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 Weston Hodkowitz. We're coming to you here from
Speaker 1: our studios at lambeau Field and unfortunately West talking about
Speaker 1: another loss for the green Bay Packers Sunday at Lambo
Speaker 1: to ten to the New York Jets. And we can
Speaker 1: touch on a little bit in all three phases because
Speaker 1: there was a lot that went wrong in this game
Speaker 1: for green Bay, but starting on offense, because hearing from
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur both after the game and on Monday, a
Speaker 1: lot of problems for the Packers up front with the
Speaker 1: blocking the offensive line, and it sounds like things are
Speaker 1: going to be examined in terms of potential personnel changes here.
Speaker 1: So we'll have to see how that shakes out. But
Speaker 1: but things could be changing up front for green Bay's
Speaker 1: offense every once in a while, Mike and Insider in box,
Speaker 1: and also it'll seep into final thoughts, we'll tell talk
Speaker 1: about winning in the trenches, winning up front. That isn't
Speaker 1: just a convenient cliche, it's the truth. And the New
Speaker 1: York Giants I felt like in this game, and it's
Speaker 1: not just the Packers offensive line, it's both sides of
Speaker 1: the ball. They were able to impose their will and
Speaker 1: they were the team that was better up front, and
Speaker 1: you saw how it impacted things right from the get go.
Speaker 1: I mean Quinnin Williams, for my money, probably the best
Speaker 1: player on the field on Sunday, especially the way he
Speaker 1: penetrated both against the run. Packers were not able to
Speaker 1: get their concepts going in that regard and then being
Speaker 1: among the guys that was pressuring Aaron Rodgers nine quarterback hits,
Speaker 1: three of those belonged to Williams. The Packers just weren't
Speaker 1: able to get into their stuff. That was one of
Speaker 1: the big messages that Matt Lafleur had as far as
Speaker 1: the game plan was concerned. I think when you hear
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur discussed it for twenty five minutes, you understand
Speaker 1: what they were looking for and why they weren't able
Speaker 1: to get to certain things. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, I think the most frustrating thing is the
Speaker 1: way the Packers finished in London is the way they
Speaker 1: started back at lambeau Field, and ultimately it just wasn't
Speaker 1: good enough. Yeah, And it's interesting because you know, up
Speaker 1: through the first you know, five games of the season,
Speaker 1: including coming back from the London game, we were talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, run pass ratio and how many touches this
Speaker 1: guy gets and that guy gets. This game was not
Speaker 1: about that at all, because the Packers were having so
Speaker 1: much trouble upfront with the stunts and the twists, and
Speaker 1: as you said, they just couldn't they couldn't get into
Speaker 1: their stuff, and and uh, it didn't matter, it didn't
Speaker 1: matter who was supposed to get the ball or whatever.
Speaker 1: The Jets up front, we're just wrecking anything that um
Speaker 1: that Green Bay wanted to do. On the defensive side.
Speaker 1: This it felt to me, and you know me, I'm
Speaker 1: a baseball fan, so I'm gonna use a baseball analogy here.
Speaker 1: It felt to me like like a pictures duel because
Speaker 1: early on, both both of these defenses were having their way.
Speaker 1: Nobody was getting anything done offensively, and you know, in
Speaker 1: a pictures duel, if it gets to like the sixth
Speaker 1: or seventh inning and both pictures out there, you know,
Speaker 1: are feel like they have to be perfect because their
Speaker 1: offense is not doing anything against the other guy's picture.
Speaker 1: And then as soon as a mistake has made, suddenly
Speaker 1: it's not just one run on the board, it's like
Speaker 1: three or four or five, and then a pictures duel
Speaker 1: actually turns into a runaway, turns into a blowout. That's
Speaker 1: what this game felt like, because three to three at halftime,
Speaker 1: and then the Packers defense got a three and outright
Speaker 1: at the start of the third quarter. But then after
Speaker 1: that the play action rollout and the forty one yard
Speaker 1: passed down the field to Corey Davis. That felt like
Speaker 1: the one that that broke the damn It opened the
Speaker 1: floodgates because from that moment on, the Packers defense that
Speaker 1: suddenly had allowed only three points through eight possessions for
Speaker 1: the Jets, then suddenly allowed two hundred yards over the
Speaker 1: next three possessions and couldn't get itself off the field,
Speaker 1: and the Jets offense that have been non existent in
Speaker 1: the third quarter up until that game only three point
Speaker 1: downe the season, was able to find the end zone twice.
Speaker 1: It was a difficult situation for Green Bay because you
Speaker 1: do sympathize with how it performed out of the gate. Again,
Speaker 1: started fast, four three notes in their first five possessions
Speaker 1: under any metric that should be enough to allow your
Speaker 1: football team to be able to get out to a lead.
Speaker 1: But what hampered Green Bay in this game. Mike and
Speaker 1: I thought Adrian Amos did a phenomenal job of outlining
Speaker 1: this after the game. If you're not going to have takeaways,
Speaker 1: and the Packers have again struggled to get takeaways, they
Speaker 1: lost that battle again in this matchup. If you're not
Speaker 1: going to have takeaways, it's going to be difficult to
Speaker 1: keep in a opposition off the board because the way
Speaker 1: this game is played, especially in this year, there's going
Speaker 1: to be an explosive Now, how you react after that
Speaker 1: is still something to be said. But ultimately it came
Speaker 1: down to three plays for the New York Jets. It
Speaker 1: was at forty one yard pass the Davis. It was
Speaker 1: the twenty yard run for a touchdown by Barrios, which
Speaker 1: was the very next snap. And then also Breeze Hall,
Speaker 1: who you and I spent two episodes last week talking
Speaker 1: about how dynamic this young man is. He finally ended
Speaker 1: up breaking one, got the thirty four yard touchdown That
Speaker 1: was basically it. In addition to the fact the Packers
Speaker 1: had the punt block returned for a touchdown. But defensively,
Speaker 1: that's all the Packers really conceded. But in a game
Speaker 1: like this, when your offense isn't producing, we're not getting takeaways,
Speaker 1: and you're not perfect in another phase, you're absolutely right
Speaker 1: with the pitchers dual analogy, because the Packers blanked first
Speaker 1: and the Jets were able to pull out a big victory. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you mentioned the punt block for a touchdown. Very
Speaker 1: disheartening to see the special team's breakdowns. There was a
Speaker 1: blocked field goal when the Packers were trying to get
Speaker 1: on the board early, then the block punt for a touchdown. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: that's you know, as we talked about with the playoff
Speaker 1: game against the forty niners last year, that's ten points
Speaker 1: in a game that, in this case, the Packers lose
Speaker 1: by seventeen. So, even with withything that was going on
Speaker 1: offensively and defensively, the special teams that had had come
Speaker 1: so far, I think in a pretty short amount of time, frankly,
Speaker 1: with what we had seen through the first five games
Speaker 1: on special teams, the first big breakdowns, the first big letdowns,
Speaker 1: happened in that phase, and this was absolutely the game
Speaker 1: you couldn't afford. I mean, that's Murphy's law, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: if something, when something can go wrong, it will and uh.
Speaker 1: And what had been the most stable phase of the
Speaker 1: game for Green Bay with Rich Pisaccia turning around these
Speaker 1: special teams they had a bad day as well. Yeah
Speaker 1: they did. And here's the probably the most frustrating part
Speaker 1: of this thing. Offensively, Packers did not play well enough,
Speaker 1: no question about that. You can't get ten points. You
Speaker 1: can't really only have two big drives. You have to
Speaker 1: you have to do better than that, especially at this league,
Speaker 1: to to outdule the opponent. The maddening thing on defensive
Speaker 1: special teams is Adjustments were made, Improvements were made, but
Speaker 1: it ultimately was big plays that erote it defensively. Just
Speaker 1: before we jump into special teams, JR. Alexander people calling
Speaker 1: for him to match a receiver. He matched Garrett Wilson
Speaker 1: and this thing completely took Wilson out of the game.
Speaker 1: The Packers wanted to do better against the run. They
Speaker 1: buy in large, did that in the first half before
Speaker 1: some big runs in the second half. It looked like
Speaker 1: a more complete unit special teams. They get a punt
Speaker 1: block earlier in the game. Eric Wilson, the recent signing
Speaker 1: a guy that had a previous block when he was
Speaker 1: with Minnesota three or four years ago. He was able
Speaker 1: to come out make a play leads to a six
Speaker 1: yard punt, So he doesn't get credit for it, but
Speaker 1: it's still gave green Bay the ball inside Jets territory. Well,
Speaker 1: what happens later on, they get the field goal blocked,
Speaker 1: they get the punt blocked, those type of plays, Mike
Speaker 1: in that one play, one down sort of mentality of
Speaker 1: special teams, it's too much, it hurts you too much,
Speaker 1: and it wipes out all the positivity that Green Bay
Speaker 1: had had in that game, being able to keep the
Speaker 1: Jets win the position battle. Again, as regards to the field,
Speaker 1: a big play like that that puts points on the
Speaker 1: board ultimately is just the same as an interception for
Speaker 1: a touchdown. It's just it's it's it's a big play
Speaker 1: that happens that ultimately turns the tide of a football game. Well,
Speaker 1: a few things to talk about personnel wise as far
Speaker 1: as what we saw in this game and we may
Speaker 1: or may not see going forward. But Keyshawn Nixon is
Speaker 1: the new kickoff returner um for this special teams unit,
Speaker 1: and he was darn close to break in one. Um,
Speaker 1: he looked like maybe if he if he slips one
Speaker 1: more tackle, he could have been he could have been
Speaker 1: out the gate. Randall Cobb, unfortunately, Um sustained an ankle injury,
Speaker 1: although it sounds like it is not as serious as
Speaker 1: maybe initially initially feared he's going to miss some time,
Speaker 1: but all indications are it's not a season ending ankle injury.
Speaker 1: So that could lead to, you know, we may see
Speaker 1: some more of a Marii Rodgers on offense, and we
Speaker 1: saw him late in the game essentially running a Randall
Speaker 1: Cobb crossing route from the slot, makes a catch, moves
Speaker 1: the chains for a first down there. So we'll keep
Speaker 1: an eye that. And then as far as the offensive line,
Speaker 1: Jake Hanson had stepped in for Race Newman Newman, but
Speaker 1: Hanson Hanson injures a bicep then has to leave. Newman
Speaker 1: goes back in. Lots of talk right now and speculation
Speaker 1: as to whether Elton Jenkins is going to stay at
Speaker 1: right tackle or if the Packers are going to move
Speaker 1: him to a guard spot. And if they do move
Speaker 1: into a guard spot, then what is the domino effect there?
Speaker 1: So UM lots of personnel things here to keep an
Speaker 1: eye on moving forward as the Packers head to the
Speaker 1: nation's capital this weekend. First and foremost, I love Randall
Speaker 1: cop because I know you're not big on social media,
Speaker 1: but he had probably the best one to combination I
Speaker 1: think I've ever seen. I did, I did see it
Speaker 1: Instagram story him and you feel terrible that the photos
Speaker 1: look terrible, the videos look heartbreaking. I mean the guy's
Speaker 1: crying putting the thing or thinking he broke his ankle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he thought he thought his career was over. As Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers said after the game, in the moment, he thought
Speaker 1: that was it. Yeah, and at thirty two years old,
Speaker 1: you just never can be sure, and you know how
Speaker 1: these things work. But then you see the second one,
Speaker 1: which you can go looking on Instagram yourself if you'
Speaker 1: see it, but just need less say, a man dancing
Speaker 1: with crutches in celebration the fact that he could be
Speaker 1: back soon. That's huge for Green Bay's offense. They need
Speaker 1: him back. I think time has proven that Randall Cobb
Speaker 1: is not going to play seventy snaps a game anymore.
Speaker 1: That much is certain. I know he would love to,
Speaker 1: but that's not the Royal green Bay's asking of him.
Speaker 1: But time and time again, Mike, it's not a coincidence
Speaker 1: over the last year how we've seen Aaron Rodgers turned
Speaker 1: to him in those third down situations. There were positives
Speaker 1: to this thing for green Bay. Alan Lazard every week
Speaker 1: looks more and more like a top flight receiver had
Speaker 1: a great back shoulder catch for a touchdown, which you
Speaker 1: would have loved to see that play in that series
Speaker 1: to start a game, to get yourself moving the football.
Speaker 1: Robert touny In set a new Packers record with ten receptions,
Speaker 1: being able to again be that third down target late
Speaker 1: when the Packers a go to target, late when Randall
Speaker 1: Cobb wasn't available, but ultimately not being able to run
Speaker 1: the ball well enough. Whatever phase you want to put
Speaker 1: that on, the blocking scheme, whatever, we it's not just
Speaker 1: about getting the ball in people's hands. It's about being
Speaker 1: able to make use out of those yardage, and sixty
Speaker 1: rushing yards just isn't going to get the job done.
Speaker 1: What is the transition? What is the adjustment? I thought
Speaker 1: Joe Barry showed last week that you can reset the board,
Speaker 1: you can do things differently offensively. How they go about
Speaker 1: doing that that is the task at hand for Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur and these coaches trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: the best foot forward will be. Yeah, and ultimately right now,
Speaker 1: this is this is the biggest regular season challenge of
Speaker 1: the Matt Lafleur era, not just because of back to
Speaker 1: back losses in a regular season for the first time,
Speaker 1: but how the Packers have looked quite frankly on both
Speaker 1: sides of the ball the last six quarters um and
Speaker 1: then also with with with the special teams breakdowns popping up.
Speaker 1: This team has a This team has a major, major
Speaker 1: challenge in front of it. And I mean, obviously in
Speaker 1: the past they've dealt with injuries to David baktr and
Speaker 1: Elton Jenkins and Aaron Rodgers missing a game with COVID
Speaker 1: and you know all of at this is this is
Speaker 1: bigger right now, This is a bigger challenge than all
Speaker 1: that in terms in terms of, uh, the challenge for
Speaker 1: the leadership of the team, both coaching wise and player
Speaker 1: wise in the locker room. And uh, this is this
Speaker 1: is a team that's gotta that's got to fight its
Speaker 1: way out of a hole here. And this is a
Speaker 1: place that that Matt Lafleur as head coach of the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers has not been in before. So it's
Speaker 1: going to be very interesting to see what the response
Speaker 1: is because right now, as you said it, I said
Speaker 1: it in Insider inbox. What matters now is the response
Speaker 1: you got, you got. The Packers have gotten knocked down
Speaker 1: and then they were knocked down again a second week
Speaker 1: in a row. What's the response? What are you going
Speaker 1: to do? And um, this team has the veteran leaders.
Speaker 1: They believe in the players in the locker room, they
Speaker 1: certainly believe in the coaching staff. What are they going
Speaker 1: to do? How are they going to pull it back together?
Speaker 1: Because three and three not what anybody expected, not where
Speaker 1: this team expected to be six games into the season.
Speaker 1: And that's why I really the appreciated many of the
Speaker 1: veterans who talked after the game their perspective on things,
Speaker 1: because there is several of these rookies, first year player,
Speaker 1: not rookies, but first, second, third year players, players have
Speaker 1: only been here during the Mattin floor area, maybe had
Speaker 1: successful college careers that don't know what it's like to
Speaker 1: lose off the bat. Adrian Imus was discussing this as well,
Speaker 1: mentioned that yes, here, we've started eighting one a lot,
Speaker 1: we've started eating two a lot. But there's teams in
Speaker 1: the National Football League that have to start three and three.
Speaker 1: Al Lazart said, do you look at the Rams last
Speaker 1: year starting three and three before ultimately getting their stuff
Speaker 1: together and making the run. David Bactieri played on a
Speaker 1: one win Colorado team. Uh, Mercedes Lewis did it for
Speaker 1: years with the Jacksonville Jaguars and then trying to find
Speaker 1: themselves and and win football games. It's not easy to
Speaker 1: win in this league, and that's why Matt Lafleur has
Speaker 1: said for three and a half years not to take
Speaker 1: that for granted. The challenge for Green Bay is because
Speaker 1: they have faced adversity in the regular season before. As
Speaker 1: you outlined, is they're having to do it in the
Speaker 1: first and second quarter of the season. It's early. You
Speaker 1: don't have a bunch of pelts on the wall already.
Speaker 1: You don't have the confidence built up that, oh, we've
Speaker 1: beaten six or seven teams already, will rally, we'll get
Speaker 1: we'll get this one back. The key is, though, understanding
Speaker 1: that Packers could win eleventh straight and finished fourteen and
Speaker 1: three on the season, they could lose eleven straight and
Speaker 1: finish thirteen and three and fourteen on the season. Your
Speaker 1: season is what you make it at this point, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what's happened. Every single week is a battle
Speaker 1: for that w The Jets won it last week, the
Speaker 1: Giants came back and took it the week before. The
Speaker 1: Washington Commanders are a team now with Taylor Heineke, and
Speaker 1: we'll talk about this on Thursday. They're going to be
Speaker 1: hungry to try turning around their fortunes now that Brian
Speaker 1: Robinson's back, now that they have some more of their
Speaker 1: pieces back. The Green Bay Packers have to go to
Speaker 1: FedEx Field on Sunday with a mindset in iron clad
Speaker 1: will that this is going to be our statement game,
Speaker 1: not a must win game. I will never say there's
Speaker 1: a must win game before December, but they need to
Speaker 1: make a stay eatement here that we are much better
Speaker 1: than the three and three record that we currently It
Speaker 1: says we are, Yeah, there's no question about it, and
Speaker 1: it's the It's the first of three straight road games
Speaker 1: as well. Before the Packers um do get back home.
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Speaker 1: the Packers are three and three, and it's really interesting
Speaker 1: when you look at the NFC. No. Three and three
Speaker 1: is not where the Packers want to be four and two.
Speaker 1: If they had taken care of business at home against
Speaker 1: the Jets, would have certainly felt a lot better. But
Speaker 1: two of the four divisions in the NFC, three and
Speaker 1: three is in first place. So because of that, there
Speaker 1: are actually only four teams in the NFC that are
Speaker 1: better than three and three. Three of them are in
Speaker 1: the NFC East, with the Eagles at six and oh,
Speaker 1: the Giants at five and one, and the Cowboys at
Speaker 1: four and two, and then obviously the Minnesota Vikings on
Speaker 1: top of the NFC North at five and one. The
Speaker 1: Packers now two games back, two games back in the
Speaker 1: division six games into the season. Um certainly the biggest,
Speaker 1: the biggest division deficit the Packers have faced in the
Speaker 1: in the Matt Lafleur era. But as you said, eleven
Speaker 1: games to go, the season is just you know, even
Speaker 1: getting close to to the midpoint here. But um, as
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers said after the loss in London to the Giants,
Speaker 1: there's you know, there there are games games that there's
Speaker 1: only so many you can let get away, right And
Speaker 1: now that the Packers are three and three, heading on
Speaker 1: a stretch of three consecutive road game games, they've kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, they've kind of run out of those ones
Speaker 1: that you let get away because because otherwise Minnesota, you know,
Speaker 1: you're going to be chasing them for a while. Here
Speaker 1: now here, here's again something that's going to be kind
Speaker 1: of a I don't want to say frustrating win, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use the effort again. Frustrating is. And it's
Speaker 1: the reason why you can never look at a schedule
Speaker 1: in April or June and say, well, these are the wins,
Speaker 1: these are the losses and figure it out from their
Speaker 1: Green Bay right now behind. I think just Detroit in
Speaker 1: terms of the strength of schedule, in terms of the
Speaker 1: toughest competition they face, based on the wins and losses.
Speaker 1: Packers have lost now to basically three winning clubs, a
Speaker 1: four win team, and to five win teams. That's the fact.
Speaker 1: But in order to make a stance that you are
Speaker 1: a playoff team, you're a division champion caliber team, you
Speaker 1: have to win those games. You have to be able
Speaker 1: to defend lambeau Field, you have to be able to
Speaker 1: go into other teams field like they did against Tampa
Speaker 1: and show that we're not going to be pushed around.
Speaker 1: The challenge for them now is they're going to take
Speaker 1: on a washing team that has basically no expectations. When
Speaker 1: you talk about all these teams and how tight things are,
Speaker 1: it's not the case right now with the Commanders. I
Speaker 1: think everybody and their mother is leaving the Commanders for
Speaker 1: dead at this point. That's a tough, dangerous opponent to face.
Speaker 1: We've seen before how that can go. When you're facing
Speaker 1: a team that has literally nothing to lose and you
Speaker 1: have a head coach that's wanting to prove that you know,
Speaker 1: this is still the show that I'm running, this is
Speaker 1: the program we're building, and we can be better. So
Speaker 1: that's where the danger comes in this weekend. There is
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with losing to the Jets. I think the
Speaker 1: Jets are going to be a good team. There's nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with what Brian Dabble is doing in with the
Speaker 1: New York Giants. You give them his coaching staff, Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones credit for coming back see Kwon Barkley. I think
Speaker 1: right now, as it stands, as an m v P
Speaker 1: type candidate. All that being said, you're three and three still,
Speaker 1: and now you go up against the Washington Commanders, then
Speaker 1: you have to travel the Buffalo, then you have to
Speaker 1: go against the Detroit Lions, who have one of the
Speaker 1: top highest scoring offenses in the league. You can't worry
Speaker 1: about those next two games yet. But the sense of
Speaker 1: urgency that has to accompany this team right now, it's
Speaker 1: it's critical because this is because you're still seven weeks
Speaker 1: away from a bye. You have to be able to perform. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it was interesting. It was interesting choice of words
Speaker 1: by Matt Lafleur after the game on Sunday because he
Speaker 1: didn't just say that we need to improve, which is
Speaker 1: the obvious. It's that the Packers need to have a
Speaker 1: sense of urgency to improve there, and and that that
Speaker 1: qualifier there is important because everybody who takes the practice
Speaker 1: field on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday this week. They know that
Speaker 1: that the team needs to improve, that things need to
Speaker 1: get better. But are you going to take the practice
Speaker 1: field just saying Okay, we're gonna work on getting better,
Speaker 1: or take the practice field with a sense of urgency
Speaker 1: that it's like, hey, we've only got a couple of
Speaker 1: days to get something straightened out and and you know,
Speaker 1: improve ourselves to the point where we can go on
Speaker 1: the road and win a football game. This is and
Speaker 1: and I said this in in the Monday Insider. I
Speaker 1: think I said it in Monday's Insider inbox. Maybe I didn't.
Speaker 1: I don't know it was in my head if I
Speaker 1: didn't actually write it. This feels like this is the
Speaker 1: kind of week you mentioned the Commanders and Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: is injured and Taylor Heineke is going to take over
Speaker 1: at quarterback and they're getting Um Robinson back and and
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. But this just this feels
Speaker 1: like a week where this week is absolutely nothing, zero
Speaker 1: zilt to do with the Washington Commanders. This week is
Speaker 1: everything to do with what the Green Bay Packers are
Speaker 1: going to do on that practice field to get themselves
Speaker 1: playing better regardless of what they see on film from
Speaker 1: Washington or what they have to prepare for specifically. In
Speaker 1: that way, this week is nine about the about the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers getting themselves in better shape to go
Speaker 1: win football games. That's that, That's what it feels like
Speaker 1: to me. And I'm gonna bleed this into our little
Speaker 1: discussion about the weekend games, because this is why it's
Speaker 1: important to realize where you are and where you want
Speaker 1: to go. Mike, just take this into a conference second.
Speaker 1: Four weeks ago, Indianapolis Colts completely left for dead. They
Speaker 1: won on Sunday thirty to twenty seven over the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 1: There now three two and one Matt Ryan, everybody was
Speaker 1: saying was past it. Matt Ryan up for the FedEx
Speaker 1: Air Player of the Week this week with how I performed.
Speaker 1: The Green Bay Packers disappointed to fall to the New
Speaker 1: York Giants. The same thing happened to the Baltimore Ravens,
Speaker 1: who have huge aspirations for this season. You look at
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Everybody expected them to roll the
Speaker 1: football out on the field on Sunday at Hinz Field
Speaker 1: or whatever it's called now. The Pittsburgh Steelers Mike Tomlin
Speaker 1: reminded everybody, Hey, I can coach the ball. We've got
Speaker 1: some player here's that can win a football game, and
Speaker 1: they took care of business. You have so many teams
Speaker 1: right now that are at this gut check moment in
Speaker 1: the season can go one of two directions. It is
Speaker 1: solely up to that team how they want to respond,
Speaker 1: how they want to perform. Again, it starts with Washington,
Speaker 1: but it's also a mindset that has to build up win,
Speaker 1: lose or tie on Sunday, that urgency to improve in
Speaker 1: that reflection of we need to be legitimately one week
Speaker 1: better than we were before. Because this still in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways, is a young football team. For the Packers,
Speaker 1: they're asking guys like kway Walker and Eric Stokes and
Speaker 1: Romeo Doabs to perform at an elite level right off
Speaker 1: the bat. Those guys need to be confident, they need
Speaker 1: to take that next step because in November, December, January,
Speaker 1: those are the players you're counting on to mount a
Speaker 1: playoff push. Yeah. Well, looking quickly back at Week six
Speaker 1: in the NFL, what game did you feel was the
Speaker 1: most significant result? Uh? Philadelphia? Just because I thought now again,
Speaker 1: I know some people have really crashed on the Eagles
Speaker 1: a little bit for not dominating and just throwing out
Speaker 1: the opponent. But to me, the Eagles remind me a
Speaker 1: lot of those two thousand twelve type packer teams where
Speaker 1: maybe gets a little close for comfort at certain intervals.
Speaker 1: But the fact of the matter is they are so talented,
Speaker 1: they are so multiple, and you can tell how much
Speaker 1: they believe in their head coach in the direction that
Speaker 1: they're traveling. I said it three weeks ago. I mean,
Speaker 1: they are an exciting football team Dallas. It's a tough
Speaker 1: one because you still are not at full straight. Yeah
Speaker 1: you don't. You're They're they're potentially getting Dak Prescott back
Speaker 1: at quarterback this week. I mean the fact that I
Speaker 1: know there are no moral victories in the NFL, but
Speaker 1: the fact that they came back from twenty to nothing
Speaker 1: on the road in prime time at Philadelphia with a
Speaker 1: backup quarterback in Cooper Russian, and they got that game
Speaker 1: to seventeen in the fourth quarter. That tells you something
Speaker 1: about what's going on in Dallas as well. Even though
Speaker 1: they took their second loss of the season, and for
Speaker 1: as much as national media wants to crap on Mike.
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy builds cultures, he builds programs, and
Speaker 1: I feel like that's what Dallas really in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways has lacked. They have as many resources as
Speaker 1: any team in the National Football League, They've had good
Speaker 1: coaches in the last few years, They've had some pretty
Speaker 1: good players. How do you build a culture that makes
Speaker 1: you stay together, stay con consolidated in your efforts to
Speaker 1: be able to continue marching forward when you lose your
Speaker 1: starting quarterback in Week one? So Hack goes off to Dallas.
Speaker 1: I know for a lot of people, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: Buffalo in Kansas City. For the Packers, you're obviously your
Speaker 1: intentas are up with the Bills right now, and certainly
Speaker 1: those again I said it before Mahomes in all and
Speaker 1: those two are going to continue playing each other until
Speaker 1: the end of time here. They're gonna be leading their
Speaker 1: teams up against each other for a long long time.
Speaker 1: But from my perspective, I just look at that that
Speaker 1: in an NFC where everything is completely wide open right now,
Speaker 1: Philadelphia being able to continue its march and stay undefeated
Speaker 1: on the season, I thought was a statement making performance
Speaker 1: in a division that is locked tight right now for
Speaker 1: the for the leader. Yeah absolutely. I mean, as as
Speaker 1: this NFC East unfolds, Philadelphia and Dallas are going to
Speaker 1: play again. Philadelphia and the Giants six and o, five
Speaker 1: and one. They've got two games against each other. They
Speaker 1: haven't faced one another yet so UM and the and
Speaker 1: the Giants and Cowboys have one more game left against
Speaker 1: each other as well. They faced each other once um
Speaker 1: so far this year. But with that we'll call it
Speaker 1: a wrap on this edition of Packers Unscripted. Be sure
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Speaker 1: Packers dot com. For West, I'm Mike. Thank you for
Speaker 1: tuning in everybody. We'll see you next time.