Javon Hargrave

What happens? Micah Parsons down with an injury for the first five or six games, and you lose Rashan Gary.

Now, um, Quay Walker and Hargrave's basically an even exchange, but net/net, you're down from 36 sacks to 29.

So no pass rush.

You give an NFL quarterback time in this league, and he'll be able to pick you apart.

... replaced him with Zaire Franklin, who's gonna come in, the 30-year-old from the Colts, who did not have, according to PFF, his best year at Indianapolis last year.

Javon Hargrave is their new nose tackle in the middle as well.

Um, to me, the strength of the Packers' defense still looks like it's their safety group.

They have Xavier McKinney, they have Evan Williams, they have Jevon Bullard.

Uh, talking with Frank, he talks a lot about the puzzle pieces on an offense and just being fascinated with how all of this fits.

So there is an effort to make this thing much more, uh, synchronized, I think, but the other thing you keep hearing from linemen or coaches or whoever about this is what Aaron Jones said, that the level of the engine, the level of violence that they want to play with, we saw some things in training camp where, whether it's Frank Smith or Keith Carter kind of driving that, there is a different mentality with how they want to finish plays, and I'm curious to see what that looks like.

I mean, [laughs] they're gonna go against old friend Jay- Javon Hargrave on Sunday and, and it's a good first indicator of how different can this run game really be.

I'm interested to see that play out.

And I understand the questions with the offensive line, but the Packers with their offensive line played against Minnesota last year, and that was with...

We know Jonathan Allen was on that team, Javon Hargrave was on that team, Jonathan Greenard was on that team.

And Emmanuel Wilson rushed for over 100 yards, I think over 120 yards.

I understand JJ McCarthy was involved in that game, and he was terrible, and that was sort of the, the nadir of the JJ McCarthy, uh, conversations and era, narratives and all that stuff.