Green Bay --- Not much changes from OTA's to minicamp. It's football in May, in June. The real football doesn’t begin until the pads come on in August. So, everyone, please keep perspective with everything this time of year.
OK. With that disclaimer out of the way, here are some thoughts and observations from Tuesday's minicamp practice...
--- Jerron McMillian is starting to play on instincts. Yes, it's cliche. Every second-year player will say they're doing less thinking and more reacting. Still, McMillian's play so far in Year 2 supports such rhetoric. During 7-on-7 -- always a pass-happy drill that favors the offense -- McMillian broke on an Aaron Rodgers bullet to tight end Jermichael Finley over the middle for a deflection. During an 11-on-11 segment, he blitzed off the edge for a would-be sack.
At safety, the competition between McMillian and M.D. Jennings next to Morgan Burnett is going to be tight. Barring injury, I'd be surprised if Green Bay signed any of the veteran safeties still on the market.
--- The kicking competition between Mason Crosby and Giorgio Tavecchio is underway. The Packers tried to simulate some pressure at Tuesday's practice with the two kicking back and forth from 38, 43 and 50 yards. Both Crosby and Tavecchio made all three of their kicks --- and Tavecchio's 50-yarder would have been good from 60. The left-footer can boom it.
Mike McCarthy said this is the format they'll use in the future.
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