Speaker 1: Hi everyone, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford, sitting alongside my trusted colleague Wes Hodkowitz.
Speaker 1: Were coming to you here from our studios at lambeau
Speaker 1: Field and West. It's almost time Packers Patriots Sunday Night football,
Speaker 1: Brady Rogers, Foxborough, Gillette Stadium, big one for both teams.
Speaker 1: And uh, it's our last show of the week and
Speaker 1: that means Keys to victory. So do we just start
Speaker 1: with which number twelve plays better or and then turn
Speaker 1: the cameras offers there more to talk about. It was
Speaker 1: funny because I mentioned this in our Final Thoughts video
Speaker 1: to Jamal Williams was asked in the locker room on
Speaker 1: Wednesday about, you know, trying to come out on top
Speaker 1: of this and what it means to be a part
Speaker 1: of the you know, the Brady versus Rogers game. How
Speaker 1: infrequently this has happened in NFL history, and Williams said,
Speaker 1: I just love the answer. He said, you know, my
Speaker 1: job is to make sure the green twelve beats the
Speaker 1: Blue twelve. That's his only focus going into this thing.
Speaker 1: But certainly you think of all the Markey matchups, right
Speaker 1: We love icons, we love celebrity athletes. We love being
Speaker 1: able to watch something on television or be a part
Speaker 1: of something that even if you don't have an affiliation
Speaker 1: to the rivalry, if even if you're not a Packers
Speaker 1: fan or a Patriots fan, you want to watch Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers and Tom Brady play football and against each other
Speaker 1: in that's setting Sunday Night football. It doesn't get any
Speaker 1: better than that. So, yeah, from looking at a much
Speaker 1: needed victory standpoint, though, Packers need Aaron Rodgers to be
Speaker 1: on his a game, They need this offense to be
Speaker 1: moving the football because you know, on the other side
Speaker 1: of things, while Mike Patton does have a history against
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick, there's only so much you can do to
Speaker 1: some extent with what Brady is able to accomplish and
Speaker 1: what James White has been doing in this season. So
Speaker 1: you gotta get your points, you gotta get your production.
Speaker 1: You have to consistently move to football, and you need
Speaker 1: to finally get out of there with a road victory. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Packers definitely need a road victory. Oh and three
Speaker 1: on the road so far this year, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: some ugly performances. Frankly in Washington Detroit Packers best performance
Speaker 1: of the season, whole more road for my money in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles last week just came up a little bit
Speaker 1: short it. They need to repeat it West, They need
Speaker 1: they need to play like that again. You need to
Speaker 1: prove that how you played in Los Angeles last week
Speaker 1: is a better reflection of who you are than what
Speaker 1: went on the first six games and all the up
Speaker 1: and down and the roller coaster in the inconsistent play
Speaker 1: prior to the bye week. This is a This is
Speaker 1: a huge opportunity for the Packers. Obviously a win would
Speaker 1: get them back above five, but more so it's about
Speaker 1: continuing and building on what you did last week because
Speaker 1: they established a level of play that we hadn't seen
Speaker 1: for a four quarter game. My point was, I said
Speaker 1: this during the Packers pregame radio appearance that I did.
Speaker 1: I thought you need to go one and one in
Speaker 1: this stretch. I thought, you need to steal one of
Speaker 1: these games. Whatever you know term you want to use,
Speaker 1: Packers came close last week. But I gotta be honest
Speaker 1: with you, Mike. I think if the Packers can go
Speaker 1: into Gilette Stadium and get a victory over Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick and what I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: are considering to be the front runner in the a
Speaker 1: f C right now for potential Super Bowl birth and
Speaker 1: still have that performance in your back pocket against the Rams,
Speaker 1: while disappointing, I think that gives you a huge jolt
Speaker 1: of the momentum now into the second half, into this
Speaker 1: third quarter of the season. Because the thing is, Mike,
Speaker 1: is that you do get the Miami Dolphins at home
Speaker 1: after this, and yeah, you're going on the road, you're
Speaker 1: playing in Century Link on short rest against Seattle, but
Speaker 1: you know, the Seahawks have been up and down to
Speaker 1: the real big gauntlet that the teeth of this stretch
Speaker 1: that they're in was the Rams and the Patriots. You
Speaker 1: can go into the reasons why, I think everybody at
Speaker 1: home knows. They don't need us to say it. But
Speaker 1: if you're able to be able to pick out a
Speaker 1: victory here, if you're able to knock off the Patriots
Speaker 1: who are writing a five game winning streak into this matchup,
Speaker 1: it changes the narrative very quickly. Yeah, and let's let's
Speaker 1: be honest, it's been a bit of a tumultuous week
Speaker 1: around here. At a really really tough loss in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: a lot of turmoil obviously over how it ended. The
Speaker 1: trading deadline comes on Tuesday, and to establish veterans on
Speaker 1: this team are shipped out for a number of different reasons.
Speaker 1: If you can come out of Gillette Stadium with a
Speaker 1: big victory over Tom Brady and the Patriots, all of
Speaker 1: the tumult, if you want to call it, that just
Speaker 1: gets shoved that much farther into the review mirror and
Speaker 1: that much more quickly, and you're moving on with where
Speaker 1: you hope to be headed in. It's the first step
Speaker 1: towards getting into what you hope to be a new
Speaker 1: direction in terms of being able to build up some
Speaker 1: consistently consistency, get some back to back wins together, feel
Speaker 1: what it's like to be on a winning streak again.
Speaker 1: That's what you're looking for, And to be honest with yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think this is the week where you know,
Speaker 1: Davante Adams mentioned a number of weeks ago where hey,
Speaker 1: you know, we don't want to have a heart attack
Speaker 1: every time. This still might end up being one of
Speaker 1: those games. I think you have to be ready for that.
Speaker 1: But if you come out on the winning side of that,
Speaker 1: then maybe there's a chance to start. You see the
Speaker 1: top of the hill and you start to see in
Speaker 1: the decline from there, so you know, being able to
Speaker 1: you know, get the wheels spinning a little bit, not working, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and trying to scratch and claw your way
Speaker 1: to some of these victories, find a way to start
Speaker 1: making things happen. Because Mike, you and I have talked
Speaker 1: about it for a number of weeks. Now, once the
Speaker 1: calendar churns to December, things change, records change, You're starting
Speaker 1: to get more of these teams at home. You're starting
Speaker 1: to get these teams that aren't necessarily playoff contenders at
Speaker 1: this point. That is going to be the big catalyst,
Speaker 1: I think towards trying to get the Packers to make
Speaker 1: a push at the end of the season. But you've
Speaker 1: got to get the work done now. You gotta get
Speaker 1: some wins in November. First off, And uh, let me
Speaker 1: throw a question at you West, all right, and I
Speaker 1: think both agree that. And you brought up Eddie Lacy
Speaker 1: from the game here against the Patriots and Belichick's defense.
Speaker 1: You and I both agree that Aaron Jones is going
Speaker 1: to play a very big role offensively in this game.
Speaker 1: So My question for you is, does Aaron Jones get
Speaker 1: his first one yard rushing game of this season on
Speaker 1: Sunday night? Oh Michael, you put me on the spot.
Speaker 1: Um gosh. And I don't usually like to have no
Speaker 1: sound on this show, so I'm trying to think here
Speaker 1: where the let's look here once. I want to give
Speaker 1: you an intelligent answer. The Patriots are fourteen right now
Speaker 1: and run defense giving up a hundred and five yards
Speaker 1: per game. I'm gonna say no still, but I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily mean that is a bad thing, if you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I think if the Packers can get
Speaker 1: another fifteen touches out of Jones and he has ninety
Speaker 1: rushing yards, that's still a really good day for this
Speaker 1: offense because I think we're still going to see a
Speaker 1: lot of Jamal Williams in this game as well. What
Speaker 1: I do like, though, and I talked to Jones about
Speaker 1: this week, and in hearing some of Jamal Williams comments,
Speaker 1: is that there's a little more clarity to this situation
Speaker 1: now they know there's two guys. And yeah, no disrespect
Speaker 1: to Tray Carson, he's up on the fifty three man
Speaker 1: roster too. But in a matchup like this and him
Speaker 1: coming in on a short week after being on the
Speaker 1: practice squad. It's going to be Aaron Jones and Jamal Williams.
Speaker 1: That isn't a secret. I think that clarity is going
Speaker 1: to help them in the long run because if you
Speaker 1: look at their their styles of being a running back,
Speaker 1: they really do complement each other really well. When you
Speaker 1: look at the thunder lightning approach, that's what they can
Speaker 1: potentially be. Now, whether or not that equates to a
Speaker 1: hundred yard contest, I can't say that definitively, but I
Speaker 1: will give you what I What I will add is
Speaker 1: that if the Packers are going to win this game,
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones needs to be a big part of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with that. I think Aaron Jones needs needs
Speaker 1: to definitely be a big part of the offense. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw another thing at you that I think
Speaker 1: is somewhat the hidden narrative of this game that will
Speaker 1: lot of people are ignoring. And obviously it's it's about
Speaker 1: Brady and Rodgers and the Belichick well almost but going
Speaker 1: against the Belichick defense and and Mike Patton and his
Speaker 1: history against the Patriots and what the Packers maybe do defensively.
Speaker 1: I think special teams is gonna play a huge role
Speaker 1: in this game. And I can rattle off all kinds
Speaker 1: of reasons, but but what's that? But you go back,
Speaker 1: go back to the two thousand ten, the Matt Flynn
Speaker 1: game at Gillette Stadium. A seventy yard kickoff returned by
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman for the Patriots that set up a
Speaker 1: touchdown was a huge play in that game. The Patriots
Speaker 1: this season, as I mentioned earlier this week, two special
Speaker 1: teams touchdowns that Soldier Field to beat a Bears team
Speaker 1: that really did go toe to toe with them offensively
Speaker 1: and defensively. But a kickoff returned for a touchdown by
Speaker 1: Cordrell Patterson and a block punt returned for a touchdown
Speaker 1: by New England special teams and the Patriots win that
Speaker 1: game by seven. The Packers have had their issues on
Speaker 1: special teams on the road this year. It was a
Speaker 1: bad day on special teams in Detroit, very costly and
Speaker 1: a loss to the Lions, and a couple of really
Speaker 1: key mistakes down the stretch against Los Angeles last week
Speaker 1: that that cost the Packers a shot at what what
Speaker 1: could have been a really big road victory. So do
Speaker 1: the Packers. Whoever the kick returner is that replaces Time Montgomery,
Speaker 1: Does that guy make a big play? Do the Packers
Speaker 1: down a punt inside the five yard line once or
Speaker 1: twice like the Rams did to the Packers last week?
Speaker 1: Something like that. Cordorrell Patterson did fumble a kickoff in
Speaker 1: Chicago before he had the runback for the touchdown that
Speaker 1: set up a score for the Bears. So do the
Speaker 1: Packers special teams make a play like that and get
Speaker 1: a turnover somewhere along the line. I think something like
Speaker 1: that has to happen. The Packers cannot keep losing the
Speaker 1: battle on special teams, especially in these road games. They've
Speaker 1: got to hold up their end and give them an
Speaker 1: edge at some point here. You know what I like
Speaker 1: the most about Bill Belichick because you know, sometimes Mike
Speaker 1: he gets sort of a bad rap uh. You know
Speaker 1: people they show that the news conferences in New England.
Speaker 1: He says two or three words. It feels very ters.
Speaker 1: But he's a very He's one of the smartest guys
Speaker 1: who's probably ever walked this earth when it comes to
Speaker 1: professional football, for one. But he is really analytical about
Speaker 1: how he breaks things down. On these conference calls, and
Speaker 1: I was a part of one of those this week
Speaker 1: with the opposing team media. Now, if you want to
Speaker 1: ask him about Chris Hogan or if Patterson is going
Speaker 1: to be in the running of running back again this week,
Speaker 1: he's not going to answer those questions. But what was
Speaker 1: really interesting is getting back to your point about special teams,
Speaker 1: is how much it means to him. And I know
Speaker 1: he has some family ties of special teams. That was
Speaker 1: sort of where his roots were as well. But for
Speaker 1: so many people it's a forgotten phase. It's the Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go up and get some cheetos and I'll
Speaker 1: come back and then it'll be first down. But for Belichick,
Speaker 1: he was breaking down the formations that ron Zook uses
Speaker 1: on punts. He was talking about the different amount of
Speaker 1: personnel that they roll out. It is a very important
Speaker 1: focal point to him, and I think it stands to
Speaker 1: reason why they've consistently been one of the top performers
Speaker 1: year in a year out in that phase, despite how
Speaker 1: many accolades their offense and defense and those coaches get.
Speaker 1: For Belichick, though, going into this matchup, what's interesting is
Speaker 1: that you're right, it is those small things. It's the
Speaker 1: punt returns. It's you know, guys like Matthew Slayter that
Speaker 1: have been perennial Pro Bowl type players because they do
Speaker 1: all the little things right. It's about being able to
Speaker 1: maintain an established field position. None of that is lost
Speaker 1: on Belichick and it's why he doesn't overlook it. For
Speaker 1: the Packers. Getting back to your original point, they need
Speaker 1: to do a better job there. They have to clean
Speaker 1: things up depending on who the kickoff returner is going
Speaker 1: to be, depending on who the punt returner is going
Speaker 1: to be. There are a lot of things that they
Speaker 1: need to shore up on that side of things because
Speaker 1: they're just not going to give you a lot of opportunities.
Speaker 1: They're going to be able to capitalize. They execute and
Speaker 1: all three phases very efficiently. Packers need to be able
Speaker 1: to turn that a little bit and make sure that
Speaker 1: they don't of that away as an advantage to New England.
Speaker 1: And in his Friday news conference, Mike McCarthy even reference
Speaker 1: to Bill Belichick and his special teams when he was
Speaker 1: the head coach at Cleveland, which is sort of the forgotten,
Speaker 1: you know, era of his as a head coach when
Speaker 1: things didn't go so well before he got to New England,
Speaker 1: but he had that reputation with regards to special teams,
Speaker 1: you know, all the way back then. So I think
Speaker 1: it's uh. I think it's going to play a big
Speaker 1: role in this game. Defensively for the Packers. We saw
Speaker 1: last week how all the different pressure packages that Mike
Speaker 1: Petton threw at the Rams. Most of the time it
Speaker 1: was a five man pressure. It wasn't like some sort
Speaker 1: of all out blitz, you know, a zero blitz, no
Speaker 1: safety coverage, you know, any of that, But it was
Speaker 1: it's always about which five guys are coming, you know,
Speaker 1: and and disguising you know who, who's coming, who's dropping
Speaker 1: into coverage, all that kind of stuff. It seemed to
Speaker 1: get Jared Goff off his game certainly through the first quarter,
Speaker 1: quarter and a half he was he was really struggling.
Speaker 1: The coverage was there. The Packers were getting home and
Speaker 1: getting sacks when the coverage was holding up. You're not
Speaker 1: necessarily going to be able to do that to Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: He's going to have quicker answers to what he sees
Speaker 1: because he's seen it before. He's going to know exactly
Speaker 1: where he's going with the ball. So defensively, what is
Speaker 1: the key to this game for the Packers? Do you
Speaker 1: think there are three keys? For me? One? You do
Speaker 1: need to be able to get pressure. You can't just
Speaker 1: let him sit home and feel comfortable and move inside
Speaker 1: the pocket. As Mike Petton said, you can talk all
Speaker 1: you want about his you know, mobility outside the pocket,
Speaker 1: but inside the pocket there's no wasted motion. He makes
Speaker 1: everything count and he's a shifty guy, even at forty
Speaker 1: one years old, so you can't allow him to get comfortable.
Speaker 1: I don't care if it equates the Saxon outs. He's
Speaker 1: only been sacked eleven times this year in what dropbacks
Speaker 1: it's gonna it's gonna be difficult to sack up, but
Speaker 1: you need to make sure that you make the pocket
Speaker 1: warm and not allow him to get into a rhythm
Speaker 1: in that way. My second point is this is a
Speaker 1: big game for the secondary. I don't think there could
Speaker 1: have been a bigger opportunity for Gyro Alexander to really
Speaker 1: get into a rhythm, get into a flow, and get
Speaker 1: some confidence than what he did with against the Rams.
Speaker 1: He said, even going back to Louisville, he didn't have
Speaker 1: five pass breakups in a game He also mentioned that
Speaker 1: if he has five pass the defense, he wants to
Speaker 1: make sure that one of those at least an interception too.
Speaker 1: He wasn't happy about that aspect of it. Kevin King
Speaker 1: what they do with Trumon Williams that is going to
Speaker 1: be an important focal point for this and what the
Speaker 1: Patriots are able to do downfield and underneath. Mike. I
Speaker 1: don't know how they're going to defend James white but
Speaker 1: the Packers have to have an answer there. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's like Martinez. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: Germaine Whitehead or Josh Jones or who exactly, maybe one
Speaker 1: of the cornerbacks. They need to be able to contain
Speaker 1: him because if you let him run loose, a guy
Speaker 1: that's on pace for a hundred and ten receptions this year,
Speaker 1: he not necessarily gonna burn you, but he's going to
Speaker 1: keep that chain moving. Sometimes it's just as worse he's
Speaker 1: he's the chain mover, because he's he's not he's not
Speaker 1: just the safety valve and all that, but he's he's
Speaker 1: kind of the Mr. Clutch you know, for for Brady
Speaker 1: out of the backfield, and Mike Petton mentioned it when
Speaker 1: he spoke with the media on Thursday. You can come
Speaker 1: up with bracket coverage is on a guy like Gronk
Speaker 1: or on a guy like Chris Hogan or Julian Aidelman
Speaker 1: in the slot, it's really hard to double team or
Speaker 1: running back. You're you're going to be left with really
Speaker 1: only one guy that you can assign to that running back.
Speaker 1: And as you said, whoever it is, if it's if
Speaker 1: it's Martinez, or if it's or In Burke's or if
Speaker 1: it's one of the safety's, that guy has to be
Speaker 1: on his p's and q's, so to speak, and be
Speaker 1: able to tackle because when it's one on one like
Speaker 1: that in space, one mis tackle can be the difference
Speaker 1: between a five yard reception and a fifteen or eighteen
Speaker 1: yard reception. So the Packers really need to be really
Speaker 1: need to lock things down in that respect. And to
Speaker 1: make one more point, one thing that Packer's defense didn't
Speaker 1: accomplish last week was a takeaway. They need one here.
Speaker 1: They need to be able to turn over the football.
Speaker 1: And to keep in mind, I just want to put
Speaker 1: out the stat Tom Brady seven interceptions and eight games
Speaker 1: this year. Mike. I'm not trying to paint a portrait
Speaker 1: that he's going under anything. But he's on pace for
Speaker 1: his most picks right now since two thousand five. So
Speaker 1: if he's given him away, if he's exposing the football
Speaker 1: a little bit more, a guy like JayR Alexander, Kevin King,
Speaker 1: those type of players need to make a play on
Speaker 1: the ball. Yeah, you gotta get one for sure. Before
Speaker 1: we go west, let's take a quick look at what
Speaker 1: else is going on around the National Football League here
Speaker 1: in week is a Week nine? Is that that's where
Speaker 1: at already? Okay, UM NFC North Lions against the Vikings.
Speaker 1: We've been talking before about how Lions Bears, Vikings. None
Speaker 1: of them have played each other here as we've reached
Speaker 1: close to the midpoint of the season. But here's the
Speaker 1: first one. The Lions traveled to Minneapolis, UM Minneapolis or Minnesota,
Speaker 1: I should say, coming off of that that tough home
Speaker 1: loss to the Saints last week, they want to get
Speaker 1: back on the right track. And the Detroit Lions kind
Speaker 1: of in the position they've they seem to be in
Speaker 1: on a regular basis every time they come up to
Speaker 1: a division game, like when they played the Packers a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago. If they get a win they're right there,
Speaker 1: and uh and you know, an opportunity for Detroit as
Speaker 1: they as they head into a tough place to play
Speaker 1: against the Vikings. I was saying, I mean again, you
Speaker 1: know my stance on must win games, Michael, I'm not
Speaker 1: a big fan of them. I don't I don't like
Speaker 1: the terminology in week nine. But one of the reasons
Speaker 1: why I think this game is so critical for the
Speaker 1: Packers isn't necessarily because of just the what it does
Speaker 1: for you, what kind of boost it gives you if
Speaker 1: you beat the Patriots. It's also because this division, everybody's
Speaker 1: just log jam right together. Going around the first turn.
Speaker 1: You're trying to see exactly who's going to be the
Speaker 1: team that kind of finally edges their nose out front
Speaker 1: a little bit and get some momentum. Nobody's really accomplished that.
Speaker 1: This week. You know, Mike Zimmer was talking about his
Speaker 1: own team, and you know, he likes where they are.
Speaker 1: He feels like, you know, they're starting to come into
Speaker 1: their own a little bit. But you know, Matt Patricia,
Speaker 1: they've had some good moments as well, and I have
Speaker 1: to imagine the Airs are feeling pretty good about where
Speaker 1: they're at. After sort of beaten, being sort of the
Speaker 1: welcome matt for a lot of these teams will past
Speaker 1: few seasons in the NFC North. So when you look
Speaker 1: at this matchup with the Vikings in Detroit, it's very
Speaker 1: interesting to me for two reasons. One, Vikings actually have
Speaker 1: a chance to get up two games above five hundred,
Speaker 1: start to feel a little good about themselves and potentially
Speaker 1: being able to get on a run of their own.
Speaker 1: The Lions are trying to prove that they aren't just
Speaker 1: a five hundred or you know, seven and nine type team.
Speaker 1: They want to prove that they can contend this year
Speaker 1: when they hired Mat Patricia and the moves that they
Speaker 1: made for the most part, I mean, you can debate
Speaker 1: the golden tape thing, but for the most part, they
Speaker 1: made those moves because they want to win now. So
Speaker 1: whoever comes out in there, we know how tough it
Speaker 1: is to play in that stadium. It's gonna really, I think,
Speaker 1: help shape the the landscape of this division somewhat in
Speaker 1: terms of, Okay, are we pulling everybody back together or
Speaker 1: are the Vikings starting to to get out there a
Speaker 1: little bit? Yeah. And the other one in the NFC North,
Speaker 1: this weekend the Chicago Bears hos sting, I believe the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Um, no, sorry, the Bears are on the road.
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, they're playing the game is in Buffalo, but um,
Speaker 1: but they are playing the Bills. So I'm gonna talk
Speaker 1: about how this is just a sure win for the Bears,
Speaker 1: because when I did that about a month and a
Speaker 1: half ago with the Minnesota Vikings, the Buffalo bill shocked
Speaker 1: everybody and smoked Minnesota and through the division into a tizzy.
Speaker 1: So the Bears are gonna win this game going away,
Speaker 1: no problem. We don't even need to talk. So you're
Speaker 1: an expert out who's the Bills quarterback? Now? Do you
Speaker 1: even know? Is Derek Anderson out right now? I think
Speaker 1: they're I think they're going if and if Anderson. If
Speaker 1: Anderson is not healthy, then I think they're going back
Speaker 1: to Nathan Peter. They signed Matt Barkley too. I don't
Speaker 1: know exactly what their thought process is there. How much
Speaker 1: longer they're gonna be missing Josh Allen. But the Bills
Speaker 1: are working through some tough things right now. If you're
Speaker 1: the Bears, though, other than your terrific your preview there,
Speaker 1: the Bears, they have to feel like they got to
Speaker 1: get this thing done. Oh yeah, this Bill's team could
Speaker 1: ultimately be the team that ends up deciding who wins
Speaker 1: the division, I mean for the NFC North. So it's
Speaker 1: gonna be fun to watch, all right. Um, any other
Speaker 1: big games from the weekend, You've got your you know
Speaker 1: the one that I'm kind of excited to see. Well,
Speaker 1: for all the wrong reasons. Kansas City is playing Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Will see how that works out. Seattle and in the
Speaker 1: Chargers is really interesting to me. In addition, you can
Speaker 1: we can talk about the Rams and Saints. Everybody knows
Speaker 1: that story. But yeah, the Chargers feel pretty good about
Speaker 1: themselves right now. Philip Rivers is having one of the
Speaker 1: best years of his career. Uh, they've been moving the
Speaker 1: ball consistently, but we've seen Seattle start to get some
Speaker 1: momentum going to in their favor. Russell Wilson is the
Speaker 1: guy that is going to ultimately take that team as
Speaker 1: far as they're going to get, and he's been playing
Speaker 1: well recently. So Packers have them coming up here in
Speaker 1: two and a half weeks. It's gonna be uh one
Speaker 1: of those games I think. Before the Packers are on
Speaker 1: the field, to kind of keep an eye on to
Speaker 1: see exactly where Seattle's at. Yeah, I think San Diego
Speaker 1: going into Seattle. As far as one of those cross competence,
Speaker 1: it's it's an intriguing it's an intriguing matchup. And yes,
Speaker 1: the Rams against the Saints, the top two teams in
Speaker 1: the NFC, a Week nine game that very well could
Speaker 1: decide some things as far as the playoff picture down
Speaker 1: the road. Yeah, huge, I mean right now, just taking
Speaker 1: it for what it is, this is one and two
Speaker 1: in the NFC, so there's a lot of value in
Speaker 1: that potentially being able to have that home game. So
Speaker 1: all right, Well with that, we will call it a
Speaker 1: wrap on this edition of Packers Unscripted. Be sure to
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