Speaker 1: Hi everyone, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford, joined alongside my partner in crime,
Speaker 1: Wes Hodkowits were coming to you here from our studios
Speaker 1: at lambeau Field and West I know you were hoping
Speaker 1: the same thing I was, that we would be in
Speaker 1: here on a Monday after a road trip with a
Speaker 1: different narrative to talk about. But the narrative of the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers season away from lambeau Field has not changed.
Speaker 1: Sunday at Soldier Field seventeen, the Bears win. The Bears
Speaker 1: clinched the NFC North and as has been the case
Speaker 1: for the bulk of this season when the Packers are
Speaker 1: on the road, it was a game that was there
Speaker 1: for the taking, and the Packers unfortunately didn't take. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: I think that's a really good way to sum it up.
Speaker 1: I think it was everything we thought it was going
Speaker 1: to be as far as this game. I remember there
Speaker 1: was actually one exact point where I was recalling this
Speaker 1: right before the Packers scored They're only touchdown of the
Speaker 1: day with the Jamal Williams run. About two minutes before that,
Speaker 1: right after the Davante Adams twenty three yard catch on
Speaker 1: second and four. I believe it was. I was thinking
Speaker 1: to myself, I'm like, this is exactly the way I
Speaker 1: thought this game was gonna play out. I didn't think
Speaker 1: either team was going to get blown out. I thought
Speaker 1: it was gonna be down to the wire. I thought
Speaker 1: it was gonna be the typical December NFC North chasing,
Speaker 1: you know, matchup that we've grown accustomed to. And for
Speaker 1: the Packers, as great as that drive was, afterwards, they
Speaker 1: just didn't respond with it. The defense gave up points,
Speaker 1: the offense had two straight three and outs, and in
Speaker 1: Davante Adams a credit to him his hundred catch on
Speaker 1: the season, another hundred yard performance. Afterwards, talking to reporters
Speaker 1: in the locker room, said, it's just been that third
Speaker 1: quarter all season. It seems like, with a few exceptions
Speaker 1: where the Packers just went into a stall mode um,
Speaker 1: they just weren't able to find their rhythm. And it
Speaker 1: happened once again, and against the team like you and
Speaker 1: I said all last week, Michael, against a team like
Speaker 1: the Bears, as proficient as they are, and the fact
Speaker 1: that they were going to be their antennas, We're gonna
Speaker 1: be up a little bit more in terms of the
Speaker 1: second half. You can't do that, and the Packers did
Speaker 1: and they got their seventh loss on the road. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Green Bay was certainly uh fighting an uphill
Speaker 1: battle in this one. You're banged up on both the
Speaker 1: offensive line and the defensive line, with some starters being out.
Speaker 1: You lose Aaron Jones at running back early in the ballgame.
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams stepped in played pretty well. I thought, Um,
Speaker 1: the Bears obviously a much cleaner picture of health than
Speaker 1: the Packers are. But that being said, I think I
Speaker 1: think the most frustrating thing about it West is that
Speaker 1: you know, with the fake punt, the Packers stop it,
Speaker 1: they capitalize and score tie up the game fourteen fourteen
Speaker 1: after being down fourteen to three at half. But then
Speaker 1: the Bears decided to get tricky again. When they're in
Speaker 1: scoring range to take the lead, they go with a
Speaker 1: wildcats shotgun thing with Tarik Cohen and Mitch Trubisk flanks
Speaker 1: out to the side and then Cohen botches the read
Speaker 1: option handoff just hands the Packers the football fumble green
Speaker 1: Bay recovers. We talked about turnovers and how important they
Speaker 1: would be in the game. And it's like, there's the
Speaker 1: moment fourth quarter on the road, the home team is
Speaker 1: just blown its chance to reclaim the lead in scoring territory,
Speaker 1: scoring territory exactly. They wouldn't have had to gain another
Speaker 1: yard and they probably take a seventeen fourteen lead. Their
Speaker 1: Packers get the ball, the game is still tied, but
Speaker 1: three and out, you allow a touchdown three and out
Speaker 1: along pump return and a field goals. Like the game
Speaker 1: just changed instantly, because whereas it seemed it was going
Speaker 1: to start to snowball in the Packers direction, the snowball
Speaker 1: just started rolling down the hill the other way. And uh,
Speaker 1: and another one got away from Green Bay. Yeah it did,
Speaker 1: and and that was probably the most disheartening thing. They
Speaker 1: had two major momentum shifting plays, as you mentioned. There
Speaker 1: was that recovery by Dean Lowry being able to jump
Speaker 1: on that ball get the ball back to the offense,
Speaker 1: and then there was also uh, fatal Brown give him
Speaker 1: a lot of credit. This is a young man that
Speaker 1: came in, was with the Raiders two weeks ago, gets cut,
Speaker 1: the Packers claim him. He ends up making a phenomenal play,
Speaker 1: a solo tackle on third and three makes it fourth
Speaker 1: and two, stopping the running back. I can't think of
Speaker 1: his I think it was, oh, that's right, number thirty
Speaker 1: three and yeah the third guy, yea, so he stops
Speaker 1: him and it's third, it's fourth and two. They tried
Speaker 1: to do some trickeration on that to do the fake
Speaker 1: punt direct snap to Benny Cunningham, Brown and Jake Kumarro
Speaker 1: are ready for it. They stop him and you get
Speaker 1: the ball at midfield, and both times the Packers just
Speaker 1: were not able to capitalize on those. We know, what
Speaker 1: of a grind it's been for the defense and specially
Speaker 1: well the Packers did capitalize on the fake punt. They
Speaker 1: drove down and scored the touchdown. They did get there. Yes, absolutely, um,
Speaker 1: I guess I meant more from the standpoint of just
Speaker 1: the momentum factor. Yes, yeah, you're you're absolutely pull it
Speaker 1: back in your regard. But yes, as far as points
Speaker 1: were pure points were concerned, yes, huge play for them,
Speaker 1: But you know, it's just was those things where it
Speaker 1: just you thought, maybe this is what it's gonna take
Speaker 1: to get the Packers going and get the Bears really reeling.
Speaker 1: In a credit to Mattnegie's crew, both of them, they
Speaker 1: ended up bouncing back with and they gotta win that
Speaker 1: they needed to clinch their first North title since two
Speaker 1: thousand ten. Yeah, the Bears are in the playoffs now,
Speaker 1: they'll have at least one home game as a Division champ. Um.
Speaker 1: First playoff appearance since two thousand ten for Chicago when uh,
Speaker 1: when the Bears advanced to the NFC Championship game obviously
Speaker 1: at Soldier Field when the Packers won and went onto
Speaker 1: their title. But um, the Bears still in the hunt
Speaker 1: now for a potential first round by because the Rams
Speaker 1: lose on Sunday Night Football. Now Chicago's only one game
Speaker 1: back and if if the Bears actually could tie up
Speaker 1: the Rams record wise by the end of the season,
Speaker 1: the Bears have the head to head there, So Chicago
Speaker 1: still looking for bigger and better things in terms of
Speaker 1: their positioning. Meanwhile, the Packers now two games left to go,
Speaker 1: officially eliminated from the playoffs with the loss and with
Speaker 1: Minnesota's victory over the Miami doll Fins. And uh, um,
Speaker 1: you know Packers are a banged up team. We'll see
Speaker 1: how things look going forward here and umm, but you
Speaker 1: could you could just you could just feel it, you know,
Speaker 1: the postgame press conferences with Joe Philbin and Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: I know you were in the locker room. I know
Speaker 1: the playoffs in some senses were you know, it was
Speaker 1: like a pipe dream, and there were still a lot
Speaker 1: of things that needed to fall into place. But losing
Speaker 1: this game to a division rival, having them celebrated division
Speaker 1: champions championship kind of at your expense and everything that
Speaker 1: there were, um, it was this was a tough one
Speaker 1: to swallow for the Packers. A season that a season
Speaker 1: that has been a lost season on the road in
Speaker 1: terms of not being able to win a game away
Speaker 1: from Lambeau. The Packers came in confident that they would
Speaker 1: fight for this one, and they did fight for this one,
Speaker 1: but they just once again came up short. Well when
Speaker 1: you say, like, I know what you mean by this
Speaker 1: by saying, as a pipe train, it was a five
Speaker 1: four or five percent chance, but you know, don't tell
Speaker 1: Davante Adams that. Adams afterwards in locked room was like,
Speaker 1: you know, to us, it's still seemed very realistic because
Speaker 1: it wasn't completely out of the realm of possibilities for
Speaker 1: the Vikings to lose twice, especially after firing John d
Speaker 1: Filippo this past week, the the issues that they've been
Speaker 1: having offensively, and the fact that they were going through
Speaker 1: their own mid season dulgrums, and then you look at it,
Speaker 1: you're just needing Washington to lose, you need Philadelphia to lose,
Speaker 1: Carolina to lose, and as it turned out, the week
Speaker 1: basically win as poor as it could for the Packers.
Speaker 1: But to Dante Adams to that locker room, they still
Speaker 1: felt like there was a chance if they took care
Speaker 1: of their own business, that things could be interesting at
Speaker 1: eight seven and one. But at the same time, as
Speaker 1: Adams also pointed out, you can put those charts on
Speaker 1: Instagram and Twitter, you can create all the graphics you want.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, you have to win
Speaker 1: the game. The Packers didn't do that. This is a
Speaker 1: tough one for Green Bay in a number regards. One. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you're going into an environment at Soldier Field that's going
Speaker 1: to be energized. They're excited about their nine win football team,
Speaker 1: as they should be. Um they got the tornado sirens
Speaker 1: blaring and all that jazz. But you know, then you
Speaker 1: lose Aaron Jones early on to the knee injury. Jamal
Speaker 1: Williams does a really nice job filling in. But Jones,
Speaker 1: you have to imagine, with the way they were using
Speaker 1: him early on, was going to be a big part
Speaker 1: of that game plan. Um, you know, you're you're playing
Speaker 1: without Brian Balog on the right side. You know the
Speaker 1: issues that are going to be there trying to defend
Speaker 1: against Khalil Mack and Akeem Hicks. There's just so many
Speaker 1: different components that factor into a game like this. And
Speaker 1: for the Packers perspective, while there were individuals I thought
Speaker 1: stepped up, collectively, the Chicago Bears just played better and
Speaker 1: they got the victory. Yeah, I mean, I take nothing
Speaker 1: away from the Bears defense. I do think it it
Speaker 1: might be the best defense in the NFL. It's certainly
Speaker 1: one of the top two or three at this point.
Speaker 1: But you look at that game, Wes and it's it's
Speaker 1: frustrating because it really looked like there were plays to
Speaker 1: be made. And you know, Aaron Rodgers talked about it
Speaker 1: after the game, so did Joe Philbin. Yes, there were
Speaker 1: some misthrows. There's also you know, route running issues. There
Speaker 1: obviously are protection issues you just mentioned with Khalil Mack.
Speaker 1: You know, I think it was Mac and Floyd combined
Speaker 1: mine for four and a half of the five Chicago
Speaker 1: Bears Sacks a lot of questions about just what is
Speaker 1: going on with this offense, and I thought, I thought
Speaker 1: Joe Philbin said it best that that it's never just
Speaker 1: one thing. I mean, yes, there's a throw missed here there,
Speaker 1: there's a protection breakdown here, there's a route running issue there. Rogers,
Speaker 1: without going into um a whole lot of detail, basically said,
Speaker 1: it's the details. And and that's frustrating when you're fourteen
Speaker 1: games into the season, because you know those are the
Speaker 1: types of things that are supposed to be ironed out
Speaker 1: in training camp in September. You know, then as you
Speaker 1: get later in the season, you're starting to click a
Speaker 1: little better. And for whatever reason, and it's a number
Speaker 1: of reasons, it just hasn't clicked with this offense on
Speaker 1: any kind of a consistent basis, especially away from home.
Speaker 1: The one silver lining I took away from this, and
Speaker 1: I said it all last week, Mike. It was one
Speaker 1: of my subheads for one of the inboxes we did
Speaker 1: is we're about to learn a lot about both of
Speaker 1: these teams. I think we've learned over the last two
Speaker 1: and a half weeks. Chicago Bears are very real rent
Speaker 1: in the NFC. I think they're a team with their
Speaker 1: defense and the way they're built. If Mitchell Robinsky protects
Speaker 1: the ball like he did in this game, they can
Speaker 1: go a long way. From the Packers perspective, this was
Speaker 1: a game you had to win because not only does
Speaker 1: it keep you in the playoff race, but these are
Speaker 1: the type of teams you're gonna have to beat if
Speaker 1: beyond that regular season, let's say you do, you know,
Speaker 1: defy all the odds and get in. You have to
Speaker 1: beat the teams like the Bears, and you have to
Speaker 1: do it, you know, methodically, with with what is required
Speaker 1: to be able to play a complete performance. It's about
Speaker 1: execution in the clutch exact, quite frankly, and the Packers
Speaker 1: played a solid football game on the road for three
Speaker 1: quarters and then and then in the fourth quarter. Whether
Speaker 1: you want to point to the three and outs and
Speaker 1: some misthrows, whether you want to point to a penalty
Speaker 1: on special teams that allows the Bears to start across
Speaker 1: the fifty and then a big punt return that's allowed
Speaker 1: later on, you had special teams breakdowns, and you had
Speaker 1: defensive breakdowns with a couple of defensive penalties on the
Speaker 1: go ahead touched on drive. You had miss tackles here
Speaker 1: and there. That miss tackles was kind of the issue
Speaker 1: of the defense in the first half. They seemed to
Speaker 1: clean that up in the second half and then the
Speaker 1: penalty started to bite him. So but you look, you
Speaker 1: look at the fourth quarter. All three phases, all three
Speaker 1: phases had rough, rough moments and made the types of
Speaker 1: killer mistakes that cost you games. Because of your games
Speaker 1: in the NFL come down to the fourth quarter. You've
Speaker 1: got to make the plays in the fourth quarter and
Speaker 1: on the road. This year, the Packers just haven't done it.
Speaker 1: The one I would have liked to have seen. I
Speaker 1: think there's two plays that stand out to me when
Speaker 1: I look back at the game. The one if if
Speaker 1: that I believe it was the post route that Equinomius
Speaker 1: st Brown was running in the end zone. It looked
Speaker 1: like he had a little bit of separation from him.
Speaker 1: If you're able to connect on that takes seven instead
Speaker 1: of three. There what that could do for you. Actually,
Speaker 1: I even thought that Hail Mary at the end of
Speaker 1: the first half was actually pretty competitive. That was Clote,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, Davante. Davante Adams got his hands on it,
Speaker 1: looked like he had a chance. I think it was
Speaker 1: Eddie Jackson who kind of got his arm in there
Speaker 1: as well to just to mess it up enough that
Speaker 1: what had Yeah, that Adams couldn't get a clean catch
Speaker 1: on it, And the one I really to see if
Speaker 1: you're able to get that ball to Randall Cobb there,
Speaker 1: you know, get that explosive play down field. I believe
Speaker 1: was on one of those three and out scenarios. What
Speaker 1: that could have done, because not only is it a
Speaker 1: huge play in a big moment of a game, but
Speaker 1: also that's Randall Cobb. I mean, you know the ghosts
Speaker 1: that kind of punt the Bears as it relates to
Speaker 1: Randall Cobbin, I could have really turned it. But as
Speaker 1: Clay Matthews said afterwards when he was talking to the media,
Speaker 1: I mean those not those plays specifically, but those type
Speaker 1: of plays, the type of plays you need to make
Speaker 1: to win games. The Packers just haven't done that enough
Speaker 1: this season. And that's why you know in these eight losses,
Speaker 1: six of them have been within one score. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: interesting that you mentioned Randall Cobb because there were a
Speaker 1: couple of instances there. One on the first three and
Speaker 1: out in the fourth quarter, and then on the second
Speaker 1: three and out there was the one Rogers is scrambling
Speaker 1: a little bit and Cobb breaks free. Your classics scramble route,
Speaker 1: your veteran receivers with you, and Rogers Rogers just missed
Speaker 1: him with the throw. And then he said after the
Speaker 1: game that the wind just kind of took it, like
Speaker 1: he thought, you know what, you saw that he had
Speaker 1: him and everything, but it was those wind. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the wind took that throw off target. And then on
Speaker 1: the next drive after another sack on first down, Packers
Speaker 1: are behind the chains, but Cobb is right there for
Speaker 1: the slant and the balls there and he drops it
Speaker 1: when he probably at least gets the first down, and
Speaker 1: if he breaks one tackle, he might be, you know,
Speaker 1: potentially off to the races there. So it's just those
Speaker 1: types of missed opportunities, and it just seems that with
Speaker 1: the Packers the way things have gone on the road
Speaker 1: this year, those missed opportunities continue to happen in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, in the key moments when you're right in
Speaker 1: the game. They haven't been blown out, you know. Yes,
Speaker 1: the early games Detroit and Washington. They were coming back
Speaker 1: from huge deficits. But since the bye week, all these
Speaker 1: road games against some very very good teams, they've been
Speaker 1: right there. But then the missed opportunities in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarters what costs you. And then because the other team
Speaker 1: is the team making those plays, you're always coming home
Speaker 1: with the loss. You and I were gonna have plenty
Speaker 1: of time in a couple of weeks here to kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, look back on this season and it stands
Speaker 1: out to you. I think, you know, one of things
Speaker 1: the Bears really benefited from this year, in my own opinion, is,
Speaker 1: you know, when you finished a certain place in your division,
Speaker 1: it makes the schedule theoretically easier because you'll face teams
Speaker 1: from corresponding spots into those two spots in the schedule.
Speaker 1: I'm I've already been looking a little bit towards two
Speaker 1: thousand nineteen. The schedule is interesting for the Packers what
Speaker 1: they could potentially you know, do I think they had
Speaker 1: ended up You know, you have to win games. This
Speaker 1: record is what it is. But the schedule that they
Speaker 1: ended up having this year, when you factor in what
Speaker 1: happened in November, the stretch they were on the teams
Speaker 1: they were playing. It's gonna go down as one of
Speaker 1: the more difficult ones. I think this Packers team has
Speaker 1: faced that being said, you have to win the games.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, I just there were so many quirky
Speaker 1: things about this season that I think it really, um,
Speaker 1: it's gonna make it one that when you think back
Speaker 1: on it, you know, the Packers hope it's an anomaly.
Speaker 1: You hope you can pull everything together, but it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's definitely been a strange year. Yeah, no question about it. Um. Well, quickly,
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Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers. Okay, we mentioned obviously the Packers
Speaker 1: officially eliminated from any playoff contention. The mathematics are what
Speaker 1: they are. But I want to talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about what's going on in this NFC playoff picture. I
Speaker 1: already mentioned the Bears and the fact that they still
Speaker 1: have a shot now at a first round by because
Speaker 1: the Rams lost to the Philadelphia Eagles. But that uh
Speaker 1: the two wild card spots in the NFC US. The
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks lose at San Francisco, first time the forty
Speaker 1: Niners have beaten the Seahawks. Yeah, you talk about a
Speaker 1: division rival that had just owned the other one. The
Speaker 1: forty Niners get their first win over Seattle in five years.
Speaker 1: Seattle still in the five spot for the wild card.
Speaker 1: The Minnesota Vikings get a win with their new offensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: They put up forty one points to beat the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: So Minnesota is sitting in the sixth spot at seven
Speaker 1: six and one. But you had the Eagles pull the
Speaker 1: upset against the Rams with backup quarterback Nick Foles. The
Speaker 1: Washington Redskins, on what is it, their fourth quarterback in
Speaker 1: the season, they win down in Jacksonville. I think it
Speaker 1: was in Jacksonville, UM. So both of those teams from
Speaker 1: the NFC East are seven and seven and right on
Speaker 1: not only the heels of the Minnesota Vikings for the
Speaker 1: sixth spot, but now just one game back of the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys for the lead in the NFC East because
Speaker 1: the Cowboys went to Indianapolis as one of the hotter
Speaker 1: teams in the NFL and got shut out. So the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are still leading the NFC East and currently in
Speaker 1: the four seed in the NFC, but they are eight
Speaker 1: and six and two of their division rivals are just
Speaker 1: one game back with two games to go. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: was a humbling week, I thought, specifically in the NFC
Speaker 1: because a lot of narratives changed with with the results
Speaker 1: of Week fifteen. I mean, everybody leaves Philadelphia for dead,
Speaker 1: you know, with Carson Wentz being down, everything's working against them. Well,
Speaker 1: ain't Nick Foles still doing his thing against his former
Speaker 1: team in the Rams, although it's been a change in
Speaker 1: city and that's where it started for him last year
Speaker 1: was out in l a as well when he had
Speaker 1: to step in for Carson Wentz. But then the Steelers,
Speaker 1: they just came off a demoralizing loss. Oh yeah, let's
Speaker 1: go beat the Patriots in the fact that you had,
Speaker 1: like the San Francisco beating Seattle just mind blowing. But
Speaker 1: the one that stands out to me the most as
Speaker 1: far as maybe a feel good type story, Josh Johnson,
Speaker 1: who entered the league in four won his first game
Speaker 1: as a quarter Sorry but I mean, I mean his
Speaker 1: first know what you're saying, as a quarterback. A starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: Jess Johnson has played for thirty three of the thirty
Speaker 1: two NFL teams. He finally won a game for a
Speaker 1: Washington team that's on its fourth quarterback, the most recent
Speaker 1: of which they've signed two weeks ago. The first overall
Speaker 1: pick in the spring league draft. Just led Washington to
Speaker 1: a victory and there's still in the running for the playoffs.
Speaker 1: And hey, by the way, Dallas Cowboys hottest team in
Speaker 1: the league. Oh, we're gonna get shut out by the Colts. Dude,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be I wish the Packers are part
Speaker 1: of it. Would it would it would be fun to
Speaker 1: be paying attention to this with the Packers in the mix,
Speaker 1: because because the results yesterday in the in the NFC
Speaker 1: just kind of made things crazy, everything's nuts, everything's turned
Speaker 1: on its head. And it's the great part of this league.
Speaker 1: You can't ever just say, Okay, well, this is what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. This is exactly what's gonna happen, and then
Speaker 1: everything changes on you on a dime. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: fun to watch these playoff games in January. And to
Speaker 1: be honest with you, Michael, whoever ends up grabbing those
Speaker 1: final two spots in the NFC, I wouldn't count them
Speaker 1: out from being the team that's gonna end up making
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl. It just seems like one of
Speaker 1: those years as long as you don't have to go
Speaker 1: to the Super Dome. Okay, So quick question along those
Speaker 1: lines before we go, though, So hot team in Seattle loses,
Speaker 1: hot team in Dallas loses teams like Washington and Philadelphia
Speaker 1: that are left for dead win with backup quarterbacks. So
Speaker 1: what does that mean tonight? Do the Panthers and they're
Speaker 1: losing streak against New Orleans of all teams and get
Speaker 1: to seven and seven and keep themselves in the hunt
Speaker 1: and then the number one seed is up for grabs
Speaker 1: again because New Orleans loses, or do the Saints put
Speaker 1: their stranglehold on the one seed with a win tonight.
Speaker 1: What you're saying, here's the biggest thing. If the Saints
Speaker 1: come out and they avoid the disaster that happened in Dallas,
Speaker 1: and they actually play the Panthers and win this game
Speaker 1: like they're supposed to, I think you're looking at the
Speaker 1: team that's ready to get on a run here and
Speaker 1: be the quintessential favorite in the NFC. I absolutely, I
Speaker 1: absolutely agree with you. They they they and they can
Speaker 1: put that bull's eye on their chest tonight. They are
Speaker 1: the team to beat in the NFC if they win
Speaker 1: in Charlotte tonight, and if they don't, I have no idea.
Speaker 1: I think, honestly, I believe the only truth right now
Speaker 1: as far as this NFC race is concerned, is that
Speaker 1: you don't want to play the Saints at home anything else.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. If I've been saying it all along,
Speaker 1: If the road to the Super Bowl and the NFC
Speaker 1: goes through the Superdome, it's very hard to see somebody
Speaker 1: going in there and beating the Saints. But if the
Speaker 1: Saints have to go on the road, I mean, hey,
Speaker 1: all bets are off at that point, and tonight's game
Speaker 1: Tonight's game is gonna play into how that sets up
Speaker 1: very significantly. And Sean Payton has been there for a
Speaker 1: long time. Drew Brees has been there for a long time.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're fully aware that what this game means
Speaker 1: and potentially what momentum can be claimed if they're able
Speaker 1: to pull this out the last three weeks of this season. Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: Well with that, we will call it a wrap on
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