Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from
Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford, joined as always
Speaker 1: by my trusted colleague West Hodkowitz, and yes we are
Speaker 1: back on zoom. We have made the decision that talking
Speaker 1: through masks for twenty minutes is not ideal. And while
Speaker 1: this will be a challenge as well, we've done this before.
Speaker 1: I am in the studio. West is actually across the
Speaker 1: hall in our boss's office of all places. Um, but Weston,
Speaker 1: how are you doing? The Packers five over the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: Green Bay now eight and three with five regular season
Speaker 1: games to go. Well, I resent that, Mike, because I
Speaker 1: was hoping you would say that this was my office.
Speaker 1: Then all the years out there thinks, so I'm some
Speaker 1: kind of big shot here that I can just, you know,
Speaker 1: slink into my office and do my thing. Uh No,
Speaker 1: you're you're right, though, I mean, this is the type
Speaker 1: of performance I think Green Bay needed on so many levels.
Speaker 1: Now was it perfect? No, But offensively they imposed their
Speaker 1: will on Chicago. Now you can't tell that story without
Speaker 1: mentioning a Keem Hicks was not involved in this game.
Speaker 1: But he goes back to something Mike Patton said last week,
Speaker 1: I mean nobody was sending any sympathy cards, and Green
Speaker 1: Bays was dealing with some of their injuries earlier this
Speaker 1: season either, So for Green Bay to come out and
Speaker 1: play the way they did, get off to the start
Speaker 1: they did, and then carry that into the second half
Speaker 1: a big victory. I think when you look at all
Speaker 1: three phases of this game, a better performance and the
Speaker 1: type of response they needed after a tough loss there
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. Yeah. Absolutely. You could see right from the
Speaker 1: get go that this Bears defensive front was missing a
Speaker 1: Chem Hicks, big number ninety six there in the middle,
Speaker 1: and with the way the Packers were running the ball
Speaker 1: on the opening series of the game, you just could
Speaker 1: see the confidence in the running game growing the commitment
Speaker 1: to it from Matt Lafleur. The Packers had a run
Speaker 1: pass balance throughout this game, and not just from a
Speaker 1: play calling perspective, but from a production perspective, because Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones and Jamal Williams combined for a hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: three rushing yards. Jones had ninety, Williams had seventy three.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers through for just two eleven, but through for
Speaker 1: four touchdowns, had a passer rating north of a hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty. Talk of him obviously being right in the
Speaker 1: thick of the m v P race here as December
Speaker 1: rolls around. So this Packers offense did everything it needed
Speaker 1: to and uh, and you know, really kept the Chicago Bears. Really.
Speaker 1: The Bears are now on a five game losing streak,
Speaker 1: tied for second place with the Minnesota Vikings in the
Speaker 1: NFC North at five and six, and the Packers have
Speaker 1: a three game lead in the division with five to play,
Speaker 1: which is about as big as stranglehold as you could
Speaker 1: have with December arriving. Yeah, no, you're right. And there
Speaker 1: was a phrase that David Botr used in his post
Speaker 1: game made the availability on Sunday. He called it attitude football.
Speaker 1: That's what this game was going to be about. Uh,
Speaker 1: in Green Bay did it. It was a balanced, complimentary approach.
Speaker 1: They found some early adversity again. Corey Linsley has to
Speaker 1: exit with the knee injury. That sounds like it's going
Speaker 1: to keep him out for a little while here. And
Speaker 1: Elton Jenkins, much like against the Colts, he has to
Speaker 1: slide in that center in the train doesn't stop Lucas
Speaker 1: Patrick battling through a toe injury. The Packers end up
Speaker 1: sounding like they rested him at the end of that game,
Speaker 1: But he just keeps his nose to the grindstone. Uh.
Speaker 1: In the have a guy like John Runyon, a mystery liable,
Speaker 1: as Aaron Rodgers called him, stepping up again at left guard.
Speaker 1: So on the offensive front, they did what they needed
Speaker 1: to do in this game to be able to push
Speaker 1: the ball in the middle of the field. The Packers
Speaker 1: did a little bit more of their inside zone concepts.
Speaker 1: I think that was the right adjustment. As the game
Speaker 1: wore on, the stretch plays and the pitches started to
Speaker 1: work a little bit better with the outside stuff. But overall, Um,
Speaker 1: when you look at that first series, I just thought,
Speaker 1: with having Alan Lazard back as a blocker and you're
Speaker 1: seeing Econemius a Brown step up. Now, Um, Marcedes Lewis
Speaker 1: gets career catch. So many different little factors played into this. Uh.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, I think a
Speaker 1: lot of it started with what they were able to
Speaker 1: do in the trenches. Yeah. Absolutely, I was surprised. I mean,
Speaker 1: with with what Chicago's defense normally does and the way
Speaker 1: that unit normally plays, what the Packers were able to
Speaker 1: do between the tackles, as you said, with the inside zone,
Speaker 1: running up the middle, moving the line of scrimmage, and
Speaker 1: again chem Hicks was out. And as I mentioned in
Speaker 1: Insider Inbox, when you're missing a big time performer, whether
Speaker 1: it's on offense or defense, usually the first game that
Speaker 1: that player is out is the toughest one to make
Speaker 1: the adjustments. And and the Bears really just didn't look
Speaker 1: ready for number ninety six not to be there for
Speaker 1: their defense, and and the defense was on its heels
Speaker 1: pretty much the whole game. On the defensive side of
Speaker 1: things for the Packers, the biggest development was getting three
Speaker 1: turnovers three takeaways from quarterback Mr Rubinsky, two interceptions by
Speaker 1: second year safety Darnell Savage, a sack strip fumble caused
Speaker 1: by Zadarius Smith which was scooped up by Preston Smith
Speaker 1: and taken in for a touchdown. Those three takeaways. Packers
Speaker 1: are starting to get that cranked up a little bit
Speaker 1: in the takeaway category. They now have twelve on the season.
Speaker 1: Eight of those twelve have come in the last four games. Now,
Speaker 1: there's still a long way from their total of twenty
Speaker 1: five from last year's regular season, but eight in the
Speaker 1: last four games. The Packers will take that and hope
Speaker 1: that that continues here through the final month of the
Speaker 1: regular season. Well, and that was the funny thing in
Speaker 1: this right in terms of you know, three weeks ago,
Speaker 1: we were talking over and over again about, hey, kN
Speaker 1: Green they start to get some of those takeaways that
Speaker 1: were so prevalent last year. UH, and can they find
Speaker 1: a way to be able to create and generate big
Speaker 1: place Mitchell Trubisky his first game back after some time
Speaker 1: missed with the shoulder injury. Before that even benched UH
Speaker 1: in favor of Nick Foles. You wanted to be able
Speaker 1: to create some opportunities in this game, and I thought
Speaker 1: they did that. I thought Darnell Savage, before suffering that
Speaker 1: back injury on his second pick, put together one of
Speaker 1: his better performances of his Packer's career. UM and it
Speaker 1: was funny. I asked him about that first interception that
Speaker 1: he made in the end zone, which was an ill
Speaker 1: advised throw from Trubisky. There's no question about that. A
Speaker 1: first intent throughout their own at the Green Bay thirty eight,
Speaker 1: I believe at that point thirty six, and he airs
Speaker 1: one out and it's funny Savage mentioned if you go
Speaker 1: back and watch, there was a play much like that
Speaker 1: against Minnesota where the Vikings on the opposite side of
Speaker 1: the field ran a similar concept from the slot with
Speaker 1: Adam Feeling. Feeling shakes him with an inside move and
Speaker 1: goes back out to kind of complete sort of a
Speaker 1: skinny kind of corner route and Savage loses him and
Speaker 1: he catches the touchdown pass. That was late in that game,
Speaker 1: the Bears tried to run the same concept to the
Speaker 1: right side of the field. This time you saw Savage
Speaker 1: flip his hips appropriately, was able to track the ball,
Speaker 1: showed some really good center field skills there and pull
Speaker 1: it down. And then he made another fantastic catch later
Speaker 1: on and again a sort of an ill advised throw
Speaker 1: from Trubisky into triple coverage. But really the biggest story
Speaker 1: to me in this game was the defensive front. Now,
Speaker 1: they gave up the fifty seven yard run to David
Speaker 1: Montgomery right off the bat. That's not what you're looking for,
Speaker 1: but they didn't quit there. They forced that to a
Speaker 1: field goal. And then in the second quarter, Preston and
Speaker 1: Zadarius Smith combining on a strip sack and a fumble
Speaker 1: recovery for a touchdown. These are the type of plays
Speaker 1: that when the Packers were really humming last season, uh,
Speaker 1: their momentum driving plays and and those are the type
Speaker 1: of things that I think has been missing this season.
Speaker 1: They have actually done a fantastic job of avoiding explosive plays.
Speaker 1: Near the end of Don Caper's tenure. That was something
Speaker 1: that was really haunting them a little bit, was that
Speaker 1: they just they couldn't stop the sixty and seventy yard
Speaker 1: or They've done that, and they made teams go the
Speaker 1: full length of the field. But in order to really
Speaker 1: capitalize on that, you need to be able to take
Speaker 1: the football away. They did that and as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: now eight takeaways in the last month. Well, I think
Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing for the for the Packers
Speaker 1: defense other than the turnovers, when you look at this game.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the fifty seven yard run early by David Montgomery.
Speaker 1: I'm no XS and OS expert. It looked to me
Speaker 1: like the Packers were just completely misaligned like that, whether
Speaker 1: it was the first level, the second level, the the
Speaker 1: the the alignment in terms of the gaps and everything
Speaker 1: was just wrong, and the seas parted in the middle
Speaker 1: and Montgomery was off to the races, but the Packers
Speaker 1: defense rose up and stopped that drive and held the
Speaker 1: Bears to a field goal, so the Packers still had
Speaker 1: the lead after one possession. There After that, I thought
Speaker 1: Green Bay's defense clamped down on the run fairly decently.
Speaker 1: And the other the other good sign that Matt Lafleur
Speaker 1: talked about Monday in his zoom, which he actually did
Speaker 1: from his house because the team facilities closed Monday and
Speaker 1: Tuesday by NFL mandate. But um he he talked about
Speaker 1: the defense in the third quarter because the Packers had
Speaker 1: the lead at halftime. The Bears had scored right before
Speaker 1: the end of the first half to get it to
Speaker 1: seven to ten, and then the Bears were getting the
Speaker 1: all coming out to start the third quarter, and that's
Speaker 1: where the Indianapolis game got away from the Packers. The
Speaker 1: defense started to give up the drives, you know, then
Speaker 1: the offense couldn't really answer, and the whole the whole
Speaker 1: game started to go south. Packers defense in the third quarter,
Speaker 1: they give up one first down right off the bat,
Speaker 1: but then force a punt. Then the next possession Savage
Speaker 1: gets his second interception. Then the possession after that is
Speaker 1: another three and out for the Bears and then this
Speaker 1: game was over. Um. The Packers defense did what it
Speaker 1: had to do coming out a halftime, and that was
Speaker 1: a good sign considering what had happened the previous week
Speaker 1: in Indie. Well, what's the best way to kind of
Speaker 1: waste a really good first half. It's allowing the opponent
Speaker 1: to double up. And unfortunately for the Green Bay Packers,
Speaker 1: they haven't. Luck hasn't been on their side. And relates
Speaker 1: to the coin toss this season, I think m Olivia
Speaker 1: Rehiner from the Press Becazette Journal Sentinel she had that stat.
Speaker 1: I think they're three three and eight this year. I
Speaker 1: think on the opening coin toss. They lost again on Monday.
Speaker 1: Now Tim Boyle had nothing to do with that. It
Speaker 1: was not his call. It was the Bears that did that.
Speaker 1: But by the deferral process, I mean in the Bears
Speaker 1: receiving it in the second half, they went down and
Speaker 1: they put up some points. The game kind of changes
Speaker 1: on its axis if if you allow them to score again.
Speaker 1: But in this particular case, they came out, they got
Speaker 1: the back to back sacks. They were able to really
Speaker 1: kind of stying me them as long as they needed to.
Speaker 1: Now I know you and I going through Insider Inbox,
Speaker 1: there were some fans that were displeased about the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Um Matt Lafleur said, it's definitely a balance between wanting
Speaker 1: to make sure that you are somewhat aggressive yet and
Speaker 1: still you know, dialing up some of your blitz packages
Speaker 1: and making life difficult on the quarterback, but at the
Speaker 1: same time not wanting to give up those explosive plays.
Speaker 1: My only challenge to people, and I wrote about this
Speaker 1: on Tuesdays, that if you want to take issue with
Speaker 1: what happened on that that run by Montgomery, or maybe
Speaker 1: some of the yards per play that the Bears had
Speaker 1: in the first three quarters, that's perfectly fine. We can
Speaker 1: have that conversation. There's a lot of people sort of
Speaker 1: losing themselves here about that fourth quarter. It's not prevent
Speaker 1: defense because you're trying to stop them from scoring. Certainly
Speaker 1: that is ultimately the goal, but it's prevent because you're
Speaker 1: trying to stop the explosive plays Green Bay. Although you
Speaker 1: want to be able to either get the fourth and
Speaker 1: eleven stop or get the Kevin King interception in the
Speaker 1: end zone, the big game there is making sure that
Speaker 1: you force the Bears to use their time outs, you're
Speaker 1: forcing them to eat the clock. Chicago had to do
Speaker 1: both of those things, and it's one of the reasons
Speaker 1: why Green Bay was able to come out with a victory.
Speaker 1: Maybe not as dominating in terms of what it looked
Speaker 1: like on the scoreboard, but certainly a victory nonetheless. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Matt Lafleur looked at really two plays on Chicago's
Speaker 1: last two touchdown drives there in the fourth quarter that
Speaker 1: that he really lamented, one being the fourth and eleven
Speaker 1: on the Bears first touched on drive. If the Packers
Speaker 1: get the stop there on fourth and eleven, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you're talking about massive substitutions. You can get everybody out
Speaker 1: of the game and all that, and the game is
Speaker 1: definitely over. So he really regretted that one. And then
Speaker 1: at the end of the second Bears touched under if
Speaker 1: Kevin King had an interception in his hands were in
Speaker 1: the end zone, and you know this game, this game
Speaker 1: ends up for seventeen, not fort if King just catches
Speaker 1: the ball, and now that's you know, la Fleur talked
Speaker 1: about that it was a three takeaway game for the defense.
Speaker 1: They definitely had opportunities for more. So that's hopefully a
Speaker 1: good sign moving forward. But you set it west. The
Speaker 1: Packers didn't give up any big plays the Bears took.
Speaker 1: I believe it was somewhere around nine and a half
Speaker 1: to ten minutes on the clock in scoring those two
Speaker 1: touched on drives. Well, if you're down forty one to
Speaker 1: ten late in the third quarter and you're gonna burn
Speaker 1: nine and a half to ten minutes of what's remaining
Speaker 1: in the game to get two touchdowns when you're down
Speaker 1: by thirty one points, you know, as the team that's
Speaker 1: in the lead, you'll take that. You're not gonna sweat
Speaker 1: that too much. And and yes, the Packers wish they
Speaker 1: had gotten the stop on fourth and eleven or gotten
Speaker 1: the turnover where that was in their hands. It didn't happen,
Speaker 1: So it ends up forty one five. But okay, forget
Speaker 1: about it. You move on now to the Philadelphia Eagles.
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Speaker 1: Backslash Packers All right, West. As I mentioned before, the
Speaker 1: Packers have a three game lead in the NFC North
Speaker 1: with five games to go. You can't ask to be
Speaker 1: in a better position than that. Looking at the larger
Speaker 1: picture in the NFC, there are three teams right now
Speaker 1: in the NFC with eight or more wins. The New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints are nine and two. The Packers and the
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks are both eight and three in the race
Speaker 1: for that number one overall seed, which is going to
Speaker 1: be the only one that gets a first round by
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Here's the interesting thing, West, I took
Speaker 1: a look at all of the remaining schedules for these
Speaker 1: three teams at the top of the NFC. Each team,
Speaker 1: as of right now has only one game left on
Speaker 1: its schedule against a team that is above five hundred.
Speaker 1: None of these teams has a loaded schedule down the
Speaker 1: stretch as far as those above five hundred teams. The
Speaker 1: Saints have to play the Kansas City Chiefs. The Packers,
Speaker 1: as everyone knows, they're playing the Tennessee Titans right after Christmas.
Speaker 1: The Seattle Seahawks have a game left against the Rams.
Speaker 1: But that being said, we all know you take nothing
Speaker 1: for granted in this league, and there are some games
Speaker 1: that that you know could certainly cause problems. And and
Speaker 1: the Packers are gonna face the Philadelphia Eagles this week.
Speaker 1: They'll be coming off a short week, but the Eagles
Speaker 1: are basically going to be playing for their season now.
Speaker 1: They just dropped out of first place in the NFC East,
Speaker 1: that where all those teams are below five hundred. They
Speaker 1: dropped out of first and they they're not gonna be
Speaker 1: able to afford to to fall back any farther. So,
Speaker 1: uh so, this Eagles game coming up for the Packers,
Speaker 1: you look at that obviously. You also look at Carolina
Speaker 1: down the road. If the Panthers get Christian McCaffrey back,
Speaker 1: that Carolina game looks quite different and along the same
Speaker 1: lines for those other clubs. The Saints have to play
Speaker 1: the Falcons, who are playing some pretty darn good football
Speaker 1: right now, even though they're below five hundred Minnesota Vikings
Speaker 1: are on New Orleans schedule as well. The Vikings are
Speaker 1: playing some pretty good ball and the Seattle Seahawks also
Speaker 1: have a game left against the forty Niners who just
Speaker 1: beat the Rams, and they're dealing with, you know, having
Speaker 1: to play in a new location and practice who knows where.
Speaker 1: So that's a whole crazy situation for San Francisco. But
Speaker 1: the bottom line is these uh, these schedules are not
Speaker 1: loaded for these for these teams, but yet there are
Speaker 1: some games that could definitely sneak up on them. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: And don't tell the San Francisco forty Niners that they're
Speaker 1: out of this thing yet. I mean, they still feel
Speaker 1: like they can still find a way, maybe get healthy
Speaker 1: and get on a run here late. Um. To your point,
Speaker 1: it is interesting for Green Bay because certainly Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 1: now dealing with the knee injury, Uh if he would
Speaker 1: be back, you're looking at Christian McCaffrey and then Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry the following week. That that's something no NFL run
Speaker 1: defense wants to have to deal with, and also coverage
Speaker 1: linebackers having to deal with it. From the standpoint of
Speaker 1: of Christian McCaffrey. But the biggest lesson I think that
Speaker 1: has been the takeaway this year. And you remember me
Speaker 1: saying this a month or two ago. I felt since
Speaker 1: the beginning that it's gonna be which team gets on
Speaker 1: the biggest run here down the stretch, Which team gets
Speaker 1: into the playoffs with three out of four wins or
Speaker 1: three or four victories in a row. Uh, that's gonna
Speaker 1: not only get you that number one seed, but I
Speaker 1: just feel like, in a year in which parody has
Speaker 1: been so prevalent in the NFC, especially at the top
Speaker 1: of the conference, that it's really going to be not
Speaker 1: necessarily the most complete team, but the teams that get
Speaker 1: the hottest down the stretch that are gonna be the
Speaker 1: ones going far. For Green Bays standpoint, we will talk
Speaker 1: about this very shortly um later this week. About the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles and the challenges that they present. I know
Speaker 1: some people want to take them for granted, and certainly
Speaker 1: the performance against Seattle was not onspiring, but they still
Speaker 1: have weapons there that could hurt this team. When you
Speaker 1: look at Miles Sanders, the fact that he's back now, Um,
Speaker 1: the guy is still even though it was a quiet
Speaker 1: performance against Seattle, Uh, the guy still is. You got
Speaker 1: to be careful with what you know. These running backs
Speaker 1: have been able to do. Just look at what Montgomery
Speaker 1: did on ten carries or whatever it was last week. Um,
Speaker 1: Travis Fulham is gonna be a guy that we're gonna
Speaker 1: be talking about this week. Richard Rogers got another Hail
Speaker 1: Mary catch that you don't want to take anybody for granted.
Speaker 1: That's why you hear over and over and over again.
Speaker 1: I'm sure fans get sick of hearing it. I'm sure
Speaker 1: to some extent media gets sick of hearing it. When
Speaker 1: Matt la Fleur talks about worrying about this week, he
Speaker 1: said after the game, I don't I couldn't even tell
Speaker 1: you right away who we were playing the following week
Speaker 1: because everything was so focused on needing this NFC North
Speaker 1: wind over, a Bears team at that point was their
Speaker 1: closest contender in that division. So I've I've always liked
Speaker 1: the mantra, and you're certainly gonna start a path to
Speaker 1: the playoffs here shortly. Mike McCarthy, as long as I
Speaker 1: cover this team, as long as I cover the NFL,
Speaker 1: I'm always going to go back to that that sort
Speaker 1: of edict that he had of you win your division,
Speaker 1: you win ten game games, that's when you can start
Speaker 1: talking about what the outlook looks like for the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Screen Bays at eight and three. They're sitting at a
Speaker 1: good spot right now, and they've set it a good
Speaker 1: spot for most of this season. Now, can you get hot?
Speaker 1: Can the defense show itself out? Special teams? We didn't
Speaker 1: talk about it much, Mike, but special teams took a
Speaker 1: big step forward in this game. I thought it was
Speaker 1: the cleanest performance from Hunter Bradley and j. K. Scott.
Speaker 1: And uh, soon enough, we'll be probably talking about some
Speaker 1: other acquisitions Green Bay is gonna be making. But this
Speaker 1: has been a season of attrition and from the very beginning,
Speaker 1: green Bay, to my eye at least, has been one
Speaker 1: step ahead of that. Yeah, well, as we as the
Speaker 1: Packers get ready for the Eagles here, you mentioned some
Speaker 1: of the skill players that Eagles have on offense, and
Speaker 1: certainly Carson Wentz. You know, the statistics aren't there for him.
Speaker 1: And this is a guy that I thought before he
Speaker 1: blew out his knee in two seen, I thought he
Speaker 1: was headed possibly for League m v P honors. He
Speaker 1: was having a tremendous year. The issue with the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Eagles offensively is the offensive line, and heading into their
Speaker 1: Monday night game against the Seattle Seahawks, I believe the
Speaker 1: statistic that ESPN had is the Eagles have used ten
Speaker 1: different offensive line combinations now in their eleven games this season.
Speaker 1: Now the Packers, they've weathered a lot of injuries on
Speaker 1: the offensive line. We talked about how the shuffling around
Speaker 1: the train keeps moving. The Eagles have not handled them
Speaker 1: been able to handle those injuries as well, and and
Speaker 1: it shows up with with just a lot of inconsistency
Speaker 1: in the offense and with Carson Wentz leading the league
Speaker 1: in sacks. Defensively, this Eagles team has a lot of
Speaker 1: big name players on defense. When you're talking Darius Slay
Speaker 1: at corner, he had a rough night against DK Metcalf,
Speaker 1: but who hasn't had a rough night this year against
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf. But you're looking at Fletcher Cox in the
Speaker 1: middle of that defensive line. Jalen Mills, the cornerback on
Speaker 1: the other side for the Eagles is a pretty good player.
Speaker 1: I think this Eagles defense is going to present some
Speaker 1: challenges to the Packers now. They need to they need
Speaker 1: to rebound there on a short week, and as I said,
Speaker 1: they've they had a chance to stay in first place
Speaker 1: in their division that has slipped away. Now they have
Speaker 1: to bounce back quickly. I think this Eagles defense is
Speaker 1: really going to be an interesting story this week because
Speaker 1: because the Packers are going to face some challenges from
Speaker 1: a team that is sub five. Yeah, and when you
Speaker 1: look at the games this season in which the Eagles
Speaker 1: have been able to, you know, kind of have success
Speaker 1: and prevail it, a lot of it has been based
Speaker 1: on their defense and being able to pick up its offense.
Speaker 1: That's sometimes the Eagles are such an interesting case study, Mike,
Speaker 1: because you know, the running game really has not been
Speaker 1: consistent for him. It's just been kind of a question
Speaker 1: over and over again of why we are where we
Speaker 1: are right now, and how do we how do we
Speaker 1: find a way over that hill? Because the NFC East
Speaker 1: is right there for the taking, and even now it's
Speaker 1: still there for the taking for the Eagles, what one
Speaker 1: game out right now of that lead so or a
Speaker 1: half game, whatever it works out to be with the tie,
Speaker 1: A lot a lot on the line this week, Mike,
Speaker 1: for both teams, it's gonna be interesting to see exactly
Speaker 1: how green they respond specifically to seeing if they can
Speaker 1: consider they can continue that efficiency that they show an
Speaker 1: offense sable against the Chicago Bears team that was pretty
Speaker 1: darn good going in. Yeah, no question about it. All right,
Speaker 1: With that, we will sign off on this edition of
Speaker 1: of I was about to say final thoughts were not
Speaker 1: It sounded like final thoughts there for a second, but yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: we're back to Packers Unscripted and we are calling it
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Speaker 1: for WES, I am Mike. Thank you for tuning in everybody.
Speaker 1: We'll see you next time.