Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from
Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford, joined by my
Speaker 1: partner in crime, West Hodkowitz, were coming to you here
Speaker 1: from our studios at lambeau Field and West. Have you
Speaker 1: caught your breath yet? Thirty to eight the Packers pull
Speaker 1: out a last second victory in San Francisco. With this one,
Speaker 1: we might as well start with the finish. Thirty seven
Speaker 1: seconds on the clock, no time Out's ball on Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: Davante Adams, Mason Crosby and some really good pass protection
Speaker 1: get the job done for the Packers. Moments of greatness,
Speaker 1: reveal themselves, you know, in those clutch moments, and it
Speaker 1: it's just it's incredible. Coin back and looking at some
Speaker 1: of the transcripts, you know from Kyle Shanahan in the
Speaker 1: locker room for the forty niners thirty seven seconds left,
Speaker 1: they knew there was too much time left on the clock.
Speaker 1: Now that's not to say the green By Packers was
Speaker 1: gonna go down, and at their own will put points
Speaker 1: up against them, but that's way too much time to
Speaker 1: give Aaron Rodgers to make something happen. And even with
Speaker 1: no time out, even with no time Oh it's and
Speaker 1: as Rogers said, and he's so eloquently put afterwards, you know,
Speaker 1: he knew he needed to chunk plays to be able
Speaker 1: to get downfield. They needed to get within the thirty
Speaker 1: seven yard line there, basically to give Mason Crosby a
Speaker 1: chance at this thing. And what are you gonna do.
Speaker 1: You're gonna look towards Davante Adams, and you know, Adams
Speaker 1: pretty much imposed his will on San Francisco in the
Speaker 1: first half. A lot of injuries in their secondary, pretty
Speaker 1: banged up. They were having a hard time, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to defend against him. They eventually shifted to the
Speaker 1: cover to look giving him a little bit more attention
Speaker 1: in the second half. But on that final series, I mean,
Speaker 1: they were content to try to find ways to play
Speaker 1: a semi prevent defense. They still rushed for but they
Speaker 1: put guys back and Aaron Rodgers went to work. Man.
Speaker 1: I mean that first play, as he talked about later on,
Speaker 1: something that they kind of even drew up in the
Speaker 1: dirt at practice on Thursday, for you know, Adams to
Speaker 1: come across and Roger to put that ball where he did,
Speaker 1: just over the outstretched outstretched arms of Fred Almost, Fred Taylor,
Speaker 1: Fred Warner, one of the best in the business inside
Speaker 1: linebacker right now, to get those twenty five yards right
Speaker 1: off the bat. Once they got to midfield, I think
Speaker 1: everybody felt pretty good about their chances to be able
Speaker 1: to at least give Mason Crosby a chance to hit
Speaker 1: the game winner. Yeah, once the ball was on the fifty,
Speaker 1: as Rogers said, he knew going into it, two chunk
Speaker 1: plays is what you need. He got the first one.
Speaker 1: The balls at midfield at that point, you know, I
Speaker 1: mean Crosby's said afterward, his range was, you know, fifty
Speaker 1: four to fifty six yards. Maybe you could push it
Speaker 1: a little further if you absolutely had to, uh, one
Speaker 1: more completion, one more chunky yardage there got that kicked
Speaker 1: to fifty one, and you know that certainly well within
Speaker 1: Crosby's range. I thought it was interesting that Adams right
Speaker 1: after the game said that in some ways the fact
Speaker 1: that there were no time outs might have worked to
Speaker 1: the Packers advantage because with no time outs, the Forts
Speaker 1: were regarding the boundaries they were they were leaving the
Speaker 1: middle of the field open, thinking that a couple of
Speaker 1: completions in the middle of the field and the time
Speaker 1: it would take to go up and spike the ball
Speaker 1: that maybe the Packers wouldn't quite have enough, And it
Speaker 1: turns out they did. They had three seconds to spare,
Speaker 1: even with the one incomplete pass in between the two completions,
Speaker 1: the two spikes, three seconds to spare, and uhum, and
Speaker 1: the Packers get out of San Francisco with with an
Speaker 1: incredibly uplifting victory. Um. You know, these two teams long
Speaker 1: ways to go in this season, obviously, but these I
Speaker 1: think are two teams we're gonna be talking about come
Speaker 1: December when we're you know, looking at playoff picture and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Very much so because the weapons now for San Francisco
Speaker 1: are more than just their running backs. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel, he's going to be a problem here for
Speaker 1: the NFL. I thought, George Kittle when he's healthy, it's
Speaker 1: him and Travis Kelsey as far as one A, one
Speaker 1: B for the best of that position. But what it
Speaker 1: struck me the most about that final drive was the
Speaker 1: psychology of it. And Rogers explain, you know, you can't
Speaker 1: be looking for checkdowns there. That's that's bad. But they
Speaker 1: also the way they bracketed. The sidelines were basically protecting
Speaker 1: against allowing any pass in the middle field to get
Speaker 1: to the sideline. So what does Green Bay do. Davante
Speaker 1: Adams goes down the first time, gets the seventeen yards,
Speaker 1: gets down again. Playing with a backup left tackle and
Speaker 1: all these moving pieces, they managed to set their formation,
Speaker 1: spiked the ball, and Mason Crosby, for what the ninth
Speaker 1: time in his career now goes out there and drills
Speaker 1: home a game winner. NOE got a little close for
Speaker 1: comfort in terms of the pass rush or the you know,
Speaker 1: the attempted block there by San Francisco. But be that
Speaker 1: as it may, horseshoes and hand grenades, the Green Bay
Speaker 1: Packers came out. They found a way to win this thing.
Speaker 1: They had the way to the world on them in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. So many different circumstances, some questionable officiating,
Speaker 1: I mean, different variables, but more than anything, San Francisco
Speaker 1: showed a never say die attitude and they came back
Speaker 1: to put themselves in that ball game. But ultimately, Mike
Speaker 1: I said it in Insider Inbox, you and I've talked
Speaker 1: about this week, the Green Bay Packers were the better
Speaker 1: football team and Aaron Rodgers and Davante Adams were the
Speaker 1: two best players on the field. That's what showed him
Speaker 1: crunch time. Yeah, absolutely, the Packers. The Packers were the
Speaker 1: better team on the field in this game for the
Speaker 1: vast majority of I mean the fact that the forty
Speaker 1: Niners never had the lead in the game until there
Speaker 1: were thirty seven seconds left on the clock. That says
Speaker 1: a lot. With the Packers playing on the road. We
Speaker 1: had talked about it last week, how important it was,
Speaker 1: Rogers had talked about it after the Detroit game La
Speaker 1: Fleur as well, how important it was to get off
Speaker 1: to a fast start. The Packers were able to do that,
Speaker 1: getting out to a seventeen nothing lead in the second quarter.
Speaker 1: The defense was playing really well, the offense was moving
Speaker 1: the ball. The seventeen nothing could have been even better. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the Packers had had a failed fourth and one in
Speaker 1: the red zone there that that left points out there.
Speaker 1: But they got off to the start that they needed
Speaker 1: to and for the most part, really up until that
Speaker 1: final drive by San Francisco, the Packers prevented the San
Speaker 1: Francisco Amentum shifts because they were there. There were the shifts,
Speaker 1: but they prevented them from becoming that that tsunami where
Speaker 1: the other team just completely takes over and suddenly you're
Speaker 1: you're totally on your heels and you can't figure out
Speaker 1: how to how to stem the tide. That never really happened.
Speaker 1: San Francisco give them credit. They put together Garoppolo puts
Speaker 1: together the drive. The big play to Kittle was was
Speaker 1: really the backbreaker for the Packer defense there and uh
Speaker 1: and San Francisco gets into the end zone, but Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers had just enough time to go the other way.
Speaker 1: And in Rogers and Adams have already discussed them just
Speaker 1: how how talented they are and to be able to
Speaker 1: have that connection, being able to find a way to
Speaker 1: win that football game, all the credit to them in
Speaker 1: the world. When we saw we saw the back shoulder
Speaker 1: throws early and then you see the balls over the
Speaker 1: middle late in the game. I mean, when Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: needs it, it's there's there's no secret you know who's
Speaker 1: going to get the football. But I'm gonna mention this
Speaker 1: because he'll be the last person to bring it up.
Speaker 1: But I mean the game plan that Matt Laflour and
Speaker 1: his coaches put together, and the way they coached that
Speaker 1: football team. I thought, really shine through in this game.
Speaker 1: Uh first and form do you look at you know
Speaker 1: you have Yoshneimen making a spot start at left tackle.
Speaker 1: I went back and did the math Mike. One thousand
Speaker 1: and forty four days since the last time that young
Speaker 1: man started in a meaningful regular season game. You have
Speaker 1: to go back to, you know, his time at Virginia Tech,
Speaker 1: and here he is protecting the blindside of the NFL's
Speaker 1: reigning league MVP. Niman did an exemplary job in that game.
Speaker 1: But it's also Matt Lafleur and his coaching staff being
Speaker 1: really smart with their game plan right. They understood you
Speaker 1: can't put the you can't put everything on this kid
Speaker 1: against Nick Bosa. There were times where it needed to
Speaker 1: be that, but Mercedes lewis best blocking tight end the
Speaker 1: National Football League taken on Bosa sometimes even one on one.
Speaker 1: Robert Tounyan had that chip block that made all the
Speaker 1: raves on social media on Monday, where he was able
Speaker 1: to get the pancake of Bosa down. That young offensive
Speaker 1: line gives up one sack in this game and Rogers
Speaker 1: gets the ball out quickly. It was your Quintus essential
Speaker 1: team victory in the way they went about this thing
Speaker 1: and the fact that they were able to establish the
Speaker 1: momentum that they had despite the fact they were without
Speaker 1: their top two offensive line. Yeah. Absolutely. You look at
Speaker 1: and I mentioned this in a couple of different places
Speaker 1: on our website. You look at that starting offensive line
Speaker 1: on Sunday night, the two rookies at center and right guard.
Speaker 1: You had John Running at left guard as you just mentioned, Josh,
Speaker 1: and I'man at left tackle. Those four guys, four fifths
Speaker 1: of your offensive line collectively had five NFL starts to
Speaker 1: their name heading into that game on Sunday night. Now
Speaker 1: they have nine. They almost doubled it. They went from
Speaker 1: five to nine. They all they all added another start,
Speaker 1: but obviously nine, and it was his first for Running,
Speaker 1: it was his second. For the two rookies that was
Speaker 1: their third, having you know, with this being Week three
Speaker 1: and then being starters in the opener this year. That
Speaker 1: was pretty remarkable to me how that group held up
Speaker 1: throughout the course of four quarters the way that it did.
Speaker 1: But you also mentioned the game plan. Now I'm not
Speaker 1: saying obviously that we haven't seen the Kers do this,
Speaker 1: but the vast majority of the time on third down
Speaker 1: it was shotgun, empty backfield, spread them out. And you
Speaker 1: may say, well, aren't you leaving you know, isn't that
Speaker 1: leaving the offensive line vulnerable? No, that was a That
Speaker 1: was a plan on third down to get the ball
Speaker 1: out of Rogers hands. He was gonna have as many
Speaker 1: targets as possible. He was going to scan the field
Speaker 1: before the snap, and he was gonna know where he
Speaker 1: was going to not leave him vulnerable to that third
Speaker 1: down pass rush of a Nick Bosa or an Eric
Speaker 1: Armstead or a d Ford or a blitzing Fred Warner,
Speaker 1: whatever the case might be. That was the plan. I
Speaker 1: I can probably count on three fingers or less the
Speaker 1: number of times on third down that the Packers did
Speaker 1: not empty the backfield and go shotgun. The plan was
Speaker 1: clear about getting the ball out of Rogers hands in
Speaker 1: those potential pass rush situations, and for the most part,
Speaker 1: the way the Packers were moving the ball, it was
Speaker 1: it was hard to argue with the results. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: and exactly and being able also early on, you know,
Speaker 1: I felt like getting off to a fast start. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about the defense here momentarily, but to get off
Speaker 1: to the fast start that they did getting out of
Speaker 1: the gate. Rogers talked about it afterwards. He's been so
Speaker 1: reiterating how much he wanted them to get off, you know,
Speaker 1: the energy, to come out the right way. They did
Speaker 1: that in this game. And you know they haven't broken
Speaker 1: a seventy yard run yet this season, but a j.
Speaker 1: Dillon and Aaron Jones combining carries for a hundred yards
Speaker 1: just really clean, consistent production and being able to do
Speaker 1: it against that front. I think that allowed those offensive
Speaker 1: linemen to get comfortable. I thought you really saw Josh
Speaker 1: Meyers athleticism in this game and his ability to get
Speaker 1: to the second level. I think, as I've continued to
Speaker 1: say on this broadcast, Billy Turner is one of the
Speaker 1: most underrated players on this team. And the fact is
Speaker 1: he's been a really stable presence at right tackle since
Speaker 1: they put him their last season. Yeah, we sure didn't
Speaker 1: hear much from de Ford on Sunday night, and that
Speaker 1: was that was Turner's assignment. And yes there were some
Speaker 1: chips on on that side as well, but obviously the
Speaker 1: chipping was mostly focused at left tackle with Nieman and
Speaker 1: and Uh and Turner. Turner was a country not heard
Speaker 1: from and that worked out perfectly. And that's exactly what
Speaker 1: you're looking for. When you decide we're going to take
Speaker 1: this one spot that's vacant, and we're gonna put a
Speaker 1: young player in there that's never started an NFL game.
Speaker 1: You don't want to have to worry about the right
Speaker 1: side there. And I thought Turner held up his end
Speaker 1: of the bargain. But I'll just close on this. In
Speaker 1: regards of the offense, for Davante Adams, with all the
Speaker 1: attention he's received to have twenty five catches, the most
Speaker 1: catches and franchise history through the first three games of
Speaker 1: the season, to have three receiving yards already, have you know,
Speaker 1: come back from a nasty, nasty, vicious hit from Jimmy
Speaker 1: Ward that should have been a helmet to helmet to
Speaker 1: do all that and get back on the field and
Speaker 1: clumb up with two huge catches for forty two yards
Speaker 1: in the clutch. Davante Adams, as we continue to see Mike,
Speaker 1: it's so fun when you can watch a guy ascend
Speaker 1: to a certain level, but watching him now sustain and
Speaker 1: elevate from that level and all pro level has been
Speaker 1: a really treat. Has there been a really big treat? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: On the defensive side of the ball in this game
Speaker 1: for the Packers, it was it was a strong start
Speaker 1: an incredibly athletic interception by j R. Alexander on the
Speaker 1: deep ball to George Kittle. Unfortunately, the Packers did not
Speaker 1: turn that turnover in into points and really west. The
Speaker 1: unfortunate thing with the way the defense was playing was
Speaker 1: that that long kickoff return was allowed right before halftime
Speaker 1: because then the forty Niners only had about thirty yards
Speaker 1: to go. They were able to get in the end zone.
Speaker 1: UM and still probably shouldn't have if because I think
Speaker 1: I agree with Matt Lafleur. I think it was intentional
Speaker 1: grounding on Jimmy Garoppolo. I think he was going to
Speaker 1: throw an interception in the end zone if he actually
Speaker 1: tried to throw it, and so he spiked the ball
Speaker 1: into the ground. That aside, the Packers were on their
Speaker 1: way to a first half shutout, which would have actually
Speaker 1: been a four quarter shutout. Going back to the second
Speaker 1: half of the Monday night game against the Lions, and uh,
Speaker 1: and you know, this is a defense that obviously knows
Speaker 1: the Darius Smith lost Chris Barnes to a concussion in
Speaker 1: the game along the way Kevin King they find out
Speaker 1: he's ill, and and uh is out for the game.
Speaker 1: UM on game day, and uh and I thought the defense.
Speaker 1: I know the final drive was frustrating to a lot
Speaker 1: of fans. I get it, but that's also the way
Speaker 1: this the way this thing can work in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I thought this Packer defense two, in my eyes, took
Speaker 1: a big step forward from where it was the first
Speaker 1: two weeks of the season. It did, and especially from
Speaker 1: the standpoint of it needed to start fast. I think
Speaker 1: that was the thing I talked about. They needed to
Speaker 1: set the temple. They need to stop the run. In
Speaker 1: San Francisco, a team that ran all over him two
Speaker 1: years ago could not run the football against him in
Speaker 1: this game that frankly kind of gave up on it,
Speaker 1: even though they weren't. They weren't. They were never out
Speaker 1: of the Packers were leading the whole time, but they
Speaker 1: were never It was never a completely abandoned the run
Speaker 1: situation for an offense, yet San Francisco just never wanted
Speaker 1: to commit to it at all. So you look at
Speaker 1: the scoreboard, then I understand that that's the ultimate indicator
Speaker 1: of where things are at. But that's the reason why
Speaker 1: Green Bay was able to start pinning its ears back.
Speaker 1: Gets four sacks in this game after really struggling to
Speaker 1: get pressure the first few weeks. I thought Preston Smith
Speaker 1: had his best game of the season, looked like a
Speaker 1: stud throughout a lot of pressure uh, Kenny Clark was
Speaker 1: a man possessed and made one of the biggest players
Speaker 1: in the game by forcing what ended up being I mean,
Speaker 1: the game turn really into trying to judge what Jimmy
Speaker 1: Garoppolo's passes were doing, you know, And it was funny
Speaker 1: to hear Garoppolo talk after the game about, yeah, you
Speaker 1: know that was kind of on the refs with my
Speaker 1: pass at the fumble unless and maybe someone can't explain
Speaker 1: it to me, but I grew up underneath the understanding
Speaker 1: that if it's a pass that goes backwards, no matter
Speaker 1: which if it goes in directly or if it goes
Speaker 1: it's it's a fumble. Yeah. The only time it's not
Speaker 1: is if if if it comes out of his hand
Speaker 1: forward and the defense bats it backwards, then it's a
Speaker 1: forward pass to quite frankly, was I think Garoppolo on
Speaker 1: the play that he fumbled in the fourth quarter, I
Speaker 1: think he was trying to do the same thing that
Speaker 1: he did at the end of the first half. He
Speaker 1: was trying to basically just spike the ball and get
Speaker 1: rid of it to avoid the sec Well, that time
Speaker 1: it cost him because his shoulder got turned, the ball
Speaker 1: went backwards and it was alive and Deveandre Campbell recovered
Speaker 1: it for Green Bay. It was funny too when you
Speaker 1: mentioned the intentional grounding, and I don't disagree. I even
Speaker 1: tweeted during the game, this, that's intentional grounding. But of all,
Speaker 1: out of all the in my own eye botched calls
Speaker 1: throughout that game, that was the one I at least
Speaker 1: under stood the rationale for it because the referee said, well,
Speaker 1: he was trying to throw it to Kittle. Fine, I
Speaker 1: can understand that, but I want to get into the
Speaker 1: call stuff. But between the catch that's a new head,
Speaker 1: Between the defensive past interference on Eric Stokes, between the
Speaker 1: hit on DeVante, there was so much about that game
Speaker 1: that was ob to so that it just it goes
Speaker 1: without saying. But that being said, the Packers defensively, the
Speaker 1: reason they won this game is because of how they
Speaker 1: played in the first half and how they were able
Speaker 1: to keep San Francisco off the board allow themselves to
Speaker 1: get off to a fast start. Yes, there was production late, Yes,
Speaker 1: there were some injuries there. They lose Chris Barnes, they
Speaker 1: had to adjust to that. But all that being said,
Speaker 1: you know, I was really impressed by how this defense
Speaker 1: has really picked itself up after a rough first six quarters.
Speaker 1: No one's debating that, no one's denying that, but been
Speaker 1: able to show more of what it's supposed to look
Speaker 1: like despite the fact they don't have you know, Zadarius
Speaker 1: Smith right now. So I thought that was a major
Speaker 1: step forward. Yeah, absolutely, and quite frankly, the final drive, Yes,
Speaker 1: the defense needs to rise up and get a stop
Speaker 1: there with the score one. Unfortunately, it was a mistake
Speaker 1: by the third safety and the dime Henry Black that
Speaker 1: led to the ruptured play with with George Kittle thirty
Speaker 1: nine yards on that play, Well, that's more than half
Speaker 1: of the seventy five yards they they they had to defend.
Speaker 1: And that's that's the one thing you can't do in
Speaker 1: those late game you know, whether it's four minute, two
Speaker 1: minute situations, is you can't give up those huge chunks
Speaker 1: of yard as you have to give yourself the opportunities
Speaker 1: down the field at the thirty five, at the forty five,
Speaker 1: at the at the minus forty five, at the minus
Speaker 1: forty to potentially get those stops and keep the other
Speaker 1: team out of scoring range. The thirty nine yard played
Speaker 1: a Kittle Suddenly the forty Niners went from needing seventy
Speaker 1: five yards to get a touchdown to being in complete
Speaker 1: command with plenty of time on the clock and everything
Speaker 1: that they that they wanted to do. So that that's
Speaker 1: that's the one thing. And the Packers the way that
Speaker 1: the way the last game and a half had been going,
Speaker 1: they were not giving up explore some plays. They just
Speaker 1: gave one up at a bad time. Yeah, totally. And
Speaker 1: and that's also the rich thing. It's kind of what
Speaker 1: I find quizzical with his fans will always say, well,
Speaker 1: why do they do this in two minutes? Well, sometimes
Speaker 1: the way they play there too minute defenses because they
Speaker 1: don't want to give up the big ruptured play that
Speaker 1: not only allows a lot of production but doesn't drain
Speaker 1: any time off the clock. That's that's ultimately the game
Speaker 1: you're sort of playing there a little bit, but you know, overall,
Speaker 1: you know, for to have as many moving pieces as
Speaker 1: they've had, you know, jyr Alexander, as you said, as
Speaker 1: incredible of an interception as you're gonna find a guy
Speaker 1: going from the boundary position coming are there is absolutely
Speaker 1: no way Jimmy Garoppolo thought that pass would be in
Speaker 1: danger of getting picked off. He threw that deep down
Speaker 1: the middle to Kittle, thinking either my great tight end
Speaker 1: is gonna is gonna make this play or it's just
Speaker 1: going to be an incomplete deep ball, and Alexander comes
Speaker 1: swooping over and get that such an and yard return
Speaker 1: out of it to Boot. So yeah, just a tremendous
Speaker 1: play by jar. The point being with that is Alexander's interception,
Speaker 1: the four sacks, the act that Devondra Campbell got yet
Speaker 1: another takeaway this week, which was a fantastic development from
Speaker 1: the inside backer position. The Packers are making plays defensively,
Speaker 1: and that was the main thing in that first game
Speaker 1: against New Orleans. They just couldn't generate positive plays for themselves.
Speaker 1: And I just feel like, yes, there's gonna be times
Speaker 1: where defenses or offenses get yardage, but the way you
Speaker 1: can always neutralize that is by making plays defensively. And
Speaker 1: I think you're seeing the studs, the athleticism in this
Speaker 1: secondary and especially up front starting to reveal itself a
Speaker 1: little bit. So I'm excited to see where they go
Speaker 1: this week now going up against you know, the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. Well, last thing before we go, We'll just
Speaker 1: take a look at where things stand in the NFC
Speaker 1: North after three games, the Packers are all lone in
Speaker 1: first place at two and one. The Chicago Bears in
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings both one and two, having gotten there in
Speaker 1: very different fashions. The Bears now they don't know who
Speaker 1: their quarterback is going to be because of the injury situation.
Speaker 1: They might end up going to Nick Foles. Here in
Speaker 1: Week four, the Viking get a big win over the
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks, and as we talked about with the Vikings
Speaker 1: first two games, they were so close to winning both
Speaker 1: of those. The Minnesota Vikings are like, you know, fractions
Speaker 1: of inches from being a three and o team. Here,
Speaker 1: um they are one and two with with with an
Speaker 1: impressive win in the books, and the Detroit Lions oh
Speaker 1: and three losing, losing in a way that just has
Speaker 1: to be tremendous gut punch to to Dan Campbell in
Speaker 1: trying to get his first win as an NFL head coach,
Speaker 1: allowing the fourth and nineteen, the miss delayed game, the
Speaker 1: sixty six yard record field goal that bounces off the crossbar,
Speaker 1: Detroit oh and three, But but but an oh and three,
Speaker 1: that's been a pretty darn competitive one. Yeah, and that's
Speaker 1: the thing Mike, with those a f C, you know,
Speaker 1: crossover games, those are the times you have to see
Speaker 1: the FC come through for you. So through the Packers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it sucks watching Detroit, which I think they're doing things
Speaker 1: the right way. I think Dan Campbell is the right
Speaker 1: voice for them right now. But you know, the Packers
Speaker 1: have to be happy to see them come up with
Speaker 1: an l they're It was incredible watching it developed. I
Speaker 1: was watching the actual play as in real time and
Speaker 1: my boss Duke Bober, who had the video the game
Speaker 1: whatever you call that game station whatever ESPN has where
Speaker 1: it has like the stat box score thing going on,
Speaker 1: but they have the percentages on there for what the
Speaker 1: outcome is, you know, the win probability. And to see
Speaker 1: it go from Detroit Lions to Baltimore Ravens in just
Speaker 1: a quick like real time refresh was jarring. And then
Speaker 1: to hit that field go. I wrote this an inbox Mike.
Speaker 1: Pound for pound. I'll debate people if they want to
Speaker 1: talk about it, but Justin Tucker is the greatest pound
Speaker 1: for pound kicker that I think we've ever seen this
Speaker 1: league in terms of the pedigree coming into the league.
Speaker 1: His power, his accuracy, and the fact that he does
Speaker 1: come up in those clutch moments. The Baltimore Ravens know
Speaker 1: what they have in Tuckers, the reason he is the
Speaker 1: highest paid kicker in the league. But for him to
Speaker 1: come in there sixty six yards that think shouldn't had
Speaker 1: been close to the crossbar, let alone hitting it and
Speaker 1: bouncing over, and to see that Detroit fans behind it
Speaker 1: just in disbelief. It was kind of sounds amazing. I
Speaker 1: think I think you were doing I think you were
Speaker 1: doing pregame radio at the time. I was. I was
Speaker 1: watching in the little conference room where where we watched
Speaker 1: the um the game against San Francisco Sunday night. I
Speaker 1: was watching the NBC pregame show, and when they showed
Speaker 1: that highlight of Tucker's long kick, Drew Brees pointed out,
Speaker 1: zeroing in on Tucker, how he actually did like a
Speaker 1: little crow hop, like a like a baseball outfielder, does
Speaker 1: you know, and trying to throw out a guy at
Speaker 1: home plate kind of thing. He did a little crow
Speaker 1: hop with his footwork to get that much more into
Speaker 1: that kick. And the fact that a guy can that,
Speaker 1: a guy can do that, and the thing is dead
Speaker 1: on accurate. I mean he hit the he hit the
Speaker 1: crossbar at sixty six yards, but right in the middle
Speaker 1: of the crossbar. I mean he was straight down the
Speaker 1: middle with that kick, even adjusting his footwork and everything
Speaker 1: to try to get a little bit more energy into it.
Speaker 1: It looked like the guy is is what it looks Yeah,
Speaker 1: the guy is. The guy is a phenomenal kicker. Had
Speaker 1: the sixty one yard or in that same stadium, Ford Field,
Speaker 1: to help out the Packers in when the Lions were
Speaker 1: looking like they were going to win the NFC North
Speaker 1: that year. And now he hits a sixty six yard
Speaker 1: or at Ford Field. Just unbelievable. Yeah, pretty special moment.
Speaker 1: But yeah, for the Green Bay Packers too. And one,
Speaker 1: it's a good place to be right now in a
Speaker 1: division where there's a there's a lot of teams working
Speaker 1: through some early early season adversity right now. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: And the Packers are back at home in Week four
Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh, which we will talk about on our next show.
Speaker 1: For that, we're calling it a wrap on this edition
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