GREEN BAY - The two leaders of the Packers' football operation, General Manager Brian Gutekunst and Head Coach Matt LaFleur, both spoke to the media Wednesday about the initial 53-man roster and all the moves made over the last couple of days.

Here are five things we learned:

Gutekunst admitted he's not patient enough with specialists, but he's not interested in being patient when he has a team with legitimate title aspirations, especially after seeing last season's playoff run end in part due to a crucial missed field goal. So he moved on from both Anders Carlson and Greg Joseph after uninspiring preseasons and claimed undrafted rookie Brayden Narveson from Tennessee.

"I'm very confident in this team and what we can accomplish so I want to make sure we give this team every opportunity to win," Gutekunst said. "So there's going to be a standard that we're going to try to reach.

"We were going to try to get better there and whether that was Anders, whether that was somebody from outside, it didn't matter. But we needed to get better."

He later added, "Guys have got to produce. If they don't produce, it's going to be a short leash."

Narveson kicked at three different colleges, finishing at North Carolina State. He had two preseason highlights with the Titans - a make from 59 yards out, and a walk-off winner from 46. He missed one field goal in the preseason, from 58 yards. He wasn't able to overtake veteran Nick Folk to win that job.

The move leaves the Packers heading into their Week 1 game at Brazil with a kicker who's never kicked in a game setting for Green Bay, which LaFleur referred to as "uncharted territory." But the objective is clear.

"You just have to come in and perform," LaFleur said. "I don't know how else to put it. But it's definitely a unique situation."