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: trusted colleague Wes Hodkowitz. We're coming to you here from
Speaker 1: our studio at lambeau Field, and we's a very interesting
Speaker 1: week here at twelve S. Lombardi Avenue. The Packers coming
Speaker 1: off of a disheartening two loss to the Minnesota Vikings,
Speaker 1: but no time to dwell on their sorrows because they
Speaker 1: have to hop on a plane very shortly to go
Speaker 1: to San Francisco and take on the forty nine on
Speaker 1: Thursday Night football. This is a really interesting week around
Speaker 1: here because I think obviously the Packers were hoping to
Speaker 1: be heading to San Francisco with just the one loss
Speaker 1: on their ledger. Now you're in danger of actually picking
Speaker 1: up a third loss prior to the midway point of
Speaker 1: the season. With this being game number eight. This is
Speaker 1: a tough one because underneath Matt la Fleur, up until Sunday,
Speaker 1: they only had lost one game by a touchdown or
Speaker 1: inside a touchdown, And I think, if everybody's just being
Speaker 1: honest with themselves, this was a game that Green Bay
Speaker 1: just shouldn't have lost. I mean, it's just the way
Speaker 1: that they finished it two in the fourth quarter that
Speaker 1: that was more I think indicative of the team that
Speaker 1: this is um. They're more consistent moving the ball. Offensively,
Speaker 1: they had some guys while they didn't have al Lazar,
Speaker 1: they did have some guys step up. Davante Adams caught
Speaker 1: his third touchdown and the defense got too late stops.
Speaker 1: But the problem was everything that happened in that second
Speaker 1: and third quarter again for green Bay, and that's really
Speaker 1: told the tale of this game Minnesota. Mike. It's a
Speaker 1: lot like what you and I talked about last week.
Speaker 1: It's a lot like Larry McCarn right over there on
Speaker 1: our three Things video last Wednesday mentioned defensively, the Vikings
Speaker 1: just don't have a ton of playmakers right now, whether
Speaker 1: it be through injuries or just you know, decisions and
Speaker 1: trades that they've made. And I gotta give a credit
Speaker 1: to Mike Zimmer. He still made all the ends meet
Speaker 1: and in this matchup, after the first quarter that was
Speaker 1: largely dictated by green Bay, the momentum started to swing
Speaker 1: a little bit towards Minnesota at the end of the
Speaker 1: first half, and in the third quarter they took the
Speaker 1: ball and Dalvin Cook ran away with it. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, football is a team game, and I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to minimize that, but it feels like the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers got beat by one player. They got beat
Speaker 1: by Dalvin Cook. On Sunday. He scores all four of
Speaker 1: Minnesota's touchdowns, the Vikings getting touchdowns on on their first
Speaker 1: four possessions of the game. He scores all four of them.
Speaker 1: He has two six yards from scrimmage, a hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty three rushing, sixty three receiving, including a fifty yard
Speaker 1: touchdown on a third and nine screen pass. I believe
Speaker 1: the two six yards was approximately se of Minnesota's total.
Speaker 1: And yes, I take nothing away from Mike Zimmer's defense.
Speaker 1: They were really banged up at cornerback. The windy conditions
Speaker 1: certainly affected the passing game, but you thought the Packers
Speaker 1: certainly would the way they started the game, they would
Speaker 1: be more efficient on offense. But the bottom line is
Speaker 1: the defense gave up four consecutive touchdowns, and when the
Speaker 1: offense started to get some penalty flags in the third
Speaker 1: quarter to stall out some drives, suddenly the Packers couldn't
Speaker 1: keep up. And you're playing from behind, and I tell
Speaker 1: you what, coming from behind two touchdowns against the Mike
Speaker 1: Zimmer defense, it doesn't matter who's on the field. He's
Speaker 1: got he's he's got the scheme and and the coaching
Speaker 1: to make that a really, really difficult scenario. And it
Speaker 1: was really hard for the Packers to come back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and this and again. You have sixteen regular season
Speaker 1: games you're not always going to be at and things
Speaker 1: like this happened. But you really do get a feeling
Speaker 1: like it was the perfect storm for the Packers in
Speaker 1: this game. You go in without David back tr and
Speaker 1: without Aaron Jones, and Jamal Williams has been incredibly solid.
Speaker 1: You know my feelings on him. I've made that ambutdantly clear,
Speaker 1: especially over the last few weeks. But if you look
Speaker 1: back at the performances the Packers had last season, Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones is a big reason they won those two games,
Speaker 1: in one of which the Vikings didn't have Delvin Cook,
Speaker 1: and you saw how the landscape changed. Then you have
Speaker 1: the windy conditions, which plays the game more into a
Speaker 1: run game type, you know, orientation. You have Alex Kemp's
Speaker 1: crew making some tiki tach calls here and there, you
Speaker 1: have just so many different things worked against the Packers
Speaker 1: in this matchup, and at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: he still ended up losing. You end up being five
Speaker 1: and two. That's the rubb of the Green over you know,
Speaker 1: of course of a long season. The key is now
Speaker 1: though for Green Bay's you're gonna be going up against
Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty Niners team that's really banged up.
Speaker 1: Right now, I know what the record was last year
Speaker 1: in the Bay Area. I know they've had some problems
Speaker 1: on the West Coast. It really puts a big spotlight
Speaker 1: on Green Bay needing to get this wind now after
Speaker 1: you know what I think everybody would have agree was
Speaker 1: a disappointing performance on Sunday. Yeah, real quickly here West.
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Speaker 1: Backslash Packers. All right, Well, obviously there were shortcomings on
Speaker 1: the offensive and defensive sides of the ball here for
Speaker 1: the Packers as they dropped to five and two, The
Speaker 1: good news is they stayed in first place in the
Speaker 1: NFC North because the Chicago Bears lost in overtime to
Speaker 1: the New Orleans Saints at Soldier Field. So the Bears
Speaker 1: are five and three, still that half game back of
Speaker 1: Green Bay. The Bears have not had their bye week yet.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned the San Francisco forty Niners being pretty
Speaker 1: banged up, and yeah they are. They lost to one
Speaker 1: of their division rivals, the Seattle Seahawks. The Forts, now
Speaker 1: the defending NFC champions, are four and four, and here
Speaker 1: here's the list. Here's the list Wes on defense, the
Speaker 1: following players around injured reserve, Nick Bosa, de Ford Solomon Thomas,
Speaker 1: Ziggy Ansa and Richard Sherman. And on offense, Raheem Mostert
Speaker 1: and Jordan Reed running back in tight end or on
Speaker 1: injured reserve. And in this past game, Jimmy Garoppolo and
Speaker 1: George Kittle have gone down with what appeared to be
Speaker 1: long term injuries at least a month or two for
Speaker 1: each of those guys. My point is, this team the
Speaker 1: Packers are going to play on Thursday night out in
Speaker 1: Santa Clara is not even going to resemble personnel wise
Speaker 1: the team that they played twice out there last year.
Speaker 1: This is going to be a completely different game and
Speaker 1: a completely different challenge for the Packers aside from the
Speaker 1: scheme part of things, because this is still Kyle Shanahan
Speaker 1: and his team and what he and Robert Salad on
Speaker 1: the offensive and defensive sides of the ball. Well, and
Speaker 1: that's the big thing here. I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people that would agree that Kyle Shanahan's one of
Speaker 1: the brightest offensive minds in the game right now. Matt
Speaker 1: the floor is up there too. But if there's been
Speaker 1: one coach over the last three and a half years
Speaker 1: that has shown he can do more with less, it's
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan. They've dealt with this before and they've won
Speaker 1: football games in spite of that. Now, all that being said,
Speaker 1: when you look at that injury report that they had
Speaker 1: coming out of that Seattle game with Tevin Coleman also
Speaker 1: dealing with a knee injury, now you've already lost Jeff
Speaker 1: Wilson who's on I R with a high ankle sprain.
Speaker 1: Jerick McKinnon, who's battled injuries the last two seasons. He's
Speaker 1: been kind of held back a little bit due to
Speaker 1: what they determined was leg fatigue. So now they're onto
Speaker 1: basically their fifth string running back. So there's just so
Speaker 1: many different areas of this game where if you look
Speaker 1: at it on paper, the Packers need to go to work,
Speaker 1: they need to pick up this win. But then you
Speaker 1: also look at how the forty Niners finished that game
Speaker 1: against Seattle. Now you can say it's garbage time. You
Speaker 1: can say that the decision was at hand, but Nick
Speaker 1: Mullins came in and put some wind at his sales
Speaker 1: a little bit. I finished with a U and twenty
Speaker 1: two passer rating. I don't care if you are taking
Speaker 1: out a bunch of Arena league football players. If you
Speaker 1: play that way in the fourth quarter and you up
Speaker 1: three touchdowns, you're going to feel okay about your chances.
Speaker 1: So much like you and I, for all of last week,
Speaker 1: we're preaching Mike, you cannot take the Vikings. Lately, you
Speaker 1: most definitely cannot take the forty Niners. Likely because if
Speaker 1: we know anything, it's that an injured animal. Is that
Speaker 1: it's most dangerous. Yeah. And the forty Niners here, quite frankly,
Speaker 1: they're they're going to be about as desperate for a
Speaker 1: win as you could, uh you could find because they
Speaker 1: are four and four, They're in an incredibly tough division
Speaker 1: in the NFC West. If they were to pick up
Speaker 1: their fifth loss at this stage of the season, when
Speaker 1: they still have games against their own division rivals in
Speaker 1: the Rams, the Cardinals, and the Seahawks, and then they
Speaker 1: also have a game I believe against the Saints on
Speaker 1: their schedule coming up as well. Five losses right now
Speaker 1: would be really, really tough for the forty Niners to
Speaker 1: come back from the Packers in some senses, can you know,
Speaker 1: can land a pretty good hay maker here? In terms
Speaker 1: of the forty niners chances to repeat as NFC champions
Speaker 1: if they can get this win on Thursday night, What
Speaker 1: they're going to do offensively, I shouldn't say what they're
Speaker 1: going to do, but who they're going to use, Whom
Speaker 1: they're going to use offensively is what I'll be curious
Speaker 1: to see. Because you mentioned Jerick McKinnon, I think they're
Speaker 1: going to have to use him quite a bit, but
Speaker 1: they also now have been employing a rookie running back
Speaker 1: from Baylor, Jamichael Hasti. Um. And as far as the
Speaker 1: tight end situation, yes, the Packers won't have to deal
Speaker 1: with George Kittle. But don't sleep on Ross Dwelly. I
Speaker 1: believe Ross is his first name, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 1: He scored a touchdown and you were talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: was it garbage time or not. Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I went back to go through the the highlights of
Speaker 1: that game. Dwell he scores a touchdown with I believe
Speaker 1: it was around four minutes left in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: and with a two point conversion, the forty Niners would
Speaker 1: have made that a one score game with four minutes
Speaker 1: to go. They did not get the two point conversion. Therefore, um,
Speaker 1: it was not a one score game at that stage.
Speaker 1: But Nick Mullins brought them back and gave them a
Speaker 1: shot um against the Seattle Seahawks before Russell Wilson then
Speaker 1: drove the Seahawks down the field for the clinching touchdown
Speaker 1: with uh, you know, with around two minutes to go.
Speaker 1: So um this uh, this this for forty Niners team,
Speaker 1: this coaching staff, they're They're going to give the Packers
Speaker 1: absolutely everything they can handle. And the Packers have their
Speaker 1: own issues to deal with here too, with A. J. Dillon,
Speaker 1: the rookie running back going on the reserve COVID nineteen list.
Speaker 1: At the time we're taping this on Tuesday morning, we
Speaker 1: don't know exactly if there are any other implications as
Speaker 1: far as other players, so I don't want to speculate
Speaker 1: on that. We will just have to see come Thursday
Speaker 1: at kickoff time who the Packers have available for this game.
Speaker 1: But Packers kind of dealing with a strange week to
Speaker 1: begin with, and then you have the wrinkle thrown in
Speaker 1: with the first player since training camp being put on
Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen list. Yeah, and just to touch on
Speaker 1: this too really quickly before we move on to that.
Speaker 1: As far as San Francisco is concerned, they had three
Speaker 1: touchdown producing drives in that fourth quarter that amounted to
Speaker 1: two and thirty nine of their one total yards I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: three one total yards in that game, So almost two
Speaker 1: thirds of their offense came with Mullins at quarterback there.
Speaker 1: And if you want to talk about garbage time, to
Speaker 1: tell that to Brandon Ayuk, I mean this is a
Speaker 1: young man too, just like justin Jefferson, the Packers saw
Speaker 1: another rookie receiver. They're gonna have to be cognizant of.
Speaker 1: Back to your original point, a lot of challenges being
Speaker 1: thrown Green Bay's way this year that they haven't had before.
Speaker 1: They worked remotely on Monday. The one thing that maybe
Speaker 1: does work to their benefit is is Adrian Ames mentioned
Speaker 1: after the game this was going to be a heavily
Speaker 1: mental week anyway. They're not going to actually stand and
Speaker 1: have their actual normal practice on Tuesday. Maybe they get
Speaker 1: on the field on Wednesdays. The way that that met
Speaker 1: La Flour kind of made it sound so this is
Speaker 1: a very unusual week, but it's an unusual week by
Speaker 1: the virtue of it also be and just a Thursday
Speaker 1: night football game. You got to go through your protocols.
Speaker 1: You have to be in the communication with the NFL,
Speaker 1: check all the right boxes. They did get permission to
Speaker 1: be in the building on Tuesday, and you would hope
Speaker 1: with the proper protocols being followed, they'd be able to
Speaker 1: get out there and get on this game on Thursday. Yeah.
Speaker 1: What we heard from Matt Lafleur on Monday afternoon is
Speaker 1: that is that everything right now is still pointing to
Speaker 1: The plans are to fly to Santa Clara on Wednesday
Speaker 1: late in the day and the Packers will be kicking
Speaker 1: this game off on Thursday. Will be interesting to see.
Speaker 1: Packers have had three very very key players on offense
Speaker 1: out for multiple weeks now, talking about David bock Tr
Speaker 1: at left tackle, Aaron Jones obviously at running back in
Speaker 1: Alan Lazard. All three of those players have um return
Speaker 1: to practice on some level. Um according to Yeah, according
Speaker 1: to the injury report, Um, it's it's it's a tough
Speaker 1: spot to be in. You'd like you'd like for David
Speaker 1: Baktr and Aaron Jones and Alan Lazard to get a
Speaker 1: full week of practice in before they make their return
Speaker 1: to the field for a game. I really don't know
Speaker 1: how Matt Lafleur is going to handle this and and
Speaker 1: what the opinion of the medical staff is going to be.
Speaker 1: But certainly you could see as the Vikings made defensive
Speaker 1: adjustments on Sunday to what the Packers are trying to
Speaker 1: do with the jet motions with Tyler Irvin and some
Speaker 1: of the different things, and and that the Packers were
Speaker 1: missing their key guys offensively, and that also contributed to
Speaker 1: to the difficulties and coming from behind. It's it's easy
Speaker 1: to make up for. It's easy to make up for
Speaker 1: missing pieces, uh key, missing pieces like that if you
Speaker 1: are if you are playing from ahead and your defense
Speaker 1: is in a different spot, and just the tenor of
Speaker 1: the game is different, which is what the Houston game
Speaker 1: was like the previous week. This one wasn't like that,
Speaker 1: and the Packers missed having a couple of their big
Speaker 1: offensive playmakers. Davante Adams might be the best receiver in
Speaker 1: the National Football League at three time Pro Bowler. I
Speaker 1: think he's heading towards an all Pro type season. On
Speaker 1: Sunday became I believe it was the first time his
Speaker 1: career had three touchdowns in a game, only the third
Speaker 1: receiver in franchise history to have five touchdowns against the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings in a season. So I'm not sitting here
Speaker 1: trying to, you know, diminish what his return meant. But
Speaker 1: Green Bay, because of what Aaron Jones and Jamal Williams
Speaker 1: have done and how they've improved their own games, they
Speaker 1: were able to be able to navigate that absence of
Speaker 1: Adams by doing some things with those guys as receivers,
Speaker 1: some two back stuff in the backfield, though, you just
Speaker 1: can't replicate Aaron Jones what he brings as a threat
Speaker 1: as a ball carrier, his ability to motion out and
Speaker 1: also now catch the balls receiver. He's made a number
Speaker 1: of spectacular catches this year that I as I've even
Speaker 1: asked him about. I don't think three years ago he makes.
Speaker 1: He's just become a really well rounded, explosive player. And
Speaker 1: while Davante Adams is the biggest up it in this offense,
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones undeniablies number two. So them not having him
Speaker 1: on the field I think has had an effect here.
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams steady as it goes, good running back, solid,
Speaker 1: but Aaron Jones this isn't just about position. He's just
Speaker 1: a playmaker. So last this is such an interesting scenario
Speaker 1: because he got hurt in practice. Wasn't like it happened
Speaker 1: in the game. We don't know what it looked like
Speaker 1: or how bad it was, but it really seemed to
Speaker 1: me that that originally was going to be just to
Speaker 1: hold him out, be smart against Houston, get him back.
Speaker 1: I was sort of somewhat taken aback that he wasn't
Speaker 1: on the practice field last week. The fact he was
Speaker 1: at least limited estimated limited on Monday, that would indicate
Speaker 1: he's making the positive strides there you want to make.
Speaker 1: But Mike, this offense, it's just different when Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: is on the field. And then from there you can
Speaker 1: talk about Davon you know, David Batr, Kevin King was
Speaker 1: limited as well estimated on Monday. So there's a lot
Speaker 1: of playmakers the Packers want to get back. But Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones was doing some really special things before that calf tweek,
Speaker 1: and it's it's had an impact on the offense not
Speaker 1: having him out there. Yeah, well we we saw, you know,
Speaker 1: Davante Adams the first two possessions on Sunday against the Vikings,
Speaker 1: he makes a handful of catches, including two touchdowns down
Speaker 1: close in the red zone. The Vikings were having a
Speaker 1: hard time with them. They make they make the adjustment
Speaker 1: to try to take him out of the game and
Speaker 1: Adams only makes a couple of catches in the second half,
Speaker 1: one of the third touchdown. I still don't know how
Speaker 1: he caught them. Yeah, he he wasn't. He wasn't open
Speaker 1: the ball. You know, the ball somehow drops in there
Speaker 1: and he's able to get it. Another one of those
Speaker 1: that you wonder how much he even saw the past
Speaker 1: before it got to his hands, and he makes that catch.
Speaker 1: But Adams wasn't much of a factor in the second half,
Speaker 1: and and when the Packers were getting you know, these
Speaker 1: holding penalties, and you know, one series the Packers crossed,
Speaker 1: the Packers are well across the fifty yard line looking
Speaker 1: like they're in scoring territory. All of a sudden, two
Speaker 1: holding penalties. You're in first and thirty from midfield. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, they're on a whole lot of you know,
Speaker 1: like coaches say, they're on a whole lot of calls
Speaker 1: on the A sheet for first and thirty, um, so
Speaker 1: that you know, a drive stalled out there. They had
Speaker 1: another one after the big passed to uh to Robert Tonyan.
Speaker 1: But then suddenly two incompletes the Tyler Irvin two incompletes
Speaker 1: the eq st Brown. You wonder, you know where was
Speaker 1: Davantae Adams in that sequence while the Vikings were doing
Speaker 1: their best to take him out of the game, because
Speaker 1: you know Aaron Rodgers is looking for him. I mean
Speaker 1: that that's definitely part of the equation here. So the
Speaker 1: Packers need to get the offense back to full strength
Speaker 1: and on the defensive side of the ball. We talk
Speaker 1: about it all the time when it happens, but they've
Speaker 1: got to figure out a way to slow down the
Speaker 1: run game because this defense, they can get after quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: and when you get after quarterbacks, that's how you generate turnovers.
Speaker 1: Those things just did not happen against Kirk Cousins, the
Speaker 1: league leader in interceptions at quarterback playing, and simply because
Speaker 1: the Packers couldn't stop the run right. And I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to bury Horowitz myself with like the pat on
Speaker 1: the back or anything here, but this is what I
Speaker 1: wrote in box, and you and I discussed it last week.
Speaker 1: That game was going to be one of the trenches,
Speaker 1: even before we knew full on what the wind was
Speaker 1: going to be like, just knowing that Dalvin Cook was
Speaker 1: going to be back, that's where that game was going
Speaker 1: to be played. In credit again to Minnesota. They achieved
Speaker 1: what they needed to achieve to get that win. And
Speaker 1: I think you and I would both agree the Minnesota
Speaker 1: Vikings are a much different and much better football team
Speaker 1: when Cook is on the field. But you've got a
Speaker 1: rise to that challenge. I said it also an inbox
Speaker 1: last week. This was the test that that run defense
Speaker 1: needed because they had put together some solid performances in
Speaker 1: the past few weeks. They didn't. They weren't able to
Speaker 1: be able to grab that brass ring. That weren't able
Speaker 1: to take advantage of the opportunity. And people asked us
Speaker 1: time and time again, Mike, well, what's the problem. What's
Speaker 1: the issue? It was everything. It was the fact that
Speaker 1: the gaps were too big. It was the fact that
Speaker 1: at the second level, not enough guys were making plays.
Speaker 1: And Adrian name has probably had the most salient point
Speaker 1: of all. You need multiple guys on a running back.
Speaker 1: You need multiple tacklers converging to the ball. The best
Speaker 1: tackling teams are the ones that don't ask one guy
Speaker 1: to make the tackle all the time. That's the bottom line.
Speaker 1: And the other thing I'll say to sorry to interrupted,
Speaker 1: but I thought it was interesting. A couple of things
Speaker 1: that Matt Lafleur said on Monday afternoon struck me because
Speaker 1: he was talking about how the issues with the run
Speaker 1: defense it was a combination of a lot of things.
Speaker 1: A couple of things he mentioned. One he suggested, you know,
Speaker 1: guys trying to do too much, sort of trying to
Speaker 1: make that hero play to stop Dalvin Cook. And when
Speaker 1: you're not just doing your responsibility, that you know, can
Speaker 1: throw everything off. And the other thing he said is
Speaker 1: if you're tired, we got other guys who can go
Speaker 1: in and play, suggesting that the Packers on D and
Speaker 1: the defensive front, they had guys that were getting tired,
Speaker 1: but they weren't subbing themselves out. They weren't going to
Speaker 1: the depth that was available because this defense was about
Speaker 1: as healthy as it had been in a long time
Speaker 1: on that side of the ball. And uh and yet
Speaker 1: that didn't look like a healthy, fresh defense at all
Speaker 1: against Minnesota. That was the most bizarre thing. When I
Speaker 1: went and looked at the box score, I was one
Speaker 1: to actually count it up. It It end up being
Speaker 1: ten guys played at least the defensive snaps. That is
Speaker 1: a huge number because that's including defensive lineman, that's including
Speaker 1: you know, your outside pass rushers. That that's a lot
Speaker 1: of work, even if it is only fifty two snaps
Speaker 1: to have set ten guys basically a starting defense almost
Speaker 1: playing that now. I think a part of that was
Speaker 1: probably because they ran so much base but still, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know you have Kingsley Keykey available montrevious Adams only
Speaker 1: played six snaps. I mean, there are opportunities there to
Speaker 1: get those rotations going. They weren't able to do it,
Speaker 1: and and certainly the Vikings made't pay for it. They
Speaker 1: set it after the game. I'm gonna stick with it.
Speaker 1: There's They're not going to see a Delvin Cook here
Speaker 1: on Thursday night. But this is a very similar run
Speaker 1: oriented offense where things are built on the run and
Speaker 1: establishing the run. Kyle Shanahan isn't going to forsake that
Speaker 1: because he wants to get his backup quarterback going. I
Speaker 1: mean in terms of passing, I mean, they're gonna lean
Speaker 1: on that to get Nick Mullins going, and they have
Speaker 1: to be able to do it. And it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a big challenge for Green Bay. Yeah, and you know,
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan is going to come out with all sorts
Speaker 1: of motions and misdirection and everything to try to get
Speaker 1: Mike Patton's defense get their eyes in the wrong place
Speaker 1: and they don't know, you know, you don't know who
Speaker 1: the ball, who the ball is going to, and then
Speaker 1: suddenly boom they hit you with. They hit you with
Speaker 1: a matchup where there's where there's a one on one
Speaker 1: in a certain situation and they're gonna try to hit
Speaker 1: the big play. That's that's what Shanahan does. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: close on this as far as the Minnesota game. That
Speaker 1: will close the book on it. Yeah, I do have
Speaker 1: to For as much as we talk about things that
Speaker 1: went wrong for them, I have to give credit. It
Speaker 1: is the silver lining of silver linings. But I thought
Speaker 1: Adrian Name has played a whale of a ball game
Speaker 1: in that game. You want to talk about a guy
Speaker 1: that was playing to every single whistle from the beginning
Speaker 1: to the end. Adrian Name has earned his paycheck in
Speaker 1: that game. He also came up with that strip of
Speaker 1: uh Delvin Cook on third and one that enabled the
Speaker 1: Packers to be ableok at the ball back late. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Packers defense rose up late and gave and gave
Speaker 1: the offense a chance. And um, you hope that that's
Speaker 1: something that they can grab onto and carry over here
Speaker 1: on a short week when you know, quite frankly, both
Speaker 1: of these teams not feeling very good about themselves right now.
Speaker 1: This is this is two teams that played for the
Speaker 1: NFC Championship last year, and they're both in different ways
Speaker 1: kind of in in a gut check scenario, you gotta
Speaker 1: get a win. You gotta get a win. You gotta
Speaker 1: get a win on Thursday night. And for Green Bay,
Speaker 1: if you're able to achieve that, then you have a
Speaker 1: week and a half by to come back, and then
Speaker 1: Pandora's box really opens up to you, especially with the
Speaker 1: Jacksonville team on the other side of it. That looks
Speaker 1: like they won't have Gardner Minshew here for a while. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, Well, with that, we will call it a
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