Latest / The Huddle / Packers Training Camp Live - 7/29/26 - Hour 1
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- 0:00Speaker 1: As the twenty twenty six season begins, the championships and
- 0:04Speaker 1: the wins and losses start on the grasp behind the
- 0:08Speaker 1: Don Hudson Center. The man that'll call all the touchdowns
- 0:11Speaker 1: and the highlights, Wayne Larrby, to my right, I'm Bill Schmid.
- 0:13Speaker 1: This is training camp live on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin
- 0:17Speaker 1: ten to seventy am and Madison nine to twenty am
- 0:20Speaker 1: and Milwaukee. Hello, YouTube X and Facebook streaming along with
- 0:23Speaker 1: us here.
- 0:24Speaker 2: I'm Billy Schmid and Wayne appreciate.
- 0:26Speaker 1: It as always, this is one of the pleasures and
- 0:29Speaker 1: joys of this job. But man, when it's the first
- 0:31Speaker 1: day of school, you get a little bit different jitters
- 0:32Speaker 1: when you come up.
- 0:33Speaker 3: Here to Yeah, you really do, don't you, Billy? I mean,
- 0:35Speaker 3: it is. It's kind of like the start of things.
- 0:37Speaker 3: So there's a lot of anticipation. There are a lot
- 0:40Speaker 3: of fans here, there's great juice in the air, so
- 0:43Speaker 3: to speak. And then so you get through this first
- 0:46Speaker 3: couple of days and then the pads come on. You're
- 0:48Speaker 3: excited about that, and then you can't wait for the
- 0:51Speaker 3: preseason games to start. And within about a quarter of
- 0:54Speaker 3: a preseason game, you say, when's the regular season going?
- 0:57Speaker 3: To get everywhere quickly? Does this get get on the
- 0:59Speaker 3: regular season?
- 1:00Speaker 1: It is a race to get going and then a
- 1:02Speaker 1: race to get done. Yeah, with preseason and it's I mean,
- 1:06Speaker 1: it's so different. We were listening to Brian goudacunzt earlier
- 1:08Speaker 1: on here today and he made mention of his first
- 1:10Speaker 1: couple of camps when there were multiple two A days
- 1:14Speaker 1: and two padded practices in a day long honor those
- 1:17Speaker 1: days where you have to be so diligent with how
- 1:20Speaker 1: much time you get on the field, and it is
- 1:22Speaker 1: a very sparing amount of time and dwindles. You know
- 1:25Speaker 1: by the year with the CBA that there's a lot
- 1:29Speaker 1: of work that has to be done. But Wayne, this
- 1:31Speaker 1: is like syllabus week in school where you can get
- 1:34Speaker 1: a couple of things done, but really you're showing up
- 1:36Speaker 1: making sure everybody's checking a couple of physical boxes.
- 1:39Speaker 2: Then the real work will start.
- 1:41Speaker 3: This is the ramp up Period Bill. It's something that
- 1:43Speaker 3: came about or the Collective Bargaining Agreement, I believe of
- 1:46Speaker 3: twenty eleven, if I'm not mistaken, when we started to
- 1:49Speaker 3: see major change in training camp and the way teams
- 1:52Speaker 3: go about their business because of you know what was
- 1:56Speaker 3: negotiated in the collective bargaining agreement. So this is a
- 1:59Speaker 3: ramp up here what we're seeing out here today for
- 2:01Speaker 3: those who aren't here, and I assume if you're listening,
- 2:04Speaker 3: you're not here.
- 2:05Speaker 1: So now there might be some here gonna say, there
- 2:08Speaker 1: might be some earbuds. There's some here on the perche
- 2:10Speaker 1: that get to listen.
- 2:11Speaker 3: But at any rate, the guys are in helmets, in
- 2:14Speaker 3: jerseys and shorts. It's the ramp up period of training camp.
- 2:19Speaker 3: And this is a lot of what we saw at
- 2:21Speaker 3: OTA's in Mini camp all spring. Now next week, when
- 2:24Speaker 3: the pads come on, that's when it really begins.
- 2:26Speaker 1: And you got to see a lot of that at
- 2:27Speaker 1: OTAs in Mini Camp Wayne, And something that felt like
- 2:30Speaker 1: a bit of a common theme from that was the
- 2:34Speaker 1: little bit of newness that you kind of almost forget.
- 2:37Speaker 1: The Packers have new defensive coordinator, new special teams coordinator. Yeah,
- 2:41Speaker 1: you're only gonna be able to see a lot of
- 2:43Speaker 1: the defensive changes that Jonathan Gannon is gonna bring. But
- 2:47Speaker 1: the alignment assignment is one thing you can see in shorts,
- 2:50Speaker 1: and it feels like they're gonna be quite different and
- 2:53Speaker 1: a little bit varied. In how they line up coming
- 2:55Speaker 1: up this year.
- 2:56Speaker 3: I think you're right, Billy, and when your base is
- 2:58Speaker 3: three four, you're usually a little more you know what
- 3:00Speaker 3: I mean. And what you do with those outside linebackers
- 3:03Speaker 3: we today call them edge rushers. That's a little different
- 3:06Speaker 3: maybe than it would be in a straight four to three,
- 3:09Speaker 3: But nonetheless, Jonathan Gannon's known for creativity plays disguises the
- 3:16Speaker 3: zone defense as he runs really well. At least that's
- 3:19Speaker 3: what we saw when he was in Philadelphia, that's what
- 3:21Speaker 3: we saw in Arizona. I think this is going to
- 3:24Speaker 3: be interesting. I think his defense is going to be
- 3:27Speaker 3: good for the personnel they have. This is not like
- 3:30Speaker 3: Dom Caper's in two thousand and nine coming in and
- 3:33Speaker 3: changing a four to three stacked four to three defense
- 3:36Speaker 3: into a three four, And the way defenses are run
- 3:40Speaker 3: and the way the game is played today much different
- 3:43Speaker 3: from them from that time. But so I think regardless
- 3:48Speaker 3: of whether you play four to three or three four
- 3:49Speaker 3: as your base, you play it very little. You play
- 3:53Speaker 3: a lot of variations off of.
- 3:54Speaker 1: That, and you have so many different I like how
- 3:57Speaker 1: you mentioned it, the players they have in house.
- 4:00Speaker 2: You can only flip over a roster so much.
- 4:02Speaker 1: Right, and a team that was at one point last
- 4:05Speaker 1: year before you end the game on a five game
- 4:07Speaker 1: l streak, you were in position to hold the number
- 4:10Speaker 1: one overall seed. You don't have a ton of spots,
- 4:13Speaker 1: but you need to get an infusion.
- 4:15Speaker 2: Of talent mix them around.
- 4:16Speaker 1: I think the quantity of players they have in the
- 4:20Speaker 1: outside linebacker, edge rusher, inside linebackers who might be able
- 4:25Speaker 1: to rush. I'm looking at you, Edrin Cooper and maybe
- 4:27Speaker 1: Tyron Hopper. Yeah, they have a lot of bodies that
- 4:30Speaker 1: he could play around with, and it might be a
- 4:33Speaker 1: lot different personnel packages than just traditionally speaking.
- 4:36Speaker 3: I think so. And I think one of the subtle
- 4:38Speaker 3: keys to what they're going to be able to do defensively, Billy,
- 4:41Speaker 3: is that you're Franklin in the middle of that defense. Okay,
- 4:44Speaker 3: here's the guy who's going to have the green dot,
- 4:46Speaker 3: which means he'll communicate the defense and Gannon sends in
- 4:49Speaker 3: from the sidelines, folks, He'll be the communicator on that
- 4:52Speaker 3: second level. And I think the difference between he and
- 4:55Speaker 3: quay walker Zay or Franklin's not the flat out athlete,
- 5:00Speaker 3: the running type of athlete. The quay walker is totally
- 5:04Speaker 3: but What he brings is a certain amount of football
- 5:07Speaker 3: intelligence and instinct to that position that maybe Quay didn't
- 5:12Speaker 3: have quite as much of in abundance. Quays very good player,
- 5:15Speaker 3: is a great player for the Packers here for many years.
- 5:18Speaker 3: But I think when you bring in Franklin now, you
- 5:21Speaker 3: probably free up Cooper to not just you know, I
- 5:25Speaker 3: think a lot. Jeff Hafley last year used Cooper a
- 5:27Speaker 3: lot in coverage. Why because he was probably their best
- 5:29Speaker 3: coverage linebacker, you know, from an athletic standpoint, and he
- 5:32Speaker 3: covered better than Kway Walker did. But I loved the
- 5:35Speaker 3: combination of Cooper and Walker on the inside of that defense.
- 5:39Speaker 3: They were very good tacklers. They were one of the
- 5:40Speaker 3: reasons why the Packers were the best tackling defense in football,
- 5:44Speaker 3: and before the bottom fell out late in the season,
- 5:47Speaker 3: they were also a very good run defense because of
- 5:49Speaker 3: the lateral speed people could not get around the end
- 5:52Speaker 3: against those linebackers. Now, Franklin brings a lot of know
- 5:55Speaker 3: how savvy and that's what makes up for his ute
- 6:00Speaker 3: unquote lack of speed in comparative terms with Kway Walker.
- 6:03Speaker 1: And it's something that feels a little bit different, you know,
- 6:07Speaker 1: in a contrast to how they've built the team over
- 6:09Speaker 1: the last couple of years. One of the main things
- 6:10Speaker 1: we've talked about is this team's gonna have to grow
- 6:12Speaker 1: up quick.
- 6:13Speaker 3: Right.
- 6:13Speaker 1: The last couple of years, it's been the youngest team
- 6:16Speaker 1: in football. This year, in contrary, they went and added
- 6:20Speaker 1: three guys that are on their third contracts now Benjamin
- 6:23Speaker 1: Saint Juice with his third team and Javon Hargrave into
- 6:27Speaker 1: his thirties. Franklin going with his second team. But he's
- 6:30Speaker 1: been highly lauded in Indianapolis, and it feels like that
- 6:34Speaker 1: veteran leadership Wayne one thing that we all understand and know,
- 6:38Speaker 1: and they've talked about enough whenever a microphone's been in
- 6:41Speaker 1: front early and I think we'll hear it a lot
- 6:42Speaker 1: when the players starts talking. Is needing to close games better.
- 6:45Speaker 1: And I wonder how much the veteran presence is one
- 6:49Speaker 1: of the ways they're trying to band aid or cure something.
- 6:52Speaker 3: Certain amount of I guess know how you know what
- 6:56Speaker 3: I mean? Yeah, And it was a very young team.
- 6:58Speaker 3: And then when they suffered injuries, and again, folks, it's
- 7:01Speaker 3: not the number of injuries they had, it is who
- 7:04Speaker 3: got injured. And you could argue that five of their
- 7:07Speaker 3: top eight players were injured at the end of last year.
- 7:09Speaker 3: Gone Okay, start with Micah Parsons, Tucker Kraft, the people
- 7:15Speaker 3: forget Zach Tom didn't play after Denver Devonte Wyatt, who
- 7:19Speaker 3: was a huge key in the middle of that defense.
- 7:21Speaker 3: You know, there are a number of guys they were
- 7:23Speaker 3: missing at the end of last year that really had
- 7:26Speaker 3: an impact on what they were able to do. But
- 7:29Speaker 3: I do think the additions they made in free agency,
- 7:32Speaker 3: the three players you mentioned, Billy, they were brought here
- 7:35Speaker 3: not only because they're good players, but because they have experience,
- 7:39Speaker 3: they have know how they can add to this group
- 7:41Speaker 3: in those intangible areas that hopefully will make a difference
- 7:45Speaker 3: late in games.
- 7:45Speaker 1: And they've also really let these guys grow together. I
- 7:48Speaker 1: know Brian made mention of that in his opening press
- 7:51Speaker 1: conference earlier on today talking about the offensive players right
- 7:53Speaker 1: all growing in now year four with Jordan Lovey and
- 7:57Speaker 1: the starting quarterback. But you really look around the entire roster,
- 8:00Speaker 1: there are a lot of young players who are now
- 8:02Speaker 1: even some of the unknown quantities in that linebacker room.
- 8:05Speaker 1: I'm thinking of like a Baron. Brenton Cox has been
- 8:08Speaker 1: here now for three years, he had a couple of
- 8:09Speaker 1: red shirt years. Feels like the roster flip from the
- 8:15Speaker 1: twenty twenty one team that ended up They arguably were
- 8:18Speaker 1: the best team in football until that Saturday night here
- 8:21Speaker 1: in January when you couldn't do anything offensively after the
- 8:24Speaker 1: Mercedes Lewis fumble.
- 8:26Speaker 2: That flip has happened, and now it.
- 8:29Speaker 1: Is building off almost completely different or completely different core
- 8:33Speaker 1: of Green Bay Packers.
- 8:34Speaker 3: Thissk is year four now. Since then, and I think
- 8:37Speaker 3: that Brian Goode Kunz has rebuilt this roster. I thought
- 8:40Speaker 3: last year, and I remember saying this to you two
- 8:42Speaker 3: years ago on the air. We were talking about I
- 8:44Speaker 3: thought the year three of this would be when the
- 8:46Speaker 3: Packers would be they have their deepest team and a
- 8:49Speaker 3: team ready to go and compete for the championship. Obviously
- 8:53Speaker 3: they had a team that maybe wasn't as deep as
- 8:57Speaker 3: they had hoped. But the big factor that we just
- 8:59Speaker 3: talked about a minute ago was the Nohow factor. And
- 9:02Speaker 3: that's the thing we didn't anticipate. They were so young
- 9:06Speaker 3: and so they were relatively inexperienced in terms of closing
- 9:10Speaker 3: out games in the end, and that cost them last year.
- 9:13Speaker 3: But make no bones about it, folks. This team was
- 9:17Speaker 3: despite the loss of Tucker Craft in what early November,
- 9:20Speaker 3: DeVante Wyatt. On Thanksgiving Day, they went to Denver coming
- 9:24Speaker 3: off a win over the Bears at nine to three
- 9:26Speaker 3: to one, and very easily could have had eleven wins.
- 9:29Speaker 3: That lost at Cleveland, that tie at Dallas should have
- 9:32Speaker 3: and could have gone different ways. And had they they
- 9:35Speaker 3: have eleven wins and going into that game. So this
- 9:38Speaker 3: was a very good football team. And I think Brian
- 9:40Speaker 3: goodakunz By, you know, people say, well, you brought too
- 9:43Speaker 3: many people, but no, I think he realizes, no, this
- 9:46Speaker 3: is a good core. Now do we need a little more. Yeah,
- 9:50Speaker 3: And they added a little more in free agency, they
- 9:52Speaker 3: added more in the draft, and now let's see where
- 9:54Speaker 3: they go and hopefully these guys who've been part of
- 9:56Speaker 3: the youngest team of the league for three years are
- 9:58Speaker 3: ready to be veteran.
- 10:00Speaker 1: And I also think Wayne where where they had such
- 10:02Speaker 1: a group of depth that you know, sometimes a great
- 10:06Speaker 1: collection can be tough when you don't have one standout
- 10:08Speaker 1: and when you're trying to showcase everything in your collection.
- 10:12Speaker 1: You got a points to one, two or three things,
- 10:14Speaker 1: and that'll grab the eye of a collector and fans,
- 10:16Speaker 1: and I think especially on the offensive side, you saw
- 10:19Speaker 1: this year they make the they made the selections as
- 10:24Speaker 1: to who those guys are. On Draft night, day number two,
- 10:26Speaker 1: while you and I were doing the show, they signed
- 10:28Speaker 1: Jayden reed to the three year contract. They sign Christian
- 10:31Speaker 1: Watson a couple of months later to his new extension,
- 10:34Speaker 1: and they soon will mint Tucker Craft. I would assume
- 10:37Speaker 1: he becomes the highest Bay tight end in football before
- 10:40Speaker 1: he comes off that pupp list and is able to
- 10:42Speaker 1: hit the practice field here, and that is as great
- 10:46Speaker 1: as you know what Dantavian Wicks was at times. And
- 10:48Speaker 1: Romeo Dobbs played a lot of good football for this
- 10:51Speaker 1: team and seven hundred pet last year, six touchdowns, and
- 10:54Speaker 1: he was big in the red zone.
- 10:56Speaker 2: There were a lot of mouths to feed.
- 10:58Speaker 1: And then last year it felt like every everybody was
- 11:00Speaker 1: upset that mel Matthew Golden didn't get a lot of touches.
- 11:03Speaker 1: They almost consolidated, where maybe some of that consolidation can
- 11:08Speaker 1: lead to bigger growth than what you had seen in
- 11:10Speaker 1: some of.
- 11:10Speaker 3: These guys, and people are worried, well, what about the
- 11:12Speaker 3: depth beyond the big three and that receiving core well,
- 11:16Speaker 3: you know, save Jon Williams was drafted for a reason
- 11:18Speaker 3: where he's drafted, you know, and they've got a lot
- 11:21Speaker 3: of guys this j Michael Sturdivan that not many people
- 11:24Speaker 3: have heard about. This is a kid who kind of
- 11:25Speaker 3: stood out in the OTAs in mini camp and with
- 11:28Speaker 3: receivers and cornerbacks that coverage people on the perimeter. You
- 11:32Speaker 3: can see some things in those you know, big throws
- 11:36Speaker 3: in those practices like what we're seeing here today on
- 11:39Speaker 3: the perimeter. What you can't see is how well in
- 11:41Speaker 3: the linebacker tackles, how well in offensive linemen blocks that
- 11:45Speaker 3: kind of thing. You don't see that then. But you
- 11:47Speaker 3: see the perimeter people. You see the receivers run, You
- 11:50Speaker 3: see the cornerbacks cover, you see the safeties. You could
- 11:53Speaker 3: see the running backs even to an extento, though not
- 11:55Speaker 3: quite as much, but you could see a lot. And
- 11:58Speaker 3: you know, that's the one thing. The stirred event is
- 12:01Speaker 3: one guy. And the other guy is Isaiah Nayer who
- 12:04Speaker 3: they signed last season. He was on the practice squad.
- 12:06Speaker 3: He played in that game at Minnesota, the meaningless end
- 12:08Speaker 3: of the regular season game. Those are guys to kind
- 12:11Speaker 3: of look at, uh that could make a run at
- 12:14Speaker 3: making this roster.
- 12:16Speaker 1: The Packers have been one of the longest running teams
- 12:19Speaker 1: in terms of keeping undrafted rookies right, and they find
- 12:22Speaker 1: ways for those guys to be on the field. Starnament
- 12:25Speaker 1: would fit that mold and looking at him right now
- 12:28Speaker 1: in that eighty seven jersey, he definitely fits the part
- 12:30Speaker 1: now from coming from Florida, he fills it out quite
- 12:34Speaker 1: a bit. And we will also have talking text line
- 12:36Speaker 1: messages eight seven seven seven nine seven three on the
- 12:39Speaker 1: Nick lay Low dot Com talking text line will be
- 12:42Speaker 1: enjoying and relaying a number of the things that are
- 12:45Speaker 1: happening here at Raynichki Field as the Packers get ready
- 12:48Speaker 1: for practice number one, running through some different UH individual
- 12:52Speaker 1: special teams drills in front of us. Now roll through
- 12:55Speaker 1: for a team period coming up here. In one quick second,
- 12:59Speaker 1: you mentioned the running room in the offensive line that
- 13:02Speaker 1: that will happen next week when we really get into pads. Yeah, Wayne,
- 13:04Speaker 1: Monday and Tuesday, I am itching and I cannot wait
- 13:08Speaker 1: for those days in pads to figure out if that
- 13:11Speaker 1: group they were consistently inconsistent the year ago, and some
- 13:16Speaker 1: of the inconsistencies were the players that were in and out.
- 13:19Speaker 1: I mean I remember a game in Arizona where Sean
- 13:22Speaker 1: Ryan was mentioning after the game that he's like, well,
- 13:25Speaker 1: I'm getting benched here in a contract here, probably gonna
- 13:28Speaker 1: be gone, probably gonna have to go somewhere else. Then
- 13:30Speaker 1: all of a sudden he starts the last six games
- 13:32Speaker 1: for you at center and gets a three year contract.
- 13:35Speaker 1: They I think they have some players there, and especially
- 13:38Speaker 1: Jordan Morgan in particular Wayne Now taking over left tackle
- 13:42Speaker 1: for Rashid Walker, that they're excited about. But the proof
- 13:45Speaker 1: is gonna have to be in the games for I
- 13:47Speaker 1: think fans to really get excited about a group that
- 13:50Speaker 1: otherwise feels pretty similar to a one last year that
- 13:54Speaker 1: was really up and down and at times was good,
- 13:58Speaker 1: but at times just made Josh Jacobs life way too difficult.
- 14:01Speaker 3: You're right, and the one I think the risk here
- 14:07Speaker 3: is that if you bring back this line in tact
- 14:10Speaker 3: now again, at the end of last year, you did
- 14:12Speaker 3: not have Zach Tom, Jordan Morgan was not starting. At
- 14:14Speaker 3: the end of last year, Rashid Walker was at left tackle.
- 14:18Speaker 3: Aaron Banks had come on and played a little better
- 14:21Speaker 3: in the second half of the season.
- 14:23Speaker 4: All right, folks, Armon Sorring here bear with us having
- 14:25Speaker 4: some technical issues from the perch at rain Ishki Field.
- 14:28Speaker 2: Right now we're gonna go over to here.
- 14:31Speaker 4: Listen to Packers Jim Brian Goodakuns as he joined the
- 14:33Speaker 4: podium today for the opening and training camp.
- 14:37Speaker 5: Hope everybody had a good summer. As we start here,
- 14:39Speaker 5: I just kind of want to take a minute. I
- 14:41Speaker 5: thought some prayers going out to everybody in the Fox
- 14:43Speaker 5: Cities with that tornado going through there. You know, we
- 14:46Speaker 5: have obviously a lot of friends. My kids go to
- 14:48Speaker 5: school down there, so I know they're going through a lot,
- 14:50Speaker 5: so you know, prayers for them without takes some questions.
- 14:56Speaker 3: All good.
- 15:00Speaker 1: Like today, but you.
- 15:01Speaker 5: Had the same offensive line and seventeen when you start champ,
- 15:08Speaker 5: I think good. I'm not trying to remember who started
- 15:10Speaker 5: in week seventeen. But now I like our group, you know,
- 15:13Speaker 5: I like the depth of it. I think we'll get
- 15:15Speaker 5: Aaron Banks back out there today. He'll do some stuff
- 15:18Speaker 5: so we'll come off pup which is good. And yeah, no,
- 15:21Speaker 5: I mean I really like that group. I've always talked
- 15:24Speaker 5: about the versatility that group. I think we've got some
- 15:26Speaker 5: guys in places this year that make a little bit
- 15:28Speaker 5: more sense, and I think you know, that continuity. Hopefully
- 15:31Speaker 5: we can stay healthy, we'll benefit us moving forward.
- 15:35Speaker 3: I think you said in the.
- 15:36Speaker 4: Season, last preseason, in that job.
- 15:42Speaker 1: Kind of now that.
- 15:43Speaker 5: He's there, he had a great spring. I mean we're
- 15:47Speaker 5: going into practice one, you know, so we got a
- 15:49Speaker 5: lot of work to do as a team. So but
- 15:51Speaker 5: I got a lot of confidence in him. You know,
- 15:53Speaker 5: I think hopefully keeping him in that one spot, you know,
- 15:56Speaker 5: allow allow him to progress a little bit quicker. But uh,
- 15:59Speaker 5: he had a great bring. So we're excited about them.
- 16:02Speaker 5: With obviously you're not what do you want? Yeah, you
- 16:15Speaker 5: know they were there were a lot of those guys
- 16:17Speaker 5: are some really good things to spring, but we're not
- 16:19Speaker 5: in pads right, so you know, it's always tough to
- 16:22Speaker 5: to try to evaluate those guys when they're not in
- 16:24Speaker 5: pads too much. So as the pads come on, as
- 16:26Speaker 5: we get in the physical part of a day, just
- 16:28Speaker 5: the consistency, you know, kind of went in with bulrushes,
- 16:31Speaker 5: kind of went in with power. But I'm I'm I'm
- 16:34Speaker 5: pretty bullish on that group. I think it's a you know,
- 16:37Speaker 5: there's enough guys in there, there's going to create some
- 16:38Speaker 5: pretty good competition. And so yeah, I'm I'm excited. You
- 16:43Speaker 5: We've we've put some resources into that over the last
- 16:45Speaker 5: couple of drafts, you know, so we've got some young
- 16:47Speaker 5: guys that I think are eager to for their opportunities
- 16:50Speaker 5: and yeah, excited to see what they're gonna be able
- 16:52Speaker 5: to do this year.
- 16:53Speaker 1: Your time in Green Bay, not just how much is
- 16:56Speaker 1: this time of year changed for forty six days.
- 16:58Speaker 5: Until the first real game, But as we all know,
- 17:01Speaker 5: sometimes those first few weeks of real football are still Yeah, yeah,
- 17:07Speaker 5: it's really changed from when I first started. A lot
- 17:09Speaker 5: of you guys were you know back there back then too,
- 17:11Speaker 5: where we had the two practices a day. Sometimes we
- 17:13Speaker 5: have two padded days, you know, we'd have one in
- 17:16Speaker 5: the morning, we come back, watch a film, eat launch,
- 17:19Speaker 5: and get ready for the second practice. Come back that night,
- 17:21Speaker 5: watch a film. We had We had less I think
- 17:25Speaker 5: we're at an eighty man roster at that time. You know,
- 17:27Speaker 5: we had smaller practice squads as we went into cut down,
- 17:30Speaker 5: so it was it was a lot different. You know,
- 17:34Speaker 5: I'm the longer I do this more. I just keep
- 17:36Speaker 5: reminding myself of Ted, you know, as far as like
- 17:39Speaker 5: just getting with injuries, just trying to get through it healthy,
- 17:42Speaker 5: but uh, at the same time understanding what you have
- 17:44Speaker 5: to do to become a good football team and how
- 17:46Speaker 5: important this time of year is. So it's changed quite
- 17:49Speaker 5: a bit, I think certainly, you know, science and technology
- 17:54Speaker 5: have changed some things about how we go things. Obviously,
- 17:56Speaker 5: the CBA rules have changed some things about how we
- 17:59Speaker 5: how we go about a bit. The end of the day,
- 18:01Speaker 5: there's still there's so much value in this time of
- 18:05Speaker 5: years coming together as a team, and it's extremely important.
- 18:10Speaker 5: It really sets the tone for the entire season.
- 18:13Speaker 3: What's your hold photoger Craft And I know he keeps
- 18:15Speaker 3: saying like he wants to be ready to.
- 18:16Speaker 5: Me one possibility, Yeah, very much possibility. In fact, I
- 18:21Speaker 5: you know, anticipate again him being out there sooner rather
- 18:25Speaker 5: than later. The more work he can get with Jordan,
- 18:28Speaker 5: particularly even when he maybe he's not ready for the
- 18:30Speaker 5: team part of it, the more individual work he can
- 18:32Speaker 5: get done with Jordan is going to be important for
- 18:34Speaker 5: him as he is he heads into end of the season.
- 18:36Speaker 5: So we've had a lot of discussions about that and
- 18:39Speaker 5: the timing of that, and you know, obviously we want
- 18:42Speaker 5: to be protective. He's coming off of major injury and
- 18:44Speaker 5: he said, you know, he's still about that eight and
- 18:46Speaker 5: a half month mark, but by the way he looks,
- 18:50Speaker 5: you think he'd ready. He's ready to go, because when
- 18:52Speaker 5: you see him out there, it's a little bit like
- 18:53Speaker 5: Christian you know, those guys just you know, they look
- 18:56Speaker 5: really really good early, but there's a lot of science
- 18:59Speaker 5: behind them. Nine month mark, and so we'll be very
- 19:01Speaker 5: cautious as we head into it.
- 19:03Speaker 2: Ury and extension before the season.
- 19:07Speaker 5: Yeah, there's been discussions and certainly I think it's all
- 19:11Speaker 5: both us and him. It's the best interest to trying
- 19:13Speaker 5: to get something done. But these sings take time, and
- 19:15Speaker 5: you know, we've gone through a bunch of this. This,
- 19:17Speaker 5: this a bunch of extensions this summer, kind of knowing
- 19:20Speaker 5: this was going to be the one. Right about now,
- 19:22Speaker 5: we have a little bit of time because he's just
- 19:23Speaker 5: not there yet. But I would expect hopefully that would
- 19:26Speaker 5: get done. But you never know how that you know,
- 19:29Speaker 5: you never know how they're gonna go.
- 19:30Speaker 3: You what's your confidence that you got some who can
- 19:34Speaker 3: fill that. John Fitzpatrick blocking Physicality in Roll.
- 19:38Speaker 5: Yeah, I think Josh did a really nice job for
- 19:41Speaker 5: us and the opportunities he had last year, and we
- 19:44Speaker 5: you know, I think, you know, I think certainly when
- 19:47Speaker 5: Tuck gets back, he's going.
- 19:48Speaker 3: To handle a lot of that.
- 19:50Speaker 5: You know, Luke's dealing with something right now that was
- 19:52Speaker 5: a little bit unexpected as we had it outside of
- 19:54Speaker 5: O t As, So we'll kind of see how that goes.
- 19:56Speaker 5: But there's a concern there from a death perspective, just
- 19:58Speaker 5: because we don't have a lot of guys played a
- 20:00Speaker 5: lot of football there. So we'll kind of see, you know,
- 20:04Speaker 5: as as training camp transpires, if we decide to do
- 20:06Speaker 5: something there or not. He's like, yeah, yeah, I think
- 20:12Speaker 5: you know, I may have mentioned it before, but you know,
- 20:15Speaker 5: he's a little bit of a genetic freak, so things
- 20:17Speaker 5: come pretty easy to him. And again he's still obviously
- 20:20Speaker 5: got a long ways to go, but uh, and again,
- 20:24Speaker 5: these are major injuries, so as you go through these
- 20:26Speaker 5: things and how hard they have to work to get back,
- 20:30Speaker 5: you know, there's always gonna be a little setbacks here
- 20:32Speaker 5: and there. But he's doing great right now with his recovery.
- 20:35Speaker 5: Where you are leaving the door open that sometime in
- 20:39Speaker 5: camp where you kind of, yeah, I wouldn't. I think
- 20:43Speaker 5: I'd like to have enough flexibility to leave leave the
- 20:46Speaker 5: door open, but that would be unlikely just from a
- 20:48Speaker 5: timing perspective. We've invested a lot in him, so I
- 20:51Speaker 5: think we want to make sure that, you know, he's
- 20:53Speaker 5: he's ready to go before we even think about puttinghim
- 20:55Speaker 5: out there usual during the agency, yeah circumstances, Yeah, ton,
- 21:09Speaker 5: I think that's a good question. I think you guys
- 21:11Speaker 5: kind of probably, you know, over the last year and
- 21:12Speaker 5: a half or so, you know, we had some pretty
- 21:15Speaker 5: good draft classes in there where a lot of these
- 21:17Speaker 5: guys really produced, and we had to make some decisions,
- 21:20Speaker 5: and as we did that, I think we decided, you know,
- 21:21Speaker 5: obviously with the decisions we made, we wanted to lock
- 21:23Speaker 5: these guys up early and let these guys grow together,
- 21:26Speaker 5: particularly you know, on the offensive side of the ball,
- 21:28Speaker 5: with Christian and Jaden obviously Jordan. Hopefully we can get
- 21:32Speaker 5: Tucker done. You know, Matthew is going to be here.
- 21:34Speaker 5: He's under contract obviously for a few years. So if
- 21:36Speaker 5: those guys can grow together, we think that's a really
- 21:38Speaker 5: positive thing, the continuity of that. So I think we
- 21:42Speaker 5: kind of went down the road this summer thinking this
- 21:45Speaker 5: was what we wanted to do. You never know how
- 21:46Speaker 5: that's going to go, and certainly. I think when you
- 21:49Speaker 5: when you do it a year early, that puts a
- 21:51Speaker 5: little bit of risk on the club, you know, and
- 21:52Speaker 5: if you play it out to put it a little
- 21:54Speaker 5: bit risk on the player. So I think, you know,
- 21:57Speaker 5: but I think all these deals were were good for both.
- 22:02Speaker 2: That is Brian Goodakoons.
- 22:03Speaker 1: This is Training Camp Lie presented by the Potawatamie Sportsbook
- 22:06Speaker 1: Bet Big, Bet Bold and Bet above the rest. I'm
- 22:08Speaker 1: Bill Schmid, voice of the Green Bay Packers. Wayne Lairvie
- 22:11Speaker 1: with us here on the perch at Raynichki Field and
- 22:14Speaker 1: Wayne as we're hearing some Brian Goodacoons.
- 22:17Speaker 2: Then taking a quick time out, we.
- 22:19Speaker 1: Got to see Tyrod Taylor to Rod Taylor pardon me,
- 22:21Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield to Rod Taylor, number six working out for
- 22:24Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers.
- 22:25Speaker 3: Either way that the quarterbas pronunciation has changed again. I've
- 22:28Speaker 3: been told emphatically by Packers br that is Tyrod Taylor perfect.
- 22:33Speaker 2: Okay, because there was a.
- 22:34Speaker 3: Point, You're right, Billy, where at one point during this
- 22:36Speaker 3: offseason it was to Rod Taylor. Yeah, but it's Tyrod.
- 22:39Speaker 3: That's what he wants perfect.
- 22:40Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor is a quarterback, and I wanted Tyrod Taylor.
- 22:44Speaker 2: I did to back up quarterback.
- 22:45Speaker 3: That's how I've always known him for sixteen years. And Wayne.
- 22:47Speaker 1: The other thing is there there's something to having a
- 22:51Speaker 1: seasoned veteran quarterback that can yes, win you a couple
- 22:55Speaker 1: of games. The Packers have had somebody they feel very
- 22:57Speaker 1: confident in the last couple of years. Malik Willis is
- 23:00Speaker 1: now the starting quarterback in the Miami Dolphins. He had
- 23:01Speaker 1: to find someone and hard to find anybody with more
- 23:05Speaker 1: experience in the NFL than Tyrod Taylor.
- 23:08Speaker 3: Yeah, no question. You know, I feel good about it.
- 23:11Speaker 3: And I think that Goody invested in this position in
- 23:14Speaker 3: a veteran. Okay, And when you see a general manager
- 23:17Speaker 3: do that, it's because he thinks he's got a team
- 23:20Speaker 3: that's worth having. That insurance policy for now, was Tyrod
- 23:24Speaker 3: Taylor paid a huge amount of money. No, but they
- 23:27Speaker 3: brought in a sixteen year veteran instead of just saying, well,
- 23:31Speaker 3: we'll go with one of the young guys we've got you,
- 23:33Speaker 3: We'll just know this team has a chance to win.
- 23:36Speaker 3: If something happens to Jordan and he's out for a
- 23:38Speaker 3: game or two, we need somebody who can hold the fort.
- 23:40Speaker 1: And too good to let in all due respect to
- 23:42Speaker 1: Kyle McCord and his family, putting Kyle McCord out there
- 23:45Speaker 1: just too close and having too many opportunities. And for
- 23:49Speaker 1: Jordan Love, I mean, I think we're a little bit
- 23:52Speaker 1: past Wayne. Every single throw in series and drive being
- 23:57Speaker 1: a damnation on Jordan's all time a bill as a
- 24:00Speaker 1: starting quarterback. But I don't know that he's had the
- 24:03Speaker 1: weapon of somebody with that kind of game experience on
- 24:07Speaker 1: the sideline since he's been the starter. Yeah, like he
- 24:09Speaker 1: got to hear everything possible that was going through the
- 24:11Speaker 1: head of Aaron Rodgers when he was the backup. But
- 24:14Speaker 1: now that he has somebody who has that kind of
- 24:17Speaker 1: experience and those pelts on the wall in his ear,
- 24:20Speaker 1: I think that can.
- 24:21Speaker 2: Only be a positive for somebody.
- 24:23Speaker 3: I agree wholeheartedly with you, Billy. That's gonna help a lot,
- 24:28Speaker 3: not only Jordan Love, who's now seasoned. I mean, he's
- 24:31Speaker 3: going into his fourth year as a starter, seventh year
- 24:33Speaker 3: overall in the league, I believe. But now you've got
- 24:37Speaker 3: a guy, like you said, who can relate in that
- 24:39Speaker 3: quarterback room. It's not so much what's going to happen
- 24:42Speaker 3: on the sidelines game day, folks, Although there certainly could
- 24:45Speaker 3: be a positive impact there, but I think it's during
- 24:48Speaker 3: the week as they plan the game plan that kind
- 24:52Speaker 3: of thing, practice, working out how they're going to approach something.
- 24:56Speaker 3: There's a lot that a backup quarterback of experience can
- 24:59Speaker 3: bring to the party.
- 25:00Speaker 1: One person that is not at the party well here,
- 25:03Speaker 1: just currently not on the field party is Keishawn Nixon.
- 25:07Speaker 1: Matt Schneidman of the Athletic Reporting, Rookie second round pick
- 25:11Speaker 1: Brandon cis already getting his chance with the starting defense.
- 25:14Speaker 1: Keishaw Nixon out with a hamstring injury and appears the
- 25:17Speaker 1: Packers are easing Benjamin Saint just in after he missed
- 25:20Speaker 1: practice this offseason. Now, I don't know for certain of
- 25:25Speaker 1: the Saint Juice situation, but it feels like Cisea is
- 25:29Speaker 1: maybe a tick above those other the other guys in
- 25:31Speaker 1: that grouping and that if he's getting any opportunities to
- 25:35Speaker 1: be with the ones, that is a huge win for
- 25:37Speaker 1: the second round rookie.
- 25:38Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so, Billy. You know, they really they're
- 25:41Speaker 3: high on him. They they loved him when they draft night.
- 25:44Speaker 3: They liked what they saw in OTA's in mini camp. Now,
- 25:46Speaker 3: the other cornerback they drafted out of Alabama. Demonti Jackson
- 25:50Speaker 3: did not take part in the offseason drills. He was
- 25:53Speaker 3: coming back from an injury. But we should get a
- 25:55Speaker 3: look at him before too long here as well. He's
- 25:58Speaker 3: right on the sidelines in front of his now. So yeah,
- 26:01Speaker 3: And I think with saying, Jude, do you kind of
- 26:03Speaker 3: ease these guys back in? You do? You know? You
- 26:05Speaker 3: don't throw them out there all at once?
- 26:07Speaker 1: That was a position when you know when GM's talk
- 26:11Speaker 1: in the league, not that they lie, but a lot
- 26:14Speaker 1: of times they might omit some of the Truthwayne, Is
- 26:16Speaker 1: that a fair way of saying it. I think going
- 26:19Speaker 1: into the draft, Goody had mentioned it, we're going to
- 26:22Speaker 1: add to that room. We need to add to that room,
- 26:24Speaker 1: and they did in a big way with their first
- 26:27Speaker 1: pick in the twenty twenty six draft B and CSA,
- 26:30Speaker 1: and he was a very willing and physical tackler at
- 26:33Speaker 1: South Carolina. Feels like something they need in that room
- 26:36Speaker 1: to be able to stop the run like they did
- 26:38Speaker 1: earlier in the year a little.
- 26:39Speaker 3: Better, Bill. He was one of the better run stopping
- 26:41Speaker 3: cornerbacks in FBS football last year. So this is a kid.
- 26:47Speaker 3: They're really high on him in a lot of respects.
- 26:49Speaker 3: He's just what just turned twenty one years old. They
- 26:53Speaker 3: feel like they've got a good one here and we'll
- 26:55Speaker 3: see as he develops.
- 26:56Speaker 1: We just got a sweet run here by Josh Jacobs
- 26:59Speaker 1: through the left side of the line right at Lucas
- 27:02Speaker 1: van Ness.
- 27:02Speaker 2: You want to talk about somebody who's got a lot
- 27:04Speaker 2: of eyes on him.
- 27:05Speaker 1: Now the fifty year option gets picked up, so contract wise,
- 27:08Speaker 1: not a big one, but anybody with a bigger runway
- 27:11Speaker 1: and opportunity to make plays than Lucas Vans I'd like
- 27:14Speaker 1: to see it because with Micah Parsons now on pup
- 27:17Speaker 1: officially gonna miss the beginning of the season, Wane, the
- 27:21Speaker 1: time is now, as Kevin Green said, for Lucas van Ness,
- 27:25Speaker 1: and I thought at times last year before his injury,
- 27:28Speaker 1: he showed some flashes of development that they were hoping to.
- 27:32Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so. And you know, Lucas had a
- 27:34Speaker 3: great spring by all accounts. He was in the offensive
- 27:37Speaker 3: backfield every day, it seemed like, so, you know, and
- 27:40Speaker 3: again they didn't have pads on. We're not putting a
- 27:43Speaker 3: lot of stock in that, folks, but the fact is
- 27:45Speaker 3: they were very happy with the off season. Lucas van
- 27:48Speaker 3: ness had and.
- 27:49Speaker 1: A lot of opportunity with him and everybody else is
- 27:52Speaker 1: going to be in that defensive end room. Baron Serell
- 27:54Speaker 1: working with the ones right now as Jordan Love hits
- 27:57Speaker 1: Matthew Golden second year wide receiver number zero, not in
- 28:01Speaker 1: the twenty two that he was last year Wayne when
- 28:03Speaker 1: he felt like he was making a big play a day.
- 28:07Speaker 1: The ooz and ohs for Matthew Golden, speed are back
- 28:09Speaker 1: here at speed.
- 28:10Speaker 3: And quickness, and he runs the full route tree, folks,
- 28:13Speaker 3: much like Christian Watson does. You know, both those guys
- 28:16Speaker 3: who would tell you their speed factor. Okay, these are
- 28:19Speaker 3: guys who gonna bombit downfield, they're gonna beat people downfield,
- 28:23Speaker 3: but really both of them run the route tree very well,
- 28:26Speaker 3: and I think that's a bonus for the Packers.
- 28:29Speaker 1: You don't take any too much into sets in different
- 28:34Speaker 1: plays and things like that, but I would say one
- 28:36Speaker 1: thing that was kind of missing consistently from the offense
- 28:39Speaker 1: last year, whether it was the inconsistency in the run
- 28:42Speaker 1: game and how much you trusted your offensive line, is
- 28:45Speaker 1: the turnaround, play action pass game, and that's what they
- 28:47Speaker 1: have been working seemingly extensively on during this period. And
- 28:52Speaker 1: that's where I think you really can take advantage of
- 28:55Speaker 1: some of that speed across the field with Watson and Reading,
- 28:59Speaker 1: but most important and le Matthew Gold.
- 29:01Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so too, no doubt in my mind
- 29:03Speaker 3: about that. I'm anxious to see. Also in this preseason,
- 29:07Speaker 3: I think we're gonna see a lot of them. Save
- 29:09Speaker 3: On Williams. This is a this is a big camp
- 29:11Speaker 3: for him. I understand it's only his second year, but still, uh,
- 29:15Speaker 3: this is a guy they feel I could develop into
- 29:17Speaker 3: a third or fourth receiver on this tree, and that
- 29:20Speaker 3: would be interesting to see. I think the only position
- 29:23Speaker 3: he could aspire to this year might be a fourth
- 29:26Speaker 3: receiver because you've got three guys at the top there
- 29:28Speaker 3: that are gonna be hard to displace.
- 29:30Speaker 1: Well, and our friend and producer and one of your
- 29:32Speaker 1: producers on the Packer Game Day broadcast, Starman Sorry and
- 29:35Speaker 1: is hoping that it's not just save On Williams on
- 29:38Speaker 1: the A gap.
- 29:38Speaker 2: Runs because that did feel like there was a lot
- 29:40Speaker 2: of time that he became the Jets sweep guy.
- 29:43Speaker 1: Yeah, out of that spot, Jayden Reid gonna get a
- 29:45Speaker 1: lot of those Jet sweeps. Jayden Reid, I'm very excited
- 29:48Speaker 1: about not only the contract extension, but the runway of
- 29:52Speaker 1: him being healthy going into a year last year, the
- 29:55Speaker 1: collar bone injuries one thing. A man had a jones
- 29:58Speaker 1: fracture before that, played two a game and a half.
- 30:01Speaker 6: With him, and they pay him, and I think way
- 30:04Speaker 6: and again, if indeed the number he plays to the
- 30:08Speaker 6: numbers I believe he can put up and has earlier
- 30:11Speaker 6: on in his career, I think.
- 30:12Speaker 2: He's gonna outsee that payday that he ended up getting
- 30:15Speaker 2: this off.
- 30:15Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so too. And I think Christian Watson's
- 30:17Speaker 3: another guy they paid. They decided to pay him early, took
- 30:21Speaker 3: a gamble for the team. Okay, we're gonna take care
- 30:23Speaker 3: of him. And a lot of people think that, well,
- 30:26Speaker 3: what has he done so far? He's been injured a lot,
- 30:28Speaker 3: and that's true. But nonetheless, what they saw they liked
- 30:31Speaker 3: they signed him to a contract. Billy. If he's healthy
- 30:33Speaker 3: and he plays like a number one receiver, the contract
- 30:36Speaker 3: is a bargain.
- 30:36Speaker 2: Oh big time.
- 30:38Speaker 1: And when you look at the other guys in the
- 30:40Speaker 1: league that signed around that number, Alec Pierce's numbers are
- 30:45Speaker 1: very good. Yeah, a thousand yard receiver, But the reason
- 30:48Speaker 1: why his number was what it was because he hit
- 30:50Speaker 1: free agency. You don't want your guys it's to hit it,
- 30:52Speaker 1: especially at that position. And there's a couple other players
- 30:56Speaker 1: here on the offense that are getting some run. Tucker
- 30:58Speaker 1: Craft is over at the rehab group as he's on
- 31:01Speaker 1: the pup list, but.
- 31:02Speaker 2: Josh Wiley was a welcomed site a year.
- 31:05Speaker 1: Ago and Luke Musgrave also on pup so he's not
- 31:07Speaker 1: going to be a part of this good reps here
- 31:10Speaker 1: for number eighty one.
- 31:11Speaker 2: Is he tries to make a run at that second title.
- 31:13Speaker 3: No, absolutely, and he has an opportunity. Josh Wiley, there's
- 31:16Speaker 3: no question they like him. They like what he brings
- 31:18Speaker 3: to the party. You know, he was signed to the
- 31:21Speaker 3: active roster on November fourth, and this is a guy
- 31:25Speaker 3: they feel like they can trust. I'm not sure he's
- 31:28Speaker 3: the greatest inline blocker, but he's a decent blocker, willing
- 31:31Speaker 3: blocker in line, and you know, they feel like he
- 31:33Speaker 3: also has an ability down field with his hands.
- 31:36Speaker 2: He's a big son of a gun. It's good size
- 31:39Speaker 2: foot seven, two fifty.
- 31:40Speaker 1: That's a that's a stout size for a tight end
- 31:43Speaker 1: an NFL guy, no doubt about it. And one other
- 31:45Speaker 1: player that I know every I here in camp is
- 31:49Speaker 1: going to be on as the aforementioned Josh Wiley takes
- 31:51Speaker 1: a rip over the middle almost hauls in a great play.
- 31:55Speaker 1: But right there on the coverage sticky is number thirty three.
- 31:58Speaker 1: Evan Williams, what about thirty two Marshawn Lloyd. He had
- 32:01Speaker 1: a screen passed there earlier.
- 32:03Speaker 2: On running a little bit with the ones.
- 32:05Speaker 1: I made a joke earlier on today on the huddle lane,
- 32:07Speaker 1: And sometimes my jokes are not necessarily hit with the
- 32:11Speaker 1: kind of laugh track that maybe it should have, or
- 32:13Speaker 1: the sarcasm fought doesn't come.
- 32:15Speaker 2: Through very well.
- 32:16Speaker 1: But there was right out of the gates and ooh
- 32:18Speaker 1: when Marshawn Lloyd hits the field man, the talent is
- 32:21Speaker 1: really evident with thirty two. I joked about it though
- 32:25Speaker 1: earlier today. The biggest question, the biggest eyes that I want,
- 32:28Speaker 1: the thing that I want to watch is him get
- 32:30Speaker 1: up off the ground after the first time he hits it,
- 32:32Speaker 1: because his health is the only thing that feels like
- 32:34Speaker 1: it's holding thirty two back.
- 32:36Speaker 3: He could be a great situation back, change of pace back,
- 32:40Speaker 3: that kind of thing. He's got explosive ability that not
- 32:43Speaker 3: all the backs have obviously, and that's why the packers
- 32:47Speaker 3: have been patient two years now. Okay, and this is
- 32:49Speaker 3: going into year three. But you know he came through
- 32:52Speaker 3: the OTAs in mini camp. Well, they are kind of
- 32:56Speaker 3: I think he's they're not saying it, but he's kind
- 32:58Speaker 3: of out a pitch comp building. They don't want to
- 33:00Speaker 3: wear him out here. They want him to make sure
- 33:03Speaker 3: he's healthy going into the regular season. I think he
- 33:06Speaker 3: will be. I think he did a lot of work
- 33:08Speaker 3: back in California to get ready for this moment and
- 33:12Speaker 3: hopefully his injuries are behind him. You never know, but
- 33:16Speaker 3: they're going to also keep thinking that when you were
- 33:19Speaker 3: talking about him, the Ted Thompson bubble wrap factor, you know, yeah,
- 33:23Speaker 3: at some point, let's put this kid around, bubble wrap
- 33:26Speaker 3: around him, make sure we get him to September.
- 33:28Speaker 1: Yeah, and let's just make sure he's ready for week
- 33:30Speaker 1: one because there's some clear and obvious carries available there
- 33:35Speaker 1: and some questions as well. Josh Jacobs is at practice.
- 33:39Speaker 1: He is out there running around in the number eight.
- 33:42Speaker 2: Jerseys. Had a couple of rushes as well.
- 33:45Speaker 1: And that one is as much as it's been a
- 33:47Speaker 1: difficult year at business as usual, Isaiah Naylor with a great.
- 33:50Speaker 3: Ray catch there in the corner ray catch and toe
- 33:52Speaker 3: tap in the right corner of the end zone of
- 33:54Speaker 3: the pylon back line. You know, they've got some interesting
- 33:58Speaker 3: wide receivers beyond the four that we have talked promently
- 34:03Speaker 3: about this morning. That again, he's one of them, Isaiah
- 34:07Speaker 3: and Mayor. You know, when I look at j Michael Sturdivant,
- 34:12Speaker 3: Will Shepherd is a kid who's been around for a
- 34:15Speaker 3: little bit now, and he's a guy who could show up.
- 34:18Speaker 3: Brendan Rice is the son of Hall of Famer Jerry Rice.
- 34:21Speaker 3: Brendan six to two looks the part. You know we'll
- 34:24Speaker 3: see bake Tim Well. He can play, but he's a
- 34:26Speaker 3: kid who's knocked around camps before, so he's not going
- 34:29Speaker 3: to embarrass himself at all.
- 34:30Speaker 1: Well, and that is interesting when you find players that
- 34:34Speaker 1: like Mayor, who was here a year ago on the
- 34:36Speaker 1: practice squad, in and out and waiting for an opportunity.
- 34:39Speaker 1: That's one thing they definitely cleared up in the receiving room.
- 34:43Speaker 1: Our chances for young guys to be able to splash.
- 34:46Speaker 1: We know who the core three and four will be,
- 34:49Speaker 1: but there is definitely a room there. And at six
- 34:52Speaker 1: foot four, two twenty you look the part and playing
- 34:54Speaker 1: the big ten at Nebraska. Make catches like that, it's
- 34:56Speaker 1: gonna be hard to not have some eyes on you.
- 34:58Speaker 1: It's training camp live here from the perch at Raynichi Field,
- 35:01Speaker 1: the voice of the Green Bay Packers, Wayne Larvy. I'm
- 35:04Speaker 1: Billy Schmid. Team period breaks up and now into an
- 35:07Speaker 1: individual drill and a little bit of a slow down.
- 35:10Speaker 1: We'll take quick time out and come right back with
- 35:12Speaker 1: more action live from Raynichki Field. Packers on the practice
- 35:15Speaker 1: field for the first time in the twenty twenty six
- 35:19Speaker 1: I'm going with a championship season and away from Micah
- 35:22Speaker 1: Parsons right as that happens. The crowd loves to see that.
- 35:25Speaker 1: As the man dressed in all black. We're patiently awaiting
- 35:28Speaker 1: his arrival back to the back of the playing surface.
- 35:31Speaker 1: But uh, just Michah Parsons walking around got a big
- 35:34Speaker 1: popular way.
- 35:34Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm stunned. I'm stunned. Michaeh.
- 35:36Speaker 1: Parsons got a big, big celebratory wave from the fans
- 35:40Speaker 1: and he just popped this place up a little bit
- 35:43Speaker 1: as well.
- 35:44Speaker 2: We'll be back the voice of the Green Bay Packers,
- 35:46Speaker 2: Wayne Larvy. I'm Billy Schmid.
- 35:47Speaker 1: It's day one of twenty twenty six Packers training camp.
- 35:50Speaker 1: It's Training Camp Live on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
- 35:58Speaker 2: It is presented by the Potawatomis Sportsbook.
- 36:00Speaker 1: Welcome back to Rainischki Field and Green Bay, Wisconsin, as
- 36:03Speaker 1: Training Camp Live continues here on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
- 36:07Speaker 1: He's the voice of the Green Bay Packers, Wayne larrabyon
- 36:09Speaker 1: Billy Schmid of Packers OTZI.
- 36:11Speaker 2: We'll talk to you a post game.
- 36:13Speaker 1: He'll give you all the highlights of the game, and
- 36:14Speaker 1: we're giving you some highlights of practice number one. Albeit
- 36:17Speaker 1: Wayne in shorts and helmets, some little flashes of excitement
- 36:22Speaker 1: here early, but now you start to wonder and wait,
- 36:26Speaker 1: and this continues to grow longer. You had a great
- 36:29Speaker 1: line of it early that you can't wait to get here,
- 36:32Speaker 1: and then you turn the page in that middle of
- 36:35Speaker 1: like the first quarter of the preseason game number one,
- 36:38Speaker 1: and you can't wait for the regular season to start.
- 36:40Speaker 2: There is so much excitement and anticipation.
- 36:43Speaker 1: However, feels like almost more unknowns when you talk about
- 36:47Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers with people around the streets right now.
- 36:49Speaker 3: You know what's beautiful about the NFL is let's go
- 36:53Speaker 3: back one year ago was anyone talking about Seattle or
- 36:56Speaker 3: New England. Nobody was talking about those teams, not even
- 37:00Speaker 3: in their markets, and yet they eventually emerge in play
- 37:04Speaker 3: in the Super Bowl. So the Packers are one of
- 37:07Speaker 3: those teams who could evolve into a super Bowl team.
- 37:10Speaker 3: You know, they're probably about twenty that realistically have the roster,
- 37:14Speaker 3: have the quarterback in place that could evolve into a
- 37:17Speaker 3: Super Bowl team. About twenty teams, the Packers are one
- 37:20Speaker 3: of them. Now, do the Packers need more to go
- 37:23Speaker 3: right for them than the Los Angeles Rams, or the
- 37:26Speaker 3: Seattle Seahawks now or the Denver Broncos. Yes, they need
- 37:29Speaker 3: more to go right, but they do have enough personnel
- 37:33Speaker 3: and they do have the quarterback that could get them there.
- 37:36Speaker 1: I think the quarterback is the one that's most most right.
- 37:40Speaker 1: It's gotta be the confidence that Jordan exudes and the
- 37:45Speaker 1: team and franchise has in him just year in and
- 37:49Speaker 1: year out. It takes another step and Wayne, it sounds
- 37:53Speaker 1: really simple.
- 37:54Speaker 2: And I joked about it with.
- 37:55Speaker 1: Our friend Aaron Nagler on our podcast last week, asking
- 37:58Speaker 1: you know.
- 37:58Speaker 2: Who do you need more out of?
- 38:00Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you who. The Packers do they need
- 38:01Speaker 1: a little bit more out of Jordan Love. Doesn't mean
- 38:03Speaker 1: that he has been bad to any degree, doesn't mean
- 38:06Speaker 1: that he is further along or less than than other guys.
- 38:11Speaker 1: But this league requires that position to be excellent when
- 38:15Speaker 1: it matters most.
- 38:17Speaker 2: And there were times last.
- 38:18Speaker 1: Year, especially in the middle of the year, when you
- 38:20Speaker 1: didn't have Tucker Craft right away. You're still working Christian
- 38:22Speaker 1: Watson back the consistency week in and week out of
- 38:26Speaker 1: being one of those high level players. I still think
- 38:30Speaker 1: there's room to grow there. But the highs have still
- 38:33Speaker 1: been really, really good, and seems like there's more confience.
- 38:35Speaker 1: You're gonna get a lot more out of that from time.
- 38:37Speaker 3: The word I keep hearing around the league when it
- 38:39Speaker 3: comes to the Packers in the quarterback situation is kind
- 38:42Speaker 3: of what you just mentioned. They need to put more
- 38:46Speaker 3: into Jordan Love. Yeah, I mean, in other words, you know,
- 38:50Speaker 3: rely on him a little bit more. Now, what you
- 38:52Speaker 3: have to understand, even last year, with an offensive line
- 38:55Speaker 3: that was struggling with a running back who got banged
- 38:57Speaker 3: up by the second half of the season, averaged almost
- 39:01Speaker 3: twenty nine rushing attempts per game that was sixth in
- 39:05Speaker 3: the NFL. Now, they only produced one hundred and nineteen
- 39:08Speaker 3: point eight yards. But what I'm saying is that a
- 39:10Speaker 3: lot of the play calling this offense is built around
- 39:13Speaker 3: the running game. But you know, pretty heavy emphasis on
- 39:17Speaker 3: the running game here. And meanwhile, the passing game I
- 39:20Speaker 3: don't think took a back seat. I wouldn't say that,
- 39:23Speaker 3: but by I guess what you're saying is run the
- 39:26Speaker 3: ball a little less, throw it a little more. That
- 39:28Speaker 3: puts more into onto Jordan Love's play. And that's what
- 39:31Speaker 3: a lot of people who observe the Packers in the
- 39:33Speaker 3: outside say. We'll see how that all evolves.
- 39:37Speaker 2: It might, it might sound wrong.
- 39:38Speaker 1: It almost feels like they need to be a little
- 39:40Speaker 1: bit more selfish in the pass game. From the standpoint
- 39:42Speaker 1: of I think Jordan has done an excellent job of
- 39:45Speaker 1: continuing to know the right look to move the play
- 39:49Speaker 1: to a run play and what the right play is
- 39:51Speaker 1: to be move it to a pass play. We got
- 39:53Speaker 1: spoiled watching somebody say, yeah, this is definitely a run look.
- 39:56Speaker 2: You know what also is a good luck throw the
- 39:57Speaker 2: ball to Devonte Adams every night.
- 39:59Speaker 1: Yeah, and be able to force feed some of those
- 40:02Speaker 1: to your top playmakers. I think a lot more of
- 40:04Speaker 1: their top playmakers waining around the outside and it might
- 40:07Speaker 1: be a chance for you to I mean, numbers are
- 40:10Speaker 1: never going to not get looked at when you talk
- 40:13Speaker 1: about awards and accolades and things like that. But those
- 40:16Speaker 1: ways of being able to steal big, quick completions and
- 40:19Speaker 1: consistently putting more points on the board, I think that's
- 40:22Speaker 1: one where he could almost.
- 40:23Speaker 2: Be a little bit more selfished.
- 40:25Speaker 3: Yeah. Maybe, and maybe they will be. You know, we'll
- 40:28Speaker 3: have to see how it all works out the offensive
- 40:29Speaker 3: line everything else. But you know, I said this before,
- 40:33Speaker 3: I think Jordan Love is certainly a top ten quarterback,
- 40:36Speaker 3: maybe in some respects a top five quarterback. But it'll
- 40:41Speaker 3: be interesting to see how much they invest in the
- 40:43Speaker 3: passing game this year, because in the last two years,
- 40:46Speaker 3: and rightfully so, they've been heavily invested in the ground game.
- 40:50Speaker 3: You run the ball almost thirty times a game, Okay,
- 40:52Speaker 3: how many times you're throwing it? Yeah, not as many
- 40:55Speaker 3: times as let's say, some of the other teams who
- 40:57Speaker 3: are coming from behind.
- 40:59Speaker 1: And there's there's something to be said for playing your
- 41:02Speaker 1: style of ball. Backers were rather rigid in it, I
- 41:06Speaker 1: think a year ago, even when you know, maybe the
- 41:08Speaker 1: offensive flow wasn't tremendous, continuing to try to lean in
- 41:12Speaker 1: on what they did. Maybe some of those adjustments happened midgame.
- 41:15Speaker 1: Who knows one adjustment to the roster that was made
- 41:18Speaker 1: in the offseason. There wasn't a ton but Wayne, one
- 41:21Speaker 1: guy out now two in, including our friend Lenny Craig.
- 41:25Speaker 1: In the kicking department. We see Tracey Smack out there
- 41:28Speaker 1: in the twenty eight Jersey sixth round pick. As the
- 41:31Speaker 1: Florida Gator lines up. Now won't be kicking because the
- 41:35Speaker 1: full operation is not locked in Matt Orzik not practicing
- 41:39Speaker 1: the long snapper. But Wayne, I love doing these shows.
- 41:43Speaker 1: Is one of the most enjoyable things of this job.
- 41:45Speaker 1: One of the least enjoyable things for me is talking
- 41:47Speaker 1: about kickers all the time. So hopefully we can solidify
- 41:51Speaker 1: it with number twenty eight because they like a lot
- 41:53Speaker 1: about what Tray Smack brings to the table.
- 41:55Speaker 3: Yeah, they certainly do. They let Brandon McManus go, They've
- 41:58Speaker 3: let Lucas have hersact go. The kicker they brought in,
- 42:02Speaker 3: Kreig is from Germany, I believe, and he's he's a
- 42:05Speaker 3: guy who could potentially be their pathway player. You know,
- 42:10Speaker 3: if they needed to keep a roster spot for him
- 42:12Speaker 3: on the practice squad, So they've got some options here.
- 42:16Speaker 3: But you know, Trey Smack, obviously they feel like they
- 42:20Speaker 3: traded two draft picks to move up into the sixth
- 42:22Speaker 3: round and get him. I understand there were two seventh
- 42:24Speaker 3: round draft picks on a bad day three of the draft,
- 42:27Speaker 3: but nonetheless they did invest in him, and they are
- 42:31Speaker 3: bound and determined to make sure he has a pathway,
- 42:34Speaker 3: so to speak, to the kicking job.
- 42:36Speaker 1: Yeah, and you you want to make sure that guy's
- 42:38Speaker 1: on the roster. You want to make sure that he's
- 42:40Speaker 1: got a chance. I'm I'm excited to see the growth
- 42:44Speaker 1: there because to say that, you know, Brandon Manus was awful,
- 42:48Speaker 1: I think is unfair to what he put together.
- 42:51Speaker 2: But I mean, you leave seven points.
- 42:52Speaker 1: On the scoreboard in the playoff game way and it's
- 42:54Speaker 1: gonna be hard to return anywhere.
- 42:55Speaker 3: You know, Mason Crosby was in He was the kicker
- 42:59Speaker 3: here for many years. Why because he was consistent and
- 43:02Speaker 3: the other thing he had was a penchant for making
- 43:05Speaker 3: the big kick at the right time. And you know,
- 43:09Speaker 3: so since then, Brian Goodakoon's mentioned this this morning. I
- 43:13Speaker 3: haven't looked it up. He said it. He said, you know, actually,
- 43:16Speaker 3: during the regular season, since Mason Crosby, we've been a
- 43:19Speaker 3: little more. We've had a little better percentage, and I
- 43:22Speaker 3: mentioned it's a real small better percentage. But where they
- 43:25Speaker 3: haven't been as good is in the postseason, and those
- 43:28Speaker 3: big kicks you just can't miss, and they've missed him.
- 43:32Speaker 1: Yeah, in this sport, it's always going to come down
- 43:36Speaker 1: to a couple of swings of the right leg.
- 43:38Speaker 2: Now, maybe the left. Most of these guys are right footed.
- 43:40Speaker 1: So most of it's swinging the right leg, and you
- 43:42Speaker 1: can be real close to one of the teams that's
- 43:46Speaker 1: been chasing you for a long time. You don't put
- 43:47Speaker 1: points on the board when you have a chance, and
- 43:50Speaker 1: all of a sudden, now you no longer have a
- 43:52Speaker 1: chance to advance. There's a lot of times that I've
- 43:55Speaker 1: spent during the offseason Wayne thinking about that last Saturday
- 43:59Speaker 1: night in Chicago, and those kicks are ones that are
- 44:02Speaker 1: difficult to get pass, especially the last one, because it
- 44:05Speaker 1: felt like that last field goal was missed before you
- 44:07Speaker 1: even put boot to foot.
- 44:09Speaker 3: It was amazing. I honestly thought the way he missed it,
- 44:12Speaker 3: I thought, did somebody get a piece of that you know, yeah,
- 44:17Speaker 3: it just was tough. But you know, hey, and you're
- 44:20Speaker 3: gonna put a rookie out there. We've seen that a
- 44:22Speaker 3: couple of years ago, and you know it's not easy.
- 44:25Speaker 3: It's not an easy position to fill.
- 44:27Speaker 1: No, cam Akord gonna be tasked with figuring out who
- 44:30Speaker 1: is going to be his new kicker number one as
- 44:33Speaker 1: the new special teams man in Green Bay. Back to
- 44:36Speaker 1: a team period inside the ten yard line in front
- 44:39Speaker 1: of us as the Packers take the field and Jordan
- 44:42Speaker 1: Love moves Jacobs to his left and then just fires
- 44:45Speaker 1: it right over to number eight. Too low for the
- 44:48Speaker 1: intended target. But Josh Jacobs out there. It's a good
- 44:50Speaker 1: thing to see Wayne, not only just for the offseason
- 44:53Speaker 1: that he had last year. Physically, Jacobs dealt with a
- 44:56Speaker 1: ton of injuries and he's not gonna be one to
- 45:00Speaker 1: discuss them, not gonna be one to ever really sit out,
- 45:02Speaker 1: but you could tell it definitely hampered him throughout the year.
- 45:05Speaker 3: Yeah, did they got him healthy late. He ran a
- 45:07Speaker 3: couple of good runs in Chicago in the playoff game,
- 45:09Speaker 3: but you're right, he was banged up in the offensive
- 45:11Speaker 3: line wasn't nearly good enough last year in the running game.
- 45:14Speaker 3: I didn't think there were too many situations where Josh
- 45:17Speaker 3: got hit early behind the line of scrummage before he
- 45:19Speaker 3: could really get going.
- 45:20Speaker 1: Like to see Messiah Swinson getting a little bit of
- 45:23Speaker 1: run here with the first team at the tight end
- 45:25Speaker 1: spot and pass breakup in the back by Evan Williamson.
- 45:28Speaker 3: Sinson's a guy who has a chance, Why, Billy, because
- 45:30Speaker 3: he's a big inline plage.
- 45:32Speaker 1: Yes, and they're gonna need guys there at that tight
- 45:35Speaker 1: end spot, right. I mean, I think when you look
- 45:38Speaker 1: at rosters a lot of times you'll keep four. Once
- 45:41Speaker 1: Craft went out last year, it is absolutely a statement
- 45:43Speaker 1: of how good and productive Tucker Craft was. But they
- 45:47Speaker 1: just did not find anyone consistently that was able to
- 45:49Speaker 1: hold that position down.
- 45:51Speaker 3: Yeah, and give them something, you're right. I mean, Luke
- 45:53Speaker 3: Mustray gave him some things, but not the complete package,
- 45:56Speaker 3: and they struggled with that. Josh Wiley came in and
- 45:59Speaker 3: gave them at least some stability at times late in
- 46:02Speaker 3: the season.
- 46:03Speaker 2: Swinson at least gives you a get off the bus guy.
- 46:05Speaker 1: And you know, high school football coaches that are listening
- 46:08Speaker 1: to us understand that's an important thing. You gotta find
- 46:10Speaker 1: somebody to get off the bus first. I'll tell you
- 46:12Speaker 1: that much. Swinson's getting off the bus first for me.
- 46:14Speaker 1: I got a couple of cats that are one. Brenton
- 46:17Speaker 1: Cox is going to be getting off the bus pretty
- 46:19Speaker 1: quickly as well as number fifty seven is running around
- 46:22Speaker 1: there with the first team on the defense as well.
- 46:24Speaker 1: We've run through our one of day one on the
- 46:28Speaker 1: practice field here at Raynichkie Field. One more to go.
- 46:30Speaker 1: He's the voice of the Green Bay Packers, Wayne Laervie.
- 46:32Speaker 1: I'm Billy Schmid. It's training Camp Live, presented by the
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