Wilde on the Packers’ Biggest Questions Entering Week 1 - Weekly Wilde

Now, rather than focus on some of the negative news nine days out when we record this from the season opener, I want to hit you with a fill-in-the-blank statement to start this week's episode.

The fill-in-the-blank is this.

The player many people will be surprised about after week one is...

Lucas Van Ness.

Did he have a good offseason? He had good moments.

Again, I'm not a connoisseur of pass rush ability, but he was in the backfield a fair amount, which again, if we're looking at the Packers offensive line, is that a statement on how far Lucas Van Ness has come or what a jumbled mess at times that position was during training camp? I don't know the answer to that.

but look, they need it.

Let me put it this way.

They need him to be the answer to that question.

Along with like, we've, we've told the Marshawn Lloyd story so many times now, like I, we don't need to tell it again.

Like it, it, In the words of Kevin Green, it is time not just to stay healthy, but to be productive.

And Marshawn knows that like that's not I don't think he has enjoyed the attention that he has gotten repeatedly for all.

What a cute story.

He's finally healthy.

Like he doesn't enjoy that.

Like he he just wants to be a football player and he's had some really rotten luck.

And he went out to California and spent this entire offseason at this Myers Institute.

And they seem to have solved the riddle of his body.

And, you know, as he explained it to us back in June, this goes back to him tearing his ACL his freshman year at South Carolina.

And everything else kind of, you know.

was a wave after wave after wave crashing into the shoreline of his health after that.

So they seem to think that they've solved it.

If you've got a problem, yo, I'll solve it, as Vanilla Ice once taught us.

Hopefully that that's happened for him because he's a nice kid who has had some rotten luck.

So he's part of that equation.