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 West hod Kuitz. We're coming to you here
Speaker 1: from our studios at lambeau Field, and I have to
Speaker 1: start today's show with an apology for those of you
Speaker 1: are regular listeners viewers out there who count on us
Speaker 1: to be on time and punctual with our postings. Tuesday's episode,
Speaker 1: as you probably noticed, was not available until Wednesday, and
Speaker 1: we are very sorry about that technical issue. It's been resolved.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it will not come up again. So here we
Speaker 1: are on Thursday, West, and Thursday's episode will be posted
Speaker 1: on Thursday, just so you know. Sure, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people out there that were just devastated that that
Speaker 1: unscripted was not available on Tuesday to recap everything that
Speaker 1: happened in that game on Sunday. But yeah, we hold
Speaker 1: ourselves accountable here. We do hold ourselves accountable. We've made
Speaker 1: the necessary correct and we're pushing forward. Now we're flushing
Speaker 1: it and now we're pushing forward here to Detroit and
Speaker 1: we are pushing forward to a game on Monday Night
Speaker 1: Football in Week two against the Detroit Lions. Both teams,
Speaker 1: as all the teams are in the NFC North, both
Speaker 1: of these squads for Monday night are oh and one
Speaker 1: searching for their first victory of The Detroit Lions have
Speaker 1: a new head coach, they have a new quarterback. What
Speaker 1: what's your initial I know we don't have a whole
Speaker 1: lot to go on here, but what's your initial impression
Speaker 1: of Detroit Lions. My initial impression is the Detroit Lions
Speaker 1: have begun to take on that mentality of their head coach.
Speaker 1: And I think when the chapter was closed on the
Speaker 1: mat Patricia Era, I believe that there are people within
Speaker 1: that building and understood where things went wrong the past
Speaker 1: few years and where they need to get corrected. I'm
Speaker 1: not even talking about wins and losses. I'm talking about culture,
Speaker 1: talking about team building and what they showed me in
Speaker 1: that game against San Francisco, Mike, very much like the
Speaker 1: Packers against the Saints. They could not have really gotten
Speaker 1: off to a worst start, but they bounced back. And yes,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people out there saying they got
Speaker 1: points in garbage time, in yards and garbage time, they
Speaker 1: got it back within one score, and I thought that
Speaker 1: showed a lot from Jared Goff to be able to
Speaker 1: pick himself up. I thought that showed a lot on
Speaker 1: the Lions not quitting on themselves after giving up twenty
Speaker 1: four points in the in the second quarter. That was
Speaker 1: a team that played until the bitter end in it.
Speaker 1: For that reason, I think the Packers have to be
Speaker 1: ready that they're going to see a very hunger Detroit
Speaker 1: Lions team on Monday Night. Yeah. Absolutely. The The The
Speaker 1: only caveat that I give with regard to the Lions
Speaker 1: come back and getting it within one score is that
Speaker 1: they did catch a huge break with getting an onside
Speaker 1: kick recovery in there, which is one of those less
Speaker 1: than ten percent propositions these days in the NFL. So
Speaker 1: that's not going to happen very often. And the final
Speaker 1: score that game is very different if they don't get
Speaker 1: that one fortunate break. But they got it, and they
Speaker 1: did come within twenty five yards of a potential game
Speaker 1: tying touchdown in a game they were down by twenty
Speaker 1: four points with with less than six minutes to go. So, um,
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on Jared Goff? This is a
Speaker 1: big change for the Detroit Lions because Matthew Stafford. Yes,
Speaker 1: he there were times he was injured here and there.
Speaker 1: I get it. But Matthew Stafford was the Detroit Lions
Speaker 1: quarterback for a long time. He was their franchise guy.
Speaker 1: That has now changed. Jared Goff doesn't have I don't
Speaker 1: think he has all of the physical tools and the
Speaker 1: physical skills that Matthew Stafford has. But Jared Goff also
Speaker 1: has a little bit more of a winning pedigree in
Speaker 1: that he is a quarterback who has taken a team
Speaker 1: to a Super Bowl. This is a really interesting change
Speaker 1: in the NFC. North Well and he has a sharp
Speaker 1: guy that's called plays for him and Anthony Lynn and
Speaker 1: in understanding what they want to accomplish offensively. The former
Speaker 1: Chargers head coach for Chargers head coach and Mike I'll
Speaker 1: be honest with you, the You're absolutely right. Golf has
Speaker 1: been there, he's done that, he's seen it. But when
Speaker 1: he's been successful, he's had a really capable run game
Speaker 1: along with him. And for the first time and my
Speaker 1: as my child, my son's childbook, Little Blue Truck Goes,
Speaker 1: I think it was or no, it was Gruff the
Speaker 1: Grump the first time in a very long time. Uh,
Speaker 1: they actually have a running game here that I think
Speaker 1: they can actually hold, you know, hang their hat on
Speaker 1: uh DeAndre Swift and Jamal Williams. I said it going
Speaker 1: back to training camp. I said it going back to
Speaker 1: the offseason program. I felt like Jamal Williams is one
Speaker 1: of the best bargain buys in the national football Like
Speaker 1: the Greenbay Packers were extremely tight against the cap. They
Speaker 1: couldn't bring them back, but the Detroit Lions to get
Speaker 1: them for what they got Jamal Williams for that game
Speaker 1: last week, you saw how valuable this guy could be.
Speaker 1: And he had over a hundred yards from scrimmage combining
Speaker 1: the rushing and receiving yards if I read the stats correct,
Speaker 1: and Swift wasn't as impressive on the ground but had
Speaker 1: eight catches had touched on. They I think are going
Speaker 1: to be a really good battery together and I feel
Speaker 1: like Golf throughout the course of that game, you could
Speaker 1: see his comfort in his familiarity with those two guys flourished.
Speaker 1: They have weapons. Mike. I think t J. Hockenson in
Speaker 1: addition to being on my fantasy football team, I didn't
Speaker 1: draft him. It was an auto league. I don't even know.
Speaker 1: I was drafting, but he end up having a really
Speaker 1: good week for me. These guys, there's talent there for
Speaker 1: him to work off of the question I'm going to
Speaker 1: have though, is what happens when adversity hits What happens
Speaker 1: when people start to hit the counters against the Lions?
Speaker 1: Jared Goff, I don't anticipate is gonna be a guy
Speaker 1: that's gonna be thrown the ball fifty plus times a game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's not going to be their formula for success
Speaker 1: when that happens. I don't think the win loss ratio
Speaker 1: is exceedingly high for golf over the years in those situations.
Speaker 1: But he is a legitimate NFL starting quarterback and there
Speaker 1: was a reason why the Lions felt like this was
Speaker 1: the best package that they could get in this trade
Speaker 1: for Matthew Stafford. It really is just going to come
Speaker 1: down to whether or not he could play disciplined and
Speaker 1: in those moments where he gets shut down, if he
Speaker 1: could find a way to get the offense rolling again. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you mentioned the Lions running game. You mentioned t J. Hockenson,
Speaker 1: the tight end um young rising star I think in
Speaker 1: this league, uh, coming out of Iowa, very high draft
Speaker 1: pick that gets us, you know, right into some of
Speaker 1: our keys to victory here. I think when you look
Speaker 1: at the Packers defense, you look at what happened last
Speaker 1: week against the Saints, a lot of trouble stopping the
Speaker 1: run and giving up two touchdown passes to a tight end,
Speaker 1: not to mention also a crucial fourth down conversion on
Speaker 1: a screen to a tight end. So looking at all this,
Speaker 1: how much do the how much do the Lions come
Speaker 1: in here on Monday night with DeAndre Swift, Jamal Williams
Speaker 1: and t J Hockenson and those guys being the focal
Speaker 1: point of their offense and how they attack the pack
Speaker 1: and and this guy is not on the same levels
Speaker 1: those other three. But even look at Quentin se Fist
Speaker 1: being able to get a touchdown in that game against
Speaker 1: former University of Wisconsin wide receiver and sort of a
Speaker 1: hybrid across type player. Uh, those are the type of
Speaker 1: players that have given Green Bay issues the past few years,
Speaker 1: and it gives them a lot of different looks in
Speaker 1: this game against Detroit. I'm going back to what I
Speaker 1: said last week, Mike, nothing changes. Just because the Packers
Speaker 1: lost by thirty five points doesn't mean that the recipe
Speaker 1: for success to win that game is any different. You
Speaker 1: have to win up front, and you got to do
Speaker 1: it on both sides of the ball. There was one
Speaker 1: statistic that I looked up when I was doing insider
Speaker 1: in Boxes past week. The Packers now are one in
Speaker 1: six all time, at least since two thousand eighteen when
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones was a starter, where they've actually in games
Speaker 1: in which Jones has not carried the ball more than
Speaker 1: ten times, they're one in six. They won one of
Speaker 1: those games, the game against in two thousand eighteen. I
Speaker 1: believe against San Francisco. They got to get the ball
Speaker 1: in Aaron Jones's hands. They have to get the ball
Speaker 1: on a J. Dillon's hands. And on the opposite side
Speaker 1: of things, you can't let teams gash you for six
Speaker 1: seven eight yards of pop on the run game. That
Speaker 1: was my biggest concern in that game against the Saints.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that Kamara ended up hitting a sixty yard
Speaker 1: gainer down the field. It was the fact that their
Speaker 1: longest carry was fifteen yards and Green Bay still gave
Speaker 1: up as many yards on the ground as they did.
Speaker 1: You have to control the tempo and when you're facing
Speaker 1: a team whose head coach is talking about biting off
Speaker 1: kneecaps and drinking as much coffee as is available within
Speaker 1: the Starbucks you know, entire industry. You have to be
Speaker 1: able to bring that energy and that is the biggest
Speaker 1: thing that I think has to change in this game.
Speaker 1: Everyone loves Jamal Williams's a fantastic dude, great personality. Packers
Speaker 1: got a find a way to stop him on Monday Night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think. I think it definitely starts with with changing
Speaker 1: the narrative with the run defense right away for the
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Speaker 1: As far as the Packers run game, we know that
Speaker 1: Monday Nights game is. I believe it's going to feel
Speaker 1: very differently in terms of how the Packers go about
Speaker 1: things offensively. Now, you obviously want the defense to not
Speaker 1: give up to fifteen play touchdown drives, which you know
Speaker 1: throws everything off in terms of possessions, everything becomes disjointed,
Speaker 1: the clock all that. But I do think we're going
Speaker 1: to see the Packers very, very focused on running the football,
Speaker 1: establishing that run, the play action everything with with Matt
Speaker 1: Lafleur's passing game, there's so much of that effective stuff
Speaker 1: comes off of of play action. I really think Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones and a J. Dillon are going to have their
Speaker 1: hands on the ball quite a bit Monday night. I agree,
Speaker 1: And I didn't mean to jump, you know in the
Speaker 1: last segment talking about this, but it goes on both
Speaker 1: sides of the ball, does absolutely and you have to
Speaker 1: stop the ball and Mike, you look historically the big conversation.
Speaker 1: I'm sure when we talk to Aaron Rodgers latter day,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's gonna come up again as the two
Speaker 1: shell I've been hearing that, you know, since I was
Speaker 1: three years old. And I mean the fact of the
Speaker 1: matter is, I mean, over the last ten eleven years,
Speaker 1: teams have settled that's the blueprint. That's the formula. It's
Speaker 1: not the blueprint in the formula. All it is is
Speaker 1: that if a team throws two safeties and its back
Speaker 1: end and there we go light in the box, You've
Speaker 1: got to be able to run the ball against that front.
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter if you're running back is Eddie Lacey, James Starks,
Speaker 1: you know Tie Montgomery. Now with Aaron Jones, you have
Speaker 1: to be able to push the ball through those gaps
Speaker 1: and from there that's where the Packers offense starts to
Speaker 1: look like itself again. Why was Matt Lafleur's scheme such
Speaker 1: a great fit for Green Bay because they had a
Speaker 1: lot of the tools that he needed to be successful
Speaker 1: here when you look at having Aaron Jones developing and
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams as just as steady as it goes back,
Speaker 1: I to be honest with you, Mike, for as little
Speaker 1: as we saw him in that game against the Saints,
Speaker 1: I was pretty darn and pressed with a J. Dillon.
Speaker 1: I actually thought he hit the whole pretty well, only
Speaker 1: had four carries, but took it for nineteen yards. If
Speaker 1: they can get that one too, combination going get them
Speaker 1: twenty touches touch is together. That's where you can see
Speaker 1: the jet sweeps open up, the slant passes open up,
Speaker 1: the Robert Tonyan passes open up. I really you know,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers hit it. I think he said it perfectly
Speaker 1: when when he talked about how you know things go
Speaker 1: in cycles. Right, there's going to be moments where you're
Speaker 1: going to have adversity. You're not gonna look great, people
Speaker 1: are gonna start to question things, and it will come
Speaker 1: back again. I think that's the biggest key for Green Bay.
Speaker 1: You have to come up with more energy. You have
Speaker 1: to play better in the first quarter, but don't feel
Speaker 1: like you don't have a team that isn't meant to
Speaker 1: be there. They do. They just gotta get that swagger back.
Speaker 1: And I think it starts with the run game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it starts with the run game, and then it continues,
Speaker 1: you know, with doing what the Packers do best, or
Speaker 1: I should say what they did best last year, which
Speaker 1: was to be one of the best teams in the
Speaker 1: league on third down and in the red zone. We
Speaker 1: saw both of those go away from them in Week
Speaker 1: one against the Saints. And you know, when you look
Speaker 1: at the third downs. Obviously, when you're in third and
Speaker 1: eight and third and twelve and third and thirteen, that's
Speaker 1: not where you want to be while you get in
Speaker 1: the better third downs suations by running the football. Everything
Speaker 1: everything goes hand in hand here. And why were the
Speaker 1: Packers so successful in the red zone last year? Well
Speaker 1: in part because they ran the heck out of the
Speaker 1: ball in the red zone and then that set up
Speaker 1: the play action for Davante Adams and Robert Tonyan to
Speaker 1: both get double digit touchdowns. All that so it all,
Speaker 1: it all goes hand in hand. And I think with
Speaker 1: this Matt Lafleor offense, we've seen it enough now, you know,
Speaker 1: thirty plus games over the course of his two plus
Speaker 1: seasons here that that that you have to be able
Speaker 1: to run the football with some level of authority and
Speaker 1: some level of consistency, consistency for this offense to be
Speaker 1: to be in rhythm, to be flowing, and to be
Speaker 1: at its best. And a lot of that too, Mike
Speaker 1: comes with multiplicity, It comes with different types of looks,
Speaker 1: and last week a lot of it, because of what
Speaker 1: the game dictated, we didn't see in the over abundance
Speaker 1: of those looks. As I was mentioning before, a lot
Speaker 1: of letting personnel, a lot of no huddle, and you
Speaker 1: saw Aaron Rodgers having to kind of extend plays. Again,
Speaker 1: it's just stuff that doesn't look like the offense looks
Speaker 1: like when they're in a rhythm. Now, they took a one,
Speaker 1: you know, an unfortunate hit to their offensive, you know
Speaker 1: arsenal when Josiah Deguar goes down with the concussion. But
Speaker 1: there's a reason why Dominic Daphne was kept on this
Speaker 1: fifty three. I mean, that's kind of their backup at
Speaker 1: that h back type tight end role that they have
Speaker 1: this game in particular, Mike, I want to I keep
Speaker 1: saying the jet motions, but you know, I want to
Speaker 1: see more Randall cob I want to maybe see some
Speaker 1: Amari Rodgers. I want to give the defense different looks
Speaker 1: so that you don't necessarily can just figure into Okay, well,
Speaker 1: you know MVS is in in this situation, you can tell,
Speaker 1: you know, they want to go and do this type
Speaker 1: of play. You know, there's so much versatility with this
Speaker 1: group that to my eye, as we get into this
Speaker 1: game on Monday night, that's the number one thing I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be looking for what kind of packages are they
Speaker 1: rolling with, what kind of scheme are they rolling with?
Speaker 1: And can you get that offensive line comfortable with a
Speaker 1: running game so that those young guys can really feel
Speaker 1: and in where they need to be at. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: the bottom line with regard to all the us going
Speaker 1: hand in hand is when you talk about showing all
Speaker 1: those different looks and utilizing all that versatility and offense,
Speaker 1: you have to run more than twelve plays in the
Speaker 1: first half before you get into two minute mode at
Speaker 1: the end of the half. And that goes for the
Speaker 1: offense executing, that goes for the defense getting off the field.
Speaker 1: All of that is tied together in order to maximize
Speaker 1: on that I started this last week. So I'll throw
Speaker 1: it at you again. We've talked about a lot of
Speaker 1: different keys to victory here, but in terms of a statistic,
Speaker 1: a stat you're gonna look at other than the scoreboard
Speaker 1: that tells you the Packers will win this game on
Speaker 1: Monday night, it would be really easy for me to
Speaker 1: use your turnover stat again because I think, again, like
Speaker 1: I said from last week, with some of the un
Speaker 1: scouted a lot of those things are still gonna hold
Speaker 1: true in this game. The Packers got to win the
Speaker 1: turnover margin. But for me, I actually think it goes
Speaker 1: back to the gold zone. I think it is when
Speaker 1: the Packers are in the twenty yard line being able
Speaker 1: to finish off drives. That was the opposite inverse of
Speaker 1: that against New Orleans. They were turning the ball over
Speaker 1: in that area. That's not like this offense. It's definitely
Speaker 1: not like Aaron Rodgers. So yeah, whether it is getting
Speaker 1: the run game going or some of the run action looks,
Speaker 1: or just being able to find receivers open down field.
Speaker 1: The Packers get inside the red area, they have to
Speaker 1: be able to finish those drives. You can bring up
Speaker 1: a lot of different statistics, Mike, but the difference between
Speaker 1: what happened with Green Bay when they got into their
Speaker 1: gold zone in the four for four that the Saints
Speaker 1: went with in their area, that to me was the
Speaker 1: biggest indicator of all. You can look at time of possession,
Speaker 1: you can look at third downs, you can look at turnovers,
Speaker 1: the inability to score when they had the opportunities, and
Speaker 1: then also the Saints being able to get go for
Speaker 1: a four for four, that was a huge difference in
Speaker 1: that ball game. Yeah, and if if I were to
Speaker 1: point to one stat I'm going I'll piggyback off of that,
Speaker 1: but I'll point to all point to the third downs.
Speaker 1: I'll say the Packer. The Packers need to get back
Speaker 1: to being on third down. That's what they were last year.
Speaker 1: That was one of the top marks in the league.
Speaker 1: Packers did not convert a third down against the New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints with Aaron Rodgers in the game. The only
Speaker 1: third down conversion was late in the fourth quarter when
Speaker 1: Jordan's Love was in the game. Obviously, that is not
Speaker 1: a recipe for success, and I think I think is
Speaker 1: a good benchmark, whether it's four out of eight or
Speaker 1: six out of twelve, or however it shakes out. But
Speaker 1: I think if the Packers are converting their third downs,
Speaker 1: I think they're ultimately going to score enough points to
Speaker 1: beat the Detroit line. I agree with you wholeheartedly. And
Speaker 1: and to that point too. How soon we forget last
Speaker 1: year the run that they got in scoring on their
Speaker 1: opening possession. It's not really a statistic, but if they're
Speaker 1: able to put points up on the board, regardless of
Speaker 1: whether or not they differ or however, it works out.
Speaker 1: If they're able that first offensive possession seven points is great,
Speaker 1: three points is fine, but being able to actually get
Speaker 1: a mark up on the board. You look at it, Mike,
Speaker 1: It's a rhythm based offense. It always has been. I
Speaker 1: feel like if they can get that ball rolling in
Speaker 1: the right direction, the offense can take care of itself
Speaker 1: from there in the second quarter. All right. Looking elsewhere
Speaker 1: in Week two, as I mentioned at the top of
Speaker 1: the show, every and every as everybody knows, all four
Speaker 1: teams in the NFC North are oh and one. So
Speaker 1: elsewhere in the NFC North, Cincinnati goes to Chicago, the
Speaker 1: Bengals coming off of that overtime victory over Minnesota, while
Speaker 1: former Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton will face Um, his his
Speaker 1: longtime club there at Soldier Field. And then in the
Speaker 1: late afternoon window, Minnesota is at Arizona. Arizona coming off
Speaker 1: of an impressive Week one victory over an a f
Speaker 1: C playoff team in the Tennessee Titans. They really handled them.
Speaker 1: Minnesota frustrated with a with a road overtime defeat at
Speaker 1: Cincinnati in Week one. These other two NFC North games
Speaker 1: here West, what are your thoughts? Well, I would be remiss,
Speaker 1: Mike if I didn't also mention. If you're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about Andy Dalton facing the Bengals, Patrick Peterson, I'm going
Speaker 1: to be playing the Arizona Cardinals right forgot so some
Speaker 1: really good minor storylines for all the Beat writers in
Speaker 1: those two markets to cover this week. Uh, huge gut
Speaker 1: check moment for the for the Bears. I mean, as
Speaker 1: as bad as it went for Green Bay against the Saints,
Speaker 1: I thought the way the game played out for the
Speaker 1: Bears against the Rams was probably even equally as demoralizing.
Speaker 1: And that's for a team that already might be having
Speaker 1: some quote unquote confidence issues going into the season. I
Speaker 1: think Cincinnati's gonna put up some points this year. The
Speaker 1: question is defensively, who you know? Are they gonna be
Speaker 1: able to stop a lot of teams? I think Zach Taylor.
Speaker 1: I think what he has there that's a brilliant scheme.
Speaker 1: It's obviously an offshoot of the Sean McVeigh shanahan type
Speaker 1: style the floor that we've seen in the league. I
Speaker 1: thought they had some really smart concepts. I liked how
Speaker 1: Burrows looked in that game. Um So, I think this
Speaker 1: is a really good opportunity for Cincinnati to sort of
Speaker 1: for a team that's been losing here the last two
Speaker 1: or three years to kind of get the sales set
Speaker 1: in the right direction against the Bears. The Minnesota Arizona
Speaker 1: game is fascinating because Arizona comes out of the gate rolling.
Speaker 1: I mean, Chandon Chandler Jones, dude, I mean, you want
Speaker 1: to talk about a guy that wants a contract in
Speaker 1: his playing like he wants a contract My goodness. I
Speaker 1: mean they might have to back up the Brinks truck
Speaker 1: if he keeps the start going that he had in
Speaker 1: Week one. And all it takes is one week and
Speaker 1: everybody's talking about what's wrong with Minnesota's offensive line again
Speaker 1: and it comes mr five sacks in Week one. Chandler
Speaker 1: Jones to uh, to try to exploit that. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: seeing uh, you know Arizona, we know the game there.
Speaker 1: You know they're gonna put up points. I think Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray is a brilliant young quarterback. Uh. For the NFC North,
Speaker 1: those two games with Chicago Minnesota, there's a lot on
Speaker 1: the line there as far as a Week two game
Speaker 1: is concerned. Yeah, I mean a lot on the line
Speaker 1: honestly for everybody in the NFC North because you don't
Speaker 1: want to be owing to nobody, nobody wants to be
Speaker 1: owing to There are a lot of statistics out there
Speaker 1: in terms of what that means with with regard to
Speaker 1: the percentage chances and whatnot, in what history shows in
Speaker 1: terms of making the playoffs. So either the Detroit Lions
Speaker 1: or the green Bay Packers will be one on one here,
Speaker 1: and the Packers obviously wanted to be them. And how
Speaker 1: crazy is the schedule for green Bay? I mean you
Speaker 1: have your first ten games and you're playing the division twice.
Speaker 1: I think that's how that works out in terms of
Speaker 1: their schedule. I mean, I know the division, the Division
Speaker 1: games are backloaded. Yeah, they're getting a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: the Minnesota after November. Uh that whereas last year the
Speaker 1: first two games of the season where Minneso Ota in
Speaker 1: Detroit you had two year six Division games were you know,
Speaker 1: we're gone right off the bat. So to your point,
Speaker 1: schedule this year very high stakes, very interesting schedule. I
Speaker 1: mean we don't need to talk about this, we already
Speaker 1: discussed it in the spring. But to see Detroit and
Speaker 1: then you have some a f C opponents coming up, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be an interesting one for green Bay for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right. Well, with that, we'll call it a wrap
Speaker 1: on this edition of Packers Unscripted. Be sure to follow
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Speaker 1: on packers dot com for West, I'm Mike. Thank you
Speaker 1: for tuning in, everybody. We will see you next time.