WEBVTT - #637 Packers Unscripted: Division clincher 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:10.520 Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:14.600 Packers dot Com. I am like Spofford, he is West Hodkowitz. 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:17.520 Were coming to you hear from our studios at lambeau 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:21.479 Field West. The Packers coming off of another down to 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:24.840 the wire victory, this one thirty one to thirty over 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:30.000 the Baltimore Ravens in Baltimore on Sunday afternoon. We'll start 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:32.720 with what the game came down to, which was a 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:35.839 two point conversion. John Harbaugh for the Ravens making a 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.080 call I think everybody expected him to make, which is 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:42.400 you score that touchdown with forty two seconds left on 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:44.440 the clock. He was going to go for the lead. 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:46.159 He wasn't just going to kick and play for the 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:50.040 tie and hope for the overtime. Packers managed to stop 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:52.760 the two point conversion, recover the onside kick, and they 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:56.600 escape Baltimore with a victory. There's one scenario in my 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:58.520 mind where I would have been in favor of them 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.880 going for two, and that would have been if Matt 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:05.120 Lafleur would have used the time out when there's only 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.520 ten defenders on the field and allowed them to have, 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:11.479 you know, basically no time outs left in forty two 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.120 seconds left on the clock. The Packers didn't go that 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:19.119 direction for them to score, still have one time out, 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.000 forty two seconds on the clock and Aaron Rodgers at quarterback. 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:25.360 I didn't understand it. I don't think I'm going to. 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:28.080 But as I said to some of our insider inbox readers, 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:30.920 I guess I really don't care. This was the decision 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:33.640 that John Harbaugh wanted to make. It was very aggressive, 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:37.759 and this is why it's called aggression because it ultimately 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.360 didn't work out for them. You'll go into this probably 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:42.520 in a little bit with um what imagine it'll be 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:44.800 a big part of your you know what you might 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:48.800 have missed column this week. But you know you're in 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:50.720 a position where you have Tyler Huntley there as your 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.920 backup quarterback. Young man has played really well. Former undrafted 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:56.560 free agent. This guy's got a lot of talent. You're 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:59.680 putting him in a winning time situation. Though, I guess 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:01.840 if that was Lamar Jackson, maybe I understand it a 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:04.200 little bit more. But it's just what he had done 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:07.360 a couple of weeks ago against Pittsburgh with Lamar Jackson 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:11.000 that quarterback, he went for two in very similar circumstances. 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.760 So a young guy in that situation as well as 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.400 he played. Of course he's going from Mark Andrews. That's 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:19.280 what he's done this entire game. So for Hollywood Brown 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:20.760 to be open in the back of the end zone 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.520 as inexcusables, that seems like when you look at it 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.119 on film, you understand what he's thinking with the basically 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:28.960 a half second, second and a half to make that decision. 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:30.960 At the end of the day, the Green Bay Packers 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.640 held onto this victory. They get to number eleven, they 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.560 clinched their third consecutive NFC North title. But for the 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:38.519 Baltimore Ravens, this is just something they're gonna have to 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:40.520 deal with. It's the way the the you know, the 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.720 dice sort of rolled for them, and you know for 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.760 the Packers that it turned out favorably. Yeah. Well, on 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.800 the two point play, we saw Darnell Savage from his 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:52.160 safety spot. As soon as Tyler Huntly started a roll 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.520 to the right, Mark Andrews was lined up, was not 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:56.680 lined up as the tight end was lined up split 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.760 out to the right with Eric Stokes on him. Darnell 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:03.080 says just sold out to uh to get over there 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.399 to Andrews, and after Andrews had had obviously a big 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:11.840 day against Savage against other guys, Savage was able to 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.760 get the slight deflection on that ball as he cut 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.919 across the field. The ball then bounced off of Eric 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:21.880 stokes shoulder and the past was incomplete. As you said, Hollywood, 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:23.760 Brown was was open in the back of the end 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.280 zone because of the area that Savage had vacated. But 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:28.959 Huntley never looked at him. He was going to Andrews 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:31.799 all the way there. And for a guy who had 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:35.240 such a huge day, the Packers were finally able to 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:39.000 uh to stop him. When it mattered the aggression of 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:43.320 the of the Baltimore Ravens, it was. It was evident 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.680 right from the opening series of the game, right, I 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:49.040 mean the they go fourteen plays, or they had gone 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.680 thirteen plays. The fourteenth play is fourth and goal from 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:56.080 the three yard line, and instead of just making sure 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:58.440 you get some points after that long drive that takes 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:01.920 half of the first quarter, um John Harbor decides to 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.880 go for the touchdown. Devandre Campbell makes a great play 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.560 chasing Huntley on the scramble, gets him for the sack, 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:09.760 and the Packers keep the Ravens off the board on 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:12.400 that possession. So the way the game started the way 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:15.160 the game ended, John Harball was was going for broke 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:18.160 no matter what. Um with the team that he had 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:21.960 against the Aaron Rodgers lead Packers. And yeah, he'll I mean, 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:24.960 you know, he'll be second guest about it for for 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:28.320 a long time, for for several decisions. But um, but 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.440 the Packers made for all the struggles they did have 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:35.200 at different moments. Defensively, the Packers made a few key 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.000 plays in this ball. Yeah, and Hardball was in that 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:40.880 seat for the last thirteen years for a reason. Obviously 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:42.600 he's won a Super Bowl there, He's had a lot 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.640 of success. But you know, I I understood going for 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.080 it early in the game. The only reason for that 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.360 is because field position. We're starting to see what the 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.240 benefit of that can be if you not only can 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:55.000 just go for it and then you know, if you 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.160 don't get it, you're still pinning them back at their 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.080 own five. In this case, I think it ended up 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.280 being the six after this s act and Green Bay 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.479 punted the ball back punt really doesn't work out. The 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:06.040 Ravens are able to get some points after that. The 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:08.279 part of it that I think is getting more confusing 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:10.520 for me is what you saw with the first and 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:14.679 five situation, which would have been in the fourth quarter, 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.599 I believe, where they get the full start and then 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:19.680 they end up going for it because it becomes fourth 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:22.040 and six or whatever on their own twenty eight or 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.559 twenty nine, and then green Bay gets the ball there. 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.599 Coaches are getting pretty risky with this. We saw it 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:29.719 with Sean McVeigh a number of weeks ago as well. 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:31.640 I think there's a lot to be said for putting 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:33.359 your foot down on the gas pedal and showing that 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.000 you have faith in your offense. But you also have 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.599 to see the big picture with this thing too. You 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:39.359 don't want to have a game where it's just okay, 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:42.240 you've got six field goals and out of you know, 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:44.680 potentially being able to get maybe you know, three touchdowns 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:46.520 out of that, you end up with eighteen points. I 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.560 I understand that aspect of it, but it is this 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:51.800 fine line that teams have to walk in for Green 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:55.640 Bay's perspective, four for five in the red zone, being 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.039 able to punch the ball in that really is what 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:00.720 came down to being the biggest difference in this game. Yeah, 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:02.440 I just want to go back one more thing and 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:04.599 then we'll move on. But see, it's interesting you and 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.120 I have different perspectives on this because to me, the 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:09.479 the decision for me that was harder to understand was 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:11.119 the one at the beginning of the game, the fourth 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:12.680 and goal from the three yard line. And I was 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.560 having this discussion with my son Robbie, whom you know, 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:19.599 he's uh, he's home for the holidays from graduate school, 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.560 so we've been talking a lot of football, and he 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:24.440 he fed me a great line which I'm gonna use 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.040 here on the show because you mentioned, you know that 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:29.520 fourth and goal from the three, and you're talking field position. 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:34.120 Points are permanent, field position is temporary. How does that 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.160 decision by hardball look if on the very first third 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:40.160 down of Aaron Rodgers with Davante Adams wide open, if 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:43.600 he hits that pass, then what does that decision look like? Right? 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.719 The field position is a completely temporary thing and early 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.080 in the game. To me, and you know, maybe I'm 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.919 just conservative and thought in in this type of this 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:55.400 type of decision making, I just I want to get 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:57.400 points on the board early in the game. Now, to me, 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:01.919 a fourth and one situation, fourth and one I'll almost 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.479 never fall to coach for wanting to go for it 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:06.840 because your whole playbook is open. You can run, you 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.200 can throw, you can do whatever you want with your quarterback. 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.320 Anything more than fourth and one, to me, is a 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:16.120 lot harder to convert than than than than people realize. 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.640 So um but I but I totally expected. As we 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:23.000 were watching that game with the Ravens driving for what 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.400 was looking like the tying touchdown, and we were talking 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.600 about it as was happening, we knew, like the Ravens score, 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:30.760 Harball was going for two, He's going for the lead 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:34.560 here and uh and unfortunately the Packers were able to 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:38.480 stop that, that that biggest play that mattered and escape 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:41.360 with a win. Yeah, fourteen play drive. That's the other 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.480 side of this. As you get down seventy yards, you 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.600 do want to get some points out of that. So 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.080 it's the decision every coach is going to have to make. 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:51.640 I just feel like with having a young quarterback in 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.320 there as well as Hunley played, there are opportunities for 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:55.920 them to take points and they didn't do it. I 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.720 think that's probably the aspect of it. Because you talk 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.160 about fourth and one in the Playboo being opened Lamar 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:05.520 Jackson's on the field former NFL and yeah, they I 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.120 totally agree if Lamar Jackson's the quarterback, to me that 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:10.920 the decisions are potentially different to it's. It's just a 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.520 different mindset in terms of in terms of what you 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.920 have to work with. Their on the offensive side of 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:23.360 the ball. UM, this Packers offense now west despite Aaron 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:27.520 Rodgers basically not practicing over a month, this Packers offense 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:31.200 has put up thirty plus points in four straight games. UM, 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:34.760 it's pretty remarkable what's going on. Rogers has thrust himself 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:38.160 right into the thick of the m v P conversation. 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.719 The Baltimore Ravens did everything in their power and this 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:43.840 is what my what you might have missed video clips 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.080 are focused on. They did everything in their power to 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:50.080 take Davante Adams out of this game with with bracket coverage, 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:54.240 double teams, UM, even a triple team in a sense 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:55.640 on one play. If you want to go to the 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.560 website and check out that clip that's in my piece 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:04.040 the UM. But the Packers responded. They ran the ball 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.800 not with big numbers, but with efficient numbers against the 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:13.040 top ranked run defense in the league. And Marquez Velde 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:18.880 Scantling had um. In my opinion, it was Marquis's best 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.080 game of the season. I know, statistically, I think he 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:24.120 had more yards in Minnesota with seventy plus yard touchdown. 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.880 But the plays that the plays that MVS made in 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.920 this game. He was a big time performer in a 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.120 big time game when the Packers needed him. And that's 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.520 really good to see because it was the route tree, right. 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:37.559 I wrote about this after the game. It's the fact 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:39.720 that he's showing you his growth as a receiver, not 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.120 just being a guy that runs four three whatever and 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:43.840 can get over the top of a defense and really 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.600 make teams pay. He was making, you know, these slant 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:49.000 routes that the leven yard touchdown pass was a thing 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.800 of beauty. He's extending for the end zone. Great, great 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:54.160 play by him. There was a huge reason why Aaron 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.280 Rodgers was so excited about it. Yes it was number 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.520 four forty two when you could just see, you know, 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:00.920 wanting to get that confidence back an MVS that he 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.480 felt like that was a pivotal moment and honestly it 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.680 didn't produce points. But that twenty four yard catch that 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.520 he had on kind of that post that is one 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:12.040 of the more beautiful pass and catches you're gonna see 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.959 in the National Football League. Everybody has showed the skycam 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:18.560 view of Rogers throw on that. I don't know how 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.080 he throws that. Yeah, the one, the one right before half, 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:27.080 right before halftime. There's there's a triangle of Baltimore defensive 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:30.360 backs there and there is just a sliver of a 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:35.440 green helmet in white uniform and Rogers puts it through 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.080 three defenders where only his receiver can catch it, and 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.320 mark Quisvelda Scanty makes a nice play on the ball. 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.600 It was a thing of beauty. Yeah, the I took 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.440 a closer look at that one on film and what 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:47.760 I noticed because I was like you, I'm like, how 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:51.400 does Rogers even try to throw that ball? Right? Well, 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:53.880 what happened on that play is actually that was another 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.880 play where Davante Adams is getting double teamed from the slot. 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:00.959 The guy who was lined up across from mvs UM 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:05.400 on that play actually drops off to double atoms and 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:09.079 it's a linebacker who's dropping into coverage to pick up 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.400 MVS going down the seam. In my mind, Roger sees 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.199 MVS against a linebacker. I'm given my guy a shot 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:16.880 to make a play that was just it was. It 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.400 was like a split second thing, like boom linebacker on 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.360 eighty three, that's where the ball is going. But the 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:25.920 throw was absolutely perfect because the coverage by the linebacker, 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:29.520 who was pretty darn good, Rogers snuck that one in there. Unfortunately, 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:31.840 the Packers weren't able to get any points out of 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:36.120 that drive, but it's certainly an example of where Aaron 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:40.440 Rodgers is the level that he is playing at right now. 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.040 I know it seems like every game we see early 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.040 on first quarter, first drive, maybe second drive, we see 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.960 a throw that a thrower two that are off here 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.480 there mentioned the one to Adams on the very first 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.240 third down of the game. Right, of course he'd like 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.559 to have that throwback. He's not practicing. It seems to 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:00.240 just take a couple of throws something to get him 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:03.520 into a rhythm. But once he gets into that rhythm. 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:08.000 The Packers scored four touchdowns in a span of five drives. 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.200 The only one they didn't was the two minute drive 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.120 at the end of the first half in that span. 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:15.640 When you can when you can put up suddenly four 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.600 touchdowns through that middle stretch of a game like that, 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:20.319 you're gonna be in position to win a lot of 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.040 football games. And and Aaron Rodgers is just he He's 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.720 at a in a different world right now. Rogers is 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.080 so good at this, Mike, And I've noticed this more 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:31.280 this year because there hasn't been the practices. He's like 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:35.480 a great championship boxer fighter where he uses that first 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.960 round and he really finds his range against the defense. 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:40.680 And yes, he would have loved to have had that 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:44.360 Adams you know pass, certainly he talked about that that 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.680 floater he just missed Allen Lazard on late in the game. 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:51.080 But once he starts to diagnose what the defense is 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.600 giving you, the way he's able to lock in. I 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:56.480 think about that Tyler Davis passed in the scene that 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.760 Matt Laflour was talking about. You know, he sped up 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:01.880 that route and sped up his throw and how he 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:05.800 unleashed that thing based on how the safeties were basically 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.240 playing Davis to be able to sneak that one in 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.160 there for twenty two yards. There's no one like him 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.560 in the NFL, and there hasn't been anyone like him 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.960 in that regard and how he's able to manipulate what 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:19.520 he's seeing Defensively, I thought that was the one issue 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:21.679 that the Ravens had. I really like what they did 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:25.240 defensively in this game. I understand why they defended Davante 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:27.600 Adams the way they defended him. I think I would 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:29.440 have come off that a little bit though in the 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.160 second quarter into the third quarter, or at least tried 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.559 to mix it up, because once Rogers was pretty much 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:36.280 dialed into the fact that Okay, we're gonna have to 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.559 scheme Adams up here, he was able to start getting 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.760 going with foul, the Scantling and some of these other receivers. 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.240 It isn't just that Aaron Rodgers is putting out other 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:46.440 worldly numbers right now. It's the fact that the last 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:48.360 two weeks he's done it by passing to like eight 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:52.040 different receivers. The Packers offense is finding its rhythm again 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:55.400 and quickly. Just to close on this, the running game, 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.359 it's not gonna wow you in terms of the statistics. 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.000 That was one of the best rushing performances Green Bay 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:02.800 has had this season. Because they're going up against the 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.360 top rank run defense in the National Football League and 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.840 they ran north and south against that thing, and especially 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:10.559 in the third quarter. I felt like that's what really 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:12.600 allowed them to establish their rhythm. That what that Aaron 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:14.320 Jones was able to do out there. Yeah, and I 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.800 had posted a story Monday on our website if fans 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:18.960 want to check that out. I took a closer look 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.480 at the at the rushing and look not not including 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:25.280 Rogers rushing yards, which was you know, a kneel down, 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.800 scramble or broken play. You know, you take that out 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.280 Aaron Jones, A J. Dillon, the one jet sweep to 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:36.400 Alan Lizard, twenty one designed handoff runs. Those twenty one 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.240 runs produced eighty five rushing yards. Well, that's that's what 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:41.800 the Ravens have been allowing, was eighty five rushing yards. 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:44.440 That's why they're their number one in the league against 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:46.760 the run. But you take a closer look at that, 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:50.800 and the Packers got those eighty five yards on twenty 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.960 one carries without an explosive run. They didn't have any 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:56.920 twenty like a twenty or thirty yard run. That excuse 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.600 the average. The longest of those rushes was eleven yards, 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:04.600 and based on the Packers system of measuring the efficiency 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.120 of the run. Matt Lafleurd explained to us earlier in 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.760 the season. On first down, if you get four yards 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:13.000 or more, that's considered an efficient run. On second down 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.720 if you get at least half of the yards that 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:18.040 are needed for the first down. So if it's second 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.280 and six, if you get at least three, that's that's 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:23.280 considered an efficient run. And then on third down, it's 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:25.720 a matter of obviously converting for the run to be 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:29.000 considered efficient. Those twenty one designed hand us I was 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:32.520 talking about, the Packers got an efficient run fourteen out 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:34.960 of twenty one times, and they were actually at fourteen 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.880 out of nineteen until the very last two when they 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:40.840 were trying to to uh to chew up some clock 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.480 later in the game. So um to have that level 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.000 of efficiency even though there weren't big numbers running the 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.080 ball against the top ranked run defense, I thought that 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.680 said something about where this Packers run game is considering 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:54.840 all the issues on the offensive line that we've talked 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:56.640 about all season long, I think it's a good sign 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.200 going into the playoffs. Can I make one last comment too, 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.080 on the the structure of this offense right now where 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:02.720 it's at, because this is something that really stood out 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.000 to me. By the time the game ended, Packers have 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:08.040 just been besieged by injuries this year on both sides 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.160 of the ball, but specifically offensively. When you look at 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.680 all the knicks that the offensive line has taken, the 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.640 fact that you've lost Robert Tonyan, Randall Cop has his 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:17.440 best quarter of the season, then he goes out with 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:19.480 the growing injury and ends up or the core injury 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.880 and ends up on I R. What really stands out 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:25.080 to me the most is this team kind of like, ah, 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.960 how would huh? I say this, like a butterfly sort 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.160 of shedding its cocoon a little bit. Every single time 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.520 they've had an injury, it's hurt them, but it hasn't 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.640 really all come at the same time. They lost Billy Turner, 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.400 here comes Dennis Kelly, they lost you know, Josh Myers. Well, 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:44.640 there was Lucas Patrick. They lose Randall Cop. Well, now 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.640 Alan Lazard's back from the shoulder injury. It's very interesting 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:49.880 to me that while they have had injuries and it's 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.960 been pretty consistent, it hasn't been at one exact moment, 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.200 And I feel like that's allowed this offense to kind 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.360 of evolve a little bit. So, yeah, it ends up 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.600 being MVS in this game. It was Lazard last week. 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.640 You've seen these different offensive linemen step up. They've been 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:06.120 able to actually develop some chemistry with each other amidst 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.480 the chaos. Yeah. And and to me, I think that's 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:11.800 one thing that down the stretch here, with the versatility 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:14.240 and mallability of this offense, I think it's really gonna 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:16.359 end up helping them. That's another line. I'm gonna steal 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:18.840 chemistry amidst the chaos. I like that. That's that's a 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:20.680 good one. You got it. One. A little bit of 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:24.080 sponsored business here. 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On Sunday with the Packers on four Sunately, 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:05.440 after the defense got the fourth down stop in Baltimore territory, 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:07.639 the offense was not able to get the touchdown that 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.040 would have made it a three score game. Field goal 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:12.720 kept at a fourteen point game, so just two scores, 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:15.840 and the Ravens were able to get those two scores 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:20.040 on their final two possessions. Matt Lafleur was he was 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:23.199 pretty frustrated, Um, you know, for a for a victory 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:25.439 Monday press conference. He was a little grumpy, and that 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:28.520 that's and that's okay. I when I think when he 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:31.720 looked at the film and he saw he commented on 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:35.639 what he felt like the defense not being always ready 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:39.640 at the snap, guys not guys not getting into Sometimes 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:41.720 it was the call not getting in. Times sometimes it 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:46.199 was guys just not showing the urgency playing with playing 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:48.720 with the urgency and aggressiveness that he was hoping for 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:52.080 in some of those situations, particularly third down, particularly the 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:55.840 fourth down conversion on the past to Mark Andrews. You know, 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.280 a fourth down stop there in that situation would have 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:03.399 essentially sealed the ball game. UM, Packers are for for 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:06.920 as as much as this defense They made three key 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.560 plays in this game, the fourth and goal stop early on, 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:12.960 the fourth down stop in Baltimore territory in the fourth quarter, 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:16.200 and then the two point conversion stop. Joe Berry's got 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:18.840 Joe Berry's got some work to do here with his guys, 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:21.919 because on balance, this was not a performance that they 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:23.560 would be happy with. No, it was a tough one, 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:25.480 especially that second half. You know, one of the things 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:26.920 that kind of keep an eye on two is they 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:29.600 played more personnel packages in this game than they probably 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:32.120