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Packers Training Camp Live - 8/24/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Welcome you once again on Training Camp Live twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: six on Bill Schmid alongside the voice of the Green
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Speaker 1: Bay Packers, Wayne Levit's the final week of camp, second
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Speaker 1: to last public practice before the Packers will play one
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Speaker 1: last preseason game in the twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 2: Championships season begins.
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Speaker 1: We're high above rain Ichkifield as high as he can be,
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Speaker 1: three rows up with a very fun, crowded perch. Wayne
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Speaker 1: not nearly as high up in the beautiful vantage point
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Speaker 1: you guys had in Denver for a thirty three to
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Speaker 1: thirteen Packers victory in preseason game number two. But this
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Speaker 1: will do on a Monday, as the Packers have their
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Speaker 1: final practice together before we welcome in the Arizona Cardin's
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Speaker 1: coming up on Wednesday's.
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Speaker 3: The last week of camp.
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Speaker 4: Decisions have to be made the preseason game on Friday night.
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Speaker 4: All of the guys trying to make the football team
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Speaker 4: will get their final shot, and then cuts come up
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Speaker 4: over the weekend Sunday. Actually they have to get down
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Speaker 4: to fifty three, put together a practice squad. Everything gets
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Speaker 4: sifted out over the next week or so players.
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Speaker 3: Are on and off the roster. It's an interesting time. Year.
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Speaker 4: But this is going to be a critical week for
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Speaker 4: the Packers.
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Speaker 2: And in your.
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Speaker 1: Time when you've you've been around so many organizations, You've
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Speaker 1: seen the NFL and so many different matchurations.
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Speaker 3: This one.
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Speaker 1: It is a tough team to make, right, It's a
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Speaker 1: tough team to make when you're thinking of the fifty
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Speaker 1: three man roster. But in your opinion, how many of
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Speaker 1: those jobs can be either one lost or really are
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Speaker 1: up for grabs, because it feels I mean there might
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Speaker 1: be two to four or five if people really can
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Speaker 1: make a case.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think the game for those trying
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Speaker 4: to make the roster, Billy, you know, the back end players,
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Speaker 4: the newer players, the game on Friday night is huge
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Speaker 4: for them. With the joint practice. To me, as I
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Speaker 4: look at it now, everybody will get to take part.
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Speaker 4: Don't get me wrong, but I think the large measure
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Speaker 4: of that the coaching stams are looking at starters against starters.
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Speaker 4: They're looking to get that's the tune up they're looking for.
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Speaker 4: And then the game itself on Friday night will be
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Speaker 4: given to those who are trying to make the team
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Speaker 4: and the back up personnel.
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Speaker 1: And there's a lot of those guys that are gonna
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Speaker 1: be able to start. We talked a lot about Kyle
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Speaker 1: mccorda we ago. We'll talk a lot more about him
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Speaker 1: coming up this week, because he looked again pretty impressive
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Speaker 1: in his showing later stages of that game on Friday night.
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Speaker 1: But a couple of the players that you're anticipating being factors,
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Speaker 1: Brandon Cis checked out a little bit early, but he's
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Speaker 1: good to go out practicing and back with the ones
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Speaker 1: here in front of us right now.
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Speaker 2: And in the wide receiver room.
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Speaker 1: Somebody that we've talked a lot about here at camp,
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Speaker 1: Will Sheppard, You're gonna get an opportunity to play in
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Speaker 1: these games. And he had one of the best plays
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Speaker 1: of the preseason.
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Speaker 3: He really did.
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Speaker 4: Made a great contested catch, took it away from the
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Speaker 4: dB and you know, that's what you want to see
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Speaker 4: those guys do. And they've got those three receivers. We've
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Speaker 4: talked about them in ad nauseum in this camp at
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Speaker 4: the back end of the roster. How many of them
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Speaker 4: can you keep? Can you get one or two the
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Speaker 4: practice squad, I'm sure you can. You know, we always
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Speaker 4: talk about, well, if you cut this guy, somebody else
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Speaker 4: is gonna pick him. Up. That doesn't happen as much
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Speaker 4: as you think, right, Okay, it really doesn't.
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Speaker 3: It does on occasion, but not a lot.
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Speaker 4: And so you know, those guys you may get to
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Speaker 4: the practice squad, that's probably we're gonna have them. And
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Speaker 4: then if you have injuries, you've got a chance to
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Speaker 4: pick up somebody who knows your system, has been in
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Speaker 4: your system, that type of thing. But you know, it
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Speaker 4: got thems down to these questions. Do they keep seven
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Speaker 4: wide receivers? How many tight ends do they keep? Do
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Speaker 4: they have four tight ends? To keep building four tight ends?
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Speaker 4: You really figure you gotta keep I don't know, not positive.
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Speaker 4: I'm not positive of that at all. Maybe that'll change
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Speaker 4: as we get through this week with the joint practice
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Speaker 4: with the Cardinals, and then in the game maybe you
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Speaker 4: see something Friday night. Maybe, But you know, it's interesting.
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Speaker 4: We talk about depth, and I say this about depth,
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Speaker 4: I say this about prospects in baseball. Prospects in baseball,
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Speaker 4: and they all talk them, all the organizations talk about them.
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Speaker 4: They are suspects until proven otherwise. Understand that, okay, And
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Speaker 4: many of them, like the Brewers, have a couple that
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Speaker 4: have proven to be not suspects. But real prospects and
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Speaker 4: are playing terrific baseball for them this year. The Packers
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Speaker 4: have prospects as well, and they have depth, and we
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Speaker 4: all think depth in the NFL, your depth is great
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Speaker 4: as long as you don't have to go to it, right,
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Speaker 4: you go to your depth. And the only exception I've
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Speaker 4: seen of this was the twenty ten Packers, where they
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Speaker 4: had to go to depth beyond depth, and yet they
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Speaker 4: found it was good enough to win. That doesn't happen
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Speaker 4: very often. Oftentimes, when you have to go to your depth,
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Speaker 4: you find out there's a reason why they're not starter, right, Yeah, and.
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Speaker 1: There's a reason why thirty one other teams haven't haven't
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Speaker 1: chosen for it. And to your point about twenty ten,
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Speaker 1: it's one of the reasons why that outlier gets brought
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Speaker 1: up all the.
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Speaker 4: Time all the time. But how often does it happen
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Speaker 4: like that? Not very often?
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Speaker 2: Now, maybe not many of the demands.
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Speaker 4: I can't think of many teams to get to the
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Speaker 4: Super Bowl with sixteen players on ir.
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Speaker 2: NO, and I mean one that we just watched a
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Speaker 2: couple of nights ago.
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Speaker 1: The Broncos first team offense looked like an offense that
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Speaker 1: could challenge for the AFC Again, Bonex and Company rolled
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Speaker 1: right down the field. So did the Packers offense against
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Speaker 1: the Denver defense, Mining and Bold teams score a touchdown.
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Speaker 2: But Wayne, I do wish that I.
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Speaker 1: Had like that remote where you were able to go
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Speaker 1: back in time, because if I would have been able
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Speaker 1: to watch what happened on Friday night and how bad
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Speaker 1: Jared Stidham looked at times, I would have went right
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Speaker 1: back to January and put a large sum of money
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Speaker 1: at the Pottawatami Sportsbook on the New England Patriots to
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Speaker 1: make it to the super Bowl, because that didn't look
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Speaker 1: like a guy that was gonna win a playoff game.
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Speaker 1: And you started to get sometimes you get blinded by
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Speaker 1: this depth in the belief of, oh, this guy could
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Speaker 1: take this next step. A lot of times you realize
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Speaker 1: where your lot in life in the NFL is. You're
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Speaker 1: forced into that spot.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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Speaker 4: But I also think I was talking to the Denver people,
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Speaker 4: Dave Logan, who's my counterpart with the Broncos, and he's
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Speaker 4: been there forever and ever. You know, we were talking
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Speaker 4: about that AFC Championship game. Now, there was a questionable
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Speaker 4: call that Sean Payton made.
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Speaker 3: Okay, a very good point. And the other thing.
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Speaker 4: That happened was that snowstorm rolled into Denver on the
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Speaker 4: second half of that game, and it was a matter
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Speaker 4: of once that snow hit, whoever was in the lead
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Speaker 4: was gonna win that game. I said to David, it
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Speaker 4: reminded me of the Fog Bowl in Chicago for the
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Speaker 4: nineteen eighty eight season. The Bears are playing the Eagles
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Speaker 4: at Soldier Field. The Bears have the lead, the fog
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Speaker 4: rolls in at halftime, and I mean it was like smoke.
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Speaker 4: It wasn't it wasn't just missed. It was smoke rolling in.
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Speaker 4: Nobody could see anything. The Bears had the lead, and
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Speaker 4: they won the game. They won the game, So I
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Speaker 4: think very much the Broncos, I said to David, said,
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Speaker 4: you know what, that storm doesn't come in. Despite jared'st
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Speaker 4: did him playing at quarterback and he actually played pretty
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Speaker 4: well at times, and despite Sean Payton's ill advised call
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Speaker 4: on the goal line, they win that game. They beat
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Speaker 4: the Patriots and they go to the Super Bowl, and
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Speaker 4: it would have been probably a better Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: It would have been a much better Super Bowl. And
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Speaker 1: then we wouldn't have had the Racini Bowl. Leading off
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Speaker 1: the NFL season coming up this year, because like, the
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Speaker 1: conversation is a whole lot different, right, the whole the
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Speaker 1: conversation is a lot different around the NFL, and in
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Speaker 1: that division. I mean, the Broncos right now are like
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Speaker 1: the third team odds favorites to win that division. The
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Speaker 1: Kansay Chiefs are the number one team. So go to
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Speaker 1: the Padawuadami sportsbook and invest on that and you'll thank
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Speaker 1: us later.
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Speaker 4: I'm going to the window. I'm telling the guy, I
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Speaker 4: want your finger on the Denver Broncos to win that
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Speaker 4: division and leave it there for the next six months.
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Speaker 2: Hold on to it and be fine with it.
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Speaker 3: Gus. I want that much invested in it, and.
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Speaker 2: We'll make sure that we'll cast that thing right. They're good,
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Speaker 2: They're really good.
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Speaker 1: They're a really good football team, and I think the
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Speaker 1: Packers are gonna get tested this week by a team
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Speaker 1: that everybody's expecting to be maybe one of the worst
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Speaker 1: teams in football in Arizona. But they got some nice
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Speaker 1: young players. They've looked better in the preseason I think
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Speaker 1: everybody anticipated, and they're gonna be a good test coming
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Speaker 1: up for the secondary. We'll we'll talk a lot about
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Speaker 1: that secondary coming up. We got some one on one
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Speaker 1: pass rush in front of us as the Packers get
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Speaker 1: practice under way. Early on, Javon Hargrave had a quick
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Speaker 1: rep against Jagger Burton. It was quick because he got
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Speaker 1: right into the chest plate of number fifty two and
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Speaker 1: moved him back substantially.
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Speaker 2: Hardgrave is gonna be fun once the game start, he is.
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Speaker 1: Burton got a lot of run on Friday night, Wayne,
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Speaker 1: I thought looked good. However, the holding penalties are ones
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Speaker 1: that are gonna stand out.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but he made a play. But what was his
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Speaker 3: Zach Allen?
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Speaker 4: He decleted Zach Allen all pro defensive end of the
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Speaker 4: bronc Oh my goodness. So you know the potentials there.
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Speaker 4: The other guy that we just saw in a pass
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Speaker 4: rush drill here a second ago, Jonathan Ford. Jonathan Ford
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Speaker 4: is opening eyes, folks, and in this camp, maybe not
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Speaker 4: so much in the games, but we're seeing him show
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Speaker 4: up at camp quite a bit. He's a guy who
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Speaker 4: looks much improved. I know, we had a conversation with
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Speaker 4: Jonathan Gannon last Friday, the defensive coordinator, and he was
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Speaker 4: effusive and how much Jonathan Ford has improved and is
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Speaker 4: a factor and then in the game we saw Chris
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Speaker 4: mcclennan show up, and that's the thing that I was
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Speaker 4: looking at very closely, and I think that kid has
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Speaker 4: had a good camp and I think he's going to
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Speaker 4: be a factor on that defensive line this year.
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Speaker 1: I had anticipated McLellan as a third round rookie, a
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Speaker 1: younger rookie right came out, I believe as a junior
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Speaker 1: like I would have thought, take some time to be
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Speaker 1: able to build in. He does appear Wayne that he's
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Speaker 1: going to be a factor earlier than normal. And another
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Speaker 1: player that has transition and taking what he's done on
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Speaker 1: the practice field into the game was the sac man,
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Speaker 1: Anthony Campbell. Your call of that that sack was as
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Speaker 1: good as it should be because he did look like
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Speaker 1: he had shot out of a cannon there against that
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Speaker 1: second or third unit.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, here's a guy who was playing soccer most of
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Speaker 4: his childhood.
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Speaker 2: It's a scary forward if you're playing very little.
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Speaker 4: You know, at Miami and there is what one year
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Speaker 4: there or whatever. Miami's a loaded program, as you know
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Speaker 4: better than I, but you know it comes here and
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Speaker 4: he started batting passes down and practice and everything and
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Speaker 4: say okay, well, that's practice, but he shows up in
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Speaker 4: the games too, So something to think about there on this.
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Speaker 4: I think it's going to be fascinating to see how
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Speaker 4: good he cuts this team this coming weekend.
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Speaker 1: And to see who ultimately are the guys that as
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Speaker 1: you said in your spot on, we believe that players
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Speaker 1: get signed and claimed a lot more than they actually do.
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Speaker 1: Everybody likes their own guys a lot more than players
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Speaker 1: around the NFL.
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Speaker 4: Well exactly, And it's a nature of the business because
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Speaker 4: you know, know in football, when you go to another team,
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Speaker 4: you gotta lose, you know, potentially a whole new system,
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Speaker 4: and if not a whole new system, then a whole
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Speaker 4: new language of system.
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Speaker 1: And for an organization that when you're gonna be calling
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Speaker 1: guys up, because if you're on that practice squad, odds
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Speaker 1: are you're going to be activated for at least one,
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Speaker 1: most likely all three games, and they're gonna have to
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Speaker 1: make a decision if they're going to put you on
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Speaker 1: the active roster or not. So those groupings, those those
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Speaker 1: players j Michael Sturtvant had a really unfortunate concussion in Denver.
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Speaker 1: We'll see if Will Shephard closes the gap or Isaiah
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Speaker 1: nayor there's a lot of those decisions that I assume
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Speaker 1: are going to happen here quickly. And then also, you
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Speaker 1: know the players that are gonna be on the field.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about the offensive line a little bit. It
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Speaker 1: does sound like it's gonna be now or never for
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Speaker 1: an Aaron Banks who's trying to either lock up his
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Speaker 1: starting job or if it's going to be open up
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Speaker 1: to Jagger Burton. Last week felt like the dog days, Wayne.
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Speaker 1: This feels like kind of decision week now here in
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Speaker 1: Greenview exactly.
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Speaker 4: There's a different field of this camp here folks this
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Speaker 4: week because you know, as you mentioned, I thought and
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Speaker 4: we felt, you know, the coaches and Matt Laflora talked
11:07
Speaker 4: to him a little bit about it. I thought last
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Speaker 4: week was the fire branding you do with your football team.
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
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Speaker 4: You put them through a couple of real difficult practices,
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Speaker 4: long practices, physical, you go to Denver, You're playing against
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Speaker 4: a physical, great AFC team in Denver. It was a
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Speaker 4: week of fire branding for this group. And now this week,
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Speaker 4: who survives That's the thing. It's almost like Survivor the show.
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Speaker 4: You know, who survives this week? And who makes the squad.
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Speaker 4: But they're gonna have a tough practice here today. It'll
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Speaker 4: be a spirited, physical practice against the Cardinals on Wednesday.
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Speaker 4: Then they'll, like we mentioned the backups, and everyone will
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Speaker 4: play the game on Friday night, and decisions are made
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Speaker 4: on Saturday and Sunday.
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Speaker 1: And if you are planning on coming out to practice
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Speaker 1: coming up on Wednesday, do it. It's going to be
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Speaker 1: a finale. I'm in all atmosphere. Practice gonna be a
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Speaker 1: little bit later. We're being told it looks like it's
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Speaker 1: starting up around eleven thirty. But get here at the
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Speaker 1: normal time, very early, because that's gonna be a very
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Speaker 1: very popular day to be up here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Really, we get your seat early on that day.
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Speaker 1: Sure, that ends up being one of the most exciting
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Speaker 1: and best looks, best glimpses of what NFL football will
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Speaker 1: be in the twenty twenty sixth season. All right, special
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Speaker 1: teams rolling in front of us right now, We're gonna
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Speaker 1: take a quick time out, get back for some team
12:27
Speaker 1: drills that will be happening momentarily. A couple of injury
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Speaker 1: notes to discuss Deny Dennis Sutton had battled a heat
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Speaker 1: related illness for about nine days. He's out there in
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Speaker 1: pads today, so that is good news. We see Aaron
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Speaker 1: Banks looking like he will be participating in some team drills.
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Speaker 1: Excited to see how that looks on the offensive line.
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Speaker 1: Brandon cis back out there, back in pads after checking
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Speaker 1: out of the game on Friday night a little bit early.
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Speaker 1: So we'll keep you posted on all of those as
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Speaker 1: we continue. The man had a big pick and was
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Speaker 1: our hardest working player of the game. Mark Perry is
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Speaker 1: out here ready to try to make his final statement.
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Speaker 2: And that is.
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Speaker 1: As good of an interception as you're gonna make. And
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Speaker 1: now that's two stops, the fourth down stop in Pittsburgh,
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Speaker 1: an interception last this past week. Exciting to see if
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Speaker 1: forty one is able to be one of the fifty three.
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Speaker 1: We'll see and we'll discuss a lot more of it
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Speaker 1: coming up. The voice of the Green Bay Packers, Wayne
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Speaker 1: Larvy to my right, I'm Bill Schmid. It's Training Camp Live,
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Speaker 1: You're coming right back here to Ray chkie Field on
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. Welcome back, It's Training Camp Live
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, presented by the Potawataome Sports Book on
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Speaker 1: Bill Schmid alongside the voice of the Green Bay Packers,
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Speaker 1: Wayne Larvy. Packers won thirty three thirteen on Friday night
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Speaker 1: and their second to last penultimate pro public practice here
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Speaker 1: at rayn inchie Field, the final that will involve just
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Speaker 1: the Packers. Wednesday, the Arizona Cardinals come to town in
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Speaker 1: front of us some live punting with maybe the best
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Speaker 1: punter in football, Danny Wheland booting it away to Wayne.
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Speaker 1: I feel pretty confident in saying it right out of
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Speaker 1: the gates after one return for fifteen yards and a
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Speaker 1: very shifty move off the right sideline, I think I'm
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Speaker 1: ready to say sky Moore is the best punt returner
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Speaker 1: we've seen in a couple of years.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: You know, it's amazing when you think about it, what
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Speaker 4: he brings to the party. And the other factor is this,
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Speaker 4: you know, you hope and you understand that if sky
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Speaker 4: Moore they keep him as one of their six or
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Speaker 4: seven receivers, that he's going to be the return man.
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Speaker 4: And that takes Jayden Reid off of that. And I'm
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Speaker 4: happy about that because you know, Jay Reed plays the
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Speaker 4: slot and he's really good. Folks. He was injured most
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Speaker 4: of last year. I think we all forgot how good
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Speaker 4: he really is in the slot. We've seen traces of
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Speaker 4: that in this training camp and in the games a
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Speaker 4: little bit. But he's also a guy that you don't
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Speaker 4: want to get dinged up any more than you have to,
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Speaker 4: and you know you get knocked around on those punt returns.
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Speaker 3: There's no doubt about that.
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Speaker 4: I want Jayden Reid healthy and playing every snap in
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Speaker 4: the slot because he's so good.
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Speaker 1: He's so dynamic, and you saw that in Pittsburgh. You're
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Speaker 1: going to see that throughout the years as he stays healthy.
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Speaker 1: And I think we saw the sudden burst in shiftiness
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Speaker 1: from more that made him one of the best kick
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Speaker 1: returners in the league life.
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Speaker 4: You know, Larry mccaeren says this all the time to me, says,
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Speaker 4: you know, there are guys that have the IT factor
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Speaker 4: when it comes to returning kicks and punts, and not
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Speaker 4: everybody has that. And it's not just about speed and
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Speaker 4: shiftiness and everything else. It's a lot of vision and
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Speaker 4: a knack whatever that word means in this case, but
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Speaker 4: a knack for doing this and that another guy with
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Speaker 4: the same qualities physically may not have and it's just
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Speaker 4: a fact of the matter. And sky Moore has that.
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Speaker 4: I think if he gives them a return game, if
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Speaker 4: Trey Smack is the kicker, he's looked like he's been
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Speaker 4: this summer with Daniel Wheelan and with their coverage units,
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Speaker 4: which are pretty decent. Okay, that's special teams. I said
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Speaker 4: this this morning with Drew and armand I said, you know,
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Speaker 4: this could be the best special teams the Packers have
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Speaker 4: had since Nolan Cromwell in the mid nineties.
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Speaker 3: Holy cow. Yeah, and I have been very good.
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Speaker 4: Hey, they weren't good on special teams when they won
15:59
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl.
16:00
Speaker 2: No, no, they weren't.
16:01
Speaker 1: And they made kicks, but they left a lot of
16:03
Speaker 1: points out there, if you remember. And they had an
16:06
Speaker 1: offensive lineman damn near Oh yeah, house a kick re.
16:10
Speaker 4: They lost the Patriots game with with Matt Flinnet quarterback.
16:14
Speaker 3: They lost it primarily on.
16:15
Speaker 2: That kick kick return by Coddley. Yeah yeah, and even
16:19
Speaker 2: the Pierre's.
16:20
Speaker 1: Strong return, which phenomenal call, by the way, and by
16:23
Speaker 1: the way, wayn Larrvy's been calling Pierre Strong. We saw
16:25
Speaker 1: the Pierre Strong game eight carries for forty some yards
16:28
Speaker 1: four and a half a tot and a long kick
16:30
Speaker 1: return that you saw the blocking set it up. He
16:34
Speaker 1: capitalized with the vision and the acceleration, but it was
16:36
Speaker 1: perfectly blocked up for him sitting there.
16:38
Speaker 4: It was from that sixty eight yard. He's a veteran,
16:40
Speaker 4: he's a third or fourth year. He came in with
16:43
Speaker 4: the Patriots. I believe he's a fourth round raft choice
16:45
Speaker 4: something like that. But he you know, we saw it
16:48
Speaker 4: in OTA's a mini camp without pads obviously, so you
16:52
Speaker 4: always kind of caution yourself there. But that this guy
16:55
Speaker 4: knows how to get around. This guy can read a hole,
16:57
Speaker 4: can make that cut at the right time. I think
17:00
Speaker 4: he can do the Emmanuel Wilson role on this team,
17:04
Speaker 4: maybe even a little better than Emmanuel Wilson did it.
17:07
Speaker 4: And Emmanuel Wilson on this team was very good.
17:10
Speaker 2: Really good.
17:11
Speaker 1: There were games in which he was the best running
17:13
Speaker 1: back they had a year ago, and Josh Jacobs was
17:15
Speaker 1: available for a couple of those. I also thought Marshawn
17:17
Speaker 1: Lloyd again, you know, he gets into the end zone
17:20
Speaker 1: on the angle route beautifully well place ball and good
17:23
Speaker 1: drive to lead him down there. Still getting into some game,
17:28
Speaker 1: not game shape, but reacclimated to game speed.
17:31
Speaker 2: He sounded like.
17:32
Speaker 1: He mentioned that after the game, Wayne, where if you
17:34
Speaker 1: don't play a football game for almost two full years,
17:38
Speaker 1: it's hard to expect.
17:39
Speaker 2: What that vision is going to be.
17:41
Speaker 4: Like.
17:41
Speaker 2: He is a physical guy.
17:42
Speaker 1: If he gets more north and south, I think there's
17:44
Speaker 1: even better things to come from.
17:45
Speaker 4: I agree, And theyve you don't run him between the
17:47
Speaker 4: tackles a little bit more than I thought they would.
17:49
Speaker 3: I agree, and I.
17:50
Speaker 4: Think he's I think he's just like you said, Billy,
17:53
Speaker 4: he's shaking off the rust. He virtually hadn't played in
17:56
Speaker 4: a full football game in like two years, and it
17:59
Speaker 4: takes time to get that vision up to speed again.
18:03
Speaker 4: But you can see it as he approaches the line.
18:05
Speaker 4: I think he sees things. Maybe he'll see them a
18:07
Speaker 4: little quicker now, or maybe the timing will get a
18:11
Speaker 4: little better as he goes along and plays more. But
18:13
Speaker 4: that's just a matter of time. He's a very special talent.
18:16
Speaker 1: And you could tell, and this is the smalcy part
18:19
Speaker 1: of sports that I absolutely eat up. You could see
18:21
Speaker 1: the reaction from the players of how much it meant
18:24
Speaker 1: to him to get in when the team reacts like
18:27
Speaker 1: that to somebody making a play. I always take note
18:29
Speaker 1: of the certain players that draw that kind of juice.
18:32
Speaker 1: It's like a bring a baseball comparison in when a
18:34
Speaker 1: team wins when a start certain starting pitcher.
18:36
Speaker 2: Is on the mound, that can be an innate thing.
18:38
Speaker 1: And it seemed very much like a different reaction to
18:41
Speaker 1: Lloyd's moments.
18:42
Speaker 2: I was into that.
18:43
Speaker 4: I would agree wholeheartedly on that because yeah, you're right,
18:47
Speaker 4: and he you know, hey, listen, players in the locker
18:50
Speaker 4: room know how hard that kid worked and how disappointed
18:53
Speaker 4: he was that he wasn't able to play the last
18:55
Speaker 4: two years.
18:55
Speaker 3: And they also know his talent and they want his
18:59
Speaker 3: talent out there.
19:01
Speaker 1: One thousand percent because everybody around there can see how
19:04
Speaker 1: sudden he is. And now it's nice to see the
19:06
Speaker 1: number one back in there. In some team drills, he
19:09
Speaker 1: had Josh Jacobs getting the carry off left side.
19:11
Speaker 3: He is.
19:14
Speaker 4: Right there, you know, Sea say is so we looked
19:18
Speaker 4: at him. I think he had a great coverage on
19:20
Speaker 4: Cortland's south phenomenal the other night.
19:22
Speaker 3: But he's so good.
19:23
Speaker 4: He's one of the best I've seen against the run
19:25
Speaker 4: in that position at cornerback. He anticipates, he makes the play,
19:30
Speaker 4: he finishes the tackle.
19:32
Speaker 3: He's really good. He came in with that reputation.
19:35
Speaker 4: The analytics told us in college he was one of
19:37
Speaker 4: the best run stopping cornerbacks in FBS last year, and
19:41
Speaker 4: we've seen evidence of that here.
19:43
Speaker 1: You have seen it almost every single day and they're
19:45
Speaker 1: not even taken to the ground and you can feel
19:47
Speaker 1: the presence. The full offensive line goes from left to right,
19:51
Speaker 1: Jordan Morgan alongside Aaron Banks the left guard in for
19:55
Speaker 1: team as well, next to Sean Ryan, Jacobunk the right guard,
19:58
Speaker 1: and Zach bacoboele into team drills here off at right
20:02
Speaker 1: tackle Tucker Craft in here. This looks like the full
20:04
Speaker 1: complement just about you would have on offense outside of
20:08
Speaker 1: the three wide receivers who are active and Jayden Reid,
20:11
Speaker 1: Christian Watson and Matthew Golden who had a great play
20:14
Speaker 1: on Friday night. But this looks like as much of
20:16
Speaker 1: the number one offense as you would see. With now
20:19
Speaker 1: a three tight end set, Josh Wiley and Drake Dabney
20:23
Speaker 1: off to the left side, they send a Craft and
20:25
Speaker 1: Wiley in motion.
20:26
Speaker 2: A lot of action.
20:27
Speaker 1: In the backfield there for a quick play action strike
20:31
Speaker 1: to Tucker Craft and a lot of eighty five jerseys
20:34
Speaker 1: walking around here and hopefully a lot of eighty five
20:37
Speaker 1: early this year.
20:37
Speaker 2: He looks like he's ready to roll for Oh.
20:39
Speaker 3: I don't think there's any question about it. Now.
20:40
Speaker 4: He's not gonna have played a preseason game. But you know,
20:43
Speaker 4: I talked to Tucker about that last week. He said,
20:46
Speaker 4: I said, do you concern you're not going to play
20:48
Speaker 4: in a preseason No?
20:50
Speaker 3: No, he says, no.
20:51
Speaker 4: I do everything every day in practice exactly the way
20:55
Speaker 4: I do it in the game. And his approach at
20:58
Speaker 4: the light of scrimmage, you know, running the routes everything.
21:01
Speaker 3: So no, he's he's fine, not only.
21:04
Speaker 1: From a talent perspective, from but from that from the
21:07
Speaker 1: the attitude, the urgency, the play style.
21:10
Speaker 2: That Matt Lafleur likes to say.
21:12
Speaker 1: He's one of the players that you look at in
21:13
Speaker 1: the NFL and if you're not going to pay that guy.
21:15
Speaker 3: Who are you gonna pay? Yeah? Oh exactly.
21:17
Speaker 1: It's not only just the talent, but the style of play.
21:21
Speaker 1: He's exactly what you're looking pro for in pro football.
21:24
Speaker 1: And Josh Jacobs, you didn't get a lot of what
21:26
Speaker 1: you were looking for from him a year ago. I
21:28
Speaker 1: don't think it was all due to him, his own
21:31
Speaker 1: talent and his own health. There was a lot in
21:33
Speaker 1: front of him that that left a lot to be desired.
21:36
Speaker 1: But I wonder if the personality in which he runs
21:39
Speaker 1: the football with Wayne, if that can they can get
21:42
Speaker 1: back to that style of offense, because in twenty four
21:44
Speaker 1: he really was the tone center of the of the offense.
21:47
Speaker 4: I agree, physical running, and I think he elevated the
21:51
Speaker 4: offense from you know, maybe more of a finesse group
21:54
Speaker 4: to a physical offensive talent group. And you know, it's
22:00
Speaker 4: just this is a pretty physical drill we're seeing right here,
22:03
Speaker 4: the offense in the red zone against the first ring defense.
22:06
Speaker 4: And I agree with you, Billy said, you made the point.
22:09
Speaker 4: You know, we saw Aaron Banks back in there at
22:12
Speaker 4: left guard. We saw you know, the entire complement of
22:16
Speaker 4: the line. Jacob Monk's going to be the right guard. Okay,
22:18
Speaker 4: that's pretty much, and obviously Morgan at left tackle. There
22:23
Speaker 4: was some concern last week, at least from my standpoint,
22:27
Speaker 4: from the media standpoint, from the observers standpoint, that hey,
22:30
Speaker 4: you know, you got to get an offensive line out
22:32
Speaker 4: there and get him together get him working together, and
22:34
Speaker 4: hopefully this week is big in that regard.
22:36
Speaker 1: Burton with a big push off the left side as
22:38
Speaker 1: he checks in for Aaron Banks. But it was also
22:41
Speaker 1: Chris McClellan blowing it up right behind him, and he
22:44
Speaker 1: is all over the field. He was phenomenal in a
22:47
Speaker 1: lot of extended play that he had on Friday night.
22:50
Speaker 3: Wayne, Yeah, no doubt.
22:51
Speaker 4: And you know, Bill, when you look at this little
22:54
Speaker 4: draft they had, it was with the smallest draft class.
22:56
Speaker 4: Good He's ever had one of the smallest draft classes
23:00
Speaker 4: in Packer's history. But nonetheless they may be getting some
23:03
Speaker 4: players who can help immediately out of this. Obviously the kicker,
23:07
Speaker 4: then you've got the defensive tackle, Chris McClellan.
23:10
Speaker 3: We talked about Cisay, the cornerback.
23:11
Speaker 4: Hey, if those guys step up in our major players
23:14
Speaker 4: for you, that's a heck of a draft.
23:16
Speaker 2: That's a heck of a win.
23:17
Speaker 1: And we still didn't even mention the guy that I
23:19
Speaker 1: think has the highest floor out of all those players
23:21
Speaker 1: and denied Dennis Sutton.
23:22
Speaker 2: Oh, he hasn't really gotten his feet wet.
23:25
Speaker 1: It does feel like this could be a hopefully very
23:28
Speaker 1: fruitful one because they definitely need one as Jordan Love
23:31
Speaker 1: flushes himself out of the pocket and just dumps it
23:33
Speaker 1: quickly off to Jayden Reid because he was getting tracked
23:36
Speaker 1: down by number fifty five Chris McClellan, amongst a host
23:40
Speaker 1: of other defensive players rushing against that little two back formation.
23:45
Speaker 1: They went split back in the shotgun with a little
23:48
Speaker 1: bit of orbit motion, a couple of different fakes nifty
23:52
Speaker 1: work in the backfield. Something Wayne that I mentioned to
23:55
Speaker 1: the guys earlier this morning was this is the most
24:00
Speaker 1: Jordan Love training camp has been for him, right, and
24:03
Speaker 1: not taking over for as your first year the starter,
24:05
Speaker 1: not having the contract thing helding over for eight or
24:09
Speaker 1: nine days before that got taken care of, and last
24:11
Speaker 1: year the injury as well, This is the cleanest he's
24:14
Speaker 1: been able to be in camp getting ready for the season.
24:17
Speaker 2: I think that vodes very very well for.
24:19
Speaker 3: The young man. I agree.
24:21
Speaker 4: And he's solid and everything he does, he's got great command.
24:25
Speaker 4: I think what I've seen in camp though, Bill and
24:28
Speaker 4: we were talking to the coaches about this Friday in
24:30
Speaker 4: Denver when we had our production meeting. This has been
24:34
Speaker 4: a tough defense to work against in camp, and the
24:37
Speaker 4: offense hasn't looked great, But I think there's a reason
24:41
Speaker 4: for that. I think it's because you know the way
24:42
Speaker 4: Jonathan Gannon works his stuff in the coverages and and
24:46
Speaker 4: the blitzing and disguising the coverages, that type of thing.
24:50
Speaker 4: This has been a real chess match to watch in
24:52
Speaker 4: practice year, in these ones against ones drills in training camp.
24:57
Speaker 4: It's been a real chess match for Matt Lafleur calling
25:00
Speaker 4: plays on offense and Jonathan Gannon on defense.
25:03
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people very interested to hear
25:06
Speaker 1: any time Keishawn Nixon's name is mentioned. He's in with
25:09
Speaker 1: the number one off our defense right now, opposite Brandon Ceesa.
25:12
Speaker 1: Just came on a cornerback blitz and was picked up late,
25:16
Speaker 1: but he was very quickly into the backfield into a
25:18
Speaker 1: lap of Jordan Love, something you definitely want to see,
25:21
Speaker 1: and Kamal hadn't running with the ones Wayne we mentioned.
25:24
Speaker 2: I mentioned to you just before we.
25:26
Speaker 1: Got on the air his play on Friday Night Dude,
25:30
Speaker 1: that you're going to root for. After the gruesome injury
25:32
Speaker 1: he had a year ago, it doesn't seem like a
25:35
Speaker 1: question if he is going to be on the team,
25:37
Speaker 1: how much he might be able to contribute if they're
25:39
Speaker 1: running him where they were just.
25:40
Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, exactly.
25:41
Speaker 4: And he's had a very good camp since returning from
25:44
Speaker 4: the injured list, and this will be a big week
25:46
Speaker 4: for him. Pierre Strong getting the football now and Tyron
25:50
Speaker 4: Hopper flashing across into the offensive backfield to make the
25:53
Speaker 4: tackle on that play to the left side. Hopper's had
25:55
Speaker 4: a very good camp too, in my opinion, kind of
25:58
Speaker 4: quiet in practice, but he showed up in the games
26:00
Speaker 4: two weeks ago in Pittsburgh, and I think he's a
26:03
Speaker 4: guy who was an abundance of athletic ability. Whether he
26:06
Speaker 4: plays in the linebacking corps depends on the health of
26:08
Speaker 4: the starters. But the fact is he's gonna show up
26:10
Speaker 4: on specialty.
26:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're gonna feel a lot more confident if
26:14
Speaker 1: he does go in, right, and I think when the
26:16
Speaker 1: interesting one would be depending on who goes out, whether
26:20
Speaker 1: it's Zayer Franklin or Edrin Cooper, if if it matters much,
26:25
Speaker 1: you know, if Isaiah McDuffie goes in for Zayer Franklin
26:28
Speaker 1: as the green dot guide communicate the defense, or if
26:31
Speaker 1: Tyron Hopper is that guy and there's just one first
26:34
Speaker 1: guy in despite whoever ends up going down Edgrid Cooper
26:37
Speaker 1: was running in the one on one pass rush drills
26:40
Speaker 1: against the offensive line, so you know they're gonna find
26:43
Speaker 1: different ways, in creative ways to have him rush the passer.
26:46
Speaker 1: I'm just interested to see how many and how quickly
26:49
Speaker 1: they start going.
26:49
Speaker 3: To some of them.
26:50
Speaker 4: I wonder how much we'll see it against the Cardinals.
26:53
Speaker 4: Maybe we'll see it a little bit. But I can
26:55
Speaker 4: tell you this for a fact, Jonathan Gannon has big plans.
27:00
Speaker 3: For fifty six.
27:01
Speaker 1: Eddrin Cooper and Packers fans schemed up a lot of good,
27:05
Speaker 1: big plans for him last year. Excited to see what
27:07
Speaker 1: that could be and how quickly you can see some
27:10
Speaker 1: of those put into practice, as Carrington Valentine just miss
27:14
Speaker 1: batting one down from Tyrod Taylor. Taylor's work has been
27:18
Speaker 1: a little bit low in terms of the snap totals
27:22
Speaker 1: and everything. I did hear some folks trying to drum
27:25
Speaker 1: up the conversation of if Kyle McCord was going to
27:27
Speaker 1: best him out, Tyrod Taylor's going to be the number
27:29
Speaker 1: two quarterback here. That doesn't take anything away from how
27:32
Speaker 1: good Kyle McCord has looked in his game action way
27:35
Speaker 1: but I think Tyrod Taylor is somebody that they're very
27:37
Speaker 1: excited about having for the next time they are.
27:39
Speaker 4: I mean the experience he brings to the party and
27:42
Speaker 4: that type of thing, and coaches like experience. You know this, Billy,
27:45
Speaker 4: You've been around the game long enough to know that
27:47
Speaker 4: if a coach has a chance is going to hes
27:50
Speaker 4: got two players. One's young and inexperienced, the other ones
27:52
Speaker 4: a veteran has experienced. They're about the same in terms
27:55
Speaker 4: of all their evaluations. Coach is going to go with
27:57
Speaker 4: the veteran. Coaches are going to go with the better,
28:00
Speaker 4: and so Tyrod Taylor's on this team, no doubt in
28:02
Speaker 4: my mind about that. I do think McCord has opened
28:05
Speaker 4: some eyes, and I do think McCord is a guy
28:07
Speaker 4: absolutely worth investing time in in developing.
28:10
Speaker 1: And also, if you're Kyle McCord's agent, you're hoping that
28:13
Speaker 1: he's here to continue to work with the practice squad
28:16
Speaker 1: because he's going to get a lot of development already.
28:18
Speaker 1: We're going to be in a good incubator to develop
28:21
Speaker 1: as a quarterback in this spot, and there's gonna be
28:25
Speaker 1: some opportunity at some particular point we'll see I don't
28:28
Speaker 1: believe it'll be coming up here right now. Kyle McCord
28:31
Speaker 1: is taking the snaps under center here. Left tackle my
28:34
Speaker 1: man John Williams played extensively in the game on Friday night.
28:39
Speaker 1: Be interesting to see if him or Donovan Jennings ends
28:41
Speaker 1: up making it as one of the final offensive lineman.
28:43
Speaker 1: One of the last defensive lineman you mentioned, Jonathan Ford.
28:47
Speaker 1: He had talked about just how competitive the group is,
28:50
Speaker 1: and then he thought it was the most competitive he's
28:52
Speaker 1: seen the d line room in his times in Green Vegas.
28:56
Speaker 1: He's had a couple of different stints. I do think
28:59
Speaker 1: it speaks to Warren Brinson, who had a little bit
29:01
Speaker 1: of a I believe Matt Lafleur set a calf flared
29:04
Speaker 1: up with him just pregame. But they do have a
29:07
Speaker 1: deeper group up there, Wayne, and it feels like Ford
29:11
Speaker 1: is they're making a case to keep potentially two run
29:14
Speaker 1: stuffers where I thought it might be three guys for
29:16
Speaker 1: one job. It'll be tough to see who they end
29:18
Speaker 1: up going with and without on that defensive line.
29:21
Speaker 4: You know, you'd like to have depth all through your roster,
29:23
Speaker 4: but in today's day and age, that's not realistic. Nobody
29:26
Speaker 4: has depth at every position, but you always seem to
29:28
Speaker 4: have two or three positions groups where you have so
29:33
Speaker 4: much depth, you're trying to figure out who do we keep,
29:35
Speaker 4: do we cut? You know, who can make practice squad?
29:37
Speaker 4: That kind of thing. Defensive line seems to have some
29:40
Speaker 4: depth to it this year.
29:42
Speaker 1: Looking at the way the game transpired a couple of
29:45
Speaker 1: nights ago. The secondary Wayne we talked about Keyshawn Nixon,
29:49
Speaker 1: Brandon Ceesay Carrington, Valentine, Benjamin Saint Juw's down here today
29:52
Speaker 1: is Jamie Martinez has a beautiful run off the right side,
29:55
Speaker 1: a lot of room to run that way.
29:58
Speaker 2: How do you see as.
29:59
Speaker 1: Mark Perry's trying to force him his way onto the club.
30:03
Speaker 1: I don't know that there's a lot of opportunity to
30:05
Speaker 1: make the team out there, but they had some players
30:07
Speaker 1: make a lot stronger cases in Denver than they did
30:10
Speaker 1: against Drew Aller and the Steelers a.
30:11
Speaker 3: Couple of nights.
30:11
Speaker 4: You know, I agree, and I think what you're seeing
30:14
Speaker 4: with some of those guys is they probably stake their
30:16
Speaker 4: claim to the practice squad. Sure, and if somebody else
30:19
Speaker 4: picks them up, then I guess good for them. But
30:22
Speaker 4: like we said, earlier. You see players get picked up,
30:25
Speaker 4: get cut, get picked up by another team, but usually
30:28
Speaker 4: it's because the other team's running almost the same system
30:31
Speaker 4: you're running and they, you know, can fit this guy
30:34
Speaker 4: in type of thing. But I think practice squad is
30:37
Speaker 4: a big factor this week. You're gonna see a lot
30:39
Speaker 4: of guys on Friday Night that are playing for the
30:42
Speaker 4: practice squad and that are making a case to be
30:44
Speaker 4: on that practice squad.
30:45
Speaker 1: And once again, the full first team offense for the
30:48
Speaker 1: Packers rolls out to start this next session of team
30:52
Speaker 1: and it does include Drake Dabney and who here who
30:55
Speaker 1: has had a really good camp. He had a great
30:57
Speaker 1: seal block off that duo run by Josh Jacobs, and
31:00
Speaker 1: you mentioned it in the beginning way. And of how
31:02
Speaker 1: many tight ends will they keep? Luke Musgrave in his
31:06
Speaker 1: lack of availability probably makes that a more feasible move
31:12
Speaker 1: if he goes to a pup or potentially even worse
31:16
Speaker 1: than I are. I think that looming is a question
31:18
Speaker 1: because Dabney has played his way I think onto the roster.
31:21
Speaker 4: I think he's gonna be one of the tight ends.
31:23
Speaker 4: And you know they're gonna keep at least three probably yeah,
31:26
Speaker 4: at least right, don't you think I mean all the
31:28
Speaker 4: double with all the twelve personnel the NFL teams run
31:31
Speaker 4: these days, you need four basically on your roster. Tough
31:35
Speaker 4: throw there into traffic. Somebody got a piece of it.
31:38
Speaker 4: Was that hadden' who got a piece of it? Or
31:41
Speaker 4: like it Hadden or could have been entering Cooper break
31:44
Speaker 4: it up for Tucker Kraft Well.
31:46
Speaker 1: I was waiting for a yell as Jordan Love doesn't
31:50
Speaker 1: hit the ground, but legs bodies go towards the leg
31:54
Speaker 1: of the quarterback. Generally that will draw some frustration from
31:57
Speaker 1: the head coach. But a good sprawl in a one
31:59
Speaker 1: on one with Lucas van Ness and Jordan Morgan where
32:02
Speaker 1: a little bit of a stalemate. However, right at the end,
32:05
Speaker 1: Jordan Morgan ends up on the turf right near Jordan
32:08
Speaker 1: Love's legs. But a good completion there and Josh Jacobs
32:10
Speaker 1: back to the left of Loving.
32:12
Speaker 2: The shotgun.
32:13
Speaker 1: Two receivers to the top of the screen, and one
32:15
Speaker 1: of them is sky Moore all the way at the
32:17
Speaker 1: top working against Brandon.
32:18
Speaker 3: Sees Watson in motion out of that shotgun.
32:23
Speaker 1: Good rush by van Ness against the former first round
32:26
Speaker 1: pick Jordan Morgan if there was time to throw Matthew
32:29
Speaker 1: Golden's wide open.
32:30
Speaker 4: Matthew Golden wide open down the left sidelines, deep in
32:33
Speaker 4: the secondary. The kid just gets open. He every day,
32:37
Speaker 4: he is open on almost every play. He is so
32:40
Speaker 4: quick out of his cuts. With the biggest improvement he's
32:43
Speaker 4: made according to the coaches, folks, Matthew Golden runs precise routes,
32:48
Speaker 4: and when you have his speed and explosiveness, if you're
32:51
Speaker 4: running precise routes, you're gonna get open.
32:53
Speaker 2: You're gonna get open.
32:54
Speaker 1: Even Adam Stenovich, offensive coordinator, a couple of days ago,
32:57
Speaker 1: mentioned it on the catch that he had against patzer
32:59
Speaker 1: tannan Ver. He said, quote, MG's been on fire the
33:02
Speaker 1: last few weeks as far as how he's running his routes,
33:05
Speaker 1: with the violence, he had, great hands, all of that stuff.
33:08
Speaker 1: It's been cool to watch him go out there and
33:09
Speaker 1: probably against the best corner in the NFL and do
33:12
Speaker 1: what he did. That's very very encouraging. It's very true.
33:15
Speaker 1: Certain is as good as they come, and he lined
33:18
Speaker 1: up against him as much.
33:18
Speaker 3: As he could.
33:19
Speaker 4: Yeah, he did, and that was a great test. I
33:22
Speaker 4: thought the Denver game is a great experience. All the
33:24
Speaker 4: way around for the Packers, you know. And the thing
33:26
Speaker 4: that struck me was they played to the style that
33:29
Speaker 4: Lafleur is looking for. They played fast and they played physical,
33:33
Speaker 4: and Denver is fast and physical. Okay, folks, they are
33:36
Speaker 4: as good as anybody in the league in my opinion.
33:38
Speaker 4: But you know, Green Bay held in there pretty well.
33:42
Speaker 1: I thought they were firm and there is a firm
33:44
Speaker 1: competition at left guard, as it is Jagger Burton or
33:48
Speaker 1: Aaron Banks. Because to your point Wayne a little bit earlier,
33:52
Speaker 1: Jacobunk's going to be the right guard. He has been
33:54
Speaker 1: in there and hasn't moved in this rotation. He's probably
33:56
Speaker 1: earned it. He's played very very well. Yeah, and so
33:58
Speaker 1: as Jonathan Ford, who just had a beautiful run. Stuff
34:01
Speaker 1: on that play, I think going up against Sean Ryan,
34:03
Speaker 1: but I might be speaking out of out of turn,
34:05
Speaker 1: for it's a big, imposing body. You almost forget that
34:07
Speaker 1: he's nearly three forty, maybe a biscuit shy at three.
34:10
Speaker 3: Fit and you're trying to figure out how's he been
34:11
Speaker 3: bouncing around?
34:12
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, right with that kind of body
34:15
Speaker 1: in athleticis Yeah, think that there's a spot for that
34:17
Speaker 1: kind of a guy. Chris Brooks didn't necessarily get a
34:21
Speaker 1: ton of run on Friday night, but has looked good
34:25
Speaker 1: at times. In a perfect, perfect play by Keishawn Nixon
34:29
Speaker 1: sticking the left hand there to focus that away.
34:32
Speaker 4: It was a bomb down the sidelines with Jayden Reid
34:35
Speaker 4: and Keishawn Nixon was in his hip, reached up with
34:38
Speaker 4: his left hand and batted it away.
34:39
Speaker 3: Really good coverage.
34:41
Speaker 1: I do think Wayne, as much as he has been
34:44
Speaker 1: maligned in disgust and he's everybody's number one conversation that
34:48
Speaker 1: they want to hear about Packers camp, I do think
34:51
Speaker 1: he's answered the call quite a bit in this competition,
34:54
Speaker 1: don't you. He seems like he's played some of his
34:56
Speaker 1: better football as of late. Once it's been a clear
34:59
Speaker 1: competition over there at corner Billy.
35:01
Speaker 4: He's been challenged, that's the big thing. He really has
35:03
Speaker 4: been challenged in this camp. And you know what, these athletes,
35:07
Speaker 4: you challenge them and generally you're going to get their
35:09
Speaker 4: best performance, right.
35:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, Otherwise they wouldn't be here.
35:12
Speaker 1: They wouldn't be here, and he wouldn't have been on
35:14
Speaker 1: the team a number of times, and he's been.
35:16
Speaker 2: Challenging his career.
35:17
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see how he can play throughout the year,
35:20
Speaker 1: because on the opposite side, I think Brandon Cisa raises
35:24
Speaker 1: the floor in that room, might have some more targets
35:27
Speaker 1: going towards. Yeah, keishat Nixon because I don't think, especially
35:30
Speaker 1: after that Courton Sutton tape Courtland Sutton tape goes out there,
35:33
Speaker 1: I don't think a whole lot of people are gonna
35:34
Speaker 1: wanting to throw towards number two.
35:36
Speaker 2: Bo Melton went out with a little bit of a stinger.
35:40
Speaker 1: Last week, had the reps in Denver this past week.
35:44
Speaker 1: He is such an interesting case study Wayne as he
35:47
Speaker 1: runs here with the first teamers and sky Moore gets
35:50
Speaker 1: the ball off left side because Melton has the one catch,
35:54
Speaker 1: has a lot of balls thrown his way on Friday night,
35:57
Speaker 1: but what he does in the wide receiver room feels
35:59
Speaker 1: like it's just it's going to be so much of
36:00
Speaker 1: a plus than just how he's going to be on
36:04
Speaker 1: the roster.
36:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, very interesting study. He's a great special teams coverage gay,
36:09
Speaker 4: you know, great guy to have as a gunner. So
36:12
Speaker 4: I mean he's got a role, there's no question about that.
36:14
Speaker 4: We've seen what he can do in a real game.
36:18
Speaker 4: You know, had one hundred yard receiving day on New
36:20
Speaker 4: Year's Eve in Minnesota a couple of years ago. You know,
36:24
Speaker 4: there's so many things that he can do and bring
36:26
Speaker 4: to the party, and he's such I think he's really
36:29
Speaker 4: entwined in.
36:29
Speaker 3: The fabric of this team.
36:31
Speaker 1: I really do Edrian Cooper with a beautiful what a
36:33
Speaker 1: been a TfL as he just broke right through the
36:36
Speaker 1: line and met Marshawn Lloyd in the backfield. Good matchup
36:39
Speaker 1: going on on the offensive line of Jagger Burton going
36:42
Speaker 1: up against Javon Hargrave. We haven't seen a ton of
36:45
Speaker 1: Hargrave as he has been had been working himself back
36:49
Speaker 1: from an injury. But since the pads have come on
36:51
Speaker 1: and since he's been on the field way and he
36:53
Speaker 1: made it known that he wanted to let everybody know
36:56
Speaker 1: he's still got something left in the tank, and it
36:58
Speaker 1: does appear they've got something there. Hopefully he can be
37:01
Speaker 1: here for seventeen plus games because he does feel like
37:03
Speaker 1: a little bit of a presence.
37:04
Speaker 4: He does, and you know, I think there'll be a
37:06
Speaker 4: nice rotation up front on that defensive line, Billy, They'll
37:10
Speaker 4: keep rotating those guys because they feel they have depth
37:12
Speaker 4: at that position as you discussed earlier.
37:15
Speaker 1: Good run by Zayir Franklin as he had a delayed
37:17
Speaker 1: blitz and made it uncomfortable for Jordan Love to say
37:20
Speaker 1: the least in the pocket as he dumped it off
37:22
Speaker 1: right side to Marshawn Lloyd working against Edrin Cooper and
37:26
Speaker 1: now the second team offense will roll through here. At
37:29
Speaker 1: some point during that session, you saw Anthony Belton check
37:33
Speaker 1: in at right tackle for Zach Bacobiuell as he works
37:35
Speaker 1: himself back from his injury.
37:37
Speaker 4: Give me your analysis of the Belton situation guard back
37:41
Speaker 4: to tackle.
37:42
Speaker 3: What do you think?
37:43
Speaker 1: I think he's much more comfortable and looks cleaner and
37:47
Speaker 1: smoother at tackle. Now he hasn't necessarily played his best
37:50
Speaker 1: ball as of yet, but Wayne, I do think that
37:53
Speaker 1: he is some of the issues he had in week
37:56
Speaker 1: number one and two. He started to find his way
38:01
Speaker 1: once again on the outside and playing left tackle his
38:03
Speaker 1: entire career much different than right tackle.
38:06
Speaker 2: But he almost looked like he was in his head
38:09
Speaker 2: a little bit after the move out to tackle and
38:11
Speaker 2: maybe gaining some more confidence.
38:13
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so.
38:14
Speaker 4: And you know, Lafloor said a couple of weeks ago,
38:16
Speaker 4: said he's probably more comfortable at tackle. He's probably better
38:20
Speaker 4: suited for that position than guard. And you know, I
38:24
Speaker 4: still think Anthony has a lot to learn and to
38:27
Speaker 4: Larry keeps mentioning, you know, things that come up that
38:31
Speaker 4: he said, you know, he needs to be better with
38:33
Speaker 4: his hands, better with leverage, that kind of thing, and
38:37
Speaker 4: those are factors that I think the young man is
38:39
Speaker 4: working on.
38:39
Speaker 3: And once he.
38:41
Speaker 4: There's talent there, Okay, this is not this guy was
38:44
Speaker 4: picked in the second round, wasn't he, And so you
38:47
Speaker 4: know there's something there to be developed. There's no question,
38:51
Speaker 4: and it's a matter of if his Anthony wanted develop
38:54
Speaker 4: I think he does. He certainly has that attitude and
38:57
Speaker 4: I think he'll be a good player for this team
38:58
Speaker 4: in time.
38:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's there's something good to getting in
39:03
Speaker 1: one position and developing at that spot, because I agree
39:06
Speaker 1: what you mentioned that Rocket pointed out, and he's he's
39:08
Speaker 1: spot on. Those developments can happen inside or outside, right,
39:12
Speaker 1: those fundamentals you can work on either spot. And if
39:16
Speaker 1: he attacks it the same way he attacked kind of
39:19
Speaker 1: transforming his body this offseason, as he looks a lot
39:21
Speaker 1: more stealth, I would do it definitely means something to
39:25
Speaker 1: the young man, so I anticipate him to still have
39:27
Speaker 1: some better football ahead of him, but it is definitely
39:30
Speaker 1: going to be on him as the swing tackle. Because
39:32
Speaker 1: Darien Kinard returns to practice this today and he played
39:38
Speaker 1: a bunch of snaps for them. He ended up being
39:39
Speaker 1: their third or their sixth offensive lineman, the guy that
39:43
Speaker 1: came in when they went tackle eligible, and that's definitely
39:46
Speaker 1: a spot that is going to have some competition, as
39:49
Speaker 1: will Sheppard catch that one across the middle? Intics a
39:52
Speaker 1: sizeable lick.
39:53
Speaker 4: Let me ask you this, and this gets down to
39:55
Speaker 4: not so much coaching decision, but a goody decision in
39:58
Speaker 4: his staff. You got to and he Belton, You've invested
40:01
Speaker 4: a second round draft choice in him. If it comes
40:03
Speaker 4: down to him and Canar to be the swing tackle,
40:06
Speaker 4: where do you go?
40:07
Speaker 1: I'm probably I'm going Belton on the upside in terms
40:13
Speaker 1: of the player they are right now, I think Canar
40:15
Speaker 1: would be better. But especially when you start talking about
40:17
Speaker 1: the egos Wayne of a draft choice, I think that's
40:19
Speaker 1: a tough one to pass up.
40:20
Speaker 3: Yeah. The chance to develop them, yeah yeah.
40:24
Speaker 1: And the opportunity to hopefully get again a player that
40:27
Speaker 1: at some point maybe he does become a really, really
40:29
Speaker 1: good guard, maybe he does become a really good tackle
40:31
Speaker 1: at some point, and you got an opportunity to have
40:33
Speaker 1: somebody waiting in the wings, cause you know that in
40:37
Speaker 1: the offensive line, as we pointed out with Denver, they
40:39
Speaker 1: played a lot of their same guys.
40:41
Speaker 2: They've had the same unit for a while.
40:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a massive rarity in the National Football
40:45
Speaker 1: League to have that kind of consistency up front. Catano
40:49
Speaker 1: Ladappo back into the secondaries. He's no longer working into
40:53
Speaker 1: the nickel spot exclusively with the ones. Is Jamon Bullard
40:56
Speaker 1: working his way back from his injury. No longer hanging
40:59
Speaker 1: out in the boot, but working alongside the defensive players
41:03
Speaker 1: and getting some good mental reps over here on to
41:05
Speaker 1: the right side. We'll see a lot more team period
41:07
Speaker 1: coming up in a little while. As the Packers have had.
41:11
Speaker 1: We knew this was going to be one of the
41:13
Speaker 1: longer and probably more strenuous practices of camp, and it
41:16
Speaker 1: has lived up for that. Billing right here, Wayne.
41:19
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought last week was pretty physical as well.
41:21
Speaker 4: A couple of physical practices. I talked to Sean Ryan
41:24
Speaker 4: about it, you know, he was like, gosh, well, how
41:28
Speaker 4: much more. Are we got of this? Do we have left?
41:30
Speaker 4: You know that kind of thing. That's where you're at,
41:32
Speaker 4: and that's the kind of fire branding you need in
41:35
Speaker 4: your football team, especially if you want to play the
41:37
Speaker 4: way the Packers want to play, fast and physical. You
41:40
Speaker 4: have to be in condition to do that.
41:42
Speaker 1: And you gotta be in condition to play long into
41:44
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42:31
Speaker 1: minute drill, we will have a very excited Packers Zoe
42:34
Speaker 1: Tea on the Packers Radio network because Keyshawn Nixon picks
42:37
Speaker 1: one off on Jordan Love rolling off to the right,
42:40
Speaker 1: well jumped, well timed interception with thirty seconds left on
42:44
Speaker 1: the clock inside the red zone.
42:45
Speaker 2: That's as good as it can get for.
42:47
Speaker 4: That, I thought the whole drive they had, the defense
42:50
Speaker 4: got great pressure. Yeah on Jordan Love. He missed a
42:53
Speaker 4: short little swing pass out to Sky Moore because he
42:56
Speaker 4: was under pressure, and then that made a desperation toss
42:59
Speaker 4: on wonder if they were playing the final seconds of
43:01
Speaker 4: a game or whatever downfield, and Keishawn made a athletic interception.
43:07
Speaker 4: The other play that happened on the particular drive was
43:10
Speaker 4: our guy Jayden Reid over the middle, beat Xavier McKinney
43:14
Speaker 4: to the football on a big catch over the middle and.
43:16
Speaker 2: A physical grab right at the top. High point. It
43:19
Speaker 2: was as good as it can get.
43:21
Speaker 1: We had a couple of folks on Packers Otzi late
43:23
Speaker 1: night on Friday Night. A little frustrated on the Xavier
43:26
Speaker 1: McKinney play against Jalen Wattle when that's as good of
43:30
Speaker 1: a wide receiver as there.
43:31
Speaker 2: Is in football.
43:31
Speaker 1: And that was old Tuscaloosa Crimson Tie, Crimson Tide on
43:35
Speaker 1: Crimson Tide crime there on Friday night. I think Xavier
43:39
Speaker 1: McKinney will be just fine. But that was a beautiful
43:41
Speaker 1: throw and can oh.
43:42
Speaker 4: Absolutely, And that's a tough pattern if I'm not mistaken,
43:45
Speaker 4: if I'm remembering correctly, it was kind of like a
43:48
Speaker 4: long down and in yep, so he cut back inside.
43:52
Speaker 4: That's a hard coverage for anybody to make, but a
43:54
Speaker 4: safety especially.
43:56
Speaker 1: And especially somebody going up against that kind of speed.
43:59
Speaker 1: The Wattle possession quickness, Oh my goodness.
44:01
Speaker 4: We talked about, we talk about Golden having those qualities. Well,
44:06
Speaker 4: you know this guy, Jalen Waddle has done it for years, yeah, and.
44:10
Speaker 2: Has done it. And you know, you almost forgot that.
44:13
Speaker 1: These Broncos went on out and traded a first round
44:16
Speaker 1: pick to get Waddle and beef up that offense that
44:18
Speaker 1: you got to see that the Packers defense go up
44:20
Speaker 1: against on Friday night. Packers defense looking very good here today.
44:24
Speaker 1: Early on, the coverage unit has been good. We just
44:26
Speaker 1: mentioned the Keishaw Knicks interception, Lucas Vanes getting a number
44:29
Speaker 1: of good pressures on that series as well. In the
44:32
Speaker 1: two minute back into a two minute right now as
44:35
Speaker 1: the Packers.
44:35
Speaker 2: Need a field goal with about fifty.
44:38
Speaker 1: Three seconds to go, the offense being led right now
44:41
Speaker 1: the twos by Tyrod Taylor and the offensive line with
44:44
Speaker 1: Jagger Burton lining up at center might be the number
44:48
Speaker 1: two center. If Jacob Monk's locking up that right guard job, Wayne,
44:51
Speaker 1: they got to be able to find the young man
44:53
Speaker 1: more opportunities to maybe get on the field.
44:55
Speaker 4: If this is just my conjecture based on what I'm
44:57
Speaker 4: kind of seeing and hearing. You know, Banks is going
45:02
Speaker 4: to be, if he's healthy, the starting left guard. Okay,
45:05
Speaker 4: Monk is going to be the right guard. As you mentioned,
45:07
Speaker 4: Sean Ryan's in its center, Jagger Burton is going to
45:11
Speaker 4: be the swingman for all three positions on the interior
45:15
Speaker 4: of the offensive line. And we just talked about the
45:17
Speaker 4: tackle situation. Is it Canard, is it Belton? You know
45:20
Speaker 4: who's going to be the swing tackle there. So these
45:23
Speaker 4: are decisions that are starting to be made now.
45:25
Speaker 3: This week, and.
45:25
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see if the you know, tackle eligible plagus.
45:30
Speaker 1: Everybody's running a six man offensive line formation now in
45:33
Speaker 1: the NFL.
45:34
Speaker 2: Everyone wants to run two tight ends.
45:35
Speaker 1: Sean McVay does it, and everybody immediately puts it into
45:38
Speaker 1: their playbook.
45:39
Speaker 2: But as Carrington.
45:39
Speaker 1: Valentine nearly has an interception that time against Will Sheppard,
45:44
Speaker 1: was the intended target on that slamp but looked like
45:47
Speaker 1: looked like Carrington Valentine might have been the intended target
45:50
Speaker 1: on that one.
45:50
Speaker 4: You know something about the little bit I've seen of
45:52
Speaker 4: him since he's been returned to practice from the injured list,
45:56
Speaker 4: Carrington Valentine shows up a little bit. I think he's
45:58
Speaker 4: taken his game to another level here well.
46:00
Speaker 1: And if you look at the other players at that position,
46:03
Speaker 1: Benjamin Saint ju just not practicing today. Jalen Simpson is
46:07
Speaker 1: off to the side as well with some trainers, and
46:10
Speaker 1: he looked like he may have gotten a little bit
46:11
Speaker 1: dinged up on Friday night. That that's a position Wayne,
46:15
Speaker 1: that attrition is going to be a factor, and if
46:18
Speaker 1: he can make it through the injury that he had
46:21
Speaker 1: on to the other side, his competitiveness is something that
46:24
Speaker 1: I know they like on defense because he.
46:25
Speaker 3: Gay, how long a field goal is this? Believe sixty yards?
46:28
Speaker 3: I think it's sixty yards right, Yes.
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Speaker 1: You're right spot on, sixty yards from tray smack, swing
46:35
Speaker 1: of the right leg.
46:36
Speaker 3: In that net center cut, as we would say in golf.
46:40
Speaker 2: Wow.
46:41
Speaker 1: And about pin high, Wayne, because that was about it.
46:44
Speaker 1: That had a little bit of distance there as well
46:46
Speaker 1: from sixty away. How impressed have you been with his
46:50
Speaker 1: moxie in some of these kicks in the preseason because listen,
46:54
Speaker 1: much maligned in the first week and a half as
46:56
Speaker 1: you can be in training camp. But he had joked
46:58
Speaker 1: about it that Xavier McKinney's lockermate right next to him.
47:01
Speaker 1: He said, all I need you to do is makeing
47:03
Speaker 1: makes a kick, Make the kick, make the kick, And
47:06
Speaker 1: all he's done in the preseason games is making it.
47:08
Speaker 3: Make the kick.
47:09
Speaker 4: You know, they were telling It's interesting because cam Acor,
47:13
Speaker 4: the special team's coach, was telling us a couple of
47:17
Speaker 4: weeks ago that it's harder to kick out here. The
47:20
Speaker 4: wind on this practice field, the rain Chki practice field
47:24
Speaker 4: is brutal on these kickers, and it's much tougher to
47:28
Speaker 4: kick here than it is in the stadium, no doubt,
47:31
Speaker 4: and we've seen evidence of that.
47:32
Speaker 1: Especially on a day where the tunnel of the tunnel
47:35
Speaker 1: win effect like today is definitely buzzing and blistering. But
47:39
Speaker 1: still I appreciate we're still not signaling if the kick
47:42
Speaker 1: is good or not.
47:43
Speaker 4: There's a little guy in a white bucket cap there.
47:45
Speaker 4: We did this just kind of halfway up. I just
47:48
Speaker 4: gave the little he was helping Matt Laflour didn't see him.
47:53
Speaker 2: He's hoping nobody sees it.
47:55
Speaker 1: Right off to that right up right, your spot on
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Speaker 1: me incognito official underneath the upright for tray magazine lines
48:01
Speaker 1: one up now from forty away on the right hash.
48:04
Speaker 1: Also the best thing is Wayne he got tested on
48:07
Speaker 1: Friday night right hash left hash down the middle all
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Speaker 1: three options as the next one.
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Speaker 2: Beautiful snap, beautiful kick and it is.
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Speaker 1: Off left side left. Now we are getting a full
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Speaker 1: indication here.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the media corps must have gotten a mad on that, huh.
48:23
Speaker 1: Now, well, now they're getting blocked here from the other
48:26
Speaker 1: from the opposing sideline. So I wonder if Tamofski and
48:30
Speaker 1: Company is able to get a get a full tracker
48:32
Speaker 1: on that one, they might they might need to get
48:34
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Speaker 1: ooms a forty three yarder just down the boulevard, and
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Speaker 3: All is well, Billy, you make one, make it.
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Speaker 1: Right back, get ourselves back after a swing and a
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