Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford. Right over there is Wes Hodkowitz.
Speaker 1: Were coming to hear from our studios at lambe Field West.
Speaker 1: It's the end of the week. Joe Philbin's debut as
Speaker 1: interim head coach of the Green Bay Packers will be
Speaker 1: Sunday at noon Central kickoff at lambeau Field Packers versus Falcons.
Speaker 1: And with this being our final show leading up to
Speaker 1: this contest, it is keys to victory times. So where
Speaker 1: do you want to start? You know, it's funny, Mike,
Speaker 1: there's so many places you could start, And you and
Speaker 1: I have pontificated so many times in these episodes of
Speaker 1: Unscripted on what the Packers need to accomplish, what they
Speaker 1: need to do. But to me, I actually think it's
Speaker 1: more mental at this point. It's being able to kind
Speaker 1: of overcome the circumstances of the week, rally together and
Speaker 1: you know, pursue a common goal in terms of trying
Speaker 1: to pick up a much needed victory here against I
Speaker 1: still maintain a pretty good Atlanta Falcons team. I've said
Speaker 1: it all week long, Like when you look at the
Speaker 1: parallels between the season the Packers have had in the
Speaker 1: season the Falcons have had. There's a lot there in
Speaker 1: terms of the injuries, in terms of the adversity, close losses,
Speaker 1: um not being able to play full four quarters in
Speaker 1: both teams have found themselves in the situation they're in
Speaker 1: at this point of the season. So, for my money,
Speaker 1: the biggest thing I think the Packers need to do
Speaker 1: into this type of game is I think on paper,
Speaker 1: there is a big advantage for them with the ground game.
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones what he's been doing. If you feed him
Speaker 1: the football and you can defend against Tevin Coleman in
Speaker 1: the worst ranked run offense in the league, I think
Speaker 1: that's a big thing for the Packers to accomplishment accomplished
Speaker 1: in this game. Control the pace, control the down in distance,
Speaker 1: get a victory. Last week, I said it on our
Speaker 1: Final Thoughts video spoiler alert that game against Arizona Mike,
Speaker 1: they did a really good job of bottling up David Johnson.
Speaker 1: They did. He averaged three point two yards per carry.
Speaker 1: But that third quarter, whether it was the end around,
Speaker 1: whether it was Josh Rosen scramble, or whether or not
Speaker 1: it was also Edmunds getting a couple of pictures. Chase
Speaker 1: Edmunds kind of snuck in there and and made some
Speaker 1: things happen. A hundred and one rushing yards in that
Speaker 1: quarter alone, and that kind of allowed the Cardinals to
Speaker 1: get some momentum in their sales. Packers got to win
Speaker 1: the ground game in this game. Yeah, speaking of Chase
Speaker 1: Edmonds and the Arizona Cardinals. So I'll throw this back
Speaker 1: at you. Is there some you know, with the Vonte
Speaker 1: Freeman on injured reserve Tevin Coleman is the number one
Speaker 1: running back right now for the Falcons. Is there some
Speaker 1: other guy that we're not paying attention to who could
Speaker 1: have an impact on Sunday? Like last week? I mean,
Speaker 1: Smith is the I believe the undrafted rookie that's behind Coleman.
Speaker 1: He is. I mean, he made the roster and he's
Speaker 1: you know, he did some really good things in the preseason.
Speaker 1: He's only averaging three point two yards per carry though,
Speaker 1: So but to your point, I'm glad you brought that
Speaker 1: up because last week you and I did not say
Speaker 1: Chase Edmonds name was, and he ended up being kind
Speaker 1: of the game breaker. He was. He was the difference
Speaker 1: in the game early as far as if you point
Speaker 1: to one individual player, but if you talk to you
Speaker 1: know Tan quinn uh and and certainly you know Steve Sarkisian.
Speaker 1: Their their offensive coordinator, Tevin Coleman is the back, he's
Speaker 1: the guy, and that they want to get the ball
Speaker 1: two more. They haven't been able to do it. And
Speaker 1: I think it's not they don't need to live with
Speaker 1: the run. I view this offense that the Falcons have
Speaker 1: right now in a very similar light to some of
Speaker 1: the better ones they had before Freeman Ware. Okay, you
Speaker 1: don't just have a guy that's gonna just burn you
Speaker 1: for yards. You're gonna count on your perimeter weapons. But
Speaker 1: that being said, they need to be able to lessen
Speaker 1: the load a little bit on Matt Ryan because a
Speaker 1: lot has been on his shoulders this season. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: with you as far as the Packers defensive keys go
Speaker 1: in this game. And and I'll just expound on it
Speaker 1: a little bit in that when I look at this
Speaker 1: Falcon's offense, as we've talked about all week long, you've
Speaker 1: got Julio Jones, You've got Mohammed Sanu, you've got the
Speaker 1: rookie Calvin Ridley who's leading them in touchdown receptions. Tevin
Speaker 1: Coleman still can be a productive guy. Matt Ryan was
Speaker 1: an m VP just two seasons ago. I think the Packers.
Speaker 1: What you really have to be on guard here if
Speaker 1: you're the Packers is the big play defensively. And when
Speaker 1: you look at the Arizona game last week, Cardinals had
Speaker 1: five explosive plays of I believe it was twenty three
Speaker 1: yards or more, all of them in the second half.
Speaker 1: First half, the Packers defense was fine, and I believe
Speaker 1: four of the five in the second half. We're in
Speaker 1: the third quarter, Like you said, that's when the game
Speaker 1: got away from from the Packers defensively. Suddenly the chunk
Speaker 1: play started happening. You could feel the momentum shift and
Speaker 1: then kind of with all that pressure that was on
Speaker 1: the Packers with everything on the line, and and ultimately
Speaker 1: Green Bay wasn't able to come through at the end.
Speaker 1: So I think limiting the explosive plays is really going
Speaker 1: to be a key in this game. I still can't
Speaker 1: figure out how an offense with all of these weapons
Speaker 1: has gone four consecutive games and not even reached twenty
Speaker 1: points on the scoreboard. I know I watched a chunk
Speaker 1: of a good portion of that Thanksgiving night game when
Speaker 1: the Falcons were down in New Orleans and they moved
Speaker 1: the ball up and down the field like crazy. They
Speaker 1: just every time they were it seemed like every time
Speaker 1: they got in the red zone they had a turnover,
Speaker 1: somebody coughed it up, or Matt Ryan threw a pick
Speaker 1: or something crazy would happen that you know, they drive
Speaker 1: the ball sixty six five yards and then come away
Speaker 1: with nothing, not even a field goal because of the turnovers.
Speaker 1: So that's been part of it in this four game
Speaker 1: stretch for them. But still four straight games with this
Speaker 1: offense not scoring twenty points. I'm just gonna be honest
Speaker 1: with you, and this is this is not a knock
Speaker 1: against the Packers defense, but I'm nervous that this Falcons
Speaker 1: offense is ready to explore. Well, it's a good point
Speaker 1: you raise, because that one of the things I said
Speaker 1: in this game is I felt like this is where
Speaker 1: the Packers offense does need to come to life a
Speaker 1: little bit. I think the Packers defense can do a
Speaker 1: really solid job against Atlanta and still give up some points. Now,
Speaker 1: the one reason why I think the run game is
Speaker 1: so important in this is, if you know, what the
Speaker 1: conditions being in the twenties or whatever, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: like on Sunday morning. If if you're not able to
Speaker 1: run the football, it makes a lot more difficult to
Speaker 1: get the vertical passing game going, specifically for a dome
Speaker 1: oriented team, a team from the South like Atlanta like
Speaker 1: the Falcons. So I think that's gonna have a big bearing.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be very important that this game
Speaker 1: is played at lambeau Field and not down at the
Speaker 1: Mercedes Benz Dome, so uh that I think that's gonna
Speaker 1: be critical. But at the same time, as you sort
Speaker 1: of pointed out, when you look at these weapons right now,
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper can hurt you in the scene, he can
Speaker 1: hurt you underneath. Kelvin Ridley kind of went through a
Speaker 1: lull as I mentioned earlier this week, but it seems
Speaker 1: like he's kind of gaining his fire back again. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be a problem for teams in the
Speaker 1: NFC for years to come, along with Julio Jones in
Speaker 1: Mohammed san News, you know, a very good, solid possession
Speaker 1: receiver in that mix as well. So I am sure
Speaker 1: that they're gonna have a game plan for this. I
Speaker 1: know what they're they're gonna be expecting to do. They
Speaker 1: are the fifth ranked pass offense in the league compared
Speaker 1: to you know, the issues that they have had with
Speaker 1: the run. So the Falcons they play football one way
Speaker 1: and that's airing it out. At least that's been their
Speaker 1: offense this year without Freeman. So it's gonna be very
Speaker 1: important for the Packers if they have Bishod Brelan available,
Speaker 1: if they can get some of these secondary you know,
Speaker 1: you know you're not gonna have Kevin King, but get
Speaker 1: some of these defensive backs healthy. They're gonna need to
Speaker 1: be able to play a full four quarters because they
Speaker 1: will test you whether or not they're successful or not
Speaker 1: as one thing, but the Falcons will test you with
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan's arm. Yeah. Well, you mentioned this is a
Speaker 1: game that the Packers offense definitely needs to get going,
Speaker 1: and I want to get to that as soon as
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Speaker 1: to the Packers offense again spoiler alert. I said this
Speaker 1: on our final Thoughts video that will be posted on
Speaker 1: the website, which we taped just before we sat down here.
Speaker 1: If there's one thing that the Packers you would like
Speaker 1: to see them start to straighten out offensively with Joe
Speaker 1: Philbin now taking over his interim head coach and all
Speaker 1: the changes that have gone on, it's got to be
Speaker 1: on third down. You have to start converting third downs
Speaker 1: on some more consistent level. And I went back through
Speaker 1: the numbers. I'm going to share these with you because
Speaker 1: it's to think that this is what the Packers offense
Speaker 1: is done through twelve games with Aaron Rodgers at quarterback
Speaker 1: is almost mind boggling on third down. Only one game
Speaker 1: this season have the Packers converted fift or better on
Speaker 1: third down one out of twelve games. It was against
Speaker 1: Buffalo eleven out of nineteen, which is a lot of
Speaker 1: third downs in one game, but eleven out of nineteen
Speaker 1: that day against the Buffalo Bills. But not only have
Speaker 1: the other twelve games are the other eleven out of
Speaker 1: the twelve all been below, but only three of them
Speaker 1: west have the Packers even been within one third down
Speaker 1: conversion of getting to there was a six out of fourteen,
Speaker 1: a six out of thirteen, and a four out of ten.
Speaker 1: Those are the only three where you look at the
Speaker 1: numbers and go okay, if they had converted just one more,
Speaker 1: they would have been at least at fifty percent. That
Speaker 1: leaves eight of the twelve games where you're not even
Speaker 1: within one conversion of hitting the fifty mark. And and
Speaker 1: the worst has been the last three games, eight out
Speaker 1: of thirty five collectively in the last three games for
Speaker 1: twenty three percent. It almost defies belief that that this
Speaker 1: Packers offense could struggle that much on third down for
Speaker 1: this long And if there's one thing that whether it's
Speaker 1: this Sunday or through these last four games the last
Speaker 1: month of the season, you want to see the third
Speaker 1: down offense look like it can. It has something it
Speaker 1: can hang its hat on and something that will create
Speaker 1: some consistency. Yeah, I'm actually gonna jump over you there.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say there's actually something else this team needs
Speaker 1: to do over the last month of the season. Over that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna touch on that in one second. Leave that
Speaker 1: as a little bit of a teaser, But to your
Speaker 1: original point, it's a great point. And it's incredible when
Speaker 1: you look at the stats with the amount of consistency.
Speaker 1: You don't want to use that word, but just how
Speaker 1: much of a struggle it's been for the Packers to
Speaker 1: be able to convert those and and it's just been
Speaker 1: so against what this offense has done over such a
Speaker 1: long period of time. That's why it stands out so much.
Speaker 1: And earlier this season it made sense because they were
Speaker 1: in a lot of third and long situations, and and
Speaker 1: and Aaron Rodgers talked about it, Mike McCarthy talked about it.
Speaker 1: When you get in third and nine plus, it changes
Speaker 1: the game. It reduces your window for what you can
Speaker 1: put up on your call sheet, the advantage switches to
Speaker 1: the defense. There no question. The bigger issue I think
Speaker 1: has been more recently when it's been these intermediate third
Speaker 1: and you know, third and five, third and six is,
Speaker 1: and even down to third and three, third and four.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned on one of the shows early this weekend,
Speaker 1: it was sort of a tongue in cheek reference I
Speaker 1: made with Madden, where you just have that one play
Speaker 1: that you call against your buddy and you know that
Speaker 1: you're gonna be able to move the ball on him.
Speaker 1: I obviously I am joking, and you can't be that
Speaker 1: simple about it. But the Packers in the past have
Speaker 1: had those plays that they hang their hat on. They've
Speaker 1: had those plays that you know, if you need to
Speaker 1: get five yards, you're gonna be able to do it
Speaker 1: this way. They just haven't been able to find that
Speaker 1: this season. But to the other point, I want to
Speaker 1: make even more than third downs, even more than run defense,
Speaker 1: even more than anything else, the biggest goal and objective
Speaker 1: I have for this team in this game. Let's just
Speaker 1: have some fun. Because here's the thing, Mike. Last week,
Speaker 1: whether it was offense, defense, special teams, everything, the Packers
Speaker 1: played that game like a team not wanting to lose,
Speaker 1: knowing that they needed to win it to be able
Speaker 1: to get on a run here, but not really playing
Speaker 1: that way. It just wasn't quite where it needed to be. Well,
Speaker 1: let's be honest. Now we know what the stats are,
Speaker 1: we know what the percentages are for the Packers to
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. I think you win out there's a
Speaker 1: chance you make it. Go out there and just have
Speaker 1: some fun. Play loose. You have a new guy in
Speaker 1: that seat. And Joe Philbin and Joe Philbin talked to
Speaker 1: the media on Friday morning and he said, you know,
Speaker 1: play calls are very important, but it's also about players
Speaker 1: going out there and believing in what they're doing in
Speaker 1: playing the game. That's what I look for the most
Speaker 1: in this game. I'm not saying to get away from
Speaker 1: your fundamentals or not be disciplined. All that stuff factors
Speaker 1: into it. But I just think one of the things
Speaker 1: during this this five out of six stretch the Packers
Speaker 1: have struggled with, they just haven't had fun. I think
Speaker 1: that's something I want to see in this ball game. No,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I think the emotional aspect of this
Speaker 1: game is going to be very interesting to watch because
Speaker 1: I think as you and I were in the press
Speaker 1: box on Sunday, the Packers had to put together that
Speaker 1: yard touchdown drive, you know, to tie up the game
Speaker 1: and have a chance against the Cardinals, and you could
Speaker 1: just feel it was there was so much tension in
Speaker 1: the building because because of the opponent and because of
Speaker 1: everything that had been going on. And then when the
Speaker 1: Cardinals end up retaking the lead, now you've got to
Speaker 1: drive down again and try to get some more points
Speaker 1: to try to extend the game. And there was just
Speaker 1: there was this incredible tension in the building and and
Speaker 1: I'm with you, it's it's it's time. It's time to
Speaker 1: forget about the playoffs, whatever the percentages are, and if
Speaker 1: you can run it and all these other dominoes can fall,
Speaker 1: and it's time to forget about all that. It's time
Speaker 1: to get the ball with five minutes to go and
Speaker 1: you need some points to win the game, and to
Speaker 1: just say all right, this is it. It's like we're
Speaker 1: we're in the backyard. This is recess at school. Let's
Speaker 1: let's go out and have some fun and do what
Speaker 1: we do and not worry. I mean, yes, you want
Speaker 1: to win the game, but not worry about the consequences.
Speaker 1: And and you know, I mean somebody makes a big play, hey,
Speaker 1: get fired up about it. Not like, oh good, it's
Speaker 1: a good thing. We move the chains there, boy, you
Speaker 1: know we still got I mean, I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I think there's a I think there's a potential emotional
Speaker 1: aspect to this final month of the season. If you're
Speaker 1: going to carry anything over into next year, it's for
Speaker 1: all these guys in this locker room. However, many of
Speaker 1: them are going to be here and not be here,
Speaker 1: but for all these guys in the locker room to
Speaker 1: just get back to having fun play in the game again.
Speaker 1: And and uh, I hope they find it, even even
Speaker 1: if it comes in defeat, whatever it is. Hopefully it
Speaker 1: comes in a victory, but get back to having fun.
Speaker 1: I'm totally with you. And it's one of these games too.
Speaker 1: There's no reason why this shouldn't be one of the
Speaker 1: more entertaining games of the Packers season, just based on
Speaker 1: the way that dan Quinn's team has built, what Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan can do, what Aaron Rodgers does when those two
Speaker 1: guys are on paper against each other. This is the
Speaker 1: fourth the third straight time the Packers are playing the
Speaker 1: Falcons at lambeau Field in the month of December and
Speaker 1: week fourteen. I believe that's what the status think about
Speaker 1: those that I forgot and now right and think about
Speaker 1: some of those other games. The shootout in ten was
Speaker 1: the shootout, was the Matt Flynn was the Matt Flynn
Speaker 1: game that came right down to the young The Packers
Speaker 1: won by a point and stayed in the hunt before
Speaker 1: Rodgers came back. Outside of probably that NFC title game
Speaker 1: in sixteen, to be fair, have had some really competitive,
Speaker 1: fun matchups. I want to see that come to life.
Speaker 1: Atlanta the regular season game in sixteen. I know the
Speaker 1: Packers lost down in Atlanta, but what was it thirty
Speaker 1: three to thirty two or something like? I mean, you're
Speaker 1: talk I mean at that time, Ryan was on his
Speaker 1: way to the m v P. But we're still looking
Speaker 1: at two quarterbacks out there on Sunday who have a
Speaker 1: combined three m v P awards and uh and have
Speaker 1: accomplished a lot in this league. And and yeah, I
Speaker 1: just I hope it's a fun game to watch and
Speaker 1: for everything that gets made out of you know, Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy and some of the offensive struggles that game against
Speaker 1: the Falcons two years ago during the regular season, that was,
Speaker 1: to my money, still one of the best games that
Speaker 1: he called one of the best games Aaron Rodgers put together,
Speaker 1: considering how few weapons were available to them at receiver. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with what the Packers had to deal with that day
Speaker 1: roster wise, and looking at who was on the inactive
Speaker 1: list that day, ninety minutes in act, that was a
Speaker 1: whale of a football game. It wasn't really fun football game.
Speaker 1: So that's what I'm hoping for in this I just
Speaker 1: think that the way everything is built for the Packers,
Speaker 1: just play like you have nothing to lose at this point,
Speaker 1: because it really is. I mean, you're gonna be able
Speaker 1: once the season is over. The chips will fall where
Speaker 1: they made a new coaching staff or however is developed.
Speaker 1: All those things will be figured out in January and
Speaker 1: February and March. Right now, though you have four weeks.
Speaker 1: And then the other aspect of this too is we
Speaker 1: talked about on yesterday's show. There's a lot of young,
Speaker 1: hungry guys on this team that are gonna want to
Speaker 1: show this is what I can do. This is my moment.
Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't just have to be Tyler Lancaster
Speaker 1: or you know, Kendall Donnerson. It is still Kenny Clark. Hey,
Speaker 1: can I finish off a Pro Bowl season? You know
Speaker 1: Davante Adams? Can I make a run at that record?
Speaker 1: Can Aaron Jones get a thousand yards running? You want
Speaker 1: to win games, you want to make the playoffs, you
Speaker 1: want to win a Super Bowl, but you also want
Speaker 1: to challenge yourself as an individual to be better, to
Speaker 1: get the most audio. These are four great opportunities for
Speaker 1: this team to do that. Yeah, I'm with you there. Hey,
Speaker 1: before we go, let's just take a quick look at
Speaker 1: what else is going on in the NFL, because there
Speaker 1: there are some interesting matchups. Actually, and I'll just start
Speaker 1: right with the other games involving the NFC North because
Speaker 1: Sunday night football, hopefully you and I can get our
Speaker 1: work done and and get home, put a fire in
Speaker 1: the fireplace, and settle in for Bears against the Rams
Speaker 1: in Chicago. Gonna be a chilly night. I would imagine
Speaker 1: off off Lake Michigan there and uh and off of
Speaker 1: Lake Shore Drive on the south side of Chicago. An
Speaker 1: l A team coming into those kind of conditions. Ms.
Speaker 1: Traubinsky presumably going to be back after missing a couple
Speaker 1: of games for Chicago. Really interesting matchup on Sunday N
Speaker 1: see Vic Fangio's defense match up with that Offense's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of fun to watch, just with the
Speaker 1: weapons that they have, the way they can pressure the
Speaker 1: quarterback to get after Jared Goff, I think is gonna
Speaker 1: be really exciting. And then even the Monday night games,
Speaker 1: that was the other one. I was going to mention
Speaker 1: Monday night football Minnesota and Seattle. I mean, Mike, I
Speaker 1: don't want to, you know, be labor what happened last
Speaker 1: week and how tough that was for the Packers. But
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why that game was so important
Speaker 1: was because the NFC North has some tough games coming up.
Speaker 1: Yet everything went pretty much the way you would want
Speaker 1: to go if you're the Packers. And and if the
Speaker 1: Packers were five six and one right now instead of
Speaker 1: four seven and one, a lot of and no I'm
Speaker 1: not just talking about the head coaching situation, a lot
Speaker 1: of things would look different because we wouldn't be talking
Speaker 1: about having so many dominoes that need to fall in
Speaker 1: order to make the playoffs. Everything would look different. But
Speaker 1: with where the Packers are right now, this this Viking
Speaker 1: Seahawks game is really intrigued. Yeah, and trust me, I
Speaker 1: get it. The Packers season did not go according to plan.
Speaker 1: They made a coaching change for the first time in
Speaker 1: sixty five years during the season. But the thing that
Speaker 1: stands out to me that's the strangest about this is
Speaker 1: that you look at what the Vikings are going through
Speaker 1: right now. And Kirk Cousins, I believe, had mentioned this
Speaker 1: to the Minnesota Meeting media on Friday morning or maybe
Speaker 1: it was Thursday afternoon, about you know, we haven't put
Speaker 1: ourselves in the position we wanted to be in to
Speaker 1: be a Super Bowl contender, to be one of the
Speaker 1: NFL NFC's elite. Well, now you're taking on arguably the
Speaker 1: hottest team in the league right now in Seattle. They
Speaker 1: be able to put together. They got hot in that
Speaker 1: fourth quarter against the Packers out there and and I
Speaker 1: mean primetime Century Link Field, it's the perfect environment for
Speaker 1: the Seahawks to Obviously, they beat the Packers, and they're
Speaker 1: going to get that same thing on Monday night playing
Speaker 1: at home against the Vikings. Whoever loses that game is
Speaker 1: not out of the NFC. Playoff picture by any means,
Speaker 1: But it's a really important game for somebody, for one
Speaker 1: of those two teams to make a statement and to
Speaker 1: say that we are we are going to be in
Speaker 1: this thing because uh and certainly for the Vikings, um,
Speaker 1: if they can, if they can win on the road
Speaker 1: at Century Link in a primetime game against the hot
Speaker 1: Seahawks team, all of a sudden, the narrative on the
Speaker 1: Vikings you can sense it. It's gonna it's it's gonna
Speaker 1: flip because because you know, they beat the Packers, but
Speaker 1: then they had to play the Patriots last week, a
Speaker 1: tough loss on the road. Now they're going on the
Speaker 1: road again to another tough place, just as the narrative
Speaker 1: with the Packers would have changed if one of those close,
Speaker 1: tough road games would have gone the other way. That's
Speaker 1: what the Vikings are looking for right now. Yeah, definitely
Speaker 1: they have a big game there to show that what
Speaker 1: they solve in front of them and to me, Mike,
Speaker 1: game we will not probably be able to see, but
Speaker 1: for my money, might be the most important game of
Speaker 1: the season. Listen to me. With the hyperbolet Philadelphia traveling
Speaker 1: to Dallas, Washington, they lost Colt McCoy. Now it looks
Speaker 1: like Mark Sanchez is gonna be their quarterback, down to
Speaker 1: their third stringer. Their seasons going in a certain direction,
Speaker 1: and you have Doug Peterson with those Eagles kind of
Speaker 1: rising from the dead like the undertaker here trying to
Speaker 1: make a playoff push in Dallas is another team that's
Speaker 1: very hot to coming off a huge emotional victory. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a great week of football. Yeah, it's gonna
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a big time weekend. So everybody enjoy
Speaker 1: it for sure. And with that we'll call it a
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