WEBVTT 00:00:00.100 --> 00:00:06.198 Now it's Monday morning and uh yeah, so last night I 00:00:07.009 --> 00:00:12.528 I finished my uh my Monday column. I had to write a Dak Prescott thing that I wound up uh 00:00:12.569 --> 00:00:18.179 sort of falling asleep, um, trying to put together, so that was like 10:30, 11. Decided 00:00:18.179 --> 00:00:25.129 to wake up early and write the morning instead . So my morning was uh 5:00 a.m. alarm. 00:00:25.449 --> 00:00:32.329 I got a uh. I got my, my dad column done, went for a run, got 00:00:32.329 --> 00:00:38.450 breakfast. It's now 8:48, um, and the Packers practice at Lambeau. 00:00:39.389 --> 00:00:44.228 At about 10:30 or so. So we're getting over there a little early. We're gonna show you 00:00:44.228 --> 00:00:50.270 around the place a little bit, which I think will be cool. Um, it's like one of the most, I 00:00:50.270 --> 00:00:55.750 mean, to me, it's one of the few NFL stadiums left that has real character. A lot of the 00:00:55.750 --> 00:01:02.548 stadiums have the wow factor, but nowhere's got the sort of history or feel to it 00:01:02.548 --> 00:01:06.629 that Lambeau does, and they've done a really good job of kind of keeping it updated the same 00:01:06.629 --> 00:01:12.448 way you see in baseball with Wrigley. You know , or Fenway, um, and you can feel the history 00:01:12.448 --> 00:01:18.079 when you're there. Um, and if you look, right, Zimmerman over here and me were talking about 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:24.099 this yesterday. I was sort of explaining to him how This is what the NFL was in the 20s, um, 00:01:24.189 --> 00:01:30.989 100 years ago when it started. It was teams in Canton, Ohio and Decatur, Illinois, 00:01:31.019 --> 00:01:36.388 and all of these little places across the Midwest, and eventually those teams either 00:01:36.388 --> 00:01:41.980 disappeared or they moved to bigger cities. The Chicago Bears were originally, um, the 00:01:41.980 --> 00:01:48.790 Decatur Staleys, um, and there's one, there was one that survived in, in, in one of these 00:01:48.790 --> 00:01:55.750 little Midwestern towns. And that is population 107395 is a sign that 00:01:55.750 --> 00:02:02.150 says Green Bay, Wisconsin. So it's pretty cool and as you guys will see, as we get 00:02:02.150 --> 00:02:07.579 closer. The stadium sort of rises up out of nowhere. 00:02:24.088 --> 00:02:29.569 Same as it is everywhere, I guess. It's just go see people, um, that I haven't seen in a 00:02:29.569 --> 00:02:35.368 while, coaches, front office people, um, you know, I'm gonna spend some time with Jordan 00:02:35.368 --> 00:02:41.758 Love today, so like it's really. I, I mean, honestly, it's like the same thing pretty much 00:02:41.758 --> 00:02:46.500 every place I go is, um, just to see the people I haven't seen. 00:02:50.939 --> 00:02:56.699 Believe I have any credentials for you. You don't. Nope. Should I call Jason Waller's then? 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:03.580 Yes. OK. OK, so that's, I'm not positive. Is that 00:03:03.580 --> 00:03:10.258 by like where all the football, where football is, or is that? Like 00:03:10.258 --> 00:03:15.990 Jason was like, yeah, it says Packer administrative offices, and I was on the phone 00:03:15.990 --> 00:03:21.699 with him. Yeah, was it just, oh, this is nice. Wow. Um, 00:03:23.069 --> 00:03:28.550 Because we renovated our um equipment room and so our old auditorium turned in a storage for 00:03:28.550 --> 00:03:35.368 them. This is our old team auditorium like back with McCarthy and Sherman and 00:03:36.308 --> 00:03:42.469 so oh cool this is nice everything, yeah, yeah , seats are so I was in the equipment area and 00:03:42.469 --> 00:03:47.118 I'm like. This is auditor, it's all different now. Yeah. So I'm like, this is auditorium I 00:03:47.118 --> 00:03:53.778 was here for 25. What do you guys play this week? We're in Pittsburgh. Oh. 00:03:55.189 --> 00:04:00.110 Kind of a big deal. Yeah, that's interesting. I'm excited because like half the coach got 00:04:00.110 --> 00:04:06.849 locker room, so now this is. Oh, 00:04:06.929 --> 00:04:13.210 jeez. So yeah, this is 00:04:14.610 --> 00:04:17.449 I don't know, this is pretty cool. It's like one of the few places that like every time you 00:04:17.449 --> 00:04:20.608 walk into it. You can kind of feel the history in here. 00:04:34.309 --> 00:04:41.189 Catching the football, and so, yeah, I think um he had a good day. And what have you seen 00:04:41.819 --> 00:04:44.358 This this camp Thank you 00:04:49.059 --> 00:04:55.949 Yeah, um. Yeah, Bull is, he, he's a dog, man. I'm, I'm excited to see everybody, 00:04:56.028 --> 00:05:02.069 honestly, I know that sounds like a cop-out answer, but, you know, I, it's, again, it's 00:05:02.069 --> 00:05:07.449 just a great opportunity to catch up with people that you haven't seen in a while, um, 00:05:07.790 --> 00:05:13.738 you know, I like. Um, there are a lot of people here that, you know, I, I think. 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:19.798 There, there are a lot of people here that, uh , you know, that I've known a long time, so it's 00:05:19.798 --> 00:05:23.850 exciting to get to see them again, of course, and you know it's not always just the head 00:05:23.850 --> 00:05:28.358 coach, the general managers, people down the line too that you haven't seen in a while, um, 00:05:28.559 --> 00:05:33.519 so yeah, 100% there are a bunch of people that I'm excited to, to, to see that I haven't seen 00:05:33.519 --> 00:05:34.059 in a bit. 00:06:00.250 --> 00:06:06.290 Is taking care of it. Uh, and then we got 5 takeaways for my 15th training camp stop here 00:06:06.290 --> 00:06:11.639 with the Green Bay Packers. Takeaway number 1, really one of the big things that the Packers 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:15.678 need is a difference maker to emerge in offense, and this is where they were last year 00:06:15.678 --> 00:06:22.259 and that they needed. Guys to send, I mean, it was, it was good getting again time to, 00:06:22.548 --> 00:06:27.059 time to spend with people and catch up with people and everything else. I mean there's 00:06:27.059 --> 00:06:32.750 always a couple that you don't catch, but, um, you know, you work through that and, and it's 00:06:32.750 --> 00:06:39.420 like honestly like I just, it's good to learn about the teams that you're with too, you know, 00:06:39.588 --> 00:06:46.548 so you know it's, it's a um. It's an interesting It's an interesting time of 00:06:46.548 --> 00:06:50.309 year for sure. Everybody's optimistic about where they're at. I mean if you have good 00:06:50.309 --> 00:06:55.379 enough relationships with these people, you can get the truth too. So, um, so yeah, I mean, 00:06:55.428 --> 00:06:59.709 and getting to see the Bears and the Packers back to back, and then, you know, we're going 00:06:59.709 --> 00:07:02.730 to the Vikings. All these teams are in direct competition with each other, so that part of it 00:07:02.730 --> 00:07:08.230 is interesting too. The interview with, uh, Jordan Love. Good, good, good. He's a, he's a 00:07:08.230 --> 00:07:13.980 great guy and like I think he's, it's really cool seeing him because he was. Well, I think 00:07:13.980 --> 00:07:20.920 like someone who was kind of building from not zero, but like had further 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:26.678 to go than the other quarterbacks in his class . He was drafted the same year as Joe Burrow and 00:07:26.678 --> 00:07:32.920 Tuatungabuloa and Justin Herbert. And so just to see like how far along he's come and then 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:38.000 listen to the other people talk about him. Um, you know, it's just, he's just a really 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:42.480 interesting guy that way and, um, really good guy, you know, and I think again, like I said 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:49.189 earlier, like this is sort of indicative of like, I, I, I, my experience has always been 00:07:49.189 --> 00:07:55.428 that like most players are good guys, but the vast majority of NFL players are people that 00:07:55.428 --> 00:08:00.189 you like to talk to and that are interesting to talk to and you know, I, I know people have 00:08:00.189 --> 00:08:04.290 their perception about football players one way or the other and some of the stuff that's. 00:08:04.750 --> 00:08:09.028 That's happened over the years, but most of them, I, I'd say are really good guys, the ones 00:08:09.028 --> 00:08:14.588 I've come across anyway. Malachi and I, yeah, Malachi and I are, I think now on one of the 00:08:14.588 --> 00:08:21.519 longest, uh, legs, um, of the, of the trip. In fact, I think this year, I haven't done 00:08:21.519 --> 00:08:26.269 it in my head, but I think as far as the driving part of this trip, this is the longest 00:08:26.269 --> 00:08:32.849 trip, so it's about 277 miles, I believe from. 00:08:33.509 --> 00:08:40.229 Uh, Minneapolis, uh, from Green Bay to Minneapolis, and, uh, yeah, so there's that 00:08:40.229 --> 00:08:47.190 piece of it, and then after this, I get to go on a plane, um, and head to Cleveland and 00:08:47.190 --> 00:08:53.668 Buffalo and then home, which will, which will be really good. So, um, yeah, not at the finish 00:08:53.668 --> 00:08:54.960 line yet, but getting closer.