Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from
Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spoffer, joined as always
Speaker 1: by my trusted colleague West and had Kowitz. We're coming
Speaker 1: to you here from our studios at Lambeufield to preview
Speaker 1: the Packers and the Chargers. It will be a Sunday
Speaker 1: noon kickoff at lambeau Field. We have to enjoy this one, West,
Speaker 1: because it's the last Sunday noon kickoff we're gonna have
Speaker 1: for a while after a nice run of them here
Speaker 1: from a work perspective, but that.
Speaker 2: Side, it's been exceptional this year too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that aside the Chargers. And if I can get
Speaker 1: through this entire show without calling the San Diego Chargers,
Speaker 1: that'll be an accomplishment because I'm still not used to
Speaker 1: the fact that they are the Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Do you to do like a bet, like you know,
Speaker 2: a dollar, whoever calls them San Diego first.
Speaker 1: A little jar in front of my drop money in
Speaker 1: there every time I call them the San Diego Chargers.
Speaker 1: They're coming into lambeau Field with a four and five record, West,
Speaker 1: and a few things stand out about this team when
Speaker 1: you look at just the scores, the numbers. How their
Speaker 1: season is gone, six of their nine games decided by
Speaker 1: one score, and the Chargers are two and four in
Speaker 1: those one score games. This is a team that, certainly
Speaker 1: at four and five, looking to get to five hundred
Speaker 1: and keep themselves right in the thick of things in
Speaker 1: the AFC, But they are not far off from being
Speaker 1: in a much better position because they played some down
Speaker 1: to the wire, high scoring, close games, including last week
Speaker 1: against the Detroit Lions, and the Packers are going to
Speaker 1: have to be ready for everything that Justin Herbert and
Speaker 1: this offense is going to throw at him on Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Chargers are such an interesting ball club because
Speaker 2: you know exactly what you're getting when you face them,
Speaker 2: and teams still can't stop it right, And you know,
Speaker 2: first and foremost the fact, and one of the things
Speaker 2: I've been drilling home all week. They've played nine games,
Speaker 2: two of them they've been held under twenty points and
Speaker 2: they lost both of those games.
Speaker 1: Actually only two that they've been held under twenty four.
Speaker 1: Twenty four, yes, twenty four points or more in seven
Speaker 1: of their nine games, and the only two teams to
Speaker 1: do it hold them under twenty four. The Chiefs and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, two teams that everybody's expecting are going to
Speaker 1: be playing, you know, well into January in the postseason
Speaker 1: here in the NFL. Everybody else has had a hard
Speaker 1: time stopping these guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they kind of they're an annoying team to
Speaker 2: face because you have Keenan Allen, who's in the middle
Speaker 2: of an All Pro season right now, almost nine hundred
Speaker 2: receiving yards seventy three receptions. But then you got that
Speaker 2: it's almost like a gnat in the backfield in Austin Eckler,
Speaker 2: where it's he can run the ball, he can catch
Speaker 2: the ball, and just when you think you have them
Speaker 2: in a third down situation where you're gonna get off
Speaker 2: the field, Eckler can make something happen to continue drives.
Speaker 2: I mean when I look at the Chargers and I've
Speaker 2: watched them a lot this season, because again, Eckler is
Speaker 2: my fantasy one of my fantasy running backs. What impresses
Speaker 2: me the most is this game, ultimately, Mike is about
Speaker 2: moving the chains, and there are very few teams in
Speaker 2: the National Football League that move the chains better than
Speaker 2: the LA Chargers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you talk about Austin Eckler, He's had missed some
Speaker 1: time earlier in the season with an injury, but even
Speaker 1: with the time that he's missed, he still has six
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty yards from scrimmage combining his rushing and receiving.
Speaker 1: And what really jumps out is that as a running back,
Speaker 1: his average per reception when he catches a pass is
Speaker 1: eleven point three yards. That's extremely rare when a running
Speaker 1: back is averaging more than ten yards per catch because
Speaker 1: usually running backs who are used frequently as pass catchers
Speaker 1: you're going to end up with like an eight or
Speaker 1: a nine or nine and a half yard average. He's
Speaker 1: almost at eleven and a half yard average when he
Speaker 1: catches a pass. And I hope I'm not dating myself here,
Speaker 1: but he the only comp in a sense that I
Speaker 1: can say, and it's not even really a comp because
Speaker 1: there's a caveat to it. He reminds me of Roger
Speaker 1: Craig from those old San Francisco forty nine ers offenses.
Speaker 1: But he's Roger Craig who's a lot harder to tackle
Speaker 1: because of his quickness and his shiftiness and everything he
Speaker 1: can do with the ball in his hands. This guy
Speaker 1: is a big time weapon in this offense, and then
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, you got Keenan Allen on the outside,
Speaker 1: seventy three catches, eight hundred and ninety five yards, six touchdowns.
Speaker 1: This season cracked the ten thousand yard mark. He's now
Speaker 1: the sixth active receiver in the NFL. Who's who has
Speaker 1: ten thousand plus career receiving yards. And the guy pulling
Speaker 1: the trigger on everything Justin Herbert a ninety nine point
Speaker 1: five passer rating on the year, seventeen touchdowns, five interceptions,
Speaker 1: and an arm that is not afraid to make any
Speaker 1: throw he's asked to make.
Speaker 2: Now, I'm a big I have always been a big
Speaker 2: Justin Herbert fan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too.
Speaker 2: I during the Preacher process, I brought it up when
Speaker 2: we did our three Things video. But I remember talking
Speaker 2: with David Yost, who was Jordan Love's offensive coordinator and
Speaker 2: quarterback coach at Utah State. Well before that he was
Speaker 2: at Oregon with Justin Herbert, and just the stories that
Speaker 2: he told of this guy in his professionalism, his arm strength,
Speaker 2: and just the pure and tangibles that they had to
Speaker 2: work with. He was a dynamic I think in a
Speaker 2: lot of years would have probably even been a number
Speaker 2: one overall pick it just so happened that he ended
Speaker 2: up being in probably the most quarterback rich draft class
Speaker 2: of this era, and he's done everything I think you
Speaker 2: could have asked from him with the Chargers. I know
Speaker 2: a lot of people bring up his quarterback wins and
Speaker 2: loss record, but I'll tell you what, Mike, you and
Speaker 2: I have covered enough football that you know whether or
Speaker 2: not you have a guy when you've been dealing with
Speaker 2: him for two three years. Justin Herbert is the guy
Speaker 2: for the Chargers. And as much as we've always talked
Speaker 2: about the Packers in this tradition of quarterbacks, I think
Speaker 2: you really need to put the Chargers in that conversation too.
Speaker 2: To go from Drew Brees, who wasn't Drew Brees at
Speaker 2: the time, I get that, But to go from Drew
Speaker 2: Brees to Philip Rivers to now with Herbert, just that
Speaker 2: passing the baton and what he's been able to do.
Speaker 2: The fact that Keenan Allen has been as dynamic as
Speaker 2: he's been with both Rivers and Herbert at different junctures
Speaker 2: in his career, I think speaks to the overall ability
Speaker 2: of Herbert, who, by the way, has had to make
Speaker 2: a little bit happen too, because he lost Eckler for
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks, and he's been without Mike Williams
Speaker 2: too now after he's been out for the season. So
Speaker 2: it's not like they just have this plethora of receiving options.
Speaker 2: A lot of times he's had to make plays on
Speaker 2: his own as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Justin Herbert for a bigger quarterback stature wise,
Speaker 1: size wise, he's a pretty good sized guy. He can
Speaker 1: beat you with his legs. I mean, I go back
Speaker 1: to as a Wisconsin Badger fan, go back to watching
Speaker 1: him in the Rose Bowl against Wisconsin where he really
Speaker 1: didn't throw the ball all that well in that game,
Speaker 1: but he killed Wisconsin with his legs. Because for a
Speaker 1: big guy, he can really run. He can yet his
Speaker 1: momentum going, he can make plays happen that way. He's
Speaker 1: kind of like Josh Allen in that way, although it's
Speaker 1: not though it's not as though the Chargers you know,
Speaker 1: do like designed runs or called runs for him like
Speaker 1: Buffalo does with Allen. But for a big guy, he
Speaker 1: can be really really dangerous when when he decides to
Speaker 1: take off and run. The flip side of this, of course,
Speaker 1: with the Chargers is a struggling defense and that's really
Speaker 1: the biggest reason that that for everything they've done offensively,
Speaker 1: they are only four and five so far this year.
Speaker 1: The defense ranks thirty first in the league in yards allowed,
Speaker 1: twenty fourth in the league in points allowed, last in
Speaker 1: the league in passing yards allowed, and in first downs allowed.
Speaker 1: Teams have you know, done kind of whatever they've wanted
Speaker 1: to against against the Chargers defense in a lot of games.
Speaker 1: And just when the Chargers thought they were kind of
Speaker 1: getting their defense back to where they'd like to see
Speaker 1: it after a slow start to the season, then the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions and Jared Goff and those guys they got
Speaker 1: into that shootout last week, and then now everybody's saying
Speaker 1: with Brandon Staley, like what's going on with that defense again?
Speaker 1: With the Packers showing the progress that they did offensively
Speaker 1: against the Steelers, Like we talked about on our last show,
Speaker 1: this could be a really really entertaining football game.
Speaker 2: We was it could. Here's what's funny about this Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: Nothing made sense with them, their defense, their team. There
Speaker 2: are points four points against being six and three and
Speaker 2: what have you. I can't figure out the Chargers defense
Speaker 2: at all, Like why they're struggling, they take the ball away.
Speaker 2: They have a top ten ranked defense in terms of takeaways.
Speaker 2: Khalil Mack has nine sacks, although a bulk of those
Speaker 2: have come in a couple of games. Joey Bosa, Sante Samuel,
Speaker 2: Eric Kendricks, you know, Derwin James. They have a lot
Speaker 2: of talent on that side of the ball. Like, if
Speaker 2: you just didn't look at the stats all we're just like, okay,
Speaker 2: this is the defense your face.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you just look at the depth chart, the
Speaker 1: guys at the guys at the front of all those
Speaker 1: guys you named off, you'd be like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: this ought to be a you know, top ten, top
Speaker 1: twelve defense in the league.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it would be different if it's like, Okay,
Speaker 2: well they're not getting home to the quarterback, or they're
Speaker 2: not taking the ball away, or they can't get off
Speaker 2: the field. They do everything pretty well. But you saw
Speaker 2: last week in that game against you know, with the Lions,
Speaker 2: is that you know, the way they ran the ball,
Speaker 2: how they built the runoff of that, and just the
Speaker 2: issues they had and ultimately end up losing a shootout
Speaker 2: against a veteran quarterback. That's the big challenge for Green
Speaker 2: Bay standpoint. I think it's a big opportunity. There are
Speaker 2: yards to be gained out there. They got yards last
Speaker 2: week against Pittsburgh, who at the time I think was
Speaker 2: ranked thirty first in total defense, So you hope that
Speaker 2: you can convert and also being able to make that
Speaker 2: into points in the red area. But but certainly when
Speaker 2: you look in terms of what they have in the
Speaker 2: positions and the talent that is available there, the Chargers
Speaker 2: look as formidable as any defense you're going to see
Speaker 2: in this league.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to get to our keys to victory
Speaker 1: in a moment. But going back, rewinding just a little
Speaker 1: bit to the Chargers offense, I have to say that
Speaker 1: last week we might have seen Dan Campbell, the head
Speaker 1: coach of the Lions, pay the Chargers offense the ultimate
Speaker 1: sign of respect, because you know how Dan Campbell feels
Speaker 1: about his team and his defense, and he's not going
Speaker 1: to sell those guys short for a second. But with
Speaker 1: a buck forty five on the clock in a tie
Speaker 1: game thirty eight to thirty eight, the Lions had a
Speaker 1: fourth and two from the twenty six yard line, so
Speaker 1: it would have been a forty four yard field goal,
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell did not want Justin Herbert to get the
Speaker 1: ball back, so he passed on a forty four yard
Speaker 1: field goal with a buck forty five on the clock,
Speaker 1: he went forward on fourth and two, was able to convert,
Speaker 1: and then they drained the clock and kicked a forty
Speaker 1: one yard field goals only three yards closer than what
Speaker 1: he had a minute and forty seconds prior, but because
Speaker 1: of the fourth down conversion, they were able to drain
Speaker 1: the clock, hit the forty one yarder as a walk off,
Speaker 1: and Justin Herbert did not get the ball back. That's
Speaker 1: his biggest sign in respect for that Chargers offense, coming
Speaker 1: from a guy like Dan Campbell who would never want
Speaker 1: to sell his guy short at all. He did not
Speaker 1: want Justin Herbert to get the ball back one more
Speaker 1: time in that game, and he was doing everything he
Speaker 1: could to prevent that. It worked out for the Lions.
Speaker 1: It was a kick in the gut loss for the
Speaker 1: Chargers for as big of a day, as big a
Speaker 1: day as they had offensively, and you know, response wise,
Speaker 1: it's going to be interesting here because Chargers had to
Speaker 1: feel pretty rotten coming off their home field against the Lions.
Speaker 1: You know, letting that game get away against Detroit. And
Speaker 1: while the Packers certainly didn't feel great about things walking
Speaker 1: off the field in Pittsburgh last week, there were some things,
Speaker 1: as we talked about, to feel better about that the
Speaker 1: Packers feel that they can build upon as they get
Speaker 1: now a home game coming up this week. How each
Speaker 1: of these teams sort of responds to, you know, their
Speaker 1: most recent outings last weekend, I think will be very
Speaker 1: interesting to watch well.
Speaker 2: And that's going to be the mentality of both sides.
Speaker 2: Is that for Green Bays standpoint. If again, if I'm
Speaker 2: Jordan Love, if I'm these young receivers, I watched that film.
Speaker 2: I try to learn from what happened on those last
Speaker 2: two series, but really appreciate that we made progress in
Speaker 2: this game where the Chargers are in a tough spots.
Speaker 2: They are a more veteran team. Yes, they've had some
Speaker 2: setbacks with injuries, but they expected to come out and
Speaker 2: compete for a super Bowl this year. They expected to
Speaker 2: be a team that's going to make a plusure for
Speaker 2: a playoffs. And here they are at four and five
Speaker 2: trying to kind of salvage their season and claw it
Speaker 2: out to get into a playoff spot here and what
Speaker 2: is going to be a very competitive AFC playoff picture. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I don't know if this bleeds or not. Michael
Speaker 2: into the into my keys for victory. But the thing
Speaker 2: I look at the most of Green Bay is you
Speaker 2: are back at lambeau Field and this is the second
Speaker 2: time this season the Chargers are playing on grass, which
Speaker 2: is just remarkable for how much they've been on turf
Speaker 2: this year. You have to make sure that you take
Speaker 2: advantage of that. Secondly, Green Bay has to run the
Speaker 2: football and they have to defend the run. The Chargers
Speaker 2: do a lot of things great on offense, running the
Speaker 2: ball has not been one of them this year. As
Speaker 2: dynamic as Eckler has been, he hasn't had as much
Speaker 2: production on the ground this year. When they had to
Speaker 2: go to Josh Kelly earlier this year, there wasn't as
Speaker 2: much production there. You have to get Justin Herbert in
Speaker 2: this offense into third and long situations, otherwise you're in
Speaker 2: for a long afternoon.
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Speaker 1: of better. I like what you said about obviously getting
Speaker 1: the Chargers into third and long. What I want to
Speaker 1: add to that is, I expect, because justin Herbert's a
Speaker 1: guy who's done it his whole career, the Chargers are
Speaker 1: gonna convert some third and longs. You're gonna get them
Speaker 1: in third and ten, and they're gonna move the chains
Speaker 1: because they're gonna have something there. They can be that
Speaker 1: good offensively. I think one of the keys to this
Speaker 1: for green Bay's defense is to is to not ride
Speaker 1: that roller coaster, to not suddenly I guess you know,
Speaker 1: have that big emotional letdown or psychological letdown if you
Speaker 1: do give up a third and long un version. It's like, hey,
Speaker 1: strap it up, here's another series. Let's get him in
Speaker 1: another third down, you know. I mean, that's the mentality
Speaker 1: you have to take because because these guys when they
Speaker 1: get in third and long, they're a little bit they're
Speaker 1: a little bit better. They're more dangerous in that situation
Speaker 1: than a lot of other offenses you might face. I
Speaker 1: guess that's what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Keenan Allen's a big reason for that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he is a human highlight reel. And like I remember,
Speaker 2: we were talking a couple of weeks ago when he
Speaker 2: had his catch that ended up giving him ten thousand
Speaker 2: career yards for his career. This is just a remarkable talent.
Speaker 2: And the great thing about Alan and what has made
Speaker 2: him adapt so well as as he's gotten older and
Speaker 2: he's had some big injuries too, man, but he's always
Speaker 2: come back and he's evolved, and he's evolved with this
Speaker 2: passing offense, and certainly he's become the focal point without
Speaker 2: having Mike Williams there, and he is a guy that
Speaker 2: is going to help you get right in some of
Speaker 2: those situations. I think they have two really good tight
Speaker 2: ends too, you know, to be honest with you, I
Speaker 2: think Garrett Everett and then Donald param who's like six
Speaker 2: foot eight I.
Speaker 1: Watched, Yeah, he's Yeah, he's tall, due.
Speaker 2: He can move some dudes, and also you know he's
Speaker 2: a guy that could be a dangerous threat in the
Speaker 2: red zone. They have weapons to be able to convert
Speaker 2: on you. And I don't know if again if I'm
Speaker 2: going to take this over and make it into one
Speaker 2: of my keys of victory on my own here, but
Speaker 2: the first down conversions I think are going to be
Speaker 2: paramount in this game because when you look at Brandon
Speaker 2: Staley's defense, much like with Joe Barry, the whole idea
Speaker 2: there is you don't want to give up the explosive play. Well,
Speaker 2: unfortunately for the Chargers this year, they're giving up more
Speaker 2: first downs than any other team in the league, right
Speaker 2: And when you are when a defense is taken that away,
Speaker 2: whether it's the two shell, whether some of their coverages
Speaker 2: that they're giving you, you have to be able to
Speaker 2: find ways to produce yards. And for Green Bay, I
Speaker 2: think specifically whether it's running the ball, or whether it's
Speaker 2: getting into those third and favorables, matriculating the ball down
Speaker 2: the field to steal a phrase there, and kind of
Speaker 2: working the long way, because when you're going up against
Speaker 2: a team that can convert and can move the ball
Speaker 2: and can score in as many different ways as the
Speaker 2: Chargers can offensively, you have to be able to match
Speaker 2: that pace.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be interesting to see, you know, what happens
Speaker 1: as far as how the Packers are going to try
Speaker 1: to match up against Keenan Allen. Because Jay or Alexander
Speaker 1: at the time we're taping this on Thursday morning, is
Speaker 1: not back on the practice field yet from his shoulder injury.
Speaker 1: He did not practice on Wednesday. Matt Lafleur did not
Speaker 1: sound overly hopeful, not ruling him out yet by any means,
Speaker 1: but wasn't sounding overly hopeful about where things are with
Speaker 1: Alexander this week. So obviously that's going to put again
Speaker 1: a lot on Carrington Valentine, Corey Ballentine. You know you're
Speaker 1: going to have Rudy Ford had played last week but
Speaker 1: then didn't practice on Wednesday, So we're not really sure
Speaker 1: what the Packers' secondary is going to look like here.
Speaker 1: For me, if I'm going to talk keys to victory
Speaker 1: in this game, this just this game just screams at
Speaker 1: me that it's going to be decided in the red zones.
Speaker 1: And I say red zones plural, because I think both
Speaker 1: of these teams are going to move the ball I
Speaker 1: think both of these teams are going to have ample
Speaker 1: scoring opportunities in this game, and I think it's going
Speaker 1: to come down to can the Packers convert enough of
Speaker 1: their opportunities in the red zone into touchdowns and can
Speaker 1: the defense potentially get a couple of stops in the
Speaker 1: red zone to force field goals. I think that's where
Speaker 1: I think that's where this game is going to hinge.
Speaker 1: You know those two third quarter possessions against the Steelers
Speaker 1: last week. The Packers move the ball right down the
Speaker 1: field and you get a first down in the red zone,
Speaker 1: but then suddenly everything stalls out and back to back
Speaker 1: opportunities there you end up settling for field goals. And
Speaker 1: the Packers did use those six points to take the lead.
Speaker 1: But if those six points are possible ten points or
Speaker 1: maybe even fourteen, the whole rest of that second half
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh plays out differently. And I think we're going
Speaker 1: to see opportunities in this game against the Chargers where
Speaker 1: a lot is going to be hinging in both directions
Speaker 1: on whether offenses can convert red zone opportunities into touchdowns
Speaker 1: or if the defenses can't get the stops to force
Speaker 1: field goals. I think this game gets decided between the
Speaker 1: twenty yard line and the goal line on both ends
Speaker 1: of the field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, Mike, because Packers, they're going up against
Speaker 2: the second ranked red zone offense in the league right
Speaker 2: now in the Chargers, and they actually have a pretty
Speaker 2: darn kicker in Cameron Dicker Dick or the kicker Dick
Speaker 2: or the kicker who again I think has sort of
Speaker 2: helped settle that that spot down for them now and
Speaker 2: has sort of found his way and getting a comfort zone.
Speaker 2: But Green Bay, it's so interesting, like they're twenty seventh
Speaker 2: right now in red zone offense and that that's after
Speaker 2: a few weeks in the beginning of the season where
Speaker 2: they were right up there as one of the top
Speaker 2: of the NFL. So just trying to find that momentum again,
Speaker 2: we've seen it. We saw it at the opening I
Speaker 2: have last week in Pittsburgh and that beautiful throw that
Speaker 2: Jordan Love made at the back of the end zone
Speaker 2: to Romeo Dobbs who did the toe tap and got
Speaker 2: the score. Yeah, this offense can do it, but they
Speaker 2: just especially in the fourth quarter, it's been a real
Speaker 2: grind lately. So yeah, I agree with you, probably more
Speaker 2: than anything in this game. Being able to make those
Speaker 2: those long drives and getting all six points out of them,
Speaker 2: that that is going to be pivotal for these offenses.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well, looking around the rest of the
Speaker 1: league in week eleven, a couple weeks ago, it turned
Speaker 1: out we were talking about home teams holding serve. Last
Speaker 1: week it turned out we were talking about road teams
Speaker 1: getting big victories. I'm not sure which way it's going
Speaker 1: to go this week, but the games we're going to
Speaker 1: be talking about are the prime time games on the schedule,
Speaker 1: because Thursday night is Cincinnati against Baltimore. Sunday night is
Speaker 1: Minnesota against Denver, two teams that the Vikings were zero
Speaker 1: and three, the Broncos were one and five, And now
Speaker 1: here it is in week eleven and these two teams
Speaker 1: are playing a game, both of them feeling like they
Speaker 1: are right in the playoff hunt in their respective conferences.
Speaker 1: And then the biggest of the big primetime games this
Speaker 1: week Monday Night football Philadelphia at Kansas City. So with
Speaker 1: that primetime slate on the way here in week eleven,
Speaker 1: I'll let you pick which one you want to start with.
Speaker 2: I just always get a kick when you see Philly
Speaker 2: versus Kansas City. I'm just imagining all the guys in
Speaker 2: the New York office back in May or whatever, just
Speaker 2: sitting there like chuckling themselves, like we got that one
Speaker 2: for November sweeps perfect, the Kelsey Brothers. Wait, Taylor Swift is.
Speaker 1: The Super Bowl? Yeah, the Super Bowl rematch and then
Speaker 1: you get the whole Taylor Swift thing thrown out and
Speaker 1: you're thrown in in twenty twenty three that nobody saw coming.
Speaker 2: When you're trying to set commercial ad rates, that's gonna
Speaker 2: be the number one game that you're going to be
Speaker 2: working with. Hey man, Denver, you gotta have Denver. And
Speaker 2: I think if the Broncos this run they've been on,
Speaker 2: if you're a Packers fan, keep it going and seeing
Speaker 2: if they have the magic to solve this Josh Dobbs
Speaker 2: problem that has sort of been its way through the
Speaker 2: National Football League, that is gonna be a huge one.
Speaker 2: I'll be really honest with you, Mike that the Chicago
Speaker 2: game is really interesting to me because at the time
Speaker 2: in which we're taping this, all indications are that Justin
Speaker 2: Fields is going to play in this game. From what
Speaker 2: I've been gathering off of the social media so you know,
Speaker 2: the Bears are still trying to build something here. They're
Speaker 2: still trying to convince themselves that there's the rainbow at
Speaker 2: the end of this thing, whether it's this season or
Speaker 2: next season. And Denver in Detroit is flying about as
Speaker 2: high as a team can fly right now, and the
Speaker 2: culture's there. I even saw that quip. I think that
Speaker 2: Jamior Gibbs was talking with aman Ross Saint Brown and
Speaker 2: his thirty third Team podcast even saying, you know, David
Speaker 2: Montgomery and him talking during the game last week and
Speaker 2: Montgomery actually like basically giving Gibbs the play to go
Speaker 2: and score the touchdown on the one yard line when
Speaker 2: originally Montgomery was going to stay in or Gibbs was
Speaker 2: going to come out. They got a good thing going,
Speaker 2: and I think they've proved me wrong to a certain
Speaker 2: extent and where they've been able to take this thing.
Speaker 2: But Chicago Bears, man, and they're another team too that's
Speaker 2: still trying to show that, Hey, you know, there's still
Speaker 2: something to be salvage from the season. This would be
Speaker 2: no better way to do it than going into Detroit
Speaker 2: and finding a win. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, some some good games to uh to pay attention to.
Speaker 1: Obviously next week we'll be on the short week at
Speaker 1: anybody to go to Detroit for Christmas? Christmas for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: Where's the I gotta put the money in the jar
Speaker 1: that I got through the show without saying San Diego Chargers,
Speaker 1: and then I blow the holiday anyway.
Speaker 2: It feels like Christmas. Bro.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm telling you the Yeah, I need to I
Speaker 1: need to enjoy this last uh, this last Sunday noon
Speaker 1: kickoff for a while, because uh, things are gonna start to,
Speaker 1: uh start to get a little rougher from a Wit perspective.
Speaker 1: But that being said, what I wanted to alert our
Speaker 1: regular watchers and listeners to is that we will just
Speaker 1: have one episode next week as usual, posted on a Tuesday,
Speaker 1: but then we will not have the usual Thursday episode
Speaker 1: because obviously we'll be in Detroit for Thanksgiving covering the
Speaker 1: Packers and the Lions.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm looking forward to eating my turkey roll with you.
Speaker 2: Before I want to mention one last game, can I
Speaker 2: I'm messing up the floor?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: No, is there a bigger Week eleven game you can
Speaker 2: think of than the Jets versus the Bills And the
Speaker 2: fact that the Bills made a decision to change their
Speaker 2: offensive coordinator going up against one of the best teams
Speaker 2: in their best defense is in the National Football League. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Bills are five and five. They lose that game. They're
Speaker 2: five and six.
Speaker 1: Who Yeah a pressia. Yeah, a team that a fan
Speaker 1: base that has been starving from, you know, for time
Speaker 1: immemorial for a Super Bowl championship, and they've thought the
Speaker 1: last few years they've been right on the edge, right
Speaker 1: on the edge, and now suddenly it looks like they
Speaker 1: could be scrambling just to get into the playoffs in
Speaker 1: the AFC. They the Bills might end up being as
Speaker 1: thankful as anybody that the seventh playoff spot now exists
Speaker 1: in the conference, because it's another opportunity where they can
Speaker 1: try to get themselves in and make a run before
Speaker 1: you know, the proverbia window perhaps starts to starts to
Speaker 1: get a little smaller after the opportunities that have gotten
Speaker 1: away from them recently.
Speaker 2: You and I have a big week. We have this
Speaker 2: game at noon Central time. We will come back. We'll
Speaker 2: have the Packers on Thanksgiving, Yes, and then off into
Speaker 2: the weekend, which will be our last like weekend until the.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the last catch your breath moment until the end
Speaker 1: of the season for us.
Speaker 2: Put your seat belt on spots driving.
Speaker 1: Buckle up, folks. All right with that, we'll call it
Speaker 1: a rap. On this edition of Packers Unscripted. Be sure
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