Speaker 1: Here's one for Adams downstree catch, touchdown, Rogers gonna air
Speaker 1: it out here he is found this scandling for the
Speaker 1: touchdown right on Q He's got his second of the year,
Speaker 1: fifty two yards on second of the night for a
Speaker 1: found this scandling. It was that easy for the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers on Thursday night. Joe buck Fox with the call.
Speaker 1: Final score, Packers thirty four San Francisco forty Niners seventeen
Speaker 1: in a game that was never competitive. Dan Hansas here
Speaker 1: along with the quiet storm Mark Sessler, Aaron Rodgers mark
Speaker 1: of thirty one five yards, four touchdowns, Davante Adams dominant again,
Speaker 1: ten for one seventy three and a touch If you
Speaker 1: would have asked me, not looking at the box score,
Speaker 1: I would have said twenty seven catches for seven thousand
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown for Davante Adams, But those were
Speaker 1: his actual numbers. This was a blood bath against they
Speaker 1: completely overmatched and more importantly undermanned forty Niners team. Well,
Speaker 1: I think the big takeaway is, even though this was
Speaker 1: a Niners team missing key elements all over the place
Speaker 1: for various reasons, the Davante Adams, Aaron Rodgers chemistry is
Speaker 1: probably the greatest quarterback wide receiver chemistry occurring in the
Speaker 1: league right now. And that's something they can hang their
Speaker 1: hat on every week. Now. I don't want to, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, rain on that parade, but someone named Richie
Speaker 1: James um has finished the game with a hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty four yards off nine receptions in a touchdown on
Speaker 1: the San Francisco side. That I think is more game
Speaker 1: script and more bizarro action. But Davante Adams is right
Speaker 1: up there with DK Medcalf as the you know, in
Speaker 1: the conversation for greatest wide receiver in the league right now.
Speaker 1: He is invaluable that you've built in your Richie James
Speaker 1: caveat there't here, Davante Adams point. Yes, Richie James was
Speaker 1: the only offensive player of note for the four Niners,
Speaker 1: because it almost is like the Niners are coasting to
Speaker 1: the point where on a couple of plays they just
Speaker 1: ceased to pay attention and then Richie James will be
Speaker 1: open with no one around him for fifteen yards. He
Speaker 1: had a couple of chunk play games, but that I mean,
Speaker 1: you take that out and and that saved moments day offensively, Uh,
Speaker 1: those a couple of huge places that Richie James, he
Speaker 1: wasn't able to do much. He threw a terrible interception
Speaker 1: that's set up a Packer's score. Uh So the Niners. Uh,
Speaker 1: from their perspective, it's just tough because we all respect
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan. We all thought that this was a team
Speaker 1: that had a chance to get back into the mix
Speaker 1: of the NFC playoffs when they were four and three
Speaker 1: and they were coming off uh two really good wins
Speaker 1: against the Rams and Patriots, and then they go to
Speaker 1: Seattle and they lose Garoppolo and they lose Kittle and
Speaker 1: they lose that game, and then they go go and
Speaker 1: get blown out at home and it's basically over. I'll
Speaker 1: go I'll go this for far Mark. They're now four
Speaker 1: and five, coming up next at Saints at Rams home Bills.
Speaker 1: Is the time to stick a fork in the San
Speaker 1: Francisco forty Niners. I see them as one of the
Speaker 1: most resourceful teams out there for reasons that anyone listening
Speaker 1: to our show is now I heard a thousand times tonight.
Speaker 1: I think it's like we talked about, it's just too
Speaker 1: much and I'd go, I go right here, when your
Speaker 1: offensive line these teams when the offensive lines um get
Speaker 1: reduced down to nothing. Justin's school in for Trent Williams.
Speaker 1: Justin's schooled is what his name should be? Three sacks allowed.
Speaker 1: I don't and I don't mean it's like he just
Speaker 1: shouldn't have been in the game, and really the game
Speaker 1: was over when he hadn't missed assignment that led to
Speaker 1: a Raven Green interception of Nick Mullins. Um. It put
Speaker 1: the It put the Packers up fourteen to three on
Speaker 1: the on the ensuing drive, and you knew the game
Speaker 1: was over. And it's like, my thing is this the
Speaker 1: game should not have been played and we don't need
Speaker 1: to go down that road too far. We all get it. Um.
Speaker 1: I feel like other teams were treated a little bit
Speaker 1: differently in this Thursday night spot, in prime time spots.
Speaker 1: And I think that the NFL is in a tough
Speaker 1: in a sticky situation, and they have they have to
Speaker 1: four John Um. But the Niners have been left by
Speaker 1: the side of the road this week, and to stick
Speaker 1: a fork in them, I think it's fair because you
Speaker 1: look at the schedule, you look at it's not just
Speaker 1: the Corona thing, it's it's the injury, the battery that
Speaker 1: they've taken. I mean, they're like the Eagles get mentioned
Speaker 1: as the most injury ravaged teams. The Niners are right there,
Speaker 1: the right there, and your resourcefulness, as as Kyle Shanahan,
Speaker 1: only goes so far. And we saw it tonight. We've
Speaker 1: seen it with Belichick and the Patriots, and we're seeing
Speaker 1: it out West with Kyle Shanahan. Yeah, I think I'm
Speaker 1: with you. I think the Niners it's just not their year.
Speaker 1: Sometimes the football gods conspire and say it's not gonna
Speaker 1: happen for you, and that's what it makes it all
Speaker 1: the more frustrating. And I mentioned it on the show
Speaker 1: earlier this week when Jimmy g Mrs Emmanuel Sanders with
Speaker 1: a chance to take the lead in the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: in the final two minutes. Uh, when you don't hit
Speaker 1: that throw and then you give up the lead and
Speaker 1: eventually lose the game. Sometimes there could be a temptation
Speaker 1: to be an optimist and and say, well, this is
Speaker 1: a great team, it's a young team, it's got one
Speaker 1: of the best young coaches in the league. We'll be back.
Speaker 1: You never know if you're gonna be back. And I
Speaker 1: say that fully aware that they could be at this
Speaker 1: time next year, uh seven and two and be right
Speaker 1: back in the mix. But all you can say or
Speaker 1: you can be the falcons, so that I mean, that's
Speaker 1: where we're That's what you're talking about. So when you
Speaker 1: do get to that big stage, you've got to take
Speaker 1: advantage of it. They couldn't and now they're having one
Speaker 1: of those years. As for the coronavirus situation, I agree,
Speaker 1: it does feel like there's a bit of a you know,
Speaker 1: moving of the goal post, but also the coronavirus itself,
Speaker 1: the goalpost move and and how it dictates what's going
Speaker 1: on in our society right now. And the NFL is
Speaker 1: just you know, clawing to stay one step ahead of it.
Speaker 1: We're dancing through the rain drops with this. And you know,
Speaker 1: if you try to reschedule the game, Uh, does that
Speaker 1: necessarily mean it gets in if you have a chance
Speaker 1: to play the game, which they did, Uh, do you
Speaker 1: do it? Well? The forty Niners fans out there might
Speaker 1: think we shouldn't have done it because we played a
Speaker 1: game today where not a single skill player on the
Speaker 1: roster for the NFC title game last year, Uh touched
Speaker 1: the ball in this game? No one, No one was active.
Speaker 1: So the forty Niners, whether it's COVID or just straight
Speaker 1: up injuries, just buried in. And that's why I think
Speaker 1: you just stick a fork in them and say better
Speaker 1: luck next year and we'll find out who your quarterback is.
Speaker 1: Right absolutely, And you're so right about the the get
Speaker 1: back to the super Bowl window, because it's one thing
Speaker 1: to say, hey, we're the Patriots. Um, we have Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: we got nipped by team, and you will be back.
Speaker 1: But Jimmy Garoppolo is not that quarterback. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo plays another snap for this team. You look
Speaker 1: at the schedule, it's really rough, and uh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's just it's a weird season. And and this this
Speaker 1: UM game gave me two other little little points that
Speaker 1: I've talked to you about this before the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: ten minute runoff UM where you just say, look at
Speaker 1: the people watching this game aren't having a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: The players aren't having a lot of fun. If it's
Speaker 1: really rough, you know, five minutes into the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: ten minute runoff, game over. And now what now you
Speaker 1: get the players that say, hey, I'm Richie James, what
Speaker 1: about my incentives? My stats. We will pro rate the stats,
Speaker 1: um for your agents. They won't be real life stuff.
Speaker 1: Well I'm saying they won't be real life stats, but
Speaker 1: we pro rate them so that for your contract tabulations
Speaker 1: they would count. My second point would be I do
Speaker 1: think that Troy Aikman, at some point, um, you know,
Speaker 1: a while ago, realized that his our League thing that you've,
Speaker 1: um know you make. He leaned into that so hard
Speaker 1: this evening that I have to feel like he's slightly
Speaker 1: punking all of us because he must know that it's
Speaker 1: a thing that's been touched on. Um. He will not
Speaker 1: let it go. And I felt like in the in
Speaker 1: the as this game was dying and do its you know,
Speaker 1: dipping into its corpse mode, into the grave, he mentioned
Speaker 1: it like fourteen times and over the last eighteen minutes
Speaker 1: of this It's like, I get that it's our league,
Speaker 1: the game I was watching. It's not from the league
Speaker 1: that I want to be a part of. Here's here's
Speaker 1: my goal with this. I'll continue to cite Troy Aikman
Speaker 1: every time I say our League, whether it's on our
Speaker 1: podcast or on the network, because we've seen Troy can't
Speaker 1: stop referencing Good Morning football during Thursday night games that
Speaker 1: there's a g m FB promo. He'd be like, Oh,
Speaker 1: that Peter Schreeger, he sure knows his ball. They're like, oh,
Speaker 1: Kyle and Kay and Nate, they sure do have a
Speaker 1: lot of fun on that show. And I watch it
Speaker 1: every morning on the treadmill. We need to get that
Speaker 1: shout out on as day nights and if if we
Speaker 1: start to build a connection, even if it's not an
Speaker 1: actual one on one dynamic, it's just something where it's
Speaker 1: on his radar that we like that maybe we get
Speaker 1: the shout out, maybe we get the Paul Rudd shout out.
Speaker 1: I love that, And you know that's why I mentioned Um.
Speaker 1: I mean I mentioned Troy Aikman because even though I
Speaker 1: was not a Cowboys fan growing up, he is someone
Speaker 1: that is rooted in my love of football from that
Speaker 1: time period and it would mean a lot. That's why
Speaker 1: I asked Colleen wolf Um had she ever seen him
Speaker 1: with her human eyes, had she encountered him and she
Speaker 1: spoken to him. It would mean a lot if she
Speaker 1: could mention to him that I know of him, um,
Speaker 1: and perhaps he knows of us. So I'm so with you.
Speaker 1: I feel like, um, well, no, but I'm just I
Speaker 1: would say that the executives in our building at one
Speaker 1: point took a left turn, um when they should have
Speaker 1: stayed on the highway, the highway being our show, and
Speaker 1: they took a left turn towards Good Morning Football. And uh,
Speaker 1: now everyone's mentioning that show. It's a very nice show,
Speaker 1: I perspected. I love them all. They're great on it sometimes,
Speaker 1: which is a nice thing. But we got left morning.
Speaker 1: We got left by the side of the road, and uh,
Speaker 1: we have a lot of work to do to get
Speaker 1: back onto that uh, you know, into the place where
Speaker 1: Troy Aikman even knows that we exist. I. He says
Speaker 1: he doesn't listen to podcasts. That's also not helpful. Final
Speaker 1: takeaways from the Packers. They are the first team. This
Speaker 1: from the Fox Fox telecast. They are the first team
Speaker 1: since two thousand seven. The Patriots. You might have heard
Speaker 1: of them. They went sixteen or no uh to score
Speaker 1: on their opening drive in their first eight games of
Speaker 1: the season. That is so difficult to do, and that's
Speaker 1: those are scripted plays. So you're building that out all
Speaker 1: week thinking it's gonna work against your opponent, but for
Speaker 1: it to work every week and put points on the
Speaker 1: board and in many cases touchdowns. That really tells you
Speaker 1: how in sync Aaron Rodgers is with the bearded boy
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur and the rest of the offense. And uh,
Speaker 1: my other thought is my Aaron Rodgers sandwich prop looking
Speaker 1: better and better. Mark, he is just so comfortable in
Speaker 1: this offense. And you could see that that that relationship,
Speaker 1: as you said with Davante Adams, it's unbelievable. And now
Speaker 1: you're gonna eventually add Alan Lazard back, who was shaping
Speaker 1: up as a breakout number two guy. Um, I still
Speaker 1: think they should have gotten Will Fuller because you might
Speaker 1: have to outscore your problems on defense. But they're still
Speaker 1: gonna be able to put up points most weeks because
Speaker 1: that is a special connection. Yeah, and I and I
Speaker 1: don't know if I take the mvs. Two touchdown breakout
Speaker 1: that seriously, Tonight has had issues, but this offense, Um,
Speaker 1: I take their six and two records seriously. My thing
Speaker 1: last year was that they're thirteen and three. Mark felt
Speaker 1: a tad inflated to me. That could have just been me.
Speaker 1: I mean, they went into the playoffs and got ran
Speaker 1: over by this Niners team that they didn't face the
Speaker 1: same squad tonight. This Packers team is in sync. I
Speaker 1: think they really well coached, the resilient um. You know,
Speaker 1: they might have get they get dinged up here and there,
Speaker 1: but I trust them as a playoff team that could
Speaker 1: win a game or two and maybe go to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I mean, Aaron Rodgers is playing lights out.
Speaker 1: We didn't expect that. So this is a team to
Speaker 1: be to feel threatened by. If you're another team in
Speaker 1: the NFC to be scared of. And uh, the future
Speaker 1: is unknown. Hey, let's bring in Ricky Hollywood before we
Speaker 1: say goodbye. Hey, what's up? Um? A lot of stuff
Speaker 1: going on in our country right now. So they as
Speaker 1: we're taping this, it appears that Joe Biden is closing
Speaker 1: in on the two seventy electoral votes that would clinch
Speaker 1: the presidency. You have Donald Trump, who is all sorts
Speaker 1: of fired up as well some of his cohorts that
Speaker 1: this whole thing is rigged. Uh, there's demonstrations everywhere. This
Speaker 1: is this is crazy times in our country. That the
Speaker 1: game was terrible. The Packers basically ended the game by halftime.
Speaker 1: So I asked, do you think anyone's listening to this
Speaker 1: right now, no, should we come up with like a
Speaker 1: code word if anyone's made it this far that that
Speaker 1: maybe they could tweet at the read of us. Oh,
Speaker 1: you can, like, how many people actually made it to
Speaker 1: the end of this recap? What do you? What do
Speaker 1: we got? Everybody got a word? How about your shirt? Godzilla? Yeah,
Speaker 1: hashtag Godzilla at the three of us if you made
Speaker 1: it to the end of this recap? What is what
Speaker 1: is the over under on how many um hashtag tweets
Speaker 1: we get for Godzilla? I over over under ten. Yeah
Speaker 1: that feels good. Yeah, I hope it's gonna be higher that. Ricky,
Speaker 1: you'll be in charge of counting them. Yeah, it'll be
Speaker 1: pretty easy. All right, good stuff. Good to see you guys.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to uh tracking this other thing that's happening.
Speaker 1: But yes, the Packers prevail. Final score thirty four to
Speaker 1: seventeen or six and there six and two. The Niners
Speaker 1: dropped to four and five. And you'll hear from us
Speaker 1: again with Greg Rosenthal Sunday night for the Flagship Show.
Speaker 1: Until then,