Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford, joined as always by my trusted
Speaker 1: colleague West Hodkowitz. Were coming to you here from our
Speaker 1: studios at lambeau Field. Hope everybody had a happy Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: and wes our final show of the week and that
Speaker 1: means keys to victory Here Packers Vikings Sunday Night football
Speaker 1: US Bank Stadium in downtown Minneapolis, the rematch of week
Speaker 1: two which ended in a nine overtime tie. Both of
Speaker 1: these teams need a victory here. West, I know the
Speaker 1: Vikings are one game ahead of the Packers in the standings,
Speaker 1: but both teams looking at this in a lot of
Speaker 1: respects as a must win. Where do you want to
Speaker 1: start well, first off, Mike, I want to start off
Speaker 1: with that tremendous Thanksgiving dinner that I had. It's my
Speaker 1: favorite holiday. I don't know if you know. That's my
Speaker 1: favorite holiday as well. Trains, planes and autmobiles. Always watched
Speaker 1: that every year. Tremendous time, great office, awesome moments with
Speaker 1: the family. But now we're back to football and the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers have any credibly important game coming up
Speaker 1: here with the Minnesota Vikings. My biggest key for this
Speaker 1: particular game all revolves around Aaron Rodgers, because, if you
Speaker 1: go back Mike, the last two encounters with the Vikings
Speaker 1: have both been surrounding Aaron Rodgers and in his situation
Speaker 1: and how things are at with him, this rivalry and
Speaker 1: how it's been kind of brewing over the years with
Speaker 1: the Vikings and Mike Zimmer and sort of the mental
Speaker 1: chess match that these two teams have been playing. It's
Speaker 1: always interesting to see the juxtaposition of how the Packers
Speaker 1: offense attacks the Vikings and if you have Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: for a full sixty minutes, what that does in terms
Speaker 1: of being able to challenge Mike Zimmer's scheme. I just
Speaker 1: think that this is the type of game that if
Speaker 1: you can get Rogers going, if you can get Davante
Speaker 1: Adams going, being multiple like they've been recently, with Adams
Speaker 1: not allowing a defense to really know where he's going
Speaker 1: to be on any given play, Packers are gonna have
Speaker 1: a lot of success. Aaron Jones is gonna be a
Speaker 1: big part of it too. You have to be able
Speaker 1: to develop the run, you have to be able to
Speaker 1: challenge him in the trenches. But I think the Packers
Speaker 1: if they're to walk out of us Bank Stadium with
Speaker 1: a victory on on Sunday night, Aaron Rodgers has to
Speaker 1: be a big part of it. Yeah, he definitely does.
Speaker 1: And maybe this is one of those games like we
Speaker 1: talked about a few weeks ago with the Rams game
Speaker 1: for instance, where this maybe is the type of game
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers has to be the best player on the
Speaker 1: field in order for the Packers to win. When you
Speaker 1: look at Packers Vikings history in Minneapolis West, whether you're
Speaker 1: talking the games at the Metrodome or the last couple
Speaker 1: of games at us Bank Stadium, it seems to always
Speaker 1: come down to protection of Aaron Rodgers from that pass
Speaker 1: rush of the Minnesota Vikings that is awfully, awfully good
Speaker 1: and a pass rush that sacked Matthew Stafford in us
Speaker 1: Bank Stadium ten times um just a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1: And I'm not just talking about the broken collar bone
Speaker 1: from last year, but when US Bank Stadium opened, in
Speaker 1: a couple of sack fumble type situations that that really
Speaker 1: hurt the Packers in that game. And we all know
Speaker 1: the you know in the Metrodome, which I actually think
Speaker 1: was an even louder stadium than US Bank Stadium. But
Speaker 1: when the Vikings would kind of get that defense in
Speaker 1: that pass rush cranked up, the Packers would would really struggle,
Speaker 1: even with Brett Farvett quarterback over the years. So, um,
Speaker 1: protecting Aaron Rodgers is a real key here. And it's
Speaker 1: see and it seems that that the majority of the
Speaker 1: pressure and I'm not trying to lay blame on any individuals,
Speaker 1: but the majority of the pressure Aaron Rodgers seems to
Speaker 1: face lately is interior pressure. It's the guy's coming up
Speaker 1: from the inside and then he's just not able to
Speaker 1: quite escape to the outside like he's done so many
Speaker 1: times in the past. And I know, setting a solid
Speaker 1: pocket against that pass rush is way easier said than done.
Speaker 1: But as much as Aaron Jones needs to run the
Speaker 1: ball and all that, I think it's starts. It's I
Speaker 1: think it starts with trying to establish a solid of
Speaker 1: pocket as you can for Roger. Yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: a great point, Mike, And it's interesting you bring that up, because, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's something the Packers have faced, but it's something the
Speaker 1: NFL in general has had to deal with here in
Speaker 1: terms of defensive coordinators now dialing up more packages for
Speaker 1: the A gaps for you know, being able to challenge
Speaker 1: teams at their stress points inside. Zimmer has been one
Speaker 1: of the guys that have been one of the innovators
Speaker 1: at doing that. But also you look at the Aaron
Speaker 1: Donalds of the world now at fourteen and a half
Speaker 1: sacks on a season out of the defensive tackle in
Speaker 1: Wade Phillips scheme. I was trying to think even you know,
Speaker 1: when you think back to all the years that Phillips
Speaker 1: has been a defensive coordinate, if he's had a defensive
Speaker 1: tackle be that productive in his system. Kenny Clark in
Speaker 1: Green Bay right now on the stretch that he's on
Speaker 1: going back to last December, around ten sacks. Now at
Speaker 1: that point, that's where defenses are really making a big
Speaker 1: push to to get after the quarterback. Now, the Vikings
Speaker 1: are a little bit more traditional. You have your Lynnville
Speaker 1: Joseph there that's that's mostly there to be a run
Speaker 1: stuff for to be a clogger, but they still run
Speaker 1: concepts with the double a gap stuff that is going
Speaker 1: to really challenge you inside. So yeah, when you look
Speaker 1: at Corey Lindsley and you know, with Byron Bell, Lane Taylor,
Speaker 1: whoever that running back is going to be back there
Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers. In terms of the past protection, all
Speaker 1: of it has to be on point because there's so
Speaker 1: many different ways that the Vikings can attack you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and when when you talk about, obviously, how the Packers
Speaker 1: are going to attack this Vikings defense, you want to
Speaker 1: see Aaron Rodgers have a smooth and an efficient day
Speaker 1: and all of that. But I'm gonna throw a couple
Speaker 1: of stats at you here, West. I looked up the
Speaker 1: last three times the Vikings have been beaten at US
Speaker 1: Bank Stadium three times over the last two seasons or
Speaker 1: season and a half, whatever you wanna call it. Detroit
Speaker 1: in Week four last year, and then Buffalo in New
Speaker 1: Orleans this season. Not a one of those three teams
Speaker 1: had three hundred yards of offense in that game to
Speaker 1: beat Minnesota. But you know what happened. The turnover margin
Speaker 1: collectively in those three games was eight to one, and
Speaker 1: the three teams scored thirty four points total off of
Speaker 1: those eight turnovers. That's how you beat Minnesota at US
Speaker 1: Bank Stadium. You protect the ball, you win the turnover battle,
Speaker 1: and you turn those turnovers into points. That's the formula.
Speaker 1: The Packers have done it before, They've done it to
Speaker 1: other teams. They need to do it on Sunday night.
Speaker 1: It's funny too. And you and I talked about earlier
Speaker 1: this season with that Bill's game, how that played out,
Speaker 1: because you look at the score and it just looks
Speaker 1: like a total blowout, but then you look at the
Speaker 1: box score in the stat sheet and it was a
Speaker 1: pretty even ball game. It's not like, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know if it was Jared Allen in that game
Speaker 1: or not, but it's not like l Shaw McCoy. It's
Speaker 1: not like they just have this huge offensive explosion. It
Speaker 1: was just taking advantage of some opportunities that the Vikings
Speaker 1: gave them very early in that game, and then sort
Speaker 1: of you know that right out, kind of like you
Speaker 1: and your dad on the golf course in the back night.
Speaker 1: I mean, you got a couple of stroke lead on him,
Speaker 1: You're just playing safe. You don't want to give that up.
Speaker 1: That's what that game reminded me of. And at the
Speaker 1: same time, it's also what I think to a certain extent,
Speaker 1: took that crowd out of it a little bit. I'm
Speaker 1: we're going to get a unique perspective on this mike,
Speaker 1: because last Thursday we were able to be in Century
Speaker 1: Link and now this weekend we're going to be in
Speaker 1: US Bank. Yeah, I'm really interested to see if I
Speaker 1: can tell a tangible difference in the noise level, because
Speaker 1: it's always been kind of considered one to one A
Speaker 1: one B in terms of the noise pollution you have
Speaker 1: to deal with. And it's a good point you bring up, because, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think US Bank Stadium is as loud as
Speaker 1: the Metrodome. I think the Metrodome, but long, far and
Speaker 1: away was the loudest stadium I've ever been, and I
Speaker 1: wore noise canceling headphones the first time I had to
Speaker 1: cover a game there. But at the same time, it's
Speaker 1: still a venue that the packers have to deal with
Speaker 1: and and you know, kind of persevere through. Yeah, for me,
Speaker 1: as far as the loudest ones, the Metrodome and the
Speaker 1: Superdome in New Orleans have always been, have always have
Speaker 1: always been the ones that are right up there for me. Now,
Speaker 1: as far as outdoor century Lincoln Seattle takes the cake there.
Speaker 1: As far as an outdoor I can't even think of
Speaker 1: any outdoor stadium that has ever struggled as loud as
Speaker 1: that one. But um, you know how that gets measured,
Speaker 1: you know, leave that to the scientists as to exactly
Speaker 1: which one is louder. But I know my ears have
Speaker 1: really hurt come in games coming out of the Metrodome
Speaker 1: and the Superdome over the years. Superdome, Mike, I've only
Speaker 1: been there once and it was obviously at the very
Speaker 1: top of the building. Do you think that's because the
Speaker 1: press boxes open air at the top. Do you think
Speaker 1: it's that loud on the field too, I've never Really
Speaker 1: that's a really good question, because, yeah, the press box
Speaker 1: being an open air press box at the top in
Speaker 1: the Superdome, you know that you're really catching all the
Speaker 1: noise because it's just reverberating off the roof and and
Speaker 1: so you know, I don't know, but players teams that
Speaker 1: you know, have talked about playing there as as a
Speaker 1: road team in New Orleans. They definitely, they definitely say
Speaker 1: that the noise is a fact. Yeah, and the Packers
Speaker 1: are going to have to manage that this weekend and
Speaker 1: being able to, you know, effectively get off to a fast,
Speaker 1: consistent start. I think when you've looked at these matchups,
Speaker 1: and again this goes back to the Heyday two of
Speaker 1: of some of these Packer teams playing in that environment
Speaker 1: with the Minnesota Vikings, it's all about trying to get
Speaker 1: off to a fast start, and if you can get
Speaker 1: a takeaway in that first quarter and produce points off
Speaker 1: of it, it's going to set you up for the
Speaker 1: rest of the game. Yeah, well, I want to get
Speaker 1: back to that point in just a second. But Packers
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Speaker 1: you talked about the fast start West. We've seen the
Speaker 1: Packers do it in Los Angeles, tend to nothing lead
Speaker 1: in Seattle fourteen to three lead, but they haven't been
Speaker 1: able to sustain it. Obviously. You know, when you're on
Speaker 1: the road, you're gonna get you're gonna get that comeback,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get that shift of momentum from the other team.
Speaker 1: And really in both instances, the Packers handled it. They
Speaker 1: limited it. You know, they fell behind, but not behind
Speaker 1: by too much, and they were able to stay in
Speaker 1: the game right until the end. So as important as
Speaker 1: important as a fast start is, and you certainly don't
Speaker 1: want to get behind by multiple scores when you're on
Speaker 1: the road in a venue like this. But the Packers
Speaker 1: are just are due to play a fourth quarter, aren't they?
Speaker 1: At some point here this fourth quarter thing is going
Speaker 1: to come together because there's too much talent on the field.
Speaker 1: This coaching staff is too experienced and has had plenty
Speaker 1: of success. I just I think this fourth quarter thing
Speaker 1: is going to get straightened out, and it needs to
Speaker 1: get straightened out now to keep this season alive in
Speaker 1: the sense it's it's a great point you make, and
Speaker 1: I think if you took it in segments, right, if
Speaker 1: if I just put a blindfold and ear muffs over
Speaker 1: your head for six months, the last six months, and
Speaker 1: I brought you out today and I said, okay, it's
Speaker 1: week twelve. Aaron Rodgers is nineteen touchdowns and one interception.
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones is averaging six yards of carry. Davante Adams
Speaker 1: is on pace to have a franchise record for receiving
Speaker 1: yards and receptions, and Kenny Clark has as many sacks
Speaker 1: as he has at this point. What's the Packers record?
Speaker 1: I think you'd say it would be better than four
Speaker 1: or five and one. You get those type of performances. Now,
Speaker 1: we know that's not how this game is played. We
Speaker 1: know that is not how this life has lived. You
Speaker 1: need complete performances. You have children, right, not breaking any
Speaker 1: news here, when when they were smaller, did you ever
Speaker 1: take them to needlese pottery places at all where you
Speaker 1: like paint the plate you get like a plate you
Speaker 1: ever seen? You know, my nephews are really big on that.
Speaker 1: And there's one thing I've learned from doing that. You
Speaker 1: can do a really good job for an hour and
Speaker 1: a half painting it, making look really nice, and you
Speaker 1: put it in a little you know, fire thing and
Speaker 1: it looks great. But if you if you smudge it
Speaker 1: at the beginning, it's tough to overcome it. And if
Speaker 1: you do something at the end or you drop it,
Speaker 1: it's tough to overcome it. It It doesn't matter what happens
Speaker 1: in the middle. Not enough time to fix it, not
Speaker 1: just trying to fix it. So I look at the
Speaker 1: Packers right now, and you can play really good football,
Speaker 1: You can play fifty minutes of really good football. But
Speaker 1: if that beginning isn't where it needs to be, and
Speaker 1: that ending isn't how you need to finish, You're not
Speaker 1: going to get the result you want. I think that's
Speaker 1: been one of the things for the Packers this year
Speaker 1: that as a team, they've been trying to overcome into
Speaker 1: your original point three and a half minutes ago. You're right,
Speaker 1: if they can get their finger on it, they're right there,
Speaker 1: because this isn't Philadelphia, in the in the Saints, and
Speaker 1: and they're just getting blown out of the water everywhere
Speaker 1: they're playing. The Packers have been right in these things,
Speaker 1: but to beat those teams might to be on that
Speaker 1: upper echelon. You have to do it for sixty one minutes.
Speaker 1: And right now the Packers are still trying to find
Speaker 1: that point. Yeah, and we saw after the bye week
Speaker 1: when you look at the road games, because on the road,
Speaker 1: obviously is where the Packers haven't won, and this is
Speaker 1: what needs to get fixed here with three road games left.
Speaker 1: It was the bad starts at Washington and at Detroit,
Speaker 1: just terrible starts to the games, fact Packers falling into
Speaker 1: three four score holes in those games. Mike McCarthy then
Speaker 1: talked about how when they came out of the bye week,
Speaker 1: started well against the Rams and against the Patriots, they
Speaker 1: were they were fine there, started strong against the Seahawks.
Speaker 1: The starts speak to your preparation, to your team's preparation,
Speaker 1: getting ready because so much of the beginning of the
Speaker 1: game is the stuff that you've repped the most often
Speaker 1: during the week. So they got that fixed after the bye.
Speaker 1: They went from these terrible starts on the road to
Speaker 1: now starting much stronger on the road. So now it's
Speaker 1: now it's just the other end of it. It's it's
Speaker 1: getting things it's getting things fixed in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: And to me, I was asked a question this week
Speaker 1: in in Insider inbox. You know the old close only
Speaker 1: close doesn't count or only counts and horseshoes and hand
Speaker 1: grenades and all that kind of stuff. Well, the thing
Speaker 1: the thing that I said is that is that, yes,
Speaker 1: close doesn't count in the NFL. We know that there's
Speaker 1: no excuses for that. But what close does is it
Speaker 1: tells a bunch of really competitive athletes in a locker
Speaker 1: room that they know it's not some huge sea change
Speaker 1: that is needed in order to start having success. It's
Speaker 1: it's about it's about sharpen up the little things in
Speaker 1: your game personally and then be ready to make a
Speaker 1: clutch play in a clutch moment. That's what. That's all
Speaker 1: this that's all this team needs. One clutch play. Might
Speaker 1: have done it against the Rams, against the Patriots, um
Speaker 1: certainly against the Seahawks, and it just didn't happen. But
Speaker 1: we know from what we've seen in the first three
Speaker 1: quarters of these road games, the talent is there for
Speaker 1: it to happen, absolutely, And I the I keep going
Speaker 1: back to that tunnel at l A Memorial Coliseum in
Speaker 1: Clay Matthews with his back up against the wall speaking
Speaker 1: of reporters and just saying that the most frustrating part
Speaker 1: about this is you're playing down for down, point for
Speaker 1: point with the team like the Rams considered one of
Speaker 1: the top five, top three teams in the NFL right now,
Speaker 1: and look at what they did Monday night, right fifty
Speaker 1: four points. But you don't get it done. And unfortunately,
Speaker 1: it's not a it's not a fantasy league where it's
Speaker 1: the all play where you just get as many points
Speaker 1: as you get and that counts for the second or
Speaker 1: third most in the league. Now, if you play the
Speaker 1: best and you come up short, it's still a loss.
Speaker 1: So trying to rally back from that right now, I
Speaker 1: think that's the message. I think all week long the
Speaker 1: players have been talking about urgency in making sure that
Speaker 1: they are right where they need to be preparation wise.
Speaker 1: I think we'll see all this game plays out, Mike.
Speaker 1: I'm not making any predictions on it, but I just
Speaker 1: think you're gonna see a lot of laser focus in
Speaker 1: this contest to make sure that the little things are tied.
Speaker 1: You know. Short up, everything is tied together, the teas
Speaker 1: are crossed, the eyes are dotted, and you come up
Speaker 1: with a complete performance. If you do that and as
Speaker 1: you mentioned earlier, get some of those takeaways, you're gonna
Speaker 1: get that win on the road that they've been seeking.
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Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna throw one other thing at you
Speaker 1: here today West to sort of turn the narrative on
Speaker 1: its head a little bit. We're talking about the noise
Speaker 1: at US Bank Stadium, how off a place it can
Speaker 1: be to play. This is the Minnesota team that's five
Speaker 1: four and one. They came into this, their fan base anyway,
Speaker 1: came into this with that Super Bowl or bust mentality, right,
Speaker 1: So five four and one, your rival, the rival Packers,
Speaker 1: are coming in Minnesota, trying to stay above five and
Speaker 1: all that in contention for the NFC North title. If
Speaker 1: this game is tight late, is there any chance the
Speaker 1: crowd works against the home team where they get nervous,
Speaker 1: they get they get up tight a little bit? It could.
Speaker 1: I think if it's tight, they're still going to be
Speaker 1: in it because obviously that they're they're trying to, you know,
Speaker 1: really push them towards a sixth victory on the year.
Speaker 1: So I see them still work in their favorite But
Speaker 1: it would be interesting to see if you have a
Speaker 1: slow start in the first half, what that reception is
Speaker 1: like going into halftime. What happens if you come out
Speaker 1: in the third quarter and you have a three and out,
Speaker 1: and how they exactly react to that that I still
Speaker 1: think Minnesota is better than the records suggests. I think
Speaker 1: the Packers are better than the records. That just the
Speaker 1: one thing I don't want to say I've enjoyed, but
Speaker 1: I can't think of a better word about this, is
Speaker 1: that there's this perception outside of all in. Okay, the
Speaker 1: Vikings moved all in, they gave all this guaranteed money
Speaker 1: to Kirk Cousins. You can go in all you want,
Speaker 1: but if you know anything about poker, that doesn't mean
Speaker 1: you're winning the hand. It means all your chips are
Speaker 1: in the middle and here you are. You're making your
Speaker 1: move just from the Viking's perspective, and we'll see there's
Speaker 1: still a lot of season be played, But it doesn't
Speaker 1: all in doesn't guarantee anything. You're still going to have
Speaker 1: to go through your highs and lows of a season.
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins is still the quarterback he's been. I mean
Speaker 1: he's been was an incredibly effective passer for a number
Speaker 1: of years with Washington, but you know he also had turnovers.
Speaker 1: They also didn't make the playoffs, at times, it's not
Speaker 1: like it was just you know, the you know, fran
Speaker 1: Tarkington just came out of nowhere and he's thirty years
Speaker 1: old again and he's, you know, your franchise quarterback. This
Speaker 1: game is an imperfect game played by imperfect players, and
Speaker 1: it's about finding the closest thing you can get to perfect.
Speaker 1: That's the only thing about this I've enjoyed is just
Speaker 1: that this idea that if you go all in, it
Speaker 1: just means you're gonna win the Super Bowl. There's thirty
Speaker 1: one teams vying for besides you. Yeah, you know, it's
Speaker 1: just the reality of it. Yeah. One thought I want
Speaker 1: to get from you with regards to the other games
Speaker 1: on Sunday, I think there's an interesting one in the NFC,
Speaker 1: and that is Seattle at Carolina. Seahawks are five and five,
Speaker 1: Carolina is six and four, both of them essentially sort
Speaker 1: of wild card or nothing here because of the Rams
Speaker 1: and the Saints both running away with those division titles,
Speaker 1: but two teams that are obviously right in the thick
Speaker 1: of that wild card race. The game is in Charlotte.
Speaker 1: Who do you think who do you think wins this? Well,
Speaker 1: it's it's really interesting you bring this up because they
Speaker 1: both have that common opponent of Detroit, you know, and
Speaker 1: and how they've performed in those settings. For the Panthers,
Speaker 1: that was such I have to imagine it was such
Speaker 1: a demoralizing way to go down trying to go on
Speaker 1: the road. And I get I've we've talked about it.
Speaker 1: I understood the thinking of Ron Rivera, but you came
Speaker 1: up short in a game that I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people felt you should win. So now you have
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, who, you know, they got a little wind
Speaker 1: in their sales now after two straight wins, you know,
Speaker 1: can they keep it there? But if if this, if
Speaker 1: the Carolina ends up losing this, then they have to
Speaker 1: look themselves in the mirror because you know, now they're
Speaker 1: at the kind of a crossroads in their season. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think this is one of those If Carolina loses
Speaker 1: this and falls to six and five, suddenly all of
Speaker 1: the wild card stuff in the NFC it just is
Speaker 1: absolutely wide open, not just the first spot, which everybody's
Speaker 1: kind of penciled them When Carolina was six and three,
Speaker 1: everybody kind of penciled them into the number one wild
Speaker 1: card spot if they weren't going to catch the Saints
Speaker 1: in their division. But if they lose again here and
Speaker 1: fall the six and five, then both of the wild
Speaker 1: card spots are kind of just up for grabs. They are,
Speaker 1: and it's the reason why I still say, if you're
Speaker 1: the Packers, you gotta get every win you can get. Yes,
Speaker 1: it keeps you with an arm's reach of Chicago in
Speaker 1: the division. But Michael, there's a real strong chance that
Speaker 1: this division, that its division, there could be a wild
Speaker 1: card team with nine wins this year, and with the
Speaker 1: Packers at nine, six and one, if you can get
Speaker 1: to that point, that puts you in the race still.
Speaker 1: So I just think it's there's so much parody right
Speaker 1: now at the NFC. I mean, yes, there's two big
Speaker 1: front runners, but when you look at what's happening in
Speaker 1: the NFC East right now, and then with the wild
Speaker 1: card in the North, it's it's all still on the table,
Speaker 1: all right. Well, with that, we will call it a
Speaker 1: wrap on this edition of Packers Unscripted and send y'all
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