Speaker 1: Hi Everyone, 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 Weston had KUWITZ. We're coming to
Speaker 1: you here from our studios at Lambeau Field West. It's
Speaker 1: week three. It will be packers buccaneers. Sunday three central time,
Speaker 1: kickoff from Raymond James Stadium. It's gonna be warmed down
Speaker 1: in Tampa. Um, and I'll match up that a lot
Speaker 1: of people are looking forward to whether or not it's
Speaker 1: the final rogers versus Brady or not. Time will tell
Speaker 1: in that regard. But Um, but a big early game
Speaker 1: in the NFC when you're talking about two teams that
Speaker 1: both envisioned playing in January and UH and taking a
Speaker 1: shot at this thing again. Well, first and foremost, Mike,
Speaker 1: got in my car this morning, turn the key, pulled out,
Speaker 1: I was starting to drive down the road, made a
Speaker 1: call to my friend Scott. It's one of my morning
Speaker 1: routines and do you know what I noticed? As I
Speaker 1: was going up to the stop sign, I had like
Speaker 1: the visible breath coming out of my mouth. It was
Speaker 1: it was chilling. I could actually see my breath for
Speaker 1: the first time in this fall. That just started the
Speaker 1: Green Bay packers. You know, I think today in Green
Speaker 1: Bay high is going to be sixty. I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to make too much out of the heat element in
Speaker 1: Tampa because honestly, the packers, you know, they practiced in
Speaker 1: some hotter temperatures. There were some humid days during camp.
Speaker 1: But I think for myself personally, going down to Tampa
Speaker 1: this weekend, that is going to be a big wake
Speaker 1: up call because I think physically my body is starting
Speaker 1: to get augmented back to fall in northeastern Wisconsin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when when we get back from Tampa, we're gonna be
Speaker 1: starting over the body Cold Tub. But here's the thing, Mike,
Speaker 1: is that it's not about and rodgers, it's not about
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, it's not about the buccaneers defense, it's not
Speaker 1: about the packers running game. It is about which team
Speaker 1: is going to be more consistent on Sunday, which team
Speaker 1: is going to make fewer mistakes. That's how I really
Speaker 1: boil this thing down. At the time in which they're
Speaker 1: taping this, everybody in their second cousin is injured right now.
Speaker 1: On the buccaneers offense, they're missing their top four receivers
Speaker 1: right now, now that this this suspension has been upheld.
Speaker 1: We know with Mike Evans, their offensive line is banged up.
Speaker 1: They Lost Ryan Jensen last month. You Know Donovan Smith
Speaker 1: has been out with the elbow injury. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of things working against the Tampa Bay buccaneers. But Mike,
Speaker 1: I know this. I know Tom Brady still is their
Speaker 1: quarterback and I know you look at that defense with
Speaker 1: Devin White, Lavante David, obviously you know Carlton Davis, Wield,
Speaker 1: Charlton Davis. Excuse me, Carlton, my bad Um, I was
Speaker 1: gonna say Jamal Dean, Antoine Winfield. That that secondary. There
Speaker 1: are still a lot of weapons, a lot of talented players.
Speaker 1: That's how deep this buccaneers roster goes and honestly, I
Speaker 1: feel like this team against the Green Bay packers, it
Speaker 1: is going to be a four quarter battle. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that's where it starts for me when I look at
Speaker 1: the matchup. First off, the packers offense against this Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay defense. I've been writing about it, mentioned it on
Speaker 1: three things. The numbers might even mentioned it on our
Speaker 1: last show. The numbers for this Tampa Bay defense through
Speaker 1: two games thirteen points allowed, best in the league. Ten Sacks,
Speaker 1: best in the league. Six takeaways tied for third in
Speaker 1: the League. Um Most in the League is seven, so
Speaker 1: there are only one takeaway off of having the most
Speaker 1: in the league in that category. This, this Tampa Bay defense,
Speaker 1: is off to an unbelievable start. And when I look
Speaker 1: at what the packers have to do, yes, they need
Speaker 1: to stay committed to the running game. All of that,
Speaker 1: the ball needs to get to a j dillon and
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, however they want to get it to him,
Speaker 1: whether it's the handoffs, the path is, the jet motions,
Speaker 1: whatever the case might be. But the bottom line is,
Speaker 1: for me, the same thing you just said with regard
Speaker 1: to not making mistakes the packers offensively against this Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay defense, they have to play clean football. You can't
Speaker 1: have the sacks and the penalties that push you back
Speaker 1: and put you in the bad you know yard is situations.
Speaker 1: You can't fumble a handoff. You can't have a mistimed
Speaker 1: shotgun snap like the packers had against the bears, which
Speaker 1: prevented them from putting away an inferior opponent much you
Speaker 1: know earlier than than they did last Sunday night. Those
Speaker 1: kinds of things are what the packers simply can't afford.
Speaker 1: You have to be able to play clean football. Your
Speaker 1: explosive players are going to be hard to come by.
Speaker 1: You are going to have to drive the ball seventy
Speaker 1: five yards to get a touchdown and you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to take nine or ten or eleven plays in order
Speaker 1: to do it. So you have to be will to
Speaker 1: stay clean and sharp Um play after play after play
Speaker 1: to give yourself a chance. And even if you do that,
Speaker 1: you get into the red zone, it's not going to
Speaker 1: be easy to put the ball in the end zone
Speaker 1: on these guys. They've given up one touchdown in the
Speaker 1: first two weeks of the season. So it really, really
Speaker 1: for me. Offensively, whatever the game plan is, the packers
Speaker 1: just have to have to play clean, sharp football, because
Speaker 1: the I mean Rogers, has been sacked seven times. We've
Speaker 1: seen some penalties that have put the packers in bad situations.
Speaker 1: I mentioned the physical mistakes against the bears. Those are
Speaker 1: the kinds of things that packers simply cannot afford in
Speaker 1: this game. No, because it's gonna be you're you're playing,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the best quarterbacks of all time
Speaker 1: and I thought what Aaron Rodgers said about Brady was
Speaker 1: so spot on in that. Okay, he's forty five years old.
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody's gonna sit here and say that
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is at his physical peak. He might be
Speaker 1: for a forty five year old, but yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: physically there is going to be natural aggression involved. But,
Speaker 1: as Roger said, from an experienced perspective, being able to
Speaker 1: to lean back on everything he's seen for the past
Speaker 1: twenty four years or whatever it's been now, there is
Speaker 1: so many things that Tom Brady can beat you with
Speaker 1: and and I watched a majority of that game against
Speaker 1: the saints and seeing the way that Brady directs the
Speaker 1: bucks offense in concert with Leonard for net, and being
Speaker 1: able to make the most out of his perimeter weapons,
Speaker 1: as opposed to what the saints are trying to do
Speaker 1: with Jamis Winston. It doesn't matter. That's a weird thing
Speaker 1: about the quarterback position. It is the ultimate neutralizer. Doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if you're at your peak athletic, you know, summit
Speaker 1: zenith at thirty years old. When you have the experience
Speaker 1: that Brady has and his ability to be smart with
Speaker 1: the football, he's not prone to turn you know he's not.
Speaker 1: You know there's going to be turnovers, but he is
Speaker 1: just the ultimate chess player when it comes to this game.
Speaker 1: So if you don't come out sharp on offense, defense
Speaker 1: and even special teams, the buccaneers are going to make
Speaker 1: you pay for that. Defensively, I feel Mike, There's been
Speaker 1: some really good units in this league. Buffalo has a
Speaker 1: great one, San Francisco has had some good ones, but
Speaker 1: Tampa really has been the gold standard, and it was
Speaker 1: even before Brady got there. That was the scary thing
Speaker 1: about it. They just didn't they they've that. That unit
Speaker 1: has been so consistent over the years. It's you don't
Speaker 1: ever seem to face Tampa Bay where you go, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: their defense isn't that good this year, like their defense
Speaker 1: is always pretty darn good and kind of like those
Speaker 1: Great Baltimore Defenses. They've just found ways to regenerate and
Speaker 1: be able to shuffle the deck as players get older,
Speaker 1: with the exception being David of course. I mean they
Speaker 1: just they have so many guys that they've been able
Speaker 1: to find a vita via. They just haven't missed on them.
Speaker 1: Shack Barrett has been impactful at times in this league.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited for this matchup because, as Matt Lafleur said,
Speaker 1: this is going to probably be the better litmus tests,
Speaker 1: the better mirometer for where this team is at offensively,
Speaker 1: defensively and special teams, because you know the type of
Speaker 1: opponent you're getting and the fact that this also is
Speaker 1: the home opener for the buccaneers, they are going to
Speaker 1: get a team that is rip roaring and ready to go. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1: The you mentioned watching the bulk of the buccaneers saints
Speaker 1: game last Sunday. I did as well, and I was
Speaker 1: reminded of something with regard to a quarterback like Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: because that saints defense was doing a number on the
Speaker 1: bucks offense. They had they had brady frustrated. Obviously there
Speaker 1: was the skirmish and everything that led to Mike Evans
Speaker 1: getting suspended and all of that, but the the extracurriculars
Speaker 1: aside the saints. The saints were having their way pretty
Speaker 1: well with that with that Tampa Bay offense. But then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, what happens? Deep shot to Brashad
Speaker 1: Perriman in the back of the end zone. It's an
Speaker 1: absolutely pinpoint perfect throw and touchdown. Banging all of a
Speaker 1: sudden it felt like all of this great work that
Speaker 1: the Saints Defense had done for two and a half
Speaker 1: or three quarters, or whatever it was at that point
Speaker 1: went out the window because Tom Brady pulled the Tom
Speaker 1: Brady and just and threw a forty yard pass that
Speaker 1: was right on the money for a touchdown. That's what
Speaker 1: these guys, that's what hall of famers can do to
Speaker 1: you right the channel. The challenge here is is significant
Speaker 1: and with regard to the packers defense, you talked about
Speaker 1: it earlier. We've been talking about it all week long.
Speaker 1: There's so much that the packers have to have to
Speaker 1: focus on in this game aside from Tom Brady. And yes,
Speaker 1: Mike Evans is suspended, Chris Godwin Julio Jones are on
Speaker 1: the injury report. We don't know their status at at
Speaker 1: wide receiver, I mentioned Perryman gaining the big touchdown against
Speaker 1: the saints. He could be a key guy um on
Speaker 1: Sunday for Brady in the passing game. But the packers
Speaker 1: absolutely cannot let Leonard Four Nette be the guy that
Speaker 1: dictates the tempo, Um and just the pace and everything
Speaker 1: of this game. Because if if Leonard Fournette is going
Speaker 1: to spend the day putting Tom Brady in third and one,
Speaker 1: third and two, the packers defense is gonna have a
Speaker 1: hard time getting off the field and and it really does.
Speaker 1: It starts every week with with stopping the run. But
Speaker 1: even with a hall of fame quarterback and arguably the
Speaker 1: best of all time in Tom Brady, the packers really
Speaker 1: the number one focus defensively has to be not letting
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette get any kind of a rhythm and being
Speaker 1: able to dictate how this game goes. Yeah, for Nette
Speaker 1: is an absolute Marauder and he seemed like, you know,
Speaker 1: to really get rejuvenated. We saw the flashes of his potential,
Speaker 1: his power, his vision when he was in Jacksonville. Some
Speaker 1: thing's fell out of alignment there for him. He resurfaces
Speaker 1: in Tampa and it took him what a little over
Speaker 1: a year to really emerge as their number one option
Speaker 1: the backfield, originally with Ronald Jones being there. This season,
Speaker 1: I think more than any other, Tom Brady, I think,
Speaker 1: is going to lean on the running back because you
Speaker 1: see in that game against the saints, you see in
Speaker 1: some of these early matchups are having, it is about
Speaker 1: being able to get into second and favorable, third and
Speaker 1: favorable and then brady letting plays developed from there. That
Speaker 1: was the biggest difference going to be into that saints
Speaker 1: game when Winston was doing that with the saints. Now,
Speaker 1: mind you didn't have Kamara, but it didn't look the same.
Speaker 1: It looked like a guy that was pressing. It looked
Speaker 1: like a guy who was trying to protect the football
Speaker 1: and then, ultimately, when he lost the patients, the damn
Speaker 1: breaks right with Brady. It is just that that's what
Speaker 1: you're talking about, Hall of fame quarterbacks. It's the patients right.
Speaker 1: I know exactly what you're saying. It's waiting for everything
Speaker 1: to develop so that when the big play is there,
Speaker 1: you make it happen. Aaron Rodgers did the same thing
Speaker 1: with Sammy Watkins last week on the fifty yard or.
Speaker 1: That's the danger if you don't get them in second
Speaker 1: and eight, third and nine. And the one thing that
Speaker 1: is very positive for green bay. They need to improve
Speaker 1: a lot right now with their tackling. They need to
Speaker 1: get back to what they look like in week one
Speaker 1: in that regard. But they have the horses to do it,
Speaker 1: they have the guys to do it. I was really
Speaker 1: impressed by the rotation they actually ran in that game.
Speaker 1: You saw more T J Slayton on first down, so
Speaker 1: you could take some of those snaps off of Kenny Clark.
Speaker 1: They have the tools to do it. It's about all
Speaker 1: eleven guys getting together and tackling to the ball, because
Speaker 1: Leonard Four Nett is not a guy that's going to
Speaker 1: go down with one guy, especially once he leaks into
Speaker 1: the second level. Yeah, it's interesting the way this plays
Speaker 1: out because they're there are different there are different moments, crucibles,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, throughout the course of
Speaker 1: a season and quite honestly, for the packers to have
Speaker 1: the breakdowns in the run defense and some of them
Speaker 1: miss tackles and everything that they had against the bears,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day it's not necessarily a
Speaker 1: bad thing because, a it didn't cost them the game
Speaker 1: and it happened heading into a week where you have
Speaker 1: to be geared up to stop a guy like four
Speaker 1: net and so you know the packers this week in practice,
Speaker 1: they they've seen the film of what happened against Chicago
Speaker 1: with Montgomery and with Herbert and some of those big
Speaker 1: runs that they broke. You know, it's a it's a
Speaker 1: long season right, both mentally and physically, for these guys. Sometimes,
Speaker 1: sometimes when you when you kind of get you you
Speaker 1: you get that reminder of what you need to really
Speaker 1: really pay attention to. Sometimes the timing of that reminder
Speaker 1: can really help you. Maybe the fact, because we know
Speaker 1: the packers have the talent on defense to defend the
Speaker 1: run a lot better than they did eighty yards rushing
Speaker 1: against the bears was was a shock, quite frankly, but
Speaker 1: maybe it was. Maybe it was the sort of the
Speaker 1: kick in the pants, so to speak, that the run
Speaker 1: defense needed heading into a matchup like this. Because because
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette will you know, in combination with Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: this offense will have a chance to keep that packers
Speaker 1: defense on the field all day long in the ninety
Speaker 1: degree heat and and that's not going to be a
Speaker 1: recipe for success. The packers have to be able to
Speaker 1: stop for Net, get after Brady and get off the field.
Speaker 1: All of it, all of it easier said than done,
Speaker 1: but I'm very interested and curious to see how the
Speaker 1: packers run defense responds from the breakdowns last week to
Speaker 1: what they do against a real bull of a back
Speaker 1: and for net. Yeah, and keep in mind too. I
Speaker 1: mean Leonard for net there isn't that home run threat
Speaker 1: necessarily with him. I mean this year right now he's
Speaker 1: longest carries seventeen yards. I think last year he may
Speaker 1: had one forty seven, but he's still averaging like four
Speaker 1: and a half even with with only a long of seventeen,
Speaker 1: which tells you that that's he's he's a grinder. It's
Speaker 1: telling you on first and second down he's getting those yards.
Speaker 1: And to do that with an offensive line that is
Speaker 1: down at starting left tackle, down at starting center. You
Speaker 1: Know Tristan worth's has been injured over at right tackle.
Speaker 1: There's so many different guys have been banged up and
Speaker 1: they're still finding ways to be productive. The fact that
Speaker 1: Tampa has gotten to two and oh it hasn't been
Speaker 1: the prettiest path, but it tells you everything you need
Speaker 1: to know about it. And conversely, for the packers, they're
Speaker 1: gonna need to be able to run against this Tampa
Speaker 1: defense as well, because if you allow them to pin
Speaker 1: their ears back, if you allow them to play their coverages,
Speaker 1: then the job gets progressively more difficult for Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: As much as the headlines this week are going to
Speaker 1: be on Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady and tablets. It
Speaker 1: is really about these run offenses in their ability to
Speaker 1: establish that momentum and establishing it from the opening whistle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for the packers offensively, we've talked about a lot of times,
Speaker 1: it's you have to get something going with that running
Speaker 1: game to set up the play action, because Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: doing trying to do a straight drop back passing game
Speaker 1: against this defensive front is not going to be a
Speaker 1: recipe for success. The passing game is going to have
Speaker 1: to come off of play action and the only way
Speaker 1: you get them to respect respect play action is if
Speaker 1: they're respecting that running game with with Jones and Dylan.
Speaker 1: So there's a there's a lot that the packers have
Speaker 1: to do and do it right in order to uh,
Speaker 1: in order to come out with a victory here. Some
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Speaker 1: on our last show we talked about how everybody in
Speaker 1: the NFC north is one and one. The packers are
Speaker 1: going to Tampa. Elsewhere in the NFC north you have
Speaker 1: Detroit going to Minnesota. Interesting matchup there, with Detroit coming
Speaker 1: off a big victory, Minnesota coming off of a disappointing
Speaker 1: Monday night loss and being on a short week. And then,
Speaker 1: Um Lovey Smith's return to soldier field. The Houston Texans
Speaker 1: go into Chicago, with the bears coming off of that
Speaker 1: loss to the packers on Sunday night football and love
Speaker 1: e Smith's Texans being a pesky bunch, a team that
Speaker 1: a lot of analysts said, hey, you won't even really
Speaker 1: have to think about these guys too much. Well, the
Speaker 1: first two opponents they played have had their hands full
Speaker 1: with the Houston Texans and and Lovey Smith's team is
Speaker 1: going to do the same thing to the bears on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I I agree. And and for you know, Chicago, how
Speaker 1: quickly things are going to change here. You know, they
Speaker 1: were feeling really good coming into lambeau field now you're
Speaker 1: feeling not so good and there's been a lot of
Speaker 1: bad headlines this week about the bears fans and the
Speaker 1: Justin fields comment. There's a lot of distractions going on there.
Speaker 1: The one thing I do like about the direction that
Speaker 1: Texas are heading underneath Lovey Smith is they actually appear
Speaker 1: to at least have a vision of what they want
Speaker 1: to become. I don't think they're going to be a
Speaker 1: playoff team this year, but I'll be honest with you,
Speaker 1: they're not the team I'd want to see on my
Speaker 1: schedule just because I don't think people are gonna give
Speaker 1: you a lot of bonus points if you win it
Speaker 1: and there's a pretty good chance that they're going to
Speaker 1: test you all four quarters on the other side of it.
Speaker 1: So that's a big gut check for the bears, but realistically,
Speaker 1: probably outside of even the division. My I am most
Speaker 1: interested to see if the Detroit lions can do what
Speaker 1: they've done the last few weeks against this Minnesota defense
Speaker 1: with Dan Campbell's bunch man they are. We know the grittiness,
Speaker 1: we know all that well. Now they're starting to get
Speaker 1: athletically better as well, and Aman Ross St Brown appears
Speaker 1: to be the real deal for Detroit. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: what if they put up sixty, seventy points, I think,
Speaker 1: offensively the first two games of the season, and I
Speaker 1: know they're one on one, but they've scored a batch
Speaker 1: and it's starting to look more to me like what
Speaker 1: Jared Goff was kind of doing in his hey day
Speaker 1: in l a. So Uh that that's gonna be an
Speaker 1: interesting matchup for the Vikings, who again are in the
Speaker 1: same boat as the bears in that I think they
Speaker 1: felt really good about themselves. Well, now you have Detroit
Speaker 1: come in there. I'm gonna tell you something right now, Mike.
Speaker 1: I don't care how week one win anymore. If Detroit
Speaker 1: goes in there and hands it to the Vikings at
Speaker 1: US Bank stadium, there's gonna be a lot of ticked
Speaker 1: off Vikings leaving that field that day. That's gonna be
Speaker 1: a really intriguing thing to follow because again, as I said,
Speaker 1: an insider inbox and today's edition on Thursday, lions aren't
Speaker 1: going anywhere. Yeah, hopefully we can find a find a
Speaker 1: TV in the Ray J press box to uh catch
Speaker 1: the second half of Detroit and Minnesota before packers and
Speaker 1: bucks kickoff, because I'm very, very interested in that game
Speaker 1: as well. A couple others I wanted to mention. Um,
Speaker 1: an interesting one in the NFC west. The rams are
Speaker 1: going to Arizona, and I bring this one up not
Speaker 1: only because the rams, as defending Super Bowl Champs, are
Speaker 1: one and one, having lost that kickoff opener to buffalo
Speaker 1: in week one. But Arizona, Arizona was all but oh
Speaker 1: and two, right and UH and made a crazy comeback
Speaker 1: to defeat the raiders last Sunday. And you just, you
Speaker 1: just wonder is is there going to be any momentum
Speaker 1: whatsoever for the cardinals that carries over from an incredible
Speaker 1: comeback like that, an uplifting victory that prevented them from
Speaker 1: starting Oh and two against the division rival with the
Speaker 1: rams coming and these are two teams that know each
Speaker 1: other really well and, quite frankly, the playoff the last
Speaker 1: time they met, the playoff game between these two teams,
Speaker 1: it wasn't even a contest. The Rams just um just
Speaker 1: took it to Arizona and the cardinals were never really
Speaker 1: in the game. So you know, that is sort of
Speaker 1: sticking with the cardinals as well in this division rivalry.
Speaker 1: I think Um this game. To me it just strikes
Speaker 1: me as one that's uh, that's a little more interesting
Speaker 1: than Um then maybe people would think on the surface,
Speaker 1: and then the other one, the other one on Sunday
Speaker 1: in the A F C is in the A F C,
Speaker 1: east buffalo at Miami, a pair of two and o
Speaker 1: teams that are both lighting up the scoreboard like nobody's business.
Speaker 1: Um Bills Down in Miami and kind of like packers
Speaker 1: going down to Tampa northern team having to go down
Speaker 1: to Florida to play in the heat in September. I
Speaker 1: think that one's going to be interesting as well. You
Speaker 1: know how, when we were breaking down this packers and
Speaker 1: bucks matchup, I kept saying it's not about the quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: In regards to buffalo and Miami, that one absolutely is.
Speaker 1: I think that this is the game for Toua UH
Speaker 1: if he I'm not saying he's gonna have the same
Speaker 1: performance he had against the bucks or against Baltimore, but
Speaker 1: if he plays well against that Buffalo Defense, and we
Speaker 1: got to see what their secondary looks like. My thoughts
Speaker 1: are with Micah Hyde. Hopefully everything checks out with his neck,
Speaker 1: but you know they're a little banged up on the
Speaker 1: secondary side of it. But that's still a really good unit.
Speaker 1: They are deep, they play well together, they are veterans.
Speaker 1: They have a lot of guys that have been with
Speaker 1: them for a lot of years. I think the von
Speaker 1: Miller thing is really infused a lot of confidence and
Speaker 1: swagger into that group that was already very talented. But
Speaker 1: to AH, he's proving me wrong and that I was
Speaker 1: really wondering. Okay, you got tyreek kill, you gotta feat
Speaker 1: tyreek kill the ball. What does that mean for Jalen waddle? Well,
Speaker 1: Jalen waddle is still getting his touches too. They're very dynamic.
Speaker 1: If I can close just with this quickly too. I
Speaker 1: don't know. We talked about there's never must win games.
Speaker 1: Remember I was pitching that last week. This isn't a
Speaker 1: must win the game. That's a boy. We gotta have
Speaker 1: a game. I think there's a must win game him
Speaker 1: this week and it's the raiders facing the titans, because
Speaker 1: one of those teams is going to Owen three. YEA,
Speaker 1: and for the raiders perspective, you were this close to
Speaker 1: winning that game last week. You go to Owen three,
Speaker 1: Josh mcdaniels is gonna have to rally the troops. On
Speaker 1: the other side of it you have Mike Vrabel, who
Speaker 1: was the coach of the year last year because of
Speaker 1: all the adversity, injuries wise that the titans went through
Speaker 1: and they got the number one seed in the playoffs
Speaker 1: in the A F c. Now you know, you're seeing
Speaker 1: Malik Willis playing games, so that's a big one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: last one to mention really quick Monday night football, Dallas
Speaker 1: at the New York giants. I bring this up obviously
Speaker 1: because cowboys got a surprising win over the defending a
Speaker 1: F C champion Bengals with Cooper rush as the backup quarterback,
Speaker 1: filling in for Dak Prescott. And the giants are at
Speaker 1: home on Monday night football with a two and oh record,
Speaker 1: facing a division rival that will have a backup quarterback.
Speaker 1: If the New York giants get to three and Oh, suddenly, suddenly,
Speaker 1: the packers trip to London isn't just some kind of
Speaker 1: a novelty. It could. It could turn into a really,
Speaker 1: really big important game. Um, as far as the early
Speaker 1: season goes in uh, in the NFC, with with where
Speaker 1: some of these records fall. So Um, I think there'll
Speaker 1: be a lot of eyes on that. that Monday night game,
Speaker 1: giants hosting the cowboys. Every headline in the off season,
Speaker 1: at least in July, was about Christian McCaffrey and the
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers. What is McCaffrey being back in the mean
Speaker 1: for the panthers, Y'all must have forgot. With Sae Kwon Barkley,
Speaker 1: because I understand he's been hurt the last few years.
Speaker 1: Brian Dable, the new new coach, Buffalo Offensive Coordinator, takes
Speaker 1: over head coach of the giants. He's UH. He's got
Speaker 1: that team believing right out of the gate and they're
Speaker 1: gonna be a tough customer. And how many times we've
Speaker 1: talked about over the years, man, when you have it
Speaker 1: back like Sae Kwon Barkley and he's healthy, that's a
Speaker 1: big part of that, huge part of it with it.
Speaker 1: But that if sae Kwon Barkley could still prove to
Speaker 1: be sae Kwon Barkley, I don't think the giants job
Speaker 1: was as bad as everybody thought it was and they're
Speaker 1: riding him and you can see how that's making Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones life easier now too. It's allowing the giants to
Speaker 1: get back to what made them successful early in Barkley's
Speaker 1: career and I think they're gonna be a fun team
Speaker 1: to watch. Certainly, as you mentioned, with the with the
Speaker 1: London game, it changes the equation. Yeah, absolutely well with that.
Speaker 1: We're going to call it a wrap on this edition
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