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Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers will travel to Jacksonville to take on the New Orleans Saints in Week 1 on Sunday.
The game was moved due to Hurricane Ida in what will now be a neutral site venue. Along with the moving of the game, there has been plenty of moving on the Packers' offensive line this offseason.
In is rookie second-round pick Josh Myers to start at center. He will replace all-pro Corey Linsley who departed for the Los Angeles Chargers in the offseason. Per Rob Demovsky of ESPN, the first snap of training camp from rookie to MVP was botched, but Rodgers stayed calm.
“It’s funny, I jumped the gun a little bit early on the first play of the first practice,” Myers recalled. “I was just a hair early, and we had a conversation about that and how his cadences can be a little different.”
Rodgers would continue to demonstrate patience with the rookie center for the Packers but as training camp has carried on, No. 12 has purposely flipped the switch to prep Myers.
“I was very gentle and patient early in camp, and there has to be a switch because we’re getting a little closer. It’s important that he feels the urgency in my demeanor moving forward, especially with potentially a young person playing next to him. We need him to play more like a veteran and not like a rookie.”
The Packers gunslinger is helping the rookie Myers in a variety of ways by taking different approaches as Green Bay gets set to take on New Orleans. With all-pro David Bakhtiari out for the first six weeks and Linsley gone to LA, it will be an interesting formula up front on Green Bay's offensive line.
