#668 Packers Unscripted: The time has arrived

and whatnot as we go along in the show. But right before we turn the cameras on here, we were kind of joking around about one of the keys of this whole thing is finally getting to this point, right It's like there's going to be a game that's going to how it's going to matter. It's a big one against the division rival, obviously, but the time has finally arrived. It's finally arrived, and and it's time for football again.

Even at the time you know that we're taping this, even the lead up to Buffalo and the Los Angeles Rams, you can tell the world is ready for football again. I think Packer fans, you know, training camps, fund the preseason is fun. I really do feel like it is the best build up and lead up in all of sport uh to to the definitive beginning of the season.

But the thing that's interesting about with this new world we live in with the preseason is you do have a pretty substantial chunk of time here before we get to Week one. And you know, for that reason, I think, whether it's the media, whether it's the players, I think everybody is just sort of getting to the point where it's like, yeah, it's time to play football again. And that was one of the big questions I had for guys. Really, my only big question in Wednesday's locker room is what's

the anticipation nation? Like, I mean, especially with the defense. We talked all off season about this defense and how dominant can be and what is life going to be like without Davante Adams for the offense where it was Rich Besaccia going to be able to overhaul special teams. Well, now we finally be able to get some answers. Yeah, exactly, We're going to find out exactly where things are headed. This will be just the start. It's a marathon, as we say many times, not a seventeen games, I mean

first of seventeen here. This regular season doesn't end until almost the middle of changes. Trying to set off, trying to get me going here. All right, well, alright, alright, we'll back up. We'll back up, because this show is about the keys to victory. And you just mentioned offense, defense, and special teams, a little note on each one. So I will let you start wherever you would like to, whichever phase you want to begin with. What is the a number one key to victory in your mind for

the Packers on Sunday against the Viking. This could apply to any phase. But for me, it's who has the better unscouted looks, who is able to disguise more of what they want to do. And I know when you look at that, you say, well, Kevin O'Connell has a new scheme. You don't really know what DNA tell is gonna do with this defense. That's all true, But Green Bay it's just such a different look this year. Offensively, you know, green It's not going to run through Davontae Adams.

The plays aren't going to be tailored to number seventeen. We're all on the same boat. You and I watched every single training camp practice that was available to the media, Well you really did. I saw most of them, thank you, Canton. But I couldn't even if I was allowed to. I don't think I could sit there and say, yeah, I mean, this is this is Davantae Adams offense. This is gonna

be the year of Jordy Nelson. This is no I mean, they are going to be multiple, They're going to be diversified in a lot of this is going to really come back to what is green Bay gonna do well here the first few weeks of the season. So I look at the known like the fact of this is that you have Aaron Rodgers and you have a plethora of weapons. They're gonna be going up against the hungry

that Vikings defense. We've heard all the stuff with said Arius Smith fair play, but green Bay, what they've cooked up and what they've concocted offensively, I'm really eager to see if they can stress this new Minnesota defense because for me, without Mike Zimmer being there for the first time in eight years, there are a lot of question marks there for the Vikings. Despite the fact a lot of their personnel remains the same. Yeah, I agree with you.

The match up here with the Packers going up against this Vikings defense, it is it's the It's the first time Aaron Rodgers is going to face a Vikings defense not being run by Mike Zimmer in nine years. It's going to be it's going to be a different feel and a different look in that regard with as we talked about on our last show, some of the same cast of characters. Eric Kendricks is still out there, Daniel Hunter is still out there, Harrison Smith is still out there.

But I think it's going to be interesting to see just what kind of start the Packers can get off too, not only because of the transition here without Davante Adams, but also all of the the uncertainty right now on offense. At the time we're taping this from an injury standpoint, the Packers really don't know if Alan Lazard, who has an ankle injury, is going to be available, if David Bok tr e Elton Jenkins, Bobby Touny in a lot of key pieces on offense that we may not know

until potentially Friday or even right up until kickoff. Just how this is going to uh, how this is going to come together. So for me, I just I just fall back on and I don't want to sound like a broken record, but what I've been saying all offseason, all training camp leading up to this is I think the key to this Packers offense is going to be those two running backs. It's gonna be Aaron Jones and

a J. Dillon. And and I'm not saying that the Packers are going to run the ball forty five times with their running backs, but if Aaron Jones and a J. Dillon touched the ball combined forty five times with with runs and screen passes and maybe wheel routes and check downs and whatever else, it wouldn't surprise me. Because these two guys are going to be on the field a

lot together. And I think what the Packers are going to want to do, especially early in the season, is is established these are a couple of our bell cows here offensively, and then they're going to see how defenses are going to react to what they want to do. I made history on Wednesday night Mike my fantasy football draft for the first time since I started covering the team in two thousand and twelve. I drafted a Green Bay Packer, and that's not because I had anything against

him in the past. It's in the fact that I'm in a league with a bunch of homers that are always overdrafting Green Bay Packers that I can never get any of the top guys. I drafted AJ Dillon. I would have taken Aaron Jones too if I would had the opportunity to, but he was off the board already. But I took A J. Dillon as my flex because I agree with you a hundred and fifty. I feel like this offense could run with two backs. This offense is going to be able to provide both of those

guys touches. As good as Jamal Williams was, and he's an all time fan favorite, the offense wasn't structured in a way in which you're gonna be able to really feed both guys. A lot of that fell on the unselfishness. Selfishness easy for me to say of Jamal Williams that he was able to kind of take a back seat a little bit, and to A. J. Dillon's credit, he's done that too at times the last couple of years.

But this is the year, where I think you have two running backs kind of coming into the same orbit here, Aaron Jones still at the peak of his power if he could stay healthy, and a j Dillon kind of being on that come up. The Packers didn't throw him out there and say, hey, we're gonna run you three or thirty times a year like they did at Boston College. He said we're gonna gradually bring you up. And what happened, Mike. He became a better past protector, He became a better

past catcher. He became the well rounded back that Brian Goodkin's projected him to be back in two thousand and twenty when they took him in the second round. This is a very exciting time for the Green Bay Packers offense because I feel like, whether it's the run, the past, whatever, they have two backs, they are going to be able to really get this team moving out of the gate. And I think what Jones and Dillon give you the opportunity to do as an offense is to force the

defense to defend the whole field. And what I mean by that starting off is horizontally from sideline to sideline. When if these two running backs are on the field, together, and even if it is a pass play, you can have one of them be running a check beat being the checkdown receiver out to the left over by the sideline, and the other one running a wheel route down the right sideline. How is the how is the defense going

to match up to that? And and defend the entire field horizontally and you get them stressed horizontally, then okay, now let's take our shot down the seam where you know the vikings, you know, the middle of their defense with Kendricks and Harrison Smith. As we've talked about, it can always it always seems like it's tough to attack the middle of the field. Again, it's Minnesota, so now, and that could all look different with ed don Tell and them switching to the three four and all that.

But these these two running backs, I think give the Packers, give the Packers an opportunity to to really challenge defenses in different ways that maybe we haven't necessarily seen when so much of the offense was running through Davante Adams. And that's what I'm really curious to see what it actually looks like out there on the field. Um, come week one, and as we go through the entire season

and doing it in stereo with one another. I think that's gonna be a big part of this thing too, because you know, a lot of years the Green Bay Packers it was it was a it was an offense that was kind of sitting on Aaron Rodgers shoulders a little bit. You had a running back. We saw it in two thousand fourteen with Eddie Lacy. You had you did have backs at times that could shoulder the load, but a lot of it was letting Rogers sort of create and building the rest of the offense out from there.

I think what is most exciting to me is I've said it since the beginning of the off season program, since the time in which Davantams was traded. I love that this is probably going to be a season in which Matt Lafleur can get back to the principles of his offense and what him and Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVeigh, all these guys have done so well. If you have a superstar, you feed that superstar. But sometimes when you have a lot of talented players, you use that depth

to your advantage. I think that's gonna be one of the big hallmarks of this team. Yeah, well, switching gears to the defensive side of things as far as the keys here. I look back, and I don't I don't want to dwell too much on Week one against New Orleans last year, but I did want to look. I look back at a little bit of the play by play on paper of that game of just how did how did Joe Berry's defense get off to such a

horrible start? Right? Because it wasn't a good look on either side of the ball, But certainly there were a lot more expectations defensively um with Joe Berry coming in as the new coordinator. And and I was reminded in looking at things, is that they just they got off to a terrible start with third downs. There was in the New Orleans game. There was there was a third and eight they gave up. Then there was a third and thirteen that turned into a fourth and seven, which

then the Saints still converted on fourth down. There was a fourth and goal where they jumped offside. So the third and fourth down situations that they got off to a terrible start there. But then not just in the first game, but over the first several weeks. Remember the red zone problems. I mean, however, whatever it ended up being, I don't know, nineteen or twenty times in a row or something, and I may be exaggerating. I don't remember the exact number because I've tried to put it out

of my brain. But the Packers defense couldn't get a stop in the red zone for the longest time at the start of last season. I think those those are always two key areas for any defense at any time. But the way the season started last year, for Green Bay to get off to a at least a solid start with third downs and with red zone, um, I think it's going to be a big key in this game and for the entire first month of the season. I agree because people want to make jokes about Kirk Cousins,

and I don't know where all that comes from. It's been something that's kind of followed him. I think, even going back to his Washington days, Kirk Cousins is a good NFL quarterback and you can I don't care where you rank him in the hierarchy, but if you look at his stats against Green Bay Packers, he's had a

fair amount of success. Maybe not if you look at the wins and losses, but when you look at the completion percentage, when you look at the accuracy the throws that he's able to make him when they're in rhythm, there is a big difference between that Vikings offense in the one in which they're not. So I agree with

you in terms of the red zone. In terms of the situational offense, that's going to be key, But for me, it's also making sure in those early situations, early downs, you don't let those six yard runs kind of crease to a Delvin Cook because once you start getting in those second and short, third and short opportunities, I feel like that's where Cousins has really thrived, because yeah, he's been sacked fifteen times against Green Bay in these six meetings,

but you can't really sit there and say, well, this game he was sacked five times and they got their butts kick. The Packers have gotten pressure on the guy before. He's sort of a stationary type quarterback. You're going to be able to get some sacks, but it's about whether or not you're actually able to get him out of that rhythm. He gets into that rhythm and they start being able to penetrate down in the red area. That's where you start to find yourselves in trouble, and realistically,

the Packers did last November. Yeah, And that was the other thing I noticed too, as much as some of those long yarded situations I mentioned from Week one against New Orleans last year, the early part of that game, when the Saints jumped out seventeen to nothing first three drives, three scores, a field goal, and two touchdowns, there were also several third and one, third and two's in those which, as the defense, you can't live there, right, I mean

that that's going to be a high percentage conversion rate for the offense. It's very tough to get off the field on third and one and third and two, But then when you do get them in third and seven and third and eight, that is when you have to get off the field. And and the Packers just out of the gates last year really struggled in that regard.

Now that being said, as much as we've talked about the injury issues and a lot of uncertainty on the offensive side, defensively, the Packers are about as healthy as you could ask for right here. I think the only starter who's listed on the injury report is Darnell Savage. If I'm not mistaken with he had the hamstring from back on family and all indications are he's going to be ready to go. He certainly has has indicated he

plans to play health wise. The Packers are where they want to be on the defensive side of the ball, and Joe Barry has to be pretty happy about that. And I know for Packer fans you can't take the emotion of it, because it is emotional pay. You want your team to win, and there are big steaks with the division game right off the bat in Week one on the road, But it's also going to be an entertaining ball game in terms of what the Vikings have offensively and how that's going to match up with Green

Bay's defense. When you talk about the justin Jefferson's and who potentially could be covering him, what is JayR Alexander going to be doing. Who is going to be in the slot. Although you know we've seen Rasseul Douglas, there's so much in the camp they've talked about the flexibility of that spot, and certainly, as I already mentioned earlier,

Delvin Cook is a difference maker. Kenny Clark was very complimentary of the offensive line that that Minnesota has been building and it's been a long long process for the Vikings trying to get more stability there, but they've put in the resources to that position. So to me, I feel like this is gonna be a game and there's always gonna be you know, fits and starts. There's never

really been a big blowout. I can't think of one during the Cousins era with the Vikings, but it is going to be about attacking early on and seeing who who is able to to kind of get their early first momentum. But the Packers, if if it is the Packers and you have the Jr. Alexander's and the Devandry Campbell's and some of these guys that are Shawn Garry

everything we talked about during training camp. The Packers have skies with a lot of swagger, and the better they play, I feel like that's gonna be a self fulfilling prophecy. So it's gonna be excit. Need to watch. Yeah. And on the special team side of things, you mentioned Rich Bisaccia earlier. Obviously the Packers brought him into to create a culture change. We talked on previous shows about how some of the roster decisions. Final roster decisions were geared

towards special teams. Packers are looking to get off to a good start in that area obviously, and but they're gonna have a heck of a challenge thrown at him right away because at roster cut down time, the Vikings picked up Jalen Reagor and it sounds like the Vikings special teams coordinator is putting him back thereund punt return.

This is his guy. And I know it was two years ago and it was two special teams coordinators ago for the Packers, but Jalen Reagor ran one back against Green Bay when he was playing for the Philadelphia Eagles on a long punt return. So they know all about him, about about his speed, his ability in that phase, and the Packers are going to be challenged right out of the gate here. It was really interesting listening to Chris

Barnes and and Chris is such a thoughtful guy. We didn't get a chance to talk to him much in training, Cambinet not for his own perspective that just the media didn't really chat with them too much with quay Walker coming in. But one of the things I asked him on Wednesday was about the Special Teams unit that Green

Bay has assembled here. Because we've talked so much about Rich pisacci and Keishaan Nixon and you know down Levett, you know Pat o'donald, all the changes they've made with incoming personnel, you kind of forget about the guys who were here last year, the guys that do have a chip on their shoulder, the guys that do want to that that are kind of tired of hearing about how Special Teams was sort of a you know, it was holding green Bay back and they're hungry to to rectify that.

And I just I go back to those offseason practices, Mike, and just the sense of urgency that Rich Pisaccia coached with. There was no coasting. It didn't matter if it was organized team activities, training camp, probably even if they were getting in line for the cafeteria. He had these guys really really tightly, efficiently coached. And I feel like that shift you've seen. Aaron Rodgers has talked about it, Matt Lafloor has talked about it. That's going to translate in

these settings. And I was the story I did on on Jack Coco earlier this week. One of the things that kind of hit home for me a little bit was how Bisaccia tests these players. He gets after them, not because he wants to look like a tough guy, not because he he wants to sit here and be the loudest guy in the room. He wants to put

them through that type of chaos. He wants to see how it tests them from a fundamental standpoint, because once that game starts, they're all on the same team, and whatever happens out there is going to be reflect back on the entire team. So I just I think the mental side of this thing and the way Bisaccia coaches

is just so next level. It's something I haven't seen before on special teams during my time covering the team, and I'm excited to see what those guys, specifically the ones that returned from last season, the Maori Rodgers, how they respond with wanting to prove they are better than what everybody said they were last Yeah, you're exactly right. The motivation, the motivation is certainly there, and the culture has changed in in that phase for the Packers on

special teams. I still think it'll be a work in progress. Uh, you know, as we talked about through training camp, the preseason games, it was about finding the right guys. Now, rich Basacci feels like he has his guys, so now he's going to coach and mold and direct and lead those guys to play the way he wants them to play.

And it's not going to be perfect in week one, but the Packers certainly need to at least break at least try to break even in that phase and then work toward um as this evolves over the course these over the course of the season. Work to be a special teams unit that can win that phase at least a fair amount of the time. And don't head to the bathroom during a punt. Don't go to the bathroom if you're gonna be looking at a kickoff. Look at

the personnel on these units. I'm not saying you're gonna see adrianame Is playing all four course special teams units, but the Packers there are going to be veterans on these units. There's going to be guys that play offense and defense, the wefense sort of movement. Keep an eye on that because I think that's a very important thing. Early last season when greenbo is having problems with the field goal protection. How many times did I mentioned you?

I'm like Mike, they don't have any starting offensive linemen out there. No disrespect to anybody, but that's the way they're doing. That's not the case this year. You're seeing Josh Meyers as a wing. That's the part I'm excited to see, because, as you mentioned, it's gonna be a work in progress. Reagor is going to test them and

stress them in a lot of ways on Sunday. But there's going to be guys out there on that field that have seen justin Jefferson, There's gonna be guys on that field that have had to deal with some of the elite players in this league on offense and defense, and it's gonna be fun to watch. Alright. Well, I'll take care of a little sponsor business here and then I want to take a look around at what's going

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is rubbing off on you man. There you go. Um. Week one always an interesting and what I always consider hands down the most unpredictable week in what is always an unpredictable league in general. Start with what else is going on in the NFC North, and that is the the Bears and the Lions are both hosting games. Chicago at home against San Francisco Detroit, coming off of the summer of hard knocks. Every everyone, everyone in the country got to look into their their training camp. I saw

maybe one or one and a half about it. Detroit at home against the Philadelphia Eagles. Now both the road teams here, the forty Niners and the Eagles, both teams with with high hopes with young quarterbacks, um run oriented offenses to a certain extent um big challenges here at home for the other two teams in the NFC North, the Bears and Alliance. Yeah, I mean forty Niners and Eagles are gonna win. So it's about it. Okay, No, it's it is gonna be tough sledding coming out of

the gate. I love what I've read so far though about Detroit. I mean the fact that it sounds like it's a sellout at ford Field already. I mean, I think people have really rallied around Dan Campbell and the culture. I remember remember saying that to you last year. I'm like, the wins and losses really don't matter. It's about what what are they kind of building there? What's what's the culture like? I mean, you saw that clip again. I

didn't watch Hard Knocks this here, but that clip. But Jamal Williams just, you know, almost in tears telling those guys he's sick of losing that he experienced winning for four years here. They were better than what people thought they were last year, and you gotta admit. I mean that win over Green Day to end the season, that put them into the off season feeling okay about themselves, like we finished strong to be able to kind stay you know, mentally with it. I mean, I'm on Ross st. Brown.

I think is gonna be a talented player in this league. I think they found some young pieces there to build around. I just feel like if Jalen hurts is as dynamic as everybody thinks he is, and what they've built around him, I feel like Philly is going to be a team that's gonna push Dallas for the top of that division. I would expect them to roll. I love Trey Lance, I always have. I'm excited about him. I wouldn't say it. I was on the gate with Justin Herbert right away.

I love Justin Herbert. I'm not saying I'm that high on him, but everything I've seen from the guy, I feel like this is the chosen one. You know, North Dakota State has produced a few quarterbacks now, but this is There's just something about him. There's an in factor and I love the fact that kind of like the Packers did with Aaron Rodgers and Brett Farve, didn't wait as long, but it just was sort of this commitment of now this is our guy. We're gonna We're gonna

commit to him. He's gonna be the one we're gonna run with. And I feel like that's the better play. Yeah. Well, year two for Dan Campbell in Detroit and then the debut of Matt Eberflus in Chicago as the head coach and with Luke Getzi, the former Packers assistant running the Chicago Bears offense with uh their young quarterback in Justin Fields, the first round pick from Ohio State from a year ago. That's the X factor. I mean, honestly, I think that's

what it all comes down to. If Justin Fields is the truth, if he's as talent as they thought he was coming out. Um, I feel like that the Bears are going to go as far as he goes this season. They aren't the most talented team, but if they have something there with Fields, I think they're going to be able to surprise some people. Two interesting games as far as cross conference, a f C versus NFC that that

I wanted to touch on briefly. Cleveland is a Carolina the Baker Mayfield revenge game or what I love the way the schedule makers It's crazy how that how that um worked itself out. And then Kansas City at Arizona a very interesting a f C versus NFC matchup Patrick Mahomes Kyler Murray Um. Those those those are two games, UM, two games that that are interesting for for different reasons. The Baker Mayfield storyline is obviously the one that's going

to dominate the first one. The other one the Arizona Cardinals, a lot of high hopes playing in a really tough division. The end with what happened last year, they they started out so strong, they were seven and oh they were the last undefeated team in the league. But then by season's end they were flaming out in the wild card round with an absolutely dreadful January performance against UH, their

division rival Rams. So, you know, the Cardinals a team with a lot of high hopes, but yet a fan base that's a little skeptical perhaps as too as to just how much to buy into this team because of UH such an up and down roller coaster ride, so to speak, last year. It seems like to me it's Humpty dumpty sitting on the wall. I mean, they I wouldn't be surprised if Arizona makes a deep playoff run. I wouldn't be surprised if it falls apart this year.

You know, Like that's kind of the way I've sort of been sitting with this thing, because, you know, Cliff Kingsbury, there's definitely some I don't want to say fire on them, but I mean it wasn't great how it ended last season. I think everybody from the top down in Arizona talked about that. Kyler Murray, You you've definitely put your way into this young man. Now, this is going to be the face of your franchise, and you hope that he

takes those necessary steps. But you're going up against one of the the pre eminent teams in the National Football League right now. And I look at Kansas City where they sit right now. It reminds me a lot of the Packers and sort of that aftermath of the Super Bowl forty five, where Kansas City is gonna be a team that's just gonna threaten for twelve wins a year. Now, thirteen wins a year, uh, and that's a lot for

Arizona to deal with out of the gates. I'm not saying Arizona has to absolutely win this thing, but you've gotta have a nice performance. You've gotta have something to give yourself some confidence. Um. And then I want to just touch on quickly. Yeah, it's just crazy how Cleveland Carolina worked out. But then Monday night football Denver going to Seattle. Yeah, Hey, you gotta it's like professional wrestling, right, you gotta build the feuds. You gotta build the rivalry's

gotta get the interest up. What a better way to Nathaniel Hackett, former Packers offensive coordinator, makes his head coaching debut with the the Russell Wilson Revenge Game or whatever you want to call it, with the longtime Seahawks quarterback going up against his old team right out of the gate in Week one on Monday Night Football. UM Packers Vikings is obviously a big division game in Week one.

Another one that's interesting the Las Vegas Raiders at the Los Angeles Chargers, the game that the game that was the final primetime game in Week eighteen last year is

now a rematch in Week one. It will be obviously the Davante Adams debut with the Raiders, but um a big game in the a f C West, a division that a lot of analysts are calling the best in uh, the best in the NFL as far as the depth of it and uh the way the way that Week eight team game went last year with the overtime and maybe they were going to tie and both go to the playoffs and all that. Well, now here they are

squaring off again in Week one. Should be interesting. Yeah, And Herbert like I just just talking about I mean, is I think a guy that's definitely on the the incline here and seeing where his career is going to go in the Raiders. Raiders are an interesting spot MIC because, Yeah, Davante Adams thing is a really interesting storyline and obviously him reconnecting with Derek Carr. They have had a lot of trouble here though, with the last three years of

their draft classes. Like, I still wonder about the overall depth of that football team because you can't basically miss on everybody and expect your yourselves to be in a super Bowl type form. It's difficult to do that. Um, this is not Major league Baseball. You can't just go buy everybody. You gotta you gotta be able to have some homegrown talents. So the Raiders are very peculiar team to me. But for me, I look at the Chargers as in a very deep division, as probably the one

that's going to be able to push the Chiefs the most. Yeah, I thought, Um, I thought the Chargers were a potential threat if they had gotten into the playoffs last year in the a f C because of the way Herbert was playing, and then it didn't work out that way. For them. So Um, as you said, the arrow definitely pointing up for a quarterback like Justin Herbert. Last but not least Sunday night football, which unfortunately we probably won't be able to watch because we'll be working on all

of our postgame stuff for Packers Vikings. But it turns out the first Sunday night football game of the year is a repeat of the Thursday night kickoff opener from last year. And of course I'm talking about Buccaneers against the Cowboys. This time it's in Dallas. But two teams in the NFC, both considered contenders, potential favorites in their division.

And uh um, you know, with everything that happened in Tampa Bay with training camp and Tom Brady being gone for a while, and then all the talk in Dallas of where things are with Mike McCarthy and all the expectations that are on the Cowboys heading into this season. Um, you can't ask for a bigger Week one NFC matchup than than Tampa Bay at Dallas. Yeah. No, And in

for Dallas, as you mentioned, the stakes don't get any higher. Um. You know, whether it's true or not, whether it's just suft refuge or just stuff that the media is kind of conjuring up. Um, certainly these are questions Mike McCarthy's had to continually answer, So it's going to be interesting to see where that thing goes. Um a big win over Tampa I think that's probably the outcome that would

increase the most stock for either of these teams. But certainly there's questions to answer about Tom Brady to forty five years old. I mean, you can talk about the off the field stuff whatever, but I mean, you know, he's trying to hold back Father Time one more season here and and if he can. I think Tampa Bay

feels really good about their chances. Yeah, well, it's a it's gonna be a dynamite Week one and certainly the Packers vikings at US Bank Stadium takes a backseat to No to No game in terms of the intensity and the stakes. But with that we will call it a wrap on this edition of Packers on Script and be sure to follow all of our coverage of the team and everything with the big Week one matchup in Minneapolis. Will have it all for you on Packers dot Com.

For Wes, I'm Mike, Thanks for tuning in everybody. We'll see you next time.