Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford. He is my trusted colleague, West Hodkowitz.
Speaker 1: We're coming to you here from our studios at lambau Field,
Speaker 1: and we are here to talk about a forty two
Speaker 1: to twenty four Green Bay Packers victory over the Oakland
Speaker 1: Raiders on Sunday at lambeau Field. The Packers are six
Speaker 1: and one, maintaining a one game lead in the NFC
Speaker 1: North over the five and two Minnesota Vikings and West
Speaker 1: forty two points on the board for the Packers offense.
Speaker 1: A lot of statistics look awfully pretty in this game,
Speaker 1: but one statistics stands out above all others, and it's
Speaker 1: the number one, fifty eight point three. You know, this
Speaker 1: is a great point, Mike. And the awesome thing about
Speaker 1: this if you flash back to Friday's Unscripted not I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to pat myself on the back. When you
Speaker 1: asked me key to victory, I said Aaron Rodgers. Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers was the key to victory. Because this is what's
Speaker 1: what's great about the NFL. It goes both ways. You
Speaker 1: can have letdowns, you can have come ups, but here's
Speaker 1: the thing, man, Aaron Rodgers needed to be not necessarily perfect,
Speaker 1: but he needed to be exceptional in this game without
Speaker 1: Davante Adams, especially dealing with what the Packers were dealing with. Now.
Speaker 1: Fortunately for Green Bay, they were able to get Mark
Speaker 1: Quisvel the scantling, and they did have Gerono Way Allison
Speaker 1: available after he passed the concussion protocol on Saturday. But
Speaker 1: it was gonna take this yeoman's effort across the board.
Speaker 1: Guys stepping up in Rogers fed them. I mean, Mike,
Speaker 1: we talked about this. Eight different receivers catch passes, all
Speaker 1: of them at least two. Four different players catch touchdowns,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers five. Excuse me, his five touchdown passes went
Speaker 1: to five. Got so ahead of myself there, But they
Speaker 1: needed to be able to spread the ball around and
Speaker 1: match the Raiders score for score. Early on. They accomplished that.
Speaker 1: There was no let up. And I think this showed you,
Speaker 1: over sixty minutes, over four quarters, what this offense was
Speaker 1: capable of even when Davante Adams is not available. Yeah.
Speaker 1: This was the second game in a row actually where
Speaker 1: eight different players caught at least two passes from Rogers.
Speaker 1: A couple of other stats from this one. Six players
Speaker 1: with a pass reception of at least twenty yards. Actually
Speaker 1: the first time since that the Packers have accomplished that.
Speaker 1: Five players, five different players with a touchdown pass. Rogers
Speaker 1: got the six touchdown rushing it in himself out of
Speaker 1: thirty one. That's six in completions and five touchdown passes.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good ratio. You'll take that any day of
Speaker 1: the week, right, And he throws for four hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty nine yards. It's his tenth career four hundred yard
Speaker 1: passing game if you include playoffs. And really what stands
Speaker 1: out to me about that is that in Packer's history,
Speaker 1: there are a bunch of different quarterbacks have had four
Speaker 1: yard passing games. Nobody's had more than one except for Rogers,
Speaker 1: and now he's got ten, including to this year. So
Speaker 1: you want to see where this offense is going, where
Speaker 1: it's headed, the progress that has been made. We talked
Speaker 1: a lot obviously Week one, coming back from Chicago playing
Speaker 1: that Bears defense. There was a lot to work on here,
Speaker 1: and this offense is just hitting its stride. And what
Speaker 1: it's done these last three games without Davante Adams, you
Speaker 1: have to say that can only bode well for the future,
Speaker 1: right absolutely, and seeing that these guys get tested in
Speaker 1: different guys rising to the occasion, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: let's start with Mark Quisveldo Scantling. Rogers pointed him out
Speaker 1: during his h you know press conference afterwards, some real
Speaker 1: questions midweek about whether MVS would be available for this game.
Speaker 1: I mean, the knee injury, the ankle injury, a lot
Speaker 1: of things he was working through. He kind of comes
Speaker 1: around on Thursday's us to feel a little bit better,
Speaker 1: And Rodgers even remarked to him, Hey, you're pretty glad
Speaker 1: he played, didn't you. How many players do you think
Speaker 1: he played in that game? Like, off the top of
Speaker 1: your head, how many do you think he played? I'm
Speaker 1: gonna guess maybe two dozen snaps. He played snaps a
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty three yards, the fifty nine yards shot
Speaker 1: play coming out of the break. MVS was talking about
Speaker 1: that after the game. He said, that's something they've had,
Speaker 1: they haven't really had the right moment to make it.
Speaker 1: But the most critical juncture of the game, that big
Speaker 1: swing on the fumble bye Derek Carr in the end zone.
Speaker 1: The Packers marched down the field, score touchdown, and then
Speaker 1: receiving the ball after the half a real chance to
Speaker 1: put their foot on the throttle. The big message this
Speaker 1: week from Matt Lafleur was all gas, no breaks. They
Speaker 1: do that a perfectly designed shot play, allowing Rodgers to
Speaker 1: roll out all the time in the world to work
Speaker 1: with Dandy vitally in front of them to pick up
Speaker 1: any extra blockers MVS comes open across the middle. I
Speaker 1: thought that was a critical moment in this game, and
Speaker 1: then honestly just seventy four yards out of nowhere late
Speaker 1: to really seal it on that touchdown past NBS. You
Speaker 1: get him the ball, even if he's dealing with lower
Speaker 1: body injuries like he was in this game. Still a
Speaker 1: lot of speed there and some breakaway talent. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you said it was the point where this game turned.
Speaker 1: It was late in the first half. The Packers are
Speaker 1: leading fourteen to ten. The Raiders are driving there in
Speaker 1: a goal to ghost situation and looking like they're going
Speaker 1: to punch it in to go up seventeen fourteen, and
Speaker 1: the Packers would maybe have one more possession before halftime.
Speaker 1: But Derek Carr gets careless as he's scrambling out to
Speaker 1: his right. He tries to reach for the pylon when
Speaker 1: he doesn't really have a shot at it, quite frankly,
Speaker 1: and he puts the ball in his left hand. The
Speaker 1: ball sports out. He's initially ruled out of bounds, but
Speaker 1: I think we all knew when we saw it that
Speaker 1: looks like a fumble and it went inside the pylon,
Speaker 1: in and out of the end zone. The replay review
Speaker 1: confirms it's a touch back for the Packers, and instead
Speaker 1: of the Raiders taking a seventeen to fourteen lead, the
Speaker 1: Packers do the elbow up get the touchdown at the
Speaker 1: end of the first half to Jake Kumero get the
Speaker 1: touchdown coming out of halftime that started with the big
Speaker 1: play too mvs. I refer to it in insider inbox
Speaker 1: as a twenty one point swing Derek Carr. When Derek
Speaker 1: Carr lost that fumble, you're thinking the Raiders are going
Speaker 1: to take a seventeen to fourteen lead, And by the
Speaker 1: time Derek Carr got the ball back, he was down
Speaker 1: by eighteen points. So it went from thinking he'd be
Speaker 1: up by three to down by eighteen point swing. That's
Speaker 1: that's a lot for the Oakland Raiders to overcome and
Speaker 1: they simply weren't able to overcome it. Not the way
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers was commanding this offense exactly. And I think
Speaker 1: that was the biggest key here. The Packers did not blink.
Speaker 1: The offense did not blank five touchdowns in their first
Speaker 1: six possessions. Mind you, I did not say five scores
Speaker 1: in their first six possessions. Five touchdowns in their first
Speaker 1: six possessions. That's going to put you in the driver's seat.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't just big chunk yardage place. It was
Speaker 1: opportunistic moments. It was being able to execute on their
Speaker 1: down The Packers were six of ten on third downs
Speaker 1: in this game. The Oakland Raiders were very good on
Speaker 1: third downs as well. But what was the biggest difference,
Speaker 1: Mike in the biggest difference in every single one of
Speaker 1: these Raiders games so far this season. The Packers won
Speaker 1: the time of possession battle by a little bit, but
Speaker 1: more importantly, they got the takeaways when they needed them.
Speaker 1: Derek Carr was really good in this football game. I
Speaker 1: thought he would had a masterful performance. There weren't any sacks.
Speaker 1: That wasn't necessarily because of Zadarius and Preston Smith. They
Speaker 1: had pressures. Derek Carr was able to climb the pocket
Speaker 1: appropriately and get the ball out during the times in
Speaker 1: which there was collapsing, you know, pressure. But he blinked twice.
Speaker 1: He blinked on fumbling the ball in the end zone
Speaker 1: near the end of the first half and then trying
Speaker 1: to force the past to Waller late in the game
Speaker 1: when he had a first down in the red zone.
Speaker 1: He didn't need to force that ball and the Packers
Speaker 1: got to take And he also had Josh Jacobs available
Speaker 1: in the flat with no one around him for eight yards,
Speaker 1: but he wanted to try making a play. That's not
Speaker 1: a criticism on hum, it's the fact of the matter.
Speaker 1: They needed points. But with the Packers not blinking, card
Speaker 1: did in that. You know, ultimately, for all the yardage,
Speaker 1: for all these other things you could factor in that.
Speaker 1: That's what made the difference in this ball game, and
Speaker 1: the Packers were able to execute. Yeah, the way I
Speaker 1: refer to it, as I thought, Derek Carr played an
Speaker 1: outstanding game except for two plays, and you obviously delineated
Speaker 1: those two plays. But that just goes to show you
Speaker 1: how small the margins are in this league. Because the
Speaker 1: way this game was going It was back and forth,
Speaker 1: back and forth all throughout the afternoon. Those two plays,
Speaker 1: those two mistakes by Derek Carr huge. And I'll also
Speaker 1: say this, I thought the Oakland offensive line played a
Speaker 1: whale of a football game in terms of controlling the
Speaker 1: trenches except for two plays third and goal and fourth
Speaker 1: and goal when they were trying to punch it in
Speaker 1: from the two and from the one with Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 1: The Packers defensive front got the best of them at
Speaker 1: the goal line in that sequence, and that was another
Speaker 1: huge swing in this game. The Packers defense, it had
Speaker 1: its issues during the day, Don't get me wrong. They
Speaker 1: gave up a ton of yards and and the Raiders
Speaker 1: certainly felt they were they were in the game pretty
Speaker 1: much all the way through. But when you throw away
Speaker 1: scoring opportunities in the red zone at the goal line,
Speaker 1: and not only throwing them away, they weren't even just
Speaker 1: settling for the field goals, but they were turning the
Speaker 1: ball over. There were the two turnovers plus the turnover
Speaker 1: on downs. Those stops that the Packers got defensively were
Speaker 1: all that they needed on a day when Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: was doing what he was doing. Yeah, there's one thing
Speaker 1: I really want to talk about here because I had
Speaker 1: not covered the team as long as you have, so
Speaker 1: I can't really give you the blow by blow of
Speaker 1: what the two thousand ten season was like. And and
Speaker 1: you know what the locker room was like even two
Speaker 1: thousand eleven in some regard when they gave up all
Speaker 1: those yards. But they were so opportunistic for my money
Speaker 1: during my eight seasons full time on this beat. Now,
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers, the way this defense is played,
Speaker 1: it's the best situational defense they've had. And I'm counting
Speaker 1: two thousand fourteen. I'm counting two thousand twelve because it
Speaker 1: first between this unit and some of the issues that
Speaker 1: they've had in the past is when a team would
Speaker 1: break an explosive it kind of broke the Packers in
Speaker 1: some ways that oftentimes led to six seven points. They
Speaker 1: had a really hard time being able to rally back
Speaker 1: from an explosive game. This year's team does not have
Speaker 1: that issue. Rogers made the joke in the postgame news
Speaker 1: conference about his conversation with Darnell Savage about, you know,
Speaker 1: if we could just get a stop outside of the
Speaker 1: red zone, but when they are in the red area,
Speaker 1: you look at it now they've had what four or
Speaker 1: five takeaways in the red area this season. They have
Speaker 1: the fourth, you know, the goal line stand on a
Speaker 1: day in which Josh Jacobs had really been pushing and
Speaker 1: running really well. They got the stops when they needed them,
Speaker 1: almost the second straight game with a goal line stand
Speaker 1: if they had gotten the call against Detroit Detroit. But
Speaker 1: you know, when I was asking Blake Martinez about this afterwards,
Speaker 1: and it just it comes down to a mindset. It
Speaker 1: comes out of mentality, and more than anything else, I
Speaker 1: think it just comes down to the confidence of this unit.
Speaker 1: They can take punches, they roll with them, and at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, you can make up whatever
Speaker 1: stats you want. You can talk about total defense, the
Speaker 1: number one defense, and all these different things, but you
Speaker 1: have to have a defense that can win in January
Speaker 1: and February. I feel like this year's team can do that. Certainly,
Speaker 1: there are things to clean up the mistackles. You know,
Speaker 1: you want to be able to generate more takeaways. You
Speaker 1: have to be better at the at the first level
Speaker 1: and getting down those premiere backs like Jacobs. But points
Speaker 1: are points, Mike, and when you play well situationally, that's
Speaker 1: what enables you to keep them off the board and
Speaker 1: allow your team to win. Yeah, I think obviously the
Speaker 1: Packers defense is going to get back to work here.
Speaker 1: With regard to the big plays, it's been the problem
Speaker 1: now three straight weeks, the big explosive plays they've given up.
Speaker 1: As you said, the backbone of this defense is that
Speaker 1: they don't just cave when they give up a big play.
Speaker 1: They gave up the one to the Lions opening the
Speaker 1: game last week, held them to a field goal. They
Speaker 1: gave up another one and almost stopped him at the
Speaker 1: goal line. We saw them give up the big plays
Speaker 1: to the Raiders, but they got a couple of crucial
Speaker 1: stops in the fourth quarter down by the goal line.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, they only gave up
Speaker 1: twenty four points. The concern, I think in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways is that in this Raiders game, we saw
Speaker 1: too many whether it was the tight ends receivers, too
Speaker 1: many guys simply running free in the secondary. Some of
Speaker 1: the plays were way too easy. They weren't contested plays.
Speaker 1: You weren't just tipping your cap to the other guy saying, hey,
Speaker 1: that was a heck of a catch. You know. Against
Speaker 1: some good coverage. There were a couple of those, don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong. Well, and and that's what I was
Speaker 1: going to say too, is Kevin King gets the interception
Speaker 1: in the end zone that takes away the one scoring
Speaker 1: opportunity the play right before that, he is in perfect
Speaker 1: coverage and Marcel Eateman just makes a great catch over
Speaker 1: the top of him. Thirty six yard game gets the
Speaker 1: Raiders down into the red zone. You talk about the
Speaker 1: whole short memory thing for a cornerback. Guy makes a
Speaker 1: play on him, It's like he knew he was in
Speaker 1: the right spot, just wasn't able to quite make the
Speaker 1: play on the ball. You tip your cap to the
Speaker 1: other guy. The next play you come back, Adrian Namas
Speaker 1: gets the tip. Kevin King gets the pick in the
Speaker 1: end zone, one cars trying to force it into Waller,
Speaker 1: his big tight end who had a huge game. That's
Speaker 1: the thing with this with this defense West. Yes, they've
Speaker 1: got a lot of stuff to clean up. They don't
Speaker 1: want to be giving up those big plays, but they're
Speaker 1: starting to develop this. As you said, it's like a
Speaker 1: mentality when the other team gets in close, no matter
Speaker 1: how they've gotten there, and whether it's a ten play
Speaker 1: drive or a three play drive where the other team
Speaker 1: has marched down the field. When they get in close,
Speaker 1: they have a lot of confidence that they can get
Speaker 1: the stops somehow. Now they're not going to get the
Speaker 1: stop every single time, but they got a couple of
Speaker 1: crucial ones on Sunday and that was enough for the
Speaker 1: Packers to maintain the separation to ultimately put this one away. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and for the most part, I mean you see that
Speaker 1: the pieces starting to fall into place a little bit.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're still trying to figure out what they
Speaker 1: want to do. An inside linebacker B J. Goodson played
Speaker 1: a little bit, or in Burke's played a little bit,
Speaker 1: But for the most part, a lot of these guys
Speaker 1: have their rolls carved out. If you can get Darnell
Speaker 1: Savage back, I think that's a big catalyst for this
Speaker 1: defense right now, because you know, Will Redman has done
Speaker 1: some really good things, but you will have Adrian em
Speaker 1: Is playing out of position a lot of the time.
Speaker 1: You know, you still had to mix and match a
Speaker 1: lot of this personnel. I think if you get Savage
Speaker 1: back and patrolling the center field like he has been,
Speaker 1: you know, with what they've worked through here the last
Speaker 1: few weeks, that's gonna make them better in the long run. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would agree with you there, Um, quickly before I forget,
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Speaker 1: take control of this a little bit here because there
Speaker 1: are a couple more things about the offense. I just
Speaker 1: want to touch on very quickly. Absolutely, Um, Jimmy Graham
Speaker 1: four catches for sixty five yards in a touchdown. I mean,
Speaker 1: for his maligned as this has been, and as much
Speaker 1: as people beating the narrative of him and where he's
Speaker 1: at in his career, I thought, Graham. I I asked
Speaker 1: Dono Allison about it afterwards, you know the game that
Speaker 1: he had here, and he just said clutch. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think you have to tip your cap to him. Um,
Speaker 1: Geronto Allison and Mark Quisveldi scantling playing through their injuries
Speaker 1: to give themselves a reps that they did and on
Speaker 1: a short week coming off of a Monday night game,
Speaker 1: and they didn't have as much recovery time as you
Speaker 1: would normally have. And you want to talk about toughness.
Speaker 1: Geronimo Allison, one of his first catches in this ball
Speaker 1: game was almost a near identical play to the one
Speaker 1: that he got lit up on a week ago. That
Speaker 1: that s his concussion, you know, being able to have
Speaker 1: a short memory in that regard, I thought, I mean,
Speaker 1: that said a lot about him as a player. But lastly,
Speaker 1: I just need to touch on very quickly, Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: and Matt Lafleur the floor. First off, I thought this
Speaker 1: was an exemplary game plan. They spaced out their snaps
Speaker 1: with their receivers. Al Nazard was the leading receiver in
Speaker 1: terms of snap totals fifty one. The second was Jake
Speaker 1: Jake Kumero. They were very selective and smart with how
Speaker 1: they used Allison and MBS. They didn't just run them
Speaker 1: out there seventy place. They rotated, they adapted. The running
Speaker 1: backs became more of a focal point in this offense.
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, something we have yet to talk about, had
Speaker 1: one of the most phenomenal catches you're ever going to
Speaker 1: see by a running back the coverage to get the
Speaker 1: offense up and running early on on a twenty one
Speaker 1: yard touchdown past in which he switched his head. I
Speaker 1: asked him about that play afterwards, and as cool as
Speaker 1: it looked, he said, I mean, you got to understand,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers put that right in my bread basket. Out
Speaker 1: of all the throws Rodgers made, and he made thirty
Speaker 1: one of them in this game, that might have been
Speaker 1: the most pretty, just in terms of the arrow that
Speaker 1: he had to drop that into. Danny Vitality catches two
Speaker 1: passes out of the backfield, motioning frequently during this game.
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur's game plan for this was terrific, and Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers ability to get the ball out quickly with his
Speaker 1: offensive line the time that they gave him in this game.
Speaker 1: That that's the next point I was going to bring
Speaker 1: up because Rogers. Rogers was effusive and rightly so in
Speaker 1: his praise of the offensive line, calling it the best
Speaker 1: pocket he's had to work with all season long. You
Speaker 1: look at the you look at the stats, West and
Speaker 1: I know sacks sometimes they're not the tell all stat
Speaker 1: because Rogers can avoid pressure throw the ball away. There
Speaker 1: there are times that the sack is on the quarterback,
Speaker 1: not necessarily on the offensive line, but just looking at
Speaker 1: the raw numbers, the Chicago Bears had five sacks of
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers in Week one. In the six games since then,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers has been sacked seven times. It's only twelve
Speaker 1: sacks now on the season after five sacks in Week one.
Speaker 1: This offensive line is playing really, really well and protecting
Speaker 1: him and Rogers. He always has plenty to say, obviously
Speaker 1: about the Bookends blog and bok tr but he made
Speaker 1: a point of talking about the interior three and just
Speaker 1: how stout they were yesterday against the Raiders and giving
Speaker 1: him the pocket to step up into to make throws
Speaker 1: on time, to keep himself and the offense in rhythm.
Speaker 1: Talking about center Corey Lindsley Um and guards Billy Turner
Speaker 1: and Elton Jenkins. At the first name escaped me there
Speaker 1: for sex. Yeah, there's a g in Elton that that
Speaker 1: always throws me off. Um, But those guys, Um, it
Speaker 1: just seems like a unit. And you knock on wood
Speaker 1: from a health standpoint, obviously, but it just seems as
Speaker 1: a unit that it's a group that just keeps get
Speaker 1: better and better and better. And more comfortable as a
Speaker 1: whole in this offense. And what Matt Lafleur is asking
Speaker 1: those guys up front to do, and the most underrated
Speaker 1: aspect of them right now, Mike is there athleticism. I
Speaker 1: mean everybody always thinks of three and ten, three and
Speaker 1: twenty pound offensive lineman is you know, just kind of
Speaker 1: plotters and they just sort of hold their ground. No,
Speaker 1: they're very athletic. Billy Turner is a good athlete. I
Speaker 1: mean Elton Jenkins has jumped in there and just picked
Speaker 1: up right you know where Lane Taylor was. I mean
Speaker 1: he's taken that torch and continue to run with it.
Speaker 1: And they've built that chemistry quickly their fifth start together
Speaker 1: in this matchup. So, I mean, you look at how
Speaker 1: a season goes, and there are sacks, as you said,
Speaker 1: but I've always there's a stat. I have an unofficial
Speaker 1: stat obviously, which I always refer to as ol A
Speaker 1: s which is just the bull running through the matador.
Speaker 1: I mean it was just they get right to the
Speaker 1: quarterback and there's nothing that that player can do. I
Speaker 1: don't know if there's been an l A sack this season.
Speaker 1: I mean it's just been something where I believe that
Speaker 1: they've given Rogers a workable pocket to operate from. There're
Speaker 1: gonna be some coverage ones here and there. Yes, there
Speaker 1: was one on Sunday, but for the most part, you know,
Speaker 1: I was just looking at the way Brian Balaga fought
Speaker 1: in this game on the right side. Yeah, the you know,
Speaker 1: the Oakland readers don't have that type of pass rusher
Speaker 1: like Khalil mac was in the past. That just is
Speaker 1: gonna be somebody you have to take into account every
Speaker 1: single down. You've got to fear that guy. But they
Speaker 1: are very good and they play to what they want
Speaker 1: to do and for them to give Rogers that, as
Speaker 1: I said, it was just that canvas to paint on
Speaker 1: in this game and Rogers to make the most of it.
Speaker 1: I just for my money, and it was reflective with
Speaker 1: the forty two points and the offensive production that they had.
Speaker 1: This was their morest balanced performance of the season. And
Speaker 1: it's because they used all eleven guys to get there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and well, and in posting his first and the franchise
Speaker 1: is first maximum passer rating of one point three, there
Speaker 1: were a couple of instances where a free runner on
Speaker 1: the blitz was bearing down on Rogers, and he stood
Speaker 1: in there and delivered the ball. One was an incomplete
Speaker 1: pass later in the game, but the one on the
Speaker 1: drive right before halftime, the third down to Geronimo Alison.
Speaker 1: It's you know, they the phrases stand and deliver for
Speaker 1: a reason, right. He had to stand in there and
Speaker 1: fire that ball in and he got the completion to Alison.
Speaker 1: He took the hit and then finished off the drive
Speaker 1: with the with the touchdowns. So for all of the
Speaker 1: all of the praise that Rogers was spreading around to
Speaker 1: his teammates, and rightly so, for this performance, he deserves
Speaker 1: plenty of praise as well. Did Rogers talk about that
Speaker 1: play at all in the postgame news conference. I was
Speaker 1: trying to see the Allison play. He talked about in general,
Speaker 1: those two plays where he took the big shots and
Speaker 1: had and and still was able to deliver the ball.
Speaker 1: He said he was joking with h I believe it
Speaker 1: was to hear whitehead Um from the Raiders defense saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes you take those hits and then you
Speaker 1: start to feel like a real football player. Um, he
Speaker 1: probably doesn't feel that way on Monday morning, when when
Speaker 1: the soreness really starts to set in on those kind
Speaker 1: of shots. But he stood in there and and took him.
Speaker 1: And I want to give quick credit to Matt Lafleur.
Speaker 1: I tweeted this during the game too, talk about knowing
Speaker 1: your team and knowing your quarterback. I would venture to
Speaker 1: guess that Aaron Rodgers had to win knocked out of him.
Speaker 1: He did not show it, but on that one play
Speaker 1: that pats to Allison, when I believe that was Karl
Speaker 1: Joseph just speared him. And it was a good play.
Speaker 1: It was a good football play. It was clean. Uh,
Speaker 1: Rogers goes down, he takes a second to get back up.
Speaker 1: I guarantee you. I don't want to guarantee, but I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure that that he's knocked out. He has a
Speaker 1: win knocked out. There they go and they give three
Speaker 1: straight handoffs to Aaron Jones, and they move the chains
Speaker 1: with those handoffs. This is a day in which the
Speaker 1: Packers only rushed for sixty yards, but in that instance,
Speaker 1: when you need to maybe give your quarterback a minute
Speaker 1: or two to get himself back together, they were able
Speaker 1: to move the chains. Yeah. All right, Well, we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk on tomorrow's show about where things are in the
Speaker 1: NFC North and everything else that went on in Week seven.
Speaker 1: We weren't able to get to it in this show,
Speaker 1: but it was an interesting week in the NFL and
Speaker 1: I want to get to that, but for now, we're
Speaker 1: calling it a wrap on this edition of Packers Unscripted.
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