Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford sitting next to my trusted colleague
Speaker 1: West hod Kuitz. We're coming to you here from our
Speaker 1: studios at lambeau Field West. We are another day closer
Speaker 1: to must see TV for certain Sunday night football Packers Patriots, Rodgers,
Speaker 1: Brady all that good stuff, and we will get to
Speaker 1: that epic quarterback matchup. But as promised, we need to
Speaker 1: recap the Packers trades from the trading deadline. Now that
Speaker 1: we've heard from general manager Brian Gudacuin's head coach Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 1: you got some reaction from players in the locker room.
Speaker 1: Ha ha. Clinton Dix sent to Washington for a fourth
Speaker 1: round draft picked, Time Montgomery sent to Baltimore for a
Speaker 1: seventh round draft pick. In the draft, Brian gudunts made
Speaker 1: it pretty clear. He made a couple of things pretty clear,
Speaker 1: I thought in his press conference on Wednesday morning. One
Speaker 1: is that this is not some sort of a fire
Speaker 1: sale and the Packers are giving up on the season.
Speaker 1: That is not the case at all. And number two,
Speaker 1: these moves were made primarily for performance reasons. Two players
Speaker 1: that in the personnel department's eyes, we're having disappointing seasons.
Speaker 1: And there are other factors as well, in the locker
Speaker 1: room chemistry, all that kind of stuff certainly factors in.
Speaker 1: But the bottom line is these are players that the
Speaker 1: Packers wanted to move on from and give other players
Speaker 1: a chance. At this point, Mike, I'm gonna hijack the
Speaker 1: show a little bit. Okay, you've been doing this for
Speaker 1: twelve years with the Green Bay Packers. Have you ever
Speaker 1: been of a part of a week like this? No?
Speaker 1: I mean just in terms of the well, I'm not
Speaker 1: just talking about the Rams game, but the West Coast
Speaker 1: Los Angeles trip, two trades in the deadline, now you're
Speaker 1: preparing for Brady Rogers. It's a per view, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's absolutely unlike anything any single week I
Speaker 1: think that I've ever been a part of. I mean
Speaker 1: me this morning, getting up, going to quick trip, getting
Speaker 1: my crew but coffee, my Packers cup eighty nine cent refills,
Speaker 1: and just trying to get energized about what exactly is
Speaker 1: going on. Because be honest with you, Mike, I'm going
Speaker 1: on about three hours four hours of sleep every night
Speaker 1: right now, because there's just always something happening. It seems
Speaker 1: like still trying to catch up from that West Coast swing.
Speaker 1: But to your original question, ha ha, Clinton Dick's time Montgomery,
Speaker 1: the Packers making a move there. I was sitting out
Speaker 1: at practice on Wednesday. I was surveying the field. The
Speaker 1: Packers did make one move. Trey Carson was promoted. They
Speaker 1: still have one spot available on their fifty three, and
Speaker 1: I was sitting there trying to think of the last
Speaker 1: time they'd made a move like this in season, and
Speaker 1: I couldn't think of one. Mike, I think I've been
Speaker 1: You've been around the Sun a little bit longer than
Speaker 1: I have, But I mean they've traded for players. You
Speaker 1: had Derek Martin come in at one point, you had
Speaker 1: Ryan Grant come in. But I think the last time
Speaker 1: I would say there was something like this in the
Speaker 1: middle of a season. I remember it was my first
Speaker 1: year in this job two thousand and six, also Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy's first year's head coach. But a mod Carol, who
Speaker 1: was a first round pick from a couple of years prior,
Speaker 1: was a starting cornerback on this team, and after a
Speaker 1: dreadful performance on Monday Night Football in Philadelphia against the
Speaker 1: Eagles and a very ugly loss for Mike McCarthy's Packers.
Speaker 1: A mod Carroll was cut the next morning. I kind
Speaker 1: of forget that a mod Carroll made it to the
Speaker 1: McCarthy era. Yeah, he was. He was here for about
Speaker 1: six games, and Ted Thompson let him go. He was
Speaker 1: a starter, and the next day he was gone. That's
Speaker 1: probably about the only thing that I could equate to this,
Speaker 1: and and the situations are not really similar, too similar,
Speaker 1: I guess I should say in that respect, but that's
Speaker 1: about all I can think of. Well, and then getting
Speaker 1: back to your original point, I don't mean to take
Speaker 1: us completely off the rails here, but I thought one
Speaker 1: thing that Brian Goodkin said during when he addressed the
Speaker 1: media on on Wednesday that was very interesting, very poignant
Speaker 1: to me, is that a lot of people you and
Speaker 1: I saw it an inbox, asking well, why don't you
Speaker 1: just wait until the end of the season. You'll get
Speaker 1: a compensatory pick for Clinton Dicks and Goodain said they
Speaker 1: got a fourth round pick for him. If you wait
Speaker 1: that out one, you're gonna just have to see where
Speaker 1: he falls on that continuum. If he signs a free
Speaker 1: agent contract contract elsewhere. The best you're gonna get as
Speaker 1: an end of the third round under the third round pick. Now,
Speaker 1: there's no questions about that. And the most powerful thing
Speaker 1: I thought Brian Goodkin said was we also want to
Speaker 1: be active in free agency. I just thought that was
Speaker 1: such an about face. And I'm not saying, well, how
Speaker 1: Ted Thompson did things was wrong. He obviously did things
Speaker 1: very right to put this franchise in the situation that
Speaker 1: it's in right now, and and to to win a
Speaker 1: super Bowl and to be a perennial playoff contender. But
Speaker 1: it's interesting here and Goodakin's talk about, Yeah, you know what,
Speaker 1: the compensed story thing isn't gonna drive us here. We
Speaker 1: want to be active. You move with with Clinton Dix
Speaker 1: right now, you get that guaranteed fourth round pick, as
Speaker 1: you point out, that's in the round, not at the
Speaker 1: end of the round. I think that's gonna be something
Speaker 1: the Packers once the season is over. Gives them a
Speaker 1: lot of flexibility for those ten picks as it stands
Speaker 1: right now. I did go around. I was talking to
Speaker 1: some guys in the locker room. The defensive backs. They're healthy,
Speaker 1: they're deep, they feel like they can absorb this loss.
Speaker 1: How Clinton Dix leaves a void. There's no question about that.
Speaker 1: He's a Pro Bowl safety. He's done some good things
Speaker 1: in this league. But the Packers feel like with the
Speaker 1: depth they have and the young players that they have
Speaker 1: in that secondary, there is enough talent there to be
Speaker 1: able to press forward without him. Yeah, and I don't
Speaker 1: I don't want to make too much of this, but
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways, what I saw on the field,
Speaker 1: the play of haw Clinton Dix this season, the play
Speaker 1: of Time Montgomery just very emblematic, very representative of what
Speaker 1: this Packers team has gone through as a whole. Good
Speaker 1: moments and bad moments, lots of ups and downs. We've
Speaker 1: seen how Clinton Dix make a couple of turnover plays
Speaker 1: that were very impactful and and very impressive. We've also
Speaker 1: seen him look a little bit lost in the red zone,
Speaker 1: coverage in the end zone and allowing easy touchdown passes
Speaker 1: that shouldn't have been quite so easy. We saw Time
Speaker 1: Montgomery start the final drive against the San Francisco forty
Speaker 1: Niners with a great fourteen fifteen yard run to get
Speaker 1: the engine cranking, get the Packers going, but then he
Speaker 1: fumbles the kickoff in a crucial moment against the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Rams just emblematic of what's been going on with
Speaker 1: the with with this entire team, and uh and you
Speaker 1: said it West, the Packers feel like, Okay, it's it's
Speaker 1: time to move on. Mike McCarthy wasn't going to reveal
Speaker 1: to the Patriots and Bill Belichick exactly how the Packers
Speaker 1: are going to line up in the secondary, Who's going
Speaker 1: to be the kick returner, you know, all of that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. It kind of sounds to me like
Speaker 1: a lot of options are on the table in terms
Speaker 1: of how Mike Petton is going to play this. In
Speaker 1: the defensive backfield, You've got Jermaine Whitehead, although he's on
Speaker 1: the injury report right now. You have maybe some cornerback
Speaker 1: is the deepest position on the team. Maybe somebody shifts
Speaker 1: around there are the six defensive backpackage is gonna look
Speaker 1: a little different because a lot of times Mike Petton
Speaker 1: has been using three corners three safeties for those six dbs.
Speaker 1: Does he now go more to four corners to safeties
Speaker 1: or something like that. So it just seems to me
Speaker 1: like all the options are on the table and we're
Speaker 1: really not going to know until Sunday night, because Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy has no interest in giving Bill Belichick a heads
Speaker 1: up as to how he's got to play. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: big thing a lot of the guys in the locker
Speaker 1: room talked about, obviously Mike McCarthy talked about, was that
Speaker 1: they want to give guys opportunities. They feel like there's
Speaker 1: a lot of young guys that have not been getting
Speaker 1: playing time right now that that could potentially contribute to
Speaker 1: this defense. You think of guys like Josh Jones, the
Speaker 1: second round pick from last year. Think about guys like
Speaker 1: Josh Jackson who played really well when when they were down,
Speaker 1: Guys in that cornerback room, but now they're healthy again.
Speaker 1: Bashad Breland signed him last month. He had the hamstring,
Speaker 1: he's ready to return. He said he could have played
Speaker 1: in that game against the Rams on Sunday he was
Speaker 1: just a healthy scratch. So this is one of these
Speaker 1: deals where I think, as Mike McCarthy said, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure we'll hear Mike Petton talk about it later this week,
Speaker 1: they are so matchup based and we've seen them Taylor
Speaker 1: specific game plans to specific opponents. So I think there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of fluidity, a lot of flexibility
Speaker 1: with how they use those guys. But the point I
Speaker 1: made an inbox on Thursdays, whatever reform this defense takes
Speaker 1: on Sunday is going to speak to right now as
Speaker 1: it stands, the scheme, the five the six defensive backs
Speaker 1: that they feel most comfortable with against one of the
Speaker 1: NFL's elite. I think that's going to be a very
Speaker 1: important statement to make. But yeah, there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of domino effects with that defense and with that
Speaker 1: secondary as to how you go about replacing a guy
Speaker 1: that basically had not missed any games, basically had not
Speaker 1: missed any snaps over the last four and a half years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you think? What's your sense of maybe what
Speaker 1: direction the Packers will go at kick returner? There are
Speaker 1: obviously a few options there. We've seen the rookie Marquez
Speaker 1: Valdes Scantling step in at kickoff returner here and there.
Speaker 1: He did it in the preseason. He's done it. I
Speaker 1: believe he had one kickoff return so far in the
Speaker 1: regular season. Maybe he's the guy or do you see
Speaker 1: another potential option on to me right now? It's veld
Speaker 1: As Scantling until Trevor Davis is available, or if they
Speaker 1: want to active, they have to make because I just
Speaker 1: I don't think you want to put Randall Cob back there. Um,
Speaker 1: you have the two running backs, but I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna need you know, Aaron Jones and Jamal Williams will
Speaker 1: probably talk about them here in a second. I think
Speaker 1: Valdes Scantling makes the most sense. I I don't recall
Speaker 1: you correct me from hanger. I don't recall Equanimias st
Speaker 1: Brown doing any kickoff returns in games in the preseason.
Speaker 1: Jamon Moore might have, but to meet Valdes Scantling in
Speaker 1: Montgomery for the first two weeks were platooning that position.
Speaker 1: Then they finally just decided to run with Montgomery. So
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're looking for a guy that's done it,
Speaker 1: it's it's Valdi Scantling. Yeah. All right, Um, quickly here
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Speaker 1: Sunday Night West. It's a treat not only for Packers fans,
Speaker 1: for Patriots fans, but for all NFL fans. It's Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers and Tom Brady sharing the same field for only
Speaker 1: the second time in their careers four years ago. A
Speaker 1: great game out here at Lambou Field, Like we talked
Speaker 1: about the other day, Um, I think this is gonna
Speaker 1: be uh, this is gonna be a special one. And
Speaker 1: whatever happens, I think we're gonna remember it for a
Speaker 1: long time. You know what I love the most about
Speaker 1: this matchup too? You're right, it is Brady and it
Speaker 1: is Rogers and it and it only happens so often,
Speaker 1: but their offenses are so similar. You know, when you
Speaker 1: look at Okay, it's Aaron Jones, and it's Jamal Williams,
Speaker 1: it's Sony Michelle, It is obviously James James White, Rob Gronkowski,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham, Julian Edelman, Randall Cobb. They mirror each other
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. One of the things, you know,
Speaker 1: Brill Belichick has been so complimentary of Mike McCarthy in
Speaker 1: the past, I think because there's a lot of similar
Speaker 1: similarity between the way that they build their team, they
Speaker 1: build their culture, in the way they play on the
Speaker 1: utball field. Um and I it does go back though,
Speaker 1: to the two quarterbacks. Aaron Rodgers, I thought, as he
Speaker 1: always does, really something's up perfectly on his went and
Speaker 1: during his Wednesday news conference, when you know, I appreciate
Speaker 1: the history of this matchup and what it means to
Speaker 1: the league to have these two guys playing each other again.
Speaker 1: But the goat debate is one of the most annoying
Speaker 1: things I think that has ever been introduced in this
Speaker 1: new era of trying to determine, you know, the hype
Speaker 1: of the hype of it in terms of that angle
Speaker 1: has gone a bit overboard. Yeah, Rogers, Rogers pretty much
Speaker 1: you know, through the through the water on the fire
Speaker 1: with that. Yeah, And he said, I mean you can't
Speaker 1: really do you really can't prove anything. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just banter and debate that is meant for you know,
Speaker 1: bars and barbershops. But he did say that Tom Brady
Speaker 1: has five Super Bowls. In most cases, that kind of
Speaker 1: ends the debate, you know, in terms of you know,
Speaker 1: trying to determine. I mean, that's what the goal is
Speaker 1: for every player. So um. But you know, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be fun to see those two come back into the
Speaker 1: same orbit. And you know Brady talked about on his
Speaker 1: conference call as well. You know, he's had a relationship
Speaker 1: with now with Rogers, a good solid, you know friendship
Speaker 1: here for the last five six years. I think Rogers
Speaker 1: went over to his house at one point to meet
Speaker 1: with his nutritionist when he was making some of these
Speaker 1: decisions with his own body and his own wellness as
Speaker 1: he tried to extend his career. Brady's kind of set
Speaker 1: the standard in that regard. In Rogers, arguably the most
Speaker 1: gifted and intelligent quarterback to ever play the game, has
Speaker 1: tried to take some cues from that as well. So
Speaker 1: you can always learn from each other, and these two
Speaker 1: guys certainly are paying attention to what the other is doing. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed On Wednesday morning, Mike McCarthy Uh, turned
Speaker 1: back the clock a little bit reminisced. Was asked about
Speaker 1: this Rogers Brady thing, and he brought up when he
Speaker 1: was an assistant coach with the Chiefs first breaking in
Speaker 1: the league, and I remember this game. McCarthy brought it up.
Speaker 1: It was a Monday night football game in Joe Montana
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs John Elway for the Denver Goes. I
Speaker 1: was actually a grad school student at Northwestern. I was
Speaker 1: in my cramped little studio apartment on the Northwestern campus
Speaker 1: in Evanston, Illinois. I should have been studying on a
Speaker 1: Monday night, but I was absolutely glued to that football game.
Speaker 1: It was. It was an incredible game. And then the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter it was just both quarterbacks taken the teams
Speaker 1: up and down the field, back and forth, and at
Speaker 1: mile high on the road, Joe Montana for the Chiefs
Speaker 1: throws a touchdown pass with eight seconds left two Uh
Speaker 1: win that game, and you felt like if they put
Speaker 1: another fifteen minutes on the clock, the two quarterbacks just
Speaker 1: would have kept going back and forth. It was. It
Speaker 1: was two Hall of famers, two of the best of
Speaker 1: all time. And uh, you know, I'd love to see
Speaker 1: another game like that on Sunday night and be a
Speaker 1: real treat. Yeah, and it's Gillette Stadium in that environment.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's one of the one of my favorite
Speaker 1: stadiums in the NFL. Um maybe not for the press box,
Speaker 1: but in terms of just the overall atmosphere. And yeah,
Speaker 1: we have kind of an end zone view from Gillette Stadium,
Speaker 1: so when the players are way down on the other
Speaker 1: side of the field. Yeah, you've got your binoculars. I
Speaker 1: usually just watch the television screen. So yeah, but but
Speaker 1: it is, it's going to be a show. And this
Speaker 1: is what you want, right November sweeps. I mean, now
Speaker 1: you've got Rogers versus versus Brady got Michael Jordan's talking
Speaker 1: about the matchup. But the biggest thing to me, and
Speaker 1: someone brought this up an inbox, and it was a
Speaker 1: good point. I thought, in a game like this that
Speaker 1: could very well be a shootout, that could very well
Speaker 1: be you know, you can do one thing, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try to do it better. It might very well come
Speaker 1: down to the last possession. And I think from the
Speaker 1: Packers perspective, they have been well conditioned for these matches,
Speaker 1: for these meetings. If there's one thing the Packers have
Speaker 1: done exemplarily well this year it's been with their two
Speaker 1: men in offense. They know how to move the ball
Speaker 1: when they need to move the ball, and it would
Speaker 1: be interesting to see in Gillette Stadium if that ends
Speaker 1: up being the case. Once again. I'm sure for the
Speaker 1: Packers perspective, they'd like a little less drama this week.
Speaker 1: It would be a lot easier just to you know,
Speaker 1: go in there, get up early, and hold onto that
Speaker 1: lead and then walk out of there with a much
Speaker 1: needed victory. But with this type of opponent, with these
Speaker 1: kind of stakes, and obviously doing it on the road
Speaker 1: in a very passionate home road environment, home environment for
Speaker 1: the for the Patriots, it's not going to be easy.
Speaker 1: But the Packers know that. Yeah. Well, a couple of
Speaker 1: lessons here to point out. One a lesson from last
Speaker 1: week that we talked about. In a game like this
Speaker 1: on the road against an elite level team, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to make the plays at crunch time. That's what
Speaker 1: we talked about. You're not going to beat the New
Speaker 1: England Patriots in forty five minutes or fifty minutes or
Speaker 1: fifty five minutes. You're going to have to beat them
Speaker 1: for the whole sixty minutes. If they have any chance
Speaker 1: in the last three or four minutes of the game,
Speaker 1: you've got to make sure you put it away. The
Speaker 1: other thing is, I will say, if you go back
Speaker 1: to the game here in the Rogers Brady Packers Patriots game,
Speaker 1: a big lesson here for the Packers in that two
Speaker 1: rookies played a huge, huge role in that game. Richard
Speaker 1: Rogers caught a big touchdown pass was a rookie tight end.
Speaker 1: And then Davante Adams six catches for twenty one yards
Speaker 1: in that game, kind of his coming out party as
Speaker 1: an NFL player, and Rogers talk about that. From the
Speaker 1: beginning of the game, Belichick's defense was focused on Jordy
Speaker 1: Nelson and Randall cop Rogers got Davonte going, they hit
Speaker 1: the touchdown to Richard Rogers. Then Belichick's defensive just then
Speaker 1: they hit the touchdown to Jordy Nelson before halftime, Belichick's
Speaker 1: defensive just back again. It's that sort of cat and
Speaker 1: mouse game and and uh and that sort of chess
Speaker 1: match that's going to be going on throughout. But my
Speaker 1: point is that when you look at the roles that
Speaker 1: a couple of rookies had in that big victory for
Speaker 1: the Packers. It's just a lesson that absolutely everybody's got
Speaker 1: to be ready. If you step on the field, it
Speaker 1: might be your moment to shine. And whether that's Feldas Scantling,
Speaker 1: whether that's e q st Brown, whether that's Marcedes Lewis
Speaker 1: or Lance Kendricks, a couple of guys that Rogers brought
Speaker 1: up because you never know who it's going to be
Speaker 1: on a given night, what it's going to take to
Speaker 1: beat a Belichick defense and beat the adjustments that he's
Speaker 1: going to continue to make. So obviously Davantae Adams and
Speaker 1: Randall Cobb and Jimmy Graham they have to make their
Speaker 1: plays as well. But but this game could come down to,
Speaker 1: you know, one of those unsung hero type guys playing
Speaker 1: a big role. Absolutely, I think that will be the
Speaker 1: difference in this game. It's funny you go back and
Speaker 1: think about that Adams game and I was a part
Speaker 1: of the media scrum with him discussing it. That was
Speaker 1: the seventh career start that day. You remember that year. Actually,
Speaker 1: Jared Boykin started the season as the number three. Adams
Speaker 1: after the first month going intto October finally took over
Speaker 1: that spot. The three games. Going into that, he had
Speaker 1: four catches for thirty three yards, one of those for
Speaker 1: a touchdown, but had been relatively quiet during a really
Speaker 1: powerful stretch of offensive football, as Jordy Nelson was really
Speaker 1: you know, humming at that point. So you understand why
Speaker 1: Belichick and company sort of, you know, put him on
Speaker 1: the back burner in that game that proved to be
Speaker 1: the wrong approach. Th Davante Adams showed uh and he
Speaker 1: said it even this week. This was what he felt
Speaker 1: was like a really big confidence game for him, a
Speaker 1: really big boost to show him that he belonged, because
Speaker 1: he had some solid performances up to that point, but
Speaker 1: none of them where he really took over the game.
Speaker 1: And it was funny to listen to talk about it
Speaker 1: because he said, now it's kind of like it's come
Speaker 1: old circle for a little bit for me. Now I'm
Speaker 1: the number one target. He's probably the one that's gonna
Speaker 1: be getting gilmore. He's probably the one that they're gonna
Speaker 1: be tailoring everything too. He's really he likes that challenge
Speaker 1: because he wants to see, now, okay, I put up
Speaker 1: six catches for yards when nobody was looking at me.
Speaker 1: Now everybody's looking at me and I want to have
Speaker 1: that similar production. But just like that, as more attention
Speaker 1: gets driven to him, that's where you want to see
Speaker 1: a guy like Marcus Valdes Scantling or drawn Will Allison,
Speaker 1: whoever stepping into the number three role really you know,
Speaker 1: show that they can shine, because when one guy is
Speaker 1: getting shadowed or coverage over the top, it's gonna open
Speaker 1: up an opportunity for another player. And we saw last
Speaker 1: week Mike with Valve this Scantling what he can do.
Speaker 1: It's man demn coverage and no safety over the top.
Speaker 1: Man demand single high mvs. He's got some pretty good
Speaker 1: moves at the line, and and if he gets a
Speaker 1: step on you, he's got the speed, he's he's tough
Speaker 1: to catch. Absolutely and the other the other element to
Speaker 1: this too, will probably end up discussing this is our
Speaker 1: Keys to Victory on Friday Show. But I think this
Speaker 1: is a really big opportunity for Aaron Jones and Jamal
Speaker 1: Williams too. Uh, they're the one to punch. I asked
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones about that in the locker room on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: He was always the young guy, he was always a
Speaker 1: little brother. Ti Montgomery was the one leading that room.
Speaker 1: Aaron Ripkowski was the guy on top of that room.
Speaker 1: Well now it's Aaron Jones and Jamal Williams, and he
Speaker 1: thinks that that's something that's going to continue to bring
Speaker 1: them closer and really make them and push them to
Speaker 1: make the most of whatever extra opportunities they're getting going forward.
Speaker 1: Those two guys can be difference makers in this league.
Speaker 1: And I think a game like this, much like as
Speaker 1: I talked about yesterday Eddie Lacey in two thousand fourteen,
Speaker 1: you get that run game going, you start getting the
Speaker 1: Patriots having to creep into the box, Aaron Rodgers can
Speaker 1: go to work. What I like about the state of
Speaker 1: the Packers right now heading into this game, as we
Speaker 1: talk about the possibility of kind of the unsung hero,
Speaker 1: you know, Adam's Cob and Graham. Those guys have proven
Speaker 1: veteran guys. They're going to have to do their thing.
Speaker 1: But we've but we've seen mvs e Q Aaron Jones,
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams, Geronimo Allison at different times in their very
Speaker 1: young careers. They have answered the call. And one of
Speaker 1: these guys, a couple of these guys, be three or
Speaker 1: four of these guys are going to have calls they
Speaker 1: need to answer on Sunday night in order for the
Speaker 1: Packers to get what would be a tremendously big victory
Speaker 1: in a really small storyline to this, uh St Brown,
Speaker 1: he just looks the part to me, he really does,
Speaker 1: and not just from what he does on the field,
Speaker 1: but his temperament. I mean, you throw him in there,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't know that that was a six round rookie.
Speaker 1: He knows how to handle those situations. He played at
Speaker 1: Notre Dame and he's now going out there and even
Speaker 1: if it is only twelve snaps like it was against
Speaker 1: the Rams last week, runs good routes and he gets open. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a lot. That's a lot to get from a
Speaker 1: guy that you know was a late third day draft pick. Well,
Speaker 1: as you said, we've got keys to victory to talk
Speaker 1: about on our weekly wrap up show on Friday, and
Speaker 1: we will leave that for tomorrow, but for now, we'll
Speaker 1: call it a wrap on this edition of Packers Unscripted.
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