Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford sitting next to my partner in crime,
Speaker 1: Wes Hodkowitz. Were coming to you here from our studios
Speaker 1: at lambeau Field and West. We are already in week
Speaker 1: seven of the NFL season. That's kind of hard to believe,
Speaker 1: but the seventh game for the Green Bay Packers will
Speaker 1: be at home at lambeau Field Sunday noon Central Time
Speaker 1: kickoff against the Oakland Raiders from the a f C West.
Speaker 1: An interesting thing here. Just a few weeks ago the
Speaker 1: Oakland Raiders, as everybody knows what the schedule, all the
Speaker 1: NFC North teams this year, are playing all of the
Speaker 1: teams in the a f C West. A few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: the Oakland Raiders went into US Bank State EUM in
Speaker 1: Minneapolis kind of got it handed to him a little bit.
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of Packers fans saw that
Speaker 1: result and said, Okay, well, when Oakland comes to lambeau Field,
Speaker 1: that shouldn't be too much of a problem. Well, the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, the Oakland Raiders have gone on
Speaker 1: the road to beat the Indianapolis Colts one week before
Speaker 1: the Colts went to Arrowhead and beat the Chiefs, and
Speaker 1: then prior to their bye week last week, the Raiders
Speaker 1: went over to London and beat the Chicago Bears. So
Speaker 1: suddenly this matchup looks a lot different than it did
Speaker 1: a couple three weeks ago. And this Raiders team is
Speaker 1: coming into lambeau Field very much in the thick of
Speaker 1: the race in the f C West. Yeah, Oakland is
Speaker 1: a problem. I mean, they really are. I mean I
Speaker 1: think they've they've shown that this is a young team.
Speaker 1: As John Gruden said in his conference call with Green
Speaker 1: Bay reporters, they're building what they believe is their vision
Speaker 1: for what is going to be a successful run here
Speaker 1: with his stewardship again in a stick, his second stint
Speaker 1: with the organization, and there are going to be lumps.
Speaker 1: I still wonder at the end of the year if
Speaker 1: this probably ends up being like an eight and eight
Speaker 1: hype ball club, because there's just weeks where they they
Speaker 1: don't have it, and there's weeks when they do. But
Speaker 1: you know, Derek Carr, I think you've seen this year
Speaker 1: he's been able to bounce back a little bit. You know,
Speaker 1: their defense is not the sieve that it was a
Speaker 1: year ago. They've they've had some guys that are stepping up,
Speaker 1: and then you've got guys like Darren Waller, who came
Speaker 1: from the practice squad of Baltimore last year. John Gruden
Speaker 1: even said they didn't really even know about this guy
Speaker 1: until they played Baltimore and saw him warming up before
Speaker 1: the game as a converted receiver. They like what they saw,
Speaker 1: they signed him to the roster, and here he is
Speaker 1: now signing a pretty big extension with the team this
Speaker 1: past week. First and foremost, though, if you talk about
Speaker 1: any particular aspect of their offense, I really think it
Speaker 1: comes down to Josh Jacobs. This is a guy that
Speaker 1: they had to kind of project on a little bit.
Speaker 1: He was not in every down back at Alabama, but
Speaker 1: they felt like he had those tendencies. And I think
Speaker 1: when you look at their win loss record this year,
Speaker 1: that team has gone as he has gone. And that's
Speaker 1: a guy that the Packers run defense, while improved last
Speaker 1: week against Detroit, is really gonna have to take into account. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well you said it. While and Jacobs are the two
Speaker 1: guys offensively as far as those perimeter players who stand
Speaker 1: out statistically, Waller has I believe more than twice as
Speaker 1: many receptions as anybody else on the Raiders roster. And
Speaker 1: then Jacobs. We got a glimpse because the London game
Speaker 1: between the Raiders and the Bears was going on leading
Speaker 1: up to the Packers Cowboys game the kickoff, and we
Speaker 1: were in Dallas, so we were keeping an eye on
Speaker 1: that game when we got to a T and T
Speaker 1: stadium that day, and Jacobs was having a pretty nice
Speaker 1: day running the ball. And then when push came to
Speaker 1: shove after the Raiders had actually blown a seventeen nothing
Speaker 1: lead to Chicago, the Bears came roaring back and took
Speaker 1: the lead in the second half. The Raiders were backed
Speaker 1: up to their own three yard line in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: and they went ninety seven yards on the Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: defense to win that ballgame, and Josh Jacobs was a
Speaker 1: big part of it. Remind me quickly where he played
Speaker 1: in college. It's escaping Alabamment Alabama. Okay um. But this
Speaker 1: is a guy that if there's if there's one guy
Speaker 1: that they seem to be other than the quarterback obviously
Speaker 1: Derek Carr, that they're building their offense around, it seems
Speaker 1: to be just Jacobs. Well, and it's not just Jacobs,
Speaker 1: it's their offensive line too, right. I mean, Rodney Hudson
Speaker 1: was a big signing for them last year. He's a
Speaker 1: team captain, a big time center in this league. I
Speaker 1: think he's one of the best past protectors right now
Speaker 1: according to Pro Football Focus this season, Richie Incognito. I
Speaker 1: know he's been a lightning rod for a lot of things,
Speaker 1: but he came out of retirement again and he's playing
Speaker 1: pretty good football at their left guard position now. Trent Brown,
Speaker 1: who they've made a huge investment in, the biggest investment
Speaker 1: of any offensive lineman in history. He now has some
Speaker 1: off the field things. He's also dealing with, I believe
Speaker 1: as a calf injury. UM, so his status is not
Speaker 1: really certain. But I just think that not only it
Speaker 1: was the investment of Jacobs, it was the building of
Speaker 1: that offensive line, that restructuring of that offensive line that
Speaker 1: has allowed him to have the success. Because here's the thing, Michael,
Speaker 1: you talked about Waller having twice as many catch as
Speaker 1: anybody else. The receiver position has been a continual, you
Speaker 1: know rotation. Here you have Ryan Grant now signing with
Speaker 1: the Packers. He started the season with open Trevor Davis
Speaker 1: gets traded to Oakland from Green Bait. Now he's a
Speaker 1: starter for them. Terrell Williams, who is there, Tyrolle Williams,
Speaker 1: who is their leading receiver, might not play in this game.
Speaker 1: So dealing with planter fasciitis, and and drewden't even saying
Speaker 1: on his conference call with us that yeah, it's not
Speaker 1: really looking like it's getting much better right now. So
Speaker 1: the receiver position has sort of been you know, non
Speaker 1: existent for them, So they needed to get production from
Speaker 1: their tight end, and they've needed their ground game to
Speaker 1: do it. And with you know, Derek Carr pulling all
Speaker 1: the strings of this thing, it's been enough of a
Speaker 1: you know, a success here for them to call out
Speaker 1: some victories to be at the point and they are
Speaker 1: right now sitting at I believe what two and three?
Speaker 1: Ye dyslexic? Sorry, well, no, that the other part that's
Speaker 1: interesting to me. And now we're taping this episode on
Speaker 1: Thursday morning and Thursday evening the Kansas City Chiefs and
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos to play Thursday Night Football. The interesting thing here,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs have lost a couple of games in a
Speaker 1: row after a hot start, and the Broncos are kind
Speaker 1: of picking up their game after a slow start. If
Speaker 1: Denver beats Kansas City tonight, Oakland is coming into lambeau
Speaker 1: Field with a shot at first play, taking over first
Speaker 1: place through seven weeks in the a f C West.
Speaker 1: So this could be a highly motivated team. I think
Speaker 1: they'll be highly motivated regardless because they really have started
Speaker 1: to turn things around here and they're coming off their
Speaker 1: bye week to to get some extra rest. It doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like that has helped their receiver situation, as you
Speaker 1: mentioned with with Williams still dealing with his injury. But
Speaker 1: this is this is a really this is an interesting
Speaker 1: team that I think they already look a lot different
Speaker 1: in mid October than they looked in September, and I
Speaker 1: think this is a team that could look very different
Speaker 1: in December compared to where they are right now. What's
Speaker 1: your take on the defensive side of the ball. Because
Speaker 1: the Packer has obviously played the Raiders in the preseason
Speaker 1: in Winnipeg, but both teams rested all their starters, we
Speaker 1: didn't really get a look at what these clubs look like.
Speaker 1: What stands out to you on the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball for them? I will give you that answer.
Speaker 1: There's one more thing I just want to say about
Speaker 1: the office. No, No, that's all right. Just Elec Ingold
Speaker 1: coming back to Green Yestely. Alec is a kid from
Speaker 1: town that played at bay Port. Uh, football, wrestling, even
Speaker 1: baseball his his senior year. Uh. Just a remarkable talent.
Speaker 1: If you know anything about Green Bay area, you and
Speaker 1: I talked about it a little bit during training camp. Um,
Speaker 1: there's not a whole lot of NFL prospects that come
Speaker 1: out of here. Ingold ended up going to Northern Illinois.
Speaker 1: At first, he was gonna be a quarterback, just like
Speaker 1: he had been at Bayport. Then you get Paul Chris
Speaker 1: calling him to go over to Pittsburgh. Chris end up
Speaker 1: going to Wisconsin and he takes Ingold along with him
Speaker 1: for the ride. Starts as a linebacker because he wanted
Speaker 1: to play an NFL type position, ends up going to
Speaker 1: the least NFL type position in full full back. Has
Speaker 1: a great career there, gets John Gruden as his coach
Speaker 1: at the Senior Bowl. Gruden takes a liking to the kid.
Speaker 1: They signed him as an undrafted free agent. He makes
Speaker 1: the roster and now he's blocking for Josh Jacob and
Speaker 1: has become sort of a pretty pretty big cog here.
Speaker 1: The thing I love more than anything about Alec though,
Speaker 1: if you talk to him, if you listen to him,
Speaker 1: he's still very much the same kid as he was
Speaker 1: in two thousand fourteen, and I have so much respect
Speaker 1: for that. With all the success he's seen. You saw
Speaker 1: it on Hard Knocks. He was excited to be able
Speaker 1: to gonna say, yeah, the whole that whole scene with
Speaker 1: Clay Matthews on on a Hard Knocks during the summer. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I tweeted this a month ago, and I really
Speaker 1: hope Alec doesn't lose that because he There's something to
Speaker 1: be said for an attitude like that, because it reminds
Speaker 1: you of why you liked the game in the first place,
Speaker 1: why you fell in love with it. In the fact
Speaker 1: that he's able to live out his dream here, he'll
Speaker 1: be the first player in four years, a Green Bay
Speaker 1: Metro player to play at lambeau Field in a regular
Speaker 1: season a meaningful regular season game since years. Drew Noak
Speaker 1: in September of two thousand fifteen for Seattle when he
Speaker 1: started that game at center. It's just a great story.
Speaker 1: We could talk about the defense now, but I just
Speaker 1: wanted to give a no, you're right, I I had
Speaker 1: I had forgotten about Ingold and the fact that that
Speaker 1: he'd be playing at lambeau Field. We talked in training
Speaker 1: camp about Max sharping from Green Bayed Southwest, playing at
Speaker 1: lambeau Field and practicing right across the street and all that.
Speaker 1: Playing at Lambeau in the preseason, and really kind of
Speaker 1: remarkable when you think about, as you said, the very
Speaker 1: few number of players, not men, come out of the
Speaker 1: Green Bay metro area and go to the NFL, and
Speaker 1: now this will be the second one in the span
Speaker 1: of a few months, actually suiting up to play at
Speaker 1: Lambeau really incredibly special. He mentioned he had a ton
Speaker 1: of ticket requests for this game. Unfortunately, as you know,
Speaker 1: when you're a road team, you don't get as many
Speaker 1: ticket allocations. So he has about twenty really close family
Speaker 1: that are coming, and then there's just gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of friends and former coaches sort of dispersed throughout
Speaker 1: the stadium. Also they're cheering him on. So a really
Speaker 1: great story in Alec Angold, and certainly as he tries
Speaker 1: to push forward here to an NFL career, you you
Speaker 1: wish the best for him, because it's, uh, it's pretty
Speaker 1: special when an area kid like that who grew up
Speaker 1: a Packers fan, he's been to thirty forty games. He
Speaker 1: estimated to be able to now get a chance to
Speaker 1: play at Lamblefield a second time after he played in
Speaker 1: that LSU game, you know, a few years that's right,
Speaker 1: l s U against Wisconsin in two to open that season,
Speaker 1: which turned out to be a great victory for the
Speaker 1: Badgers in a great season for the Badgers overall. So okay,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you remember that. I didn't um. But Oakland's
Speaker 1: defense what stands out to you? Because to me, you're
Speaker 1: not looking at big name guys or guys that people
Speaker 1: are talking about in terms of going to the Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl or you know, necessarily anything like that. But these
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks against or before their bye week
Speaker 1: against Indian against Chicago, this is a defense that's played
Speaker 1: some pretty good football collectively. Yes, other than that, it's
Speaker 1: not going to jump out of you much. They only
Speaker 1: have nine sacks as a team. A defensive lineman by
Speaker 1: the name of Benson Mayowa has their leading sacks right
Speaker 1: now at four and a half. He's sort of been
Speaker 1: a journeyman. Um you know, been a contributor in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I think this is fifth or six NFL season, but
Speaker 1: not you know, you know a guy that's going to
Speaker 1: jump off the page to you. They made a big
Speaker 1: investment this year. Uh. You know, Cleveland Farrell was a
Speaker 1: guy that you and I had talked to at the combine. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people were surprised they ended
Speaker 1: up going with them as early as they did, but
Speaker 1: they certainly feel good about his development and where one
Speaker 1: of one of many high picks off of that Clemson
Speaker 1: defense from a year ago, but right now only ten tackles,
Speaker 1: one sack for him. Arden Keys a guy I liked
Speaker 1: as well coming out of LS. He's been really quiet
Speaker 1: here so far this season. And really realistically, their biggest name,
Speaker 1: Vantez perfect now is out for the season. So you
Speaker 1: have you know white Head, who used I believe was
Speaker 1: with Detroit for some time. Sort of this hodgepodge of
Speaker 1: defensive players. But to your point that you originally made,
Speaker 1: even though they don't have a lot of takeaways, they
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of sex, they're playing good, collective
Speaker 1: team football right now and that's what kept him in
Speaker 1: that game against Chicago. I'm really curious though, when you
Speaker 1: get a quarterback the caliber of Aaron Rodgers going into
Speaker 1: a game like this, how that stresses them because I
Speaker 1: don't know if they've really seen that kind of test yet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And that's the interesting part here as we go into
Speaker 1: the matchup, because we can start talking about what's going
Speaker 1: on with the Packers offensively. You mentioned Aaron Rodgers, but
Speaker 1: Davante Adams, Marquis Velde Scantling, Geronimo Allison all on the
Speaker 1: injury report right now for Green Bay. Valde Scantling listed
Speaker 1: with knee and ankle injuries and Geronimo Allison with chest
Speaker 1: and concussion protocol. So the Packers have added a veteran
Speaker 1: receiver and Ryan Grant. They signed him. As you mentioned,
Speaker 1: he started the year this year with Oakland, played the
Speaker 1: bulk of his career first four years of his career
Speaker 1: with Washington, had a really solid year in when he
Speaker 1: became a agent, and then there was a failed physical
Speaker 1: with Baltimore when he was going to get a big
Speaker 1: multi year deal as a free agent, ended up spending
Speaker 1: last year with Indianapolis, then started this year with Oakland.
Speaker 1: Oakland released him before the end of September. Now he's
Speaker 1: in Green Bay because the Packers, because of the injuries,
Speaker 1: are are really thin at the position and not really
Speaker 1: sure who's going to be healthy on Sunday as of
Speaker 1: as of this moment. Yeah, there's stands the reason that
Speaker 1: Ryan Grant could play in this game for Green Bay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and be asked to actually fill a role. Now, how
Speaker 1: much you can really expect of him? How many snaps
Speaker 1: can you give a guy even though he is twenty eight,
Speaker 1: He's in his six NFL season. That is a big
Speaker 1: ask to come in in a four or five day
Speaker 1: notice and actually play in a competitive, meaningful regular season game.
Speaker 1: That being said, if you look at his history, he's
Speaker 1: done a little bit of everything in his career. He's
Speaker 1: a former fifth round pick and the same draft class
Speaker 1: that produced Davante Adams. Those two actually worked out together.
Speaker 1: They had had a common bond there, common thread with
Speaker 1: Keith Williams, the receiver's coach, was at a number of
Speaker 1: different colleges, including Fresno Staton to Lane, where um Grant went.
Speaker 1: They worked out together this offseason, so they had a
Speaker 1: little bit of a common bond there. He's familiar with Adams.
Speaker 1: The rest of it he's kind of catching up on.
Speaker 1: But if you look at his career, his best season
Speaker 1: in two thousand and seventeen, the season that almost got
Speaker 1: him a big contract from Baltimore. They used him everywhere.
Speaker 1: He played the slot, he played outside, even though he's
Speaker 1: six f he tends to slant more towards being a boundary,
Speaker 1: you know, perimeter receiver, but he does give you that flexibility.
Speaker 1: The big thing I'm just curious to see is how
Speaker 1: quickly he can pick this thing up and contribute. Because
Speaker 1: our first injury report, again this is before we get
Speaker 1: to Thursday's practice, but Davante Adams, Mark Quisvelda Scantling, and
Speaker 1: Jonimo Allison currently in the Concussion pro Protocol, none of
Speaker 1: those three guys listed as the starters were actually on
Speaker 1: the practice field. So now you're looking at Al Lazard,
Speaker 1: You're looking at Jake Kumero and Darius Shepard and now
Speaker 1: mixing in Grant into that equation. Yeah, this Keith Williams
Speaker 1: connection is really interesting because because Keith Williams was James
Speaker 1: Jones receiver's co yet San Jose State. Then he was
Speaker 1: he coached Davante Adams in college. He coached Ryan Grant
Speaker 1: in college. Kind of amazing how it becomes such a
Speaker 1: small world sometimes in the NFL with these connections. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And you know the other thing too. I remember talking
Speaker 1: number of years ago, and I'm gonna forget the gentleman's name,
Speaker 1: but the guy who was the position coach for Ha
Speaker 1: Ha Clinton Dicks. Uh, he was already at Louisville at
Speaker 1: that time. If you would have still been in Alabama,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't been able to talk to him. Uh. That's
Speaker 1: another story for another day. But he remember some of
Speaker 1: these coaches, um, even the offensive line coach the Packers
Speaker 1: had as an assistant a number of years ago. These
Speaker 1: guys will go two years in some cases where they
Speaker 1: don't stay in the same spot. Uh. It's just constant
Speaker 1: motion and it creates these sort of you know, step
Speaker 1: brother ships sort of you could say, in where a
Speaker 1: guy knows a guy that knows a guy and suddenly
Speaker 1: those two players get brought together. So it's an interesting story.
Speaker 1: Grant very you know, excited to be in Green Bay now.
Speaker 1: He had a tryout last week with the team, UM,
Speaker 1: and you know he hoped that it kind of would
Speaker 1: lead to this. And now for him being out of
Speaker 1: work for a month being down in Texas, a real
Speaker 1: opportunity for him to get his career back afloat Um
Speaker 1: as he looks to take that next step forward. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: on just how this perimeter group is going to shake
Speaker 1: out for green Bay comes Sunday. You mentioned there's Alan Lazard,
Speaker 1: who came on the scene in a big way obviously
Speaker 1: and helped the Packers win on Monday. There's Jake Kumero.
Speaker 1: There's Darius Shepard, the undrafted rookie who will be looking
Speaker 1: to bounce back from a rough game. Robert Tonyan who
Speaker 1: missed the last game with a hip injury. After he
Speaker 1: was injured in Dallas. He's was estimated as a limited
Speaker 1: participant in practice. So we'll see um here in Thursday's
Speaker 1: practice how much he's doing. We saw Mercedes Lewis get
Speaker 1: two catches for fifty yards Jimmy Graham obviously had opportunities
Speaker 1: for a couple of plays that didn't work out, then
Speaker 1: did make a big catch to move the chains for
Speaker 1: a big first down late in the fourth quarter. It
Speaker 1: just seems like the way things are going that the
Speaker 1: more Aaron Rodgers can continue to spread the ball around
Speaker 1: right now and not necessarily try to zero in on
Speaker 1: one guy, it's what's keeping this Packers offense effective. I
Speaker 1: actually counted it up. Not only has Rogers completed passes
Speaker 1: when you count the backs, the tight ends, and the
Speaker 1: receivers completed passes to nine different players in each of
Speaker 1: the last two games, it's actually a total of twelve
Speaker 1: different players over the course of two games that have
Speaker 1: caught a pass from Aaron Rodgers. Here, that seems to
Speaker 1: be what's keeping things at least, you know, manageably efficient
Speaker 1: for this offense with some of the big guns, so
Speaker 1: to speak, offensively on the sidelines. You go back to
Speaker 1: a final thoughts that you and I had done. I
Speaker 1: want to say it was after the Philadelphia game going
Speaker 1: into Dallas, and I said, one of my big keys
Speaker 1: for that victory against going up against Dallas was Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: Because you knew you weren't gonna have Davante Adams. You
Speaker 1: had a pretty good idea you weren't gonna have Jamal Williams,
Speaker 1: even though he looked for all intensive purposes. Okay, Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers needed to be at his best. I would argue
Speaker 1: these last two weeks, Aaron Rodgers has been at his best.
Speaker 1: And I know there was some things written, There was
Speaker 1: some more mumbo jumbo type saber metrics that were brought
Speaker 1: up to say otherwise, But you can't look at his
Speaker 1: ninety passer rating in that contest last Sunday and actually
Speaker 1: think that that was a reflection of how he performed.
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur said it himself. There were six drop passes.
Speaker 1: Two of those could have been touchdowns. The way that
Speaker 1: Rogers rallied back I let an insider inbox with this week.
Speaker 1: This week, they followed his lead, they followed his energy,
Speaker 1: and again, as Jon Gruden even pointed out, he loves statistics.
Speaker 1: He doesn't care about all these other weird statistics that happened.
Speaker 1: He looks at wins, He looks at what the threat
Speaker 1: is that a player possesses. In that threat is still
Speaker 1: very much there with a R twelve well, I totally
Speaker 1: agree with you, and it was interesting. I got a
Speaker 1: great question that I posted in this morning's Insider Inbox
Speaker 1: column from a fan asking when was the last time
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers through an interception that didn't bounce off of
Speaker 1: his own receiver. And I stopped and thought about it,
Speaker 1: and I went back and looked just to make sure.
Speaker 1: And you actually have to go back to the Carolina
Speaker 1: game when Rogers had come back from the broken collar
Speaker 1: bone ended up being only a one game return because
Speaker 1: the Packers lost the game, But that was the last
Speaker 1: time he threw an interception that actually didn't bounce off
Speaker 1: of his own receiver. And those some of those opportunities
Speaker 1: obviously have gotten away from Green Bay here in the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. But I'm with U s I
Speaker 1: what Rodgers is doing it. He brought up the game
Speaker 1: in when the Packers went down to at Anna and
Speaker 1: they were banged up on the perimeter, and in that game,
Speaker 1: Geronimo Alison, Trevor Davis, and Jeff Janis all got their
Speaker 1: first NFL touchdowns in that game. Um, I remember the
Speaker 1: obviously playoff game out in Arizona where Davante Adams was
Speaker 1: out Randall Cobb went out in the first quarter after
Speaker 1: making a great diving catch, but bruising is long the
Speaker 1: way he landed with the miked up microphone thing that
Speaker 1: was that was on his back, and Rogers almost won
Speaker 1: a playoff game with James Jones, Jared Aberdarris and Jeff
Speaker 1: Janis as his three wide receivers. Sometimes it's these situations
Speaker 1: that bring out the best in the guy, you know,
Speaker 1: and and so no matter what the perimeter group is,
Speaker 1: you know, you just can't you just can't count this
Speaker 1: guy out because if there's a way, he's probably gonna
Speaker 1: find it. Yeah, and I look at this matchup against Oakland.
Speaker 1: You have to be creative. Nathaniel Hackett, Matt Lafleur, Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: Luke Getsy. They need to be creative again, depending on
Speaker 1: how this sort's out, because even if let's say one,
Speaker 1: two or any of those starting receivers can play, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to be mindful because Gerono Wylson didn't just
Speaker 1: have the concussion, he also had the chest injury. Mark
Speaker 1: Casvelda Scantling is dealing with an ankle and a kneed,
Speaker 1: two things listed on the injury and certainly Davante Adams injuries,
Speaker 1: no laughing matter with with the turf toe. So the
Speaker 1: fact of the matter is that you need to be creative.
Speaker 1: I felt like he was last week. Two big catches
Speaker 1: to to Mercedes Lewis, you know, finding Alan Lazard, you know,
Speaker 1: helping this guy that had played twenty one snaps the
Speaker 1: entire season make the most out of his seventeen in
Speaker 1: that game with five targets, four catches, sixty yards in
Speaker 1: a touchdown. And then let's I'd be risked remiss not
Speaker 1: to say when you don't have your resources that receiver.
Speaker 1: Look at what the Oakland Raiders are going through right now.
Speaker 1: You need to have a ground game, and the Packers
Speaker 1: very much have that. And it's a two headed monster.
Speaker 1: It's never gonna please fantasy football owners. But last week
Speaker 1: that game needed to get into the hands of Jamal Williams.
Speaker 1: He stepped up to it. It could very easily be
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones this Sunday. But either way, they have two
Speaker 1: guys that they feel confident about in as every down
Speaker 1: backs that you can turn to when maybe your star
Speaker 1: perimeter receivers aren't available. And it's using those running backs
Speaker 1: in the passing game, both with some design passes and
Speaker 1: then also using them as check down options to keep
Speaker 1: the chains moving at times. If that's what it takes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and I mean Danny vitally fits into that as well.
Speaker 1: It's it's the prototype, the way that this thing, the
Speaker 1: blueprint that Matt Luthor draws it up. He wants to
Speaker 1: be able to threaten you another in multiple ways. Because
Speaker 1: the course of a season, in sixteen games, Mike, you're
Speaker 1: going to have to make alterations and adjustments. The Packers
Speaker 1: did that the last two weeks and they came up
Speaker 1: with two big victories. All right, Well, with that, we'll
Speaker 1: call it a wrap on this edition of Packers Unscripted.
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