Green Bay, Wisconsin — The sky is ink-black, frost hugging Lombardi Avenue. Javon Bullard — the Packers’ young defensive back — rolls into the facility convinced he’ll be the first one in. A rookie trying to earn trust on specials and sub-packages, he makes himself a promise: “Get stronger. Get in earlier. No one will outwork me if I’m going to belong in Green Bay.”

3:30 a.m., the alarm blares. Bullard grabs his bag and slips through the cold before dawn. He wants to show Matt LaFleur and the vets that his standard matches the room. But when he pushes the weight-room door open at exactly 4:00 — he stops cold.

The lights have been on for a while. The thud of a football, the pop off a net, measured breathing. In the middle of the room is Jordan Love — shirt soaked, voice low as he runs cadence, reset-and-rip throws, pocket ladders like it’s already Sunday. The world is asleep; Love is not.

“I thought getting here this early would be enough,” Bullard admits with a grin. “But him… Jordan was already there. Sweating, throwing, working while everyone else sleeps. In that moment I realized — in Green Bay, ‘too early’ doesn’t exist.”

Love keeps his edge with iron discipline: meticulous nutrition, daily mobility for fluidity, and marathon film that turns coverage shells into cues. He isn’t just a QB; he’s a tone-setter whose precision, poise, and command lift the entire huddle. He doesn’t need a speech — the work speaks.

Love glances over, nods, and goes right back to the grind — transmitting the Packers Way without a word. Bullard understands: here, you don’t arrive early to impress anyone; you arrive early to

beat yourself, to honor a standard forged by champions and carried by Jordan Love.

“Here, there’s no privilege to rest,” Bullard says after practice. “Jordan doesn’t have to say a word — his actions teach you what the Packers Way means.”

First light glints off the green-and-gold crest on the wall. A rookie and a franchise QB work in silence. A torch passed, wordless, built only from sweat and will.

As he leaves, Bullard smiles: “When you show up early, remember — with the Packers, someone probably beat you to it. But it isn’t a race against the clock. It’s a race against yourself, for Green Bay, for the Packers Way forever.”

And perhaps the Packers Way has never felt more alive — right before the sun rises. Go Pack Go.