WEBVTT - #677 Packers Unscripted: New York state of mind 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:11.000 Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:13.840 Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford, joined by my 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:17.040 partner in crime at Weston Hodkowitz. We're coming to you 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:20.160 here from our studios at lambeau Field, getting ready for 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:24.120 a Sunday noon kickoff at lambeau Field. A rarity west 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:28.160 a noon kickoff at lambeau The New York Jets visiting 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:31.440 Green Bay to take on the Packers. The Jets coming 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:33.800 to Lambeau for the first time in eight years. Two 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:36.639 thousand fourteen was the last time we saw the New 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:40.919 York Jets here. And when I look at this team, 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:44.040 it's a team that under Robert sala Is is starting 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:48.400 to build some momentum, gain some confidence. Robert sali is 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:51.560 trying to pull the pull the Jets as an organization 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.120 out of you know, sort of an extended period of 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:57.960 Dould rooms here. Um, some really rough times in in 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:02.040 recent years. And uh, they've got a young running back 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:05.199 by the name of Breece Hall out of Iowa State. 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.959 And uh, I tell you what this looks like about 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:12.760 as pure a dual threat running back in terms of 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:16.200 running the ball and catching passes for a young player 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:20.000 that Um, he's making that offense go well, and certainly 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:22.679 look at the place he made in that win over Miami. 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.760 Um that wheel route, he comes free down the sideline 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.640 seventy nine yards, comes a yard short of a touchdown 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:32.160 on it. Uh, just a salty, salty group. I mean that, 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:35.360 That's when I looked at this matchup. These uncommon opponents 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:37.520 are always difficult, Mike, because you don't really I mean, 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.680 like truly, we don't really talk a lot about you know, 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.080 the a f C East AFC North. Yeah, I mean 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:45.520 I haven't sat and watched like the New York Jets 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:48.200 play football game, you know. I mean usually if you know, 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.120 if I have a chance to watch a game that's 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:54.200 not uh, you know, that's obviously not the Packers. I'm 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:56.720 trying to either watch somebody from the NFC North or 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:58.840 somebody else in the NFC. So we just don't see 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:01.680 these teams. But it does look when you look on paper, 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:03.640 when you watch that game last week, it looks like 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.120 they are finally making that change, you know, with Michael 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:10.280 Floor as the offensive coordinator. They ran Michael Carter a 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:13.280 lot earlier in the season. It seems like that scale 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:15.720 starting to tip more now towards Hall that who is 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.680 I believe the top drafted running back in this year's draft, 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:23.160 very dynamic player and second round the second round pick, 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.880 I believe it was thirty six overall. You look at 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.440 the way they are structured offensively. They had the issue 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.480 the injury with Zach Wilson, Joe Flacco had a step 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.640 in for a few weeks. Wilson is now back behind 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:36.920 the controls and Mike. Honestly, I look at how they 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:41.800 are configured offensively. They have threats really everywhere. Garrett Wilson 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.040 got off to a fine start, has been a consistent 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.400 performer for them. Their leading receiver the tenth pick in 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:49.679 this year's draft. Uh, you know a lot of dangerous 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:51.880 type of receivers that Green Bay is gonna have to 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:55.639 deal without a plethora of different positions. So uh, as 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:57.560 I said, this is a game that you cannot take 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:00.280 for granted because I think the Jets being at three 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.920 and two, the momentum has turned. You and I watched 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.720 those training camp practices last year against the Jets, and 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.040 they're definitely seemed to be kind of a dearth of 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:13.519 talent at that point in time. Their roster last year 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:15.720 when they came to Green Bay for the joint practices 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:19.600 versus what Robert Sala has two has on his roster 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:21.760 this year. It's like night and day. But but through 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.200 the draft, through trades Corey Davis, I mean, when you 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:28.120 look at all the talent that they've acquired, now the 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:30.720 key thing is going to be Zack Wilson and where 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:33.120 he is at in year two of his development. But 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.080 he has no shortage of weapons to turn to. There's 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:39.600 a lot of intriguing and players with this Jets roster. Yeah. Absolutely. 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.480 You mentioned Hall and Carter, the two guys in the backfield. 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:46.880 Um pass catching wise, they have six different players mixed 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.520 year obviously, backs, tight ends, receivers, six different players who 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:54.040 have at least sixteen receptions through the first five games 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.200 of the season. So whether it's been Joe Flacco or 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.839 Zack Wilson, they haven't had any problem spreading the ball 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:03.640 round in that regard. Defensively, to statistics jump out at me. 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:08.000 The most first is the interceptions in the secondary. They 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:10.600 have seven interceptions on the season, which is just one 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:12.960 off of the league lead. Eight is the most that 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:16.320 any team in the NFL has through the first five weeks, 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:20.359 but not only the seven interceptions, but six different guys 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:22.840 have at least one interception. They have one guy with 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:26.120 two and five other guys with one. And then as 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.400 far as that pass rush up front, and I mentioned 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.080 this in in our three Things video which we shot 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.480 shortly before we turned on the cameras. Here for unscripted 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.200 the last three games, this pass rush for the Jets 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:42.240 has piled up thirty two quarterback hits. Now for the season, 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:45.240 they have just ten sacks. But when you look a 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.920 little bit further into the numbers, that that it's kind 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.919 of misleading because thirty two quarterback hits over the last 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:55.440 three games, sixteen of them last week against the Miami Dolphins. 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:58.280 And yes, the Dolphins were dealing with the injuries backup 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:02.680 quarterbacks and all of that um, but sixteen quarterback hits 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:06.040 in one game, seven of them from Carl Lawson all 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:09.400 by himself. This is this is a pass rush that 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:11.960 even if they're not piling up a bunch of sacks, 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:16.160 they can make life difficult for opposing quarterbacks. And past 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:17.760 protection is going to be a big key to this 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:21.400 game for Green Bay. The best coaches I'm talking about positions, 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:25.400 schematic in the league and even in college you see 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.360 that jump in year two. You're seeing it with Lance 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:31.919 Leopold right now at Kansas, right, guys that just mesh 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:35.719 what they have with a few new pieces, and then 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.520 then you start seeing the culture change, the chemistry come 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:40.159 and I think that's what you've seen in year two 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:43.520 here with Robert Sala. His defenses. When you go back 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.760 to his time in San Francisco, UM, they were almost 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.680 without equal And it's funny that all it took was 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.880 one year to start seeing the same thing from this unit. 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:57.719 Forty one quarterback hits this season. Yes, only ten sacks, 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:02.120 but forty one quarterback hits. We listened to Packers passing 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:06.040 game coordinator Slash defensive backs coach cornerbacks coach Jerry Gray 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.960 on Wednesday night talking about how you you know, the 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:12.520 good defense is marrying up the pass rush with the coverage. 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:16.839 Forty one quarterback pressures Mike seven interceptions right now on 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:21.000 the season, and eight one opposing quarterback pass or rating. Yes, 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.400 it might not just be about getting the sacks, but 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.800 seeing where that shows up in other areas for the 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.640 Jets has been very important. They also probably have one 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:32.440 of my favorite inside linebackers in the National Football League 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:34.160 and C. J. Mosley, I thought that was a really 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:37.520 savvy acquisition for them a couple of years ago. Again, 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.120 you look at their roster, there's not a whole lot 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.880 of household names, especially on the defensive side of the ball, 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.400 but as a unit, by and large, they're kind of 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.360 playing to that Robert Salas standard. Yeah, when you look 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.360 at what this the Jets team has done to get 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.040 to three and two at this point, what jumps out 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:59.560 at me the two road victories at Cleveland and at 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.640 pitts Burg. And I know those are two teams that 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:04.920 you know, I have had some struggles and some ups 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:08.440 and downs, but the Jets were down double digits in 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:11.960 the fourth quarter of both of those road games. The 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:16.600 comeback against Cleveland was borderline miraculous, with the with the 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.800 on side kick and then Flacco leading another touchdown drive 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.880 after before the onside kick, they had hit a big 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.160 I think it was seventy five yard touchdown pass or 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.920 something like that. Then a couple of weeks later there 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:31.080 in Pittsburgh and they're down a couple of scores in 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.080 the fourth quarter, and they and and uh and they 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:38.720 rallied and pulled it out. If the Packers, you know, 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:43.040 if things go really well for the Packers for three 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.920 three and a half quarters in green Bay has a 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.600 thirteen point lead with seven or eight minutes to go, 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.160 this Jets team is going to feel like they're you know, hey, 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.800 it's still anybody's game, because that that's the way they've 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:56.680 that's the way they played this year. They are not 0:07:57.480 --> 0:07:59.800 You're gonna have to get You're gonna have to get 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:03.000 three score lead on these guys in the fourth quarter, 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.160 um before you might start to break their spirit a 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:08.960 little bit, because they've proven they can come back on 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.120 the road. There they are, They're not they're not intimidated. 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.480 And uh the way they played these comebacks on the road, 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.960 they sort of have played with nothing to lose, and 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.400 and uh um, the Packers are going to have to 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.960 be ready um again, unless unless green Bay can get 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:25.960 up like twenty points on them or something like that. 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:27.559 The Packers are gonna have to be ready to play 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:31.240 sixty minutes again. Which has been the biggest issue for 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:34.120 this Packers team is putting together a full sixty minutes 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.560 to put somebody away. Yeah, because last week they start 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:38.640 so fast. Other weeks it's been kind of a slow start, 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:40.760 and they've come together in the second half. It is 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.040 about stitching those four quarters together. The two areas that 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:45.960 I look at this matchup for green Bay that are 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:48.120 going to be essential. The first one is basically just 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:51.080 taking last week's what we appeared to be the keys 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:54.080 to victory and honestly just putting them through the xerox 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:59.199 and restarting the whole process. Much better receivers, much better weapons, 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.760 as I said that Wilson's going to have, but you 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:05.040 have to get after Zack Wilson. Uh still two starts, 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.760 He's had only one touchdown against two interceptions. He's been 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.640 sacked three times. Joe Flacco is sacked nine times before that, 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.079 twelve sacks on the season. This is a big moment 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.920 for Rashawn Gary Kenny Clark. You look at the left 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:19.640 tackle situation. They lost Uh Beckton right at the beginning 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.680 of the season. Dwayne Brown is signed. He injures his 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:26.120 shoulder immediately, so that he's out. Now he's back, you 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.400 have to be able to get some opportunities there. The 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:32.120 secondary for green Bay, We've talked about the dearth of interceptions, 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:35.160 the lack of interceptions, so far Jr. Alexander's only one 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.920 right now from week two off ad justin fields. You 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:40.480 have to find ways of tone of a football. I 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.800 feel like this is a good opponent. But in order 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.440 to do that, it goes back to Hall, It goes 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:47.680 back to making sure that Michael Carter doesn't get going. 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:49.959 You have to be able to stop the run. If 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:52.720 you accomplish those two things and allow your offense to 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.320 to manage this game, maybe get the running game going more, 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.280 it is a very winnable game. But if you don't 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:01.280 check those boxes. I look at the Jets a lot 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:03.760 like I looked at like at the Giants. I mean 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:05.880 it is a team on the come up that doesn't 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.880 have anything to lose. Yeah. Absolutely, And we talked on 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.200 our last show about how you know, we'll be watching 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:14.280 from the press box defensively for the Packers to try 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.960 to see. Is that is that pre snap urgency, that 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.760 efficiency to get to get to your spots, to study 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.640 the formation and what the offense is doing, and then 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:27.199 and then to be able to react and not um 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:31.520 react and potentially attack, not not to be that half 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:33.880 step slow because you didn't quite you know, get to 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:35.760 your spot just in time. Or you're trying to make 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.240 a last second adjustment, but then the ball is snapped 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:40.760 because that adjustment should have been made two or three 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.280 seconds prior to that. So all of those things will 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:47.040 be interesting to watch. With regard to the Packers defense offensively, 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.959 I feel like I feel like from a key to 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:54.679 victory standpoint, it's the same conversation that we had after 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.160 the lost to Minnesota when the Packers are coming back 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.360 home and we're going to face the Chicago Bears, and 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:03.640 we talked about the offense getting back to working through 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:07.800 the running backs through Aaron Jones and a J. Dillon. However, however, 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.200 whatever it takes to get them, to get them the 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:13.520 ball in whatever, in whatever fashion you want to get 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.040 them too. But I think if this, if this offense 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:19.079 does what it did against Chicago back in Week two 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:22.439 and resets and really works through those two running backs 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:25.720 thirty three and twenty eight, this you're you're back at home. 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.920 This is this is another opportunity to to to go 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:31.760 through that reset with the offense and get back to 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:33.439 what you do best. And that's what I expect the 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.800 Packers to do on Sunday. I agree, and for Green Bay, 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:42.680 it does go back to can you perform in a 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.320 balanced way for sixty minutes, being able to control the 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.600 tempo of a game. Matt La floor. That has been 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:53.440 the hallmark for the last three years. Allowing your offense 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:57.120 to find itself and to build off that momentum and 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.280 sustaining it. There has been issues as far as coming 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:03.000 out of the gates finding that capturing it, but if 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.560 you're able to actually carry that through more times than not, 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.599 the Packers have been a really good second half team. 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.320 You look at the Jets on the other hand, the Jets, 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:15.280 there is a huge disparity in the second half of 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.440 the Jets. They have three points in the third quarter 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.560 this year, they have fifty eight in the fourth. They 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:22.880 have come on in a lot of different ways. Now, 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:24.960 that probably indicates a lot of playing from behind, but 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.600 it also shows you it's a game team that is 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.520 not giving up on itself. I think I look at 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.120 this Packers offense. If you're able to get the two 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:36.120 backs going, I'm not going to say touch stat anymore, 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:38.280 but being able to make sure that the ball gets 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.439 in those guys hands and building off of that. That's 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:42.760 what Aaron Rodgers was kind of talking about two one 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:44.880 thing green Bay has really not been able to establish 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:48.040 for the first five games is allowing the big plays 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:51.920 explosive place to happen based on the constructs of the offense, 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.160 not from extending a play, not from a scoverage breakdown, 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:58.280 but literally being able to to meld some of those 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.079 things together. And I believe that's going to be the 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.120 key on this one, because again, if you allow that 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.559 defensive front to get pressure onto Rogers, if you allow 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:09.640 them to be able to get a couple of takeaways, 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.240 the minus three on the season is not it's not 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.400 a mirrage. That's what Green Bay is right now, and 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:15.760 it's one of the reasons why they've had a hard 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.320 time winning these games. Really on yeah, I mean really 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:20.520 for on both sides of the ball. For the Packers, 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.280 it's about it's about establishing a certain level of play. 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:25.480 We hear the players talk about on both sides of 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:28.560 the ball, talk about the standard, and it's about being 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.559 able to play. I mean, nobody's going to play the 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:35.480 perfect game or the perfectly consistent game, but it's about 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:40.120 being able to play to that standard, not just for 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.800 you know, seven out of eleven possessions, but maybe more 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:47.199 like nine or ten out of eleven possessions, right, um 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.200 and uh and and to be able to reach that 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:52.720 standard um more often and on on a more consistent 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.520 basis a little bit of sponsored business here for you. 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:59.199 West Serious x M NFL Radio delivers hard hitting analysis 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:02.320 and up to the minute NFL news that true football 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:06.760 fanatics need. Seven three and at Cousin Subs, we have 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:10.080 something for everyone like our Wisconsin cheese curds, mac and Cheese, 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:12.960 golden fries, and creamy shakes, all paired with your favorite 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:19.080 sub or submena bowl Cousin Subs fifty years of better. Alright, 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:23.080 one last thing for you, anything else on in the 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.440 keys to Victory category that you want to touch on 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.520 before we move on to other games around the NFL 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:31.160 in Week six? Yeah, I feel like it's also you 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.680 talked about the noon game, right, you talked about the 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:35.680 normalcy that green Bay is going to kind of feeld here. 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:37.000 I won't even mention this fact that you and I 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.400 are gonna have omelets on Sunday morning. I'm very excited 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.280 about that. It's been three years, bro, I know, like 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:45.960 I'm excited for that, um, But no, the bigger issue 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:47.920 I think for Green Bay is going to be getting 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:51.240 back on its own clock. I feel like if you're 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:55.160 able to win this, it's a really difficult stretch coming 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:56.600 up for green Bay. You're going on the road for 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:59.560 three straight games, you come back home, You're taking on 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.200 Dallas Cowboys team that has been really outperforming. I think 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:05.240 what people's expectations were for them after this Dak Prescott 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:09.520 interview or interview injury um and maybe also the interview 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:13.000 but um, and then also the Tennessee Titans Packers have 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:16.640 eight games here before we're talking about by right, So 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:20.000 still it's still it's still a long stretch before before 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.320 the players really get to rest and recuperate. But I 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:24.600 do look at this as an opportunity because green Bay 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.080 for the most part, actually got out of London in 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.480 pretty okay shape. You got to make sure Aaron Rodgers 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:31.680 thumbs chill, You gotta make sure that that's okay. You 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:33.840 do have the hamstring injury, Christian Watson, but otherwise I 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:35.160 think there was like five or six guys on the 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.280 injury report, which is great for green Bay standpoints. So 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:40.600 if you're able to pick up this win, if you're 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:44.160 able to get your body clocks back set before you 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.120 hit the road for Washington, which is a game green 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.960 Bay should be heavily favored in. I feel like that's 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:50.760 going to be sort of the thing that catapults you 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.560 into the second half of the season. But you need 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:55.040 to get you need to take care of business on 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:56.880 Sunday against the Jets in order to do that. Yeah, 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.080 it's an interesting stretch here coming up for the Packers. 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.080 And I know it's all about the Jets on Sunday, 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:04.600 but three of the next four games are noon kickoffs, 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.840 which is which is not the norm for this team. 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.280 I mean, the Packers are almost always playing at you 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:13.400 know and and seven thirty and you know, Monday nights 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:15.480 and all that kind of stuff. Three of the next 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:18.800 four are noon Central Time kickoffs, with the the one 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:22.320 primetime game at Buffalo mixed in here over the next month. 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:26.480 So um be interesting to see just how the how 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:30.600 the team handles that. As far as Sunday goes Week 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.840 six in the NFL, two games in the early window 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:37.080 that will be going on at the same time as 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:40.920 Packers Jets that I think are are worth talking about briefly. 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:45.080 Minnesota is heading down to Miami. Obviously, Packers fans will 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.040 have their eye on that. The Vikings at four and one, 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.640 sitting on top of the NFC North right now. And 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.800 then Baltimore at the New York Giants a on a 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:56.840 f C versus NFC matchup there, the Giants coming off of, um, 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:00.160 you know, the biggest win for you know, so are 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.320 for Brian Dable as the new head coach, beating the 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:07.120 Packers over in London, and uh, and Baltimore coming off 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:09.719 of you know, last second walk off field goal by 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:12.400 Justin Tucker to beat the defending a f C champ 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:16.720 Cincinnati Bengals. I saw something, and I apologize I can't 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:19.359 remember the stat exactly, but I saw something about how 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:23.359 it's been some ridiculous amount of time since since Minnesota 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:26.760 won a game in Miami, like like that, they've they've been, 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:30.600 you know, on some kind of drought now then maybe 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:35.199 something like that. But um, Vikings, you know, kind of 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:38.080 catching a break because it sounds it sounds like the 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.720 uh the Dolphins will be down to their third string 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:44.159 quarterback as they were last week. Um. I can't I 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:45.960 can't remember his name off the top of my head, 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:51.200 but but Tah and Teddy Bridgewater sounds like they're both 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.439 out for for this week, and and you know, the 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:57.200 Dolphins did not We're not able to put up much 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:00.280 of a fight against the New York Jets. Um las week. 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.600 The Jets rolled up forty points and beat them by 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:07.800 three touchdowns. Um, but um Baltimore at the New York 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.840 Giants interesting in that, you know, as we talked about 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:15.440 with the NFC East on our last show, the Eagles 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:18.400 are five and oh, the Cowboys are four and one, 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:20.919 and the Giants are four and one. The Cowboys and 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:26.160 Eagles playing each other on Sunday Night Football. The Giants 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:28.439 playing at home against a tough Baltimore team with a 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:30.520 chance to to get to five and one and build 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:34.280 on their victory over the Packers. So some it'll it'll 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:37.320 some some interesting things going on with that NFC East 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:41.280 that has garnered so much attention here with those top 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:44.520 three teams have to such fast starts. Skyler Thompson, by 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:47.760 the ways, the third that's Thompson, Yeah remember him from 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:50.639 Kansas State. Uh yeah, I mean the NFC East. I mean, 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:52.680 it's been a recurring joke. I'm not gonna just reiterate it, 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:54.640 although maybe I will. I mean the fact that they 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:57.200 have been the division that I think everybody expected the 0:18:57.320 --> 0:18:59.960 f C West to be just with how they've performed 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:02.480 year early on. Certainly, as you talked about the Giants 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:05.880 sort of you know, shooting over everybody's a very extremely 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:09.600 modest expectations for them Dallas, I think everybody was just 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:11.879 waiting for them to falter after they lost Dak And 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:14.639 as I've continued to say, Mike, I just I get 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:16.600 these vibes from Cooper Rush. He wasn't asked to do 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:19.159 a lot last week. I would say the cow the 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:23.320 Cowboys defense definitely you know, won that game for them 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:26.520 against the Rams. That that Cowboys defense made Matthew Stafford's 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:28.800 life miserable, and that's that's all you need in this 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:30.960 league sometimes, I mean it it works out that way 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:33.320 and rushed it enough to help them win that game. 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:36.119 Philly is a team that has been you know, really 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:42.080 you know, athletic, versatile, deep, been incredibly impressive. For me though, 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:44.840 even though you know Thompson's gonna be in there, I 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:47.040 will be interested to see what the game plan is 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:50.840 that you know, Mike McDonald develops for that matchup with 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:55.359 the Vikings, because there are a lot of different aspects. 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:58.480 I still feel like with the Dolphins offense, that even 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:02.520 if you don't have necessarily your your starter the tour 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:07.240 that's available, you know, Jalen Waddle in, you know Tyreek 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:09.240 Hill can still find ways to get the ball in 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:11.359 their hands and make a defense pay well. And we 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:14.080 all know how how much things can change with backup 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:17.359 quarterbacks when they get the full week of preparation with 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:20.480 the game plan, as opposed to what happened to Skyler 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:23.480 Thompson last week where he was thrown into the game, 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:29.200 you know after the first series when Teddy Bridgewater was removed. So, um, 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:32.040 so you do expect Miami to Miami to look a 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:35.320