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Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot com.

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Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford sitting alongside West Hodkowits were coming

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Speaker 1: to you here from our studios at lambeau Field and West.

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Speaker 1: I want to start off this new show by taking

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Speaker 1: care of a little bit of old business, you might say,

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Speaker 1: and what I'm referring to is wrapping up our peak

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Speaker 1: Performances segment, because this past week on packers dot com

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Speaker 1: we posted the collection. Essentially if if you've been following

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Speaker 1: the series, either here on Packers Unscripted or on Packers

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Speaker 1: dot com, we had peak performances by individual players selected

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Speaker 1: from the different quarters of the season games one through

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Speaker 1: four or five through eight, etcetera. Fans could then vote

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Speaker 1: for their favorite from each of those segments of the season.

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Speaker 1: So now what we have on the website is an

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Speaker 1: opportunity for fans to log on and vote for their

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Speaker 1: peak performance of the year, which is the top vote

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Speaker 1: getter from each of those four quarters of the season.

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Speaker 1: And the way it came out not a whole lot

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Speaker 1: of surprises. I think all of these were ones that

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Speaker 1: you and I had voted for when we talked about

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Speaker 1: them initially. But quarter number one Mike Daniels versus Seattle,

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Speaker 1: quarter number two Aaron Rodgers at Dallas, quarter number three

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Speaker 1: Dean Lowry at home against Tampa Bay, and then quarter

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Speaker 1: number four Davante Adams and that performance at Cleveland. UM,

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Speaker 1: all of those obviously standout performances. Is there one that

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Speaker 1: you would pick as the performance of the year for

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Speaker 1: the Green Bay Pack I'm gonna go with Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: against Dallas, And as you wrote in the brief rite

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Speaker 1: this year. And obviously he did come back against Carolina,

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Speaker 1: but this was the game I ought when you look

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Speaker 1: back at two thousand seventeen and maybe the missed opportunity

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Speaker 1: that was there. UM, this was one of those games

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Speaker 1: overcome some adversity, UH in Cowboys Stadium. It certainly wasn't

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Speaker 1: a gimme type game. But the way Rogers played UM

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Speaker 1: and and how he how clutch he was down the stretch,

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Speaker 1: had a big reason why the Packers were able to

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Speaker 1: also come up with that victory late. Yeah, I definitely

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Speaker 1: like that choice as well. Aaron Rodgers. I thought, you know,

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Speaker 1: it was a a Kuda Gras type of performance by

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Speaker 1: Rogers in Dallas, with you know, very much the opposite

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Speaker 1: of the playoff game from the year before, and that

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Speaker 1: hanging on for dear life. The Cowboys tied up and

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Speaker 1: then the Packers winning. At the end this one, Packers

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Speaker 1: were down. I believe it was twenty one to six

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Speaker 1: at one point. The Packers are the team that needs

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Speaker 1: cast a vote for another one, I'll vote for Mike

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Speaker 1: Daniels against Seattle. And the reason I say that not

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Speaker 1: only because it was a performance that, although Daniels did

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Speaker 1: his season you know, didn't necessarily live up to what

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Speaker 1: and then ultimately get into the Pro Bowl um as

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Speaker 1: in terms of, you know, establishing leadership with a certain

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Speaker 1: I look at this is the same situation when you

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Speaker 1: Mike Petton was installed as a new defensive coordinator has

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Speaker 1: When I'm Mike Petton, if I step back and I

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Speaker 1: People forget they were top ten defense through the first

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Speaker 1: four games. Unfortunately, through attrition, they just really never never

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Speaker 1: They're young and they don't have questions and basically everybody

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Speaker 1: think that shows you exactly what you have there and

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Packers Unscripted. Mike Spofford here, Wes Hodkowitz

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Speaker 1: over there, and West we'd bring up our Insider Inbox

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Speaker 1: few days, you have engaged in some interesting discussion, lively debate.

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Speaker 1: revolving around free agency, and that being what does resigning

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Speaker 1: your own free agents mean? And I've seen what you've written.

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Speaker 1: You contend very much that you know, people forget to

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Speaker 1: I think it's a I think it's an interesting debate.

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Speaker 1: It certainly has gotten rather lively on our website. I

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Speaker 1: know it's something that that you feel pretty strongly about

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Speaker 1: remaining status quo. In My main argument against this has been,

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Speaker 1: The Packers resigned him. If they don't resign Davante Adams,

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Speaker 1: I just think it's it's irrelevant in my estimation. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: You're you're making that decision and setting up that signing

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Speaker 1: you're you're not You're not resigning a twenty four year

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Speaker 1: expect that the rest of Wait, no, you're making that

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