Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford, joined as always by my trusted
Speaker 1: colleague West Hodkowitz. Were coming to you here from our
Speaker 1: studios at lambeau Field and West. Week two is upon
Speaker 1: us here Packers Vikings coming up on Sunday, the home
Speaker 1: opener for the Green Bay Packers Sunday at lambeau Field.
Speaker 1: But we can look back for a few minutes, first
Speaker 1: at the Packers Week one victory last Thursday night in
Speaker 1: Chicago over the Bears. In one aspect that we didn't
Speaker 1: really touch on on our Friday show before we broke
Speaker 1: for the weekend was the involvement of the tight ends
Speaker 1: right away game one week one in this Green Bay offense.
Speaker 1: Because you look at how this game unfolded. Jimmy Graham
Speaker 1: had a touchdown catch, already half of his total of
Speaker 1: touchdown catches from a year ago. Marcedes Lewis had two
Speaker 1: receptions when he had three receptions all of last year
Speaker 1: his first year in Green Bay. And Robert Tonyan had
Speaker 1: a big catch on a scoring drive in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter when he didn't catch a pass last year until
Speaker 1: Seattle in November. Whatever week of the season. That was,
Speaker 1: so Matt Lafleur is getting his tight ends. He's only
Speaker 1: got three healthy ones right now, but he's getting his
Speaker 1: tight ends involved early and often here in Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's funny listening to Marcedes Lewis talk in the locker
Speaker 1: room on Friday a little bit about this. I mean,
Speaker 1: when he got brought in, I think Brian Goodacoons and
Speaker 1: the Packers wanted him, but they really weren't sure how
Speaker 1: they were going to go about using him. So in
Speaker 1: some ways he became almost a glorified sixth offensive linemen
Speaker 1: as al most the way it worked out, he only
Speaker 1: played a hundred seventy snaps. As you mentioned, he only
Speaker 1: had three catches. He did talk about when he came
Speaker 1: back this year, he had a conversation with Brian Goodacons
Speaker 1: about what the direction was going to be. This was
Speaker 1: right after, you know, they had hired Matt Lafleoor, what
Speaker 1: this whole thing is gonna look like. And what it
Speaker 1: came down to is that things are going to be different.
Speaker 1: And I thought this game in particular, really showed what
Speaker 1: the Packers envisioned for this tight end position. In this game. Now,
Speaker 1: it's not like anybody had a hundred yard game or
Speaker 1: anything like that. But when you put together Jimmy Graham's
Speaker 1: thirty catches for thirty yards and a touchdown, tanyans twenty
Speaker 1: eight yard catch, Marcedes Lewis being involved more in the
Speaker 1: passing game all told, six catches for seventy two yards
Speaker 1: and a touchdown in a game in which the Packers
Speaker 1: didn't throw for four inner yards. I mean that was
Speaker 1: almost half of their entire production, a little less than
Speaker 1: in terms of the passing yardage. So this, I thought
Speaker 1: it was a really good indicator of where this offense
Speaker 1: wants to go. Thirty five snaps, thirty four snaps and
Speaker 1: twenty snaps for Graham, Lewis and Tanying respectively. Again, it's
Speaker 1: Week one, what a lot, you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: football would be played out. But from Marsdies Lewis perspective,
Speaker 1: the Packers living up to their end of the bargain
Speaker 1: with the way that they're moving these pieces around. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Marcedes Lewis almost getting a third reception in that game,
Speaker 1: that back shoulder throw along the sideline from Rogers, really,
Speaker 1: I mean tough catch. Close one almost had it, but
Speaker 1: you almost You get the feeling that if Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: is throwing a back shoulder throw in week one to
Speaker 1: Marcedes Lewis, that he's not going to miss it again.
Speaker 1: You know, they didn't quite connect on that one, but
Speaker 1: that might be something we see down the road. Well,
Speaker 1: and Rogers has been really effusive in his praise of
Speaker 1: both Graham and Lewis through the highs and the lows
Speaker 1: of this offense. And he even said, I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: he did have his comment last month during training camp
Speaker 1: about how Lewis came back in phenomenal shape. He end
Speaker 1: up losing about ten pounds. Uh. You know, he's a
Speaker 1: huge leader in this locker room. That was important for
Speaker 1: the Packers and getting back. But even if you go
Speaker 1: back to the end of last season, he was saying
Speaker 1: the exact same thing about Graham and Lewis and his
Speaker 1: belief of what those two guys could do if they
Speaker 1: could get the offense sort of reconfigured and trying to
Speaker 1: determine the best roles for all of these guys. The
Speaker 1: thing that Lewis really likes about the way this is
Speaker 1: working out is you don't necessarily have to run one
Speaker 1: tight end into the round. You don't have to play
Speaker 1: him sixty snaps a game. You can be balanced. There
Speaker 1: can be times where you know, Jimmy Graham's the solo guy.
Speaker 1: There can be times when Louis and Tanian are in
Speaker 1: a two tight end package. So, in from Matt Lafleur's
Speaker 1: perspective when he went to the podium at the end
Speaker 1: of last week, the whole idea of this has been
Speaker 1: what they've talked about all along, is that the more
Speaker 1: packages that you can throw at defenses, the more you
Speaker 1: give them to prepare for. You could very easily come
Speaker 1: out on one series with a two tight end look
Speaker 1: with Louis Antanian, maybe even have Italian the background as
Speaker 1: a fullback and really bring things in. Or you could
Speaker 1: come back all the next series and have Robert I
Speaker 1: should say, Trevor Davis and you know Mark quisveld Is
Speaker 1: scantling out there and really threatened the second level of
Speaker 1: the defense and third level the defense. So that's where
Speaker 1: the Packers want to get this offense. It is a
Speaker 1: work in progress, but I think when you listen to
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers words, Matt Lafleur's words, and certainly these tight ends,
Speaker 1: there's optimism about what this thing is going to look
Speaker 1: like when the Packers get it, you know, the way
Speaker 1: they wanted to. Yeah, we certainly saw Jimmy Graham rowing
Speaker 1: caution to the wind, you might say, with that hurdle
Speaker 1: play on on the one reception and he's out there
Speaker 1: battling with the finger injury, but made a couple of catches,
Speaker 1: had the nice touchdown catch. Um to uh to get
Speaker 1: the Packers on the board there in the first half
Speaker 1: in Chicago. Another part of this offensive effort though, that
Speaker 1: we need to talk about because obviously, at this time
Speaker 1: last year when we were talking about the Bears, we
Speaker 1: were talking about Khalil Mack and how he just completely
Speaker 1: wrecked the entire first half of Week one at lambeau Field.
Speaker 1: Mac had a couple of plays in this game. He's
Speaker 1: gonna make his plays here and there, but we didn't
Speaker 1: come out of Soldier Field on Thursday night and get
Speaker 1: on that plane to come home. Um. Talking about this great,
Speaker 1: huge impact that Khalil Mac had in this game, and
Speaker 1: and hats off really to the Packers offensive tackles. Brian
Speaker 1: Bulaga and David baktr Mac lined up, you know, across
Speaker 1: almost anywhere throughout the game, but the Packers held the
Speaker 1: big star in check and that was a big factor
Speaker 1: in Uh. I know it wasn't a great night on offense,
Speaker 1: but as we talked about, Packers didn't turn it over.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers did get sacked a few times, but he
Speaker 1: held onto the ball all that. Khalil Mack was not
Speaker 1: a big factor in this game, and that was a
Speaker 1: big factor in the Packers winning. Yeah, absolutely, Mike, And
Speaker 1: and the thing with Mac is that, I mean you
Speaker 1: see it, five tackles, one tackle for a loss, no
Speaker 1: quarterback hits, no sacks. That's the way you wanted to
Speaker 1: look because if you go back and look at last season,
Speaker 1: it didn't so much happen against the Packers, but there
Speaker 1: were games where Mac completely flipped it on its head
Speaker 1: based on his play by himself. So to keep him
Speaker 1: under control, I think is a big feather in the
Speaker 1: cap of the tackles. And I want to talk about
Speaker 1: quickly just a Brian bolog in particular, because when we
Speaker 1: finally got through everything this weekend, got a chance to
Speaker 1: go back and look at some of those plays. The
Speaker 1: Bolaga is so consistent with how he approaches the game.
Speaker 1: And you know, even keeled, he's been around this game
Speaker 1: for a long time, the way he prepares himself, the
Speaker 1: way he prepares his body, the plan that the Packers
Speaker 1: had for him to get to Week one as healthy
Speaker 1: as possible all the way through the spring and the summer,
Speaker 1: the O T A S and in training camp. Everything
Speaker 1: was planned out in terms of his his snaps, his workload,
Speaker 1: his reps to get ready and stay healthy for week off.
Speaker 1: And I really like that approach because last year, as
Speaker 1: you and I have talked about, it was sort of like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're trying to get him healthy coming back from the
Speaker 1: A c L, trying to get him some work at
Speaker 1: the end of camp. This year a lot more balanced,
Speaker 1: a lot more pace, And I just felt like that
Speaker 1: performance against Mac and the fact that the Packers were
Speaker 1: able to kind of keep him out of it for
Speaker 1: the most part. It's a volatile defense. There's gonna be
Speaker 1: other areas that are going to stress you, but Mac
Speaker 1: can be the one that really tips everything in the
Speaker 1: Bear's favor, and they didn't allow him to do that.
Speaker 1: From the lagas perspective with where he's at his point
Speaker 1: of his career, taking that approach his health everything to
Speaker 1: have that kind of performance against Mac, right out of
Speaker 1: the gate. I think really is going to be something
Speaker 1: that can be a galvanizing moment for him as he
Speaker 1: looks to now get back in his comfort zone after
Speaker 1: really having to play catch up last season throughout September. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you just you turn on a few snaps
Speaker 1: of the game film from Thursday night watching blog against
Speaker 1: Mac and you can just see the difference in where
Speaker 1: bolog is in Week one this year compared to last year,
Speaker 1: when I mean he made quite frankly, a miraculous recovery
Speaker 1: in terms of the timeline from the a c L injury.
Speaker 1: We had talked about that that he was actually ready
Speaker 1: to play week one, and to his credit, he did that.
Speaker 1: But to go against Khalil Mack in Week one against
Speaker 1: the Bears, he wasn't necessarily fully ready for that, and
Speaker 1: he was absolutely ready for everything that Week one brought
Speaker 1: this time and uh and Brian Bulaga, quite frankly is
Speaker 1: is in a different place healthwise right now September twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen than he was in September. And I think two,
Speaker 1: when the years go on in time passes, people are
Speaker 1: going to appreciate Brian blag a lot more than maybe
Speaker 1: even they do today just for that reason. I mean,
Speaker 1: I agree with you blink your eye like that. And
Speaker 1: he's a ten year vet. He's a guy that's held down,
Speaker 1: that is. And when you use a first round pick
Speaker 1: on a tackle, what do you want to get out
Speaker 1: of it? You want to be able to have a
Speaker 1: guy that you can plug there for ten years and
Speaker 1: not worry about it. He's worked through some injuries, He's
Speaker 1: fought through a lot. But I think you know, ultimately,
Speaker 1: when this thing is all said and done and you
Speaker 1: look at how many games he actually played in for
Speaker 1: the Packers and what he played through, I just I
Speaker 1: think his career is gonna hold up really well. And
Speaker 1: the nice thing for the Packers perspective right now, this
Speaker 1: is a guy who entered the league when he was
Speaker 1: years old. You know, I think there's a lot of
Speaker 1: faith that there's still a lot of tread on the
Speaker 1: tire and this is a guy that could still be, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a big presence for them at that right
Speaker 1: tackle spot. Well, it's interesting when you look at his
Speaker 1: career because you talk about he has fought through some injuries.
Speaker 1: Long time offensive tackles here like Mark Tauscher and Chad
Speaker 1: Clifton they fought through their share of injuries as well.
Speaker 1: You know, when you look at it in the big
Speaker 1: picture of the grand scheme of things, a lot of
Speaker 1: those guys have had similar careers in that what they've
Speaker 1: had to fight through, but yet gotten themselves to steadily
Speaker 1: play at a really, really high level to to help
Speaker 1: this team. And when an offensive coordinator can trust his
Speaker 1: offensive tackles, that's a that's just a big boost every
Speaker 1: week going into that game planning meeting when he feels
Speaker 1: comfortable with his guys on the end. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: a dent injury rate at that position too. I know,
Speaker 1: looking at the game, I was. I watched a lot
Speaker 1: of games on sent on Sunday with us having that
Speaker 1: opportunity to to kind of sit back and obviously not
Speaker 1: work that day, and the one that stood out to
Speaker 1: me was it was the Cleveland game. After it was
Speaker 1: what Greg Robinson got ejected the left tackle for the Browns. Uh,
Speaker 1: they had to move in their their backup tackle. I
Speaker 1: forget his name, Lamb. The third or fourth play that
Speaker 1: he's in the game, they end up getting giving up
Speaker 1: a sack in the end zone. It's a safety against
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield. The play ends with the the edge rusher
Speaker 1: and Mayfield like collapsing on I believe his name was
Speaker 1: lamb his ankle. And it's just funny to me that
Speaker 1: that position, like sometimes guys get injury labels every single
Speaker 1: it's almost like every single position, every single injury that
Speaker 1: happens at that spot on the offensive line, it's almost
Speaker 1: all always a freak kind of thing just because of
Speaker 1: the randomness of it. So uh to be able to
Speaker 1: have Bolaga there, and certainly with David Baxtr has done
Speaker 1: now in the last six seasons, there's that's a difficult
Speaker 1: thing to be able to accomplish. To have two pillars
Speaker 1: like that in the teams that you see that. Do
Speaker 1: you look at Dallas what they're doing right now, they're
Speaker 1: they're the ones that usually are the ones playing meaningful
Speaker 1: football in December and January. Yeah, well, you started talking
Speaker 1: about week one, and I want to get to some
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Speaker 1: will spend a good portion of the coming week talking
Speaker 1: about the Minnesota Vikings West, but we certainly have to
Speaker 1: mention here what they did in Week one at home
Speaker 1: against the Atlanta Falcons and absolutely dominating performance against an
Speaker 1: opponent many fields, a playoff contender in the NFC and
Speaker 1: obviously a former m v P quarterback in Matt Ryan.
Speaker 1: Minnesota looked darn good. It was funny. Uh. I didn't
Speaker 1: even realize until the end of the game that Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins had thrown tent pass. Okay, there's two different storylines
Speaker 1: to this game. One, Minnesota still Minnesota, and it's a
Speaker 1: team that they felt like the underachieved last year. But
Speaker 1: they still have a lot of talent. Dalvin Cook like
Speaker 1: he looks like he's going to be a problem for
Speaker 1: the NFL for years to come, so long as he
Speaker 1: stays healthy. The other thing, though, that I do have
Speaker 1: to at least make mention of, there was a lot
Speaker 1: of hope and optimism that things are going to be
Speaker 1: different for Atlanta's defense this year. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's necessarily going to be the case, because this was
Speaker 1: as rudimentary of a game is I think that you
Speaker 1: could ask for In two thousand nineteen. You didn't have
Speaker 1: to worry about the downfield pass from Kirk Cousins. They
Speaker 1: made it abundantly clear, We're going to run it down
Speaker 1: your throat. And it's not even like Delvin Cook had
Speaker 1: one kerry for sixty yards. His longest was twenty two
Speaker 1: and he had a five point three yards per carry clip.
Speaker 1: They just could not stop him. And you know, Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan had the two picks, the takeaways and things like that.
Speaker 1: You know, when Minnesota and that Zimmer defense is clicking
Speaker 1: the way it can look. I I think if you
Speaker 1: asked me on Saturday night who I thought would win
Speaker 1: this game, I thought it would be Minnesota. I did
Speaker 1: not expect them to punch the Falcons in the mouth
Speaker 1: the way they did. Yeah, I mean that it was.
Speaker 1: It was a dominating performance by Minnesota and all three
Speaker 1: phases their defense. As you said, they got the sacks
Speaker 1: and the takeaways. I do think a couple of opportunities
Speaker 1: where the Falcons had a chance to get back in there.
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan made some horrendous decisions from um from just
Speaker 1: a for a veteran quarterback and accomplished quarterback to make
Speaker 1: a couple of decisions he made there that that really
Speaker 1: took his team out of the game. But the Vikings
Speaker 1: also had a block punt on special teams. Obviously you
Speaker 1: mentioned the running game with Dalvin Cook and Kirk uSens.
Speaker 1: You know, barely broke a sweat with uh with only
Speaker 1: having to throw ten passes. So three passes in the
Speaker 1: second half. Yeah, well, I mean they were up twenty
Speaker 1: or whatever. Was why would you why would you bother
Speaker 1: throwing the ball and your running backs getting five yards
Speaker 1: to carry? So um but um. But also if we
Speaker 1: look at Week one in the NFC North, a really
Speaker 1: interesting game out in Arizona with the Detroit Lions, it
Speaker 1: was um, t J. Hockenson came on the scene. I
Speaker 1: believe he set an NFL rookie record for a tight
Speaker 1: end debut with a hundred and thirty some receiving yards
Speaker 1: or whatever. So t J. Hockenson, you know, top ten
Speaker 1: draft pick, he will definitely be a guy to watch
Speaker 1: build like that's an NFL tight ends. Yeah, there's there.
Speaker 1: You can see why he was drafted as high as
Speaker 1: he was. But the Detroit Lions four to six lead
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, they let it get away and
Speaker 1: they end up in an overtime tie at twenty seven,
Speaker 1: with Kyler Murray, the rookie quarterback for the Cardinals, bringing
Speaker 1: his club all the way back. Um. You know, if
Speaker 1: there is such a thing as a gut punch when
Speaker 1: you tie a game, this is it. Because the Detroit
Speaker 1: Lions had this game. I don't know. I I still
Speaker 1: don't know how you really let it get away. You
Speaker 1: want to know why? It's a big gut punch. Cliff
Speaker 1: Kingsbury was walking to the post game like handshake with
Speaker 1: Matt Patricia with a smile on his face after a tie.
Speaker 1: The sense of relief and the fact that Arizona even
Speaker 1: had a chance to win that game. They had the ball,
Speaker 1: they were driving, they were able to get two first
Speaker 1: downs and it stopped. They end up punting it with
Speaker 1: a with a minute left and overtime. You know, and
Speaker 1: did you see the last play and again they almost
Speaker 1: got I mean Stafford almost thrills the pick on the sideline.
Speaker 1: If I think it was Brock, maybe it was the
Speaker 1: defensive back. If he hangs onto that and steps out
Speaker 1: of bounds with four or five seconds left, they can
Speaker 1: send out the kicker one play and win the game
Speaker 1: in Detroit would have lost. I mean, it's just everything
Speaker 1: that happened from really the beginning of the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: to the end of that game was just was just
Speaker 1: bizarre in a lot of ways. Other you know, but
Speaker 1: it's it's funny, man. The years change, the offenses change,
Speaker 1: things get different. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I mean, Detroit struggled to run the ball again, and
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford, for his money, for the most part, other
Speaker 1: than that throw late, made some nice throws throughout the game,
Speaker 1: had a solid performance. But I can't think of too
Speaker 1: many instances where one quarterback, oh, beats the other quarterback
Speaker 1: by a thirty five passer rating and yet the other
Speaker 1: quarterback was the one that had a chance to win
Speaker 1: the game at the end. And it's just there was
Speaker 1: just a little bit of a comedy of errors, not
Speaker 1: being able to finish, not getting the drives when you
Speaker 1: needed them. Well, I think this is this is an
Speaker 1: absolute reflection of what the Detroit Lions have been looking
Speaker 1: for for years, which is to find a running game.
Speaker 1: Because if you have a twenty four to sixth lead
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter on the road, if you can
Speaker 1: run the football with any effectiveness at all, you're gonna
Speaker 1: close out that game. They haven't had a running game.
Speaker 1: They still can't seem to find it. Carry on. Johnson
Speaker 1: was looking like he would be the guy last year.
Speaker 1: He really didn't do much for them yesterday when they
Speaker 1: needed to be able to run the football. Stafford ended
Speaker 1: up with nice numbers, good stats and everything. And as
Speaker 1: you said, if you have a thirty point thirty five
Speaker 1: point differential in the passer rating, that's a game you're
Speaker 1: supposed to win. Absolutely and and to you know, a credit,
Speaker 1: he got to give credit or credits due. Uh. Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray had about as terrible disastrous of a first place
Speaker 1: as you could for a rookie quarterback with those kind
Speaker 1: of expectations. Shook it off. What did he do? He
Speaker 1: found his two biggest weapons, David Johnson and Larry fitz Old.
Speaker 1: Reliable in Johnson just when he's right, how dynamic he
Speaker 1: can be with mixing in what he does as a
Speaker 1: pass catcher. The I'm not you know, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: these are two playoff teams or anything like that. But
Speaker 1: if I'm Kyler Murray, certainly you wanted to finish that
Speaker 1: last drive. You wanted to win that game for the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: But the way he battled back I think speaks volumes
Speaker 1: about a young quarterback and and what he needs to
Speaker 1: do because it wasn't that he just was plays weren't
Speaker 1: going as where he was playing poor. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: getting balls deflected, the line of scrimmages, everything that you
Speaker 1: think of, like as far as what you fear with
Speaker 1: a shorter quarterback. And later on he just started to
Speaker 1: find a way, he got comfortable, he made plays with
Speaker 1: his feet and they were able to uh edge out
Speaker 1: a tie. Yeah. Well, also in Week one you would
Speaker 1: mentioned it briefly earlier the Cleveland Browns. I think if
Speaker 1: there was one result in Week one that kind of
Speaker 1: floored me, it was seeing that the Cleveland Browns at
Speaker 1: home against the Tennessee Titans lost by thirty points. I
Speaker 1: didn't see the game, but I went back and I
Speaker 1: watched the highlights and you mentioned the safety that was
Speaker 1: early on this g This is a fifteen to thirteen game,
Speaker 1: like late third quarter, and then suddenly Tennessee hits a
Speaker 1: screen pass that goes the distance seventy five yards for
Speaker 1: a touchdown, and then Baker Mayfield gets intercepted on three
Speaker 1: consecutive possessions in the fourth quarter. I mean, you talk,
Speaker 1: you talk about a snowball going downhill that just wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna stop. I mean this was this just turned ugly
Speaker 1: for Cleveland. So I actually did I watched this entire
Speaker 1: game um sick because I just was really curious to
Speaker 1: see how the Browns are gonna look. Tony Romo kind
Speaker 1: of pulled the Spofford in it where remember where you
Speaker 1: were like, oh you had Jake Crumero. He hasn't dropped anything,
Speaker 1: and then he like dropped something the very next like practice,
Speaker 1: Romo was like crediting Mayfield, like, hey, you're behind right now.
Speaker 1: But he's doing a great job of managing this game.
Speaker 1: He's not making you know, he's being with the football.
Speaker 1: And then I swear the words were barely even out
Speaker 1: of his mouth. And it was the first pick, the
Speaker 1: second pick, and the third pick. I will say this,
Speaker 1: and and you know we have to see again where
Speaker 1: all these chips fault. It's just weekly, it's week one.
Speaker 1: It's it's one game for everybody, one loss, one win,
Speaker 1: no matter how you slice it. Doug Rabel has the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans looking good. That defense is legit uh and offensively,
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota still has his weak spots, but I don't
Speaker 1: even know who the offensive coordinator is this year, but
Speaker 1: they do such a good job of playing to his strength.
Speaker 1: With that offense and having Delaney Walker back, you can
Speaker 1: see what kind of difference that makes. I think Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry looked really solid. That screenplay, the blocking they had
Speaker 1: downfield to spring him on that long connection, those are
Speaker 1: the kind of things you need to do to win
Speaker 1: games like this. They went into Cleveland, a lot of
Speaker 1: buzz there and they brought him back down to Earth.
Speaker 1: I think you got to tip your cap to the Titans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of a the slogan I think now in
Speaker 1: Cleveland has hold the hype because this was this was
Speaker 1: a hype team, and I admit i I I still
Speaker 1: think Cleveland could be a playoff contender because it doesn't
Speaker 1: you know, regardless of what the Ravens did against the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins that a f C North is completely up
Speaker 1: for grabs. I mean, any anybody could anybody could take
Speaker 1: that one. But any other impressions from Week one, Obviously,
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots defended their Super Bowl started, started
Speaker 1: the defense of their Super Bowl title with an absolutely
Speaker 1: dominating victory in primetime over the Pittsburgh Steel Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a big wake up call there in terms of the
Speaker 1: Patriots are just gonna keep doing what the Patriots do.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is so effective at running that offense, even
Speaker 1: depending on what happens with Antonio Brown here, I think
Speaker 1: that looks like a pretty complete offense to begin with.
Speaker 1: You without having Robbed Runkowski, pitts Burg has some questions
Speaker 1: to answer there. I think, you know, Juju Smith Schuster,
Speaker 1: without having Antonio Brown there, it's going to be a
Speaker 1: different game for him and he's gonna have to adapt
Speaker 1: to that. Stefan Gilmour did a good job against him.
Speaker 1: And also, just to throw this out there, it is
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins that house is burning down right now.
Speaker 1: But the Baltimore Ravens, Mike, you and I saw a
Speaker 1: little bit of that starting offense. Lamar Jackson is not
Speaker 1: just st He's not standing there to run and hand
Speaker 1: off the football. He will throw and he has a
Speaker 1: phenomenal target, Hollywood Brown. Right now, the Ravens are going
Speaker 1: to be fun to watch this season. Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: a that's a dynamic quarterback that I'm not even sure
Speaker 1: that we've seen. We really even started to scratch the surface.
Speaker 1: So maybe what that offense is going to look like
Speaker 1: as this season evolved, because Lamar Jackson is not a
Speaker 1: rookie anymore, and he doesn't look like a rookie. And
Speaker 1: what do you do, Mike, You go back to nineteen
Speaker 1: thirty or nineteen forty two when cecil Isabelle was thrown
Speaker 1: to Don Hudson. You run, you run, you run, You
Speaker 1: keep getting that ground production and then you hit him
Speaker 1: with a big play down field. The Ravens are doing
Speaker 1: it as good as anyone right now. Well, with the
Speaker 1: cecil isabel Don Hudson reference, we will call it there
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