Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from
Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford. He is my
Speaker 1: trusted colleague Weston Hodkoitz. We're coming to you here from
Speaker 1: different locations at Lambeufield, and since our last show Wes,
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three Green Bay Packers schedule was released,
Speaker 1: We've had a few days to process it and digest
Speaker 1: it and figure out what we think of it. So
Speaker 1: I'm just going to toss it to you right away.
Speaker 1: When you first saw this seventeen game slate, eighteen week
Speaker 1: schedule for twenty twenty three, what struck you?
Speaker 2: We're going back on the road again to start the season.
Speaker 2: That was the number one thing that struck me. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know what Matt Lafleur is going to have
Speaker 2: to do to be able to get a Week one
Speaker 2: opener at lambeau Field, but hey, there's two ways to
Speaker 2: look at this, right The one way I look at
Speaker 2: it is I just felt like it would have been
Speaker 2: the perfect opportunity your starf the Jordan Love era, Let
Speaker 2: the young man have a moment at Lambelefield, something that
Speaker 2: would be bigger than just a game. You know if
Speaker 2: he would have opened the season here, but you know,
Speaker 2: we know how these schedule simulations go, how complicated they are.
Speaker 2: So instead, Packers are going back to back weeks on
Speaker 2: the road, which is the third time in franchise history
Speaker 2: that they'll have played Week one and Week two away
Speaker 2: from Green Bay. The other two were nineteen twenty four
Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen. So a big challenge opening up in
Speaker 2: Chicago and then going up and having to travel to Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Two potentially very dynamic and potent rushing offenses that the
Speaker 2: defense is going to have to be ready for. But
Speaker 2: from Jordan Love's perspective, he'll get the opportunity for the
Speaker 2: first time to lead the Packers out of the tunnel
Speaker 2: at Lambelefield in Week three against New Orleans. By and large,
Speaker 2: I think it's a pretty balanced schedule, But that was
Speaker 2: the only thing silently I was rooting for. I did
Speaker 2: want to see a Week one opener at Lambelefield, just
Speaker 2: because it's been so long since we've had one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is pretty remarkable that now this will be
Speaker 1: Matt Laflour's fifth season as the head coach of the
Speaker 1: Packers and he still will have yet to open a
Speaker 1: season at Lambellfield, going down the road once again. I
Speaker 1: think if the Packers get a twenty twenty four opener
Speaker 1: at Lambeau, I think the league should just Matt Lafleur.
Speaker 1: Let Matt Lafleur call all the shots, the opponent, the day,
Speaker 1: the time of the game, the act for the pregame
Speaker 1: concert out in the parking lot, Like Matt Lafleur should
Speaker 1: just get to call all the shots for his first
Speaker 1: season opener at home whenever that does occur. But the
Speaker 1: other thing, that the other thing that struck me to
Speaker 1: right away, and this is where you wonder how this
Speaker 1: kind of stuff happens. And I'm not, by no means
Speaker 1: suggesting any kind of conspiracy, but it is incredibly ironic
Speaker 1: to me that exactly one year after the Packers explicitly
Speaker 1: did not want the Week six by right after the
Speaker 1: London game in Week five because they felt it was
Speaker 1: too early in the season, and then in response to
Speaker 1: turning that down, the league gave the Packers the latest
Speaker 1: possible bye last year in Week fourteen. That now in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, the Week six by, Oh, there, it
Speaker 1: is the one that you turned down last year because
Speaker 1: you felt it was too early in the season, but
Speaker 1: that's how that's how this thing goes. The Packers are
Speaker 1: going to have some significant rest opportunities early in the
Speaker 1: season because you have a Week four game on a
Speaker 1: Thursday night, so you get some extra time off there.
Speaker 1: You actually go from a Thursday night to playing on
Speaker 1: Monday night in Week five at Las Vegas, so a
Speaker 1: break there between those two games, and then after the
Speaker 1: Week five game, you have your full bye week. So
Speaker 1: those rest opportunities the Packers are going to have to
Speaker 1: take advantage of that, you know, get the team healthy,
Speaker 1: get everybody geared up, because then after that Week six by,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of football to take you to the
Speaker 1: end of the season.
Speaker 2: I didn't jump on the NFL conference call they were
Speaker 2: going to make a media availability to discuss the schedule creations.
Speaker 2: To me, the bye weeks were about as quizzical in
Speaker 2: nature as I think they've ever been. You mentioned last
Speaker 2: year the Packers didn't want the Week six by, which
Speaker 2: would have been the earliest in twenty twenty two. This
Speaker 2: year it's actually the second one, though There'll be four
Speaker 2: teams that'll be on buy in Week five, which is
Speaker 2: you and I discussed in some of our videos last
Speaker 2: week will be the inverse of what happened last year
Speaker 2: with the Packers, where they had to play three thirteen
Speaker 2: straight in a row and then finish the game this
Speaker 2: season with four games. This year, there'll be four teams
Speaker 2: that will play four games, and then we'll have to
Speaker 2: finish with thirteen in a row to end the regular season.
Speaker 2: That's a gauntlet, man. I mean when the Packers, or
Speaker 2: not the Packers, but when the NFL came up with
Speaker 2: this idea that they were going to add the seventeenth
Speaker 2: regular season game, I was really hoping that that would
Speaker 2: mean that we would see more buys in the dead
Speaker 2: center of the season. Well, as it turns out, this year,
Speaker 2: there's no Week eight byes at all. Not really sure
Speaker 2: everything that goes into those decisions, But so as weird
Speaker 2: as it says to say, well the Packers got a
Speaker 2: Week sixt fi, it could have actually been a lot
Speaker 2: worse for them. They could have been stuck and saddled
Speaker 2: with that Week five by And the fact of the
Speaker 2: matter is, and I think what Matt Lafleur discussed with
Speaker 2: Larry mccaern when breaking down the schedule was you just
Speaker 2: look for the areas where you're going to be challenged,
Speaker 2: and certainly the one of the biggest challenges will be
Speaker 2: that opener against New Orleans and then coming back four
Speaker 2: days later in playing a Detroit Lions team that I
Speaker 2: think a lot of people in the NFL have huge
Speaker 2: expectations for on Thursday Night football. The other end of it, though,
Speaker 2: that I think does work to green Bay's advantage, is
Speaker 2: when you look at the balance of it. After the bye,
Speaker 2: you have two home games against Minnesota and the Los
Speaker 2: Angeles Rams. Aside from that early stretch there against Chicago
Speaker 2: and the Falcons, you don't have to play back to
Speaker 2: back weeks on the road until Christmas Eve against Carolina
Speaker 2: and then also New Year's Eve against Minnesota, which is
Speaker 2: really just a puddle jump over to the Twin Cities.
Speaker 2: So it's very difficult for me to say that this
Speaker 2: was a poorly laid out schedule for green Bay because
Speaker 2: I actually feel like the balance is there. It's just
Speaker 2: that first month that I think green Bay is going
Speaker 2: to have to overcome and the win lost column, and
Speaker 2: also from an injuries perspective, trying to stay as healthy
Speaker 2: as possible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you. I certainly agree with you there.
Speaker 1: The other thing that that really struck me about the
Speaker 1: schedule is what I wrote about I talked about it
Speaker 1: in some of our videos on the website last week
Speaker 1: as well, is the I guess I would say the
Speaker 1: the even brighter spotlight than normal that is on the
Speaker 1: Division games here in Jordan Love's first season as the
Speaker 1: starting quarterback. Because your opener Week one is at Chicago,
Speaker 1: then Jordan Love's first home Division game is against Detroit
Speaker 1: on Thursday Night Football, so a primetime opportunity there. His
Speaker 1: first start at ford Field in Detroit will be on
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Day, where if Detroit lives up to the expectations
Speaker 1: of where a lot of people think that franchise is heading,
Speaker 1: that could be one of the one of the biggest
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving games at ford Field in quite some time. And
Speaker 1: then you're Jordan Love's first trip as the starting quarterback
Speaker 1: into the noisy confines of US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis
Speaker 1: will be in primetime on New Year's Eve in week seventeen.
Speaker 1: And then in week eighteen, you know, the one that's
Speaker 1: listed as TBD against the Chicago Bears. If there's anything
Speaker 1: at stake, if there's anything at stake for either team
Speaker 1: in that game, there's a good chance that that finds
Speaker 1: a prime slot, either as a National three twenty five
Speaker 1: game or maybe even in primetime. They're Packers and Bears,
Speaker 1: so the division games are always important. They are. They
Speaker 1: are the shortest, most efficient, most impactful way to carve
Speaker 1: out a path to the postseason for your team. But
Speaker 1: the extra spotlight that is on those division games here
Speaker 1: and Jordan Love's first season is pretty significant.
Speaker 2: No doubt in the fact that there will be that
Speaker 2: Thursday night game on Thanksgiving against the Lions. Packers then
Speaker 2: will have that mini by before hosting Kansas City. There
Speaker 2: no circumstances can you envision a way in which that
Speaker 2: won't be a challenging matchup against the defending Super Bowl champions.
Speaker 2: A lot goes into these schedules, but I think for me,
Speaker 2: the idea that the Packers won't actually play now we
Speaker 2: know how quickly these things can change. We saw it
Speaker 2: last year with it with how competitive New York's both
Speaker 2: of the New York teams ended up being Washington. But
Speaker 2: the Packers won't actually play a team coming off a
Speaker 2: playoff appearance until Week eight against Minnesota, and we've already
Speaker 2: seen some of the Vegas lines out there on the vikings,
Speaker 2: you know, putting their win lost total right around maybe
Speaker 2: seven or eight. So it is going to be very
Speaker 2: back heavy where the challenges potentially lie there for green Bay.
Speaker 2: But as it always was the case, whether it was
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers at quarterback, Jordan Love, Brett Hunley, whoever, it
Speaker 2: comes down to winning in the division. And I think
Speaker 2: with the last couple of seasons where the Packers kind
Speaker 2: of got tripped up was in some of those division matchups,
Speaker 2: whether it was against Minnesota or last year, you know,
Speaker 2: losing both of them to the Lions. Certainly, you know,
Speaker 2: Matt Lafleur still has yet to lose game to the Bears.
Speaker 2: So that will be critical both beginning the season and
Speaker 2: ending the season for green Bay. But to have two
Speaker 2: Thursday night matchups against the Lions after everything that Detroit did,
Speaker 2: after you know, really this feeling that hey, they've been
Speaker 2: building every single year. Dan Campbell has been in the
Speaker 2: Motor City. Though for as much as there's gonna be
Speaker 2: Kansas City and there's gonna be you know, justin Herbert
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles, it's gonna sound kind of monotonous. But
Speaker 2: for as many times as the Packers have played the Lions,
Speaker 2: especially to end the season, they've played a couple of
Speaker 2: playing games against them, those two matchups against them both
Speaker 2: in Week four and then at the end of the season.
Speaker 2: I think are really going to have a lot to
Speaker 2: do with where their season goes.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, I agree with you one hundred percent. And
Speaker 1: there's a lot of talk in Detroit, of course about
Speaker 1: where that team is headed. They got pegged for Week
Speaker 1: one to play the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City
Speaker 1: Chiefs in prime time, the type of game that the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions normally do not get selected to play, and
Speaker 1: that is how they are opening their twenty twenty three season.
Speaker 1: So there will be a lot of attention on Detroit,
Speaker 1: and I agree with you, a big spotlight on those
Speaker 1: Green Bay Detroit games, those two NFC North matchups this year.
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Speaker 1: All Right, I just a'll throw out a couple of
Speaker 1: questions to you. We've touched on a few of these
Speaker 1: highlights already, but when it comes to the opponent you
Speaker 1: are most looking forward to seeing visit Lambellfield and the
Speaker 1: road trip for the Packers in twenty twenty three that
Speaker 1: you are most looking forward to? What are your selections?
Speaker 2: Well, Las Vegas is the biggest road trip on my schedule.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's that way for a lot of Packer fans.
Speaker 2: First time the Packers will be at a Llegiance Stadium
Speaker 2: that's going to be absolutely huge. Also, the storylines there
Speaker 2: with DeVante Adams in the history with the Green Bay Packers,
Speaker 2: that will kind of right itself. I'm sure it'll drive
Speaker 2: the narrative that week. But placing it on Monday Night Football,
Speaker 2: I feel is also a really good spotlight for that matchup.
Speaker 2: Very interested to see. How you know, Jordan Love, He's
Speaker 2: going to get a taste to some of these these
Speaker 2: primetime matchups right off the bat. As we mentioned, Lions
Speaker 2: on Thursday Night football, coming right back against the Raiders
Speaker 2: the following week. That's where the national eye really comes
Speaker 2: on to you and seeing what you have to offer.
Speaker 2: And I'm very intrigued to see how the Packers handle
Speaker 2: that type of moment. Aaron Rodgers always seemed to embrace him,
Speaker 2: you know, when you would have the you know that
Speaker 2: that national you know, he always talked about the romanticism
Speaker 2: that's kind of involved with you're the only television game,
Speaker 2: You're the only NFL game that everybody's watching. To be
Speaker 2: in the you know, Las Vegas first time, you know,
Speaker 2: you and I will get a chance to be in
Speaker 2: a new stadium in a while that we haven't been to.
Speaker 2: That's very intriguing to me. And then certainly I'm going
Speaker 2: to steal the other good one here, which is that
Speaker 2: December third matchup against Kansas City. As you've outlined so
Speaker 2: many times before already an Inbox and a lot of
Speaker 2: our other stories on Packers dot Com, it'll be the
Speaker 2: first time Patrick mahomes in theory, if you can stay
Speaker 2: healthy here, we'll be making a start at lambeau Field.
Speaker 2: One of the things I led Inbox with last week
Speaker 2: was just how special those moments are because especially when
Speaker 2: it's a cross conference team that I mean, maybe now
Speaker 2: there's more of an opportunity than there was before for
Speaker 2: those guys to come over and play road games. It's
Speaker 2: not just once every eight years anymore because of that
Speaker 2: cross conference matchup, but still it's very rare that you're
Speaker 2: going to see Patrick Mahomes in this type of stadium.
Speaker 2: I want to say, Tom Brady only played here what
Speaker 2: two or three times, So that's something I think all
Speaker 2: Packer fans will have on their calendar because it's a
Speaker 2: game that's a little bit more than just the win
Speaker 2: and the loss. It's also what it represents, knowing that
Speaker 2: you're probably watching one of the a player that will
Speaker 2: go down as one of the greatest quarterbacks in league history.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one of the things I always look at
Speaker 1: with regard to the opponents coming to Lambeofield is particularly
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks, the guys that the guys that everybody talks about.
Speaker 1: And Patrick Mahomes be making his first trip to Lambe Field,
Speaker 1: and Justin Herbert for the Chargers, another young up and
Speaker 1: coming quarterback in the AFC, He'll be making his first
Speaker 1: visit to Lambe Field on that Sunday prior to Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: So those are those are some interesting ones to look
Speaker 1: forward to. And I totally agree with you as far
Speaker 1: as a road trip Las Vegas. It's it's not just
Speaker 1: the Packers obviously have have never played in Vegas. It's
Speaker 1: the DeVante Adams and you know, presumably matched up against
Speaker 1: Jay R Alexander and uh and And for me personally,
Speaker 1: there are only two current in use NFL stadiums that
Speaker 1: that I have at which I have not covered a game.
Speaker 1: Las Vegas is one. The other is Sofi Stadium in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. So I get to chalk another one off
Speaker 1: my list. Until Buffalo builds its new stadium and all
Speaker 1: the other new ones start getting built in then yeah,
Speaker 1: then then there'll be more that uh that I'll that
Speaker 1: I'll still need to visit. Here's a thought that just
Speaker 1: occurred to me though, and and I I'm dead serious
Speaker 1: that this just occurred to me all, you know, late
Speaker 1: last week looking over things. I didn't realize this, but
Speaker 1: in his first season as a starting quarterback, I'm counting
Speaker 1: I'm counting four stadiums at which Jordan Love could get
Speaker 1: a victory in which stadiums in which Aaron Rodgers never
Speaker 1: got a victory as the quarterback of the Packers. And
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Atlanta, which is the new Mercedes Benz
Speaker 1: Stadium in Atlanta. Obviously, Rogers won, you know, a big
Speaker 1: playoff game at the Georgia Dome, but lost once in
Speaker 1: the regular season once in the playoffs in Atlanta's new stadium,
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. We just mentioned that the Packers have never
Speaker 1: played there. Denver, the road game at Denver. Rogers only
Speaker 1: played one game, one regular season game in Denver in
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. Lost that one. That was when Peyton Manning
Speaker 1: was quarterbacking the Broncos, and the Broncos eventually.
Speaker 2: Seventy seven passing yards in that one. Yeah, Packers, they
Speaker 2: got a hand.
Speaker 1: It to him and that was and that was in
Speaker 1: prime time too.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, and then the other one is is Pittsburgh because
Speaker 1: Rogers actually only played one game at Hinsfield in Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: lost it to Ben Roethlisberger on a last play of
Speaker 1: the game touchdown pass back in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 1: And then in twenty seventeen when the Packers returned to Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: Rodgers was injured and Brett Hunley was the starting quarterback Bret.
Speaker 2: Brett Huntley probably had his best game of his career.
Speaker 1: That Yeah, that was. That was actually that was and
Speaker 1: and the Packers ended up losing that game on a
Speaker 1: walk off field goal if I recall correctly. That was
Speaker 1: another primetime another primetime matchup. So just interesting the way
Speaker 1: things fall that that Jordan love in his first year there,
Speaker 1: because Aaron Rodgers has won a lot of games, of
Speaker 1: course all over the NFL, but there are four stadiums
Speaker 1: on this on this road slate for the Packers in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three where Rogers never won a game, and
Speaker 1: and Jordan Lovell have an opportunity to chalk those off
Speaker 1: his list right away.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, And again it's about sort of being able to,
Speaker 2: you know, leave your mark a little bit and kind
Speaker 2: of put your foot down and show what type of
Speaker 2: quarterback you are. You know a lot of the stories
Speaker 2: I wrote this week, Mike, and you know some of
Speaker 2: the things that you're touching on too with Andras Carlson
Speaker 2: is just the transition that this entire roster is going over.
Speaker 2: I mean, the fact that you're going to have right now,
Speaker 2: you have ten receivers on the team between the ages
Speaker 2: of twenty one and twenty six, not one of them
Speaker 2: with more than one accrued season two new rookie tight
Speaker 2: ends obviously a very veteran backfield, but seeing this offense
Speaker 2: kind of come together and develop its identity behind Jordan
Speaker 2: Love is going to be so important, and also how
Speaker 2: they handle the week to week challenges that the NFL
Speaker 2: schedule presents. It's going to start right off the bat.
Speaker 2: I mean, even you look at the preseason, you know
Speaker 2: you're traveling to Cincinnati, and then you're going to be
Speaker 2: going up against New England and then also closing against Seattle.
Speaker 2: It's going to be the type of year where you're
Speaker 2: really going to have to figure out what this path
Speaker 2: is going to be if you're Matt Lafleur, and how
Speaker 2: you're going to go about utilizing Jordan Love and how
Speaker 2: you're going about deploying starters in these matchups. It's a
Speaker 2: lot different than a lot of other years where I
Speaker 2: think it would just always kind of become a foregone
Speaker 2: conclusion of what your plan is going to be with
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers, So just seeing from week to week how
Speaker 2: you handle those challenges that that's probably gonna be the
Speaker 2: most exciting aspect of the schedule regardless of what the
Speaker 2: real layout was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we should based on past history, we should
Speaker 1: within the next couple of weeks have the dates and
Speaker 1: the times nailed down with regard to the preseason games.
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur has mentioned that there are negotiations going on
Speaker 1: to have a team practice here in Green Bay with
Speaker 1: the Packers for a couple of days during training camps.
Speaker 1: So we'll see how We'll see how all of that
Speaker 1: shakes out as well. So, oh, the other, the other thing,
Speaker 1: the other thing to mention too before we go. We
Speaker 1: talked about that Week eighteen game against the Bears, which
Speaker 1: is the which is the TVD and if that game,
Speaker 1: because the game at Chicago is a three twenty five kickoff,
Speaker 1: if the Week eighteen game Packers Bears at lambeau Field
Speaker 1: does not end up in primetime, that will actually end
Speaker 1: one of the longest streaks in NFL scheduling history. The
Speaker 1: Packers and Bears have played a primetime game at least
Speaker 1: once in seventeen consecutive seasons, and that streak is actually
Speaker 1: in jeopardy of ending here if Packers Bears in Week
Speaker 1: eighteen is not a primetime game. But you know what,
Speaker 1: it would be pretty cool if it did become a
Speaker 1: primetime game, not only because of the streak, but because
Speaker 1: that would mean something really, really big is on the
Speaker 1: line there in Week eighteam between those between those rivals,
Speaker 1: So that would be that'll be something to watch as
Speaker 1: the stretch run unfolds here in December and January.
Speaker 2: No doubt it would kind of be sort of it'd
Speaker 2: be too bad if it ends that way too, because
Speaker 2: it's like the Week one game is America's game of
Speaker 2: the Week three twenty five. I mean, there's going to
Speaker 2: be tons of lights on it and attention drawn to it,
Speaker 2: even if it isn't necessarily at seven to fifty. But
Speaker 2: all that being said, certainly everybody's felt like that's a
Speaker 2: huge rivalry and the matchups that had been played in
Speaker 2: that too, the one hundred season for both the Packers
Speaker 2: and the Bears in the league, and you know some
Speaker 2: of the you know, you think about how the thirteen
Speaker 2: season ended between Green Bay and Chicago and the play
Speaker 2: in game winner take all for the NFC North and
Speaker 2: the Randall Cobb touchdown, so many incredible moments, and it
Speaker 2: would be nice if it does work out in the
Speaker 2: week eighteen that Jordan Love's first year as a starter
Speaker 2: in Green Bay kind of continues on that trajectory. Found
Speaker 2: it very interesting you talked about it in one of
Speaker 2: our other videos that we did, actually, I think it
Speaker 2: was the Q and A. If it does end, it
Speaker 2: ends in the same way it almost started where the
Speaker 2: Packers were actually playing Week one and Week seventeen at
Speaker 2: the time against the Bears. It just so happened that
Speaker 2: that first year the game was flex back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was the two thousand and six that
Speaker 1: was the first year of flex scheduling, and in Week seventeen,
Speaker 1: Packers Bears at Soldier Field was flexed into a primetime game,
Speaker 1: and then that became the start of the streak which
Speaker 1: is now at seven straight years of that rivalry, the
Speaker 1: oldest rivalry in the NFL. Also then having at least
Speaker 1: one primetime game every year. The other the other little
Speaker 1: quirk that I wasn't aware of right away when we
Speaker 1: saw the schedule, but the for those who look closely,
Speaker 1: the Week fourteen Monday night game for the Packers, which
Speaker 1: is at the Giants, is listed as being televised on ABC,
Speaker 1: and the reason for that is there are that Monday
Speaker 1: night there are a few different Monday Nights during the
Speaker 1: course of the season where there are two games, but
Speaker 1: it's not it's not a traditional double header Monday Night.
Speaker 1: It's actually two Monday Night games that overlap each other
Speaker 1: a little bit in terms of the kickoff time. So,
Speaker 1: and that happens to be one of them, the Packers
Speaker 1: at Giants there in Week fourteen. There is I don't
Speaker 1: I can't think off the top of my head what
Speaker 1: the other Monday Night. Probably some West Coast game, yeah,
Speaker 1: but there will be. There will be two Monday Night
Speaker 1: games on that Monday, December eleventh, and the Packers are
Speaker 1: one of the two. And that's why they are listed
Speaker 1: as on being on ABC as opposed to the traditional
Speaker 1: ESPN for Monday night football. So any other thoughts here
Speaker 1: West before we go on the schedule. I know you
Speaker 1: and I have to get to some news conferences with
Speaker 1: the Packers assistant coaches, the coordinators are going to get
Speaker 1: started here shortly, so we'll have that to talk about
Speaker 1: on our next show. But anything else on the schedule
Speaker 1: here before we wrap it up.
Speaker 2: We are right at the midway point of the offseason program.
Speaker 2: This is four weeks and basically middle of the next week,
Speaker 2: so very interested to see how we play this thing out.
Speaker 2: As you mentioned, we'll have assistant coachability this week, three
Speaker 2: weeks of OTAs and then wrapping up with the mini camp.
Speaker 2: We are taking steps slowly but surely towards the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three season, the beginning of the Jordan Love era,
Speaker 2: and the excitement is palpable.
Speaker 1: It's definitely building as we get as we get closer
Speaker 1: to the summer and the eventual start of training camp
Speaker 1: in late July. But with that we will call it
Speaker 1: a wrap on this edition of Packers' Unscripted. Be sure
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Speaker 1: for Wes, I am Mike, thank you for tuning in. Everybody.
Speaker 1: We will see you next time.