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Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from

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Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spoffer, joined as always

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Speaker 1: by my trusted colleague west Hod Quiz. We're coming to

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Speaker 1: you hear from our studios at lambeau Field West. Preseason

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Speaker 1: game number two for the Packers is in the books

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Speaker 1: a loss to the New York Jets. But the analysis

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Speaker 1: of this one has to start first and foremost with

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Speaker 1: the quarterback position. Number three quarterback Kurt Bankert played pretty

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Speaker 1: much the entire game, all but the final series of

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Speaker 1: the game, and um he uh did not disappoint. He

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Speaker 1: showed that he belongs in the NFL. You remember back

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Speaker 1: in the two thousand's with the Brewers and obviously the

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Speaker 1: run they got on. There was a picture by the

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Speaker 1: name of Victor Santos. He was Mr. Quality started. Always

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Speaker 1: seemed like he'd always give you, like, you know, six innings,

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Speaker 1: three runs, something like that. Orf I evenings. That's what

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Speaker 1: that start reminded me of. Like for Kirk Ben Kurt Uh,

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Speaker 1: where he was barely taking any team reps. Uh. The

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Speaker 1: week before that Houston Texans game, Jordan Loves sustains the

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Speaker 1: shoulder injury. And I thought you saw a young man

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Speaker 1: entire week practice Well, against the Jets, it wasn't you know,

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Speaker 1: as many as many eyeballs are we're going to be

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Speaker 1: on this game and against New York the practices, he's

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Speaker 1: you know, seeing some pretty important reps there too, and

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Speaker 1: he held his own. I think you saw the gamer

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Speaker 1: tendencies with him. I thought you saw his fearlessness. Uh,

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Speaker 1: this is a guy that definitely doesn't He's not he

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Speaker 1: doesn't have happy feet. He plays the play as it

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Speaker 1: comes to him. And I made this quote, and I

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Speaker 1: didn't want this to come off as a dig to

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Speaker 1: Curd at all, but I made this quote on Twitter

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Speaker 1: where I said, you know, when you have a third

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Speaker 1: string quarterback, you're just it's not you're not always gonna

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Speaker 1: have a first round pick in that spot. You need

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Speaker 1: to have a guy that's gonna be able to find

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Speaker 1: ways to win for you and play with a certain

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Speaker 1: amount of like chaos, and and I think that's what

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Speaker 1: Ben Kurt brings. And he keeps plays alive. It was

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Speaker 1: an exciting football game. It wasn't air free. But if

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Speaker 1: you if you were there and he checked it out,

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Speaker 1: I think you got your money's worth. Yeah, he he

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Speaker 1: definitely played a solid first half. Now there were mistakes, yes,

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Speaker 1: I mean he he did throw an interception in the

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Speaker 1: second half of past he would certainly like to have back.

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Speaker 1: There were a couple of miscus with the footing. There

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Speaker 1: was a shotgun snap that slipped through his hands. Fortunately

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Speaker 1: was grabbed by by the running back there, kyl And Hills.

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Speaker 1: So it wasn't, as you said, it wasn't a flawless

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Speaker 1: performance by any means. But when you look at look

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Speaker 1: at it from the context of a number three quarterback

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Speaker 1: who just got to Green Bay in the spring and

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Speaker 1: is has been trying to learn this offense. Took very

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Speaker 1: few eleven on eleven snaps in the spring, very few

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Speaker 1: in training camp until Jordan's Love injured the shoulder in

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Speaker 1: the first preseason game. He went out there with what

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Speaker 1: I assume was a fairly limited menu of plays. They

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Speaker 1: weren't going to overload his play but he but he

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Speaker 1: went out there and executed. As you said, he kept

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Speaker 1: plays alive. He made some things happen. There were times

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Speaker 1: that he the running backs themselves also made some stuff

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Speaker 1: out of you know nothing, so to speak. It's going

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Speaker 1: to be an interesting decision here because you know, in

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Speaker 1: some way, shape or form, you have to have three

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the building. The question the Packers are going

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Speaker 1: to have to answer is, is Kurt Bankert on the

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Speaker 1: fifty three man roster or will it? Would he clear

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Speaker 1: waivers and be able to get him on the practice

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Speaker 1: squads that he's still here, that's going to be That's

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Speaker 1: something that they have to they have to gauge. We'll

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Speaker 1: see if they take the risk or if they just

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Speaker 1: keep him on there. The Atlanta Falcons, where Kurt Bnkert

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Speaker 1: was before, they just lost their backup quarterback A J.

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Speaker 1: just because of that particular team, if Banker it is available,

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Speaker 1: under consideration next week at the roster rood action. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: probably looking at quarterbacks next week on the waiver wire.

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Speaker 1: And if you remember with the Falcons they were they

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Speaker 1: as Brian Gudin has talked about over the weekend, how

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Speaker 1: that roster could be perceived to the rest of the NFL. Okay,

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Speaker 1: if we were looking at our roster, who do we

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Speaker 1: see come open that we could potentially claim. And you know,

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Speaker 1: the byproduct of this being one of the deepest August

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Speaker 1: rosters we've ever covered, Mike, at least during my time

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Speaker 1: these expanded practice squads rules, who could still come up

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Speaker 1: all the things that Matt Lafloor, Brian Goodkins and everybody's

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Speaker 1: out what they're gonna do going into New Orleans. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: speaking of the offensive line, I thought the Packers put

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Speaker 1: First offensive series. A. J. Dillon was in the backfield.

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Speaker 1: It was a good sign. It was a good sign

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Speaker 1: He every day he helps his case. And the thing

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Speaker 1: And I think you've seen that from him. The first thing,

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Speaker 1: On Saturday night, Royce Newman started at right guard, John

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Speaker 1: very interesting to see which direction Green Bay goes from here,

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Speaker 1: because you and I have seen very quickly you can

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Speaker 1: You also wonder at what point you want to solidify

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