WEBVTT - #672 Packers Unscripted: Trip to Tampa 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:10.920 Hi Everyone, welcome to another edition of Packers unscripted from 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:14.280 packers DOT COM. I am Mike Spofford, joined as always 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:17.479 by my trusted colleague Weston had KUWITZ. We're coming to 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:21.320 you here from our studios at Lambeau Field West. It's 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:27.080 week three. It will be packers buccaneers. Sunday three central time, 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:30.800 kickoff from Raymond James Stadium. It's gonna be warmed down 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:35.680 in Tampa. Um, and I'll match up that a lot 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:38.120 of people are looking forward to whether or not it's 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:42.280 the final rogers versus Brady or not. Time will tell 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:46.320 in that regard. But Um, but a big early game 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:48.879 in the NFC when you're talking about two teams that 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:52.800 both envisioned playing in January and UH and taking a 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:55.480 shot at this thing again. Well, first and foremost, Mike, 0:00:55.840 --> 0:01:00.920 got in my car this morning, turn the key, pulled out, 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:03.600 I was starting to drive down the road, made a 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:06.080 call to my friend Scott. It's one of my morning 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:08.720 routines and do you know what I noticed? As I 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:13.000 was going up to the stop sign, I had like 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:16.160 the visible breath coming out of my mouth. It was 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.880 it was chilling. I could actually see my breath for 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:23.080 the first time in this fall. That just started the 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:25.320 Green Bay packers. You know, I think today in Green 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:27.479 Bay high is going to be sixty. I'm not trying 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:29.399 to make too much out of the heat element in 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:32.800 Tampa because honestly, the packers, you know, they practiced in 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.559 some hotter temperatures. There were some humid days during camp. 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:39.480 But I think for myself personally, going down to Tampa 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:41.680 this weekend, that is going to be a big wake 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.279 up call because I think physically my body is starting 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:49.120 to get augmented back to fall in northeastern Wisconsin. Yeah, 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:51.040 when when we get back from Tampa, we're gonna be 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:57.840 starting over the body Cold Tub. But here's the thing, Mike, 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:01.160 is that it's not about and rodgers, it's not about 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.480 Tom Brady, it's not about the buccaneers defense, it's not 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.919 about the packers running game. It is about which team 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.960 is going to be more consistent on Sunday, which team 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:13.240 is going to make fewer mistakes. That's how I really 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.160 boil this thing down. At the time in which they're 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:20.440 taping this, everybody in their second cousin is injured right now. 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.919 On the buccaneers offense, they're missing their top four receivers 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:27.240 right now, now that this this suspension has been upheld. 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:30.720 We know with Mike Evans, their offensive line is banged up. 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:34.160 They Lost Ryan Jensen last month. You Know Donovan Smith 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:37.040 has been out with the elbow injury. There are a 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.960 lot of things working against the Tampa Bay buccaneers. But Mike, 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:42.600 I know this. I know Tom Brady still is their 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:46.120 quarterback and I know you look at that defense with 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:51.960 Devin White, Lavante David, obviously you know Carlton Davis, Wield, 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:56.800 Charlton Davis. Excuse me, Carlton, my bad Um, I was 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:01.959 gonna say Jamal Dean, Antoine Winfield. That that secondary. There 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.520 are still a lot of weapons, a lot of talented players. 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.280 That's how deep this buccaneers roster goes and honestly, I 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.040 feel like this team against the Green Bay packers, it 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.040 is going to be a four quarter battle. Yeah, and 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.000 that's where it starts for me when I look at 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:19.240 the matchup. First off, the packers offense against this Tampa 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:22.280 Bay defense. I've been writing about it, mentioned it on 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.760 three things. The numbers might even mentioned it on our 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.480 last show. The numbers for this Tampa Bay defense through 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:32.040 two games thirteen points allowed, best in the league. Ten Sacks, 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.520 best in the league. Six takeaways tied for third in 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.120 the League. Um Most in the League is seven, so 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:40.840 there are only one takeaway off of having the most 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.680 in the league in that category. This, this Tampa Bay defense, 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.720 is off to an unbelievable start. And when I look 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:50.800 at what the packers have to do, yes, they need 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.760 to stay committed to the running game. All of that, 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:56.520 the ball needs to get to a j dillon and 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.440 Aaron Jones, however they want to get it to him, 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.920 whether it's the handoffs, the path is, the jet motions, 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:06.040 whatever the case might be. But the bottom line is, 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.360 for me, the same thing you just said with regard 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:13.160 to not making mistakes the packers offensively against this Tampa 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:17.599 Bay defense, they have to play clean football. You can't 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:21.599 have the sacks and the penalties that push you back 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:24.920 and put you in the bad you know yard is situations. 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:29.240 You can't fumble a handoff. You can't have a mistimed 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.320 shotgun snap like the packers had against the bears, which 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:36.599 prevented them from putting away an inferior opponent much you 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:40.800 know earlier than than they did last Sunday night. Those 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.440 kinds of things are what the packers simply can't afford. 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.400 You have to be able to play clean football. Your 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:48.760 explosive players are going to be hard to come by. 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.520 You are going to have to drive the ball seventy 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.839 five yards to get a touchdown and you're gonna have 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:58.039 to take nine or ten or eleven plays in order 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:00.320 to do it. So you have to be will to 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:04.680 stay clean and sharp Um play after play after play 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.120 to give yourself a chance. And even if you do that, 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:08.960 you get into the red zone, it's not going to 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:10.640 be easy to put the ball in the end zone 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.320 on these guys. They've given up one touchdown in the 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:17.680 first two weeks of the season. So it really, really 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:21.200 for me. Offensively, whatever the game plan is, the packers 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:25.000 just have to have to play clean, sharp football, because 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:28.480 the I mean Rogers, has been sacked seven times. We've 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:32.000 seen some penalties that have put the packers in bad situations. 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.919 I mentioned the physical mistakes against the bears. Those are 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.320 the kinds of things that packers simply cannot afford in 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.760 this game. No, because it's gonna be you're you're playing, 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.479 you know, one of the best quarterbacks of all time 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.880 and I thought what Aaron Rodgers said about Brady was 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:53.160 so spot on in that. Okay, he's forty five years old. 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:54.880 I don't think anybody's gonna sit here and say that 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:56.960 Tom Brady is at his physical peak. He might be 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.120 for a forty five year old, but yeah, you know, 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:02.080 physically there is going to be natural aggression involved. But, 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:05.920 as Roger said, from an experienced perspective, being able to 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.360 to lean back on everything he's seen for the past 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:12.440 twenty four years or whatever it's been now, there is 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:14.880 so many things that Tom Brady can beat you with 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.520 and and I watched a majority of that game against 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:22.479 the saints and seeing the way that Brady directs the 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:26.160 bucks offense in concert with Leonard for net, and being 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.360 able to make the most out of his perimeter weapons, 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:30.640 as opposed to what the saints are trying to do 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:34.080 with Jamis Winston. It doesn't matter. That's a weird thing 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.280 about the quarterback position. It is the ultimate neutralizer. Doesn't 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:41.640 matter if you're at your peak athletic, you know, summit 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:46.720 zenith at thirty years old. When you have the experience 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:50.000 that Brady has and his ability to be smart with 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.920 the football, he's not prone to turn you know he's not. 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:57.919 You know there's going to be turnovers, but he is 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:00.880 just the ultimate chess player when it comes to this game. 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.200 So if you don't come out sharp on offense, defense 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:05.960 and even special teams, the buccaneers are going to make 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:09.920 you pay for that. Defensively, I feel Mike, There's been 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.000 some really good units in this league. Buffalo has a 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.840 great one, San Francisco has had some good ones, but 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.840 Tampa really has been the gold standard, and it was 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.840 even before Brady got there. That was the scary thing 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:23.200 about it. They just didn't they they've that. That unit 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.600 has been so consistent over the years. It's you don't 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.280 ever seem to face Tampa Bay where you go, Oh yeah, 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.960 their defense isn't that good this year, like their defense 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.560 is always pretty darn good and kind of like those 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:38.640 Great Baltimore Defenses. They've just found ways to regenerate and 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.360 be able to shuffle the deck as players get older, 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.080 with the exception being David of course. I mean they 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:47.160 just they have so many guys that they've been able 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.560 to find a vita via. They just haven't missed on them. 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.040 Shack Barrett has been impactful at times in this league. 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:56.640 So I'm excited for this matchup because, as Matt Lafleur said, 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.520 this is going to probably be the better litmus tests, 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.320 the better mirometer for where this team is at offensively, 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:06.120 defensively and special teams, because you know the type of 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.400 opponent you're getting and the fact that this also is 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.960 the home opener for the buccaneers, they are going to 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:16.880 get a team that is rip roaring and ready to go. Yeah, absolutely. 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:20.200 The you mentioned watching the bulk of the buccaneers saints 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.400 game last Sunday. I did as well, and I was 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:28.080 reminded of something with regard to a quarterback like Tom Brady, 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.560 because that saints defense was doing a number on the 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:35.439 bucks offense. They had they had brady frustrated. Obviously there 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.600 was the skirmish and everything that led to Mike Evans 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:43.280 getting suspended and all of that, but the the extracurriculars 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:47.920 aside the saints. The saints were having their way pretty 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.439 well with that with that Tampa Bay offense. But then 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.640 all of a sudden, what happens? Deep shot to Brashad 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.120 Perriman in the back of the end zone. It's an 0:08:56.160 --> 0:09:00.199 absolutely pinpoint perfect throw and touchdown. Banging all of a 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.040 sudden it felt like all of this great work that 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.280 the Saints Defense had done for two and a half 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:07.400 or three quarters, or whatever it was at that point 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.960 went out the window because Tom Brady pulled the Tom 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.920 Brady and just and threw a forty yard pass that 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:17.400 was right on the money for a touchdown. That's what 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:20.560 these guys, that's what hall of famers can do to 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:24.480 you right the channel. The challenge here is is significant 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:27.360 and with regard to the packers defense, you talked about 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:29.760 it earlier. We've been talking about it all week long. 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.480 There's so much that the packers have to have to 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.960 focus on in this game aside from Tom Brady. And yes, 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:40.839 Mike Evans is suspended, Chris Godwin Julio Jones are on 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.360 the injury report. We don't know their status at at 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.640 wide receiver, I mentioned Perryman gaining the big touchdown against 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:49.240 the saints. He could be a key guy um on 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.720 Sunday for Brady in the passing game. But the packers 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:57.000 absolutely cannot let Leonard Four Nette be the guy that 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:02.360 dictates the tempo, Um and just the pace and everything 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.400 of this game. Because if if Leonard Fournette is going 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:08.320 to spend the day putting Tom Brady in third and one, 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.400 third and two, the packers defense is gonna have a 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.080 hard time getting off the field and and it really does. 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:18.200 It starts every week with with stopping the run. But 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.600 even with a hall of fame quarterback and arguably the 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:26.319 best of all time in Tom Brady, the packers really 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.600 the number one focus defensively has to be not letting 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:32.600 Leonard Fournette get any kind of a rhythm and being 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.400 able to dictate how this game goes. Yeah, for Nette 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:39.480 is an absolute Marauder and he seemed like, you know, 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:43.800 to really get rejuvenated. We saw the flashes of his potential, 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:48.640 his power, his vision when he was in Jacksonville. Some 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:52.319 thing's fell out of alignment there for him. He resurfaces 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.600 in Tampa and it took him what a little over 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.040 a year to really emerge as their number one option 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:01.160 the backfield, originally with Ronald Jones being there. This season, 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.360 I think more than any other, Tom Brady, I think, 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.440 is going to lean on the running back because you 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:09.840 see in that game against the saints, you see in 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:13.080 some of these early matchups are having, it is about 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:15.880 being able to get into second and favorable, third and 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:19.840 favorable and then brady letting plays developed from there. That 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.040 was the biggest difference going to be into that saints 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:25.439 game when Winston was doing that with the saints. Now, 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:28.760 mind you didn't have Kamara, but it didn't look the same. 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:30.880 It looked like a guy that was pressing. It looked 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.240 like a guy who was trying to protect the football 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.280 and then, ultimately, when he lost the patients, the damn 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.720 breaks right with Brady. It is just that that's what 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.920 you're talking about, Hall of fame quarterbacks. It's the patients right. 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.360 I know exactly what you're saying. It's waiting for everything 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:47.920 to develop so that when the big play is there, 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:50.240 you make it happen. Aaron Rodgers did the same thing 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:52.719 with Sammy Watkins last week on the fifty yard or. 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.920 That's the danger if you don't get them in second 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.440 and eight, third and nine. And the one thing that 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:00.480 is very positive for green bay. They need to improve 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:02.920 a lot right now with their tackling. They need to 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:04.600 get back to what they look like in week one 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:08.400 in that regard. But they have the horses to do it, 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.440 they have the guys to do it. I was really 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.240 impressed by the rotation they actually ran in that game. 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.800 You saw more T J Slayton on first down, so 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:18.920 you could take some of those snaps off of Kenny Clark. 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.160 They have the tools to do it. It's about all 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.360 eleven guys getting together and tackling to the ball, because 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:26.839 Leonard Four Nett is not a guy that's going to 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.559 go down with one guy, especially once he leaks into 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.000 the second level. Yeah, it's interesting the way this plays 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:37.760 out because they're there are different there are different moments, crucibles, 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:39.760 whatever you want to call it, throughout the course of 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:44.800 a season and quite honestly, for the packers to have 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.520 the breakdowns in the run defense and some of them 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:49.920 miss tackles and everything that they had against the bears, 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:53.120 at the end of the day it's not necessarily a 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:55.880 bad thing because, a it didn't cost them the game 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:00.160 and it happened heading into a week where you have 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.200 to be geared up to stop a guy like four 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.800 net and so you know the packers this week in practice, 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.720 they they've seen the film of what happened against Chicago 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.079 with Montgomery and with Herbert and some of those big 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:12.720 runs that they broke. You know, it's a it's a 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:17.000 long season right, both mentally and physically, for these guys. Sometimes, 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:20.680 sometimes when you when you kind of get you you 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.079 you get that reminder of what you need to really 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:26.199 really pay attention to. Sometimes the timing of that reminder 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.160 can really help you. Maybe the fact, because we know 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.920 the packers have the talent on defense to defend the 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.760 run a lot better than they did eighty yards rushing 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:38.680 against the bears was was a shock, quite frankly, but 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.160 maybe it was. Maybe it was the sort of the 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.160 kick in the pants, so to speak, that the run 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:47.120 defense needed heading into a matchup like this. Because because 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:51.560 Leonard Fournette will you know, in combination with Tom Brady, 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:54.080 this offense will have a chance to keep that packers 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:57.240 defense on the field all day long in the ninety 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.840 degree heat and and that's not going to be a 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.120 recipe for success. The packers have to be able to 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:05.600 stop for Net, get after Brady and get off the field. 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:07.880 All of it, all of it easier said than done, 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.520 but I'm very interested and curious to see how the 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:14.920 packers run defense responds from the breakdowns last week to 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.720 what they do against a real bull of a back 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:19.480 and for net. Yeah, and keep in mind too. I 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.040 mean Leonard for net there isn't that home run threat 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:24.560 necessarily with him. I mean this year right now he's 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.080 longest carries seventeen yards. I think last year he may 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:30.080 had one forty seven, but he's still averaging like four 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:33.200 and a half even with with only a long of seventeen, 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.320 which tells you that that's he's he's a grinder. It's 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.200 telling you on first and second down he's getting those yards. 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.240 And to do that with an offensive line that is 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.880 down at starting left tackle, down at starting center. You 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.880 Know Tristan worth's has been injured over at right tackle. 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.160 There's so many different guys have been banged up and 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.160 they're still finding ways to be productive. The fact that 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.800 Tampa has gotten to two and oh it hasn't been 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.520 the prettiest path, but it tells you everything you need 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:01.160 to know about it. And conversely, for the packers, they're 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:03.440 gonna need to be able to run against this Tampa 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.480 defense as well, because if you allow them to pin 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:09.000 their ears back, if you allow them to play their coverages, 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:12.720 then the job gets progressively more difficult for Aaron Rodgers. 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.120 As much as the headlines this week are going to 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:18.400 be on Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady and tablets. It 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:22.120 is really about these run offenses in their ability to 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:26.040 establish that momentum and establishing it from the opening whistle. Yeah, 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:29.280 for the packers offensively, we've talked about a lot of times, 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.720 it's you have to get something going with that running 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.800 game to set up the play action, because Aaron Rodgers 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.840 doing trying to do a straight drop back passing game 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:40.280 against this defensive front is not going to be a 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.040 recipe for success. The passing game is going to have 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.200 to come off of play action and the only way 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:48.120 you get them to respect respect play action is if 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:51.640 they're respecting that running game with with Jones and Dylan. 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:53.960 So there's a there's a lot that the packers have 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.640 to do and do it right in order to uh, 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.680 in order to come out with a victory here. Some 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:01.800 answer business here West and then we'll take a look 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:05.280 at other games around week three in the NFL. Serious 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.440 X M NFL radio delivers hard hitting analysis and up 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:13.080 to the minute NFL news that true football fanatics need. Seven, three, 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.760 six and AD cousin subs. We have something for everyone, 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.440 like our Wisconsin Cheese curds, MAC and cheese golden fries 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.240 and creamy shakes, all paired with your favorite sub or 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:26.920 Subona bowl cousin subs. Fifty Years of better. Alright. Well, 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.280 on our last show we talked about how everybody in 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:32.800 the NFC north is one and one. The packers are 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:36.040 going to Tampa. Elsewhere in the NFC north you have 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:40.360 Detroit going to Minnesota. Interesting matchup there, with Detroit coming 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:43.360 off a big victory, Minnesota coming off of a disappointing 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:46.480 Monday night loss and being on a short week. And then, 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:51.400 Um Lovey Smith's return to soldier field. The Houston Texans 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:55.160 go into Chicago, with the bears coming off of that 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.760 loss to the packers on Sunday night football and love 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:02.480 e Smith's Texans being a pesky bunch, a team that 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:05.360 a lot of analysts said, hey, you won't even really 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:08.080 have to think about these guys too much. Well, the 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:10.760 first two opponents they played have had their hands full 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.639 with the Houston Texans and and Lovey Smith's team is 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:15.680 going to do the same thing to the bears on Sunday. 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:19.359 I I agree. And and for you know, Chicago, how 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:21.280 quickly things are going to change here. You know, they 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:23.560 were feeling really good coming into lambeau field now you're 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:25.359 feeling not so good and there's been a lot of 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.800 bad headlines this week about the bears fans and the 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:31.280 Justin fields comment. There's a lot of distractions going on there. 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:34.000 The one thing I do like about the direction that 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:38.200 Texas are heading underneath Lovey Smith is they actually appear 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.600 to at least have a vision of what they want 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:42.879 to become. I don't think they're going to be a 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:44.840 playoff team this year, but I'll be honest with you, 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:46.439 they're not the team I'd want to see on my 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.040 schedule just because I don't think people are gonna give 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:50.439 you a lot of bonus points if you win it 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:52.280 and there's a pretty good chance that they're going to 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.199 test you all four quarters on the other side of it. 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.200 So that's a big gut check for the bears, but realistically, 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:01.160 probably outside of even the division. My I am most 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:03.399 interested to see if the Detroit lions can do what 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:06.240 they've done the last few weeks against this Minnesota defense 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:10.959 with Dan Campbell's bunch man they are. We know the grittiness, 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:12.560 we know all that well. Now they're starting to get 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:16.680 athletically better as well, and Aman Ross St Brown appears 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:18.600 to be the real deal for Detroit. Yeah, I mean 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:21.160 what if they put up sixty, seventy points, I think, 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:23.359 offensively the first two games of the season, and I 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:25.679 know they're one on one, but they've scored a batch 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:28.040 and it's starting to look more to me like what 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.280 Jared Goff was kind of doing in his hey day 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:33.840 in l a. So Uh that that's gonna be an 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.600 interesting matchup for the Vikings, who again are in the 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:38.720 same boat as the bears in that I think they 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:42.000 felt really good about themselves. Well, now you have Detroit 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:43.920 come in there. I'm gonna tell you something right now, Mike. 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:46.800 I don't care how week one win anymore. If Detroit 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:49.200 goes in there and hands it to the Vikings at 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:52.439 US Bank stadium, there's gonna be a lot of ticked 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:55.239 off Vikings leaving that field that day. That's gonna be 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:58.680 a really intriguing thing to follow because again, as I said, 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:02.840 an insider inbox and today's edition on Thursday, lions aren't 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:06.280 going anywhere. Yeah, hopefully we can find a find a 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:09.880 TV in the Ray J press box to uh catch 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:13.320 the second half of Detroit and Minnesota before packers and 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:16.200 bucks kickoff, because I'm very, very interested in that game 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:19.120 as well. A couple others I wanted to mention. Um, 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:22.600 an interesting one in the NFC west. The rams are 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:24.840 going to Arizona, and I bring this one up not 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.520 only because the rams, as defending Super Bowl Champs, are 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:30.880 one and one, having lost that kickoff opener to buffalo 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:36.679 in week one. But Arizona, Arizona was all but oh 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:41.480 and two, right and UH and made a crazy comeback 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:47.439 to defeat the raiders last Sunday. And you just, you 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:49.960 just wonder is is there going to be any momentum 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:53.959 whatsoever for the cardinals that carries over from an incredible 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:57.160 comeback like that, an uplifting victory that prevented them from 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:00.560 starting Oh and two against the division rival with the 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:02.560 rams coming and these are two teams that know each 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:06.640 other really well and, quite frankly, the playoff the last 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:08.840 time they met, the playoff game between these two teams, 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:11.960 it wasn't even a contest. The Rams just um just 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:14.560 took it to Arizona and the cardinals were never really 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:17.119 in the game. So you know, that is sort of 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:20.200 sticking with the cardinals as well in this division rivalry. 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:23.760 I think Um this game. To me it just strikes 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:26.480 me as one that's uh, that's a little more interesting 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:30.000 than Um then maybe people would think on the surface, 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:32.720 and then the other one, the other one on Sunday 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:34.440 in the A F C is in the A F C, 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:37.000 east buffalo at Miami, a pair of two and o 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:41.760 teams that are both lighting up the scoreboard like nobody's business. 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:45.280 Um Bills Down in Miami and kind of like packers 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:47.840 going down to Tampa northern team having to go down 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:50.760 to Florida to play in the heat in September. I 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:52.520 think that one's going to be interesting as well. You 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:54.679 know how, when we were breaking down this packers and 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:57.520 bucks matchup, I kept saying it's not about the quarterbacks. 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:01.000 In regards to buffalo and Miami, that one absolutely is. 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:05.439