Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from
Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spoffer, joined by my
Speaker 1: trusted colleague wearing his brand new glasses, West Hodkowitz. We're
Speaker 1: coming to you, hear from our studios a lambo Field, West.
Speaker 1: It's time to talk Packers Seahawks. Here. The Seattle Seahawks
Speaker 1: will be coming to lambeau Field for a Sunday three
Speaker 1: pm kick off. And this is a Seattle team that
Speaker 1: is three and five, but they're getting their quarterback back
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson back from the surgically repaired finger that cost
Speaker 1: him three games. And for as much as even with
Speaker 1: Wilson in the lineup, the Seahawks were up and down
Speaker 1: early in the season, kind of riding a bit of
Speaker 1: a roller coaster. Russell Wilson brings a one point three
Speaker 1: passer rating UH, ten touchdowns, only one interception on the season.
Speaker 1: He was off to a heck of a heck of
Speaker 1: a start statistically, and that's certainly something he's looking to
Speaker 1: continue against a pretty good Packers defense. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's so funny listen to Vante Adams discuss it, because
Speaker 1: he's like, this really almost feels like a division game.
Speaker 1: How much they've played. I believe in DeVante's career, this
Speaker 1: is the eighth time. Now he's going to be playing
Speaker 1: against the Russell A quarterback Seahawks team. And as we've
Speaker 1: seen through all these matchups, and there's been so many
Speaker 1: chapters in this this rivalry. Now, uh, it's always going
Speaker 1: to be competitive, It's always gonna be probably down to
Speaker 1: the wire. And in a lot of times too, it
Speaker 1: comes down to how are the Packles Packers able to
Speaker 1: contain Russell Wilson. Historically speaking, the games in which they've
Speaker 1: been able to really put a hat on him, they've
Speaker 1: played really well. The results have been in their favor.
Speaker 1: And but when he gets going, man, when he gets moving,
Speaker 1: when he gets creating plays out of the pocket, he
Speaker 1: extends things. That's where he can really hurt you. And
Speaker 1: as we're learning about the Seattle offense and this era, now,
Speaker 1: whether it's DK Metcalf, whether you know it's it's Tyler Lockett,
Speaker 1: they have weapons that can really hurt you. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: combination of Lockett Metcalf is a really interesting one because
Speaker 1: you don't you don't often see a a one to
Speaker 1: punch at receiver if you will, where the two guys
Speaker 1: are such different types of players in terms in terms
Speaker 1: of the body types and the routes they run and
Speaker 1: what those what the offenses asked them to do. And
Speaker 1: I think that's what presents such a big challenge in
Speaker 1: terms of defending Russell Wilson and his passing game with
Speaker 1: those two guys on the other side of it. With
Speaker 1: regard to trying to contain Wilson. Now this is the
Speaker 1: statistic with Wilson or Gino Smith, but the Shawks have
Speaker 1: allowed twenty six sacks season in eight games. I mean
Speaker 1: that puts them on pace for allowing fifty plus this season. Now,
Speaker 1: obviously about half of those were Wilson, half of those
Speaker 1: were were Gino Smith. But um yeah, you still even
Speaker 1: with those sack numbers, though, I think you have to
Speaker 1: be careful about how you press or Russell Wilson. This
Speaker 1: is what is so mind boggling about the season Seattle's
Speaker 1: had is that Geno Smith played well during that absence.
Speaker 1: But the problem is they've had a really difficult schedule.
Speaker 1: When you look at the opponents they've played, I think
Speaker 1: maybe the Vikings are the one team they lost to
Speaker 1: that actually has a losing record right now. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's been a competitive type of schedule in Smith, to
Speaker 1: his credit, a lot of people, including myself, big time
Speaker 1: doubters when he took over, played really well. He had
Speaker 1: over a hundred passer rating. The thing that is really
Speaker 1: stands out to me the most about Seattle though, is
Speaker 1: the years change, but a lot of times the construction
Speaker 1: of the offense is very similar. It really They've had
Speaker 1: issues on the offensive line for years now. That hasn't
Speaker 1: really changed. They've had inconsistency in the backfield now for
Speaker 1: years now. That hasn't really changed. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: when you have somebody like Wilson that can basically create uh,
Speaker 1: it still makes them an incredibly dangerous team. And I
Speaker 1: think defensively they've started to find themselves a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Matt l Lor said it. It It was to your question, Mike,
Speaker 1: they are expecting a playoff caliber team to step into
Speaker 1: lambeau Field on Sunday, and anything short of that, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Packers will accept it, but that isn't what they're anticipating.
Speaker 1: They think that this is gonna be a matchup that's
Speaker 1: really gonna come down to the wire because at the
Speaker 1: beginning of this season. Back in September, this was the
Speaker 1: gauntlet we were talking about. Seattle was a big reason
Speaker 1: for why we thought November was gonna be as difficult
Speaker 1: as it's going to be. Yeah. Absolutely, when you look
Speaker 1: at it from Seattle's perspective, three and five, that's not
Speaker 1: where they want to be after eight games. They can't
Speaker 1: really afford too many more losses. But from their point
Speaker 1: of view, they're like, hey, we have an opportunity to
Speaker 1: play the Packers. We they they still have I believe
Speaker 1: it's two games left with Arizona. They haven't played the
Speaker 1: Cardinals left they yet. They have one game left against
Speaker 1: the Rams. So even though they're three and five, they're
Speaker 1: going to have some opportunities to make some noise here,
Speaker 1: you know, playing against some of the top teams in
Speaker 1: the NFC. As we're in that that that midpoint of
Speaker 1: the season, I wanted to get back first, second to
Speaker 1: that receiver tandem, uh lockt in Metcalf and I know
Speaker 1: there we're not exactly sure what's happening with Eric Stokes.
Speaker 1: He missed the last game for the Packers, um limited
Speaker 1: on the injury report. As far as uh Wednesday's practice
Speaker 1: for green Bay was concerned. So we'll see how that
Speaker 1: plays out. But how do you think the Packers go
Speaker 1: about defending Metcalf Unlockett? They are they just gonna have
Speaker 1: the corners play their sides and you just and you
Speaker 1: just match up that way. The reason I ask is
Speaker 1: because we talked about this a lot, and we we
Speaker 1: always it always seems very rare that the Packers try
Speaker 1: to just match up, you know, a certain dB. But
Speaker 1: then we saw Eric Stokes against the Cincinnati Bengals pretty
Speaker 1: much was kind of matched up against Jamaar Chase for
Speaker 1: the vast majority of that game. So it just makes
Speaker 1: me wonder. But again Stokes that his status is uncertain.
Speaker 1: He saw a lot of Terry McLaurin as well. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it was down for down, snap for snap,
Speaker 1: but he played him and kind of traveled with him
Speaker 1: a little bit on the field too. And that game
Speaker 1: it's Washington, so Stokes that possibilities there. It really might
Speaker 1: get We don't know what the knee is, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: it was one of the more unique things I think
Speaker 1: I can remember, other than maybe an illness. I remember
Speaker 1: Brian Blog I think dropped out with the flu, right
Speaker 1: and then that's where Jared Valdeer had to start a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, like ninety minutes before the game.
Speaker 1: I believe it was the flu. If not, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: Brian from his reporting, but I don't remember an issue
Speaker 1: where a guy actually like a cornerback guy had a
Speaker 1: a you know, a fitness position, a finesse position where
Speaker 1: he has to go out of the lineup because of
Speaker 1: a pregame injury. So time will tell. I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: he was limited. We'll see what the injury report says
Speaker 1: later this week. To your question, though, I think the
Speaker 1: one big thing about this, uh, this defense that Joe
Speaker 1: Barry employs is he trust players to play their positions.
Speaker 1: And there was a line, it was a very basic
Speaker 1: line that Deveandre Campbell said, but it really hit home
Speaker 1: with me in that he trust linebackers to be linebackers,
Speaker 1: he trust defensive backs to be defensive backs. And if
Speaker 1: your assignment is to be the left perimeter cornerback, like
Speaker 1: we're sold this was last week, He's comfortable just letting
Speaker 1: that guy be that guy. So I don't think you're
Speaker 1: gonna see any overwhelming adjustments. I think the bigger thing
Speaker 1: they have to figure out is from a safety perspective,
Speaker 1: how they go about trying to put an umbrella over
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf with also being cognizant of what Lockett can
Speaker 1: do both underneath and down the field. Those two guys
Speaker 1: are really elite weapons and to have, you know, two
Speaker 1: receivers that have such a juxtaposition in terms of their
Speaker 1: styles in terms of what makes them great. Davanta Adams
Speaker 1: even talked about it and was asked about, hey, can
Speaker 1: you steal anything from DK Metcalf's game? You really can't
Speaker 1: because the guy's six ft five and as he said,
Speaker 1: twitter ninety pounds. He's a very unique player to his
Speaker 1: own skill set. So that was a really good, very
Speaker 1: solid But that being said, you look at photos of him,
Speaker 1: you absolutely believe it. So I'll tell you this, man,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a challenge, But I think really it's
Speaker 1: gonna be more on that back end and how they
Speaker 1: want to blank at these guys and how they want
Speaker 1: to cloud them as opposed to what cornerback stokes of
Speaker 1: elbow or not. Is gonna be the one drawing those assignments. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's interesting with with with that pair of
Speaker 1: receivers because they are so different physically, yet both of
Speaker 1: them can beat you deep, and both of them can
Speaker 1: take a short pass and get a lot of yards
Speaker 1: after the catch, and and you just don't you just
Speaker 1: don't see that. You just don't see that wide array
Speaker 1: of of abilities from two guys that that look physically
Speaker 1: so different on the field. On the Packer side of things,
Speaker 1: West David baktr, the five time All Pro left tackle,
Speaker 1: was activated from the physically unable to perform list his
Speaker 1: h his three week three week roster exemption. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: from when he started practicing UM to where you know
Speaker 1: he did not have to count on the fifty three
Speaker 1: man roster, that three week exemption expired, so the Packers
Speaker 1: had to make a decision activate him or not. So
Speaker 1: he is on the fifty three man roster. There hasn't
Speaker 1: been anything definitively said as to whether he is going
Speaker 1: to start at left tackle on Sunday, but we heard
Speaker 1: from Elton Jenkins and uh and as I wrote on
Speaker 1: our website, you can check out the story on Packers
Speaker 1: dot com. Elton Jenkins is ready to move wherever the
Speaker 1: Packers need him to move right and and Uh even
Speaker 1: joked that he thought maybe he was going to be
Speaker 1: the backup quarterback last week until Blake Bortles was brought in.
Speaker 1: But I also like how he said Blake Bortles, not
Speaker 1: Blake or Bortles. He's like, and then we signed Blake Bortles.
Speaker 1: It's like that made me chuckle. Yeah. But Elton is
Speaker 1: ready to Elton's ready to line up wherever the Packers
Speaker 1: need him when bok tr is ready to go, whether
Speaker 1: that is this week or down the line. I will
Speaker 1: say this as it relates to the Packers, as it
Speaker 1: relates to guys coming off of significant knee injuries or
Speaker 1: any injury. You know we saw with the collar bones
Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers. The day that that player runs out
Speaker 1: of the tunnel at lambau Field or it's maybe potentially
Speaker 1: a road game, I have full confidence that that guy
Speaker 1: is ready. I think that has been proven with Pat mackenzie,
Speaker 1: with this train ning staff here, they are not going
Speaker 1: to put a guy out there who isn't ready to play.
Speaker 1: So that's not about David bok Terry. I'm sure if
Speaker 1: David bok Terry had his druthers about this whole situation,
Speaker 1: he probably would have played in the last preseason game.
Speaker 1: But the fact of the matter is they needed to
Speaker 1: be able to give him this window once he started
Speaker 1: practicing again, to simulate these practices, to get him ready
Speaker 1: for playing seventy offensive snaps. That's all a part of
Speaker 1: the process, just as much as rebuilding up the strength
Speaker 1: and that knee was. But I'll say this, Mike, to
Speaker 1: have a guy like Elton Jenkins step up and then
Speaker 1: also an honorable mention to yosh Naim and being able
Speaker 1: to to eat up three games as well. The Packers
Speaker 1: went seven and two missing their five time all Pro
Speaker 1: left tackle. That's not to say they didn't miss him.
Speaker 1: They still missed him mightily because I think this offensive
Speaker 1: line is better when you have Jenkins and bok Try
Speaker 1: both there. But to be able to stem this tide,
Speaker 1: I think that's something regardless of what the final record
Speaker 1: is of the season, regardless of whether or not the
Speaker 1: Packers Holy stuff at Lombardi Trophy, Elton Jenkins in the
Speaker 1: Yoshiman to be really proud that they were able to
Speaker 1: get them this far because it shouldn't have looked this easy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: teams lose, not even guys of the caliber of David
Speaker 1: bok tr and it can be an absolute disaster. Packers
Speaker 1: were able to keep this thing going. And if you
Speaker 1: get boxed, you got back MVS. Last week, you got
Speaker 1: back Kevin King, you get box tr e back Jayres
Speaker 1: being around practice again, doesn't have a sling one hanging
Speaker 1: around just Sari. Darius Smith is back in Green Bay.
Speaker 1: Easy for me to say, every single you know guy
Speaker 1: that they add back into the fold of this caliber,
Speaker 1: it's going to make this team better for the long run. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I hear you. And and obviously, well we will see
Speaker 1: what the Packers decided to do when bok tr does
Speaker 1: come back. With regard Dalton Jenkins, the first decision is
Speaker 1: do you put Elton Jenkins at left guard, which is
Speaker 1: his Pro Bowl position, even though maybe he was headed
Speaker 1: for a Pro Bowl at left tackle I don't know,
Speaker 1: Or because Josh Myers is still out and Jenkins was
Speaker 1: your guy who filled in at center last year when
Speaker 1: Corey Lindsley went down for three games late in the season,
Speaker 1: do you put Elton Jenkins at center? And then obviously
Speaker 1: you're sorting out amongst Lucas, Patrick Royce, Newman, John Runyon,
Speaker 1: those other interior guys who will be your best five
Speaker 1: um in the starting lineup, so um. The versatility that
Speaker 1: Elton Jenkins has gives gives the Packers a um almost
Speaker 1: an unmatched luxury in in this game when it comes
Speaker 1: to injuries on the offensive line. And obviously other guys
Speaker 1: are cross trained at at different positions as well. But
Speaker 1: as Adam Stanovich said last week, all you have to
Speaker 1: do is give Elton Jenkins a couple of days of
Speaker 1: practice at any spot on the offensive line and you
Speaker 1: can put him out there in a game and you
Speaker 1: know he's gonna do just fine. And and and you
Speaker 1: don't you don't hear that about about guys in terms
Speaker 1: of just being able to train and grasp everything so
Speaker 1: quickly and understand the techniques and then execute those techniques
Speaker 1: as well as you know the playbook based on your
Speaker 1: responsibility of guard versus tackle and all of that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. And so we'll see. We don't really know
Speaker 1: what the Packers are going to do, but the fact
Speaker 1: that they have so many options at their disposal is
Speaker 1: a credit Elton Jenkins. Yeah, and and even this year
Speaker 1: doesn't I think fully encapsulate what he brings. It was
Speaker 1: last year that I think my eyes really opened up
Speaker 1: to it, because that was a position where Lucas Patrick
Speaker 1: had to start it right guard. They had already lost
Speaker 1: Lane Taylor for the year, so when when Corey Linsley
Speaker 1: got hurt, they didn't really have a backup center so
Speaker 1: to speak. It needed to be Elton Jenkins and the
Speaker 1: guy slid in there. And then three starts played at
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl level at that position too. So, uh,
Speaker 1: you don't you hope at some point you're going to
Speaker 1: see a relatively healthy line that Josh Myers can get
Speaker 1: back at some point this season and the Packers start
Speaker 1: to look more like themselves again. But to be able
Speaker 1: to do what they've done in spite of all these injuries,
Speaker 1: it has been probably one of the top five storylines
Speaker 1: I'd say as far as this Packers season has been concerned. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: to the other games around the NFL in Week ten,
Speaker 1: The keys to victory here for the Packers. When you
Speaker 1: look at this game, Packers are starting a stretch here
Speaker 1: of five out of seven. Five of their next seven
Speaker 1: games are at lambeau Field, after the stretch of playing
Speaker 1: four out of five on the road. What do the
Speaker 1: Packers have to do to get back into the wind
Speaker 1: column after taking a loss last week? Goes back to
Speaker 1: what your key to victory was last week. I think
Speaker 1: they have to protect the football, and I need to
Speaker 1: think they need to take the football away. Seattle is
Speaker 1: one of the more unique teams I think I've ever
Speaker 1: seen this particular team this year. They don't give the
Speaker 1: ball away, but they also haven't really taken it away
Speaker 1: this season. They only have three interceptions among thirty four
Speaker 1: defensive passes defense, and I believe they all belong to
Speaker 1: Quadri Diggs. Yeah, they do. Diggs. Diggs has all their interceptions,
Speaker 1: and again it's a good defense. But their inability to
Speaker 1: take the ball away I think has been one of
Speaker 1: the reasons why you've seen all these yards being put
Speaker 1: up against them this year. Um and offensively though they
Speaker 1: only have what four giveaways. I mean, it's been pretty remarkable,
Speaker 1: even with Gino Smith taking over the fact that they've
Speaker 1: been able to protect the football as well as they have.
Speaker 1: So I think that's gonna be a catalyst in this game.
Speaker 1: I thought last week, you know, and I think it
Speaker 1: proved out that if the Packers protect the football, if
Speaker 1: they don't lose the turnover battle two to nothing, and
Speaker 1: then the points that were generated off of that for
Speaker 1: Kansas City, I think that's a different football game. So,
Speaker 1: especially if Aaron Rodgers is back in the fold. The
Speaker 1: big day on that is obviously going to be Saturday.
Speaker 1: But if Aaron Rodgers is back and the Packers can
Speaker 1: get back into the groove that they were in before
Speaker 1: this whole, you know, Davante Adams is gone and then
Speaker 1: Rogers has gone. If they're able to look like the
Speaker 1: offense they did in Week seven, I think they were
Speaker 1: very easily able to win this game and continue on
Speaker 1: building on what they did in the first half of
Speaker 1: the season. Yeah, and I think offensively, and I say this,
Speaker 1: whether Jordan's Love is the quarterback or whether Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: does come back and get cleared on Saturday and is
Speaker 1: is under center on Sunday. You got to get back
Speaker 1: to running the football. We've we've been saying this since
Speaker 1: since Matt Lafleur got here in twenty nineteen, and we've
Speaker 1: seen the implementation of this offense. The Packers have won
Speaker 1: plenty of games. You know, when Aaron Rodgers has just
Speaker 1: done his thing right, like we've seen that. But when
Speaker 1: this Packers offense has been at its best is when
Speaker 1: the running game is the foundation and it sets up
Speaker 1: the play action and it just opens up so many
Speaker 1: more things for the quarterback. And especially when that quarterback
Speaker 1: is Aaron Rodgers with his mastery of the offense and
Speaker 1: what is going on. And we heard we've heard Matt
Speaker 1: Lafleur many times when he when he's critical of himself
Speaker 1: about his game plan, his approach, and he and he says, yeah,
Speaker 1: I got away from the run too early. When we've
Speaker 1: heard him say that, he's usually made a recommitment to
Speaker 1: it again right after that. I think the Packers are
Speaker 1: going to come out on Sunday with with Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: and a J. Dillon, whatever rotation whoever is going to
Speaker 1: be first second, whatever. I think the Packers are going
Speaker 1: to show that commitment to the run game on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate that they probably weren't going to be
Speaker 1: able to run the ball thirty five times against Kansas
Speaker 1: City with Kansas City playing as many guys in the
Speaker 1: box as they were with their single high which you
Speaker 1: which you can do when it's a guy's first start
Speaker 1: as opposed to Aaron Rodgers at quarterback. But the encouraging
Speaker 1: thing about what they did accomplished was they still move
Speaker 1: the ball really well against a loaded box. Yeah, they did,
Speaker 1: and that's a credit to both Aaron Jones and a J. Dillon.
Speaker 1: They both where he had some nice runs in that game.
Speaker 1: But I go back to and Mike, I want to
Speaker 1: say it's Detroit. Correct me if I'm wrong, But that
Speaker 1: was the game where I believe A J. Dillon just
Speaker 1: took over in the fourth quarter, like the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: or the four minute offense, just kept pounding the ball,
Speaker 1: pounding the ball, pounding the ball. This kid can take it.
Speaker 1: He did it at Boston College. I just I want
Speaker 1: to see more of those opportunities for I think I
Speaker 1: think A J. Dillan's earned them to be able to
Speaker 1: just to continually get those reps and then being able
Speaker 1: to be really pragmatic about how you utilize Aaron Jones.
Speaker 1: I want to see more of the pony packages. I
Speaker 1: want to see the offense run more through those guys,
Speaker 1: because I think one of the issues they've had in
Speaker 1: this first half of the season is trying to get
Speaker 1: the play action going because we haven't seen it in
Speaker 1: the same form that we did last year. If that happens,
Speaker 1: and I still think there's a lot there for this
Speaker 1: Packers offense to accomplish this season, I really believe that
Speaker 1: that's gonna be what's gonna put them over the top,
Speaker 1: because right now the defense has to be able to
Speaker 1: still weather these injuries and keep building. But this is
Speaker 1: the best Packers defense I've covered in my time here.
Speaker 1: It just is. And it's not I'm not saying it's
Speaker 1: the most talented. I'm not saying that they just but
Speaker 1: the way that they're playing is they're playing dominant football,
Speaker 1: and I think it's right there for Green Bay right
Speaker 1: now from a championship perspective. If they can get some
Speaker 1: of these things squared away with the offense and get
Speaker 1: this thing rolling, and obviously the special team's considerations as well,
Speaker 1: it's it's all there, yeah, and you're and you're playing
Speaker 1: at home here for for this next next stretch of
Speaker 1: games to uh, to keep yourself where you are in
Speaker 1: in those NFC rankings and with regard to the NFC
Speaker 1: North as far as the division is concerned, here week ten,
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears on a by Minnesota Vikings with another tough,
Speaker 1: tough They're they're on the road. They're they're on the
Speaker 1: road out at Los Angeles to play the Chargers. So
Speaker 1: the Packers, with that three and a half game lead
Speaker 1: in the NFC North, as far as division hopes are concerned,
Speaker 1: Minnesota has to feel like now that it's it's back
Speaker 1: is against the wall. They they the Vikings have got
Speaker 1: to start stacking some victories to be able to put
Speaker 1: any pressure on the Packers. Obviously they're playing the Packers
Speaker 1: um very soon coming up here. But but this is
Speaker 1: a this is a tough road trip for the Vikings.
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to interrupt you, but I forgot that
Speaker 1: Chicago was on a bye this week. You and I
Speaker 1: always discussed the whole thing about like, oh man, you know,
Speaker 1: go that last game before the bye week. From an
Speaker 1: insider inbox perspective, you always want to, you know, either
Speaker 1: a VIC three or a nice performance man of life.
Speaker 1: The Bears get to stew over that one for Mondays.
Speaker 1: That Monday night loss, that Monday night loss in Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: is the one they have to sit on for two
Speaker 1: weeks now. There's not enough breath mints in the world
Speaker 1: to get the face out of that one out of it.
Speaker 1: But Minnesota perspective, this is a really difficult matchup for them,
Speaker 1: and and certainly going into l A is not like
Speaker 1: a lot of other teams. I don't think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a noise barrier issue there for them, But they
Speaker 1: do need to find a way to win some of
Speaker 1: these games because they've played a number of teams tough
Speaker 1: this year, but they just haven't been able to close
Speaker 1: this thing out. Credit to them, it's a difficult schedule.
Speaker 1: It's been a really tough year for them as well
Speaker 1: with how things have lined up. But at some point,
Speaker 1: if they're going to make a run at Green Bay here,
Speaker 1: they have to pick up some ws and from Detroit,
Speaker 1: you know, having to go to Pittsburgh. Now, um, they
Speaker 1: got a week to kind of regroup a little bit.
Speaker 1: You think I heard a little. Bertie told me that
Speaker 1: Tim Boyle was maybe potentially designated to return, Hey, Lions,
Speaker 1: it sounded like they opened the they opened the practice
Speaker 1: window as far as bringing him off of injured ors
Speaker 1: or so. Yes, we will see. We will see what
Speaker 1: happens with the Laser show number twelve, number one in
Speaker 1: your hearts. Yeah, just saying, well, elsewhere in the NFC,
Speaker 1: just to give folks a sense of what else is
Speaker 1: going on amongst those other contenders. Atlanta is playing at Dallas.
Speaker 1: Arizona is hosting Carolina, and Carolina going through all sorts
Speaker 1: of quarterback stuff and everything right now. Tampa Bay is
Speaker 1: at Washington, both of those teams coming off of by
Speaker 1: that's actually a playoff rematch, playoff rematch game from the
Speaker 1: from the first round last year. And then the Rams
Speaker 1: are at San Francisco on Monday Night Football. I have
Speaker 1: to say I was I was surprised and somewhat disappointed
Speaker 1: in a sense that San Francisco didn't give the Cardinals
Speaker 1: more of a run for their money when the Cardinals
Speaker 1: were missing all the players that they were last week.
Speaker 1: So I'm not really sure what's going on with the
Speaker 1: forty Niners, but uh, they will be hosting the Rams
Speaker 1: on Monday and at football, So your thoughts on any
Speaker 1: of those games you're talking about Matt Lafleur in the
Speaker 1: run game, Kyle Shanahan getting away from the run in
Speaker 1: San Francisco has been one of the more surprising things. Now.
Speaker 1: Obviously I know what happened with most are but I mean,
Speaker 1: how many times did they carry the ball last week?
Speaker 1: Like and I mean you look at you look at
Speaker 1: what they did in nineteen when they did go to
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. They it was it was a stable
Speaker 1: of backfield and it didn't it didn't matter, it didn't
Speaker 1: matter who he was handing the ball off. So it
Speaker 1: is it is curious what's been going on out there
Speaker 1: with the Shanahan's offense. It doesn't get it easier for them.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, man, Atlanta is a team we
Speaker 1: gotta stop sleeping on. Uh. They're making a run there.
Speaker 1: And and you know, Arthur Smith, I believe in them.
Speaker 1: I think he's usializing his weapons. Matt Ryan NFC Offensive
Speaker 1: Player of the Week. I believe Matt Ryan. When this
Speaker 1: thing is all said and downe with Matt Ryan, it's
Speaker 1: gonna he's gonna have one of those careers where it's
Speaker 1: like man, when he was great, he was great, and
Speaker 1: then when it wasn't working out, it wasn't working out.
Speaker 1: I mean, the contrast between winning and losing seasons on
Speaker 1: the end of his resume is gonna be something interesting.
Speaker 1: But I think Kyle Pitts has given them some more energy. Certainly,
Speaker 1: I think that they have a new vision with that offense.
Speaker 1: So Dallas coming off their own loss that it's a
Speaker 1: big game. That's one that I don't think you can
Speaker 1: say that when that was a tough loss for Dallas.
Speaker 1: They fell behind thirty to nothing at home to the
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos before they even got on the board and
Speaker 1: made the score respectable at the end, but they got
Speaker 1: they got it handed to him at home. Now they're
Speaker 1: at home again against against the Falcons team that is
Speaker 1: kind of on the rise, and Mike Rabel I think
Speaker 1: I need to give him some credit because I was
Speaker 1: asked an insider in box about my favorite teams or
Speaker 1: what I think of the top four teams in the
Speaker 1: a f C. And I didn't put Tennessee in that
Speaker 1: conversation because I felt like without Derrick Henry, they aren't
Speaker 1: a top four team last week they looked like it,
Speaker 1: and now they're gonna be taken out the New Orleans
Speaker 1: Saints hosting them. I think these are the moments where
Speaker 1: head coaches really, you know, prove their weight, you know,
Speaker 1: and in terms of what they can accomplish. And seven
Speaker 1: and two of the Titans are what they are, and
Speaker 1: even if they don't have Henry, you know, they're still
Speaker 1: trucking along. Yeah. Absolutely, Well with that, we'll call it
Speaker 1: a wrap on this edition of Packers Unscripted'd be sure
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