Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from
Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spoffer, joined as always
Speaker 1: by my trusted colleague West Hodkowitz. Were coming to you
Speaker 1: from our new and improved studio here at lambeau Field
Speaker 1: and West Packers Buccaneers Sunday PM Central Time kickoff. It
Speaker 1: will be the national doubleheader game on Fox. The entire
Speaker 1: country will get to watch this one, and it certainly
Speaker 1: wanted to look forward to. Not just because of Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers against Tom Brady, though that's certainly a big enough reason.
Speaker 1: About the Packers four and oh, the Buccaneers are three
Speaker 1: and two looking to avoid a two game losing streak.
Speaker 1: This is one I think, even though it's so early
Speaker 1: in the season, you just get the sense it could
Speaker 1: have some playoff implications down the road. Yeah, you really
Speaker 1: do believe that. And when you look at the way
Speaker 1: that these teams match up, like I said you earlier
Speaker 1: this week, I think the one area where the Bucks
Speaker 1: really need to clean things up is the penalties, the discipline.
Speaker 1: But in terms of just you know, talent scheme defense,
Speaker 1: they're as good as anybody in the NFC right now,
Speaker 1: and and being able to obviously build this offense now
Speaker 1: around Tom Brady has been the big key for them,
Speaker 1: but they have a running back, they have playmakers at
Speaker 1: tight end and receiver. Their defensive front is one of
Speaker 1: the best in the league right now. Not only can
Speaker 1: get pressure, can stop the run. And I think also
Speaker 1: we'll have to see, you know how this injury report
Speaker 1: shuffles out with Mike Evans and Leonard for NET. But overall,
Speaker 1: I mean you look at the way that they're able
Speaker 1: to win every single down. Uh, that presents a lot
Speaker 1: of challenges and that was one of the big topics
Speaker 1: that Matt Lafleur really discussed this week and his interactions
Speaker 1: with the media. Yeah, well, before we get to our
Speaker 1: keys to victory on both sides of the ball, a
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Speaker 1: that one. Well you mentioned it West. The penalties From
Speaker 1: a statistical perspective, Tampa Bay Buccaneers have been flagged for
Speaker 1: forty two penalties in five games. That's an average about
Speaker 1: eight per game. The Packers, on the other hand, only
Speaker 1: nineteen penalties in four games, only five per game. I
Speaker 1: think the discipline, you know, is going to be a
Speaker 1: big factor in this game. You don't if you're the Packers,
Speaker 1: you don't want to get into the kind of game
Speaker 1: that the Bears got into with the Buccaneers last Thursday,
Speaker 1: which is where the flags were kind of flying on
Speaker 1: both sides and uh and ultimately ended up hurting the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers more than Chicago. I don't think the Packers want
Speaker 1: to get into that kind of game. If the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: are gonna put themselves in tough down and distance or whatever,
Speaker 1: don't help them out, don't do them any favors in
Speaker 1: any other direction. Yeah, and you know, it's one of
Speaker 1: those things too that you look at this mic and
Speaker 1: in the way Green Bay has won to this point
Speaker 1: of the season. Yeah, you've had amazing performances out of
Speaker 1: individual players. You've had big you know, stops defensively, big
Speaker 1: plays defensively, and obviously Aaron Rodgers. But if you look
Speaker 1: at it from a bigger level, where the areas that
Speaker 1: they've kind of dominated their competition, time of possession with
Speaker 1: what they've accomplished in that area, protecting the football and
Speaker 1: being able to, you know, make sure that they're continuing
Speaker 1: their drives and not relinquishing field position. And the other
Speaker 1: thing is discipline. It's penalties. I mean that game against
Speaker 1: Detroit green Bay that was a pretty thoroughly one victory.
Speaker 1: But where was the turning point in that game? It
Speaker 1: was some of the extracurricular stuff that the Lions started doing.
Speaker 1: That green Bay was able to keep their heads about themselves,
Speaker 1: and we'll be able to pull that out in the
Speaker 1: second half. New Orleans. Now, there are a couple of
Speaker 1: penalties there that I think the Saints probably would object to,
Speaker 1: but they were flags nonetheless, and obviously going into the
Speaker 1: Atlantic game too, so I think again, my biggest key
Speaker 1: for this matchup is if the Packers play clean football,
Speaker 1: if they don't put the ball on the ground, if
Speaker 1: the defense isn't able to turn it over the Bucks defense,
Speaker 1: and you keep the time of possession to feel position,
Speaker 1: and also keeping yourselves in managuble down in distance. It's
Speaker 1: a very not rudimentary way to win a football game,
Speaker 1: but it's very meat potatoes. I think there's a solid
Speaker 1: blueprint there for what green Bay needs to do well
Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball. The Packers are
Speaker 1: fifth in the NFL in rushing yards. The Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Buccaneers number one rush defense in the league. This is
Speaker 1: going to be interesting because the Packers are fifth in
Speaker 1: the NFL running the football, but the last two games
Speaker 1: New Orleans and Atlanta, the Packers have not cracked a
Speaker 1: hundred yards rushing in those games. That number five ranking
Speaker 1: built more off of the first two games of the
Speaker 1: season than the last two the Buccaneers. This was the
Speaker 1: number one rushing defense in the league in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken. They've simply carried that over that
Speaker 1: defensive front. Yes, missing Vita Vea now that he's out
Speaker 1: for the season with a broken leg, but that defensive
Speaker 1: front is formidable. They've carried over what they've done from
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen here into and with as much as I
Speaker 1: think it could be a strugg for the Packers to
Speaker 1: run the ball as far as the key to victory,
Speaker 1: I kind of look at okay, if Davante Adams is
Speaker 1: coming back and all signs are pointing to Adams getting
Speaker 1: back on the field on Sunday, I think the Packers
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and Matt Lafleur. They need to get Davante
Speaker 1: Adams into the flow of the game quickly. He's been
Speaker 1: out for you know, two and a half games, plus
Speaker 1: the bye week. It's been it's been a bit of
Speaker 1: a break and you don't you don't want him to
Speaker 1: to not feel comfortable out there as the game goes along.
Speaker 1: You want him to get into it right away. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's proven in the past two that he can
Speaker 1: hit the ground running after missing some time and play
Speaker 1: really well right off the bat. Full participant in practice
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. All signs pointing up right now for him
Speaker 1: coming back from that hamstring injury. But this does really
Speaker 1: scream to me a Davante Adams type game because the
Speaker 1: last two games, and really the last two and a half,
Speaker 1: if you call out the second half against you know,
Speaker 1: the Lions, it came down to defenses wanting to take
Speaker 1: away Aaron Jones. So what were the counters to that.
Speaker 1: It was Alan Lazard stepping up, It was Robert Tony
Speaker 1: and getting open. It was Jamal Williams coming a really
Speaker 1: valuable threat as a receiver. Well, eventually you've got to
Speaker 1: get back to your three time Pro Bowl receiver. He
Speaker 1: seems like this is a tailor made matchup if the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers really are trying to stop the run to win
Speaker 1: Adams with winning his one on ones to get open downfield.
Speaker 1: I'll also mention this too, though all credit in the
Speaker 1: world the Tampa Bay very stout run defense, I don't
Speaker 1: know if they've really seen a threat like what Green
Speaker 1: Bay presents though in this matchup as well. I would
Speaker 1: agree with that. Certainly. A week ago Thursday night against Chicago,
Speaker 1: the Bears have almost no running game to speak O. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Austin Eichler the two weeks before that, I believe
Speaker 1: gets injured. The matchup only has two carries and the
Speaker 1: charges completely abort the run and you can go a
Speaker 1: different direction. So, uh, the first quarter of this game
Speaker 1: is just going to be thrilling to watch, just to
Speaker 1: see what exactly the initial game plan is going to
Speaker 1: be a Green Bay and how on the other side
Speaker 1: of the field, Todd Bowls and the Buccaneers are gonna
Speaker 1: try to attack it. Yeah. Well, and certainly when you're
Speaker 1: facing a defense as formidable as this one with Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can count on, you know,
Speaker 1: having five or six cracks in the red zone like
Speaker 1: the Packers have have had regularly here throughout the year.
Speaker 1: So I think there's a premium on finishing drives too.
Speaker 1: You're only gonna get so many shots against this defense
Speaker 1: in the red zone to try to to try to
Speaker 1: punch the ball in the end zone, and the Packers
Speaker 1: have to finish those drives. We talked about the short
Speaker 1: yardage situations and whatnot the other day. Whatever it takes,
Speaker 1: you can't be settling for field goals, especially when Tom
Speaker 1: Brady's the quarterback on the other side. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: agree with that wholeheartedly. In the other aspect of it too,
Speaker 1: There's gonna be six thousand, maybe more people there, and
Speaker 1: there's probably a lot of rowdy Buccaneers fans that are
Speaker 1: gonna be really excited for this matchup, So I think
Speaker 1: there could be some Packer fans in there. We've heard
Speaker 1: from a few and inside inbox who have tickets for
Speaker 1: Sunday's games, so I think they are going to be
Speaker 1: maybe some some Aaron Rodgers, Aaron Jones, Za, Darius Smith,
Speaker 1: Jersey sprinkled throughout to Raymond James Stadium, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: that welcome that too. But like Davante Adams, said, it
Speaker 1: really doesn't even matter, just he is excited to potentially
Speaker 1: have some people to play in front of again, and
Speaker 1: and just seeing the way that they manage that game,
Speaker 1: the momentum of it. I've only covered one game at
Speaker 1: Raymond James Stadium. It was that game in two thousand
Speaker 1: and fourteen where for a minute there it looked like
Speaker 1: Josh McCown wasn't going to be able to like really
Speaker 1: complete a forward pass and the Packers one handedly. The
Speaker 1: only downside of that is that's when the dreaded calf
Speaker 1: injury flared up for Rogers. So you know, it is
Speaker 1: a winnable game. It's a winnable matchup, but the Packers
Speaker 1: have to stay on top of themselves. It was my
Speaker 1: big thing I wrote an insider inbox this week. You know,
Speaker 1: you got to four and oh, that's a great start
Speaker 1: to the season. That puts you in pole position here
Speaker 1: right now with Seattle in this NFC race for the
Speaker 1: number one seed. But you have to continue that train.
Speaker 1: You have to be able to push that momentum forward
Speaker 1: because as we've seen too and if you let a
Speaker 1: good start go to waste, then you let the rest
Speaker 1: of the group kind of catch up to you again. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: we'll shift gears to the defensive side of the ball
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Speaker 1: I look at this game on the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball for the Packers, the first thing that jumps
Speaker 1: out to me as a key to victory is to
Speaker 1: tackle Ronald Jones. Because if you're Ronald Jones and you're
Speaker 1: looking at the film of the Packers against the New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints and what Alvin Kamara was able to do
Speaker 1: with breaking tackles, turning short gains into big ones, etcetera, etcetera,
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones is like, all right, get me the ball.
Speaker 1: Here we go, right. I mean that that's what he's thinking.
Speaker 1: So the Packers have got to have have got to
Speaker 1: turn that on its head and say, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: a guy. I mean, we've we've seen Ronald Jones likes
Speaker 1: to do spin moves. He's he's quick, he's tough to
Speaker 1: bring down. The Packers have to be sound in there
Speaker 1: tackling and not let this guy turn two and three
Speaker 1: yard carries into first down carries that move the change. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the one thing where it's like, if Green
Speaker 1: Bay could have just played right away the next week
Speaker 1: we talked about is a bye wee can effect momentum
Speaker 1: A run defense is probably the one area that I
Speaker 1: think really could have probably benefited from just keep going
Speaker 1: because they were coming off their best performance of the
Speaker 1: season against Atlanta and just a reminder the next week,
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley then went off for whatever it was, a
Speaker 1: twenty rushing yards in the Falcons next game. I mean,
Speaker 1: that was a good, solid performance. Tyler Lancaster played up
Speaker 1: played exceptional. You had Kingsley. Keiki has been able to
Speaker 1: to shed blockers and regardless of whether he's pass rushing
Speaker 1: or defending the run, has made some strides like you've
Speaker 1: even seen montrevious Adams get more comfortable here as he
Speaker 1: started to play a little bit more consistently. Oh and
Speaker 1: by the way, now you potentially get Kenny Clark back
Speaker 1: in the fold. So for with the exception of what
Speaker 1: fourteen fifteen plays, this defense has had to go without
Speaker 1: their Pro Bowl nose tackle through the first you know,
Speaker 1: month of the season. So if you're able to get
Speaker 1: him back on the field, and as I've been saying
Speaker 1: all along, if Mike Petton can be a little bit
Speaker 1: more uh not creative, but just unpredictable with how they're
Speaker 1: exactly they want to use him and what scenarios he
Speaker 1: needs to be on the field for that. This really
Speaker 1: does boil down to me like a game where as
Speaker 1: good as Ronald Jones is and he's great, and if
Speaker 1: love Leonard fer Nette is out there, we'll have to see.
Speaker 1: But the Packers coming off of that performance against Atlanta
Speaker 1: and getting back Kenny Clark, it's all set up for
Speaker 1: them to really, you know, kind of change the narrative
Speaker 1: with that group here after having kind of a slow
Speaker 1: start to the season. Yeah. And the other thing I
Speaker 1: look at on the defensive side of the ball, and
Speaker 1: I talked about it in our previous show, is that
Speaker 1: in this one, I think you got to get a
Speaker 1: takeaway from Tom Brady in some way, shape or form.
Speaker 1: The Packers defense only three takeaways in four games. We
Speaker 1: talked about the Packers offense, no turnovers. You're taking care
Speaker 1: of the taking care of the ball. On the offensive side,
Speaker 1: you can get an interception or a strip sack type
Speaker 1: of play on Tom Brady. I think that's the that's
Speaker 1: the one type of play that could that could really
Speaker 1: either set the tone if you do it early in
Speaker 1: the game, or shift the momentum if it happens later
Speaker 1: in the game like this the Zarius Smith forced forced
Speaker 1: fumble on Taysom Hill in New Orleans. I think one
Speaker 1: takeaway here from the Packers defense could go a really
Speaker 1: long way on Sunday in this matchup. Yeah, and tracking
Speaker 1: the rest of the week. I mean, as we show
Speaker 1: as we talk right now, neither team has had their
Speaker 1: padded practice, so we'll see exactly what this the forecast
Speaker 1: is here for Mike Evans and what his availability is
Speaker 1: going to be. Certainly it's a different game if he's
Speaker 1: not on the field. O. J. Howard has had these
Speaker 1: issues now too. But then you've got Rob Gronkowski who's
Speaker 1: been off to kind of a slow start getting back
Speaker 1: into his NFL career. You don't want to make this
Speaker 1: the week that Gronk goes off against you. So there's
Speaker 1: so many different reasons and things that I think factorated this,
Speaker 1: But for me, it's just comes down to what that
Speaker 1: quarterback is doing in the pocket. And if the Packers
Speaker 1: are able to pressure Tom Brady a little bit, are
Speaker 1: you able to not allow him to to see the
Speaker 1: entire field? Is Darius Smith up in his business? That's
Speaker 1: going to be a big, important, critical role to this
Speaker 1: because at some point in the game is good and
Speaker 1: as solid as Ronald Jones is and that running game
Speaker 1: is the game is going to be in you know,
Speaker 1: tom Brady's hand. Where do the Packers how do they
Speaker 1: respond to that? Where are they in that play that?
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a big thing to why. Yeah. On
Speaker 1: the Packers hoping to get healthy On the defensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball, Kevin King did not practice on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: We'll see if there's any potential for him to return,
Speaker 1: But Rashawn Gary back at practice for Green Bay. As
Speaker 1: far as the pass rush goes on the offensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball, Tyler Irvin as of this taping hasn't
Speaker 1: practiced yet for Green Bay. So that's the injury situation
Speaker 1: for the Packers, King and Irvin. Otherwise, everybody else so
Speaker 1: far looks like they could be good to go on Sunday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you know, depending on what happens with Kevin,
Speaker 1: that's where it might be Kadar Holman, could be Josh Jackson.
Speaker 1: Somebody's gonna have to step up into that role in
Speaker 1: that boundary corner spot because you just get the feeling
Speaker 1: that they like Shannon Sullivan in that you know Nickel,
Speaker 1: you know role. He can play perimeters, so he's not
Speaker 1: out of that card either. But the way that Mike
Speaker 1: Pettan has played this defense, he likes being able to
Speaker 1: keep guys in certain spots, so that that would be
Speaker 1: a big loss. And then also Tyler Irvin on returns
Speaker 1: is the other thing to consider too. You have Sullivan
Speaker 1: is the backup on kickoffs, Jackson is the backup on punts.
Speaker 1: But then you know Areas Shepherd is obviously on the
Speaker 1: fifty three man roster. Again, he handled those duties during
Speaker 1: the early part of last season. There's always gonna be questions.
Speaker 1: They're seventeen weeks and you know it's a it's a
Speaker 1: injury rate league. Um, so we'll have to see exactly
Speaker 1: how that shuffles out. Yeah, well, before we go west, Um,
Speaker 1: we'll take a quick look at some other games around
Speaker 1: the NFC in Week six, and the first one that
Speaker 1: jumps out to me is Chicago at Carolina the Bears
Speaker 1: are four and one, They'll be coming off of you know,
Speaker 1: the mini by after the Thursday night game, just like
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers, so they'll be a little bit rested. A
Speaker 1: lot of people wondering just where the Bears really are
Speaker 1: at four and one, and with Folds at quarterback, and
Speaker 1: where this is headed. Carolina a very quiet three and two,
Speaker 1: tied for first place in the NFC South with the
Speaker 1: Saints and the Buccaneers, who are also both three and two.
Speaker 1: This is a really interesting one. I mean, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: if you're talking about it under the radar team Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewater and the Panthers Christian McCaffrey, these guys, that's a
Speaker 1: tough division there. I know Atlanta is struggling, but the
Speaker 1: Saints and the Bucks are are not to be trifled with.
Speaker 1: And and Carolina can say, hey, if they knock off
Speaker 1: the Bears, Carolina gets to four and two, sends a
Speaker 1: whole sort of sets up a whole new picture for
Speaker 1: the NFC South. Yeah yeah, and as Matt Rule kind
Speaker 1: of tries to put his stamp on that team, it's
Speaker 1: quite the way to start things out. Here's what I
Speaker 1: love the most though. Okay, so lady on Bell is
Speaker 1: a free agent now. And the big big scuttle buttons
Speaker 1: who which which futured you know, Jets opponent? Is he
Speaker 1: gonna end up signing with here or whatever. The thing
Speaker 1: that has completely flown absolutely under the radar this week
Speaker 1: is Mike Davis facing the Chicago Bears. I mean, Mike
Speaker 1: Davis has been terrific having to supplant and injured Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right on Bridgewater. I've been the biggest Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewater fan forever. I love the way he plays a position.
Speaker 1: He looks confident again, he's standing tall in the pocket,
Speaker 1: he's making plays. But here's Mike Davis who kind of
Speaker 1: was left for dead last year. He's never really gotten
Speaker 1: a full opportunity, and now he's making some place for
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers. You want to talk about a guy
Speaker 1: that probably has some fire in his belly going into
Speaker 1: this game. I look at at Davis is a guy
Speaker 1: that that could potentially be looking to break out. And
Speaker 1: it's a credit to him and also some of those
Speaker 1: skill positions on the on the Panthers that they've been
Speaker 1: able to wade through not having McCaffrey on the field. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well another one here is well Atlanta is that Minnesota. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the Falcons in the circle the Wagons mode with Raheem
Speaker 1: Morris taking over as interim coach, will see, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll see just what that does for the Falcons. The Vikings,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, how do they bounce back from
Speaker 1: that gut punch of a loss in Seattle, And not
Speaker 1: just that one loss, but the Vikings here are looking
Speaker 1: at their trying to avoid one in five. You know,
Speaker 1: they need they absolutely have to win this game to
Speaker 1: get to two and four or everybody's gonna absolutely right
Speaker 1: Minnesota off if they get their fifth loss here by
Speaker 1: mid October. Well, first and foremost, knock on wood that
Speaker 1: this game gets played and everything turns out okay in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: true enough, so sending positive vibes their way. Obviously they're
Speaker 1: taking care of their business right now based off all
Speaker 1: the reports. But this is an interesting game from Minnesota
Speaker 1: because you just played your best effort, your best almost
Speaker 1: four quarter game against Seattle and unfortunately you come up short.
Speaker 1: How does that team respond Because as you and I know,
Speaker 1: there aren't any glamour points in this league. You don't
Speaker 1: get a nice little Asterix next to you for you know,
Speaker 1: a job well done. You gotta win the game or
Speaker 1: you don't. And unfortunately for the Vikings in that particular case,
Speaker 1: they didn't do it. So now you're taking on an
Speaker 1: Atlanta team that is really reeling, that is at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the league. They made a coaching change, their
Speaker 1: defenses and shambles. Right now, can you rise to the
Speaker 1: occasion and do what you're supposed to do? I have
Speaker 1: faith in Minnesota. I think they probably will if this
Speaker 1: game gets you know, goes off without a hitch. But
Speaker 1: it's a gut check because it's not always easy to
Speaker 1: pull yourself back up by the bootstraps after you have
Speaker 1: a you know, a really demoralizing loss like that that
Speaker 1: goes right down to the wire. Yeah, And sometimes teams
Speaker 1: that lose their head coach, like the Falcon said that
Speaker 1: first game, you know, there's there's there's a there's just
Speaker 1: a different energy, there's a different attitude to everything. All
Speaker 1: of the speculation over the head coaches future, that's all
Speaker 1: taking care of the team is moving on, and it's
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes those guys in the locker room and go, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, you know what, what do we have to lose.
Speaker 1: I mean absolutely the other one I want to talk
Speaker 1: about quickly, um before we wrap this up here, though,
Speaker 1: The Rams at San Francisco a very important game in
Speaker 1: the NFC West because the Rams looking to get to
Speaker 1: five and one, keep pace with the Seattle Seahawks in
Speaker 1: their division and obviously with the Packers and Bears and
Speaker 1: these other teams that have the top records in the
Speaker 1: NFC right now. San Francisco forty Niners trying to avoid
Speaker 1: getting their fourth loss this early in the season, and
Speaker 1: they've had injury problems obviously Nick Bosa, Jimmy Garoppolo, and
Speaker 1: the list is certainly longer than that. Eric Armstead as well.
Speaker 1: This is a really really big game for San Francisco
Speaker 1: to avoid loss number four, and it's a big game
Speaker 1: for the Rams to, you know, kind of put your
Speaker 1: foot on the throat of a team, a division rival
Speaker 1: that's down a little bit here. Yeah. The great thing
Speaker 1: is for the Packers is that you always six times
Speaker 1: a year you get to watch the NFC West kind
Speaker 1: of beat up on himself. Uh. I mean, that is
Speaker 1: a champions division right now, with you know, Seattle getting
Speaker 1: off to the start that they have. I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody thought the Rams would be down for long. You
Speaker 1: know that last year was a little bit of a setback,
Speaker 1: but they're still pretty strong in what they believe the defense.
Speaker 1: I mean, they have the best defensive player in the league,
Speaker 1: um and certainly you know, I seemed to have found
Speaker 1: their cornerback here for the foreseeable future. And just San
Speaker 1: Francisco is the one we're all trying to figure out
Speaker 1: right now. Can they rally here? Because as we were
Speaker 1: just talking about with the Vikings, I mean, when you
Speaker 1: make it to the promised Land of that's Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: you come back the next year and you start to
Speaker 1: find some adversity, how do you respond to it? I
Speaker 1: think Kyle Shanahan is a brilliant coach. Obviously, we've talked
Speaker 1: so much about what that entire team has done and
Speaker 1: how they've gone about their business. John Lench, you tip
Speaker 1: their cap to them. But facts are what the facts are.
Speaker 1: And you're two and three and you're taking on a
Speaker 1: team in this case that is four and one has
Speaker 1: been one of the front runners in the NFL for
Speaker 1: the last three seasons. It's a tough matchup and they've
Speaker 1: got to find a way to respond. Super Bowl hangovers
Speaker 1: can be real, man. You get to that, you get
Speaker 1: to that game and you lose it, especially losing it
Speaker 1: in close, in close, devastating fashion. I mean, just ask
Speaker 1: the Falcons. Obviously, the forty nine is going through that now.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of a lot of history of teams
Speaker 1: struggling that year after losing a Super Bowl. It's it's
Speaker 1: a very real thing in this league. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1: And in San Francisco is trying to pull themselves out
Speaker 1: of it right now because there's still a lot of
Speaker 1: talent there on both sides of the question about it.
Speaker 1: But the problem is is that when you're already sit
Speaker 1: at three losses and you have another eleven games ahead
Speaker 1: of you, and yeah, it's tough. Yeah, definitely. Well with that,
Speaker 1: we will call it a wrap on this edition of
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