Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from
Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford, joined as always
Speaker 1: by my trusted colleague Weston hod Kowitz. Were coming to
Speaker 1: you here from our studios at lambeau Field, and I'll
Speaker 1: begin this episode with an apology because late last week
Speaker 1: something unexpected came up. I had to work from home
Speaker 1: for a couple of days. Therefore, our second episode of
Speaker 1: Unscripted was canceled last week. Not part of the plan,
Speaker 1: but I'm back. I was in the press box on
Speaker 1: Sunday to cover Packers Patriots, which turned out to be
Speaker 1: a wild game, a Green Bay overtime victory at lambeau
Speaker 1: Field and west the old adages there's nothing that ever
Speaker 1: comes easy in the NFL, and this game was the
Speaker 1: epitome of that. And with that coach, right, we all
Speaker 1: expected all week long, Bill Belichick is going to have
Speaker 1: a plan because we knew right from Friday there was
Speaker 1: gonna be no Mac Jones out there, so Brian Horyer
Speaker 1: is going to be the quarterback. You knew you're gonna
Speaker 1: see a lot of Romandre Stevenson, you knew Damien Harris,
Speaker 1: those guys were gonna be a big part of the
Speaker 1: game plan, and defensively they were gonna mix it up.
Speaker 1: I mean, one of the things that Larry McCarron said
Speaker 1: last week that really held true is the amount of
Speaker 1: different looks Belichick's defenses are going to give you. And
Speaker 1: for the Green Bay Packers, it was a really interesting
Speaker 1: two halves for them. Offensively, got off to a slow start,
Speaker 1: some turnovers, some unexpected things happened on that side of things. Defensively,
Speaker 1: lockdown for the most part in the first half, Brian
Speaker 1: Hoyer goes out with the concussion and then you have
Speaker 1: Bailey's Appy comes in rookie fourth round pick out of
Speaker 1: Western Kentucky. Second half, kind of a switch. Offensively, three
Speaker 1: straight drives or the Packers put up points, but defensively
Speaker 1: having a hard time stopping both those running backs in
Speaker 1: the play action game. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: when the Packers had the gotta have them series to
Speaker 1: win this game, they accomplished the goal. Yeah. What stood
Speaker 1: to me about this game and it's it's unsettling for
Speaker 1: the fans, and trust me, it's unsettling in some respects
Speaker 1: for the coaches and players as well. Is on both
Speaker 1: sides of the ball offensively and defensively. There were wild
Speaker 1: swings in this game in terms of how the Packers
Speaker 1: are playing. You mentioned that you you detailed some of
Speaker 1: it there. Aaron Rodgers went into halftime with an eleven
Speaker 1: point to passerrating when he throws that pick six right
Speaker 1: at the end of the first half, only the fourth
Speaker 1: of his career, only the second one at lambeau Field
Speaker 1: in his career, eleven point to passer rating. But then
Speaker 1: in the second half he throws for over two yards
Speaker 1: a couple of touchdowns. His second half passer rating was
Speaker 1: like one thirty plus, you know, something like that. So
Speaker 1: Rogers got himself back to form. But you know that
Speaker 1: that was, you know, a wild swing there, a big
Speaker 1: pendulum back and forth in terms of the offense, and
Speaker 1: same thing with the defense where Zappy wasn't doing much
Speaker 1: for the Patriots offense for the bulk of the game.
Speaker 1: But then two series in the second half, the power
Speaker 1: running game, a couple of key play action plays off
Speaker 1: of it, and the Patriots in very short order, actually
Speaker 1: without even facing a third down on either of those
Speaker 1: touchdown drives, they put up fourteen points with that rookie
Speaker 1: fourth round pick at quarterback and you're sitting there going
Speaker 1: what is going on with the Packers defense? How does
Speaker 1: how does it this? You know, this Jekyll and Hide thing,
Speaker 1: you know, continue to show up. But you said it
Speaker 1: West when when the chips were down and when the
Speaker 1: Packers had to have it, they got it on both
Speaker 1: sides of the ball. Because offensively, you had that final
Speaker 1: drive in overtime. You drain the last six minutes and
Speaker 1: forty seven seconds of the overtime period twelve place seventy
Speaker 1: seven yards a J. Dillon with the power running a
Speaker 1: big third down conversion to Randall Cobb, and it sets
Speaker 1: up the walk off field goal. Defensively, after those two
Speaker 1: touchdown drives, the Patriots did not get a first down
Speaker 1: the rest of the game, three three and outs, including
Speaker 1: the most important on coming in overtime where they had
Speaker 1: taken over at midfield, I believe, on their own forty
Speaker 1: nine yard line. So you're looking at what maybe sixteen
Speaker 1: seventeen eighteen yards probably one first down, but not necessarily
Speaker 1: even two first downs, and they're in position to kick
Speaker 1: a field goal and win the game. And the Packers
Speaker 1: got a three and out and got the ball back,
Speaker 1: took over on their own ten yard line and won
Speaker 1: the ball game. So the for as much as last
Speaker 1: week against Tampa Bay, the sort of the the crunch time,
Speaker 1: the clutch moments. The Packers made one of them, the
Speaker 1: two point conversion stop right, but offensively and defensively, it
Speaker 1: was like, boy, that wasn't going well down the stretch.
Speaker 1: There were clutch moments on both sides of the ball here,
Speaker 1: offensively and defensively for the Packers to pull this one out,
Speaker 1: and they needed every single one of them. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: sure when the team gets back in the building, when
Speaker 1: they start breaking down this game and moving on now
Speaker 1: to the New York Giants, there's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of great teachable moments on both as a ball and
Speaker 1: really all three phases. But it's fun from my perspective
Speaker 1: because I felt like this is a teachable moment for
Speaker 1: Packer fans too. You know, we talk all the time
Speaker 1: about why you need to stop the run. Well, when
Speaker 1: you talk about them not giving up those first downs
Speaker 1: at the end, it's because they were containing the run better.
Speaker 1: They weren't allowing you know, those two backs to gash
Speaker 1: for five six yards. Because I would argue and I
Speaker 1: didn't do the charting of it, but I bet every
Speaker 1: single one is Appi's or at least most of them.
Speaker 1: His passes he completed were all off play actions. I'm
Speaker 1: almost positive they were the play action crossers. They weren't
Speaker 1: reinventing the wheel with this offense. When they moved on
Speaker 1: to quarterback number three, Bill Belichick put that young man
Speaker 1: in a really good position to succeed. And that's what
Speaker 1: great Hall of Fame coaches are gonna do for Green Bay.
Speaker 1: It's really going to come down to the physicality piece.
Speaker 1: That's what Matt Lafleur mentioned. You asked the question on
Speaker 1: Monday about this run defense and where you want to
Speaker 1: be able to clean things up. It comes down to
Speaker 1: the gap fitting. It comes down to make en sure
Speaker 1: that those gaps to begin with aren't too big. I
Speaker 1: will say the one thing that you and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be very important if he's not available on Sunday, losing
Speaker 1: Adrian Amos. I thought this was kind of an eye
Speaker 1: opener too, for for what he provides. It's not just
Speaker 1: about Rudy Ford going in at safety. It's about the
Speaker 1: fact that Adrian Amos since he signed here, has been
Speaker 1: the general of this defense. They have their signal caller,
Speaker 1: they have the guy relaying them intove Andre Campbell. But
Speaker 1: Amos is a guy that has played in every situation
Speaker 1: green Bay has needed him to. If I may the
Speaker 1: where was green Bay able to win this game? As
Speaker 1: good as the Patriots were running the ball, the Packers
Speaker 1: were just a little bit better. And when you were
Speaker 1: able to get a hundred and ninety rushing yards and
Speaker 1: a quarterback like Aaron Rodgers that you know is going
Speaker 1: to bounce back from a rough first half, it was
Speaker 1: the perfect recipe for Green Bay to be able to
Speaker 1: stitch together the drives to pull out the victory. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: in terms of the individual performances in this game, I
Speaker 1: already mentioned Aaron Rodgers and how he went from I
Speaker 1: think statistically that eleven point to passerading the worst first
Speaker 1: half of his entire your career, UH to getting back
Speaker 1: to his old self in the second half. But the
Speaker 1: two guys, the two guys that jump out at us
Speaker 1: are Romeo Dobbs on offense and Rashawn Gary on defense.
Speaker 1: And with Dobbs, I know the fumble early in the game, Yes,
Speaker 1: he needs to secure the ball better. He knows that
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers needs to give him a better pass on
Speaker 1: that wide receiver screen. He knows that as well. And
Speaker 1: Dobbs needs to be able to haul in that that
Speaker 1: forty yard touchdown in the in the fourth quarter. Unfortunately, couldn't,
Speaker 1: you know, maintain control of the ball as he hit
Speaker 1: the ground. But when you look at the whole body
Speaker 1: of work these last two weeks of what Romeo Dobbs
Speaker 1: has done in this offense, He's going to continue to
Speaker 1: get more and more involved and see more and more opportunities.
Speaker 1: That back shoulder touchdown on third down from the thirteen
Speaker 1: yard line um Aaron Rodgers throws. Aaron Rodgers throws touchdowns
Speaker 1: like that to the Jordy Nelson's and the Davante Adams
Speaker 1: and the Randall Cobbs of the world who have been
Speaker 1: playing with him for a long time. He's been playing
Speaker 1: with Romeo Dobbs for four games, and down by seven
Speaker 1: points in the fourth quarter on a third down in
Speaker 1: the red zone, he went back shoulder to the rookie
Speaker 1: and it was perfectly executed. Those are the types of
Speaker 1: plays that just tell you Romeo Dobbs is just getting started.
Speaker 1: And they don't run the back shoulder as much as
Speaker 1: they did four or five years ago. It's in the repertoire,
Speaker 1: it's on the menu, but it's not go to play
Speaker 1: for them in this type of offense. I really, as
Speaker 1: much as people want to talk about that fumble, as
Speaker 1: much as you know that drop was the number one
Speaker 1: thing he was asked about in the locker room afterwards,
Speaker 1: I don't care about any of it right now because
Speaker 1: the bigger story to me is the fact of what
Speaker 1: happened after the adversity, being able to come back after
Speaker 1: the fumble and behaving catching that pass to get Green
Speaker 1: Bay back in the game in the second half, making
Speaker 1: a really good play on the ball, his natural ability,
Speaker 1: his ability to turn his hips, you know, get himself
Speaker 1: framed up correctly and win that one on one. That's huge.
Speaker 1: But to me even bigger was the run solutions on
Speaker 1: the twelve place seventy seven yard drive at the end
Speaker 1: of the game. That is a situation one where if
Speaker 1: the Packers don't have confidence in Romeo Dobbs, he's not
Speaker 1: going to be out there. That's a two minute situation.
Speaker 1: Packers have one basic series not only to try to score,
Speaker 1: but also the run out. As much as this clock
Speaker 1: as you can to protect the tie. Romeo Dobbs was
Speaker 1: out there. Rogers liked what he saw in terms of
Speaker 1: how far the Patriots are playing off throws out those
Speaker 1: two quick passes. I'm back to back plays, Mike. It
Speaker 1: was like schoolyard football. They ran the same play back
Speaker 1: to back, and the Patriots didn't change how they defended it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the only thing that was different was the one Dobbs
Speaker 1: was lined up further to the outside. The second one
Speaker 1: he was actually lined up closer to the formation, and
Speaker 1: Rogers still flipped it to him anyway, because the Patriots
Speaker 1: weren't really guarding that side. He was one on one
Speaker 1: out there, and Rogers said, okay, kid, go get a
Speaker 1: some yards the Randall Cobb third and one conversion. That's
Speaker 1: the play of the game. But but Dobbs as catches
Speaker 1: there are what made a Okay, looks like Mason Crosby
Speaker 1: is gonna be in the field goal range. Go to Okay,
Speaker 1: Now we're entering getting into the comfort zone of Mason
Speaker 1: Grosby's field goal range and being able to run the
Speaker 1: ball the way they did with a J. Dillon light
Speaker 1: treadit to Dobbs. Man I've said it, You've said it,
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleurs said it. The young man carries himself in
Speaker 1: a very even keeled manner and he plays that way too. Yeah. Absolutely, Well,
Speaker 1: you mentioned the third down conversion to uh to Cob,
Speaker 1: we both talked about that one in overtime. There were two.
Speaker 1: There were two just classic Aaron Rodgers throws third down
Speaker 1: conversions in the second half that that we're really pivotal,
Speaker 1: pivotal in this game. The one is on the opening
Speaker 1: drive of the second half where you know, Rogers is
Speaker 1: actually thrown two incomplete passes to start to drive. It's
Speaker 1: third and ten and he gives Alan Lazard a shot
Speaker 1: on a goal ball down the right sideline and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the ball is in a perfect spot and
Speaker 1: it's a fantastic catch by Alan Nazar to dive layout,
Speaker 1: make that grab, move the chains, and that play, I
Speaker 1: really thought was the one that jump started green bas
Speaker 1: offense and you started to see Aaron Rodgers and the
Speaker 1: rest of these guys, the the whole unit kind of
Speaker 1: snapped back into what we were thinking and hoping that
Speaker 1: it was going to be. The Other one that really
Speaker 1: stood out to me was on the tying touchdown drive
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, which ended with the Dobbs TD
Speaker 1: on the back shoulder to tie the game. At early
Speaker 1: in that drive, the Packers down by seven, They're facing
Speaker 1: third and six in their own territory and who does
Speaker 1: he go to? The old reliable Randall Cobb. It was
Speaker 1: a um. It was a combination route on on that
Speaker 1: side of the field. Cobb was Cobb was kind of
Speaker 1: running an inn in and then out, and Christian Watson
Speaker 1: was outside of him running a go down the sideline,
Speaker 1: and Watson's go route kept the safety ten yards back.
Speaker 1: He completely had to respect watson speed in case that
Speaker 1: in case Rogers was going to take the deep shot,
Speaker 1: Cobb break makes off his route to the sideline and
Speaker 1: uh and Rogers just lays it in there absolutely perfectly
Speaker 1: twenty four yards converts a huge third and six that
Speaker 1: then allows the Packers to tie the game. Those were
Speaker 1: the signs that this this Packers offense it's there. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's it's been fits and starts. The first half against
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay was great. The second half was lousy. The
Speaker 1: first half against New England was lousy except for the
Speaker 1: one drive that was all on the ground for the
Speaker 1: touchdown but then the second half this the Packers offense
Speaker 1: looked as close to unstoppable as as it's looked um
Speaker 1: in quite some time. The signs are there. When is
Speaker 1: the when is a greater level of consistency going to arise?
Speaker 1: That's what we're waiting to find out. But but the
Speaker 1: signs are there on on both sides of the ball
Speaker 1: for this team, I believe. Yeah. Talking with A. J.
Speaker 1: Dillon a little bit after the game too, he reiterated
Speaker 1: what basically the entire offense said all offseason, which is
Speaker 1: so much as this is concentration is on the receiving corps.
Speaker 1: Oh what have they done? And who do they have?
Speaker 1: You need to be able to appreciate and understand why
Speaker 1: Rogers is high on Alan Lazard in Randall Cobb and
Speaker 1: being able to have a guy like Sammy Watkins come
Speaker 1: in or Robert Tony in coming back and catching that
Speaker 1: steam route in the touch in the end zone, bang bang,
Speaker 1: play knows the safety is coming, got to hold onto
Speaker 1: the football and he does it because those are the
Speaker 1: type of plays that it goes beyond what your forty
Speaker 1: time is, It goes beyond what your size is. It's
Speaker 1: about the heart and will and being on that same
Speaker 1: wavelength with Rogers those passes, some of these these third
Speaker 1: down conversions he's had. I think there's only been you know,
Speaker 1: Cobb has seven or eight pack receptions this year. I
Speaker 1: believe Mike there might have been a one foot window
Speaker 1: among all of them. I mean there have been hairline
Speaker 1: on a rope passes that Cobb is not only as
Speaker 1: Rogers had to thread the needle to get it to him,
Speaker 1: Cobb has to catch that in rhythm because there's a
Speaker 1: lot of traffic around him as he's doing it. And
Speaker 1: and this game was a perfect embodiment to that. Also
Speaker 1: from Alan Bazards, you're spot on. If you don't catch
Speaker 1: that ball in third and ten, the second half star
Speaker 1: still look a lot different for green that does. Crowd
Speaker 1: reaction to that would have been a lot different. But
Speaker 1: Lazard six catches whatever it was a sixty four of
Speaker 1: those catches over nineteen yards. I mean an explosive playing
Speaker 1: machine in that game for green Back. Yeah. Absolutely. I
Speaker 1: want to ask you one other thing here before we
Speaker 1: move on to some other topics. Rashan Gary gets a
Speaker 1: two SAT game, including a strip sack where he gets
Speaker 1: the sack the force fumble and the fumble recovery, all
Speaker 1: by himself has five sacks and four games. Doesn't take
Speaker 1: a genius with math to figure out that that's a
Speaker 1: that's on pace for twenty maybe even twenty one sacks here. Now,
Speaker 1: I know it's only four games into the season, but
Speaker 1: what kind of a sack number do you think Rashan
Speaker 1: Gary's gonna put up this season? Is he legitimately gonna
Speaker 1: get twenty? I mean, thanks to the National Football League
Speaker 1: getting that seventeen game, he might have a shot at it.
Speaker 1: A lot to see how things look at the end
Speaker 1: of the year and if the starters are playing. But
Speaker 1: I'll say this, Mike, that first sack he had, I'm
Speaker 1: Brian Hoyer. I leaned over to you. I leaned over
Speaker 1: to our ball us, Duke Bober. It was a completely
Speaker 1: legal hit. Gary did everything right, but it reminded me
Speaker 1: of the kid that's just a little bit bigger and
Speaker 1: a little bit faster in the middle school playground and
Speaker 1: somebody gets hurt because the kids just playing the way
Speaker 1: he should play. But he's just that powerful. Um. I
Speaker 1: when I think I audibly did like, oh when I
Speaker 1: saw him coming in on on Hoyer, because The problem
Speaker 1: was is that he beat his blockers so badly that
Speaker 1: his entire rush was acceleration, you know, because sometimes it's
Speaker 1: it's power to speed right. You gotta get through and
Speaker 1: then you accelerate towards the quarterback. It was like he
Speaker 1: was shot off a line and a tractive field meat
Speaker 1: and Horrior was standing twenty yards down field. It was
Speaker 1: a freight train coming at him. Five sacks. Certainly you
Speaker 1: look at the quarterback pressures. That's the big stat Matt
Speaker 1: Lafleur talks about he's affecting games, and he's affecting the
Speaker 1: quarterback in more and more teams now are having to
Speaker 1: take into account all of that. Yeah, no question about it.
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Speaker 1: it is onto London for the Green Bay Packers and
Speaker 1: for us later this week. And the first London game
Speaker 1: of two was this past Sunday. It involved the Minnesota
Speaker 1: Vikings in the New Orleans Saints and um, another dramatic
Speaker 1: down to the wire type of game with uh, you know,
Speaker 1: people wondering, Okay, so how come you know, how come
Speaker 1: the Packers struggle so much when the Patriots are on
Speaker 1: their third string quarterback, its r, etcetera. Well, the New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints were missing Jamis Winston, Alvin Kamara and Michael Thomas,
Speaker 1: and Minnesota Vikings couldn't put them away either. And if
Speaker 1: not for the double doink from sixty one yards, Will
Speaker 1: Lutz would have would have sent that game to overtime
Speaker 1: and made made some history of his own having drilled
Speaker 1: a sixty yard or earlier in that fourth quarter to
Speaker 1: tie the game. Um. What a game though in London, UM,
Speaker 1: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium was certainly got an entertaining one. And
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens when the Packers take the field
Speaker 1: in that same stadium this Sunday. Yeah, because my my
Speaker 1: biggest takeaway that game was just how gosh darn goodwill
Speaker 1: lots is respect for him for a long time, but
Speaker 1: my god, I mean he he he hit that, that's
Speaker 1: that's sixty one yard or that hit the upright and
Speaker 1: then hit the crossbar. It was it was. I mean
Speaker 1: he he made it look almost effortless. I mean, as
Speaker 1: soon as the ball came off his foot, You're like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, he might make that. I was actually
Speaker 1: surprised that it fell short. You know, well, I didn't
Speaker 1: it hit the ball, but it hit the hit the
Speaker 1: upper I was gonna say too. I mean, has there
Speaker 1: ever been a situation where where kickers made to sixty
Speaker 1: yard field goals? Wouldn't's why I say he would have
Speaker 1: made NFL if that had gone through. No kickers ever
Speaker 1: made two of sixty plus in the same game. I
Speaker 1: talked with Alan Lazard after the game. Um, because I'm
Speaker 1: working on a game program this week go figure on
Speaker 1: London and the Packers playing there. And Allen is a huge,
Speaker 1: huge soccer fans, so he's excited about the trip in
Speaker 1: and of itself. But he said watching that Saints and
Speaker 1: Vikings game and what the crowd was like for both teams.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was sixty minutes of pandemonia for the
Speaker 1: most part. And the fact that I think everybody believes
Speaker 1: that this crowd is probably gonna tilt and skew a
Speaker 1: little bit more towards Green Day with it being their
Speaker 1: first trip out there. Lazard was just over the moon
Speaker 1: about this opportunity, and I think that's gonna be the
Speaker 1: coolest part about it is. I'm sure throughout the year,
Speaker 1: you know, guys, you know, fans will probably become a
Speaker 1: little bit more numb to it. But that first came
Speaker 1: out of the gate, the little bit that I was
Speaker 1: able to watch in the second half of that matchup,
Speaker 1: that was a live atmosphere and they had a great
Speaker 1: game to watch. Yeah, absolutely well. That victory put the
Speaker 1: Vikings at three and one, tied with the Packers atop
Speaker 1: the the NFC North, both teams currently three and one.
Speaker 1: The Packers opponent this Sunday, the New York Giants, also
Speaker 1: three and one, after a victory over the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna put you on the spot here because
Speaker 1: I forgot to kind of look up what the latest
Speaker 1: was with regard to the Giants quarterback situation. This week
Speaker 1: is has there been any update to that news so
Speaker 1: as I haven't looked this morning, but as of yesterday,
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor was in the concussion protocol and the way
Speaker 1: that they said it, um, I'm forgetting the new head
Speaker 1: coaches name Brian Dable. Brian Dable said that, you know,
Speaker 1: basically Daniel Jones is day to day, so it looks
Speaker 1: like he'll be Jones will be good to go. But
Speaker 1: losing Taylor, I mean a very interesting matchup against the Bears,
Speaker 1: where then say Jon Barkley is potentially the quarterback, and
Speaker 1: a lot of things working them weary out. But the
Speaker 1: number one thing will preview this later this week, but
Speaker 1: this game again reiterated, when the Giants are riding, say
Speaker 1: Kwon Barkley, he's healthy, they are formidable, Mike, because he
Speaker 1: is not an easy object to stop. Yeah, absolutely, he's
Speaker 1: He's a he's a home run hitter in every sense
Speaker 1: of the word. Um, but also a guy that can
Speaker 1: carry the ball times on a given day and completely
Speaker 1: control of football game. And um yeah, we'll talk about
Speaker 1: that more on our second episode this week, which I
Speaker 1: promise I'll be here for. But um, the other thing
Speaker 1: I just I saw statistic this morning, and I didn't
Speaker 1: realize that um from a number standpoint, but it just
Speaker 1: it speaks to where we are in the NFL right now.
Speaker 1: I saw that of the of the sixteen games that
Speaker 1: were played in Week four, fifteen of the sixteen the
Speaker 1: score was within one possession at some point in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter of the game. Fifteen out of sixteen were
Speaker 1: a one possession game at some point in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: regardless of what the final score ended up being. Like
Speaker 1: we've said from the very beginning, buckle up, this is
Speaker 1: it's it's what this league is. You have to expect
Speaker 1: it every week. You have to be able to make
Speaker 1: the plays in the key moments to win games. Because
Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't matter if you jump out to
Speaker 1: a fourteen nothing lead, as the Packers did in Tampa,
Speaker 1: as the Jacksonville Jaguars did against the undefeated Philadelphia Eagles,
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens had a twenty two three lead at
Speaker 1: home against the Buffalo Bills. It doesn't matter. These games
Speaker 1: come down to making the key plays at crunch time,
Speaker 1: and you just have you just have to get used
Speaker 1: to it, and uh you have your team has to
Speaker 1: be toughened and hardened to uh, to know that that's
Speaker 1: what it's going to take, and you have to be
Speaker 1: able to rise up in those moments to do it,
Speaker 1: to chalk up games in the win column. And that's
Speaker 1: the keyword, Mike two wards, the wind column. That's what
Speaker 1: this first month, That's what September football proved to me.
Speaker 1: No super Bowl is one in September, But my god,
Speaker 1: is it difficult to win in this league. You look
Speaker 1: at what the Raiders have done, You look at the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions, the emotional games that they've had. One of
Speaker 1: the league leaders in offense. Right now, there's still one
Speaker 1: in three. It is not easy to win. So you
Speaker 1: pull out a victory like Green Bay did against New England.
Speaker 1: You find a way to win on the road in
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. And now with these three games now kind
Speaker 1: of coming up, if you want to call them home
Speaker 1: games before you get on a real road trip, Uh,
Speaker 1: you have to take care of business. Yeah, absolutely, Well
Speaker 1: it's gonna it's going to be. Uh, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a fun trip to London. We'll talk about that more
Speaker 1: on our next episode, but for now we'll call it
Speaker 1: a wrap. On this edition of Packers Unscripted be sure
Speaker 1: to follow all of our coverage of the team. We've
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Speaker 1: I'm Mike. Thank you for tuning in, everybody, See you
Speaker 1: next time.