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: trusted colleague Wess Hodkoitz. We're coming to you Hear from
Speaker 1: our studios at lambeau Field to preview Green Bay's Week
Speaker 1: five matchup WES. It will be out in Los Angeles
Speaker 1: at SOFI Stadium against the Rams. It is a three
Speaker 1: twenty five pm Central Time kickoff, and we'll take a
Speaker 1: look at the Rams here. It's a team that a
Speaker 1: lot of people thought they'd be a playoff contender, and
Speaker 1: they certainly can get back to that, but they are
Speaker 1: off to a rough start. One in three a win
Speaker 1: over San Francisco, but losses to the Lions, Cardinals and Bears.
Speaker 1: Oh my, and the story, the story really has been
Speaker 1: the injuries for the Los Angeles Rams. They are banged
Speaker 1: up on the offensive line, they are banged up in
Speaker 1: their receiving corps with Cooper cup who can Nakua both
Speaker 1: out and it's just been a struggle for them to
Speaker 1: score enough points on a consistent base.
Speaker 2: It's a weird kind of matchup in that you have
Speaker 2: a team at the Packers that are leading the league
Speaker 2: right now in explosive plays. In when you look at
Speaker 2: where the Rams have come up short so far in
Speaker 2: addition to the injury category, it is kind of the
Speaker 2: explosive plays. I don't know exactly where it fits for them,
Speaker 2: but their longest carry of the season so far, fourteen yards,
Speaker 2: was actually last week against the Chicago Bears. They don't
Speaker 2: have a reception I think above maybe sixty three. It
Speaker 2: has been hard tredging for this offense to go down
Speaker 2: the field. Matthew Stafford through four games, only two touchdowns.
Speaker 2: It has been sacked thirteen times. It just kind of
Speaker 2: gives you an idea of just kind of the gradient
Speaker 2: that they've been sort of fighting against here in the
Speaker 2: early part of the season, everybody understood to a certain extent,
Speaker 2: this was going to be a transition year for them,
Speaker 2: big changes on the defensive side of the ball. Aaron
Speaker 2: Donald no longer there. You're at your future Hall of Famer,
Speaker 2: first ballot, unanimous Hall of Famer. He's gone from the
Speaker 2: heart of that defense. They're still trying to figure out
Speaker 2: their identity and offensively, Matt Lafleur said it. I mean,
Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford is as good as they come. In the NFL,
Speaker 2: but when you need a certain amount of weapons around him,
Speaker 2: and it just seems like outside of maybe two two
Speaker 2: at well, they just haven't been able to find that
Speaker 2: next guy up in the wake of these injuries to
Speaker 2: Cup in the KOA.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's I think it's paramount for the
Speaker 1: Packers though, not to sleep on these guys, because you
Speaker 1: do have Matthew Stafford back there. He is starting to
Speaker 1: figure some things out with too two well DeMarcus Robinson
Speaker 1: being his top two receivers, with those other, you know,
Speaker 1: pro Bowl level guys out of the mix right now.
Speaker 2: And.
Speaker 1: I thought the Rams were kind of starting to figure
Speaker 1: something out offensively last week. They seem to move the
Speaker 1: ball pretty well against the Bears, but they just kept
Speaker 1: getting bogged down and kicking field goals, and the field
Speaker 1: goals weren't.
Speaker 3: Enough to chalk up a victory there.
Speaker 1: So, as you mentioned, Stafford just has two touchdown passes,
Speaker 1: but he also only has two interceptions this year. It's
Speaker 1: not like he's turning the ball over or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Kyron Williams, they're running back. He's got five rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: already this year, which is a number that catches your eye.
Speaker 1: But he's also only averaging three point five yards per
Speaker 1: carry as as the number one running back in this offense.
Speaker 1: So the Packers neat you know, this is a unit,
Speaker 1: as you said, it's trying to figure some things out,
Speaker 1: and the Packers kind of have to keep this unit
Speaker 1: down and not let them figure too much out here.
Speaker 1: Coming up there, they're going to be back at home.
Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be a fair amount of Packer
Speaker 1: fans at Sofi Stadium. The Rams deal with this all
Speaker 1: the time, where visiting fans just to invade their place
Speaker 1: because they don't really have a Los Angeles fan base
Speaker 1: of the size that you would think in a market
Speaker 1: like that. So but they are back at home, they're
Speaker 1: on the home turf, and sometimes when teams get desperate
Speaker 1: in the NFL, that's when they play their best.
Speaker 2: And Matthew Stafford is a portrait of that. Whether the
Speaker 2: Detroit Lions were struggling or not, Matthew Stafford was always
Speaker 2: a tough out for the green Bay Packers whenever those.
Speaker 3: Two teams met.
Speaker 2: The challenging part though, and the reason why I think
Speaker 2: there's such a huge emphasis on why green Bay needs
Speaker 2: to start fast and play clean football is because of
Speaker 2: a stat you pushed out there earlier in the week.
Speaker 2: I mean the fact that the Rams through four games
Speaker 2: have nineteen points in the first half, have been outscored
Speaker 2: almost by triple in that time.
Speaker 1: Fifty eight to nineteen is the cumulative first half score
Speaker 1: through the first four games for the Rams. That's just
Speaker 1: a mind boggling number.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that actually is that is more than they've
Speaker 2: been more than tripled. Yeah, at this point in the
Speaker 2: first half. I mean yeah, And we saw last week
Speaker 2: with the Packers and the Vikings. When you're playing from
Speaker 2: that far behind it, it is not easy to call yourself
Speaker 2: back into these things. And the danger that was omnipresent
Speaker 2: with Cooper cup and the Packers have seen him time
Speaker 2: and time again. They saw Pook and Naku on just
Speaker 2: how he can change a game. They've had to sort
Speaker 2: of piece things together a little bit more. There's still
Speaker 2: guys in that offense with Parkinson and also with that well,
Speaker 2: there are guys you have to be really cognizant of
Speaker 2: and not allow them to beat you. You have to
Speaker 2: take them very serious. But the Green Bay Packers, what
Speaker 2: they've put on film offensively here through the first month
Speaker 2: of the season, whether Jordan Love is in the lineup
Speaker 2: or not, you have to feel good about Green Bay's chances,
Speaker 2: but you also have to earn those chances against opponent
Speaker 2: like this on the road.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you mentioned defensively the Rams, Aaron Donald not there anymore.
Speaker 3: He is retired.
Speaker 1: They're a much younger group up front. They ranked last
Speaker 1: in the league right now in rushing defense. They're giving
Speaker 1: up one hundred and sixty five yards a game on
Speaker 1: the ground. And I'm not saying necessarily that you take
Speaker 1: the Packers' game plan for the Colts game when Malik
Speaker 1: Willis was first stepping in, and you know, you line
Speaker 1: up to pound the ball down somebody's throat, right, But honestly, Wes,
Speaker 1: you have to get out after these guys on the ground.
Speaker 1: You have to take that mente, even if it's not
Speaker 1: going to be fifty some carries. You have to take
Speaker 1: the mentality running the ball that the Packers had against
Speaker 1: the Colts when they knew it's what they were going
Speaker 1: to do, they knew it's what they had to do.
Speaker 1: You have to bring that mentality into this game because
Speaker 1: if you can run the ball against the Rams the
Speaker 1: way most teams so far this year, have run the
Speaker 1: ball against the Rams and you have Jordan love Att quarterback.
Speaker 1: You ought to be able to have a good day
Speaker 1: off one hundred percent. And for the Packers, you know,
Speaker 1: they've been doing this thing where it's kind of almost
Speaker 1: this one for one Josh Jacobs, you know, Emmanuel Wilson,
Speaker 1: both of them kind of getting series trying to make
Speaker 1: things a little bit lighter on Jacobs. But this is
Speaker 1: to me the type of game where you really unleash him.
Speaker 1: You know, if everything's good with the back, if he's
Speaker 1: feeling good, you know, after a pretty heavy workload the
Speaker 1: first month of the season. This game is tailor made
Speaker 1: for him to be able to come out and play well.
Speaker 1: And then the other aspect of it, you mentioned that
Speaker 1: the run defense. They only have three takeaways so far
Speaker 1: the season, one interception so far this season. They've just
Speaker 1: been struggling to find plays. They don't have an inundation
Speaker 1: of sacks so far this year. So if you come
Speaker 1: out and kind of wear them down early on with
Speaker 1: a guy like Jacobs, it does it opens up everything
Speaker 1: and it you know, fortunately, it sounds like the Packers
Speaker 1: dodged a bullet with the Christian Watson scenario with his
Speaker 1: ankle seems to be moving around okay, which considering for
Speaker 1: a second there, I thought maybe he broke the darn thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's perfect.
Speaker 1: It weighed out good, especially especially when he gets cartered
Speaker 1: off to the locker room and he doesn't, you know,
Speaker 1: make his own way up the tunnel.
Speaker 3: One hundred percent.
Speaker 2: So even if you don't have him though, still on
Speaker 2: Sunday with guys like Dontavian Wis Jaden Reid the way
Speaker 2: that he's come out of the gates so far this season,
Speaker 2: I just want to see that. Basically, what I'm saying
Speaker 2: is I just want to see the Packers run their offense.
Speaker 2: They put up a lot of yards last week, they
Speaker 2: put up a lot of points, They made a lot
Speaker 2: of herrors. They had some penalties, especially in the first quarter.
Speaker 2: But one of the things they did so well in
Speaker 2: those wins over the Colts and the Titans is they
Speaker 2: ran what they wanted to run. It's gonna look different
Speaker 2: Love under center, yeah, but they had a game plan
Speaker 2: they executed it. That's where Green Bay needs to get
Speaker 2: back to and that's that's by staying ahead of the sticks,
Speaker 2: that's by protecting the football and yes to the original point,
Speaker 2: that is, by running the ball down the opponent's gullet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you said it. It's a it's about
Speaker 1: bringing bringing a game plan into a game and being
Speaker 1: able to execute that game plan. And the best way
Speaker 1: to be able to execute your game plan and be
Speaker 1: able to stick with it throughout the game is to
Speaker 1: get off to a good start. That's not to say
Speaker 1: that you have to jump on somebody ten to nothing
Speaker 1: or fourteen to nothing. We saw even in the Titans game.
Speaker 1: You know, Packer's got a touchdown. Titans are spouning with touchdown.
Speaker 1: I was seven to seven, right, But you can't have
Speaker 1: what happened against the Minnesota Vikings, where essentially you can
Speaker 1: take about two thirds of the game plan like tear
Speaker 1: it off and throw it in the garbage at halftime
Speaker 1: because just you're down by so much, you've got no
Speaker 1: you've got no way to dig into that. Well, keep
Speaker 1: the keep the call sheet full, get off to a
Speaker 1: strong start against these guys. They haven't started well. And
Speaker 1: you said it too. They haven't taken the ball away.
Speaker 1: Three takeaways, one interception, two fumble recoveries. On the season,
Speaker 1: the Packers are essentially averaging like three takeaways a game.
Speaker 1: These guys only have three takeaways on the entire season,
Speaker 1: So don't let them, you know, suddenly break their profile
Speaker 1: and you know, get something going in that category. When
Speaker 1: that's a category that coming into this game, you absolutely
Speaker 1: should win it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. In the other aspect too, I mean the Packers'
Speaker 3: pass rush.
Speaker 2: For all the issues we've talked about and the fact
Speaker 2: that it hasn't been as prolific as I think everybody
Speaker 2: thinks it was going to be, they still have more
Speaker 2: sacks in that game against the Titans than the Rams
Speaker 2: have all season. I Rams only have seven sacks so
Speaker 2: far this year, So listen at some point Sean McVay.
Speaker 2: And obviously, as we talked about Michael Flores's offensive coordinator,
Speaker 2: they have some really smart people in that organization. They
Speaker 2: are a lot like the Packers, a team that works
Speaker 2: its way up through the course of the year and
Speaker 2: peaks when they get into December. But still the stats
Speaker 2: are what they are right now. The Packers have to
Speaker 2: be If the Packers want to be the winning team
Speaker 2: that I think you and I both feel they can be,
Speaker 2: they have that potential there. This is the opponent where
Speaker 2: you need to impose your well, it was my big
Speaker 2: line and insider inbox. I just feel like you can't
Speaker 2: take them for granted. But you also have to be
Speaker 2: who you think you are to be able to come
Speaker 2: out in this one.
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Speaker 1: So when it comes to the keys to victory in
Speaker 1: this game, which one of all these various topics that
Speaker 1: we have hit on rises to the top for me?
Speaker 2: It comes down to explosive plays to turnovers. Ratio Packer
Speaker 2: had a ton of explosive plays last week, but they
Speaker 2: had too many turnovers. You can't have four turnovers expect
Speaker 2: to win the game. Even if your defense gives you
Speaker 2: another trio of them. You can't expect that you have
Speaker 2: to be able to convert in those opportunities. But the
Speaker 2: other aspect of it is the Greemit Packers are actually
Speaker 2: finally playing a team somewhat due to injury, that is
Speaker 2: about as young as they are. The Rams went many
Speaker 2: years without draft picks. If you look at the construct
Speaker 2: of their defense, it's made up now of a lot
Speaker 2: of Day two and Day three picks that have all
Speaker 2: pretty much been within the last three years. As those
Speaker 2: guys gain more experience, they're going to become bigger difference makers.
Speaker 2: Green Bay has to make sure that that doesn't start
Speaker 2: in week five. And I feel like if you can
Speaker 2: come out and really set the tone. I said it
Speaker 2: last week. I'm not trying to toot my own horn,
Speaker 2: but I said in that game against the Vikings, those
Speaker 2: first fifteen minutes are going to be critical. The Vikings
Speaker 2: dominated those first fifteen minutes and every way a team
Speaker 2: could dominate them, and you saw how that what the
Speaker 2: domino effect was at the rest of the game. In
Speaker 2: some ways, fast starts are always important, but I feel
Speaker 2: like this is another game that really encapsulates that because
Speaker 2: if the Rams get feeling themselves a little bit. They're
Speaker 2: playing in their own venue. They've been in some knockdown
Speaker 2: drago games other than what happened against the Cardinals. I mean,
Speaker 2: this is a team that has been in everything basically
Speaker 2: since the beginning of the season. If they have that
Speaker 2: type of confidence, in that type of swagger, that's where
Speaker 2: I get concerned. So for the Greenmit Packers, it's about
Speaker 2: running your offense, protecting the football, and still managing to
Speaker 2: develop those big plays that have really been the hallmark
Speaker 2: of this team to this point of the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's among those things we talked about.
Speaker 1: It's about getting off to a strong start, which is
Speaker 1: what the Packers did against the Colts and against the
Speaker 1: Titans when they didn't have Jordan Love at quarterbacks. So
Speaker 1: get off to a fast start when you do have
Speaker 1: Jordan Love at quarterback. The Packers blew their chance essentially
Speaker 1: for a really fast start against the Eagles in Brazil
Speaker 1: because they couldn't couldn't execute in the red zone to
Speaker 1: punch things in and ended up kicking field goals instead.
Speaker 1: So give Jordan Love a strong start and then see
Speaker 1: where this game goes. And then and then I think
Speaker 1: the other The other things that are top of mind
Speaker 1: for me are to run the football. This is a
Speaker 1: this is a struggling run defense. And as much as uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the Packers have plenty of weapons, even with
Speaker 1: Christian Watson out for the time being, get that really established,
Speaker 1: the one two punch with Josh Jacobs and Emmanuel Wilson,
Speaker 1: and get after that. And then on the other side,
Speaker 1: just keep the Rams kicking field goals. I you know,
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford is going to move the ball. He is
Speaker 1: I you know, he is savvy, he is crafty, he
Speaker 1: is going to find ways to move the chains. But
Speaker 1: this offense is struggling to get touchdowns and they're kicking
Speaker 1: field goals. And you have to keep it that way
Speaker 1: because Sean McVay and Mike Lafleur are gonna come up,
Speaker 1: you know, if they're struggling in the red zone, they're
Speaker 1: going to come up with some creative ways to change that.
Speaker 1: And the Packers have to stay on their toes and
Speaker 1: and uh and keep these guys kicking field goals when
Speaker 1: they getting close.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you look at this. I'm just taking one
Speaker 2: more glance at this. I knew that the Rams were
Speaker 2: thirty first in total defense right now, as you pointed
Speaker 2: out how they're struggling against the run, they also are
Speaker 2: right now second to last, only to Carolina in points allowed,
Speaker 2: scoring defense twenty eight point eight points per game, third
Speaker 2: down defense fifty percent, red zone twenty third, tied for
Speaker 2: twenty third.
Speaker 1: So I mean, there, it's interesting because it's it felt
Speaker 1: like it felt like and I know they've had injuries
Speaker 1: on offense since Week one, but in that Week one primetime, oh,
Speaker 1: it was right the lot, you know, the Lions hosting
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford again, a rematch of that playoff game from
Speaker 1: last year, and I thought the Rams defense played a
Speaker 1: pretty darn good game. And then you know, the point
Speaker 1: total rises a little because of the overtime touchdown, but
Speaker 1: you know, in regulation they only gave up like twenty
Speaker 1: points or whatever it was to the Lions. I thought, Okay,
Speaker 1: the Rams don't have Aaron Donald, but they'll they'll probably
Speaker 1: be okay defensively. But since since Week one, that defense
Speaker 1: has really really struggled.
Speaker 3: And then Marvin Harrison Junior showed up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but two, but they didn't play very good defense
Speaker 1: against the Bears last week, which was a team that
Speaker 1: really had been struggling offensively with the rookie quarterback and
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff, and they didn't. They
Speaker 1: didn't put on a good defensive performance in Chicago, which surprised.
Speaker 2: Green Bay is going to go through a stretch here
Speaker 2: and again, you can't look ahead to any of these opponents.
Speaker 2: Obviously there's a challenge that is present with all of them,
Speaker 2: but there's gonna be some games here, Michael, where they're
Speaker 2: going to be favored. I mean, you, Jacksonville could win
Speaker 2: the next two games and green Bay is still gonna
Speaker 2: be favorite going down there at the end of this month.
Speaker 2: I mean, and that's I think one of the main
Speaker 2: messages I would have if I was Matt Lafleur this week.
Speaker 2: You can play with any team in the league. You
Speaker 2: you almost came back and beat a four to zero
Speaker 2: Minnesota Vikings team that plays pretty all around good football.
Speaker 2: We saw how things went with Philadelphia down in Brazil.
Speaker 2: For as much as went wrong, the fact that they
Speaker 2: were still in that thing, and then certainly despite not
Speaker 2: having Jordan Love, were able to to execute and facilitate
Speaker 2: those wins against the non conference slate. And that's what
Speaker 2: they have to do once again, you can't lose teams
Speaker 2: that are struggling. I won't call them bad teams, but
Speaker 2: the teams that are struggling and the Rams for everything
Speaker 2: they've done and for how close they've been, they also
Speaker 2: are one eye lashed away from being zero to four
Speaker 2: at this point. So Packers have to prove that they're
Speaker 2: a team that is better than their two and two
Speaker 2: record right now suggests yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, looking elsewhere around the league in Week five, bye
Speaker 1: weeks have arrived. The Detroit Lions got the early bye.
Speaker 1: They are off in week five after their three and
Speaker 1: one start. That's going to be very interesting to see
Speaker 1: how it plays out over the course of the season.
Speaker 1: With as power packed as the NFC North appears to
Speaker 1: be right now, the fact that after this week the
Speaker 1: Lions are going to have to play thirteen consecutive games
Speaker 1: without a break with having this really early by, so
Speaker 1: something to keep an eye on as the season unfolds
Speaker 1: for the Lions. London football is also back the New
Speaker 1: York Jets and Aaron Rodgers. Rogers returns to the site
Speaker 1: of the broken thumb at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The Jets
Speaker 1: against the Minnesota Viking Yahnesoda, taking its four and oh
Speaker 1: record to London and.
Speaker 3: Let's go aeron.
Speaker 1: And if if I'm reading the clocks right, I think
Speaker 1: we wake up in our hotel rooms in la on
Speaker 1: Sunday morning and this London game starts at six thirty.
Speaker 3: Or yeah, I am oh, yeah, So anyway, I don't
Speaker 3: know if I'll be up yet throwing that.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if i'll be uh, maybe I'll catch
Speaker 1: the second half. But yeah, London football is back and
Speaker 1: the NFC North leaders are going across the ponds.
Speaker 2: I get a big kick out of this man, because
Speaker 2: the more and more this season has played out. I
Speaker 2: knew this a little bit at the beginning, but to me,
Speaker 2: it feels like the schedule makers just started with the
Speaker 2: Jets and then just figured out everything after that. Okay,
Speaker 2: so we want to have Aaron in the opener, we
Speaker 2: want to have him down in London. We're gonna get
Speaker 2: him on a primetime game in the first month of
Speaker 2: the season. It's just funny how those things work out.
Speaker 2: But obviously that's a huge game, not only for the Packers.
Speaker 2: Would love nothing more than to see old QB one
Speaker 2: come through and knock off his old NFC North rival.
Speaker 2: But if you followed all the dialogue, the discourse and
Speaker 2: the narratives come out of that last game for the Jets.
Speaker 3: This is a pivotal point that they're reaching as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a stinker of a loss for them
Speaker 1: last week. There's no two ways about it. Bo Nicks
Speaker 1: throws for sixty yards and the Jets lose ten to
Speaker 1: nine on a missed field goal fifty some yard or whatever,
Speaker 1: missed field goal at the horn. Just an absolute stinker
Speaker 1: of a loss for the Jets, and they got a
Speaker 1: bounce back quickly.
Speaker 2: They found something out though, didn't they About Braylan Allen.
Speaker 2: It seems like that that worm is beginning to turn
Speaker 2: as far as how that backfield is constructed and with
Speaker 2: him and Breeze Hall.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and w curious where that takes him.
Speaker 2: But yeah, the Jets that they're obviously looking for a
Speaker 2: response there, and it's a tough opponent to try to
Speaker 2: get a response. Very very very intrigued to watch if
Speaker 2: I can get a chance to catch it. Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: and what he does with that Brian Flora's defense that
Speaker 2: we saw last week. Aaron is the master in terms
Speaker 2: of picking those locks, and Flores is going to throw
Speaker 2: the entire gamut at him.
Speaker 1: I would imagine all of for all of Minnesota's confusion
Speaker 1: and disguise and everything else, if there's a quarterback out
Speaker 1: there who can decipher it at the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: that's the one figure out and figure out what the
Speaker 1: Vikings are doing while they're trying to confuse you on
Speaker 1: every snap. Aaron Rodgers is the guy who just might
Speaker 1: be able to do that any other games on the
Speaker 1: Week five slate, that jump out to you.
Speaker 2: Bill's in Texans is huge. Josh Allen, I think is
Speaker 2: playing like an MVP through the first month of the season.
Speaker 2: I think he's been the player that that organizations needed
Speaker 2: to be amidst all the changes that they made.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he just needs his offensive coordinator to not call
Speaker 1: a trick play when right, when right, when you're on
Speaker 1: the verge of basically being in command and pulling off
Speaker 1: a comeback, you call a trick play that that goes
Speaker 1: into disaster territory and anyway.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, but it's true.
Speaker 2: I mean, and then also you got you got that
Speaker 2: matchup with like the Cardinals and the forty nine ers,
Speaker 2: two teams that are still trying to keep their heads
Speaker 2: above water and then you know, I'll just mention this
Speaker 2: because Monday night football is New Orleans and Kansas City.
Speaker 2: I think from the initial reports I saw, I don't
Speaker 2: think Rashi Rice is in the cars, But man, have
Speaker 2: you seen more instances now where something happens on the
Speaker 2: field and it looks like, gosh, that guy's season is
Speaker 2: over and now it kind of sounds like maybe it
Speaker 2: wasn't an acl for him, although they've been really tight.
Speaker 3: Lipped about it, yeah to this point.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, obviously, the Christian Watson thing here, the Jordan
Speaker 2: Love thing. It's just it's funny how that game is
Speaker 2: played sometimes and the times where a guy can have
Speaker 2: a really nasty looking contact injury and then it's some
Speaker 2: non contact thing that knocks somebody out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it is how that works. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It it just goes to show, like, you know, there's
Speaker 1: there's no need to try to draw any conclusions about
Speaker 1: somebody's injury just based on a replay and what things
Speaker 1: look like. And I mean, you know, it's all about
Speaker 1: it's all about what the MRIs and the scans and
Speaker 1: images and all that stuff they do. It's it's what
Speaker 1: they get from that. So I mean, hopefully for Rashid
Speaker 1: Rice's sake, it's not an a c L. And maybe
Speaker 1: he has a chance to come back this year. And
Speaker 1: uh yeah, the Chiefs are gonna try to stay undefeated
Speaker 1: against a against a Saints team that started out awfully strong, salty,
Speaker 1: no salty, and now all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 1: their narrative turned a little bit.
Speaker 2: So Carolina Panthers heading into uh sold Soldier Field, yep,
Speaker 2: see if they can do.
Speaker 3: Anything with Andy Dalton. Andy Dalton, former Bears great, Yes
Speaker 3: Bears legend Andy.
Speaker 1: Daltons, the former Bears, the former Bears quarterback Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: going back into Chicago, that that game is going to
Speaker 1: be more interesting than people.
Speaker 3: Think it will be. Again, as I always say, you
Speaker 3: and I won't see.
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