Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford sitting alongside my partner in crime,
Speaker 1: West hod Kuwits were coming to you here from our
Speaker 1: studios at lambau Field and West. We are back from Chicago.
Speaker 1: Week one is in the books for the Packers and
Speaker 1: it's an uplifting ten to three victory over the Chicago Bears. Now,
Speaker 1: for all the preview shows we did leading up to
Speaker 1: the game, if you had said, hey, Mike, you remember
Speaker 1: that game the week seventeen of two thousand and ten,
Speaker 1: when the Packers beat the Bears ten to three, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be like that, I don't think anybody would have
Speaker 1: believed you. But it's Week one in the NFL, and
Speaker 1: you absolutely never know what kind of game you're gonna get.
Speaker 1: You don't know what you're gonna get, and you don't
Speaker 1: know how quickly the helium can be taken out of
Speaker 1: the balloon. And if you're looking at like the Chicago Bears,
Speaker 1: I mean you and I were in the city for
Speaker 1: twenty four hours before this game. There was such a
Speaker 1: vibrance in the air, so much excitement, and everybody walking
Speaker 1: around in the streets wearing Bears jerseys. It was. It
Speaker 1: was incredible and you had Sadarius Preston Smith, Adrian Amos
Speaker 1: just put a small, slow stranglehold on that enthusiasm in
Speaker 1: this matchup. And you and I were discussing it as
Speaker 1: we got into the studio this morning. I mean, one
Speaker 1: of the most complete, dominant defensive performances the Packers have
Speaker 1: seen in the last few number of years. I said,
Speaker 1: it was one of the stingiest performances of the past
Speaker 1: decade when you go back and look at some of
Speaker 1: these things. They gave up three points and that was
Speaker 1: after that they they've been given the Bears have been
Speaker 1: given the ball at the thirty six yard line. I mean,
Speaker 1: just to see five sacks, eleven passes defense, uh, eleven
Speaker 1: quarterback hits, nine passes defense and interception from Amos. There's
Speaker 1: so many things you can talk about with this matchup,
Speaker 1: but three out of fifteen on third down for the
Speaker 1: Chicago and oh for two on fourth then absolutely the
Speaker 1: biggest stat though the Green Bay Packers were able to
Speaker 1: go into Soldier Field and pick up a game after
Speaker 1: when you know ten to three, Uh. There it is
Speaker 1: a catapulting as you said, uplifting victory. When you see
Speaker 1: the sidelines, the way they reacted to it, the way
Speaker 1: the players were in the locker room, there was a
Speaker 1: lot of jubilation over what a lot of people would
Speaker 1: say would be a relatively boring If you look doing
Speaker 1: the statistics, the score h Affair, Well, it is the
Speaker 1: first time the Packers have won a game scoring ten
Speaker 1: or fewer points since the ten to three game at
Speaker 1: the end of the regular season in two thousand and ten.
Speaker 1: And I actually also saw a stat on somebody's little
Speaker 1: TV screen we're flying back on the plane in the
Speaker 1: middle of the night that last year, Apparently throughout the
Speaker 1: entire NFL season, only two teams were able to win
Speaker 1: a game scoring ten or fewer points in the entire
Speaker 1: NFL season. So this kind of thing doesn't happen every day.
Speaker 1: But hats off to the Packers defense, and in particular
Speaker 1: the free agent spending spree of Brian Goodakunst in early March,
Speaker 1: Zadarius Smith, Preston Smith, Adrian Amos, they all had a
Speaker 1: tremendous impact on this football well, and that's part of
Speaker 1: this thing that that is so interesting in my regard,
Speaker 1: is that you had three marquee players at the Packers
Speaker 1: sign on the defensive side of the ball. In all
Speaker 1: three of them completely rose to the occasion right off
Speaker 1: the bat. Adrian Amos and Zadarius Smith actually had had
Speaker 1: lunch this week and Amos had told him, He's like,
Speaker 1: you know, I want to make a big play. As
Speaker 1: much as the narrative, as much as what the reporters
Speaker 1: and in media wanted to make it about him returning
Speaker 1: to Chicago facing his old team, Amos said, it never
Speaker 1: was like that, and if you know him, if you
Speaker 1: get to know his personality, I can confidently say it
Speaker 1: wasn't about that. What he wanted to do is he
Speaker 1: wanted to prove to the Green Bay Packers, proved to
Speaker 1: Brian Goodacuns that they made the right investment in him.
Speaker 1: He wanted to make a big play. This is a
Speaker 1: guy that was somewhat you know, when you go back
Speaker 1: and look at there were some people that dogged on
Speaker 1: him a little bit because he only had three interceptions
Speaker 1: in his time in Chicago. He made play after playing
Speaker 1: that game, he helped coordinate that defense and when it
Speaker 1: mattered most, him and Tremont Williams working in tandem with
Speaker 1: each other, and overthrown pass Williams, forcing Traubinsky to you know,
Speaker 1: throw a little bit more on it because he was
Speaker 1: underneath and Amos is able to interception to play that
Speaker 1: those two had actually talked about on the sidelines based
Speaker 1: on something they'd seen earlier in the ballgame. Phenomenal from
Speaker 1: that perspective. Zadarius and Preston Smith, though, Man, I don't
Speaker 1: know what more you can say about these guys. Six
Speaker 1: quarterback hits, two and a half combined sacks. They were
Speaker 1: in Mitchell Rubinsky's face all night, and I tweeted this
Speaker 1: during the game. The pass rush benefits the secondary that
Speaker 1: benefits the pass rush. You saw a perfect marriage between
Speaker 1: those two principles. And Mike Petton afterwards had a big,
Speaker 1: big smile on his face and his we know that's
Speaker 1: not something you're always going to see with the fact
Speaker 1: of the DC. Yeah, absolutely, Mike Patton with with that
Speaker 1: big smile and hopefully he's able to keep it here
Speaker 1: um through this really part of the season, because unfortunately
Speaker 1: the Packers offense was up against a pretty darn tough
Speaker 1: defense as well, and it wasn't It wasn't the prettiest
Speaker 1: debut at all for Matt Lafleur and Aaron Rodgers and
Speaker 1: this offense. But and quite frankly, west boy, that first
Speaker 1: quarter three straight three and ounce minus twelve total yards,
Speaker 1: a couple of sacks in there on third down. I mean,
Speaker 1: that first quarter was was as ugly as it gets.
Speaker 1: But all of a sudden, that first offensive play of
Speaker 1: the second quarter kind of the double play action. You
Speaker 1: had a play action of a regular run of play
Speaker 1: action of the jet sweep coming behind, and then boom,
Speaker 1: you take the shot down the field with with Marquez
Speaker 1: Veldez scantling in one on one coverage makes the play
Speaker 1: forty seven yards. A couple of plays later, Packers go
Speaker 1: up tempo, a couple of plays later there in the
Speaker 1: end zone, and suddenly it's seven to three. And it
Speaker 1: was as though it was as though the Packers defense
Speaker 1: that all right, we're good. Now we got the lead.
Speaker 1: Here we go. Well, what spoke to me about this
Speaker 1: matchup is one, even though it was ten to seven
Speaker 1: or ten to three, and most of the game was
Speaker 1: seven to three, it never felt like the Packers were
Speaker 1: in danger, if that's the right word. It just always
Speaker 1: felt like they were in control. Even when the offense
Speaker 1: was having its issues, even when you know Trabinsky would
Speaker 1: make a couple of plays here there they build a
Speaker 1: little momentum. They'd always found the CounterPunch to it. Looking
Speaker 1: at that series though that you're illustrating the forty seven
Speaker 1: yard passed to Mark Quez Valdes scantling, you and I
Speaker 1: we have a pretty good vantage point. It's not the
Speaker 1: great press box view the best one in the league.
Speaker 1: That particular play, we did have a pretty goodvantage point
Speaker 1: it because you saw MBS coming free over the middle
Speaker 1: of the field. Aaron Rodgers got a bucket load of
Speaker 1: time to work with on it connects with them forty
Speaker 1: seven yards and as you said, there's a quick past
Speaker 1: to Marcedes Lewis, another quick past at Davantae Adams. They
Speaker 1: catched Chicago with twelve men on the field, and then
Speaker 1: there's a touchdown on a fifty fifty ball or a
Speaker 1: fifty zero ball. I guess you could say to Jimmy Graham,
Speaker 1: first one of the hundredth season of the NFL, So
Speaker 1: this is when you get the off fense in rhythm
Speaker 1: and sink. I think that's what it looks like. The
Speaker 1: problem for the Packers in this matchup was trying to
Speaker 1: find that. But listening to Aaron Rodgers and you were
Speaker 1: with him at the podium afterwards, it just seemed like
Speaker 1: he's pretty optimistic that this offense is gonna be where
Speaker 1: it needs to be, is going to get to where
Speaker 1: it needs to be. And defensively, they have a chance
Speaker 1: right now that they can win these type of ball
Speaker 1: games if they absolutely have to. Yeah, and that that's
Speaker 1: the thing is. Hey, look it's September football. This is
Speaker 1: the new NFL. The preseason is not what the preseason
Speaker 1: was ten or fifteen years ago. This is what September
Speaker 1: football is in the NFL. Nobody's going to be polished,
Speaker 1: especially offensively. People don't play their starters, and even if
Speaker 1: they do, they're not facing real defense, the kind of
Speaker 1: defense you're going to face in the regular season. Nobody
Speaker 1: wants to put anything on film. These are the kind
Speaker 1: of games you're gonna get in September, and quite frankly,
Speaker 1: it's all about it's almost like survive in advance. It's
Speaker 1: like find a way to win enough games in September
Speaker 1: until you get your legs under, you get your feet
Speaker 1: under for you, and you can start to move ahead
Speaker 1: into into the meat of the schedule, so to speak.
Speaker 1: And you just got to get through these first few
Speaker 1: games and and don't put yourself behind the eight ball
Speaker 1: record wise, and and getting a big win on the
Speaker 1: road against the division opponent. You got another division opponent
Speaker 1: coming into lambeau Field next Sunday in week two. You
Speaker 1: gotta get gotta get through these games somehow, and because
Speaker 1: in the end, they all count the same, even if
Speaker 1: you're not playing this if you there, the thing is
Speaker 1: those the practice have had years where they started six
Speaker 1: and oh yeah, I would think even the year in
Speaker 1: which Rogers got injured the first time with the collar bone,
Speaker 1: where they want four and two or four and one
Speaker 1: going into there might have been. But as you know,
Speaker 1: what this team might if if you can't stay healthy,
Speaker 1: if things don't you know, line up the right way
Speaker 1: in December, it's not gonna matter September. The way I've
Speaker 1: always looked at it, because you know, for a while
Speaker 1: they were kind of, you know, bludging, you know, can
Speaker 1: you get off to a fast start. The importance a
Speaker 1: fast start, and don't get me wrong, that's critical if
Speaker 1: you're looking to get a bye, you need to be
Speaker 1: able to win through th four games, right off the
Speaker 1: bat to put yourself in that position. But you always
Speaker 1: just gotta keep yourself within the race, right, you need
Speaker 1: to get two wins, you need to maybe steal that
Speaker 1: third you got, you gotta you gotta stay in and
Speaker 1: not put yourself in a position where you're playing uphill
Speaker 1: starting in mid October, you know, And and with the
Speaker 1: Packers now having five of their next six games at
Speaker 1: home after starting off with a division win against the
Speaker 1: defending NFC North champs, you know, whether you're playing great
Speaker 1: on offense or not. I mean, if the defense can
Speaker 1: keep this going, whatever it takes, you gotta make some
Speaker 1: hay here because the road schedule the second half of
Speaker 1: the season and things are going to change for this team. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: But to go into Soldier Field and an NFC North opponent,
Speaker 1: the defending division champion, and be able to get a
Speaker 1: victory like that, that's huge. And it's one of these
Speaker 1: things too. We touched a little bit on the defense,
Speaker 1: but I was involved in the huddle with Preston Smith
Speaker 1: and Zadarius Smith after the game. Their lockers together right
Speaker 1: next to each other, visiting locker room figure, right, But
Speaker 1: they both were talking for about three minutes. They did
Speaker 1: their interviews in tandem. You know, Preston Smith said, well,
Speaker 1: Sadarius Smith was a captain for this game, and one
Speaker 1: of his big messages before end was we want to
Speaker 1: shock the world. We want to show people that we
Speaker 1: can be a difference maker, be a dominant defense. And
Speaker 1: then over on the other side of it, Presson Smith said,
Speaker 1: we heard the outside noise. We're not listening to it,
Speaker 1: but you still hear it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's still an ambient noise with people when
Speaker 1: they don't have high expectations for you, when there's been
Speaker 1: issues in the recent years, trying to be able to
Speaker 1: put this all together with new parts, new draft picks.
Speaker 1: The Packers did that pretty seamlessly. So to them, they
Speaker 1: felt like they woke a lot of people up with
Speaker 1: this matchup. And then on the other side of it,
Speaker 1: as Kenny Clark was discussing afterwards, you know they've been
Speaker 1: hearing these second and third year guys in this defense
Speaker 1: have just been hearing about, you know, defensive liability and
Speaker 1: not being the one that's holding up their end of
Speaker 1: the bargain. This is a big moment for them. This
Speaker 1: is a huge confidence boost that is the most overused
Speaker 1: cliche when it comes to professional sports as confidence, but
Speaker 1: in this particular case, you can't under overstate it because
Speaker 1: this has been a lot of guys on this returning
Speaker 1: defense have been punched in the mouth here the last
Speaker 1: few seasons. Yeah. When so when you listen to locker room,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, regardless of what happened with offense, defense
Speaker 1: special teams which had a solid night, there was just
Speaker 1: a really big fervor in there of confidence, of swagger
Speaker 1: that I think it's been missing here at least over
Speaker 1: the last year. Yeah. And Aaron Rodgers went to the
Speaker 1: podium after the game. He certainly he took his share
Speaker 1: of the blame for the offensive struggles. Matt Lafleur did
Speaker 1: as well. Both of those guys, you know, they know
Speaker 1: it's it's back to the drawing board a little bit
Speaker 1: in the sense of in sense of okay, that was
Speaker 1: that was not the opener they were hoping for. But
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers said, hey, you know this, this team showed,
Speaker 1: uh you know, showed the nation that was watching that
Speaker 1: we've got a defense. That was That was the quote.
Speaker 1: And and uh, um boy, I mean every time it
Speaker 1: was interesting because we've seen in the past, when the
Speaker 1: offense doesn't have a good game, Aaron Rodgers can be
Speaker 1: pretty sour at the podium and everything like that, even
Speaker 1: after victories. You know, he's he's such a he's such
Speaker 1: a perfectionist. He's such a competitor, and he knows that
Speaker 1: so much as riding on how he plays every time
Speaker 1: at the podium Last night, West after the game, when
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers was talking about that defense, his face was
Speaker 1: just lighting up, you know, like every time you'd see
Speaker 1: the smile, you'd see the eyes, you know, the eyebrows everything.
Speaker 1: You you look at his facial expressions in that postgame
Speaker 1: press conference when he's talking about the defense, and he
Speaker 1: said it just when you have a defense like that
Speaker 1: from from the offensive perspective, what they feel they now
Speaker 1: have on the defensive side, it just gives the quarterback
Speaker 1: a lot of confidences to where this team can go. Now,
Speaker 1: you still gotta go out and play, you know, you
Speaker 1: still gotta go out and win games. And and the
Speaker 1: Packers are going to have. Packers defense is going to
Speaker 1: have much much bigger challenges than the Bears offense, which
Speaker 1: um which quite frankly was was a big dud and
Speaker 1: a big disappointment too to their side of things. But um,
Speaker 1: but Aaron Rodgers is confident and where this team could go.
Speaker 1: And the other thing you gotta keep in mind too
Speaker 1: with this Mike Aaron Rodgers been practicing against this defense,
Speaker 1: against this scheme, against the point scouted looks for the
Speaker 1: last month and a half and he had to go
Speaker 1: back every Wednesday or whatever day it was that he
Speaker 1: had to talk to the media and talk about I'm
Speaker 1: not playing in preseason games, and you know, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I'm focused on what we're doing. And why he felt
Speaker 1: good when they got behind the closed practices with what
Speaker 1: the offense was doing because Mike Petton's defense is complicated
Speaker 1: and he's been looking at it. So when Rogers is
Speaker 1: seeing these schemes, I bet you that he went out
Speaker 1: there last night pretty darn confident that that defense was
Speaker 1: gonna look pretty darn good against Chicago because he's had
Speaker 1: a first row seat to it for the last six weeks.
Speaker 1: So seeing those schemes, in what Zadarius Smith had been
Speaker 1: doing in practice and Preston Smith late during the camp,
Speaker 1: you know, seeing how all these pieces messed together. The
Speaker 1: Packers have had an idea for that so I think
Speaker 1: in some regards it was sort of opening a presence
Speaker 1: in seeing, Okay, NFL, this is what we're gonna give
Speaker 1: you here, this is what we can do when we're
Speaker 1: at our best. Because, as you said, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: highs and lows, there's gonna be injuries. The Packers have
Speaker 1: a very tight rotation right now. It looks like so
Speaker 1: you have to stay healthy. But when everything's clicking on
Speaker 1: the same cylinder, that defense is going to give you
Speaker 1: a chance to win. It doesn't matter who the other
Speaker 1: opponent is. Yeah. Well, the other thing to remember about
Speaker 1: a game like this, because the final score was ten
Speaker 1: to three, obviously it's a one possession game, there were
Speaker 1: a lot of things that showed you just how slim
Speaker 1: the margins are in the NFL. And this is what
Speaker 1: I wrote about a little bit in Insider Inbox, which
Speaker 1: I was doing, I don't know, three o'clock in the
Speaker 1: morning something like that before I went to bed. But um,
Speaker 1: you look at certain moments the the shot played down
Speaker 1: the sideline to Alan Robinson and Tremont Williams very smartly
Speaker 1: and alertly gets him right when he's in mid air
Speaker 1: and is able to shove him out of bounds because
Speaker 1: you don't have that force out rule anymore. The guy's
Speaker 1: got to get his feet in and if and if
Speaker 1: you can knock the guy out of bounds, it's an
Speaker 1: incomplete pass. That would have been a first down in
Speaker 1: the red zone there, Okay, And then you look at
Speaker 1: the replay challenge on the Taylor Gabriel catch down the
Speaker 1: sideline that was overturned out. A bad call in the field.
Speaker 1: Always gonna have one time out left, by the way. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: and that's what I was going to say. And I
Speaker 1: apologize for not remembering this reader's name, but this reader
Speaker 1: and I posted it in the Insider Inbox column, had
Speaker 1: mentioned that one thing to keep in mind there is
Speaker 1: that on the Packers previous offensive series, Aaron Rodgers took
Speaker 1: a delay a game when the play clock ran down
Speaker 1: because the Packers only had one time outleft. He didn't
Speaker 1: burn it right there, and if he had burned it,
Speaker 1: if he if he had not, say he had not
Speaker 1: remembered they only had one time outleft or something, and
Speaker 1: he calls it. Matt Lafleur doesn't have a time out
Speaker 1: to challenge the Taylor Gabriel pass, which obviously was a
Speaker 1: potential momentum shifter and a game changer in and of itself.
Speaker 1: So and what happened after that delay a game penalty
Speaker 1: to like a yard passed to Robert Tonyan play in
Speaker 1: a series in which they ended up getting a field goal.
Speaker 1: So I mean right, it went, it went to second
Speaker 1: and third team went from second and eight to second
Speaker 1: and thirteen. And then the big play to time and
Speaker 1: gets him across the midfield. You're into scoring range. Another
Speaker 1: one I'll mention because you talked about Adrian Amos. Obviously,
Speaker 1: he's back in Chicago for his first game facing his
Speaker 1: former team. He makes the big play two minutes left
Speaker 1: in the end zone with the interception ha Clinton Dix
Speaker 1: knocks the ball out of Aaron Rodgers hands on that scramble.
Speaker 1: Rogers is fortunately able to recover it. But the story
Speaker 1: might have been Ha Clinton Dicks getting back at his
Speaker 1: old team and creating a turnover in a key moment
Speaker 1: now that I believe is in the second quarter or
Speaker 1: not two minutes left in the fourth quarter. But again
Speaker 1: it's it's just the margin. The margins are so slim.
Speaker 1: There is such a fine line between winning and losing
Speaker 1: in this game, and that's why, however you want to say,
Speaker 1: if you want to call it, I want to call
Speaker 1: it an ugly win, a tough slog, whatever you want
Speaker 1: to say. A win is a win as a win,
Speaker 1: as they say, and you just you don't apologize for
Speaker 1: anything in this league because that's just how it goes well,
Speaker 1: and it's easier to correct off a win than it
Speaker 1: is a loss. I mean, And the other thing is too,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a lot more fun certainly players, you know,
Speaker 1: and and my thing is too. And maybe some fans
Speaker 1: outside will disagree with me on this, but I don't
Speaker 1: classify that one as an ugly win. I've seen ugly wins,
Speaker 1: I think you you know, and it goes both ways.
Speaker 1: You can win forty two to forty one, that's probably
Speaker 1: an ugly win. There's been some negative stuff that's happened there,
Speaker 1: and we might see some of that in Week one
Speaker 1: here on Sunday in the NFL with if certain defenses
Speaker 1: that you know are are not quite up to snuff
Speaker 1: and the offenses are going to be ahead, and we
Speaker 1: might see a couple of shootouts just the exact opposite
Speaker 1: of what we saw. But from my perspective, the reason
Speaker 1: I say it's an ugly win is because there were
Speaker 1: so many things that did go right for the Packers
Speaker 1: in this game. You talked about how close the margin
Speaker 1: was of that matchup. It applies to special teams too.
Speaker 1: I was talking with j K. Scott about this after
Speaker 1: the game, the field position battle that that him and
Speaker 1: Pat O'Connell had to kind of wage there a little
Speaker 1: bit in in Scott for his credit, was able to,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of go tip for tat with them there.
Speaker 1: And another play that I thought was really critical is
Speaker 1: you go to that last punt where the Bears are
Speaker 1: going to get one more crack at this thing to
Speaker 1: be able to try to drive the field, and j
Speaker 1: K he's sitting there looking at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: The Bears are bringing everybody in for what appears to
Speaker 1: be like just an all out punt block. The Packers
Speaker 1: were not anticipating have to squeeze their gunners in, but
Speaker 1: they did. He has to make a decision there if
Speaker 1: he wanted to go out of bounds, if he wanted
Speaker 1: to go down the field with it. He decides to
Speaker 1: go down the field with it, just on corkside sixty
Speaker 1: three yard or that ends up getting brought back even
Speaker 1: farther after a holding penalty. Tarik Cohen's making a Willie
Speaker 1: Mays over the shoulder catch because he has to he
Speaker 1: has to run back so far to find the ball. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the fact that the Bears had to start that
Speaker 1: series I think at the fourteen yard line or whatever
Speaker 1: it is, flipping the field position, allowing the defensive line
Speaker 1: and the outside linebackers to pin their ears back. I thought,
Speaker 1: really low key, this was a solid performance from Kenny
Speaker 1: Clark and Dean Lowry too inside the trenches there they
Speaker 1: didn't have another inside linebacker. It was just Blake Martinez,
Speaker 1: so a lot of three defensive line fronts, and they
Speaker 1: still didn't give up a carry in more than eight yards.
Speaker 1: There were just so many little moments of this game
Speaker 1: that I think all at Ley, for whatever happened offensively
Speaker 1: and some of the highs and lows of that aspect
Speaker 1: of it, that mattel Floor can sit down and feel
Speaker 1: pretty darn good about how his team performed. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: you you mentioned the special teams, and we definitely need
Speaker 1: to touch on that a little bit more, because yes,
Speaker 1: there were a couple of penalties on the Packers special
Speaker 1: teams that affected field position. But J. K. Scott had
Speaker 1: a few of those, you know, high pooch type kicks
Speaker 1: that were fair caught inside the fifteen yard line, a
Speaker 1: couple of them you know, ten yard line and better
Speaker 1: um And you mentioned the punt at the end of
Speaker 1: the game I had. I had leaned over to you
Speaker 1: after in the fourth quarter, after the Packers had kicked
Speaker 1: the field goal to go up ten to three, Quadrille
Speaker 1: Patterson standing in the end zone for that kickoff return,
Speaker 1: and you know, at that stage, with as much as
Speaker 1: the Bears offense was struggling, if Patterson catches that ball
Speaker 1: like barely in front of the back of the end zone,
Speaker 1: he's coming out. He's taken a shot right there. Mason
Speaker 1: Crosby had an absolutely perfect kickoff, low line drive to
Speaker 1: the left side of the Packers as they were running
Speaker 1: down the field, but was never in danger of the
Speaker 1: pylon or going out of bounds. It you know, it
Speaker 1: comes bounding in the end zone and Patterson has no
Speaker 1: choice but to take the touchback. It was absolutely perfectly
Speaker 1: the way you wanted to execute it. And then obviously
Speaker 1: the last punt by J. K. Scott, the sixty three
Speaker 1: yard or helped by a bear's penalty to push them
Speaker 1: back and not give them any fuel position advantage at all.
Speaker 1: Some really big moments for the Packers special What I
Speaker 1: really love about Patterson and you and I have been
Speaker 1: watching him now for five six years, he still wanted
Speaker 1: to take that out and I think, yes, he did
Speaker 1: bobble it in the end zone kind of muff. He
Speaker 1: was totally going out. You could just see by the
Speaker 1: way his feet were moving. He didn't care if it
Speaker 1: was a squif. He was still going to give it
Speaker 1: a shot. But that was the type of kickoff you
Speaker 1: had to kick right there, and Crosby executed it perfect.
Speaker 1: And the reason why he had a hard time picking
Speaker 1: up the way it was kicked, the way it had
Speaker 1: been hitting the ground, It had bounced three or four
Speaker 1: times at that point. It was exceptional. And that's why again,
Speaker 1: when you look at the offense, there's gonna be days, Mike.
Speaker 1: The things are not going to go exactly how you
Speaker 1: want him. On special teams, something's going to happen. Defensively,
Speaker 1: you're going to be challenged and the offense is gonna
Speaker 1: have to step up. Those different components of a team
Speaker 1: need to help the other components of the team, and
Speaker 1: in this particular case, it was defense and special teams
Speaker 1: that helped seal this one against what I get I'm
Speaker 1: guessing will still be a very formidable NFC contender. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it. The Bears. For all the
Speaker 1: ankst that there is in Chicago right now about their
Speaker 1: offense and Mr Rubisky and everything like that, that Bears
Speaker 1: defense picked up right where it left off as far
Speaker 1: as I'm concerned. The one thing the Packers were able
Speaker 1: to do that they needed to do is they protected
Speaker 1: the ball. They didn't have any turnovers. The one turnover
Speaker 1: in the game was with two minutes left. Adrian Name
Speaker 1: has got it and that was the big difference, and
Speaker 1: that was want to know for the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1: All Right, with that, we're gonna call it a wrap
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