Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford, joined alongside by my trust to
Speaker 1: colleague West Hodkuwitz. We're coming to you here from our
Speaker 1: studios at lambeau Field on a victory Monday. West. The
Speaker 1: Packers beat the Miami Dolphins one to twelve on Sunday
Speaker 1: afternoon at lambeau Field. A lot of things to touch
Speaker 1: on with regards to this game, but we might as
Speaker 1: well start with running back Aaron Jones. Boy what a day.
Speaker 1: Hundred forty five rushing yards, two touchdowns, career highs for
Speaker 1: him and both of those categories. He was the playmaker
Speaker 1: for the Packers offense on Sunday afternoon. He was Mike,
Speaker 1: and I go back to something that you and I
Speaker 1: talked about last week. He stepped out right in front
Speaker 1: of that fumble against the Patriots. He's said, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna learn from this. I'm gonna correct it, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be better. I am happy to be here. The
Speaker 1: Packers showed a lot of confidence in him, feeding them
Speaker 1: him the ball the way he did. He got the
Speaker 1: ball back to back series. I gotta be honest with you, Mike,
Speaker 1: maybe you can correct me here. I can't remember another
Speaker 1: time in which the Packers have gone with Jones two
Speaker 1: straight series to start off a ball game. That first,
Speaker 1: when he comes out right out of the gate, he
Speaker 1: does drop a pass on the first play. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: a way to start your career day, right, you dropped
Speaker 1: dropped the quick pass in the flat and but didn't
Speaker 1: slow him down. Two carries for twenty seven yards to
Speaker 1: catches for twenty seven yards fifty four total on that series,
Speaker 1: ends up producing a touchdown, and then comes back on
Speaker 1: the second series a sixty seven yard run down the field,
Speaker 1: a career long for him. Two plays later gets into
Speaker 1: the end zone and just like that, Aaron Jones was
Speaker 1: often running. It was funny getting a chance to talk
Speaker 1: to him afterwards. He is the Salute to Service nominee
Speaker 1: for the Green Bay Packers. His parents, both Army veterans,
Speaker 1: had fifty six combined years of service between them. They
Speaker 1: have since retire They've been going to every single one
Speaker 1: of his games home in a way this season did
Speaker 1: the same thing last year, regardless of whether or not
Speaker 1: he was injured, they still went. They were in attendance
Speaker 1: in lambeau Field for his first two touchdown game, and
Speaker 1: he gave those two balls to his parents. A pretty
Speaker 1: special day for Aaron Jones. Yeah, hundred and seventy two
Speaker 1: yards from scrimmage, I believe if I did the math
Speaker 1: right on adding the rushing and the receiving yards. What
Speaker 1: I like the most about his game west. Obviously the
Speaker 1: sixty seven yard run jumps out, But you take away
Speaker 1: the sixty seven yard run, he still averaged over six
Speaker 1: yards a carry on his other fourteen carries because um
Speaker 1: six carries total out of his fifteen for ten yards
Speaker 1: or more. He was gashing the Miami Dolphins. We talked
Speaker 1: about it last week going into the game. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: were not very good against the run and the Packers
Speaker 1: were going to have to take advantage of that. And
Speaker 1: they did because Aaron Jones set the tone, as you said,
Speaker 1: right from the first couple of possessions, that the Packers
Speaker 1: were going to control the Linus Grimmage offensively. Give credit
Speaker 1: to Green based offensive line because as explosive as Jones
Speaker 1: is and as elusive as he is, he also had
Speaker 1: some awfully nice holes to run through. He really did.
Speaker 1: And this is what it was interesting about this matchup
Speaker 1: for me. Byron Bell was talking about this in the
Speaker 1: locker room afterwards. Bell felt like he needed to play better.
Speaker 1: I know the members that offensive line felt like they
Speaker 1: need to play better. Coming out of the Patriots game,
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones felt like he needed to play better, and
Speaker 1: it seemed like everything was in sync and everybody stepped
Speaker 1: up when they needed to. Jones was every time he
Speaker 1: got a compliment in his post game media scrum, he
Speaker 1: kept deflecting all the praise to the offensive line for
Speaker 1: the holes that were open for him. But here's the
Speaker 1: thing that makes this kid special. He had some great
Speaker 1: holes to work with, but his ability once he gets
Speaker 1: into space at the second level is on parallel. In
Speaker 1: the third quarter, Mike, of that game, right after he
Speaker 1: came back, and I believe it was the back to
Speaker 1: back runs for twenty two yards and he had the
Speaker 1: touchdown twelve yards and ten yards for for the to
Speaker 1: finish off that touchdown drive. Honest to God, question, Mike,
Speaker 1: I want to answer. If you can give an answer,
Speaker 1: give it to me. If not, throw it back at me.
Speaker 1: But I was sitting there thinking, when was the last
Speaker 1: time the Packers drafted a player a running back that
Speaker 1: was that explosive Eddie Lacey was a great back, James
Speaker 1: Starks was a great back. I'm on Green was a
Speaker 1: good back but was traded for I was trying to
Speaker 1: think of somebody like him. It's and I'm not big
Speaker 1: on hyperbole, you know, I bring that up every once
Speaker 1: in a a while, but like, they haven't had anybody like
Speaker 1: him that they've drafted, specifically in the fifth round that
Speaker 1: has this been this kind of spark plug for this offense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was thinking as I was watching the game yesterday,
Speaker 1: the thought that went through my mind is the last
Speaker 1: time I can remember seeing a Packers running back who
Speaker 1: was this combination of explosive and shifty and elusive with
Speaker 1: the ball in his hands. Aman Green was who came
Speaker 1: to mind. Obviously, the Packers traded for Green, they didn't
Speaker 1: draft him. So to your question, when was the last
Speaker 1: time the pack was drafted a running back with this
Speaker 1: type of skill set and and to be able to
Speaker 1: show it the way he has. Boy, Yeah, You've You've
Speaker 1: kind of got me stumped, quite frankly, because because human
Speaker 1: Green obviously the all time leading rushier in in the
Speaker 1: history of this franchise, but he reminds me of him
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. He's smaller than green not
Speaker 1: as powerful necessarily, but just the just the shiftiness and elusiveness,
Speaker 1: but also that first step to hit the hole so quickly.
Speaker 1: I've never seen running back in my time in Green
Speaker 1: Bay have the quickness with his first two steps in
Speaker 1: the power that Aaron Jones could run with. Rob Dmowski
Speaker 1: from ESPN dot Com had a stat that he brought
Speaker 1: up to Jones in the locker room afterwards, the next
Speaker 1: gen stat that ESPN does, Uh, And he said to him,
Speaker 1: I believe it was somewhere around twenty one miles per
Speaker 1: hour is what he the force that he got through
Speaker 1: the hole on with that sixty seven yard run that
Speaker 1: he had. Now, mind you, he didn't keep that up
Speaker 1: the entire time. He ended up getting taken down at
Speaker 1: the four. But his short area quickness is incredible. And
Speaker 1: for this offense. You also look at this game, Mike,
Speaker 1: they had Davante Adams have two more touchdowns. He has
Speaker 1: twelve now over the last eleven games that he's played in.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers made the throws when he needed to make them. Uh.
Speaker 1: This offense still I don't. Corey Linsley talked about it afterwards.
Speaker 1: They aren't still where they want to be in terms
Speaker 1: of the overall consistency. They got off to a fast start.
Speaker 1: They want to maintain that more. But what impressed me
Speaker 1: about this performances they started fast and they finished fast.
Speaker 1: They did the two things that this offense had been
Speaker 1: struggling to do, get out of the gates and close it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was some stuff in the middle, but they did
Speaker 1: the three things that you and I discussed last week.
Speaker 1: They protected the football, they took it away, and Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones had a career day. If they can keep that going,
Speaker 1: much like Eddie Lacey in two thousand thirteen and in
Speaker 1: different intervals where they've gotten those type of performances out
Speaker 1: of running backs, that's how you build a foundation, and
Speaker 1: that ultimately is how you find your consistent one to
Speaker 1: punch with the offense run and past. Yeah, this game
Speaker 1: was a story of the value of the explosive play,
Speaker 1: because you mentioned the Packers went through a bit of
Speaker 1: a lull in the middle of the game. They were
Speaker 1: in some short yardage situations offensively in the second quarter,
Speaker 1: some second and two is third and ones, weren't able
Speaker 1: to convert even a fourth and two. They went for
Speaker 1: it near midfield didn't get it. Some short yardage failures
Speaker 1: were bogging down the offense. But I tell you what
Speaker 1: that in the third quarter, third and short, the play
Speaker 1: action passed to Marcedes Lewis, nobody's covering him. Thirty yard,
Speaker 1: big explosive play, thirty yards down the field, a third
Speaker 1: down conversion, and an explosive play on top of it.
Speaker 1: It's like it totally jump started the offense again. Then
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones finishes that drive with a touchdown. Bashot Brelan
Speaker 1: gets the interception, the Packers get another touchdown. I really
Speaker 1: thought the thirty yard catch and run by Marcedes Lewis,
Speaker 1: when the Dolphins quite frankly, just forgot about him and
Speaker 1: left him all alone. I thought that was really the
Speaker 1: the turning point of the game because because the Dolphins
Speaker 1: had worked their way back into it with their field goal.
Speaker 1: I tweeted this during the game too, and Marcedes Lewis
Speaker 1: talked about it throughout the summer about don't sleep on him. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm a blocking tight end, but if you go back
Speaker 1: and look at some of his explosive plays the last
Speaker 1: few years, last two years with Jacksonville, they were basically
Speaker 1: off of defense. Is just not quite taken in him
Speaker 1: into account and he slides out. That was sort of
Speaker 1: the look, sort of the rope adope you keep them,
Speaker 1: you know, Okay, it's a running play. They're gonna run
Speaker 1: the ball. They're gonna run the ball. He leaks out,
Speaker 1: and I swear, Mike, we're taping this now on Monday morning.
Speaker 1: Marcedes Lewis might still be open on that play. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was incredible how much green space there was. And
Speaker 1: then right after that they feed Aaron Jones twice they
Speaker 1: get back in the end zone. Right from that point
Speaker 1: it was pretty much afford on conclusion. The the underlying
Speaker 1: storyline to this game to me was that it wasn't
Speaker 1: Davante Adams had a great game. Again, Aaron Rodgers made plays,
Speaker 1: but it was really the young sung heroes in the
Speaker 1: depth offense defense into some extent special teams with Raven
Speaker 1: Green having the twenty six yard gain off the direct
Speaker 1: snap on the fake punt. Yeah, it was the guys
Speaker 1: that aren't necessarily on the marquee that made the difference
Speaker 1: for the Packers in this game. Getting those type of
Speaker 1: performances across the board, that's how you win, that's how
Speaker 1: you're able to keep defenses and offenses, you know, on
Speaker 1: their heels a little bit because you can't cue, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of just zoom in on one guy. Packers did
Speaker 1: it in this game against the Dolphins. They finally picked
Speaker 1: up a win they desperately needed. Yeah. Well, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna be following the story of some of these unsung
Speaker 1: heroes that you talked about, because on the short week here,
Speaker 1: the Packers have some injuries they're dealing with. And we'll
Speaker 1: find out later today tomorrow as this short week goes along,
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Speaker 1: if you want to look at one statistic aside from
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones numbers as the star of the game, if
Speaker 1: you want to look at one statistic that decided this
Speaker 1: game west, it is the red zone. Packers were four
Speaker 1: for four, the Dolphins were oh for three. That really,
Speaker 1: in essence was the ballgame. The Packers were finishing drives.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins were not it started, Dolphins were taking it
Speaker 1: right down the field. Packers catch a break on that
Speaker 1: opening drive. Dolphins have first down in the red zone
Speaker 1: at the fourteen yard line. The shotgun snap flies right
Speaker 1: past brock Oswiler's shoulder. He can't recover it. Reggie Gilbert
Speaker 1: falls on a Packers get a big turnover, just a
Speaker 1: gift wrap one there. But after that, give credit to
Speaker 1: the Packers defense because three times they were put in
Speaker 1: some really really difficult field position situations. There was the
Speaker 1: fumble by Trumon Williams on the punk return. There was
Speaker 1: the failed fourth down at midfield. There was the block
Speaker 1: punt early in the third quarter. Dolphins had great field
Speaker 1: position after all three of those, and all three times
Speaker 1: the Packers defense rose up, got the stop and made
Speaker 1: them kick a field goal. And the Dolphins didn't find
Speaker 1: the end zone all day long. So here's the thing.
Speaker 1: We're not going to talk to Mike Petton, uh with
Speaker 1: the way the schedule lines out in a short week
Speaker 1: before the Seattle game. So I mean, in terms of
Speaker 1: what the overall plan was left to wait and see.
Speaker 1: But for my money, Mike, this might Mike Petton the
Speaker 1: stretch that he's been on here with these defensive game
Speaker 1: plans is pretty impressive. The Packers went into this game
Speaker 1: without Kevin King, So what does that mean. That means
Speaker 1: that you have Josh Jackson starting in the boundary or
Speaker 1: so you thought, Well, then it ends up being Jaire
Speaker 1: Alexander and you have Bishod bril in work in the
Speaker 1: slot a little bit. You have Josh Jackson moving all
Speaker 1: those guys around. Well, then you have Kentroll, Bryce goes out,
Speaker 1: Raven Green comes into the ball game, and then you
Speaker 1: had Bishod Brilan go out with a groin injury. Tony
Speaker 1: Brown comes in the ball game, Truman Williams is suddenly
Speaker 1: playing the slot. They had to do so much mixing
Speaker 1: and mashing, and yet they finished really strong. They we
Speaker 1: look at the sacks down the stretch uch that they
Speaker 1: had to put this game away. You look at the
Speaker 1: opportunities that they were able to execute on early on.
Speaker 1: What was the last thing I said on our pregame periscope.
Speaker 1: They needed to take the football away. That was what
Speaker 1: was missing in New England and what was missing in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Yes, they got a gift wrap with Gilbert,
Speaker 1: but those are the plays that make the difference in
Speaker 1: ball games. And you could just see the momentum turn
Speaker 1: in that instant. And it also took the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: out of their no huddle for a bit. They stopped
Speaker 1: going up tempo. After that, they started to slow things down.
Speaker 1: The Packers controlled it from there. But what considering they
Speaker 1: were basically out of their dime package at the end
Speaker 1: of the game because of the injuries the secondary. What
Speaker 1: Mike Penton was able to do in pressuring Oswilers, getting
Speaker 1: six sacks nine quarterback hits, I mean, you got to
Speaker 1: tip your cap to them because they did it without
Speaker 1: a lot of the main people that in week one.
Speaker 1: I think you and I were thinking, we're going to
Speaker 1: be the real hallmarks of this defense. Yeah, and we
Speaker 1: saw unfortunately Nick Perry go down with a knee injury.
Speaker 1: We haven't received an update on him just yet, but
Speaker 1: some of these injuries now the Packers trying to sort
Speaker 1: through to see who might be available. Thursday night in Seattle, Breland,
Speaker 1: who had the big interception, he left the game in
Speaker 1: the second half with a groin injury. Jayear Alexander was
Speaker 1: being evaluated for a concussion, though he did speak to
Speaker 1: reporters after the game, so hopefully that's a good sign
Speaker 1: that he's actually not in the protocol. Normally, if you're
Speaker 1: in the protocol, you're off limits to the media, So
Speaker 1: we'll take that as a positive sign for now. Um,
Speaker 1: you mentioned Ken Troll Bryce going down with the ankle
Speaker 1: injury looks like the same ankle that he had the
Speaker 1: surgery on in the off season and that he had
Speaker 1: re injured in training camp but came back in a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks from that. But but again, we're on
Speaker 1: a real short week here with the with the trip
Speaker 1: to Seattle, so you said it, West, Raven Green, Tony Brown, whoever,
Speaker 1: Tremont Williams moving around, playing different spots. Whatever it takes here,
Speaker 1: the Packers and Mike Petton have to put it together
Speaker 1: and they have to do it quickly because because, let's
Speaker 1: face it, the Seattle Seahawks, they lost to the Rams yesterday,
Speaker 1: they are four and five. This game is just as
Speaker 1: important for them as it is for the Packers. To
Speaker 1: teams in the NFC on the fringes of the playoff
Speaker 1: race trying to you know, kind of one one team
Speaker 1: trying to knock the other one out in a sense, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and the one, uh like underrated aspect too. I think
Speaker 1: of that game with with Um you know on Sunday
Speaker 1: against the Dolphins, was the fact that I think you
Speaker 1: got to tip your cap two to Josh Jones. And
Speaker 1: at the time I we were talking, I haven't had
Speaker 1: a chance to rewatch the game, but to my naked eye,
Speaker 1: it was pretty impressive what Josh Jones did because they
Speaker 1: still did run a lot of that dime look where
Speaker 1: you had him in the box with Blake Martinez, he
Speaker 1: had to play back safety. When Raven Green comes into
Speaker 1: the game, well then suddenly it's Green and then ends
Speaker 1: up being Jones in some instances when Tremon has to
Speaker 1: go back down to the slot. They've needed those secondary
Speaker 1: guys that haven't played at all really until the last
Speaker 1: two weeks to step up. Jones did that. Raven Green
Speaker 1: did that getting the sack to on a cover zero
Speaker 1: look in which Petton teased eight guys at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and he said, you know what, sent the house.
Speaker 1: Let's send them all. Let's see what happens in all
Speaker 1: three of the cornerbacks that was on a third down
Speaker 1: got got the got the stop and knocked them out
Speaker 1: of field position. Out of field goal position as well. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's those type of things that
Speaker 1: Peton showed a lot of confidence and guys that have
Speaker 1: not really been on the field much, and you have
Speaker 1: to do that over the course of season. That's how
Speaker 1: you get to where you want to be. To your
Speaker 1: other point, though, we're gonna have to see what this
Speaker 1: injury situation looks like for the Packers. You know, if
Speaker 1: if Perry's down, they're gonna need more sacks out of
Speaker 1: Kyler Facral now tied with Kenny Clark for the team
Speaker 1: lead with five. It appears like Blake Martinez got out
Speaker 1: okay with the the ankle issue that he had from
Speaker 1: last week. Antonio Morrison ended up having to play a
Speaker 1: lot down the stretch again due to the injuries at secondary.
Speaker 1: Those are the type of things that are going to
Speaker 1: happen when you get into Week eleven now and on
Speaker 1: a short week, and they're gonna need to be able
Speaker 1: to keep that up in a real hostile environment now
Speaker 1: in Seattle on Thursday. All right, Well, before I forget
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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers. A couple of other stats I wanted
Speaker 1: to hit on. You mentioned one of them, Kyler Facral
Speaker 1: and Kenny Clark now leading the team tied for the
Speaker 1: team lead with five sacks at piece. They each get
Speaker 1: a sack on what was a six sack day. We
Speaker 1: also saw Raven Green Montravius Adams both get their first
Speaker 1: NFL sacks in this game. And Davante Adams not a
Speaker 1: huge game in terms of the catchers in the yards,
Speaker 1: but two touchdowns He's got nine on the season. Here
Speaker 1: was he's He's leading the Packers one of the league leaders.
Speaker 1: I didn't see exactly with what happened yesterday where Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown is still ahead of him, but but Davante Adams
Speaker 1: here on the verge of his third consecutive double digit
Speaker 1: touchdown season. If I'm not mistaken, right, um so I
Speaker 1: tell you what the the way the way some things
Speaker 1: came together for the Packers yesterday. I know there's some
Speaker 1: health issues, there were some miscuse on special teams that
Speaker 1: obviously are concerning, But the Packers played the kind of
Speaker 1: game they needed to play. They started out fast, they
Speaker 1: finished it strong. Now it's it's just hey, it's onto
Speaker 1: Seattle and you roll the dice in a place that
Speaker 1: hasn't been kind to you. But but the Seattle Seahawks
Speaker 1: they lost their last home game there too, to the Chargers. Packers. This,
Speaker 1: this is the opportunity they've needed. They need to go
Speaker 1: to Seattle and get this. I hate throwing out the
Speaker 1: eye word identity. I think it's an overused term and
Speaker 1: media and I've been guilty of myself over the years,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be guilty of it right now because
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this. I feel like on both sides
Speaker 1: of the ball, they not that they found identities, but
Speaker 1: I think it was really well established what the identity was.
Speaker 1: Corey Lindsley and Environ Bell talking to them after the game,
Speaker 1: they both mentioned what that our first see he's did
Speaker 1: establishing Aaron Jones out of the backfield and not allowing
Speaker 1: the Dolphins have pin their ears back. How that made
Speaker 1: things easier on the past game. That's something to build on.
Speaker 1: You look defensively, Mike, I know, it's really fun when
Speaker 1: you have a guy that has twenty sacks in a
Speaker 1: season or fifteen sacks in the season. It doesn't look
Speaker 1: like that's what this defense is going to be though
Speaker 1: they're gonna end up getting. You know, however, many sacks
Speaker 1: are gonna get out of Kenny Clark, which is somewhat
Speaker 1: peculiar for his position. They're gonna get a number of
Speaker 1: different guys at edge rusher. You're gonna have a guy
Speaker 1: like Blake Martinez with four plus now at this point
Speaker 1: of the year, Mike Penton is making those pieces work,
Speaker 1: whatever those pieces are, on a weekly basis. They're a
Speaker 1: top ten defense again right now after that game, moving
Speaker 1: up six spots. This is what they need to do
Speaker 1: again on Sunday night. I said to you last week,
Speaker 1: and you wrote about it in your editorial. This is
Speaker 1: a huge opportunity. You can look at everything that happened
Speaker 1: against New England in l A and you can be
Speaker 1: labor it and you can talk about what went wrong whatever,
Speaker 1: But the fact of The matter is, you have two
Speaker 1: games in a span of five days that is a
Speaker 1: season defining stretch. You pick up those two wins, things
Speaker 1: starting suddenly start to look a little different for you
Speaker 1: now going into this final stretch and seeing what December
Speaker 1: is gonna look like. Right now, for the Packers, this
Speaker 1: is a big opportunity. Now in Seattle, you took care
Speaker 1: of the first half of business. Now it's a second Yeah,
Speaker 1: Packers have a chance to get back above five for
Speaker 1: the first time since the victory over San Francisco right
Speaker 1: before the bye. Packers four four in one. Right now,
Speaker 1: you get this one against Seattle. I know what easier
Speaker 1: said than done, but you get this one against Seattle,
Speaker 1: you get to five four and one. Then you're watching
Speaker 1: over the weekend as either the Bears or the Vikings
Speaker 1: will pick up their fourth loss because they're playing their
Speaker 1: Yeah well yeah, but I'm not gonna get into that
Speaker 1: one of them theoretically is going to get a fourth loss.
Speaker 1: Bears beating the Lions yesterday to get to six and three,
Speaker 1: the Vikings on there by there at five three and one.
Speaker 1: So if you get out of Seattle and you're still
Speaker 1: sitting at four losses and then one of the those
Speaker 1: two teams ahead of you takes their fourth loss. It's
Speaker 1: it's right there for the taking. I don't want to
Speaker 1: make this in the Green Bay for Seattle with all
Speaker 1: the history that they have there. As I mentioned an
Speaker 1: inbox a couple of days ago, I think there's twelve
Speaker 1: or thirteen combined players on both teams that were actually
Speaker 1: on the field during the failed merry game. But I'm
Speaker 1: not going to also act like this isn't an opportunity
Speaker 1: for the Packers to get a little bit I don't
Speaker 1: want to call it revenge, but maybe just a shot
Speaker 1: of confidence, a little bit being able to go into
Speaker 1: Century Link. The Packers have actually had Seattle's number for
Speaker 1: the most part, particularly when they've been playing here the
Speaker 1: last couple of years, but Central Link has been kind
Speaker 1: of a different animal. But if you're able to win
Speaker 1: on the road on a short week, yes, this is
Speaker 1: a really tough call for the Packers, having to go
Speaker 1: from Green Bay, Wisconsin all the way to Seattle. And
Speaker 1: when you haven't won a road game, you haven't won
Speaker 1: a road game this year. You've got to get this
Speaker 1: first one. But the Rams are traveling to you know,
Speaker 1: they had to make you know, they had to go
Speaker 1: down to l A and they went back up and
Speaker 1: there on a short week. They have the flight too,
Speaker 1: and maybe not as long, but there's still some considerations there.
Speaker 1: I'm really interested to see what this looks like because
Speaker 1: I think a lot of times and it doesn't always
Speaker 1: come down to preparation with these games. Sometimes it's a
Speaker 1: little bit of luck, sometimes it's a little bit of health.
Speaker 1: And I think, really, if you can get off to
Speaker 1: a fast start against Seattle, take that crowd out of
Speaker 1: it early on, we'll talk about them in a couple
Speaker 1: of days and you know, the upcoming days. But I
Speaker 1: think that that is really going to be a big
Speaker 1: thing for the Packers, doing what they did at lambau
Speaker 1: Field and now taking it on the road. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's That's what it comes down to is take take
Speaker 1: it on the road and get that first road win
Speaker 1: of the year. So with that, we're going to call
Speaker 1: it a wrap on this edition of Packers Unscripted. Be
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