Jordan Love and Lamar Jackson will take center stage when the Green Bay Packers host the Baltimore Ravens for a joint practice on Thursday.
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Both teams are top Super Bowl contenders – the Ravens have the third-shortest odds at FanDuel Sportsbook and the Packers are tied for ninth – with MVP-caliber quarterbacks and coaches that have done nothing but win.
Here are five things to watch for Thursday’s practice and Saturday’s preseason game.
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1. Bounce-Back Pack
Packers coach Matt LaFleur was upset about the results from Friday’s joint practice and Sunday’s game at the Denver Broncos but modified his message back in Green Bay on Tuesday.
“It’s why it’s always good to probably say less to you guys postgame because I felt a certain type of way and, after watching the tape, I don’t think I truly appreciated (that) our guys were playing hard, they were straining.
“We had a bunch of mental mistakes and we didn’t execute all the time and that’s why we struggled. You can even see it from the first play til the last play of the game. When they’re running the football, when you hit the pause button, there was 10 bodies at the ball. Our guys were definitely playing hard.”
Still, the starters, especially on offense, didn’t play especially well in the Friday practice and the backups were overwhelmed in the Sunday night game; it was 17-2 when it was backups vs
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