2023 Rookie Minicamp / OTAs / Training Camp

[skibrett15]

I don't think the packers will sign a player to a contract who has a pre-existing chronic knee issue.  Just wouldn't be their MO.  I also don't think they will give a 3rd contract to said player because they rarely do that in the first place.

 

hell, they haven't even extended Rashan Gary yet, and he's already back practicing and much younger.

This team is petrified of injury risk in players.  Bak will be moved at some point

[Mdpackfan22]

Still think we trade Bakh before the season or at the deadline. He won't be on this team in 2024 at his contract and his value to trade him will never be higher. Save the 21m and get some draft capital. 

[NFLGURU]

41 minutes ago, Mdpackfan22 said:

Still think we trade Bakh before the season or at the deadline. He won't be on this team in 2024 at his contract and his value to trade him will never be higher. Save the 21m and get some draft capital. 

They are going to have to trade him or redo his deal.  I read somewhere his cap hit next year is the highest cap hit of all time.  Can anyone verify.

[vegas492]

8 minutes ago, NFLGURU said:

They are going to have to trade him or redo his deal.  I read somewhere his cap hit next year is the highest cap hit of all time.  Can anyone verify.

He's the only tackle with a 40M cap hit next year.

Saw that on Spotract.  Many QB's are getting a lot more.  Allen, Stafford, Murray, Prescott, Watson are the top 5 cap hits next year, in ascending order of cap hit.  For clarification, Murray is 51.8.  Watson is 63.97.

Bakh, though is the first non-QB to show up on the highest cap hit list.  Coming in at #8.  Just ahead of Khalil Mack.  Also?  $5M under Daniel Jones.

[TheEagle]

17 hours ago, MantyWrestler said:

I said Jones DID get good reviews. 

I misread that.

[Arthur Penske]

 

[Old Guy]

8 minutes ago, Arthur Penske said:

 

Get it done before Bosa blows the lid off highest EDGE payday. 

 

Edited August 24, 2023 by Old Guy

[{Family Ghost}]

1 hour ago, Old Guy said:

Get it done before Bosa blows the lid off highest EDGE payday. 

 

Maybe they have already made offers and Gary is waiting for Bosa's deal to blow the market way up?  The Packers will get Gary inked at some point .. probably fairly soon.

Edited August 24, 2023 by {Family Ghost}

[craig]

So media can still do (some) practices, it's just NOT open to fans?  

Edited August 24, 2023 by craig

[mikebpackfan]

8 minutes ago, craig said:

So media can still do (some) practices, it's just open to fans?  

????  I think it’s basically back to reg season availability.  No fans and some limited media access. 

[squire12]

Snippets from today

 

General:

• Closed lighter practice today leading into our 3rd preseason game.

Injuries: CB Eric Stokes (PUP-Knee/Foot), TE Tyler Davis (ACL)

Not Practicing / Limited: RB Lew Nichols (Shoulder), RB Tyler Goodson (Shoulder), OL Luke Tenuta (Ankle), ILB De'Vondre Campbell (Ankle), Bo Melton (Hamstring), S Tarvarius Moore (Knee), FB Henry Pearson, WR Dontayvion Wicks, S Anthony Johnson Jr. (Knee)

Offense:

• After Musgrave didn’t get his 2 feet in for a touchdown yesterday in team drills on a well thrown ball by Love; the tight ends are working on back of the end zone drills and toe taps in individual work.
• Starters Love| Toure Heath | Musgrave | Jones - Dillon | Bakh - EJ - Myers - Runyan - Tom
• Jordan Love scrambles and finds AJ Dillon on the run for a 25-yard touchdown.
• Followed it up with an extremely rare throw at Jaire Alexander who was step for step with Reed. Ball out of reach anyway. Incomplete.
• Love - Watson - corner route 20 yard td off play action. Watson just outran Balentine (easily). Easy pitch and catch.
• Aaron Jones jet sweep for about 10.
• 2nd team OL: Walker - Rhyan - Empey - Newman - Nijman
• Dillon on a td run left side behind great blocks by Bakhtiari & Jenkins. That’s the vision when those two are healthy together.
• Love with a great back shoulder ball to Watson. Watson claims he caught it. The entire defense adamant that he didn’t. It will forever be a mystery. Nice ball by 10 tho.
• Nice ball from Clifford to a leaping Dre Miller who caught it but per the ref he didn’t get both feet in. Deguara signaled touchdown. Ref wasn’t having it.
• Keisean Nixon has now fallen down 3 times in coverage that has resulted in touchdowns this week. Jayden Reed wide open for the td from Love. Wide open on a slant from 6-yard line,
• OL shakeup: Bakh - Jenkins - Tom - Runyan - Walker
• Jayden Reed with his second td in red zone with tight coverage from Nixon on this one. caught a stop in left seam in front of Keisean Nixon from 2. Beat Nixon across goal line.
• Back to Bakh - Jenkins - Myers - Runyan - Tom in next team session.
• Ok a speed option with Love Jones. LaFleur is in his bag today.
• Love ahead of Musgrave a bit, tries to make the one handed catch but bobbles it up to Savage who has two chances at the juggling 1 handed pick but ball falls incomplete.
• Tom great pass pro on LVN. Love fires for Reed wide open who drops it. Reed has been awesome but drops have been an issue.
• Now an option play from Love to Watson.
• Love fires again in stride on a contested ball to Heath but Heath doesn’t let Love down and uses strong hands to pluck the ball and hold on through the DB trying to rip it out.
• And now a reverse to Doubs. Definitely in the bag of tricks.
• Pressure inside from Wooden. Love finds Reed anyway.
• Clifford finds the right option to Cody Chrest between two defenders but the throw lets him down. Overthrown and out of bounds.
• Timeout offense. Too many men on the field.
• Sign me up for JaDakis Bonds on the practice squad. The flashes have been really fun this week.
• Ugly rep from Kraft. Clifford gave him a perfect ball in the corner of the end zone which Kraft misjudged and hit his facemask incomplete. Should have been an easy td.
• End of half. No timeouts. 28 second left. Ball on own 35.
• Rollout for Love. Incomplete. Apparently they only get one play. 2s in now.
• Big play from Clifford to Watts with a completion and a spike with 12 seconds left. Made a nice catch off a post for 28 yards. Again only get the one play and spike.
• Jayden Reed wins the play for the offense, catching pass across the middle for 16 on third and 10. A tough sliding catch. Clocked it with 4 seconds left, setting up a 40-yard fg.

Defense:

• Anthony Johnson Jr. is not practicing.
• Starters: Gary - Slaton - Clark - Smith | Quay - McDuffie | Rasul - Nixon - Jaire | Savage - Ford
• Not sure if Jordan Love would’ve gotten the throw off in a real game (doubtful) - but Rashan Gary put some serious pressure and was coming right at Love for the sack.
• Love to Dillon in red zone but Rashan drive him to Preston for a likely sack.
• Karl Brooks with some serious pressure to get in the backfield during team drills. The rookie has had a pretty solid summer.
• Luke Musgrave blocking Rashan Gary 1x1 is a choice. Gary with an easy win and likely sack. Love fires high for Doubs anyway. Rashan Gary running around giving people the Mutombo wag after his second sack/pressure in five passing plays during red-zone period.
• Another pop pass jet sweep to Musgrave. Enagbare and Ford all over it. Nice job by 55 against Bakh.
• Great pbu and coverage by Hooper on Heath. Clifford didn’t give Heath a great ball on sort of back shoulder fade.
• Rashan Gary vs. Zach Tom did not end well for the 2nd year offensive lineman. Gary just dominated at the line of scrimmage.
• Three pressures for Karl Brooks already in practice, too. Kid is gonna get some significant run this season.
• Devonte Wyatt would be sack on Love. Gary there too. Coverage sack for sure.
• Entire pocket collapses on Love. Brooks, Enagbare, Wyatt, Van Ness all in there. Would be sack. Not sure who would have got credit.
• Love and Toure not on the same page. Valentine all over it anyway.
• A third sack for Rashan Gary today. Shared it with Devonte Wyatt, but created initial pressure beating Zach Tom on an inside move. The guy is on a tear.
• Rasul great pbu on Doubs. Doubs should have had it though. Right on his hands.
• Jonathan Owens just made a beautiful PBU on a ball that Samori Toure had to go up and get. Would’ve been a sweet catch, but an even better PBU by Owens.
• Keshawn Banks with a phenomenal pass rush on Elgton Jenkins for an easy sack of Love. Impressive from 51.
• Ballentine & Gaines with great coverage on Reed. Love throws it through the end zone. Banks with pretty solid pressure through Tom.

Special Teams:

• Carlson: 33 - Good 42 - good - right down the middle 44 - good
• Carlson now 5/6 today. Good from 45, off the left upright from 47 and good with about 10 yards to spare from 53.
• 50 yard fg attempt with the entire team screaming at him and throwing water in front of him. No good.
• Same thing - this time good. Team was having a fun time trying to distract him. Carlson ends the day 6/8. And that ends practice for the day (and really camp for this year). Thanks again for tuning in.

Media:

• Gary drills Video
• Love and the TEs Video
• Love rocking the net drill Video

Interviews:

LaFleur Presser:

• LaFleur: "I think it's safe to say Sean (Clifford) is our No. 2 quarterback."
• “They’re going to play,” LaFleur on Love and the starters in the final preseason game. Except for Rashan Gary, who will not play.
• When asked about TE situation, Matt LaFleur mentions the Packers could use offensive linemen as an extra blocker, too. They obviously haven't done that during the Marcedes Lewis Era but a possibility with Tyler Davis out for the year.

[squire12]

From yesterday, players staying after practice to engage with fans

 

https://twitter.com/mattschneidman/status/1694410607309517157?s=20

[HyponGrey]

Melton not practicing is going to hurt his PS chances.

Edited August 24, 2023 by HyponGrey

[Toddfather]

23 hours ago, Old Guy said:

Mike Sherman was the GM/Coach this won doesn't count because he was a full-fledged idiot. 

The big Lamborghini was still there to anchor the left side of the line when we won the chip in 2010. It was a big help since Tauscher was hurt and bulaga was a rook. I have no qualms that we kept Cliffy. 

[Refugee]

Having a 6th lineman in there for heavy sets was something I was hoping could happen without the Big Dog.  Tom seems like he has the feet/quickness for it but he should be a starter.  Could be Nijman who has good feet for a giant but hopefully has enough bust to get off of the line and cause some problems on the edge.