GREEN BAY – Blake Martinez has one more week to relax. Then it’s back to business.
As Martinez departed Lambeau Field on the Packers Tailgate Tour bus Tuesday morning – along with teammates Kenny Clark and Ty Montgomery, plus President/CEO Mark Murphy and alumni Bubba Franks, Antonio Freeman and Rob Davis – he was looking forward to touring much of the southern half of Wisconsin, even crossing the border into Iowa, and interacting with all shapes and stripes of Packers fans.
But he also has his eye on next week, when Green Bay begins offseason workouts and he’ll start diving into new defensive coordinator Mike Pettine’s playbook, processing the system and the key communication role the third-year inside linebacker is likely to have in the middle of it.