Speaker 1: Hi, everybody.
Speaker 2: Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 2: I am Mike Spotfer, joined as always by my trusted
Speaker 2: colleague west Hod Qoitts. We're coming to you here from
Speaker 2: our studios at lambeau Field to talk about Wes. The
Speaker 2: only thing there has been to talk about for the
Speaker 2: last few days, and that is the Packers twenty twenty
Speaker 2: sixth schedule. It came out last Thursday night accompanied by
Speaker 2: an absolutely fantastic video, and I'm just going to start
Speaker 2: by giving a shout out to everybody who is involved
Speaker 2: in that video production. I had nothing.
Speaker 1: To do with it.
Speaker 2: You're on the wheel, bro, I was on the wheel. Yeah,
Speaker 2: my name was on the wheel. And that wasn't even
Speaker 2: my idea? Was that your idea?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, you think I have any ideas? But that was
Speaker 1: That was a lot of fun, and uh, it was
Speaker 1: it was. It was a thing. It was fun. I
Speaker 1: love Mike on the scooter, like the.
Speaker 3: And then him coming out of the scooter. Dude, I
Speaker 3: gotta say really fast too. I know, you get these
Speaker 3: little rankings and you get all these people like this
Speaker 3: and that, and credit to every NFL social media department
Speaker 3: I just want to say that first and foremost, there's
Speaker 3: some that are ranked number one, there's some that are
Speaker 3: ranked thirty two. And it's really easy for people that
Speaker 3: don't have any skin in the game to throw pot
Speaker 3: shots at people and rip people. How hard watching how
Speaker 3: hard our social media department works at this and how
Speaker 3: long it lasts, it gives me a respect for all
Speaker 3: these teams around the National Football League. And then, you know,
Speaker 3: you get these pundits that sit there in front of
Speaker 3: their computers and watch these videos for two and a
Speaker 3: half minutes and rank them one to thirty two without
Speaker 3: any context or conjecture of what the market is. And
Speaker 3: I'll tell you this right now, it's kind of like
Speaker 3: watching an offensive lineman. I'm sure this is how they
Speaker 3: feel about when people talk about their performance. You have
Speaker 3: no idea even what you're watching or what it means
Speaker 3: to a fan base. I think if you're talking about
Speaker 3: real rankings, it's how does it resonate with your fan base?
Speaker 3: And in these last three years, you know, and I'm
Speaker 3: gonna say it with Duke and Duke bober Renee Gabriel,
Speaker 3: the direction we've headed with those departments I've been I've
Speaker 3: never been more proud of of what we put together.
Speaker 3: I said this, I think in inbox last week that
Speaker 3: I used to dread schedule release week just because I
Speaker 3: knew the strain and stress it caused on everybody and
Speaker 3: worrying about how reaction is going to be. I never
Speaker 3: was more pumped than this year because I just knew
Speaker 3: whether it was Packy Packers long awaited return, whether it
Speaker 3: was working with you know, Stupid Buddy Studios in you know,
Speaker 3: just the people behind the brainchild of Robot Chicken Harve
Speaker 3: his team, Michael. I just I left this building on
Speaker 3: Thursday night with a smile etched on my face. It
Speaker 3: was just so cool to be a part of.
Speaker 2: Well, the schedule release has become the social media.
Speaker 1: Super bowl of the whether we want it to be
Speaker 1: or not world, And that's just that's uh, that's how
Speaker 1: it's evolved. That's where we are.
Speaker 2: And and yeah, and I uh, I enjoyed this one
Speaker 2: a lot more than dressing up as a clown a
Speaker 2: couple of years ago, which was which was fun, but
Speaker 2: this was actually there was a time and place, Yeah,
Speaker 2: this was this was more fun. But let's get to
Speaker 2: the actual schedule itself, and you and I have gone
Speaker 2: back and forth, you know, Insider Inbox and our live
Speaker 2: Q and A with regard to the schedule and sort
Speaker 2: of what has caught our eye. So, now that you've
Speaker 2: had a few days to you know, let it sit
Speaker 2: marinate in the brain a little bit, what do you
Speaker 2: think is the most I guess interesting or eye catching
Speaker 2: aspect to this schedule.
Speaker 3: The fact that, other than a very strange buye, which
Speaker 3: was necessary because the Packers got put into that Thursday
Speaker 3: pre Thursday game, yeah, you know, the Thanksgiving Eve game,
Speaker 3: whatever you want to call it. Yeah, uh, it was
Speaker 3: gonna whire some different changes, whether it was playing Thursday
Speaker 3: night football the week before or just having the buye.
Speaker 3: Aside from that, I actually really like the layout of
Speaker 3: the season. If you're gonna start, if you're gonna have
Speaker 3: a stretch of three or four to start the year,
Speaker 3: it's a challenge, but as you and I have talked
Speaker 3: about some of our other content, it's also a huge opportunity.
Speaker 3: With how many home games the Packers have the rest
Speaker 3: of the way in contrast to how many road games
Speaker 3: they're gonna end up playing, the Packers' season can be
Speaker 3: whatever they make it. Now, you certainly got to hope
Speaker 3: that the injury bug doesn't bite as hard as it
Speaker 3: did last year, especially down the stretch. But you take
Speaker 3: care of business the first month of the season, regardless
Speaker 3: of whether or not Micah Parsons and Tucker Craft around
Speaker 3: the field, or if they're ramping up during that time
Speaker 3: to get back or they're on a pitch count at
Speaker 3: that time. But if you get through September playing good,
Speaker 3: winning games, you feel really good about where the Packers'
Speaker 3: chances are to be going into October. So and with
Speaker 3: four or five to close out the year at home,
Speaker 3: if you're an NFL team, if you're trying to get
Speaker 3: into the playoffs, you're trying to win a division, you're
Speaker 3: trying to get the first round by it's not set
Speaker 3: up any better than that. So in so many ways,
Speaker 3: I feel like it is. It's a good layout for
Speaker 3: Green Bay this year. And there's been plenty of times
Speaker 3: over the last ten years where you and I have
Speaker 3: talked about the challenges they're going to face with some
Speaker 3: of these layouts of schedules. This is not one of
Speaker 3: them in my.
Speaker 1: Book, Yeah, this one.
Speaker 2: It's interesting to me how there are parts of it
Speaker 2: that are sort of like classic Green Bay Packers schedule
Speaker 2: with you know, numerous primetime games, Packers being involved with
Speaker 2: the holidays, with the night before Thanksgiving, playing on Christmas,
Speaker 2: all of these things that we've seen before, but then
Speaker 2: other things that are unusual, you know, starting the season
Speaker 2: with back to back road games. It's become a little
Speaker 2: bit more common in recent years, but not something that
Speaker 2: we've seen a whole heck of a lot.
Speaker 1: The division games.
Speaker 2: I did a little bit of research when I realized, like, oh,
Speaker 2: the Packers don't have back to back division games at
Speaker 2: any point in the schedule. All six of them are
Speaker 2: spread out. You know, you have one in Week one,
Speaker 2: in Week eighteen, and then the other four are all
Speaker 2: spread out in between. No back to back division games.
Speaker 2: And that's the first time since the advent of the
Speaker 2: NFC North, the four team division back in two thousand
Speaker 2: and two, that there has not been any spot in
Speaker 2: the schedule where there are division games that are back
Speaker 2: to back. So that's kind of unusual, and frankly, in
Speaker 2: some ways, I think that's the way it should be.
Speaker 2: When we've seen some of these schedules where the Packers had,
Speaker 2: you know, you open the season with back to back
Speaker 2: division games, or you close with back to back division games,
Speaker 2: or you have three in a row or something like that.
Speaker 2: Just it seemed to me that's just too much imbalance
Speaker 2: with you know, regard to really the six games that
Speaker 2: should be the most important games on the schedule, playing
Speaker 2: your division rival, and the way they're spread out this year,
Speaker 2: I think that I feel like that's the way it
Speaker 2: should be, and I hope we get to see that
Speaker 2: maybe a little bit more often.
Speaker 3: You know. In the other aspect of this that I
Speaker 3: was looking at was the two Thursday night games are
Speaker 3: both home games in terms of the Atlanta game Week
Speaker 3: three and then also the Carolina one. So in contrast
Speaker 3: to that, it's not just the fact that Green Bay
Speaker 3: gets to wake up and roll out of their own
Speaker 3: beds on Thursday for that game. Always a challenge no
Speaker 3: matter what on a short week, no doubt. But you're
Speaker 3: gonna have Atlanta at home against Carolina, then on a Wednesday,
Speaker 3: making that cross country flight up north to come here,
Speaker 3: and then you go later in the season with Carolina
Speaker 3: and they're gonna be in a position where they're gonna
Speaker 3: be playing at home against Tampa Bay and then making
Speaker 3: that turnaround coming to Green Bay. That that matters. Now.
Speaker 3: The Packers, to their credit, these Thanksgiving matchups they've had
Speaker 3: recently with Detroit, they've won those. They've played really well
Speaker 3: in those games. And certainly just being having the home
Speaker 3: field of Aangel on Thursday night isn't a given. But
Speaker 3: if you're gonna have to play that twice in addition
Speaker 3: to having a Friday night football game later in the
Speaker 3: season in Chicago, in addition to having an away game
Speaker 3: on a Wednesday in Los Angeles, it was good to
Speaker 3: see that those Thursday night games sort of skewed more
Speaker 3: towards the Packers favor. And again, the schedule, we can
Speaker 3: talk about it more times than not, but to have
Speaker 3: a i that is going to be only nine days
Speaker 3: apart between games, that's going to be a challenge. But
Speaker 3: if you can get healthy and you're playing good football
Speaker 3: at that time of the season, and you come out
Speaker 3: of that and play well against two road opponents, then
Speaker 3: all the dominos are there for you to have success
Speaker 3: against Buffalo, against Miami, against the slew of teams they
Speaker 3: are going to see at home in that final stretch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's really interesting how this sets up
Speaker 2: with the back to back road games to start the year.
Speaker 2: So then you have nine of your last fifteen are
Speaker 2: at home, and then within that is for the last
Speaker 2: five being at home, with the only road trip in
Speaker 2: that stretch of the last five games being to Chicago,
Speaker 2: which is just the you know, the quick flight. This
Speaker 2: sets up for the Packers to kind of get rolling
Speaker 2: at the right time. But you've got to put yourself
Speaker 2: in position come mid November right to make what looks
Speaker 2: like a favorable finishing schedule with all the home games,
Speaker 2: You've got to put yourself in position to take advantage
Speaker 2: of that.
Speaker 3: You've got to make it mean something.
Speaker 2: Ye.
Speaker 3: But to close on that last point I made, it's
Speaker 3: just the fact that now that you're playing uncommon opponents.
Speaker 3: You're gonna play a Buffalo, You're gonna play a Houston
Speaker 3: Texans team on Monday Night football here as it's scheduled
Speaker 3: right now. You're gonna play Miami. We all know the
Speaker 3: track record there and the challenges that the Dolphins have
Speaker 3: faced in sub forty degree weather going back to twenty seventeen.
Speaker 3: That's a great chance to be able to build momentum.
Speaker 3: And I felt like the injuries we make a lot
Speaker 3: of the injuries and as there should be the season
Speaker 3: changed that the world turned on its axis. When Micah
Speaker 3: Parsons had the non contact injury in Denver, you could
Speaker 3: feel the air kind of go out of the stadium.
Speaker 3: You could feel the energy from the sideline gets zapped,
Speaker 3: and green Bay struggled down the stretch. They struggled to
Speaker 3: refine themselves. They struggle with the confidence to get back
Speaker 3: into a rhythm. And as much as we talk about
Speaker 3: Mike's injury, it's also about being able to pick yourself
Speaker 3: up off the dirt and push forward. I just think
Speaker 3: that this year, with the layout of it, it's gonna
Speaker 3: be a great opportunity for Green Bay to make a
Speaker 3: push because we've talked for years now. Everybody wants to
Speaker 3: see the Packers back in an NFC championship game. It's
Speaker 3: been sixteen years since they've been in a Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: They've had some really good moments under Jordan Love. Now
Speaker 3: can they put that next foot forward and make that leap.
Speaker 3: The way this roster's orientated right now, it's all right
Speaker 3: there for them. They are not going to be the
Speaker 3: youngest team in the football the National Football League this year.
Speaker 3: They will be an older, more veteran unit. Can you
Speaker 3: play like it now down the stretch? Can you have
Speaker 3: that composure in the fourth quarter? Those are all the
Speaker 3: questions green Bay has to answer, because as much as
Speaker 3: you and I can sit here and talk until you
Speaker 3: know all the cows from Subisky come home, it ultimately
Speaker 3: comes down to what we see on the grass in
Speaker 3: the summer and then obviously into the fall and finally
Speaker 3: the winter. And I just feel like when you're looking
Speaker 3: at it's like a race, right. You can have ideal conditions,
Speaker 3: run your best time. You can have ideal conditions and
Speaker 3: just not have your day. I think it's lined up
Speaker 3: to have a nice sixty degree day and the morning
Speaker 3: of the marathon here and now the rest of it's
Speaker 3: going to be up for green Bay to decide what
Speaker 3: they want to do with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, Well, I got a few other things about
Speaker 2: the schedule. I want to bounce off you, but we
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Speaker 2: three sixty five. Welcome back to Packers Unscripted Wes and
Speaker 2: Mike talking about the Packers twenty twenty six schedule. All right, Wes,
Speaker 2: We've been asked this question, you know, every which way
Speaker 2: but Sunday with Larry on Three Things and our Live
Speaker 2: Q and a Insider Inbox and all that. But I'll
Speaker 2: throw at you, you know what, what's your favorite game here?
Speaker 2: What is the game that gets the biggest, darkest, boldest
Speaker 2: circle on the calendar from Wes Hodkowitz.
Speaker 3: Okay, so that answer is clearly going to be Christmas
Speaker 3: against Chicago. It just is. I can't shift my mindset
Speaker 3: from that. So let's just put that in And if
Speaker 3: you'd like to hear my explanation for that, you can
Speaker 3: watch the Packers live Q and a that I think
Speaker 3: is on our social media channels. You can watch Three
Speaker 3: Things or instant reacts. You can probably go down the
Speaker 3: street at Deerfield Diner and ask the wonderful ladies there.
Speaker 3: But what my thoughts are on I mean, I've talked
Speaker 3: about this ad nauseam at this point, so let's put
Speaker 3: a little pin in that one.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: The other one that I have not talked about at
Speaker 3: all that I am quietly excited for is New England.
Speaker 3: Because that is not an easy place to play in.
Speaker 1: Foxborough and defending champs.
Speaker 3: There is a lot of stuff going on. I'm not
Speaker 3: going to touch on it as far as what their
Speaker 3: offseason has looked like and some of maybe you want
Speaker 3: to call them distractions, sure, but it's kind of going
Speaker 3: over the fact that this was the AFC's representative last
Speaker 3: year in the Super Bowl. It's making you overlook the
Speaker 3: fact that they have one of the league's bright young
Speaker 3: stars in Drake May. And by the way, Elliott Wolf
Speaker 3: knows what he's doing. This guy has rebuilt this thing
Speaker 3: almost overnight. They had to take some lumps early on,
Speaker 3: but that wasn't just the New England Patriots beating a
Speaker 3: bunch of cupcakes. That was a very balanced roster that
Speaker 3: took advantage of what they had with their schedule. I
Speaker 3: think they're going to be back this year. I think
Speaker 3: they're going to be hungry in some ways. They got
Speaker 3: embarrassed in the Super Bowl. They're going to want to
Speaker 3: show that they are the the when you're talking about
Speaker 3: up and coming teams in the NFL, the Pats are
Speaker 3: going to want to put that flag in the ground. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and I think Green Bay in a lot of ways,
Speaker 3: they've not made a Super Bowl run. But I think
Speaker 3: in a lot of ways, there's a mirror match up
Speaker 3: there with teams that had to completely renovate themselves, completely
Speaker 3: change their personnel, get a new leader, get a new
Speaker 3: direction at quarterback, and now they're among the teams that
Speaker 3: you talk about now in May, in June, in July.
Speaker 3: Is who are going to be the front runners in
Speaker 3: the NFL in the upcoming season?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm with you too.
Speaker 2: I want to talk about a game that I haven't
Speaker 2: really talked about yet because my initial answer to this
Speaker 2: question when we did the video with Larry when we
Speaker 2: did our live Q and A has been the Buffalo
Speaker 2: Bills because I'm very excited for the first time health
Speaker 2: willing to see that quarterback matchup of Jordan Love against
Speaker 2: Josh Allen under the lights, you know, Sunday night football
Speaker 2: at Lambellfield late in the season. Very likely to have
Speaker 2: big implications for both teams.
Speaker 1: All of that.
Speaker 2: But with that one, we'll put a pin in that
Speaker 2: one because the other one that nobody's really talking about
Speaker 2: is a couple weeks after the Buffalo game, the Houston
Speaker 2: Texans early January, coming into lambeau Field. Now, I don't
Speaker 2: know where Houston season will be at that point, but
Speaker 2: the one thing that I'm anticipating is that Demiko Ryans
Speaker 2: is still going to have one of the best defenses
Speaker 2: in the NFL. And if you want a late season
Speaker 2: test as to just where you are offensively, potentially and
Speaker 2: hopefully going into the playoffs, going up against one of
Speaker 2: the best defenses, that is going to be a major
Speaker 2: ma test for Jordan Love and company at lambeau Field.
Speaker 2: And yes, we're gonna have to wait a while for it,
Speaker 2: but in some ways I can't wait for it because
Speaker 2: I'm excited about where this Green Bay offense potentially is
Speaker 2: going to be at that point in the season, and
Speaker 2: there's gonna be hardly any if.
Speaker 1: Any defense is better than the Houston Texas.
Speaker 3: It's an excellent point you raised, Mike, and I'll add
Speaker 3: too when you're I don't think Demiko Ryans gets nearly
Speaker 3: enough credit. I certainly the defense. Everybody talks about that,
Speaker 3: and they've won a lot of games, but there's a
Speaker 3: lot of when you talk about the Shanahan McVeigh and
Speaker 3: even to some extent because he's getting up there now
Speaker 3: in age in terms of his tenure, Matt Lafleur, those
Speaker 3: teams peak like they know how to peak, they know
Speaker 3: how to reach their their zenith. They're heading into plostseason play,
Speaker 3: and I feel like that's been one of the hallmarks
Speaker 3: of Ryan's teams, not just his defense. That nobody talks
Speaker 3: enough about is Houston didn't start last season great. The
Speaker 3: Texans struggled out of the game, and but by the
Speaker 3: end of the season, I mean they were reeling off
Speaker 3: win after win after win and made no bones about
Speaker 3: it that this is a legitimate playoff team from thinking
Speaker 3: the AFC South was just gonna be run away with
Speaker 3: with the Colts, and then suddenly it ends up being
Speaker 3: two different teams that end up making the postseason, right,
Speaker 3: and it was a credit to how they finished. Certainly
Speaker 3: Jacksonville falls in that same equation, So yeah, that is
Speaker 3: not gonna be a pushover. And I hope that everything
Speaker 3: shapes out well with the Texans in their season because
Speaker 3: that game is being in Week seventeen. That's what is
Speaker 3: looking to continue. This thirty four year streak of the
Speaker 3: Packers playing on Monday Night football, the longest streak in
Speaker 3: the NFL, and you can flex out of that now too,
Speaker 3: So that's the one where it's like, Okay, it's a
Speaker 3: little bit of asteris there. Make sure that history stays there,
Speaker 3: because yeah, it's probably one of the latest times the
Speaker 3: Packers have had a Monday night FOOTBA game, I would
Speaker 3: imagine at least, Yeah, this one that.
Speaker 2: Would be that would actually be interesting to look up
Speaker 2: in terms of because yeah, the Packers have you know,
Speaker 2: played on Monday Night for you know, more than three
Speaker 2: decades in a row at least, you know, at least
Speaker 2: one game. But you're right, I mean with the you know,
Speaker 2: kind of the advent of the seventeen game schedule now,
Speaker 2: so in week seventeen before the finale, there is you know,
Speaker 2: a Monday night game in early January. So I'm sure,
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's the latest Monday night game that that
Speaker 2: the Packers have had because the Packers are not played
Speaker 2: in the wild Card game on Monday night, which is
Speaker 2: another sort of new invention with h with Super wild
Speaker 2: Card weekend. But yeah, I'm I'm really looking forward to
Speaker 2: that one. I mean, the division game, the division games
Speaker 2: and as we've talked about a lot, you know, the
Speaker 2: two games against the Bears, you know, one in week
Speaker 2: five mid October, the other one on Christmas. Having the
Speaker 2: Bears games you know, spread out like that, I think
Speaker 2: is I think is good. You get the litmus test
Speaker 2: early against one of your biggest rivals, and then you know,
Speaker 2: most likely a ton of implications late in the year
Speaker 2: on Christmas down at Soldier Field. But but yeah, there
Speaker 2: there are some you know, there's some sort of sneaky
Speaker 2: games on this schedule that that are gonna be really big,
Speaker 2: I think when when the moment comes around. But but
Speaker 2: not a whole lot of people talking about necessarily right now.
Speaker 3: And the points of which these games are happening when
Speaker 3: you think about and again we've talked about numerous different
Speaker 3: content streams that we've done, whether it's opening against Minnesota
Speaker 3: after closing against them the year before, whether it is
Speaker 3: the Chicago Bears coming back in the Lambefield, the Packers
Speaker 3: and Dallas Cowboys again on Sunday Night Football. The Detroit
Speaker 3: Lions are not going anywhere. I mean, they're going to
Speaker 3: be a team that are going to give Green Bay
Speaker 3: everything they have, not only in that October matchup at
Speaker 3: Ford Field, but then again closing the regular season at
Speaker 3: Lambefield and the rivalry that that's become. The Packers are
Speaker 3: the bulls eye in everybody's dartboard right now, especially with
Speaker 3: these NFC North teams and especially with the Chicago land Bears.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is going to be a season in
Speaker 3: which I think the Packers really need to put their
Speaker 3: feet in the ground and show what they're about. And again,
Speaker 3: we have to see how it plays out. We can
Speaker 3: talk about this as much as we want, but the
Speaker 3: fact is is that the Packers and the season that
Speaker 3: they're going into six out of seven years with Mattle
Speaker 3: or in this franchise getting to the playoffs, catapulting themselves
Speaker 3: forward and using the schedule to do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, one last thing before we go, I
Speaker 2: want to I want to end the show going back
Speaker 2: to the beginning of the show, the schedule release video. Yes,
Speaker 2: what was your favorite sort of moment or item or
Speaker 2: whatever you want to call it within the schedule release video?
Speaker 1: What did you like best?
Speaker 3: I am absolutely enamored by the acting chops of one
Speaker 3: Tucker Craft. In addition to the fact that I think
Speaker 3: Tucker was just over the moon in terms of his
Speaker 3: participation in this. Uh he that old phrase about he
Speaker 3: understood the assignment. Tucker Craft understood the assignment. I think
Speaker 3: he was sort of the the heartbeat of that video
Speaker 3: and being able to take it from point A to
Speaker 3: point B. Watching again our social media department get all
Speaker 3: these guys together at various times to shoot their parts,
Speaker 3: and Tucker to be able to, I mean, was so
Speaker 3: energetic and I feel like that enthusiasm and and just
Speaker 3: everything and the guy and he was a legitimate voice
Speaker 3: actor with how he how he participated in that thing,
Speaker 3: and he was living the dream. So I think basically
Speaker 3: anytime I think the number eighty five puppet was on
Speaker 3: the screen was sort of a highlight for me. Yea
Speaker 3: and my boy Grossi, Tom Grossy being a part of
Speaker 3: it was fun too.
Speaker 2: That was That was the one I was gonna mention
Speaker 2: because I mentioned earlier, you know, Micah Parsons on the
Speaker 2: scooter and all that, because I mean, the last we
Speaker 2: had seen Micah Parsons was you know, he's cruising around
Speaker 2: at the Pro Bowl games, you know, on the scooter
Speaker 2: and everything. Right, So then we come out with the
Speaker 2: schedule release video and there's Micah Parsons and he's on
Speaker 2: a scooter. I absolutely love that part of it. But
Speaker 2: also then hearing Tom Grossi's voice as the ticket counter
Speaker 2: guy at the arcade, because it was so recognizable, of course,
Speaker 2: at least to those of us in our shoes, and
Speaker 2: I and and I will say this because again I
Speaker 2: was not involved in this. So the first time I
Speaker 2: sort of got a preview of the video, I didn't
Speaker 2: know that Tom was Oh really yeah, And so then
Speaker 2: like hearing hearing his voice, I just about fell out
Speaker 2: of my chair, like it was.
Speaker 1: It was great.
Speaker 3: It was fun. And and by the way, one other thing,
Speaker 3: I don't know if people got a chance to play
Speaker 3: the game yet, but that Sausage Arcade game that the
Speaker 3: Packers social media department, all the people that were involved
Speaker 3: with that unbelievable. It was so much fun. I don't
Speaker 3: know if you played it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I played it.
Speaker 3: I wanted to say, like.
Speaker 1: I was not very good at it, but I.
Speaker 3: Got to I did finally beat it. It took forever,
Speaker 3: but I did finally beat it.
Speaker 2: I didn't stick with it long enough to beat it.
Speaker 3: Unbelievable. No, the whole thing was a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: And yeah, just gets you more excited for the next one. Yeah,
Speaker 3: always always fun when you get people together. In a teamwork, synergy, chemistry,
Speaker 3: and then adding all the creativity. Yeah that's how that's
Speaker 3: how greatness happens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good times, and it helps it helps the off
Speaker 2: season go by, right, It gives us something to get fired, and.
Speaker 3: It gives the NFL something to fill its program.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, So with that, we'll call it a wrap on
Speaker 2: this edition of Packers Unscripted. Be sure to follow all
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