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Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, Welcome to another edition of Packers unscripted from

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Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am like Spofford, joined as always

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Speaker 1: by my partner and Crime West Hodcoits were coming to

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Speaker 1: you here from socially distant locations at lambeau Field West.

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Speaker 1: Week seventeen. It is here, Packers Bears, Soldier Field three

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Speaker 1: Central time kickoff, and we all know what's at stake.

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Speaker 1: The Packers going for the number one seed. The Bears

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Speaker 1: are trying to get into the playoffs as a wild card.

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Speaker 1: And you take a look at this Bears season five

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Speaker 1: and one, a six game losing streak, now a three

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Speaker 1: game winning streak, trying to make it four to slip

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Speaker 1: into the postseason. It's been a hard team to figure out,

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Speaker 1: but it is a team that is playing really well

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Speaker 1: right now. It's a team we've learned a lot about

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Speaker 1: two I think, and the course of the season has

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Speaker 1: worn on the Chicago Bears have gotten back to what

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Speaker 1: they do well. For a long time, Mike, it seemed

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Speaker 1: and I think that kind of factored into the decision

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Speaker 1: and moved to Nick Foles and go away from Mitchell Troubinsky,

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Speaker 1: but they also went away from the run game at

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Speaker 1: that time. They also weren't getting the tight ends as

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Speaker 1: involved as they have in the past. And when Troubinsky

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Speaker 1: came back and in his big comeback game was against

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Speaker 1: Green Bay, it didn't go completely how he wanted it to,

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Speaker 1: but that was a building block, and I think one

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Speaker 1: thing that they found out in that matchup was the

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Speaker 1: fact that all Right, David Montgomery was a guy that

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Speaker 1: we invested into a number of years ago. They had

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Speaker 1: to maneuver without him mid season. Then they were trying

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Speaker 1: to use Cordell Patterson in that running back role. Since

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Speaker 1: Montgomery has returned, he's averaging twenty almost twenty four touches

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Speaker 1: per game. Now they've established the running game again, they're

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Speaker 1: putting up points. And I know a lot of Packer

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Speaker 1: done that against is not elite in terms of the

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Speaker 1: NFL rankings, but it's production nonetheless, And for the Chicago Bears,

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Speaker 1: they're feeling much better about themselves going into this matchup

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Speaker 1: today then I think they did a month ago into

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Speaker 1: mentioned this when I did our weekly Three Things video

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Speaker 1: with UH with Larry McCarn yesterday, that you look at

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Speaker 1: that first Bears Packers matchup and the Bears first handoff

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Speaker 1: a fifty seven yard run. And it's that sort of

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Speaker 1: became a turning point in a lot of ways for

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Speaker 1: both of these teams. Because for the Bears it reminded them, hey,

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Speaker 1: David Montgomery needs to be a big part of this

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Speaker 1: offense moving forward. And yes, they did not beat the

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Speaker 1: the following week against the Detroit Lions, but they figured

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Speaker 1: turnaround came to fruition UH in some respects with the

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Speaker 1: performance against Derrick Henry last week. So as you head

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Speaker 1: into this week seventeen matchup and Soldier Field, the Bears

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Speaker 1: the fact that they're in a better rhythm now than

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Speaker 1: they were a month ago, the Packers defense is in

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Speaker 1: a much different position today than it was back in November,

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Speaker 1: and a big reason for that is how well they've

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Speaker 1: But Mike, I've really been blown away, especially these last

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Speaker 1: three weeks, the number of players, individuals who have stepped

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Speaker 1: they know what this guy can do. And if you

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Speaker 1: go back and listen to all the unscripteds we've been

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Speaker 1: doing for the past three years now, I've continued to

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Speaker 1: that must be respected. Now he's over a thousand yards

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Speaker 1: on the season. I think there's only what five running

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Speaker 1: a top of the line running back who must be respected.

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Speaker 1: But the Packers defense, because of how they've rebounded the

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Speaker 1: second half of the season, has worked its way into

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Speaker 1: the top yard in total defense is in the top seven. Now.

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Speaker 1: I believe in passing defense in their run defense has

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Speaker 1: vastly improved, but that's only as good as your last performance.

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Speaker 1: And Greenway needs to get one more marker here to

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Speaker 1: show that this is a different unit. They can play

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Speaker 1: gaps sound, they can play fundamental before they move into

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Speaker 1: that postseason. Yeah. Absolutely, and you have to believe with

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Speaker 1: what we've seen of the Bears offense as as has

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Speaker 1: been mentioned, it wasn't exactly against a murderers row of

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Speaker 1: production is production, and the Bears have figured out what

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Speaker 1: see the Bears stay committed to that run with David Montgomery,

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Speaker 1: you know, unless this becomes you know, a twenty point,

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Speaker 1: try to pull this one out. And Mike, everybody knows

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Speaker 1: that's head home right now. They understand that you are

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Speaker 1: an exceptional racquetball player, one of the best in green Bay,

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Speaker 1: maybe the four counties surrounding Brow County as well, if

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Speaker 1: both know if you would go down to the y

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Speaker 1: play some enhancement talent guys that you can beat up on.

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Speaker 1: Mike Spofford is gonna walk out that day feeling pretty

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Speaker 1: darn good about himself. Now, if you go in there

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Speaker 1: the fact that the Bears maybe haven't beaten the top

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Speaker 1: confident now. There is some momentum again, and this is

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Speaker 1: you and I all week long, like we've discussed this,

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Speaker 1: you cannot look past the Chicago Bears. I understand that

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Speaker 1: walking out of Soldier Field disappointed on Sunday night. Yeah. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: that again. By the same token, the Packers performance back

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Speaker 1: That's just that's just not how it works. So you

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Speaker 1: can't assume things. You can't take things for granted. And

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Speaker 1: you said it was momentum. Momentum in this league is real.

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Speaker 1: And the Bears were headed the wrong way with six

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Speaker 1: Packers Go. And you understood where I was going at

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Speaker 1: with that racquetball analogy, right, because because I wasn't just

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is week seventeen, man, it doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: beat those teams, they succeeded, they won offensively in those matchups,

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Speaker 1: and they're ready for this test that Green Bay presents.

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Speaker 1: They're going to be. It's a lot different ballgame winning,

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Speaker 1: So that's why I just I've said all along this week,

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Speaker 1: Matt laflour is saying all the right things, but you

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Speaker 1: and on iron Boxing, you know, submissions, I'm glad the

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of assumptions that the Packers are

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Speaker 1: can't you can't assume that the Packers could do that.

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Speaker 1: They certainly could, and that's what they wanted. That's what

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Speaker 1: that that is going to happen. To recap the scenarios here, obviously,

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Speaker 1: if the Packers win this game, they get the number

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Speaker 1: NFC playoffs. The Packers can also get the number one

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Speaker 1: should be a great weekend of regular season finale football

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. With that, we will call it a

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Speaker 1: rap on this edition of Packers Unscripted. Be sure to

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Speaker 1: for you on Packers dot com for West I Am Mike.

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