After the Green Bay Packers’ win Oct. 27 over the Chiefs in Kansas City, Billy Turner emerged from the showers and maneuvered his way around reporters, teammates and team personnel. As the right guard headed to his stall, he uttered two words just audible over the hum of a winning locker room:
“Yeet, yeet.”
A teammate met his call with a jubilant “yeet” from somewhere across the room. To the uninitiated ear, they spoke in code. But yeet and its myriad meanings are ingrained in the language of the Packers' offense. So much so that offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett slipped the word into a news conference days before the Chiefs game. He donned a T-shirt emblazoned with “YEET” and the Packers’ logo at the lectern.
Yeet is an exclamation. It’s also a verb. Most notable of all its definitions, yeet is synonymous with the Packers offense's approach to the outside zone scheme.
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