Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford, joined as always by my trusted
Speaker 1: colleague West Hodkuits. We're coming to you here from our
Speaker 1: studios at lambeau Field West. It is our Friday show,
Speaker 1: our last show of the week, and I actually should
Speaker 1: begin this show with a little programming note. With the
Speaker 1: Packers going on their bye week after the Monday night
Speaker 1: game against the San Francisco forty Niners, we are going
Speaker 1: to go dark for about a week because West has
Speaker 1: some time off, I have some time off, and instead
Speaker 1: of having one of us sit here at the desk
Speaker 1: and talk to the camera, we're just gonna take a
Speaker 1: bit of a break and we will be back with
Speaker 1: more Packers Unscripted after the bye weekend. So all of
Speaker 1: that out of the way, West, there is a game
Speaker 1: Monday night at lambeau Field Packers again, it's the forty
Speaker 1: Niners and it's our Keys to Victory show. So where
Speaker 1: do you want to start with this one? I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go to something that we talked about it this week,
Speaker 1: but I thought Kyle Shanahan had his conference call with
Speaker 1: Packers reporters on Thursday and to be honest with you, Mike,
Speaker 1: and and I've been doing this now for six seven,
Speaker 1: eight years with these conference calls, it was probably one
Speaker 1: of the best I think I've been a part of
Speaker 1: in terms of an opposing coach. He hit it right
Speaker 1: on the head. It comes down to takeaways, and it
Speaker 1: comes down to giveaways and right now, that is what's
Speaker 1: really hurting his football team. Now, it would be really easy,
Speaker 1: as he said, you know, they look at the situation
Speaker 1: they're in. They lose Jerick McKinnon, they lose Jimmy Garoppolo.
Speaker 1: They don't know if they're gonna have that breeder this week.
Speaker 1: But the fact is they have to protect the football
Speaker 1: and they have not done a good job of that
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. Minus eight and termin over
Speaker 1: differential after that loss against Arizona played a big role
Speaker 1: in then falling behind and and losing that game. And
Speaker 1: on the same token, the Green Bay Packers, Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: talked about it all week. They have to do a
Speaker 1: better job of protecting the football. It's the number one
Speaker 1: thing in this matchup. Who is the team that wins
Speaker 1: the turnover margin, wins the turnover battle. I think that's
Speaker 1: a team that leaves landbou Field with the victory. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that's what it comes down to as well,
Speaker 1: based on what these two teams are now focusing on,
Speaker 1: and with the Packers, it's not only protecting the football,
Speaker 1: but it's finding some more ways to take the football away.
Speaker 1: On defense, now, you can get yourself in trouble a
Speaker 1: little bit. You know. I talked to Tremont Williams about
Speaker 1: this the other day in the locker room, because I've
Speaker 1: heard from over the years from guys like Nick Collins,
Speaker 1: Charles Woodson, when a defense is not getting the turnovers
Speaker 1: that it wants, you can have a tendency to try
Speaker 1: to chase and make things happen, and that's where you
Speaker 1: get in trouble. And I think Tremont Williams, a veteran
Speaker 1: presence in that secondary, knows that you can't try to
Speaker 1: force it with the turnovers, at least in terms of
Speaker 1: interceptions and whatnot, because if if you blow your assignment
Speaker 1: because you're chasing a place somewhere else, that can really
Speaker 1: really get the defense in trouble. So you have to
Speaker 1: be careful there. But that being said, he also talked about,
Speaker 1: you know, gang tackling to the ball, get to where
Speaker 1: you're holding up that ball carrier, that receiver, and then
Speaker 1: it in there and try to strip the ball out.
Speaker 1: You know, the first guy who gets there can't try
Speaker 1: to strip the ball out because that's how you miss tackles.
Speaker 1: But it's it's a team effort here. And I'll be
Speaker 1: curious to see just how the Packers sort of put
Speaker 1: all of that focus and emphasis into practice on Monday night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad you brought that up too, because again
Speaker 1: the forty niners are dealing with the same thing. They
Speaker 1: only have one interception this season. Uh And as you
Speaker 1: know Kyle Shanahan was talking about, Yeah, they've they've given
Speaker 1: the ball away too much, but they haven't gotten enough
Speaker 1: takeaways to make up for it either. So uh, that
Speaker 1: that is the big thing we heard it all these years.
Speaker 1: Darren Perry used to talk about it too. You have
Speaker 1: to be you know, fundamental, You have to trust your
Speaker 1: technique and make the plays when they're available to you
Speaker 1: and not you know, leave your your place on the
Speaker 1: field just to you know, seek glory. So uh, I've
Speaker 1: seen exactly how that shuffles out. Is gonna be really
Speaker 1: interesting to watch. And then conversely for the Packers defense,
Speaker 1: I mean, the stats don't line Mike. Last week they
Speaker 1: had for all four their outside rushers were not able
Speaker 1: to get to the quarterback, and they got a change
Speaker 1: that this week. C J. Beathard has two fumbles lost,
Speaker 1: he's had four interceptions. You can there is an opportunity
Speaker 1: there if you can get some pressure on him. We
Speaker 1: talked about it last week with Matthew Stafford. The type
Speaker 1: of quarterback he is, you need to keep his feet hot.
Speaker 1: They were not able to do that. He was able
Speaker 1: to make enough plays. Now you look at this matchup
Speaker 1: with San Francisco, it's going to be imperative for them
Speaker 1: to rush that play cock because they are a very
Speaker 1: unconventional offense with how they use their tight end, how
Speaker 1: they use their fullback, and they're going to continue to
Speaker 1: do things a little bit unusual with all the other
Speaker 1: injuries that they've occurred at their other skill positions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when you talk about turnovers, the way you create bad
Speaker 1: throws in this league is with pressure, with disrupting the quarterback. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the Packers had some issues earlier in the year with
Speaker 1: the roughing the passer and all that. We don't need
Speaker 1: to revisit that. But when you when you can get
Speaker 1: when you can get the quarterback off the spot, when
Speaker 1: you can hurry him, when you can disrupt his timing,
Speaker 1: that's when the throws become errant. That's when a throw
Speaker 1: goes behind the receiver or above a receipt you know,
Speaker 1: too high, and then your defensive back is there with
Speaker 1: a chance to get his hands on the ball and
Speaker 1: make a play. So that's how these things are going
Speaker 1: to happen. But in terms of maybe some more of
Speaker 1: those fundamentals on defense, I see this one as you
Speaker 1: have to find a way to contain George Kittle this
Speaker 1: tight end for the San Francisco forty Niners. He leads
Speaker 1: them in past receptions and yardage by a pretty significant margin.
Speaker 1: Now they find different ways to get him the ball.
Speaker 1: He's not just a middle scene guy at tight end.
Speaker 1: He'll run corner routes, they'll run screens for him, They'll
Speaker 1: run him anywhere on the field in order to get
Speaker 1: him the ball. He's becoming a pretty dynamic playmaker for them.
Speaker 1: I think if you can, if you can contain Kittle
Speaker 1: in the passing game, I think Bethard might have some difficulty,
Speaker 1: you know, finding a consistent rhythm with his offense because
Speaker 1: I think he really relies on this title. I thought
Speaker 1: this was probably one of the better questions I've received
Speaker 1: this season. On Insider Inbox this week, somebody asking how
Speaker 1: many players have entered the league. Uh, you know, it's
Speaker 1: in the same draft class, the same Combo and Iowa
Speaker 1: that they were being able to reunite with the San
Speaker 1: Francisco forty Niners. I didn't really think of many. The one,
Speaker 1: I guess kind of came to mind was like Casey
Speaker 1: Hayward in Sean Richardson, I guess, I mean, if you
Speaker 1: really want to dig deep, Andy Malumba and Alex Gillette
Speaker 1: came in the same class. Is there anyone that you
Speaker 1: that you thought of when you're well with the Packers
Speaker 1: and their Stanford guys Martinez and Murphy were drafted. Now,
Speaker 1: that's different sides of the ball. That's one guy on defense,
Speaker 1: one guy on offense. But yeah, it is. I mean,
Speaker 1: there are a handful around the league. But I think
Speaker 1: what's unique about this is that it's a quarterback pass catcher,
Speaker 1: you know, quarterback tight end combination here that these guys
Speaker 1: played together. They're they're doing exactly together what they did
Speaker 1: in college, you know what they're doing now in the NFL. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's just it's it's so interesting too because listen
Speaker 1: to Kyle Shanahan talked. The thing that they really like
Speaker 1: about Kittle is, Okay, you can look at his receiving
Speaker 1: yards this year, you can look at his production last
Speaker 1: year when he kind of jumped on the scene, but
Speaker 1: it's what he does when he does not getting the ball.
Speaker 1: They feel like he's a traditional, you know, blocker in
Speaker 1: that position. He does all the little things you want
Speaker 1: right out of the tight end. He seems like he's
Speaker 1: on pace to become a real big playmaker in this league.
Speaker 1: And certainly they have a familiar with with Bethard he
Speaker 1: started i think five six games whatever it was last year.
Speaker 1: He has that rapport with Kittle. It seems like he's
Speaker 1: been able to generate that rapport with the with the
Speaker 1: guys around him in that offensive front and seeing what
Speaker 1: he can do to generate those opportunities against the Packers defense.
Speaker 1: Is I think ultimately going to be what the forty
Speaker 1: Niners are looking to accomplish in this game. The Packers
Speaker 1: task is that, Okay, if you do have Kevin King available.
Speaker 1: It looks like he's gonna be good to go despite
Speaker 1: the chin injury. You have maybe potentially JayR Alexander back.
Speaker 1: Sounds like the Packers are high on him. You know.
Speaker 1: Bashad Brylan's practicing this week. Jermaine Whitehead came back this week.
Speaker 1: He could be a really important piece to this If
Speaker 1: you have all your weapons available in the secondary, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be the easiest way for this Packers defense to
Speaker 1: be able to come back. Kittle. Yeah. Well, the other
Speaker 1: the other thing that I see as a big key
Speaker 1: to this game, and really it applies to both sides
Speaker 1: the ball for the Packers, and that's penalties. And we've
Speaker 1: been talking about it during the week how the Packers
Speaker 1: have been hurting themselves with penalty season West. You know,
Speaker 1: you look at these two road losses, which are really
Speaker 1: kind of the sore thumb type of games, you know
Speaker 1: here for the Packers Washington and Detroit. In Washington, on
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball, you had the one
Speaker 1: drive with just kind of the slew of past interference
Speaker 1: defensive holding where everybody's technique kind of went out the
Speaker 1: window on one drive and just handed Washington, a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of yards on the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: In that game, you had a bunch of penalties as
Speaker 1: well that were affecting down and distance. The Packers sitting
Speaker 1: in second and twenty and third longs and all that
Speaker 1: because of penalties putting them behind the sticks. Then you
Speaker 1: go to the Detroit game. The penalties on special teams
Speaker 1: affected field position throughout that game. The Packers starting so
Speaker 1: many drives at the twelve or the fifteen yard line
Speaker 1: because of penalties on special things. One wiping out a
Speaker 1: big long kickoff return that would have been a potential
Speaker 1: momentum shift there for Green Bay. And then the penalties
Speaker 1: on the defensive side. You had a face mask, you
Speaker 1: had a taunting. You know, these fifteen yard chunks that
Speaker 1: you're handing the other team with the yellow flags. If
Speaker 1: the Packers can clean up the technique and just clean
Speaker 1: up that part of their game, I think they make
Speaker 1: their own lives so much easier because they're gonna make
Speaker 1: life more difficult for their opponent. And here's the thing, Mike,
Speaker 1: you know this, I know this. No team in the
Speaker 1: history of the National Football League has ever gone a
Speaker 1: season without a penalty. They happen. They're gonna catch some
Speaker 1: bad breaks. Clay Matthews caught a brad break Lane Taylor
Speaker 1: on his holding call, which to me still looks like
Speaker 1: a pancake all those weeks ago. Was a bad break.
Speaker 1: Those situations are going to happen. But it's the ones
Speaker 1: that you can control. Taunting penalties to some extent, the
Speaker 1: unnecessary roughness stuff to some extent, and there's a varying
Speaker 1: degree of definition on that now. But but blocking in
Speaker 1: the back on a party kickoff return, that's an avoidable penalty.
Speaker 1: That that that's about discipline, and those kinds of things
Speaker 1: can't continue to happen because putting Aaron Rodgers on the
Speaker 1: thirty yard line versus putting them on the fifteen yard line,
Speaker 1: the percentages of a scoring drive go way up. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's like you know the Revolutionary War, right, Do
Speaker 1: you want to have your cannon ball at the back
Speaker 1: of the line. Do you want to have it out
Speaker 1: in the front. Honestly, you want to have that thing
Speaker 1: on the front. You want to make some noise. That's
Speaker 1: the thing that Aaron Rodgers gives you. You can give
Speaker 1: them feel position. We've seen it, Mike, you can go
Speaker 1: back over the years since two thousand nine, at least
Speaker 1: the times in which the Packers have gotten the ball
Speaker 1: to Aaron Rodgers off a turnover on defense, How often
Speaker 1: that equates two points? How often that equates to victory.
Speaker 1: The same thing holds true on special teams. And you
Speaker 1: look at the years like thirteen and fourteen, some of
Speaker 1: the players that Micah Hyde made, some of the plays
Speaker 1: that you know, uh, you know Trevor Davis made last year,
Speaker 1: and these returns, time Montgomery has had his moments. Those
Speaker 1: things all help your bottom line. So, yeah, it's something
Speaker 1: you have to clean up. I know it's gonna be
Speaker 1: heavy emphasis. Fundamentals are so important to this team, in
Speaker 1: this franchise, So you would think that that's something that
Speaker 1: the Packers are really heavily preaching this week as they
Speaker 1: go into a game against the San fran Francisco forty Niners,
Speaker 1: which I'm always hesitant to call anything I must win
Speaker 1: in the first eight weeks of the season because of
Speaker 1: two thousand and sixteen in particular, but it is a
Speaker 1: critical game at a critical time that could change the
Speaker 1: narrative going into this bye week. Yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I think this is this is as close to a
Speaker 1: must win as you get in the middle of October,
Speaker 1: just based on where the Packers are right now, the
Speaker 1: way they've had their ups and downs, the way they're playing,
Speaker 1: and then with what you have on the schedule coming
Speaker 1: up after the bye week. Now, we heard from quarterback
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers after practice on Thursday, and he didn't make
Speaker 1: any you know, grand run the Table pronouncements or anything
Speaker 1: like that, but he did say he doesn't feel like
Speaker 1: this team is that far off and and what he
Speaker 1: feels and it's another thing that we've talked about that
Speaker 1: everybody in the Packers locker room has talked about, is
Speaker 1: getting past these slow starts and starting games faster. And
Speaker 1: Rogers basically said something very similar to what he said
Speaker 1: two years ago in the whole run the Table thing
Speaker 1: late in is that if the offense gets off to
Speaker 1: a faster start and can take a lead, can get
Speaker 1: points on the board early, everything about the whole outlook
Speaker 1: with the rest of the team changes. Then the offense
Speaker 1: isn't playing from behind the defense. With the lead, You've
Speaker 1: got Mike Petton and all of his different personnel combinations
Speaker 1: and and potential blitz packages that you could send at
Speaker 1: the quarterback. Aaron Rodgers said, this offense needs to lead
Speaker 1: from out in front. He's putting it on himself. He's
Speaker 1: putting it on the offense to be the leading unit
Speaker 1: of this team right from the get go on Monday Night,
Speaker 1: and if they can get that accomplished, then that potentially
Speaker 1: becomes the formula for how you try to win some
Speaker 1: of these road games down the road. Yeah. He even
Speaker 1: used the Brewers as an analogy with that, saying that
Speaker 1: that's they're a great example of a team that just
Speaker 1: let momentum carry then they built some up and they
Speaker 1: got rolling. And that is one of the most powerful
Speaker 1: elixers in this game, is if you can get you know,
Speaker 1: momentum on your side and just get that inner confidence going.
Speaker 1: The thing I really like. There's two things I liked
Speaker 1: about one Rogers comments and also going back to what
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan talked about. First, starting with Rogers, He's right,
Speaker 1: I wish we had more time that you and I
Speaker 1: could go back and look to see the when the
Speaker 1: Packers get the ball in that first offensive possession, they
Speaker 1: score and they get a first down, how often that
Speaker 1: equates to points and how often that translates to victory,
Speaker 1: because it just does seem like when they start fast,
Speaker 1: everything hits on the right cylinders, the water on the
Speaker 1: sideline taste sweeter, everybody's feeling better in the conditions just
Speaker 1: seemed perfect for for a victory. But on the other
Speaker 1: side of it, I thought Kyle Shanahan was just heat
Speaker 1: praise on Mike Petton, saying that this guy is one
Speaker 1: of the best defensive coordinators there is. They don't get
Speaker 1: much better than him. And to be honest with you, Mike,
Speaker 1: I know there's been some ups and downs here in
Speaker 1: these first five six weeks, but as I mentioned earlier
Speaker 1: this week, Packers right now are fourth in total defense.
Speaker 1: You know that their second against the past. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're doing things right despite not everyone always being available,
Speaker 1: despite the pass rush not always getting home. There are
Speaker 1: enough playmakers on that defense in enough you know, scheme
Speaker 1: to allow them to to fully sort of reach their
Speaker 1: potential that they've kept the Packers in these games, win loser, tie.
Speaker 1: They haven't been just completely blown out of the water.
Speaker 1: They've always had a chance until the very end, and
Speaker 1: that is a credit to Mike Petton in the way
Speaker 1: that the defense has responded to certain situations. Yeah, to me,
Speaker 1: the defense has had really one rough stretch of the season,
Speaker 1: and it was really from the start of about the
Speaker 1: start of the fourth quarter of the Minnesota game through
Speaker 1: the first half of the Washington game. Other than that,
Speaker 1: you look at the point. You look at the points allowed,
Speaker 1: the points in the opening game against the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: A lot of that was by turnovers the offense created. Uh,
Speaker 1: the offense giving the ball away, same thing in Detroit,
Speaker 1: the turnovers that gave the Lions short fields and opportunities
Speaker 1: to score points. This this defense has played some pretty
Speaker 1: darn good football, with the exception of I would say
Speaker 1: four quarters the fourth quarter of the overtime in Minnesota
Speaker 1: and the first two quarters in Washington. Now, you can't
Speaker 1: fall back into another one of those ruts, you can.
Speaker 1: You have to you have to build on what you
Speaker 1: have to get done. Yeah, you have to build on
Speaker 1: what the defense is on. And I think part of
Speaker 1: Rogers point is they really will get an opportunity to
Speaker 1: build on what they've done if the offense is leading
Speaker 1: from the front and giving them a lead to work with,
Speaker 1: especially into the second and third quarter. And let's be real, Mike,
Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty Niners. They just they aren't right
Speaker 1: now the creme de la crema that division. The Packers
Speaker 1: are gonna see it in about two and a half weeks.
Speaker 1: Right now with the Los Angeles Rams, one of the
Speaker 1: most high point, high scoring offenses in the league, You're
Speaker 1: going up against a backup quarterback, likely a third string
Speaker 1: running back depending on whether or not Braid is able
Speaker 1: to play in a team that in essence has had
Speaker 1: its share of ups and downs. If you're the Packers
Speaker 1: and you're at home, you have to set the tone
Speaker 1: with that. You have to defensively take this opportunity to
Speaker 1: continue to build on that performance because there's a jugger
Speaker 1: not waiting for you down the line. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: you look past the San Francisco forty Niners, but you've
Speaker 1: got to take care of business in this game because
Speaker 1: you're gonna need your best effort to go into the
Speaker 1: l A Coliseum and come up with a win in
Speaker 1: two weeks. Yeah, I agree with you totally there, Weston,
Speaker 1: speaking of taking care our business, when we look at
Speaker 1: what's going on elsewhere in the NFL. Here in Week six,
Speaker 1: Packers and Vikings are tied at two two and one
Speaker 1: for second place in the NFC North, behind the Chicago Bears,
Speaker 1: who are three and one only have four games in
Speaker 1: the books. They're coming off there by. Chicago an interesting game.
Speaker 1: They're going down to Miami. Now Chicago is coming off
Speaker 1: the by, they've got their rest. A couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: Miami was three and one and lining up for a
Speaker 1: game against the Patriots team that had lost a couple
Speaker 1: of games, and everybody was wondering just where things were
Speaker 1: headed in the NFC East. Well, the Patriots took care
Speaker 1: of business against the Dolphins, and then the Dolphins went
Speaker 1: to Cincinnati and kind of stunk up the field quite
Speaker 1: frankly in giving one away to the Bengals. So now
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Miami is three and three and
Speaker 1: they're fighting to to keep their season afloat in that
Speaker 1: NFC East with the Patriots starting to catch fire a
Speaker 1: little bit. An interesting game here with Chicago going down
Speaker 1: to Miami. Obviously, Vikings, Vikings and Packers fans will be
Speaker 1: rooting for Miami to hand Chicago a second law. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they'll be cheering for Adam Gays in this one. The
Speaker 1: other thing I enjoyed too, I'm kind of like Pavlov's dog. Now.
Speaker 1: So when you're like, oh, it's time to care, I
Speaker 1: thought were going into a sponsor read when you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: we gotta talk about some business here, Like I was
Speaker 1: just already zoned into that. But that being said, Friday's
Speaker 1: I get to skip. Yeah, there's no sponsors, just business. Uh,
Speaker 1: you're right. This is a really important game for Adam
Speaker 1: Gaze and in the Dolphins, trying to show that, Okay,
Speaker 1: we got off to a really strong start. We are
Speaker 1: this team. It wasn't by coincidence, it wasn't by fluke.
Speaker 1: But now they're taking on a Chicago Bears team that
Speaker 1: the you know, there's kind of whistling a different tune
Speaker 1: at this point and kind of feeling good about where
Speaker 1: they're at sands the last thirty minutes of that game
Speaker 1: against the Packers. So that's gonna be a big one here,
Speaker 1: the Packers. The a FC really needs to help out
Speaker 1: Green Bay a little bit here. When you look at
Speaker 1: you know, Packers are gonna have a tough match up
Speaker 1: with you know, New England and some other matchups. Obviously
Speaker 1: they're gonna get Miami at home. You're going into the
Speaker 1: New York at the end of the season and winter,
Speaker 1: so's it's a it's a very heavy second half of
Speaker 1: the schedule for them. So yeah, if you can have
Speaker 1: Miami come out there and maybe get a big win
Speaker 1: over Chicago here you know, knocked them down a few pegs.
Speaker 1: But personally, Mike, I mean this this where things stand
Speaker 1: right now with Minnesota from here on out, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be really interested to watch because you know, now Arizona,
Speaker 1: even though you know they still I think are in
Speaker 1: most power rankings, are considered near the bottom. So were
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills when they went to the US Bank stadiums.
Speaker 1: So if Josh Schrosen leading that thing, can they get
Speaker 1: David Johnson going all big questions? And certainly I do
Speaker 1: think they have a defense that can compete. It's just
Speaker 1: a question of what they're going to get offensively. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: with with Arizona going into Minneapolis to face the Vikings,
Speaker 1: I'll just say this, if, if, if the Vikings lose
Speaker 1: this game, I will give up trying to figure out
Speaker 1: anything about that team, because because let's face it, the
Speaker 1: Vikings are better than the Buffalo Bills. And you know,
Speaker 1: if there if there was a day where you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, anybody can have a bad day. Maybe you
Speaker 1: overlook an opponent. I don't like to say that too
Speaker 1: much in the NFL because I really think that's overused
Speaker 1: at times. But the Vikings are not going to get
Speaker 1: caught by an underdog at home again. I just don't.
Speaker 1: I just don't see that. Now, if the Cardinals do,
Speaker 1: then the Vikings are going to be reeling a little
Speaker 1: bit because they're gonna be like, what in the world
Speaker 1: is going on here? Because because that US Bank Stadium
Speaker 1: is supposed to be a pretty darn tough place to play.
Speaker 1: It's been a tough place to play for the Packers
Speaker 1: since it was built. But Minnesota looking at this as
Speaker 1: well as okay, this, this is there. You know, they
Speaker 1: beat the defending Super Bowl champions last week on the road.
Speaker 1: Minnesota is not like, Okay, we get our next win,
Speaker 1: we get above five hundred and here we go. We're
Speaker 1: going to make our charge to defend the division type. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's one of these things that Minnesota loses. You kind
Speaker 1: of are what you are at this point at two
Speaker 1: three and one. I think another team we were talking
Speaker 1: about Philadelphia last week, Well, they get a chance to
Speaker 1: go up against the Giants and they take care of business.
Speaker 1: They're back to three and three. I don't think anyone
Speaker 1: has any illusions about, you know, them not being the
Speaker 1: team that everybody thought they were. They just need to
Speaker 1: get a victory. Minnesota is in the same you know
Speaker 1: situation right now. In general, I think this is an
Speaker 1: important week. I know it seems like a five weeks
Speaker 1: before this, I've talked about you know, this importance and
Speaker 1: pulling away and kind of getting out to a good
Speaker 1: fast start. But you know, Kansas City against New England
Speaker 1: is a big game. That was Pittsburgh's trying to rally back,
Speaker 1: you know, and go up against Cincinnati. Bengals are four
Speaker 1: and one and they get the Steelers at home. That's
Speaker 1: a that's a big game in the a f C North,
Speaker 1: they're trying to lay siege to that division. And and
Speaker 1: me personally, I think the game I'm most interested to
Speaker 1: watch is Tampa Bay in Atlanta. Atlanta desperately needs a
Speaker 1: victory right now, one one and four for the Falcons
Speaker 1: through five games right to change the direction of their season.
Speaker 1: In Tampa Bay, things have kind of gone south quick
Speaker 1: after the first two games of this year, so it's
Speaker 1: a really important week. But first and foremost the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers Monday Night Football San Francisco forty niners with
Speaker 1: the by on the horizon, I gotta do it, yeah,
Speaker 1: real quick? What do you think about that? What everyone's
Speaker 1: calling an a f C playoff preview there between the
Speaker 1: Chiefs and the Patriots. What do you think they're It's
Speaker 1: a big test in Foxborough. It's a big test because
Speaker 1: the game changes. You know what it's like in Foxborough.
Speaker 1: It's not I'm not trying to make sounds like it's
Speaker 1: Century Link, but there's just a different feel there. You
Speaker 1: and I both bet headsets will probably go out at
Speaker 1: some point. Good um no, But Kansas City, man, they're
Speaker 1: giving up points and they're scoring points. What's gonna give here?
Speaker 1: Is it going to be the forty one year old
Speaker 1: you know, Tom Brady, five time Super Bowl champion? Or
Speaker 1: is it gonna be this this enigma in what you
Speaker 1: look at Patrick Mahomes has done earlier this season. It's
Speaker 1: a really exciting matchup. Unfortunately, I don't know if I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be able to watch it on Sunday evening, But
Speaker 1: that being said, I'll be really interested to see what
Speaker 1: the outcome is yeah, alright. Well, with that, we will
Speaker 1: call it a wrap on this edition of Packers Unscripted
Speaker 1: and remind you as well we will be off four
Speaker 1: about a week, coming back after the Packers by weekend.
Speaker 1: But with that. On Twitter, he's at West Hot I'm
Speaker 1: at Mike Spofford at Packers for the team account. Thanks
Speaker 1: for tuning in everybody. We will see you next time.