Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford, sitting alongside my partner in crime,
Speaker 1: West Hodkowits were coming to you here from our studios
Speaker 1: at lambeau Field West. The first four practices of two
Speaker 1: thousand nineteen Packers training camp are in the books. Two
Speaker 1: practices in helmets and shorts, then one in shoulder pads,
Speaker 1: and then one on Sunday in full pads. On Monday,
Speaker 1: the players taking a day off before they return to
Speaker 1: the practice field on Tuesday. But first time there's a
Speaker 1: new head coach and new sheriff in town, so to speak,
Speaker 1: running the show since two thousand and six. Your general
Speaker 1: observations of just what these practices are like, Tempo and
Speaker 1: efficiency is the number two things, and I hope i'd
Speaker 1: instill one of those from you in terms of opening
Speaker 1: up this topic. Tempo from the standpoint of not only
Speaker 1: how they move in and out of the drills, Mike,
Speaker 1: but even within the drills. The one that really stands
Speaker 1: out to me. It's a really small walk through. It's
Speaker 1: only about two minutes long, but it's where they have
Speaker 1: the first, second and third team offenses. Basically just run
Speaker 1: go routes and the offensive line finishes to the end
Speaker 1: zone with the receivers. Never seen anything quite like that before.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's commonplace in the NFL. I haven't seen it
Speaker 1: in Green Bay. The other element is the fact that
Speaker 1: all of these practices have pretty much wrapped up in
Speaker 1: the range between an hour and fifty minutes and two
Speaker 1: hours and eleven minutes. And Matt Lafleur was asked about
Speaker 1: this after practice concluded on Sunday, and the question was,
Speaker 1: I mean, is there going to be a two hour
Speaker 1: and thirty minute practice in your two hour and forty
Speaker 1: Sometimes will see those as you get into the padded work,
Speaker 1: And he really basically said no. He believes that they
Speaker 1: can get in the work that they need to get
Speaker 1: in in that window of time. He likes their evening walkthroughs.
Speaker 1: He believes that helps reinforce some of the concepts. And
Speaker 1: if you really think about it, Mike, those walkthroughs that
Speaker 1: we often saw with Mike McCarthy's practices, I know a
Speaker 1: lot of coaches use them. It's like a twenty minute
Speaker 1: period at the beginning. Well, they're just going to do
Speaker 1: that later on during the day, So I just think
Speaker 1: they've been really efficient with their time and also the
Speaker 1: tempo in and out of drills has been really impressive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the thing that stood out to me in
Speaker 1: terms of some things that are different from the way
Speaker 1: things were run before. It speaks to some of the
Speaker 1: conditioning that's built in, like you were mentioning, and it
Speaker 1: goes along with the efficiency as well. There are times,
Speaker 1: whether it's seven on seven or the full team eleven
Speaker 1: on eleven work where they're split up on two halves
Speaker 1: of the field, So you have two quarterbacks and two
Speaker 1: sets of offenses that are running stuff on one end,
Speaker 1: and then the other two quarterbacks and the other guys
Speaker 1: on the other end, which is really a great opportunity
Speaker 1: for guys like Tim Boyle and Manny Wilkins, your your
Speaker 1: third and fourth quarterbacks at this point to get so
Speaker 1: many more snaps than they would in a normal situation.
Speaker 1: And similar to that we've seen now since the pads
Speaker 1: have gone on, the offensive lineman and the pass rushers
Speaker 1: doing the one on one pass rush pass blocking drill. Well,
Speaker 1: every time two guys square off, they go too snaps
Speaker 1: in a row. You know, whether it's Kenny Clark against
Speaker 1: Corey Linsley, you know two guys who are starters, or
Speaker 1: whether it's two guys further down the depth chair, they
Speaker 1: go too snaps in a row, and I think that's
Speaker 1: interesting from the standpoint of one conditioning, but also we've
Speaker 1: seen it as we've watched the drill that whoever wins
Speaker 1: the first rep, usually that guy then makes the adjustment
Speaker 1: and then wins the second one, and it's a It's
Speaker 1: one of those things I think that almost simulates a
Speaker 1: real game better in that you know, you get beat
Speaker 1: on a snap, you gotta come right back the next snap.
Speaker 1: You're facing that same guy again, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: And uh So that's been interesting because it is very
Speaker 1: different from what we've seen before. The one thing I
Speaker 1: really liked about that adjustment, too, is in a game,
Speaker 1: it's very rare that a guy is going to go
Speaker 1: in for one snap, rush as hard as he can
Speaker 1: into the offensive linemen, then come off of the field. Um,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of physical, physical exertion that goes into
Speaker 1: that play, and in some ways, I think that's always
Speaker 1: been something that's been somewhat artificial. Everybody understands the drill
Speaker 1: is slanted towards the defense, but I think that tilts
Speaker 1: the favor even more in its favor. But this way
Speaker 1: of doing it, you look a guy like Josh and
Speaker 1: i'man who is going up against Rashaan Gary in practice
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Gary put a great move on him, pretty
Speaker 1: handily beat him on the first rep. They go back,
Speaker 1: they run it back and nine and the six ft
Speaker 1: seven undrafted rookie, I believe out of Virginia Tech he
Speaker 1: ends up making the adjustment, is able to stop Gary.
Speaker 1: I believe that was the only quote unquote loss that
Speaker 1: Gary had in that drill. Otherwise he was really dominant.
Speaker 1: So um, I really like it. I think it's really smart.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of times in the past two
Speaker 1: guys would go up against each other again, but it
Speaker 1: would be eight, nine, ten reps later, going back to
Speaker 1: back like that. I just think there's a real simulation
Speaker 1: of an actual game feel. And I think that's been
Speaker 1: a really nice adjustment that they've made. Yeah, it plays
Speaker 1: into the tempo of everything that you were talking about
Speaker 1: earlier as well. Okay, everybody always wants to know when
Speaker 1: the first few practices are in the books, even before
Speaker 1: the first practice is over, who's catching your eye, who's
Speaker 1: you know who looks good out there? All right, Well,
Speaker 1: preface this by saying it's been only four practices, only
Speaker 1: two of them in pads. There are seven more practices
Speaker 1: before the first preseason game, and then there are four
Speaker 1: preseason games that are going to obviously decide this roster
Speaker 1: and select this fifty three man roster heading into Week one.
Speaker 1: But all that as a caveat Let's just bounce back
Speaker 1: and forth a little bit here, starting with the offensive side.
Speaker 1: Who's caught your eye Jake Kumro and the reason I
Speaker 1: want to use him is the number one example. Mike.
Speaker 1: I had this epiphany after practice on Sunday, and it
Speaker 1: was trying to think back to last year in any
Speaker 1: specific instance where Jake Kumro just did not have a
Speaker 1: good practice, where he dropped passes, he just didn't run
Speaker 1: the right routes, there was a miscommunication, and honest to goodness, Mike,
Speaker 1: I just couldn't come up with anything. Maybe you could,
Speaker 1: but the guy. The word consistent is thrown around so much,
Speaker 1: so much that it's such a cliche, But with Jake Kumro,
Speaker 1: it is truly a fact. The guy in and out
Speaker 1: day after day, play after play is exactly where he
Speaker 1: wants to be. You hear Aaron Rodgers go and he
Speaker 1: and he talks time and time again at his locker
Speaker 1: about you know, this guy does all the right things.
Speaker 1: He's a guy that is accountable. He's someone that people
Speaker 1: should look up to. And you're seeing why. This is
Speaker 1: why Jake Kumro was not a one hit wonder. This
Speaker 1: is why he didn't just have a couple of good
Speaker 1: practices last summer and then fade into oblivion. This guy
Speaker 1: made himself a part of the conversation. He made the roster,
Speaker 1: he made plays late last season, and once again, despite
Speaker 1: a wide open field, that receiver, he's again putting himself
Speaker 1: in a position and not only make this team, but
Speaker 1: find a role in the offense. Yeah, well, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with the guy who's also at that same position.
Speaker 1: But I want to start by mentioning a couple of
Speaker 1: other guys because, and this is the thing. The guy
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about in a minute is someone
Speaker 1: who I've seen put together a string of practices. You
Speaker 1: might say, there are some guys who have really caught
Speaker 1: my eye in the first few days. One of them,
Speaker 1: Jamon Moore, thought he had a really really good practice
Speaker 1: on Saturday. Deshaun Kaiser. I thought he might have had
Speaker 1: his best day in a Green Bay Packers uniform on Saturday.
Speaker 1: I thought Jason Spriggs. He filled in on a day
Speaker 1: when Brian Bulaga took a veteran rest day, he filled
Speaker 1: in as the number one right tackle. Thought he played
Speaker 1: pretty well, performed pretty well that day. But then he
Speaker 1: comes back the next day and has a minor injury
Speaker 1: to his raps is and doesn't have that opportunity to
Speaker 1: build on another practice. So there are guys who have
Speaker 1: definitely flashed and guys that certainly I'm excited to see
Speaker 1: perhaps if they can build on those. But the guy
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about, who's that receiver just like
Speaker 1: your guy Kumarro, And that's Trevor Davis. And the reason
Speaker 1: I bring him up. We talked about him through ot ys.
Speaker 1: He definitely was showing up on the field and O
Speaker 1: T A S and he was kind of the forgotten
Speaker 1: guy with his season last year really being lost due
Speaker 1: to injury. The three draft picks came in at the position,
Speaker 1: and those were the guys we were talking about all
Speaker 1: the time. Trevor Davis on Sunday West, I quite frankly,
Speaker 1: for the bulk of the practice, whether you're talking the
Speaker 1: one on ones with the receivers and the dbs or
Speaker 1: in the team periods eleven on eleven, no matter which
Speaker 1: quarterback was taken the snaps, I thought Trevor Davis might
Speaker 1: have been the best player on the field that particular day.
Speaker 1: He was. He made a catch on the sideline, you know,
Speaker 1: toe tapping his feet, a really tough play. In the
Speaker 1: one on ones, he was just flat out getting open
Speaker 1: and eleven on eleven consistently would have had one of
Speaker 1: the biggest plays of camp, except the ball was overthrown. Unfortunately.
Speaker 1: He's a guy that you're just seeing it from the spring.
Speaker 1: He's starting to build on everything. There's there's a progression
Speaker 1: going on. He's healthy, which of course he's thankful for,
Speaker 1: and we know what he can do in the return game,
Speaker 1: and we'll see when the preseason games roll around exactly
Speaker 1: where he stands in that aspect. But with regards to
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur's offense, we've seen these jet sweeps, whether you're
Speaker 1: handing it off to the wide receiver or just doing
Speaker 1: the jet sweep action to set up something else. Trevor
Speaker 1: Davis has lined up in the slot, he's lined up
Speaker 1: out wide. If he can keep this up, there's a
Speaker 1: place for him and his speed and his skill set
Speaker 1: in this offense. Now, again, I preface that by saying
Speaker 1: it's really really super early here, and there's a long
Speaker 1: way to go, but he's, in my opinion, he's making
Speaker 1: a pretty strong first impression. And one thing that you
Speaker 1: can definitely say unequivocally without putting out the caveat that
Speaker 1: it's early in camp is ninety man roster for the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers. You could make a very good argument
Speaker 1: pound for pound, Trevor Davis is one of the best athletes,
Speaker 1: one of the most physically talented guys on this entire roster.
Speaker 1: When you look at his vertical, when you look at
Speaker 1: his forty he does things that not a lot of
Speaker 1: human beings on this earth can do. The key for
Speaker 1: him has been trying to show that he's more than
Speaker 1: just a returner. He's more than just what he showed
Speaker 1: on kickoffs and punts in two thousand seventeen. He wants
Speaker 1: to be a part of this offense. And I just
Speaker 1: think he's done a really good job to this point
Speaker 1: of the summer of reinserting his name in that conversation,
Speaker 1: because all summer long, at least all spring, we were
Speaker 1: so geared towards saying Geron wo Allison, the three young receivers,
Speaker 1: Jake Cumrow. A lot of times, Trevor Davis was that
Speaker 1: forgotten name in that equation. I think he's putting himself
Speaker 1: back on the tip of people's tongues, and I think
Speaker 1: he's played really well to this point. I also just
Speaker 1: want to mention one thing about Kaiser, because you pointed out,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned in you're correct in this, he's had
Speaker 1: some of his best practices he's had in the Packers uniform.
Speaker 1: I think Friday and as you mentioned Saturday, for sure,
Speaker 1: this is a guy he's gonna say all the right things.
Speaker 1: He's going to say that the time in Cleveland and
Speaker 1: the snaps he took our things are going to make
Speaker 1: him a better quarterback in the long run. I still
Speaker 1: debate that just based on how that season went for
Speaker 1: the Browns, and I think when you look at the
Speaker 1: history of quarterbacks that have been thrown into bad situations
Speaker 1: right away, it's not easy to bounce back from. I
Speaker 1: think what Kaiser has done a good job of is
Speaker 1: taking those experiences, taking what happened in his intermediate spurts
Speaker 1: last year, putting that in his rear view, and focusing
Speaker 1: on the future, focusing on the fact that he is
Speaker 1: a twenty three year old quarterback, the fact that in
Speaker 1: a lot of years this would be where he would
Speaker 1: maybe start coming out to be a guy that would
Speaker 1: finally start seeing regular season reps. He's had an uphill
Speaker 1: climb to the NFL just because of the situation he
Speaker 1: was placed in. But now he's been able to work
Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers and listening to him speak at his
Speaker 1: locker on Sunday, the unwavering confidence that he has right now,
Speaker 1: that is a skill, that's a talent, and that's something
Speaker 1: that I think if he can make this thing go,
Speaker 1: if he can make a career out of this, is
Speaker 1: going to serve him in the long run. That's that's
Speaker 1: the byproduct of it. Yeah, he's another guy who needs
Speaker 1: who needs to build and continue to show the progress
Speaker 1: and then when you get to that preseason game, you
Speaker 1: take it to another level. You you take what you've
Speaker 1: done on the practice field and show it in another
Speaker 1: way in an even more efficient, more explosive type of way,
Speaker 1: and I think he's going to have that opportunity. And
Speaker 1: he's always had a big arm that The one thing
Speaker 1: that's been nice to see is some of those long
Speaker 1: throws this summer he's been able to make. Now he's
Speaker 1: still there's still some accuracy the issues there. He needs
Speaker 1: to obviously keep working on that, but he's put some
Speaker 1: balls on a dime this year, uh fifty sixty yards out,
Speaker 1: and that's what you want to see from a quarterback
Speaker 1: with his type of arm strength. Alright, switching gears to
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball. Who's caught your eye,
Speaker 1: Sean Gary, I mean it's the easiest question. You asked
Speaker 1: me on offense. Who was the guy who caught me?
Speaker 1: I almost said Rashawn Gary. I mean, that's how quickly
Speaker 1: I wanted to get that guy's name out of my mouth.
Speaker 1: I mean this guy and trust me, as you said,
Speaker 1: it's four practices. In no disrespect to Dayton Jones, he
Speaker 1: looked really good his first few practices in Green Bay.
Speaker 1: But the thing that is different about Gary is that
Speaker 1: he looked good in the offseason program when he was
Speaker 1: coming off the edge very little contact. You saw the
Speaker 1: explosive first step. But man, oh man, what he's doing
Speaker 1: in some of these one on one drills. He's at
Speaker 1: a three technique position. I mean, this kid has a
Speaker 1: lot of powers. Six ft five, two seventy seven pounds.
Speaker 1: I asked him about this over the weekend, the fact
Speaker 1: that he was able to cut his body fat from
Speaker 1: down to ten basically since he got drafted from Green Bay,
Speaker 1: and that was after he's putting everything that he has
Speaker 1: into it, going into the draft and making himself as
Speaker 1: marketable as possible. The potential you know teams this guy
Speaker 1: right now, the position that he's in. I'm not guaranteeing
Speaker 1: he's gonna have ten sacks. I'm not guaranteeing, you know,
Speaker 1: anything with him. I don't want to put that out there.
Speaker 1: But in terms of draft picks, first round picks that
Speaker 1: I've covered here in six seven, eight years now, he's
Speaker 1: had as impressive as a start when you factor in
Speaker 1: his off season program. Is anybody that I've seen come
Speaker 1: through green back? Yeah, you go to practice, you stand
Speaker 1: there on the sideline and you can't help but notice
Speaker 1: the guy. I mean, and and that's that's not just
Speaker 1: because of his size, but it's because if you're watching,
Speaker 1: you see something happen and you're like, oh, who is that?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's number fifty two. I mean he just
Speaker 1: he stands out on a regular basis out there on
Speaker 1: the practice field. I think he's off to a tremendous start.
Speaker 1: There's no question about very violent hands too. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean it's incredible with the amount quicknesses he has, the
Speaker 1: amount of power he generates. Kid has all the tools. Man.
Speaker 1: He's a powerful He's a powerful, powerful young man. There's
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. The guy I'm going to mention
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball is a guy
Speaker 1: that we didn't see throughout the spring and the fact
Speaker 1: that he has been out there from day one in
Speaker 1: training camp and I think getting his feet back under
Speaker 1: him and doing what he should. I think you already
Speaker 1: know who I'm gonna say, and it's Kevin King, number twenty.
Speaker 1: He's been with the ones, he's been with the first
Speaker 1: string as a starting cornerback. He and jayro Alexander. We
Speaker 1: talked about them as the pair that really need to
Speaker 1: stay healthy and be on the field. I think for
Speaker 1: this Mike Petton defense in year two to be at
Speaker 1: its best. I you know, I'm not saying there are
Speaker 1: pacific plays that have jumped off the page at me
Speaker 1: that Kevin King has made. But he's walked out there
Speaker 1: and performed thus far in training camp as though he
Speaker 1: didn't miss a bunch of time, and as though he
Speaker 1: hasn't had these injury issues that have forced him to
Speaker 1: miss unfortunately a lot of games in his first two
Speaker 1: seasons in the NFL. I just want to point it out.
Speaker 1: I think he's off to a good start. I'm sure,
Speaker 1: I'm sure Mike Petton is happy about that. And if
Speaker 1: the Packers can keep this guy healthy along with Jayar Alexander,
Speaker 1: those two guys at cornerback, you really really like that
Speaker 1: young tandem. Yeah. One thing, The Packers yearbook is now
Speaker 1: on stands now there in the public. Get out to
Speaker 1: your local bookstore and pick that up or buy it
Speaker 1: on Packers pro shop dot com. Yeah, but there's a
Speaker 1: story that you wrote on him and Alexander, and I
Speaker 1: think it's a very salient thing to point out. Is
Speaker 1: that to me, that story told at all in terms
Speaker 1: of what these two guys want to do to push
Speaker 1: each other and if everything, if all the stars aligned,
Speaker 1: just how special that tandem could be for this team.
Speaker 1: That being said, the Packers had a very big plan
Speaker 1: for King this offseason. They wanted to take it easy
Speaker 1: with him. They didn't want to have any more setbacks
Speaker 1: with the soft tissue injuries. They got him to training
Speaker 1: camp healthy, and the fact that he's been able to
Speaker 1: reinsert himself into those team periods I think has been
Speaker 1: really important. I'll be curious to see how they handle
Speaker 1: him with preseason and things of that nature, because he
Speaker 1: still is a very young guy. I think he's still
Speaker 1: only twenty three or twenty four years old, so those
Speaker 1: are obviously reps that would benefit him. At the same time,
Speaker 1: you want to be cognizant of it to get to
Speaker 1: the regular season because they are fail they are still
Speaker 1: very young at that position. Despite Truman Williams being in
Speaker 1: the conversation as well, but just as far as King
Speaker 1: is concerned, he's put behind some of those injury things.
Speaker 1: He does look kind of bigger to me a little bit,
Speaker 1: especially in the arms. I just think that he's a
Speaker 1: guy that we talked so much about Jaire Alexander and
Speaker 1: for obvious reasons kids extremely talented, but Kevin King has
Speaker 1: had real nice bright spots as well. So if they
Speaker 1: can get both of those guys going get the two
Speaker 1: number one cornerbacks as I think they're gonna start calling themselves. Um,
Speaker 1: that's something the Packers haven't had in years. They just
Speaker 1: haven't had two stable guys at those outside positions that
Speaker 1: you can move around a little bit if you need to. Man,
Speaker 1: probably since going back to Sam Shields and went Tremont
Speaker 1: Williams was in his prime. Yeah, yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: would agree with that. Packers will have three practices this
Speaker 1: upcoming week at rain Field Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday all at
Speaker 1: ten fifteen, then Family Night on Friday night inside lambeau Field.
Speaker 1: As we go into uh, I guess you call it
Speaker 1: week two of training camp or however you want to
Speaker 1: phrase it. What are you going to have your eye on?
Speaker 1: What are you gonna be watching for? Anything specific? I
Speaker 1: want to see how the guys continue to battle with
Speaker 1: the pads on. I mean, because we've only they went
Speaker 1: half pads. I know Matt Lafloor still feels like that
Speaker 1: was a fully padded section session. But this is the
Speaker 1: big time of the year where you can start getting
Speaker 1: those back to back pad. This is the only time
Speaker 1: the year that stuff happens because once you get in
Speaker 1: the regular season, you only get pads once a week.
Speaker 1: So seeing how guys respond to that, how they react
Speaker 1: to that, how they get their bodies back in shape,
Speaker 1: it was funny. I'm gonna write about this later this week,
Speaker 1: but I was talking with Cole Madison about just how
Speaker 1: weird it was putting on pads for the first time
Speaker 1: since the Senior Bowl in two thousand and eighteen, and
Speaker 1: you know, he said, it just it takes a minute
Speaker 1: to just get those on and kind of get that
Speaker 1: first pop and feel that feeling again. But it's an
Speaker 1: exciting time for them. And also the other thing I'm
Speaker 1: very intrigued to watch as this thing develops is, you know,
Speaker 1: if they can get Darnell Savage back on the field.
Speaker 1: He's been out for four days with the wisdom to
Speaker 1: um you know deal uh Raven Green has been getting
Speaker 1: some really valuable reps there in his place. But the Packers,
Speaker 1: the tandem is Adrian Amos in Darnell Savage. They were
Speaker 1: building up some chemistry throughout the offseason program. If Savage
Speaker 1: can get out there sooner than later, I think it'd
Speaker 1: be cool to see how that develops. Even more Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was the guy I was going to mention is
Speaker 1: Savage because taking nothing away from Raven Green, he has
Speaker 1: stepped in as the other safety with Adrian Amos with
Speaker 1: the number one defense while Savage has been out. But
Speaker 1: I think everybody's interested to see what Savage is going
Speaker 1: to do, and you'd like to see him get a
Speaker 1: handful of practices under his belt before that first preseason
Speaker 1: game when you're really trying to get some things to
Speaker 1: come together. So we'll definitely be watching for number twenty six.
Speaker 1: The other thing I think we need to mention here
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna need your help on one of the names,
Speaker 1: but the Packers have added two running backs to the
Speaker 1: roster here in the last week, and which really makes
Speaker 1: the running back competition in terms of the pecking order
Speaker 1: and maybe how many guys are going to be kept
Speaker 1: on the final roster. You had Corey Grant who has
Speaker 1: been signed. He's a four is a fourth year veteran
Speaker 1: undrafted free agent. Yeah. Um had played uh for Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: Um had a really nasty foot injury last year that
Speaker 1: unfortunately cut his season short, but he is back healthy
Speaker 1: and on the roster. And then the Packers also laimed
Speaker 1: a running back off waivers from Cincinnati and I need Hall.
Speaker 1: That's right, and so you've got obviously Aaron Jones is
Speaker 1: your number one. Jamal Williams, he's missed a couple of
Speaker 1: practices now with a minor hamstring injury. Dexter Williams, the
Speaker 1: rookie sixth round pick out of Notre Dame, and now
Speaker 1: these two new additions at running back. This is going
Speaker 1: to get interesting here, West. You know what, I absolutely love, love, love,
Speaker 1: love love about how they've approached this backfield. They also
Speaker 1: have Trey Carson, who's been in the NFL before two
Speaker 1: and doesn't have an NFL carry, but has spent parts
Speaker 1: of three seasons in the league. There was years, Mike
Speaker 1: where you knew that it was going to be Eddie Lazy,
Speaker 1: James Starks, maybe a draft pick after that, and then
Speaker 1: they'd have some undrafted rookies that would just sort of
Speaker 1: eat up some snaps during the preseason. They shake their
Speaker 1: hand part ways with them at the end of it,
Speaker 1: maybe they come back on the practice squad. They could
Speaker 1: have very easily done that this year with Aaron Jones,
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams. Then Dexter Williams is the sixth round pick.
Speaker 1: In previous years, I think Dexter Williams would be just
Speaker 1: you just put him on the roster and let him develop.
Speaker 1: But they're bringing guys that have different skill sets and
Speaker 1: that could push for playing time. Corey Grant had a
Speaker 1: four point to four time in the forty at his
Speaker 1: Auburn Pro Day. Now that wasn't the combine, but it
Speaker 1: still gives you an idea of how fast this guy is.
Speaker 1: If you look at the plays he made in Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: two fake punts, one of which went for a touchdown,
Speaker 1: both over fifty yards, average eight point three yards per
Speaker 1: carry that one year with the Jaguars, you can see
Speaker 1: why Nathaniel Hackett and his history wanted him to come
Speaker 1: to Green Bay. And then when you look at Hall,
Speaker 1: this is a guy that averaged seven point nine five
Speaker 1: yards per carry. I believe in his last year at
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh broke Tony Dorset's single school record. Those are two
Speaker 1: guys that have big home run power out of the backfield.
Speaker 1: In addition to Carson, so I have imagined that Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones is gonna have a light workload in the preseason.
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams is dealing with the hamstring. But those guys
Speaker 1: will get a lot of work now in these next
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, and it's gonna be really interesting to
Speaker 1: see which one could prevail with Dexter Williams in that
Speaker 1: battle for the number three spot. Yeah, and when you
Speaker 1: look at just how many running backs are going to
Speaker 1: be kept on the roster, We've seen Danny Vitally at
Speaker 1: fullback getting a lot of action here, and we've talked
Speaker 1: about how it looks like there is a role for
Speaker 1: a fullback. If Vitality can prove to be that guy
Speaker 1: as well as a help on special teams, then that's
Speaker 1: another running back at that position. You're going to keep
Speaker 1: a guy. So then how many of those other guys,
Speaker 1: the more halfback types do you keep it? As you mentioned,
Speaker 1: different skill sets, different physical attributes with these guys. So
Speaker 1: there's there's gonna be a mix of things, a mix
Speaker 1: of of showings throughout the preseason as these different guys
Speaker 1: take their turns in the backfield. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be fun to watch. And I've been trying to tell people.
Speaker 1: I've been trying to say this since May. The fullback
Speaker 1: position in Green Bay. I'm not saying it's here to stay.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna make any guarantees with the roster, but
Speaker 1: Danny Vitali is playing as many snaps right now and
Speaker 1: team periods as I've seen from many fullback going back
Speaker 1: to John. I mean, he is just it has been
Speaker 1: an emphasis. There's so much ie form stuff, there's so
Speaker 1: much twenty one personnel. This guy has made the most
Speaker 1: of those chances too. So yeah, it's gonna be really
Speaker 1: intriguing to watch how that whole thing develops. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: with that, we will call it a wrap on this
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