Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford, joined as always by my trusted
Speaker 1: colleague West Hodkowits were coming to you here from our
Speaker 1: studios at lambeau Field and West and our first show
Speaker 1: back from our little hiatus. Earlier this week we covered
Speaker 1: a lot of the old news, everything that we had
Speaker 1: to catch up on from the off season. But here
Speaker 1: right away show number two, breaking news, breaking news, fresh
Speaker 1: news to talk about. And what I am talking about
Speaker 1: is the two thousand nineteen Packers schedule. It dropped on
Speaker 1: Wednesday night. League wide, everybody found out all of the wends,
Speaker 1: having known all of the what's in the wares since January.
Speaker 1: But the two thousand nineteen schedule is out. There's a
Speaker 1: there are some unique elements to the way this lays
Speaker 1: out for the Packers for the coming season, for Matt
Speaker 1: Lafleur's first season as a head coach. Where do you
Speaker 1: want to start with this? Well, let's start at the start, Michael.
Speaker 1: The Green Bay Packers will travel to start the hundredth
Speaker 1: season of the NFL against the Chicago Bears. But right
Speaker 1: after that matchup, come back to lambeau Field for three
Speaker 1: straight home games, and as it works out, five of
Speaker 1: their first seven will be played at lambeau Field. Two
Speaker 1: back to back games against the NFC North to kick
Speaker 1: things off. And it's really interesting you talked about the
Speaker 1: unique intricacies of this this whole schedule. Two to start
Speaker 1: against the division, three to end against the division. You
Speaker 1: have to beat your division teams to be able to
Speaker 1: succeed the Packers. It's gonna play into getting off to
Speaker 1: a fast start, and it's gonna play into finishing strong.
Speaker 1: And I think ultimately that's what the NFL wanted to
Speaker 1: go for when they made some of the changes that
Speaker 1: they did with the schedule and number of number of
Speaker 1: years ago. But it is quite coincidental to see so
Speaker 1: many NFC North matchups fall right at the beginning of
Speaker 1: right at the end. Yeah, the book ends to this
Speaker 1: schedule are what jump out at me. You only have
Speaker 1: six division games. Your division games make up roughly your
Speaker 1: schedule six out of sixteen. But for the Packers here
Speaker 1: you start with two and you end with three. That's
Speaker 1: five of your six division games that are at the
Speaker 1: polar opposites, you know, at at the beginning and the end.
Speaker 1: I just think that's a really unique alignment. Now, the
Speaker 1: Packers had something similar to this in two thousand and sixteen,
Speaker 1: it wasn't quite the same. The ending was the same,
Speaker 1: with three straight division games to finish The beginning of
Speaker 1: this season, if you remember, started with that trip to Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: and then back to back division games after that. But
Speaker 1: what I will say is that when you look at it,
Speaker 1: you look back to the Packers. They won the game
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville, they split those first two division games, so
Speaker 1: they were two and one out of the gate, and
Speaker 1: then obviously the three at the end. We're part of
Speaker 1: the run the table as the Packers made that run
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. Really winning those division games that year
Speaker 1: is what allowed the Packers to survive of a pretty
Speaker 1: bad mid season slump when they lost four straight games
Speaker 1: through late October and into into mid November. If you
Speaker 1: can win your division games in this league West, it
Speaker 1: gives you at least a little bit more wiggle room,
Speaker 1: a little bit more of a buffer zone. And I
Speaker 1: just think that you know, those two at the beginning
Speaker 1: and the three at the end are really the games
Speaker 1: that could define this season for Green Bay. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: glad it's only episode two back from the hiatus, but
Speaker 1: I'm able to say the Mike Spofford, let's be a
Speaker 1: real moment of the week. It's so true, though, Mike.
Speaker 1: When you get three games to close the season against
Speaker 1: the division, you for the first one to point it
Speaker 1: out to me when the schedule came out. It immediately
Speaker 1: makes you think back to two thousand sixteen and how
Speaker 1: that run, as incredible as it was, it doesn't reach
Speaker 1: its fulfilled stage unless they get those three division games
Speaker 1: to to sneak into the playoffs and then keep the
Speaker 1: magic going once they got there. So that is something
Speaker 1: that definitely sticks out to me. But it also is
Speaker 1: gonna be tough Week sixteen, you're going into US Bank Stadium.
Speaker 1: The following week you have to go into Ford Field
Speaker 1: that have now closed this regular season at ford Field
Speaker 1: in three of the last four seasons, so that's no
Speaker 1: easy task. But getting the Chicago Bears in Green Bay
Speaker 1: in December is always a positive thing. And you know,
Speaker 1: quite honestly, if you're gonna play at Soldier Field, you
Speaker 1: might as well do it in week one. So I mean,
Speaker 1: you're able to get that one out and if you
Speaker 1: win that game, you set the tone for the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you had mentioned the five of the first seven being
Speaker 1: at home. You look at it, it's actually five out
Speaker 1: of six home games after the road opener at Chicago
Speaker 1: in that Thursday night kickoff game. This is uh And
Speaker 1: I mentioned this in in my story on our website
Speaker 1: on Wednesday night. This is something that just screams opportunity
Speaker 1: for a first year head coach to have a whole
Speaker 1: run of home games early in the season, to to
Speaker 1: get things off on the right foot, to get whatever
Speaker 1: continuity and flow that you need to your offense, your
Speaker 1: new system, with your two time m v P quarterback,
Speaker 1: all of that. The beginning of this sets up I
Speaker 1: don't and I'm not saying the opponents don't matter, but
Speaker 1: I'm not even looking at the opponents necessarily. In those
Speaker 1: five games, five home games in a span of six
Speaker 1: weeks before Halloween, that's when you've got to make some
Speaker 1: hay right exactly, And I mean things are gonna change,
Speaker 1: players are gonna get hurt, rosters are gonna look different.
Speaker 1: But the thing is is that you don't take away
Speaker 1: the home game from that equation, and you can't under
Speaker 1: you can't understate how important overstate how important that is
Speaker 1: to be able to have that kind of opportunity, And,
Speaker 1: to be quite honest with you, Mike, not that any
Speaker 1: road game is easy, but if you look at Soldier
Speaker 1: Field in a T and T stadium, those aren't the
Speaker 1: most daunting stadiums that Aaron Rodgers has ever walked into.
Speaker 1: He's had to share success in those locations as well.
Speaker 1: So while yeah, that's going to be a challenge going
Speaker 1: into US Bank, it always has been a challenge going
Speaker 1: into Ford Field, the Packers actually have some pretty good,
Speaker 1: you know, fertile ground to build this season upon. So uh,
Speaker 1: the biggest thing that I'm looking forward to is you
Speaker 1: get the Thursday night game out of the way right away.
Speaker 1: That's Week four against Philadelphia. You get it at home.
Speaker 1: You obviously are gonna get that little bit of a
Speaker 1: mini break after the first game against the Bears. You
Speaker 1: do need to win these games. If you if you
Speaker 1: start slow, your your schedule starts to look kind of daunting.
Speaker 1: But that being said, is if you can start fast,
Speaker 1: it really sets up the season nicely with the Week
Speaker 1: eleven bye week, you know, being able to kind of
Speaker 1: you know, have some more balance to it than they
Speaker 1: have in previous years. Yeah, and I want to get
Speaker 1: to that that back half of the schedule in a
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Speaker 1: at the back half of the schedule, after you have
Speaker 1: that run of five home games in six weeks, you're
Speaker 1: getting close to Halloween. You look at you look at
Speaker 1: the back half. They're actually three different back to back
Speaker 1: road game stretches. Now, the first one of those is
Speaker 1: awfully daunting to go back to back at Kansas City
Speaker 1: and at Los Angeles the Chargers. Those are the two
Speaker 1: teams that the New England Patriots beat in the playoffs
Speaker 1: back to back to get back to the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Those were two of the last four teams standing in
Speaker 1: the a f C last year to play them on
Speaker 1: the road back to back. You're talking about a matchup
Speaker 1: of two m vps, Rogers and Mahomes, and then two
Speaker 1: quarterbacks who are headed to the Hall of Fame in
Speaker 1: my opinion, and Rogers and Philip Rivers. That's gonna be
Speaker 1: a really really interesting one to punch, so to speak.
Speaker 1: As far as back to back road, well, the Kansas
Speaker 1: City game, certainly, I really like it from the standpoint
Speaker 1: of We heard Aaron Rodgers talk late last season. He
Speaker 1: wasn't trying to compare himself to Patrick Mahomes at all,
Speaker 1: but he said, you know, he sees a lot of
Speaker 1: his game in Mahomes, And to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I think that's the type of game that a lot
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks now this next generation are really going to
Speaker 1: have to adapt to. Being able to create, being able
Speaker 1: to audible, being able to use your feet, having a
Speaker 1: magnificent arm. He has from all these different angles, you know,
Speaker 1: arm angles and all that kind of stuff, throwing with
Speaker 1: his left hand when he needs to. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: just so many different things that play into making him
Speaker 1: an m v P quarterback. So they see that first encounter,
Speaker 1: it made perfect sense to throw it in Sunday night football.
Speaker 1: It will be a challenging game, but there are some
Speaker 1: questions with Kansas City, what is their defense gonna look like?
Speaker 1: They've had a lot of changes on that side of
Speaker 1: the ball. L A is going to be just a
Speaker 1: really unique experience because they're gonna be playing in a
Speaker 1: thousand seats soccer stadium. Um, you and I still haven't
Speaker 1: been able to do the research this. You estimated it
Speaker 1: might have been the Snowball, the last time the Packers
Speaker 1: have played in front of fewer than thirty thousand people. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That uh, And for those are not sure what I'm
Speaker 1: referring to there, that's the Steve Young Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Speaker 1: game at lambeau Field. I believe it was was the
Speaker 1: year of it, and I think the announced attendance for
Speaker 1: that game was somewhere in the twenty thousand range, and
Speaker 1: there may have only been you know, seven to nine
Speaker 1: thousand people who actually came to lambeau Field that day.
Speaker 1: But but yeah, I can't. It really will be interesting
Speaker 1: doing the research on that to see how long it's
Speaker 1: been since the Packers played in front of such a
Speaker 1: small crowd. Yeah, and it's gonna be a cool experience.
Speaker 1: But you also would anticipate with us going to you know,
Speaker 1: last year, you and I traveling out to l A
Speaker 1: for that game against with the Packers, and in the Rams,
Speaker 1: we said it all along going into that thing, that yeah,
Speaker 1: that's gonna probably be a pretty favorable Packer crowd, and
Speaker 1: I think it's still exceeded my expectation did people in there,
Speaker 1: and there was quite a few times where Jared Goff
Speaker 1: had to go to a silent count. So, Philip Rivers,
Speaker 1: we know the challenges that the Charges have had building
Speaker 1: their fan base now in l A. It's gonna be Uh,
Speaker 1: both of them are incredibly difficult matchups. I don't want
Speaker 1: to undersell that, but there are opportunities there. And if
Speaker 1: you get through that run of three straight a f
Speaker 1: C opponents, you know, the things start to line up
Speaker 1: a little better for you. Yeah, you're talking Arrowhead Stadium
Speaker 1: on a Sunday night and then potentially a lot of
Speaker 1: Packers fans trying to pack that that soccer stadium dignity
Speaker 1: Health Systems part or something. Yeah, you're talking about to
Speaker 1: two really really interesting atmospheres, very different in their own right,
Speaker 1: but but really interesting road atmospheres. And then the other
Speaker 1: part of this to West is that, obviously with all
Speaker 1: the home games early in the season, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to deal with a lot of road trips on the
Speaker 1: back end. Now, the Kansas City Los Angeles back to
Speaker 1: back starts a stretch of the Packers playing four of
Speaker 1: five games on the road. They also have another back
Speaker 1: to back road swing to San Francisco and to New
Speaker 1: York to play the Giants. But what actually helps the
Speaker 1: Packers this year, which they didn't get last year when
Speaker 1: they had to play four road games in a span
Speaker 1: of five weeks, which is really when the season kind
Speaker 1: of unraveled, is that the Packers bye week is in
Speaker 1: the middle of that. So even though it's four road
Speaker 1: games in a span of five games, it's over a
Speaker 1: span of six weeks because you're gonna have a week
Speaker 1: off in there as well. I think that is going
Speaker 1: to help the Packers navigate through this really tough stretch
Speaker 1: of road games with just the one home game over
Speaker 1: over a long span. I think you counted fifty six
Speaker 1: days that the Packers are only going to have one
Speaker 1: home game, but having the bye week mixed in there
Speaker 1: is going to be a big assist, still better than
Speaker 1: what Tampa Bay has. Did you see that run? They
Speaker 1: have seven weeks they will not be playing at home
Speaker 1: at all, that their one home game is the London
Speaker 1: is the London game, and then I think they also
Speaker 1: have a bye week mix in there too, But then
Speaker 1: they're they're playing like six and seven on the road.
Speaker 1: It's a crazy schedule. But in regards to the Packers,
Speaker 1: you know the other thing that worked out well and
Speaker 1: it's first time they've caught the week eleven by since
Speaker 1: the NFL started doing that in two thousand eleven. But
Speaker 1: more importantly, it comes after a noon game against Carolina.
Speaker 1: Now we'll have to see exactly how Matt Floor wants
Speaker 1: to handle that bye week, but that is a picture
Speaker 1: perfect opportunity for players that are healthy to pack their
Speaker 1: bags and head home for a week. Yeah, immediately after that,
Speaker 1: you don't have a long trip coming back. You're not
Speaker 1: coming back from London or anything like that. You play
Speaker 1: the noon game, you're done by three. You know you
Speaker 1: have some time to rest and recuperate. A perfect timing
Speaker 1: if you're going to have a stretch like that where
Speaker 1: you only have one home game to be able to
Speaker 1: have a noon game as it's scheduled right now, and
Speaker 1: then right on the back end of that half the
Speaker 1: buy yeah, a chance to get out of dodge and
Speaker 1: put your feet up for a few days and and
Speaker 1: get ready for what the Packers are hoping is going
Speaker 1: to be a stretch run of their final six games.
Speaker 1: And then you look at the other back to back
Speaker 1: road game. The third one of the group is the
Speaker 1: Week sixteen Week seventeen and actually only six days apart
Speaker 1: with being at Minnesota in week week sixteen on a
Speaker 1: Monday night and then turning around and going to Detroit
Speaker 1: for Week seventeen for the regular season finale. That's a
Speaker 1: really interesting back to back. You're talking about a cold
Speaker 1: weather team like the Packers finishing this finishing the regular
Speaker 1: season with back to back road games. Now that will
Speaker 1: be coming off of meeting number two hundred historically between
Speaker 1: the Packers and the Bears, which will be at lambeau
Speaker 1: Field Week fifteen mid December. I think that's one to
Speaker 1: really look forward to. But finishing back to back in
Speaker 1: December in domes, you know, kind of a unique situation
Speaker 1: as well. So I was sitting at my house after
Speaker 1: I got done Wednesday night, I'm enjoying a nice sparkling water,
Speaker 1: and I was thinking to myself, and I'm curious to
Speaker 1: hear your thoughts on this. If you're the Green Bay Packers,
Speaker 1: would you rather have to go to Minnesota and week
Speaker 1: sixteen or go in week two and go back to
Speaker 1: back on the road in the NFC North to start
Speaker 1: the season, but then have the Vikings at lambeau Field
Speaker 1: in week sixteen? Which one do you think would have
Speaker 1: been better? I guess for me, my immediate reaction as
Speaker 1: always to have those indoor teams come outdoors in December,
Speaker 1: I think, I think so that would have been worth
Speaker 1: it to you. Yeah, it would have been. It would
Speaker 1: have been to me. But but yeah, to think about
Speaker 1: going at Chicago and at Minnesota out of the gate
Speaker 1: one two year to two big division rivals like that,
Speaker 1: that would have been an awfully, awfully daunting start. I
Speaker 1: think it falls somewhere in between, because the worst scenario
Speaker 1: would have been having to go to Minnesota in week seventeen.
Speaker 1: Let's say that game gets flex that fan base is
Speaker 1: gonna be eccentric. Well, at least in this case, you
Speaker 1: get them in week sixteen. You need to take care
Speaker 1: of business. You need to get a win there. They
Speaker 1: haven't gotten enough of those in Minnesota lately. But then
Speaker 1: if things go well, okay, we'll see what the Lions
Speaker 1: look like in two thousand nineteen. But they've had success there.
Speaker 1: They've been in that situation before having to win to
Speaker 1: get in in two thousand and sixteen. There, so at
Speaker 1: least do a lot of those veteran players in the
Speaker 1: roster with all that experience to go back off of. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's one of the other things that's interesting about this
Speaker 1: when you look at the road trips. The Packers are
Speaker 1: going to Dallas, Uh, they won Super Bowl forty five
Speaker 1: in that building. Matt Flynn had the big comeback in
Speaker 1: they had the divisional playoff victory down to the wire
Speaker 1: to beat the Cowboys in the in the NFC playoffs,
Speaker 1: and then seen Rogers has the comeback, the final drive
Speaker 1: to complete the comeback at the end. That's one of
Speaker 1: those where the Cowboys are gonna be looking at the
Speaker 1: Packers coming in and saying, all right, enough of this,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's time to to to, you know,
Speaker 1: stop the Packers from winning in our house here. But
Speaker 1: then the flip side of it is the Packers are
Speaker 1: heading to us Bank at the end of the season
Speaker 1: for what could be a really really big game with
Speaker 1: a lot of implications and a building where the first
Speaker 1: three times the Packers have gone there it has not
Speaker 1: gone well at all, three losses. Obviously an injury to
Speaker 1: Rogers in that building a couple of years ago. So
Speaker 1: you know, from that standpoint, there's a couple of narratives
Speaker 1: to these road games on the schedule that will be
Speaker 1: that will be kind of fun to talk about when
Speaker 1: the time comes, and not to make light of anything,
Speaker 1: but I also go back to two thousand seventeen and
Speaker 1: the Rogers injury, and everyone thinks so much about Rogers,
Speaker 1: and rightfully so, but it was almost just a comedy
Speaker 1: act after a while. I remember them talking about what
Speaker 1: the training room looked like because I believe, you know,
Speaker 1: Quentin Rollins left that game. I think Lane Taylor might
Speaker 1: have left that game. It just was one guy after
Speaker 1: another there afterwards. So, yeah, the Packers historically, I go
Speaker 1: back to my first few years on the beat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they had a rough outing in two thousand twelve, but
Speaker 1: for the most part, you know, they had they did
Speaker 1: find ways to have success in the Metrodome. They're trying
Speaker 1: to find a way now to be able to build
Speaker 1: that momentum in the new location. The biggest thing, though, Mike,
Speaker 1: no matter how you cut it down, no matter how
Speaker 1: you slice it, you and I can talk right until
Speaker 1: we run out of oxygen in this room. But the
Speaker 1: biggest key for the Packers is they have to win
Speaker 1: on the road. We know the story in two thousand
Speaker 1: and eighteen, they win all that time. They finally ended
Speaker 1: up beating the Jets, but they had to come back
Speaker 1: to do it. That's why I've said repeatedly this offseason
Speaker 1: since the Packers found out that they're going to open
Speaker 1: in Chicago, there's no better way to just cleanse yourself
Speaker 1: of all of that than to come out beat the
Speaker 1: defending nf Senor champion and start to turn around your fortunes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I totally agree with you. One last thing before we
Speaker 1: wrap up here, West Okay, we've talked about the division games,
Speaker 1: the Pat Mahomes games, the soccer stadium game and all that. Okay,
Speaker 1: what of these games that we haven't necessarily spent a
Speaker 1: lot of time on, is, in your mind sort of
Speaker 1: the sleeper game, the one to the one that that
Speaker 1: maybe is going to have some bigger implications when it
Speaker 1: rolls around than maybe we think right now. We'll see
Speaker 1: about the implications because we don't know what the forty
Speaker 1: Niners are gonna look like this year. But I really
Speaker 1: think the Packers traveling there, Kyle Shanahan taking on his
Speaker 1: former protege in Matt Lafleur. Matt Lafleur will be matching
Speaker 1: wits with his one of his best friends not in
Speaker 1: this business, in this world, in Robert Sala, who is
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator for the forty Niners. He'll be making
Speaker 1: his calls. The floor will be making his call. Sal
Speaker 1: is the guy that got him in the door with
Speaker 1: Gary Kubiak the Houston Texans. So to me, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo, Aaron Rodgers. Great, you know the matchup that
Speaker 1: we missed last year Popolo was injured and that Monday
Speaker 1: night game at Lambe Field was c J. Bethurt So
Speaker 1: and and then the other thing. Uh, you know, Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers has played historically pretty darn well in the San
Speaker 1: Francisco area when he's you know, kind of buy his hometown,
Speaker 1: had a pretty solid game whatever it was three or
Speaker 1: four years ago. Now. Um, I just think there's a
Speaker 1: lot of layers to that matchup, and we'll see what
Speaker 1: the records are at that point. San Francisco, you really
Speaker 1: don't know what to expect after the year that they had,
Speaker 1: But h Kyle Shanahan and Matt le Floor close. I
Speaker 1: think out of all the coaches that you talked to
Speaker 1: and all the people that have said nice words about
Speaker 1: La Fleur, Shanahan is the one that is sort of
Speaker 1: that he's been most in lockstep with the entire time.
Speaker 1: And it'll be a good matchup. Yeah. The one I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say is the Carolina game in Week ten at
Speaker 1: home at Lambou Field. And there's a few reasons for
Speaker 1: that one. It's the one home game that's in the
Speaker 1: midst of all those road games in the bye week
Speaker 1: and everything we talked about before. Number two. It's not
Speaker 1: every day that you get a quarterback matchup of two
Speaker 1: guys who have won m vps in this league. So
Speaker 1: to see Aaron Rodgers against Cam Newton, I think that's
Speaker 1: a that's a marquee matchup in and of itself. But
Speaker 1: the third thing, the Carolina Panthers are in this pattern
Speaker 1: west of every other year they're like, really darn good,
Speaker 1: and it's always the odd numbered years, it seems with
Speaker 1: Ron Rivera and that Carolina team. In two thousand fifteen,
Speaker 1: they went to the Super Bowl, then they kind of
Speaker 1: fall off. They come back in two thousand seventeen, it's
Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen. The Panthers are coming off of a
Speaker 1: non playoff season, and uh, if they follow their usual pattern,
Speaker 1: this is a Carolina team that I think is expecting
Speaker 1: in a very tough division, the Saints and the Falcons
Speaker 1: and all of that in the NFC South. But the
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers are expecting to be right back in the mix.
Speaker 1: And if Cam Newton is healthy, there's no reason he
Speaker 1: can't return to his m v P form either. The
Speaker 1: biggest trend, the biggest tie in, the biggest parallel between
Speaker 1: when the Panthers have had their successful years and when
Speaker 1: they haven't other than the odd number years, is Cam Newton. Right,
Speaker 1: That's the constant, what Cam Newton are you going to
Speaker 1: get in a given year. I still say, even you know,
Speaker 1: he's getting a little bit older. When he's on, when
Speaker 1: the accuracy is there, there's a few better in the
Speaker 1: game than Cam Newton. The Packers have seen it several times.
Speaker 1: He's a tough customer. But at the same time, when
Speaker 1: he's not been healthy, when they've had issues with the accuracy,
Speaker 1: it's a different ball game. Things look a little bit
Speaker 1: differently that matchup how they defend Christian McCaffrey and and
Speaker 1: the other thing is too, Mike. Let's be honest, both
Speaker 1: of these teams had higher expectations for last year than
Speaker 1: how things ultimately unfolded. Both of these teams want to
Speaker 1: turn things around. That mid season checkpoint here at lambeau
Speaker 1: Field is gonna be a big barometer as to figuring
Speaker 1: out exactly the direction that those those seasons are going
Speaker 1: for those two teams. Yeah, one to keep an eye
Speaker 1: out for for sure. Well with that, um, I'll just
Speaker 1: throw out there that starting next week we'll have another
Speaker 1: show earlier in the week. We're going to try to
Speaker 1: take a big overview of just where the Packers are
Speaker 1: heading into this draft position. By Position. We have a
Speaker 1: roster series that's being published on our website now every
Speaker 1: day taking a look at the roster position by positions,
Speaker 1: So check that out and come back and check us
Speaker 1: out next week talking about it um, but for now
Speaker 1: we'll call it a wrap on this edition of Packers Unscripted.
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