WEBVTT - #736 Packers Unscripted: No dice in Vegas 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:10.360 Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:13.720 Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford, joined as always 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:16.159 by my trusted colleague West and Hodkots. We're coming to 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:19.079 you hear from our studios at lambeau Field. Back in 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:23.360 the saddle on short sleep, Wes, and unfortunately we don't 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:27.360 have an uplifting victory to try to perk up the proceedings. 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:29.520 Here a tough loss for the Packers on Monday night 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:32.519 football at Allegiance Stadium in Las Vegas. The final is 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:36.680 nineteen to thirteen to the Las Vegas Raiders. And I 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:40.199 know we can talk about the struggles on offense in 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:43.280 the first half once again and all that. The bottom 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:45.360 line in the NFL is when you have chances to 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:47.199 win games, you've got to go win them. And the 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:51.880 Packers had two opportunities, two big time opportunities to score 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:54.279 in the fourth quarter of this game with first downs 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:58.640 in Las Vegas territory, and both of those possessions ended 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.400 with interceptions, and that's how the Raiders came out with 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:01.680 a win. 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:03.680 Yeah, and last week you and I discussed me the 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:05.760 Raiders only had one takeaway in the season. It had 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:09.440 come a week earlier, but sometimes they do come in bunches, 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:11.800 and in the Raiders case, it definitely happened. In this case, 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:15.080 three interceptions for Jordan Love, two of those going to 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:20.039 that same linebacker for the Raiders, Robert Splaine. 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:21.480 I think Splaine is How's. 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:22.440 Yeah, that's a new one for me. 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:24.200 But I'm too tired. 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:26.840 I am as well, and you know, the Packers just 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:30.120 didn't make enough plays. And I think the most bizarre 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.440 thing of this game was and we'll talk about the full, 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.959 overall encompassing part of it, but the Packers checked so 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.440 many boxes in terms of what you and I discussed 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.520 last week as the keys to victory, DeVante Adams did 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:44.119 not go off. I actually thought they did a really 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:47.480 good job against Josh Jacobs outside of really one twenty 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.840 four yard carry that started one of their long scoring drives. 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.920 You know, they hit Andres Carlson won the kicking battle 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.200 against his brother. There were so many different parts to this, 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.320 but Mike Matt Lafleore talked about it after, where as 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.360 you mentioned it in the intro, when you lose the 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.960 turnover differential the way Green Bay did to a team 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:06.960 that was dead last in the NFL. When it came 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.600 to turnover margin, it's going to be hard to find 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:12.040 a way to win. And for a team that did 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.200 not have Aaron Jones again for you in need of 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.880 a guy to step up. Christian Watson made a couple 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.440 of nice plays, but in the end, it just wasn't 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:22.919 enough and in Green Bay wasn't able to get that 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.480 one final play they needed to be able to pull 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:26.079 out a victory. 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.840 Yeah, that fourth quarter was certainly frustrating because you know, 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:35.040 you look at Packers had a earlier in the fourth quarter, 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.359 right after the Raiders had taken the lead back at 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:40.160 seventeen to thirteen. I believe it was the opening play 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:44.120 of the fourth quarter. They finished that ten play touchdown drive. 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.000 Packers came right back, had a first down at the 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:50.080 Las Vegas forty yard line, plenty of time left on 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:52.720 the clock. You're obviously looking to score a touchdown or 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:54.760 if you get a little bit further and can get 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.359 a field goal. It's seventeen to sixteen and it's game 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.440 on for the last ten minutes or whatever the case 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:03.360 might have been. But then the Packers take a sack. 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:05.880 Then the next pass is forced a little bit into 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.360 tight coverage gets deflected for an interception, so you get 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:12.080 a sack and a pick. Then, late in the fourth quarter, 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:16.440 after Daniel Carlson clanks the right up right fifty two yards, 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:19.880 Josh McDaniels with an interesting decision there to try to 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.480 kick the field goal to go up seven, as opposed 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:24.280 to just go for it on fourth and one, which 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.040 would have essentially iced the game based on the clock 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:29.360 and the timeouts. But the Packers get a break there. 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.560 The elder Carlson hits the upright, so the Packers get 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:37.080 great field position on the forty two. You've got almost 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.440 two full minutes on the clock, you've got a time out, 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.680 and they get a first down at the Las Vegas 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.120 thirty five yard line. Now, obviously you need a touchdown 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:48.640 because of that other missed opportunity. But then right when 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.760 everything seems to be going in Green Bay's direction, you 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:55.280 get a drop by Romeo Dobbs, a tough drop by 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:58.160 Luke Muskrave on a pass that Love's trying to fit 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:01.600 it in there with two defenders converging, so the passes 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.720 a little bit behind Musgrave, I think intentionally, but he 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:06.880 gets his hands on it, can't hold onto it. So 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.440 you have essentially two drops that then are followed by 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:11.200 an interception in the end zone when he tries to 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:14.280 take the shot to Watson and Love says he underthrew it. 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.880 Jordan Love stood at the podium and took his medicine. Hey, 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.720 I got to protect the ball better. Three interceptions. You know, 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:24.240 he has to be better in that area. But his 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.200 teammates need to be better. Wess. I mean, the Packers 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:29.840 had their chances in this game, and you can't put 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:33.520 it all on the first year starting quarterback. You can't 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:36.479 be given up a sack when you cross into a 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.120 pony opposing territory. Can't be dropping passes with less than 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:42.719 two minutes to go. Packers have a lot of stuff 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.200 to figure out on offense, particularly in the first half. 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.040 With the last three games in a row, the first 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:50.240 half has been has been really a really big struggle 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.920 on offense. But the Packers have a lot more issues 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:56.120 right now than just the fact that Jordan Love through 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:56.960 three interceptions. 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.159 Yeah, and just trying to figure out a plan. You know, 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:05.080 with Max c he wasn't How do I say this 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.320 because I don't want to be disrespectful to Max Crosby, 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:12.719 but Max Crosby wasn't moving around as much as Aiden 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:16.240 Hutchinson did, but then he comes on a stunt which 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.400 basically goes around the Packers' entire offensive line, yeah, and 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.279 gets to the quarterback. I mean things like that, you 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:24.560 just you can't have it happen that way. And I 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:27.000 just felt like when we talked at the beginning of 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:28.680 the season, Mike, it was all about, you got a 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.320 young quarterback, you need everybody else to raise their game 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:33.479 up to kind of take the pressure off of him, 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.120 and that just hasn't happened lately. I mean it's been 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:39.120 a lot on Jordan love to make things happen, to 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:43.120 make plays, and when you try to force the play, 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.680 you sometimes can force the takeaway and this was one 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.920 of those cases. I really like the plan coming out 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.680 of the gate. It was it was very run heavy based. 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:55.440 You know, there was some things about, you know, the 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.640 first fifteen plays maybe a lot of that scripted for 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.320 Aaron Jones and you don't have them. But I thought 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.679 aj Dillon really stepped up. Has you ran for twenty 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:06.000 carries for seventy six yards? Had that one series after 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.479 the takeaway from ruby Ford where he marches down the field, 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.479 basically kind of pulling the offense on his back. Thirty 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.920 four yards on six carries. They get the touchdown, they're 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.680 only touchdown of the game. But when the Packers had 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.360 to go the full distance of the field, trying to 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:24.120 play air free football for ten plays, twelve plays without 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:27.880 a negative yardage, play without a penalty, proved really problematic 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.119 for green Bay. And when you go through a first 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:33.040 half and it's just one touch for Christian Watson, nothing 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:37.320 yet for Romeo Dobbs, nothing really for Jaden Reid, it's 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:41.240 tough to get the offensive wherethm going. It is funny though, 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.360 the fact that Green Bay was able to establish aj 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:45.440 Dillon I think went a long way to that seventy 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.680 seven yard completion to Christian wattson absolutely the play actually 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:50.040 play rolling across his body. 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:54.280 Yeah, busted busted coverage there by the Raiders, and yeah, 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:55.400 Watson made the big play. 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:57.760 But in those explosive games, if you're going to have setbacks, 0:06:57.760 --> 0:06:59.520 you need to be able to counter with explosives. And 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:01.560 that's really the only one green Bay was really able 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.040 to muster in this thing. And and unfortunately, as you mentioned, 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.600 what the horse collar ends up only being three points. 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.360 Yeah, I mean, that was that was a tough break because, 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.240 as I mentioned an insider inbox when I was writing 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:14.880 that on the plane in the wee hours flying back, 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.000 you know, that horse collar tackle inside the ten yard line, 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:20.320 the penalty only ends up being worth three yards. It's 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:21.880 first and goal in three. You still got to be 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.520 able to punch it in. That's a huge missed opportunity 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.280 four points off the board there when the Packers have 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.680 to settle for a field goal. But clearly that's the 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.480 punishment doesn't fit the crime there, right, I mean, you 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.080 know that's that's a personal file, but it only ends 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.280 up being three yards, and essentially it's a it's a 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.280 it's an illegal touchdown saving tackle that works in the 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.640 raiders favor. You know, there's nothing you can do about it. 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:45.960 I mean, you know you can't. You can't rewrite the 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:49.480 rule book on something like that. But but it's just 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:51.840 it's one of those things that one of those things 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:56.240 that went against the Packers. But you have to three 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.920 games in a row. Wes uh. The first half the 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.800 Packers have just not been able to figure anything out 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.280 on offense. I agree with you. I thought the game started, 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.080 you know with the with the run heavy, the run 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.920 heavy stuff. It looked like a lot of the straight 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.680 ahead you know, more of I guess the classic traditional 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:16.080 running plays with AJ Dillon were you know, grinding out 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.520 some yards, moving the chains. There was a look like 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:22.520 a breakdown or miscommunication on that third down play in 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.679 UH in Raiders territory that then led to the Packers 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:30.120 first punt. But I think Matt Lafleur thought, Okay, the run, 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:32.840 you know, those early runs with AJ Dillon were going 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:34.840 to We're going to set some things up, We're going 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:38.280 to open some things up, and then everything the Packers tried, 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.320 you know, they tried some you know, some end around 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.559 or some more I guess unconventional or misdirection type of runs. 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:48.280 Those weren't working. The play action wasn't really doing anything. 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.040 Jordan Love made made a bad, really bad decision on 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:54.120 his first interception, didn't see the linebacker and u and 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:57.560 threw it right to him that gave the Raiders three points. 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:02.000 Just nothing in the first half was working. And whether 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.600 it's a matter of figuring out how guys like Aiden 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:08.600 Hutchinson and Max Crosby are not going to you know, 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.160 wreck your offense and not going to dictate how things 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.400 go out there, or just finding something to hang your 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:17.320 hat on to get the offense going to get some 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:21.160 sort of a rhythm established Three straight games with zero, 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:24.560 three and three points, whatever order those were in in 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:28.079 the first half, that's just making life way too difficult 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:29.120 for the green Bay Pass. 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.280 Yeah, and it's not just a Jordan Love problem. It 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.280 was an Aaron Rodgers problem too. It's almost like after 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:37.120 the DeVante Adams era ended, there were so many times, Mike, 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.720 especially in third and short, you can go to Devonte 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:42.360 Adams and everybody knew the ball was going to Devonte Adams, 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.280 but you could dial that up and you could find 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.520 a way to keep moving the chains. Green Bay has 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:48.480 kind of struggled to find that. And it doesn't matter 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:50.880 if it's third and short or third and longer. I agree, 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:53.200 being able to get those opportunities something you can go to. 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:55.320 They've kind of teased it a little bit with some 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.439 of the Luke Musgrave plays, but then, like you mentioned 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.080 later in the game, when you need that catch light, 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.760 you're not able to come up with it. First quarter. 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.000 I mean I get it three points now in the 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:08.160 last six points in the last three first halfs for 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.560 green Bay. I didn't take a lot of issue with 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.240 the first half, though, I thought the first quarter. I 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.600 thought the first quarter actually did set the tone. The 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.640 problem for Green Bay in this one was that second quarter, because, 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:20.160 as you mentioned, you come out, you have the three 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.400 and out, you have three you know, a negative yardage 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:24.880 play to Patrick Taylor, and you're not able to get 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:28.800 anything going after that, and then the interception to spallone 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:33.560 that is where Spalne sorry, that's where things started to 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.080 tilt a little bit more. Green Bay's defense got thrown 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:39.520 in some tough predicaments. They came up. I thought they responded. 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:43.240 First time since twenty eighteen that they've had back to 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:46.880 back third down sacks to end the opposing offense's initial drives. 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:50.760 First two initial drives. Rashaan Gary, I thought it to 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.360 you to make an impact. I thought, despite losing kway 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.920 Walker to the knee and Darnell Savage to the calf, 0:10:56.360 --> 0:11:00.720 the defense rallied between the pieces that were there. But 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.920 it came down to those two longer series for the Raiders, 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.400 and when the Packers were unable to match that, it 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.480 produced points off that that's gonna be the outcome in 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:09.800 the game. 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:11.920 Yeah, I wanted to talk about the defense a little 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:13.920 bit too, because you know, if you had told me 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:15.920 when we were talking about this last week, if you 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:20.120 had said, all right, Mike, Josh Jacobs and DeVante Adams 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.040 are going to combine for less than one hundred and 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.400 twenty yards in this game, or I guess maybe it 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:27.040 was a little more than that if you count Jacob's 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.680 receiving yards. But as far as Jacob's rushing yards and 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:33.000 adams receiving yards, I think it was one hundred and fourteen. Yeah, 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.360 was the total between the two. If you had told 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.480 me that, I said, I would have said, you know, hey, 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:39.920 the Packers should be in great shape here, right, And 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:44.080 as you mentioned, it was really only one play, one 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:48.080 damaging play by each guy. The one the twenty four 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:52.960 yard run by Jacobs that started the long touchdown driving 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:54.720 the third quarter, the one that ended on the first 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:56.840 play of the fourth quarter where the Raiders took the lead, 0:11:56.920 --> 0:12:00.280 as it turned out for good. And then the the 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.800 twenty one yard slant to DeVante Adams where the Packers 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.200 got caught in the bad matchup. Preston Smith has lined 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.120 up across from him. If you're wondering how that happens. 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:11.400 Go and watch Matt Lafleur's press conference after the game. 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.120 He was asked specifically about it. He said, Hey, the 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.440 Packers were able to do that to other teams as well. 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.640 With Davante Adams. It has to do with the defensive 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:24.160 personnel aligning DeVante Adams in the slot, and then what 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:26.520 happens is if the defense is not able to check 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:30.319 out of a bad call, then the offense has something 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.120 that they can take advantage of. And I'm not trying 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:36.280 to make excuses. I'm speculating a little bit here, but 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:38.000 if you want to try to check out of that call, 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.320 not having either of your starting inside linebackers on the 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:44.960 field makes that type of adjustment a lot, a lot harder. 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:48.040 And the Packers got caught. Adams made the one really 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:51.280 impactful play he was going to make that got them 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.880 into the red zone, and then the Raiders are able 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:55.800 to finish that drive. 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.440 If I can, I just want to mention one last thing. Yeah, 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:00.520 for people, if you didn't have a chance, you'll probably 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:02.040 touch on that. Well. Maybe I don't know how we'll 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.200 handle it in terms of our coverage, but if you 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:06.080 go back and watch the play, the Packers got caught 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.720 in one of their variants of their Penny personnel, So 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:12.960 you have three defensive linemen there. They used to toy 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:14.959 with this package a little bit with Clay Matthews two 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:18.800 back in the day, where you actually have the third 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:23.079 five tech defensive lineman sort of playing the outside linebacker role. 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.160 He had his hand in his dirt. I think it 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:27.280 was Kolby Wooden and I have to go back and look. 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.520 But because of that, you only have one inside linebacker 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:32.719 on the field, and you have your nickel personnel. Well, 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:35.600 when the Raiders go spread and they go empty backfield 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.800 and they have five receivers out, that means you now 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:42.320 have three cornerbacks. Isaam McDuffie is the inside linebacker and 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:47.600 then by proxy, Preston becomes the other slot cornerback. It 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:49.600 was just a tough situation Green Mead got caught into. 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:52.120 I don't know what all goes into that. Do you 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:55.480 need to get like how do you get Wilson over 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.360 to the right side when Preston is the only one 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.680 on that side with the leverage US, It's not going 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.120 to come across the formation to the other side. It's 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.040 it was a really tricky situation where you may found 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:05.520 themselves in. 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:07.280 Yeah, it's one of the it's one of those things 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:09.000 you've got to have. You've got to have an answer 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:10.360 for it. You've got to be able to check out 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:11.480 of it. And you've got to be able to do 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:13.880 that quickly. And when the offense, when the offense is 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.520 able to scheme that up, they catch you in. They 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:18.920 catch you in a bad matchup based on the personnel 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.480 grouping that you have. I mean that, that's that's you know, 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.720 it's an opportunity. The Raiders were were waiting for it. 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.240 When they got it. When they got it, they took 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:29.480 advantage of it. I will say too, though the defense 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:34.200 you mentioned they stood tall in some spots. Certainly after 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:37.440 the first interception, a first in goal, I believe from 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.360 the seven yard line, the defense holds and and uh 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:44.920 and the Raiders have to kick the field goal bottom line, 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.000 you know, and and and late in the game. Yes, 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.840 Carlson missed the field goal, but even if Carlson makes 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.600 the field goal, it's still a seven point game, and 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:56.760 the offense is getting the ball back there with with 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.120 a chance to uh, to stay alive in the ball game. 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:04.520 I thought, by and large, yes, the two long drives 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:07.200 are frustrating. A fourteen play touchdown drive, a ten play 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.920 touchdown drive. The Packers had their opportunities to get off 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:13.160 the field on both of those drives. But at the 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.720 end of the day, you hold a team in the 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:19.160 NFL to seventeen points, that's a game you expect to win. 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.800 And as I mentioned an insider inbox, I think the 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:27.560 biggest regret that comes out of this game, especially heading 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.040 into the buy and all this time to stew about 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:34.000 it and think about it, is the Packers wasted a 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.720 game where the defense played well enough to get you 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:38.880 a win, and that's not always going to happen in 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:42.160 this league. But the defense played well enough to get 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:43.880 the win and the offense didn't do its part well. 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.080 Russell Douglas talked about in the locker room afterwards. He said, 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:47.800 it almost felt like destiny that we were going to 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:49.240 find a way to win this because we were getting 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:51.000 the stops and you just thought offensively, they were going 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.920 to find that one big play. It didn't quite happen, unfortunately, 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:56.960 and it played out the way it did. But my 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:59.960 overwhelming takeaway from this, when I was looking back at 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.480 and trying to reassess how everything went down was you know, 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:05.680 Green Bay was in a position once again to win 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:09.280 this game. But unlike you could say the you know, 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:12.320 some of these other contests like the Falcons one where 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.360 you found a way to lose it light, the Packers 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.920 just didn't find a way to win it. And for 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:18.680 that reason, now they sit at two and three now 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:19.560 entering the bye week. 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:23.840 Yeah, I mean where you're at right now, they're really realistically, 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:27.160 three of the five games have come down to crunch 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:31.200 time and the Packers have come through in crunch time 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:34.480 once and they failed in crunch time twice. And that 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:36.280 is why you're two and three. That is why you're 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:39.840 below five hundred at the break, because because what you 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.320 do when the game is on the line is what 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.040 matters more than anything else as far as the win 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:48.480 lost column, and the Packers quite frankly have the record 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:49.000 they deserve. 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.880 And I will mention because before we transition out of this, 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:53.480 you do have to offer a tip of the captain 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.840 Jacobe Myers. I thought he had a really strong game 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.040 in this thing. It wasn't about Devontae Adams, but Myers 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.200 became the guy that's to start moving the chains for 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:03.600 them until DeVante made some of those bigger plays late 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.600 seven catches seventy five yards. They were very opportunistic with 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.879 their tight ends as well. Jimmy Garoppolo did what he does. 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:12.159 He found ways to kind of chip away at this 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:15.040 thing and ultimately put the Raiders in a position to win. 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:18.320 Yeah, Unfortunately, four sacks by the defense, the one interception 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.320 of missed interception by Rasul Douglas that I'm sure he's 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:25.320 going to regret for a while. Those you know, those 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:29.120 all played a factor here. But the Packers are two 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:31.320 and three. A little bit of sponsor business here. 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All right, this is our 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:56.840 only show this week because of the buye and we're 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.000 going to try to take some time away from the 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:03.560 office plug in for home recharge as best we can, 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:06.560 so I want to talk a little bit, a little 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:10.119 bit about bigger picture and what's even coming up this weekend. 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:12.640 The Detroit Lions are four and one. They are now 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:17.400 two games clear of everybody else in the division. And 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:21.800 lo and behold, there's only one matchup in the NFL 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:25.000 this coming weekend that pits two teams against each other 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.919 with only one loss, and it is the Detroit Lions 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:31.520 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Yeah, that's going to be 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:35.199 an interesting one. It's on the road. Detroit has to 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:38.160 go down to Tampa Tampa coming off of a bye. 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:42.360 But I don't know if in Week six anybody would 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:45.520 have circled Detroit and Tampa Bay as maybe the most 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:49.120 intriguing game on the NFL schedule. But I think it's 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:50.639 one a lot of people are gonna have their eyes on. 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.240 Yeah, Will and credit to the Lions. I mean we 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.760 talked about it, you and I on Sunday. They did 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.600 what they were supposed to do against a winless football team, yep, 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:04.040 dictated terms, and I thought they just dominated. Jared Goff 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:07.040 was exceptional. I thought David Montgomery, ever since coming back 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:10.919 from the sty injury, has looked really good. Just completely dominated, 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:13.920 especially in the second half of that game. Tampa Bay 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:17.760 is so scrappy and they have weapons, like I think 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.119