Speaker 1: M Hi, everybody. Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford. He is the one and only
Speaker 1: West Hodkowitz. We're coming to here from our studios at
Speaker 1: lambeau Field West. It's our Wednesday show, our middle of
Speaker 1: the week show, and that means we start looking ahead
Speaker 1: at the Packers next opponent, the San Francisco forty Niners.
Speaker 1: It will be a seven pm Central Time kickoff on
Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football from Levi Stadium in Santa Clara. This
Speaker 1: forty Niners team, they are currently the top team in
Speaker 1: the NFC and tied for the best record in all
Speaker 1: of football at nine and one. Um, let's take a
Speaker 1: dive here into the offense and defense for the forty Enners.
Speaker 1: On offense, Jimmy Garoppolo is the quarterback. Last year was
Speaker 1: supposed to be his first year as a starter as
Speaker 1: the guy in the spotlight that got cut short by
Speaker 1: a knee injury. So this year he's the guy and
Speaker 1: he's had some ups and downs in terms of the
Speaker 1: statistics and whatnot. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: the forty nine are nine and one and they look
Speaker 1: to me at the quarterback position. Like they have a
Speaker 1: quarterback whose arrow is pointing out he's a winner. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's the biggest thing that stands out to me. He
Speaker 1: was a winner when he had to fill in, and
Speaker 1: with the New England Patriots, he's been a winner since
Speaker 1: he's gotten to San Francisco. I don't know the exact stats.
Speaker 1: I want to say it's something like nineteen and two
Speaker 1: as a starter, and there is something to be said.
Speaker 1: I'm not one of those guys that subscribes the quarterback wins,
Speaker 1: but you can't also deny the fact that this guy's
Speaker 1: had a lot of success in a very short window
Speaker 1: of time with what he's being asked to do. And
Speaker 1: last week I thought was a very telling performance for him.
Speaker 1: As I said on Monday's show, I mean, this is
Speaker 1: a situation where that running game, the second ranked run
Speaker 1: game in the NFL, it was there for him. Matt
Speaker 1: Breeda did not play in that game with the ankle.
Speaker 1: He needed to be able to carry the forty Niners,
Speaker 1: and as Kyle Shanahan said after the game, he did that.
Speaker 1: They won that game because of their quarterback. The thing
Speaker 1: that is interesting about him though, for this day and
Speaker 1: age and in two thousand one. No one would have
Speaker 1: thought anything different to this, but he does, you know,
Speaker 1: put the ball in jeopardy at times. He has ten
Speaker 1: interceptions in ten games this season. That is a number
Speaker 1: that you know, you go back to again twenty years ago,
Speaker 1: sixteen interceptions for a season. No one would scoff at that,
Speaker 1: but now you know teams are putting such a premium
Speaker 1: on protecting the football. That is one slight window that
Speaker 1: I think the Packers could potentially take advantage of. But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, this is a guy
Speaker 1: that's going to probably end up throwing for well over
Speaker 1: four thousand yards. He's proven that he's a starting caliber
Speaker 1: quarterback in this league in credit to John Lynch, and
Speaker 1: you know, you look at the job that Kyle Shanahan's
Speaker 1: done being able to find him, develop him, and turn
Speaker 1: him into the quarterback that I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people thought he could be. Well, you mentioned the way
Speaker 1: the Fortys won their last game, but for the bulk
Speaker 1: of the season, Kyle Shannon the hand has predicated this
Speaker 1: offense on the ground game and they have what a
Speaker 1: lot of people have referred to as a three headed
Speaker 1: monster on the ground. When everyone is healthy, Matt Brita,
Speaker 1: Tevin Coleman Raheem Mosterd. Now Brita is the guy who's
Speaker 1: been injured of late, and at this point we really
Speaker 1: don't know exactly what his status will be for Sunday
Speaker 1: night against the Packers. But these three guys, if you
Speaker 1: if you take their numbers and combine them in terms
Speaker 1: of looking at it as though this running game had
Speaker 1: one feature running back. The production they've had on the
Speaker 1: ground is considerable. As you said, they were ranked number
Speaker 1: two in the league in rushing offense going into the
Speaker 1: Arizona game, and really that their last two games the
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks, which they lost in overtime and then the
Speaker 1: comeback victory over Arizona, those are the only two games
Speaker 1: this year where they've really struggled from the football, struggled
Speaker 1: to get it going and had to put the game
Speaker 1: on garoppolo shoulders. And you know, with where the Packers
Speaker 1: are with their run defense and some of the struggles
Speaker 1: they've had, especially over the last month against the run,
Speaker 1: you know Kyle Shanahan is coming into this game looking
Speaker 1: at getting that ground game cranked up again. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's funny you mentioned the three at a monster I'd
Speaker 1: even throw the fourth head in there too with Kyle
Speaker 1: us Check. He doesn't carry the ball like those guys do,
Speaker 1: but he's a valid point out of the backfield. So
Speaker 1: it is kind of a happy accident how this all
Speaker 1: came together for San Francisco, though Jerick McKinnon was supposed
Speaker 1: to be the guy for them two years ago, and
Speaker 1: he's had a series of injuries that he's had to
Speaker 1: work through. Yeah, they paid him some pretty big money
Speaker 1: to come over from Minnesota as a as a free
Speaker 1: agent and and to be a key guy in the
Speaker 1: running game, but injuries have prevented him from really stepping
Speaker 1: into the spotlight. Yeah, So Brita and most they became
Speaker 1: sort of the one two combo, and then you add
Speaker 1: Tevin Coleman into the mix, and and here you are
Speaker 1: with three different backs that all present different challenges. That's
Speaker 1: what stands out to me. It's really interesting though, because
Speaker 1: it seems like out of the three, none of them
Speaker 1: have really been playing their best ball at the same time.
Speaker 1: Maybe one guy breaks out and then somebody else does,
Speaker 1: but it's not like it's just been one continual circle
Speaker 1: of guys just going in there and getting ten twenty
Speaker 1: yards of pop. I mean, they they just kind of
Speaker 1: wear you down. That's the way they approached this thing.
Speaker 1: They felt like they need to make a big move
Speaker 1: at the debt trading deadline. They went and got you know,
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders. I mean, you've seen Deebo Samuel step up
Speaker 1: for them at receiver. George Kittle has missed a couple
Speaker 1: of games here with knee and ankle injuries. But you know,
Speaker 1: if this team is going to be as successful as
Speaker 1: I think they feel they can be with the start
Speaker 1: that they're off to and and you know the identity
Speaker 1: they've established, it has to start on the ground and
Speaker 1: from the Packers perspective, that's where you have to stop them.
Speaker 1: You have to be able to do that. Now, that's
Speaker 1: not an automatic keat to victory. Just ask the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 1: You also need to keep tabs on Garoppolo. But that's
Speaker 1: what is the most dangerous about the fort They can
Speaker 1: just beat you in so many different ways, and over
Speaker 1: the course of season they've proven that and that is
Speaker 1: ultimately what has gotten them to nine and one. Well,
Speaker 1: you mentioned George Kittle, the tight end. He is the
Speaker 1: leading received or on this team with I believe it's
Speaker 1: five forty one receiving yards and he is still the
Speaker 1: leading receiver on this team, despite the fact that he
Speaker 1: has missed the last two games. Now he's another guy
Speaker 1: that we aren't sure what his injury status will be
Speaker 1: come Sunday night. But when you look at this game
Speaker 1: from a matchup standpoint, the two things that have, you know,
Speaker 1: really bugged the Packers over the last four to six
Speaker 1: weeks have been the running game and have been handling
Speaker 1: big time tight ends. And uh, this is exactly what
Speaker 1: the forty Niners build their offense on if they can
Speaker 1: get George Kittle back. And that's taking nothing away from
Speaker 1: um Raw. I believe it's Ross Dwelly. I was trying
Speaker 1: to remember the first name. Um He's obviously stepped in
Speaker 1: as the number two tight end in Kittle's absence, but
Speaker 1: George Kittle is a premier player in this league. You've
Speaker 1: been able to watch Kiddle much this year, only only
Speaker 1: a little. So I've watched I've watched San Francisco quite
Speaker 1: a bit because spoil alert checks notes he's on my
Speaker 1: fantasy team. But here's here's the thing is that you
Speaker 1: can't replicate him. Either he plays or he doesn't and Dwell,
Speaker 1: he's made a couple of catches here, he has a
Speaker 1: couple of touchdowns. But kit will just add such a
Speaker 1: different to mention to this game. And it's not even
Speaker 1: the fact that I mean, as long as catch this
Speaker 1: here's forty five yards. It's the way he moves the chains.
Speaker 1: I mean, you want to look at a running game
Speaker 1: that wins down in distance and then you've got a
Speaker 1: guy like Kittle that can win third downs, third and manageables.
Speaker 1: That's how they moved the football, That's how they've been
Speaker 1: a difference maker. He didn't really set the world on
Speaker 1: fire this year like he did last season when he
Speaker 1: sort of was just their go to for their entire offense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: his numbers were off the charts for a tight end,
Speaker 1: completely ridiculous, credible. So it's come down to earth. But
Speaker 1: it's funny when you have forty six catches for five
Speaker 1: and forty one yards and two touchdowns and you've missed
Speaker 1: two games and that's coming back down to earth in
Speaker 1: Week twelve in the NFL. I mean, he's just he
Speaker 1: is a difference maker. He is a monster. If he plays,
Speaker 1: that is the number one focus. You have to shut
Speaker 1: him down. You cannot let him get loose, especially with
Speaker 1: some of these issues the Packers have had against tight
Speaker 1: ends as of late. If he doesn't play, though I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that's a position you can overlook dwell, he
Speaker 1: could step up. There's different guys that could become targets
Speaker 1: for Garoppolo in this offense, but there is no one
Speaker 1: like George Kittle. And you can ask Robert Tyne and
Speaker 1: he trained with them during the offseason. They're good friends,
Speaker 1: they share an agent. This guy is just different. He
Speaker 1: is arguably the best tight end in the game right now,
Speaker 1: him and Travis Kelsey probably going back and forth for
Speaker 1: that distinction. And if he's out there, he's problems. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And that's certainly an injury situation. We'll be watching all
Speaker 1: week long and it could be one of those things
Speaker 1: that we may not find out until ninety minutes before
Speaker 1: kickoff whether he's suiting up or not. Because, uh, the
Speaker 1: forty Niners, they understand how big this game is just
Speaker 1: as much as the Packers do. When you have nine
Speaker 1: and one versus eight and two going at it in
Speaker 1: the NFC in Week twelve, and the forty Niners are
Speaker 1: going to give all these injured guys as much opportunity
Speaker 1: as possible to to get ready to take the field
Speaker 1: Sunday night. Yeah, I mean this is one thing too.
Speaker 1: They are so banged up right now, the four d
Speaker 1: Niners are. And Kyle Shanahan, to his credit, he went
Speaker 1: to the podium on Monday and he went through kind
Speaker 1: of where they are with everything, and he admitted that
Speaker 1: as we talked about, there's a guy coming back from
Speaker 1: a concussion, one of their linebackers are open it back.
Speaker 1: The rest of it is kind of up in the air.
Speaker 1: Brita Kittle, Sanders working through the rib injury, even you know,
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel having a shoulder coming out of that game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders had missed some time and then he was
Speaker 1: back for the Arizona game. But it seems that his
Speaker 1: his status is not entirely certain moving forward, even though
Speaker 1: he came back and played last Sunday. Yeah, I'm actually
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look that up. I'm kind of curious how
Speaker 1: much he actually has played him in that game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he only played thirty six snaps, So they were very
Speaker 1: smart with him. The hope was is that he's going
Speaker 1: to be able to you know, take another step this week.
Speaker 1: It didn't sound like there's any setbacks. And if you
Speaker 1: follow the forty niners at all, Sanders has been a
Speaker 1: great addition for them. They felt like they were a
Speaker 1: veteran receiver away from really being able to fill that
Speaker 1: offense out. And in his short time here, the three
Speaker 1: weeks or whatever it's been, he's been a big target
Speaker 1: for Jimmy probably yeah, alright. Well, shifting gears to the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball, the forty nine ers, their rankings,
Speaker 1: their statistics just as impressive on the defensive side as
Speaker 1: the offensive side. You don't get to eight no halfway
Speaker 1: through a season and to nine and one after ten games.
Speaker 1: About putting up some pretty good numbers this defense. The
Speaker 1: biggest thing that sticks out to me the thirty nine
Speaker 1: sacks that they have. They actually have a plus twenty
Speaker 1: differential in sacks. They have thirty nine sacks as the defense,
Speaker 1: they've only allowed nineteen on offense. That's a pretty big split.
Speaker 1: This defense also has twenty two takeaways, which is third
Speaker 1: in the league. Now, there turnover margin for the season
Speaker 1: is only plus five and that's partly due to the
Speaker 1: those interceptions of Garoppolos that you mentioned earlier, but twenty
Speaker 1: two takeaways is number three in the league. This defense,
Speaker 1: this defense gets after it west and the pass rush
Speaker 1: in particular. Four different guys in the defensive front have
Speaker 1: five or more sack in the season. You have Eric
Speaker 1: Armstead with eight, Nick Bosa, the rookie number two overall
Speaker 1: draft pick with seven, d Ford with six and a half.
Speaker 1: Branson is a Brentson Buckner. Sorry, that's going back with yeah, sorry,
Speaker 1: DeForest Buckner with five. Now Ford is a guy another
Speaker 1: one of these guys on the injury list that they're
Speaker 1: not sure, they're not sure what's going on there. But
Speaker 1: still you've got you've got four guys on that defensive
Speaker 1: front with five or more sacks on the year. You
Speaker 1: can't just say, okay, well, we need to we need
Speaker 1: to shut down Nick Bosa. It doesn't it doesn't work
Speaker 1: that way with these guys. Yeah, And it's just incredible
Speaker 1: to see how how they've rebuilt that defense. You know,
Speaker 1: from the units that you and I remember from two
Speaker 1: thousand eleven through and you know, there's so many talented
Speaker 1: players and you had you had that group of Justin
Speaker 1: Smith and Navarro, Bowman and and um Um the number
Speaker 1: fifty two. Patrick Weller, the guy in the middle. I
Speaker 1: was trying to remember I had some pretty good dbs
Speaker 1: to go with the group. Slowly but surely, they've built
Speaker 1: this thing back right and made you. Look at Jimmy Ward.
Speaker 1: They drafted him a number of years ago out of
Speaker 1: Northern Illinois. Fred Warner, who's leading them in tackles right now.
Speaker 1: He was one of those auxiliary pieces when all the
Speaker 1: Dominos fell from that trade that they made with the Bears.
Speaker 1: They ended up with him on one of those extra trades.
Speaker 1: But let's you know, Mike Spofford, let's be real here.
Speaker 1: Nick Bosa is incredible, much like his brother. Someone asked
Speaker 1: us an insider inbox this week, is there any other
Speaker 1: team that's had to face both boases this here? Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: actually had to do it. But it's not an easy task.
Speaker 1: He's going to be a guy to keep an eye on.
Speaker 1: I just I love so many things about it. Eric
Speaker 1: Armstead as a really consistent player. You know, you go
Speaker 1: back and look at this Mike a number of years ago,
Speaker 1: Solomon Thomas, he was supposed to be like their big
Speaker 1: pass rusher. He's a rotational guy. The third or overall
Speaker 1: pick from two years ago, three years ago, they was
Speaker 1: that was the guy that that was the guy they
Speaker 1: took at number three when they gave up that pick
Speaker 1: to the Bears. When the Bears took Trabisky at two,
Speaker 1: then they took they took the Stanford defensive I'm in
Speaker 1: there at number three anyway, I digress, But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean Kwan, Alexander, Richard Sherman. They just they've drafted well,
Speaker 1: they've signed well. D Ford was one of the biggest
Speaker 1: acquisitions of the off season, and they've found a way
Speaker 1: with Robert Sala, who goes back a long way with
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur, and they both were quality control assistants with
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans to building this group up. Because Mike,
Speaker 1: let's look at this for a second. You were talking
Speaker 1: about the turnover differential. Here's a couple other numbers for
Speaker 1: you here. Fourteen points per game difference as opposed to
Speaker 1: their opponents. They're averaging fourteen points more game than their opponents,
Speaker 1: a league best fifteen point five points per game, an
Speaker 1: average difference per game, and total yardage of a hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty three point six. They are second right now
Speaker 1: in total yardage as far as the defense one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty three and they are the best in the
Speaker 1: game right now against the past Mike a hundred and
Speaker 1: forty two point five passing yards allowed this season incredible. Well,
Speaker 1: when you look at this team was absolutely dominant through
Speaker 1: the first seven eight games of the season, if you
Speaker 1: want to look at some things are changing though, because
Speaker 1: through the first eight, sorry, through the first seven games
Speaker 1: of the season, this Forts defense gave up more than
Speaker 1: seventeen points only once in seven games. But in the
Speaker 1: last three games they've given up twenty five points per game.
Speaker 1: They've given up twenty five in a victory, twenty uh
Speaker 1: seven in a loss in overtime, and then I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: they've given up twenty six per game because it's gone
Speaker 1: and twenty six. So and yes, there have been some
Speaker 1: injuries involved Kwon Alexander, who you mentioned, a linebacker in
Speaker 1: the middle of everything. He's out for the rest of
Speaker 1: the year. He's been placed on injured reserve. So that's
Speaker 1: been a big loss for them. They have and we
Speaker 1: mentioned d Ford is banged up, so they're dealing with
Speaker 1: some things and their statistics are starting to regress at
Speaker 1: least a little bit towards the mean, because they're early
Speaker 1: in the season. Nobody could even do anything against these guys.
Speaker 1: And now over the last three games, there have been
Speaker 1: some you know, some chinks in the arm or so
Speaker 1: to speak, and teams have been able to put up
Speaker 1: twenty plus points and give them give themselves a chance.
Speaker 1: And certainly the Arizona Cardinals had opportunities to beat them
Speaker 1: twice and uh and the Seattle Seahawks pulled out that
Speaker 1: overtime game. Well, this is where the real test is
Speaker 1: gonna come for San Francisco, because, yeah, you do look
Speaker 1: at the first half of the season, the Bengals still
Speaker 1: have struggled to find themselves. Pittsburgh was working through some stuff.
Speaker 1: The Browns offense was not a good place. The Rams
Speaker 1: have been struggling. Washington's Washington Carolina had a backup quarterback. Well,
Speaker 1: now you go and you face Cliff Kingsbury's offense and
Speaker 1: what they do in Arizona. You see them twice in
Speaker 1: three weeks Seattle, and you play the extra quarter in
Speaker 1: that game. Now you got Green Bay. Now you have Baltimore,
Speaker 1: the top ranked offense in the league. That you have
Speaker 1: New Orleans, whom I think is three an offense in
Speaker 1: the league. They got some real challenges coming up, and
Speaker 1: this is the beginning half of it. And I think,
Speaker 1: you know, talking to this week and hearing Matt Lafleur speak,
Speaker 1: they understand the challenge that is in front of them
Speaker 1: and they embrace it. I think there's a part of
Speaker 1: Matt Lafloor, with all the ties that he has to
Speaker 1: both Shanahan and Sala, that he's eager to be able
Speaker 1: to kind of match wits a little bit, because honestly,
Speaker 1: who doesn't like playing chess with their friends every once
Speaker 1: in a while, right, I mean, they want to be
Speaker 1: able to have that challenge. This this battle though, it's
Speaker 1: just incredible, and you and I are going to talk
Speaker 1: about it all week long. But the implications of this,
Speaker 1: what this is gonna mean, not only for green Bay.
Speaker 1: So much is put on green Bay right now, trying
Speaker 1: to be in a tie for the league, for the
Speaker 1: number one seed right now in the NFC, trying to
Speaker 1: maintain that advantage in the NFC North. But you've got
Speaker 1: to look at it from San Francisco's perspective to their
Speaker 1: nine and one, and they still don't have that much
Speaker 1: breathing room in their own division. I even laid out
Speaker 1: the scenario that it's possible that they could be fourteen
Speaker 1: and two and still end up being a wild card
Speaker 1: if they win out, but then they lose the Seattle again.
Speaker 1: I mean, these are all the different, you know, mastinations
Speaker 1: of this playoff race that has to be taken into
Speaker 1: account because while there are six or seven teams that
Speaker 1: have kind of removed themselves from the pack, at this point,
Speaker 1: those six and seven teams are so tightly knit together
Speaker 1: that you know, the stake's going to be higher. And
Speaker 1: that is why they're putting this thing on Sunday Night
Speaker 1: football and you and I are flying in at five
Speaker 1: in the morning on Monday morning. That's right, well, and
Speaker 1: that you said it. The thing that is really interesting
Speaker 1: about this matchup is it's not just eight and two
Speaker 1: and nine and one, two of the teams that are
Speaker 1: at the top of the NFC, but it's what's going
Speaker 1: on in both of the divisions. Because the Niners are
Speaker 1: nine and one, but the Seahawks are eight and two
Speaker 1: right behind them, The Packers are eight in two, the
Speaker 1: Vikings who are on there by this week, they're eight
Speaker 1: and three right behind Green Bay. So and and then
Speaker 1: it's not just these four teams involved, but you have
Speaker 1: New Orleans there as well, and then you wonder, you wonder, Okay,
Speaker 1: you know, are the Rams suddenly going to maybe make
Speaker 1: a run because they get another shot at the Forts here?
Speaker 1: And uh and who knows what else might happen in
Speaker 1: that division. So it's really interesting all the things that
Speaker 1: are going on and the impact that this game could
Speaker 1: have on the bigger picture. But that being said, even
Speaker 1: after this game, there's still five more weeks of the
Speaker 1: regular season. As as these top teams are going to
Speaker 1: go head to head a bunch, we would be remiss
Speaker 1: if we didn't mention when we're talking about all these
Speaker 1: injuries with the San Francisco forty Niners. Just to back
Speaker 1: up a second, their kicker, Robbie Gold has been injured
Speaker 1: and their backup kicker whose name is escaping me at
Speaker 1: the moment. He's the young rookie from he McLaughlin. He
Speaker 1: he hit the big forty seven yard or whatever it
Speaker 1: was to send the Seattle game that Monday night game
Speaker 1: into overtime. But then he just completely duck hooked and
Speaker 1: a winning opportunity in overtime that then gave the Seahawks
Speaker 1: new life and Seattle ended up pulling that game out.
Speaker 1: So another key injury there, because Robbie Gold, as we
Speaker 1: all know, veteran guy, extremely reliable, not quite sure actually,
Speaker 1: uh where the forts are with McLoughlin and whether Robbie
Speaker 1: Gold will be back this week or not. So that's
Speaker 1: another injury situation to keep an eye. Yeah, and Gold
Speaker 1: is having a weird year two man. I mean, after
Speaker 1: all that conversation in the off season about if he
Speaker 1: wanted to go back to San Francisco or not, or
Speaker 1: if you want to get back to the Midwest. Well,
Speaker 1: now he's suddenly thirteen of twenty on the year, and
Speaker 1: that is coming after making thirty three of thirty four
Speaker 1: last year and thirty forty one the year before that.
Speaker 1: So it wasn't really like Gold before this whole soft
Speaker 1: tissue injury popped up was really lighting the world on fire.
Speaker 1: San Francisco is trying to find some answers for that
Speaker 1: position in and above that injury. But yeah, McLoughlin made
Speaker 1: such a clutch kick and then you know, put the
Speaker 1: next one in the tunnel. That's just the way it
Speaker 1: goes for kickers at times. Kind of just a whole
Speaker 1: home game last week made a field goal, made three
Speaker 1: three or four extra points and and got out of there. So, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're as Santahan also included with that, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of conversation he had on Monday morning, another guy that's
Speaker 1: gonna be going through the process and they'll see if
Speaker 1: he's available comes Sunday. Yeah. Well, as I've been saying,
Speaker 1: we will be watching the injury situation on the flip
Speaker 1: side of things the Packers right now. We'll see what
Speaker 1: happens as the week goes along in practice. But the
Speaker 1: Packers coming out of the bye week, all players on
Speaker 1: the fifty three man roster, we're going through practice to
Speaker 1: at least some extent on Monday. We'll see how that
Speaker 1: goes through the week. But but it looks like the
Speaker 1: Packers from an injury standpoint, are in about as good
Speaker 1: a shape as you could hope for for mid November. Yea.
Speaker 1: And from a personal perspective, it was really good to
Speaker 1: see Trey Smith actually on the field. To now we
Speaker 1: don't know for a fact where he stands in the
Speaker 1: concussion protocol. Sometimes guys practice and that's part of them
Speaker 1: passing through that, but it was kind of a scary incident.
Speaker 1: He had with that tackle. That was quite a collision. Obviously,
Speaker 1: he's right now the only guy lists on the depth
Speaker 1: chart as a kickoff returner and a punt returner for
Speaker 1: Green Bay. But you know, just to see him back
Speaker 1: out there appearing to be okay was really positive sign. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: we will follow what goes on in practice and with
Speaker 1: locker room interviews over the next couple of days, but
Speaker 1: for now we will sign off on this edition of
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