#895 Packers Unscripted: First week review

The one thing, and we're doing this before practice six today, uh, at the time in which we're taping this, is, you know, this is training camp 15 for me now, and I don't know if through the first week, uh, there's ever been an energy quite like the one that I've felt, uh, out there at Nitschke Field.

I, I, I think part of that credit to the fans.

Uh, I think there's been an unbelievable atmosphere that the fans have provided.

The, the turnout has been fantastic.

No doubt.

Um, you know, and, and that, that's a big part of it too.

But also just I think it's a mixture of a lot of young, hungry guys and also guys who have been here three, four years now kinda becoming their own player and setting their own tone.

And, you know, there was one guy that we were talking to last week, uh, this past week, Kamal Hadden.

So Kamal ha- unfortunately had a terrible ankle injury at the end of last season.

That was a rough one.

Starts the year on PUP, and he makes his return at practice, and we're talking to him afterwards, and, and we're going through this, talking about what happened in that game against Baltimore, and he says rhetorically to himself, he's like, "You know, if I had to do it all over again, I would." He's like, "That's what I gotta do.

I gotta set the tone for my team.

I gotta make the play.

It was my responsibility to take on that crack block.

I have to be there." And it just seems to me that that sort of underscores the mentality of this football team.

Obviously, you don't want to get injured, but it's just that everybody understands their role and understands what their job responsibilities are and I think are, are maximizing these snaps early on.

So whether it's Jordan Love, I think has had a really good pace with the offense so far, whether it's Xavier McKinney, who picked off Jordan Love for the first time-

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in team periods on Tu- on Monday.

Yeah.

Um, I, I've just really liked the level of compete, and as we transition now into the full padded portion of practice, of por- the p- p- full padded portion of training camp, um, I'm just really excited to see what these guys can do.

Yeah, I think it's interesting that you bring up the intensity.

I mean, I definitely felt the intensity ratchet up a notch when the full pads went on-

Mm-hmm