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Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.

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Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford, sitting alongside my trusted colleague West Hodkowitz.

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Speaker 1: Were coming to you here from our studios at lambeau

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Speaker 1: Field and West. I don't normally like to start back

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Speaker 1: to back shows with exactly the same topic, but after

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Speaker 1: hearing Mike McCarthy's news conference on Monday, it's very hard

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Speaker 1: not to start this show talking about the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 1: because I think Mike McCarthy said the phrase fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: in that news conference at least a half a dozen

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Speaker 1: somewhere between a half a dozen and a dozen times.

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Speaker 1: Because this team's issue right now is the failure to

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Speaker 1: finish games. Yeah, you have to. We discussed this and

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Speaker 1: it's been a big topic here, not just this week,

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Speaker 1: but you know, you can look back at the Rams

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Speaker 1: game and some of the you know, where they came

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Speaker 1: up short against Detroit. It's finishing drives, it's finishing defensive possessions,

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Speaker 1: it's getting takeaways and clutch situations, and the Packers have

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Speaker 1: just not been able to to dring that together consistently.

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Speaker 1: The question I have, and I think everybody has, is

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Speaker 1: what do you have to do to accomplish that. What

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Speaker 1: does it come down to. And you know, in meetings

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Speaker 1: this week and and all the things that they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be sitting down and discussing, it's gonna be trying to

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Speaker 1: figure that out. Because now you're taking out a Miami

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Speaker 1: Dolphins team that's been pretty well conditioned for fourth quarter situations.

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Speaker 1: They've had some pretty close games two here to be

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Speaker 1: five and four this part of the season. Packers have

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Speaker 1: to respond. Yeah, And I don't want to beat a

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Speaker 1: dead horse here, but I tell you, when you start

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Speaker 1: to think about all of the plays and all of

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Speaker 1: the regrets in the fourth quarter of the last couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks, you know, the sack by Aaron Donald on

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Speaker 1: third down for the Rams, the fumble on the kickoff,

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Speaker 1: the three yard run by Todd Gurley on third and

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Speaker 1: six when you had a chance to to make that

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Speaker 1: actually what could have been a fairly tough field goal

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Speaker 1: for Greg's airline go to New England, fumbled by Aaron Jones,

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Speaker 1: another sack on a third down that leads to a

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Speaker 1: three and out, the defense gets caught on a trick play,

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Speaker 1: a mistackle on the Josh Gordon play. All of these

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Speaker 1: things happening in the fourth quarter. Now, that's not to

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Speaker 1: say there aren't mistakes in the first three quarters. The

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Speaker 1: Packers certainly have their things to overcome there as well.

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Speaker 1: But when they start to pile up like that in

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, man, they make it just it just

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Speaker 1: makes it so hard to overcome. Well, you have to

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Speaker 1: buckle down because you're going up against the clock at

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Speaker 1: that point in time. Yeah, you can make mistakes earlier

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Speaker 1: in the game, and the Packers made a handful of

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Speaker 1: those against New England, but you had time on your side,

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Speaker 1: you had opportunities to respond. But when you're playing Tom Brady,

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Speaker 1: as we said all week long, Mike, you're just not

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Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of opportunities to be able to

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Speaker 1: have a lapse or a misq. You have to, you know,

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Speaker 1: be on top of your game throughout that to put

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Speaker 1: yourself in a position to win that football game. And

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Speaker 1: here's the thing. The Packers are going to come up

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Speaker 1: on a stretch here and you got we'll see exactly

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Speaker 1: who's gonna start a quarterback. It sounds I could probably

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Speaker 1: still be brock Osweiler with this capsule injury that you know,

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Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill's dealing with but you got him coming up,

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Speaker 1: you have Russell Wilson, and you got Kirk Cousins again. Um,

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Speaker 1: all those guys are very capable. Wilson has played at

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Speaker 1: the highest point of this game. But it is gonna

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Speaker 1: be interesting to see what the Packers can do against them, because, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you're no longer facing Golf and Brady, who are get

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Speaker 1: the ball out, quick type up tempo offenses. Now you're

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Speaker 1: gonna see a little bit more traditional stuff. So I

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Speaker 1: think they need to take some of the lessons they

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Speaker 1: learned because there were positives to be drawn from these games,

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Speaker 1: But now can you incorporate that to beat some teams

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Speaker 1: that I think the Green Bay Packers at the beginning

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Speaker 1: of two thousand eight team, when they were laying out

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Speaker 1: the schedule, felt that they could be Yeah, I agree

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Speaker 1: with you. I agree with you entirely. The other thing

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Speaker 1: we need to definitely talk about with regards to Mike

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Speaker 1: McCarthy's news conference is the injury update. Um, it sounds

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Speaker 1: as though right tackle Brian Bulaga has avoided anything so

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Speaker 1: serious with the knee injury, but his evaluation is ongoing.

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Speaker 1: His availability for this week at this point is is

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Speaker 1: certainly in question. Jason Spriggs stepped in for him at

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Speaker 1: would presumably be that guy again. Not such good news though.

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Speaker 1: On Geronimo Allison, it sounds like his groin injury that

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Speaker 1: he sustained in practice last week that kept him out

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Speaker 1: several weeks. On the defensive side, um Blake Martinez um amazing,

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Speaker 1: quite frankly, that he came back in the game after

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Speaker 1: the ankle injury. He turned his ankle when he was

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Speaker 1: chasing after Tom Brady on that one play. He did

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Speaker 1: come back in. Now there's a lot of swelling apparently

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Speaker 1: that he's dealing within that ankle, So again he's going

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Speaker 1: to be another another wait and C situation. And then

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Speaker 1: Kevin King with the hand string injury, Mike McCarthy labeled

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Speaker 1: him as being hard pressed to be able to play

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Speaker 1: this week. And you know, we all know whether you're

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Speaker 1: talking grin injury, hamstring injury, those types of things usually

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Speaker 1: those are not just one week deals, though, nothing's been

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Speaker 1: announced that that that anything with King is as serious

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Speaker 1: of all of that news? Because the Packers came out

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Speaker 1: of the bye week as healthy as can be, and

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Speaker 1: now here we are talking about a long list of injuries.

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Speaker 1: With the exception of Blaga, We're gonna put him as

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Speaker 1: an outlier right now because it sounds like whatever the situation,

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Speaker 1: maybe for Sunday, it's not going to be long term.

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Speaker 1: But let's look at the other three individuals. When you

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Speaker 1: have Allison, when you have King, and you have Martinez,

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Speaker 1: who are the next men up at those positions for

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Speaker 1: the most part their rookies, It's your Orn berks Is,

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Speaker 1: it's your Marquise Valdo's Scantlings, and is your Josh Jacksons.

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Speaker 1: Josh Jackson was the one that subbed in for King

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Speaker 1: last week. I think going into this game and again,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have to see how this injury report plays out.

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Speaker 1: There's three practices between now and Sunday, but this could

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Speaker 1: pretend actually be the most important game I believe in

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Speaker 1: the season for that rookie class and what could potentially

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Speaker 1: Antonio Morrison. I thought Morrison played a pretty good ball game,

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Speaker 1: considering he wasn't even in the game at the beginning.

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Speaker 1: It was Orn Burke's who started. Then Jermaine Whitehead goes in,

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Speaker 1: and then Morrison ends up being the signal caller, you know,

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Speaker 1: the communicator in the second half during the stretch that

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Speaker 1: But I said an inbox too much. I think that

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Speaker 1: I think we've been talking about this young man and

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Speaker 1: Packers have used him six different ways from Sunday right now.

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Speaker 1: He was even playing that hybrid linebacker spot a little

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Speaker 1: bit after Jermaine white had left in that dime pseudo package.

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Speaker 1: So I'm very interested to see him. I think he's

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Speaker 1: Shad Bryland started the other's opposite corner last week. He's

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Speaker 1: seen over the course of the last several weeks what

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Speaker 1: Marquez Veldes Scantling can do when his number is called.

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Speaker 1: We talked about it on the show yesterday. Three catches

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Speaker 1: come in the third quarter of that game. But with

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Speaker 1: Alison's injury sounding like it could be multiple weeks, Valdes

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Speaker 1: based based on how he's performed, Aaron Rodgers certainly has

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Speaker 1: shown confidence in him. I think he's as much as

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Speaker 1: Rogers has talked about wanting to get the ball more

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Speaker 1: the defenses are are trying to do some things to

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Speaker 1: he's becoming a tough cover because if you want to

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Speaker 1: devote extra attention to Davante Adams or Jimmy Graham, Valde

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Speaker 1: And that's actually what stands out to me the most

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Speaker 1: Marquis Valda Scantling is the scene the lights are not

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Speaker 1: the necessary adjustments, and yeah, is he gonna be able

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Speaker 1: Absolutely not, But I think the Packers have done a

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Speaker 1: really good job of scheming stuff that works for him.

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Speaker 1: And actually, I think he's demonstrated really good footwork off

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Speaker 1: rely on his speeds. He gained separation downfield. He's a

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Speaker 1: legit playmaker. The fact that I tweeted this yesterday twenty

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Speaker 1: what it is. His average yards per catch right now

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Speaker 1: I've been really impressed with them, and if they have

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Speaker 1: Valdes scantling, is that pseudo three or whatever you wanna

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Speaker 1: My favorite catch of his maybe so far this season,

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Speaker 1: the end of the third quarter in New England, and hey,

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Speaker 1: I take nothing away from the great move off the

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Speaker 1: just a pinpoint throw by Rogers right on the fingertips,

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Speaker 1: really really solid catch. But the third down play right

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Speaker 1: bit and Valdes scantling is down the sideline and Rodgers

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Speaker 1: puts it up there and gives him a chance to

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Speaker 1: could play, you know, contested ball down the sideline. He's

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Speaker 1: And those are the types of plays that that can

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Speaker 1: flip things. That's the play that got the Packers going

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Speaker 1: something going. And if you start getting some takeaways more

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Speaker 1: back of your sales. So that's what I'm gonna be

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Speaker 1: looking for in this game against Miami when we preview

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Speaker 1: that show in in that game in tomorrow's episode. All Right,

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Speaker 1: with that, we will sign off on this edition of

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