Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, Welcome to Packers unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford sitting next to my trusted colleague
Speaker 1: West Hodkowits were coming to you here from our studios
Speaker 1: at lambeau Field and West while we continue to wait
Speaker 1: for head coach Mike McCarthy to finalize his coaching staff.
Speaker 1: For will have plenty of time to discuss that in
Speaker 1: the coming shows. But until then, there is a piece
Speaker 1: of news to talk about with regards to the Packers,
Speaker 1: and that is actually the no news piece of the week,
Speaker 1: and that the NFL announced its London Games, the Games
Speaker 1: across the Pond, as they say, for three contests, and
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers still not chosen. Nope, the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers one of three teams now that have not
Speaker 1: been selected to do anything in the International Series. Those
Speaker 1: teams are, in no in particular order, the Green Bay Packers,
Speaker 1: Houston Texans and Carolina Panthers are the teams that are
Speaker 1: still looking to make that trip. You know, there's a guy,
Speaker 1: you know, there's Socrates, right, We have Spotts here that
Speaker 1: is saying that maybe two two thousand nineteen would be
Speaker 1: the year. And if you want to know why the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers, who happened to play in a stadium
Speaker 1: with sixty thousand less seats than the l A Coliseum
Speaker 1: where the Rams play, potentially could be a fit. We're
Speaker 1: not saying that this is going to happen, but if
Speaker 1: it's going to happen, Mike, you would think this is
Speaker 1: where it could be a potential fit. Yeah, that's where
Speaker 1: I I sort of pegged a while back. I pegged
Speaker 1: the Chargers game in twenty nineteen as the one a
Speaker 1: combination of things. Obviously, the Chargers moving to l A,
Speaker 1: the Rams moving to l A. They're both playing in
Speaker 1: temporary stadiums, and teams in temporary stadiums while they're waiting
Speaker 1: for their new stadium to be built, can be plucked
Speaker 1: by the NFL play a home game overseas. So that's
Speaker 1: the that's the first part of it. The Packers are
Speaker 1: scheduled to play the Rams in l A and ten,
Speaker 1: the Chargers in l A and twenty nineteen. So you
Speaker 1: look at that and go, Okay, you think it's going
Speaker 1: to be one of those two games, pretty good odds.
Speaker 1: Then you factor in that the rams temporary stadium holds
Speaker 1: ninety thousand seats and the Chargers temporary stadium holds thirty
Speaker 1: thousand seats. Now, the Packers have not been played a
Speaker 1: game in the l A market for how long, so
Speaker 1: I can't even think of what year it would be,
Speaker 1: probably right something like that. So you've got an opportunity.
Speaker 1: Then if the Rams games stays at the Coliseum, you
Speaker 1: have an opportunity potentially with all the Packers fans on
Speaker 1: the West Coast who would want to see that game
Speaker 1: to fill a ninety thousand seat stadium, whereas the thirty
Speaker 1: thousand seat stadium for the Chargers game in twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: just makes more sense to be the one. You move
Speaker 1: it over to Wembley Stadium in LA where you could
Speaker 1: sell eighty thousand tickets. That becomes a great opportunity, and
Speaker 1: you're not taking the way from the fans that first
Speaker 1: opportunity of the Packers being in the l A market.
Speaker 1: They go to the l A market. Then you flip
Speaker 1: the Chargers game across the pond in nineteen. It's sort
Speaker 1: of what I saw lining up over the last couple
Speaker 1: of years, and it just seems to make sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and again, we'll we'll see all this plays out. There's
Speaker 1: nothing that's been set in stone yet. But I'll say selfishly,
Speaker 1: I actually do like the way that this worked out
Speaker 1: because I'm kind of I'm sort of quirky in the
Speaker 1: way that, um, I really do want to cover a
Speaker 1: game at the l A Coliseum. There's so much history there.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, in Super Bowl one, WrestleMania seven. But but no,
Speaker 1: but I mean it will be cool to actually cover
Speaker 1: a game there. And with all due respect to the Chargers,
Speaker 1: I don't have an endearing need to cover a game
Speaker 1: at a soccer stadium. So yeah, for for me, I
Speaker 1: really do. I know there's a lot of Packer fans.
Speaker 1: You and I get it almost every day, definitely every
Speaker 1: week about what are the chances of the Packers are
Speaker 1: going to play in London. I want to go there.
Speaker 1: You want to go there. The Packers really do want
Speaker 1: to go there too, but it has to make sense
Speaker 1: for them, and I think sometimes when when you look
Speaker 1: at the equation, you only have sixteen games in the
Speaker 1: regular season, the Packers are not going to give up
Speaker 1: a home game. It means too much the community of
Speaker 1: Green Bay. You have endless amount of sellouts. It just
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense. The economic impact in this community. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's the lifeblood economically of what goes on around here.
Speaker 1: And to to reduce that by ten twelve percent by
Speaker 1: removing a game just not something the Packers are interested
Speaker 1: in doing. You've seen what the differences even with them
Speaker 1: not having a playoff game at home this year, in
Speaker 1: the stories that are written about that. And then the
Speaker 1: other thing, conversely, is that a lot of places they
Speaker 1: don't want to give up the Packers away game either
Speaker 1: because it's an opportunity to sell out. I know there
Speaker 1: was a lot of rumors, even some reports that ended
Speaker 1: up proving to be inaccurate in the summer of two
Speaker 1: thousand sixteen or summer two thou fifteen. Excuse me that
Speaker 1: the Packers in two thousands sixteen could be going to
Speaker 1: Jacksonville and having that game broad overseas. But as even
Speaker 1: Mark Murphy said his uh in his conversations with Um
Speaker 1: the owner from the Jaguars, they don't want to lose
Speaker 1: that game either, and it proved to be a sellout
Speaker 1: on a very hot day in Jacksonville. So these are
Speaker 1: all of the economic and competitive things that go into this.
Speaker 1: The Packers want to go out there, but it has
Speaker 1: to make sense. Yeah, and one of the teams going
Speaker 1: over to London this coming season is the Chargers. And
Speaker 1: we've had some questions from fans, Well, then does that
Speaker 1: mean that the Chargers wouldn't go in back to back years.
Speaker 1: The answer is not necessarily. And again, you know, um,
Speaker 1: we can't say for sure that the Packers Chargers game
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen is moving over there. But just because
Speaker 1: the Chargers are going over there in eighteen does not
Speaker 1: necessarily factor into, um the twenty nineteen decision because they
Speaker 1: are in a temporary stadium and that yeah, the and
Speaker 1: and when you look at it from the Chargers perspective,
Speaker 1: they can probably make more money because those home games
Speaker 1: you can only sell thirty thousand tickets. And it's not
Speaker 1: as it's not as though you can suddenly just say well,
Speaker 1: we're going to charge three is for all them to
Speaker 1: make up make the same amount of money in a
Speaker 1: ninety thousand seat stadium. It doesn't work that way. And
Speaker 1: let's be real to Mike, the Rams and Chargers are
Speaker 1: both trying to create new fan bases. They're trying to
Speaker 1: get people to rally around these teams. Right now, the
Speaker 1: whole storyline for most of the season for the Charges
Speaker 1: has been they basically played an away game every week.
Speaker 1: When they've had home games, it's been teams that have
Speaker 1: been coming, you know, traveling well into their stadium, so
Speaker 1: they're waiting. They're trying to get to that new stadium
Speaker 1: in two thousand is a twenty one. Now, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think of when they pushed forget it. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: it got pushed back, and I forget now. If it's
Speaker 1: either twenty or twenty one, that's when they're really going
Speaker 1: to be off and running. Until that point, you know,
Speaker 1: I think they just want to find a way to
Speaker 1: to to fill seats, and one of the ways to
Speaker 1: do it, in my opinion, is to put them in
Speaker 1: the Packers in Wimbley and Uh. Again, We'll have to
Speaker 1: wait and see how the next couple of years play out,
Speaker 1: but as far as two thousand eighteen is concerned, no
Speaker 1: Packers International Series for now, London not called. With that,
Speaker 1: we'll go to a break back with more on Packers
Speaker 1: on drifted right after this Welcome back to Packer's Unscripted
Speaker 1: Mike Spofford in this chair, Wes Hodkowitz in that one
Speaker 1: and West just to bring the fans attention to a
Speaker 1: story that's on Packers dot com um that I recently
Speaker 1: posted left guard Lane Taylor. There may not be a
Speaker 1: more high quality player and high quality individual in that
Speaker 1: Packers locker room who goes more under the radar. He's
Speaker 1: obviously playing next to an all pro left tackle, and
Speaker 1: he's also next to a fifth round draft pick at
Speaker 1: center who just signed a contract extension, So there's been
Speaker 1: a lot of attention on those guys around him. But
Speaker 1: Taylor is a Taylor is an interesting guy. Had a
Speaker 1: really neat conversation with him in the final open locker
Speaker 1: room after the regular season finale, and uh I even
Speaker 1: asked him about you know, well, hey, what do you
Speaker 1: what do you think? You know? Are you aiming for
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl here someday you know you think it
Speaker 1: can happen, and not to put the card before the horse.
Speaker 1: But Lane Taylor was like, well yeah, and his comment was,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be just another guy. I'm still
Speaker 1: trying to be one of the best in the league.
Speaker 1: I want to be. In that conversation, it says a
Speaker 1: lot about and he's he's not being hyperbolic about himself.
Speaker 1: It says a lot about his work ethic, his attitude,
Speaker 1: where he's come from as an undrafted guy out of
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State and where he is now. And I take
Speaker 1: my hat off to the guy. I think he is
Speaker 1: the definition of a guy who brings his pay all
Speaker 1: to work every day. Uh does I don't want to
Speaker 1: this as a negative connotation, but does the nine to
Speaker 1: five job, comes in, goes home, doesn't ask for a
Speaker 1: whole lot of notoriety. Yeah, just does his job. And
Speaker 1: the impressive thing about Lane Taylor is that's always been
Speaker 1: his thing. And to some point, you could probably make
Speaker 1: an argument if you want that maybe that's part of
Speaker 1: the reason why he went on draft in two thousand
Speaker 1: thirteen is for that reason he went so far under
Speaker 1: the radar. But if you really go back and look
Speaker 1: at it, a guy that started four years at Oklahoma State.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're not talking about the sun Belt here,
Speaker 1: in no disrespect of the Sun Belt, but we're not.
Speaker 1: I mean we're talking about one of the Power five
Speaker 1: conferences in the country. Yeah, and he was a starter
Speaker 1: for four years for them. I think it was forty
Speaker 1: seven start seven starts, forty one offensive lineman drafted. I
Speaker 1: told that story earlier this year he wasn't one of them.
Speaker 1: In two thousand thirteen, comes to Green Bay and ends
Speaker 1: up in pressing, and to be honest with he's kind
Speaker 1: of had like this Aaron Rodgers type trajectory where he
Speaker 1: basically was on the bench for three years. He got
Speaker 1: to sit back and wait and then when they finally
Speaker 1: put him in there. You and I remember what it
Speaker 1: was like that first week in two thousand sixteen. What
Speaker 1: fans were saying, Yeah, that's surprise release of Josh sitting
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden they're turning over the left
Speaker 1: guard spot to Lane Taylor, who has to step in
Speaker 1: for a three time pro Bowl guard. There was a
Speaker 1: lot of panic. The sky was falling. This guy's not
Speaker 1: gonna be able to protect you know, Aaron Rodgers is
Speaker 1: what are they doing? And literally that was a narrative
Speaker 1: for one week. And I remember talking to him in
Speaker 1: Jacksonville after that game, like how did it go? He's like, well,
Speaker 1: it's kind of hot, you know, I mean, but it
Speaker 1: was business as usual for him, and he's kept that
Speaker 1: same mentality and I think that conversation that you had
Speaker 1: with him really speaks to the individual that Lane Taylor is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was interesting talking to him because I asked him, Okay,
Speaker 1: so now you've got your second year as a starter
Speaker 1: under your belt, So where do you think you improved
Speaker 1: the most from your first year as a starter in
Speaker 1: you know, through that second year as a starter in Seen,
Speaker 1: he said, He says, I I look at some of
Speaker 1: the film from He says, I just laugh at my technique.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I sit there and go, you know, what are
Speaker 1: you doing? And he feels like he's become so much
Speaker 1: more of a refined player. I think the technique, you know,
Speaker 1: I think he sort of described it as you know,
Speaker 1: when his technique got out of control a little bit,
Speaker 1: it was just, you know, you're trying to throw blocks
Speaker 1: just to survive out there. You know, you're doing whatever
Speaker 1: it takes, but it just doesn't look all that polished.
Speaker 1: He choked that up in some respects to playing left
Speaker 1: guard for the first time as a starter in the NFL,
Speaker 1: as opposed to the four years he started at Oklahoma
Speaker 1: State was all at right guard. All of his game
Speaker 1: experience in college was at right guard, so there was
Speaker 1: a little bit of that shift, and he's now feeling
Speaker 1: so much more comfortable, particularly with one element of his
Speaker 1: game that he that he described to me, and it's
Speaker 1: what he called the jump set, which is where an
Speaker 1: offensive lineman has to sell the run on a play
Speaker 1: action pass, but then be ready to pass block and
Speaker 1: not you know, not just have the guy do a
Speaker 1: quick swim move and get by you because you're too far,
Speaker 1: you know, out over your toes trying to sell the run.
Speaker 1: He said in he really had some bad moments with that,
Speaker 1: things that he really didn't like, felt he really shored
Speaker 1: that up in so it you know, these kinds of things.
Speaker 1: You and I don't see him every day. We're not
Speaker 1: looking at every single snap of film like he is,
Speaker 1: like his coaches are, but but it just it speaks
Speaker 1: to all the finer details that these guys are working
Speaker 1: on all the time to try to take their game
Speaker 1: to the next level. And he feels like he still
Speaker 1: has another level left to go. And I was talking
Speaker 1: with Justin mccrane at the end of this season two
Speaker 1: and now, obviously he ended up making a lot of
Speaker 1: starts at right tackle, but his natural position is guard,
Speaker 1: and he mentioned how much of an eye open experience
Speaker 1: it was this year working with JR. R. Evans, who's
Speaker 1: obviously a six time Pro bowler, multiple time All Pro,
Speaker 1: twelve year veteran, and Lane Taylor. He pointed him out
Speaker 1: too and said, you know, whether people realize it or not,
Speaker 1: Taylor is pretty darn close, if he's not already there,
Speaker 1: to be in a top ten guard in this league
Speaker 1: because of just how how sturdy he is, how durable
Speaker 1: he is, and how accountable he is at that position.
Speaker 1: And he's continued to learn throughout this process. Uh. The
Speaker 1: thing I guess when I'm going into this next year
Speaker 1: with him, the fact that they did resign Corey Linsley.
Speaker 1: Now they extended Taylor at the beginning of the two
Speaker 1: thousand seventeen season, and David Baker has been extended since
Speaker 1: September of two thousand and sixteen. That left side of
Speaker 1: the line is together now. Yeah. And he talked about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he talked about that and how and how comfortable he
Speaker 1: feels with you know, the continuity that the three of
Speaker 1: them can develop now over multiple years together with all
Speaker 1: them being locked up. Yeah. And and it was one
Speaker 1: last little story I thought was interesting talking to David
Speaker 1: box tr at the end of the season. Um, him
Speaker 1: and Lane Taylor, I don't think we're feeling great during
Speaker 1: that Detroit game. I think they were kind of banged up,
Speaker 1: but they said they had that conversation with each other
Speaker 1: in the second half, even when things were not going
Speaker 1: well for this offense, they were not going to quit
Speaker 1: on this thing. They were going to finish this game.
Speaker 1: And I think that mentality really tells you a lot
Speaker 1: about those offensive lineman. What the Packers have really, you know,
Speaker 1: grown in terms of that culture in that room. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: we've seen in Green Bay guys like Trumont Williams, Sam Shields,
Speaker 1: undrafted guys who eventually made it to the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: A guy like Donald Driver, a seventh round pick made
Speaker 1: it to a Pro Bowl. I'll be really interested to
Speaker 1: see if Taylor gets there someday. But with that, we're
Speaker 1: going to throw it to a break back with more
Speaker 1: on Packers unscripted. Right after this, Welcome back to Packers
Speaker 1: un ripted. Mike Spofford here, West Hodkowitz over there, and West.
Speaker 1: We are coming up on really what is the best
Speaker 1: playoff weekend in the NFL. It's what they call the
Speaker 1: Divisional Round, which isn't a very descriptive phrase by any stretch,
Speaker 1: but you're at the final eight here. Um two games
Speaker 1: on Saturday two games on Sunday. I want to start
Speaker 1: with the a f C games. You have the Tennessee
Speaker 1: Titans at New England on Saturday night and the Jacksonville
Speaker 1: Jaguars at Pittsburgh on Sunday afternoon. I've felt for a
Speaker 1: long time, for multiple months here, that the a f
Speaker 1: C has been pointing towards Tom Brady versus Ben Roethlisberger
Speaker 1: for the a f C Championship all along. I think
Speaker 1: that is what is going to happen. Do you see
Speaker 1: a possibility of an upset by one of these road
Speaker 1: teams in the a f C always a possibility, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's always that chance. But I do look
Speaker 1: at these is more twelve three versus four teen seeds
Speaker 1: in the n c A Tournament. To be honest with you, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know. There's actually some people and I appreciate this
Speaker 1: kind of feedback. I like this stuff. People replying to
Speaker 1: our podcast on Twitter yesterday, uh saying I was really
Speaker 1: down on the Jaguars. I'm not down on them. Leonard
Speaker 1: for Nett. I ran him as a running back for
Speaker 1: Fantasy football all year long, but he was my second
Speaker 1: round pick. But here's the thing, um Marcus Mariota and
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles need to manage these games for their teams
Speaker 1: to be in it. Um. I look at Bordles right now.
Speaker 1: The Jaguars have to play better against the Pittsburgh Steelers,
Speaker 1: and they did against the Buffalo Bills. We're talking about
Speaker 1: on the jump that they're going to have to make
Speaker 1: in terms of this competition. Their defense kept a minute
Speaker 1: and they very well could keep them in it again
Speaker 1: this weekend. Yeah, their defense could, but their offense clearly
Speaker 1: has to do more. They have to do more. Blake
Speaker 1: Bortles is not going to be able to have another
Speaker 1: game where he outrushes his passing game, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to be able to to utilize his
Speaker 1: tools around him. And I understand they're depleted with their receivers.
Speaker 1: I get that, Um, But Blake Bortles needs to manage
Speaker 1: that football game. They need to get the run going
Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh. If I'm the Steelers right now, you have
Speaker 1: the killer Bees, and I've seen this narrative popping up
Speaker 1: about if there's pressure on them to get something done
Speaker 1: here with this group. No, oftentimes we hear a lot
Speaker 1: about wealth Aaron Rodgers in the window. Pittsburgh is looking
Speaker 1: at the same situation. Uh, you know, Roethlisberg even I
Speaker 1: think a tad older has Levy on Bell and Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown a unanimous All Pro. This is their chance to
Speaker 1: get on a run. And as you've said before, I
Speaker 1: think they are the most complete team in this field. Um,
Speaker 1: and they need to get past the NFL's best defense
Speaker 1: this weekend, second best defense. Yeah, and they're talking about
Speaker 1: some potentially nasty weather in Foxborough on Saturday night, you know,
Speaker 1: some some sleep. Yeah, the Patriots have been through that before.
Speaker 1: You wonder what that will mean for a team like
Speaker 1: the Titans coming from Nashville. That being said, they are
Speaker 1: a team that can run the football. And if you
Speaker 1: if you get some bad weather and then you're able
Speaker 1: to establish some things on the ground, maybe that helps
Speaker 1: to keep Tennessee in it. But I just I see
Speaker 1: both of these road teams as just such big underdogs
Speaker 1: with with what they're going up against. And and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, I think we're gonna be talking about a
Speaker 1: Patriot Steelers a f C title game to Marco Murray's injury.
Speaker 1: I think you see this a lot in the NFL
Speaker 1: where it opens the team's eyes to their younger player,
Speaker 1: and I think with him being out it showed them Okay,
Speaker 1: probably going into two thousand eighteen, Derrick Henry needs to
Speaker 1: be our guy. I thought he had a phenomenal performance
Speaker 1: last week. If he can run the ball the way
Speaker 1: he did in that that victory against the Patriots, who
Speaker 1: have had their issues defensively this season, that's going to
Speaker 1: keep the Titans in this. But Marcus Marriot is gonna
Speaker 1: have to make some plays with his feet and he's
Speaker 1: gonna have to protect the football. Yeah, and I want
Speaker 1: to talk about the the NFC games too, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna do that after the breakback with moreen Packers unscripted.
Speaker 1: Right after this Welcome back to Hackers Unscripted, Mike Spofford
Speaker 1: alongside West hog Wits and West Shifting Gears to the
Speaker 1: NFC playoffs coming up here this weekend. On Saturday, we
Speaker 1: have the Atlanta Falcons traveling to the top seeded Philadelphia Eagles,
Speaker 1: but that top seed without their starting quarterback, as we
Speaker 1: talked about Nick Foles stepping in for Carson Wentz, and
Speaker 1: then the finale of the four game parlay in the
Speaker 1: NFL this weekend is I think the one that a
Speaker 1: lot of people are really looking forward to the New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints traveling to Minneapolis to play the Vikings, a
Speaker 1: rematch of Monday Night Football in Week one. Both of
Speaker 1: these teams looking at heck of a lot different than
Speaker 1: they did back in Week one. How do you see
Speaker 1: these NFC matchups plan out, Mike Spofford, I don't have
Speaker 1: this readily available. This has to be the first time
Speaker 1: I would think. I'm not gonna say NFL history, but
Speaker 1: at least during my living and breathing time, maybe you
Speaker 1: can think of a time that a number six seed
Speaker 1: has been favored over a number one going on the
Speaker 1: road in the divisional round of the playoffs. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's the reality. Yeah, the Atlanta Falcons are hard for
Speaker 1: me to think of any any time where that would
Speaker 1: have happened, because this is just such an unusual case
Speaker 1: with the Eagles hanging onto the one seed even after
Speaker 1: they lost their starting quarterback, and so they're just they're
Speaker 1: viewed as very, very vulnerable. If there was ever a
Speaker 1: year to be a number six, this is this, and
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons looked pretty darn impressive last week. But
Speaker 1: the original point, I think this game against the Saints
Speaker 1: and Vikings could be one for the Ages. It's finally
Speaker 1: the unstoppable force first, the immovable object the Saints in
Speaker 1: that offense and Kamara and Ingram and there you know
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas, so many weapons there for Drew Brees, who
Speaker 1: has now a capable defense to to back him up.
Speaker 1: And then you have basically the polar opposite in the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings. That defense number one ranked in the league,
Speaker 1: one of the top most stifling pass rushing you know
Speaker 1: packages in the league, and offensively kind of making do
Speaker 1: the way they have a Case Keenum in that litany
Speaker 1: of running backs, very interesting to watch. This will be
Speaker 1: on my TV. I will be glued to the to
Speaker 1: the two one that day. It's it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: great one. Yeah, it's the The The way these NFC matchups
Speaker 1: came together is really interesting because the with the visiting teams,
Speaker 1: you have the quarterbacks who have been there and done that.
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan has been to a Super Bowl, should have
Speaker 1: won a Super Bowl, Drew Brees has won a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: And then the home teams in these NFC matchups have
Speaker 1: quarterbacks Nick Foles in case Keenum. They've both had their
Speaker 1: share of accomplishments in the NFL, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: but they haven't done anything in the post season. And
Speaker 1: we all know that the postseason is a different animal.
Speaker 1: And that's that's what's just really intriguing about this, because
Speaker 1: there is something to be said for home field advantage
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, but but there's also a lot to
Speaker 1: be said for having quarterbacks who have gotten the job
Speaker 1: done before. There is that whole analogy. And I don't
Speaker 1: want to take anything away from keenom here because he's
Speaker 1: had a phenomenal year, but there is that kind of
Speaker 1: Cinderella aspect to this. No question, clock is going to
Speaker 1: strike midnight. The lucky horseshoe as it may be very
Speaker 1: talented guy. They are in this position getting a first
Speaker 1: round by because of case Keenum. If they didn't have
Speaker 1: somebody step up in the aftermath of Sam Bradford's injury,
Speaker 1: they might not even be in the running for this thing.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how good your defense is. If you
Speaker 1: can't offensively do something right. The Lions might have might
Speaker 1: have won the division absolutely and to be able to
Speaker 1: replace Delvin Cook the way they did. At the same time,
Speaker 1: I really want to see how he does this and
Speaker 1: then also look on the other side of it, the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Felcons. This is a great opportunity. Maybe Philadelphia pulls
Speaker 1: it out. Great defense there, but the Falcons could get
Speaker 1: on a run here too. It's so many different angles
Speaker 1: to watch. What's your call for the NFC Championship matchup?
Speaker 1: What are you going with? I think it's Atlanta and
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be Minnesota, but um, it is
Speaker 1: gonna be I think the Saints have a chance here,
Speaker 1: it just can they beat them in that stadium. I
Speaker 1: think it's I think it's gonna be the NFC South.
Speaker 1: I think Atlanta is going to be going interesting. But yeah,
Speaker 1: with that, that's a wrap on this edition of Packers Unscripted.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for tuning in, everybody, We'll see you next time.
Speaker 1: H m hmm.