Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from
Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford, joined as always
Speaker 1: by my trusted colleague Weston Hodkoitz. We're coming to you
Speaker 1: hear from our studios at lambeau Field, and unfortunately, Wes,
Speaker 1: we have to talk about a difficult defeat Sunday in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: The Packers fall to the Falcons twenty five to twenty four,
Speaker 1: getting outscored thirteen to nil in the fourth quarter. Packers
Speaker 1: let this one get away. There's no two ways about it.
Speaker 1: They played pretty darn good football for three quarters, but
Speaker 1: it all kind of unraveled on both sides of the
Speaker 1: ball in the fourth quarter, and they came back from
Speaker 1: Atlanta with a lot of regrets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think the tough thing about this and
Speaker 2: I know I notice it with our fans the Insider
Speaker 2: Inbox column. These losses are always difficult because you don't
Speaker 2: get blown out, you don't you know, there isn't one
Speaker 2: thing that you can point to. It's just fifteen minutes
Speaker 2: of regrettable football at the end of that game. And Yep,
Speaker 2: Matt Lafleura, it's not a big thing. I know, it's
Speaker 2: not gonna draw the most headlines, but he hit it
Speaker 2: on the head afterwards, and he reiterated on Monday, complimentary
Speaker 2: football in this league is so important. And when you
Speaker 2: look at the Atlanta Falcons and what they did in
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter and the people that stepped up, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Bjhon Robinson's pretty darn good. Yeah, Desmond Ritter made some
Speaker 2: good plays, some good checks. But it was across the
Speaker 2: board with players stepping up. For the green Bay Packers,
Speaker 2: they just didn't have that one guy that kind of
Speaker 2: put it on their shoulders. So not that you need
Speaker 2: it to be one guy, but sometimes that's where you
Speaker 2: look at the game against Chicago and you're like, well,
Speaker 2: Aaron Jones, that offensive line that gave them the spark.
Speaker 2: Green Bay needed a spark in the fourth quarter, and
Speaker 2: they just couldn't find one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the thing, is it? As that fourth
Speaker 1: quarter was unfolding, the Packers began it with a twenty
Speaker 1: four to twelve lead. The Early in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: the Falcons hit a forty five yard deep shot down
Speaker 1: the field that put them into scoring range. And so
Speaker 1: even though the Packers were up by twelve point, once
Speaker 1: they hit that big shot, they were down in the
Speaker 1: red zone. It was like, okay, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: this is game on for an entire fourth quarter and
Speaker 1: the Packers just never, whether it was on offense or defense,
Speaker 1: were never able to make a play that even started
Speaker 1: to shift the momentum. If if the defense got a
Speaker 1: third down stop, they gave up a fourth down conversion,
Speaker 1: or the Falcons were kicking a field goal, the offense
Speaker 1: was unable to get a first down. The last three
Speaker 1: possessions a three and out, a three and out, and
Speaker 1: a four and out. Both sides of the ball had
Speaker 1: opportunities to turn the tie to get things going back
Speaker 1: in the right direction. And it's really too bad because
Speaker 1: if the Packers had been able to either hang on
Speaker 1: or find a way with that final possession with fifty
Speaker 1: seven seconds left to get the points that would have
Speaker 1: been needed to win this game, it would have been
Speaker 1: such an uplifting victory. Because you went into this game
Speaker 1: without Christian Watson, without Aaron Jones. You find out ninety
Speaker 1: minutes before kickoff, David Baktiari can't play. Those are three
Speaker 1: of your most important, most valuable players on the entire offense.
Speaker 1: Yet everything was going just fine until the end of
Speaker 1: the game, and give the Falcons credit when the play
Speaker 1: when the Chips were down, as you said in Insider Inbox,
Speaker 1: when the chips were down and the plays had to
Speaker 1: be made, the Falcons were the ones that made them.
Speaker 1: The Packers didn't.
Speaker 2: Yep, And unfortunately not every quarter is created equal. In
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter, if you win that one as decisively
Speaker 2: as the Falcons did one hundred and sixty six total
Speaker 2: yards to eleven, obviously the points swing that you just
Speaker 2: touched on, it's going to be something that catapults you
Speaker 2: to a victory. To quickly pull a great line from
Speaker 2: the wonderful Dom Capers, I will start with the positives
Speaker 2: for a second, and the positive that my takeaway was
Speaker 2: is that this game showed you again how much of
Speaker 2: a gamer Jordan Love is a lot of things working
Speaker 2: against this offense. You don't have Christian wattson in week two. Well,
Speaker 2: now you know you're not gonna have Aaron Jones. You
Speaker 2: don't have your all pro left tackle, you lose Elton Jenkins.
Speaker 2: All the depth that I spent training camp talking about
Speaker 2: of oh you got the veterans where you need them,
Speaker 2: Well it got young real quick, and Jordan Love still
Speaker 2: rallied the guys. He still made the most of it.
Speaker 2: And I love the play call. I probably have beaten
Speaker 2: it to death more than anybody else on the beat,
Speaker 2: but being aggressive early on with the flea flicker giving
Speaker 2: them something to sort of set the tone, to give
Speaker 2: you that feather in your cap. Matt Lafleur and the offense.
Speaker 2: I like the way they started this thing off with
Speaker 2: the first fifteen scripted plays. It was just a matter
Speaker 2: of execution and the green bit Packers, for better or worse,
Speaker 2: it kind of turned into this game where you either
Speaker 2: were on a scoring drive you kind of were going
Speaker 2: three and out, and unfortunately the three and oults came
Speaker 2: at the wrong time in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I want to get to the young players
Speaker 1: for the Packers that stepped up on offense and gave
Speaker 1: them a chance to win this game. But I think
Speaker 1: the other thing, and we don't need to go through
Speaker 1: chapter and verse on everything that went wrong in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. There was you know, the fourth and four
Speaker 1: with the read option play, the zone read play by
Speaker 1: the Falcons. You regret that when there's the third and
Speaker 1: one on offense with aj Dillon at that one. But
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur also made a point on Monday to say, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not as though the first three quarters
Speaker 1: of this game film were you know, pristine, totally clean football.
Speaker 1: The Packers had a ton of missed opportunities, whether you're
Speaker 1: talking about, you know, taking a delay of game on
Speaker 1: a field goal which then pushes you know, the Packers
Speaker 1: five yards further back, and Lafleur decides not to try
Speaker 1: from fifty six yards and play the field position game
Speaker 1: there off off of the first possession, so the flea
Speaker 1: flicker which drew the defensive pass interference ends up going
Speaker 1: to waste there. Rasull Douglass gets an interception early in
Speaker 1: the ballgame, but then on a third down you have
Speaker 1: a miscommunication on pass protection. Jordan Love gets sacked by
Speaker 1: a free runner, a free blitzer, so that turnover is
Speaker 1: not turn into points again the complimentary football thing. Defensively,
Speaker 1: the Packers dropped two interceptions that hit him right in
Speaker 1: the hands, right in the chest. However you want, you
Speaker 1: want to say, it's so there were there were all
Speaker 1: of these missed opportunities where yes, the Packers had a
Speaker 1: twenty four to twelve lead after three quarters, but when
Speaker 1: you're looking at it strictly from the Green Bay perspective,
Speaker 1: and certainly there were things Atlanta did wrong, and they
Speaker 1: had their regrets in the first three quarters as well,
Speaker 1: But the Packers really felt like they should have been
Speaker 1: ahead by a lot more than twelve points after three quarters.
Speaker 1: But then what it comes down to is in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, And this is what the NFL is all about,
Speaker 1: is when it's crunch time, when it's game on the line,
Speaker 1: if you want to call it winning time or whatever
Speaker 1: phrase you want to use. What you do in those
Speaker 1: moments either either magnifies your regrets from earlier in the game,
Speaker 1: or it erases them, it takes them away. The Packers
Speaker 1: regrets became magnified, and the Falcons got to forget about
Speaker 1: all theirs because they walked out with a win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, Mike, I don't want to pat
Speaker 2: ourselves in the back, because that's now why I'm saying here.
Speaker 2: But what did you and I talk about the most
Speaker 2: last week? There were two big tangibles I thought were
Speaker 2: in this matchup. It was, as you wrote in you know,
Speaker 2: one last look, who wins the ground game? Where's that
Speaker 2: game decided? And then the turnover margin Green they actually
Speaker 2: managed to win the turnovers in this with that pick
Speaker 2: from Rasoul Douglas. But how different is this football game
Speaker 2: if that is three to zero or as Rasul even
Speaker 2: said in the locker room afterwards, five oh five. Because
Speaker 2: Rudy Ford had his hand on a ball.
Speaker 1: I mean there were yeah, there were some deflected balls
Speaker 1: that deflected up in the air and the Packers couldn't
Speaker 1: come down with him.
Speaker 2: The jay Yere one would have been a spectacular play
Speaker 2: if he made it. It would have been probably a
Speaker 2: highlight reel type play. The real gut punch for me, though,
Speaker 2: was the Quay one, just because it was almost a
Speaker 2: carbon copy exactly Chicago. He had a own drop, he
Speaker 2: had the read. It was something the Packers were looking
Speaker 2: for and you just couldn't quite bring.
Speaker 1: It in a young quarterback who just didn't see him
Speaker 1: and threw the ball right to him. And and yeah,
Speaker 1: that was it was You're right. It was a carbon
Speaker 1: copy of Chicago. He caught the one in Chicago. He
Speaker 1: didn't catch this one. That's what that's that happens.
Speaker 2: And last thing I'll just say on this quickly, b
Speaker 2: Jon Robinson came his advertise a really explosive young man
Speaker 2: two way player, as I joked an insideerr inbox, not
Speaker 2: even really a joke, it's the truth. You're kind of
Speaker 2: happy that he didn't end up in the NFC North.
Speaker 2: I mean, this guy looks like he's gonna be a
Speaker 2: real problem down in the South. But the other aspect
Speaker 2: of it, tip your cap to Desmond Ridder, because I
Speaker 2: didn't give him a whole lot of respect going in
Speaker 2: this thing. I wasn't overlooking him. But you just to
Speaker 2: see the stats. You see how they play conservatively, and
Speaker 2: you're like, okay, like how good is this guy? What
Speaker 2: they're trying to do, what Arthur Smith's trying to do
Speaker 2: down there in Atlanta? The young man runs it really well.
Speaker 2: He had some good checks that that that slant play
Speaker 2: that Matt Lafleur talked about on the third down to
Speaker 2: be Jon Robinson. People can talk whatever they want about
Speaker 2: the containment on the keeper on the fourth and goal, Mike.
Speaker 2: When I finally noticed he had the ball, he was
Speaker 2: crossing the end zone. I mean, it was a really
Speaker 2: good look. You have to defend it better. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: Atlanta did an exceptional job of executing their offense, and
Speaker 2: that was the difference.
Speaker 1: Late yeah, I don't like. I don't want to. I
Speaker 1: don't want to take credit away from Atlanta. I certainly don't.
Speaker 1: But but I'm you know, I'm not going to be
Speaker 1: on the Desmond Ridder bandwagon after what I thought should
Speaker 1: have been a three interception game for a young quarterback.
Speaker 1: I don't think he really played all that well quite frankly,
Speaker 1: But the difference in the game was Bjon Robinson. Because yes,
Speaker 1: the Packers struggled to stop the run all game long.
Speaker 1: It was it was a problem. But what made it
Speaker 1: a bigger problem is that when they were in position
Speaker 1: on a lot of plays to stop the run and
Speaker 1: the players were where they were supposed to be, Jon
Speaker 1: Robinson just made guys miss. And so that's you know,
Speaker 1: that's not about that's not about scheme, that's not about
Speaker 1: the call, that's not about whatever. That's about getting a really,
Speaker 1: really dynamic offensive weapon on the ground. And there was
Speaker 1: one play Matt Lafuur even talked about it, and I
Speaker 1: know exactly the one he's talking about, where Robinson made
Speaker 1: four guys miss in a span of about a second
Speaker 1: and a half. And that you know, we had talked
Speaker 1: about that all last week, about about Okay, where is
Speaker 1: your tackling going to be in this game? And are
Speaker 1: you going to be able to is a mistackle going
Speaker 1: to lead to an explosive run or is a mistackle
Speaker 1: just going to lead to a couple of extra yards?
Speaker 1: And uh and Robinson was Robinson was the was the
Speaker 1: difference in this game, hands down. When they had they
Speaker 1: had those fourth and ones, they knew that we're just
Speaker 1: gonna give the ball to number seven and he's gonna
Speaker 1: find a way to uh to move the chains. And
Speaker 1: even on some fourth and ones he's getting five seven
Speaker 1: yard runs that are that are pushing the ball downfield
Speaker 1: just too much, too much for the Packers to it
Speaker 1: made a.
Speaker 2: Good adjustment to I mean, they stopped trying to run
Speaker 2: at Kenny Clark after the first quarter and they started
Speaker 2: to get more of the wide zone going. And when
Speaker 2: you have a guy that can accelerate that quickly and
Speaker 2: being able to win on the edges.
Speaker 1: And cut and cut that quickly and and and move
Speaker 1: and the ship the shiftiness of it, and the Packers
Speaker 1: just couldn't handle it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. That was a real challenge. And again
Speaker 2: it's Mike, this isn't new. We we talked about this
Speaker 2: even before the opener. The Packers have some real tests
Speaker 2: coming up. Now. They're gonna avoid Elvin Kamara because it's
Speaker 2: the suspension, and you know, but you still got Gibbs
Speaker 2: after that, you still got you know, Josh Jacobs coming
Speaker 2: down the pipe. They have some tough run offenses they're
Speaker 2: gonna face, and you have to learn those lessons.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that's I think that's going to
Speaker 1: be the tough thing, because you know how this league
Speaker 1: works west. I mean, yes, opponents, you spend some time
Speaker 1: looking at, you know, the previous year's game film and
Speaker 1: whatnot when you're preparing early in the season. Once you
Speaker 1: get a couple of games on film, then everybody's looking
Speaker 1: at those in terms of how they game plan. This
Speaker 1: performance run defense wise is now on film for every
Speaker 1: single Packers opponent to look at and to pick apart
Speaker 1: and to devise their game plan. The Packers are going
Speaker 1: to be forced to stop the run to improve in
Speaker 1: that area, and they can't. You're not just gonna be
Speaker 1: able to take the field and say, all right, we're
Speaker 1: going to score a bunch of points and take the
Speaker 1: other team out of their running game. It was twenty
Speaker 1: four to twelve going into the fourth quarter, and the
Speaker 1: Falcons were like, no, we're not giving right, We're gonna
Speaker 1: We're gonna keep running the football and because they knew
Speaker 1: there would be enough possessions left in the game to win,
Speaker 1: and that's what they were able to do.
Speaker 2: Did it with really good tempo too. I was impressed
Speaker 2: by that they got in and out of their their
Speaker 2: calls pretty quick, and that's that's not always easy to
Speaker 2: do in run calls.
Speaker 1: And that's where and that's where I do give rid
Speaker 1: Or credit. And when you had mentioned the way he
Speaker 1: ran some checks, checked out a certain things. You saw
Speaker 1: the way they were running motions, getting a read on
Speaker 1: what the Packers were doing defensively. They had the time
Speaker 1: on the play clock to do that, and they made
Speaker 1: the Packers pay. I do want to get to some
Speaker 1: of those bright spots, certainly talking about young players first,
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Speaker 1: of better. All Right, When you're talking about the bright
Speaker 1: spots and what the Packers were able to do here,
Speaker 1: it starts with the rookie wide receivers Jaden Reid with
Speaker 1: two touchdowns, Dontavian Wicks with another one. Wicks was the
Speaker 1: target on the opening play flea flicker that drew the
Speaker 1: pass interference penalty. Christian Watson was not in this game.
Speaker 1: Romeo Dobbs got a lot of attention from the Falcons
Speaker 1: in their secondary, and those the two rookies the second
Speaker 1: rounder and Reid the fifth rounder, and Wicks, those guys
Speaker 1: stepped up and gave gave Jordan Love good targets and
Speaker 1: they made some very efficient and important plays in this
Speaker 1: football game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mike, you got a chance to see Greg and
Speaker 2: Greg Jennings and James Jones right off the bat. I
Speaker 2: did not in terms of actually covering them, But I
Speaker 2: remember that twenty eleven season, and although I wasn't full
Speaker 2: time on the beat yet, I remember watching Randall Cobb
Speaker 2: and the limited opportunities he got that season. Just how
Speaker 2: much poise he showed, and just for a guy that
Speaker 2: entered the league at twenty years old, the first nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety birth year in the National Football League, but he
Speaker 2: looks so much more mature than that. Jayden Reid gives
Speaker 2: me those same vibes. I mean, he's just a guy
Speaker 2: that gets it. That's not to say that you know
Speaker 2: he won't make mistakes. They're gonna come, yeah, But the
Speaker 2: receiver position, and especially with him on punt returns, that
Speaker 2: is a position where you can't be a deer in
Speaker 2: the headlights. You have to be ready for it. You
Speaker 2: have to be prepared, and you have to be able
Speaker 2: to stand up at those times. I really like what
Speaker 2: I've seen from Reid, and again it's going to be
Speaker 2: a work in progress. The Packers have to find themselves here.
Speaker 2: They got to rally back from this loss. But you
Speaker 2: just sit there and think, man, oh man, if they
Speaker 2: can get Christian Watson back, we'll see when it happens.
Speaker 2: But the reps that Reid has taken, even Wix getting
Speaker 2: a big confidence boost for his thirty two yard touchdown
Speaker 2: in Romeo, Dobbs just being so consistent despite coming off
Speaker 2: of that hamstring injury. The Packers have a wide array
Speaker 2: of receiving options here, and I think a guy like
Speaker 2: Reid is only going to keep getting better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And but even as good a game as Jayden
Speaker 1: Reid had, they're dealing with the offense with Love and
Speaker 1: Reid and the ups and downs that go along with it.
Speaker 1: There was a play early in the game where Reid
Speaker 1: didn't have his head turned and the ball kind of
Speaker 1: whizzes past him right. And then on the first play
Speaker 1: of the final drive, Love and Reed just not quite
Speaker 1: on the same page where he's running a quick stop
Speaker 1: route and Love thought maybe he was gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: turn a different way or something, and and the balls
Speaker 1: a little bit off target. So you're you're still you're
Speaker 1: you're dealing with You're dealing with those ups and downs.
Speaker 1: But I am totally on board with you. You have to
Speaker 1: love what you see. There is a there's a smoothness
Speaker 1: to his game. There is there is this presence that
Speaker 1: he has out there that just says, I belong in
Speaker 1: the NFL and I and I fit here, And and
Speaker 1: we were talking about it all through training camp in
Speaker 1: the preseason, how he just looks like he fits this
Speaker 1: offense and the things that Matt Lafleur wants to do
Speaker 1: with a receiver with with that kind of skill set.
Speaker 2: So and the other thing. Unfortunately you cover the press conferences.
Speaker 2: I go into the postgame, you know, locker room. I
Speaker 2: was in the Jaden Reid scrum when they won and
Speaker 2: when they lost. And he's the same dude. Yeah, he
Speaker 2: was there for it. He had his foot up against
Speaker 2: the locker saying, hey, it is what it is. You
Speaker 2: have to learn from it. That that goes a long way.
Speaker 2: They got a lot of those guys in that locker
Speaker 2: room too.
Speaker 1: One of the things I'll point out too, because we've
Speaker 1: mentioned the flea flicker, this is this this the second
Speaker 1: game in a row we've seen some real creativity from
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur and his offensive coaching staff because they came
Speaker 1: out in the second half against Chicago looking for a
Speaker 1: spark offensively and they called the throwback screen. You know,
Speaker 1: real deceptive play and everything. They took the field at
Speaker 1: Mercedes Benz Stadium, you know, all the noise in that
Speaker 1: dome and everything, and the first play of the game
Speaker 1: they run, they run the flea flicker. Not afraid to
Speaker 1: try to try some of this stuff to provide to
Speaker 1: provide a spark and you know, really other than you know, yes,
Speaker 1: there were there were certainly breakdowns in the running game.
Speaker 1: There was the one miscommunication and pass protection that led
Speaker 1: to a sack. One of the plays on the final drive,
Speaker 1: Jordan Love was under pressure and unfortunately couldn't get a
Speaker 1: deep ball to read where Reed had actually run a
Speaker 1: really good route and had beaten his man, but Love
Speaker 1: just wasn't able to step into the throw. So again
Speaker 1: another regret there. But the Packers, you know, Rashid Walker
Speaker 1: stepped in at left tackle for David you had Royce
Speaker 1: Newman ended up stepping in for Elton Jenkins. Sounds like
Speaker 1: Jenkins is going to be out a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: at a minimum with a knee injury, and yosh Nimen
Speaker 1: coming in and playing some snaps of tackle when Rashid
Speaker 1: Walker is playing as the sixth thougher lineman kind of
Speaker 1: that extra tight end thing, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 1: Packers had a lot of moving parts on the offensive
Speaker 1: line in this game, and unfortunately things just didn't come
Speaker 1: together in the fourth quarter. But twenty four points through
Speaker 1: the first three quarters on the road, that's not a
Speaker 1: bad performance. You just wish they could have added you know,
Speaker 1: all they needed was one drive and you don't even
Speaker 1: know if they necessarily needed points. They needed one drive
Speaker 1: something to get to get going, to move the chains,
Speaker 1: to flip the field, to kill some clock, you know,
Speaker 1: take your pick. And unfortunately, just the fourth quarter didn't
Speaker 1: live up to how they had performed in the first thing.
Speaker 2: No, and I think it ultimately, Yeah, it's hard to
Speaker 2: get into a rhythm when you're you know, when you
Speaker 2: have one team that controls the ball for thirty six minutes,
Speaker 2: it runs seventy eight, seventy six plays whatever it was,
Speaker 2: and the other one's at forty seven. Yeah, and unlike
Speaker 2: out of the you know, the break in Chicago where
Speaker 2: you had Aaron Jones, you had a veteran to turn
Speaker 2: to Green Bay didn't really have that in this game.
Speaker 2: I thought that showed down the stretch. But I'll tell
Speaker 2: you what, man, those are the type of crucibles though,
Speaker 2: that guys learned from, especially when you have to like
Speaker 2: kind of look at each other and be like, Okay,
Speaker 2: how are we going to figure this thing out? And
Speaker 2: it's going to be an eighteen week ride and you
Speaker 2: hope that obviously it gets you to its peak by
Speaker 2: the end of it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, the New Orleans Saints are up next for the
Speaker 1: home opener. Four days after that, the Detroit Lions will
Speaker 1: be coming in. So it's worth talking about where things
Speaker 1: stand in the NFC North.
Speaker 2: The same as last week, Packers.
Speaker 1: And Lions at one and one. The Vikings and Bears
Speaker 1: are at zero and two. So nobody in the NFC
Speaker 1: North emerged from the first two weeks of the season unscathed.
Speaker 1: The Lions are certainly, you know, regretting what went down
Speaker 1: for them on Sunday because they had gotten the big
Speaker 1: win on the road over the Chiefs. They've got their
Speaker 1: home opener, all their fans behind them. The Seattle Seahawks,
Speaker 1: who had lost a tough home game in week one,
Speaker 1: they come in and, you know, kind of a shootout,
Speaker 1: much like the Lions and the Seahawks have had those
Speaker 1: kinds of kinds of games in the past. It was
Speaker 1: interesting catching the highlights later how that game unfolded. Jared
Speaker 1: Goff threw a pick six in the fourth quarter. It
Speaker 1: looked like the Lions were dead and gone. They come back.
Speaker 1: They score ten points down the stretch in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter to force overtime, but then their defense can't get
Speaker 1: off the field in overtime, they give up the opening
Speaker 1: touchdown drive and the Lions aren't able to get the
Speaker 1: ball back on offense in the OT so Seattle leaves
Speaker 1: Detroit one and one. Detroit comes out of that at
Speaker 1: one and one. And we'll see here after week three
Speaker 1: with when the Lions and the Packers will both be
Speaker 1: on a short week. Who's going to be two and one? Who?
Speaker 1: Who is somebody going to be one and two? Long
Speaker 1: way to go here, but it's already looking like that
Speaker 1: that Week four game at Lambeufield is going to be
Speaker 1: awfully big. No matter what happens in Week three.
Speaker 2: It will be. And again we're really earlier in the week,
Speaker 2: but it sounds like David Montgomery here possibly a thigh injury,
Speaker 2: you know, potentially taking him down. That was another thing
Speaker 2: you and I talked about in preseason that you know,
Speaker 2: he's a talented guy, but he's had a lot of
Speaker 2: injuries and that was one of the issues that kind
Speaker 2: of prevented him from being in every down player consistently
Speaker 2: for the Bears. That's gonna be big because it looks
Speaker 2: like Gibbs as talented as this young man is. The
Speaker 2: pass pro is probably the area game where he's still
Speaker 2: trying to catch up. There is no Jamal Williams to
Speaker 2: go back to, very interested to see how they handle that.
Speaker 2: This doesn't have anything to do with the North, but
Speaker 2: I mean, a real nice, strong gut check by Seattle,
Speaker 2: a disappointing loss, they rally back for a win on
Speaker 2: the road. I thought Gino Smith showed a lot of poise,
Speaker 2: and certainly when you have someone like Tyler Lockett, who
Speaker 2: was kind of quiet in Week one, being able to
Speaker 2: bounce back the way he did. A lot of talented
Speaker 2: teams in the NFC, I mean, I think there's a
Speaker 2: few that have sort of really separated themselves early on,
Speaker 2: but especially in this division, in the NFC North, it
Speaker 2: is going to be anyone's race, and even a team
Speaker 2: like Chicago that is really struggling right now, there's still
Speaker 2: only one game behind here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, and you know that the Vikings
Speaker 1: are as happy as anyone that both the Packers and
Speaker 1: the Lions lost in Week two, because the Vikings had
Speaker 1: that tough task going to play Thursday night football at Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: They gave the Eagles a run for their money, ended
Speaker 1: up losing that ended up losing that game by one score.
Speaker 1: The Vikings are oh and two, but now they get
Speaker 1: a little bit of extra rest heading into week three,
Speaker 1: and they're looking at it as hey, yeah, we're owing two,
Speaker 1: but we're only one game out of the of the
Speaker 1: NFC North lead, and it sure feels like it's going
Speaker 1: to take a while to see if anybody in this
Speaker 1: division is actually going to be able to take control
Speaker 1: of things.
Speaker 2: And it's funny, it seems like every year we do
Speaker 2: this show and we start talking about games in week
Speaker 2: two and week three and week four in the narrow
Speaker 2: margin of victory. Yep, you have the Minnesota Vikings at
Speaker 2: oh and two now going to be going up against
Speaker 2: an LA Chargers team that is oh and two and
Speaker 2: has lost those two games by combined three points. Right now,
Speaker 2: Austin Eichler, we'll talk about this later in the week.
Speaker 2: Whether or not he's back, whether or not he's not,
Speaker 2: that changes the entire complex this game. As I was
Speaker 2: talking about yesterday, you know Dalton Reisner now signing with
Speaker 2: the Vikings after their banged up offensive line, trying to
Speaker 2: get some more depth moves and counter moves yeah, and
Speaker 2: seeing exactly how those things are going to equate to
Speaker 2: a win. It will be interesting to watch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And everybody's talking about that seat getting hot under
Speaker 1: Brandon Staley with the Chargers after the playoff Debaco last year,
Speaker 1: and now they're starting zero to two and twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: they've got the Vikings. On Sunday, the Packers are gonna
Speaker 1: have their hands full with a Saints team that is
Speaker 1: coming into Lambellfield at two to zero off of a
Speaker 1: road Monday night victory over the Panthers. We will talk
Speaker 1: about that and that entire Saints team some more on
Speaker 1: our next show, but for now, we'll call it a
Speaker 1: rap on this edition of Packers Unscripted. Be sure to
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Speaker 1: dot com. For Wes, I'm Mike. Thank you for tuning
Speaker 1: in everybody. We will see you next time.