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Speaker 1: Yeah, Hi everyone. Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.

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Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford, joined alongside my trusted colleague West Hodkuits.

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Speaker 1: We're coming to you here from our studios at lambeau

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Speaker 1: Field and West. It's a short week, which means that

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Speaker 1: Packers Eagles on Thursday night football is almost here already

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Speaker 1: it's Wednesday, and that means we're already to our Keys

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Speaker 1: to Victory show because the game is on the horizon.

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Speaker 1: I don't know where you want to start with this one,

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Speaker 1: Packers offense, Packers defense. What's it gonna take to win

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Speaker 1: this one and get to four? And oh well, let's

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Speaker 1: actually go off of what you wrote last night on

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Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. As we're taping the show Wednesday. You

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Speaker 1: wrote Tuesday night about this offense and Aaron Rodgers feeling

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Speaker 1: like this is time, you know, to get the is clicking.

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Speaker 1: You're getting to that fourth, that fourth game of the

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Speaker 1: regular season, unmost at preseason that and you want to

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Speaker 1: be able to finally get into a rhythm. They want

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Speaker 1: to get Davante Adams more opportunities. You've seen flashes of it.

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Speaker 1: I think throughout these first three games, and I honestly

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Speaker 1: think you've seen a lot of progress too, but finding momentum.

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Speaker 1: And the reason I say that specifically with this game

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Speaker 1: is because there does appear to be an opportunity with

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Speaker 1: this Philadelphia passing defense right now. Ronald Darby has the

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Speaker 1: hamstring injury. They are really beat up in the secondary.

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Speaker 1: So while they are very stout against the run, and

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Speaker 1: you know the way their penetration works, it is going

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Speaker 1: to be difficult to get things going that way. I

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Speaker 1: think there is a real chance in this game for

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers in the passing game to get into some rhythm. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I don't like to declare a game on a short

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Speaker 1: week is any kind of a barometer for anything, because

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Speaker 1: these quick turnarounds and everything, you just never know what's

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Speaker 1: going to happen in a Thursday night game. But I

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Speaker 1: agree with you that there is potentially an opera tunity

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Speaker 1: here for the passing game. Because the Eagles are banged

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Speaker 1: up on defense. Their defensive front only has two sacks

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Speaker 1: thus far, they are ranked near the bottom of the

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Speaker 1: league and passing yards allowed. If there's a game for

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Speaker 1: this Packers offense to hit on some explosive plays in

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Speaker 1: the passing game, and really try to generate some momentum

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Speaker 1: here with Aaron Rodgers and Matt Lafleur's offense. I think

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Speaker 1: I think this is the one, even though I hesitate

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Speaker 1: to say that because you just played a game a

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Speaker 1: couple of days ago and you just physically it's always

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Speaker 1: hard to say just where the players are going to

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Speaker 1: be on a Thursday night game. Absolutely, and and not

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Speaker 1: that you can never draw any parallels between three years

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Speaker 1: ago and today. But one of my big guys for

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Speaker 1: this matchup, I think is Davante Adams. I mean, he

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Speaker 1: had sort of his coming out party against the Eagles

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Speaker 1: and during that run the table in two thousand sixteen

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Speaker 1: where it's like, Okay, this guy that Monday night game

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Speaker 1: going to be one of the league's elite. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's going to be a cut above. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: go back to that game. Five catch is a hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirteen yards, two touchdowns, and that was one of

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Speaker 1: you know, that was a defense that was on the

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Speaker 1: precipice of being really special. Now they're a bit older

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Speaker 1: now when you look at the Eagles, there was one

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Speaker 1: like is it nine or ten guys that are above

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Speaker 1: twenty nine years old or something like that on that defense,

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Speaker 1: And you know there is something to be said for that.

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Speaker 1: You can win with a veteran scheme, but you know

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Speaker 1: a lot of times that means a tick slower. So

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Speaker 1: I just a lot has been made this past week

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Speaker 1: in particular about Adams and his touches and his catches

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Speaker 1: you know last year he did have a hundred and

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Speaker 1: eleven catches. I don't think you can always just be anticipating,

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Speaker 1: anticipating a guy's gonna dominate that much offensively, because it

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Speaker 1: counters to that. We're seeing some that early this season.

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Speaker 1: That being said, I'm very intrigued what the Packers could

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Speaker 1: do with him moving forward, how you move him around.

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Speaker 1: We've seen him in the slot already, we saw him

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Speaker 1: Even fifteen catches hud ninety yards, that's nothing to you know,

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Speaker 1: Davantae Adams game is coming and this could be one

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Speaker 1: that potentially him and Aaron Rodgers find it. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: I looked up some stats with regards to Adams. He

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Speaker 1: had even gone back to back games without a touchdown catch,

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Speaker 1: that Aaron Rodgers missed in after the broken collar bone

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Speaker 1: for him to even go to straight games without a touchdown.

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Speaker 1: So I agree with you, maybe we're on the verge

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Speaker 1: whole game, no sacks all of that. As I mentioned before,

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Speaker 1: this Philadelphia Eagles defensive front only has two sacks thus far.

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Speaker 1: Jim Schwartz their defensive coordinator. If there is a guy

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Speaker 1: this game, and that puts a big premium on the

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Speaker 1: Packers offensive line to figure out where the blitzer are

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Speaker 1: the number one thing A lot of defensive coordinators are

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Speaker 1: CounterPunch to that as well. Right you start sending more guys,

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Speaker 1: maybe that frees up Davantie Adams in one on one.

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Speaker 1: You can see what Marquez Velde, Scantling and two of

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Speaker 1: it in on our Three Things video with John and Larry.

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Speaker 1: I felt like that twenty seven yard wheel route We

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Speaker 1: really important to put on film because now inside linebackers

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Speaker 1: like that they've shown these different facets of it, and

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Speaker 1: these are all the things that when Schwartz devises his

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Speaker 1: account for exactly how he wants to attack this offense. YEA,

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Speaker 1: all right, Well, before we move on to the Packers defense,

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Speaker 1: in better okay, defensively here for the Packers west um

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Speaker 1: eight takeaways twelve sacks in the first three games by

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Speaker 1: Mike Patton's crew. If you can keep up that kind

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Speaker 1: that that goes a long way to chalking up victors. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: You know, if you end up leading the league and

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Speaker 1: It has to stay healthy. I mean, the way that

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Speaker 1: it wasn't always that way, right. I Mean you heard

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Speaker 1: There's just so much synergy with this defense right now

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Speaker 1: that you know, you heard the story about Zadarius taking

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Speaker 1: talk football, We're gonna put up a projector and watch

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Speaker 1: Thursday night football. We're gonna just, you know, try to

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Speaker 1: pieces healthy, Mike, I just think that you're gonna have

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Speaker 1: ebbs and flows to a season. But the most impressive

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Speaker 1: thing to me right now, when I see Zadarius Smith,

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Speaker 1: is these guys aren't looking for stats to validate contracts.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if they get a sack. Or not.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't matter if they getting interception or not. The way

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Speaker 1: that they're performing is making the defense better. Now the

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Speaker 1: If you keep those eleven guys you know on the

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Speaker 1: not sure. I just don't know that much about Philadelphia's

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