Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from
Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spoffer, joined as always
Speaker 1: by my trusted colleague West Hodkoitz. We're coming to you
Speaker 1: here from our studios at lambeau Field West. Week four
Speaker 1: is in the books for the Packers, and it was
Speaker 1: a seventeen victory at home over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Green
Speaker 1: Bay now three and one in sole possession of first
Speaker 1: place in the NFC North. And with this win, if
Speaker 1: we want to start on the offensive side of the ball,
Speaker 1: I think it begins with talking about two guys on
Speaker 1: offense who were pretty darn quiet the first three weeks
Speaker 1: of the season, but they really showed up big against Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: And I'm talking, of course, about Randall Cobb and A. J. Dillon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and let's let's start with Randall cop because this is
Speaker 1: the story of the latter half of the off season
Speaker 1: for the Green Bay Packers. The decision a week before
Speaker 1: started training camp They're gonna acquire Randall Cobb from the
Speaker 1: Houston Texans. Aaron Rodgers gets his old you know, his
Speaker 1: partner back, and you know, for the last two months
Speaker 1: we've basically been wondering, Okay, what is Cobb going to
Speaker 1: do in this offense? You see how he could fit
Speaker 1: and you understand where where he could potentially be maneuvered
Speaker 1: and can make an impact, but he only played forty
Speaker 1: eight snaps in the first three games. Well, Mark Quisveldi
Speaker 1: Scantling goes down with the hamstring injury, ultimately gets placed
Speaker 1: on injured reserve, and it's the Randall Cobs show. And
Speaker 1: it was really apropos I felt like because the question
Speaker 1: one of the first questions Matt la Fleur was asked
Speaker 1: on on Monday after the game, was you know, was
Speaker 1: it a big point of emphasis to get Cobb involved?
Speaker 1: And he said, no, that's just kind of the way
Speaker 1: it happened, and just seeing what he does in the
Speaker 1: middle of the field. Mike I made a comment during
Speaker 1: the game on Twitter, you know, the Packers like to
Speaker 1: be multiple, They like to have guys that can do everything,
Speaker 1: usually bigger body type guys, not typically the five ten variety.
Speaker 1: But Randall coub does fill a need for this offense.
Speaker 1: Obviously on third downs, huge production there, but just the way,
Speaker 1: even at thirty one years old, he's able to knife
Speaker 1: through the middle of the field and find separation and
Speaker 1: he is freaking fearless when there's a safety bearing down
Speaker 1: on the guy catches everything. I was really impressed by
Speaker 1: Randald Cobbin for him to be able to catch the
Speaker 1: hundred of excuse before you know, touchdown in Aaron Rodgers career.
Speaker 1: A really special night for a very special player. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: He's targeted six times in the game, comes up with
Speaker 1: five catches. The other one was actually where he and
Speaker 1: DeVante Adams were both in the same area. Um an
Speaker 1: example of of how those both of those guys are
Speaker 1: kind of on the same page always with Rogers because
Speaker 1: they both saw the same thing on the field, went
Speaker 1: to the same place and Cobb didn't realize that Adams
Speaker 1: was there to catch the pass. But that aside, five
Speaker 1: receptions on six targets for sixty plus yards, gets the
Speaker 1: two touchdowns, his first two touchdowns of the season, and uh,
Speaker 1: the production on third down. It was funny because I've uh,
Speaker 1: you know, doing the live blog during the game and
Speaker 1: chatting with the fans and whatnot. And after after those
Speaker 1: first two third down conversions which set up then Rogers
Speaker 1: scrambling for the touchdown, the Packers first touchdown of the game.
Speaker 1: The fans who were sending in the comments every time
Speaker 1: it was third down, they would just say third and Cob, Cob,
Speaker 1: third and Cob like but that's what it felt like, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, Aaron Rodgers he knew, he knew where he
Speaker 1: could go with the ball if he saw Cobb getting
Speaker 1: that separation somewhere in the middle of the field, and
Speaker 1: the throws were right on target. The production was there. Now,
Speaker 1: we'll see what this means now for the Packers offense
Speaker 1: going forward with as you said, Valdes Scantling is on
Speaker 1: injured reserve. He's out at least a couple more weeks.
Speaker 1: We'll see how long it is before he's back. But
Speaker 1: then the other element that developed a little bit with
Speaker 1: this offense on Sunday was the number two running back
Speaker 1: in Dylan because we've been talking about it, whether you
Speaker 1: want to call it, you know, the thunder and lightning,
Speaker 1: the one to the fastball and the changeup, whatever the
Speaker 1: case might be. A j. Dillon is a different type
Speaker 1: of running back from Aaron Jones, but we saw how
Speaker 1: effective he can be against a you know, a straightforward,
Speaker 1: stout defensive front and a lot of times it was
Speaker 1: just you know it was line up with the three
Speaker 1: tight ends, pushed the pile for four or five yards.
Speaker 1: What the Packers were doing on the ground against a
Speaker 1: pretty good run defense, I thought was impressing. Yeah, two
Speaker 1: weeks in a row mic where they really had to
Speaker 1: earn every single yard that they got, but in this
Speaker 1: game they actually ended up having some explosive place. Dylan
Speaker 1: has his longest carry the season twenty five yards right
Speaker 1: down to the one yard line at Pittsburgh, and Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones actually had his longest year carry the year as
Speaker 1: well at fifteen. Yeah, really having to work hard for
Speaker 1: some of the yarders that he picked up. But what
Speaker 1: I loved about Dylan was the four minute aspect of
Speaker 1: him in the second half when the Packers need to
Speaker 1: eat some clock. Four straight carries he picks up twenty yards,
Speaker 1: none of them more than six yards, none of them
Speaker 1: fewer than than four just a you know, a chain mover.
Speaker 1: And Aaron Rodgers made the remark afterwards, you know the
Speaker 1: bowling ball that he kind of is on the field.
Speaker 1: But what is impressed Rogers is how now he's developed
Speaker 1: as more of a three down type back. He's made
Speaker 1: the improvements you want to see as a pass protector,
Speaker 1: he made a heck of a catch and a play
Speaker 1: for sixteen yards out of the backfield as well. That
Speaker 1: was one area there were a lot of questions about
Speaker 1: him coming out of Boston College. What were his hands? Like,
Speaker 1: never really did that at Boston College? Could he do it?
Speaker 1: In this Matt the floor offense that likes to utilize
Speaker 1: the running backs on ninety six total yards of offense
Speaker 1: between Jones and Dylan and in this game where in
Speaker 1: the second half, you know, it's kind of weird game
Speaker 1: altogether in terms of the conditions, they just decided, Hey,
Speaker 1: let's give a j Dillon a shot here to to
Speaker 1: really you know, get some speed and momentum behind him.
Speaker 1: And I thought the young man really showed up. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's as we've talked about it so many times,
Speaker 1: it's so good to see the Packers be able to
Speaker 1: run the football. It's sets up so much else that
Speaker 1: goes on with this offense, and and really in this game,
Speaker 1: because the Packers had taken such command of this game
Speaker 1: in the second half to be able to run the
Speaker 1: ball and churn out the yards when the Steelers knew
Speaker 1: you were going to run the ball. That's the kind
Speaker 1: of thing that bodes really well for the future down
Speaker 1: the road when you're when you're trying to protect leads,
Speaker 1: add too leads in the second half, grind the clock,
Speaker 1: all of those things you're trying to accomplish all those
Speaker 1: goals when you have a lead in the third fourth
Speaker 1: quarter of games. The Packers showed that they can do
Speaker 1: that against a pretty good defense, and I think that's
Speaker 1: a really good sign for the future. You're absolutely right,
Speaker 1: And getting back to that yard carry, that was probably
Speaker 1: my favorite run of the season, not because of the
Speaker 1: yard is that picked up, but because that kind of
Speaker 1: looked like the offense from last year in terms of
Speaker 1: you had Marie Rogers coming on. The motion timed it perfectly.
Speaker 1: When the ball gets snapped at everything, no issues there whatsoever,
Speaker 1: and Dylan just gets north and south and he guys,
Speaker 1: he said he got skinny through the gap and there
Speaker 1: was no but there at the second level bush. I
Speaker 1: believe that who is it that would end up in
Speaker 1: the back and that ended up pushing out, gave him
Speaker 1: the whole gap and basically was just in a foot
Speaker 1: race right to uh right to the end zone. So
Speaker 1: just to be able to get those type of options going.
Speaker 1: That's important film, Mike, because now next week, Okay, what
Speaker 1: can you build off of that? Look? Now, maybe that's
Speaker 1: where you see the push pass is going out to
Speaker 1: Marie Rogers. Maybe that's where you get some other swing
Speaker 1: things going. It keeps defense is honest, and it gives
Speaker 1: defensive coordineers things to think about now as you go
Speaker 1: into a game this Sunday against Cincinnati. Yeah, we saw
Speaker 1: some of those plays to where both Jones and Dylan
Speaker 1: or in the backfield and Jones motions out and you're
Speaker 1: trying to get a read on the defense. You know,
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, I mean Aaron Rodgers excuse me, has the
Speaker 1: option of throwing the swing past Aaron Jones as emotions out,
Speaker 1: or to hand it off to Dylan if the if
Speaker 1: the defense is a little light in the box. Those
Speaker 1: are the kinds of things I think we're going to
Speaker 1: continue to see moving forward. Just to correct myself, Devin
Speaker 1: Bush Bushes the wonderful safety from the Chicago Bears that
Speaker 1: we've seen the past few years dead and Bush was
Speaker 1: he kind of got flushed out of his gap and
Speaker 1: that gave that gave the floodgates there for Yeah, no
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Speaker 1: We believe in better all right. On the defensive side,
Speaker 1: and I know we have some injury issues to talk
Speaker 1: about and we'll get to those in a minute, But defensively,
Speaker 1: I want to start with this West, because the game
Speaker 1: did not start the way the Packers wanted it to.
Speaker 1: The Steelers took had the ball first, went down and
Speaker 1: scored a long touchdown pass to Deonte Johnson, but then
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's next seven possessions three points. You talk about a
Speaker 1: unit and no, not everything was perfect in there. And
Speaker 1: the Steelers, yes, they were able, they were able to
Speaker 1: move the ball, and there were some fourth downs that
Speaker 1: based on game situation, they decided to go for it
Speaker 1: instead of kick field goals. Possibly I get all that,
Speaker 1: but seven possessions three points after allowing an opening possession touchdown.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a response from a defense. To me,
Speaker 1: that felt like, Okay, this defense not only is settling
Speaker 1: into where they are in the season with their new
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, but it showed just how veteran and experienced
Speaker 1: overall this group is. Because because we've seen the snowball
Speaker 1: start to go the wrong way a couple of times
Speaker 1: early in the season, there was no snowball in this game.
Speaker 1: Based on that first touchdown, and again just another thing
Speaker 1: I thought was a good sign for this Packers team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and just the response to it, right because that that
Speaker 1: was a tough blow there, because it's a forty five
Speaker 1: year touchdown, it's against your best player with with yr
Speaker 1: Alexander out there in single coverage, Johnson had a heck
Speaker 1: of a game. I give that young man a lot
Speaker 1: of credit. Without you know what, shoes Smith Schuster struggling
Speaker 1: with the injuries that he's had. When they don't have
Speaker 1: Chase Claypool, they needed somebody step up, and it was
Speaker 1: Johnson on both sides of the field. So they come
Speaker 1: out of the game and they get the touchdown. That's
Speaker 1: a momentum changer. I know, I saw all the questions,
Speaker 1: all the comments on Twitter about all this is why
Speaker 1: you don't defer was you saw what ended up happening.
Speaker 1: Is green Bay really settles in after that first and
Speaker 1: foremost they've been able to stop the run. Naja Harris
Speaker 1: wasn't able to get going. Now he had sixteen carries
Speaker 1: sixty two yards uh in economical effort, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: something that really, you know, hurt them. With that in mind,
Speaker 1: much like the San Francisco game, they were able to
Speaker 1: get after Ben Roethlisberger a little bit more, only two sacks,
Speaker 1: only five quarterback hits, but to be able to to
Speaker 1: kind of keep him off balance. Certainly the strip sack
Speaker 1: was a huge play on the third series. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: there were so many little things that worked against the
Speaker 1: Steelers in this whether it was Kingsley, Kiki getting home,
Speaker 1: Kenny Clark being able to pick that up, the points
Speaker 1: off of that Randall Cobb, the twenty yard punch in
Speaker 1: the second half by Harvin, there are little things that
Speaker 1: you look at the way this game flowed. Green Bay
Speaker 1: just out they all battled them in all three phases,
Speaker 1: and I thought a lot of that had to do
Speaker 1: with how the defense responded early on. You know, I
Speaker 1: thought this was a great game for Kingsley Kiki. I
Speaker 1: really thought him and Kenny Clark, those guys pushed the front,
Speaker 1: and as Kiki said after the game, that's what they
Speaker 1: felt like they needed to do in this thing, because
Speaker 1: you can't let Broughtlisberger step up into his throws. They
Speaker 1: took that avenue away and they came up with a
Speaker 1: rather dominant performance. Yeah, I thought what the Packers were
Speaker 1: able to do up front is more often than not
Speaker 1: with a standard foreman rush. The bulk of the time,
Speaker 1: we saw the pocket closing in around Ben Roethlisberger. And no,
Speaker 1: the Packers didn't rack up a whole bunch of secks.
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger was not on the ground a whole bunch. But
Speaker 1: you also didn't see Roethlisberger getting all that comfortable in
Speaker 1: the pocket because it just seemed like it was closing
Speaker 1: in around him quite a bit. And and Roethlisberger did
Speaker 1: miss a couple of throws that that the future Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer we're used to, We're used to seeing him
Speaker 1: make those throws, and you wonder, okay, so was that
Speaker 1: little bit of lack of comfort in the pocket doesn't
Speaker 1: make that throw just a little bit up. I mean
Speaker 1: it all, it all plays, it all plays into it,
Speaker 1: and was part of this defensive effort. The bad news,
Speaker 1: of course, is that Jayra Alexander went down in this
Speaker 1: game with a shoulder injury. Made a terrific play on
Speaker 1: a for a fourth down stop. For the last three years, Yeah,
Speaker 1: made a terrific play on a fourth down stop. Late
Speaker 1: in the third quarter, the Steelers were throwing short of
Speaker 1: the sticks, trying to get a little catch and run
Speaker 1: from their rookie running back Naja Harris and uh and
Speaker 1: Alexander's right there goes low upends and but he injures
Speaker 1: his shoulder, leaves the game, is taken to the locker
Speaker 1: room on a cart. And the latest we heard from
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur on Monday in his UH day after game
Speaker 1: news conferences that they're still gathering a bunch of information
Speaker 1: on this injury, looking at different scenarios, different opinion in
Speaker 1: terms of how to proceed with regard to this injury.
Speaker 1: So we don't really know anything at this point other
Speaker 1: than Alexander is probably going to be out for a while.
Speaker 1: We just don't know exactly how long at this point, um,
Speaker 1: this is this is potentially am you know, a game
Speaker 1: changer in a sense for the Packers defense because you're
Speaker 1: already without your other second team All Pro from the Union,
Speaker 1: Zadarius Smith with the back injury, and now Alexander the
Speaker 1: second team All Pro at corner is down with an injury. Well,
Speaker 1: and the fact that he played as well as he
Speaker 1: did in this game, and I saw the one stat that, yeah,
Speaker 1: there was a forty five yard catch rely on, but
Speaker 1: after that he got it, he got a little hand
Speaker 1: in the back on that, just a little bit. I
Speaker 1: give I give Johnson credit though, because because when I
Speaker 1: saw it live, I was like, oh, that's a push off.
Speaker 1: But then when I saw the replay, what Johnson actually
Speaker 1: did is he put his hand in Alexander's back essentially
Speaker 1: to stop his momentum. But he didn't shove him to
Speaker 1: where you see the extended arm, which is how you
Speaker 1: get the flag for O p I. He put his
Speaker 1: arm there and kind of blocked him, but because he
Speaker 1: didn't shove and get the separation, they didn't throw the flag.
Speaker 1: They didn't they didn't see that movement of the arm.
Speaker 1: It was a sneaky play. By Johnson. I give him
Speaker 1: a lot of credit because he got away with it
Speaker 1: and got a forty five yard touchdown against one of
Speaker 1: the best corners in the league, west Hodqoitt sixth grade
Speaker 1: baby in middle school. I think I'm gonna probably flop there.
Speaker 1: I think if I'm Alexander, I'd probably go down. But
Speaker 1: but Jah is a better competitor than I am. But
Speaker 1: what I loved about that though, after that four targets,
Speaker 1: I think there was one completion for a yard or
Speaker 1: something like that. I mean, the guy shut it down
Speaker 1: and as I was, I kind of interrupted you, but
Speaker 1: I wanted to make that point. He has made that
Speaker 1: place so many times, Mike, how many times? Remember last
Speaker 1: year in Minnesota. Crash is so hard and as we
Speaker 1: saw in his interception the week before, the guy has
Speaker 1: such explosiveness. He can cover so much ground in such
Speaker 1: a short period of time. Unfortunately, there's a six ft
Speaker 1: two three, two hundred thirty pound rock in Naja Harris
Speaker 1: that you know he made the hit it it was
Speaker 1: able to get him to have enough. It stopped him
Speaker 1: enough for the rest of the guys that come gang tackle.
Speaker 1: But unfortunately for Job comes up with the shoulder injury.
Speaker 1: I know he was cheering on fans as he was leaving.
Speaker 1: We don't know the update. Matt Lafleur said on Wednesday
Speaker 1: he hopes to have one for the media. This is
Speaker 1: the guy, though, Mike. I mean, we talked so many
Speaker 1: years about the Packers investing first round picks and the
Speaker 1: defensive backs and all this. Jayre is the one and
Speaker 1: too for him to do what he's done at twenty
Speaker 1: four years old, to have the composure and the mindset
Speaker 1: and the maturity to to really dominate and excel every
Speaker 1: single year he's played in this league. Was off to
Speaker 1: an exceptional start to this year. So you hate to
Speaker 1: see it for him. You hope it, you know, you
Speaker 1: hope for the best. But the Green Bay Packers, this
Speaker 1: is where Eric Stokes has to step up. Has his
Speaker 1: first interception in the fourth quarter of that one responds
Speaker 1: the way you want him to. I thought Darnielle Savage
Speaker 1: has been playing like a madman on the back end.
Speaker 1: I mean you just the speed, explosiveness and the intelligence.
Speaker 1: You're seeing it with him, you know, Adrian Amos mr
Speaker 1: consistency and hopefully the Packers can get Kevin King here
Speaker 1: back soon as well. Because they're gonna need these guys.
Speaker 1: You need five six defensive backs to be able to
Speaker 1: navigate a season, and Jr. Alexander for the better part
Speaker 1: of three years has been something the Packers have just
Speaker 1: not had to worry about. Yeah, much like what they
Speaker 1: did with Sadarius Smith with losing him. If you're gonna
Speaker 1: lose job for a little bit, you have to have
Speaker 1: guys step up in his place. Yeah. Absolutely, this is
Speaker 1: going to be an interesting period here for the Packers
Speaker 1: to navigate injury wise, because because really you're talking about
Speaker 1: the two biggest playmakers on the defensive side of the
Speaker 1: ball over the last couple of years um are now
Speaker 1: on the sidelines. And and we'll see what that update
Speaker 1: is on Alexander on Wednesday. I did want to get
Speaker 1: to a couple of things with regard to special teams. One,
Speaker 1: bo Joe as he's becoming known Corey Bojorkez, Holy cow
Speaker 1: West is this guy? I mean, how how does how?
Speaker 1: I mean? I understand he went to l A to
Speaker 1: compete with a four time alto and Johnny Hecker and everything,
Speaker 1: but how was how did nobody else bring him in?
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's amazing It's absolutely amazing to me
Speaker 1: that this guy with with this much, with with the
Speaker 1: track record he has and the talent that would obviously
Speaker 1: be on display at any moment that you bring a
Speaker 1: guy like this in for a workout, that um that
Speaker 1: here the Packers have him, and it's a it's a
Speaker 1: big bonus because uh I mean, he pins the Steelers
Speaker 1: on the four yard line with the uh I forget
Speaker 1: what it's called, but it's basically where he drops the
Speaker 1: ball side with banana punt, that's what it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But he drops the ball sideways and kicks it, so
Speaker 1: it's spinning, you know, it's the it's a kickoff spin,
Speaker 1: but in the in the sideways way, if that makes
Speaker 1: any sense of habscribe. Yeah, but he pins the Steelers
Speaker 1: on the four yard line there early in the game,
Speaker 1: which um, which then the defense does get the stop
Speaker 1: and the ball back. And then when the Packers are
Speaker 1: backed up and he's punting out of the back of
Speaker 1: the end zone, he blasts a fifty seven yard or
Speaker 1: Malik Taylor beats as the gunner beats his guy on
Speaker 1: the outside, and you get a fair catch off of
Speaker 1: a fifty seven yard punt out of the back of
Speaker 1: your end zone. You can't ask for a better impact
Speaker 1: on field position from a punter than what Bojo has
Speaker 1: given the Packers here. Yeah, I'm starting to call him
Speaker 1: the scientist because just the way he looks at punting
Speaker 1: is just it is incredible. The you know, the physicist
Speaker 1: is probably what I should call him. I mean, he
Speaker 1: talked about it was such an interesting interview. You were
Speaker 1: a part of it in the media auditorium. But just
Speaker 1: the way he looks at it, because you know, when
Speaker 1: you when you're playing in the park with your friends
Speaker 1: back in the day, if somebody's gonna punt the ball
Speaker 1: or maybe you do that for your kickoff, they're just
Speaker 1: looking to hammer it, right. Yeah. Yeah, But Horc has
Speaker 1: said it's like, no, you don't want to outpunt your coverage,
Speaker 1: but in that particular case, you're backed up in your
Speaker 1: own end zone. You're having to do the short punt,
Speaker 1: you know where it's you're not gonna have as much time.
Speaker 1: And if you looked at what Pittsburgh was sending, they
Speaker 1: had one guy on each side as far as jammers.
Speaker 1: They were sending the house to try to block this punt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Horc has just let it fly and you give
Speaker 1: credit to Malik Taylor going down and had a really
Speaker 1: nice run off the side, the left side for the
Speaker 1: as a gunner. The kids really talented. Mike, and with
Speaker 1: all due respect to j K. Scott. J K Scott,
Speaker 1: as I've said before numerous times, has all the ability
Speaker 1: in the world. Directionally, he struggled and that was where
Speaker 1: the kind of the disconnect was. He couldn't place it
Speaker 1: where he needed to place it along the sidelines. For
Speaker 1: as talented as b Hoorkes is with that left leg,
Speaker 1: he also has shown remarkable accuracy with it. So I
Speaker 1: will keep saying this, I will keep writing it. I
Speaker 1: don't cover the Buffalo bills. I have some buddies of
Speaker 1: mine who do. Maybe I'll ask. I still cannot figure
Speaker 1: out not only how this guy went two months without
Speaker 1: being signed, but how he didn't get tendered. I mean
Speaker 1: he he is a really talented young man and he
Speaker 1: was a great fine for Buffalo coming out in New England.
Speaker 1: So we'll see where things had. Obviously, four games does
Speaker 1: not make a career, but they wanted to get hang time,
Speaker 1: they wanted to get improvements. They felt like they could
Speaker 1: get better with their punt coverage. And horc has has
Speaker 1: done a big, big job in that well. The the
Speaker 1: salary cap crunch obviously leads to certain things happening, like
Speaker 1: Corey Lindsley has to walk in free agency right well,
Speaker 1: the Packers in the salary cap crunch situation have taken
Speaker 1: advantage of two things and bringing in Corey Bojorkez and
Speaker 1: DeAndre Campbell, two guys who are playing major roles on
Speaker 1: this team for contracts that were much less than what
Speaker 1: they were hoping for what they were expecting as free
Speaker 1: agents on the market. The Packers jump in and take
Speaker 1: advantage there and it's paying dividends. One other thing on
Speaker 1: the special teams, though, Packers have some things to look
Speaker 1: at with regard to the field goal and the field
Speaker 1: goal protection, because Matt Lafleur mentioned it on Monday when
Speaker 1: I asked him the follow up on it, and I
Speaker 1: give credit to an insider inbox reader, and I apologize
Speaker 1: for not remembering the individual's name at the moment, but
Speaker 1: I answered the question late Sunday night after the game
Speaker 1: that this reader had noticed that when the Steelers were
Speaker 1: called for offside but blocked the field goal at the
Speaker 1: end of the first half, the guys on on the
Speaker 1: edge there I believe it was Joe Hayden and make
Speaker 1: a Fitzpatrick where the two on the edge, they essentially
Speaker 1: went off of Bohorkes with his top hand, flashing the hand,
Speaker 1: which is the signal for the snap. And apparently the
Speaker 1: Packers have been doing that but not you know, flash
Speaker 1: the hand and count thousand one thousand two or something
Speaker 1: like that. It's been flashed the hand and snap the ball, right,
Speaker 1: so that's what the Steelers were going. Those guys on
Speaker 1: the edge were not watching the ball, they were watching
Speaker 1: Bhorqus his hand and that's how they got to jump.
Speaker 1: So it's an easy fix for the Packers, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: all you have to do is say, you know, you go, okay,
Speaker 1: we're going on to flash the hand thousand one thousand two.
Speaker 1: It's it's still a silent count. It's a snap, but
Speaker 1: you make those guys watch the ball, so the Packers
Speaker 1: will Packers will get that short up. But this whole
Speaker 1: question of whether or not those guys were off side
Speaker 1: very very interesting because it certainly was close. It looks
Speaker 1: like they're offside in live action, but then when you
Speaker 1: slow it down, I'm not so sure as it turns
Speaker 1: out the Packers get the second try at the field goal.
Speaker 1: They get it at the end of the half instead
Speaker 1: of having the seven points the other way. But um,
Speaker 1: but an interesting turn of events there at the end
Speaker 1: of the first It is funny because basically the off
Speaker 1: side space it kind of comes down to how quickly
Speaker 1: Hunter Bradley snaps the ball then, I mean if he
Speaker 1: just waits that I'm talking mellic Yeah, absolute terms of
Speaker 1: it actually coming out to me personally. Now, we don't
Speaker 1: we do not have a good vantage point press box
Speaker 1: at lambel Field's fantastic is one of the best in
Speaker 1: the league. But from when we're sitting and where that
Speaker 1: ball was coming, all we could see is the guys
Speaker 1: coming off the edge. I didn't have a good look
Speaker 1: at all of what was happening, but it happened so fast. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that there was this part of me is just like, well,
Speaker 1: of course they were offside. How could they How could
Speaker 1: they have been that close to where Horke has was
Speaker 1: putting down the ball without them being off side? Because
Speaker 1: because that that was just an absolute smothering of the
Speaker 1: of the I mean Fitzpatrick was packed practically on his
Speaker 1: feet still in blocking that and then scooping and going
Speaker 1: the other way. One thing I'm trying to teach myself though.
Speaker 1: Mike and Mark Murphy Packers Presidency, wrote about this in
Speaker 1: in Empty five. I am an eye for an eye guy.
Speaker 1: That's why it's such an issue with the officiating in
Speaker 1: the NFC Championship game. Is why I was so upset
Speaker 1: about the fishing at the end of San Francisco game.
Speaker 1: But Mark laid it out on Saturday and said, listen,
Speaker 1: on a long enough timeline, the calls worked themselves out.
Speaker 1: So while that didn't work for Pittsburgh and worked in
Speaker 1: Green Bay's advantage, you have you know, j J. T J.
Speaker 1: Watt tripping, you know Rogers later in the game. Absolutely
Speaker 1: flag gets thrown, they pick it up for some reason.
Speaker 1: It is what it is. And at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, seventeen the Green Bay Packers, I think everyone
Speaker 1: would agree the better team one three and one now
Speaker 1: going into Cincinnati this upcoming weekend. Yeah. Absolutely, And with
Speaker 1: that we'll call it a wrap on this edition of
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