Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford, sitting next to the one and
Speaker 1: only West Hodkowitz. Were coming to you here from our
Speaker 1: studios at lambeau Field and West coming off of a
Speaker 1: sixteen Green Bay Packers victory over the Minnesota Vikings. Boy,
Speaker 1: there's a lot to dissect from this one, whether you
Speaker 1: want to talk about the twenty one nothing start, the
Speaker 1: Vikings rally, the interception in the end zone second week
Speaker 1: in a row. The Packers defense preserves of victory with
Speaker 1: an end zone interception late in the fourth quarter. Bottom
Speaker 1: line is, the Packers got through these first two division
Speaker 1: games at two and oh, and you can't ask to
Speaker 1: be in a better position. It's a great spot for
Speaker 1: the Packers to be in right now, Michael. The Packers
Speaker 1: off to the is two and oh start since two
Speaker 1: thousand fifteen, their first two and oh start in the
Speaker 1: NFC North since two thousand thirteen. So it's been a
Speaker 1: minute trying to get some momentum back. And one thing
Speaker 1: that really stuck with me in the locker room, Yesterra.
Speaker 1: It didn't even make its way into my postgame content,
Speaker 1: but it was a quote that Kenny Clark said that
Speaker 1: I thought really hit home with me and that we're
Speaker 1: just trying to get back to winning again. You gotta remember,
Speaker 1: there's some guys in this two thousand sixteen draft class
Speaker 1: that they went to the NFC Championship Game as rookies,
Speaker 1: and they haven't been in the playoffs the past two years.
Speaker 1: The two thousand seventeen and eighteen draft classes haven't been
Speaker 1: to the playoffs at all. They haven't tasted much success. Frankly,
Speaker 1: in the fact that I looked it up to this
Speaker 1: is the first back to back wins the Packers have
Speaker 1: had since Tampa Bay and Cleveland in two thousand seventeen
Speaker 1: December of seventeen. So to change that narrative was I
Speaker 1: think really important. We've we discussed this so many different times. Michael.
Speaker 1: I'm not all about the whole fast start mentality. I
Speaker 1: think you are what you are at the end of
Speaker 1: the season and you just try to get the wins
Speaker 1: when you can get them. But that being said, I mean,
Speaker 1: you cannot discount the fact that wins in the NFC
Speaker 1: North this time of the year put you in the
Speaker 1: driver's seat in good position for how the season's gonna
Speaker 1: unfold and right now, the Packers, for all the ups
Speaker 1: and downs here early on, they are what their record
Speaker 1: says they are. Well. This game on Sunday against the
Speaker 1: Vikings could not have started any better for the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers. By the first minute of the second quarter,
Speaker 1: the Packers were ahead twenty one to nothing. The offense
Speaker 1: had put together three touchdown drives. I believe I counted
Speaker 1: it was nineteen plays, and thirteen of those nineteen plays
Speaker 1: games six or more yards. I mean, they were just
Speaker 1: they were just taking the field in chunks from the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings. The first three drives in the meantime, the
Speaker 1: Vikings that had a drive and a missed field goal,
Speaker 1: and then also a turnover that gave the Packers a
Speaker 1: short field. So things were sitting at twenty one to nothing.
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur and Aaron Rodgers in the offense, everything was clicking,
Speaker 1: the defense was flying high. And then really it was
Speaker 1: that seventy five yard run by Dalvin Cook that it
Speaker 1: got the Vikings back into the game and it seemed
Speaker 1: to just completely shift the momentum of the football game.
Speaker 1: So it's very interesting. One of your big keys of
Speaker 1: this game that we talked about last week because you
Speaker 1: thought if Aaron Jones had more rushing yards and Dalvin Cooking,
Speaker 1: Packers would win this game. That's not to say that
Speaker 1: that couldn't be. They couldn't still that cook still couldn't
Speaker 1: have more rushing yards and the Packers couldn't win it.
Speaker 1: But what I really liked about that theory is that,
Speaker 1: to me, those two guys really determined the outcome of
Speaker 1: this football game. And what I mean by that is offensively,
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones is the most consistent player on the field
Speaker 1: for the Packers. Twenty three carries, a hundred and sixteen yards,
Speaker 1: one touchdown off the two yard run out of the
Speaker 1: pistol formation in the second quarter. He did not have
Speaker 1: a carry more than fifteen yards, but yet he was
Speaker 1: so consistent. The offensive line gave him room to work with,
Speaker 1: and he helped them finish that game with the four
Speaker 1: minute offense. They also tested out that new little package
Speaker 1: where him and Jamal Williams are both on the field together.
Speaker 1: They had Jones coming on jet sweeps. To me, I
Speaker 1: wrote about it on Packers dot Com. Aaron Jones this
Speaker 1: game showed what he was capable of this offense in
Speaker 1: terms of Delvin Cook. Why I think that he had
Speaker 1: a big outcome on This isn't just the seventy yard run.
Speaker 1: This is the first time that the Packers defense got
Speaker 1: punched in the mouth, that they got tested, that their
Speaker 1: their will to hold their ground when things maybe aren't
Speaker 1: going their way really was stressed. And while they did
Speaker 1: give up three big plays in that way, they still
Speaker 1: were able to bounce back and get the stops when
Speaker 1: they needed them to. That's what the Packers need to
Speaker 1: do defensively this season. They need to answer that call
Speaker 1: when the times are going that the offense maybe not
Speaker 1: isn't putting up forty two points. That's what I thought
Speaker 1: was impressive about that performance. Yeah, I mean, everybody's wondering, Okay,
Speaker 1: how can the Packers offense score three quick touchdowns and
Speaker 1: then the offense sort of disappears and things were such
Speaker 1: a struggle the rest of the game. I'll say a
Speaker 1: couple of things. One early in the season September football,
Speaker 1: unscouted looks and all that the Packers clearly were pencil
Speaker 1: whipping the bikes, I guess is what I'd like to
Speaker 1: say in terms of just drawing stuff up XS and
Speaker 1: knows the stuff they were using early in the game.
Speaker 1: They were catching the Vikings off guard. Things were working,
Speaker 1: things were clicking. You can't play sixty minutes of football
Speaker 1: that way. Nobody can draw up that many that many
Speaker 1: brand new things when you're playing in the NFL. So
Speaker 1: that sort of ran out on the Packers and the other.
Speaker 1: The other two things I will say is that a
Speaker 1: the Vikings defense is still pretty good, and they proved it.
Speaker 1: But B there were a couple of opportunities in the
Speaker 1: second quarter when the Packers had a chance to extend
Speaker 1: this lead, when the Vikings were getting back into the
Speaker 1: game where they did for themselves. I mean, Geronimo Allison
Speaker 1: catches a short swing pass, has a first down, he's
Speaker 1: fighting for extra yards, he coughs up the ball, and
Speaker 1: then all the confusion towards the end of the first
Speaker 1: half when Aaron Rodgers thought he had a first down
Speaker 1: with Geronimo Alison, then the ball gets spotted it was
Speaker 1: actually fourth down. Rogers thought he was just running a
Speaker 1: play on first down and hustling everybody up to prevent
Speaker 1: them from reviewing the spot of the ball under two minutes,
Speaker 1: but the spot of the ball actually was fourth out
Speaker 1: and Matt Lafleur didn't communicate to Aaron Rodgers, hey, I
Speaker 1: want to kick the field goal. It was a big miscommunication,
Speaker 1: a big misunderstanding that was going on. The bottom line
Speaker 1: is it cost the Packers a shot at a forty
Speaker 1: three yard field goal, which you like Mason Crosby's chances
Speaker 1: there so as much as the pencil whipping stuff ran
Speaker 1: itself out and the Vikings defense stepped up, the Packers
Speaker 1: also had a couple of opportunities where they simply shot
Speaker 1: themselves in the foot and and this the Packers should
Speaker 1: have had more than twenty one points in this game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that two minute series was weird at the end because
Speaker 1: it was a terrible spot. The referees just blew that
Speaker 1: where it looked like to me, at least my eye, Ellison,
Speaker 1: I believe it was Allison. Yes, it was Allis. I
Speaker 1: mean it was for no gain, but yet the way
Speaker 1: they marked it it looked like a first down. Well
Speaker 1: that that was the thing is from from where we
Speaker 1: were in the press box, it was basically on that
Speaker 1: sideline and it was right below us. And when the
Speaker 1: side judge or line judge whatever they call him, when
Speaker 1: he initially spotted the ball with his foot. He was
Speaker 1: giving Allison the first down, and that's what Rogers saw.
Speaker 1: And I was thinking, like, oh, well, they're gonna review this.
Speaker 1: They're going to review the spot because that that was
Speaker 1: definitely a bad spot. Well then somewhere between where he
Speaker 1: was spotting the ball along the sideline and then when
Speaker 1: they put it on the hash mark, they actually put
Speaker 1: it in a more correct place because they did spot
Speaker 1: it short of the first down, except Rogers didn't see
Speaker 1: that change in things and didn't know that it was
Speaker 1: actually fourth down. So it was it was a big
Speaker 1: It was a big mix up, and unfortunately, and in
Speaker 1: the haste of you know, trying to hustle up and
Speaker 1: do something quickly, and ended up cost costing the Packers
Speaker 1: of scoring up. It was a bizarre sequence because to
Speaker 1: me it looked like and it was a great job
Speaker 1: by the Vikings that gang tackle. The first guy held
Speaker 1: him up, the second guy came and helped out. I
Speaker 1: thought they stopped him. I mean I I thought ultimately
Speaker 1: the spot was correct, even though Aaron Rodgers misunderstood what
Speaker 1: was going. Then when the referee, the side just rose
Speaker 1: the referee they give him the extra yard. Then it's back.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can understand why Rogers, you know, wasn't
Speaker 1: able to understand at that point. I thought something that
Speaker 1: Lafleur said hit it right in the head. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's a moment. You're gonna learn from that and
Speaker 1: you'll keep persevering on after because I don't think anyone
Speaker 1: was really to blame, to be honest with you, I
Speaker 1: think Rogers did the heads up thing thinking that they
Speaker 1: had the first down to keep things moving because now
Speaker 1: you're inside two minutes and the booth review has to
Speaker 1: be one right if you and if he can get
Speaker 1: the snap off before they before they stopped play. Rogers
Speaker 1: essentially what I wrote in my column and my editorial
Speaker 1: was that Rogers was willing to sacrifice the first downplay
Speaker 1: of the next series to prevent the review from happening,
Speaker 1: and then with enough time on the clock, he was
Speaker 1: gonna let the clock run down to a minute or
Speaker 1: so and assess the rest of the series. Second down,
Speaker 1: third down, see if you can still move the ball
Speaker 1: and get a touchdown or if you settle for a
Speaker 1: field goal. The key being not leaving the Vikings anymore
Speaker 1: time at the end of the first half to try
Speaker 1: to score, and ultimately that was the mentality that cost
Speaker 1: the Packers because really what happened is they should have
Speaker 1: used one of their time outs there, but I think
Speaker 1: in the back of their minds they didn't. You know,
Speaker 1: at least from la Fleur's point of view, he didn't
Speaker 1: want to do that because he didn't want to leave
Speaker 1: any time for the Vikings, and by calling a time out,
Speaker 1: he's obviously going to stop the clock. So there were
Speaker 1: a lot of thoughts and strategies and everything that we're
Speaker 1: going on. There was all happening really really fast, and
Speaker 1: unfortunately the Packers still went into halftime with just twenty one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then that was a tough one too, because it
Speaker 1: was such an emotional play right before. I mean, Darnell
Speaker 1: Savage made a phenomenal Uh did a phenomenal job of
Speaker 1: breaking up a pass from Kirk Cousins in the middle
Speaker 1: field that tips up Preston Smith just plays all over
Speaker 1: the place, so he was in the vicinity of the ball.
Speaker 1: He got the interception. That's what allowed the Packers to
Speaker 1: take over at their the Minnesota forty seven and you're
Speaker 1: in a position to put more points on the board.
Speaker 1: It was it again, I think these are things that
Speaker 1: you have to work through early in the season. But
Speaker 1: as we saw last year, Mike, it's easier to work
Speaker 1: through these things when you're winning, when when you have
Speaker 1: when you have that taste of victory, when you have
Speaker 1: the win and the wind column, because everybody to some
Speaker 1: extent is dealing with something this time of the year.
Speaker 1: So the big keys that I took away offensively for
Speaker 1: the Packers, where Davante Adams was right where they needed
Speaker 1: him to be when they needed him to be there.
Speaker 1: Three of the five third down condigent versions that they
Speaker 1: made were Davante Adams. It was a big reason for
Speaker 1: their success on third downs in the first half before
Speaker 1: that waned in the second half. And then when Rogers
Speaker 1: need to run out the clock, him and baktr went
Speaker 1: to the huddle. They said, we need two first downs
Speaker 1: to seal this game after the defense got them another stop,
Speaker 1: and that's exactly what they did. With the thirteen yard
Speaker 1: run by Aaron Jones, the seven yard passed to Davante Adams,
Speaker 1: Packers chime out victorious. Yeah, real quickly here West before
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Speaker 1: In the fourth quarter here west the Minnesota Vikings you
Speaker 1: had mentioned, they hit on the big plays. Dalvin Cook
Speaker 1: gets the seventy five yard touchdown run. There's the sixty
Speaker 1: one yard catch and run by Chad Beebe, which I
Speaker 1: give Kirk Cousins credit. He was going down and he
Speaker 1: flips the ball to him and then the guy takes off.
Speaker 1: That ends up getting the Vikings a field goal after
Speaker 1: a touchdown was wiped out by the replay review, which
Speaker 1: is a topic perhaps for another day. Then in the
Speaker 1: second half, the forty five yard touchdown passed it to
Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs, and then with him taking off his helmet
Speaker 1: and getting a penalty, the Packers actually blocked the extra point.
Speaker 1: So we're at twenty one to sixteen. But then from
Speaker 1: basically five minutes left in the third quarter to three
Speaker 1: minutes left in the fourth quarter, the Minnesota Vikings had
Speaker 1: four possessions with a chance to score and take the
Speaker 1: lead after being down twenty one to nothing early and
Speaker 1: The Packers defense got the stop on all four possessions,
Speaker 1: and yes, that Kevin King interception in the end zone,
Speaker 1: that's the highlight of it. It was goal to go
Speaker 1: from the eight yard line. But when you look at
Speaker 1: I mean four consecutive possessions west because the Packers offense
Speaker 1: was not able to add to the lead. This Packers
Speaker 1: defense stood tall and got the stops when they needed
Speaker 1: it and uh boy, just just an impressive close out
Speaker 1: performance by Green Bay's defense. So a few things here.
Speaker 1: The first one is we talk a lot about that
Speaker 1: interception for Kevin King. Absolutely, the pressure that Dean Lawry
Speaker 1: had Lawry, it won't show up in the stack box.
Speaker 1: He had one of his best days in a Packers
Speaker 1: uniform in this game. They knew that he was at
Speaker 1: the boot. Action was going to be a big thing
Speaker 1: with Kirk Cousins. It was basically Dean Lawry's job to
Speaker 1: shut that down and he did that. When you have
Speaker 1: a six ft six guy in your face, it's gonna
Speaker 1: make life difficult on the quarterback. Yeah, he made those
Speaker 1: throws tough for Cousins. But the other thing I want
Speaker 1: to highlight here that I don't think you can overlook
Speaker 1: and it's an underrated aspect of this game is the
Speaker 1: Tony Brown block. You have to understand when you get
Speaker 1: a touchdown like that, and there was so much moment
Speaker 1: momentum that the Vikings are extracting at that point, they're
Speaker 1: within a score they end up getting. As you mentioned
Speaker 1: the with Digs taking his helmet off, a fifteen yard
Speaker 1: penalty makes it a forty eight yard point after attempt
Speaker 1: now for Dan Bailey, after the Packers chose to use
Speaker 1: the personal on that play instead of on the kickoff.
Speaker 1: The kickoff, so Tony Brown comes from blocks and I
Speaker 1: asked Tony about this in the locker room afterwards, and
Speaker 1: he said, I mean, that's a moment that you should
Speaker 1: just be uni laterly, you know, big for the Vikings
Speaker 1: in terms of momentum. That took something away from it,
Speaker 1: and then the Vikings come back offensively. A really unique
Speaker 1: game for Kirk Cousins. I mean, only fourteen of thirty
Speaker 1: two if you take away his three explosive plays, he
Speaker 1: was only eleven of twenty nine for like ninety four
Speaker 1: yards in this game. It was really bizarre. But the
Speaker 1: Packers defense, particularly in the red zone again showed up
Speaker 1: and when it did finally look like Cousins was driving.
Speaker 1: With the Vikings offense, Lawry gets the pressure, King gets
Speaker 1: the interception, and then when you need the stops down
Speaker 1: the stretch, they got them. The Packers didn't do it
Speaker 1: with twenty sacks either, They only had one. It was
Speaker 1: Kevin King or Kevin Kenny Clarks, and it was a
Speaker 1: huge one early on, but with the turnover with the
Speaker 1: strips act. But what they did is they just came
Speaker 1: together as a group and I thought you saw the
Speaker 1: pass rush in the secondary really working in sync together. Well.
Speaker 1: The other thing I will say too about the explosive plays. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the Packers defense uh not happy with allowing those three
Speaker 1: explosive plays that led to all sixteen points for the Vikings.
Speaker 1: But the fourth explosive play, the Vikings had the thirty
Speaker 1: yard catch to Feeling that got them out to midfield.
Speaker 1: I'm still not convinced he caught the ball, but again
Speaker 1: that's a discussion for another day. The replay that the
Speaker 1: Packers challenged it, but the replay upheld it and I
Speaker 1: still don't quite get it. But that being said, that
Speaker 1: was the fourth really explosive play for the Vikings. But
Speaker 1: the defense did not let that one lead to points.
Speaker 1: They stood. They stood tall on that one. And then
Speaker 1: on the first and goal from the eight yard line,
Speaker 1: I said this an insider inbox. That's absolute quarterback malpractice
Speaker 1: by Kirk Cousins. It is first in goal. The Vikings
Speaker 1: were running the ball really, really well. They just run
Speaker 1: the ball three straight times for twenty five yards to
Speaker 1: get to the eight yard line. So you go play
Speaker 1: action on first and goal. I get that you're gonna
Speaker 1: try to catch the Packers overplaying the run. Somebody slips
Speaker 1: free for a quick pass you might get in the
Speaker 1: end zone on first and goal, Cousins decides to scramble
Speaker 1: off the boot to try to get away from Lowry
Speaker 1: and then just throw the ball up for grabs to
Speaker 1: the corner of the end zone. And yes, he's saying
Speaker 1: he's trying to throw it where Diggs would catch it
Speaker 1: or nobody would. But Kevin, Kevin King is just as
Speaker 1: fast as Stefon Diggs. He closed the gap in the
Speaker 1: corner of the end zone. He went up and made
Speaker 1: the play. Just a bad, bad decision by Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: and the Packers took advantage. And he also gotta put
Speaker 1: I mean we talked so much about Kevin King's height,
Speaker 1: almost probably to the point that it's over the top.
Speaker 1: But you have to respect the fact that it's a
Speaker 1: six ft three cornerback that you're putting a fifty ball
Speaker 1: up for. It's your odds are not great in terms.
Speaker 1: And when you look and when you look at the
Speaker 1: slow motion, I mean the ball was in the air
Speaker 1: for so long that both King and Digs were on
Speaker 1: their way down from their jumps as King got his hands.
Speaker 1: It wasn't the balls the ball wasn't actually high pointed,
Speaker 1: you know, at the peak of the jump. Both guys
Speaker 1: were actually still on their way down because Cousins put
Speaker 1: so much air under the ball and King was able
Speaker 1: to get it and fortunately hang on. And the replay
Speaker 1: review of the odd amatic review of the turnover, even
Speaker 1: though the ball kind of squirted out there as he
Speaker 1: landed and rolled over on the ground. I was a
Speaker 1: little worried that that was going to be declared incomplete.
Speaker 1: But again I don't quite understand all the rules anymore.
Speaker 1: But it stood for the Packers and it was a
Speaker 1: It was the biggest turnover of the football game. I
Speaker 1: want to touch on really quickly that thirty yard catch,
Speaker 1: and as you mentioned, we can talk about the whether
Speaker 1: it was a catch or not another day. Maybe we'll
Speaker 1: partner it with the pick play role. Yeah, maybe maybe tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Maybe tomorrow's show is just to talk about all of
Speaker 1: these controversial things that we're trying to figure out. But
Speaker 1: something that stood out to me about the play is actually,
Speaker 1: I believe it was Davante Adams. I hope I don't
Speaker 1: miss quote the player here, but I believe it was
Speaker 1: Davantae Adams this past week that was talking about the
Speaker 1: value of special teams and a player like j K Scott.
Speaker 1: You might be like, Okay, what does this have to
Speaker 1: do with the third yard catch. J K Scott had
Speaker 1: one of his best punts of the day on that play,
Speaker 1: a forty eight yard of that put Minnesota back at
Speaker 1: the twelve yard line. The point that Adams made in
Speaker 1: his statement was that the farther back that you push
Speaker 1: an offense, the more it in ables your defense to
Speaker 1: absorb and explosive play. The Packers did that there. That
Speaker 1: was the one big play that the Vikings made on
Speaker 1: that drive, and it only got them to their forty
Speaker 1: eight yard line. The Packers were able to make the
Speaker 1: stand after that. Yes, when you play well on special
Speaker 1: teams and you control the field position, it doesn't allow
Speaker 1: those plays to be as backbreaking as they could have been.
Speaker 1: That should have been a scoring series for the Vikings
Speaker 1: and they ended up having to punt the ball. Yeah. Absolutely, Well, Um,
Speaker 1: before we go here, West And as I said, I
Speaker 1: think we'll talk about some of these other longer conversations
Speaker 1: maybe on tomorrow show as far as what's going on.
Speaker 1: But I have a trivia question for you. There are
Speaker 1: six rookie head coaches in the NFL this year, and
Speaker 1: I'm talking rookie head coaches, not new head coaches. And
Speaker 1: if they've coached been a head coach elsewhere, six rookie
Speaker 1: head coaches in the NFL, how many collective wins do
Speaker 1: those six rookie head coaches have right now as we
Speaker 1: speak today? Well, Vick fan Joe got robbed of his
Speaker 1: right So that's another other discussion for another day. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with three the answers to Matt la
Speaker 1: Fleur owns both of them, because all the other rookie
Speaker 1: head coaches, Brian Floores, Vic Fangio, and I don't have
Speaker 1: the entire list in front of me to steal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Cliff Cliff Kingsbury has a tie, you know, but no,
Speaker 1: the other the other rookie head coaches as of this
Speaker 1: moment are O eight and one, and Matt Lafleur is too,
Speaker 1: and ol Freddie Kitchens has a chance Monday Night Football
Speaker 1: to get his first victory. He's he's oh and one.
Speaker 1: But um boy, oh boy, I mean, um that says
Speaker 1: it all right there about how tough it can be
Speaker 1: to win in this league. Now, Matt Lafleur has a
Speaker 1: two time m v P quarterback and everything like that,
Speaker 1: but it's not easy to come out of the gate
Speaker 1: as a rookie head coach in this league and start
Speaker 1: chalking up wins, especially against division opponents. And uh, even
Speaker 1: though there are moments in these first two games, stretches
Speaker 1: of these first two games that have not looked pretty
Speaker 1: for the Green Bay Packers, the bottom line is there.
Speaker 1: They are too and oh and they know what they
Speaker 1: have to work on. Yeah, and it's incredible too. I
Speaker 1: think to me, being an NFL coaches probably the most
Speaker 1: difficult job. Yeah, and all of sports. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't mean to like put down NBA or Major League
Speaker 1: baseball managers. I mean that's important, but let's be honest.
Speaker 1: I could sit on the bench and do it one
Speaker 1: time if you give me a hundred sixty two chances
Speaker 1: and that team is gonna win, right or two chances.
Speaker 1: If you don't have an established leader, culture and game
Speaker 1: plan in the NFL, you're being it's it's sharks in
Speaker 1: the water, you're sunk so and you only get sixteen chances.
Speaker 1: That that's the point I'm trying to make. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to demean any other sports, but you only get
Speaker 1: sixteen chances that I thought under a huge, huge microscope
Speaker 1: every single time your team takes the field. And we
Speaker 1: will we can talk about this later when we break
Speaker 1: down some other action here the next couple of days.
Speaker 1: But the Vic Fangio game between Denver and Chicago really
Speaker 1: shows how small that margin for error is. One second
Speaker 1: separated whether or not the Denver Broncos are one in
Speaker 1: one or the Chicago Bears are one in one, not
Speaker 1: to mention a roughing the past or penalty. That the
Speaker 1: thing that we can put on the other show right
Speaker 1: that that everybody in Denver is absolutely up in arms
Speaker 1: about and rightfully so. But but getting back to the
Speaker 1: original point. I mean, it is so difficult to win
Speaker 1: in this league, so that's why you cherish it. You
Speaker 1: appreciate it. I think Matt Lafleur, you hear him talk
Speaker 1: in his post game, you know, huddle with the team
Speaker 1: in the locker room. It's a man that is you know, excited,
Speaker 1: but also understands what it takes. The hours that go
Speaker 1: into this, not just this past week, the months that
Speaker 1: of preparation that go into planning for the two NFC
Speaker 1: North opponents right off the bat. You have to appreciate it,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately you also have to wash it because now
Speaker 1: you have a Denver Broncos team that's coming in and
Speaker 1: they're hungry to get their first win under their new
Speaker 1: head coach. That's what I was going to say, is
Speaker 1: there too. There are two thoughts that are going through
Speaker 1: my head right now. One is that there's no need
Speaker 1: to make, ever, make any apologies for victories in the NFL,
Speaker 1: no matter how they look, no matter how they happen.
Speaker 1: You don't apologize. But number two, you only celebrate for
Speaker 1: twenty four hours, if not less, and you get yourself
Speaker 1: back to work because because this this is a tough business.
Speaker 1: And that was the temperament of a lot of the
Speaker 1: guys in the locker room. They understood that they put
Speaker 1: another jar on the shelf now, and you know they
Speaker 1: got to go try to get another one now against
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos, because guess what, in a matter of
Speaker 1: ten eleven days, you're playing two NFL football games and
Speaker 1: you're trying to get out of September four. No, it's
Speaker 1: a lot of work to be done. Yeah, a lot
Speaker 1: of work to be done for sure. With that, we'll
Speaker 1: call it a wrap on this edition of Packers Unscripted.
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