Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from
Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford, joined by my
Speaker 1: partner in crime at Weston Hodkowitz. We're coming to you
Speaker 1: here from our studios at lambeau Field, getting ready for
Speaker 1: a Sunday noon kickoff at lambeau Field. A rarity west
Speaker 1: a noon kickoff at lambeau The New York Jets visiting
Speaker 1: Green Bay to take on the Packers. The Jets coming
Speaker 1: to Lambeau for the first time in eight years. Two
Speaker 1: thousand fourteen was the last time we saw the New
Speaker 1: York Jets here. And when I look at this team,
Speaker 1: it's a team that under Robert sala Is is starting
Speaker 1: to build some momentum, gain some confidence. Robert sali is
Speaker 1: trying to pull the pull the Jets as an organization
Speaker 1: out of you know, sort of an extended period of
Speaker 1: Dould rooms here. Um, some really rough times in in
Speaker 1: recent years. And uh, they've got a young running back
Speaker 1: by the name of Breece Hall out of Iowa State.
Speaker 1: And uh, I tell you what this looks like about
Speaker 1: as pure a dual threat running back in terms of
Speaker 1: running the ball and catching passes for a young player
Speaker 1: that Um, he's making that offense go well, and certainly
Speaker 1: look at the place he made in that win over Miami.
Speaker 1: Um that wheel route, he comes free down the sideline
Speaker 1: seventy nine yards, comes a yard short of a touchdown
Speaker 1: on it. Uh, just a salty, salty group. I mean that,
Speaker 1: That's when I looked at this matchup. These uncommon opponents
Speaker 1: are always difficult, Mike, because you don't really I mean,
Speaker 1: like truly, we don't really talk a lot about you know,
Speaker 1: the a f C East AFC North. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I haven't sat and watched like the New York Jets
Speaker 1: play football game, you know. I mean usually if you know,
Speaker 1: if I have a chance to watch a game that's
Speaker 1: not uh, you know, that's obviously not the Packers. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to either watch somebody from the NFC North or
Speaker 1: somebody else in the NFC. So we just don't see
Speaker 1: these teams. But it does look when you look on paper,
Speaker 1: when you watch that game last week, it looks like
Speaker 1: they are finally making that change, you know, with Michael
Speaker 1: Floor as the offensive coordinator. They ran Michael Carter a
Speaker 1: lot earlier in the season. It seems like that scale
Speaker 1: starting to tip more now towards Hall that who is
Speaker 1: I believe the top drafted running back in this year's draft,
Speaker 1: very dynamic player and second round the second round pick,
Speaker 1: I believe it was thirty six overall. You look at
Speaker 1: the way they are structured offensively. They had the issue
Speaker 1: the injury with Zach Wilson, Joe Flacco had a step
Speaker 1: in for a few weeks. Wilson is now back behind
Speaker 1: the controls and Mike. Honestly, I look at how they
Speaker 1: are configured offensively. They have threats really everywhere. Garrett Wilson
Speaker 1: got off to a fine start, has been a consistent
Speaker 1: performer for them. Their leading receiver the tenth pick in
Speaker 1: this year's draft. Uh, you know a lot of dangerous
Speaker 1: type of receivers that Green Bay is gonna have to
Speaker 1: deal without a plethora of different positions. So uh, as
Speaker 1: I said, this is a game that you cannot take
Speaker 1: for granted because I think the Jets being at three
Speaker 1: and two, the momentum has turned. You and I watched
Speaker 1: those training camp practices last year against the Jets, and
Speaker 1: they're definitely seemed to be kind of a dearth of
Speaker 1: talent at that point in time. Their roster last year
Speaker 1: when they came to Green Bay for the joint practices
Speaker 1: versus what Robert Sala has two has on his roster
Speaker 1: this year. It's like night and day. But but through
Speaker 1: the draft, through trades Corey Davis, I mean, when you
Speaker 1: look at all the talent that they've acquired, now the
Speaker 1: key thing is going to be Zack Wilson and where
Speaker 1: he is at in year two of his development. But
Speaker 1: he has no shortage of weapons to turn to. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of intriguing and players with this Jets roster. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Hall and Carter, the two guys in the backfield.
Speaker 1: Um pass catching wise, they have six different players mixed
Speaker 1: year obviously, backs, tight ends, receivers, six different players who
Speaker 1: have at least sixteen receptions through the first five games
Speaker 1: of the season. So whether it's been Joe Flacco or
Speaker 1: Zack Wilson, they haven't had any problem spreading the ball
Speaker 1: round in that regard. Defensively, to statistics jump out at me.
Speaker 1: The most first is the interceptions in the secondary. They
Speaker 1: have seven interceptions on the season, which is just one
Speaker 1: off of the league lead. Eight is the most that
Speaker 1: any team in the NFL has through the first five weeks,
Speaker 1: but not only the seven interceptions, but six different guys
Speaker 1: have at least one interception. They have one guy with
Speaker 1: two and five other guys with one. And then as
Speaker 1: far as that pass rush up front, and I mentioned
Speaker 1: this in in our three Things video which we shot
Speaker 1: shortly before we turned on the cameras. Here for unscripted
Speaker 1: the last three games, this pass rush for the Jets
Speaker 1: has piled up thirty two quarterback hits. Now for the season,
Speaker 1: they have just ten sacks. But when you look a
Speaker 1: little bit further into the numbers, that that it's kind
Speaker 1: of misleading because thirty two quarterback hits over the last
Speaker 1: three games, sixteen of them last week against the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: And yes, the Dolphins were dealing with the injuries backup
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and all of that um, but sixteen quarterback hits
Speaker 1: in one game, seven of them from Carl Lawson all
Speaker 1: by himself. This is this is a pass rush that
Speaker 1: even if they're not piling up a bunch of sacks,
Speaker 1: they can make life difficult for opposing quarterbacks. And past
Speaker 1: protection is going to be a big key to this
Speaker 1: game for Green Bay. The best coaches I'm talking about positions,
Speaker 1: schematic in the league and even in college you see
Speaker 1: that jump in year two. You're seeing it with Lance
Speaker 1: Leopold right now at Kansas, right, guys that just mesh
Speaker 1: what they have with a few new pieces, and then
Speaker 1: then you start seeing the culture change, the chemistry come
Speaker 1: and I think that's what you've seen in year two
Speaker 1: here with Robert Sala. His defenses. When you go back
Speaker 1: to his time in San Francisco, UM, they were almost
Speaker 1: without equal And it's funny that all it took was
Speaker 1: one year to start seeing the same thing from this unit.
Speaker 1: Forty one quarterback hits this season. Yes, only ten sacks,
Speaker 1: but forty one quarterback hits. We listened to Packers passing
Speaker 1: game coordinator Slash defensive backs coach cornerbacks coach Jerry Gray
Speaker 1: on Wednesday night talking about how you you know, the
Speaker 1: good defense is marrying up the pass rush with the coverage.
Speaker 1: Forty one quarterback pressures Mike seven interceptions right now on
Speaker 1: the season, and eight one opposing quarterback pass or rating. Yes,
Speaker 1: it might not just be about getting the sacks, but
Speaker 1: seeing where that shows up in other areas for the
Speaker 1: Jets has been very important. They also probably have one
Speaker 1: of my favorite inside linebackers in the National Football League
Speaker 1: and C. J. Mosley, I thought that was a really
Speaker 1: savvy acquisition for them a couple of years ago. Again,
Speaker 1: you look at their roster, there's not a whole lot
Speaker 1: of household names, especially on the defensive side of the ball,
Speaker 1: but as a unit, by and large, they're kind of
Speaker 1: playing to that Robert Salas standard. Yeah, when you look
Speaker 1: at what this the Jets team has done to get
Speaker 1: to three and two at this point, what jumps out
Speaker 1: at me the two road victories at Cleveland and at
Speaker 1: pitts Burg. And I know those are two teams that
Speaker 1: you know, I have had some struggles and some ups
Speaker 1: and downs, but the Jets were down double digits in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter of both of those road games. The
Speaker 1: comeback against Cleveland was borderline miraculous, with the with the
Speaker 1: on side kick and then Flacco leading another touchdown drive
Speaker 1: after before the onside kick, they had hit a big
Speaker 1: I think it was seventy five yard touchdown pass or
Speaker 1: something like that. Then a couple of weeks later there
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh and they're down a couple of scores in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, and they and and uh and they
Speaker 1: rallied and pulled it out. If the Packers, you know,
Speaker 1: if things go really well for the Packers for three
Speaker 1: three and a half quarters in green Bay has a
Speaker 1: thirteen point lead with seven or eight minutes to go,
Speaker 1: this Jets team is going to feel like they're you know, hey,
Speaker 1: it's still anybody's game, because that that's the way they've
Speaker 1: that's the way they played this year. They are not
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to get You're gonna have to get
Speaker 1: three score lead on these guys in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: um before you might start to break their spirit a
Speaker 1: little bit, because they've proven they can come back on
Speaker 1: the road. There they are, They're not they're not intimidated.
Speaker 1: And uh the way they played these comebacks on the road,
Speaker 1: they sort of have played with nothing to lose, and
Speaker 1: and uh um, the Packers are going to have to
Speaker 1: be ready um again, unless unless green Bay can get
Speaker 1: up like twenty points on them or something like that.
Speaker 1: The Packers are gonna have to be ready to play
Speaker 1: sixty minutes again. Which has been the biggest issue for
Speaker 1: this Packers team is putting together a full sixty minutes
Speaker 1: to put somebody away. Yeah, because last week they start
Speaker 1: so fast. Other weeks it's been kind of a slow start,
Speaker 1: and they've come together in the second half. It is
Speaker 1: about stitching those four quarters together. The two areas that
Speaker 1: I look at this matchup for green Bay that are
Speaker 1: going to be essential. The first one is basically just
Speaker 1: taking last week's what we appeared to be the keys
Speaker 1: to victory and honestly just putting them through the xerox
Speaker 1: and restarting the whole process. Much better receivers, much better weapons,
Speaker 1: as I said that Wilson's going to have, but you
Speaker 1: have to get after Zack Wilson. Uh still two starts,
Speaker 1: He's had only one touchdown against two interceptions. He's been
Speaker 1: sacked three times. Joe Flacco is sacked nine times before that,
Speaker 1: twelve sacks on the season. This is a big moment
Speaker 1: for Rashawn Gary Kenny Clark. You look at the left
Speaker 1: tackle situation. They lost Uh Beckton right at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the season. Dwayne Brown is signed. He injures his
Speaker 1: shoulder immediately, so that he's out. Now he's back, you
Speaker 1: have to be able to get some opportunities there. The
Speaker 1: secondary for green Bay, We've talked about the dearth of interceptions,
Speaker 1: the lack of interceptions, so far Jr. Alexander's only one
Speaker 1: right now from week two off ad justin fields. You
Speaker 1: have to find ways of tone of a football. I
Speaker 1: feel like this is a good opponent. But in order
Speaker 1: to do that, it goes back to Hall, It goes
Speaker 1: back to making sure that Michael Carter doesn't get going.
Speaker 1: You have to be able to stop the run. If
Speaker 1: you accomplish those two things and allow your offense to
Speaker 1: to manage this game, maybe get the running game going more,
Speaker 1: it is a very winnable game. But if you don't
Speaker 1: check those boxes. I look at the Jets a lot
Speaker 1: like I looked at like at the Giants. I mean
Speaker 1: it is a team on the come up that doesn't
Speaker 1: have anything to lose. Yeah. Absolutely, And we talked on
Speaker 1: our last show about how you know, we'll be watching
Speaker 1: from the press box defensively for the Packers to try
Speaker 1: to see. Is that is that pre snap urgency, that
Speaker 1: efficiency to get to get to your spots, to study
Speaker 1: the formation and what the offense is doing, and then
Speaker 1: and then to be able to react and not um
Speaker 1: react and potentially attack, not not to be that half
Speaker 1: step slow because you didn't quite you know, get to
Speaker 1: your spot just in time. Or you're trying to make
Speaker 1: a last second adjustment, but then the ball is snapped
Speaker 1: because that adjustment should have been made two or three
Speaker 1: seconds prior to that. So all of those things will
Speaker 1: be interesting to watch. With regard to the Packers defense offensively,
Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like from a key to
Speaker 1: victory standpoint, it's the same conversation that we had after
Speaker 1: the lost to Minnesota when the Packers are coming back
Speaker 1: home and we're going to face the Chicago Bears, and
Speaker 1: we talked about the offense getting back to working through
Speaker 1: the running backs through Aaron Jones and a J. Dillon. However, however,
Speaker 1: whatever it takes to get them, to get them the
Speaker 1: ball in whatever, in whatever fashion you want to get
Speaker 1: them too. But I think if this, if this offense
Speaker 1: does what it did against Chicago back in Week two
Speaker 1: and resets and really works through those two running backs
Speaker 1: thirty three and twenty eight, this you're you're back at home.
Speaker 1: This is this is another opportunity to to to go
Speaker 1: through that reset with the offense and get back to
Speaker 1: what you do best. And that's what I expect the
Speaker 1: Packers to do on Sunday. I agree, and for Green Bay,
Speaker 1: it does go back to can you perform in a
Speaker 1: balanced way for sixty minutes, being able to control the
Speaker 1: tempo of a game. Matt La floor. That has been
Speaker 1: the hallmark for the last three years. Allowing your offense
Speaker 1: to find itself and to build off that momentum and
Speaker 1: sustaining it. There has been issues as far as coming
Speaker 1: out of the gates finding that capturing it, but if
Speaker 1: you're able to actually carry that through more times than not,
Speaker 1: the Packers have been a really good second half team.
Speaker 1: You look at the Jets on the other hand, the Jets,
Speaker 1: there is a huge disparity in the second half of
Speaker 1: the Jets. They have three points in the third quarter
Speaker 1: this year, they have fifty eight in the fourth. They
Speaker 1: have come on in a lot of different ways. Now,
Speaker 1: that probably indicates a lot of playing from behind, but
Speaker 1: it also shows you it's a game team that is
Speaker 1: not giving up on itself. I think I look at
Speaker 1: this Packers offense. If you're able to get the two
Speaker 1: backs going, I'm not going to say touch stat anymore,
Speaker 1: but being able to make sure that the ball gets
Speaker 1: in those guys hands and building off of that. That's
Speaker 1: what Aaron Rodgers was kind of talking about two one
Speaker 1: thing green Bay has really not been able to establish
Speaker 1: for the first five games is allowing the big plays
Speaker 1: explosive place to happen based on the constructs of the offense,
Speaker 1: not from extending a play, not from a scoverage breakdown,
Speaker 1: but literally being able to to meld some of those
Speaker 1: things together. And I believe that's going to be the
Speaker 1: key on this one, because again, if you allow that
Speaker 1: defensive front to get pressure onto Rogers, if you allow
Speaker 1: them to be able to get a couple of takeaways,
Speaker 1: the minus three on the season is not it's not
Speaker 1: a mirrage. That's what Green Bay is right now, and
Speaker 1: it's one of the reasons why they've had a hard
Speaker 1: time winning these games. Really on yeah, I mean really
Speaker 1: for on both sides of the ball. For the Packers,
Speaker 1: it's about it's about establishing a certain level of play.
Speaker 1: We hear the players talk about on both sides of
Speaker 1: the ball, talk about the standard, and it's about being
Speaker 1: able to play. I mean, nobody's going to play the
Speaker 1: perfect game or the perfectly consistent game, but it's about
Speaker 1: being able to play to that standard, not just for
Speaker 1: you know, seven out of eleven possessions, but maybe more
Speaker 1: like nine or ten out of eleven possessions, right, um
Speaker 1: and uh and and to be able to reach that
Speaker 1: standard um more often and on on a more consistent
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Speaker 1: one last thing for you, anything else on in the
Speaker 1: keys to Victory category that you want to touch on
Speaker 1: before we move on to other games around the NFL
Speaker 1: in Week six? Yeah, I feel like it's also you
Speaker 1: talked about the noon game, right, you talked about the
Speaker 1: normalcy that green Bay is going to kind of feeld here.
Speaker 1: I won't even mention this fact that you and I
Speaker 1: are gonna have omelets on Sunday morning. I'm very excited
Speaker 1: about that. It's been three years, bro, I know, like
Speaker 1: I'm excited for that, um, But no, the bigger issue
Speaker 1: I think for Green Bay is going to be getting
Speaker 1: back on its own clock. I feel like if you're
Speaker 1: able to win this, it's a really difficult stretch coming
Speaker 1: up for green Bay. You're going on the road for
Speaker 1: three straight games, you come back home, You're taking on
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys team that has been really outperforming. I think
Speaker 1: what people's expectations were for them after this Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: interview or interview injury um and maybe also the interview
Speaker 1: but um, and then also the Tennessee Titans Packers have
Speaker 1: eight games here before we're talking about by right, So
Speaker 1: still it's still it's still a long stretch before before
Speaker 1: the players really get to rest and recuperate. But I
Speaker 1: do look at this as an opportunity because green Bay
Speaker 1: for the most part, actually got out of London in
Speaker 1: pretty okay shape. You got to make sure Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: thumbs chill, You gotta make sure that that's okay. You
Speaker 1: do have the hamstring injury, Christian Watson, but otherwise I
Speaker 1: think there was like five or six guys on the
Speaker 1: injury report, which is great for green Bay standpoints. So
Speaker 1: if you're able to pick up this win, if you're
Speaker 1: able to get your body clocks back set before you
Speaker 1: hit the road for Washington, which is a game green
Speaker 1: Bay should be heavily favored in. I feel like that's
Speaker 1: going to be sort of the thing that catapults you
Speaker 1: into the second half of the season. But you need
Speaker 1: to get you need to take care of business on
Speaker 1: Sunday against the Jets in order to do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's an interesting stretch here coming up for the Packers.
Speaker 1: And I know it's all about the Jets on Sunday,
Speaker 1: but three of the next four games are noon kickoffs,
Speaker 1: which is which is not the norm for this team.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Packers are almost always playing at you
Speaker 1: know and and seven thirty and you know, Monday nights
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. Three of the next
Speaker 1: four are noon Central Time kickoffs, with the the one
Speaker 1: primetime game at Buffalo mixed in here over the next month.
Speaker 1: So um be interesting to see just how the how
Speaker 1: the team handles that. As far as Sunday goes Week
Speaker 1: six in the NFL, two games in the early window
Speaker 1: that will be going on at the same time as
Speaker 1: Packers Jets that I think are are worth talking about briefly.
Speaker 1: Minnesota is heading down to Miami. Obviously, Packers fans will
Speaker 1: have their eye on that. The Vikings at four and one,
Speaker 1: sitting on top of the NFC North right now. And
Speaker 1: then Baltimore at the New York Giants a on a
Speaker 1: f C versus NFC matchup there, the Giants coming off of, um,
Speaker 1: you know, the biggest win for you know, so are
Speaker 1: for Brian Dable as the new head coach, beating the
Speaker 1: Packers over in London, and uh, and Baltimore coming off
Speaker 1: of you know, last second walk off field goal by
Speaker 1: Justin Tucker to beat the defending a f C champ
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals. I saw something, and I apologize I can't
Speaker 1: remember the stat exactly, but I saw something about how
Speaker 1: it's been some ridiculous amount of time since since Minnesota
Speaker 1: won a game in Miami, like like that, they've they've been,
Speaker 1: you know, on some kind of drought now then maybe
Speaker 1: something like that. But um, Vikings, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: catching a break because it sounds it sounds like the
Speaker 1: uh the Dolphins will be down to their third string
Speaker 1: quarterback as they were last week. Um. I can't I
Speaker 1: can't remember his name off the top of my head,
Speaker 1: but but Tah and Teddy Bridgewater sounds like they're both
Speaker 1: out for for this week, and and you know, the
Speaker 1: Dolphins did not We're not able to put up much
Speaker 1: of a fight against the New York Jets. Um las week.
Speaker 1: The Jets rolled up forty points and beat them by
Speaker 1: three touchdowns. Um, but um Baltimore at the New York
Speaker 1: Giants interesting in that, you know, as we talked about
Speaker 1: with the NFC East on our last show, the Eagles
Speaker 1: are five and oh, the Cowboys are four and one,
Speaker 1: and the Giants are four and one. The Cowboys and
Speaker 1: Eagles playing each other on Sunday Night Football. The Giants
Speaker 1: playing at home against a tough Baltimore team with a
Speaker 1: chance to to get to five and one and build
Speaker 1: on their victory over the Packers. So some it'll it'll
Speaker 1: some some interesting things going on with that NFC East
Speaker 1: that has garnered so much attention here with those top
Speaker 1: three teams have to such fast starts. Skyler Thompson, by
Speaker 1: the ways, the third that's Thompson, Yeah remember him from
Speaker 1: Kansas State. Uh yeah, I mean the NFC East. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's been a recurring joke. I'm not gonna just reiterate it,
Speaker 1: although maybe I will. I mean the fact that they
Speaker 1: have been the division that I think everybody expected the
Speaker 1: f C West to be just with how they've performed
Speaker 1: year early on. Certainly, as you talked about the Giants
Speaker 1: sort of you know, shooting over everybody's a very extremely
Speaker 1: modest expectations for them Dallas, I think everybody was just
Speaker 1: waiting for them to falter after they lost Dak And
Speaker 1: as I've continued to say, Mike, I just I get
Speaker 1: these vibes from Cooper Rush. He wasn't asked to do
Speaker 1: a lot last week. I would say the cow the
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense definitely you know, won that game for them
Speaker 1: against the Rams. That that Cowboys defense made Matthew Stafford's
Speaker 1: life miserable, and that's that's all you need in this
Speaker 1: league sometimes, I mean it it works out that way
Speaker 1: and rushed it enough to help them win that game.
Speaker 1: Philly is a team that has been you know, really
Speaker 1: you know, athletic, versatile, deep, been incredibly impressive. For me though,
Speaker 1: even though you know Thompson's gonna be in there, I
Speaker 1: will be interested to see what the game plan is
Speaker 1: that you know, Mike McDonald develops for that matchup with
Speaker 1: the Vikings, because there are a lot of different aspects.
Speaker 1: I still feel like with the Dolphins offense, that even
Speaker 1: if you don't have necessarily your your starter the tour
Speaker 1: that's available, you know, Jalen Waddle in, you know Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill can still find ways to get the ball in
Speaker 1: their hands and make a defense pay well. And we
Speaker 1: all know how how much things can change with backup
Speaker 1: quarterbacks when they get the full week of preparation with
Speaker 1: the game plan, as opposed to what happened to Skyler
Speaker 1: Thompson last week where he was thrown into the game,
Speaker 1: you know after the first series when Teddy Bridgewater was removed. So, um,
Speaker 1: so you do expect Miami to Miami to look a
Speaker 1: little different and potentially offensively look a little bit more
Speaker 1: like themselves, just because um Thompson would be would be
Speaker 1: handling you know, the practice rust for the full week
Speaker 1: as opposed to doing the you know, cold coming in
Speaker 1: off the bench kind of thing. Mike McDaniel, My apologies, Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: I knew who you meant. Maybe they didn't um one
Speaker 1: other one that's to talk about. I know it's it's
Speaker 1: an a f C matchup, so it doesn't have any
Speaker 1: direct implications on the packer. But late Sunday afternoon, after
Speaker 1: the Packer game against the Jets has finished Buffalo at
Speaker 1: Kansas City in the a f C, and I believe
Speaker 1: this is something like the fourth time in the past
Speaker 1: twenty or twenty one months something like that that Buffalo
Speaker 1: is playing at Arrowhead Stadium against the Chiefs. When you
Speaker 1: combine regular season and postseason matchups, kind of crazy that there,
Speaker 1: um that they're in this uh. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: Packers have been there before, whether you're talking about San
Speaker 1: Francisco or you know these other other places where where
Speaker 1: it feels like you're getting sent there like every couple
Speaker 1: of months to to play a game. But Buffalo at
Speaker 1: Kansas City a very a very interesting one in the
Speaker 1: in the a f C. And you know two teams
Speaker 1: that have met in the playoffs regularly, and who knows,
Speaker 1: maybe they're headed for another playoff meeting as well. That's
Speaker 1: stat that they had last weekend kind of like your
Speaker 1: thing earlier. I'll probably watch this a little bit, but
Speaker 1: that's stat about fourth quarter comebacks that Patrick Mahomes has
Speaker 1: had now in his career, don't you see that? Like
Speaker 1: I think he he has like a winning percentage when
Speaker 1: his team is trailing by ten or more points in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, like you think he's like twelve and
Speaker 1: nine or something like that. I mean, it's crazy like
Speaker 1: to be able to be that resourceful. I mean, certainly
Speaker 1: you need a defense to be able to help you
Speaker 1: out there, but it speaks volumes and I think, as
Speaker 1: I said last year after that playoff game, I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is going to be the Batman and Joker here
Speaker 1: in the National Football League for the next ten years.
Speaker 1: These guys are can continually see each other from the
Speaker 1: same drash class. They're the two best players from that
Speaker 1: draft class. Well, I guess you can throw the Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson thing in there too, but they're they're exceptional quarterbacks
Speaker 1: and and the teams are going to be exciting to watch.
Speaker 1: Um again one week won't be able to watch, but
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of people be jazzed about it,
Speaker 1: and I'd be remissed too. I mean, when you look
Speaker 1: at the NFC North, just to mention, you know, Chicago
Speaker 1: has a very winnable game against Washington, a Washington team
Speaker 1: that is really reeling, you know, with questions about the
Speaker 1: quarterback and whether or not Wentz is available, and even
Speaker 1: if he is, if he is the guy there, like yeah,
Speaker 1: Washington really struggle in big time right now. Those are
Speaker 1: the type of games you need to win. And if
Speaker 1: the Bears do that, they're at five. So there are
Speaker 1: no easy layups in this league and in Green Bay.
Speaker 1: From their perspective, this is one more reason why you
Speaker 1: need to win on something and that's a Washington team
Speaker 1: play playing the Bears on Thursday night football. Um, then
Speaker 1: you know, getting a little bit of a reprieve, a
Speaker 1: little bit of extra rest before the Packers go out
Speaker 1: to h to visit visit the nation's capital next week.
Speaker 1: But it's all about the Jets this week. The Packers. Packers,
Speaker 1: they they've they've got to get this one. Four and
Speaker 1: two sure sounds a heck of a lot better than
Speaker 1: three and three right at we're at that stage where
Speaker 1: you start, specially going into a road trip, you start,
Speaker 1: what's that especially going into a road trip. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: going and going into three straight road games as we
Speaker 1: talked about coming up for the Packers. But with that,
Speaker 1: we'll call it a rap on this edition of Packers Unscripted.
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