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Peter King with NBC Sports here in Green Bay Packers, training
camp. I'm with Aaron Jones running back for the Packers
and Aaron,
I wonder how long did it take you to get over the loss to San
Francisco in the playoffs, which
seemed to be pretty painful. That very, very, cold night
here at Lambeau
definitely took a while.
I would say probably till he got back on the field up here,
you know, that's something been closed multiple times and then
that was the last time and
you know just came down to execution and we're so close. So
definitely stuck with me for a while.
Two years at home. Losing your last playoff game,
do you feel like it's something that
is a problem for you guys or do you just think that's football?
I'll just think it was football but we know what we need to do
and we'll have to execute when
To those games and
execute better than the other team and normally the team, who
executes,
the highest rate normally win. So
I don't think, I think it's just football and when it comes
down to it at the end of the day and but we're will be
better for it and when we get back in the situation, we know
we have to do. Yeah. I noticed watching practice today. This
young receiver Romeo dubs
is extremely. It looks like he belongs.
Is it does not look like he does not look like a rookie.
E in Camp and I wonder from your perspective you've been
here a while you see a new receiver like that come in.
What's he look like to you?
100% agree with you definitely, he belongs 100%. He's been
going out there and making plays from day one even when he
was here
OTAs and
rookie minicamp and things like that. He was making plays. So
he's just doing it Time After Time After Time and that's how
you gain the quarterbacks trust. And
so I'm proud of him and like you said, he belongs
Interesting thing you probably would feel a little bit
the same way as a guy who was not a first or second-round pick if
you don't come in really highly regarded
and is there something about coming in
especially early on in your career and feeling like you
really have to prove yourself definitely it's a chip on your
shoulder and then you remember all those guys in your position
who were taking in front of you as well. So
you just you grow that chip on your shoulder and you like, hey
I'm going to show Oh these guys when I get the opportunity and
think that's what he's doing
and
you know, you might, you not my not plan, those power five
schools,
so you're getting a little overlooked but once you get
the opportunity, it's all good. And like I said, you're here and
then I fell, they're going to come find you as long as you
can play.
So,
the one thing, I think every person who follows football
closely has noticed
over the last year or so is that you have become
known for Wearing a sombrero
and you know, we're talking about it, you're from El Paso.
So obviously you've got a little bit of you know the
the Mexican United States knowledge. Okay. But so, how
did you get to be the sombrero guy?
So we're going back to Texas. Actually playing the Cowboys and
I decided, hey, let me step off the plane, we're going back to
Texas little tribute to help a so my hometown and I had like
a little party city hat.
When it wasn't a real sombrero, and
after the game, I had a good game. And after the game,
a Packers fan reached out senior cheesehead and he asked me, did
I want to senior cheese hats and your cheese? Say yes, sir.
And he asked me, did I want a real Packer
somewhere on them? Like yes, sir course, send it to me and
I've been wearing it ever since. So
do you have a good luck when you were the sombrero
definitely have good luck. When I wear a sombrero? I don't
know. He's pretty with some of his his extra cheese or
something on there.
He did something to the Hatters
you Kick to it. I wonder if you when you first reported to
the Packers, if you felt like you would ever be very well known
for wearing a sombrero,
definitely not from the beginning but
definitely overtime is branding
working on your brand and working on your Imaging.
So
we'll end with this. Tell me in your mind. What do you guys
need to do this year
to finally sort of beat back the ghosts of the last couple
of years of playoff loss?
Has just when we get those big games is execution.
Now, those small little details that the end of the day, that's
what it comes down. To those
small details, that will take you over the top. So,
just in finishing finishing out games,
Aaron Jones. Good luck this year. Thanks for talking to us.
Yes sir. Thank you from Green Bay. This is Peter King.