WEBVTT - #750 Packers Unscripted: Conquering the Chiefs 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:10.920 Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:14.120 Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spoffer, joined as always 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:16.360 by my partner in crime, Wes Hodkowitz. We're coming to 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:19.880 you hear from our studios at Lambeufield to talk about Wes. 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.560 Another Packers victory, this one twenty seven to nineteen over 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:27.320 the Kansas City Chiefs, the defending Super Bowl champions come 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:31.160 to lambeau Field and the Packers are the ones triumphant. 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:34.760 Three straight wins for Green Bay, four of the Packers 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:38.360 last five in the win column. And I tell you, 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:42.440 if you were going to script the beginning of a 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:46.680 game and it wasn't going to when your defense is 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:49.720 facing a challenge like Patrick Mahomes and this Chiefs offense, 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:53.440 and if that script is not allowed to include you know, 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:57.720 turnovers and you know, a defensive touchdown like in Detroit 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:04.360 on Thanksgiving, having the Packers score two touchdowns on their 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:09.119 first two drives, having the Kansas City Chiefs held out 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:12.480 of the end zone on their first two drives, and 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:15.440 then you're at the two minute warning heading into halftime 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:18.920 and that Patrick Mahomes has only gotten the ball twice. 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:22.399 You can't other than turnovers. You couldn't draw it up 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:22.960 any better. 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.920 You couldn't And the fact that by stopping them in 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:28.400 the red zone it allowed you to keep a touchdown 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:31.319 off the board. Yeah, and I looked at this game 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.080 up until really going into the fourth quarter is like 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:38.119 just a fast break NBA game where it was offenses 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.920 moving the ball and defenses trying to make plays, and 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:46.319 ultimately the Green Bay Packers didn't blink. They didn't blink 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.640 with Jordan Love under center his what fourth game now 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:53.680 of the season with three touchdowns and no interceptions. My 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:56.040 headline for Insider Inbox was one of the first things 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:58.000 I wrote when I was putting that together for Tuesday 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.280 was Jordan Love was at his best when it's team 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:04.520 needed it the most, and to have the players around 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.400 him pick him up. Romeo Dobbs with one of the 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:08.720 sickest catches. 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:10.959 That I've ever seen, crazy play. 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:16.440 Especially given the circumstances. AJ Dillon running hard and then defensively, 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:20.880 they were able to withstand the early blows from Mahomes 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.600 and Travis Kelcey and when they need to make plays 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.520 in the second half, they did that. Cream Bay Packers 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.960 picked up by far their biggest victory of the season 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.640 against the Detroit Lions, and it took them just over 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.040 a week to better that. 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:37.440 Yeah, the run that the Packers are on right now 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.240 is pretty impressive when you look at you look at 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.120 how far this team has come. You know, a Monday 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:46.840 night loss on the road in Vegas that was extremely 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.000 frustrating against a Raiders team that was not playing well. 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.440 Then you come off the bye week and you go 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:54.920 to Denver and you're playing a Broncos team that, granted 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:57.359 is playing much better now, but was not playing well 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.720 at the time, and the Packers were not able to 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:04.000 get that victory either. Now, suddenly from two and five 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:07.400 and three and six after a frustrating loss in Pittsburgh, 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:10.000 one that, as we have talked about, was where some 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:14.480 signs were being shown. The Pittsburgh loss had that had 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:18.560 a familiar ending, but that entire game was not the 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.040 same script, was not the same story as some of 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:25.359 those other frustrating losses. That's where things started to turn. 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:28.560 And now from being two and five and three and 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:33.079 six to being six and six. And to me, this game, 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.000 when you look at the Packers offense, this game was 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:40.840 about the command that Jordan Love had I mean in 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:43.120 terms of in terms of the checks at the line, 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:46.680 whether he was under center in the shotgun. I made 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:51.960 a comment in Insider Inbox that to me, when AJ 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:55.200 Dillon's pounding out the yarts, he that he is and 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.040 he's done this throughout his career. Now late in the season, 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.360 he really is that big, powerful, cold weather, bad weather 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.600 running back, and the Packers are using that right now. 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:08.440 When a running back is pounding out those kind of yards, 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:12.240 and then we see Jordan Love running play action, he 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:14.920 just looks like he's got command of the whole field 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:18.040 in the pocket off of that playfake when you know 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:20.799 you've got the defense playing you. Honestly, the pass protection 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:24.680 is holding up, and the way the Packers are able 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.279 to push the ball downfield right now and then have 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.960 those checkdowns available when Love needs them, the offense is 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:31.920 in a really good place. 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.279 I don't have a Pro Football Focus membership at the moment. 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.919 I am not gifted in terms of breaking down the 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:42.479 game analytically as you are. But I can tell you 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:45.160 what I saw with my eyes on Sunday in two 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:46.800 things that stood out to me the most. With the 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:48.760 offensive side of the ball quickly to touch on AJ 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:50.720 Dillon because I wrote about him in our post game 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.760 key to the game. Yeah, eighteen carries, seventy three yards. 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.479 He averaged four point one yards per carry. Mike, do 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.559 you know what his longest carry was in this game? 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.480 I'm going to I guess seven yards, ten yards. 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:04.920 Ten He came in the fourth quarter. Okay, So when 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.120 you average four point one yards per care and your 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:09.200 longest carry is ten yards, what does that tell you? 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:11.160 It tells you that you're not going backwards. 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:12.400 Yep, you're grinding it out. 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:14.599 You're not being tackled for a loss. You're not putting 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.680 yourself in second and tens or second in eleven situations. 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.840 The green Bay Packers steadily moved the football early on 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.440 seven carries for thirty yards on the opening drive in 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:25.599 the fourth quarter. One of the big reasons why Green 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.120 Bay executed their four minute offense and were able to 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.360 get those extra field goals was because of the way 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.919 that ag Dillon was running the football exceptional. But the 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:35.960 thing I loved most was how I've opened up the 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.800 play action game and everything started building off one another. 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.400 The end a rounds, the jet motions, they were almost 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.600 like the Aaron Jones, so to speak. As far as 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.679 the contrast to the power running style of aj Dillon. Sure, 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.599 and when you got the play action game going, you 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:53.279 could just see Kansas City's defense especially want to be 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.880 as aggressive as they are, but fuddled and probably my 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.279 favorite image of this season so far, and we've started 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.279 to see it in recent weeks because you can see 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:03.919 not from an overconfidence standpoint, but you can see Jordan 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.280 Love feeling himself. You can see him enjoying it. You 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:08.680 can see him having fun out there. It's when they've 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.599 gotten some of these plays off play action where everything 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:14.480 is blocked, the protection is there, and Jordan's kind of 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.440 hoppen a little bit as he's looking downfield trying to 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.080 find something. You can see the excitement in the young 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.920 man at making plays and from the greenmat Packers' perspective, 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:28.479 twenty five completions on thirty six attempts. His overall passer 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.440 completion percentage is now over sixty percent on the season. 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:33.800 That was a big thing we talked about earlier this year. 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:38.159 Two sixty seven, three touchdowns, one eighteen point six pass rating. Michael, 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:40.720 we're talking right now in terms of the NFL. One 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:42.799 of the best guys performing at that position. 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:47.960 Yeah, And I mean for Jordan Love to post a 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:52.880 passer rating nearly forty points higher than Patrick Mahomes. I mean, 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.240 if you had told me that before the game, that 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.440 that would have been the disparity in the passer rating 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:00.840 between the two quarterbacks and the Packers would have that 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.040 kind of advantage, you know, my jaw would have hit 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:06.760 the floor. And it's not as though Patrick Mahomes played 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:10.160 a poor game by any stretch. But you mentioned earlier 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:14.000 that the Packers never blinked, and this was a game 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.880 that as it was going along, you know, the Packers score, 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.880 the Chief's answer, you know, Packers score, Chiefs answer with 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.560 another field goal. But then the Chiefs get the ball. Packers, 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:24.880 you know, botched a chance to get a two score 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.640 lead going into halftime. There was a there was a 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:30.000 false start there and the passing game kind of broke down. 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.320 They weren't able to get the field goal attempt to 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:34.720 make it seventeen to six. The Chiefs get the ball 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.320 coming out of halftime and they go right down and 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:39.920 get their first touchdown of the game. Packers stopped the 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:43.680 two point conversion, but so it's fourteen to twelve. But 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.239 at that point it became a game of like, okay, 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:51.360 who's gonna blink first, right, and you look at the 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:53.720 you know the next well, I shouldn't say the next 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:59.000 couple of possessions in succession, but to two possessions in 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:02.880 the second half as this thing unfolded. One was the Packers, 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.960 face to fourth and one, decided to pass on what 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.320 would have been a very long field goal attempt, went 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:12.720 for it, and that became the Romeo Dobs catch that 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.760 you mentioned, where you know, Jordan Love has the pressure 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.720 right in his face, Chris Jones is as close to 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:22.720 burying him as Chris Jones got all night long, quite frankly. 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:28.360 But Love sees that the Kansas City secondary is a 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.960 little bit mixed up and doesn't think anybody's really going 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:34.200 to be able to make a play on Romeo, so 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:36.840 he throws it up there and Dobbs is able to 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:40.239 come down with it between multiple defenders who are converging 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:43.319 but couldn't get there, which is exactly what Love thought 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.400 when he let the ball go, that they wouldn't get 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.120 there in time. Huge fourth and one conversion. So that 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.600 was a moment where maybe the Packers were going to blink. 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.120 The Chiefs are going to get a fourth downstop and 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:56.320 take over with just a two point deficit. It would 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:59.320 have stayed fourteen to twelve at that time, but you 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.600 convert the four and one and then against the blitz 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.200 you hit Christian Watson for his second touchdown of the game. 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:08.079 The other blink moment then became when it's twenty four 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:11.600 to nineteen, the Chiefs have the ball, they get a 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:15.640 pass interference against the Packers that puts them just across midfield, 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:18.920 and then Keishawn Nixon comes up with an interception, and 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:22.720 that was the first time either quarterback blinked in this game. 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:25.920 Nixon gets the pick with about five minutes to go, 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:30.959 and you, I'll let you take the story from here, 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.520 because you heard from Nixon in the locker room and 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:37.480 wrote about how he had used some pretty extensive film 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:39.240 study to get a read on what was going to 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:40.760 happen there that led to his interception. 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:44.440 Yeah, mannerism study. It's something that I think is probably 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:46.720 a part of the normal day to day curriculum in 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:50.000 the National Football League where coaches will go over kind 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.200 of the tells and tips that they're seeing. Both on 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:54.800 the All twenty two film, but as Matt Lafleure talked 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:58.040 about on Monday's press conference with the media. You know, 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:00.520 you get it on the TV copy too, because of 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.000 how they mike up centers and kind of figuring out 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.200 what the cadences are and in those type of things. 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.960 And in this particular case, it was one of the 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:11.080 checks that Patrick Mahomes was making that he had talked 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:15.160 with I should say, he being Keishawn Nixon, had discussed 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.240 with his coaches and in the cornerbacks room as Okay, 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:20.520 if this happens and this is the look that you're 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:23.160 getting with two receivers over on the right side, this 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.080 might be what the check is going to be, and 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.200 ultimately how the play is going to play out. The 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.800 one thing, maybe you deduced it a little bit better 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:33.120 than I did. Watching it unfold from the Kansas City perspective, 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:34.680 I was trying to figure out if they were trying 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.400 to run a rub route or if it was just 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.840 a quick stop and then the guy going underneath it. 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.319 It was kind of a weird sort. 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:43.000 Of Yeah, it's what I looked at it, and it is. 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.160 It's one of the clips in my what you might 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.920 have missed. I took a look at, you know, a 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:50.520 key defensive plays, the sacks in the red zone, the 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.120 two point conversion stop, and then the last one being 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:56.320 the interception there by Nixon. And it looked it looks like, 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:58.800 essentially it is a rub route. They're trying to set 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:03.200 up a natural pick type of situation where where sky Moore, 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:07.400 the inside receiver, is looping underneath. I believe it's Rashi 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.920 Rice who who's running just a quick stop route from 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:16.160 the outside, so he's looping underneath. What Nixon was able 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.680 to do is he is he stayed back so that 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.920 he didn't, you know, run into Rice or Rice's defender 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:26.800 on the short route. He stayed back, he was able 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.480 to loop behind. And really then what happened when you 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.679 look at it closely on the film is when sky 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:34.920 Moore it kind of looks like a wheel route, and 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.120 it does. It's not a wheel route out of the backfield, 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.360 but it's a wheel route from the slot around the 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:42.960 other receiver. What sky Moore realizes is how good a 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:46.160 position Nixon is in, and he sort of realized I'm 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.080 not going to win this route, and he starts to 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:51.960 slow up, but Mahomes has already let the ball go 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.079 because he's counting on his guy to run the route, 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.080 and by slowing up like he did, he didn't have 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.920 a chance to sort of defend Nixon from being able 0:11:59.960 --> 0:12:02.560 to pick the ball off. Nixon had a clean open 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:07.040 catch because because More wasn't running full speed on the route. 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.200 Because Nixon played it so well, it was like it 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:11.000 was sort of like I got you, I beat you, 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.480 and More gave up on the play. So that's the 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.840 kind of thing that it was a mistake by the 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:20.120 Chiefs offense. The Packers were able to take advantage cash 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.640 in and then and they ran the clock down almost 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:25.160 to a minute left to go before kicking the field 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:26.760 of the field goal to go up eight points. 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:29.200 It got really dicey in that final series for Kansas City. 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:32.800 But after that play, the Chiefs offense never looked in sync. Again, Yeah, 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:35.000 it really didn't. And obviously they're playing in a two 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:36.960 minute situation all that, but it just seemed like it 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.600 was one of those backbreaking type of moments. The stat 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:41.520 that I brought up and we talked about it last 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:44.680 week then being minus six now and turnover differential. They're 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.120 four and four on the season. When Patrick Mahomes has 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.600 an interception, they haven't lost when he doesn't have one. 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:51.960 So it shows you just how quickly that can all 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.240 turn on them if it doesn't work out that way. Yeah, 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:56.240 Keishaw Nixon, I said it was one of the finest 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:59.120 over the shoulder interceptions I've ever seen. I'll say this, 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:00.719 I don't know if I've ever seen it over the 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.840 shoulder interception within ten yards of the play. Sometimes it 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.080 happens if a guy lofts a ball and that the 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:09.760 receiver doesn't run it rout right or it's overthrown. Keisha 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.200 Nixon had an over the shoulder interception that ended up 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.439 in sort of a toe taper on the sidelines, all 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.800 within like ten yards. Yeah, it was kind of a 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.800 wild thing, and I know a lot of people the 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.160 reactions of this thing I've seen, I mean, just people 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:26.480 completely awestruck at it. But as Nixon said afterwards, he's like, 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.120 I've had a couple of those chances already this season. 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.440 We remember one of them, I believe in Denver, where 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.520 he was so close to being able to just couldn't 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:35.600 get his feet Downes caught the ball, but it's the 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.120 other part of the process of the catch that one. 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.200 He did it, and it was a huge moment for greenback. 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:42.360 Well, it's one of those things too that with Nixon 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:46.440 being a return guy, he at times he has to 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:49.080 catch the ball in different positions and you know, in 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:52.040 other ways than sort of the traditional way that a 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.640 defender might intercept a pass. So those kinds of skills 0:13:55.679 --> 0:14:00.320 certainly come in handy. This win is big as it 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.880 is for the Packers, and we'll talk about where things 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.880 sit in the playoff picture in a minute. It came 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:09.480 at a cost, however, unfortunately, because Christian Watson in the 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:13.760 fourth quarter, as he picked up a crucial first down 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:15.800 to move the chains, keep the clock moving there late 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:19.360 in the fourth quarter, he tweaked his hamstring, went down, 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:22.200 was helped off the field. We don't know the extent 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.680 of the injury where things are at. It is an 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:28.400 injury that he has dealt with in one form or 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:32.120 another throughout his two seasons in the NFL, So that's 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.360 very unfortunate. Christian Watson was really getting going, not only 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:39.000 having the two touchdown catches against the Chiefs, but four 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:42.600 of his five touchdowns on the season. We're in this 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.680 three game winning streak that the Packers are currently on. 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.720 He was, you know, starting to certainly starting to look 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.960 like the Christian Watson that you know that took the 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.360 league by storm over a four or five game stretch 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:57.720 last season as a rookie. In November, we'll see how 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.320 long he's going to be out, and it's it's a 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.360 big blow to the Packers offense when you add the 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.920 fact that Luke Muskrave, your rookie tight end who had 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.520 been just starting to stretch defenses a little bit and 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:12.000 get more attention and whatnot, he's also out now. He's 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.960 on injured reserve and we don't really know if or 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:20.120 when he'll be back this season. So offensively, another hurdle 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:24.000 to deal with here as Matt Lafleur and the offensive 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.960 coaches are going to have to game plan presumably, you know, 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:29.640 I would think at least this game against the Giants 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.840 and maybe another one, who knows. We don't know the timeline, 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.000 but there's going to be some time here that Christian 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:36.560 Watson is going to miss and they're gonna have to 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:40.120 game plan and set up the offense moving forward without 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:41.240 number nine on the field. 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:43.200 Yeah, I was bummed out to see how that ends 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.920 for him, because, for my money, Michael, I understand he 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.240 wasn't going to be up for Offensive Player of the 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.120 Week or Offensive Rookie of the Week like he was 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:53.480 like twelve times last season. But I would venture to 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:55.400 say that that was one of his best games of 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:59.000 his NFL career because he played as a possession receiver 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.960 and he showed the more well rounded aspects of his game. 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:04.400 Set career high seven receptions, but it was only for 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.880 seventy one yards, but so many of those plays, none 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.280 of which were more than twenty yards on an individual catch, 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:13.880 but so many of those plays contributed to either the 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.520 Packers sustaining a drive or as we saw the two 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.040 touchdowns the first one in the second quarter, in the 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:22.120 second one and the third, and how strongly he attacked 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.040 the football and just being able to use all of 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.960 his tools together as one. You had to edit it. 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.840 When I wrote it last month, Christian Watson was going 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.800 to be just fine. I liked his mentality, I liked 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.360 his athleticism. I felt like he was going to be 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.760 able to pull himself back into this thing and finish strong, 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.800 which he has been doing. Unfortunately, the inner the hamstring 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.560 does pop up. One thing he did clarify, and I 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.000 want to make sure we make this point. His people 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:49.240 had kind of been asking on social media or some 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.040 of the media had been talking about, well, him trying 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:53.160 to stop himself to stay in balance. Is where the 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:56.640 hamstring injury happened. Watson said, No, it happened during the 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:58.480 process of it. He just went down, not to make 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.720 anything worse. I mean, obviously he wanted to stand bounce, 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:03.600 but they had already had the issue before that, so 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:06.360 you hope for the best. It was good to see 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:09.440 him walking around. Obviously, he was talking with teammates afterwards. 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:12.760 It you know, it's not like Desmond Bishop situation, which 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:14.120 is always the one in the back of my head 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:17.400 when a guy goes down like he did. But hamstring 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:19.720 injuries also don't heal themselves overnight. We're gonna have to 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:20.800 see what the Packers do here. 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.720 Yeah, it's gonna it's gonna take. It's gonna take another 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:27.240 adjustment on offense. But Lafleur in this offensive staff, they've 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:29.520 been dealing with adjustments all along. You know, you lose 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.119 David Baktieri, Aaron Jones has been in and out of 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.440 the lineup all season. Now Watson was out before back in. 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:38.919 Now Watson's out. Musgrave is out. You know, it's not 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.719 anything that they haven't dealt with in the past, and 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.119 and uh, and they'll have to roll with it again. 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:47.040 The uh, the final drive. I want to make one 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:51.960 point about that. What I considered an extremely chaotic final drive, 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:53.560 I don't and I don't think it was just because 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:55.800 I was live blogging the game and trying to figure 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:56.520 out and keep up. 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:58.600 No, I was just watching. I didn't understand what I. 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:02.639 Was and trying to type everything and and stay on 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:07.840 top of it. There are all kinds of analyzes out there. 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.159 I sort of said my peace with regard to the 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:16.720 officiating in the Monday Insider inbox. You know, the late 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.760 hit on Mahomes shouldn't have been called, The past interference 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:24.240 on Valentine obviously should have been called. Did the officials 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:28.560 manage the clock correctly? Absolutely not. And then you have 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:32.000 the Hail Mary, which apparently, and I'm not watching the 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.920 NBC broadcast, but apparently they were making a big deal 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:38.000 out of Travis Kelsey getting shoved in the back by 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:41.040 Jonathan Owens on the Hail Mary. And it's like, Okay, 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:44.480 when's the last time you ever saw a pass interference flag? 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.320 I mean, come on, folks. I literally I have seen 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:50.400 I believe in my lifetime, I have seen one pass 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:52.879 interference flag thrown on a hail mary and it was 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.560 literally when a guy got grabbed and dragged to the 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:58.840 ground where they had there was like no choice if 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:02.639 you are jock for a position to go try to 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:06.360 get the football. It's an anything goes free for all situation. 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:09.159 The point I wanted to make about all this is 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:14.919 hearing the comments afterward from Patrick Mahomes and from Travis 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:17.600 Kelcey with regard to the final drive. Mahomes is asked 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:21.000 about the interference on Valentine, the deep ball to MVS 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.600 that wasn't called, and Patrick Mahomes says, I need to 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:28.040 throw better football. Travis Kelsey's asked about the hail mary 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:30.639 and he says, I'm not putting this loss on anything 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:35.960 but ourselves. That's how champions talk. That's how champions two 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:39.120 Super Bowl championships in the last handful of years. That's 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:41.800 how champions deal with defeats like that. They are not 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:44.000 pointed the fans are gonna do what they want to do. 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:47.159 Those players are not pointing the fingers at the officials 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:50.760 for how that thing went down, and I think that's 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:53.840 just it's an important thing to remember. It's an important 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:57.000 thing to file away. How the Kansas City Chiefs dealt 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:57.280 with this. 0:19:57.320 --> 0:19:59.840 Law, I loved it, and I think that starts with 0:19:59.840 --> 0:20:02.040 the Andy Reid. I think it goes through that coaching staff, 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:04.320