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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, joined alongside my partner West had

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Speaker 1: cooits were coming to you here from our studios at

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Speaker 1: lambeau Field and West. It is a Monday, and it's

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Speaker 1: a victory Monday for the Green Bay Packers. That feels

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Speaker 1: pretty good to say, thirty four to twenty over the

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons on Sunday at lambeau Field, a victory for

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Speaker 1: interim head coach Joe Philbin in his Green Bay Packers

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Speaker 1: head coaching debut. I'm not sure where you want to

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Speaker 1: start with this one, but a lot of good things

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Speaker 1: happening on both sides of the ball here for the

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Speaker 1: Packers on Sunday afternoon, and there was one common traite, Mike,

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Speaker 1: that went for both the offense, defense, even the special teams.

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Speaker 1: I thought there was a lot of energy. I thought

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Speaker 1: there was a lot of through husiasm, and I wrote

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Speaker 1: about it and what ended up being our sidebar or

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Speaker 1: locker room report talking to some of these guys in

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Speaker 1: the locker room afterwards, just how people had bought into

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Speaker 1: what Joe Philbin was saying this week. It was as

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Speaker 1: tumultuous as a time as the Green Bay Packers have

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Speaker 1: had to go through here in fifteen years. And Joe

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Speaker 1: Philbin hit all the right notes with those players. Offensively,

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Speaker 1: they knew him, they were they were familiar with them,

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Speaker 1: they were comfortable with them. The veterans that have been

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Speaker 1: around during his first stint in the young guys that

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Speaker 1: had bought into him since he came back. But defensively,

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Speaker 1: he needed to sort of, I don't want to say,

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Speaker 1: who didn't really deal with him on a daily basis

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Speaker 1: from where his position was as the offensive coordinators. So

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Speaker 1: in that regard, I thought the Packers I said all

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Speaker 1: week long, I thought this was gonna go one of

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Speaker 1: two ways for the Packers. I didn't see a middle ground.

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Speaker 1: I thought they were either gonna come out and play

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Speaker 1: like champions, or I thought they were gonna look deflated.

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Speaker 1: And they came out looking like champions. Yeah, they came

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Speaker 1: out right from the get go. And don't get me

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Speaker 1: started on the challenges and the replay reviews, or I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna say something about the command center in New York

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Speaker 1: City that will get me fired. Um. But moving past that,

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Speaker 1: the Falcons jump on top seven and nothing, and the

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Speaker 1: Packers then respond not only with a touchdown, but with

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Speaker 1: thirty four consecutive points before the Packers defense allowed Atlanta

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Speaker 1: to score again. The game was well in hand then

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Speaker 1: in the second half at thirty four to seven. There

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Speaker 1: were a lot of things that I liked about this

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Speaker 1: game West, and I think I think for me, it

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Speaker 1: just started with the very beginning, the first offensive possession,

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Speaker 1: and I know people were wondering, why aren't the Packers

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Speaker 1: trying to run the ball and all this, I think

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Speaker 1: the game plan was clear in terms of getting Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers into a rhythm and into some kind of a

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Speaker 1: comfort zone. Because I was keeping track during that first possession.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers dropped back to past eight times on that drive,

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Speaker 1: if you include the defensive past interference that was part

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Speaker 1: of that drive, eight times he drove back to pass,

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Speaker 1: and seven of those eight times the ball was out

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Speaker 1: on time and in rhythm. Only once was there to

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Speaker 1: kind of thing. And I just thought that set the

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Speaker 1: thought it put the Falcons defense on its heels right

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Speaker 1: that kind of a rhythm, and that really paid off

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Speaker 1: through the first three quarters as the Packers built a

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Speaker 1: big lead. So, you know, all week long they made

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Speaker 1: such a big deal. Not a big deal, but people

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Speaker 1: pointed out that Joe Philbin hadn't been an offensive coordinea

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Speaker 1: calling get you know plays since his time back in Northeastern.

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Speaker 1: But what was interesting to me on that first series

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Speaker 1: in particular, you know what that reminded me a lot

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Speaker 1: of two thousand eleven in that they were using a

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Speaker 1: short passing game, quick passing game to get the offense moving.

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Speaker 1: There was no regard whatsoever for the run. Early on,

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Speaker 1: Jamal Williams started the game. Second play, he was out there.

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Speaker 1: He ends up picking up uh, you know, Russia come

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Speaker 1: a point to get Aaron Rodgers into a rhythm, and

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Speaker 1: they use multiple personnel personnel packages to do that, a

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Speaker 1: lot of players shuffling in and out from the sideline

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Speaker 1: play after playoff play, and then what happened then in

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Speaker 1: the second half, then you start to get the run

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Speaker 1: going with Aaron Jones I have one of the funnier things.

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Speaker 1: I was talking to Aaron Jones in the locker room.

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Speaker 1: They ran that screen right that went from minus one

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Speaker 1: what was going through your mind? Then when they dial

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Speaker 1: up the same exact play to the right side, He's like, Oh,

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Speaker 1: you have a play that quote unquote fails like that,

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Speaker 1: other side. The Packers do that, they get the first down,

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Speaker 1: the fifteen yards, Aaron Jones starts rolling after that, fifty

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Speaker 1: total yards of offense on that drive ending with the

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Speaker 1: twenty nine yard touchdown. It was really I thought interesting

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Speaker 1: and maybe even poetic that this game ended without I mean,

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Speaker 1: Davante Adams had a fine game, Aaron Jones had a

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Speaker 1: fine game. Aaron Rodgers stats were fine, but it wasn't

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Speaker 1: a dominating performance by one individual player. You heard the

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Speaker 1: term complimentary football a lot, and whether it was offense

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Speaker 1: or defense. With the shot Brilon stepping up with a

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Speaker 1: pick six, Clay Matthews I thought had a really good game.

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Speaker 1: They complimented both sides of the football there and realistically,

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Speaker 1: I mean, that was the best game that they've played

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Speaker 1: going back to that Week four matchup against the Bills. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit more about that

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Speaker 1: in terms of some things that we saw that we

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Speaker 1: hadn't necessarily seen from the Packers, but real quickly, the

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Speaker 1: All right, West, If you were to ask me, what

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Speaker 1: were the two things that we saw in this game

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Speaker 1: that we just haven't seen in through these through the

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Speaker 1: Packers struggles over the last month and a half, it

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Speaker 1: was converting on third down and it was getting a

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Speaker 1: big game changing play from the defense the third downs

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Speaker 1: seven out of thirteen. Maybe it is because I finally

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Speaker 1: went through all of the horrible, crappy numbers on third down.

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Speaker 1: On last Friday Show, the Packers had converted eight third

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Speaker 1: downs in their last three games combined. They converted seven

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. That that tells you right there how much

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Speaker 1: of an improvement it was. Now a couple of those

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Speaker 1: were Aaron Rodgers scrambles. It wasn't that everything was smooth

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Speaker 1: and hunky dory and completely in rhythm on third down.

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Speaker 1: But if you're going to convert seven out of thirteen,

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Speaker 1: you take that anytime. And then on the defensive side,

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Speaker 1: Bashad Brill and getting that pick six. The Falcons make

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Speaker 1: the mistake on special teams after the Packers score. I

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Speaker 1: forget the returner's name, but he must the kickoff, he

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Speaker 1: So the Falcons are in a field position bind. And

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Speaker 1: then sure enough, a few plays later, Matt Ryan tries

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Speaker 1: the pick and he just waltzes into the end zone.

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Speaker 1: Suddenly a seven game, Marvin Hall right, Suddenly a ten

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Speaker 1: last interception the Packers had was Brilan's at Lambeau Field

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Speaker 1: against Miami right three three, three, four weeks prior, whatever

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Speaker 1: how big those types of plays are, and yeah, in

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Speaker 1: a thirty four to twenty game, you know, it kind

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Speaker 1: of just becomes another play. But at the time ten

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Speaker 1: I thought it really took whatever whatever energy the Falcons

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Speaker 1: It was gone by them. You know, there's three things

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Speaker 1: It's like West Hodds, three things always here that really

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Speaker 1: passing game. Here's the deal, Mike, you don't have Kevin King,

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Speaker 1: Brian was still on the sideline. That's how careful they

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Speaker 1: this offseason you and I are gonna be doing a

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Speaker 1: Packer's unscripted talking about, Hey, we still don't know what

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Speaker 1: Joe Philbin's still sort of introducing himself to this defense.

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Speaker 1: He can talk until he is blew in the face

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Speaker 1: about unity and respect, accountability, all the things that he

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Speaker 1: preaches as a head coach, but until you are in

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Speaker 1: the heat of battle, you don't know what it's like

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Speaker 1: playing for a coach. JR. Alexander said it right from

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Speaker 1: throw their challenge flag on the first one, which wasn't

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