Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford, sitting alongside my trusted colleague West Hodkowitz.
Speaker 1: Were coming to you here from our studios at lambeau
Speaker 1: Field and West. I don't normally like to start back
Speaker 1: to back shows with exactly the same topic, but after
Speaker 1: hearing Mike McCarthy's news conference on Monday, it's very hard
Speaker 1: not to start this show talking about the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: because I think Mike McCarthy said the phrase fourth quarter
Speaker 1: in that news conference at least a half a dozen
Speaker 1: somewhere between a half a dozen and a dozen times.
Speaker 1: Because this team's issue right now is the failure to
Speaker 1: finish games. Yeah, you have to. We discussed this and
Speaker 1: it's been a big topic here, not just this week,
Speaker 1: but you know, you can look back at the Rams
Speaker 1: game and some of the you know, where they came
Speaker 1: up short against Detroit. It's finishing drives, it's finishing defensive possessions,
Speaker 1: it's getting takeaways and clutch situations, and the Packers have
Speaker 1: just not been able to to dring that together consistently.
Speaker 1: The question I have, and I think everybody has, is
Speaker 1: what do you have to do to accomplish that. What
Speaker 1: does it come down to. And you know, in meetings
Speaker 1: this week and and all the things that they're gonna
Speaker 1: be sitting down and discussing, it's gonna be trying to
Speaker 1: figure that out. Because now you're taking out a Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins team that's been pretty well conditioned for fourth quarter situations.
Speaker 1: They've had some pretty close games two here to be
Speaker 1: five and four this part of the season. Packers have
Speaker 1: to respond. Yeah, And I don't want to beat a
Speaker 1: dead horse here, but I tell you, when you start
Speaker 1: to think about all of the plays and all of
Speaker 1: the regrets in the fourth quarter of the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, you know, the sack by Aaron Donald on
Speaker 1: third down for the Rams, the fumble on the kickoff,
Speaker 1: the three yard run by Todd Gurley on third and
Speaker 1: six when you had a chance to to make that
Speaker 1: actually what could have been a fairly tough field goal
Speaker 1: for Greg's airline go to New England, fumbled by Aaron Jones,
Speaker 1: another sack on a third down that leads to a
Speaker 1: three and out, the defense gets caught on a trick play,
Speaker 1: a mistackle on the Josh Gordon play. All of these
Speaker 1: things happening in the fourth quarter. Now, that's not to
Speaker 1: say there aren't mistakes in the first three quarters. The
Speaker 1: Packers certainly have their things to overcome there as well.
Speaker 1: But when they start to pile up like that in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, man, they make it just it just
Speaker 1: makes it so hard to overcome. Well, you have to
Speaker 1: buckle down because you're going up against the clock at
Speaker 1: that point in time. Yeah, you can make mistakes earlier
Speaker 1: in the game, and the Packers made a handful of
Speaker 1: those against New England, but you had time on your side,
Speaker 1: you had opportunities to respond. But when you're playing Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: as we said all week long, Mike, you're just not
Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of opportunities to be able to
Speaker 1: have a lapse or a misq. You have to, you know,
Speaker 1: be on top of your game throughout that to put
Speaker 1: yourself in a position to win that football game. And
Speaker 1: here's the thing. The Packers are going to come up
Speaker 1: on a stretch here and you got we'll see exactly
Speaker 1: who's gonna start a quarterback. It sounds I could probably
Speaker 1: still be brock Osweiler with this capsule injury that you know,
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill's dealing with but you got him coming up,
Speaker 1: you have Russell Wilson, and you got Kirk Cousins again. Um,
Speaker 1: all those guys are very capable. Wilson has played at
Speaker 1: the highest point of this game. But it is gonna
Speaker 1: be interesting to see what the Packers can do against them, because, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're no longer facing Golf and Brady, who are get
Speaker 1: the ball out, quick type up tempo offenses. Now you're
Speaker 1: gonna see a little bit more traditional stuff. So I
Speaker 1: think they need to take some of the lessons they
Speaker 1: learned because there were positives to be drawn from these games,
Speaker 1: But now can you incorporate that to beat some teams
Speaker 1: that I think the Green Bay Packers at the beginning
Speaker 1: of two thousand eight team, when they were laying out
Speaker 1: the schedule, felt that they could be Yeah, I agree
Speaker 1: with you. I agree with you entirely. The other thing
Speaker 1: we need to definitely talk about with regards to Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy's news conference is the injury update. Um, it sounds
Speaker 1: as though right tackle Brian Bulaga has avoided anything so
Speaker 1: serious with the knee injury, but his evaluation is ongoing.
Speaker 1: His availability for this week at this point is is
Speaker 1: certainly in question. Jason Spriggs stepped in for him at
Speaker 1: right tackle for the remainder of the Patriots game and
Speaker 1: would presumably be that guy again. Not such good news though.
Speaker 1: On Geronimo Allison, it sounds like his groin injury that
Speaker 1: he sustained in practice last week that kept him out
Speaker 1: of the New England game, it sounds like it's a
Speaker 1: pretty big deal, potentially a real core muscle thing that
Speaker 1: could require a procedure, so he could be out for
Speaker 1: several weeks. On the defensive side, um Blake Martinez um amazing,
Speaker 1: quite frankly, that he came back in the game after
Speaker 1: the ankle injury. He turned his ankle when he was
Speaker 1: chasing after Tom Brady on that one play. He did
Speaker 1: come back in. Now there's a lot of swelling apparently
Speaker 1: that he's dealing within that ankle, So again he's going
Speaker 1: to be another another wait and C situation. And then
Speaker 1: Kevin King with the hand string injury, Mike McCarthy labeled
Speaker 1: him as being hard pressed to be able to play
Speaker 1: this week. And you know, we all know whether you're
Speaker 1: talking grin injury, hamstring injury, those types of things usually
Speaker 1: those are not just one week deals, though, nothing's been
Speaker 1: announced that that that anything with King is as serious
Speaker 1: as it is with Alison. So what do you make
Speaker 1: of all of that news? Because the Packers came out
Speaker 1: of the bye week as healthy as can be, and
Speaker 1: now here we are talking about a long list of injuries.
Speaker 1: With the exception of Blaga, We're gonna put him as
Speaker 1: an outlier right now because it sounds like whatever the situation,
Speaker 1: maybe for Sunday, it's not going to be long term.
Speaker 1: But let's look at the other three individuals. When you
Speaker 1: have Allison, when you have King, and you have Martinez,
Speaker 1: who are the next men up at those positions for
Speaker 1: the most part their rookies, It's your Orn berks Is,
Speaker 1: it's your Marquise Valdo's Scantlings, and is your Josh Jacksons.
Speaker 1: Josh Jackson was the one that subbed in for King
Speaker 1: last week. I think going into this game and again,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to see how this injury report plays out.
Speaker 1: There's three practices between now and Sunday, but this could
Speaker 1: pretend actually be the most important game I believe in
Speaker 1: the season for that rookie class and what could potentially
Speaker 1: be asked of them. I do tip my cap to
Speaker 1: Antonio Morrison. I thought Morrison played a pretty good ball game,
Speaker 1: considering he wasn't even in the game at the beginning.
Speaker 1: It was Orn Burke's who started. Then Jermaine Whitehead goes in,
Speaker 1: and then Morrison ends up being the signal caller, you know,
Speaker 1: the communicator in the second half during the stretch that
Speaker 1: like Martinez was gone and he and he may hold
Speaker 1: that job this week. Not to cut you off, but
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins and how they like to feed Frank
Speaker 1: Gore and what you're trying to do with their running game,
Speaker 1: maybe Antonio Morrison does play a much bigger role this week.
Speaker 1: But I said an inbox too much. I think that
Speaker 1: this could potentially with the understanding that sounds like King
Speaker 1: won't go, this could be a huge game for Josh Jackson.
Speaker 1: I think we've been talking about this young man and
Speaker 1: getting opportunities and being able to get out there. The
Speaker 1: Packers have used him six different ways from Sunday right now.
Speaker 1: He was even playing that hybrid linebacker spot a little
Speaker 1: bit after Jermaine white had left in that dime pseudo package.
Speaker 1: So I'm very interested to see him. I think he's
Speaker 1: done some really good things at this point in the
Speaker 1: season and it's just been mostly about trying to find
Speaker 1: an opportunity for him to get on the field. But
Speaker 1: Shad Bryland started the other's opposite corner last week. He's
Speaker 1: back in the fold. He said, he feels like he'll
Speaker 1: benefit from being able to kind of get his feet
Speaker 1: underneath him in that game against New England. The Packers
Speaker 1: have felt good about their depth at with the secondary
Speaker 1: for a while, and it's not just one or two
Speaker 1: players deep. They feel like they can go deep in
Speaker 1: multiple spots. They very well may have to test that
Speaker 1: going into Sunday against the Dolphins. Yeah. Well, we've certainly
Speaker 1: seen over the course of the last several weeks what
Speaker 1: Marquez Veldes Scantling can do when his number is called.
Speaker 1: We talked about it on the show yesterday. Three catches
Speaker 1: for a hunter in one yards. They happen to all
Speaker 1: come in the third quarter of that game. But with
Speaker 1: Alison's injury sounding like it could be multiple weeks, Valdes
Speaker 1: Scantling is going to get a lot of snaps and
Speaker 1: based based on how he's performed, Aaron Rodgers certainly has
Speaker 1: shown confidence in him. I think he's as much as
Speaker 1: Rogers has talked about wanting to get the ball more
Speaker 1: to Adams and not forgetting about Adams, even when maybe
Speaker 1: the defenses are are trying to do some things to
Speaker 1: take him away. If Valda Scantling is getting open, he's
Speaker 1: he's becoming a tough cover because if you want to
Speaker 1: devote extra attention to Davante Adams or Jimmy Graham, Valde
Speaker 1: Scantling is tough to cover one on one because he's
Speaker 1: got the combination of size and speed. Yeah he does.
Speaker 1: And that's actually what stands out to me the most
Speaker 1: right now is that you knew what you're getting four
Speaker 1: point three seven speed or whatever it was him coming
Speaker 1: out of the combine. You knew what his size and
Speaker 1: his measurables and his length look like. But it really
Speaker 1: until you take that individual and put them on the
Speaker 1: field with Aaron Rodgers, there's just so many unknowns. I
Speaker 1: think over these last five games, what we've learned about
Speaker 1: Marquis Valda Scantling is the scene the lights are not
Speaker 1: too bright for him. He's going to be able to
Speaker 1: go in there and operate within the offense and make
Speaker 1: the necessary adjustments, and yeah, is he gonna be able
Speaker 1: to run the rout tree like Davante Adams right now.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not, But I think the Packers have done a
Speaker 1: really good job of scheming stuff that works for him.
Speaker 1: And actually, I think he's demonstrated really good footwork off
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage that he doesn't always have to
Speaker 1: rely on his speeds. He gained separation downfield. He's a
Speaker 1: legit playmaker. The fact that I tweeted this yesterday twenty
Speaker 1: two point one or twenty one point two, I forget
Speaker 1: what it is. His average yards per catch right now
Speaker 1: second in the league to DeShawn Jackson, among you know,
Speaker 1: qualifying receivers with enough snaps and in playing time. So
Speaker 1: I've been really impressed with them, and if they have
Speaker 1: to proceed here for a number of weeks with Marcus
Speaker 1: Valdes scantling, is that pseudo three or whatever you wanna
Speaker 1: call it. I think he's shown in these past few
Speaker 1: games that you know, he's up for that task. Yeah.
Speaker 1: My favorite catch of his maybe so far this season,
Speaker 1: was the one he made. It was two plays before
Speaker 1: the end of the third quarter in New England, and hey,
Speaker 1: I take nothing away from the great move off the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage for the forty yard touchdown against the Rams,
Speaker 1: and that ball on the crossing route against the Patriots
Speaker 1: just a pinpoint throw by Rogers right on the fingertips,
Speaker 1: really really solid catch. But the third down play right
Speaker 1: before that one kind of a broken play a little
Speaker 1: bit and Valdes scantling is down the sideline and Rodgers
Speaker 1: puts it up there and gives him a chance to
Speaker 1: could play, you know, contested ball down the sideline. He's
Speaker 1: got to he's got to fight the cornerback for it
Speaker 1: and keep his feet in bounds and make the play.
Speaker 1: And those are the types of plays that that can
Speaker 1: flip things. That's the play that got the Packers going
Speaker 1: on that drive, even though that was the one the
Speaker 1: drive that ended with with the Aaron Jones fumble. But man,
Speaker 1: you make contested catches like that, there is no better
Speaker 1: way to earn confidence from your quarter. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: what Geronimo Alison did. I mean, that's what Randall Cobb did.
Speaker 1: It's certainly what Davante Adams did to get to this
Speaker 1: point in his career. And Dude, this thing that happened
Speaker 1: in this game against the Patriots, the amount of attention
Speaker 1: they put on Adams with having Gilmour trail him and
Speaker 1: covers the entire time and shadow him. Uh, that's going
Speaker 1: to continue happening. Defenses are going to continue to put
Speaker 1: a premium on being able to limit his opportunities. I
Speaker 1: get what Aaron Rodgers was saying. You still want to
Speaker 1: get him the football, but it's going to be incumbent
Speaker 1: on the Marcus Valdes Scantlings and even the Jimmy Graham's too,
Speaker 1: if they get opportunities, if they get single man defense
Speaker 1: against them, you gotta catch the ball and you gotta produce.
Speaker 1: And to fail that Scantlings credit, he's done that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta make the play, no doubt about it, very quickly. West.
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Speaker 1: that was that was all right? That was all right, Hey, West,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw a loaded question at you. Oh yes,
Speaker 1: let's do it. Um. We heard from Aaron Rodgers after
Speaker 1: Sunday night's game, very critical of himself, certainly taking his
Speaker 1: share of the responsibility in terms of not playing up
Speaker 1: to his own standards and as such, the offense not
Speaker 1: clicking in the way that he would like it too,
Speaker 1: in the way it's been expected to. So I want
Speaker 1: to throw this question out at you. How much of
Speaker 1: what's going on here with the Packers can get fixed
Speaker 1: if Aaron Rodgers simply starts playing better. I think quite
Speaker 1: a bit. I mean, he's your leader, he's your you know,
Speaker 1: your colonel. I mean, he is the guy that the
Speaker 1: rest of the team is gonna beat to his drum.
Speaker 1: I mean, he just is the player that I think
Speaker 1: when you look at an MVY two time m v
Speaker 1: P that's won a Super Bowl, that's done the things
Speaker 1: that Rogers has done throughout his career. The defense, the offense,
Speaker 1: they really do, you know, kind of radiate to him
Speaker 1: in terms of where they draw their energy from. And
Speaker 1: I went back and I mentioned this in inbox and
Speaker 1: Tuesday's inbox because somebody had asked about you know, there's
Speaker 1: no relax or run the table phrases yet and it
Speaker 1: wasn't really a phrase. In two thousand and sixteen, I
Speaker 1: you and I left FedEx Field, we had this conversation.
Speaker 1: Something felt different. Even though it was a loss. It
Speaker 1: felt like they found something in that game. Whether it
Speaker 1: was Jared Cook or whatever it was, they found something
Speaker 1: that they were going to be able to grab onto
Speaker 1: and build momentum from. The Packers need that now. Davante
Speaker 1: Adams said that after the game too. They need a
Speaker 1: game and they need a winning streak, Mike, is what
Speaker 1: they really need. You need to be able to put
Speaker 1: together two straight victories and know what that feels like. Again,
Speaker 1: I know it was kind of a punch line in
Speaker 1: Bowl Durham, but it's true. I should say it was
Speaker 1: actually a major league It's true. You get you get
Speaker 1: on a winning streak. Every the water taste better, the
Speaker 1: air is cleaner, you just feel good about yourself. That's
Speaker 1: where they're at right now, and getting back to the
Speaker 1: Rogers point sixty nine whatever is completion percentage is right now.
Speaker 1: The thing I look for is that when those completion
Speaker 1: percentages higher, not just Aaron Rodgers NFL quarterbacks, it signals
Speaker 1: efficiency in the offense. I don't think it's it's a
Speaker 1: red herring or anything like that. I think it's just
Speaker 1: a representation that the efficiency hasn't been where it's need
Speaker 1: to be. There haven't been a completed catch after completed catch,
Speaker 1: and that's what the Packers are looking for now going
Speaker 1: into Miami. Yeah, I'll say this about Aaron Rodgers because
Speaker 1: he does. He does need to play better, and he's
Speaker 1: admitted it. He's not playing up to his own standards.
Speaker 1: What Aaron Rodgers does for this team is he gives
Speaker 1: the entire team a bigger margin for error. I rattled
Speaker 1: off earlier in the show all of the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: mistakes that have happened over the last two weeks that
Speaker 1: have cost the Packers a couple of games that they
Speaker 1: very well could have won. The only one really that
Speaker 1: is on Rogers was the one we actually talked about
Speaker 1: in yesterday's show, where he admitted on the failed pass
Speaker 1: to e Q should have held the ball and taken
Speaker 1: the deep shot to Davante Adams and maybe that's the
Speaker 1: play that flips the game in the fourth quarter, and
Speaker 1: it didn't happen. He took responsibility for that. The other
Speaker 1: mistakes that we've seen from Aaron Rodgers the other regrets,
Speaker 1: most of those have really been in the earlier parts
Speaker 1: of the game. And that's where I say it's Rogers
Speaker 1: that if he's playing better, he'll give this team a
Speaker 1: greater margin for error, because nobody's going to play a
Speaker 1: perfect fourth quarter, and the Packers have had too many
Speaker 1: mistakes in the fourth quarter. But he's the guy who
Speaker 1: will give them a chance to overcome a fourth quarter
Speaker 1: mistake because of maybe some fewer errors earlier on that
Speaker 1: that he's taken responsibility for. I I hope I've made
Speaker 1: some sense. No, I know what you're saying, because here's
Speaker 1: the thing. Everybody wants to know why the offense hasn't
Speaker 1: been clicking the way they wanted to click and doing
Speaker 1: the things that they felt they were capable of doing.
Speaker 1: And it's not one player. I think Rogers, if if
Speaker 1: he plays well, everybody plays up to that that level.
Speaker 1: I think that's the point we're trying to make, and
Speaker 1: there just hasn't been enough of that. There hasn't been
Speaker 1: enough playmaking. There hasn't been enough you know, guys coming
Speaker 1: up clutch in a key situation to turn a football game.
Speaker 1: Packers have won some football games. They want a game
Speaker 1: very convincingly. But it's been the games when you look
Speaker 1: at the difference. You go to Washington, Mike, you go
Speaker 1: to Detroit, and you look at those last two victories,
Speaker 1: those last two defeats. I guess in that case with
Speaker 1: the Rams and the Patriots, all those teams, when they
Speaker 1: needed to put the foot on your throat, so to speak,
Speaker 1: they did it. They did. That's where the Packers are
Speaker 1: trying to get right now. That's where you get away
Speaker 1: from the heart attack games. That's where you get away from,
Speaker 1: you know, having to to go down to the sixty
Speaker 1: minute wire. You want to play sixty minutes, but you
Speaker 1: also want to be able to put this thing away too.
Speaker 1: And the Packers are trying to find that happy media.
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Speaker 1: talk about the Dolphins and where things are with that
Speaker 1: team in tomorrow show. Our Wednesday show usually is the
Speaker 1: is the focus on the opponent with where this Packers
Speaker 1: team is right now, And we started the show talking
Speaker 1: about the fourth quarter. Very frustrating to see, I think,
Speaker 1: especially on the defensive side, after a really pretty respectable
Speaker 1: effort against Tom Brady through three quarters, the way things
Speaker 1: kind of fell apart in that fourth quarter. I really
Speaker 1: thought that that goal line stand in the third quarter
Speaker 1: in New England was going to be the thing that
Speaker 1: just that that really lifted up this defense and and
Speaker 1: potentially was was going to be the you know, the
Speaker 1: signature moment. It didn't happen that way, but that goal
Speaker 1: line stand, I think is still something for this defense
Speaker 1: to build on because they're going to be in that
Speaker 1: situation again. And yeah, they're not always going to go
Speaker 1: for it on fourth down, but man, you get gold
Speaker 1: to go inside the five yard line, you know, one
Speaker 1: or two times here down the stretch West. If the
Speaker 1: Packers defense can hold a team to a field goal
Speaker 1: in that situation, it could change a game. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: the nice thing about that play too is that they
Speaker 1: held and then J. K. Scott had one of his
Speaker 1: best points of the season out of his own end
Speaker 1: zone for forty eight yards and then you got a
Speaker 1: holding penalty. Completely flipped the field position battle. I think
Speaker 1: during this this little whatever you wanna call it, dull drums,
Speaker 1: losing streak, whatever, one of the things that Packers have
Speaker 1: really been struggling with is the controlling the field position battle.
Speaker 1: It's ultimately what played into them sort of probably, you know,
Speaker 1: coming up short against Los Angeles. So yeah, that that
Speaker 1: was a huge moment because not only did the defense
Speaker 1: feel good about itself being able to hold its ground,
Speaker 1: you know, the half yard line, but it also flipped
Speaker 1: the field position in addition to keeping points off the board.
Speaker 1: The biggest thing for the defense I think right now
Speaker 1: is the fact that exactly what you predicted, you had
Speaker 1: a guy like Mike Daniel step up make some plays
Speaker 1: when a little bit more attention was going to Kenny Clark.
Speaker 1: You still are working on the pass rush. We knew
Speaker 1: that was going to be an outlier against the Patriots
Speaker 1: because of just how quickly Brady gets the ball out.
Speaker 1: In the times in which he does hold onto the football,
Speaker 1: he finds a receiver in the vicinity of a ball
Speaker 1: and is able to throw it away from the pocket.
Speaker 1: So that being said, these last two weeks have been tough.
Speaker 1: They've been hard, but you've also played two of the
Speaker 1: top offenses in the league. You've played a Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame quarterback, you played some guy that might end up
Speaker 1: being the m v P this season depending on how
Speaker 1: things work out for Patrick Mahomes, and I'm speaking about
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley. So that being said, now you get the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Now you get a more grindy, gritty type football team.
Speaker 1: They're just trying to move the chains right now with
Speaker 1: what they're doing with Frank Gore. Yeah, you gotta keep
Speaker 1: in mind Kenny Stills, but I think this is the defense.
Speaker 1: Whatever has happened in the back of your mind right now,
Speaker 1: you have to keep your focus on the Dolphins with
Speaker 1: the understanding that you've been tested the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: and not to say that this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: let up, but you're also not going to be seeing
Speaker 1: Jared Goffer Tom Brady either. Yeah, and what I really
Speaker 1: liked about that goal line stand too, because I took
Speaker 1: a look at it really closely, and it's my what
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Speaker 1: So if you want to check out the plays all
Speaker 1: four of the place from the one yard line, please
Speaker 1: do so. But there were it was a good six
Speaker 1: or seven different Packers defenders in the course of those
Speaker 1: four plays that really stepped up into I mean, Mike
Speaker 1: Daniels and Blake Martinez against those two running plays on
Speaker 1: first and second down just made outstanding place. Josh Jones
Speaker 1: made a great play on on the second down. There.
Speaker 1: What I really liked from the past covered standpoint was
Speaker 1: on third down. It was a classic pick play. Adelman
Speaker 1: and Chris Hogan over on the right side where Brady
Speaker 1: is rolling out. They run the pick play and Jaire
Speaker 1: Alexander and Tremont Williams defended that perfectly. There was no there,
Speaker 1: there was no stumble, there was no collision, there was
Speaker 1: no wasted steps. Both of those guys were covered. And
Speaker 1: then Josh Jackson getting bats the ball down um to
Speaker 1: force to force the fourth down. That kind of defense,
Speaker 1: that's that's what you have to build on. And I
Speaker 1: think this path kers defense is starting to do that. Um. Now,
Speaker 1: if things can start clicking, as Aaron Rodgers likes to
Speaker 1: say on offense, I really think this team can get
Speaker 1: something going. And if you start getting some takeaways more
Speaker 1: consistently on defense, then the wind is really in the
Speaker 1: back of your sales. So that's what I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: looking for in this game against Miami when we preview
Speaker 1: that show in in that game in tomorrow's episode. All Right,
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