Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from
Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am like Spofford, joined as always
Speaker 1: by my trusted colleague Weston Hankoitz. We're coming to you
Speaker 1: here from our studios at Lambeufield to preview this Sunday's
Speaker 1: matchup West. It will be the Packers and the Jaguars
Speaker 1: from Jacksonville. It's a noon Central Time kickoff. And looking
Speaker 1: at this Jacksonville team, it's been I guess you'd just
Speaker 1: say a strange season in a lot of ways for them.
Speaker 1: They start out the year zero to four, but three
Speaker 1: of those losses in that four game losing streak where
Speaker 1: by five points or less. They lost by three to Miami,
Speaker 1: by five to Cleveland, by four to Houston. So they
Speaker 1: are zero and four out of the things are not
Speaker 1: going well. But since then now they've gone two and
Speaker 1: one with victories over the Colts and the Patriots, a
Speaker 1: loss to the Chicago Bears in between. They've played their
Speaker 1: last two games in London, so they were in London
Speaker 1: for an extended period of time. Now they're coming back
Speaker 1: home to Jacksonville to face the Packers, and they feel
Speaker 1: like they've got some things going in the right direction,
Speaker 1: but they still have a ways to go, obviously to
Speaker 1: get to where they want to be. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: that Jacksonville is looking at this game against the Packers
Speaker 1: as a potential turning point to their season if they
Speaker 1: can chalk up a win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a get back game in a lot of ways.
Speaker 2: And end Listen, Mike, I'm gonna sit here with you.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be real. I mean, there are some offensive
Speaker 2: threats that I think the Packers have to be very
Speaker 2: cognizant of in this matchup. Defensively, Jacksonville's kind of been
Speaker 2: a train wreck for most of the season. They are
Speaker 2: two and five for a reason. The New England Patriots
Speaker 2: potentially could be the worst team in the National Football League.
Speaker 2: What they did to them last week, especially being in
Speaker 2: that second week in London, I anticipated that. I expected it.
Speaker 2: The Trevor Lawrence has looked a lot better in these
Speaker 2: last three four weeks. I think Tank Bigsby potentially gives
Speaker 2: them an every down running back that they could potentially
Speaker 2: ride in. Brian Thompson, Brian Thomas, excuse me, very dynamic.
Speaker 2: Evan Ingram is back offensively A lot a lot there
Speaker 2: for the Jaguars, depending on what happens defensively, It's hard
Speaker 2: to find a lot of statistics that really jump off
Speaker 2: the page. Positive in their fashion, in their manner, trebon
Speaker 2: Walker's off to a good start. They do have some
Speaker 2: playmakers there, but as a collective, they've really struggled. So
Speaker 2: you're absolutely right. They were close in some of these losses.
Speaker 2: They also just got completely blown out of the water
Speaker 2: by Buffalo.
Speaker 1: They really stand by the Bears in London quite frankly.
Speaker 2: That's what I was going to say. I mean the Bears,
Speaker 2: they took it to them. Yeah, they really struggled to
Speaker 2: get things going against Chicago. So the Green mit Packers
Speaker 2: is they have to take this team extremely serious. You
Speaker 2: have to not look past them. But as much as
Speaker 2: it's good to point out, and I think that's a
Speaker 2: good message for the Florida mention this team, they could
Speaker 2: easily be five and two when they're two and five,
Speaker 2: the Jaguars are two and five, and while they are
Speaker 2: coming off a win that if you flip that game
Speaker 2: with the Bears, it would feel a lot differently too.
Speaker 2: I Mean, there was a lot of conversations after that
Speaker 2: lost to Chicago about exactly which direction that team may go.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, they responded appropriately. But at the same time, Packers
Speaker 2: have won three games against the AFC South. I mean,
Speaker 2: this is not the time to let one go. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, you're looking to sweep that AFC division here. If
Speaker 1: you're Green Bay looking at some of the numbers, Trevor Lawrence,
Speaker 1: the former number one overall pick out of Clemson. He
Speaker 1: has a ninety two point three passer rating this year,
Speaker 1: which is not bad. But I think everybody has seen
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence play better at other times in his career
Speaker 1: than he's playing this year. The one real positive for
Speaker 1: him is that he's only thrown three interceptions this shit year.
Speaker 1: He has been protecting the football maybe better than he
Speaker 1: has at other points.
Speaker 2: I think he was fourth or fifteen interceptions last season. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So I mean for what he's been able to do
Speaker 2: protecting it has been very critical.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You mentioned Tank Bigsby, the running back, and I
Speaker 1: just have to say, I think this is the first
Speaker 1: time in Packers' history that they are playing an opponent
Speaker 1: with someone whose first name is Tank two weeks in
Speaker 1: a row.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it has to be throw that out there. I'd
Speaker 2: have to ask cliff about the nineteen twenties. Maybe I
Speaker 2: could see a tank callaway or something.
Speaker 1: Like Minneapolis Marines or something had a couple of tanks
Speaker 1: on their team. But Bigsby six point two yards per carry,
Speaker 1: that's nothing to sneeze at with the workload that he's
Speaker 1: been giving been given. Excuse me. And then Brian Thomas Junior,
Speaker 1: the rookie wide receiver. I'm really stumbling over my words today.
Speaker 1: Out of LSU, he's averaging seventeen point one yards per catch.
Speaker 1: He is the big play guy. You mentioned. They get
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram back from injury, and that's a tight end
Speaker 1: who likes to stretch the field and provides another weapon
Speaker 1: certainly on offense there. But those are the numbers that
Speaker 1: stick out to me, just the yards per carry for Bigsby,
Speaker 1: the yards per catch for Thomas. Defensively, Treron Walker another
Speaker 1: number one overall pick that the Jaguars have. He's got
Speaker 1: six sacks this season. He really is the star and
Speaker 1: the heart and soul of that defense. But a couple
Speaker 1: of a couple of defensive statistics that will tell you
Speaker 1: how much they are struggling. One is that opponents are
Speaker 1: converting forty five percent of the time on third down.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure exactly where that ranks because I didn't
Speaker 1: have time to look that up before we turn the
Speaker 1: cameras on, but forty five percent allowing third down conversions
Speaker 1: is terrible. Twenty sixth, twenty sixth, it's not good. The
Speaker 1: other is that the defense has only taken the ball
Speaker 1: away three times all season in seven games. They have
Speaker 1: one interception, they have two fumble recovery. This is not
Speaker 1: a defense that has done much to help the offense
Speaker 1: at all, and I mentioned this on our three Things
Speaker 1: video yesterday. Now, the Jaguars offensively don't give it away
Speaker 1: a bunch. As I mentioned, Lawrence just has the three interception.
Speaker 1: I believe they only have four loss fumbles. So seven
Speaker 1: giveaways in seven games. That's pretty darn good. But they
Speaker 1: only have three takeaways in seven games. If you're the Packers,
Speaker 1: you're coming off of this, You're coming off of a
Speaker 1: three giveaway game of your own. Where there needs to
Speaker 1: be that added emphasis again on protecting the ball. It
Speaker 1: really becomes paramount in this game because you can't you
Speaker 1: can't turn the ball over to the Jaguars and sort
Speaker 1: of let them break profile, right, because if this defense
Speaker 1: for Jacksonville suddenly breaks profile, their team will look a
Speaker 1: lot different and they put themselves in a much better
Speaker 1: position to knock you all.
Speaker 2: Very strange statistics defensively, because the other thing is, yeah,
Speaker 2: they've really struggled on third downs, but they're six against
Speaker 2: the run so far this season, and in yards per
Speaker 2: game and even in yards per play is seventh at
Speaker 2: four point one point five. Passing defense thirty first total
Speaker 2: yards twenty seventh. They are the worst team in the
Speaker 2: NFL in goal to go. They're the only team that
Speaker 2: has yet to prevent a team from scoring a touchdown
Speaker 2: once they enter the red zone, opponents converting at one
Speaker 2: hundred percent clip in goal to go in red zone.
Speaker 2: They're also thirty second seventy eight point two six. So
Speaker 2: making sure I get those statistics right, it's been a grind. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Now tough to dress it up a little bit for
Speaker 2: the Jaguars offensively, I think they're doing some really good things.
Speaker 2: I think the switch to Bigsby Travis Etn really had
Speaker 2: struggled earlier this season. I know this because Travis Etn
Speaker 2: was my RB two on my fantasy league and now
Speaker 2: it's Tank Bigsby. Hashtag analysis. But Bigsby he has that
Speaker 2: big run and he has that six point two yards
Speaker 2: per clip. But last week he showed he could just
Speaker 2: be a bellcow for them and carry the ball twenty
Speaker 2: six times for one hundred and nineteen yards with nothing
Speaker 2: longer than fourteen per carry, along with the two touchdowns.
Speaker 2: Again using the caveat that New England has really struggled
Speaker 2: in basically every phase this year. It was the Patriots,
Speaker 2: but you still have to have something to hang your
Speaker 2: hat on. When you talk about I think Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 2: and the difference that he's made the last few weeks,
Speaker 2: it's I think it's the fact that he hasn't had
Speaker 2: to be Superman as often. I think he only threw
Speaker 2: the ball maybe twenty or twenty one times in that
Speaker 2: game against New England. The other thing is to Michael,
Speaker 2: the receivers have to pick him up. You've seen there's
Speaker 2: been low light after lowlight of receivers dropping passes in
Speaker 2: the end zone that he has put on the money
Speaker 2: and guys are just not making plays for him. And
Speaker 2: it's guys that have made plays. Christian Kirk had a
Speaker 2: lot of success with him last season. I mean, you
Speaker 2: look at Gabe Davis, a guy that I've always been
Speaker 2: very high on a down seialed threat. It isn't just
Speaker 2: the Brian Thomas show. I mean, they have guys they
Speaker 2: can turn to, but it just hasn't been working out
Speaker 2: for them this season. So they definitely got that win
Speaker 2: and they're gonna be feeling better about themselves. But I
Speaker 2: think the green Bay Packers, this is a game where
Speaker 2: if you turn, if you take the ball away, if
Speaker 2: you can get back on that train here and you
Speaker 2: can convert that into points, I think that sets up
Speaker 2: Green Bay for a victory. Yeah.
Speaker 1: A couple of other A couple of other things to
Speaker 1: point out. One is that last week Jacksonville had a
Speaker 1: punt return the link to the field ninety six yards
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. That was kind of the play really
Speaker 1: that broke New England's back as the Jaguars were coming
Speaker 1: back from an early ten to nothing deficit. I think
Speaker 1: they scored like twenty five straight points before New England
Speaker 1: scored again. And within that run of twenty five straight
Speaker 1: points was a ninety six yard punt return for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: So that's something Rich Bassachi and crew. They need to
Speaker 1: be on their p's and q's with that kind of
Speaker 1: a threat. Also, statistically, I noticed in the first quarter
Speaker 1: the Jaguars have been outscored forty one to twenty and
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter they've been outscored sixty nine to
Speaker 1: thirty three. So first order, last quarter, the opponents have
Speaker 1: more than double their point total through the first seven games.
Speaker 1: This is not a team that starts games well. This
Speaker 1: is not a team that finishes games well. And it's
Speaker 1: one of the games where I look at it again,
Speaker 1: I talked about sort of don't let them break profile
Speaker 1: on defense and start taking the ball away. You want
Speaker 1: the Jaguars to just be the Jaguars right, to keep
Speaker 1: them where they are. And that's where really this game
Speaker 1: And we'll get into maybe some more specific keys to
Speaker 1: victory in a moment, but this is where this is
Speaker 1: the kind of game that this is a lot more
Speaker 1: about the Green Bay Packers and what the Packers do
Speaker 1: and how they're going to execute on their end, much
Speaker 1: more so than it's about anything that the Jaguars are.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. I mean, you've heard Tucker Kraft talk
Speaker 2: numerous times this year about the Packers versus the Packers
Speaker 2: and not hurting themselves and I think that's something that's
Speaker 2: really held true. Last week was actually indication where Green
Speaker 2: Bay did hurt itself a lot of ways, but it
Speaker 2: didn't come back to cost them in the win column.
Speaker 2: And one of the big reasons for that is complimentary
Speaker 2: football wise, they did Picky's chie each other up in
Speaker 2: one issue in one phase, didn't cause another phase to lapse.
Speaker 2: And I think that's going to be very critical in
Speaker 2: a game like this against Jacksonville because again the Jaguars
Speaker 2: are home and they are going to have a little
Speaker 2: bit more positive vibes behind them after that went against
Speaker 2: New England, but it's been a grind for them throughout
Speaker 2: the course of this year. I'm very interested to see
Speaker 2: what the Parker Washington thing, what becomes of that, because
Speaker 2: I think it was Devin Devernay was actually the one
Speaker 2: that was the punt returner for them. Now he's on
Speaker 2: injured reserve. Washington has only had I think three punt returns.
Speaker 2: He's only been back there five times, and then he
Speaker 2: ends up cranking that big return. So things like that
Speaker 2: changed the complexion of a ballgame. And as you said,
Speaker 2: that sort of through the door shut on the Patriots.
Speaker 2: But overall, the number one point You've been driving home
Speaker 2: all week, the fact that they have not taken the
Speaker 2: ball away much defensively. If you are able to protect
Speaker 2: the football and find a way to get some opportunities
Speaker 2: on the other end of things, I think it works
Speaker 2: out in the Packers favor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's the biggest key to victory that jumps
Speaker 1: out to me in this one for the Packers, primarily
Speaker 1: because Green Bay is coming off of a three giveaway
Speaker 1: game that almost cost you a game. That line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage wise, you felt you were in control of the
Speaker 1: game against the Texans for quite a bit, but because
Speaker 1: of the giveaways, you almost cough that one up at home.
Speaker 1: This game is about protecting the football you have to make.
Speaker 1: You have to do what you do on offense, protect
Speaker 1: the ball and make a Jaguars defense that hasn't stopped
Speaker 1: teams on third down as you mentioned, that hasn't stopped
Speaker 1: teams in the red zone, or hasn't stopped teams in
Speaker 1: goal to go. You have to put yourself in those
Speaker 1: situations as an offense for the Packers, and if you
Speaker 1: protect the football, you ought to be able to put
Speaker 1: up enough points to win the game.
Speaker 2: It's a weird situation though, because Josh heinz Allen is
Speaker 2: there as well. He's a former first round pick for them.
Speaker 2: He had seventeen and a half sacks last year. He
Speaker 2: only has two this year, but he actually has more
Speaker 2: quarterback hits than Walker does. So I mean they have
Speaker 2: guys that get after the quarterback. Aaron Armstead Eric Armstead
Speaker 2: excuse me, is also there. I mean, they have names
Speaker 2: that you would expect to be able to pressure and
Speaker 2: generate positive opportunities. It just has not worked out for
Speaker 2: them to this point, whatever that combination may be. Before
Speaker 2: we started the show, I was praising Tyson Campbell is
Speaker 2: a guy I thought has come in the league and
Speaker 2: been a very capable guy for them on the perimeter
Speaker 2: since drafting him in the second round back in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one. So Green Bay has to figure out what
Speaker 2: it needs to do in this matchup to be able
Speaker 2: to find that victory. But the fact of the matter
Speaker 2: is these games are never easy. And one of the
Speaker 2: things I was sort of reminiscing about this week is
Speaker 2: I believe this is the fourth time I'm covering a
Speaker 2: Jaguars game and the Packers have never blown them out.
Speaker 2: That I can recall, even I wrote this an insider
Speaker 2: inbox in twenty twelve, when the Jaguars are off to
Speaker 2: a terrible start, and I believe trying to remember if
Speaker 2: that was Blaine Gabbard still, if they had already made
Speaker 2: the switch to Chad Henny. In twenty twelve, the Packers
Speaker 2: were like sixteen and a half point favorites at lambeau Field.
Speaker 2: Green Bay was off to like a five and three start.
Speaker 2: Obviously they had the issue with the fail Mary, but
Speaker 2: the Jaguars had one win to that point, and they
Speaker 2: gave him a run for their money. Yeah, the twenty
Speaker 2: sixteen game I think was a little bit more decisive,
Speaker 2: but then even the twenty twenty game, or excuse me,
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty game was more decisive the twenty sixteen
Speaker 2: game when you and I went down to Jacksonville and
Speaker 2: it was ninety five degrees out for the opener. Yeah,
Speaker 2: a game that was a knockdown, drag out battle that
Speaker 2: I think came right down to the final whistle pretty much.
Speaker 2: And then the Jaguars ended up getting on a pretty
Speaker 2: rough start the rest of the way. So you expect
Speaker 2: a tough matchup, but the Green Bit Packers have won
Speaker 2: three in a row here, and as we've talked about
Speaker 2: numerous times now, to be in a position to potentially
Speaker 2: sweep the AFC South. When you get those those non
Speaker 2: conference victories in your back pocket, those are sometimes the
Speaker 2: currency that can kind of propel you with not only
Speaker 2: the playoffs, but if you get there the postseason seedings
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what are you anticipating in terms of the crowd
Speaker 1: for this one. We've seen Packers fan take over Nashville, Yeah,
Speaker 1: takeover LA. This this could be another, you know, another
Speaker 1: home game on the road for Green Bay because traditionally,
Speaker 1: anytime the Packers are playing in Florida, whether it's Tampa
Speaker 1: or Miami or Jacksonville, whatever, the fans generally show it.
Speaker 2: And if you looked at the price of tickets at all,
Speaker 2: I mean it's pretty cheap, Okay, I mean, so if
Speaker 2: you're a Packer fan in that part of the country,
Speaker 2: you can compare to what people have paid in LA
Speaker 2: and some of these other venues.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the ticket prices in LA were kind of crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty economical even Nashville. Like kind of think
Speaker 2: as you you had seen, I expect a Packers type
Speaker 2: crowd to be perfectly honest with you. I mean, Jaguars
Speaker 2: do have a fan base, and they were very coming
Speaker 2: off of last year. I think there was a lot
Speaker 2: of positive optimism. I mean, they gave Trevor Lawrence that
Speaker 2: extension for a reason. I mean they they felt like
Speaker 2: they were on the next step.
Speaker 1: Well, it's it's it's interesting what's happened because two years ago,
Speaker 1: two years ago, Doug Peterson comes in and things seem
Speaker 1: to really be getting on the right track with Trevor Lawrence,
Speaker 1: they make the playoffs, they have that monster comeback in
Speaker 1: the playoff game against the Chargers, right to win a
Speaker 1: playoff game. Last year, they you know, midway through the year,
Speaker 1: they look like they're on their way to winning the
Speaker 1: AFC South and getting back to the playoffs. And I
Speaker 1: forget if it was whatever they lost, you know, six
Speaker 1: of their last seven or whatever is they they just
Speaker 1: it was five five of their last six. They just
Speaker 1: completely fell apart in the last month and a half
Speaker 1: of the season, let a playoff berth get away. And
Speaker 1: then they come out this year and start zero to four. So,
Speaker 1: you know, carrying over from the one season to the
Speaker 1: next that they had, they lost nine out of ten
Speaker 1: games to a team that for a year and a half,
Speaker 1: more than a year and a half, looked like a
Speaker 1: playoff team and was a playoff caliber team suddenly loses
Speaker 1: nine out of ten and here they are, you know,
Speaker 1: reaching close to the midway point of twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: and trying to figure out where they're going. It's just
Speaker 1: been it's been bizarre.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then their one win was a twenty six
Speaker 2: nothing shutout of the Panthers. I mean, and I think
Speaker 2: that was after the Packers had played the Panthers, yeah,
Speaker 2: in Carolina. So yeah, there's a lot going on there.
Speaker 2: But again, and I know you'll probably after the we
Speaker 2: get through everything, probably ask me more about the keys
Speaker 2: of victory and this thing. But stopping Bigs by stopping
Speaker 2: ETN and then limiting the explosive plays. I mean, you
Speaker 2: do those three things, I think the takeaways and the
Speaker 2: turnover opportunities will come. And also this is another game
Speaker 2: too where Packers have had to be so cerebral with
Speaker 2: how they've rushed these quarterbacks, these scrambling type quarterbacks. And
Speaker 2: not that you know, Lawrence is a statue back there.
Speaker 2: I mean, he has a thirty three yard run this
Speaker 2: year too, but this is one where I think more
Speaker 2: traditionally the Packers could get after him, and you know,
Speaker 2: devonte Y could potentially be back in the cards for
Speaker 2: them this weekend. That helps the defensive front. You have
Speaker 2: a number of different guys that could potentially be involved
Speaker 2: in that equation. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: you got to take care of business and this is
Speaker 2: going to be one of the big challenges here for
Speaker 2: Green Bay before you get back to Lambellfield and have
Speaker 2: that last one against the Lions before the bye week.
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Speaker 1: looking around at week eight. Kind of an important one
Speaker 1: tonight Thursday Night that Packers fans will have their eye
Speaker 1: on Minnesota on the short week. Hopping on the plane
Speaker 1: to go out to the West Coast to take on
Speaker 1: the Rams. The Rams reportedly getting Cooper Cup back as
Speaker 1: a big time weapon for Matthew Stafford and the Vikings
Speaker 1: coming off of their first loss of the year, that
Speaker 1: down to the wire defeat to the Detroit Lions last
Speaker 1: week at home for them. Kind of an interesting one here.
Speaker 1: And you've got much as you know, as we've talked
Speaker 1: about before with the Rams and Sean McVay, now you
Speaker 1: have the Sean McVay Kevin O'Connell head coaching matchup right
Speaker 1: in this one as well.
Speaker 2: This is the other thing that's funny that there's a
Speaker 2: possibility here that Cup is back. But then Jordan Whitington,
Speaker 2: who is the guy that was sort of the main
Speaker 2: go to guy in the game against Green Bay, he's
Speaker 2: now out. FUCA is still questionable. I mean like they
Speaker 2: haven't gotten any healthier. It really seems like since the
Speaker 2: Packers saw him a few weeks ago. Now that being said,
Speaker 2: Blake Cashman is out for the Vikings, so I mean
Speaker 2: that's a huge loss for them. I feel like he's
Speaker 2: been one of the best, you know, free agent signings
Speaker 2: we've seen in the league. And how he's coming there
Speaker 2: and sort of made an impact, made a huge impact
Speaker 2: in that game against Green Bay.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: But seems like Aaron Jones has moved past the hamstring injury,
Speaker 2: so you still have him available. Yeah. Another one of
Speaker 2: these that I think as long as the NFC North
Speaker 2: keeps winning these matchups, in these games, you're going to
Speaker 2: continually be trying to see exactly what other teams are
Speaker 2: able to do against them. From the Rams perspective, though,
Speaker 2: you can can't lose much more ground. No, it's going
Speaker 2: to be kind of a forgiving division. It looks like
Speaker 2: this year for them, with all the issues at San
Speaker 2: Francisco's weathered and the fact that I don't think the
Speaker 2: Seahawks are a world beater, but you're still two and
Speaker 2: five and in trying to claim some more of those
Speaker 2: victories here to build up some momentum. You have to
Speaker 2: do it because the injuries aren't going away, and if
Speaker 2: you lose enough of these games, your playoff hopes will
Speaker 2: be out the window. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, a few other games on Sunday that stick out
Speaker 1: to me. I'll just rattle them off and let you
Speaker 1: comment as you please. Chicago at Washington. Now there are
Speaker 1: questions as to whether Jaden Daniels, who has a rib injury,
Speaker 1: the quarterback for Washington, is he going to be able
Speaker 1: to play?
Speaker 2: Is he not?
Speaker 1: Obviously there's been a lot of anticipation for the two
Speaker 1: rookie quarterbacks, Jade and Daniels against Caleb Williams, and certainly
Speaker 1: nobody had on their bingo card at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the season that Chicago and Washington would be flexed into
Speaker 1: the three twenty five national television slot. But there they are.
Speaker 1: Buffalo at Seattle strikes me as a very interesting cross
Speaker 1: conference game AFC versus NFC. Seattle snapped that three game
Speaker 1: losing streak last week, they got back on the winning
Speaker 1: track on the road in Atlanta with a pretty convincing
Speaker 1: victory there, and Buffalo still, you know, looking like a
Speaker 1: very formidable team, but now having to make the long
Speaker 1: road trip out there and then the Sunday night game,
Speaker 1: which hopefully will be home coming back on the plane.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe we'll miss the first half, but
Speaker 1: a chance to maybe watch it from our couches after
Speaker 1: we get back from Jacksonville. Dallas at San Francisco, do
Speaker 1: I have to you don't want to watch Dallas in
Speaker 1: San Francisco.
Speaker 2: You know, be okay, if out of San Francisco has
Speaker 2: some players on the field, sure.
Speaker 1: It brings back I guess even just seeing those two
Speaker 1: helmets on the field it bring it brings back the
Speaker 1: college memories for me, those early nineties, you know, Dallas
Speaker 1: at San Francisco playoff games, those those of stuck with me.
Speaker 2: My snark aside. It's a huge game for both of
Speaker 2: these teams. Hellas got absolutely clobbered before their bye week.
Speaker 2: They come back. Now, you saw the statistics how good
Speaker 2: Dak Prescott has been after the bye week, seeing if
Speaker 2: he can keep that going. But my goodness, man, it
Speaker 2: seems like every single week the forty nine ers lose
Speaker 2: somebody else. You know, Kittle's still hurt, Ayyuk is injured, Like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they lost Ayuk for the season. Now over after
Speaker 1: all of that, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I mean this is this is gut check
Speaker 2: time for them, sitting at three and four. I think
Speaker 2: the other one too, Atlanta and Tampa Bay, somebody in
Speaker 2: the NFC South trying to that's a quite.
Speaker 1: Is a big That is a big game in the
Speaker 1: NFC South with both of those team teams coming off
Speaker 1: of home losses. Yes, that, you know, games that they
Speaker 1: were certainly hoping to win, playing at home in some
Speaker 1: big matchups, but they both took a defeat. And and
Speaker 1: somebody needs to take control of that NFC South.
Speaker 2: And with uh Chicago and Washington again, if if Daniels
Speaker 2: can play in this thing, I think the reports were
Speaker 2: he's weak to weak, but if he he can go.
Speaker 2: Although we saw what that meant with Dan Davian Wicks.
Speaker 2: He was week to week two and he was out
Speaker 2: there on Sunday catching thirty yard touchdown passes, right, but Daniels,
Speaker 2: I mean this guy, dude. He has been just such
Speaker 2: an enigmatic force in the NFL this season, and Chicago's
Speaker 2: defense is legit. If that would matchup is there, it'd
Speaker 2: be really interesting to watch that. As much as people
Speaker 2: will make it about Williams and Daniels, seeing how Daniels
Speaker 2: handles that Chicago defense, I think is really interesting to
Speaker 2: me if it would work out that way. But certainly
Speaker 2: Washington man, nobody saw this coming, like with Dallas coming
Speaker 2: off the season that they did, Philadelphia still being a
Speaker 2: team that has some pop behind them after the Super
Speaker 2: Bowl two years ago, and here are the Washington Commanders
Speaker 2: just flying into this thing.
Speaker 1: The one thing I'll say about Washington, not quarterback related,
Speaker 1: we have seen we have seen over the years, whether
Speaker 1: it's whether it's as a coordinator or as a head coach,
Speaker 1: wherever dan Quinn goes, he makes an immediate impact on
Speaker 1: a de defense. A defense under dan Quinn starts to
Speaker 1: play significantly better right away. Now, there are times, I
Speaker 1: mean in Dallas he wasn't able to sustain it. Certainly
Speaker 1: in Seattle they sustained it for a long time, and
Speaker 1: I don't really you know, in Atlanta they didn't quite
Speaker 1: really sustain it there either because they became much more
Speaker 1: dependent on Matt Ryan and Julio Johnson and all that.
Speaker 1: But dan Quinn's track record is when he goes somewhere
Speaker 1: that he makes an immediate impact on the defense. And
Speaker 1: I think the combination of that with Jayden Daniels being this,
Speaker 1: you know, eye opening rookie quarterback, it's completely changed the
Speaker 1: outlook in Washington.
Speaker 2: And I just love the construct of their entire offense too.
Speaker 2: I mean, now, again it changes if Marcus Mariota is
Speaker 2: the quarterback. But you know, Austin Eckler being the guy
Speaker 2: that's complimenting Robinson now and the fact that you have
Speaker 2: I think Terry McLaurin the Pandora's box has really been
Speaker 2: opened with him now in terms of this isn't just
Speaker 2: you know, kind of a smallish receiver that makes possession plays.
Speaker 2: Now he's a big play guy if he has a
Speaker 2: quarterback that can get him the ball, and just a
Speaker 2: lot of different avenues that they have to generate offense.
Speaker 2: In addition to the fact that, yeah, their defense has
Speaker 2: made a complete turnaround here this season. Yeah, as long
Speaker 2: as they're not playing this Sin sadibangles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was that was the one. That was the
Speaker 1: one game there that you were kind of scratching your
Speaker 1: head with what was going on. Defensive defense was optional
Speaker 1: for both teams. Yeah, both both teams in that game.
Speaker 1: That one, That one got a little out of hand.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think an interesting slate of games in
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Speaker 2: Have you decided if you're going to sleep here or
Speaker 2: not those three days? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I might good. Aybe Yeah, wellybe e
Speaker 1: latable Naras Studio here, we'll just we'll set up like
Speaker 1: we have showers, Lambeau. Yeah we do. We got a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got a locker room that we could do.
Speaker 2: You have a locker in there?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Okay, well if you need to use mine, but yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm sure I could. I got shampoo, I'm sure.
Speaker 1: I could get one. Yeah, what a.
Speaker 2: Way to in the show?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we always and we get to this and then
Speaker 1: we start talking about this thing that's gonna happen in
Speaker 1: six months, and yeah, it's it's gonna be historic. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be one of a kind. But we're trying to
Speaker 1: figure out just how to do our jobs amidst all
Speaker 1: the chaos.
Speaker 2: Week eight already, buddy, Can you believe that?
Speaker 1: I know, I know when you when you look at
Speaker 1: it as far as preseason and regular season twenty games,
Speaker 1: it were halfway there. Oh, hey, ten ten games of
Speaker 1: ten games out of twenty year in the books.
Speaker 2: Hopefully it feels like it.
Speaker 1: Because you know, we're hoping to maybe have some playoffs,
Speaker 1: you know at the end of the.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent mentally, man, I am just like I'm
Speaker 2: the coyote in the desert, like dragging myself to this
Speaker 2: bye week. Like it was like I think whatever I
Speaker 2: had left was it like the bow Melton story, then
Speaker 2: the stuff I did last last week, And now I'm
Speaker 2: just like just slightly clawing my way to that. Yeah
Speaker 2: that buy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and we've actually benefited from a lot
Speaker 1: of like noon games. Yeah, did you imagine this, this
Speaker 1: this stretch that we've got coming up with like four
Speaker 1: night games in a row or whatever, It's going to
Speaker 1: be like I might even have to have some coffee
Speaker 1: right here to get through packers unscripted.
Speaker 2: Way, wouldn't that be somethinker We could do a well
Speaker 2: we couldn't do this because I don't think I can
Speaker 2: drink alcoholic work, but it would be like you you
Speaker 2: have a coffee and I have an ipa, and then
Speaker 2: it's like freaky Fridays that we just switch it up
Speaker 2: and see which one of us gets through at first. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there there you go, there we go.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we may we may just have to
Speaker 1: try that. Desperate times could call for desperate measures.
Speaker 2: Hey, I want to close on this because we'll never
Speaker 2: have another chance to talk about this either. Remember how
Speaker 2: I was kind of ripping on the double Monday night
Speaker 2: football game. Yeah, last week, did you see what the
Speaker 2: ratings were for that ESPN Plus game for Arizona.
Speaker 1: I mean there was like hardly anybody who watched it.
Speaker 1: I mean hardly anybody could watch.
Speaker 2: My dad, so I have like ESPN Plus, I can
Speaker 2: do all that stuff. But he asked my dad. I'm like, hey,
Speaker 2: you watching He's like, no, I don't watch that stuff
Speaker 2: on the internet. I'm like, oh yeah, fair play. It's
Speaker 2: easy enough when it's right on the television. He doesn't
Speaker 2: need to go on the internet to watch any other football.
Speaker 2: Oh well, all right, what a great ending to the show.
Speaker 1: Fantastic with that, we'll call it a wrap on this
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