Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford. He is the one and only
Speaker 1: West Hodkowits for coming to you here from our studios
Speaker 1: at lambeau Field and West. It's Wednesday, are midweek show,
Speaker 1: and that means we'll take a look at the Packers
Speaker 1: upcoming opponent. It's the a f C West Denver Broncos.
Speaker 1: They will come into lambeau Field on Sunday for a
Speaker 1: noon Central Time kickoff. And the Broncos, like the Packers,
Speaker 1: have a new head coach, and a rookie head coach
Speaker 1: in this league. Although Vic Fangio has certainly been around
Speaker 1: the NFL for quite some time. But the bottom line
Speaker 1: is right now with his team, whether you want to
Speaker 1: talk about roughing the passer and clock controversies that we
Speaker 1: discus gust on our previous shows, the Broncos are oh
Speaker 1: and two and they're still trying to get Vic Fangio
Speaker 1: his first win as a head coach. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: could talk about all those things. Certainly, we wasted a
Speaker 1: lot of breath the last few days, you know, expounding
Speaker 1: upon all those topics. But to me, I expected them
Speaker 1: out of the gates to have some you know issues offensively,
Speaker 1: I think, right now, what are they in the league?
Speaker 1: Fifteen points a game. What has surprised me is the
Speaker 1: defense though, And we're gonna talk about both sides of
Speaker 1: the ball here, but Vic Fangio, you think, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: he doesn't blitz a lot, but he does generate a
Speaker 1: lot of pressure, generates takeaways. The Broncos right now don't
Speaker 1: have either. They don't have any sacks and they don't
Speaker 1: have any turnovers for us. So, um, that I think
Speaker 1: is going to be an anomaly. I think when you
Speaker 1: look at the firepower that that defense has, they're going
Speaker 1: to get their opportunities. But for the Green Bay Packers perspective,
Speaker 1: you hope it's one week after this upcoming Sunday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, let's go ahead and talk about that defense,
Speaker 1: because you said it. The two statistics that jump out
Speaker 1: at you is that through two games, no sacks and
Speaker 1: no turnovers, which for Vic Fangio defense is almost like
Speaker 1: mind boggling. It's hard to believe. And when you look
Speaker 1: at the players that they have on the edges, you
Speaker 1: have Von Miller and you have Bradley Chubb, and on
Speaker 1: the interior with that pass pass rush. You have Derek Wolf,
Speaker 1: who's being paid as a as an elite interior rusher
Speaker 1: in this league, and Chris harris Um certainly a bona
Speaker 1: fide number one cornerback to to lockdown or attempt to
Speaker 1: lock down an opponent's top receiver. They spent a lot
Speaker 1: of money to get to Bryce Callahan this offseason as
Speaker 1: well from Chicago. That was who was Yeah, and and
Speaker 1: Callahan is a guy kind of making that step up
Speaker 1: from being the nickel back in Chicago to being a starter.
Speaker 1: But he obviously has all the knowledge of Fangio's defensive
Speaker 1: scheme and everything, so they felt he would be a
Speaker 1: good fit there. There's talent on that side of the ball.
Speaker 1: But the no sacks and no turnovers through through two
Speaker 1: games is really startling. Yeah, and von Miller, some of
Speaker 1: these guys have talked about it, you know, their need
Speaker 1: to step up and to you know, make some plays
Speaker 1: for this defense because certainly the firepower is there. As
Speaker 1: I just said Bradley Chubb, I mean, I think he's
Speaker 1: one of the top young rushers in this league. Certainly,
Speaker 1: the Denver made a big investment in him a year ago,
Speaker 1: and he paid them off for that. I think he
Speaker 1: had twelve and a half sacks last year. So yeah,
Speaker 1: seeing how these pieces come together and fit into Fangio's
Speaker 1: defense is going to be, you know, one of their
Speaker 1: big storylines for the season because ultimately, while they did
Speaker 1: trade for Joe Flacco, um, you know, they have different
Speaker 1: players there. I think offensively they feel they can win with,
Speaker 1: but the Broncos for the better part of the last
Speaker 1: decade have won with their defense. Um, you know, basically
Speaker 1: since uh, you know, Peyton Manning's MVP season. So um
Speaker 1: for them finding that right rhythm. You know, they're not
Speaker 1: giving up a lot of points. That's kept him in
Speaker 1: these ball games early. But as Mike Petton has said
Speaker 1: time and time again, in order to be a successful
Speaker 1: defense over the course of the season, you need takeaways,
Speaker 1: you need pressure, and right now the Broncos are getting neither. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when you want to look at a statistical comparison, the
Speaker 1: Broncos obviously played the Bears last week after the Packers
Speaker 1: played them in Week one, and really from a yardage
Speaker 1: standpoint other than core Darrell Patterson ripping off about a
Speaker 1: forty six yard run for Chicago in one of those
Speaker 1: funky formations out of the backfield. The Broncos defense really
Speaker 1: did to the Bears offense statistically, you know, the same
Speaker 1: type of job that the Packers did. Rabinsky didn't have
Speaker 1: a pass I don't believe of more than twenty five
Speaker 1: yards a completion, that is. And the Bears running backs
Speaker 1: other than I said, the one long run by Patterson,
Speaker 1: the Bears running backs did not have any other explosive
Speaker 1: games really, but not having any sacks and turnovers has
Speaker 1: been the difference. Even though, um to the Broncos credit,
Speaker 1: they did hold the Bears to just thirteen points until
Speaker 1: the last play of the game. Yeah, and that's all,
Speaker 1: you know, that's where the difference is going to be
Speaker 1: made again. Up until that last play. Mitchell Robinsky had
Speaker 1: ninety passing yards in that game. But I think what
Speaker 1: it shows you, though, Mike, is that you can play
Speaker 1: really stout defensively, but if you don't get the takeaways,
Speaker 1: or you don't get those critical stops when you need
Speaker 1: them the most, how it's going to impact the final
Speaker 1: outcome up games. So I expect there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: hungry team coming in here. And I wrote about this
Speaker 1: an inbox this week. I think it makes that Broncos
Speaker 1: really dangerous because they didn't we'll move on to offense
Speaker 1: here in a second, but they didn't trade for Joe
Speaker 1: Flacco thinking that this is just gonna be a total
Speaker 1: rebuild here. John Elway wants to find a quarterback. The
Speaker 1: Broncos want to return to being a contender, and let's
Speaker 1: be honest, that division has suddenly become a real juggernaut
Speaker 1: now in the NFL and they're trying to keep up
Speaker 1: with the Joneses. So yeah, this is, uh, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a tried and true test. You win with defense.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of times in this league. The
Speaker 1: Broncos won a Super Bowl a few years back based
Speaker 1: on that defense. We remember that team that the Packers
Speaker 1: had that win into Mile High and you know, they
Speaker 1: struggled to pass the ball on this defense, and that
Speaker 1: was when the Packers were six and oh and writing
Speaker 1: high and that Broncos defense that ultimately ended up winning
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl that year. That Broncos defense completely shut
Speaker 1: down Aaron Rodgers and the Packers. I was four years ago,
Speaker 1: yeah right, and you know right now, the Bronco Broncos
Speaker 1: do technically have a top ten defense, but if you're
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, if you're Aaron Jones, you want to protect
Speaker 1: the football. That offensive line needs to protect the quarterback
Speaker 1: because this little mini gauntlet that they're on here facing
Speaker 1: defenses that can hurt you. You know, the Packers haven't
Speaker 1: escaped that yet. Yeah. Well, you mentioned Joe Flacco on
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball for the Broncos, and
Speaker 1: as you said, John Elway made the trade, brought him
Speaker 1: in because they feel like they can contend now in
Speaker 1: a in a tough division with Kansas City Chiefs, Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Chargers and whatnot, and Flacco his numbers so far
Speaker 1: this year statistically things look okay, but much like the Packers,
Speaker 1: the Broncos aren't scoring enough points. They are trying to
Speaker 1: get their running game cranked up. Interestingly, though, the guy
Speaker 1: who made all the headlines for them last year in
Speaker 1: the ground game, Philip Lindsay, isn't really producing to the
Speaker 1: level he was last year. But the number two guy,
Speaker 1: Royce Freeman, is the one who's you know, kind of
Speaker 1: been a bright spot offensively. They're gonna have to make
Speaker 1: a decision here on what they want to do unless
Speaker 1: they are fully committed to this committee approach, because right,
Speaker 1: I mean Philip Lindsley, you know, one of the top
Speaker 1: rookies in the league last season. I think he was
Speaker 1: the only undrafted rookie that made the All Rookie Team
Speaker 1: didn't go to the Pro Bowl. Yes, correct, and the
Speaker 1: only one to make the Pro Bowl. Carries seventy nine yards,
Speaker 1: only has a long of nine right now, three point
Speaker 1: three yards per carry. Then you have Royce Freeman on
Speaker 1: the other side of the carries for hundred and ten
Speaker 1: yards along of twenty six in an average of five
Speaker 1: point two. I think there's a lot of people, you know,
Speaker 1: when you look at the way that this backfield is constructed,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people, I think, including myself, that
Speaker 1: thought Royce Freeman this was his backfield. They were going
Speaker 1: to turn the keys over to him. And then Lindsay
Speaker 1: kind of came out of nowhere last year to be
Speaker 1: that guy. So what they want to do there is
Speaker 1: going to be interesting to watch and how they approached
Speaker 1: this game and how those reps are divvied up. Because
Speaker 1: again getting back to what point I made a few
Speaker 1: minutes ago, you know this team since that Super Bowl
Speaker 1: run or even before that, really, because there were some
Speaker 1: quarterback questions that year, going back probably even to when
Speaker 1: Manning was an m v P. You know, they've been
Speaker 1: built around the run, and there's been a lot of
Speaker 1: different guys that have carried that mantel for them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're trying to figure out who that guy can be
Speaker 1: for Joe Flacco on this offense right now, as far
Speaker 1: as the weapons in the passing game. Emmanuel Sanders, who
Speaker 1: was a free agent signing. I guess it was a
Speaker 1: year or two ago. I'm trying to remember my timeline exactly,
Speaker 1: a free agent signing from the Pittsburgh Steelers. He's there six?
Speaker 1: Is that really help? Are you serious? Okay, well, sorry
Speaker 1: about that, folks. I thought it was just a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago. Um, But he came over from the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers. He's been a pretty steady consistent presence for
Speaker 1: them in the passing game. Two years old already? Wow?
Speaker 1: And yeah, well, clearly I didn't realize he was that old,
Speaker 1: or I would have thought he had been there longer. Um.
Speaker 1: But aside from Sanders, who else has Joe Flacco at
Speaker 1: least in this early going. He's only got two starts
Speaker 1: under his belt as a Broncos quarterback. But who else
Speaker 1: is he looking at it? Well, Cortland Sutton is the
Speaker 1: other person in this uh, in this offense, you know,
Speaker 1: since the Damerius Thomas Emmanuel Sanders era kind of went
Speaker 1: by the wayside, and he is kind of a young guy,
Speaker 1: right like Sutton actually is young. Let's let's get an
Speaker 1: official ag. I want to see twenty three years old.
Speaker 1: Last year, really promising rookie season, forty two catches for
Speaker 1: hundred seventy four yards out of SMU. He was one
Speaker 1: of my favorites at the combine and he's off to
Speaker 1: a nice start and had a hundred and twenty receiving
Speaker 1: yards against Oakland. Six ft four two sixteen pounds. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, really dynamic player. I think without having in
Speaker 1: front of me, I think he ended up going in
Speaker 1: the second round. They have high aspirations for him. He's
Speaker 1: been a favorite target so far early as I was
Speaker 1: just saying with Joe Flacco in this offense, and the
Speaker 1: thing I love about Sanders is that he was one
Speaker 1: of the rare exceptions where a guy reaches free agency
Speaker 1: at that position and really hasn't kind of reached his
Speaker 1: ceiling yet. Uh. He had four fine seasons with Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: but it was when he got to Denver that he
Speaker 1: really took off. I think he had a fourteen hundred
Speaker 1: yards season during one of those years. His numbers have
Speaker 1: kind of plateau the last two seasons, but still a
Speaker 1: very dynamic guy that the Packers are gonna have to
Speaker 1: bec started with. Well here's an interesting stat I'll just
Speaker 1: throw at you, and I don't want to get into
Speaker 1: too long a discussion about it, but Garrett Bowls, the
Speaker 1: left tackle for the Denver Broncos. Through two games, he's
Speaker 1: already been flagged five times for holding. Now three of
Speaker 1: those were declined, excuse me, but the bottom line is
Speaker 1: five flags for holding in two games. We've seen there's
Speaker 1: been this emphasis on holding. Holding calls are up around
Speaker 1: the league. We've seen we saw David Bactieri in WELAK
Speaker 1: one in Chicago and All Pro the number one left
Speaker 1: tackle in the league last year, first team All Pro guy,
Speaker 1: got flagged for flag twice for holding in Week one.
Speaker 1: But this is one of those things when when if
Speaker 1: a guy starts to get that kind of reputation amongst
Speaker 1: the officials, the officials look at the stats and stuff
Speaker 1: too to know who's out there and what's going on.
Speaker 1: Be interesting to see just what Mike Petton dials up,
Speaker 1: so to speak, or who he wants matched up against.
Speaker 1: Bowls at left tackle for a guy who is struggling
Speaker 1: a little bit to stay away from the penalty FLA yeah,
Speaker 1: overall pick in two thousand and seventeen. He was an
Speaker 1: All rookie member of the p f w A during
Speaker 1: his rookie season. But yeah, he's it's it's one of
Speaker 1: those rocky stars that you sometimes deal with. You look at,
Speaker 1: you know, the way that this offensive line has been
Speaker 1: built over the years. Um that was one of the
Speaker 1: reasons why they were able to win a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: with Peyton Manning with some of the issues that they
Speaker 1: did have in the passing game, is what they were
Speaker 1: able to do with that line and what they were
Speaker 1: able to do with that run game. Bowls has been
Speaker 1: kind of a part of that next guard. There really
Speaker 1: has been a passing of the torch in the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. You know, Ronald Learry, the former Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys guard. I've always been a big fan of his work.
Speaker 1: They signed him a couple of years ago. He's been
Speaker 1: kind of moved in there at right guard. Certainly Dalton
Speaker 1: Risner is the guy that you and I have talked
Speaker 1: a lot about over last year. He was one of
Speaker 1: my favorites at the combine this uh this this past year,
Speaker 1: and they're currently using him at right guard I should say,
Speaker 1: excuse me, left guard. So they have some pieces there,
Speaker 1: But you know, the the lynch pinned all this is Bowls.
Speaker 1: He was the first round pick. He was seen as
Speaker 1: the franchise left tackle, and this is where if your's
Speaker 1: a Darius Smith, Preston Smith and the rest of those
Speaker 1: edge rushers, you want to be able to give them
Speaker 1: a run for their money a little bit and make
Speaker 1: things uncomfortable for Joe Flacco because, as we've seen over
Speaker 1: the years, Flacco can hurt you. But he's also a
Speaker 1: guy that pretty much stays to that pocket. So I
Speaker 1: think in some way it's a very similar matchup to
Speaker 1: what they saw a week ago with Kirk Cousins. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's a matchup to watch definitely in this game.
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Speaker 1: all right. Another aspect with regards to the Packers and
Speaker 1: this most recent victory against the Vikings that I want
Speaker 1: to get back to. You posted a story on Packers
Speaker 1: dot com yesterday. It's your weekly or sometimes semi weekly
Speaker 1: Player on the Rise feature, and you actually selected two
Speaker 1: players in talking about the tandem and presses have at cornerback,
Speaker 1: the young cornerback tandem of Jayar Alexander and Kevin King,
Speaker 1: and we talked a lot in the offseason West As
Speaker 1: you know, we mentioned I wrote its story in the
Speaker 1: yearbook about it. Talking to both of these guys, they
Speaker 1: feel like when they are on the field together, they
Speaker 1: can be one of the top cornerback tandems in the league.
Speaker 1: This Mike Petton defense. In the little that we saw
Speaker 1: last year when these two were on the field together,
Speaker 1: the defense was playing at a different level. Through two games,
Speaker 1: both of these guys have been on the field, knock
Speaker 1: on wood, playing their fair share of snaps and it's
Speaker 1: making a big difference for Mike Petton's crew. I'll be
Speaker 1: honest with you one thing, I am kind of kicking
Speaker 1: myself with and certainly our offseason was pretty busy. Um,
Speaker 1: I know there's a couple different projects I worked on.
Speaker 1: I am sort of kicking myself. I didn't do a
Speaker 1: little bit of a study on where these where this
Speaker 1: defense was at when King was available, because I even
Speaker 1: think I go back to that second game of the
Speaker 1: season against Minnesota when King played to when he left
Speaker 1: the game, and just a real big difference there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Minnesota's fourth quarter comeback, and I know, you know there
Speaker 1: was the penalty controversy, but Minnesota's fourth quarter comeback. They
Speaker 1: suddenly became this explosive offense in the fourth quarter to
Speaker 1: get that aim to overtime, and Kevin King's absence was
Speaker 1: a huge part of that. All you have to do
Speaker 1: you look at you look at the second half of
Speaker 1: the first Minnesota game and then the entire second Minnesota
Speaker 1: game when the Packers did not have both King and Alexander,
Speaker 1: and look at the numbers that Digs and Theeland put
Speaker 1: up against the Packers compared to what they did on
Speaker 1: Sunday in the first matchup of twenty nineteen. Night and
Speaker 1: day difference in terms of production, it was pretty incredible
Speaker 1: when I looked it up. I mean it was like
Speaker 1: almost like four and er in sixty yards or something
Speaker 1: like that in two games. Two receivers, and they had
Speaker 1: five touchdowns and they were all pretty much balanced across
Speaker 1: both games. So yeah, they were a big problem. And
Speaker 1: you know, suffice it to say, King and Alexander took
Speaker 1: care of that issue, and this is going to be
Speaker 1: something as long as those two are on the field.
Speaker 1: I think the Packers are very confident about putting either
Speaker 1: of those guys outside on anybody in this league and
Speaker 1: being able to be up to the task. And Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers comment after the game was very telling as well,
Speaker 1: where he said, you know, we've had, you know, various
Speaker 1: guys who have come through here over the years that
Speaker 1: maybe they don't really want the at that smoke with
Speaker 1: the top receivers in the league. And he wasn't singling
Speaker 1: on anybody, but he's been around for fifteen years. He's
Speaker 1: seen a lot of ball. Kevin King, not that guy, Jr. Alexander,
Speaker 1: not that guy. They want the challenge. And you know, King,
Speaker 1: when I was in his huddle and talking with him
Speaker 1: a little bit after the game, he echoed the same
Speaker 1: thing because he was asked, He's like, you know, do
Speaker 1: you do you feel pressure in these instances? He's like,
Speaker 1: we don't feel any pressure. You know, you see us
Speaker 1: in the way we act. They want that challenge. Jyr
Speaker 1: Alexander does not back away from that challenge. I think
Speaker 1: the way he played in that game, you know, he's
Speaker 1: within a you know, two eyeballs and a fingertip of
Speaker 1: catching that interception that ended up being on the forty
Speaker 1: five yard touchdown pass for Digs, and he didn't bat
Speaker 1: an eye. He came right back with a short memory
Speaker 1: of the next series. As long as those two guys
Speaker 1: are healthy and in that secondary, I think the Packers
Speaker 1: really like where they stand right now at their cornerback position. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they're Their approach, their attitude throughout the whole
Speaker 1: offseason was evident, was palpable in a sense. Anytime you
Speaker 1: talk to him. I know, we keep referencing the yearbook
Speaker 1: story that I wrote, but I had separate one on
Speaker 1: one interviews with the two of them for that story,
Speaker 1: and in separate conversations, they both talked about how they
Speaker 1: want the challenge of taking on that number one receiver
Speaker 1: to the extent that you know, behind closed doors, they
Speaker 1: were joking that you know, they they'd probably be fighting
Speaker 1: with the other guy over over who was going to
Speaker 1: get it, or they'd be making their please to Mike Petton,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, give me this assignment kind of thing.
Speaker 1: And and yeah, that's what you that's what you love
Speaker 1: to see and love to hear. Aaron Rodgers was making
Speaker 1: reference back to the days of when the three the
Speaker 1: top three cornerback group for the Packers was Charles Woodson,
Speaker 1: Al Harrison, Tremont Williams, when he was the you know,
Speaker 1: the young up and coming guy behind the two veterans.
Speaker 1: Now he obviously couched at. Charles Woodson is going into
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. He's you know, Rogers considers him,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe one of the best football players he
Speaker 1: ever played with. I think even said the best words
Speaker 1: at all. And uh, but that being said, it's the
Speaker 1: it's the attitude and the approach that, you know, whether
Speaker 1: you're talking a future Hall of Fame wide receiver on
Speaker 1: the other side or whoever it is, that there's no
Speaker 1: backing down, that it's like, all right, this is my job,
Speaker 1: let's go, let's play and um and these guys, these
Speaker 1: guys take that approach every single time. And one of
Speaker 1: the things that's exciting about this particular duo is they're
Speaker 1: both right in the same you know, generational gap in
Speaker 1: terms of NFL careers. And when Rogers made that analogy
Speaker 1: with Woodson, Treman and al Harris, it's a good analogy.
Speaker 1: He's talking about three of the best cornerbacks to do
Speaker 1: it in Green Bay. But they were all at various
Speaker 1: different points of their careers. Treman was right at the beginning,
Speaker 1: Al Harris was pretty near the end, and you know,
Speaker 1: Charles Woodson was probably and maybe the early fourth quarter
Speaker 1: at that point when he kind of had his late resurgence.
Speaker 1: These two guys are both young, twentysomething you know, guys
Speaker 1: that have a lot of athletic ability. I thought you
Speaker 1: had a really astute observation about the interception that King
Speaker 1: had where he was actually when he caught that pick.
Speaker 1: He wasn't even high pointing the ball at that point.
Speaker 1: He was actually on his descent along with Digs. And
Speaker 1: that's just what you get from him though at six
Speaker 1: ft three, The the rang nous, the catch radius, the speed,
Speaker 1: the quickness, just how long he can keep his body
Speaker 1: in the air when he elevates like that. That he
Speaker 1: was still that he was able to stay in the
Speaker 1: air long enough to still get his hands on the
Speaker 1: ball even though he was coming down and crashing to
Speaker 1: the ground. And the point I want to make with
Speaker 1: this is when you look at this defense the way
Speaker 1: it's structured right now, you don't just have good defensive tackles,
Speaker 1: good outside linebackers, and good cornerbacks. You have players who
Speaker 1: play a position but are also incredible athletes. Kenny Clark
Speaker 1: is not your traditional defensive tackle. He has more speed
Speaker 1: and quickness than most at that position. You've seen it
Speaker 1: with Preston Smith. Preston Smith has an interception in his
Speaker 1: last five seasons now or whatever that is. I mean
Speaker 1: za Darius Smith, what he can do. The athleticism. These
Speaker 1: are guys that are that test off the charts and
Speaker 1: play at a different level. If these guys can stay healthy,
Speaker 1: I think ultimately that's what's gonna help the most. You
Speaker 1: Off the chemistry that's incredibly important. You have the guys
Speaker 1: playing discipline football incredibly important. But when you talk about
Speaker 1: an absolute athletic perspective with guys like King and Clark
Speaker 1: and Alexander mixed with some of these veterans they brought
Speaker 1: in the Packers are just a cut above right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're talking about a defense that you know,
Speaker 1: you can make an argument is one of the most
Speaker 1: talented that they've had since the Super Bowl, if not
Speaker 1: the most talented. And a lot of these guys are
Speaker 1: in the prime of their careers. Yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 1: how that's how this thing has been built. When you
Speaker 1: combine all the investments in the draft picks in recent
Speaker 1: years with then that free agent class of signing three
Speaker 1: um as, you say, prime of their career starters to
Speaker 1: come in and start right away and be leaders. Zadarius
Speaker 1: Smith voted a team captain when before he even plays
Speaker 1: his first game essentially as a Green Bay Packer, he's
Speaker 1: voted the permanent captain on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: That says something about about these guys and and about
Speaker 1: their presence since the day they arrived. And it makes
Speaker 1: for some fun banter between King in Alexander, But okay,
Speaker 1: which guy is the number one shutdown guy? But the
Speaker 1: real serious note to that is that then you have
Speaker 1: a game like Adam Feeland Stefon Diggs coming in and
Speaker 1: you need two guys are gonna be able to match
Speaker 1: up with those guys the Packers had that they're gonna
Speaker 1: see Sutton and Sanders this weekend. You're gonna see a
Speaker 1: litany of those other combinations to come those guys around
Speaker 1: the field. I think Mike Petton likes his chances. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he does too. With that, we're going to
Speaker 1: call it a wrap on this edition of Packers on Scripted.
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