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Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. 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 Weston hod Kowitz. It's the bye week.

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Speaker 1: Packers Unscripted, hopefully just for one episode. Um, we'll get

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Speaker 1: Packers have gotten to that bye week at nine and

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Speaker 1: the l A Ramp. So I was getting ready for

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Speaker 1: work this morning, Michael, as of a lot of Americans do,

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Speaker 1: and I was thinking about, Hey, how am I going

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Speaker 1: to start Packers Unscripted? Where we're gonna do one shot

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Speaker 1: What is the number one point that I want to

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Speaker 1: and this bye week spe actual week thirteen. Addition, you

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Speaker 1: know what I came up with, Mike? What was that

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Speaker 1: I'm going to use this moment before we talk about

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Speaker 1: the game, before we talk about those other things. To

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Speaker 1: just mention Matt Lafleur as the NFL Coach of the Year.

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Speaker 1: I almost said defensive coach of the year. The guy

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Speaker 1: has not gotten the credit he deserves now. The first thing,

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Speaker 1: if you ever would mention this to matth flor, you

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Speaker 1: tried to ask him about, you know, being the first

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Speaker 1: go that great. He's not gonna about don't want to

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Speaker 1: talk about it. But the thing is is they've moved

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Speaker 1: the hashes on him so much. Right, I felt like

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Speaker 1: in two thousand nineteen he deserved to be the NFL

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Speaker 1: Coach of the Year. It was it was the biggest

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Speaker 1: turnaround Enfranchise history year over year in terms of wins

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Speaker 1: and losses. So they gave it to John Harbor whatever

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Speaker 1: this year, Mike, What what this team has done to

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Speaker 1: be nine and three, to not have anybody's four straight

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Speaker 1: months exactly four straight months when they started the first

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Speaker 1: Angeles Rams on on Sunday, Mike, they went without any

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Speaker 1: real breaks in between. They've had injuries, they've had adversity,

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Speaker 1: they've had distractions, and Matt Lafleur has kept this team

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Speaker 1: and they all deserve a lot of credit. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: to talk about the fact that Matt Lafleur is pretty

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Speaker 1: darn good at what he does. Yeah. Absolutely, And I'll

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Speaker 1: go back to what I wrote about in my postgame

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Speaker 1: editorial after the game on Sunday night. Matt Lafleur has

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Speaker 1: to have a losing streak. And the reason I bring

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Speaker 1: any moment in these three seasons that two and a half,

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Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur has been the head coach of the package,

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Speaker 1: if there were any moment where one loss was going

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Speaker 1: It's a it's a kick in the gut, but your

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Speaker 1: Well in the big reason we do this is because yes,

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Speaker 1: there's five games left to the regular season. But Mike,

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Speaker 1: this process works. They don't pick the coach the year

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Speaker 1: it's funny you see profoitball focusing some of these places.

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Speaker 1: They throw up, Hey, who should you? The coach is

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Speaker 1: best coaches in the game. The guy just never gets

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Speaker 1: it's oh, you have Aaron Rodgers. Well, but Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: everyone was saying he was past it when they got

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Speaker 1: and and that has Ben Matt Lafleur. Yeah. Absolutely, And

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Speaker 1: And we all saw Elton Jenkins go down in Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's a huge game and in Arizona's look,

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Speaker 1: you know, human, I think if you look at it

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Speaker 1: pound for pound, the Cardinals and the Packers still are

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Speaker 1: you know, they've had some up like some some bad

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Speaker 1: So Chicago Bears, man, it's it's been up, it's been

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Speaker 1: a huge thing, especially with you know, the Bears kind

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Speaker 1: North Division race right now. Yeah, it's it's early in

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Speaker 1: the week at this point, but we'll see where things

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Speaker 1: I think everybody would like to see justin fields against

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Speaker 1: the the new age quarterback so to speak, whatever you

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Speaker 1: uh and didn't give him the ball and UH So

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Speaker 1: um at Indianapolis to stay at three losses and to

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Speaker 1: The Falcons, you talk about a team that you can't

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Speaker 1: right in that range, and they are absolutely still alive

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Speaker 1: system in the seven teams from each conference. So the

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons have everything in the world to play for

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Speaker 1: hosting their division rival on Sunday. Yeah, tam Tampa Bay.

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Speaker 1: It's very interesting, Mike, very kind of looking like last year.

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Speaker 1: They're not winning, you know, on style points right now.

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Speaker 1: It's it's been a lot of knockdown, grinding, moot type games.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately for them last year they got really hot at

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Speaker 1: the end of the season. We'll have to see if

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Speaker 1: the Burners can kind of ignite their for them heading

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Speaker 1: into this postseason hunt. Certainly Carolina cooled off. New Orleans

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Speaker 1: is just a mess right now, and in Atlanta, as

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Speaker 1: you said, you don't really know what you're gonna get,

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Speaker 1: so um that that's gonna be an interesting one to

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Speaker 1: watch it and really just seeing who can play the

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Speaker 1: most consistent football in the month of December. Like, I

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Speaker 1: know a lot of people have used this excuse, and

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna call it an excuse, but a lot of

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Speaker 1: folks have been talking about, well, last year the Packers

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Speaker 1: were the number one seed, and I mean all the

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Speaker 1: in which they finally get that number one seed, they're

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Speaker 1: playing inside a stadium with nine thousand people, like they

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Speaker 1: So when people ask that about oh, you know, if

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Speaker 1: want to be able to get that same scenario to

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Speaker 1: play out with seventy eight thousand fans inside those stands.

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Speaker 1: So I think that goal is very tangible for green

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Speaker 1: Bay right now. I think you look at this this,

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Speaker 1: year in which you went into the month of December

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Speaker 1: where there were this many teams sort of log jammed

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Speaker 1: right at the top, with all with really decent shots

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Speaker 1: with a good run here at at that by in

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Speaker 1: that in the number one season their respective conference. So uh,

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Speaker 1: like I mentioned, it's all about consistency, and to this point,

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Speaker 1: green Bay has been one of, if not the most

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Speaker 1: consistent team in the National Football League, and it's given

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Speaker 1: them an opportunity now to really put this thing into

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Speaker 1: overdrive with three of the last five at home, and

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Speaker 1: certainly with this bye week giving them a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a chance to get healthier here before that stretch run. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: no question about it. And usually you get past Thanksgiving

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Speaker 1: and as you said, maybe things look a little bit

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Speaker 1: clearer in terms of the playoff picture. But with the

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Speaker 1: extra game he's seventeen regular season games now, there's just

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Speaker 1: there's just that much more season left to go, that

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Speaker 1: much more jockeying for position. That's UH. That's going to

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Speaker 1: happen here down the stretch and will be worth watching.

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Speaker 1: I'll have the path of the playoffs. We're gonna debut you.

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Speaker 1: Good luck with that this week on the on the

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Speaker 1: bye we'll get that. We'll get that posted here at

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Speaker 1: the end of the week and make that a weekly

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Speaker 1: feature here the rest of the way. But with that,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna call it a rap on this Zoom edition

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Speaker 1: of Packers Unscripted. Be sure to follow all of our

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Speaker 1: coverage of the team. We've still got plenty of content

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Speaker 1: for you during the bye week. Don't tune us out, folks.

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Speaker 1: Lots of stuff going up on the website and uh

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Speaker 1: and then again next week when we come back with

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Speaker 1: more of this show. So for West, I am Mike,

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Speaker 1: thank you for tuning in. Everybody. We will see you

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