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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 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.
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Speaker 2: Get the last week of camp. Decisions have to be made.
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Speaker 2: The preseason game on Friday night. All of the guys
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Speaker 2: trying to make the football team will get their final shot,
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Speaker 2: and then cuts come up over the weekend Sunday. Actually
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Speaker 2: they have to get down to fifty three, put together
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Speaker 2: a practice squad. Everything gets sifted out over the next
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Speaker 2: week or so players are on and off the roster.
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Speaker 2: It's an interesting time. Year. But this is going to
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Speaker 2: be a critical week for the Packers.
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Speaker 1: And in your time when you've you've been around so
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Speaker 1: many organizations, You've 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 2: Yeah, you know, I think the game for those trying
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Speaker 2: to make the roster, Billy, you know, the back end players,
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Speaker 2: the newer players, the game on Friday night is huge
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Speaker 2: for them. With the joint practice. To me, as I
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Speaker 2: look at it now, everybody will get to take part.
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Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong, but I think the large measure
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Speaker 2: of that the coaching stams are looking at starters against starters.
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Speaker 2: They're looking to get that's the tune up they're looking for.
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Speaker 2: And then the game itself on Friday night will be
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Speaker 2: given to those who are trying to make the team
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Speaker 2: 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: mccordy 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 and in the
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Speaker 1: wide receiver room. Somebody that we've talked a lot about
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Speaker 1: here at camp, Will Sheppard, You're gonna get an opportunity
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Speaker 1: to play in these games.
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Speaker 3: And he had one of the best plays of the preseason.
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Speaker 2: He really did. Made a great contested catch, took it
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Speaker 2: away from the dB and you know, that's what you
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Speaker 2: want to see those guys do. And they've got those
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Speaker 2: three receivers. We've talked about them in ad nauseum in
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Speaker 2: this camp at the back end of the roster. How
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Speaker 2: many of them can you keep? Can you get one
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Speaker 2: or two the practice squad, I'm sure you can. You know,
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Speaker 2: we always talk about, well, if you cut this guy,
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Speaker 2: somebody else is gonna pick him. Up. That doesn't happen
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Speaker 2: as much as you think, right, Okay, it really doesn't.
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Speaker 2: It does on occasion, but not a lot. And so
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Speaker 2: you know, those guys you may get to the practice squad,
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Speaker 2: that's probably we're going to have them. And then if
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Speaker 2: you have injuries, you've got a chance to pick up
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Speaker 2: somebody who knows your system, has been in your system,
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Speaker 2: that type of thing. But you know, it got thems
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Speaker 2: down to these questions. Do they keep seven wide receivers?
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Speaker 2: How many tight ends do they keep? Do they have
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Speaker 2: four tight ends? To keep building four tight ends? You
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Speaker 2: really figure you gotta keep I don't know, not positive.
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Speaker 2: I'm not positive of that at all. Maybe that'll change
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Speaker 2: as we get through this week with the joint practice
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Speaker 2: with the Cardinals, and then in the game maybe you
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Speaker 2: see something Friday night. Maybe, But you know, it's interesting.
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Speaker 2: We talk about depth, and I say this about depth,
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Speaker 2: I say this about prospects in baseball. Prospects in baseball,
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Speaker 2: and they all talk them, all the organizations talk about them.
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Speaker 2: They are suspects until proven otherwise. Understand that, okay, And
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Speaker 2: many of them, like the Brewers, have a couple that
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Speaker 2: have proven to be not suspects. But real prospects and
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Speaker 2: are playing terrific baseball for them this year. The Packers
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Speaker 2: have prospects as well, and they have depth, and we
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Speaker 2: all think depth in the NFL, your depth is great
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Speaker 2: as long as you don't have to go to it right.
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Speaker 2: You go to your depth. And the only exception I've
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Speaker 2: seen of this was the twenty ten Packers, where they
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Speaker 2: had to go to depth beyond depth, and yet they
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Speaker 2: found it was good enough to win. That doesn't happen
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Speaker 2: very often. Oftentimes, when you have to go to your depth,
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Speaker 2: you find out there's a reason why they're not start right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's a reason why thirty one other teams
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Speaker 1: haven't haven't chosen for it. And to your point about
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Speaker 1: twenty ten, it's one of the reasons why that outlier
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Speaker 1: gets brought up all the.
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Speaker 2: Time all the time. But how often does it happen
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Speaker 2: like that?
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Speaker 1: Not very often, now, maybe not many of the ends.
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Speaker 2: I can't think of many teams to get to the
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Speaker 2: Super Bowl with sixteen players on ir NO, and.
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Speaker 3: I mean one that we just watched a couple of
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Speaker 3: 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 3: 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 going to 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
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Speaker 1: force in that.
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Speaker 2: Spot, absolutely, But I also think I was talking to
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Speaker 2: the Denver people, Dave Logan, who's my counterpart with the Broncos,
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Speaker 2: and he's been there forever and ever. You know, we
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Speaker 2: were talking about that AFC Championship game. Now, there was
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Speaker 2: a questionable call that Sean Payton made. Okay, a very
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Speaker 2: good point. And the other thing that happened was that
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Speaker 2: snowstorm rolled into Denver on the second half of that game,
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Speaker 2: and it was a matter of once that snow hit,
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Speaker 2: whoever was in the lead was gonna win that game.
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Speaker 2: I said to David, it reminded me of the Fog
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Speaker 2: Bowl in Chicago for the nineteen eighty eight season. The
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Speaker 2: Bears are playing the Eagles at Soldier Field. The Bears
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Speaker 2: have the lead, the fog rolls in at halftime, and
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Speaker 2: I mean it was like smoke. It wasn't It wasn't
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Speaker 2: just missed. It was smoke rolling in. Nobody could see anything.
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Speaker 2: The Bears had the lead, and they won the game.
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Speaker 2: They won the game, So I think very much the Broncos,
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Speaker 2: I said to David, said, you know what, that storm
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Speaker 2: doesn't come in. Despite jared'st did him playing at quarterback
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Speaker 2: and he actually played pretty well at times, and despite
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Speaker 2: Sean Payton's ill advised call on the goal line, they
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Speaker 2: win that game. Right, They beat the Patriots and they
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Speaker 2: go to the Super Bowl, and it would have been
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Speaker 2: probably a better Super Bowl.
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Speaker 3: It would have been a much better super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: And then we wouldn't have had the Racini Bowl leading
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Speaker 1: off the NFL season coming up this year, because like,
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Speaker 1: the conversation is a whole lot different, right, the whole
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Speaker 1: the conversation is a lot different around the NFL, and
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Speaker 1: in that division. I mean, the Broncos right now are
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Speaker 1: like the third team odds favorites to win that division.
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Speaker 1: The Kansay Chiefs are the number one team. So go
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Speaker 1: to the Podawadami sportsbook and invest on that and you'll
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Speaker 1: thank us later.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to the window. I'm telling the guy, I
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Speaker 2: want your finger on the Denver Broncos to win that
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Speaker 2: division and leave it there for the next six months.
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Speaker 3: Hold on to it and be fine with it.
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Speaker 2: Gus. I want that much invested in it, and.
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Speaker 3: We'll make sure that we'll cast that thing right.
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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.
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Speaker 3: Early on, Javon.
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Speaker 1: Hargrave had a quick rep against Jagger Burton. It was
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Speaker 1: quick because he got right into the chest plate of
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Speaker 1: number fifty two and moved him back substantially. Hardgrave is
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Speaker 1: gonna be fun once the game start, he is. Burton
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Speaker 1: got a lot of run on Friday night, Wayne, I
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Speaker 1: thought looked good. However, the holding penalties are ones that
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Speaker 1: are gonna stand out.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but he made a played But what was his
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Speaker 2: Zach Allen? He decleted Zach Allen all pro defensive end
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Speaker 2: of the bronc Oh my goodness. So you know the
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Speaker 2: potentials there. The other guy that we just saw in
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Speaker 2: a pass rush drill here a second ago, Jonathan Ford.
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Speaker 2: Jonathan Ford is opening eyes, folks, and in this camp.
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Speaker 2: Maybe not so much in the games, but we're seeing
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Speaker 2: him show up in camp quite a bit. He's a
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Speaker 2: guy who looks much improved. I know, we had a
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Speaker 2: conversation with Jonathan Gannon last Friday, the defensive coordinator, and
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Speaker 2: he was effusive and how much Jonathan Ford has improved
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Speaker 2: and is a factor. And then in the game we
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Speaker 2: saw Chris mcclennan show up, and that's the thing that
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Speaker 2: I was looking at very closely. And I think that
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Speaker 2: kid has had a good camp and I think he's
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Speaker 2: going to 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 sack 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 2: Yeah, here's a guy who was playing soccer most of
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Speaker 2: his childhood.
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Speaker 1: It's a scary forward if you're very little.
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Speaker 2: You know, at Miami and there is what one year
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Speaker 2: there or whatever. Miami's a loaded program, as you know
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Speaker 2: better than I, but you know it comes here and
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Speaker 2: he started batting passes down and practice and everything and say, okay,
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Speaker 2: well that's practice. But he shows up in the games too,
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Speaker 2: So something to think about there on this. I think
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Speaker 2: it's going to be fascinating to see how good he
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Speaker 2: 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 2: Well exactly, And it's a nature of the business because
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Speaker 2: you know, know in football, when you go to another team,
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Speaker 2: you gotta lose, you know, potentially a whole new system,
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Speaker 2: and if not a whole new system, then a whole
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Speaker 2: 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 2: There's a different field of this camp here folks this
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Speaker 2: week because you know, as you mentioned, I thought and
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Speaker 2: we felt, you know, the coaches and Matt Laflora talked
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Speaker 2: to him a little bit about it. I thought last
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Speaker 2: week was the fire branding you do with your football team.
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean. You put them through a
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Speaker 2: couple of real difficult practices, long practices, physical, you go
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Speaker 2: to Denver, You're playing against a physical, great AFC team
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Speaker 2: in Denver. It was a week of fire branding for
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Speaker 2: this group. And now this week, who survives That's the thing.
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Speaker 2: It's almost like Survivor the show. You know, who survives
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Speaker 2: this week and who makes the squad? But they're gonna
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Speaker 2: have a tough practice here today. It'll be a spirited,
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Speaker 2: physical practice against the Cardinals on Wednesday. Then they'll, like
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Speaker 2: we mentioned the backups, and everyone will play the game
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Speaker 2: on Friday night, and decisions are made 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. 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 1: And that is as good of an interception as you're
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Speaker 1: gonna make. And now that's two stops, the fourth down
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Speaker 1: stop in Pittsburgh, an interception last this past week. Exciting
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Speaker 1: to see if forty one is able to be one
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Speaker 1: of the fifty three. We'll see and we'll discuss a
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Speaker 1: lot more of it coming up. The voice of the
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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers, Wayne Larvy to my right, I'm Bill Schmid.
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Speaker 1: It's Training Camp Live twenty twenty six, presented by the
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Speaker 1: Potawataome Sports Book on Bill Schmid alongside the voice of
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Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers, Wayne Larvy. Packers won thirty three
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Speaker 1: thirteen on Friday night and their second to last penultimate
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Speaker 1: pro public practice here at rayn inchie Field, the final
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Speaker 1: that will involve just the Packers. Wednesday, the Arizona Cardinals
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Speaker 1: come to town in front of us some live punting
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Speaker 1: with maybe the best punter in football, Danny Wheland, mooting
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Speaker 1: it away to Wayne. I feel pretty confident in saying
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Speaker 1: it right out of the gates after one return for
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Speaker 1: fifteen yards and a very shifty move off the right sideline,
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Speaker 1: I think I'm ready to say sky Moore is the
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Speaker 1: best punt returner we've seen in a couple of years.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, it's amazing when you think about it,
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Speaker 2: what he brings to the party. And the other factor
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Speaker 2: is this, you know, you hope and you understand that
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Speaker 2: if sky Moore they keep him as one of their
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Speaker 2: six or seven receivers, that he's going to be the
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Speaker 2: return man. And that takes Jayden Reid off of that.
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Speaker 2: And I'm happy about that because you know, jay Reed
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Speaker 2: plays the slot and he's really good, folks. He was
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Speaker 2: injured most of last year. I think we all forgot
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Speaker 2: how good he really is in the slot. We've seen
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Speaker 2: traces of that in this training camp and in the
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Speaker 2: games a little bit. But he's also a guy that
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Speaker 2: you don't want to get dinged up any more than
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Speaker 2: you have to, and you know you get knocked around
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Speaker 2: on those punt returns. There's no doubt about that. I
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Speaker 2: want Jayden Reid healthy and playing every snap in the
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Speaker 2: 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 2: You know, Larry mccaeren says this all the time to me, says,
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Speaker 2: you know, there are guys that have the it factor
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Speaker 2: when it comes to returning kicks and punts, and not
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Speaker 2: everybody has that. And it's not just about speed and
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Speaker 2: shiftiness and everything else. It's a lot of vision and
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Speaker 2: a knack whatever that word means in this case, but
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Speaker 2: a knack for doing this and that. Another guy with
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Speaker 2: the same qualities physically may not have, and it's just
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Speaker 2: a fact of the matter, and sky Moore has that.
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Speaker 2: I think if he gives them a return game, if
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Speaker 2: Trey Smack is the kicker, he's looked like he's been
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Speaker 2: this summer with Daniel Wheelan and with their coverage units,
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Speaker 2: which are pretty decent. Okay, that's special teams. I said
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Speaker 2: this this morning with Drew and Arman. I said, you know,
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Speaker 2: this could be the best special teams the Packers have
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Speaker 2: had since Nolan Cromwell in the mid nineties. Holy cow. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and I have been very good. Hey, they weren't good
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Speaker 2: on special teams when they won the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 3: No, no, they weren't.
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Speaker 1: And they made kicks, but they left a lot of
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Speaker 1: points out there, if you remember.
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Speaker 3: And they had an offensive lineman damn near.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I was a kick. They lost the Patriots
16:12
Speaker 2: game with Matt Flinnet quarterback. They lost it primarily on.
16:15
Speaker 3: That kicker kick return by Coddley.
16:17
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and even.
16:19
Speaker 1: The Pierre's Strong return, which phenomenal call, by the way,
16:22
Speaker 1: and by the way, wayn Larrvy's been calling Pierre Strong.
16:25
Speaker 3: We saw the Pierre Strong game.
16:26
Speaker 1: Eight carries for forty some yards, four and a half
16:28
Speaker 1: a tot and a long kick return.
16:31
Speaker 3: That you saw the blocking set it up.
16:33
Speaker 1: He capitalized with the vision and the acceleration, but it
16:36
Speaker 1: was perfectly blocked up for him sitting there.
16:38
Speaker 3: It was from that sixty eight yard.
16:40
Speaker 2: He's a veteran, he's a third or fourth year he
16:42
Speaker 2: came in with the Patriots. I believe he's a fourth
16:44
Speaker 2: round raft choice something like that. But he you know,
16:47
Speaker 2: we saw it in OTA's a mini camp without pads obviously,
16:51
Speaker 2: so you always kind of caution yourself there, but that
16:54
Speaker 2: this guy knows how to get around. This guy can
16:56
Speaker 2: read a hole, can make that cut at the right time.
17:00
Speaker 2: I think he can do the Emmanuel Wilson role on
17:03
Speaker 2: this team, maybe even a little better than Emmanuel Wilson
17:06
Speaker 2: did it. And Emmanuel Wilson on this team was very good.
17:10
Speaker 3: 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
17:27
Speaker 1: game not game shape, but reacclimated to game speed.
17:31
Speaker 3: 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 3: What that vision is going to be like. He is
17:42
Speaker 3: 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 2: I agree, And theyve you don't run him between the
17:47
Speaker 2: tackles a little bit more than I thought they would.
17:49
Speaker 2: I agree, and I think he's I think he's just
17:52
Speaker 2: like you said, Billy, he's shaking off the rust. He
17:55
Speaker 2: virtually hadn't played in a full football game in like
17:58
Speaker 2: two years, and it takes time to get that vision
18:02
Speaker 2: up to speed again. But you can see it as
18:04
Speaker 2: he approaches the line. I think he sees things. Maybe
18:07
Speaker 2: he'll see them a little quicker now, or maybe the
18:10
Speaker 2: timing will get a little better as he goes along
18:12
Speaker 2: and plays more. But that's just a matter of time.
18:14
Speaker 2: He's a very special talent.
18:16
Speaker 3: And you could tell.
18:17
Speaker 1: And this is the smalcy part of sports that I
18:20
Speaker 1: absolutely eat up. You could see the reaction from the
18:23
Speaker 1: players of how much it meant to him to get in.
18:26
Speaker 1: When the team reacts like that to somebody making a play.
18:28
Speaker 1: I always take note of the certain players that draw
18:31
Speaker 1: that kind of juice. It's like a bring a baseball
18:33
Speaker 1: comparison in when a team wins when a start, certain
18:36
Speaker 1: starting pitcher.
18:36
Speaker 3: 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 3: I was into that.
18:43
Speaker 2: I would agree wholeheartedly on that because yeah, you're right,
18:47
Speaker 2: and he you know, hey, listen, players in the locker
18:50
Speaker 2: room know how hard that kid worked and how disappointed
18:53
Speaker 2: he was that he wasn't able to play the last
18:55
Speaker 2: two years. And they also know his talent and they
18:58
Speaker 2: want his 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 2: He d right there, you know, se say is, so
19:17
Speaker 2: we looked at him. I think he had a great
19:19
Speaker 2: coverage on Cortland's sun phenomenal the other night. But he's
19:23
Speaker 2: so good. He's one of the best I've seen against
19:25
Speaker 2: the run in that position at cornerback. He anticipates, he
19:29
Speaker 2: makes the play, He finishes the tackle. He's really good.
19:33
Speaker 2: He came in with that reputation. The analytics told us
19:36
Speaker 2: in college he was one of the best run stopping
19:39
Speaker 2: cornerbacks in FBS last year, and we've seen evidence of
19:42
Speaker 2: 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 Jacob on the
19:57
Speaker 1: right guard and Zach bacoboele into team drills here off
20:01
Speaker 1: at right tackle Tucker Craft in here. This looks like
20:04
Speaker 1: the full complement just about you would have on offense
20:07
Speaker 1: outside of the three wide receivers who are active in
20:09
Speaker 1: Jayden Reid, Christian Watson and Matthew Golden who had a
20:13
Speaker 1: great play on Friday night. But this looks like as
20:16
Speaker 1: much of the number one offense as you would see
20:18
Speaker 1: with now a three tight end set Josh Wiley and
20:22
Speaker 1: Drake Dabney off to the left side. They send a
20:24
Speaker 1: Craft and Wiley in motion. A lot of action in
20:27
Speaker 1: the backfield there for a quick play action strike to
20:31
Speaker 1: Tucker Craft and a lot of eighty five jerseys walking
20:35
Speaker 1: around here and hopefully a lot of eighty five early
20:37
Speaker 1: this year.
20:37
Speaker 3: He looks like he's ready to roll for Oh.
20:39
Speaker 2: I don't think there's any question about it. Now. He's
20:41
Speaker 2: not gonna have played a preseason game. But you know,
20:43
Speaker 2: I talked to Tucker about that last week. He said,
20:46
Speaker 2: I said, do you concern you're not going to play
20:48
Speaker 2: in a preseason No? No, he says, No. I do
20:52
Speaker 2: everything every day in practice exactly the way I do
20:55
Speaker 2: it in the game. And his approach at the light
20:58
Speaker 2: of scrimmage, you know, running the routes everything. So no,
21:02
Speaker 2: he's he's fine.
21:03
Speaker 1: Not only from a talent perspective, from but from that
21:06
Speaker 1: from the the attitude, the urgency, the play style.
21:10
Speaker 3: 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 1: who are.
21:15
Speaker 2: 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 for in pro football. And
21:24
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs, you didn't get a lot of what you
21:26
Speaker 1: were looking for from him a year ago. I don't
21:28
Speaker 1: think it was all due to him, his own talent
21:32
Speaker 1: and his own health. There was a lot in front
21:33
Speaker 1: 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 2: I agree, physical running, and I think he elevated the
21:51
Speaker 2: offense from you know, maybe more of a finesse group
21:54
Speaker 2: to a physical offensive talent group. And you know, it's
22:00
Speaker 2: just this is a pretty physical drill we're seeing right here,
22:03
Speaker 2: the offense in the red zone against the first ring defense.
22:06
Speaker 2: And I agree with you, Billy said, you made the point.
22:09
Speaker 2: You know, we saw Aaron Banks back in there at
22:12
Speaker 2: left guard. We saw you know, the entire complement of
22:16
Speaker 2: the line. Jacob Monk's going to be the right guard. Okay,
22:18
Speaker 2: that's pretty much, and obviously Morgan at left tackle. There
22:23
Speaker 2: was some concern last week, at least from my standpoint,
22:27
Speaker 2: from the media standpoint, from the observers standpoint, that hey,
22:30
Speaker 2: you know, you got to get an offensive line out
22:32
Speaker 2: there and get him together, get him working together, and
22:34
Speaker 2: 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 2: Wayne, Yeah, no doubt. And you know, Bill, when you
22:53
Speaker 2: look at this little draft they had, it was with
22:55
Speaker 2: the smallest draft class. Good He's ever had one of
22:58
Speaker 2: the smallest draft classes in Packer's history. But nonetheless they
23:02
Speaker 2: may be getting some players who can help immediately out
23:05
Speaker 2: of this. Obviously the kicker, then you've got the defensive tackle,
23:08
Speaker 2: Chris McClellan. We talked about Cisay, the cornerback. Hey, if
23:12
Speaker 2: those guys step up in our major players for you,
23:15
Speaker 2: that's a heck of a draft.
23:16
Speaker 3: 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 Denis Sutton. Oh, he hasn't really gotten his
23:24
Speaker 1: feet wet. It does feel like this could be a
23:27
Speaker 1: hopefully very fruitful one because they definitely need one. As
23:30
Speaker 1: Jordan Love flushes himself out of the pocket and just
23:33
Speaker 1: dumps it quickly off to Jayden Reid because he was
23:35
Speaker 1: getting tracked down by number fifty five Chris McClellan, amongst
23:39
Speaker 1: a host of other defensive players rushing against that little
23:44
Speaker 1: two back formation. They went split back in the shotgun
23:47
Speaker 1: with a little bit of orbit motion, a couple of
23:49
Speaker 1: different fakes, nifty work in the backfield. Something Wayne that
23:54
Speaker 1: I mentioned to the guys earlier this morning was this
23:58
Speaker 1: is the most Jordan Love training camp has been for him, right,
24:02
Speaker 1: and not taking over for as your first year at
24:04
Speaker 1: the starter, not having the contract thing helding over for
24:08
Speaker 1: eight or nine days before that got taken care of,
24:11
Speaker 1: and last year the injury as well, this is the
24:13
Speaker 1: cleanest he's been able to be in camp getting ready
24:16
Speaker 1: for the season. I think that vodes very very well for.
24:19
Speaker 2: The young man. I agree. And he's solid and everything
24:22
Speaker 2: he does he's got great command. I think what I've
24:26
Speaker 2: seen in camp, though, Bill and we were talking to
24:28
Speaker 2: the coaches about this Friday in Denver when we had
24:31
Speaker 2: our production meeting, this has been a tough defense to
24:35
Speaker 2: work against in camp, and the offense hasn't looked great,
24:39
Speaker 2: But I think there's a reason for that. I think
24:41
Speaker 2: it's because you know the way Jonathan Gannon works his
24:44
Speaker 2: stuff in the coverages and and the blitzing and disguising
24:48
Speaker 2: the coverages, that type of thing. This has been a
24:50
Speaker 2: real chess match to watch in practice year in these
24:54
Speaker 2: ones against ones drills in training camp. It's been a
24:57
Speaker 2: real chess match for Matt Lafleur calling plays on offense
25:01
Speaker 2: 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 3: 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.
25:37
Speaker 3: He might be able to contribute. If they're running him
25:39
Speaker 3: where they were just.
25:40
Speaker 2: Now, yeah, exactly. And he's had a very good camp
25:43
Speaker 2: since returning from the injured list, and this will be
25:46
Speaker 2: a big week for him. Pierre Strong getting the football
25:48
Speaker 2: now and Tyron Hopper flashing across into the offensive backfield
25:52
Speaker 2: to make the tackle on that play to the left side.
25:55
Speaker 2: Hopper's had a very good camp too, in my opinion,
25:57
Speaker 2: kind of quiet in practice, but he showed up in
26:00
Speaker 2: the games two weeks ago in Pittsburgh, and I think
26:03
Speaker 2: he's a guy who was an abundance of athletic ability.
26:06
Speaker 2: Whether he plays in the linebacking corps depends on the
26:08
Speaker 2: health of the starters, but the fact is he's gonna
26:10
Speaker 2: show up 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 to some of them.
26:50
Speaker 2: I wonder how much we'll see it against the Cardinals.
26:53
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll see it a little bit. But I can
26:55
Speaker 2: tell you this for a fact, Jonathan Gannon has big
26:59
Speaker 2: plans 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 2: I mean the experience he brings to the party and
27:42
Speaker 2: that type of thing, and coaches like experience. You know this, Billy,
27:45
Speaker 2: You've been around the game long enough to know that
27:47
Speaker 2: if a coach has a chance is going to hes
27:50
Speaker 2: got two players. One's young and inexperienced, the other ones
27:52
Speaker 2: a veteran has experienced. They're about the same in terms
27:55
Speaker 2: of all their evaluations. Coach is going to go with
27:57
Speaker 2: the veteran. Coaches are going to go with the better,
28:00
Speaker 2: and so Tyrod Taylor's on this team, no doubt in
28:02
Speaker 2: my mind about that. I do think McCord has opened
28:05
Speaker 2: some eyes, and I do think McCord is a guy
28:07
Speaker 2: absolutely worth investing time in and 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 2: You know, you'd like to have depth all through your roster,
29:23
Speaker 2: but in today's day and age, that's not realistic. Nobody
29:26
Speaker 2: has depth at every position, but you always seem to
29:28
Speaker 2: have two or three positions groups where you have so
29:33
Speaker 2: much depth you're trying to figure out who do we keep,
29:35
Speaker 2: do we cut? You know, who can make practice squad?
29:37
Speaker 2: That kind of thing. Defensive line seems to have some
29:40
Speaker 2: 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 3: A lot of room to run that way.
29:58
Speaker 1: How do you see as Mark Perry's trying to force
30:01
Speaker 1: him his way onto the club. I don't know that
30:03
Speaker 1: there's a lot of opportunity to make the team out there,
30:06
Speaker 1: but they had some players make a lot stronger cases
30:09
Speaker 1: in Denver than they did against Drew Aller and the
30:11
Speaker 1: Steelers a.
30:11
Speaker 2: Couple of nights. You know, I agree, and I think
30:13
Speaker 2: what you're seeing with some of those guys is they
30:15
Speaker 2: probably stake their claim to the practice squad. Sure, and
30:18
Speaker 2: if somebody else picks them up, then I guess good
30:20
Speaker 2: for them. But like we said earlier, you see players
30:25
Speaker 2: get picked up, get cut, get picked up by another team,
30:27
Speaker 2: But usually it's because the other team's running almost the
30:30
Speaker 2: same system you're running, and they, you know, can fit
30:33
Speaker 2: this guy in type of thing. But I think practice
30:36
Speaker 2: squad is a big factor this week. You're gonna see
30:39
Speaker 2: a lot of guys on Friday Night that are playing
30:41
Speaker 2: for the practice squad and that are making a case
30:44
Speaker 2: to be 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 2: I think he's gonna be one of the tight ends.
31:23
Speaker 2: And you know they're gonna keep at least three probably yeah,
31:26
Speaker 2: at least right, don't you think? I mean all the
31:28
Speaker 2: double with all the twelve personnel the NFL teams run
31:31
Speaker 2: these days, you need four basically on your roster. Tough
31:35
Speaker 2: throw there into traffic. Somebody got a piece of it.
31:38
Speaker 2: Was that hadden' who got a piece of it? Or
31:41
Speaker 2: like it Hadden or could have been entering Cooper break
31:44
Speaker 2: it up for Tucker Craft.
31:46
Speaker 1: Well, I was waiting for a yell as Jordan Love
31:49
Speaker 1: doesn't hit the ground, but legs bodies go towards the
31:54
Speaker 1: leg of the quarterback. Generally that will draw some frustration
31:57
Speaker 1: from the head coach. But a good sprawl in a
31:59
Speaker 1: one on one with Lucas van Ness and Jordan Morgan
32:02
Speaker 1: where a little bit of a stalemate. However, right at
32:04
Speaker 1: the end, Jordan Morgan ends up on the turf right
32:07
Speaker 1: near Jordan Love's legs. But a good completion there and
32:10
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs back to the left of Loving 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 2: 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.
32:27
Speaker 3: If there was time to throw Matthew Golden's wide open.
32:30
Speaker 2: Matthew Golden wide open down the left sidelines, deep in
32:33
Speaker 2: the secondary. The kid just gets open every day. He
32:37
Speaker 2: is open on almost every play. He is so quick
32:41
Speaker 2: out of his cuts. The biggest improvement he's made. According
32:44
Speaker 2: to the coaches, folks, Matthew Golden runs precise routes, and
32:48
Speaker 2: when you have his speed and explosiveness, if you're running
32:51
Speaker 2: precise routes, you're gonna get open.
32:53
Speaker 3: 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
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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 2: As he could. Yeah, he did, and that was a
33:20
Speaker 2: great test. I thought. The Denver game is a great
33:23
Speaker 2: experience all the way around for the Packers, you know.
33:26
Speaker 2: And the thing that struck me was they played to
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Speaker 2: the style that Lafleur is looking for. They played fast
33:31
Speaker 2: and they played physical, and Denver is fast and physical. Okay, folks,
33:36
Speaker 2: they are as good as anybody in the league in
33:37
Speaker 2: my opinion. But you know, Green Bay held in there
33:41
Speaker 2: pretty well.
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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 2: Fit and you're trying to figure out how's he been
34:11
Speaker 2: 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 2: It was a bomb down the sidelines with Jayden Reid
34:35
Speaker 2: and Keishawn Nixon was in his hip, reached up with
34:38
Speaker 2: his left hand and batted it away. 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.
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Speaker 2: He's been challenged, that's the big thing. He really has
35:03
Speaker 2: been challenged in this camp. And you know what, these athletes,
35:07
Speaker 2: you challenge them and generally you're going to get their
35:09
Speaker 2: best performance, right. 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 challenging
35:17
Speaker 1: his career. I'm excited to see how he can play
35:19
Speaker 1: throughout the year because on the opposite side, I think
35:22
Speaker 1: Brandon Cisa raises the floor in that room, might have
35:26
Speaker 1: some more targets going towards. Yeah, keishat Nixon because I
35:29
Speaker 1: don't think, especially after that Courton Sutton tape, Cortland Sutton
35:32
Speaker 1: tape goes out there, I don't think a whole lot
35:33
Speaker 1: of people are gonna wanting to throw towards Number two.
35:36
Speaker 3: 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 2: Yeah, very interesting study. He's a great special teams coverage
36:09
Speaker 2: gay guy, you know, a great guy to have as
36:11
Speaker 2: a gunner. So, I mean he's got a role, there's
36:13
Speaker 2: no question about that. We've seen what he can do
36:16
Speaker 2: in a real game. You know, had one hundred yard
36:19
Speaker 2: receiving day on New Year's Eve in Minnesota a couple
36:22
Speaker 2: of years ago. You know, there's so many things that
36:25
Speaker 2: he can do and bring to the party, and he's
36:26
Speaker 2: such I think he's really entwined in the fabric of
36:30
Speaker 2: this team. I really do.
36:32
Speaker 1: Edrian Cooper with a beautiful what a been a TfL
36:35
Speaker 1: as he just broke right through the line and met
36:37
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lloyd in the backfield. Good matchup going on on
36:40
Speaker 1: the offensive line of Jagger Burton going up against Javon Hargrave.
36:44
Speaker 1: We haven't seen a ton of Hargrave as he has
36:47
Speaker 1: been had been working himself back from an injury. But
36:50
Speaker 1: since the pads have come on and since he's been
36:52
Speaker 1: on the field way and he made it known that
36:54
Speaker 1: he wanted to let everybody know he's still got something
36:57
Speaker 1: left in the tank, and it does appear they've got
36:59
Speaker 1: something there. Hopefully he can be here for seventeen plus
37:02
Speaker 1: games because he does feel like a little bit of
37:04
Speaker 1: a presence.
37:04
Speaker 2: He does, and you know, I think there'll be a
37:06
Speaker 2: nice rotation up front on that defensive line, Billy. They'll
37:10
Speaker 2: keep rotating those guys because they feel they have depth
37:12
Speaker 2: 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 2: Give me your analysis of the Belton situation guard back
37:41
Speaker 2: to tackle, 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.
37:48
Speaker 2: Now.
37:48
Speaker 1: He hasn't necessarily played his best ball as of yet,
37:51
Speaker 1: but Wayne, I do think that he is some of
37:54
Speaker 1: the issues he had in week number one and two.
37:58
Speaker 1: He started to find his way once again on the
38:02
Speaker 1: outside and playing left tackle his entire career much different
38:05
Speaker 1: than right tackle. But he almost looked like he was
38:08
Speaker 1: in his head a little bit after the move out
38:10
Speaker 1: to tackle and maybe gaining some more confidence.
38:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. And you know, Lafloor said a
38:15
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago, said he's probably more comfortable at tackle.
38:19
Speaker 2: He's probably better suited for that. Position than guard. And
38:24
Speaker 2: you know, I still think Anthony has a lot to
38:26
Speaker 2: learn and to Larry keeps mentioning, you know, things that
38:30
Speaker 2: come up that he said, you know, he needs to
38:32
Speaker 2: be better with his hands, better with leverage, that kind
38:35
Speaker 2: of thing, and those are factors that I think the
38:38
Speaker 2: young man is working on and once he there's talent there, Okay,
38:43
Speaker 2: this is not this guy was picked in the second round,
38:45
Speaker 2: wasn't he, And so you know there's something there to
38:49
Speaker 2: be developed, There's no question, and it's a matter of
38:52
Speaker 2: if his Anthony wanted develop I think he does. He
38:55
Speaker 2: certainly has that attitude and I think he'll be a
38:57
Speaker 2: good player for this team 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 spotcut. I agree what
39:06
Speaker 1: you mentioned that Rocket pointed out, and he's he's spot on.
39:10
Speaker 1: Those developments can happen inside or outside, right, those fundamentals
39:13
Speaker 1: you can work on either spot. And if he attacks
39:17
Speaker 1: it the same way he attacked kind of transforming his
39:19
Speaker 1: body this offseason, as he looks a lot more stealth,
39:22
Speaker 1: I would do it definitely means something to the young man.
39:25
Speaker 1: So I anticipate him to still have some better football
39:29
Speaker 1: ahead of him, But it is definitely going to be
39:30
Speaker 1: on him as the swing tackle, because Darien Kinard returns
39:34
Speaker 1: to practice this today and he played a bunch of
39:38
Speaker 1: snaps for them. He ended up being their third or
39:40
Speaker 1: their sixth offensive lineman, the guy that came in when
39:44
Speaker 1: they went tackle eligible, and that's definitely a spot that
39:47
Speaker 1: is going to have some competition, as will Sheppard catch
39:50
Speaker 1: that one across the middle? Intics a sizeable lick.
39:53
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, and this gets down to
39:55
Speaker 2: not so much coaching decision, but a goody decision in
39:58
Speaker 2: his staff. You got to and he Belton, You've invested
40:01
Speaker 2: a second round draft choice in him. If it comes
40:03
Speaker 2: down to him and Canar to be the swing tackle,
40:06
Speaker 2: 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 2: Yeah, and the chance to developed 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.
40:28
Speaker 3: He does become a really really good guard.
40:29
Speaker 1: Maybe he does become a really good tackle at some point,
40:32
Speaker 1: and you got an opportunity to have somebody waiting in
40:34
Speaker 1: the wings. Cause you know that in the offensive line,
40:38
Speaker 1: as we pointed out with Denver, they played a lot
40:40
Speaker 1: of their same guys.
40:41
Speaker 3: 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.
41:17
Speaker 3: Billing right here, Wayne.
41:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought last week was pretty physical as well,
41:21
Speaker 2: a couple of physical practices. I talked to Sean Ryan
41:24
Speaker 2: about it, you know, he was like, gosh, well, how
41:28
Speaker 2: much more are we got of this? Do we have left?
41:30
Speaker 2: You know? That kind of thing, that's where you're at,
41:32
Speaker 2: and that's the kind of fire branding you need in
41:35
Speaker 2: your football team. If especially if you want to play
41:37
Speaker 2: the way the Packers want to play, fast and physical,
41:40
Speaker 2: you have to be in condition to do that.
41:42
Speaker 1: And you gotta be in condition to play long into
41:44
Speaker 1: January and hopefully February. They got a lot more left
41:47
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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers, Wayne Larvi and Wayne for the defense.
42:28
Speaker 1: If you're calling a highlight that just ended that first
42:30
Speaker 1: two minute drill, we will have a very excited Packers
42:34
Speaker 1: Zoe Tea on the Packers Radio network because Keyshawn Nixon
42:37
Speaker 1: picks 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 3: That's as good as it can get.
42:47
Speaker 2: For that, I thought the whole drive they had, the
42:49
Speaker 2: defense got great pressure. Yeah on Jordan Love. He missed
42:52
Speaker 2: a short little swing pass out to Sky Moore because
42:56
Speaker 2: he was under pressure, and then that made a desperation
42:59
Speaker 2: toss and wonder if they were playing the final seconds
43:01
Speaker 2: of a game or whatever downfield and Keishawn made a
43:05
Speaker 2: athletic interception. The other play that happened on the particular
43:09
Speaker 2: drive was our guy Jayden Reid over the middle, beat
43:13
Speaker 2: Xavier McKinney to the football on a big catch over
43:15
Speaker 2: the middle.
43:16
Speaker 3: And a physical grab right at the top.
43:18
Speaker 1: High point. It 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 is in football. And that
43:32
Speaker 1: was old Tuscaloosa Crimson Tie, Crimson Tide on Crimson Tide
43:36
Speaker 1: crime there on Friday night. I think Xavier McKinney will
43:39
Speaker 1: be just fine. But that was a beautiful throwing can.
43:42
Speaker 2: Oh. Absolutely. And that's a tough pattern if I'm not mistaken,
43:45
Speaker 2: if I'm remembering correctly, it was kind of like a
43:48
Speaker 2: long down and in yep, so he cut back inside.
43:52
Speaker 2: That's a hard coverage for anybody to make, but a
43:54
Speaker 2: safety especially and.
43:56
Speaker 1: Especially somebody going up against that kind of speed. The
43:59
Speaker 1: Wattle possession quickness, Oh my goodness. We talk about we
44:03
Speaker 1: talk about Golden having those qualities. Well, you know this guy,
44:07
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle has done it for years. Yeah, and has
44:10
Speaker 1: done it. And you know, you almost forgot that. These
44:13
Speaker 1: Broncos went on out and traded a first round pick
44:16
Speaker 1: to get Waddle and beef up that offense that you
44:18
Speaker 1: got to see that the Packers defense go up against
44:20
Speaker 1: on Friday night.
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Speaker 3: 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 need a field goal with about fifty three
44:38
Speaker 1: seconds to go, the offense being led right now the
44:41
Speaker 1: twos by Tyrod Taylor and the offensive line with Jagger
44:45
Speaker 1: Burton lining up at center might be the number two center.
44:49
Speaker 1: If Jacob Monk's locking up that right guard job, Wayne,
44:51
Speaker 1: they got to be able.
44:52
Speaker 3: To find the young man more opportunities to maybe get
44:54
Speaker 3: on the field.
44:55
Speaker 2: If this is just my conjecture based on what I'm
44:57
Speaker 2: kind of seeing and hearing. You know, Banks is going
45:02
Speaker 2: to be, if he's healthy, the starting left guard. Okay,
45:05
Speaker 2: Monk is going to be the right guard. As you mentioned,
45:07
Speaker 2: Sean Ryan's in its center, Jagger Burton is going to
45:11
Speaker 2: be the swingman for all three positions on the interior
45:15
Speaker 2: of the offensive line. And we just talked about the
45:17
Speaker 2: tackle situation. Is it Canard, is it Belton? You know
45:20
Speaker 2: who's going to be the swing tackle there? So these
45:23
Speaker 2: are decisions that are starting to be made now 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, everyone wants to run two tight ends. Sean
45:35
Speaker 1: McVay does it and everybody immediately puts it into their playbook.
45:39
Speaker 3: 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 2: You know something about the little bit I've seen of
45:52
Speaker 2: him since he's been returned to practice from the injured list,
45:56
Speaker 2: Carrington Valentine shows up a little bit. I think he's
45:58
Speaker 2: 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.
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Speaker 2: Heat, how long a field goal is this believe sixty yards?
46:28
Speaker 2: 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.
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Speaker 2: In that net center cut as we would say in golf,
46:40
Speaker 2: wo 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 2: Make the kick. You know they were telling It's interesting
47:11
Speaker 2: because cam acor the special team's coach, was telling us
47:17
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago that it's harder to kick
47:19
Speaker 2: out here. The wind on this practice field, the rain
47:23
Speaker 2: Chki practice field is brutal on these kickers, and it's
47:27
Speaker 2: much tougher to kick here than it is in the stadium,
47:30
Speaker 2: no doubt. 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 2: There's a little guy in a white bucket cap there.
47:45
Speaker 2: We did this just kind of halfway up. I just
47:48
Speaker 2: gave the little he was hoping Matt Laflour didn't see him.
47:53
Speaker 1: He's hoping nobody sees it. Right off to that right
47:55
Speaker 1: up right, your spot on me incognito official underneath the
47:59
Speaker 1: upright for Tray magazine lines one up now from forty
48:03
Speaker 1: away on the right hash. Also the best thing is
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Speaker 1: Wayne he got tested on Friday night. Right hash left,
48:09
Speaker 1: hash down the middle all three options as the next
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Speaker 1: one beautiful snap, beautiful kick and it is.
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Speaker 2: Off left side left.
48:17
Speaker 3: Now we are getting a full indication here.
48:20
Speaker 2: Now 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 Tamofskiing Company
48:30
Speaker 1: is able to get a get a full tracker on
48:32
Speaker 1: that one. They might they might need to get the
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Speaker 1: We'll take a quick time out right after Tray Smack
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Speaker 1: ooms a forty three yarder just down the boulevard and
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Speaker 1: that wraps up our number one of Training Camp Live
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Speaker 2: All as well, Billy, you make one, make it right.
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Speaker 1: Back, get ourselves back after a swing and a miss
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Speaker 1: off to the left side, right down the pipe again
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