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Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.

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Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford and he is my trusted colleague,

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Speaker 1: West Hodkowitz. We're coming to here from our studios at

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Speaker 1: lambeau Field and West. Once again, we are still waiting

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Speaker 1: for head coach Mike McCarthy to deliver the official announcement

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Speaker 1: as he fills out his coaching staff. He's still in

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Speaker 1: the process of doing that. So, as I've said on

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Speaker 1: other shows, we are going to wait until that news

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Speaker 1: is official and that announcement is out there. And we

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Speaker 1: know all of Mike McCarthy's assistant coaches before we get

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Speaker 1: into discussions of them. So that being said, I want

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Speaker 1: to start today with a bit of Packers news that's

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Speaker 1: happened since the last time we, uh we sat down here,

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Speaker 1: and that is that wide receiver Davante Adams has earned

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Speaker 1: his first Pro Bowl bid. He will be headed to

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Speaker 1: Atlanta's Julio Jones. Hats off to Davante Adams a well

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Speaker 1: deserved honor. Yeah, and it's actually when I saw this

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Speaker 1: good because obviously, certainly in you know, he earned this opportunity,

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Speaker 1: but the way the season ended, I thought kind of,

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Speaker 1: year for him, because it truly was another breakout season

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Speaker 1: for him, and for him not to get the chance

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Speaker 1: sit on the sideline those last two weeks after the

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Speaker 1: hit from Thomas Davis, I thought, you know that that

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Speaker 1: was unfair to him in the year that he had.

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Speaker 1: But now to be able to kind of end it

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Speaker 1: concussion protocol at the end of the season, he did

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Speaker 1: the final locker room interviews with the media, So now

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Speaker 1: the chance for him to actually go through this process

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Speaker 1: get to the Pro Bowl for the first time a

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Speaker 1: really good honor for him and also um as Ted

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Speaker 1: thought it was fitting for all the second round success

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Speaker 1: steps into that new role getting a chance to go

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Speaker 1: to the Pro Bowl with the likes of Greg Jennings,

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Speaker 1: Jordie Nelson, Randall Cobb, the litany of guys that have

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Speaker 1: excuse me that I looked up the other day. Davante Adams.

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Speaker 1: Despite missing those couple of games at the end of

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Speaker 1: the season, he obviously also took the big hit from

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Speaker 1: back very quickly from that. He hit double digit touchdowns

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Speaker 1: for the second year in a row. Do you know

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Speaker 1: the last Packers receiver to actually get double digit touchdowns

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Speaker 1: to back seasons. I don't want to just sit here

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk very long and and find ways extended.

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Speaker 1: I'll go with Antonio Freeman, very good you hit. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it is, and just surprising that for all the for

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Speaker 1: and they've all had their double digit touchdown seasons. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: and Mike Daniels and Davante Adams, and it's the first

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl for both guys. That's kind of special. It

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Speaker 1: is special, Mike, And I think it's interesting too that

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Speaker 1: He's seen as one of the top receivers in the league.

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Speaker 1: It's just not always a given that those guys are

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Speaker 1: And I think that says a lot about Adams that

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Speaker 1: This was an honor. I think a lot of people

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Speaker 1: they had that play scouted out, mapped up. Rogers doesn't

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Speaker 1: basically stares him down and just throw a better ball.

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Speaker 1: know when the Pro Bowl UH rosters first came out,

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Speaker 1: after this. Welcome back to Packers Unscripted. Mike Spofford in

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Speaker 1: this chair, West Hodkowitz and that one and West we

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Speaker 1: in Minneapolis, the shootout between two of the best defenses

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Speaker 1: the absence of Ryan Shazer clearly showed up for Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: but not having Shazier really changed change the outlook for them.

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Speaker 1: But can Nick Foles get him the football defensively? Can

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Speaker 1: the Eagles put this game on their back and win it.

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Speaker 1: Foles did what he had to do in that game

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Speaker 1: lot more difficult though, to do that against Mike Zimmers group. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and when you look at the matchups here, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: Rhods I thought, you know, came as close as you

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Speaker 1: all over it. Nick Foles is going to have to

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Speaker 1: find some other weapons. I don't know if the Eagles

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Speaker 1: is on his game, I think Nick Foles is going

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Speaker 1: case Keenum nick Foles were they were there together in St. Louis,

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Speaker 1: good friends. Between the two of them, they have a

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Speaker 1: I think it was Keenum that said it's one of

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Speaker 1: these guys, which one of these replacements can step up,

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Speaker 1: can make those plays, is going to be probably the

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Speaker 1: determining factor in this because you know defensively what both

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Speaker 1: of these teams can do. Yeah, your prediction for a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl matchup, I think it's still gonna be Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: but we'll see against New England. Okay, yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: it's Patriots Vikings too. But we've got to call it

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Speaker 1: a wrap on this edition of Packers Unscripted. Sure to

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