WEBVTT - #811 Packers Unscripted: Close call in Chicago 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:19.079 Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:22.439 Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spoffer, joined as always 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:25.319 by my partner in crime, Wes Hodkins. We're coming to 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:29.000 you hear from our studios at lambeau Field to discuss Wes. 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:31.840 Yet another down to the wire victory by the Green 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:34.599 Bay Packers is the third one this season the Packers 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:37.559 have won at the buzzer, so to speak, and this 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:41.920 one a blocked field goal at Soldier Field to beat 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:47.200 the Chicago Bears twenty to nineteen. Everything on that final 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:49.920 drive the Bears, you know, getting out of the third 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:53.080 and nineteen, they convert on fourth and short, They get 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:56.160 themselves in position and it's looking like, okay. The Packers 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:58.959 have won a couple games on walkoff field goals. Now 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.120 they're going to lose one on walk off field goal. 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:06.199 But no, Carl Brooks gets the hand up there, gets 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.720 the fingertip on the football and the Packers survive. 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.840 The Cardiac pack two pointo is what I've been calling 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:19.920 this to my father the past week. Wow, it just 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:23.840 it seems like every way the Packers could win a 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:27.440 football game this year, they've done it. And I am 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:30.720 not above telling you exactly what was going through my 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:32.319 head at the end of that game. Because the Cairo 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.400 Santos is in a very accomplished kicker. It's been doing 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.520 it for a long time now. In this league. People 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:40.320 forget the issues that the Bears had trying to find 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:43.000 a kicker after Robbie Gold. Santos is the one that 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:46.160 ended that carousel for them, right and has held down 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.880 that job for multiple years now. I hate to be 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.600 a pessimist. I love being a half glass, half full guy. 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:53.920 But I had a running game story to write. You 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:57.480 were doing a final recap. I was getting ready for 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:59.720 a Packers loss in terms of writing my stuff and 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:01.160 getting stuff ready so we could get down to the 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:06.320 locker room. I was ill prepared for handling a potential game. 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.200 Missing a field goal is one thing, but then a 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:12.639 game winning field goal block, the first one since your 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:16.400 great grandfather was what traversing the halls of Washington. 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:17.480 DC something like that. 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.360 Yeah, nineteen thirty nine, the last time the Packers have 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.200 won a football game off a field goal block on 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.000 the last play of the game against the world renowned 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:30.519 Cleveland Rams and they got the job done. Man, And 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.120 how many times have I written this season, including in 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:38.000 Tuesday's Inbox. It just doesn't matter. Just win the game. 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.440 And this was probably the best, biggest example of it all. 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:46.600 You do not apologize, You do not take any style 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.560 points and try to add them into the victory or 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:51.640 massage it any other way other than the sack. The 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:56.080 Packers won the game, and they continued in unprecedented eleven 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:59.120 straight victories over the Chicago Bears. 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.760 And that's the history oracle note I wanted to pivot 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:06.640 to because this falls in the category of you can't 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:11.680 make this stuff up. Twenty five years ago at lambeau Field, 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:16.880 the Chicago Bears came into Green Bay having lost ten 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:20.400 in a row to the Packers, and they break the 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:24.000 streak of ten straight losses to the Packers on Brian 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:28.680 Robinson's block of Ryan Longwell's chip shot a twenty eight yarder. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.440 The Packers sat on the ball, twenty eight yarder. This 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.160 is going to be a win, Brian Robinson, the hand 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:37.080 of Walter Walter Payton had passed away earlier in the week. 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.080 The hand of Walter blocks the field goal, and the 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.280 Bears break their ten game losing streak in the rivalry. 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:48.640 Fast forward to Sunday at Soldier Field, and the Packers 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:52.200 have won ten straight, and the Bears are lining up 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:55.520 for the field goal to break the ten game losing streak, 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:57.880 and the Packers blocked the field goal to make it 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:02.280 eleven in a row, the first time in the history 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.440 of the NFL's oldest rivalry that one team has won 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:10.880 eleven straight. But breaking this game down a little bit 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:16.279 further offensively first, for Green Bay. I came out of 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:20.160 this I came out of this game just with a 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:24.000 whole bunch of mixed feelings about the offense. Because if 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.080 you had told me we had talked all week last 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.159 week and I was the one stressing it, the Bears 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.480 were the number one red zone defense, the Packers were 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.920 the number twenty nine red zone offense. That was the 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.200 situational matchup that would probably decide the game. If you 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.360 had told me before the game started that the Packers 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.320 were going to get in the red zone five times 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:45.320 against the Bears and score three touchdowns, I would have 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.440 said Packers are going to have a heck of a 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.320 chance to win the game. But if you had also 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:52.680 told me that twice when the Packers get in the 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.600 red zone, they're going to get zero points on two 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.520 red zone opportunities in this case actually two opportunities that 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.000 got all the way the five yard line and the 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:05.039 Packers got no points. I would have said, well, you're 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:07.400 gonna have a hard time winning that football game. So 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:10.640 that's where I say, like, I have my mixed feelings. 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:12.960 There was a ton to like about what the Packers 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.279 did on offense with very limited opportunities. We'll talk about 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:18.800 the reasons for those limited opportunities when we get to 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.560 the defense. There was a lot to like about what 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:24.640 the Packers did on offense, but to only come out 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:28.200 with twenty points in that game was extremely frustrating because again, 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:31.440 as we've said so many times this year, there was 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:33.400 so much more out there for this team to put 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:34.240 on the scoreboard. 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:39.640 As the great Dom Capers once said in the Packers 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:44.360 media auditorium, let me start with the positives. Okay, first 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:46.600 and foremost, it looks like knock on wood, Jordan Love 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.200 has put the groin injury behind him. He was scrambling more, 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:51.919 he was working under center more, absolutely, and the Packers 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:55.280 wanted to run more in this game, more conventional and 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.960 they were able to do that. And for all the 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:01.039 things people have Monday Morning quarterback about this game. The 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.440 game plan I think was rock solid. There were so 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.240 many things that you and I discussed last week. You 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.160 had to run the football. They probably didn't run it 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:08.680 as well as they wanted to, but you had to 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:10.840 do it because if you getting third and long, you're 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.479 setting You're setting the bear trap. There no pun intended 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:17.680 for Chicago be able to get a takeaway, which is 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:19.400 ultimately what happened in the red zone on one of 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.200 those plays when they had to go third and long 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.400 and they're still darting towards the end zone. Christian Watson 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:28.920 was unbelievable in this game. The downfield stuff that him 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.240 and Jordan Love had been trying to find their chemistry, 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:33.159 trying to find that get on the same page with 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.719 They did it in this game. A few moments of 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:39.520 results over process, the long pass, the forty eight yarder 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.599 when it also looked like you had Tucker Craft available underneath. 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:44.720 It is what it is. But what I loved about 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:46.520 that play too. I'm sure you saw it in You're 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.479 What you might have missed series. Tucker's running right towards 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:51.400 Christian to celebrate with them. As soon as the play 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:54.200 Happens was extremely happy for him. Watson's a guy that 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.800 has very much. He has absolutely earned all of those opportunities. 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.640 The sixty yard catch and run won the Packers the 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:04.160 game pretty much, and they did those types of explosive plays. 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:06.600 And when you look at how the Packers won this game, 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:10.640 independent of Carl Brooks's block, they won it with explosive plays. 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.360 The Chicago Bears played cleaner, the Packers played better, and 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:17.320 that's how they won the game. The disappointing thing was 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.160 much like I was talking about with the run game. 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.920 Everybody knew the Packers had to produce inside the red 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.400 zone to be able to really pull away in this one, 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.880 and they failed to do that. Part of that. You 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.119 give credit to the Bears. They're the number one ranked 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:32.520 red zone defense for a reason. But unfortunately some of 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:34.440 the things that have plagued the Packers showed up in 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.880 the red zone. The penalty that initially pushed him back 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:39.520 on the illegal man downfield, those are the type of 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:41.360 things you still want to clean up while buying large. 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.760 They did in the penalty front, but it showed itself 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:48.040 in the red area and then certainly just a missed 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.920 opportunity Jordan Love played a pretty solid game overall, but 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:53.680 then as Matt Lafleur was saying, the ball kind of 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:55.560 sales on him on that third down pass to Tucker 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:57.760 Craft a moment where the Packers are just maybe trying 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.480 to use that catch and run that yack to potentially 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.480 getting to the end zone, and it doesn't work out there, 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.480 it ends up being an interception, Chicago's offense starts rolling 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.080 the other way. A lot of words I've just spoken, 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:11.120 but basically it comes down to the fact that Packers 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.440 still have things to work on, but they're one of 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.520 the most explosive offenses in the league right now, and 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:18.080 that's ultimately what bailed them out. 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:22.960 That's that's what I keep, you know, hanging the hat on, 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:25.200 so to speak, with regard to this Packers offense for 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:27.640 the frustrations and the points that are left out there, 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:32.360 and the scoreboard you know hasn't in so many games, 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:37.480 hasn't reflected what, you know, maximizing those opportunities would be 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.439 this team, no matter what defense it has gone against, 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:44.520 they can generate explosive plays and that is something that 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.400 that is something that this offense can definitely hang its 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.560 hat on moving forward. I'm one hundred percent with you 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:54.479 on Christian Watson was that was a tremendous game for him. 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:58.160 All four of his catches, all four of his receptions, 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:01.000 were explosive plays, and they were all critical. They were 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:05.079 all big time plays at big moments in the game. 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.959 The other guy, I will point out that I thought 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.320 played a really, really good game, and it seems like 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:13.480 I talk about him every week as Josh Jacobs. He 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:17.320 was grinding away on the ground. He also had an 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:19.839 impact in the passing game, rushing and receiving one hundred 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:23.240 and thirty four yards from scrimmage. For Jacobs, the receiving 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:25.680 was a combination of a couple of design passes, but 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:29.520 also a couple of checkdowns, which then also gets me 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:33.160 to the game that Jordan Love played. And quite honestly, 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:35.640 yes there's a lot of focus on the interception, is 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:37.520 a throw that got away from him. Was the right 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.200 decision where the ball was supposed to go on the play, 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:42.560 It was just a bad throw. The Bears happened to 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.240 have somebody in the right spot where the overthrow went 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.920 to get the interception, But honestly, that was the only 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:52.120 bad pass Jordan Love threw. The entire game. Quite frankly, 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.360 he ends up thirteen out of seventeen. He scrambled and 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.880 took off. He made the Bears pay a little bit 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:02.440 with his legs. He did take checkdowns to the running backs, 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:04.840 whether it was to Chris Brooks or to Josh Jacobs 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:08.200 here and there. Other than that one bad pass, he 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.120 did not put the ball in harm's way. I thought 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.760 Jordan Love played a really, really good game. I think 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.400 him being fully healthy, having the bye week to rest up, 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:17.760 take all the practice reps, all that stuff we talked 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:21.440 about last week certainly played into it. Jordan Love was 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:24.920 this close, this close because of that one bad pass 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:28.320 to playing the type of game that we would be 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.320 praising him for. Everybody would be praising him for up 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:33.640 and down. I think that's a huge sign for this 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:38.080 Packers offense moving forward. And in his defense a little bit, 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:44.239 Matt Lafleur fell on the sword with regard to the interception, 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.800 not because of the play itself, but because that third 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:51.679 and long was set up because Lafleur criticized himself for 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.360 not just running Jacobs on second and one from the 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:57.480 five yard line. Called the pass play. That's what leads 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:59.960 to the illegal man downfield. You don't get illegal man 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:03.400 downfield if you run the ball, so that back the 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.319 Packers up. Then they tried the end around with Jayden 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:08.360 Reid that lost a few more yards of put Love 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.720 in a bad spot with third and long, and Matt 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.280 Lafleur was really upset himself for not just calling a 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:15.200 running play on second and one. You get a first 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.280 and goal inside the five yard line. You pounded in there, 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:21.880 and very likely the game is fourteen to three and 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:24.840 we're not talking about a black blocked field goal at 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.720 the end for the win. But back to my original point, 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.960 I thought Jordan Love played probably his best overall game 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:35.200 of the season. There's only one bad pass, one play 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.280 like that that we're talking about as far as as 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:40.400 far as what went wrong, and hopefully that bodes well 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:41.800 for this offense moving forward. 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.320 Do you know what I like the most? Mike Packers 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:48.720 had a huge momentum flip right around halftime. A bulk 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.920 of the Chicago Bears points came between that mark of 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:53.680 at the end of the first half. In the beginning 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.960 of the second, Love kept his composure as we know 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:00.400 he does, but he led them out a huge drive 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.920 there to start the third quarter, capitalized by Josh Jacobs 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:06.160 getting that seven yard rushing touchdown, the fiftieth of his 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.200 NFL career in the regular season, and then when they 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:13.199 needed drives late, he made plays and he put his 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:16.520 players in positions to make plays. The past the Christian 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.920 Watson not the most perfect textbook pass. Watson had to 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:21.920 lay out for that thing and make a play. But 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:23.120 the thing I love about what. 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:25.040 Jordan and Love had a guy in his face on 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:28.839 that absolutely number ninety nine had had just slipped by 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.800 Josh Myers. The pocket had held up really well. Josh 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:35.080 Jacobs had picked up the blitzer TJ Edwards ninety nine 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.160 had started to slip by Josh Myers and got a 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.400 pretty good hit on Love as he let that ball go. 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.760 But fortunately Watson was able to make the diving cat. 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.000 As Lafloor said, staring down the barrel. Sometimes YEA to 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:49.240 make those plays I do. But Watson made it right. 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.439 And and that's where getting on the same page is 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.559 so critical and being able to capitalize on these opportunities. 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:59.880 Jordan Love man, people are going to perseverate on the interception, 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:01.760 and that's going to be something the rest of the season. 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.959 He's already thrown eleven. We have nine more games in 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:07.120 the regular season? Is that? Or no, eight more? How 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.600 many games we have left? Or they're seven? Seven? Thank you? 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:12.080 Hopefully the Packers have nine or ten games left, but 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:13.640 seven in the regular. 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:15.800 NFL is adding games every three minutes. I can't figure 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.000 out exactly how many they are left anymore. Seven games 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:20.359 left in the regular season. He's sitting on eleven interceptions. 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:21.840 I'm going to tell you a little bit of a secret. 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.600 He's probably going to throw another one at some point. Yeah, 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:26.800 you will. So when people come up with the well 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:29.040 he threw another pick, and now it's eleven, Well he 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:30.960 might throw on this week, it might be twelve. You 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:34.400 can't worry about what's happened. Even last year. I thought, 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:36.600 I don't know if you caught this, but Alex Smith 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:40.080 had a tremendous analysis of Jordan Love in the lead 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.800 up to Sunday's game, where he was talking about Jordan's 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.200 numbers in the first half of last year are pretty 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.480 similar to what they are right now. But then he 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:49.959 got on that run. Nobody was talking about the eleven 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:52.800 interceptions the last season. They're talking about the four thousand 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.640 passing yards the thirty two touchdowns, and that's where they 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:58.040 need Jordan to get to now. So I thought that 0:13:58.080 --> 0:13:59.960 was a major step in the right direction offensively. 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.000 Yeah, I mean, not to get hung up on the 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:06.839 interceptions for too long. But the reason that the bad 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:11.360 decision interceptions really hurt you is because you're going to 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:13.680 have interceptions where a throw just gets away from you, 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.920 where something happens or a guy drops go or ball 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:20.720 gets deflected or whatever, a guy doesn't catch it. So's 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.640 and that's where the bad decision ones hurt you. You 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.560 have to eliminate those. And if Jordan Love eliminates the 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.560 bad decision interceptions, yeah, once in a while a throw 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:31.320 is going to get away. It might get picked off. 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.360 You can live with that at the end of the day. 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.560 The frustrating thing not just the two drives that reach 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.080 the five yard line, but ultimately the Packers come away 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:43.200 with no points. But as well as the Packers were 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:47.160 moving the ball steadily consistently on offense, they only got 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:50.120 six possessions in this game, not including the one play 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.240 neel down at the end of the first half. Six 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.560 possessions in this game, and that's because the Packers defense 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:59.480 had a really really rough day. The defense could not 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.040 get off the field, could not get the ball back 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:05.240 to Jordan Love and the offense enough. The Bears end 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.400 up with thirty six and a half minutes of time 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:12.880 of possession. They end up with on their seven drives. 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.840 They didn't have a single drive with fewer than seven plays, 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:20.600 and five of their seven drives were double digit plays 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:25.520 ten or more. Combining third and fourth downs, the Bears 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:29.640 were twelve out of seventeen. Ye The Packers' defense just 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:33.880 they put themselves in enough situations to get off the field, 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:37.840 but then they couldn't do it. And the Bears had 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:42.120 switched offensive coordinators, like we talked about, I think the 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:46.200 new offensive coordinator whispered something in Caleb Williams's ear, so 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.760 to speak of like, hey, you can take off and run. 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.120 Your legs are a good weapon, go ahead and use them. 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:54.280 Don't forget about them kind of thing. And they mixed 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.560 in the zone read stuff where it was you know 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.040 where he gets the decision to hand off or keep, 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.080 and he hurt the pa between the scrambles and the 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.720 zone read seventy rushing yards from the quarterback. That was 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.440 a big game from Caleb Williams, and I thought the 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.960 way he used his legs built his confidence in the 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:14.000 passing game and the throws that he was able to make, 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:17.880 and it just felt like it felt to me like 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:21.520 the way the way Caleb Williams used his legs to 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.280 hurt the Packers, it just kept the Packers defense on 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:26.920 its heels. Yeah, a whole game. The Packers were not 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:30.200 in attack mode on defense because they got kind of 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:33.440 thrown off kilter by all the running around that Caleb 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:37.240 Williams was doing. And credit to the Bears it it 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:38.920 should have been enough for them to win the game, 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.960 and it almost was if they don't get the kick blocked. 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:45.720 And kind of like Malik Willis when he was filling 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:47.240 in for Jordan Love with what he can do with 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.200 his legs, what Williams did is it helped set up 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.600 DeAndre Swift. Swift had a really hard time getting going. 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:55.320 Rashaan Johnson had a hard time getting going when he 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:57.840 started scrambling. Then they started working the read option. That's 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.000 then when he broke off the thirty nine yard touch Yeah. 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:03.120 Then he gets the touchdown on the top on the sweep. Yeah, 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:05.840 And that's where you're starting to see things happen. Now again, 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:08.800 I'll mention the positives here quickly. With the Packers defense, 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:13.159 they didn't rupture. That's the thing. Green Baby had thirty 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:15.520 fewer possessions or whatever it was, but they still had 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:19.640 more explosive plays than yea, the Bears did. 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:21.439 And at the end of the day, there's only nineteen 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:23.879 points on the board. So you can't you know, you 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.560 can't be too overly critical. But it was the way 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:29.200 the game unfolded and the way the possessions were limited 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:32.359 that the Packers offense just didn't get the chances that 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.439 you would like it to get when they're moving the 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:34.840 ball so. 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:36.720 Well, and a lot of those explosive plays the Bears 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.399 got ended up being during the final stretch of that game. Yeah, now, 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:42.159 I'll bring it back around for a second. The Packers 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.800 end up turning over the ball and Bears get it 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.640 at the two yard line. This is where I sometimes 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:51.280 and Connor Lewis knows these statistics a lot better than 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:53.600 me the idea and Matt kind of touched on this 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:55.679 a little bit too. When a team is starting at 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:58.800 the minus two, if you don't rupture, even if you 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:00.679 give up a couple first downs and the Bears are 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.520 playing the way they have to play, they consistently have 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:07.000 to keep getting first downs. That helped green Bay get 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:10.480 through that situation to get the ball back to eventually 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:12.320 have the one where they finally did go ahead with 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:16.359 the scoring drive. They responded in that instance that the 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:19.400 tough thing for green Bay though, was, and I've gone 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.280 back and forth with fans about this, but you finally 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.800 get some pressure on the quarterback, you get the TJ. 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.680 Slayton sack, which is then followed by the Rashan Gary sack. 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:29.639 And Rashan might have had his best game of the 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:32.000 season against Chicago with what he was able to do. 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:33.400 When you look at the pressure numbers, when you look 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:35.080 at the quarterback he had, some of the tackles he had, 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.080 Rashan was getting after it. He gets a sack from 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:40.080 minus eight or nine yards third and nineteen. You're sitting 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:43.320 in I know everybody wants the Packers to move up 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:46.280 and play pressman coverage and be physical and everything, and 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:50.440 you just cannot do that. But it's what that third 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:55.040 downplay was a good illustration of, is the extremely minute 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:58.639 narrow margin for error. Kings Lingbari leaves his feet on 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.760 the pass rush. He's trying to make a play yep. 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:03.639 But then Williams again with the feet, gets in the 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:07.840 open field, extends and then Romadunze makes two fantastic catches 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:09.919 back to back plays. To be able to move the 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:12.160 ball down field, you have to get off the field 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:15.560 on third downs eight conversions and beyond that three fourth 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:18.760 down conversions. On the five instances where they didn't convert 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.800 on third down, Chicago was just way too efficient. Green 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:26.000 Bay has to break that. That being said, they made 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:28.760 it right, and that's what complimentary football is. If you're 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:31.399 not getting everything from the defense, but they're still keeping 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:34.320 points off the board, there's still finding ways to keep 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:36.439 you in it. That's where the special teams has to 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:38.600 pick them up. And obviously that's where the explosive plays 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:40.240 came into a factor for Green Bay as well. 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:43.840 Yeah, I thought I thought the defense, the defense had, 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:48.040 the defense had a chance to sort of cure a 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:51.159 lot of ills on the day when you know the 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:53.480 game's on the line, final possession, the Packers have the 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:56.080 lead by one point, you get the back to back sacks, 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:58.119 you put them in third and nineteen. You and I 0:19:58.160 --> 0:19:59.840 were talking because I think at that point it was 0:19:59.880 --> 0:20:01.520 the two minute warnings. So there's a little bit of 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:03.879 a break up the clock. You and I were talking, 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:06.560 and I think you and I were in agreement where 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:09.200 it's like, Okay, you don't get too aggressive on third 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:12.359