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Speaker 1: All righty Qorter. Battle one twenty seven goes the way

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Speaker 1: of the green Bay Packers thirty three ten with Pete

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Speaker 1: Bursach on Paul Allen. Where do you begin Jaren Hall

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Speaker 1: yanked at halftime, defense giving up a bunch of yards

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Speaker 1: and points, turnovers, What do you want to do?

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Speaker 2: Well, you start with Jaren Hall, and you were hoping

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Speaker 2: and then having to make the switch at halftime, So

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Speaker 2: you had to have seen something during the week that

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Speaker 2: And then I think the other big stories just defensively

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Speaker 2: with the the amount of breakdowns and the big plays

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Speaker 2: given up by this defense, Paul, Green Bay had free

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Speaker 2: like it all happened at the end of the game.

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Speaker 2: This was periodically. This happened in you know, in the

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Speaker 2: first in the first quarter. I mean, that's a consistent

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Speaker 2: theme throughout this game. We're got where wide receivers running

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Speaker 2: just wide open, you know, and luckily Love missed a

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Speaker 2: He had a career night, and he still left a

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Speaker 2: lot on the table.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Jordan Love with a three touchdown passing game. He's

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Speaker 1: done that before, but this is the first time he's

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Speaker 1: Jaden Reid caught a top couple of them. Bow Melton

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Speaker 1: the congratulations to Green Bay. They definitely keep their playoff

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Speaker 1: because Pittsburgh did us a solid. The Steelers went up

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Speaker 1: as underdogs, meaning if the Minnesota Vikings had won their

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Speaker 1: I mean, the Vikings can make the playoffs. They got

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Speaker 2: But anyway, right, and and that's not a team, you know,

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Speaker 2: I didn't see a team on the field today that

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Speaker 2: into the playoffs. Right, That's that's not the team that

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Speaker 2: we saw. We've lost five of our last six football games.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna finish the year with a two and six

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Speaker 2: they did week after week after week, and that part

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Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell, head coach of the Minnesota Vikings, and his

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Speaker 1: press conference following a convincing victory by the Green Bay Packers,

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Speaker 3: Not much to say other than we got out played

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Speaker 3: and and you know this all, you know, I got

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Speaker 4: Just it was a combination of a lot of things.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna find out, you know, kind of with everything

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Speaker 1: Where do we go from here? At Detroit? It is

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Speaker 4: Love you, buddy.

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Speaker 1: Happy New Year, all right, Happy New Year. That's Pete

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