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Watch: Scenes From Practice on Aug. 30

Green Bay Packers training camp is complete. Starting with practice on Wednesday, the focus has turned to Week 1 against the Chicago Bears.
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Watch: Scenes From Practice on Aug. 30
Watch: Scenes From Practice on Aug. 30

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GREEN BAY, Wis. – It’s Bears Week.

Or weeks.

The Green Bay Packers will kick off the 2023 NFL season at the Chicago Bears on Sept. 10. With training camp complete and the roster (mostly) settled, the team’s attention has turned to the season-opening showdown. That included Wednesday's practice, with some of the action in the accompanying video.

“I think what changes is just having all of our focus on Chicago,” first-time starting quarterback Jordan Love said of practices on Wednesday and Thursday this week. 

“Now you have an opponent to watch tape on, see tendencies that they do and you start to put that game plan together as an offense. It goes from having the whole playbook to kind of that game plan. So, it’s easier for the guys to focus on each play, focus on every day at practice. But it just comes down to film watching, building, seeing the tendencies that they do on defense, having the best plan ready.”

After a couple years of fielding veteran-laden rosters, this Packers team is incredibly young. That could mean a different coaching approach, Matt LaFleur said.

“Everything about coaching is just learning your players and how do they best respond. Some guys will respond to a foot up their ass and some guys are going to need to put an arm around them. That’s just the way it is. That’s the way players are. It’s our responsibility to try to learn these guys and also learn what they do best and try to showcase that by the positions that we put them in.

“Are we going to have to scale back sometimes? Maybe. I don’t know. We’re kind of getting into that whole game-plan process right now. You’ve just got to be open-minded, to me, and throughout the course of the season and knowing that you’re going to evolve. It’s always the fine line of what’s too much for any team that you’re on, whether you’re old or young. Again, just trying to put these guys in the best position possible.”

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Bill Huber, who has covered the Green Bay Packers since 2008, is the publisher of Packers On SI, a Sports Illustrated channel. E-mail: packwriter2002@yahoo.com History: Huber took over Packer Central in August 2019. Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillHuberNFL Background: Huber graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he played on the football team, in 1995. He worked in newspapers in Reedsburg, Wisconsin Dells and Shawano before working at The Green Bay News-Chronicle and Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1998 through 2008. With The News-Chronicle, he won several awards for his commentaries and page design. In 2008, he took over as editor of Packer Report Magazine, which was founded by Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Nitschke, and PackerReport.com. In 2019, he took over the new Sports Illustrated site Packer Central, which he has grown into one of the largest sites in the Sports Illustrated Media Group.

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