you step on the practice field, at
Speaker 1: the moment it's over, there is blaring music and it's
Speaker 1: a great I mean, it's a great mix. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: not I love it, but I don't have to like
Speaker 1: practice in it, you know, I mean, And then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, it's like, Okay, now I gotta go like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: then why do you think there are priest and penalties
Speaker 1: because guys are like kind of vibe and it's been
Speaker 1: a fun mix in that regard in it, it's been
Speaker 1: a big time departure from what we've been used to. Well.
Speaker 1: On the defensive side, you mentioned obviously Mike Petton second year,
Speaker 1: a lot of new personnel, but we're seeing the defense
Speaker 1: certainly ahead of the offense in training camp, which is
Speaker 1: which is to be expected. One guy that I wrote
Speaker 1: about on our website after Sunday's practice was Darius Smith.
Speaker 1: We heard from him in the locker room with interviews
Speaker 1: for the first time since training camp started, and uh,
Speaker 1: this is a really You talked about Rashan Gary before
Speaker 1: as being an interesting piece. Zadarius Smith is a really
Speaker 1: really intriguing guy to me because me and a few
Speaker 1: other reporters we were trying to pin him down like Okay, well,
Speaker 1: what's your best pass restaurants, what's the what's your favorite
Speaker 1: spot where you want to line up? And he's like
Speaker 1: he's not interested in being pigeonhole day at all. He's like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'll go to any move I'll line up anywhere you
Speaker 1: want me to line up. This is a this is
Speaker 1: a really interesting guy who was in essence, a backup
Speaker 1: guy behind some really, really good players in Baltimore the
Speaker 1: first four years of his career. But from the day
Speaker 1: he walked into this Packers locker room, he became a
Speaker 1: leader on this defense. And that was even before Mike
Speaker 1: Daniels was released. And I think it's interesting you talk
Speaker 1: about everything he can do, You've seen that day in
Speaker 1: and day out on the practice field. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: a real chess piece. He's a guy that can dominate
Speaker 1: and dictate to the offense, and those guys are rare,
Speaker 1: and they tilt the field. And I think if you
Speaker 1: look at this defense as far as what it could be,
Speaker 1: he's a key, if not the key piece, because you
Speaker 1: can come from anywhere. Uh, he's going to cause all
Speaker 1: sorts of problems, and you're gonna have to kind of
Speaker 1: key on him as an offense and as an offensive
Speaker 1: play caller or a quarterback, which allows I mean, there's
Speaker 1: all this other talent. You've got Kenny Clark, You've got Gary,
Speaker 1: You've got all these other guys that are going to
Speaker 1: be able to take advantage of what is undoubtedly going
Speaker 1: to be extra attention paid to it. Aius. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I think we've seen in the shift from with Mike
Speaker 1: Petton taking over as defense coordinator Brian Gudkin's taking over
Speaker 1: as the general manager. The investment that was made this
Speaker 1: offseason in the outside linebacker position, it just shows you
Speaker 1: the importance, the paramount importance that's being placed on it.
Speaker 1: And I mentioned this in our Insider Inbox column. You
Speaker 1: go back from the time the Packers drafted Clay Matthews
Speaker 1: in the first round in two thousand nine. If you
Speaker 1: look at major investments, being a first round pick or
Speaker 1: a major contract the Packers made in a span of
Speaker 1: nine years, they made four big moves at outside linebacker.
Speaker 1: They resigned Matthews, they drafted Perry, they signed Julius Peppers,
Speaker 1: and then they resigned Nick Perry. So those were the
Speaker 1: four moves. They made three of those in one off season.
Speaker 1: They signed the Darius Smith, they Preston Smith, and they
Speaker 1: spent a first round pick on Rashaan Geary. Just that
Speaker 1: juxtaposition of the investment in the commitment to the position
Speaker 1: says something about the importance of it. For Mike Pettins, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and the versatility I think is the real key, because
Speaker 1: you know, we talk a lot about Snarius and for
Speaker 1: obvious reasons. He's been all over the place. But Preston
Speaker 1: has played extremely well, as you know, very solid, and
Speaker 1: he has been much more versatile than I expected. And
Speaker 1: obviously that's because he's got a different play caller. He's
Speaker 1: going to utilize him differently than he has been throughout
Speaker 1: his NFL career up to this point. But I, you know, Layman,
Speaker 1: just looking at the tape of his time in Washington,
Speaker 1: I didn't see a guy who could do all the
Speaker 1: things that we've seen him do on the practice field.
Speaker 1: So uh yeah, there's no question that Brian thought, Okay,
Speaker 1: we've got to pump up the talent level here and
Speaker 1: that has certainly borne out early on here in camp. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no question about. Well we're out of time, Aaron, but
Speaker 1: I want to say thanks for joining us on the
Speaker 1: show today, filling in for West for uh for one morning,
Speaker 1: and with that we will sign off on this edition
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