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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, joint as always

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Speaker 1: by my trusted colleague Weston Hodkuitz. We're coming to you

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Speaker 1: here from our studios at lambeau Field, West. A few

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Speaker 1: things to get to from over the past weekend. We

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Speaker 1: might as well start with Family Night. Um. The annual

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Speaker 1: tradition was back after the one year hiatus from Family

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Speaker 1: a Night a year ago, and the traditional rain on

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Speaker 1: Family Night was also back. You can't have Family Night

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Speaker 1: at lambeau Field without a thunderstorm, right. You think you're

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Speaker 1: gonna have a nice night. You want some fireworks, you

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Speaker 1: want all that stuff Mother Natures like, hold my umbrella.

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Speaker 1: It was incredible. And then the thing that was great

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Speaker 1: about it is there's been years where you see the radar,

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Speaker 1: thing in this particular one beginning to end rain the

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Speaker 1: entire time. But you know, I enjoyed it, and I

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Speaker 1: bit of a mix up and figuring out when practice

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Speaker 1: was gonna end. Win. Media need to be in the

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Speaker 1: auditorium if they were going to do fireworks or not.

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Speaker 1: So I was actually on the field for like a

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Speaker 1: that I decided to stay dry. But go ahead, you've

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Speaker 1: you've you ended up being a lot better off than

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Speaker 1: I was. But that was the first time I've been

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Speaker 1: on the field during a live action lambeau Field activity

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Speaker 1: since bart Star returned for Brett Farves Hall of Fame

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Speaker 1: or his number retirement in two thousand fifteen. I believe

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Speaker 1: it was. So it was a cool festivity to be

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Speaker 1: a part of and just feeling the energy from the crowd.

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Speaker 1: Yes they were wet, Yes it was a little humid,

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Speaker 1: but you could just tell how excited people were to

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Speaker 1: players being able to kind of feed off that energy. Mike,

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Speaker 1: how many times last season when you and I were

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Speaker 1: tier group that was tested every day, did you and

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Speaker 1: I say to each other like, this just doesn't feel

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Speaker 1: the same as an empty stadium, and that that feeling

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Speaker 1: was back to normal with thirty four thousand people or

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Speaker 1: whatever it was in in the bowl. Yeah, just shy

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Speaker 1: of thirty five thousand braved that weather, and I give

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Speaker 1: him a lot of credit for for sticking it out.

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Speaker 1: And we'll be looking forward to an even larger crowd

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Speaker 1: here as things ramp up for the first preseason game

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Speaker 1: this weekend, and then of course not too far down

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Speaker 1: the road will be an absolutely packed house when the

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Speaker 1: regular season arrives. But what were your observations from Family night.

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Speaker 1: Obviously it wasn't the cleanest practice in the world because

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Speaker 1: through some things there. I thought, on balance, the defense

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Speaker 1: what stood out to you, and as they should when

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Speaker 1: it was raining the way it was raining from beginning end,

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Speaker 1: felt like there were three things that stood out to me. One,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is just on a different planet when it

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Speaker 1: terms of throwing a football. We saw him in practice.

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Speaker 1: I tweeted out, I got like likes out of it,

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Speaker 1: really improving my social credibility. Uh with him throwing making

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Speaker 1: the bucket shot in practice on Thursday, Well, there they

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Speaker 1: Rogers drains two of them. Yeah, back to back, no

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Speaker 1: forgetting if it was to Al Lazar or who talked

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Speaker 1: guy that doesn't need an offseason program, it's Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 1: He jumped right back on the pony and he's been

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Speaker 1: doing great. The other two things, just to quickly touch on,

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Speaker 1: I think kabion Ento has added himself into this cornerback equation.

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Speaker 1: he drops in back to back once. But also hats

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Speaker 1: off to Kurt Banker, number three quarterback, he dropped one

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Speaker 1: sure going back, you know, it's been it felt like

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Speaker 1: DeAndre Tompkins, if I'm getting that name correctly, Ento had

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Speaker 1: here as we. As we head towards preseason game number one,

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Speaker 1: Matt la Fleur said that there are going to be

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Speaker 1: the preseason opener. This is very much what's including you.

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Speaker 1: The Pro Football Hall of Fame inductions in Canton, Ohio.

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Speaker 1: First off, congratulations, it was overdue and unfortunately a couple

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Speaker 1: Dill and his family. UM star defensive back for the

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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers in the nineteen fifties. Played from nineteen

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Speaker 1: fifty two to fifty nine. His final season was Vince

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Speaker 1: Lombardies for first. He still holds the Packers all time

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Speaker 1: record for career interceptions with fifty two. UM a big

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Speaker 1: But congratulations to Bobby Dylan and his family. I was

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