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Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from

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Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford, joined by my

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Speaker 1: partner in crime Weston Hotkowits were coming to you here

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Speaker 1: from our studios at lambeau Field West. Week four, the

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Speaker 1: Packers will be hosting the Pittsburgh Steelers, is a three

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Speaker 1: pm Central Time kickoff at lambeau Field. And look at

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Speaker 1: the Steelers here, a little bit on up and down

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Speaker 1: start to their season. They are one and two after

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Speaker 1: three games. A very impressive road victory in Week one

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Speaker 1: over the Buffalo Bills, the a f C runner up

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Speaker 1: from a year ago, but then back to back home

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Speaker 1: losses to the Raiders and the a f C North

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Speaker 1: Division rival Bengals, the one against Cincinnati kind of being

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Speaker 1: a clunker of a performance for Pittsburgh, especially in front

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Speaker 1: of their home crowd. What do you make of this

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Speaker 1: Steelers team so far? Well, I think the big thing

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Speaker 1: is is that's gonna be a really competitive division, was

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Speaker 1: my main takeaway. I look at we talked so much

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Speaker 1: about green Bay start to this season and how difficult

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Speaker 1: throughout the course of the season, Obviously our eyes have

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Speaker 1: been turned in November as well, understanding what's gonna be

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Speaker 1: coming down the pipe. But this has been a really

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Speaker 1: difficult start for Pittsburgh. I mean, to be able to

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Speaker 1: get that win against Buffalo, I'm guessing they would have

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Speaker 1: thought that that's gonna be their most problematic game in

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Speaker 1: you've got a very game Joe Burrows team obviously the Ravens,

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Speaker 1: and and now you're coming into Green Bay and you're

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Speaker 1: gonna take on Aaron Rodgers in this offense coming off

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Speaker 1: it's a big challenge for them. And realistically, I think

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Speaker 1: this is gonna come down to Ben Roethlisberger and what

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Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger are we gonna see? Is it going to

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Speaker 1: be the big Ben of older? Is it going to

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Speaker 1: be this guy that's been under a lot of pressure

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Speaker 1: here this early part of the season, has had a

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Speaker 1: couple of turnovers as well. Yeah. The biggest thing that

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Speaker 1: surprises me not that we watch a lot of Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: Steelers football all but to look at the statistics through

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Speaker 1: through three games, and yes it's a small sample size,

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Speaker 1: but Pittsburgh has not been able to run the football.

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Speaker 1: But you know they invested that high draft pick and

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Speaker 1: is surprising. You mentioned the pressure the turnovers with Roethlisberger.

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Speaker 1: He's got three interceptions with just three touchdown passes so far,

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Speaker 1: So this is the other thing that really stood out

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Speaker 1: what we talked a lot about last week with regard

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Speaker 1: I think the Packers need to be prepared for a

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Speaker 1: allowed to say that on our show here, to to

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Speaker 1: because they're scored by quarters right now, west none in

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Speaker 1: the first quarter. They have scored fifty total points in

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Speaker 1: games based on the statistics, and the Packers have to

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Speaker 1: The point I made an insider in boxes that the

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers are down right now. The Packers can't let

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Speaker 1: an energized crowd. It's gonna be a mid afternoon game.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that is pretty much picture perfect in terms

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Speaker 1: The fact that they were able to stop Trey Sherman

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Speaker 1: Not allowing Harris to get that confidence early on, making

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Speaker 1: performance by the Packers defensive front last week, one of

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Speaker 1: the better games we've seen out of Kenny Clark. I

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Speaker 1: their feet. Yeah. Absolutely. And on the injury front, the

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Speaker 1: Steelers dealing with some missues. Ben Roethlisberger did not practice

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Speaker 1: We'll just have to have to wait and see there.

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Speaker 1: I think you mentioned the blueprint for the Packers being

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Speaker 1: being similar defensively. I think there's a lot of similarities

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Speaker 1: offensively in terms of with the way these games have

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Speaker 1: I think you can really, you know, put some pressure

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Speaker 1: that that this Packer defense can turn itself loose a

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Speaker 1: little bit. Now, this guy is a Hall of Fame quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and he's brought teams, he's brought his Pittsburgh Steelers back

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Speaker 1: from big deficits before home away. All that he's done

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Speaker 1: at all. But this, as I said, I think Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be Mike Tomlin's message to his team based

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Speaker 1: And I mean they have really good weapons. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there is a good track record there for him against

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Speaker 1: It is enough to change up the waiver wire order though,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna see a Steelers team that's really hungry in

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Speaker 1: There's a reason I Ben Roethlisberger came back. They wanted

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Speaker 1: the momentum on their side. They're riding it into this matchup.

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Speaker 1: You've been able to put points up back to back weeks.

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Speaker 1: You have to find a way to keep that stretch going. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Bengals look like an up and coming team, getting

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Speaker 1: So um one and three in that division could be

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Speaker 1: things stand, We found out that Kevin King, who missed

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Speaker 1: it doesn't do anybody any good to put yourself through it.

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Speaker 1: He did the right thing, going and telling the trainers

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Speaker 1: But they knew something was off. Hats off to everybody

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Speaker 1: couple of the concussions too. In terms of the game though,

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Speaker 1: Dallas is coming off a Monday night game. That seems

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Speaker 1: a little unfair. But that aside, whoever wins this game,

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Speaker 1: if Carolina goes to four and oh or if Dallas

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Speaker 1: I think, well, and for two different reasons right because Dallas,

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Speaker 1: it's just about you know, competency in that division right now.

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Speaker 1: If Dallas can just win nine games, they have a

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Speaker 1: tough division. Every team, every single win is gonna matter

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Speaker 1: here when you're looking at teams like New Orleans and

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. Uh. I think Matt rules team has called

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Speaker 1: a lot of people by surprise. You're not gonna have

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Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey. That's gonna be a big question mark. But

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Speaker 1: you know, I think defensively, they've shown that they can

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Speaker 1: throughout the course of the season. All right, Well, with that,

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