Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from
Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford, joined as always
Speaker 1: by my trusted colleague Weston Hodkoitz. We're coming to you
Speaker 1: here from our studios at lambeau Field to review the
Speaker 1: Packers thirty four to thirteen triumph over the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: on Sunday at lambeau Field. It improved Green Bay to
Speaker 1: four and two. A lot of ground to cover as
Speaker 1: far as this game is concerned, West, But I think
Speaker 1: it starts with the fact that in his third game
Speaker 1: back from the knee injury that cost him two games
Speaker 1: earlier in the season, Jordan Love is starting once again
Speaker 1: to look like the Jordan Love of late twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: Jordan Love look like Jordan Love on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that cerebral accurate so much on his footballs.
Speaker 3: I mean, the play that just continually has been in
Speaker 3: my memory bank since Sunday is the fourth down conversion
Speaker 3: across the middle of the Christian Walk. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 3: just there are just so few humans on planet Earth
Speaker 3: that could make that throw, and Jordan Love did it
Speaker 3: on a line and put it the only way that
Speaker 3: is six foot four, you know, uber athletic receiver could
Speaker 3: get the football, and for him to have I thought
Speaker 3: this was such an interesting stat that Tom Fanning came
Speaker 3: up with that back to back consecutive home games with
Speaker 3: four plus touchdowns at lambeau Field, the first time that's
Speaker 3: happened since nineteen ninety five with Brett Fahr, For him
Speaker 3: to be to come out and be this dialed in
Speaker 3: both with explosive plays and also with executing deep down
Speaker 3: the field and scoring territory, I just felt like this game.
Speaker 3: You could feel it in the locker room afterwards.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you could.
Speaker 3: You could feel it with Jordan too talking afterwards. It
Speaker 3: just felt like the most complete game. Yes, they kind
Speaker 3: of beat up the Tennessee Titans, but in terms of
Speaker 3: just beginning, middle, and end with a few glimpse on
Speaker 3: the radar in between, I thought the Packers in all
Speaker 3: three phases and then basically every position group really showed out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you mentioned Love now back to back home
Speaker 1: games with four touchdown passes. The other one was in
Speaker 1: the loss to the Minnesota Vikings. But we saw in
Speaker 1: the comeback in the second half there where where Love
Speaker 1: was really starting to crank it up in this game,
Speaker 1: completions to nine different receivers as the Packers kind of
Speaker 1: got the band back together. At receiver. Watson was back
Speaker 1: from his ankle injury, fortunately only missed only ended up
Speaker 1: missing the one game Romeo Dobbs back from the one
Speaker 1: game suspension, Watson not only catches the fourth and one
Speaker 1: throw over the middle, but also a forty four yard
Speaker 1: touchdown that was right on the heels of a long
Speaker 1: punt return by Keishawn Nixon, and Romeo Dobbs in his return,
Speaker 1: catches two touchdowns. And I tell you, when Jordan Love
Speaker 1: is spreading the ball around like this, I believe he
Speaker 1: targeted ten different pass catchers correct, nine different guys who
Speaker 1: caught a pass in this game. It's it's when this
Speaker 1: Packers offense is at its best. I don't you know,
Speaker 1: there may not be there may not be the one
Speaker 1: guy we're talking about, you know, where it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: somebody had one hundred and twenty five yards or somebody
Speaker 1: has twelve catches. That problem. That's going to happen, and
Speaker 1: it has happened this year. But when this Packers offense
Speaker 1: is at its best, that's not happening because the ball
Speaker 1: is going to so many different people.
Speaker 2: In this game.
Speaker 3: I thought reiterated once again the importance of both Watson
Speaker 3: and Dobbs on the field for the Packers. That's what
Speaker 3: they do in how they add that recipe. Right, Let's
Speaker 3: quickly just start back on Watson for a second. To
Speaker 3: have three catches sixty eight yards, the forty four yard
Speaker 3: touchdown passes you mentioned that came after the Keyshawn Nixon
Speaker 3: punt return. That's going up against Buddha Baker. That's them
Speaker 3: finding something that they felt that they could exploit against
Speaker 3: the Arizona secondary. And I've watched that play as well
Speaker 3: several times over and just the amount of velocity that
Speaker 3: Aaron excuse me that Jordan loved and Aaron Rodgers, but
Speaker 3: how much velocity Jordan put on that ball and then
Speaker 3: Christian to come down with it, that is the number
Speaker 3: nine X factor when he is on the field. Defenses
Speaker 3: have to defend the Green Bay Packers differently. Turn it
Speaker 3: over to Romeo Dobbs. Packers trying to move forward, Dobs
Speaker 3: trying to move forward, what's the perfect way to do that?
Speaker 3: Him coming up with three clutch catches at all at
Speaker 3: different intervals in all at different points in the game.
Speaker 3: The nineteen yard completion over the middle going up against
Speaker 3: Max Melton being able to extend the pocket is just
Speaker 3: there for days and days and days, and Jordan Love
Speaker 3: is able to look for him downfield.
Speaker 1: That was a full five seconds from snap to throw.
Speaker 1: Five seconds and Love was absolutely perfectly protected to allow
Speaker 1: that nineteen yard throw over the middle of Romeo.
Speaker 3: And then you look at the first touchdown play, Love
Speaker 3: sees something he likes over there, throws the out to
Speaker 3: rome Rome finds his way inside the pylon the way
Speaker 3: that everybody gravitated towards him, the hugs, the celebrations. You know,
Speaker 3: some people had asked an insider inbox like, well, Rome
Speaker 3: didn't show a lot of emotion. That's Romeo Dobbs, folks. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's the way he's been the last two and a
Speaker 3: half years. It has nothing to do with what happened
Speaker 3: last week. And then him also finding the way in
Speaker 3: the end zone late hun. It just a remarkable play
Speaker 3: from Jordan Love against a terrible look for a quarterback
Speaker 3: where you're seeing in all out blitz out of cover zero.
Speaker 3: He hoists that ball up for his receiver in one
Speaker 3: on one matchup, trusting Dobbs to make a player at
Speaker 3: least make sure the ball doesn't get picked off. Dobbs
Speaker 3: does more than that. He spins the end zone, gets
Speaker 3: two touchdowns, his second two touchdown game of his career,
Speaker 3: and as we learned afterwards, Jyry Alexander actually told him
Speaker 3: beforehand that it was going to happen, and it manifested
Speaker 3: itself on Schame Day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that second Dobbs touchdown, that was a seven man
Speaker 1: pressure that the Cardinals sent. Packers only had six into block,
Speaker 1: so somebody was going to be free. But then in
Speaker 1: the back end it's four on four because football is
Speaker 1: a numbers game at the end of the day. So
Speaker 1: you know, Love knew that Dobbs would be one on
Speaker 1: one on the outside. The defender Sean Murphy Bunning, who
Speaker 1: had an interception earlier when bow Melton had slipped on
Speaker 1: that route. Murphy Bunning just he had his back turn
Speaker 1: the whole time. He never found the football. I'm not
Speaker 1: even sure he really knew it was coming, which is
Speaker 1: a credit to Dobbs because he didn't give away the
Speaker 1: fact that he was that the ball was coming his way.
Speaker 1: A really good play there on the ground Packers rack
Speaker 1: up one hundred and seventy nine rushing yards in this game. Now,
Speaker 1: through six games, the Green Bay Packers have over one
Speaker 1: thousand rushing yards. Do you know the last time that happened?
Speaker 1: The Packers were over a thousand rushing yards in six games?
Speaker 3: I do, because I rode that I read the notes. Okay,
Speaker 3: by all means, feel free to tell because it is impressive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in nineteen sixty three. Yeah, back in the Lombardi era.
Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty three was the year Paul Horning was suspended.
Speaker 1: So but anyway, that's the last time the Packers had
Speaker 1: over a thousand rushing yards through six games. But what
Speaker 1: I liked the most about this one, and it's similar
Speaker 1: to what was going on in the passing game, the
Speaker 1: Packers are showing the variety of ways in which they
Speaker 1: want to and like to run the football. You have
Speaker 1: the one two punch in the backfield with Jacobs and Wilson,
Speaker 1: and both guys were certainly very productive in this game.
Speaker 1: But then you mix in, you mix in the end rounds,
Speaker 1: whether it's Jaden Reed or Bo Melton, and you know,
Speaker 1: stretching the defense laterally to then also be able to
Speaker 1: hit them up the middle with runs the mixture that's
Speaker 1: going on, and then to you know, ultimately pile up
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy nine rushing yards. A lot of
Speaker 1: those late in the game. You're just you know, you
Speaker 1: got the lead, you've got the ball, you're trying to
Speaker 1: kill the clock. The Cardinals know you're running the ball,
Speaker 1: and the Packers were able to just were able to
Speaker 1: run it and grind the clock down. This type of
Speaker 1: balanced offense. Again, it's against the Cardinals team that you know,
Speaker 1: they lost some players mid game to injuries, and you know,
Speaker 1: things really didn't go their way. But I'd liked the
Speaker 1: way the Packers just they were balanced in this game,
Speaker 1: running and passing, and they just they stayed in control.
Speaker 1: It felt like, other than the one play where bow
Speaker 1: Melton slips and the ball ends up getting intercepted by
Speaker 1: the defender wasn't even guarding bow Melton on that play
Speaker 1: in particular. Other than that, it just felt like when
Speaker 1: the Packers offense was on the field in this game,
Speaker 1: it was in control of the game.
Speaker 3: And as you point out there, you know Cardinals are
Speaker 3: going through some stuff right now, but the Packers beat
Speaker 3: them by twenty one points. Yeah, they controlled this game.
Speaker 3: They got out to that twenty four to nothing lead,
Speaker 3: the defense once again shut the door in the second half.
Speaker 3: That's what you want to see to bring it back
Speaker 3: to the ground game really quickly. This was a vintage
Speaker 3: Matt Lafleur performance. It almost reminded me of the Tyler
Speaker 3: Irvin days in terms of how many different guys got
Speaker 3: involved in the run game and being able to use
Speaker 3: some of the misdirection, use some of the prestat Motion
Speaker 3: tweeted it during the game too. Yeah, Bow unfortunately had
Speaker 3: the one slip on the slant. But I thought this
Speaker 3: game for all as much as we talked about Bow
Speaker 3: and Max Melton all last week, and rightfully so, this
Speaker 3: game really did illustrate the value of Bow Melton to
Speaker 3: this offense because he not only is the next guy
Speaker 3: up in some ways as the downfield speedy option to
Speaker 3: Christian Watson, his shiftiness in his versatility is also a
Speaker 3: compliment to Jayden Reid and being able to orbit and
Speaker 3: being able to do some of the pre snap stuff,
Speaker 3: being able to take a hand off and make some
Speaker 3: yards out of it. That's a very useful tool to
Speaker 3: have in your toolbox, especially as you wade through the
Speaker 3: course of a season. Unfortunately, Dantavian Wis goes down with
Speaker 3: the shoulder injury. But we've seen this time and time
Speaker 3: again how there always is another receiver available, just like
Speaker 3: how Wicks was available when Watson and Dobbs were not there.
Speaker 3: So this is going to be I think another reminder
Speaker 3: to everybody that you can't defend the Green Bay Packers
Speaker 3: one specific way, not with this many weapons. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely well, and on the defensive side of the ball,
Speaker 1: it's also worth talking about a pretty solid game there
Speaker 1: as well. The defense got off to a really strong start.
Speaker 1: I believe on Arizona's first four possessions they had one
Speaker 1: first down.
Speaker 2: Yep, they went three and out three three.
Speaker 1: And out three times and the and the other was
Speaker 1: just one first down and they punted. So a really
Speaker 1: strong start there, and that helped the Packers build that
Speaker 1: twenty four to nothing lead. Kind of the you know,
Speaker 1: that forty four yard touchdown to Watson was kind of
Speaker 1: the go for the throat call, but yep, Matt Lafleur,
Speaker 1: it's seventeen to nothing. You get the long punt return
Speaker 1: after the offsetting penalties and nullified the fumble, you get
Speaker 1: the long punt return from Nixon and it's bang, take
Speaker 1: the shot play, you know, touchdown in the end zone.
Speaker 1: Am again twenty four to nothing. The Cardinals did rally.
Speaker 1: They got a touchdown, the interception off of the slant
Speaker 1: slip then set up a field goal, and then on
Speaker 1: the other side of halftime, the Cardinals got another field goal,
Speaker 1: so they got it to twenty four to thirteen. But
Speaker 1: I think it's worth pointing out that both after the
Speaker 1: interception at the end of the first half and on
Speaker 1: the opening drive of the third quarter, the Packers defense
Speaker 1: stood tall when it had to and didn't let either
Speaker 1: of those drives reach the end zone, right, Because if this,
Speaker 1: if this game gets to, you know, twenty four to
Speaker 1: seventeen or twenty four to twenty one as opposed to
Speaker 1: twenty four to thirteen, it looks a heck of a
Speaker 1: lot different, correct, And I thought I thought on those
Speaker 1: on those back to back drives the end of the
Speaker 1: end of the second quarter start of the third quarter,
Speaker 1: where the Packers defense held the Cardinals to a field goal.
Speaker 1: During that stretch when when they were starting to find
Speaker 1: something moving the ball trade McBride was doing some things
Speaker 1: in the passing game with Murray over the middle. That
Speaker 1: was a key stretch in this game for the Packers
Speaker 1: to stay in control.
Speaker 2: This is nuts to me.
Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever seen this much symmetry in
Speaker 3: a Packers game before. In terms of just looking at
Speaker 3: the possession chart. This is for the Arizona Cardinals punt, punt, punt, punt, touchdown,
Speaker 3: field goal, field goal, fumble, fumblefo fumble.
Speaker 2: That's how they lost the ball. Incredible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And if there was one thing too, this applies
Speaker 3: to both sides of the ball. For Matt Lafleur, his coordinators,
Speaker 3: his coaches to go into the meeting room this week.
Speaker 3: This was also another example of what happens when you're
Speaker 3: plus sixty yards on the penalty side of things. Packers
Speaker 3: went from minus two thirty to twenty excuse me, minus
Speaker 3: one twenty six on the season to minus sixty six
Speaker 3: based on this game alone. It's the only game this
Speaker 3: year where the Packers have been on the favorable sides
Speaker 3: of the penalties, and.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals had come in as one of the least
Speaker 1: if not the least penalized team in the league. Maybe
Speaker 1: kind of on the opposite end of things as far
Speaker 1: as the Packers, but this one, this one did not
Speaker 1: go their way. It started with Jordan Love drawing, drawing
Speaker 1: several offside calls with the hard count and whatnot and
Speaker 1: uh and yeah. Other than you know, a couple of instances,
Speaker 1: you know, the personal fall on JayR Alexander obviously you'd
Speaker 1: like to have back. But other than those couple of moments,
Speaker 1: the Packers played a pretty clean game.
Speaker 2: Which we still don't know what happened on. Yeah, we
Speaker 2: don't know exactly what happened TV copy that to pick
Speaker 2: it up.
Speaker 1: There was no re played, no explanations, but there was
Speaker 1: a flag thrown. All we know is that it was
Speaker 1: announced is after the play was over. Oh yeah, so
Speaker 1: it was not something that occurred. It was something that
Speaker 1: occurred after the whistle.
Speaker 2: But that's all we know.
Speaker 3: But look at how this game ended too. I Mean,
Speaker 3: this is what's been impressive about the Jeff Halfley defense
Speaker 3: to this point, because yeah, there's gonna be moments where
Speaker 3: you give up some yards, but the constant threat of
Speaker 3: the takeaway is so important. And for them to have
Speaker 3: Carl Brooks a force fumble and a fumble recovery, Evan Williams,
Speaker 3: who by the week continues to show why he should
Speaker 3: be in the lineup, why he is in the lineup,
Speaker 3: punches a ball out Jyry Alexander recovers it, and then
Speaker 3: you know, you finished that game with Kenny Clark diving
Speaker 3: on a ball after a botched handoff. As cool as
Speaker 3: it is to have fancy interceptions and forcing the ball
Speaker 3: out and strip sacks, football is a hard game. Sometimes
Speaker 3: guys just drop the football and you need to pick
Speaker 3: it up. Yeah, and Kenny had the awareness to get
Speaker 3: that one there, and they were able to shut the
Speaker 3: door on this thing. The Xavier McKinney interception streak ended
Speaker 3: at five, but it was so awesome, cool, mature listening
Speaker 3: to him speak in the locker room afterwards about, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that was a lot of fun. It sucks that it's over,
Speaker 3: but the fact is is we want to win games.
Speaker 3: We're here to win games. And he's like, if we win,
Speaker 3: I'm the happiest man on earth. And not only did
Speaker 3: they win, the defense continued this multiple game streak, now
Speaker 3: up to six with multiple takeaways, the first time they've
Speaker 3: started a season in that fashion since nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 3: And everyone else knows how that went.
Speaker 1: Seventeen takeaways for the defense through six games. Last year,
Speaker 1: through seventeen regular season games, the Packers had eighteen takeaways.
Speaker 1: You were six games into the season and you have
Speaker 1: almost matched your takeaway total from a year ago. It
Speaker 1: goes back to the old coaching adage, which Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: was the first one I heard it from, and he
Speaker 1: said it quite a bit. In coaching, you get what
Speaker 1: you emphasis, and this particular defensive staff defensive approach, it's
Speaker 1: not just paying lip service to how important turnovers are.
Speaker 1: They are coached to go after the ball. They try
Speaker 1: to punch it out. I mean the punch out by
Speaker 1: Evan Williams is the perfect example. That is not just
Speaker 1: rallying to the ball to help your teammates. That is
Speaker 1: rallying to the ball, seeing that your teammates have the
Speaker 1: play under control, find the ball and go after it.
Speaker 1: That's what these guys are being coached to do so.
Speaker 1: And then you combine that with the vision based play
Speaker 1: of the secondary led by McKinney with all of his interceptions.
Speaker 1: That's how you keep taking the football away. Now, there's
Speaker 1: probably going to be a dry spell here at some
Speaker 1: point because teams are going to teams are going to
Speaker 1: go into a game with the Green Bay Packers saying, hey,
Speaker 1: we have to protect the football costs because that's how
Speaker 1: these guys are winning games. They're winning games by taking
Speaker 1: it away. So then the Packers will have to have
Speaker 1: their answers and have to have their counters when when
Speaker 1: teams do that. But if you get teams that focused
Speaker 1: on having to protect the football, it's probably going to
Speaker 1: take something else away from their aggression or their dynamism
Speaker 1: or whatever it is that they're trying to bring to
Speaker 1: the table that day. So my point is this defense
Speaker 1: is being coached to play this way, they emphasize it
Speaker 1: every single day, and they're getting the results on the field.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and in those instances too, Mike, where you know
Speaker 3: Xavier McKinney, I don't think he had very many opportunities
Speaker 3: for an interception in this game. There were not many
Speaker 3: times where Kyler Murray was really testing the top of
Speaker 3: this defense, trying to make something happen big playwise with them.
Speaker 1: And that's the other thing too, Right, Xavier McKinney gets
Speaker 1: an interception in five straight games, all of them essentially
Speaker 1: playing a center feel, a deep center field type of thing.
Speaker 1: That's giving court, that's going to give quarterbacks things to
Speaker 1: think about and whether they really want to test this guy.
Speaker 3: And that's where for all those plays that happened in
Speaker 3: that game, the one that was the most encourage to
Speaker 3: me was the Kenny Clark fumble recovery at the end,
Speaker 3: because one, it shut the door on it. We could
Speaker 3: just all go home and have our pizza and write
Speaker 3: our stories and gets it slate. But two, when the
Speaker 3: opportunities aren't there, when the emphasis for the opposing team
Speaker 3: is there, and if you have a team that just
Speaker 3: does protect the ball very well, when there are chances
Speaker 3: to get a takeaway when someone puts it in your
Speaker 3: lap in that moment, in that millisecond, being able to execute,
Speaker 3: and that's where I think last year the Packers came
Speaker 3: up short a lot of the times. It's just it's
Speaker 3: not easy. They're not trying to throw you the ball,
Speaker 3: they're not trying to fumble the football.
Speaker 2: But when those.
Speaker 3: Opportunities are there in that millisecond of your life, you
Speaker 3: have to find a way to come up with it.
Speaker 3: This team has to this point. I think it does
Speaker 3: go back to the emphasis and more than anything, Mike,
Speaker 3: watch that game last night between Buffalo and New York.
Speaker 3: How a sack that gets changed to a roughing the
Speaker 3: passer call can change the landscape of things. How the
Speaker 3: defense the game it's so tilted towards the offense. The
Speaker 3: one thing that the defense can that in most cases
Speaker 3: cannot be taken away from them is taking away the football,
Speaker 3: and the Greemit Packers.
Speaker 2: Have done that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: years of better. A few different things to talk about
Speaker 1: as far as around the league through six weeks, but
Speaker 1: we have to start with just where things are in
Speaker 1: the NFC. North Minnesota was on its bye week. They're
Speaker 1: sitting on top of the division at five and zero.
Speaker 1: The Detroit Lions go into Dallas and put a whooping
Speaker 1: on the Cowboys. The Lions are now four and one,
Speaker 1: although they lost arguably their best defensive player for the
Speaker 1: rest of the year to a horrific injury, and then
Speaker 1: the Packers and the Bears both sitting at four and two.
Speaker 1: So for the first time since the current divisional alignment
Speaker 1: was established back in two thousand and two, with four
Speaker 1: teams per division and eight divisions across the league, one
Speaker 1: division has every team with at least four victories through
Speaker 1: six weeks of the season. This has never happened before.
Speaker 1: The NFC North is looking like it is loaded and
Speaker 1: this is going to be This is going to be
Speaker 1: some race for the division title because it goes it's
Speaker 1: almost without argument at this point that the NFC North
Speaker 1: is the best division in football.
Speaker 2: I think so.
Speaker 3: I think the proof is there with the strength of
Speaker 3: victories that they've had so far. Yeah, the Chicago Bears
Speaker 3: beat up on a very bad Jacksonville Jaguars team, But
Speaker 3: if Bears are actually going to be decent, you need
Speaker 3: to put up forty two points on that team.
Speaker 2: You just have to.
Speaker 3: Your quarterback needs to play with a four touchdown, one
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty passer rating against.
Speaker 2: That type of opponent.
Speaker 1: YEP.
Speaker 3: The one thing I would like to know that I
Speaker 3: don't know is Yes, this is a very impressive statistic.
Speaker 3: First time twenty two years we've had a start where
Speaker 3: a division has had all four teams with four wins.
Speaker 2: In its first six weeks.
Speaker 3: I would be interested to see how many times in
Speaker 3: the last twenty two years a division has had all
Speaker 3: four teams and two teams have played each other.
Speaker 1: Once the Yeah, there's only been one division game in
Speaker 1: the NFC North. It was Packers Vikings at Lambellfield, with
Speaker 1: Minnesota obviously getting that win.
Speaker 2: That's been it.
Speaker 1: All the rest of the division games, all the head
Speaker 1: to heads in this division have yet to be played.
Speaker 1: There is going to be one coming up this week
Speaker 1: that we'll talk about probably on our next show.
Speaker 2: Very Big one.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But that being said, I think you've seen all four
Speaker 3: of these teams win in very different form and fashions.
Speaker 3: I think the Packers had to weather some early adversity
Speaker 3: with the Jordan Love situation. Peers like the train is
Speaker 3: back on the tracks right now. I think four and
Speaker 3: two we can say that. You see the Minnesota Vikings,
Speaker 3: what they've done surprising everybody. Sam Darnell in this resurgence
Speaker 3: that he's been part of the fact that some people
Speaker 3: are even mentioning right now adding his name to the
Speaker 3: MVP race with how he's performed out of the gate,
Speaker 3: super impressive. They've signed a ton of players and it
Speaker 3: seems to be working out for them. The Detroit Lions
Speaker 3: the juggernaut, the team that everybody expected to perform well
Speaker 3: doing what they're doing. Chicago Bears found a way past
Speaker 3: a really bad Tennessee Titans team and early in the
Speaker 3: season and now have found their stride. Look like kind
Speaker 3: of like the Packers team of last year, where they
Speaker 3: could potentially be improving throughout the course of the year
Speaker 3: based on the young structure of that team. Sure, they're
Speaker 3: all doing it different ways, man, but for the Packers,
Speaker 3: none of that matters. For three more weeks. You have
Speaker 3: these opponents starting this week against the Houston Texans, then
Speaker 3: you have to worry about the Jacksonville Jacors. Then you
Speaker 3: have the matchup with the Lions. So the fact that
Speaker 3: we're going to get all the way to the buy here,
Speaker 3: the Packers will have two of those games, and I think,
Speaker 3: what is it Minnesota plays Detroit. I don't even know
Speaker 3: if there's another individual matchup out of than that through
Speaker 3: the first nine weeks. The only thing that Packers can
Speaker 3: worry about right now is getting victories, and that continues
Speaker 3: this week against Easton Texans, which we'll talk about on
Speaker 3: Thursdays Packers on Script.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one last quick thought before we go. Shortly before
Speaker 1: we turn the cameras on here, the news broke that
Speaker 1: DeVante Adams was traded to the New York Jets. The
Speaker 1: Jets losing another heartbreaker of a game for them on
Speaker 1: Monday Night Football against the Buffalo Bills. Their kicker missed
Speaker 1: a couple of you know, clank the upright on a
Speaker 1: couple of kicks, and Rogers throws interception late and and
Speaker 1: Buffalo ends up escaping the meadowlands with a victory. But
Speaker 1: then within apparently within a couple of hours, Davante Adams
Speaker 1: was on a plane on a red eye flight from
Speaker 1: the West Coast over to Florham. Is it called Fluorham
Speaker 1: Park or whatever the wherever.
Speaker 2: The Jets has been there.
Speaker 1: But so DeVante Adams, Aaron Rodgers back together again. Any
Speaker 1: quick thought I thought.
Speaker 3: Was listening to Aaron's postgame press coom friends last night,
Speaker 3: was kind of reading between the lines. Is the DeVante
Speaker 3: Adams bat signal up in the air in Gotham City
Speaker 3: was my thought, just the way he spoke about the
Speaker 3: final sequence there with Mike Williams, and it appears that
Speaker 3: he ran the wrong route supposed to be on the
Speaker 3: red line and said he was running kind of a
Speaker 3: skinny post and that was sort of the misconnection happened there.
Speaker 1: And Williams was the guy on the back end of
Speaker 1: the interception in London where at the end of the
Speaker 1: game the Jets had a chance to beat the Minnesota
Speaker 1: Vikings and Rogers is trying to throw back shoulder and
Speaker 1: Williams doesn't read it, the ball gets picked by the
Speaker 1: Vikings and Minnesota survives to get to five and zero.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is the ultimate test man. To me,
Speaker 3: this is kind of like when you check off all
Speaker 3: the boxes and now we're at the final one and
Speaker 3: can DeVante help them turn their season around? If there's
Speaker 3: anything I do know, it would not surprise me at all.
Speaker 3: For assuming the hamstring is good, it wouldn't surprise me
Speaker 3: all for Devanta Adams to play next week and have
Speaker 3: a one hundred yard game again, just based on the
Speaker 3: synergy he has with Rogers and the muscle memory.
Speaker 2: Those two guys have built, but this is the big
Speaker 2: move now.
Speaker 3: And it was also interesting too because I just don't
Speaker 3: know how many teams we're going to be willing to
Speaker 3: move assets to acquire at DeVante in that contract at
Speaker 3: going on thirty two years old in December. The the Jets,
Speaker 3: kind of like with the Packers trade a year and
Speaker 3: a half ago, are doing that same thing. But I
Speaker 3: think they also saw in that game against the Bills,
Speaker 3: with the way that that division is built and without
Speaker 3: two of being available right now, it's still is pretty
Speaker 3: much up for grabs, so very much so two and four,
Speaker 3: the Bills coming back down to earth after two losses,
Speaker 3: now rebounding again but still only winning by three.
Speaker 2: It's all still out there for everybody.
Speaker 3: But it was exciting week of games, I thought overall.
Speaker 3: It was really I mean, you got to see Baltimore
Speaker 3: and Washington and obviously Detroit beat up on the Cowboys
Speaker 3: as you said, and great in Houston, Texas did what
Speaker 3: they're supposed to do against the Patriots. So you give
Speaker 3: me a fun matchup on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1: The Houston Texans are coming into lambeau Field at five
Speaker 1: and one, and we will preview that matchup on our
Speaker 1: next show, but for now we'll call it a rap
Speaker 1: on this edition of Packers unscripted'd be sure to follow
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Speaker 1: For Wes, I'm Miike. Thank you for tuning in, everybody.
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