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

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Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford, joined as always

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Speaker 1: by my trusted colleague Wes Hodkowitz. Were coming to you

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Speaker 1: here from our studios at lambeau Field and West. The

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Speaker 1: Packers seven game winning streak unfortunately came to an end

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Speaker 1: on Sunday in Kansas City, a very frustrating thirteen to

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Speaker 1: seven loss. As we watched Jordan's Love's first NFL start

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Speaker 1: didn't really look and feel comfortable and get into any

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Speaker 1: kind of a rhythm until the fourth quarter, this game

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Speaker 1: was still there for the taking thanks to the Packers defense,

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Speaker 1: which had an outstanding performance against Patrick Mahomes. It's definitely

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Speaker 1: one of the top five defensive performances I've seen on

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Speaker 1: the beat. I mean, just what they were able to

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Speaker 1: do in terms of dictating the tempo. And it's actually

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Speaker 1: really interesting, Mike, if you take away that opening series,

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Speaker 1: the fifteen play sixty four yard driver, they act we

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Speaker 1: scored the touchdown with the past to Kelsey in the

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Speaker 1: end zone. Really Kansas City did nothing. I mean, they

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Speaker 1: were able to get the two field goals, but even

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Speaker 1: that it was kind of off of turnovers and weird

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Speaker 1: the one the one was a turnover, the other one

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Speaker 1: was was one down the field play to Kelsey that

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Speaker 1: set up a long field goal of fifty five yard

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Speaker 1: or that was all they got offensively after the opening

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Speaker 1: touchdown drive. And remarkably, I mean, they finished this game

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Speaker 1: with like eighteen and a half defensive players available, even

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Speaker 1: though you know, Dean Lowry was still there, they had

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Speaker 1: him on a rep count. It was remarkable what they

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Speaker 1: did defensively. Unfortunately for Green Bay offensively, they were kind

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Speaker 1: of having their own issues like Kansas City was working

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Speaker 1: through and and you could just tell despite not having

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, you know, having these multitude of players that

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Speaker 1: were unavailable, not getting David box tri back for this

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Speaker 1: game quite yet, you still felt like Matt Lafleur and

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Speaker 1: his postgame press conference, in the twenty three minute news

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Speaker 1: conference he did on Monday, you could sense in his

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Speaker 1: voice he he definitely felt like they let this was

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Speaker 1: one that was winnable that kind of got away from Yeah. Now,

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Speaker 1: at the same time, the message I keep saying over

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Speaker 1: and over again was they did have a lot against them.

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Speaker 1: They did have a seven game winning streak. The NFC

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Speaker 1: North is what the NFC North is right now. The

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Speaker 1: Packers really you don't hear a lot of dejection in

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Speaker 1: their voices because I think they look at this is

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Speaker 1: basically the worst case scenario where you lost Rogers. If

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Speaker 1: they can get him back this upcoming week, There's a

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Speaker 1: lot of things that have to get figured out between

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Speaker 1: now and Saturday. But defensively, the type of showing that

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Speaker 1: they had in Kansas City, I think that shows that

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Speaker 1: this greenmate Packers team can play with anybody. Yeah. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: the Packers feel really good about where their defense is

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Speaker 1: right now. And of course everyone is wondering, Okay, if

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Speaker 1: you do get Ji r Alexander back at some point,

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Speaker 1: if you do get Zadarius Smith back at some point,

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Speaker 1: then just how strong will this defense be for the

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Speaker 1: stretch run? And and we'll talk about this a little

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Speaker 1: more later in the show, but the Packers are in

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Speaker 1: great position in the NFC North, obviously a three and

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Speaker 1: a half game lead over the Vikings. This was a

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Speaker 1: frustrating one to let get away, though, And I know

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Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur i I wrote about it as well. He

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Speaker 1: he really felt he let his quarterback down in terms

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Speaker 1: of all the heat he was taking on third down

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Speaker 1: with the blitz is and everything from the Kansas City

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Speaker 1: Chiefs and whether it was the play calls, the protection calls, everything,

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Speaker 1: Mattlthleor just felt he didn't have the answers for Jordan's

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Speaker 1: Love to be able to respond and to succeed in

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Speaker 1: those situations. But I'll throw this in as well, because

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Speaker 1: you know, everybody knows the special teams played a big

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Speaker 1: factor in this game on the negative side of things

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Speaker 1: for Green Bay. And you know, you have the one

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Speaker 1: missed field goal, you have a blocked field goal, you

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Speaker 1: that you lose by six. That you know that, Uh,

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Speaker 1: that's obviously a huge factor here. And what I'll what

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Speaker 1: back at it, right, is if the Packers get that

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Speaker 1: three points or six points on the board, how much

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Speaker 1: better does Jordan's Love feel about things as he moves forward?

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Speaker 1: How how aggressive are the Kansas City Chiefs on all

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Speaker 1: wonder sometimes, if the game had been a little bit closer,

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Speaker 1: would Steve Spagnola, who's as aggressive as there is as

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Speaker 1: that's what he would have done, but I wonder hypothetically.

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Speaker 1: I think you're probably on point, though, right. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it did not to compare this so high school football game,

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Speaker 1: so I can't use that as an analogy. But you know,

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Speaker 1: if you find this situation where a quarterback has to throw,

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Speaker 1: That's kind of the way this felt, the way that

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Speaker 1: Dillon is running the ball now. Matt Lafleur discussed that

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Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt that they were playing against some

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Speaker 1: That's the difference here. Wasn't like against seven and eight

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Speaker 1: able to move the ball. They actually did it pretty well,

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Speaker 1: seen him in practice. We haven't. They have. They felt

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Speaker 1: like this was the right time. But you have to

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Speaker 1: to give Mason Crosby an opportunity to be Mason Crosby.

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Speaker 1: They didn't do that, and credit to Marie Straiton, Matt Lafleur.

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Speaker 1: They stuck with Amari Rodgers. I think you have to

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Speaker 1: They want this young man to be a part of

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Speaker 1: this organization, a part of this team, a big, big,

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Speaker 1: big time playmaker on both offense and special teams for

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Speaker 1: ride this thing out. You still have Randall Cobb in

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Speaker 1: thing is Mike. With special teams, there's going to be changed.

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Speaker 1: There's going to be guys that go in and out

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Speaker 1: But just obviously very frustrating when when one of your

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Speaker 1: in terms in terms of a start to finish four

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Speaker 1: Love would have had no time mounts less than two

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Speaker 1: But really, the one time all day that Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 1: I like the way the Packers lost that game, though,

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Speaker 1: Does that if that makes any sense to you, because

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Speaker 1: Arizona game. You don't want to leave any anything left

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Speaker 1: in the chamber. They went with the blitz. Credit to them,

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, a former m v P quarterback, made a

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