Speaker 1: Hi everyone, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford sitting next to my partner in crime,
Speaker 1: Wes Hodkuwitz. Were coming to you here from our studios
Speaker 1: at lambeau Field, back from Detroit from a piece of cake.
Speaker 1: No doubt, never wondered about it at all. Packers victory
Speaker 1: to secure a first round by in the playoffs West
Speaker 1: just the way uh Green Bay drew it up for
Speaker 1: week seventeen, right, Yeah, absolutely, I mean just the way
Speaker 1: when you who are sitting in the meetings of the
Speaker 1: week just drawn it up. This is exactly how we
Speaker 1: want this thing to play out. I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: this The story was made out of a lot of
Speaker 1: reporters afterwards, and the questions were asked in locker room.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it came up in the news conferences too.
Speaker 1: Packers beat the Detroit Lions twice this season without leading
Speaker 1: for a single second of either game up until the
Speaker 1: final score. I man, I'd be hard pressed to title
Speaker 1: last time that that's happened in NFL history. Actually, it's
Speaker 1: according according to a Lie of Sports Bureau, it's only
Speaker 1: the second time in league history it's ever happened seven
Speaker 1: Saints over forty nine Ers twice. It's the only other
Speaker 1: time it's ever happened in league history. And this is
Speaker 1: another thing reader pointed out an inbox Laurie from Costa Rica.
Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, She pointed out that if you go
Speaker 1: back to the Hail Mary game in Detroit, three of
Speaker 1: the packers last five victories now against Detroit have been
Speaker 1: games where the Packers did not lead at all until
Speaker 1: the final until the final play of the game. So
Speaker 1: something about the Packers and the Lions and the way
Speaker 1: this rivalry is going right now. But that being said,
Speaker 1: boy um, I don't I don't even know where to
Speaker 1: start with this one. You can start with the garbage
Speaker 1: first half or the miraculous second half, I don't know.
Speaker 1: But the Packers, somehow, some way, as they've done thirteen
Speaker 1: times this year, they found a way to win a ballgame.
Speaker 1: And it was another one of those games that things
Speaker 1: did not look all that great at various stages, but
Speaker 1: they got it done. And we could talk about that
Speaker 1: first half, we could talk about that second half, But
Speaker 1: where I actually want to start this with is Mason
Speaker 1: Crosby and not just the kick, the redemptive kick I
Speaker 1: wrote about it. I think you lad was a game
Speaker 1: notes within or the column with it. It was really
Speaker 1: interesting when he was in the locker room because so
Speaker 1: many people wanted to ask him about Detroit. Last year
Speaker 1: was for missfield goals in the Misssextra point that nightmare. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's back at the scene of the crime and you know,
Speaker 1: working through everything that he did this season. But it
Speaker 1: was something that he mentioned where he's like, I don't
Speaker 1: want to talk his first quote as he's talking to
Speaker 1: me and he's like, I don't want to you know,
Speaker 1: look at that that was so long ago. I want
Speaker 1: to talk about this team. I want to talk about
Speaker 1: this locker room. And he said, this is a special team.
Speaker 1: And I think when you try to break it all
Speaker 1: down and you and you put a title description of
Speaker 1: this two thousand nineteen season, this is a special team.
Speaker 1: They found unorthodox ways to be thirteen and three. And
Speaker 1: if you can't appreciate that, there's really nothing I can
Speaker 1: do for you. Could it be prettier at times? Absolutely? Uh?
Speaker 1: Not to start the Packers wanted whatsoever. But when the
Speaker 1: chips are down, as I keep saying over and over again,
Speaker 1: whether it's inbox or whether it's on the show, you
Speaker 1: have to beat the Green Bay Packers for sixty minutes.
Speaker 1: You can get off to a big lead on them.
Speaker 1: They're gonna claw their way back if you let them.
Speaker 1: You can get off to a slow start and you
Speaker 1: might find a way to get yourself back in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. But then they close out where they need to.
Speaker 1: They always have that counter punch when they need it
Speaker 1: at exactly the right time, and in this particular case,
Speaker 1: it was that Blake Martinez interception is Zadarius Smith's pressures
Speaker 1: and a incredible final series by the Packers offense to
Speaker 1: put Mason Crosby in position to make the thirty three
Speaker 1: yard game winning field goal. Yeah. I mean, you look
Speaker 1: at the anatomy of the comeback. What gets lost in
Speaker 1: it a little bit, quite frankly, West, is that the
Speaker 1: score is seventeen to three in the middle of the
Speaker 1: third quarter. The Packers have just come off a drive
Speaker 1: where Crosby has missed a long field goal by inches
Speaker 1: fifty one yard or that just goes outside the upbright
Speaker 1: So it's still seventeen to three. The Lions get the
Speaker 1: ball back, but they punt and they pinned the Packers
Speaker 1: on the five yard line. So you're nine minutes left
Speaker 1: in the third quarter, you're down by fourteen. You seemingly
Speaker 1: have nothing going for you. Aaron Rodgers statistics at this
Speaker 1: point in the game are ugly, and they put together
Speaker 1: a ninety five yard touchdown drive seventeen to ten. You
Speaker 1: get back in it. The touchdown past to Davantae Adams
Speaker 1: comes on third and ten after the interception by Martinez.
Speaker 1: The touchdown passed by Alan Lazard that ties the game
Speaker 1: at twenty comes on third and ten um and that
Speaker 1: was after a fourth and one conversion to Davante Adams
Speaker 1: that kept that drive live a few plays earlier. And
Speaker 1: then the defense after Martinez gets the intercept sin that
Speaker 1: sets up the tying drive, the defense gets two more
Speaker 1: stops in the final five minutes to give Rogers in
Speaker 1: the offense two cracks at the game winning drive. The
Speaker 1: first one doesn't work out. The second one hinges on
Speaker 1: a screen pass to Aaron Jones for thirty one yards
Speaker 1: that gets the Packers into Crosby's field goal range, and
Speaker 1: a screen pass which I wrote about in my postgame editorial.
Speaker 1: The Packers hadn't called a screen pass all day battle
Speaker 1: Fleur said He's never gone into a game with fewer
Speaker 1: screens in the game plan because all the film study
Speaker 1: on Detroit showed that screens didn't work against those guys.
Speaker 1: But with the game on the line, Aaron Rodgers is
Speaker 1: calling the plays in the two minute drill as as
Speaker 1: he always does, he decides, after fifty nine minutes of
Speaker 1: not running a screen, decides to call one. It didn't
Speaker 1: look the prettiest as the entire you know, the entire
Speaker 1: game did. But Rogers got the ball to Jones, got
Speaker 1: a couple of blocks, made a couple of guys miss,
Speaker 1: He gets thirty one yards. And this was the theme
Speaker 1: of my postgame editorial, this Packers team, and it just
Speaker 1: it piggybacks off of what you just said they have.
Speaker 1: The story of this season is that this Packers team
Speaker 1: makes the right play at the right time to win
Speaker 1: a game. And I don't care if you're talking about
Speaker 1: interceptions in the end zone late in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: that won some games early in the year, goal line
Speaker 1: stop to beat Carolina, clutch first downs in the four
Speaker 1: minute offense to just close out a game without giving
Speaker 1: the ball back to the other team. This team has
Speaker 1: a way to just make the right play at the
Speaker 1: right time, no matter what has happened in the rest
Speaker 1: of the game. And that's that's how they've won. And
Speaker 1: to me, and I take nothing away from Blake Martinez
Speaker 1: is interception, but to me it was it was the
Speaker 1: screen pass, just because of the circumstances of the fact
Speaker 1: that it wasn't really in the game plan. They hadn't
Speaker 1: tried one, they'd had one practice essentially full speed practice
Speaker 1: all week long on a short week with the holiday,
Speaker 1: and yet with a minute left in the game, they
Speaker 1: called to play, they executed, and it wins the game. Well,
Speaker 1: And this is the reason to start with the Martinez
Speaker 1: play that it stands out to me is the defense
Speaker 1: other than a couple explosive plays early on him. You
Speaker 1: gotta remember the Packers gave up fifty four yards of
Speaker 1: total yards in the second half. There was the big
Speaker 1: thirty yard defensive pass interference. There were four first downs,
Speaker 1: four first downs and three points, the three points being
Speaker 1: a monstrous field goal by Matt Prator that a lot
Speaker 1: of teams wouldn't even have tried. But Prators got the
Speaker 1: leg to make that indoors any drill. Yeah, and if
Speaker 1: not for that net, it would have landed in Lake Michigan.
Speaker 1: So I mean, just an incredible kick by him, but
Speaker 1: the defense that was all they gave up in the
Speaker 1: buckled down. But what was missing at that time they
Speaker 1: needed to take away. They need to turn the momentum,
Speaker 1: and is this is right after the Packers get the
Speaker 1: ball back and they go three and out offensively, they
Speaker 1: can't connect on any of those deep shots, so they
Speaker 1: give them the chance. They give them an opportunity. So
Speaker 1: Martinez gets the pick, Zadarius Smith gets the pressure. They
Speaker 1: get down the field and are high points the ball perfectly.
Speaker 1: And then credit to Matt Lafleur coaching staff, they had
Speaker 1: the perfect plan, perfect place set up for that quarters
Speaker 1: beater that basically Lazard knew once they shifted the coverage
Speaker 1: a certain way that the ball was going to go
Speaker 1: to him. Rogers throws it where only he can catch it,
Speaker 1: and they on former undrafted rookie steps up get the
Speaker 1: game tied. But all that's well and good, but the
Speaker 1: defense gets another stop and as you point out, you
Speaker 1: get the opportunity then to go for a game winning drive,
Speaker 1: to go try to get this thing down the field.
Speaker 1: A big mistake with the the hitting Rogers on the slide.
Speaker 1: Just a not good technique at all. I think that
Speaker 1: was Wilson who had that right, Yeah, Tavon will Tavon
Speaker 1: Wilson drilled Rogers on the slide and got flagged and
Speaker 1: it was like a two yard scramble that ended up
Speaker 1: being a seventeen yard play with the fifteen yard penalty.
Speaker 1: Tavon Wilson, Actually, I thought it had a pretty good game.
Speaker 1: He had that breakup on Aaron Jones earlier. When the
Speaker 1: quarterback sliding like that, you can't be diving in with
Speaker 1: the shoulder. They're just going to call it every single time,
Speaker 1: even though I know some of the fans for the
Speaker 1: lines didn't like it. They have the opportunity. They dropped
Speaker 1: that play and it was into this thing. Listening to
Speaker 1: the offensive lineman and also Aaron Jones talk about how
Speaker 1: that came together sort of the muddied uh screen pass,
Speaker 1: I mean just being able to shift through that dice
Speaker 1: through it and Jones gets to pick up those yards.
Speaker 1: You know. I made the argument in our game notes
Speaker 1: section that he did get his thousand yards season, which
Speaker 1: is incredibly meaningful. He had a hundred yard day on
Speaker 1: the ground, but that screen pass, that set the tone
Speaker 1: for the Packers being able to win that ballgame. It
Speaker 1: gets the ball down to the twenty yard line at
Speaker 1: the time of the Lions and really makes the Packers
Speaker 1: sort of feel comfortable with where they're gonna be at.
Speaker 1: They forced Detroit to burn their last two time outs
Speaker 1: and Mason Crosby goes in there and does what he does.
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones the one thing we have learned this year,
Speaker 1: this guy is a legitimate superstar in this league. He
Speaker 1: is a guy that you can carry. You can put
Speaker 1: the weight of your team on him, and he might
Speaker 1: be five nine and two night pounds, but he's gonna
Speaker 1: be able to carry that load. Pound engine of a
Speaker 1: playoff offenses is really what it is. He's he's the
Speaker 1: guy who's making this work. And for only the second
Speaker 1: time in his career, there really wasn't a plan. B.
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams was inactive with the shoulder injury. It had
Speaker 1: to be Aaron Jones, and he stepped up in rows
Speaker 1: to the occasion. Yeah, well, you look at you look
Speaker 1: at the way this game unfolded West and you know,
Speaker 1: it was one of those things that if it could
Speaker 1: go wrong in the first half, it did. Whether you
Speaker 1: want to talk about drop passes, passes that were off target,
Speaker 1: penalties on both sides, miss tackles. The Lions were running
Speaker 1: the ball really, really well. The Lions even get points
Speaker 1: at the end of the first half when they've essentially
Speaker 1: given up. They're just handing off with twenty seconds left
Speaker 1: to see if maybe they can break a run low
Speaker 1: and behold. They do a forty yard run and then
Speaker 1: it wasn't even carry on or both. So they so
Speaker 1: they end up getting in field goal range when they
Speaker 1: weren't even necessarily trying to and it just happened. So
Speaker 1: they get three more points at the end of the
Speaker 1: first half, then in then in the second half. Admittedly,
Speaker 1: you don't pull off a comeback like this without some luck,
Speaker 1: without some good fortune, without some breaks, and the Packers
Speaker 1: got some. When you look at the act that Martinez
Speaker 1: got an extra fifteen yards on his interception return because
Speaker 1: of a stupid personal file on Danny amndola Um. You
Speaker 1: already mentioned the fifteen yards on Tavon Wilson. Those are
Speaker 1: thirty yards that led to ten points in this In
Speaker 1: this comeback for the Packers, I I personally thought I
Speaker 1: didn't understand the way the Lions were running the ball.
Speaker 1: They had a three headed monster in the backfield that
Speaker 1: had piled up a hundred and sixty rushing yards in
Speaker 1: the game. More that had like a hundred and twelve
Speaker 1: in the first half, and they only handed the ball
Speaker 1: off eight times in the second half when you had
Speaker 1: the lead the whole time. I didn't understand that the
Speaker 1: Lions put the game in the hands of their undrafted
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback, and ultimately he made the critical mistake, which
Speaker 1: was trying to throw a deep ball under pressure from Smith.
Speaker 1: He badly under throws it and Martinez gets the pick.
Speaker 1: So that was, yes, it was a good play by
Speaker 1: the defense, but also again a fortunate break. It was
Speaker 1: just one of these games that that that goes back
Speaker 1: and forth and then you all of a sudden, you're
Speaker 1: fifty five minutes and you've got five minutes left on
Speaker 1: the clock and everything's a wash because the score is tied.
Speaker 1: So then it's like, okay, who's going to make a
Speaker 1: play to win the game? And even when Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: throws an interception late in the game, it was on
Speaker 1: third and twenty, it essentially functioned as about a fifty
Speaker 1: four yard punt which was better than you would normally
Speaker 1: even hope for off of a regular punt. So yeah,
Speaker 1: with Kumaro making making the tackle right away, So that
Speaker 1: ended up working out in in the Packers favor as well.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, again there you know, Matt,
Speaker 1: it's interesting Matt Lafleur's postgame press conferences. He continues to
Speaker 1: just say a lot of the same things. And I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that as a criticism, but it's because it's
Speaker 1: because it's just about this team. It's you know, he
Speaker 1: continues to talk about the resilience, the belief in each other,
Speaker 1: the the just the character of the team. That these
Speaker 1: guys are going to give everything they have for four quarters,
Speaker 1: no matter what the heck has happened, no matter what
Speaker 1: has gone right, no matter what has gone wrong, They're
Speaker 1: just gonna battle their way to the end. And this
Speaker 1: is the Packers team that's going into the playoffs. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is this is who they are. We'll see where
Speaker 1: it goes from here. Yeah, And I mean, just to
Speaker 1: touch quickly on that first half, as you mentioned, offensively
Speaker 1: not to start, they're looking for trying to find some
Speaker 1: rhythm early and they're just not able to do it.
Speaker 1: They do finally get that field goal at the end
Speaker 1: of the half, and then they gave it right back.
Speaker 1: They gave it right back in twenty second to fall
Speaker 1: behind seventeen three. But what impressed me the most about
Speaker 1: that performances They lose Corey Linsley to the back injury. Yes,
Speaker 1: that means it becomes Lucas Patrick, who signed a contract
Speaker 1: extension on Saturday Saturday. Well, now he's in there for
Speaker 1: the sign it right before he got on the plane
Speaker 1: at right. He's in there now for the first time
Speaker 1: since Dallas. Then you lose. You you have Alan Lazard
Speaker 1: step up make a critical catch, you know, one of
Speaker 1: the big go to options with as much attention as
Speaker 1: the Lions were giving Davante Adams, and then he gets
Speaker 1: a third down conversion on a aunt injurs the ankle
Speaker 1: has to leave the game, come out. Brian Bulaga gets
Speaker 1: evaluated for a concussion, leaves the game in the second half.
Speaker 1: Jared Valdier, for the first time in three or in
Speaker 1: sixty five days, has to come in and play in
Speaker 1: an NFL regular season game, and he steps up at
Speaker 1: right tackle. So regardless of what the odds are, what
Speaker 1: the score is or how poorly they might have played
Speaker 1: in the first half. Here you are with different guys
Speaker 1: in different positions, stepping up and making themselves, making their
Speaker 1: presence felt. That I think is ultimately wherever this this
Speaker 1: ride ends for the Packers, that is going to be
Speaker 1: what I remember this team for the most is that
Speaker 1: no matter who they're playing or what the circumstances are,
Speaker 1: they have guys one through forty six on the game
Speaker 1: day roster that are going to be ready to step
Speaker 1: in there and contribute. All right, well, we need to
Speaker 1: get to the rundown on where the Packers stand in
Speaker 1: this playoff picture. But I will take care of some
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Speaker 1: I said at the top of the show. With the victory,
Speaker 1: the Packers secured a first round by in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: They then became very interested spectators in the Sunday night
Speaker 1: football game between San Francisco and Seattle, and the Packers
Speaker 1: come literally west one inch away from, maybe two from
Speaker 1: the number one overall seed. As Seattle's come back at
Speaker 1: Century Link ends up just a couple inches shy of
Speaker 1: the goal line. San Francisco wins by five. San Francisco
Speaker 1: is the number one seed, the Packers are the number two.
Speaker 1: They also find out as soon as that game is
Speaker 1: over that the Packers time slot for the divisional round.
Speaker 1: The Packers will play the final game of the four
Speaker 1: divisional games in two weeks. It will be Sunday, January twelfth,
Speaker 1: lambeau Field five forty pm Central time, so an early
Speaker 1: evening kickoff there, and the Packers will face one of
Speaker 1: three opponents. They will face either the New Orleans Saints,
Speaker 1: who are the three seed, the Philadelphia Eagles, who are
Speaker 1: the four seed, or the Seattle Seahawks, who dropped to
Speaker 1: the five seed with the loss to San Francisco on
Speaker 1: Sunday night. So the scenario is this, and it's really
Speaker 1: pretty simple. The Minnesota Vikings are playing at New Orleans
Speaker 1: this coming Sunday in the wild Card round. If Minnesota
Speaker 1: wins that game, if Minnesota pulls the upset, so to speak,
Speaker 1: Minnesota will go to San Francisco and the Packers will
Speaker 1: get the winner of the Philadelphia Seattle game if New Orleans,
Speaker 1: if the Seeds hold in New Orleans wins at home
Speaker 1: as the three seed. New Orleans is coming to lambeau
Speaker 1: Field on January twelve, So that is where things stand.
Speaker 1: Really interesting the way this shook out obviously at the
Speaker 1: top of the NFC because you end up with three
Speaker 1: teams that are thirteen and three and I can't remember
Speaker 1: the last time I would have to look it up,
Speaker 1: maybe I looked it up earlier, but that a thirteen
Speaker 1: and three team did not get a first round by
Speaker 1: the Saints at thirteen and three are the three seed
Speaker 1: and they do have to play in the wild card round. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And to be honest with you, I think that actually
Speaker 1: probably tells the story of the NFC in two thousand nineteen.
Speaker 1: They're just it was very top heavy. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think there are four teams that kind of solidified themselves
Speaker 1: as the cream of the crop. San Francisco, Green Bay,
Speaker 1: Seattle in New Orleans, Minnesota was always on the cusp
Speaker 1: of that, but they never really got a key victory
Speaker 1: throughout the course of the year. And the NFC East
Speaker 1: is just the NFC East, So it actually does, I think,
Speaker 1: speak to the parody of this, not really the parody,
Speaker 1: but on top the parody of those three teams and
Speaker 1: where they stand going into this thing. For the Packers,
Speaker 1: it's the first time in five years that they get
Speaker 1: to buy. It was interesting talking to a few guys
Speaker 1: in the locker room that I've been around for a
Speaker 1: pretty good amount of time, and they've never experienced that.
Speaker 1: All they've known since really entering the league is sort
Speaker 1: of playing from behind, trying to get a playoff berth
Speaker 1: and then missing the playoffs the past two years. This
Speaker 1: is different. So you look at it with Lazard, with
Speaker 1: the coal injury obviously the injuries to bolog In Lindsley.
Speaker 1: This gives you a week now to be able to
Speaker 1: sit back recover from that. We don't know at this
Speaker 1: point in time when we're shooting the show, how Matt
Speaker 1: Lafleur is actually gonna approach this week and what is
Speaker 1: what his mentality will be. I know for a fact,
Speaker 1: going back to fourteen when Mike McCarthy last got the buy,
Speaker 1: they gave off the players the beginning half of the
Speaker 1: week and then they returned at the end of it
Speaker 1: to do some practices and a little bit of work
Speaker 1: on Friday and Saturday. So a lot of different things
Speaker 1: that they're gonna have to sort out. But as I
Speaker 1: was saying to you know, some of the members of
Speaker 1: the executive committee as we were walking out of the building,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a good problem to have to finally
Speaker 1: be in a position where you don't have to run
Speaker 1: the table, you don't have to catch up, you can
Speaker 1: kind of breathe a little bit. Don't take that too
Speaker 1: you know, seriously, but I mean being able to just
Speaker 1: kind of decompress and reset exactly. It's it's a it's
Speaker 1: a reset. It's a reset, it's a recharge week. You
Speaker 1: mentioned the injuries. The Packers obviously will try to we'll
Speaker 1: try to get those guys healthy. Usually in these situations
Speaker 1: that the coaches will start preparing sort of preliminary game
Speaker 1: plans for all three opponents, not taking every game plan
Speaker 1: to the finish line necessarily, but you'd start doing that
Speaker 1: scouting work on all three of those opponents. You're also
Speaker 1: doing a lot of scouting on yourselves in terms of
Speaker 1: where you are and UH and what you need to
Speaker 1: or want to take into the playoffs and or what
Speaker 1: adjustments you need to make. So that's what this week
Speaker 1: will be about. As you said, we'll wait and see
Speaker 1: exactly what the player's schedule is. When Matt Lafleur announces
Speaker 1: that two things, I want to close the show on here.
Speaker 1: I know our rental time for the hour is almost up,
Speaker 1: but I need to ask you this first thing. You
Speaker 1: watch the San Francisco Seattle game. Yes, the play with
Speaker 1: was it Hollister that ended up being It looked like
Speaker 1: he possibly was interfered with in the end zone. I
Speaker 1: can't remember who the receiver was, but yeah, so what
Speaker 1: do you stand on that? L Riveron says they had
Speaker 1: enough time to look at it and said it didn't
Speaker 1: there wasn't enough there. I this is what I said.
Speaker 1: This is what I said an insider inbox. If you're not,
Speaker 1: if you're not going to stop the game and take
Speaker 1: the time to actually look at that play, then the
Speaker 1: rule is useless. It's only a regular season finale. I
Speaker 1: mean for for Vision Championship and the difference between a
Speaker 1: one seed and a five seed for the San Francisco
Speaker 1: forty niners. I mean, I'm sorry, I don't believe that
Speaker 1: they had enough time to look at it and make
Speaker 1: a decision quite frankly, and if and if they made
Speaker 1: the decision, if they made the decision that quickly, that
Speaker 1: means they were just they they've as they've been the
Speaker 1: vast majority of the season, they've been completely predisposed to
Speaker 1: not throw a flag, which again I just say, makes
Speaker 1: the rule useless. The rule is there. If the past
Speaker 1: interference is on the film, then you have to throw
Speaker 1: the flag from New York. That's why they put the
Speaker 1: rule in and uh, I I just say, I just
Speaker 1: what I said an inboxes. Either get rid of the
Speaker 1: rule or get rid of the people who are not
Speaker 1: applying it properly. The league has to do one of
Speaker 1: two things. In my opinion, they're going to get rid
Speaker 1: of the rule. If anything, that's what I think is
Speaker 1: going to happen to just the postseason. But they're going
Speaker 1: to get rid of it. I mean, that's we can
Speaker 1: just say that definitively at this point. The thing I
Speaker 1: love about it as I'm watching the game with my father,
Speaker 1: uh in my parents living room as we after we
Speaker 1: got home. Yeah, I've lost probably about between ten and
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes in my life this year, including on Sunday night,
Speaker 1: watching Uh, al lazard play in which the ball didn't
Speaker 1: even touch the ground get reviewed. Uh. There's been incidences
Speaker 1: like this throughout the course of the year where things
Speaker 1: have been reviewed or called upon. I think it happened
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago too, where they took a
Speaker 1: look at a possible passenger. Well there was, yeah, there was, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was on a fourth it was on
Speaker 1: a fourth downplay, and they and they stopped to get
Speaker 1: they stopped the game to look at it. And that's
Speaker 1: that's my whole thing, is like, Okay, you actually you
Speaker 1: actually think you had enough time to look at that play,
Speaker 1: I mean, down to the wire division championship on the
Speaker 1: line and everything like that. You're saying you had enough
Speaker 1: time to look at that play when we've seen things
Speaker 1: that have been stopped and looked at more closely just
Speaker 1: to be sure, and they didn't take the time to
Speaker 1: make sure on a very very crucial play, which to
Speaker 1: me means the rule is useless. It is, there's no point.
Speaker 1: But it was just funny again, NFL officiated just kind
Speaker 1: of tripping towards the goal line. At the end of
Speaker 1: the season, I want to mention this because we didn't
Speaker 1: get a chance to talk about all the other games
Speaker 1: that happened. But I made a little tweet on the
Speaker 1: Twitter machine last night. Okay, I've seen it. Probably not,
Speaker 1: you don't really check Twitter that I was. I was
Speaker 1: a little busy because because I had to, I actually
Speaker 1: kind of had to have two stories ready, like San
Speaker 1: Francisco wins, Seattle wins, and what the Packers seed was
Speaker 1: and all that. So I was communicating with with our
Speaker 1: boss because we were trying to get something up as
Speaker 1: soon as the game was over. But of course we
Speaker 1: literally we had to wait until the very last second
Speaker 1: because we didn't know who was going to win that
Speaker 1: that game in Seattle. Well, I was sitting there with
Speaker 1: a hot dog in my hand watching this game. Okay,
Speaker 1: And I just want to mention this because I tweeted
Speaker 1: this to my plea. Maybe I'll go on the ISO camera, Marvin,
Speaker 1: if can get me, I'll centered up here. Hello, how
Speaker 1: are you? My plea to Packer fans right now, enjoy this,
Speaker 1: Enjoy this ride. It doesn't matter what's happened, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter how ugly it's been at times. Enjoy this because
Speaker 1: two things happened Sunday that really hit home with me one.
Speaker 1: The New England Patriots in the same exact situation the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers were in regards to their own division.
Speaker 1: Lost a game to the Miami Dolphins and it costs
Speaker 1: them a first round by They will now play I
Speaker 1: think on Saturday, right, Yeah, they're playing Saturday night in Foxboro.
Speaker 1: First time the Patriots have not had to buy in
Speaker 1: ten years. That happened the second thing, if you get
Speaker 1: a chance, I think the Los Angeles Charges tweeted this out.
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers had one of the most powerful emotional snippets
Speaker 1: in a very it was very emotional comment about his
Speaker 1: approach to the game and what this game means to
Speaker 1: him and when you fall short of your goals, how
Speaker 1: that affects you. Take a look at that video, and
Speaker 1: look at the box score of the New England Patriots game,
Speaker 1: and step back for a second and appreciate where the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers stand. The first half not what you wanted.
Speaker 1: Packers are gonna need to play better than that to
Speaker 1: make a deep playoff run. There's not gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of these teams left that are gonna allow you
Speaker 1: to stay in those games. If you aren't able to
Speaker 1: really effectively move the ball in that first half, no
Speaker 1: question about it. But the Green Bay Packers won that game,
Speaker 1: and their thirteen victories on this season gave them a
Speaker 1: number two seed in the playoffs. Enjoy this because these
Speaker 1: runs are special and you don't get them all the time. Yeah.
Speaker 1: With that, we'll call it a wrap on this edition
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Speaker 1: Thanks for tuning in, See you next time.