Speaker 1: Hi everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers unscripted from
Speaker 1: packers DOT COM. I am Mike Spofford. Heat is the
Speaker 1: one and only wes Hodkowitz. Were coming to hear from
Speaker 1: our studios at lambeo Field West on Sunday night, the
Speaker 1: packers evened up their record at one on one with
Speaker 1: a twenty seven to ten triumph in prime time over
Speaker 1: the Chicago bears at Lambeau field. We'll try to parse
Speaker 1: this one out. Offense, defense, special teams, but I'll let
Speaker 1: you choose. Like where do you where do you want
Speaker 1: to start? What do you think was the was the
Speaker 1: key to victory here for Green Bay, doing exactly what
Speaker 1: they needed to do against a team that, I think,
Speaker 1: on paper, everybody agreed they were superior to. A little
Speaker 1: bit of a rough start coming out of the gate,
Speaker 1: no question about that, on both sides of the ball,
Speaker 1: trying to find their early rhythm, but man oh man,
Speaker 1: once you've got Aaron Jones and a j dillon going
Speaker 1: in the Backfield, that the constant emphasis of that all
Speaker 1: week long. The bears, knowing that they're going to see
Speaker 1: a lot of those low and they couldn't do a
Speaker 1: gosh darn thing about it. Aaron Jones ran open free
Speaker 1: and was just overly dominant. When you look at you know,
Speaker 1: eight point eight yards per carry, hundred and thirty two
Speaker 1: rushing yards and just fifteen carries. I mean he was
Speaker 1: the guy that powered this thing, that gave them that
Speaker 1: jolt that they were looking for and for the defense
Speaker 1: to come back after giving up a touchdown on the
Speaker 1: first series, to force four consecutive three three and oes.
Speaker 1: I just felt like, in terms of the whole gamut
Speaker 1: of things, Aaron Rodgers talked about need to play better,
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur talked about need to play better. That second quarter, though,
Speaker 1: was as good as it gets. I mean that's exactly
Speaker 1: was what the packers are looking for and it's the
Speaker 1: reason why they won this football game. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: absolutely dominant football for a pretty extended stretch of this
Speaker 1: football game on the part of the packers. The final
Speaker 1: numbers with regard to the two running backs, Jones and dillon,
Speaker 1: thirty seven touches combining UH carries and receptions. Two hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty seven yards between the rushing and the receiving yards.
Speaker 1: And we were talking about it in the press box
Speaker 1: west you know, we for those who don't know, West
Speaker 1: and I actually sit next to each other much like
Speaker 1: this in the press box, games even closer than this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Um Jones ability to make tacklers miss was on
Speaker 1: full display. I've seen the numbers anywhere from like twelve
Speaker 1: miss tackles to fourteen miss tackles on the part of
Speaker 1: the bears just against Aaron Jones in this game. The
Speaker 1: the quickness of his feet, the elusiveness, and yet he's
Speaker 1: got he's not just a scat back right. I mean
Speaker 1: he's he's got power, he's not easy to bring down
Speaker 1: and and I just think what you saw on Sunday
Speaker 1: night was what makes Aaron Jones a special offensive weapon.
Speaker 1: However you want to get him the ball, whether you
Speaker 1: want to hand it to him, pitch it to him,
Speaker 1: push path, sit to him on jet motion, he's a
Speaker 1: special player and it's why he got the contract that
Speaker 1: he got from the Green Bay packers and if they
Speaker 1: can continue to utilize him this way, he's potentially going
Speaker 1: to have a special season and what is getting to
Speaker 1: be really interesting about him is that he's having a
Speaker 1: special career. And so many times in the National Football League, Mike,
Speaker 1: you look at these guys will pop up one year,
Speaker 1: they'll become a fantasy football darling, will be a thousand
Speaker 1: yard Russia, they'll have ten touchdowns and and then they
Speaker 1: kind of go away. They shift back. You know, another
Speaker 1: running back emerges and people go and they say, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's a diamond dozen position. Aaron Jones is not a
Speaker 1: Dimond a dozen running back. He is the one percent
Speaker 1: and he stayed on a steady incline throughout his entire career.
Speaker 1: I feel like this, this Aaron Jones at twenty seven
Speaker 1: years old, is the best version we've seen yet and
Speaker 1: my biggest impression these first two weeks, that that really
Speaker 1: hit home for me was this is what Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: looks like when he's healthy, and it looks like what
Speaker 1: he looks like when he's fresh. He's just explosive. And
Speaker 1: you talked about the Miss Tackles. You know how you
Speaker 1: know a back is having a special game? It's just
Speaker 1: one of those type of games when you don't even
Speaker 1: care about the miss tackles anymore because you know the
Speaker 1: first defender he's gonna make a miss. And the thing
Speaker 1: that makes Jones dangerous is that there's so many different
Speaker 1: ways Aaron Rodgers after the game was explaining it that
Speaker 1: you know, whether it's his stiff arms, whether it's his
Speaker 1: his one cut ability, all these different things that he
Speaker 1: do that he does that makes him difficult to bring
Speaker 1: down to the turf. And, as I joked about an
Speaker 1: insider inbox this week. Okay, and then you finally get
Speaker 1: him out, he's gonna come off the field. Then you
Speaker 1: get a two fifty pound man running north and south
Speaker 1: directly at you. I I know Aaron or a J
Speaker 1: Dillon's stats aren't gonna wal you the same way Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones Wild You, but his eight team carries that that
Speaker 1: is going to wear down a defense just as much.
Speaker 1: The packers need to run the football. They needed to
Speaker 1: get the ball in the hands of their backfield. They
Speaker 1: did it and they control the game because of it.
Speaker 1: One last thought on Jones. He is already fourth on
Speaker 1: the packers all time rushing list. This is the franchise
Speaker 1: has been in existence over a hundred years, folks, and
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones. Yeah, Aaron Jones is already fourth on the
Speaker 1: all time rushing list and he is just I want
Speaker 1: to say the number is right around six hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty yards rushing yards at this point from climbing all
Speaker 1: the way to third and if and when he gets there,
Speaker 1: the only two guys in franchise history with more rushing
Speaker 1: yards than Aaron Jones will be Jim Taylor and I'm
Speaker 1: on Green. So that tells you something about Um, about
Speaker 1: where Aaron Jones is. A couple of other things to
Speaker 1: touch on with regard to the offense, though. Elton Jenkins
Speaker 1: was back from his a C L slightly, just a
Speaker 1: couple of days, less than ten months from the injury,
Speaker 1: he's back and he was starting at right tackle. Actually
Speaker 1: only his for all of his versatility and whatnot, is
Speaker 1: only his second career start at right tackle, but that's
Speaker 1: where Jenkins was on Sunday night. Also, Al Lazard was
Speaker 1: back from his ankle injury. Um only had a couple
Speaker 1: of catches, but one was for a touchdown. Certainly saw
Speaker 1: his blocking on the outside. The work of the Goon,
Speaker 1: as Matt La Floors to say, was on display and
Speaker 1: we saw a pretty significant impact from Sammy Watkins in
Speaker 1: the passing game and in particular the play action passing game,
Speaker 1: whether you want to call it play action or the
Speaker 1: R P O action. Sometimes it's a little bit of
Speaker 1: both with this offense, but Sammy Watkins was was making
Speaker 1: something's happen and and really the Um, the final knockout blow,
Speaker 1: if you if you will, right after the goal line
Speaker 1: stand by the defense, was the fifty five yard or
Speaker 1: over the top off play action with the packers deep
Speaker 1: in their own territory. That was Watkins. He ended up
Speaker 1: with ninety three receiving yards on the night and a
Speaker 1: taste of of what he can bring to the table
Speaker 1: here for Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, the the buy in is
Speaker 1: probably what impresses me the most, and it's a story
Speaker 1: I'm actually working on as we speak for Wednesday on
Speaker 1: packers dot com. Be sure to check that out, is
Speaker 1: that this is a guy that was a five star
Speaker 1: recruit clemson. It's a guy that was the number four
Speaker 1: overall pick in two thousand fourteen, a guy that has
Speaker 1: won a super bowl. He's had a thousand yards season
Speaker 1: and it hits me different when someone like that comes
Speaker 1: to a team, and certainly you wrote about it, did
Speaker 1: a great job over the offseason of writing about everything
Speaker 1: that Watkins feels. He still has to prove his back
Speaker 1: being against the wall this year, but he's not pressing
Speaker 1: for touches. He's not pressing for touchdowns. He just wants
Speaker 1: to play and he wants to be part of a
Speaker 1: winning process and if you follow the course of his career,
Speaker 1: the guy basically has won everywhere he's played and and
Speaker 1: now you know whether it is the fifty five yard
Speaker 1: play action pass, and that's awesome, helped put the game away,
Speaker 1: kind of showed the explosivity in Watkins, still at twenty
Speaker 1: nine years old, but it's also what he was willing
Speaker 1: to do as a blocker and, as he even mentioned
Speaker 1: in the postgame locker room, he loves the run game
Speaker 1: and he loves getting his hands dirty in that because
Speaker 1: not only does help his teammates, but he can also
Speaker 1: see how that is gonna end up leading to more
Speaker 1: play action opportunities. He's gonna understand how that's going to
Speaker 1: challenge a defense more. Sammy Watkins is not a rock guy.
Speaker 1: He's not going to be the one in the locker
Speaker 1: room pointing all the attention to himself. Nine days out
Speaker 1: of ten he's usually just sitting down pretty quiet in
Speaker 1: his little space, just kind of keeping to himself, maybe
Speaker 1: talking to a couple of teammates, but he's not. He's
Speaker 1: not a boisterous individual but, as Matt Lafleur said, he
Speaker 1: has that kind of infectious smile and enthusiasm that I
Speaker 1: think people gravitate towards, and Rogers talked about it after
Speaker 1: the game. They feel like they got a special person
Speaker 1: here now. That also I think, for even though he's
Speaker 1: been in the League for eight years, still has a
Speaker 1: certain amount of untapped potential to his game. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: just seeing him, he's as we talked about. He's worked
Speaker 1: with big time quarterbacks in the past. This is a
Speaker 1: guy you know. He's played with Patrick Mahomes. Now he's
Speaker 1: here with with Aaron Rodgers. Everywhere Sammy Watkins has has been,
Speaker 1: he has been a factor. He has brought something to table.
Speaker 1: It's always been a health issue. Knock on wood, Sammy
Speaker 1: Watkins can stay healthy and uh and do what the
Speaker 1: packers need him to do and and expect him to
Speaker 1: do in accounting on him to do throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the season. On the defensive side, West you said it,
Speaker 1: four straight three and outs. Um, I think the bears
Speaker 1: total yards over those four possessions was something like thirteen yards. Um,
Speaker 1: bears took the you know, took the ball right away Um,
Speaker 1: the first possession, drove all the way down and got
Speaker 1: a touchdown. But after that the packers defense stood tall
Speaker 1: and took command of this game, and it was for
Speaker 1: the most part, I think it was the two edge rushers,
Speaker 1: Rashawn Gary and Preston Smith, that that grabbed ahold of
Speaker 1: this of this bears offense and and didn't let him
Speaker 1: get going in the first half. Yeah, and and every
Speaker 1: week we sit down and you know Wednesday and Thursday especially, well,
Speaker 1: you know the questions I'll get asked if an upcoming
Speaker 1: opponent to players in the locker room or and coming matchup.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I remember one being as transparent
Speaker 1: as what the packers knew they had to do for
Speaker 1: Justin fields, and they executed it. Uh, they knew they
Speaker 1: were going to have to be careful rushing him, but
Speaker 1: they also knew they needed to be a collapse the pocket.
Speaker 1: They knew they had to be aggressive against him in
Speaker 1: order because he's going to want to extend plays. They
Speaker 1: can't allow him to force their secondary to plaster as much.
Speaker 1: And I thought, starting off with Preston Smith, one of
Speaker 1: his best games in the packers uniform, because the thing
Speaker 1: that's interesting about pressing that I think just he doesn't
Speaker 1: get enough respect for is that he is a quintessential
Speaker 1: three four outside linebacker. He is an all around difference
Speaker 1: maker when he's playing his edge, because he's not going
Speaker 1: to sell out every single time. He's going to stay home,
Speaker 1: he's going to make sure that he seals off his
Speaker 1: gaps if the run gets presented, but then, when the
Speaker 1: opportunity presented itself to get after fields. In this game
Speaker 1: he made two very impactful sacks. Came one tackle shy
Speaker 1: of his career yere high, finishing with seven, and then
Speaker 1: on the other side of things you saw Rashawn Gary.
Speaker 1: He got another sack and his stats will say too,
Speaker 1: and everybody will talk about can rashawn geary get seventeen
Speaker 1: sacks this season? But he also had that TFl for
Speaker 1: four yards. And, Mike, I don't know where you come from,
Speaker 1: but whether it's a sack or a four yard loss
Speaker 1: off a tackle from a run on David Montgomery, they
Speaker 1: both represent a loss of down and they both represent
Speaker 1: negative yardage. I've really been impressed by what I've seen
Speaker 1: Rashawn Gary early in this season, because it's not just
Speaker 1: about what he's doing against the quarterback, it's how he's
Speaker 1: affecting everything around him. Yeah, I can't, I can't say
Speaker 1: enough about about that performance by Preston Smith, and you
Speaker 1: said it. I think that might have been and he's
Speaker 1: he's had some good games. I believe that was Preston's
Speaker 1: fifth multi sack game as a member of the packers
Speaker 1: since he signed here in two thousand nineteen, which is
Speaker 1: no small feat. But I think it might have been
Speaker 1: his best performance overall because of the discipline that he
Speaker 1: owed on a couple a couple of key moments. When
Speaker 1: you're talking about a running quarterback, a read option quarterback
Speaker 1: like fields, and Preston did his not only did his
Speaker 1: job on certain plays but then made the play when
Speaker 1: it came to him and was in position to make
Speaker 1: that play because of the discipline he showed. Really, really
Speaker 1: like that. The packers, the packers run defense, had had
Speaker 1: its issues, mostly in the fourth quarter. I mean for
Speaker 1: the most part it was on one drive the bears
Speaker 1: were down twenty four to ten, took over deep in
Speaker 1: their own territory and in a span of six plays
Speaker 1: they ripped off four runs that I believe covered eighty yards,
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken. I think it was fourteen yards,
Speaker 1: eleven yards and seven. So eighty yards on four runs
Speaker 1: within it within a span of six snaps, and it
Speaker 1: wasn't a good look for the packers defense. That was that.
Speaker 1: That was not good to see. I think it was
Speaker 1: a combination of a guy maybe being out of position here,
Speaker 1: they're not taking on a block properly, but then also
Speaker 1: a lot of MIS tackles and and that was something
Speaker 1: where I thought the packers for week one in Minnesota
Speaker 1: actually tackled pretty well defensively. But Um, but the miss
Speaker 1: tackles were definitely an issue. Um in week two against Chicago,
Speaker 1: when it came right down to it, though, after those
Speaker 1: eighty yards rushing, the bears had first and goal in
Speaker 1: the ten yard line and they tried four runs. Well,
Speaker 1: actually the third third down was a pass and fields
Speaker 1: ended up scrambling. But four plays on the ground. Two yards,
Speaker 1: two yards, five yards to the one, the touchdown reversed
Speaker 1: on the on the replay, and then fourth and goal
Speaker 1: from the one. The bears go for it and the
Speaker 1: packers get the stop. The run defense boat up when
Speaker 1: it needed to there to keep the packers ahead by
Speaker 1: two scores. And Uh, and allow the offense. To salt
Speaker 1: it away. We'll let me start with the positives. That's
Speaker 1: an Ode de Dom Capers uh the that stand was
Speaker 1: incredible for a number of reasons. One, I felt like
Speaker 1: some of the things now you're defending less of the field,
Speaker 1: so it's always going to be a little bit favored
Speaker 1: towards the defense. But I liked how they played together
Speaker 1: as a unit, whether it was the defensive line filling
Speaker 1: their gaps or even a guy like, you know, Jayr Alexander,
Speaker 1: coming in and making sure to give that final push
Speaker 1: so fields doesn't give in. But then you also look
Speaker 1: at Quay Walker, you know, and quay had some mistackles
Speaker 1: in this game. It's gonna be a learning process for him.
Speaker 1: But then you see him come over from the right
Speaker 1: side of the defense and close all the way over
Speaker 1: at the left side at the sideline, preventing Justin Fields
Speaker 1: from scoring that touch Mike, I'm telling you, with his
Speaker 1: with his forty time, the way he plays that position
Speaker 1: in years past, in a lot of years past, maybe
Speaker 1: not last year with the Vandre Campbell, that that's probably
Speaker 1: a walk in touchdown for the quarterback. Walker changes that
Speaker 1: acid of it. I thought the way they closed out
Speaker 1: this game. That jaire Alexander Interception was phenomenal. The fact
Speaker 1: that they finished with forty eight net passing yards, the
Speaker 1: bears did incredible, twenty two negative yards on sacks, and
Speaker 1: also the fact that the bears only played forty one
Speaker 1: snaps of offense in this game. That's sick. That's really crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: four straight, four straight, three and ounce. That's going to
Speaker 1: keep the play count down, there's no doubt about that. Now,
Speaker 1: as I wrote about again an insider in box, which
Speaker 1: you can find packers dot com, this week is going
Speaker 1: to be about Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers. Every national headline,
Speaker 1: every video package, everybody is gonna be doing that. Say Hey,
Speaker 1: could this be the last time they're gonna play each other? Yada, Yada, Yada, Yadyada.
Speaker 1: To me this is gonna come down to Leonard for net.
Speaker 1: If you watch the bucks the last two weeks, it's
Speaker 1: kind of the Leonard for net show. there. I look
Speaker 1: at this for the packers is a good test against
Speaker 1: David Montgomery and Ji Herbert. Now you need are Khalil Herbert.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, Jackber, it's a UFC fighter. You like that.
Speaker 1: But I look at this as a big test because
Speaker 1: the run defensive issues there could not be placed on
Speaker 1: one single player, could not be placed on one single
Speaker 1: position group. It was the gaps getting too too far
Speaker 1: open at the line of scrimmage, it was guys not
Speaker 1: collapsing enough on second contact and it was Montgomery forcing
Speaker 1: miss tackles of guys at the second and third level.
Speaker 1: They got to clean that up because if you give
Speaker 1: for net those four or five yard gains, that's where
Speaker 1: the Tom Brady forty five year old quarterbacks show starts,
Speaker 1: because he still has the chance to beat you deep.
Speaker 1: We'll see what his weapons look like in this game,
Speaker 1: but that's where everything is operational for the bucks. The packers,
Speaker 1: great performance, Goodwin. You needed to get it, but now
Speaker 1: you've got to learn some of those lessons now going
Speaker 1: up against for net. Yeah, well, the what I liked
Speaker 1: about what I like the best about the goal line
Speaker 1: stand and for those for those of you who like
Speaker 1: my what you might have ist piece on the website.
Speaker 1: I've got the the entire four downs Um. All the
Speaker 1: clips are there, along with some some clips on offense,
Speaker 1: with with the blocking on some of the big plays
Speaker 1: with Aaron Jones, but with the goal line standard was
Speaker 1: interesting West because every single one of those plays, the
Speaker 1: four plays from the ten yard lineing in, involved a
Speaker 1: different member of the defensive front doing, you know, making
Speaker 1: the play. First down it was Kenny Clark. Second down
Speaker 1: it was Rashaan Garry and Dean lowry. Third Down, you
Speaker 1: mentioned kway Walker. When when fields is scrambling the video
Speaker 1: to look at the clip of that play, it really
Speaker 1: puts because you know Justin fields can run. And then
Speaker 1: when you actually look at the clip of that that
Speaker 1: play from the end zone, you can see that that
Speaker 1: kway walker is just as fast as Justin Fields Um.
Speaker 1: And then on fourth down, what actually hasn't been talked
Speaker 1: about enough because, and I take nothing away from devandre
Speaker 1: Campbell getting that getting that hit at the goal line,
Speaker 1: Preston Smith was there with arms in there as well,
Speaker 1: and you mentioned Alexander kind of with that final push.
Speaker 1: The Guy who's not getting enough credit for the fourth
Speaker 1: down play is jarn Reid because when you look at that,
Speaker 1: when you when you look at the details of that
Speaker 1: fourth and goal play, Jaren Reid takes bears tight end
Speaker 1: Cole commit and gets the leverage on him to shove
Speaker 1: him into the backfield right at the point of attack.
Speaker 1: Lucas Patrick, the right guard, is trying to pull over
Speaker 1: to the left side of the bears offense to lead
Speaker 1: Justin fields through the hole. Read shoves commit into the
Speaker 1: Backfield and Patrick runs into his tight end and it
Speaker 1: messed up the whole thing that the bears were trying
Speaker 1: to do there because read one at the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage against the tight end and uh, and then Lucas
Speaker 1: Patrick had nobody to block because he ran into his
Speaker 1: own guy. So Um it's really good stuff to take
Speaker 1: to take a look at those kinds of things on film.
Speaker 1: It really gives you a sense of of where things
Speaker 1: where things are in the trenches. A couple a couple
Speaker 1: thoughts quickly on special teams. Um. Packers continuing to make
Speaker 1: strides in that area. I thought two guys we we
Speaker 1: talked last week about about Pat O'donnell and what he did,
Speaker 1: even with some leaky punt protection in front of him.
Speaker 1: He only had two punts in this game, but I
Speaker 1: thought once again Pat O'Donnell showed he's going to be
Speaker 1: a very reliable, consistent, steady weapon Um for for this
Speaker 1: packers special teams. And the other guy that really jumped
Speaker 1: out to me, of course, was Dalon Levitt Um two
Speaker 1: tackles on kickoff coverage. One of those was at the
Speaker 1: fifteen yard line. Yes, unfortunately he had a penalty on
Speaker 1: punt return, on the punt return that Amari Rodgers muffed.
Speaker 1: So not a perfect performance by the packers special teams.
Speaker 1: Still plenty of things to work on, but we're seeing
Speaker 1: progress in that area west and there's absolutely no question
Speaker 1: about it that the packers won the field position battle
Speaker 1: in this game against the bears and as much as
Speaker 1: the packers getting the three an ounce on defense certainly
Speaker 1: factored into that, you have to give credit to the
Speaker 1: special teams for winning the field position battle. Rich BASSAC
Speaker 1: has had some comments this year Mike Uh and I
Speaker 1: feel like this is why he was a good interim coach.
Speaker 1: I think it's probably why he could have been a
Speaker 1: pretty good head coach or the game the opportunity, because
Speaker 1: he has some memorable lines that stick with you and
Speaker 1: if I'm just some dumb sportswriter and they stick with me,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine what it does for his players. It
Speaker 1: was about a month ago where they were talking about
Speaker 1: the accountability on special teams and he mentioned. You know
Speaker 1: when you go in a huddle with Aaron Rodgers, you
Speaker 1: know the hair on your back, your neck stands up
Speaker 1: a little bit. You understand the sense of urgency and
Speaker 1: he equated that to how down and Levitt approaches special
Speaker 1: teams wefense. Same type of leader, same type of guy
Speaker 1: that is demanding. You know of guys too understand their assignments,
Speaker 1: be disciplined and fulfill it. And watching that Sky Cam
Speaker 1: did e O. I know you got to see the
Speaker 1: l twenty two, but that skycamp video of him crashing
Speaker 1: down on one of those coverage tackles just a will
Speaker 1: not be denied attitude. And I've tweeted this during the
Speaker 1: game and I really mean it. I don't know what
Speaker 1: it meant. Maybe it only meant something of the special teams.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but down leavitt holds up his blocker.
Speaker 1: This is right after the packers get I believe it
Speaker 1: was after their field goal, and trying to remember or
Speaker 1: whatever it was, but Levitt pushes his blocker in. It
Speaker 1: forces the returner to come inside and Isaiah mcduffie makes
Speaker 1: the tackle. Bears Start The ball at the twenty yard line.
Speaker 1: Mcdon I should say Levitt starts getting a little bit
Speaker 1: of a post, you know, play shoving match and it
Speaker 1: wasn't in a way that was malicious or you know
Speaker 1: it was going to result in a flag, but I
Speaker 1: just thought it showed the grittiness in the toughness. It
Speaker 1: almost reminded me the old Lucas Patrick plays. Lucas wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna stand for everybody's crap. Right after the play he's
Speaker 1: gonna and it was right after that, where they start
Speaker 1: at the twenty yard line, that Preston Smith gets the
Speaker 1: sack and everything starts to turn a little bit for
Speaker 1: the packers defense. Special teams can be a tone setter
Speaker 1: and it can be something that when you back up
Speaker 1: a team inside their twenty, twenty one was the average
Speaker 1: starting fuel position for the bears in this game. The
Speaker 1: defense response to that. Yeah, and I just felt like you,
Speaker 1: there was, as you wrote about this week, as rich
Speaker 1: Matt La Floor talked about, there is a mentality brewing
Speaker 1: on special teams and I think it's catching on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you mentioned how it's sort of carried over to the
Speaker 1: sack by Preston Smith early in the game and then
Speaker 1: I believe it was the play right after the sack
Speaker 1: when Russell Douglas gets the tackle for loss on the
Speaker 1: wide receiver screen. That that was where the momentum, the
Speaker 1: momentum for the defense, really really started to pick and
Speaker 1: it was the packers were in control of the game
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage for quite a while. Yes,
Speaker 1: they were, just to correct myself there it was after
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones touchdowns for the packers just gone up ten
Speaker 1: to seven, and then that's where the wind started really
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Speaker 1: looking around the NFL at week two, after two weeks Um,
Speaker 1: as we sort of surmised, everyone in the NFC north
Speaker 1: is one on one. The lions got their first win.
Speaker 1: The Vikings fell on the road at Philadelphia against the Eagles.
Speaker 1: So the entire NFC north is back to uh, back
Speaker 1: to square one, everybody, one on one with fifteen games
Speaker 1: to go. Here's the stat of the week for you, though.
Speaker 1: West you me for this and I know we we're
Speaker 1: gonna run out of time here and I'd love to
Speaker 1: actually spend more time talking about those comebacks by the
Speaker 1: dolphins and and by Um, the cardinals against the raiders.
Speaker 1: I mean just a crazy, wild Sunday of NFL today.
Speaker 1: That's okay, I've I've been a little long winded today myself.
Speaker 1: Here's your stat of the week, though. After two weeks
Speaker 1: of NFL football, there six teams that are two and Oh.
Speaker 1: Five of the six are on the packers upcoming schedule
Speaker 1: and none of the five games is at Lambeau field. So,
Speaker 1: as I say in UH insider inbox for Wednesday morning,
Speaker 1: which I was working on before we came in here
Speaker 1: and turned the cameras on, buckle up, my friend, because
Speaker 1: five of the six two and old teams are on
Speaker 1: the packers schedule, not a one of them is at
Speaker 1: Lambau field. The only one that's not a true road
Speaker 1: game is London, where the two and old giants will
Speaker 1: will face the packers at at Tottenham Hotspur in in
Speaker 1: a few week here. But uh, but yeah, and the
Speaker 1: first of these two and O Games is this week
Speaker 1: against the Tampa Bay buccaneers down at Raymond James. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a tough stretch for Green Bay, and
Speaker 1: I mean certainly we talked about it from the beginning
Speaker 1: of the season. They didn't all have to get out
Speaker 1: to two and O to know this. But a stretch
Speaker 1: where you have Tampa Bay, where you have, you know,
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots at home, knowing what Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: is like and how his teams are coached, and then
Speaker 1: playing both the New York teams within seven days of
Speaker 1: each other, and one of those is abroad. Uh, this
Speaker 1: was gonna be a gauntlet for them. That's why I
Speaker 1: felt like this game was so important, and it was.
Speaker 1: That must not you have to have it, but it
Speaker 1: helps to have it because I think it does give
Speaker 1: you a certain amount of momentum. Tampa Bay it was not.
Speaker 1: I mean, in some regards neither of these wins have
Speaker 1: been really beautiful in the traditional sense. Jamis Winston did
Speaker 1: them a lot of favors in this matchup and at
Speaker 1: this time in which we're taking this. We don't know
Speaker 1: what Mike Evans status is going to be as he's
Speaker 1: going through the appeals process with his suspension. But you know,
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins look legit Ta looks confident. Um, you
Speaker 1: know the buffalo bills were dominant against you know, the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. Not that anybody, nobody, can win the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl in September, but I think there's no question that
Speaker 1: the best looking team through two weeks of NFL football
Speaker 1: is the buffalo bills. They look they look fantastic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and certainly look at what Jalen hurts did against
Speaker 1: the Vikings. And this is the reason why, Mike, Everybody
Speaker 1: talks about it being a week to week league, because
Speaker 1: things can change so quickly. Absolutely, for as dominance at
Speaker 1: times as the vikings looked in that matchup against Green
Speaker 1: Bay in their own house, they looked completely out of
Speaker 1: sorts at Lincoln financial field. And Jill See, and I
Speaker 1: know it's I know it's not, I know it's not
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer anymore, but honestly, to see a Minnesota Vikings
Speaker 1: defense give up almost three hundred and fifty yards and
Speaker 1: two quarters of football, I that just blew me away.
Speaker 1: I mean the fact that in some respects, the fact
Speaker 1: that that the Eagles only had twenty four points was
Speaker 1: was kind of a minor miracle, and that the fact
Speaker 1: that the Vikings had as many chances as they had
Speaker 1: in the second half to get back into that game.
Speaker 1: Um But. But philly's defense was up to the task
Speaker 1: every time Minnesota challenged down there in the red zone. And,
Speaker 1: Bro I'll be honest with you, after they made the
Speaker 1: field goal before halftime, I called it a night. I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, well, this is done. And then
Speaker 1: I wake up and it's the same exact score as
Speaker 1: it was when I stopped watching. So and and and Minnesota.
Speaker 1: The Vikings had their vikings had their chances. There's no
Speaker 1: uh but, but you're right. I mean, Um and we'll see,
Speaker 1: because the packers aren't going to play the dolphins, of course,
Speaker 1: until Christmas. Buffalo is not until UH close to Halloween. Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: The trip to Philadelphia is in between there. So, Um,
Speaker 1: it all comes down to, you know, how everybody's playing
Speaker 1: at that moment right and and who's healthy and who's not,
Speaker 1: and you know the whole when you play him thing
Speaker 1: is is definitely a factor but this week. This week
Speaker 1: it's the Tampa Bay buccaneers, and this is a Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay team that is two and o riding its defense
Speaker 1: right now. Um, a defense that's only allowed thirteen points
Speaker 1: through two games. Ten sacks, six takeaways, Um, on the
Speaker 1: defensive side. And Uh, and yeah, Tampa Bay buccaneers are
Speaker 1: two and Oh. And Tom Brady in that offense. Um,
Speaker 1: they haven't really found their footing yet, which is which
Speaker 1: is kind of a scary thought. Yeah, and certainly Brady.
Speaker 1: You know it's been difficult for him. I mean when
Speaker 1: you look at, you know, not being able to have
Speaker 1: your consistent weapons, the Godwin injury and then now this
Speaker 1: thing with Evans, I mean there's been a lot they've
Speaker 1: had to overcome, but I guess my biggest takeaway has
Speaker 1: been one. I mean, Lavonte David is just the agelist wonder.
Speaker 1: I mean what they've done there. I mean Carlton Davis,
Speaker 1: I think, is a is a cornerback that doesn't get
Speaker 1: enough respect. Antoine Winfield, the weapons that they have are
Speaker 1: legitimate and I feel like the bucks are going to
Speaker 1: be in this thing until the very bitter end because
Speaker 1: of it. But Leonard for Netman again like I said,
Speaker 1: that offense is different when he's rolling. Yeah, absolutely well,
Speaker 1: we'll talk more about the buccaneers on our next episode,
Speaker 1: but for now we'll call it a rap on this
Speaker 1: edition of packers on scripted. Be Sure to follow all
Speaker 1: of our coverage of the team on packers DOT com.
Speaker 1: For West, I'm Mike. Thank you for tuning in, everybody.
Speaker 1: We'll see you next time.