Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from
Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford, joined as always
Speaker 1: by my trusted colleague West Hodkowitz. We're coming to you
Speaker 1: here from our studios at lambeau Field West. We have
Speaker 1: a lot to cover on this show, including some news
Speaker 1: with regard to the COVID nineteen list and UH and
Speaker 1: the green Bay Packers, and we will get to that
Speaker 1: later in the show. I want to start though, with
Speaker 1: talking about the Packers victory over the Washington Football Team
Speaker 1: on Sunday at lambeau Field ten. The final score, green
Speaker 1: Bay wins its sixth straight, now six and one on
Speaker 1: the season, with a two and a half game lead
Speaker 1: in the NFC North following a Bear's loss and the
Speaker 1: Vikings being on thereby. Um yeah, after week one. This
Speaker 1: is exactly what we thought, right, we'd be sitting here
Speaker 1: talking about the Packers being six and one. Funny too,
Speaker 1: I know everyone's drawn up those stats about how hey,
Speaker 1: it's the first time ever a team has won six
Speaker 1: straight games after a thirty five point loss one the
Speaker 1: week after it was the first team to win five
Speaker 1: straight games after So we have to see how far
Speaker 1: they could take this thing. You know, it was funny.
Speaker 1: I was driving on my typical route after I leave
Speaker 1: lambeau Field, You're going down Lombardi Avenue, pretty much dead
Speaker 1: to the world by the time you leave the stadium,
Speaker 1: And I was sitting there thinking to myself, like, you know,
Speaker 1: we witnessed some darn things over the years. You know,
Speaker 1: some some interesting games, some of them of which have
Speaker 1: happened during this winning streak. But I don't know if
Speaker 1: there's anything more apropos than Green Bay having a setback
Speaker 1: like they did in Week one and then finding a
Speaker 1: way to write the shift and continually getting better throughout
Speaker 1: the course of their six game winning streak, despite the
Speaker 1: fact they keep taking hits to their defense, especially but
Speaker 1: as we found out today, um, you know, their offense
Speaker 1: potentially going into Thursday. But the fact of the matter is, Mike, finally,
Speaker 1: the green Bay Packers defense played the way situationally, they
Speaker 1: needed to play. They were gonna have to do it
Speaker 1: at some point. You can limit teams, you can limit
Speaker 1: their opportunities, you can limit the explosive plays, but when
Speaker 1: you get down to the brass tacks and the red zone,
Speaker 1: you have to be able to get stops and the
Speaker 1: Packers got four of them consecutively to win this game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know how I I always like to say this
Speaker 1: is a week to week, right, I mean, yes, there
Speaker 1: are certain things that are indicators and and things that
Speaker 1: you follow, and the numbers of the numbers, you can't
Speaker 1: argue with the facts. But there's no maybe no better
Speaker 1: example within a given team than going fifteen consecutive defensive
Speaker 1: possessions in the red zone, allowing touchdowns and then suddenly
Speaker 1: getting four consecutive stops, two of them inside the five
Speaker 1: yard line, one of them with an interception in the
Speaker 1: end zone, and then forcing a field goal at the
Speaker 1: end of the game when the Packers were up by
Speaker 1: three scores in Washington, was just trying to get within
Speaker 1: two scores at that point. Hats off, Hats off to
Speaker 1: this Packers defense because, as you said, the injuries that
Speaker 1: they've dealt with, Preston Smith, his career long consecutive game
Speaker 1: streak came to an end, Kevin King still not back,
Speaker 1: and we all know of course about Zadarius Smith and
Speaker 1: Jayar Alexander currently being on injured reserve and uh and
Speaker 1: the Packers defense came to play. Um they yes, they
Speaker 1: gave up a bunch of yards Washington was able to
Speaker 1: move the ball. I will say this though, the four
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty yards that a lot of people are
Speaker 1: focusing on, just remember sixty five of those Roughly we're
Speaker 1: in the last two minutes of the game when the
Speaker 1: Packers were up by fourteen and essentially letting Washington run
Speaker 1: out the clock, which is what they did. So it
Speaker 1: really was a defensive performance of less than four hundred
Speaker 1: yards on top of the four the four red zone stops.
Speaker 1: And this is what the Packers defense needed to do.
Speaker 1: They've been they've been building this foundation of where this
Speaker 1: defense is headed week by week right west, and and
Speaker 1: they just they laid down another pretty significant building block
Speaker 1: in this victory over Washington. I'm glad you use the
Speaker 1: term block, because I mean you take a piece by
Speaker 1: piece here right the way the Packers played collectively as
Speaker 1: a unit. You don't have Preston Smith a hundred and
Speaker 1: two consecutive games, played a hundred and seven if you
Speaker 1: count in his five postseason appearances. Most NFL players would
Speaker 1: give an arm or a leg to play a hundred
Speaker 1: and two games in the NFL. NFL let alone doing
Speaker 1: that consecutively. Preston Smith has been an absolute iron man.
Speaker 1: You don't have him, though, so what has to happen?
Speaker 1: He's not available, so Darius is dealing with his back
Speaker 1: injury on injured reserve. It was time for the third
Speaker 1: Smith brother to step up for Shawn. Gary was a
Speaker 1: first round pick, the twelve pick and the two thousand
Speaker 1: and nineteen NFL Draft. The moment was gonna come where
Speaker 1: the Packers were gonna need to lean on that young man,
Speaker 1: and he came through in Spains. I mean I saw
Speaker 1: the Stafford Pro Football Focus ten pressures he was credited
Speaker 1: for by that stat agency. He had four quarterback hits objectively,
Speaker 1: and then also with the two sacks in that game,
Speaker 1: one of which was really a momentum turner there at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the second half. Green Bay gets that
Speaker 1: scoring drive, you get the fourteen to seven lead at halftime,
Speaker 1: but we always talked about doubling up right that possession
Speaker 1: by Arizona. They go out there, it looks like they're
Speaker 1: gonna have a chance to answer what the Packers did,
Speaker 1: and Rashan Gary gets the ball back to Green Bay.
Speaker 1: They score another touchdown. Suddenly it's seven game. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of guys. You can talk about Russell Douglas, Kenny Clark, Kingsley, Kiki,
Speaker 1: the way he finished this game, Dean Lowry. The list
Speaker 1: goes on and on. An incredible, you know, end zone
Speaker 1: interception from Channon Sullivan and Adrian Amos coming up with
Speaker 1: a big you know, turnover on downs play, but Rashan
Speaker 1: Gary stepping up and being a dominant player. The Packers
Speaker 1: needed it, and I thought he really took a massive
Speaker 1: step forward in this one. Yeah. Absolutely, And I'm glad
Speaker 1: you mentioned the double up thing because we talked about
Speaker 1: that with the strategy and and you know, with the
Speaker 1: coin toss and that, and this is the second game
Speaker 1: in a row where the Packers lost the coin toss.
Speaker 1: The opponent deferred in order to have the opportunity to
Speaker 1: double up, and in very different ways. The Packers completely
Speaker 1: thwarted the strategy last week against Chicago, it was the
Speaker 1: defense getting a stop at the end of the first half,
Speaker 1: getting a stop at the start of the second half
Speaker 1: to maintain the small lead that the Packers had. This time,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, the Packers get the ball three minutes
Speaker 1: left in the first half, drain the clock and get
Speaker 1: a touchdown on a beautiful back shoulder from the slot.
Speaker 1: Uh throw, Aaron Rodgers to Al Lazard. You don't see
Speaker 1: back shoulders from the slot very often, and Rogers and
Speaker 1: Lazard pulled that off. So that's the touchdown that puts
Speaker 1: the Packers in the lead. Washington has no time left
Speaker 1: in the first half to answer, and then on the
Speaker 1: second play of the opening possession of the second half,
Speaker 1: Rashawn Gary just berries Taylor Heinrich in the pocket, the
Speaker 1: ball comes out, Dean Lowry grabs it, actually gets it
Speaker 1: on the fly before he even where the ball even
Speaker 1: goes to the ground. And then a couple of plays later,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers to Bobby Tony and the Packers are in
Speaker 1: the end zone. Again. It's a two touchdown game, and
Speaker 1: for the second week in a row, the opponent's opportunity
Speaker 1: to double up ends up being a stretch of the
Speaker 1: game where the Packers take control and establish who's got
Speaker 1: command of the football game. And you know, Green Bay,
Speaker 1: you talk about defense, you know, being able to set
Speaker 1: the tone in a game, and I felt like that's
Speaker 1: what they did specifically in the second half. I mean,
Speaker 1: as Alan Lazard said after the game, this wasn't the
Speaker 1: picture perfect performance. I'm sure Green Bay's offense wanted against
Speaker 1: you know, Washington. There was too much pressure on Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: They weren't able to establish the run. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of things that kind of worked against him, but
Speaker 1: the defense was the one that kind of gave them
Speaker 1: the jolt and obviously gave them an incredible opportunity to
Speaker 1: put points on the board that ended up leading to
Speaker 1: the tongue in touchdown. But I just thought you saw
Speaker 1: those two phases play off each other really well. The
Speaker 1: fact of the matter is, to Mike, total yardage that
Speaker 1: is sort of an antiquated, archaic way to sort of
Speaker 1: judge defenses. I think everyone pretty much agrees with that
Speaker 1: now because you look at a game like this. Yes,
Speaker 1: there were four and thirty total yards. Some of that
Speaker 1: again came on that last drive, but it was what
Speaker 1: green Bay did over four against the opposition, the red zone,
Speaker 1: over two in goal, the ghost situations. Certainly, I know
Speaker 1: some people brought up an insider inbox. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: the the Heineke play was sort of a fluke. But
Speaker 1: see that's the thing, Mike, that is the NFL. Everything
Speaker 1: is not going to be perfect. Things like that happens
Speaker 1: in this league every single week and multiple times in
Speaker 1: any given game. It's a matter of it's a matter
Speaker 1: of whatever happens, how do you respond to it? Who
Speaker 1: rises up in a big situation? The quarterback sneak on
Speaker 1: the one yard line. That's not what you expected to
Speaker 1: happen because everybody thought Taylor Heineke had scored a touchdown. Well,
Speaker 1: somebody had to make a play on fourth and goal
Speaker 1: from the one. The Packers were the team that made it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Devonga. Campbell made a lot of plays in this
Speaker 1: game and thirteen tackles, two force fumbles, including one he
Speaker 1: was credited for on the Heineke sneak, which then ultimately
Speaker 1: ended up being stopped after heine corral the ball. Gary
Speaker 1: made the stop there. Two turnovers on downs inside the
Speaker 1: five yard line for Green Bay. Again, a defense that's
Speaker 1: missing Jerry Alexander, you know, Kevin King unable to play,
Speaker 1: you know, Press the Smith. The list goes on and on.
Speaker 1: To get contributions from Campbell the way they have and
Speaker 1: some of these young guys, especially on this defensive line,
Speaker 1: to Mike the one position where the Packers have been
Speaker 1: healthy that has enabled this group to be a top
Speaker 1: ten defense here at the beginning half of the season
Speaker 1: in real realistically. As Aaron Rodgers said afterwards, there he
Speaker 1: feels like the offense is close. And this idea that
Speaker 1: the Packers are six and one without maybe playing their
Speaker 1: best football yet and definitely not having the best version
Speaker 1: of themselves on the field, that bodes well for them
Speaker 1: down the stretch, even though they're going to be facing
Speaker 1: an incredibly difficult November stretch. And I want to touch
Speaker 1: on one other thing with regard to the offense too,
Speaker 1: because you mentioned it. The y in defensive front completely
Speaker 1: took away the run was dominating the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: Early in the game, the Packers couldn't run the ball
Speaker 1: and Aaron Rodgers was sacked three times in about the
Speaker 1: first quarter and a half of play. But then that
Speaker 1: drive at the end of the second quarter, the past
Speaker 1: protection settled down. The Packers still never really found a
Speaker 1: running game throughout the entirety of this ball game, but
Speaker 1: the past protection settled down late in the second quarter,
Speaker 1: and then that held through the second half to where
Speaker 1: even though the Packers couldn't run the ball the one
Speaker 1: drive there there after the one turnover on downs, they're
Speaker 1: backed up on their own four yard line, but they
Speaker 1: were able to come out of there and drive down
Speaker 1: and get a field goal to make it a three
Speaker 1: score game. And and the past protection settling in against
Speaker 1: a really, really tough Washington front, I thought was what
Speaker 1: solidified at least the offense being able to do just
Speaker 1: enough to maintain the lead and and finish this game.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers had such a great line last Wednesday, Mike,
Speaker 1: where you talked about, you know, statistics, they are kind
Speaker 1: of whatever you make them. They and sort of provide
Speaker 1: evidence to whatever you want your argument to be. I
Speaker 1: thought that the kind of doggedness that people have sort
Speaker 1: of had towards Washington's defense, or the trepidation that you know,
Speaker 1: people talking about how they haven't really lived up to
Speaker 1: the hype, I'll selly well, Mike, I don't care what
Speaker 1: their total defense ranking is. If you just looked at
Speaker 1: that what that unit on Sunday, that's an impressive unit.
Speaker 1: I mean, Chase Young and Monte sweat team has advertised
Speaker 1: Jonathan Allen had a big game. They can pressure with
Speaker 1: four and get to the quarterback. Yeah, they don't have
Speaker 1: they don't have to blitz and I said it an
Speaker 1: Insider inbox in Monday morning's column. That looked like and
Speaker 1: I was wondering all week long last week, and we're
Speaker 1: right when I said, something doesn't compute here with regard
Speaker 1: to the talent on this Washington defense and where they
Speaker 1: were ranked, Well, that looked like the Washington defense that
Speaker 1: won the NFC East last year and put that team
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Yes, I know Washington is now two
Speaker 1: and five. This could be a turning point, uh for
Speaker 1: that team because because the defense was starting to look
Speaker 1: more like the version that was re be really good.
Speaker 1: And let's never act like the NFC East is just
Speaker 1: all solidified. Yes, Dallas is off to a fine start
Speaker 1: for she still a lot of football. We played Washington.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons they made the playoffs last year
Speaker 1: is because they made a big run. Just to make
Speaker 1: one last comment on that, Taylor Hanekey Heineck, Mike, I
Speaker 1: said it to you last week. I think we might
Speaker 1: even said on the show, the kid is a gamer,
Speaker 1: and I thought he proved that again. Now I understand
Speaker 1: he doesn't have the NFL first round pick. Arm I
Speaker 1: know he doesn't have the stature, but the kid is tough,
Speaker 1: he's willing to run, and he's not afraid to make
Speaker 1: a big play, and I just feel like, maybe he's
Speaker 1: not the guy you go into the season going, Okay,
Speaker 1: well this is our starting franchise quarterback. But you can
Speaker 1: win with that kid if you put some pieces around him.
Speaker 1: Washington's not as far away as people might think they are.
Speaker 1: I think there are a couple of pieces in the
Speaker 1: secondary way from having a defense that can contend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think and and Taylor Heineke needs some better
Speaker 1: weapons on offense too. I think they have Terry McLaurin
Speaker 1: and they have a bunch of guys that haven't really
Speaker 1: done a whole heck of a lot for them on offense.
Speaker 1: So so we'll see where that goes with them. I
Speaker 1: want to also mention with regard to the Packers special teams,
Speaker 1: one blip on special teams in this game, Mason Crosby
Speaker 1: getting a field goal blocked Maury straight and said there
Speaker 1: was some uh leakage on the interior with the protection,
Speaker 1: but also the kick was low. I think everybody could
Speaker 1: see that. But other than that one moment, this was
Speaker 1: a pretty good game for the Packers on special teams.
Speaker 1: The kickoff coverage that we've seen some returns come out
Speaker 1: to the thirty maybe the thirty five. Those were all stopped.
Speaker 1: The returns were all stopped inside the twenty five yard
Speaker 1: line in this game. And then we've talked about him
Speaker 1: a lot already, but Corey bojork has What more can
Speaker 1: you say about about this young man? He He is
Speaker 1: becoming a field position factor every single week and the
Speaker 1: Packers defense is benefiting from it. There's no question about it.
Speaker 1: Ten years have been covering this team in ten years
Speaker 1: in for and with all due respect to Tim Massy
Speaker 1: because I loved him, not that he's watching this right now,
Speaker 1: but great guy and had a really solid career, great career.
Speaker 1: But you know, there are so many times over those
Speaker 1: ten years that I watched Packers games right where you'd
Speaker 1: see Andy Lee, you'd see some of these guys, Shane Lechler,
Speaker 1: some of the best of the best in the National
Speaker 1: Football League, Jock, Johnny Hecker, you know, Michael Dickinson, right,
Speaker 1: but Dixon whatever his name is, from Seattle, in Seattle,
Speaker 1: And so many times I'd watch these guys and be like, man,
Speaker 1: if the Packers could get a punter like that, somebody
Speaker 1: that can really help change the field position. Somebody that
Speaker 1: when you're into your past the fifty, you can find
Speaker 1: a way to pin defense or offenses back if you
Speaker 1: know your offense gets stopped. They've gotten that kid and
Speaker 1: his name is Corey Bjrkez. And yes, you know, we
Speaker 1: just saw the eighty two yard punt. We saw the
Speaker 1: leg strength. But as Maurice Straitton talked about the toolbox
Speaker 1: that he has, the number of different punts that he
Speaker 1: can utilize. I was so happy to see him get
Speaker 1: rewarded games out of reach packers are gonna win, but
Speaker 1: just to see him get the credit for that punt,
Speaker 1: which is one of the most miraculous punts I've ever seen. Mike,
Speaker 1: I don't think you could have. You couldn't have put
Speaker 1: an index card between that football in the goal line
Speaker 1: for where it bounce and for him to get the
Speaker 1: credit at the three there. I thought that was a
Speaker 1: real nice test. Yeah, it was remarkable. Yeah, absolutely some
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Speaker 1: knew this was going to be a challenging week for
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers regardless, right, Arizona seven and oh
Speaker 1: the Cardinals get to host the Packers making a west
Speaker 1: coast trip on a short week. All of that, two
Speaker 1: of the top teams in the NFC going a head
Speaker 1: to head in prime time, and then the news breaks
Speaker 1: on Monday that Packers defensive coordinator Joe Berry and wide
Speaker 1: receiver Davante Adams have tested positive for COVID and have
Speaker 1: been placed on the COVID nineteen reserve list. I guess
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say with regard to that it was actually
Speaker 1: a positive test place we don't know that the official
Speaker 1: roster designation, as they've been placed on the COVID nineteen
Speaker 1: reserve lists. So, of course, Murphy's law right timing is
Speaker 1: everything of all the weeks, of all the weeks that
Speaker 1: you're going to have a key coach and obviously a
Speaker 1: very key offensive player end up on the COVID list
Speaker 1: it's when you have a short week and you're facing
Speaker 1: the lone undefeated team in the NFL. So the challenges
Speaker 1: just got stacked a little bit higher here for Green
Speaker 1: Bay as as they get ready to go out to Arizona. Well,
Speaker 1: and you know, first and foremost, you know, just kind
Speaker 1: of keeping you know, Joe Barry, my thoughts a little bit.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the way I approached this thing. I've
Speaker 1: approached at the last eighteen months. You hope for the
Speaker 1: best of the wealth and health and wellness side of things. Certainly,
Speaker 1: as you pointed out with Davanta Adams, what we know
Speaker 1: right now, he's placed on the COVID nineteen reserve list.
Speaker 1: NFL teams do not comment on what the status is
Speaker 1: of those guys. Could be a close all those different
Speaker 1: things that happen. So we'll see what happens with Davante Adams.
Speaker 1: But the fact of the matter is from a football perspective,
Speaker 1: from the business of sports perspective, from the fact that
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers are six and one of the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals are seven, and oh, this is not the
Speaker 1: news agreement Packers wanted to get. This week, Barry's defense
Speaker 1: has done an exceptional job this season. I think you've
Speaker 1: seen him really settle in, you know, with some of
Speaker 1: the defensive play calling in the last five weeks. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a unit that, as I said in our intro,
Speaker 1: has gotten better really steadily for six seven straight games,
Speaker 1: basically always taking a step forward. Davante Adams, man, I
Speaker 1: just I want to see one year where he can
Speaker 1: play six in games were now seventeen games, and just
Speaker 1: see him blowout record books because he's that talented, he's
Speaker 1: that good, and the guy just produces. I know you're
Speaker 1: not a fantasy football guy, but I've been playing fantasy
Speaker 1: football for fifteen years. I'm telling you right now, Mike,
Speaker 1: you watched receivers in this league. Guys will have a
Speaker 1: hundred yard games with two touchdowns. The next week they'll
Speaker 1: come back with thirty yards. They'll drive you nuts. From
Speaker 1: a fantasy perspective, I can't recall anyone that's been as
Speaker 1: consistent in terms of production then Davante Adams. If he's
Speaker 1: not getting ten catches for a hundred yards, then he's
Speaker 1: getting two touchdowns. If he's not getting a touchdown, then
Speaker 1: he has fourteen catches for a hundred sixty yards. The
Speaker 1: guy is a dynamic football player, and I was so excited,
Speaker 1: and we'll see. You know, you can get two negative
Speaker 1: tests whatever that is, you know, be potentially active. All
Speaker 1: those things that are above my head, above my pay grade.
Speaker 1: But I was so excited this week Mike about DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins Davante Adams. They don't play each other, but these
Speaker 1: are the two most consistently dominant receivers in the league
Speaker 1: over the last five years. So excited to see them
Speaker 1: on the field. Uh, It's still gonna be a great
Speaker 1: matchup regardless of how all this stuff unfolds, but certainly
Speaker 1: for Green Bay it is a massive wrench in the
Speaker 1: plans to have to be dealing with this on a
Speaker 1: short week, playing the best team in the National Football League. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And Matt Lafleur at the time that we're taping this,
Speaker 1: he hasn't addressed, um the issue of Davante Adams going
Speaker 1: on the COVID list, but he did talk about uh,
Speaker 1: Joe Barry, and although la Fleur didn't really make a
Speaker 1: specific announcement, he did suggest that Jerry Gray, the Packers
Speaker 1: defensive backs coach and passing game coordinator on the defensive side,
Speaker 1: who has been a defensive coordinator for multiple teams in
Speaker 1: the NFL previously in his coaching career, most likely will
Speaker 1: be the defensive play caller for Thursday night in Arizona.
Speaker 1: Is certainly a guy that that Matt Lafleur the rest
Speaker 1: of that defensive staff would have plenty of confidence in.
Speaker 1: But um, but this is this, this this is a
Speaker 1: shake up here, you know, Um, as we've talked about,
Speaker 1: with all the progress the defense has made, all those
Speaker 1: building blocks and everything, now suddenly you get a little
Speaker 1: bit of a you get a little bit of a
Speaker 1: wrench thrown into uh, you know what's supposed to be
Speaker 1: this this straight ahead progress and and we'll just have
Speaker 1: to see how they react because, um, Kyler Murray, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the big storylines here in this short week
Speaker 1: as much as uh, there isn't too much time to
Speaker 1: talk about it, but Taylor Heineke did scramble for a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of yards for Washington, and that's one of
Speaker 1: those things that now you're gonna face Kyler Murray, Who's
Speaker 1: who's even faster, who's even more elusive. The Packers defensively
Speaker 1: will have to obviously have a plan for that. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's something that actually works in Green Bay's favor in
Speaker 1: the sense that Okay, yeah, Taylor Heineke leaked out a
Speaker 1: few too many times and hurt them with his legs,
Speaker 1: So that sort of puts you even on extra heightened alert.
Speaker 1: Now going into the going into a matchup with Kyler Murray,
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. I'm really interested to see what
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray looks like on Thursday Night and how he plays,
Speaker 1: because the guys having an m v P type season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he's actually doing more with his arm this year.
Speaker 1: You know, his his rushing yards, his scrambles per game
Speaker 1: are down compared to last year. He's starting to rely
Speaker 1: more on his instincts and his talent around him than
Speaker 1: just his feet. Now that being said, we've seen it
Speaker 1: time and time again where all it takes is one matchup.
Speaker 1: All it takes a particular look and all that stuff
Speaker 1: can change really fast. But and not all those throws
Speaker 1: are coming from the pocket either. He's getting himself out
Speaker 1: and he's not necessarily running. But then he's making a
Speaker 1: play with his arm after his legs give him the opportunity.
Speaker 1: So that's where he's really interesting. I just think he's
Speaker 1: trusting his eyes more, he's trusting his arm and I mean,
Speaker 1: this kid has it all. I mean when you go
Speaker 1: back and think about Arizona and that the stuff about Okay,
Speaker 1: are they gonna take him? Are they going to stick,
Speaker 1: you know, with with what they had already, and you
Speaker 1: started to look at the intangibles that he he showed
Speaker 1: that made him my first overall pick type caliber player.
Speaker 1: Despite the hype questions, I think at twenty four years
Speaker 1: young man, this he has shown everything to tell you
Speaker 1: that the Cardinals made the right movie dependent of the
Speaker 1: other stuff that happened. I'm excited to watch him. It
Speaker 1: is a massive test for this defense, for Davandre Campbell
Speaker 1: and for whoever the defensive play caller ends up being.
Speaker 1: If it's Jerry gray Um, the Packers have to mind
Speaker 1: their p's and ques in this one, because whether it's
Speaker 1: their passing offense, whether it's the scoring offense, this is
Speaker 1: an explosive unit. Man and the Arizona Cardinals They've shown
Speaker 1: it time and time again. They are not to be
Speaker 1: trifled with. They have kind of I made that comparison
Speaker 1: a month ago. This has kind of been the little
Speaker 1: brother this division lately, well, the little brother punched all
Speaker 1: the other brothers in the mouth and said this is
Speaker 1: my house now. Yeah, absolutely well. We will have plenty
Speaker 1: more to talk about with regard to this matchup Packers
Speaker 1: and Cardinals, a big Thursday night game as this week
Speaker 1: moves along, but for now we're going to call it
Speaker 1: a wrap on this edition of Packers Unscripted. Be sure
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