Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford. He is the one and only
Speaker 1: West Hodkowits were coming to you here from our studios
Speaker 1: at lambeau Field and West to review a little bit
Speaker 1: more the Packers victory over the Buffalo Bills from Sunday.
Speaker 1: One aspect we didn't get into too much on yesterday's
Speaker 1: show was with regards to the turnovers the Packers had
Speaker 1: on defense and specifically, haha Clinton Dix's interception. It's now
Speaker 1: his third interception in three consecutive games. And while the
Speaker 1: first two would probably qualify as rather easy, almost gift
Speaker 1: wrap type of interceptions, the one he had on Sunday
Speaker 1: against Buffalo that was one heck of a play. It
Speaker 1: really was. I thought Larry McCarron probably had the line
Speaker 1: of the day. Uh. In the group hudder, wh where
Speaker 1: everyone was talking to Clinton Dix, he said, probably would
Speaker 1: be one of the more physical interceptions you've had during
Speaker 1: your career. And and I just love the play for
Speaker 1: a number of reasons. One obviously, his third interception in
Speaker 1: three games. That's the headline and of itself, but so
Speaker 1: many times and we've seen it come up this season.
Speaker 1: The Chicago game was a good example of it, where
Speaker 1: people pull up the still frame of a wide receiver,
Speaker 1: a tight end wide open, and like, how how did
Speaker 1: Trubisky not throw this? I don't know if you remember it.
Speaker 1: There was a big thing on social media in Week one.
Speaker 1: I thought the Calvin Benjamin play was very similar because
Speaker 1: it's really easy to look and see a guy open,
Speaker 1: but you also have to understand where the where the
Speaker 1: help is, where the defensive backs are by the time
Speaker 1: that and Josh Allen has a great arm by the
Speaker 1: time he was able to get that ball into the
Speaker 1: orbit of Benjamin. You have Clinton Dix ranging in center
Speaker 1: field and makes a great play on the ball. A
Speaker 1: lot of questions about the contact of it should been
Speaker 1: a flag, not a flag. There's no flag because he
Speaker 1: played the ball. If you go to the letter of
Speaker 1: the law of the NFL, the defensive back, at least
Speaker 1: how it used to be called, has just as much
Speaker 1: of a right to that football as the offensive player.
Speaker 1: Clinton Dix goes up, makes a great play, third interception
Speaker 1: of the season, and for him and that secondary talks
Speaker 1: so much Mike about trying to get the big plays
Speaker 1: and in in momentum, changing moments in games. Clinton Dix
Speaker 1: now through the first four games of the season leading
Speaker 1: the NFL tied for the lead in interceptions right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's coming off of a season in which he had
Speaker 1: three interceptions all year in seventeen, so he's already matched
Speaker 1: his total from last year. He had five in his
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl year often so on his way potentially to
Speaker 1: a career high. And I tell you that that collision
Speaker 1: with Kelvin Benjamin, that was as as Larry said, that
Speaker 1: was a pretty physical collision and he's he's giving up
Speaker 1: probably what thirty pounds Kelvin Benjamin. I mean, Benjamin, there
Speaker 1: is no small receiver. Clinton Dix comes in at two.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, let's see what Calvin Benjamin. I want to say,
Speaker 1: he's around two forty. I mean he's a he's a two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a big receiver. So that was yeah, Um, that
Speaker 1: was that was quite the and just the fact that
Speaker 1: not only did he make the play on the ball,
Speaker 1: but then he hung onto it as well to get
Speaker 1: that interception. So um, it's funny because you hear you know,
Speaker 1: when you talk about again, this is potentially a difference
Speaker 1: between the veteran quarterback, the young quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 1: How many times have we heard Aaron Rodgers talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, how he reads a safety's feet. You know,
Speaker 1: when a safety's feet are are parallel to the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, flat footed in a certain instance, then he
Speaker 1: knows he can get a throw out there. Whereas if
Speaker 1: ha Clinton Dix, for example, is already breaking on the ball,
Speaker 1: as you say, a still shot might show, oh, that
Speaker 1: guy looks wide open. But uh, safety who's already anticipating
Speaker 1: that throw and making that break is going to close
Speaker 1: that gap in a hurry. That's what he did on
Speaker 1: that play. And um a good sign for the Packers
Speaker 1: because this defense obviously wants to get on a bit
Speaker 1: of a role here if they can with taking the
Speaker 1: ball away. Yeah, totally. And that interception. You look at
Speaker 1: where the game was at at that point in time.
Speaker 1: It's the third quarter of the Packers just got the
Speaker 1: thirty six yard field goal from Crosby, which doubled up
Speaker 1: their scoring opportunities after he got the fifty two yard
Speaker 1: or at the end of the first half. Buffalo, man,
Speaker 1: they're coming back. They have their second half game plan ready.
Speaker 1: They're trying to make adjustments and Clinton Dix just shuts
Speaker 1: out that light right away. I have to imagine that
Speaker 1: you talk about a lot of momentum, you know, turning
Speaker 1: planes in the game. I just think that that was
Speaker 1: the play specifically that really reiterated. Okay, we finished the
Speaker 1: first half strong. We played well in the first half.
Speaker 1: Now we're going to carry it over and try to
Speaker 1: make that leap towards a strong second half performance to
Speaker 1: get that full sixty minute kind of showing that Mike
Speaker 1: Penton was looking for. And also the other thing to
Speaker 1: keep in mind too, We're four games into the season.
Speaker 1: You have Clinton Dix now with three picks. You have
Speaker 1: a guy like JayR Alexander who in his mind has
Speaker 1: three picks even though the stat sheet might only say one.
Speaker 1: Josh Jackson has been really around the ball physical. I
Speaker 1: think Tremont Williams is off to a phenomenal start for
Speaker 1: a guy that's been asked to basically play exclusively boundary
Speaker 1: cornerback at thirty five years old. Through the first four
Speaker 1: weeks of the season, there's a nucleus there, and certainly
Speaker 1: they want to get Kevin King back and you have
Speaker 1: to hope that that growing injuries okay, and it isn't
Speaker 1: gonna be something that keeps Alexander off the field for
Speaker 1: an extended period of time. But throwing in you know,
Speaker 1: Jermaine Whitehead, there's a lot of positive things happening right
Speaker 1: now in that Packer secondary. Yeah, needing to potentially adjust
Speaker 1: again to some injuries, as you said, with Alexander exiting
Speaker 1: the Buffalo game. Kevin King has been out now for
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks with his injury. Also some injuries
Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball for the Packers,
Speaker 1: Geronimo Allison in the concussion protocol. Randall Cobb missed the
Speaker 1: last game against Buffalo with a hamstring injury. So we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens with those guys as the week goes along.
Speaker 1: But when you look at heading into say, for example,
Speaker 1: if it's a worst case scenario for Aaron Rodgers on
Speaker 1: offense and you don't have either Cob or Willson for
Speaker 1: Detroit this upcoming week, kind of points to maybe the
Speaker 1: all of these guys the Packers have at tight end
Speaker 1: potentially playing a bigger role here. We saw Jimmy Graham
Speaker 1: get his first touchdown catch as a member of the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers. We haven't seen Marcedes Lewis a whole
Speaker 1: lot in the passing game, yet, maybe that's coming. Maybe.
Speaker 1: I know there's a real big group of Packer fans
Speaker 1: out there that want to see it. I'll be honest
Speaker 1: with you, I really like Louis a lot. I've enjoyed
Speaker 1: the interactions we've had with him. He's a really well
Speaker 1: spoken individual, understands his place in the locker room as
Speaker 1: a veteran and at this juncture of his career. But
Speaker 1: Packer fans, man, they just feel like this is just
Speaker 1: a guy that's just waiting to be un leash on
Speaker 1: the defenses. And you know, I thought one positive that
Speaker 1: came out of that game, and I understand I think
Speaker 1: he only played one at round of the offensive snaps,
Speaker 1: but they actually did have some packages drawn up for
Speaker 1: just Lewis. It wasn't like he was coming in as
Speaker 1: the number three tight end always. They did some things
Speaker 1: with just with him. So I think as you put
Speaker 1: that on film and you set up some of those
Speaker 1: run packages and defenses start to, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: zone in on him and be like, okay, well Lewis
Speaker 1: is in here? Is that a sixth offensive lineman situation
Speaker 1: can we really build in the box. As he said
Speaker 1: right from the get go, he still enjoys me being
Speaker 1: able to make secondaries and in second level defenses pay
Speaker 1: for kind of sleeping on him. But certainly I think
Speaker 1: with those two guys, you're not sure what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: With Cobb and Allison. We saw them go to a
Speaker 1: lot of two tight end looks in that second half especially,
Speaker 1: so we'll be very interested to monitor where that where
Speaker 1: that heads. Yeah, all right, Well, before we move on,
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Speaker 1: in better. Okay, looking ahead here, what we've seen in
Speaker 1: these in these first um handful of games for the Packers,
Speaker 1: starting to see some young players emerge, and this is
Speaker 1: something that we know how it works in Green Bay.
Speaker 1: It's a draft and developed type of team. You want
Speaker 1: to see young players who you know maybe don't have
Speaker 1: a huge role at the start of the season, they
Speaker 1: might be asked to be playing a bigger role as
Speaker 1: the season goes along. We've talked a lot about Geronimo Allison.
Speaker 1: He's definitely a guy who has stepped up in that fashion.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately he's he's in the concussion protocol now. But Kyler
Speaker 1: Facro with the three sacks against the Buffalo Bills. Jermaine Whitehead,
Speaker 1: we're seeing him show up in some of these blitz
Speaker 1: packages of of Mike Patton's where he's gotten a couple
Speaker 1: of free runs at the quarterback based on how things
Speaker 1: have been schemed up. And on the offensive side, rookie
Speaker 1: receiver Marquez Valdez Scantling first kind of making a name
Speaker 1: for himself, so to speak, as a gunner replacing Jeff
Speaker 1: Janis as the number one gunner on punt team. But
Speaker 1: then also after a mistake in the second half on
Speaker 1: a ball that almost gets picked off that that Rogers throws,
Speaker 1: he comes back and makes a big play down the
Speaker 1: sideline to move the chains in the fourth quarter and
Speaker 1: keep the Packers in possession of the ball. So we're
Speaker 1: seeing some young players, you know, start to get their
Speaker 1: feet under him, so to speak here in the NFL. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to start on Velde's scantling Mike, and it's
Speaker 1: for two reasons. The first one is he's put himself
Speaker 1: in this position to be the next man up. He
Speaker 1: had a really strong preseason. You go back and I
Speaker 1: think you look at the production he had. He had
Speaker 1: a hundred yard game under his belt. There's certainly an
Speaker 1: explosive element to his game, which we saw in that
Speaker 1: win over the Bills. Uh, he needs to you know.
Speaker 1: The route tree is a part of this getting on
Speaker 1: the same page as a part of this with Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: But as far as pure straight line speed, we saw
Speaker 1: how he's just able to defeat a cornerback if they're
Speaker 1: not getting help over the top. That thirty eight yard
Speaker 1: passed him. Looking that in getting the separation, I think
Speaker 1: gives you an idea of what he offers as a
Speaker 1: potential downfield rent in his development. But also the gunner
Speaker 1: position is important to now they did get back Josh Jones.
Speaker 1: He did that role last year. He played fifteen special
Speaker 1: team snaps in this But I think you've seen Velda
Speaker 1: Scantling my mind. You this is the guy that has
Speaker 1: been strictly a receiver in college. He was often the
Speaker 1: top receiver you know in in at USF and then
Speaker 1: before that, you know, working over at NC State. Now
Speaker 1: he's getting a chance to sort of get his feet
Speaker 1: wet with special teams for the first time. We saw
Speaker 1: him take a few kickoffs the first few weeks of
Speaker 1: the season, but that gunner spot might that had been
Speaker 1: opened up with Jeff Janis and leaving in free agency.
Speaker 1: He has four three four speed and he's able to
Speaker 1: detach from those those jammers. It's off to the races
Speaker 1: from that standpoint. When you look at what j. K.
Speaker 1: Scott can do with his hang time in the emphasis
Speaker 1: he puts on that didn't see it as much in
Speaker 1: this game, mostly because the Packers didn't have to punt
Speaker 1: that often. But that's certainly an element to Elda Scantling's game.
Speaker 1: When you look at a young rookie receiver and trying
Speaker 1: to say, okay, this is how you get on the field.
Speaker 1: He's doing all those steps right now, making a contributions
Speaker 1: on special teams and waiting for his turn on offense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and when you talk about that turn on offense. Obviously,
Speaker 1: as we mentioned previously with Cobb and Allison, their status
Speaker 1: for this week a bit uncertain at the moment. We'll
Speaker 1: see if some of those rookie wide receivers are going
Speaker 1: to need to step up and look, Valdes Scantling is
Speaker 1: not the first young wide receiver to catch the wrath
Speaker 1: of Aaron Rodgers in the middle of a game. I mean,
Speaker 1: it happens to almost all of them at some point, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, exactly. So this is, uh, this is
Speaker 1: this is a growing moment. It's a learning moment. And
Speaker 1: the fact that he came back in that same game
Speaker 1: and when Rogers laid it out there for him on
Speaker 1: the thirty eight yard passed down the sideline, he made
Speaker 1: the catch, he made the play. That's that's a big
Speaker 1: step for a young receiver because now he doesn't not
Speaker 1: that you just completely flush away what happened when you
Speaker 1: made the mistake and you didn't come back to the
Speaker 1: ball on that back shoulder type of throw when Rogers
Speaker 1: was trying to convert on fourth down. But he doesn't
Speaker 1: have to spend all week just thinking about that play.
Speaker 1: He's also got a big play that he made on
Speaker 1: the positive side of things, and he could he could
Speaker 1: end up playing a bigger role on Sunday in Detroit,
Speaker 1: Mark Quez Veldes Scantling played fifty four snaps in that game, Mike,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham played fifty four snaps in that game, Like
Speaker 1: I mean, he he had a role with Randall Cobb
Speaker 1: not being available. And I asked him that the locker
Speaker 1: room on Monday, and he said, yeah, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of experience to be gained for that, because practice helps,
Speaker 1: and certainly you go through training camp and until you're
Speaker 1: in those situations and when you're in the trenches with
Speaker 1: a two time m v P quarterback, everything changes. And
Speaker 1: to your point about him, you know, kind of catching
Speaker 1: some heat there. He mentioned the problem on that play
Speaker 1: was he didn't fight back to the ball. That's what
Speaker 1: he needed to do. That's what Rogers was asking him.
Speaker 1: And Rogers, as he said after the game, probably said
Speaker 1: some things that were not too was it not too
Speaker 1: kind or however worded it? Because the stakes are so high, Mike,
Speaker 1: if Valdes Scantling doesn't fight back to the ball and
Speaker 1: that ends up being a pick six. The game changes completely,
Speaker 1: the momentum changes. It is a game of protecting the football.
Speaker 1: What did I say all last week? Protect the football
Speaker 1: the three keys for that game, and that was one
Speaker 1: area where you have to if Rogers is going to
Speaker 1: throw you that ball, you have to be there and
Speaker 1: be accountable. Fortunately for Vali, Scantling something a teachable moment,
Speaker 1: a learnable moment, and it was able to come up
Speaker 1: with a big play. I think you saw a lot
Speaker 1: from that young man of what he can offer this
Speaker 1: team with his raw talent as he works with you know,
Speaker 1: Jim Hustler and David Ryan trying to hone that position. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and on the defensive side, as we've discussed in the past,
Speaker 1: with a lot of defensive backs, versatility certainly comes in
Speaker 1: handy and we're seeing that right now with Jermaine Whitehead
Speaker 1: and what Mike Petton is asking him to do in
Speaker 1: terms of, you know, playing a little bit of hybrid linebacker,
Speaker 1: playing a little bit of maybe slot corner. I don't
Speaker 1: even know exactly what you'd label him right now in
Speaker 1: in this defense, but he's on the field quite a bit.
Speaker 1: And uh and a lot of times when we've seen him,
Speaker 1: you know, get the call to go after the quarterback
Speaker 1: he's getting home. He's a smart football player that loves
Speaker 1: the game, and you know, he lets his play on
Speaker 1: the field doing the talking. He's not the kind of
Speaker 1: guy that's gonna sit on his locker and hold cord
Speaker 1: about you know what he thinks about himself for you
Speaker 1: know what he thinks about how he fits into this defense.
Speaker 1: He just goes and does his job. Very unassuming individual
Speaker 1: and almost to the point that when the Packers signed
Speaker 1: him and brought him into an undrafted free agent two
Speaker 1: years ago, you sort of forget that he was invited
Speaker 1: to the combine. He was a jack of all trades
Speaker 1: type player at Auburn. Uh. This is a guy that
Speaker 1: you know how Clinton Dix is very familiar with based
Speaker 1: on their ties to the SEC and the Packers saw it.
Speaker 1: You know, Joe Witt and Jason Simmons have talked about
Speaker 1: what he offers and in terms of being able to
Speaker 1: really fill those shoes that you know, a guy like
Speaker 1: Morgan Burnett uh sort of vacated when he moved on
Speaker 1: and signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers. In this day and age, Mike.
Speaker 1: It's not just about inside outside versatility. For guys that
Speaker 1: are maybe number four or five six on the depth chart,
Speaker 1: you have to be able to play in the box
Speaker 1: at an inside timebacker position. To Whitehead has done that
Speaker 1: consistently and basically all four games, the second half of
Speaker 1: the last two games in his accountable made a play
Speaker 1: as a blitzer in those packages. So you know he's
Speaker 1: not just a body rushing into a brick wall. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a guy that's going to be able to to
Speaker 1: make some plays for you. So again, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to see how everything shuffles out with Alexander see if
Speaker 1: Kevin King is back in the fold. But depending on
Speaker 1: how that secondary looks and where the injury stand. Going
Speaker 1: into Detroit, Jermaine Whitehead, once again, as he's already had
Speaker 1: a role in this defense, could be in for some
Speaker 1: more responsibility as well. Yeah, and hats off to Kyler
Speaker 1: Fackral for his three sat game in all three sacks
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter actually of of that Buffalo Bills game.
Speaker 1: A guy who I I say young guy, but in
Speaker 1: terms of experience obviously we know when he was drafted
Speaker 1: he was a little bit older than your traditional college graduate,
Speaker 1: but a guy who's coming along. The packers continue to
Speaker 1: ask him, you know, to be one of those rotational
Speaker 1: guys at outside linebacker and to make an impact when
Speaker 1: he's in there, not just fill somebody's shoes and not
Speaker 1: just fill a spot, so to speak. So um, And
Speaker 1: it was interesting too because Mike McCarthy mentioned that maybe
Speaker 1: his best play wasn't even one of the three sacks,
Speaker 1: but it was a play where he chased down Josh
Speaker 1: Allen on a scramble and Alan only got what was
Speaker 1: a two yards maybe um on that because because Factor
Speaker 1: was able to prevent him from really getting away. So um, yeah,
Speaker 1: if Factral doesn't get him there, it was actually they
Speaker 1: were facing a second and eighteen. But if you go
Speaker 1: back and look at that play, if Facral doesn't get
Speaker 1: him from behind there, it's off to the races. Josh
Speaker 1: Allen has an open field ahead of him in a
Speaker 1: lot of different ways that he could take the football.
Speaker 1: So maybe even if he doesn't get the first down,
Speaker 1: he's gonna make it third and short. Unfortunately for Faculty,
Speaker 1: he's able to trip him up and end up being
Speaker 1: like third and fifteen or something. Yeah, that was those
Speaker 1: I mean It was interesting because it seemed that all
Speaker 1: for all the problems the Packers have had in the
Speaker 1: down and distances through the first few weeks of the season,
Speaker 1: it was as though the script was flipped because it
Speaker 1: was Buffalo that was facing a lot of the difficult
Speaker 1: down and distances one day, and and really that's how
Speaker 1: the Packers just stayed in control of the game. It's
Speaker 1: it sounds silly. You can look at third down conversions
Speaker 1: at the end of the day as a stat but
Speaker 1: how many yards you need to get on third down
Speaker 1: is such a huge factor and what your conversion percentages,
Speaker 1: and it just it felt like for all the third
Speaker 1: and longs the Packers had been dealing with through September,
Speaker 1: the third and longs were all on Buffalo side. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Buffalo was three of sixteen in this game. N Conversely,
Speaker 1: the Packers eleven of nineteen, fifty eight yard or fifty percent.
Speaker 1: We heard Mike McCarthy talk all week long about having
Speaker 1: to to win first and second down, having to you know,
Speaker 1: be more productive on those those downs. They were able
Speaker 1: to do that and also to throw one more note
Speaker 1: in about Facral. Whatever the outside perception is, and I
Speaker 1: know there are times where he catches some heat from people.
Speaker 1: But you could tell listening to Clay Matthews in the
Speaker 1: locker room afterwards, just exactly what fifty one means to
Speaker 1: that room and that defense is. He said, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of things that Facral's asked to do that compliments
Speaker 1: what he and Nick Perry do. Uh. He is a
Speaker 1: very versatile He's a very athletic body. He can drop
Speaker 1: into coverage, he can take on a tight end for
Speaker 1: some steps if they need him to. He does fit
Speaker 1: what the Packers want to do really well defensively. Unfortunately
Speaker 1: for him, you know, with the couple of changes they made,
Speaker 1: especially in the late in that game, with him moving
Speaker 1: over and rushing against the right tackle, was able to
Speaker 1: have some success. Yeah, all right, Well before we go,
Speaker 1: I just want to uh get into a little bit
Speaker 1: of where things stand in the NFC. I know late
Speaker 1: last week we talked about the Rams and then being
Speaker 1: four and oh we talked yesterday about the Bears and
Speaker 1: being on top of the NFC North. What what do
Speaker 1: you think is going on right now or where are
Speaker 1: things headed in the NFC South? Because nobody would have
Speaker 1: expected the Atlanta Falcons to be where they are at
Speaker 1: one in three right now, losing on a essentially a
Speaker 1: last second touchdown pass at home to the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 1: AJ Green made a heck of a play there to
Speaker 1: win that ballgame for Cincinnati. But you know, New Orleans
Speaker 1: seems to have completely bounced back from their Week one
Speaker 1: showing against Tampa Bay when they fell. Carolina also seems
Speaker 1: to be right in the mix. That NFC South really
Speaker 1: interesting division. It always is. And in Atlanta if you look,
Speaker 1: especially since what it was their five and oh start
Speaker 1: a couple of years back, they've actually sort of been
Speaker 1: slow starters. It seems like last year they kind of
Speaker 1: had a rough time trying to find their footing in
Speaker 1: the first half of the season. Eventually did, but but
Speaker 1: certainly it's funny the New Orleans Saints. Man, no matter
Speaker 1: how much things change, they stay the same and the
Speaker 1: blueprint is pretty much always been the same. They're regardless
Speaker 1: of who the defensive coordinator is, They're there to do
Speaker 1: one thing and that's the outscore the opposition. And sometimes
Speaker 1: they're gonna do it, sometimes they're not, but they're gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, they're gonna die in their sword of trying. Um.
Speaker 1: The other thing that's interesting too, just because we get
Speaker 1: all these pundits at the beginning of the year and
Speaker 1: I'm and I'm guilty of it two at times. But
Speaker 1: everybody's trying to project how things are gonna look, who's
Speaker 1: gonna be fitting where. Well, if the playoffs started today, Mike,
Speaker 1: you know, a whole four weeks into the season, the
Speaker 1: Packers would be in as a wild card. You have
Speaker 1: Chicago and Washington leading their divisions. Though right now Washington
Speaker 1: I think is really interesting because one us again, the
Speaker 1: question has been said time and time again about Jake
Speaker 1: Bruden and with this offense, and you know, people just
Speaker 1: wondering what the upside is there with them. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles already took two losses. Washington is still
Speaker 1: a really good football team. I think that's the one
Speaker 1: thing in that Packers loss a week ago that people
Speaker 1: didn't quite give enough credit to Washington. They did some
Speaker 1: really good things that football team, and they were able
Speaker 1: to incorporate a lot of these veterans they brought in.
Speaker 1: I just think between the East and the South especially,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be really interesting to see which teams are
Speaker 1: able to sustain the consistency side of things. I was
Speaker 1: going to be the team that maybe clamps down a
Speaker 1: little bit defensively in the South and in the East.
Speaker 1: You know, the Eagles trying to, you know, be the
Speaker 1: team that everybody feels that they are. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I think the consistency is really what's going to play out,
Speaker 1: especially in the NFC East, because I think the Eagles
Speaker 1: are going to get it going. I know they just
Speaker 1: they lost a tough game to Tennessee this past week.
Speaker 1: And um, I'll say this, I take nothing away from
Speaker 1: Washington beating the Packers. I'm not a believer in that
Speaker 1: Washington team. I'm not. I'm not a believer. And if
Speaker 1: if they proved me wrong, so be it. I'll say so.
Speaker 1: But Jake Gruden's tenure for me has just been way
Speaker 1: too inconsistent. And um, I think the Packers just honestly
Speaker 1: had a terrible day. And I think green Bay is
Speaker 1: better than Washington. Didn't show it on that day and
Speaker 1: Washington got a victory. Hats off to him. But I
Speaker 1: think the Eagles are still going to be the team
Speaker 1: to beat me. Sure. Yeah, And I think I would
Speaker 1: agree with you too as far as the Eagles being
Speaker 1: then the number one contenders. There so to speak. The
Speaker 1: thing I like about Washington though, is between everything that
Speaker 1: was made out of the quarterback situation, actually, Alex Smith
Speaker 1: is probably the guy that fits what Jake Ruden does
Speaker 1: better just because he protects the football a little bit
Speaker 1: better than Kirk Cousins. Certainly doesn't have the four thousand
Speaker 1: six yard passing type seasons he had one I think,
Speaker 1: But I mean, for the most part is sort of
Speaker 1: you know, always takes precedent over making sure that he's
Speaker 1: smart with the football. The if the defense can keep
Speaker 1: up there and that's a big if. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: mean that is there. That is their path to the playoffs,
Speaker 1: that's their path to having success. We'll have to see
Speaker 1: how it works out, all right. Well that we are
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