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GREEN BAY, Wis. \u2013 The Green Bay Packers will host the Carolina Panthers on Sunday. Arguably the best player in Panthers history is Julius Peppers, who spent three seasons with the Packers.<\/p>\n

Peppers, who started and ended his career with the Panthers, ranks fourth all-time in sacks and is considered one of the best pass rushers in the history of the game. Packers star Micah Parsons might wind up being regarded in the same light.<\/p>\n

So, did Parsons watch much of Peppers?<\/p>\n

\u201cJ.P., obviously, he\u2019s a freak,\u201d Peppers said on Thursday. \u201cHe\u2019s one of the best, Hall of Famer, one of the GOATs. That\u2019s kind of who I\u2019m trying to get (Lukas) Van Ness to turn into with those freakish long arms and his power and what he did. Julius, he\u2019s one of the great ones, and if you can get anybody to play the way he did, we\u2019re going to have a lot of success.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peppers spent four seasons with the Chicago Bears, so Van Ness, a native of Barrington, Ill., was familiar with his game. Van Ness was 14 when Peppers played the first of four seasons in Chicago.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had a lot of conversations about the different body types of players that we can replicate and watch,\u201d Van Ness said on Friday. \u201cMicah\u2019s really knowledgeable in terms of guys that are currently playing or have played that are similar body types or comparable to watch film of. I think that\u2019s something that he\u2019s taken me to the next level is the film aspect. I think that\u2019s a forgotten aspect of the game that a lot of people don\u2019t appreciate enough is how do you watch film and watching players.<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up in the Chicago area, so he was someone that I looked up to and, obviously, when I got drafted here and seeing that he was playing here, as well, that\u2019s a pretty good player to replicate. So, I definitely watch his tape and I definitely see some similarities in the way that we play \u2013 a physical, run-you-over, power-type game.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the urging of Parsons, Van Ness has dug much deeper into the game of a player who had double-digits sacks in 10 of 17 seasons and was selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame\u2019s all-decade teams of the 2000 and 2010s.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is probably the first time that I\u2019ve actually taken the time to reach out for video and have his film on my iPad,\u201d said Van Ness, who will miss Sunday\u2019s game with a foot injury. \u201cThis is a league where we\u2019re all compared against our peers so, on my own time, I review and watch a lot of guys, like Nick Bosa, Trey Hendrickson, Brian Burns. There\u2019s a bunch of them \u2013 a whole host of guys.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone\u2019s different, everyone has things they\u2019re good at, but the more you can learn and watch, it\u2019s only going to help you out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The one easy similarity between the two is their size. Van Ness is listed at 6-foot-5 and 272 pounds. That makes him much closer from a body-type perspective to Peppers (6-foot-7, 295 pounds) than Parsons (6-foot-3, 250 pounds).<\/p>\n

So, what can Van Ness, who has only 8.5 career sacks but was coming on strong at the time of the injury, take away from watching the legendary Peppers that he can possibly unleash when he returns to action?<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s obviously a bigger guy, a big body, but you can see the way he utilizes his speed and his get-off to his advantage, too,\u201d Van Ness said. \u201cThere\u2019s guys who play with power and are bigger body types, but they tend to be slower off the ball. I think that\u2019s what I see is the hybrid to also add some speed into your bag on top of being able to physically dominate a guy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s where I liked it in the way that he set up a lot of his rushes was, \u2018I\u2019m going to dominate you with power and then off of that is where I can start to dictate the game.\u2019 Clay (Matthews) operated the same way. Luckily, we\u2019ve had some pretty good pass rushers come through here, so there\u2019s a lot of good people to look at.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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