Speaker 1: Yeah, Hi, everybody, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford, joined alongside my trusted colleague West
Speaker 1: Hodkoits were coming to you here from our studios at
Speaker 1: lambeau Field and West Week two Packers Vikings noon Sunday
Speaker 1: kickoff at lambeau Field. It is almost here our final
Speaker 1: show of the week in which we focus on Keys
Speaker 1: to Victory for Green Bay. Where do you want to
Speaker 1: start with this one? Well, there's a quarterback that we
Speaker 1: don't really have an update on right now. I mean,
Speaker 1: just to get out of the way, you know, Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy mentioned Friday morning, did not have an update on him.
Speaker 1: As you wrote on Packers dot Com. Looks like he'll
Speaker 1: be taking this thing all the way up until game
Speaker 1: time on Sunday. He sounds like he continues to make
Speaker 1: progress us and trying to come back from that knee.
Speaker 1: I actually thought the biggest thing that probably came out
Speaker 1: of that was McCarthy's believing that if there are no setbacks,
Speaker 1: this could be something that clears itself up that he
Speaker 1: wouldn't necessarily have to play through the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: Um be that as it may, everything's about Sunday right now.
Speaker 1: You and I talked about it so many times. Mike
Speaker 1: Packers Vikings, especially the recency between that rivalry with Mike
Speaker 1: Zimmer and that defense. Aaron Rodgers a big piece of
Speaker 1: the puzzle. Depending on how it all shakes out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it all starts, and I personally believe Rogers
Speaker 1: is going to play. But even if he doesn't, and
Speaker 1: if it is Deshaun Kaiser, I think it all starts
Speaker 1: with protecting the quarterback. But this this Minnesota Vikings defense,
Speaker 1: this defensive front, and I'm talking about not only the
Speaker 1: front four but also the linebackers, Bar and Kendricks and
Speaker 1: all of that. These guys can get after quarterbacks. They've
Speaker 1: done it time and time again. Harrison Smith will come
Speaker 1: blitzing from the safety position and you know a lot
Speaker 1: of times finds his way to the quarterback a clear
Speaker 1: path as well. We saw what was happening last week
Speaker 1: when Khalil Mack was kind of a one man wrecking girl,
Speaker 1: though Achiem Hicks was also doing his share of wrecking
Speaker 1: things in the first half for the Packers. But once
Speaker 1: the past protection settled down, Rogers lack of mobility or
Speaker 1: not when the past protection settled down, the Packers offense
Speaker 1: found its rhythm founded screw to score twenty four points
Speaker 1: in a second half in the NFL. That's a lot.
Speaker 1: That's that that's that's big time production. So the Packers
Speaker 1: know that whichever quarterback is back there, he needs to
Speaker 1: he needs to have room to operate. And I think
Speaker 1: that's where the scheme starts. Yeah, and and you look historically,
Speaker 1: Vic Fangio's defense isn't one that gives up a lot
Speaker 1: of those opportunities, either whether he was in San Francisco
Speaker 1: or during his time in Chicago. For him to give
Speaker 1: up that much production, I think shows you just how
Speaker 1: in the zone Rogers was in that contest. And the
Speaker 1: other thing I'm gonna add to that again, depending on
Speaker 1: who the quarterback is and and how this all you
Speaker 1: Know lays out on Sunday. But I mentioned our final
Speaker 1: thoughts video to this week, Mike. Really, if they can
Speaker 1: have that similar production, I'm not saying they need to
Speaker 1: have two and fifty two receiving yards out of Davante Adams,
Speaker 1: Randall Cobb and Geronimo Allison, but just being able to
Speaker 1: spread out the passing game like that. It's the mismatch
Speaker 1: we talked about throughout the off season and being able
Speaker 1: to also have Jimmy Graham involved their Lance Kendricks as
Speaker 1: an h back type tight end and having a multitude
Speaker 1: of different ways that the quarterback can go with the
Speaker 1: football in addition to however you want to utilize time
Speaker 1: Montgomery potentially splitting him out the second half. I thought
Speaker 1: the big key to what the Packers were able to
Speaker 1: do was the fact that one drive belonged to Gerontom
Speaker 1: Wills and one drive happened to belong to Davantae Addams,
Speaker 1: and then obviously Randall Cobb doing what Randall Cobb does
Speaker 1: in the final you know moments of that game to
Speaker 1: to pull out the victory. There's only so many guys
Speaker 1: you can cover, and if you decide to go to
Speaker 1: shell against it, well then that's going to leave you
Speaker 1: some opportunities underneath with the run and and whatnot. So
Speaker 1: that chess match between what Mike Zimmer wants to do
Speaker 1: and how he believes he wants to dictate the game
Speaker 1: versus what the Packers are going to do to build
Speaker 1: off of how they finished last week, to me, is
Speaker 1: the biggest storyline in this game. Absent the quarterback. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the other thing I'm going to keep an eye
Speaker 1: on two is the penalties. And I want to mention
Speaker 1: a couple of things on both sides of the ball here,
Speaker 1: because in continuing with the theme of protecting the quarterback
Speaker 1: and establishing the pocket, there was an intentional grounding penalty
Speaker 1: against Rogers in the second half that could have been
Speaker 1: really really debilitating for that comeback. Packers were able to
Speaker 1: overcome that penalty. But if he's not able to get
Speaker 1: completely outside of the pocket in order to throw the
Speaker 1: ball away, he needs to have enough time, you know,
Speaker 1: even if somebody's not open, to find a receiver to
Speaker 1: get rid of the ball to avoid the sack and
Speaker 1: avoid the intentional grounding. And then on the other side,
Speaker 1: the roughing the passer penalties, three of them against the Packers.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Usually a team that would have that
Speaker 1: many personal fouls in a game does not come out
Speaker 1: on top. I mean, those those penalties are are really punitive.
Speaker 1: And two of them, as we talked about earlier in
Speaker 1: the week, I thought were really dubious calls. The one
Speaker 1: on Clay Matthews at the end of the game I
Speaker 1: thought was legitimate but the Packers can't. You can't continue that.
Speaker 1: You're the pass rushers have to be on notice here
Speaker 1: because you can't be giving free fifteen yards and free
Speaker 1: first downs, especially on third and fourth down plays as
Speaker 1: what happened at the end of the ball game. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And I think that's one thing too, is Clay Matthews
Speaker 1: has kind of gone on throughout the week, you know,
Speaker 1: and admitting and atoning for what he'd done and understanding
Speaker 1: that you in this day and age, you can't have
Speaker 1: those type of those type of hits with the quarterback.
Speaker 1: He steps in front of that. But I thought he
Speaker 1: made an important message and in talking about that to
Speaker 1: also bring up how you know him personally. He didn't
Speaker 1: believe the unnecessary roughness penalties on Mohamed Wilkerson and Nick
Speaker 1: mcperry were maybe warranted. Um, I don't think they worried.
Speaker 1: It's really it's a tough problem. We talked about it
Speaker 1: earlier this week. These guys having to try to understand
Speaker 1: how they're going to take their pass rushing skills, go
Speaker 1: after the quarterback and do what they're paying to do,
Speaker 1: but also not have a bad effect to it, because honestly, Mike,
Speaker 1: that might as well just be a fifteen yard completion.
Speaker 1: It might as well be just as much of a
Speaker 1: momentum change and kind of play. So that I agree
Speaker 1: with you, It's gonna be interesting to watch. And I'll
Speaker 1: be honest with you too, I'm gonna be following Anthony Barr. Still,
Speaker 1: I don't want to just keep beating that horse. But seriously,
Speaker 1: that to me, that's one of the reasons why we
Speaker 1: have this role. So, I mean, it's seeing how those
Speaker 1: type of players react to it as well. It's it's
Speaker 1: gonna be Uh, it's gonna be a major storyline, not
Speaker 1: only this week but this whole season. Yeah. The other
Speaker 1: thing I see from the defensive side, and I know
Speaker 1: this is something we could say every single week, but
Speaker 1: particularly in this game with the potential limitations of Rogers,
Speaker 1: with what's at stake here against the Minnesota Vikings and everything,
Speaker 1: and how last week's game unfolded, I think the Packers
Speaker 1: defense needs to get a turnover too for the Packers
Speaker 1: to be able to win this game. And when the
Speaker 1: Packers were down twenty to nothing against the Bears, I
Speaker 1: kept every time the Bears got the ball, I would tweet, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's time for a turnover. I I just didn't think,
Speaker 1: honestly that the Packers could win that game, would complete
Speaker 1: that comeback without the defense make getting a turnover and
Speaker 1: making one of those game changing type of plays. Now,
Speaker 1: they ended up getting one on the final play on
Speaker 1: the fourth down, but they actually did complete the comeback.
Speaker 1: We're ahead or twenty three without the defense getting the turnover.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure you're gonna be able to beat the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings unless you unless you force a mistake from
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, or maybe you strip the ball from Dalvin Cook.
Speaker 1: He did cough one up last week against the San
Speaker 1: Francisco forty Niners. But um, this is uh, this is
Speaker 1: the type of This is the type of game where
Speaker 1: the defense needs to create a big momentum swing at
Speaker 1: some point in the game. I think in order for
Speaker 1: the Packers to win and to get to two and
Speaker 1: oh and uh. And you know, I guess the timing
Speaker 1: of the turnover obviously could be crucial, but I think
Speaker 1: the Packers need one or two. I give you a
Speaker 1: hundred credit. I'm not saying you're wrong. I will say
Speaker 1: there is a great equalizer though that people don't often
Speaker 1: talk about. It's the reason why the Packers won that
Speaker 1: game against the Bears. They got off the field, they
Speaker 1: got stops on third down, they got stops on fourth down.
Speaker 1: The Packers don't do that, they don't win because you're
Speaker 1: not getting the ball back here and Rodgers fast enough,
Speaker 1: you're gonna run out of time at some point. There
Speaker 1: were what was that I believe it was five possessions
Speaker 1: against the Bears where they did not have a first
Speaker 1: doubt in the span of six possessions. And you if
Speaker 1: you're not gonna have turnovers, if you're gonna lose the
Speaker 1: turnover margin, and you're also gonna, you know, have some
Speaker 1: issues with some personal follows there, you have to do something.
Speaker 1: And Mike Patton's defense in those instances didn't give an inch.
Speaker 1: Long term, You're absolutely right, though, you have to be
Speaker 1: able to get turn over the football. You have to
Speaker 1: be able to get those type of plays. I'm really
Speaker 1: eager to see all of this start to play out
Speaker 1: on a week to week basis. I don't think, and
Speaker 1: I've said this earlier this week, I don't think we're
Speaker 1: just going to see a carbon copy of the game
Speaker 1: plan that we saw against the Bears now be implemented
Speaker 1: against the Vikings. I think you're gonna shifting off of that.
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna see a lot of different things.
Speaker 1: But I thought the three main message as we got
Speaker 1: out of the first game, where one they have full
Speaker 1: confidence in Blake Martinez to run the defense. And if
Speaker 1: they need to go soul inside linebacker for half the game,
Speaker 1: three courters the game, they're gonna do that. The defensive front,
Speaker 1: as we said all offseason, the defensive line is going
Speaker 1: to have a huge impact in this thing. They're gonna
Speaker 1: run three defensive linemen and sub packages. They're gonna run
Speaker 1: them in base packages. They're gonna have base packages where
Speaker 1: there's one defensive lineman. They're gonna have dime packages where
Speaker 1: there's one defensive lineman. There's it's indiscriminate there. Mike Patton
Speaker 1: is gonna go with whatever he feels the flow of
Speaker 1: the game is like. And lastly, I wrote about it
Speaker 1: earlier week. We talked about it. Defensive back secondary is
Speaker 1: going to be a hallmark of this team. They will
Speaker 1: go as far as they take them this season. Josh
Speaker 1: Jackson Jr. Alexander Mike McCarthy said it. Both of those
Speaker 1: guys earned the reps there on the field. Kevin King
Speaker 1: played every single snap last week. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: a big enough storyline, given the fact that he had
Speaker 1: missed the amount of time he did with the shoulder,
Speaker 1: given the fact that he had sat on the off
Speaker 1: season with the other shoulder surgery. The fact that he
Speaker 1: played all seventy defensive snaps and was a full participate
Speaker 1: in practice this week A very good thing for a
Speaker 1: guy that didn't actually play into preseason game until the finale,
Speaker 1: no question. And lastly, Trumont Williams, what else can you
Speaker 1: say about him? Seventy defensive snaps. He's gonna be a
Speaker 1: pig part of this thing. He's another one of those
Speaker 1: orchestrators in the defense. The Packers secondary as a whole, Mike,
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be guys that get Nixon bruises over
Speaker 1: the course of this season. But that group right now
Speaker 1: appears to have the potential to be special this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you mentioned a different type of game plan here against
Speaker 1: the Vikings, and I agree with you because I was surprised.
Speaker 1: As I had mentioned earlier in the week, I was
Speaker 1: surprised at how the Packers really, in essence, they dared
Speaker 1: the Bears to run the ball with Howard and Cohen,
Speaker 1: they did not really counter the Bears run personnel on
Speaker 1: offense with run personnel on defense. Now, at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, Cohen and Howard collectively they averaged better
Speaker 1: than five yards per carry, but yet the Bears running
Speaker 1: game did not control the football game. Now, Dalvin Cook,
Speaker 1: that could that could change. I think. I think this
Speaker 1: guy is a really potentially a really really special player,
Speaker 1: both in how he runs the ball and and how
Speaker 1: they use him as a receiver out of the backfield.
Speaker 1: He's a guy that could change how Petton, you know,
Speaker 1: puts the defensive fronts out there, because you can't let
Speaker 1: the Vikings, especially with as as accomplished a quarterback as
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins is, with all the four thousand yards seasons
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff, you can't let the
Speaker 1: Vikings control the game on the ground because then that
Speaker 1: just changes all those matchups in the secondary that Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins has the experience then to take advantage of that.
Speaker 1: Perhaps Mitch Robinsky not quite there yet. Yeah, you're you're right.
Speaker 1: There's a reason why the Packers traded for Antonio Morrison.
Speaker 1: They wanted to have that Jake Ryan type run stuff
Speaker 1: for next to Blake Martinez. They wanted to have him
Speaker 1: in the pipeline. I think the big thing for this
Speaker 1: game too, and at the time in which we're taping,
Speaker 1: as we haven't had the injury report yet, but seeing
Speaker 1: where n Burke's is at the fact that he was
Speaker 1: actually able to appear to He's still limited, but appeared
Speaker 1: to be able to do more in practice this week.
Speaker 1: Looks like he's putting that shoulder injury behind him. Burke's
Speaker 1: is an important piece to this equation because he seems
Speaker 1: to be the merger there between going lighter in the
Speaker 1: secondary but still having a guy that can stand up
Speaker 1: in the run. Uh. And you saw what he did
Speaker 1: during preseason throughout training camp. He's a young guy, but
Speaker 1: he's a bright guy, and I think with him and
Speaker 1: Blake Martinez working against each other, that's a really good
Speaker 1: battery there for the Packers and in that in that
Speaker 1: part of the fame, that that facet of the defense
Speaker 1: um and the sooner they get him on the field, obviously,
Speaker 1: the better it's going to be for that group in
Speaker 1: the long run. Yeah. Well, just to touch on special
Speaker 1: teams briefly, we know we've been told Randall Cobb will
Speaker 1: remain the punt returner for the Packers. How long before
Speaker 1: you think he breaks one? I think it might not
Speaker 1: take too long. I thought he was gonna do it
Speaker 1: last week, to be honest with you, on that seventeen
Speaker 1: yard And this is a guy that did not return
Speaker 1: a punt in the two thousand seventeen seasoned wasn't asked
Speaker 1: to do that at all. I I wrote about this
Speaker 1: for the website on Friday, Mike, I just he's missed
Speaker 1: or consistency. He's always been that way. He doesn't get
Speaker 1: too high or too low in the locker room and
Speaker 1: on the field very quietly. I mean, you look at
Speaker 1: his sixty yard seasons and how he's kind of put
Speaker 1: these together and what he's fought through to do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought that was a very fitting way for the
Speaker 1: Packers to open the season a hundred forty two yards
Speaker 1: from Randall Cobb when we've all we've talked about is
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham and rookie receivers and new offenses for him
Speaker 1: to play the way he did offensively. And then, oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, Trevor Davis's hamstring flares up. We need
Speaker 1: you on special teams as well, he said it. I'm
Speaker 1: sure you remember these these interviews Mike, going back to
Speaker 1: two thousand, twelve and thirt team when he was starting
Speaker 1: to break out, looked like he was just gonna need
Speaker 1: to be an offensive only player. He said, He's always
Speaker 1: open to doing special teams if he needs that. He
Speaker 1: he embraces that role. Yeah, He's never batted an eyelash
Speaker 1: at getting extra duty thrown at him. Yeah, and the
Speaker 1: Packers want to get the ball in his hands. It's
Speaker 1: one more way to do that, especially if they're going
Speaker 1: to be without Davis for half for you know, the
Speaker 1: whole season. We'll see how that works out. Yeah, all right. Well,
Speaker 1: one other thing we always like to do on our
Speaker 1: final show that week, take a look at some other
Speaker 1: games going on around the league that have some significant implications. Obviously,
Speaker 1: in the NFC North, this Packers Vikings game is where
Speaker 1: it's at. One team is going to be too and
Speaker 1: oh and will be on top of the division all
Speaker 1: by its lonesome after two weeks. So there are a
Speaker 1: couple other games in the NFC that I think are
Speaker 1: really interesting. One is Carolina at Atlanta the first of
Speaker 1: two NFC South showdowns between those two teams. The other
Speaker 1: one that I don't think before Week one we would
Speaker 1: have thought would be an intriguing game, but it is now,
Speaker 1: and that's Philadelphia, the defending Super Bowl champions going to
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay with Ryan Fitzpatrick coming off of the four
Speaker 1: hundred and seventeen yards and four touchdowns against the New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints in the Buccaneers upset in their opening NFC
Speaker 1: South matchup. This one cross divisions the South versus the East.
Speaker 1: Which one of these do you think is more intriguing?
Speaker 1: The Carolina Atlanta or Philly Tampa. I love Philly Tampa
Speaker 1: because you know, we see the NFC South against each
Speaker 1: other and that there's so much parody in that division.
Speaker 1: It always seems like they're they're going to be important
Speaker 1: games down the stretch. But I mean, you want to
Speaker 1: talk about the Buccaneers, I mean Dirk Cutters, I mean,
Speaker 1: this is where they got to make hay this season.
Speaker 1: Regardless of where Jamis Winston is at and Ryan Fitzpatrick,
Speaker 1: they've expressed a lot of confidence in him going back
Speaker 1: to last year. If you watched Hard Knocks at all,
Speaker 1: and you know everyone talks so much about Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: and him falling to the two thousand five draft. What
Speaker 1: about Ryan Fitzpatrick falling to the seventh round in that
Speaker 1: same draft. In the career that he's made for himself,
Speaker 1: it just seems like every time this league wants to
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, spit him out and move on,
Speaker 1: he finds another way to hang on. And this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a supreme challenge for him though against the Eagles.
Speaker 1: To me, that that's a matchup I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, every time Atlanta and Carolina play, it's
Speaker 1: always gonna fireworks. Yeah. Well, it's interesting because I was
Speaker 1: really high on Dirt Cutter's Buccaneers team last year. I
Speaker 1: thought they were a team on the rise in the NFC,
Speaker 1: and then things didn't work out, they didn't come together.
Speaker 1: And now this year you're dealing with Jamis Winston being
Speaker 1: suspended at the beginning of the year, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, they go out there with Ryan Fitzpatrick and
Speaker 1: light up New Orleans the way they did, get a
Speaker 1: big win. Now they're hosting the defending Super Bowl champs. Maybe,
Speaker 1: just maybe I was a year too early on Cutter
Speaker 1: and his Buccaneers, But and we don't talk often a
Speaker 1: lot about a f C games because we're always looking
Speaker 1: at the NFC North and the NFC and how that
Speaker 1: shakes out. But you do have the rematch of the
Speaker 1: a f C Championship this week with New England, this
Speaker 1: one being at Jacksonville, believe correct. So what do you
Speaker 1: what do you think of this matchup? Obviously a lot
Speaker 1: of people are pointing to Jacksonville, this is their opportunity
Speaker 1: to beat the Patriots. They get him at home, they're
Speaker 1: getting him early in the season, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: How do you see this one playing out? I my
Speaker 1: every time I watched the Patriots now is my eyes
Speaker 1: are always glued on Tom Brady because he's forty one
Speaker 1: years old now, uh, and you're always kind of looking
Speaker 1: to see win. Not necessarily you're going to see the
Speaker 1: athletic dip because it's not like he's ever been like
Speaker 1: this huge, scrambling quarterback, but the arm strength and by
Speaker 1: all accounts, I mean, he's still Tom Brady. But you know,
Speaker 1: when you look on the other side of it, can Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: after appearing like they were trying and clawing and getting
Speaker 1: closer to closing that gap, can they finally do it
Speaker 1: this year. So many resources have gone into that side
Speaker 1: of the ball. I think these are probably what the
Speaker 1: I would say is the highest expectations they've probably had
Speaker 1: for one of their teams since what maybe the Mark
Speaker 1: Brunel era. Yeah, I mean, I'm talking about, like, you know,
Speaker 1: more than just division titles, more than playoffs, and this
Speaker 1: is a team that wants to contend for a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: They they felt they should have beaten the Patriots in
Speaker 1: New England for that a f C title last year.
Speaker 1: They had the lead, they were they were in, but
Speaker 1: they were in control of the game for a large
Speaker 1: portion of it, and they let it get away at
Speaker 1: the end, and they got it Round two here for them,
Speaker 1: And you can pick up a win here against New
Speaker 1: England that propels you to the season that changes the narrative.
Speaker 1: You lose that again, and you're gonna be answering that
Speaker 1: question for another month or so. Yeah. Another interesting game
Speaker 1: I think in the a f C, Kansas City is
Speaker 1: at Pittsburgh. Are we potentially I know pitt Sburg is
Speaker 1: always really tough at home, but could Pittsburgh actually start
Speaker 1: the season Oh one and one, they could start the
Speaker 1: season oh and two that's possible if they want to
Speaker 1: go running the table another way, another another overtime tie
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. People, we gotta get whatever credit is given
Speaker 1: to Andy Reid and that coaching staff for whatever happens
Speaker 1: with him. I'm always going to have the John Dorsey
Speaker 1: Astrix next to that because Dorsey made such a gutsy
Speaker 1: move going up and getting this guy when I don't
Speaker 1: think many people had him at ten. Now people were
Speaker 1: scratching their heads at that move, like like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are trading up, like who do they want?
Speaker 1: And then it's like they traded up for Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: and then, yeah, you're right that that was That was
Speaker 1: a very bold move by John Dorsey, and he may
Speaker 1: have set up the Kansas City Chiefs for a lot
Speaker 1: of sixty. It's one game. You never know what can happen.
Speaker 1: Everybody can look like an m v P in one game,
Speaker 1: but the kid looks like he belongs. And in addition
Speaker 1: to that, the fact that they had Alex Smith because
Speaker 1: of John Dorsey and then he goes to Wash I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just he set that franch up up really well.
Speaker 1: I know there was some things that happened there at
Speaker 1: the end of it, but they're in a good place.
Speaker 1: Can I throw one more out at you? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: actually think the biggest game of the week. You don't
Speaker 1: even touch on it. Okay, okay, sorry, No, it's all right.
Speaker 1: Seattle Chicago not necessarily from like implications, but Seattle had
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff happened this offseason. They start the
Speaker 1: season oh and two, where does your season go from there?
Speaker 1: In Chicago just traded for Khalil Mack. Now you're getting
Speaker 1: the Seahawks at home on Monday Night football. You kind
Speaker 1: of need to show up. Whatever team ends up being
Speaker 1: oh and two out of that one, I think that's
Speaker 1: gonna not necessarily be an insurmountable hole to get out of,
Speaker 1: but not the start you're looking for. So that's Monday nights.
Speaker 1: It's Monday Night football. Okay, well yeah, I mean weeks
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that then. But I'm really no. No.
Speaker 1: I hear you though, because because you we're going to
Speaker 1: hear the stats with regards to that game about the
Speaker 1: percentage of teams that make the playoffs when they start
Speaker 1: oh and two and one of those two teams that
Speaker 1: they both have some high hopes. One of the two
Speaker 1: teams is going to be and too. There's a bunch
Speaker 1: of stat people out there, probably some in Bristol, Connecticut
Speaker 1: and Los Angeles just waiting to unveil all those wint
Speaker 1: We're going to see those on the TV screen Monday night.
Speaker 1: But that's that's a that's a big game. No, you're right.
Speaker 1: That depends on who's going to really be in contention
Speaker 1: in those divisions. Yeah, you're right, that is a significant one.
Speaker 1: With that, we will call it a rap on this
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