Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford, joined as always by my trusted
Speaker 1: colleague West Hodkowitz. Were coming to you here from our
Speaker 1: studios at lambeau Field, back from the Bay Area West.
Speaker 1: A late night flight, minimal sleep. I'm not sure how
Speaker 1: you're doing. I'm a little tired. And that was not
Speaker 1: what the Packers had in mind going to the West coast.
Speaker 1: Another West coast dud Green Bay falls to the San
Speaker 1: Francisco forty seven to eight. Quite frankly, just dominated in
Speaker 1: all three phases of San Francisco forty unitiers have stated
Speaker 1: their supremacy right now on the top of the NFC.
Speaker 1: The Packers have learned how far they have to go,
Speaker 1: and these next few weeks will be about trying to
Speaker 1: close that gap. Yeah, one month to fix it. And
Speaker 1: you know, we could sit here, Matt Irvin could put
Speaker 1: our final thoughts video up on the back panel. We
Speaker 1: could discuss everything in terms of what the Packers need
Speaker 1: to execute to win this game. They didn't do any
Speaker 1: of it. We talked about a fast start, they go out,
Speaker 1: they have the fumble on the first possession. San Francisco
Speaker 1: punches in a two yard Tevan Coleman touchdown on their
Speaker 1: first offensive play. They aren't unable to, you know, consists
Speaker 1: consistently get good and favorable down in distance on first
Speaker 1: and second down, leads to the starting offense going over
Speaker 1: fourteen on third downs or over on third downs. There
Speaker 1: are so many different things that you could talk about
Speaker 1: in this game. The inability to get Aaron Jones going,
Speaker 1: the inability to get the ball to Jones in space,
Speaker 1: whether that be through the run or the past. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the missed opportunities, a few strange penalties in
Speaker 1: the first quarter. The Packers were not able to overcome
Speaker 1: boiled down. However you want. The San Francisco forty Niners
Speaker 1: were the better team. They played discipline, they played well.
Speaker 1: I tipped my cap to George Kittle was playing through
Speaker 1: a pretty bad ankle injury. It sounded like still comes
Speaker 1: up with six catches for a d twenty nine yards,
Speaker 1: including the sixty one yard backbreaker. Didn't slow him down,
Speaker 1: and he certainly showed he can still run on that angle. Boy,
Speaker 1: he's he's he's dynamic. But that that explosive play came
Speaker 1: on what was the Packers only offensive score and basically
Speaker 1: shut the door on any hopes of the Packers pulling
Speaker 1: some kind of second half miracle. And now they sit
Speaker 1: at eight and three. Yeah, it was about as rough
Speaker 1: a start as you could imagine. The Packers get a
Speaker 1: first down early, Davante Adams gets called for a personal
Speaker 1: foul over by the forty Niners sideline backs him up
Speaker 1: fifteen yards, so it's as though the first down never happened.
Speaker 1: And then Aaron Rodgers gets sacked on third down and
Speaker 1: the pile of bodies the ball sports out. The fourty
Speaker 1: Niners end up with an easy touchdown, and really the
Speaker 1: bulk of the rest of the first half Packers offense
Speaker 1: was just struggling. I believe it was five three and ounce.
Speaker 1: The Packers defense, I thought, was hanging in there until
Speaker 1: the last couple of minutes of the first half. They
Speaker 1: hit the forty two yard touchdown pass to Deebo Samuel.
Speaker 1: Then when the Packers had their fifth three and out,
Speaker 1: which gave the ball back to the forty Niners with
Speaker 1: still enough time, they hit another play and got in
Speaker 1: position for a field goal to make it twenty three
Speaker 1: to nothing at halftime. It went from thirteen nothing to
Speaker 1: twenty three to nothing, just in those last couple of
Speaker 1: minutes of the first half. And then, as you said,
Speaker 1: even when the Packers scored early in the second half,
Speaker 1: you get a touchdown Davante Adams on the quick little
Speaker 1: shovel pass, his first touchdown reception of the season, You
Speaker 1: get the two point conversion, you get it to twenty
Speaker 1: three to eight. But then the forty Niners go seventy
Speaker 1: five yards and two plays the sixty one yard George
Speaker 1: Kittle touchdown, and they basically just said We're not going
Speaker 1: to mess around with these guys any longer and and
Speaker 1: put the Packers away. Um, the whole question, now, West
Speaker 1: is is how did the Packers come back from this?
Speaker 1: Now the schedule is favorable. You've got the two bottom
Speaker 1: feeders in the NFC East the next two weeks, Giants
Speaker 1: on the road, Washington at home. But I'll say this,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about this a little bit as the
Speaker 1: week goes along. I don't care about the Giants two
Speaker 1: and nine record coming back from a night game on
Speaker 1: the West Coast. The way the Packers were just beaten
Speaker 1: by a legitimate contender. This is going to be a
Speaker 1: challenging week to prepare to get ready mentally, physically, everything
Speaker 1: that needs to go into this game. This is going
Speaker 1: to be a challenge. The Giants too and nine record
Speaker 1: and a rookie quarterback and all that aside. The Packers
Speaker 1: have their work cut out for him to make sure
Speaker 1: they go out to Jersey and come away with the victory.
Speaker 1: You and I back in April when we were breaking
Speaker 1: down and dissecting the schedule, we looked at this is
Speaker 1: probably the toughest turnaround of the Packers season, knowing what
Speaker 1: it was going to entail. And you have to remember,
Speaker 1: we didn't think the San Francisco forty Niners were going
Speaker 1: to be the team that they are. Yeah, and we
Speaker 1: still team to beat right now in the NFC. There's
Speaker 1: no question about that. They could be the forty Niners
Speaker 1: from last year with Nick Mullins, where they're three and
Speaker 1: nine or whatever, and you're still going to be able
Speaker 1: to You're gonna be put in a situation you have
Speaker 1: to make a quick turn around. It's going to be
Speaker 1: a challenge. Packers could have also won this game forty
Speaker 1: two to nothing and it would be a significant challenge.
Speaker 1: So that's why I think it's gonna be really interesting
Speaker 1: for Matt Lafleur this week to push the right buttons
Speaker 1: with his team, not only mentally but also physically. We'll
Speaker 1: see what Wednesday's practice looks like Thursday with Thanksgiving, how
Speaker 1: the Packers go about handling that, which is traditionally they're
Speaker 1: padded practice for the week. There's a lot of different
Speaker 1: question marks that are in my head right now, but
Speaker 1: the biggest thing, and some of the guys in the
Speaker 1: locker room talked about this afterwards, you have to get
Speaker 1: back on track now because in some ways this kind
Speaker 1: of reminds me of the boxer that you know, or
Speaker 1: you know a fighter that works their way up. They
Speaker 1: get that championship about and they get knocked out in
Speaker 1: the first couple of rounds. So what happens after that, Right,
Speaker 1: You're gonna end up working your way back up. You're
Speaker 1: gonna end up probably having some handpicked opponents. Then you've
Speaker 1: got to get your yourself back in a position where
Speaker 1: you want to contend. That's where the Packers are right now.
Speaker 1: You can't look past the Giants, you can't look past Washington,
Speaker 1: you can't look past the Bears. Despite some of the
Speaker 1: Bears struggles this season. You need to pick up the
Speaker 1: w's that you're supposed to pick up now though, because
Speaker 1: the only way to kind of take this bad sewer
Speaker 1: taste out of your mouth is winning the games that
Speaker 1: are in front of you and then going into us
Speaker 1: Bank Stadium in a month's time eleven and three and
Speaker 1: looking to, you know, prove some people wrong. So it's difficult.
Speaker 1: It's tough. They missed out on their opportunity to be
Speaker 1: the top seed in the NFC race. But you know,
Speaker 1: I know, one of the things Matt Floor pointed to
Speaker 1: and some of the players talked about as well, is
Speaker 1: it showed him again where the bar is in what
Speaker 1: they need to do to attain that bar and right now,
Speaker 1: whether it's execution, whether it's miscues, whether it's just not
Speaker 1: being able to find the right efficiency and execution at
Speaker 1: the right time, Packers just are not at that level
Speaker 1: at this point. Yeah, I think the most disappointing things,
Speaker 1: certainly when you look at the overall performances that the
Speaker 1: Packers were coming off a bye week and they were healthy.
Speaker 1: So yes, the fours are very good. They are the
Speaker 1: top team in the NFC right now. Going out to
Speaker 1: their place was going to be a big challenge no
Speaker 1: matter what. But to really not be competitive in the
Speaker 1: game when you're a healthy team, when you're coming off
Speaker 1: a bye week, that's the that's the big red flag
Speaker 1: with this team right now, because it's the second West
Speaker 1: Coast trip in a month where the Packers have really
Speaker 1: fallen flat, and there's you have to be careful now
Speaker 1: because you have another road game against the Giants. You're
Speaker 1: going to have back to back road games to Minneapolis
Speaker 1: and Detroit in the last two weeks of the regular season.
Speaker 1: You can't you can't fall into this trap of of
Speaker 1: being one of these teams that is that's like jackal
Speaker 1: and hide, where play a certain way at home and
Speaker 1: then another way on the road. Because the Packers offensive
Speaker 1: line in these these last two road trips has not
Speaker 1: held up against fierce pass rushes. The defense has been
Speaker 1: giving up the big plays, and even when they're not
Speaker 1: giving up the big plays, they're still giving up drives
Speaker 1: for field goals. They're not getting a lot of stops
Speaker 1: um when they're not playing at at lambeau Field. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot for the Packers to work through here.
Speaker 1: But but you said it right now, the whole focus
Speaker 1: is to get yourself in the position you need to
Speaker 1: be in when you go to Minneapolis and Weeks sixteen
Speaker 1: at US Bank Stadium. You're tied right now with the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings, both teams eight and three. UM. Both teams
Speaker 1: have three games before that meeting in week sixteen on
Speaker 1: Monday night, two days before Christmas, two nights before Christmas.
Speaker 1: And uh, that's that's really what you have to build
Speaker 1: towards now, is to build towards that game. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you got to hope that, you know, they were able
Speaker 1: to relatively speak and get out of this game healthy.
Speaker 1: There is the issue with Brian Bulaga. We'll see what
Speaker 1: the week holds with him. Tough to lose him after
Speaker 1: nine offensive snaps. Alex Light who has played some he
Speaker 1: played seventy six offensive snaps going into this game, but
Speaker 1: then he gets thrust in there for seventy one almost
Speaker 1: matches that in this matchup against San Francisco in a
Speaker 1: it's not just the fact that they have four or
Speaker 1: five first round picks in that defensive front. It's how
Speaker 1: many stunts they run. It's the things that they do
Speaker 1: to confuse. Uh. And Robert Salad, to his credit, I thought, really,
Speaker 1: you know, mixes personnel well and made things difficult on
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers in that offensive front. But yeah, you have
Speaker 1: to put all that behind you now because the reality
Speaker 1: is you're going from facing one of the premier, if
Speaker 1: not the leading horse in the race right now in
Speaker 1: San Francisco, to a New York Giants team that's really
Speaker 1: struggling and struggling to find its identity. They appear to
Speaker 1: have their quarterback in the future, they have their running
Speaker 1: back in the future, but beyond that, there isn't a
Speaker 1: whole lot to point to for New York Green Bays
Speaker 1: eight and three. You have to, without any question, without blinking,
Speaker 1: and i without even considering what happened on Sunday night,
Speaker 1: going there and take care of business against the Giants,
Speaker 1: try to improve, try to find answers, and honestly, just
Speaker 1: build some confidence in swagger here. Get on a run again.
Speaker 1: You know they've lost two of the last three now,
Speaker 1: so get on a run. No better way to do
Speaker 1: it than on the road against New York. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is one of those games coming up here. I'm reminded
Speaker 1: that the thought just occurred to me. You know how
Speaker 1: big a baseball fan I am as as big a
Speaker 1: Brewers fan. As I am, I'm reminded of what Now.
Speaker 1: The circumstances are not exactly the same, but I'm reminded
Speaker 1: of a message that Craig Council delivered to his Milwaukee
Speaker 1: Brewers when Christian Yellich had broken his kneecap and you're
Speaker 1: in Florida at Miami where you're playing a team that's
Speaker 1: going nowhere. The stands were practically empty, and Craig Counsel's
Speaker 1: message was these are the types of games you have
Speaker 1: to bring your own energy. Now in New Jersey on Sunday,
Speaker 1: the stadium is not going to be empty. There's gonna
Speaker 1: be fans, there's gonna be noise and whatnot. But the
Speaker 1: Giants are two and nine, they're in a rebuilding mode
Speaker 1: with a rookie quarterback. The Packers need to try to
Speaker 1: get their season back on track. You're not going to
Speaker 1: have the lambeau Field crowd behind you. This is one
Speaker 1: of those games the Packers are going to have to
Speaker 1: bring their own energy and it's going to be a
Speaker 1: challenge with everything that they've gone through. And as you said,
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens with Brian Bulaga and if there
Speaker 1: are any um changes that need to be made on
Speaker 1: the offensive line. But it's a but it is a
Speaker 1: bring your own energy game because because the Packers cannot
Speaker 1: continue to play like this on the road, They've got
Speaker 1: to find it. They've got to find it within themselves because, um,
Speaker 1: because you're gonna have to win. You're gonna have to
Speaker 1: win at least two, if not if not three road
Speaker 1: games here down the stretch to be in the position
Speaker 1: you want to be in. Yeah, and you know, credit
Speaker 1: to Green Bay at this point. You know, one of
Speaker 1: the reasons that they're sitting at eight and three is
Speaker 1: they've won some games on the road, and they've won
Speaker 1: some games in loud environments like Kansas City. Albeit I
Speaker 1: know Patrick Mahomes wasn't playing in that game, but there
Speaker 1: was an element of adversity they had to overcome. They
Speaker 1: beat the Dallas Cowboys, who could very well end up
Speaker 1: being the NFC East representative there. They had those type
Speaker 1: of games. But you know how this is, Mike, There's
Speaker 1: gonna be levels to this game. In San Francisco, New Orleans, Seattle,
Speaker 1: they're kind of on that top tier. Now. Green Bay
Speaker 1: hasn't had a chance to test themselves against the Saints
Speaker 1: and Seahawks. But you know the proof is in the pudding.
Speaker 1: Minnesota and Green Bay, I think are trying to figure
Speaker 1: out exactly where they fit into this picture. So this
Speaker 1: journey to get to that week fifteen week sixteen game,
Speaker 1: now that's paramount. And again the third step doesn't matter
Speaker 1: unless the first step is a good one. And that's
Speaker 1: why the Giants that has to be the focus. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: you mentioned the road victories at Dallas and at Kansas City.
Speaker 1: In the wee hours of the morning on the flight
Speaker 1: back as I was writing Insider Inbox, I made that.
Speaker 1: I made this comment, you take week one and everything
Speaker 1: that goes into the Chicago trip kind of out of
Speaker 1: it because weak ones are weak ones. They are what
Speaker 1: they are. But those two road victories at Dallas at
Speaker 1: Kansas City were essentially predicated on getting off to the
Speaker 1: fast start. You were up thirty one to three on
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. In the third quarter, you jumped out fourteen
Speaker 1: nothing on Kansas City. Now the Chiefs came back much
Speaker 1: much quicker, but you got up, you got out fourteen
Speaker 1: to nothing. They came back and then you were kind
Speaker 1: of in a dog fight the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: The Packers have to find a way on the road
Speaker 1: that when things don't start well, they have to find
Speaker 1: a way to to you know, to turn the key
Speaker 1: and get the engine started. Because these last two, uh,
Speaker 1: these last two road trips for the West Coast, they've
Speaker 1: started poorly on offense and simply never found anything. And
Speaker 1: you can't you can't end up feeling like you're defeated
Speaker 1: after one quarter on the road if you don't start well.
Speaker 1: They've got to find another way to win a road game.
Speaker 1: And that's that's the thing, because it's really interesting where
Speaker 1: it's not like this has been a prolonged issue where
Speaker 1: in eleven games Green Bay has just not been able
Speaker 1: to get off the fast starts. It's either been red
Speaker 1: hot or ice cold. So you know, you obviously want
Speaker 1: to always steer towards red hot, but if it isn't that,
Speaker 1: you need to make sure you stay in in the
Speaker 1: middle and equilibrium and and that's been a challenge for
Speaker 1: Green Bay. And again this is why I just I
Speaker 1: look at these games against New York in Washington and
Speaker 1: you cannot look past them. I mean, they are huge important.
Speaker 1: We do not want to be sitting here a week
Speaker 1: from now talking about letdowns I mean, it's just that
Speaker 1: it's not the narrative of the season right now. But
Speaker 1: that being said, this is the opportunity now in front
Speaker 1: of you. And and if you're the packers, you have
Speaker 1: your schedule here at the last five and then you
Speaker 1: look at what San Francisco is dealing with and the
Speaker 1: challenge that they face in Seattle. You have to be
Speaker 1: thankful for your lot in life right now and you
Speaker 1: have to capitalize on those opportunities. Yeah, before I forget
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Speaker 1: can I before I think we're gonna wrap up here
Speaker 1: on on some of the other games that the other
Speaker 1: action that happened. But before we get there, I just
Speaker 1: want to mention Zadarius Smith, and I wrote about it
Speaker 1: his acknowledgement for a member of the equipment staff. I
Speaker 1: get it it was like the only silver line to
Speaker 1: this game, but I thought it was meaningful on two
Speaker 1: different reasons here, and before I get into that, I'll
Speaker 1: mention this was a gesture that he had come up
Speaker 1: with with a member of the Packers team equipment staff
Speaker 1: whose mother has has been battling in illness, and throughout
Speaker 1: the week when they got back they had discussed this,
Speaker 1: and when they got back from the bye week, uh,
Speaker 1: that equipment staff member, they came up with this idea
Speaker 1: to do a T shirt an undershirt underneath zadarius jersey
Speaker 1: that said we heart Eileen. Matt Arvin might be able
Speaker 1: to bring that up on a on a photo here.
Speaker 1: But an incredible neat thing that the sun is actually
Speaker 1: the one that drew that for Zadarius on there, and
Speaker 1: is after his first sack in the second quarter, actually
Speaker 1: lifted up the cameras were able to capture it. The
Speaker 1: other thing to this that's pretty neat. Zadarius Smith, one
Speaker 1: and a half sacks moves to ten on the season,
Speaker 1: him and Presston now over that twenty mark the first
Speaker 1: time since three the Packers have had two pass rushers
Speaker 1: over double digits sacks. What an investment they made their
Speaker 1: Brian Goodkuin's made those two Mike the way that they're trending,
Speaker 1: in addition to a really nice emotional moment for them, Um,
Speaker 1: that could very well go down as one of the
Speaker 1: best signings of Packers I've had here in free agency
Speaker 1: over the last twenty five years. Yeah. Absolutely, two guys
Speaker 1: in double digits and sacks with five games to go.
Speaker 1: It was Reggie White and Bryce pop In. Was the
Speaker 1: last time the Packers had two in double digits and
Speaker 1: a lot of things went wrong for Green beying that game.
Speaker 1: But I really challenge you if you have a chance
Speaker 1: to rewatch. I'm sure there's not a lot of Patrickracks
Speaker 1: that want too. I think you'll probably talk about this somewhat.
Speaker 1: And one last with h You know what you might
Speaker 1: have missed is the Darius oppressing Smith. You talk about
Speaker 1: two guys whose engines don't stop until the final whistle. Man, again,
Speaker 1: I'm waiting for the final stats on pro football focused
Speaker 1: as far as how many pressures that Darius generated. Again
Speaker 1: in this game, that guy keeps working. Unfortunately, just wasn't
Speaker 1: enough defensively. Yeah, no, it wasn't. Elsewhere in the NFC
Speaker 1: where things stand right now, everybody, everybody now has had
Speaker 1: their bye week. Everybody has five games left to go.
Speaker 1: The San Francisco for THEA Enters are ten and one,
Speaker 1: The New Orleans Saints and Seattle Seahawks are nine and two.
Speaker 1: The Green Bay Packers in Minnesota Vikings are eight and three.
Speaker 1: The Saints they they caught a break west um twenty
Speaker 1: eight yard field goal that's missed. Now, obviously the Saints
Speaker 1: still would have had a chance to either win with
Speaker 1: a touchdown or tie with a field goal and get
Speaker 1: the game to overtime. But a twenty eight yard field
Speaker 1: goal missed by the Carolina Panthers with two minutes to go,
Speaker 1: and then it gives Drew Brees the ball and as predicted,
Speaker 1: he marches the Saints down the field, puts Will LUTs
Speaker 1: in position. New Orleans escapes after blowing a two score
Speaker 1: lead in the second half to Carolina. So the Saints
Speaker 1: get to nine into the Seahawks get to nine and
Speaker 1: two by taking care of business on the road at Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz did not really have any of his primary
Speaker 1: offensive weapons with the exception of Zach Ertz and Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz frankly just did not play well. And um um
Speaker 1: and Seattle, Um, they got the victory. It wasn't it
Speaker 1: wasn't pretty, it wasn't anything spectacular, but um, but they
Speaker 1: are nine and two and still right on the forty
Speaker 1: niners heels in the NFC West. And then um, interesting
Speaker 1: game tonight with the Los Angeles Rams at six and five,
Speaker 1: trying to stay in this playoff chase in the NFC
Speaker 1: with a big home game in prime time against the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens, the team that everybody is uh um pegging
Speaker 1: as one of the top teams, certainly one of the
Speaker 1: top two teams in the a f C, if not
Speaker 1: the top team right now, and one of the top
Speaker 1: teams in the league altogether, the most dynamic, explosive team
Speaker 1: I think right now in professional football, and and certainly
Speaker 1: one of the hottest uh in the Ravens. So that's
Speaker 1: a big challenge for the Rams. Thing that's kind of
Speaker 1: stinks for Green Bay is they didn't get any help.
Speaker 1: They really didn't get any help the last two weeks
Speaker 1: when you look at how this thing when there were
Speaker 1: a lot of games that were looking like maybe the
Speaker 1: Packers would get some help, and then they and then
Speaker 1: they all they all went the other way. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: phil It's funny, Philadelphia and Carolina are both five and six,
Speaker 1: But man, there's a different feeling about both of those.
Speaker 1: Five and six is Carolina It's like they are just
Speaker 1: a few plays here. They're away from, you know, being
Speaker 1: a team that's in playoff contention. And the Eagles, to me,
Speaker 1: just continue to flounder and as you mentioned, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of injuries are dealing with, but their inability to
Speaker 1: fight through some of those things has been a thing
Speaker 1: that has plagued them. Seattle finds a way to win,
Speaker 1: though Russell Wilson only throws for two hundred yards, not
Speaker 1: one of his better performances, but you know that that's
Speaker 1: a credit to him. It's a credit to what they
Speaker 1: do and how they're able to find things. They hit.
Speaker 1: They hit two big plays and that was a difference
Speaker 1: in the game. They hit the kind of the flee, flick, flicker,
Speaker 1: throwback pass, whatever you want to call it. For the
Speaker 1: one touchdown, and Rashad Penny breaks off a long touchdown
Speaker 1: run for their other touchdown, and then their defense did
Speaker 1: the rest against an Eagles offense that as I said,
Speaker 1: you know, Jordan Howard, Nelson, aghil Are, those receivers were
Speaker 1: all out and uh and Carson Wentz just didn't have it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and this is actually something I really like about Pete
Speaker 1: carroll Um. Rashad Penny has not had a great start
Speaker 1: to his career with the Seahawks, and obviously Chris Carson
Speaker 1: is the one that's come up and sort of grabbed
Speaker 1: that brass ring as they're starting back, but when they've
Speaker 1: needed to turn to him this season, he's produced for them.
Speaker 1: Now he's not pushing for the starting spot yet, but
Speaker 1: I thought this was one game that showed exactly what
Speaker 1: he adds that at offense. And again, it's just one
Speaker 1: of those deals where good teams find ways to win
Speaker 1: in bad situations, and in Seattle certainly did that. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see tonight with regards to the Rams,
Speaker 1: because for them, there will be a big difference between
Speaker 1: being seven and four or being six and five, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, regardless of the opponent. But Obviously they have
Speaker 1: a tremendous opponent here and with right now, you're you
Speaker 1: know your number basically your your bottom record in a
Speaker 1: wild card chase in the NFC is at eight and three,
Speaker 1: and uh if the Rams. If the Rams get to
Speaker 1: seven and four, then hey, they're right there. But if
Speaker 1: they don't and they're six and five, then they're really
Speaker 1: playing uphill the final month of the season. Very difficult
Speaker 1: to make the playoffs is the number three team in
Speaker 1: your division even more difficult to find that second wild
Speaker 1: card spot when you're hovering around five. The Rams have
Speaker 1: been better than the Eagles have been this season, but
Speaker 1: again one of those teams that just has not done
Speaker 1: enough to separate themselves from the pack. You know, Jared
Speaker 1: Goff eleven touchdowns, ten interceptions so far in the season.
Speaker 1: It's a big, big game for them because as much
Speaker 1: as we talk about the Ravens offensively, defensively, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying it's the two thousand five unit or two thousand
Speaker 1: and six unit, but they are doing a lot of
Speaker 1: things right. They're gonna make things difficult. Yeah, a very
Speaker 1: very interesting cross conference game for this late in the season.
Speaker 1: That'll be worth watching. But for now we're going to
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