Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted social
Speaker 1: distancing Style from Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spoffer,
Speaker 1: joined as always by my trusted colleague West Hodkowits West.
Speaker 1: The Packers chalked up a big Week one victory on
Speaker 1: the road against NFC North rival Minnesota forty three to
Speaker 1: thirty four Sunday at US Bank Stadium and a lot
Speaker 1: of places we could start with this one, but I
Speaker 1: think you have to start with quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was magnificent. And this is one of these deals
Speaker 1: where you and I talked to all training camp about
Speaker 1: how good he looked in practice, how sharp he was,
Speaker 1: his downfield accuracy. I thought all of those things translated
Speaker 1: to the football field at US Bank Stadium, And then, honestly,
Speaker 1: the third play of the game, he draws Minnesota offsides
Speaker 1: and gets I mean, their own facility to convert a
Speaker 1: third down situation. Uh, you know we're gonna go through
Speaker 1: these motions up and down throughout the course of this season.
Speaker 1: No season, you're not gonna put up five total yards
Speaker 1: and forty three points and thirty plus first downs every
Speaker 1: single week. But one of the things you and I
Speaker 1: talked a lot about was the Packers virtual offseason program,
Speaker 1: that preparation, and how that might help them get started
Speaker 1: in this new unconventional season, and at least for one game,
Speaker 1: at least for one week, I thought whether it was Rogers,
Speaker 1: whether it was Davante Adams career performance out of him.
Speaker 1: You know, Aaron Jones was really efficient in the second
Speaker 1: half particularly. They used all these different tight ends, more
Speaker 1: tight ends than they've ever used underneath math the floor
Speaker 1: in a game. So many different things clicked for them,
Speaker 1: and at the end of the day it end up
Speaker 1: coming out with a really powerful offensive performance. Yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 1: We talked a lot obviously during training camp about Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers looking back at old practice fill from and then
Speaker 1: he talked about looking back at old film game film
Speaker 1: of when he was in his hot stretches, things like that.
Speaker 1: But he emphasized after the game and you know, three
Speaker 1: and or sixty four yards, four touchdowns, a passer rating north.
Speaker 1: He emphasized after the game that it really just comes
Speaker 1: down to comfort in the offense. He was sort of
Speaker 1: in a flow state, as he likes to say, right
Speaker 1: from the beginning of the game. He had a handle
Speaker 1: on the game plan and things other than you know,
Speaker 1: some red zone failures, the goal line failure. Things were
Speaker 1: the Packers weren't finishing drives earlier in the game, but
Speaker 1: then they were finishing those drives as the game went along.
Speaker 1: And I believe it was a stretch of six possessions
Speaker 1: spanning the second to the fourth quarter where the Packers
Speaker 1: had five touchdowns and six possessions. It's tough to get
Speaker 1: much better than that. And as Rogers said in his
Speaker 1: postgame news conference, when J. K. Scott only punts one time,
Speaker 1: you know, he had a pretty good day. What I
Speaker 1: did like though about the offense though, Mike, you mentioned
Speaker 1: the two red zone appearances first, not being able to
Speaker 1: punch those in, but they were so efficient and they
Speaker 1: really set up their punches. I felt really well in
Speaker 1: this game. Early on, it was just about establishing momentum,
Speaker 1: moving the chains, getting some of their stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: their their end a rounds, working their pump, you know
Speaker 1: those push passes that have become so popular, working the
Speaker 1: running game, trying to wear down the Minnesota Vikings a
Speaker 1: little bit. And then as the game wore on, that's
Speaker 1: where you started to see the big plays happening. They
Speaker 1: built off that they tied everything together, marrying the run
Speaker 1: in the past, the big you know buzzwords we heard
Speaker 1: all offseason. It really happened in this game. And it
Speaker 1: was a comment that John Running made when he was
Speaker 1: speaking to the media on Monday that really I thought
Speaker 1: was really salient. Yeah, the Minnesota Vikings running had to
Speaker 1: come in. We'll talk about the injuries there in a second,
Speaker 1: but he was out there. You could hear everything that
Speaker 1: everybody is saying in the Minnesota defenders were talking about
Speaker 1: how frustrated they were with some of these passes out
Speaker 1: into the flat, some of the stuff, these concepts that
Speaker 1: they're working underneath as that war on and that frustrations
Speaker 1: mounted and not having a home crowd to get you
Speaker 1: back in it. I thought that that really played into
Speaker 1: the Packers favor. Yeah. Absolutely. We saw the Packers using
Speaker 1: a lot of misdirection early. The jet sweep action um
Speaker 1: combined with some other play action where you're selling an
Speaker 1: outside zone run. Then you throw kind of back against
Speaker 1: the grain, so to speak, you know, with a with
Speaker 1: a receiver. Usually it was Davante Adams cutting in from
Speaker 1: the other side. A lot of a lot of moving
Speaker 1: parts here with the Packers offense, and ultimately from from
Speaker 1: the passing game standpoint, it produced a record tying performance
Speaker 1: from Davantae Adams fourteen receptions. He matches Don Hudson's franchise
Speaker 1: single game records set all the way back in ninety two,
Speaker 1: seventy eight years ago, if my sports math is correct
Speaker 1: there um. But interestingly, when Adams got to third team
Speaker 1: receptions on Sunday, it was actually the third game in
Speaker 1: his career that he's had thirteen receptions. Then he got
Speaker 1: the fourteenth one on the big forty yard play down
Speaker 1: the sideline to wipe out a holding penalty that had
Speaker 1: made it first and twenty sets up the Packers for
Speaker 1: for the clinching score there at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: and Davante Adams has another spot in the Packers record book. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you want to have a good comment on this,
Speaker 1: go talk to Ryan Hartwig, our social media manager. He's
Speaker 1: been creating those graphics for Devonte tying that record for
Speaker 1: four years now. It started in two thousand sixteen, and
Speaker 1: he's just been that one catch away from it being,
Speaker 1: you know, and becoming a real reality. But the thing
Speaker 1: I loved about Adams in this game, it encapsulated everything
Speaker 1: that is great about him as a player. He's so
Speaker 1: efficient with those out roads, especially on third downs, just
Speaker 1: run into the sticks, cutting off when he needs to
Speaker 1: and making sure that they are able to keep, you know,
Speaker 1: moving the drive. He was explosive down the field. When
Speaker 1: he had to do the go route down the sideline,
Speaker 1: he was able to beat Holton Hill. I think holding
Speaker 1: Hill that. I mean, you tip your cap to the
Speaker 1: young man. It's not easy, you know, stepping in there
Speaker 1: for Xavier Roads and Trey Wayne's but man, oh goodness,
Speaker 1: I mean both of those young cornerbacks, him and Mike
Speaker 1: Hughes just had a really rough day and the Packers,
Speaker 1: to their credit, were largely able to take Harrison Smith
Speaker 1: and Anthony Harris out of this thing and really win
Speaker 1: underneath with some routes, some concepts there. Mark quez Belda
Speaker 1: is scantling two big catches in between them. He had
Speaker 1: two drops. He had to come back and get that
Speaker 1: thirty nine yard one down the scene. He did that
Speaker 1: move the chains at a critical time in which the
Speaker 1: Packers really needed to put away the Minnesota Vikings. Alan Lazard,
Speaker 1: you can't see enough about him. He's doing end a
Speaker 1: rounds he's making critical you know, fifty fifty contested catches
Speaker 1: down the stretch. You know, Josiah Deguara being able to
Speaker 1: be used in all these ways. You know a G.
Speaker 1: Dylan as kind of a thud there in the second half.
Speaker 1: Tyler Irvin and the things that they used him every
Speaker 1: week isn't going to go according to plan. But in
Speaker 1: terms of this specific game plan, I don't really Other
Speaker 1: than those early opportunities not being able to you know,
Speaker 1: push that ball in the end zone, everything pretty much
Speaker 1: went went went right for the Packers from a scheme perspective. Yeah, certainly, uh,
Speaker 1: certainly that when you can produce forty three points on
Speaker 1: the road against the division rival, obviously not having the
Speaker 1: fans and the stands, and the way Aaron Rodgers was
Speaker 1: able to draw the Vikings offside multiple times, hit a
Speaker 1: big free play on one of those. Those are the
Speaker 1: kinds of things you just don't see in road games
Speaker 1: actually in indoor stadiums, and the Packers were able to
Speaker 1: take advantage there. If there was uh some bad news
Speaker 1: from Sunday, obviously it was the injuries and to the
Speaker 1: to the Packers credit on the offensive line, they weathered
Speaker 1: the storm there and you know, dealt with a lot
Speaker 1: of moving parts. He started the game with Elton Jenkins
Speaker 1: at right tackle in place of Billy Turner who was injured.
Speaker 1: That meant Lucas Patrick stepped in at left guard for Jenkins,
Speaker 1: his normal spot. But then Patrick ends up going out
Speaker 1: with a shoulder injury, so Jenkins moves back to left
Speaker 1: guard and Rick Wagner comes in at right tackle. Then
Speaker 1: later in the game, Lane Taylor unfortunately goes down with
Speaker 1: what we learned on Monday was a season ending knee injury.
Speaker 1: So John Runyon, the rookie sixth round pick out of Michigan,
Speaker 1: has to come off the bench and step in and
Speaker 1: play the fourth quarter at right guard for the Packers.
Speaker 1: So a lot of adversity, a lot of moving parts
Speaker 1: in this first game. But when you look at the results,
Speaker 1: no matter what was going on, the Packers didn't miss
Speaker 1: a beat up front. No penalties, four point nine yards
Speaker 1: per carry, no penalties for the offensive line, just to clarify,
Speaker 1: four point nine per carry for the running game on
Speaker 1: the whole, and then no sacks. When Aaron Rodgers drops
Speaker 1: back forty four times in a ballgame, that's a whale
Speaker 1: of a performance. Certainly considering all the circumstances, well, multiple
Speaker 1: things here, Mike, I have never been more convinced than
Speaker 1: I think Elton Jenkins could start anywhere on the offensive
Speaker 1: line and be serviceable. I mean, you have to look
Speaker 1: at the Minnesota Vikings. They had to be really salivating
Speaker 1: at the beginning of this game, not really sure who
Speaker 1: was gonna be at right tackle, but knowing that you
Speaker 1: have Unique and got way to be able to, you know,
Speaker 1: rush against that guy. It didn't matter if Unique was
Speaker 1: going up against the right tackle or obviously David Batr.
Speaker 1: He wasn't getting anywhere. Bak Tr had that one clip
Speaker 1: that went viral that I commented on where he got
Speaker 1: blocked for five, six, seven, eight seconds and he was
Speaker 1: still able to give Rogers the time he needed. Rick
Speaker 1: Wagner has to come in after Lucas Patrick goes out.
Speaker 1: He played well at that spot, especially with him coming
Speaker 1: off of his own share of injuries last season. John
Speaker 1: Runyon thrown into the fire for fifteen snaps after a
Speaker 1: terrible injury for Lane Taylor, and Runyon holds down the
Speaker 1: fort as a rookie sixth round pick who was playing
Speaker 1: a new position. In mind, you didn't even rep that
Speaker 1: position during training camp. He was only at left guard.
Speaker 1: He never was lining up at right guard. Incredible job
Speaker 1: by him, and that he didn't take any reps with
Speaker 1: the first unit. He wasn't with the number one offense
Speaker 1: all of training camps. He was with the reserve units.
Speaker 1: He hadn't lined up next to Corey Lindsley, he hadn't
Speaker 1: lined up with Aaron Rodgers in the huddle calling the
Speaker 1: place that had not happened for John running and he
Speaker 1: gets thrown in there in week one as a roop. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and running. The guys he actually was running with ended
Speaker 1: up being most of the guys that ended up not
Speaker 1: playing in this game because of injuries or what have you.
Speaker 1: So a credit to him, if I may might just
Speaker 1: to throw out one thing there on Lane Taylor. This
Speaker 1: is just such a sad and tragic thing to see
Speaker 1: happen to this guy. I mean, I think very quietly
Speaker 1: people don't really realize that Lane Taylor is the fourth
Speaker 1: longest tenured player on this roster right now, not the offense,
Speaker 1: the entire team. Uh. He had to come back from
Speaker 1: that biceps injury last year, and before that he's competing
Speaker 1: with Elton Jenkins, who might end up being a ten
Speaker 1: twelve fourteen yard fourteen year veteran in this league. He
Speaker 1: has that kind of ability, probably a pro bowler here.
Speaker 1: At some point he had to compete with him for
Speaker 1: his starting spot. He didn't care even when he was rotating.
Speaker 1: He didn't really raise this giant you know, tantrum about
Speaker 1: this situation, even though he'd been starting there for three
Speaker 1: years already at that point. This is a guy that
Speaker 1: was very professional. He restructured his contract, he came back
Speaker 1: to Green Bay. He had something to prove. He and
Speaker 1: his family had, you know, created roots here and for
Speaker 1: him to be able to win the job back. People
Speaker 1: don't really realize what that means because you didn't really
Speaker 1: get a chance to see it in the preseason or
Speaker 1: training camp. Lane Taylor might have taken more one on
Speaker 1: one reps than any other veteran player during camp. He
Speaker 1: was doing stuff that first and second year players do
Speaker 1: to show not only was he deserving of a starting spot,
Speaker 1: he was trying to get a roster spot back. He
Speaker 1: did that. He made that competition at right guard now existent.
Speaker 1: It was his job at the end of camp, and
Speaker 1: for him to go down with this knee injury. It
Speaker 1: just feel terrible for him, and and you just hope that,
Speaker 1: you know, through this next year he's gonna be able
Speaker 1: to get himself back up again. But I hope at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, when everything is over, he
Speaker 1: can at least look at what he did over this
Speaker 1: past year and have some pride in it and what
Speaker 1: he was able to accomplish and being able to pull
Speaker 1: himself back up by his bootstraps get back out on
Speaker 1: the football field and really get back to playing a
Speaker 1: really high level of football after a pretty difficult injury
Speaker 1: to begin with with that biceps tear. Yeah, absolutely, Lane
Speaker 1: Taylor has plenty to be proud of. And the bottom
Speaker 1: line is this is just a cruel game. And you know,
Speaker 1: and you hate to see what happened to him, but um,
Speaker 1: but the game just isn't fair sometimes. And and you know,
Speaker 1: a good man, a hard working man who has overcome
Speaker 1: so much just to get into the NFL, then to
Speaker 1: become a starter, then he deals with injuries for multiple
Speaker 1: years actually even before the biceps injury, and gets the
Speaker 1: starting job back and now this happens, So your heart
Speaker 1: really does go out to him, as Matt Lafleur said,
Speaker 1: but switching gears to the defensive side of the ball,
Speaker 1: we saw a lot of thumbs up and we saw
Speaker 1: a lot of thumbs down, I guess you would say
Speaker 1: on the defense for the Packers. The thumbs up was
Speaker 1: that stretch in the second quarter west where a three
Speaker 1: possession sequence for the Minnesota Vikings that starts when the
Speaker 1: Packers get stuffed on goal to go, they can't punch
Speaker 1: it into the end zone from the one yard line.
Speaker 1: Jayra Alexander gets a sack and a safety. Next Vikings possessions,
Speaker 1: Zadarius Smith gets a third down sack to force a
Speaker 1: quick punt, and then the next Viking possession with less
Speaker 1: than a minute left in the first half, Alexander gets
Speaker 1: an interception on a poorly thrown pass to Adam Feland,
Speaker 1: and the Packers capitalize on that with the long touchdown
Speaker 1: forty five yard and Marquis Valdes scantling that sequence right there,
Speaker 1: you get the safety. That's two points. Packers, I believe
Speaker 1: kicked a um then kicked a field goal after the possession.
Speaker 1: On the free kick, they scored a touchdown after the
Speaker 1: Zadarius Smith sack, and then the touchdown after the interception.
Speaker 1: That was the sequence that completely changed the game around
Speaker 1: and put the Packers in command going into the locker
Speaker 1: room at halftime. Yeah. What I love too is if
Speaker 1: you go back through my tweets the game, I was
Speaker 1: just like praising Mike Petton for this play call and
Speaker 1: sending Jiro Alexander on this corner bliss slot blitz, and
Speaker 1: then we find out as soon as the game is
Speaker 1: over that well, the reason why Alexander did that was
Speaker 1: because Adam Feeling was motioning in and if you watch
Speaker 1: the play over, it does look like the traditional receiver
Speaker 1: moving back towards the line and then here comes the run.
Speaker 1: So Jire Alexander with his four point three six speed
Speaker 1: or whatever that is, just starts darting towards the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Feeling goes out after you know, uh, Kirk Cousins moves
Speaker 1: into the play action and then there is Jaire Alexander
Speaker 1: right up in his business. I wrote it an insider
Speaker 1: in box. Sometimes those happy accidents, they you know, they
Speaker 1: worked to your favor. Fortunately for the Packers in that
Speaker 1: case it did. But also the fact that Alexander came
Speaker 1: back and got that interception at the end of the
Speaker 1: second quarter, Minnesota was trying to find a way to
Speaker 1: get going a little bit thirty nine seconds left and
Speaker 1: a half and they throw one up. Alexander comes down
Speaker 1: with it. Unfortunately for Green Bay, they weren't able to
Speaker 1: get another stop when the Minnesota drove down again to
Speaker 1: put points on the board. But Ji Alexander a brilliant
Speaker 1: quarter of football by him, Zadarius Smith a big sack
Speaker 1: in there as well to get a three and out.
Speaker 1: That second quarter, the Packers dominated, but unfortunately, you know,
Speaker 1: once Kenny Clark left that game with the groin injury
Speaker 1: didn't return, Minnesota moves to its two minute offense pretty
Speaker 1: much the entire second half, and the Packers just weren't
Speaker 1: able to match that tempo. That's something I'm sure Mike Petton,
Speaker 1: Jerry Gray, the defensive coaches are gonna look at this
Speaker 1: week and figure out what they need to do, because,
Speaker 1: especially if something is gonna happen here where you don't
Speaker 1: have Kenny Clark, you got to start making decisions on
Speaker 1: how you're gonna handle the front in those decisions obviously
Speaker 1: have ramifications for the back end as well. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: few other points I want to make on Alexander before
Speaker 1: we move on to what you were just talking about.
Speaker 1: With regard to the improv play there to get to
Speaker 1: get the sack. Safety one, if you're gonna make something up,
Speaker 1: do it fast and don't slow down right to make
Speaker 1: sure it's on the quarterback's blind side so he can't
Speaker 1: see what you're doing, because that definitely worked in his favor.
Speaker 1: And then and then three with regard to his interception
Speaker 1: right before the half, what a display of concentration with
Speaker 1: the ball being deflected and coming down and feeling trying
Speaker 1: to grab at it and Alexander, you know, trying to
Speaker 1: making sure that it doesn't hit the ground. I thought
Speaker 1: it was. It was a really really athletic and and
Speaker 1: uh and you know, mentally mentally tough type of play
Speaker 1: to be able to to to secure that ball and
Speaker 1: and not let it get away. But with regard to
Speaker 1: the Packers defense in the fourth quarter, I'm totally with us.
Speaker 1: It felt like when the Vikings went hurry up and
Speaker 1: when they went no huddle, cranked up the tempo, it
Speaker 1: just felt like the Packers didn't match that didn't match
Speaker 1: that speed, didn't match that urgency, didn't match that intensity,
Speaker 1: and they were on their heels the the entire fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: You don't want to give up the big forty and
Speaker 1: fifty yard plays. That's the whole idea when you're up
Speaker 1: multiple scores in the fourth quarter. But if you're gonna
Speaker 1: give up twenty yards at a time, well, to twenty
Speaker 1: yard plays equals a forty yard play and it only
Speaker 1: takes an extra twenty seconds or so to do so.
Speaker 1: You can't play defense like that either. Those are the
Speaker 1: things the Packers are definitely going to be looking at
Speaker 1: here on the defensive side of the ball as they
Speaker 1: get ready for a Week two against Detroit. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a big matchup, Mike. I don't
Speaker 1: know if how much you got a chance to watch
Speaker 1: the lines last week or go back and look at
Speaker 1: that game other than you know, the disastrous way in
Speaker 1: which it ended. But Adrian Peterson was still Adrian Peterson,
Speaker 1: and the Packers have seen him a hundred times by now,
Speaker 1: and this guy does not show any signs of slowing down,
Speaker 1: especially in these matchups, in these NFC North, you know,
Speaker 1: Black and Blue division kind of things. He's still right there.
Speaker 1: So depending on what happens with Kenny Clark this week,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to see the Packers do have options. Um,
Speaker 1: certainly there there's movement you can make on the defensive line,
Speaker 1: depending on the severity of it. But they also they
Speaker 1: showed that base, that hybrid base, that that we saw
Speaker 1: a lot during camp. I believe it's called Bronco where
Speaker 1: you have the three outside linebackers on the field in
Speaker 1: a base formation. With Rashaan Geary joining the Smiths. They
Speaker 1: were really successful with that in Spurts last week and
Speaker 1: we saw it how dynamic it can be when you
Speaker 1: move around. Is it Darius Smith? That may be an
Speaker 1: option they have to make, But again, Kenny Clark is
Speaker 1: such an huge integral part of what they do defensively.
Speaker 1: If he's not going to be here for a bit,
Speaker 1: Dean Lowrie, Tyler, Lancaster, Kingsley, Kiki, whoever, it's gonna take
Speaker 1: stepping up there to hold down the fort. That would
Speaker 1: be a huge challenge, especially with Peterson next week and
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamar and what follows after that. Yeah, no question
Speaker 1: about it. Well, I do want to talk about that
Speaker 1: Bears Lions game because not only was it obviously a
Speaker 1: big NFC North battle, but the Lions are the team
Speaker 1: coming into lambeau Field in Week two, Detroit completely in
Speaker 1: control west up by, you know, close to twenty points there,
Speaker 1: I think, seven teen point lead in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: The Bears have done nothing offensively all day long, and
Speaker 1: suddenly three touchdown drives out of quarterback Mr Trubisky. The
Speaker 1: Bears grabbed the lead. Stafford takes the Lions down and
Speaker 1: has them in a position to win the game. Throws
Speaker 1: a perfect pass to rookie running back DeAndre Swift that
Speaker 1: he just flat out drops it in the end zone
Speaker 1: with six seconds left, and the Bears escape Ford Field
Speaker 1: with a victory. And uh, the Lions mean that is
Speaker 1: a that's a gut punch of a loss to to
Speaker 1: take in week one, and now they have to come
Speaker 1: into lambeu Field and face another division rival trying to
Speaker 1: avoid and owing to start. Yeah, and Matt Lafleur talked
Speaker 1: about what I was kind of anticipating with this matchup there,
Speaker 1: They're going to get a really angry Lions team. You know,
Speaker 1: the way I wrote it was that I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna go one or two ways. It either could be
Speaker 1: really disappointed and that could be kind of a hangover
Speaker 1: going to this matchup, or They're gonna come in super
Speaker 1: hungry and motivated. Given the expectations that I know they
Speaker 1: have inside that building, I'm sure it's going to be
Speaker 1: the ladder. But there is something to be said, Mike
Speaker 1: about knowing how to win games, and it's something the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions just haven't done a lot the last three years.
Speaker 1: I saw that stat on Twitter a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1: I mean, they were nine and seven that last year
Speaker 1: under Jim Caldwell and so far they've only won nine
Speaker 1: games since they moved on from him. So I'm not
Speaker 1: saying you're a bad team and you find ways to lose,
Speaker 1: but it just seemed like they weren't able to close
Speaker 1: that door. And even though we're not talking about the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears right now, the one thing I will say
Speaker 1: about Mitchell Robinsky, I don't know if he's going to
Speaker 1: be a franchise quarterback. I don't I don't know if
Speaker 1: he has what it takes to to, you know, be
Speaker 1: the face of an organization. But he's tough and he
Speaker 1: does really have a lot of moxie and that's what
Speaker 1: has allowed him to bounce back, and he did that
Speaker 1: in that second half when he has a tight end. Mike.
Speaker 1: I keep saying this, he's a different quarterback. Everyone made
Speaker 1: the jokes about Jimmy Graham, but the fact of the
Speaker 1: matter is he didn't have a tight end last year
Speaker 1: and it showed in his performance. They got one again
Speaker 1: and being able to have that outlet, I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be really important for him. As far as the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions, though they have a lot of options in
Speaker 1: the backfield, a lot of question marks at other positions,
Speaker 1: I'm curious what we're gonna see. But Matthew Stafford can
Speaker 1: never be overlooked. Yeah. Well, I'll throw this out there
Speaker 1: for you. Just in looking at Week one overall in
Speaker 1: the NFL, I'm starting to wonder And I hinted at
Speaker 1: this in my in my editorial that I wrote after
Speaker 1: the game on Sunday, with the way Rogers being in
Speaker 1: a road indoor venue is using, you know, the hard
Speaker 1: count to get draw teams off sides. The Bears go
Speaker 1: into an indoor Division rivals building and come back with
Speaker 1: three fourth quarter touchdowns with no fans in the stands.
Speaker 1: The Seattle Seahawks go into an indoor venue in Atlanta
Speaker 1: and Russell Wilson puts up thirty eight points the lack
Speaker 1: of home field advantage because of these no fans, limited fans,
Speaker 1: that could start to become a real storyline here in
Speaker 1: And I think Aaron Rodgers and what he did in
Speaker 1: Minnesota is exhibit A, but there were some other exhibits.
Speaker 1: You know, the evidences you know, might start to mount
Speaker 1: here as we get into this season with with home
Speaker 1: field advantage maybe not meaning a whole heck of a lot, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and especially in these domes, Like I'm curious to see
Speaker 1: how that plays out. You know, the people we weren't
Speaker 1: in Minneapolis, but the folks I've talked about there said
Speaker 1: it wasn't very loud. Whatever you and I heard at
Speaker 1: these practices at lambeau Field, it didn't play out that way.
Speaker 1: At us Bank. There wasn't this worry. Remember we were
Speaker 1: talking about how worried they were gonna be that they're
Speaker 1: gonna be going over the Desko limit. It doesn't sound
Speaker 1: like they did. And obviously Aaron Rodgers was able to
Speaker 1: draw three off sides and then there was a false
Speaker 1: start on the you know, both tackles jumped from Minnesota.
Speaker 1: So there there, that's gonna be something track I personally
Speaker 1: am interested to see what this game feels like at
Speaker 1: lambeau Field with with you know, the way that this
Speaker 1: thing is built, the fact it is open air. Both
Speaker 1: teams are gonna have to bring it. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to bring your own energy. And now those starts. As
Speaker 1: much as I already made about how efficient the Packers
Speaker 1: were early on, that did play along, I think into
Speaker 1: their motivation and their momentum throughout this game too to
Speaker 1: come up with that wind. Now you have to hold
Speaker 1: serve at home. Yeah, absolutely well. We will talk more
Speaker 1: about this week to match up in the Detroit Lions
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