Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from
Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford. Heat is my
Speaker 1: partner in crime, West Hod Kuwitz. We're coming to you
Speaker 1: here from our studios at lambeau Field and West. It
Speaker 1: seems every day here during this playoff, by week we
Speaker 1: are getting some new health information with regard to this
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers roster. This is just remarkable. I'll go
Speaker 1: over essentially what has happened over the last several days,
Speaker 1: you might say. First, of course, David Botieri and Josh
Speaker 1: Meyers get back into action on the offensive line in
Speaker 1: week eighteen. In Detroit. We've seen over the last several
Speaker 1: weeks Randall Cobb and Jaire Alexander both practicing, although they
Speaker 1: haven't gotten back into game action just yet. And now
Speaker 1: this week on the practice field, Billy Turner and Zadarius
Speaker 1: Smith were out there on Wednesday, and then shortly before
Speaker 1: or we turned on the cameras too and microphones to
Speaker 1: record this show, Whitney Merciless was back on the practice
Speaker 1: field for the Green Bay Packers. Now no promises as
Speaker 1: to who exactly will be able to play next weekend
Speaker 1: when the Packers will play their divisional playoff game at
Speaker 1: lambeau Field. But I have never I've covered the Packers
Speaker 1: through multiple times here over the last fifteen sixteen years
Speaker 1: when they've had a bye in the playoffs, I have
Speaker 1: never had a playoff bye week that had this much
Speaker 1: injury related news in it. Yeah, and I've never seen
Speaker 1: anything like this. Uh. I think Raven Green came back
Speaker 1: last year during the playoffs, and that was the one
Speaker 1: player that was kind of designated to return. They've just
Speaker 1: had this whole boatload of guys that it's like their
Speaker 1: timetables to get back on the practice field all basically ended.
Speaker 1: At the same time. A lot of people after I
Speaker 1: tweeted that Mercedes Mercedes, Whitney Merciless, too many ms on
Speaker 1: this team. Uh, Whitney Mercills was back on the practice field.
Speaker 1: So many people were tweeting me like we gotta get
Speaker 1: like the Hortal scene from endgame here from Avengers of
Speaker 1: all the superheroes coming back in for the final battle.
Speaker 1: And to some extent, it's very true. Here's the one
Speaker 1: aspect of this that there's a good reason why you
Speaker 1: you've thought that right up until last year, there wasn't
Speaker 1: an unlimited amount of players that could be designated to return.
Speaker 1: Before that, there wasn't there was one guy on the
Speaker 1: entire team that could return if you go back three
Speaker 1: or four years ago. But but with some of these
Speaker 1: flexibilities that they created with COVID and everything else, you're
Speaker 1: allowed to bring back an unlimited amount of guys off
Speaker 1: injured reserve, which I've always said is the right way
Speaker 1: to go about. It's the way to keep guys healthy
Speaker 1: and safe from a player's safety standpoint. It's exactly what
Speaker 1: the league is should have been doing. But for the
Speaker 1: green you mentioned, you don't know who's going to come back.
Speaker 1: But what I will say is kind of like if
Speaker 1: you're playing a hand to poker and you still got
Speaker 1: the turn in the river coming, somebody's gonna come back.
Speaker 1: I mean, when you have you know, seven eight guys
Speaker 1: that have been injured or on the COVID list or whatnot,
Speaker 1: and you have at least a few of them, some
Speaker 1: of these guys going to be back in the fold.
Speaker 1: So for Green Bay to get this kind of push,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he'll be all eight of them,
Speaker 1: it will be three of them, I don't know, But
Speaker 1: this has to be a big mental boost for the
Speaker 1: Packers here entering this postseason run. Yeah. A couple other
Speaker 1: notes to mention here to Aaron Jones Devandre Campbell, who
Speaker 1: were both held out of the Lions game somewhat on
Speaker 1: a precautionary basis with some minor injuries. Those guys have
Speaker 1: been back on the practice field this week. What is
Speaker 1: the latest with regard to a few other guys, Channon Sullivan, Marquis,
Speaker 1: Velda Scantling, Kingsley, Kiki, do you have an update for us?
Speaker 1: They're still not practicing that that's gonna be the interesting
Speaker 1: thing to see, you know, what these guys do with
Speaker 1: this week in what they're gonna be, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: it doesn't surprise me they're not practicing. Guys coming out
Speaker 1: of a game with an injury, and especially Kiki's case
Speaker 1: has been sort of this this illness type thing that
Speaker 1: he was on the covid lest he came back. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to see exactly where this thing goes.
Speaker 1: You can't really be too sure until you know, you
Speaker 1: get some more solid evidence behind it. But you know,
Speaker 1: to have the Cobb running routes again out there, to
Speaker 1: have Jr. Alexander and Pads on Thursday. I think that's
Speaker 1: the other thing that's noteworthy too. It wasn't that these
Speaker 1: guys were just out there for like individuals. Packers had
Speaker 1: their pads on on Thursday. I mean Mercedes Lewis, who
Speaker 1: typically takes a veteran rest date, he was out there
Speaker 1: too and pads. So, uh, that's gonna be the big
Speaker 1: thing here. It's it's one thing to be cleared to
Speaker 1: just go out there and do your individual work. It's
Speaker 1: another thing to be able to go out there and
Speaker 1: get the pads back on. And that's something by and
Speaker 1: large Green Bay was able to do on Thursday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well to to position groups, I think. And this is
Speaker 1: not to discount what Jr. Alexander could potentially bring to
Speaker 1: the defensive backfield if he has worked back into the
Speaker 1: mix for the playoffs, but on on a larger scale, obviously,
Speaker 1: it's worth paying attention to what's going on here with
Speaker 1: the with the offensive line and what the Packers ultimately
Speaker 1: decided to do for the playoffs because Matt lafleur is
Speaker 1: we've talked about on the show. He is a tried
Speaker 1: and true believer and get the five best guys out
Speaker 1: there and the Packers train their offensive linemen, particularly the
Speaker 1: interior guys to be able to play multiple spots, and
Speaker 1: even a guy like Billy Turner who can play tackle
Speaker 1: or guard. He's done that in his time here in
Speaker 1: Green Bay. So seeing where the Packers go with with
Speaker 1: regard to that best five up front as the next
Speaker 1: week and a half develops will be definitely worth watching.
Speaker 1: And then the other thing is with the pass rush
Speaker 1: with the edge rushers, because you have obviously Preston Smith
Speaker 1: and Rashawn Gary and they have carried the load at
Speaker 1: that position for the majority of the season. We saw
Speaker 1: Whitney Merciless starting to make an impact in his brief
Speaker 1: stint here with the Packers right before he you know,
Speaker 1: ultimately got got injured. But now Merciless coming back and
Speaker 1: maybe Zadarius Smith now getting worked into the mix as well.
Speaker 1: The opportunities, the options, the different types of things that
Speaker 1: Joe Barry might be able to do with that group
Speaker 1: of edge rushers. If you can, if Zadarius Smith can
Speaker 1: play ten or twelve snaps, if Whitney Merciless can play
Speaker 1: six to eight snaps, whatever it might be, the possibilities
Speaker 1: are really really intriguing for what this Packers defense could
Speaker 1: look like in certain packages. Yeah, and Merciless is an
Speaker 1: eye opener for me because going back to my days
Speaker 1: at the Press Gazette, you know, we we went through
Speaker 1: b J Roger's biceps injury a lot of times. I
Speaker 1: just thought that thing goes, if you have an injury,
Speaker 1: it's probably gonna keep you off for the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you figure that's a season ender. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: You know, the outside linebackers are really far away from
Speaker 1: where we're allowed to view practice, So I don't know
Speaker 1: if he threw a if there there's a you know,
Speaker 1: in harness or something he can put on there, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure, but you know, for what Matt Lafleur sounded like,
Speaker 1: you just remember how downtrodden he was when Merciless went down,
Speaker 1: because it wasn't just what he was doing in the games,
Speaker 1: it was what he was adding to the meeting room.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a guy who's played eleven years
Speaker 1: in the NFL, the third most games played in Houston
Speaker 1: Texans history. That was a real big vet that I
Speaker 1: think the defense was benefiting from, not just those young
Speaker 1: outside linebackers. So to potentially get him back on the
Speaker 1: field could be huge again, like Preston Smith and Rashawn
Speaker 1: Gary are fully capable of playing of the snaps of
Speaker 1: the snaps in the game. That's the that they've handled
Speaker 1: this thing. Preston has been the epitome of durability during
Speaker 1: his career. But if you could sprinkle in twelve fifteen
Speaker 1: snaps of Zadarius Smith in a divisional round game, or
Speaker 1: maybe even more than that for a conference championship, if
Speaker 1: you can get Whitney Merciless back out there too, even
Speaker 1: if it's a dozen snaps to be able to contribute
Speaker 1: to the cause, give those guys a breather and still
Speaker 1: have elite pass rushing talent out there. Again, we talked
Speaker 1: about the boost that that could bring to this defense,
Speaker 1: but it really could keep that standard up no matter
Speaker 1: which down is on that they're going to have some
Speaker 1: really veteran experienced guys either holding the edges or getting
Speaker 1: after the quarterback. Yeah, and as far as the offensive
Speaker 1: line goes, if all goes well and there aren't any
Speaker 1: issues here over the next week and a half, do
Speaker 1: you see the three interior guys here being Josh Meyers
Speaker 1: at center, John Running at left guard, and Lucas Patrick
Speaker 1: at right guard. Is that where this is headed, and
Speaker 1: then it's just a question of if Billy Turner is
Speaker 1: able to play, he plays right tackle instead of Dennis Kelly,
Speaker 1: and we all know bok Tr is planning to be
Speaker 1: back at left tackle. Is that where this is headed?
Speaker 1: It is? But then Lucas pad Trick goes down and
Speaker 1: gets on the reserve COVID list. So you hope that
Speaker 1: Lucas can get through that the five day window. Now
Speaker 1: if he's symptomatic after that, he'll be allowed to return.
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur said, the way he's played, the way he's performed,
Speaker 1: he deserves to be in those starting five. I think
Speaker 1: you know the other thing is box tr he had
Speaker 1: that load management day on Wednesday, but to be in
Speaker 1: pads on Thursday, that's gonna be such a big thing
Speaker 1: for him, being able to get those reps, bank those
Speaker 1: up and be able to be ready for a big
Speaker 1: push to play seventy snaps in the game. And I
Speaker 1: think that's exactly why the Packers gave box Tr Wednesday's
Speaker 1: practice office, because the practice reps in pads on Thursday
Speaker 1: are so much more valuable for him and where he
Speaker 1: is compared to a non padded practice on and Billy
Speaker 1: Turner was in pads as well, so that is really
Speaker 1: going to be the Donimo effect. It's crazy to me.
Speaker 1: And in addition to Elton Jenkins who was scooting around
Speaker 1: on you know, at practice obviously going through the reconstructive
Speaker 1: knee surgery. Um the Packers, other than Jenkins, for all
Speaker 1: the injuries they've weathered, for all the illnesses that have
Speaker 1: kind of gone through that room, they have their offense
Speaker 1: line back now. So as La Fleur said, it's just
Speaker 1: figuring out what the best five combination is. To me,
Speaker 1: it would seem like that's Turner moving back into right tackle.
Speaker 1: Dennis Kelly's performed really well there too, So do you
Speaker 1: want to tap into Turner's versatility and moving back inside?
Speaker 1: So many different things the Packers are gonna have to
Speaker 1: figure out here getting ready for that divisional round of
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Yeah, absolutely, well, Uh, a little bit of
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Speaker 1: your thoughts. We are a little tight on time today,
Speaker 1: but I want to get your thoughts on these upcoming
Speaker 1: NFC wild card match. It's really the whole weekend of
Speaker 1: wild card football, but starting with the NFC because obviously
Speaker 1: that's what pertains directly to the Packers. First one in
Speaker 1: the n SEE will be Sunday at noon Central Philadelphia
Speaker 1: at Tampa Bay. What's your take? You know how, like
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger said with the Pittsburgh Steelers, I mean, we
Speaker 1: really don't have a chance against Kansas City. I think
Speaker 1: he said something like, we're not supposed to be here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you just roll the football out and see how it goes.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the way I look at this game
Speaker 1: for Philly. Tampa is by far the superior team, more
Speaker 1: veteran team. They've been there, they've done that. Philadelphia had
Speaker 1: a big changing in the guard this year at the
Speaker 1: head coaching position. They're they're very young and a lot
Speaker 1: of different spots. So I'm not necessarily saying that as
Speaker 1: disrespect to the Eagles. I just expect them to play
Speaker 1: free and lose. And this is almost again the same
Speaker 1: idea as Roethlisberger. You're playing with house money here, what
Speaker 1: do you really have to lose? But you know Brady Gronk, yes,
Speaker 1: they're really down at the receiver position. But defensively, watching
Speaker 1: that front go up against this Eagles run game, I
Speaker 1: think ultimately it's probably gonna tell you who wins that game.
Speaker 1: To me, I just I look at the Buccaneers. Is
Speaker 1: just a more talented, deeper team. Yeah, I think with
Speaker 1: the Eagles, with their running game, the style they want
Speaker 1: to play, they want to be able to pound the football,
Speaker 1: they want to limit your opportunities on offense, control the tempo,
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. That's how they got on
Speaker 1: a pretty good run the second half of the season
Speaker 1: to get a playoff spot. This Buccaneers defense is is
Speaker 1: the worst matchup really they could have gotten in the
Speaker 1: wild card round because because that's a that's a Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay defense that can clamp down on the run I think,
Speaker 1: and make it really really difficult for Philadelphia to play
Speaker 1: the way it wants to play. So the Eagles, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it just feels like they're a big underdoge. There's just
Speaker 1: really no one like that front seven for Tampa where
Speaker 1: you have you know, Sue and obviously Vita Via just big,
Speaker 1: massive tackles and and guys that can really get their
Speaker 1: hands dirty. And then you have a very athletic range
Speaker 1: E sideline to signline linebacker corps behind them. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a tough matchup for Philly. Not to say that it's
Speaker 1: it's you know, they can't be able to climb that mountain,
Speaker 1: but they have their work cut out for them for
Speaker 1: second one in the NFC Sunday three, this is the
Speaker 1: money game. Absolutely, San Francisco at Dallas. I think this
Speaker 1: is the game of the weekend of all six of them, Saturday, Sunday, Monday,
Speaker 1: I think this is the This is the um the
Speaker 1: cherry on top of of the wild card weekends, so
Speaker 1: to speak. Forty enters at Cowboys. It's gonna bring back
Speaker 1: a lot of memories for me watching the Joe Montana
Speaker 1: and Steve Young and Troy Aikman days. Of these two
Speaker 1: franchises going at it in a playoff game. We haven't
Speaker 1: seen that in quite a while. And now obviously different
Speaker 1: eras completely different teams and everything, but the Niners and
Speaker 1: Cowboys going at it in the playoffs, that's gonna be something.
Speaker 1: This is that, this is It's gonna happen to me too, someday,
Speaker 1: probably when you're long and retired and there's a young
Speaker 1: whipper snapper with me. You have those I have. I
Speaker 1: don't have those memories. All I know over the last
Speaker 1: twenty five years is a lot of inconsistency with both franchises.
Speaker 1: When this Forts have been up, Dallas has been down.
Speaker 1: When Dallas has been up, the fortys has been down.
Speaker 1: But I know the stories and obviously when you look
Speaker 1: at that quarterback matchup the defenses team, is Dion Sanders
Speaker 1: playing for those type of things? I mean, that is
Speaker 1: really the tell tale sign both teams. But but that
Speaker 1: is there's there's history there and more than that, the
Speaker 1: point I'm trying to illustrate what that is. They're kind
Speaker 1: of coming back into the orbit together here. Dallas became
Speaker 1: the team everybody expected them to be really last year
Speaker 1: when Mike McCarthy came in. They added a couple of
Speaker 1: defensive pieces, but offensively, you know what that situation is
Speaker 1: going to be. What they're looking to achieve San Francisco
Speaker 1: since the very beginning, like it's just about getting that
Speaker 1: team healthy. They have playmakers, but can they keep all
Speaker 1: their playmakers on the field without season ending injuries. It
Speaker 1: is going to be I said this earlier this week.
Speaker 1: It is must see television for me on Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 1: I want to see if Dallas can impose their will
Speaker 1: against that defense, and I want to see if San
Speaker 1: Francisco can dial up some run techniques, be able to maybe,
Speaker 1: you know, get a couple of plays out there that
Speaker 1: we haven't seen before, and see if they can solve
Speaker 1: a Dallas riddle, which has again the Cowboys have looked
Speaker 1: like the best team in football at times and they've
Speaker 1: looked like an eight and eight football team at times.
Speaker 1: Which one is going to show up at a T
Speaker 1: and T stadium. Yeah, last year, the Cowboys obviously lost
Speaker 1: their quarterback to injury, and they didn't have the pieces
Speaker 1: on defense. This year, Dak Prescott has been healthy, and
Speaker 1: you added Michael Parsons, who almost certainly is going to
Speaker 1: be the defensive rookie of the year and he's in
Speaker 1: the conversation for defensive Player of the Year in the NFL.
Speaker 1: So Dallas takes on a whole new look San Francisco
Speaker 1: down the stretch. Here. This is a team they beat
Speaker 1: the Bengals, looks like a team that could beat just
Speaker 1: about anybody. They lost a close one to the Tennessee Titans,
Speaker 1: who are sitting there with the number one seed in
Speaker 1: the a f C. And then, of course, on our
Speaker 1: last show, we talked about how they got their playoff
Speaker 1: spot with a big road comeback against a division rival
Speaker 1: in the in the l A. Rams. The San Francisco
Speaker 1: team is playing really, really well here down the stretch.
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be a fantastic game. Deebo Samuel
Speaker 1: Man Deebo Samuel on one sideline, CD Lamb on the other.
Speaker 1: You talk about Deebo Samuel, you talk about your all
Speaker 1: purpose offensive weapon there. They will get him the ball
Speaker 1: any way, shape or form in that forty Niners offense.
Speaker 1: It's been a lot of adversity the last two years
Speaker 1: for San Francisco, but John Lynch, Kyle Shanahan, they are
Speaker 1: in lockstep as far as what the philosophies are of
Speaker 1: this team. And Shanahan has kind of risen to this
Speaker 1: level too now where they understood what happened after the
Speaker 1: John Harbaugh or Jim Harbaugh era ended how they kind
Speaker 1: of knows dive there. There's a vision there. Yes, you
Speaker 1: gotta win football games, but they also see the long
Speaker 1: game there, and it really is Mike. It reminds me
Speaker 1: of like a two thousand and thirteen Packers team where
Speaker 1: it's like they just wanted to get in the party
Speaker 1: and once they're there, they feel like they can do
Speaker 1: some damage. Yeah, well, to review the scenarios again, if
Speaker 1: the Eagles win, they come to lambeau Field. If Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay wins, and then San Francisco wins, the forty Niners
Speaker 1: are coming to lambau Field. If the home teams on
Speaker 1: Sunday Buccaneers and Cowboys both win, the Packers opponent will
Speaker 1: be determined on Monday night when the Cardinals face the
Speaker 1: Rams in Los Angeles. And as I think I mentioned
Speaker 1: on our last show, when you have two division rivals
Speaker 1: in their meeting for a third time in the postseason,
Speaker 1: it's just even more so than normal. It just feels
Speaker 1: like it's anything goes type of thing. A third a
Speaker 1: third meeting within within the same season. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: it's all bets are off. As far as I'm concerned,
Speaker 1: and one of these teams seasons is going to end
Speaker 1: in a thud. You gotta remember, you go back to
Speaker 1: week seven or what was what was in it like
Speaker 1: to seven and O teams basically playing each other Week
Speaker 1: six or six and oh teams. Yeah, they both kind
Speaker 1: of nose dived in some regards. The Rams have kept
Speaker 1: the plane up a little bit more Arizona. It's been
Speaker 1: a grind for them. One of these teams is gonna
Speaker 1: have a lot of questions they answer throughout the off season.
Speaker 1: But the one that wins Mike the rebound the ricochet
Speaker 1: to get back into the divisional round, then you feel
Speaker 1: like you're back in the you know, really the chase
Speaker 1: absolutely does does Arizona. People were leaving Arizona for dead.
Speaker 1: Then they go into Dallas and knock off the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: But then you know, they kind of stubbed their toe
Speaker 1: obviously against se Attle in a game that that that
Speaker 1: had quite a bit on the line for them, and uh,
Speaker 1: the Rams dealing with the COVID and rescheduled games and
Speaker 1: everything they've had to dealt with, and they were in
Speaker 1: position to to win and potentially win big against the
Speaker 1: forty niners and then they couldn't close the deal in
Speaker 1: the in week eighteen. For the Rams. To me, this
Speaker 1: is about It's about Matthew Stafford. This is a quarterback.
Speaker 1: He's been in the league a long time, but he's
Speaker 1: never won a playoff game, and he's entering these playoffs
Speaker 1: on a bad run of turning the football over. I
Speaker 1: believe it's like six turnovers in the last three games,
Speaker 1: something like that, five interceptions and a and a fumble
Speaker 1: or or something along those lines. Matthew Stafford has to
Speaker 1: stop turning the ball over if the Rams want to
Speaker 1: make a run here. He absolutely does. I mean, what
Speaker 1: happened in the last fifteen ish minutes ten minutes of
Speaker 1: that regular season finale against San Francisco, it can't happen anymore.
Speaker 1: You hope from their standpoint that they get that out
Speaker 1: of their system. The argument I've been making all week
Speaker 1: long is that I doubt that the Rams are going
Speaker 1: to play that poorly again. I I it was the
Speaker 1: first time they've lost after halftime when having a lead
Speaker 1: under Sean McVeigh. I expect that team to respond. It's
Speaker 1: just to me, Mike, that the stakes are so high
Speaker 1: for them, because everybody wanted to talk about all the Packers,
Speaker 1: they're all in this year. Los Angeles Rams are all
Speaker 1: in right now. Yeah. They confirmed that when they brought
Speaker 1: in O. B. J. And with everything else they've done
Speaker 1: the trade to get Stafford. They gotta win. They don't
Speaker 1: have draft picks like literally, they have one next year.
Speaker 1: They have to find a way to win right now
Speaker 1: and this team was on paper bill to do it.
Speaker 1: Can they stay afloat and turn back? Arizona improved that
Speaker 1: they really were the rightful NFC West champions. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: speaking of getting guys back, which is where we started
Speaker 1: the show with the Packers, Arizona Cardinals might be getting J. J.
Speaker 1: Watt back on their defensive front to add to their
Speaker 1: pass rush. We are almost out of time here in
Speaker 1: the a f C. Raiders at Bengals, Patriots at Bills,
Speaker 1: Steelers at Chiefs. Which of those three intrigues you the most?
Speaker 1: Raiders and Bengals just because both are on the come up.
Speaker 1: The Raiders overcame a lot of adversity, probably more than
Speaker 1: any team in the NFL this year when you look
Speaker 1: at the John Gurdon debacle. So for them to be
Speaker 1: able to make this playoff run, Derek Carr just has
Speaker 1: played exceptional. I mean they've had injuries to Max Crosby
Speaker 1: is the most disruptive edge rusher in the game right Uh.
Speaker 1: And Cincinnati is just fun. I mean Zach Taylor, I
Speaker 1: mean what they've built there with Joe Burrow. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So that's the matchup. I've joked about it, but I
Speaker 1: legitimately mean this. I don't need to see New England
Speaker 1: and Buffalo play anymore. I'm just not even interested in
Speaker 1: the match. And that's the thing I actually, I actually am.
Speaker 1: But I say that because it sounds like it's going
Speaker 1: to be cold and potentially windy, like it could be
Speaker 1: a true, a real another one, another one of those
Speaker 1: winter games in Buffalo. But now Buffalo won't be surprised
Speaker 1: at all by whatever the Patriots do from a game
Speaker 1: plan standpoint. So yes, even though it is it's the
Speaker 1: third matchup, um, the third matchup between those two teams,
Speaker 1: because the weather, the weather that is being predicted in Buffalo,
Speaker 1: I'm still interested in how that one turns up. Remember
Speaker 1: how for a while there everyone was saying like the
Speaker 1: Packers would be better built under Mike McCarthy at a
Speaker 1: certain stage as a dome team, than a ground than
Speaker 1: an outdoor team? Is that not the Buffalo Bills? Like
Speaker 1: it's like do you realize where you play? Like what what?
Speaker 1: Typically the recipe has been there? But Josh Allen's really talented.
Speaker 1: I just they they leave, they lean on him a lot.
Speaker 1: I mean he he really is. He really is everything
Speaker 1: to that offense and uhum. But he's fun to watch
Speaker 1: and he almost he almost got to the super Bowl
Speaker 1: last year, so he knows. He knows what it takes
Speaker 1: if if Pittsburgh, if Pittsburgh beats Kansas City, they I'll
Speaker 1: make sure my picks and packs an extra lunch for you.
Speaker 1: That would that would that would catch me a little
Speaker 1: off guard. That happen? All right? With that, we're going
Speaker 1: to call it a rap on this edition of Packers Unscripted.
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