Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford, sitting alongside my trusted colleague Wes Hodkowitz.
Speaker 1: Were coming to you here from our studios at lambeau
Speaker 1: Field and West as the Packers wrap up their off
Speaker 1: season program. Thursday is the final mini camp practice. If
Speaker 1: there's maybe been one theme you could tag to these
Speaker 1: O t A s and the mini camp, it's been
Speaker 1: a little bit of a boost in the eleven on
Speaker 1: eleven the team reps, as they say, that's certainly by
Speaker 1: design for Mike McCarthy wanted to focus on the passing
Speaker 1: game a lot during the off season program because it's
Speaker 1: really hard to get a lot of work done in
Speaker 1: the running game, you know, when the players aren't in
Speaker 1: pads and you can't go full context, so to speak.
Speaker 1: But it also makes sense to do a lot of
Speaker 1: this eleven on eleven work in the spring here when
Speaker 1: two of the position groups where you have a lot
Speaker 1: of young players you're trying to get ready are wide
Speaker 1: receiver and cornerback. Because not to say pads don't matter,
Speaker 1: but they matter maybe a little bit less at those
Speaker 1: positions than those interior guys and hopefully the development is
Speaker 1: going to pay off. And you've been covering this team
Speaker 1: mich a lot longer than I have, but in all
Speaker 1: of my years, this to me feels like the most
Speaker 1: competitive team periods that the Packers have had during an
Speaker 1: offseason program. And I say that because even the pass
Speaker 1: under pressure eleven on nine periods, they've done a lot
Speaker 1: of those two and those have been amplified. It seems
Speaker 1: like they're doing a lot of red zone stuff with that.
Speaker 1: And then you know the eleven on eleven this week
Speaker 1: in particular, I think that's so important because you've seen
Speaker 1: what Aaron Rodgers does and how he can lead the offense,
Speaker 1: and eleven on eleven period you haven't seen that yet
Speaker 1: with Deshaun Kaiser, Tim Boyle, this is your first time
Speaker 1: seeing it. Brett Hunley all of his experience this offseason,
Speaker 1: you know, two or three months of classroom war, putting
Speaker 1: that out there now on the field. I think that's
Speaker 1: really important to see what these guys have to offer
Speaker 1: and give those young receivers a chance to make some plays.
Speaker 1: Joe Philbin was asked about this this week during the
Speaker 1: offensive assistant coaching availability, and you know, He's basically the
Speaker 1: premise of the question was can you really draw that
Speaker 1: much from these practices with these guys running around in shorts?
Speaker 1: And I thought he had an interesting answer, and he's like, well,
Speaker 1: if a guy doesn't look good running around in shorts,
Speaker 1: there's something to draw from that too. So you you
Speaker 1: want to see these guys perform. Yes, it's a different
Speaker 1: game once the pads go on, But this is really
Speaker 1: the chance for you know, Jamon Moore, e q st Brown,
Speaker 1: Marquez Valdez, Scantling to go out there and show everything
Speaker 1: that they put on film in the pre draft process
Speaker 1: and show that those traits can carry over to the
Speaker 1: next level. Yeah, and that carry over then goes into
Speaker 1: training camp. The first couple of days of training camp
Speaker 1: will still be without pads before the pads go on,
Speaker 1: So there's there's a little bit of that acclamation period.
Speaker 1: But when you talk about the competitiveness of it, you know,
Speaker 1: this is my thirteen season covering the Packers from this
Speaker 1: type of position, and the the I guess I'd say
Speaker 1: the boisterousness of some of the coaches, the competitiveness of
Speaker 1: the players arguing when a flag comes out whether it
Speaker 1: should be off sides or a false start. You see
Speaker 1: that a lot in training camp. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I've seen as much of it, you know, in past
Speaker 1: years as we have in O T A s. The
Speaker 1: competitiveness was definitely cranked up a little bit. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's because of the pending competition for
Speaker 1: roster spots the fact that there's a lot of new
Speaker 1: blood on the coaching staff, but it's just one of
Speaker 1: those things that that you notice when it's a little
Speaker 1: different than in past. And Mike Petton when he was
Speaker 1: addressing the media this past week saying that you know,
Speaker 1: they don't want to sweep anything under the rug. They
Speaker 1: want to be able to have an open dialogue about
Speaker 1: what they're seeing and where they can improve. And that
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if it's the off season program or training camp.
Speaker 1: He's he's not afraid to speak up. Patrick Graham, the
Speaker 1: running game coordinator and inside linebackers coach, obviously not afraid
Speaker 1: to speak up. And if they feel like there's a
Speaker 1: place where the energy isn't where it needs to be,
Speaker 1: or the the emotion isn't where it needs to be,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be. You know, it's going to be made known. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's a time where rookies are gonna make mistakes
Speaker 1: and and you're gonna want to make sure you correct
Speaker 1: those things. But the one thing that everybody controls on
Speaker 1: the field is your energy level this time of the year.
Speaker 1: And it just seems to me Mike McCarthy one of
Speaker 1: his big mantras this whole offseason has been wanting to
Speaker 1: to really increase the energy with the coaches, with the
Speaker 1: players everywhere across the board. And I think when you
Speaker 1: look at these young guys coming and trying to impress,
Speaker 1: whether it's the running backs, the receivers, or even the
Speaker 1: defensive backs, where there's so many guys competing for jobs,
Speaker 1: it just seems like there's a higher sense of urgency. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so too. A lot of that. I think
Speaker 1: we've seen it this week, certainly in the mini camp
Speaker 1: with all the veterans being excused, the young players know, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is my time that now I'm gonna take some
Speaker 1: reps with the ones. Where I was always on the
Speaker 1: twos and threes before the guys who have always been
Speaker 1: on the threes, they get to move up and take
Speaker 1: some reps with the twos, They get a little bit
Speaker 1: bigger stage. It's their chance to put a few more
Speaker 1: snaps on film. This is important stuff. I mean now, granted,
Speaker 1: I I personally don't believe the competition for roster spots
Speaker 1: and all that and for playing time really begins until
Speaker 1: the pads go on in training camp. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, it's all about making an impression and and
Speaker 1: making that impression so that the coaches when you come
Speaker 1: back for training camp they maybe already got their eye
Speaker 1: on you a little bit. Absolutely. You and I were
Speaker 1: both prep reporters way back when at Three Bay Press
Speaker 1: Becazette non concurrently. But you know, when all the beat
Speaker 1: reporters will go away. You know what happened. It was
Speaker 1: west Hodkowitz got the got the playbook. I'm the one
Speaker 1: that got the list of agents in case anything happened
Speaker 1: dur An extension went down. That's the experience you get
Speaker 1: when the veterans are away. And yeah, it isn't going
Speaker 1: to ultimately dictate anything today, but in two months from now,
Speaker 1: when jobs are on the line, it's those kind of
Speaker 1: experiences you can harken back to, you know, and trying
Speaker 1: to claim one of those fifty three spots on the
Speaker 1: active roster. Absolutely. With that, we're gonna go to a
Speaker 1: break back with more on Packers Unscripted right after this.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Packers Unscripted. Mike Spofford in this chair,
Speaker 1: Wes Hodkinwitz in that one West. We talk a lot
Speaker 1: about how certain players they look different when the pads
Speaker 1: go on later in the summertime. There's a player, and
Speaker 1: we touched on this in an earlier episode, who looks
Speaker 1: a lot different this year without the pads on. And
Speaker 1: I'm talking about third year offensive lineman Jason Spriggs. He's
Speaker 1: just flat out bigger and stronger than we've seen him
Speaker 1: through his first two years in the NFL. He first
Speaker 1: came to the Packers as a second round pick from
Speaker 1: the University of Indiana back in You got a little
Speaker 1: insight into his meal plan. I guess we would say
Speaker 1: in terms of how he's remade his body a little bit,
Speaker 1: what did you find out? Yeah, and to me, Mike,
Speaker 1: just again looking just the eye test um, this is
Speaker 1: the most drastic body composition change I've seen, I honestly
Speaker 1: believe in since Mike Neil going back to two thousands
Speaker 1: their team. But that was Neil dropping say that was
Speaker 1: that was the opposite, But you're right in terms in
Speaker 1: terms of the difference coming back from the end of
Speaker 1: one season to the start of the next offseason, it
Speaker 1: is definitely different. At the beginning of the locker room
Speaker 1: interview with Jason Spriggs, I got a chance to talk
Speaker 1: to him by myself, but Larry McCarron had mentioned to him,
Speaker 1: and you know, it almost looks like Jason Spriggs and
Speaker 1: a half with rad he's put on He added about
Speaker 1: twenty between twenty and thirty pounds. He said he's actually
Speaker 1: now in the covering in the three twenties, so he
Speaker 1: was really light at tackle and he said that goes
Speaker 1: back to his high school days. He's a phenomenal athlete.
Speaker 1: Four point nine four time in the forty was the
Speaker 1: fastest among offensive lineman back at the two thousand thirteen
Speaker 1: NFL scouting combines. Still did thirty one reps of of
Speaker 1: two pounds on the bench press. But it's just never
Speaker 1: has been natural for him to put on weight. Uh.
Speaker 1: And if you remember him coming in here, he was
Speaker 1: a physical specimen. I mean he was legit lean. I
Speaker 1: mean there was not really announced a fat on him.
Speaker 1: But we talked about how he had the frame, and
Speaker 1: the first the first day we saw him, it's like
Speaker 1: you look at that frame and you're like, that is
Speaker 1: an offense of tackles frame, and he looks like he
Speaker 1: can carry more weight. Now he now he is carrying
Speaker 1: I said this from day one with him. He has
Speaker 1: big pause. You can see how that frame can fill out.
Speaker 1: We saw it with David bak tr and you're starting
Speaker 1: to see it now with Spriggs. But to your original question,
Speaker 1: how did he go about doing that? This isn't Wes
Speaker 1: hog Kowitz after his freshman year at w g B.
Speaker 1: I mean, you wanted to put on clean, healthy weight.
Speaker 1: You don't want, you know, fatty tissue and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: It's one thing to gain twenty or thirty pounds, it's
Speaker 1: one thing to be able to be able to function
Speaker 1: with that weight. So him and the perform director of
Speaker 1: Performance Nutrition, with the packers, Adam Corzon, the strength and
Speaker 1: conditioning staff, they all sat down mapped up a plan
Speaker 1: for him. Spriggs ended up spending his entire offseason in
Speaker 1: Green Bay. Originally that was just because of the knee
Speaker 1: injury rehabbing that, but then once he was cleared, he
Speaker 1: still decided to know what I'm going to see this
Speaker 1: thing through. What the situation called for was basically him
Speaker 1: waking up, eating a mini breakfasts, as he calls it,
Speaker 1: going back to sleep, coming into lambeau Field, eating breakfast
Speaker 1: at lambeau Field, the facilities here, lifting, working out, eating lunch,
Speaker 1: going home, having a snack, having a pre dinner, a dinner,
Speaker 1: and then another snack before dinner before bed. Um, And
Speaker 1: he said he was asked the question by one of
Speaker 1: the other Beat reporters about you know, how many calories
Speaker 1: do you think you're taking in a day. He's like,
Speaker 1: I couldn't even tell you. I just measured it by meals.
Speaker 1: But the end justifies the means that. And Jason Spriggs
Speaker 1: looks like a much more fuller tackle and he knew
Speaker 1: he knew he needed to do that to be better
Speaker 1: against the run and also the hold up better against bulrushes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and what we've seen so far, uh in the mini
Speaker 1: camp at least this week is Jason Spriggs and Kyle
Speaker 1: Murphy with with Brian Blag is still rehabbing David Baktari,
Speaker 1: one of the excuse veterans, and Bilag would be an
Speaker 1: excused veteran as well. Um they've been switching back and
Speaker 1: forth right tackle and left tackle with the number one
Speaker 1: offensive line, and we've talked about, you know, depending on
Speaker 1: Bolaga situation, that starting right tackle spot might be open
Speaker 1: for Week one, and Byron Bell was brought in as
Speaker 1: a veteran, but Jason Spriggs and Kyle Murphy or two
Speaker 1: guys who are going to compete for that, and Spriggs
Speaker 1: is doing everything he can from the physical side of
Speaker 1: things to put himself in the best position to compete.
Speaker 1: Absolutely and by all accounts right now, justin mccraze looking
Speaker 1: at that right guard position potentially starting there. So not
Speaker 1: to say you still couldn't mix up some things there,
Speaker 1: but that's his primary motivation right now. The Packers drafted
Speaker 1: two tackles back in two thousand and sixteen with Murphy
Speaker 1: and Spriggs, not necessarily because you know they need to
Speaker 1: replace anybody, but you wanted to have those guys developing
Speaker 1: and in your system if anything happened like it did
Speaker 1: last year to Bolaga or David Baker when he missed
Speaker 1: four or five weeks with the hamstring injury. Right So,
Speaker 1: now that these guys are there, they're filling out, they're
Speaker 1: healthy again, I know you talked to Kyle Murphy a
Speaker 1: little bit and his road back from the foot injury. Uh,
Speaker 1: the Packers, Both of those guys I thought really had
Speaker 1: really shined in their limited opportunities last year. They just
Speaker 1: had the injuries creep back up to kind of take
Speaker 1: that opportunity away. Yeah, I'm really interested to see, as
Speaker 1: we talked about on our last show, just how things
Speaker 1: are going to shake out on the right side of
Speaker 1: that offensive line in what we find out at the
Speaker 1: start to training camp with regards to Bolaga and his status,
Speaker 1: whether he's going to be ready to practice or if
Speaker 1: he's on track to get back sometime during training camp
Speaker 1: to have a shot at week one. A lot of
Speaker 1: question marks there. But as we talked about the guys
Speaker 1: who are competing for these spots and and for the
Speaker 1: pecking order on the depth chart, it's a lot of
Speaker 1: guys who, at least now they have some experience under
Speaker 1: their belts. And I like the cross training philosophy with
Speaker 1: switching up Murphy and Spriggs a little bit because, honestly, Mike,
Speaker 1: that's what happens. You don't know where someone's gonna go down.
Speaker 1: You don't know where they're gonna have to fill in.
Speaker 1: You have to be able to be trained on both sides.
Speaker 1: Spriggs was a specialist. He was a left tackle his
Speaker 1: entire time at Indiana. Developing that technique on the right
Speaker 1: side is equally important at this level. Yeah, and if
Speaker 1: Justin McCrae is going to be the starting right guard,
Speaker 1: you don't have your Mr versatile super sub who can
Speaker 1: just jump in anywhere. You've got to have these tackles
Speaker 1: ready to play right side or left side. So with that,
Speaker 1: we'll go to a breakback with more and Packers Unscripted
Speaker 1: right after this, Welcome back to Packers Unscripted. Mike Spofford Here, West, Hodko,
Speaker 1: it's over there, West, shifting gears to the defensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball. We talked about guys coming back from
Speaker 1: injury and whatnot. Boy, what a difference a year makes
Speaker 1: for a guy like Vince Bagel last year at this
Speaker 1: time essentially not doing anything but trying to recover from
Speaker 1: foot surgery. He had arrived in Green Bay as a
Speaker 1: fourth round draft pick out of the University of Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: participated in the rookie orientation right away, then had to
Speaker 1: go have surgery on the foot. Was then on pup
Speaker 1: missed all of training camp, didn't really get back into
Speaker 1: practicing at all until late October, about midway through the season.
Speaker 1: But now here he is year two or maybe year
Speaker 1: one and a half in a sense. But he's been
Speaker 1: on the field all the way along. Um, been here
Speaker 1: through the entirety of the off season program, and uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a guy who has some things to prove
Speaker 1: on the field, but he's putting himself in the right
Speaker 1: position to do it because he's been healthy. Yeah, absolutely, Mike,
Speaker 1: And I know that was such a tough thing from
Speaker 1: last year, having surgery on your feet like that. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, at the same time and going through that process,
Speaker 1: it's not easy. And you know he has he's able
Speaker 1: to be in the meetings and be in there with
Speaker 1: Clay Matthews and develop those relationships. But you can't simulate
Speaker 1: that on the field stuff. And even when you get
Speaker 1: back in there. We've seen this with j C. Treader. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, a guy that's a bona fide starting center
Speaker 1: in this league. Just how difficult that is when you
Speaker 1: start the year on pup and try to catch up
Speaker 1: as a young player. I think the older you are,
Speaker 1: the longer you've been in this league, the easier it is,
Speaker 1: but as a young guy, it's not an easy task.
Speaker 1: In your first you know, two or three seasons. That
Speaker 1: was where you know, Beagle admits he was playing catch
Speaker 1: up and it's not easy to catch up on you know,
Speaker 1: NFL players that have had months and months of preparation
Speaker 1: on field, uh to to get ready for those moments.
Speaker 1: That being said, he ended last year healthy. He was
Speaker 1: able to do everything he wanted in his raining. This offseason.
Speaker 1: He spent some time down in San Diego in February.
Speaker 1: In March, went to Los Angeles and trained with Clay
Speaker 1: Matthews and David Bakari, Kenny Clark, Aaron Rodgers, the list
Speaker 1: goes on and on of other teammates that he was
Speaker 1: working with. All to get back here in April and
Speaker 1: start competing for a spot in that rotation. The opportunities there, Mike,
Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen what's happened. You know, Clay Matthews
Speaker 1: has missed most of the offseason program. Nick Perry has
Speaker 1: been out this offseason. They've given a lot of those
Speaker 1: reps to those young guys. So everything that Vince Bigle
Speaker 1: really missed out on last year, he's been able to
Speaker 1: almost get a double dose here in year two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and for all the talk obviously about the Packers not
Speaker 1: taking an outside linebacker and edge rusher until the seventh
Speaker 1: round of this year's draft, really when you look at
Speaker 1: how things have shaken out with Beagle, it's as though
Speaker 1: the Packers are getting a fourth round pick at outside
Speaker 1: linebacker this year. Because his rookie season in many ways
Speaker 1: was was a watch. When he did get into ball games,
Speaker 1: you know, it was I'm sure with a very limited
Speaker 1: sliver of the playbook that it was like, Okay, this
Speaker 1: is a role that he can play. He can spell
Speaker 1: a guy for a few snaps. This is going to
Speaker 1: be a completely different situation. He's looking at wanting to
Speaker 1: be maybe that next guy that goes in at outside linebacker. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, to spell a Matthews or a Perry, and
Speaker 1: maybe it's for an entire series, maybe it's for an
Speaker 1: entire drive some like that, not just a player two.
Speaker 1: So um certainly looks in shape and um, you know,
Speaker 1: he's a guy who's who's going to be fired up
Speaker 1: to put those pads on get out there in those
Speaker 1: preseason games. Another thing that he didn't get last year.
Speaker 1: He's going to have these preseason games in August to uh,
Speaker 1: to get ready. UM really interested to see exactly what
Speaker 1: he's going to bring to the table in Mike Petton's defense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he said, since the beginning, I mean, this has all
Speaker 1: been a maturation process for him. And yeah, you have
Speaker 1: the in state ties. He was at, you know, Wisconsin
Speaker 1: Rapids High School. He went to Wisconsin. He played under
Speaker 1: Jim Leonard there when he was a defensive backs coach. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you know, Leonard has a has a really long
Speaker 1: history of Mike Petton and they've had those conversations amongst themselves.
Speaker 1: And the fact that he played in a three four
Speaker 1: with the Badgers and Dave Randa's system. Uh, those all
Speaker 1: helped him in terms of making that transition. But as
Speaker 1: you and I both know, and I know our producer
Speaker 1: Marvin knows, it's almost like the first day of high
Speaker 1: school again, right. I mean you might have your pens,
Speaker 1: your books and all that fun stuff going into the
Speaker 1: west and way back we are we're dialing it back to.
Speaker 1: But for real, think about it and the fact that
Speaker 1: you you can be as prepared as you want to be,
Speaker 1: but until you start going through those classes, until you
Speaker 1: start getting a feel for what this is like. It's
Speaker 1: an entirely different world. And I think that's the one
Speaker 1: thing Vince Biegel has experienced, and the fact that he's
Speaker 1: been willing to go out to California in these different
Speaker 1: places to improve himself as a football player. He's really
Speaker 1: just been absorbing all that knowledge from Clay Matthews and
Speaker 1: company in that room, because, as you said, and you
Speaker 1: laid out perfectly, there is opportunity in that rotation. There's
Speaker 1: snaps to be had behind Matthews and Perry, and he
Speaker 1: wants to be one of the guys that gets in
Speaker 1: on that. Yeah. Absolutely. With that, we'll go to another
Speaker 1: break back with moren Packers Unscripted right after this Welcome
Speaker 1: back to Packers Unscripted. Mike Spofford next to Wes Hodkowitz
Speaker 1: and West. We're about to take a summer break here
Speaker 1: from the show as the players and coaches also take
Speaker 1: their summer break. Um, we don't get to leave the
Speaker 1: office for five weeks. That we don't quite have that
Speaker 1: kind of cred around here. But uh um. But that
Speaker 1: being said, before we go on a little bit of
Speaker 1: a hiatus, there's one other thing I want to touch
Speaker 1: on because, um it's gone a little bit maybe unnoticed,
Speaker 1: you might say, in that players. The Packers ended last
Speaker 1: season with a lot of players on injured reserve, and
Speaker 1: a really good sign this spring is that most of
Speaker 1: those guys were able to get back and beyond the
Speaker 1: field and be in a lot of eleven on eleven
Speaker 1: work um during this offseason program. We talked already about
Speaker 1: Jason Spriggs and Kyle Murphy. There is a question obviously
Speaker 1: with Brian Bulaga. We did not see him um during
Speaker 1: O t S and will wait for an update in
Speaker 1: training camp on him. But you talk about guys like kentroll, Bryce,
Speaker 1: Quentin Rollins, Time Montgomery, Herb Waters, who's trying to make,
Speaker 1: you know, fight for a roster spot here. These are
Speaker 1: guys who dealt with some pretty serious injuries last year.
Speaker 1: They were able to you know, kind of get their
Speaker 1: feedback under him here during the spring and and it's
Speaker 1: a good sign for them moving forward that they can
Speaker 1: try to, uh try to fight for roster spots and
Speaker 1: playing time with as deep as the I R list
Speaker 1: was at the end of last season, I think it
Speaker 1: was like thirteen or fourteen players by the time it
Speaker 1: was all said and done. I was blown away during
Speaker 1: that first o t A practice by seeing as many
Speaker 1: guys being back on the field. Quentin Rollins coming back
Speaker 1: off the Achilles injury. We saw Kentroll, Bryce with the
Speaker 1: ankle surgery, you know, being around on the scooter for
Speaker 1: most of the second half of last season in locker
Speaker 1: room and he's able to make it back. Kyle Murphy
Speaker 1: getting integrated back into things after having his own foot surgery.
Speaker 1: So I have to imagine if I was Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: and these coaches, that's something you want to see because yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you look at where bolog is
Speaker 1: at right now. He's an experienced veteran, He's come back
Speaker 1: from this kind of stuff before. But you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of these young guys, in some ways, this is
Speaker 1: their first quote unquote major injuries. So it's not only
Speaker 1: working your way back to get on the field, but
Speaker 1: also making that progress and your rehab to be cleared
Speaker 1: and to have those opportunities. I look at a guy
Speaker 1: like Kentroll Bryce and Mike McCarthy was just effusive in
Speaker 1: his praise for him during the final media availability he
Speaker 1: had before breaking for the summer and saying, this is
Speaker 1: a guy that communication wise, he's right where he needs
Speaker 1: to be. He had one of the best off scene
Speaker 1: offseason programs of anybody, and him coming off of that
Speaker 1: ankle injury and being able to sort of get back
Speaker 1: into a rhythm of things again, that's so so important
Speaker 1: for these young players and being able to not only
Speaker 1: put their best foot forward in terms of being back
Speaker 1: on the field. But a guy like Bryce is right
Speaker 1: in the thick of it right now for a starting spot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he definitely is. And even if he doesn't necessarily become
Speaker 1: a starter with with the different packages and everything we're
Speaker 1: seeing that Mike Petton is going to run, I mean kentroll,
Speaker 1: Bryce is is certainly in line for significant playing time
Speaker 1: in this defense. One guy we didn't see in the
Speaker 1: eleven on eleven work, but I think if he had
Speaker 1: change his jersey and slipped out there, he would have
Speaker 1: been just fine, at least by the way he looks.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Kevin King, because you know, he was
Speaker 1: doing individual drills and everything like that, but he wasn't
Speaker 1: fully cleared from the shoulder surgery to do the eleven
Speaker 1: on eleven work. He would just be off to the
Speaker 1: side on the sidelines doing pushups and everything like that.
Speaker 1: You know, you talk about a guy who's itching to
Speaker 1: get out there. I mean he's you know, he's cool
Speaker 1: that he's like, hey, you know, it's a process. But
Speaker 1: but he certainly sounds from the times that we've talked
Speaker 1: to him, he is fully confident he'll be ready to
Speaker 1: go for camp. Yeah, Michael, how many I don't know
Speaker 1: how many push ups you can do, but I mean
Speaker 1: he's doing these marine pushups on the sidelines. He's doing
Speaker 1: he's doing twenty or thirty at a set, and then
Speaker 1: and you see him do it at least four or
Speaker 1: five times during the during the course of a practice.
Speaker 1: He talked about that. He's like, you know, you just
Speaker 1: you do that during certain breaks and whatever. He says,
Speaker 1: by the end of the day, you've got three hundred
Speaker 1: or four hundred of the men, and it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: I mean it's again, they're not the West hot quits
Speaker 1: arms spread out all eagle. I mean, they are tight
Speaker 1: elbows in. I mean, he was impressive, but he wants
Speaker 1: to build up about strength. That's been a big emphasis
Speaker 1: for him coming back from the shoulder, you know, in
Speaker 1: that labor and you know, getting that all strengthened back.
Speaker 1: He again, if you haven't seen him in person yet.
Speaker 1: Not to be labor this point, but Kevin King is
Speaker 1: a physical He is a physical specimen. I know you
Speaker 1: use that term earlier, but six ft pounds, this is
Speaker 1: a guy that has great fluidity in his hips. He
Speaker 1: has good speed when he's able to press. He really
Speaker 1: you know, he packs a punch. Yeah, definitely. Well, as
Speaker 1: I said, we are going to take a little bit
Speaker 1: of a break here on Packers Unscripted, go on hiatus
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