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

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Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford. He is Wes Hodkowitz. We're coming

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

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Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, that is turned the page day in

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Speaker 1: NFL parlance, so it is onto the Detroit Lions. The

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Speaker 1: Packers will kick it off with their NFC North rival

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Speaker 1: Sunday noon Central time, one Eastern time kickoff at Ford Field.

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Speaker 1: And when you look at Detroit, a brand new head

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Speaker 1: coach this year, Matt Patricia, former defensive coordinator, longtime defensive

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Speaker 1: coordinator for Bill Belichick in the New England Patriots, and

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Speaker 1: an interesting start to his tenure because what really was

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Speaker 1: an absolute debacle. In Week one on Monday Night Football

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Speaker 1: on National TV for a head coaching debut, they get

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Speaker 1: blown out at home by the New York Jets and

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Speaker 1: rookie quarterback Sam Donald. Since then, boy, a huge fourth

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Speaker 1: quarter comeback in San Francisco that gets upset or overturned

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Speaker 1: in a sense, a huge interception late in that game

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Speaker 1: that Detroit might have pulled off. That comeback gets called

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Speaker 1: back on a defensive holding penalty away from the ball.

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Speaker 1: They lose by three. Then they beat the Patriots in

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Speaker 1: primetime on Sunday Night Football. Then last week, another big

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter comeback, they take the lead against the Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: only to lose on a walk off field goal. So

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Speaker 1: it looks to me West that they've put that Week

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Speaker 1: one disaster behind them. This is a very very competitive

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Speaker 1: Detroit Lions football team. Yeah, I mean you can see

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Speaker 1: the fire in them. And and certainly, and I've said

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Speaker 1: this time and time again in my for my money,

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Speaker 1: I think Matthew staffords a top ten quarterback in this league.

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Speaker 1: And there's a lot of I think guys that are

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Speaker 1: worthy of that right now. I think this is a

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Speaker 1: good era for quarterbacks, especially seeing what these last two

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Speaker 1: draft classes have looked like. So when you have him

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Speaker 1: driving the bus, there's gonna be a certain amount of

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Speaker 1: success I think you're gonna have inherently just because of

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Speaker 1: what he can do and how he can create. It

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Speaker 1: appears like they finally found a complimentary running piece and

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Speaker 1: carry on Johnson and now being able to kind of

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Speaker 1: adjust that defense is really the biggest thing. If you've

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Speaker 1: been following the lines and all, Mike, they've been doing

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Speaker 1: some really interesting things in terms of Ricky Jean Francois,

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Speaker 1: who was a rotational guy here last year got cut

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Speaker 1: finished the year with Patricia and the Patriots. Well, now

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Speaker 1: he's a starter in their defense. Um, certainly, you know

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Speaker 1: Darius Slay and Glover Quinn and all these guys that

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Speaker 1: are there have been there. But trying to find the

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Speaker 1: pass rush is gonna be the biggest thing for them.

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Speaker 1: It looks like right now, Eli Harold has been a

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Speaker 1: guy that sort of stepped up in that capacity. A

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Speaker 1: lot of playmakers all around for them. It's just about

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Speaker 1: trying to find some of that consistency. Yeah. Well you

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Speaker 1: mentioned the running back carry On Johnson, high draft pick

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Speaker 1: for the Lions out of Auburn. I believe if that's correct.

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Speaker 1: I still don't know how a guy named carry On

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Speaker 1: doesn't play college football and Kansas, But I digress. Um,

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Speaker 1: he could be an eight time Pro Bowler and Mike

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Speaker 1: Sponsored in years ten. As when you're saying, you know,

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Speaker 1: it really is a shame that he didn't go to CA. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's just it. It just doesn't fit anyway. Um, but

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Speaker 1: he against the New England Patriots rushed for a hundred yards.

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Speaker 1: He became the first single game one yard rusher for

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Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions since Thanksgiving of against the Packers when

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Speaker 1: Reggie Bush did it so and he's averaging what is

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Speaker 1: it about five point seven per carry so far this season,

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Speaker 1: so he's off to a good start. They look like

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Speaker 1: it looks like they do have that running piece that

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Speaker 1: they need. And Matthew Stafford's got his weapons as well.

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Speaker 1: I think Matthew Stafford has taken his game to a

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Speaker 1: whole another level since Calvin Johnson's retirement. Golden Tate has

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Speaker 1: really come into his own as a premier receiver in

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Speaker 1: this league in my opinion. Kenny Golladay a young receiver

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Speaker 1: who's stepping up and making plays. And I forget who

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Speaker 1: their third Marvin Jones Jr. That's the guy. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: absolutely so success against the Packers in the past, Yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 1: Sta Stafford's got Stafford's got weapons, and if they if

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Speaker 1: they add some balance with that running game, this is

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Speaker 1: an offense that becomes even more dangerous than it has been.

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Speaker 1: This is what's funny, though, because we get these questions

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Speaker 1: if you're a Detroit Lions fan. You have Carrie on

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Speaker 1: Johnson having five point seven yards per carry, and then

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Speaker 1: right now. So it's gonna be interesting to see as

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Speaker 1: him run with it. But as far as the receivers

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Speaker 1: are concerned, Mike, certainly this offseason they moved on from

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Speaker 1: these three receivers. Obviously, Tate and Marvin Jones Jr. Were

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Speaker 1: two great acquisitions for them in the aftermath of the

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Speaker 1: Calvin Johnson era or even during it, I mean, sort

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Speaker 1: that passing game moving forward. But Laday too has shown

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Speaker 1: And I don't want to pigeonhole guys too much. But

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Speaker 1: Golden Tad is your kind of yards after the catch guy.

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Speaker 1: And then Gladay is a really big time deep threat

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Speaker 1: these guys can do more than just those things. But

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Speaker 1: my point is it's a very complimentary group of receivers.

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Speaker 1: They they're not the same guy. It's it's not three

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Speaker 1: when when he's on schedule and he's on time, and

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Speaker 1: for about four or five years. You know, Mike, When

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Speaker 1: then also with Marvin Jones Jr. Jones he had a

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Speaker 1: leading them right now with four sacks, which actually he's

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Speaker 1: But I think right now, in two thousand and eighteen,

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Speaker 1: So that that's the name of the game, Patricia. I

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Speaker 1: whether that's with certain pressure packages. You're not necessarily going

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Speaker 1: to confuse a veteran like Stafford with you know, different

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Speaker 1: a little bit. But you know, if you can disrupt

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Speaker 1: have to do it in a lot of different ways

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Speaker 1: no doubt, Mike. And the thing is too with Stafford.

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Speaker 1: That's just so interesting, especially now the the you know,

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Speaker 1: think to one and one is a good place to sit.

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Speaker 1: The Lions had some missed opportunities, they came out slow,

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Speaker 1: they lost a barn burner last week. They're gonna be

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Speaker 1: hungry in this game. And as we've seen, Mike, you

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Speaker 1: so we're gonna gotta run short today. But thanks for

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Speaker 1: tuning in. We will be back tomorrow with more on

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Speaker 1: Packers unscripted. He is at west Hot on Twitter. I'm

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Speaker 1: at Mike Spofford at Packers for the team account. Thanks

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