1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 1: Hi everyone, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com. 2 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:17,919 Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford sitting next to my partner in crime, 3 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 1: Wes Hodkuwitz. Were coming to you here from our studios 4 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 1: at lambeau Field, back from Detroit from a piece of cake. 5 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 1: No doubt, never wondered about it at all. Packers victory 6 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:32,520 Speaker 1: to secure a first round by in the playoffs West 7 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 1: just the way uh Green Bay drew it up for 8 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: week seventeen, right, Yeah, absolutely, I mean just the way 9 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:39,559 Speaker 1: when you who are sitting in the meetings of the 10 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 1: week just drawn it up. This is exactly how we 11 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 1: want this thing to play out. I'll tell you what 12 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:45,839 Speaker 1: this The story was made out of a lot of 13 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:48,199 Speaker 1: reporters afterwards, and the questions were asked in locker room. 14 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 1: I'm sure it came up in the news conferences too. 15 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 1: Packers beat the Detroit Lions twice this season without leading 16 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 1: for a single second of either game up until the 17 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: final score. I man, I'd be hard pressed to title 18 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 1: last time that that's happened in NFL history. Actually, it's 19 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 1: according according to a Lie of Sports Bureau, it's only 20 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:10,040 Speaker 1: the second time in league history it's ever happened seven 21 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:13,680 Speaker 1: Saints over forty nine Ers twice. It's the only other 22 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:16,040 Speaker 1: time it's ever happened in league history. And this is 23 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 1: another thing reader pointed out an inbox Laurie from Costa Rica. 24 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, She pointed out that if you go 25 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 1: back to the Hail Mary game in Detroit, three of 26 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:32,320 Speaker 1: the packers last five victories now against Detroit have been 27 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 1: games where the Packers did not lead at all until 28 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 1: the final until the final play of the game. So 29 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: something about the Packers and the Lions and the way 30 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: this rivalry is going right now. But that being said, 31 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 1: boy um, I don't I don't even know where to 32 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: start with this one. You can start with the garbage 33 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: first half or the miraculous second half, I don't know. 34 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: But the Packers, somehow, some way, as they've done thirteen 35 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: times this year, they found a way to win a ballgame. 36 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 1: And it was another one of those games that things 37 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: did not look all that great at various stages, but 38 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 1: they got it done. And we could talk about that 39 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 1: first half, we could talk about that second half, But 40 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:13,639 Speaker 1: where I actually want to start this with is Mason 41 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 1: Crosby and not just the kick, the redemptive kick I 42 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 1: wrote about it. I think you lad was a game 43 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 1: notes within or the column with it. It was really 44 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 1: interesting when he was in the locker room because so 45 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:27,399 Speaker 1: many people wanted to ask him about Detroit. Last year 46 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:31,079 Speaker 1: was for missfield goals in the Misssextra point that nightmare. Yeah, 47 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: he's back at the scene of the crime and you know, 48 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 1: working through everything that he did this season. But it 49 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:37,839 Speaker 1: was something that he mentioned where he's like, I don't 50 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 1: want to talk his first quote as he's talking to 51 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 1: me and he's like, I don't want to you know, 52 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 1: look at that that was so long ago. I want 53 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 1: to talk about this team. I want to talk about 54 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 1: this locker room. And he said, this is a special team. 55 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 1: And I think when you try to break it all 56 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: down and you and you put a title description of 57 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: this two thousand nineteen season, this is a special team. 58 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 1: They found unorthodox ways to be thirteen and three. And 59 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 1: if you can't appreciate that, there's really nothing I can 60 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 1: do for you. Could it be prettier at times? Absolutely? Uh? 61 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 1: Not to start the Packers wanted whatsoever. But when the 62 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: chips are down, as I keep saying over and over again, 63 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 1: whether it's inbox or whether it's on the show, you 64 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: have to beat the Green Bay Packers for sixty minutes. 65 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:24,800 Speaker 1: You can get off to a big lead on them. 66 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:27,639 Speaker 1: They're gonna claw their way back if you let them. 67 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: You can get off to a slow start and you 68 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 1: might find a way to get yourself back in the 69 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: fourth quarter. But then they close out where they need to. 70 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: They always have that counter punch when they need it 71 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 1: at exactly the right time, and in this particular case, 72 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 1: it was that Blake Martinez interception is Zadarius Smith's pressures 73 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 1: and a incredible final series by the Packers offense to 74 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 1: put Mason Crosby in position to make the thirty three 75 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 1: yard game winning field goal. Yeah. I mean, you look 76 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 1: at the anatomy of the comeback. What gets lost in 77 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: it a little bit, quite frankly, West, is that the 78 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 1: score is seventeen to three in the middle of the 79 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 1: third quarter. The Packers have just come off a drive 80 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 1: where Crosby has missed a long field goal by inches 81 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: fifty one yard or that just goes outside the upbright 82 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:16,479 Speaker 1: So it's still seventeen to three. The Lions get the 83 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: ball back, but they punt and they pinned the Packers 84 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,479 Speaker 1: on the five yard line. So you're nine minutes left 85 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:24,479 Speaker 1: in the third quarter, you're down by fourteen. You seemingly 86 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 1: have nothing going for you. Aaron Rodgers statistics at this 87 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: point in the game are ugly, and they put together 88 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: a ninety five yard touchdown drive seventeen to ten. You 89 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:38,919 Speaker 1: get back in it. The touchdown past to Davantae Adams 90 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: comes on third and ten after the interception by Martinez. 91 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 1: The touchdown passed by Alan Lazard that ties the game 92 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 1: at twenty comes on third and ten um and that 93 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 1: was after a fourth and one conversion to Davante Adams 94 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: that kept that drive live a few plays earlier. And 95 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 1: then the defense after Martinez gets the intercept sin that 96 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 1: sets up the tying drive, the defense gets two more 97 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 1: stops in the final five minutes to give Rogers in 98 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 1: the offense two cracks at the game winning drive. The 99 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 1: first one doesn't work out. The second one hinges on 100 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: a screen pass to Aaron Jones for thirty one yards 101 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:21,159 Speaker 1: that gets the Packers into Crosby's field goal range, and 102 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 1: a screen pass which I wrote about in my postgame editorial. 103 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:27,559 Speaker 1: The Packers hadn't called a screen pass all day battle 104 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 1: Fleur said He's never gone into a game with fewer 105 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:32,920 Speaker 1: screens in the game plan because all the film study 106 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 1: on Detroit showed that screens didn't work against those guys. 107 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: But with the game on the line, Aaron Rodgers is 108 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:42,600 Speaker 1: calling the plays in the two minute drill as as 109 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 1: he always does, he decides, after fifty nine minutes of 110 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: not running a screen, decides to call one. It didn't 111 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: look the prettiest as the entire you know, the entire 112 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 1: game did. But Rogers got the ball to Jones, got 113 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 1: a couple of blocks, made a couple of guys miss, 114 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: He gets thirty one yards. And this was the theme 115 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,920 Speaker 1: of my postgame editorial, this Packers team, and it just 116 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 1: it piggybacks off of what you just said they have. 117 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 1: The story of this season is that this Packers team 118 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: makes the right play at the right time to win 119 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:17,479 Speaker 1: a game. And I don't care if you're talking about 120 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: interceptions in the end zone late in the fourth quarter 121 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 1: that won some games early in the year, goal line 122 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:27,280 Speaker 1: stop to beat Carolina, clutch first downs in the four 123 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 1: minute offense to just close out a game without giving 124 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 1: the ball back to the other team. This team has 125 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:36,479 Speaker 1: a way to just make the right play at the 126 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:38,800 Speaker 1: right time, no matter what has happened in the rest 127 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: of the game. And that's that's how they've won. And 128 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 1: to me, and I take nothing away from Blake Martinez 129 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 1: is interception, but to me it was it was the 130 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:49,719 Speaker 1: screen pass, just because of the circumstances of the fact 131 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 1: that it wasn't really in the game plan. They hadn't 132 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 1: tried one, they'd had one practice essentially full speed practice 133 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: all week long on a short week with the holiday, 134 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:00,719 Speaker 1: and yet with a minute left in the game, they 135 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 1: called to play, they executed, and it wins the game. Well, 136 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:05,840 Speaker 1: And this is the reason to start with the Martinez 137 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: play that it stands out to me is the defense 138 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 1: other than a couple explosive plays early on him. You 139 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: gotta remember the Packers gave up fifty four yards of 140 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 1: total yards in the second half. There was the big 141 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: thirty yard defensive pass interference. There were four first downs, 142 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: four first downs and three points, the three points being 143 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: a monstrous field goal by Matt Prator that a lot 144 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 1: of teams wouldn't even have tried. But Prators got the 145 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 1: leg to make that indoors any drill. Yeah, and if 146 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 1: not for that net, it would have landed in Lake Michigan. 147 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 1: So I mean, just an incredible kick by him, but 148 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 1: the defense that was all they gave up in the 149 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: buckled down. But what was missing at that time they 150 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 1: needed to take away. They need to turn the momentum, 151 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: and is this is right after the Packers get the 152 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 1: ball back and they go three and out offensively, they 153 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 1: can't connect on any of those deep shots, so they 154 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 1: give them the chance. They give them an opportunity. So 155 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: Martinez gets the pick, Zadarius Smith gets the pressure. They 156 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 1: get down the field and are high points the ball perfectly. 157 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 1: And then credit to Matt Lafleur coaching staff, they had 158 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 1: the perfect plan, perfect place set up for that quarters 159 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 1: beater that basically Lazard knew once they shifted the coverage 160 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: a certain way that the ball was going to go 161 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: to him. Rogers throws it where only he can catch it, 162 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: and they on former undrafted rookie steps up get the 163 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 1: game tied. But all that's well and good, but the 164 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: defense gets another stop and as you point out, you 165 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 1: get the opportunity then to go for a game winning drive, 166 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 1: to go try to get this thing down the field. 167 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 1: A big mistake with the the hitting Rogers on the slide. 168 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: Just a not good technique at all. I think that 169 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 1: was Wilson who had that right, Yeah, Tavon will Tavon 170 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 1: Wilson drilled Rogers on the slide and got flagged and 171 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: it was like a two yard scramble that ended up 172 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 1: being a seventeen yard play with the fifteen yard penalty. 173 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:48,199 Speaker 1: Tavon Wilson, Actually, I thought it had a pretty good game. 174 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: He had that breakup on Aaron Jones earlier. When the 175 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:52,560 Speaker 1: quarterback sliding like that, you can't be diving in with 176 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 1: the shoulder. They're just going to call it every single time, 177 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 1: even though I know some of the fans for the 178 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: lines didn't like it. They have the opportunity. They dropped 179 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 1: that play and it was into this thing. Listening to 180 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:04,079 Speaker 1: the offensive lineman and also Aaron Jones talk about how 181 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 1: that came together sort of the muddied uh screen pass, 182 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 1: I mean just being able to shift through that dice 183 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 1: through it and Jones gets to pick up those yards. 184 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 1: You know. I made the argument in our game notes 185 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 1: section that he did get his thousand yards season, which 186 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 1: is incredibly meaningful. He had a hundred yard day on 187 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 1: the ground, but that screen pass, that set the tone 188 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:24,959 Speaker 1: for the Packers being able to win that ballgame. It 189 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,080 Speaker 1: gets the ball down to the twenty yard line at 190 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:30,560 Speaker 1: the time of the Lions and really makes the Packers 191 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: sort of feel comfortable with where they're gonna be at. 192 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 1: They forced Detroit to burn their last two time outs 193 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: and Mason Crosby goes in there and does what he does. 194 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 1: Aaron Jones the one thing we have learned this year, 195 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:44,800 Speaker 1: this guy is a legitimate superstar in this league. He 196 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 1: is a guy that you can carry. You can put 197 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 1: the weight of your team on him, and he might 198 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 1: be five nine and two night pounds, but he's gonna 199 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 1: be able to carry that load. Pound engine of a 200 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:57,680 Speaker 1: playoff offenses is really what it is. He's he's the 201 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 1: guy who's making this work. And for only the second 202 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: time in his career, there really wasn't a plan. B. 203 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 1: Jamal Williams was inactive with the shoulder injury. It had 204 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 1: to be Aaron Jones, and he stepped up in rows 205 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 1: to the occasion. Yeah, well, you look at you look 206 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 1: at the way this game unfolded West and you know, 207 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:13,960 Speaker 1: it was one of those things that if it could 208 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 1: go wrong in the first half, it did. Whether you 209 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,559 Speaker 1: want to talk about drop passes, passes that were off target, 210 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:24,080 Speaker 1: penalties on both sides, miss tackles. The Lions were running 211 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 1: the ball really, really well. The Lions even get points 212 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 1: at the end of the first half when they've essentially 213 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 1: given up. They're just handing off with twenty seconds left 214 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: to see if maybe they can break a run low 215 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 1: and behold. They do a forty yard run and then 216 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: it wasn't even carry on or both. So they so 217 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 1: they end up getting in field goal range when they 218 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,199 Speaker 1: weren't even necessarily trying to and it just happened. So 219 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 1: they get three more points at the end of the 220 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 1: first half, then in then in the second half. Admittedly, 221 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 1: you don't pull off a comeback like this without some luck, 222 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:58,200 Speaker 1: without some good fortune, without some breaks, and the Packers 223 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:02,439 Speaker 1: got some. When you look at the act that Martinez 224 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: got an extra fifteen yards on his interception return because 225 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 1: of a stupid personal file on Danny amndola Um. You 226 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:12,319 Speaker 1: already mentioned the fifteen yards on Tavon Wilson. Those are 227 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:14,720 Speaker 1: thirty yards that led to ten points in this In 228 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 1: this comeback for the Packers, I I personally thought I 229 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 1: didn't understand the way the Lions were running the ball. 230 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:24,000 Speaker 1: They had a three headed monster in the backfield that 231 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 1: had piled up a hundred and sixty rushing yards in 232 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 1: the game. More that had like a hundred and twelve 233 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 1: in the first half, and they only handed the ball 234 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 1: off eight times in the second half when you had 235 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 1: the lead the whole time. I didn't understand that the 236 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 1: Lions put the game in the hands of their undrafted 237 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:41,240 Speaker 1: rookie quarterback, and ultimately he made the critical mistake, which 238 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 1: was trying to throw a deep ball under pressure from Smith. 239 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:47,959 Speaker 1: He badly under throws it and Martinez gets the pick. 240 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 1: So that was, yes, it was a good play by 241 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 1: the defense, but also again a fortunate break. It was 242 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:57,200 Speaker 1: just one of these games that that that goes back 243 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:59,079 Speaker 1: and forth and then you all of a sudden, you're 244 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 1: fifty five minutes and you've got five minutes left on 245 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:03,840 Speaker 1: the clock and everything's a wash because the score is tied. 246 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 1: So then it's like, okay, who's going to make a 247 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 1: play to win the game? And even when Aaron Rodgers 248 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 1: throws an interception late in the game, it was on 249 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:14,640 Speaker 1: third and twenty, it essentially functioned as about a fifty 250 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 1: four yard punt which was better than you would normally 251 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 1: even hope for off of a regular punt. So yeah, 252 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:24,320 Speaker 1: with Kumaro making making the tackle right away, So that 253 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:27,720 Speaker 1: ended up working out in in the Packers favor as well. 254 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, again there you know, Matt, 255 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 1: it's interesting Matt Lafleur's postgame press conferences. He continues to 256 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 1: just say a lot of the same things. And I'm 257 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:44,079 Speaker 1: not saying that as a criticism, but it's because it's 258 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:46,319 Speaker 1: because it's just about this team. It's you know, he 259 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 1: continues to talk about the resilience, the belief in each other, 260 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 1: the the just the character of the team. That these 261 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 1: guys are going to give everything they have for four quarters, 262 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: no matter what the heck has happened, no matter what 263 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:04,080 Speaker 1: has gone right, no matter what has gone wrong, They're 264 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:06,560 Speaker 1: just gonna battle their way to the end. And this 265 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:09,199 Speaker 1: is the Packers team that's going into the playoffs. I mean, 266 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:12,679 Speaker 1: this is this is who they are. We'll see where 267 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 1: it goes from here. Yeah, And I mean, just to 268 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:16,959 Speaker 1: touch quickly on that first half, as you mentioned, offensively 269 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 1: not to start, they're looking for trying to find some 270 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 1: rhythm early and they're just not able to do it. 271 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:23,560 Speaker 1: They do finally get that field goal at the end 272 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:25,079 Speaker 1: of the half, and then they gave it right back. 273 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 1: They gave it right back in twenty second to fall 274 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:30,199 Speaker 1: behind seventeen three. But what impressed me the most about 275 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 1: that performances They lose Corey Linsley to the back injury. Yes, 276 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:38,320 Speaker 1: that means it becomes Lucas Patrick, who signed a contract 277 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 1: extension on Saturday Saturday. Well, now he's in there for 278 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:43,480 Speaker 1: the sign it right before he got on the plane 279 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:46,319 Speaker 1: at right. He's in there now for the first time 280 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 1: since Dallas. Then you lose. You you have Alan Lazard 281 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 1: step up make a critical catch, you know, one of 282 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:55,440 Speaker 1: the big go to options with as much attention as 283 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:58,600 Speaker 1: the Lions were giving Davante Adams, and then he gets 284 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 1: a third down conversion on a aunt injurs the ankle 285 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 1: has to leave the game, come out. Brian Bulaga gets 286 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 1: evaluated for a concussion, leaves the game in the second half. 287 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:09,960 Speaker 1: Jared Valdier, for the first time in three or in 288 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: sixty five days, has to come in and play in 289 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,200 Speaker 1: an NFL regular season game, and he steps up at 290 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:19,160 Speaker 1: right tackle. So regardless of what the odds are, what 291 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 1: the score is or how poorly they might have played 292 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 1: in the first half. Here you are with different guys 293 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: in different positions, stepping up and making themselves, making their 294 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 1: presence felt. That I think is ultimately wherever this this 295 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: ride ends for the Packers, that is going to be 296 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 1: what I remember this team for the most is that 297 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: no matter who they're playing or what the circumstances are, 298 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:45,400 Speaker 1: they have guys one through forty six on the game 299 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 1: day roster that are going to be ready to step 300 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 1: in there and contribute. All right, well, we need to 301 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 1: get to the rundown on where the Packers stand in 302 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 1: this playoff picture. But I will take care of some 303 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 1: sponsor business first. 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As Seattle's come back at 313 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 1: Century Link ends up just a couple inches shy of 314 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:42,760 Speaker 1: the goal line. San Francisco wins by five. San Francisco 315 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:45,480 Speaker 1: is the number one seed, the Packers are the number two. 316 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 1: They also find out as soon as that game is 317 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 1: over that the Packers time slot for the divisional round. 318 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 1: The Packers will play the final game of the four 319 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: divisional games in two weeks. It will be Sunday, January twelfth, 320 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:03,000 Speaker 1: lambeau Field five forty pm Central time, so an early 321 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 1: evening kickoff there, and the Packers will face one of 322 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 1: three opponents. They will face either the New Orleans Saints, 323 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: who are the three seed, the Philadelphia Eagles, who are 324 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:15,360 Speaker 1: the four seed, or the Seattle Seahawks, who dropped to 325 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:18,600 Speaker 1: the five seed with the loss to San Francisco on 326 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: Sunday night. So the scenario is this, and it's really 327 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 1: pretty simple. The Minnesota Vikings are playing at New Orleans 328 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 1: this coming Sunday in the wild Card round. If Minnesota 329 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:32,720 Speaker 1: wins that game, if Minnesota pulls the upset, so to speak, 330 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:35,080 Speaker 1: Minnesota will go to San Francisco and the Packers will 331 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 1: get the winner of the Philadelphia Seattle game if New Orleans, 332 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 1: if the Seeds hold in New Orleans wins at home 333 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 1: as the three seed. New Orleans is coming to lambeau 334 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 1: Field on January twelve, So that is where things stand. 335 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 1: Really interesting the way this shook out obviously at the 336 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 1: top of the NFC because you end up with three 337 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 1: teams that are thirteen and three and I can't remember 338 00:16:57,520 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 1: the last time I would have to look it up, 339 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 1: maybe I looked it up earlier, but that a thirteen 340 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:04,960 Speaker 1: and three team did not get a first round by 341 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:07,399 Speaker 1: the Saints at thirteen and three are the three seed 342 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:09,880 Speaker 1: and they do have to play in the wild card round. Yeah, 343 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:12,200 Speaker 1: And to be honest with you, I think that actually 344 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:15,640 Speaker 1: probably tells the story of the NFC in two thousand nineteen. 345 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 1: They're just it was very top heavy. I mean, I 346 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:21,840 Speaker 1: think there are four teams that kind of solidified themselves 347 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 1: as the cream of the crop. San Francisco, Green Bay, 348 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 1: Seattle in New Orleans, Minnesota was always on the cusp 349 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 1: of that, but they never really got a key victory 350 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 1: throughout the course of the year. And the NFC East 351 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 1: is just the NFC East, So it actually does, I think, 352 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:37,720 Speaker 1: speak to the parody of this, not really the parody, 353 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:39,879 Speaker 1: but on top the parody of those three teams and 354 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,520 Speaker 1: where they stand going into this thing. For the Packers, 355 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:44,080 Speaker 1: it's the first time in five years that they get 356 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:45,920 Speaker 1: to buy. It was interesting talking to a few guys 357 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 1: in the locker room that I've been around for a 358 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:50,119 Speaker 1: pretty good amount of time, and they've never experienced that. 359 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:52,920 Speaker 1: All they've known since really entering the league is sort 360 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:54,920 Speaker 1: of playing from behind, trying to get a playoff berth 361 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,560 Speaker 1: and then missing the playoffs the past two years. This 362 00:17:57,600 --> 00:17:59,680 Speaker 1: is different. So you look at it with Lazard, with 363 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 1: the coal injury obviously the injuries to bolog In Lindsley. 364 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:04,280 Speaker 1: This gives you a week now to be able to 365 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:06,359 Speaker 1: sit back recover from that. We don't know at this 366 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:08,520 Speaker 1: point in time when we're shooting the show, how Matt 367 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 1: Lafleur is actually gonna approach this week and what is 368 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:13,440 Speaker 1: what his mentality will be. I know for a fact, 369 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 1: going back to fourteen when Mike McCarthy last got the buy, 370 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 1: they gave off the players the beginning half of the 371 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 1: week and then they returned at the end of it 372 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:23,000 Speaker 1: to do some practices and a little bit of work 373 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,560 Speaker 1: on Friday and Saturday. So a lot of different things 374 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:27,199 Speaker 1: that they're gonna have to sort out. But as I 375 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 1: was saying to you know, some of the members of 376 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 1: the executive committee as we were walking out of the building, 377 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:34,159 Speaker 1: I mean, it's a good problem to have to finally 378 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:35,920 Speaker 1: be in a position where you don't have to run 379 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 1: the table, you don't have to catch up, you can 380 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:40,679 Speaker 1: kind of breathe a little bit. Don't take that too 381 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:42,919 Speaker 1: you know, seriously, but I mean being able to just 382 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,160 Speaker 1: kind of decompress and reset exactly. It's it's a it's 383 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:48,720 Speaker 1: a reset. It's a reset, it's a recharge week. You 384 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:51,680 Speaker 1: mentioned the injuries. The Packers obviously will try to we'll 385 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:54,920 Speaker 1: try to get those guys healthy. Usually in these situations 386 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: that the coaches will start preparing sort of preliminary game 387 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:02,200 Speaker 1: plans for all three opponents, not taking every game plan 388 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 1: to the finish line necessarily, but you'd start doing that 389 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,040 Speaker 1: scouting work on all three of those opponents. You're also 390 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:10,359 Speaker 1: doing a lot of scouting on yourselves in terms of 391 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:13,199 Speaker 1: where you are and UH and what you need to 392 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 1: or want to take into the playoffs and or what 393 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 1: adjustments you need to make. So that's what this week 394 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:20,120 Speaker 1: will be about. As you said, we'll wait and see 395 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:23,400 Speaker 1: exactly what the player's schedule is. When Matt Lafleur announces 396 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:25,400 Speaker 1: that two things, I want to close the show on here. 397 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:27,560 Speaker 1: I know our rental time for the hour is almost up, 398 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 1: but I need to ask you this first thing. You 399 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 1: watch the San Francisco Seattle game. Yes, the play with 400 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 1: was it Hollister that ended up being It looked like 401 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 1: he possibly was interfered with in the end zone. I 402 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 1: can't remember who the receiver was, but yeah, so what 403 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:43,959 Speaker 1: do you stand on that? L Riveron says they had 404 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:45,520 Speaker 1: enough time to look at it and said it didn't 405 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:49,320 Speaker 1: there wasn't enough there. I this is what I said. 406 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:52,159 Speaker 1: This is what I said an insider inbox. If you're not, 407 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:54,240 Speaker 1: if you're not going to stop the game and take 408 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:56,679 Speaker 1: the time to actually look at that play, then the 409 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 1: rule is useless. It's only a regular season finale. I 410 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:02,679 Speaker 1: mean for for Vision Championship and the difference between a 411 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 1: one seed and a five seed for the San Francisco 412 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 1: forty niners. I mean, I'm sorry, I don't believe that 413 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:10,639 Speaker 1: they had enough time to look at it and make 414 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:12,800 Speaker 1: a decision quite frankly, and if and if they made 415 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,719 Speaker 1: the decision, if they made the decision that quickly, that 416 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,879 Speaker 1: means they were just they they've as they've been the 417 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,879 Speaker 1: vast majority of the season, they've been completely predisposed to 418 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 1: not throw a flag, which again I just say, makes 419 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 1: the rule useless. The rule is there. If the past 420 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 1: interference is on the film, then you have to throw 421 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:33,359 Speaker 1: the flag from New York. That's why they put the 422 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 1: rule in and uh, I I just say, I just 423 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:39,000 Speaker 1: what I said an inboxes. Either get rid of the 424 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 1: rule or get rid of the people who are not 425 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 1: applying it properly. The league has to do one of 426 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:45,639 Speaker 1: two things. In my opinion, they're going to get rid 427 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 1: of the rule. If anything, that's what I think is 428 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:49,520 Speaker 1: going to happen to just the postseason. But they're going 429 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 1: to get rid of it. I mean, that's we can 430 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:53,560 Speaker 1: just say that definitively at this point. The thing I 431 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:55,920 Speaker 1: love about it as I'm watching the game with my father, 432 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:58,439 Speaker 1: uh in my parents living room as we after we 433 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:01,720 Speaker 1: got home. Yeah, I've lost probably about between ten and 434 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:04,800 Speaker 1: fifteen minutes in my life this year, including on Sunday night, 435 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:07,480 Speaker 1: watching Uh, al lazard play in which the ball didn't 436 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:10,960 Speaker 1: even touch the ground get reviewed. Uh. There's been incidences 437 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,440 Speaker 1: like this throughout the course of the year where things 438 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:14,119 Speaker 1: have been reviewed or called upon. I think it happened 439 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:16,200 Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago too, where they took a 440 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 1: look at a possible passenger. Well there was, yeah, there was, yeah, 441 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 1: it was. It was on a fourth it was on 442 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:23,399 Speaker 1: a fourth downplay, and they and they stopped to get 443 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:26,120 Speaker 1: they stopped the game to look at it. And that's 444 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:29,480 Speaker 1: that's my whole thing, is like, Okay, you actually you 445 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:32,840 Speaker 1: actually think you had enough time to look at that play, 446 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 1: I mean, down to the wire division championship on the 447 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 1: line and everything like that. You're saying you had enough 448 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,640 Speaker 1: time to look at that play when we've seen things 449 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 1: that have been stopped and looked at more closely just 450 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:46,679 Speaker 1: to be sure, and they didn't take the time to 451 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: make sure on a very very crucial play, which to 452 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,480 Speaker 1: me means the rule is useless. It is, there's no point. 453 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:56,320 Speaker 1: But it was just funny again, NFL officiated just kind 454 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,200 Speaker 1: of tripping towards the goal line. At the end of 455 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:00,640 Speaker 1: the season, I want to mention this because we didn't 456 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 1: get a chance to talk about all the other games 457 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,119 Speaker 1: that happened. But I made a little tweet on the 458 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:06,719 Speaker 1: Twitter machine last night. Okay, I've seen it. Probably not, 459 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 1: you don't really check Twitter that I was. I was 460 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:11,199 Speaker 1: a little busy because because I had to, I actually 461 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 1: kind of had to have two stories ready, like San 462 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:16,879 Speaker 1: Francisco wins, Seattle wins, and what the Packers seed was 463 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:20,200 Speaker 1: and all that. So I was communicating with with our 464 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,240 Speaker 1: boss because we were trying to get something up as 465 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 1: soon as the game was over. But of course we 466 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 1: literally we had to wait until the very last second 467 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 1: because we didn't know who was going to win that 468 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 1: that game in Seattle. Well, I was sitting there with 469 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:32,680 Speaker 1: a hot dog in my hand watching this game. Okay, 470 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 1: And I just want to mention this because I tweeted 471 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:39,159 Speaker 1: this to my plea. Maybe I'll go on the ISO camera, Marvin, 472 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,520 Speaker 1: if can get me, I'll centered up here. Hello, how 473 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:45,680 Speaker 1: are you? My plea to Packer fans right now, enjoy this, 474 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 1: Enjoy this ride. It doesn't matter what's happened, it doesn't 475 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:53,720 Speaker 1: matter how ugly it's been at times. Enjoy this because 476 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:57,720 Speaker 1: two things happened Sunday that really hit home with me one. 477 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,480 Speaker 1: The New England Patriots in the same exact situation the 478 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,760 Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers were in regards to their own division. 479 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 1: Lost a game to the Miami Dolphins and it costs 480 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,679 Speaker 1: them a first round by They will now play I 481 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:11,840 Speaker 1: think on Saturday, right, Yeah, they're playing Saturday night in Foxboro. 482 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 1: First time the Patriots have not had to buy in 483 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 1: ten years. That happened the second thing, if you get 484 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 1: a chance, I think the Los Angeles Charges tweeted this out. 485 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 1: Philip Rivers had one of the most powerful emotional snippets 486 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:33,480 Speaker 1: in a very it was very emotional comment about his 487 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:35,359 Speaker 1: approach to the game and what this game means to 488 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,920 Speaker 1: him and when you fall short of your goals, how 489 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:42,439 Speaker 1: that affects you. Take a look at that video, and 490 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:45,320 Speaker 1: look at the box score of the New England Patriots game, 491 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:47,919 Speaker 1: and step back for a second and appreciate where the 492 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:51,080 Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers stand. The first half not what you wanted. 493 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:53,480 Speaker 1: Packers are gonna need to play better than that to 494 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 1: make a deep playoff run. There's not gonna be a 495 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 1: lot of these teams left that are gonna allow you 496 00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,199 Speaker 1: to stay in those games. If you aren't able to 497 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:02,919 Speaker 1: really effectively move the ball in that first half, no 498 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,359 Speaker 1: question about it. But the Green Bay Packers won that game, 499 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: and their thirteen victories on this season gave them a 500 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:12,200 Speaker 1: number two seed in the playoffs. Enjoy this because these 501 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,200 Speaker 1: runs are special and you don't get them all the time. Yeah. 502 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 1: With that, we'll call it a wrap on this edition 503 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:20,120 Speaker 1: of Packers Unscripted. Be sure to follow all of our 504 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,719 Speaker 1: coverage of the team on Packers dot com. You can 505 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:26,240 Speaker 1: subscribe to us like us on iTunes and other podcast services, 506 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,040 Speaker 1: and there's all kinds of great video content on the 507 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:33,160 Speaker 1: Packers YouTube channel, so check that out. For Wes, I'm Mike. 508 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 1: Thanks for tuning in, See you next time.