Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to a Christmas Eve edition of Packers
Speaker 1: unscripted from Packers dot Com. I and Mike Spofford, joined
Speaker 1: as always by my partner in crime, West hod Kuwitz,
Speaker 1: were coming to you here from socially distant locations at
Speaker 1: lambeau Field. Merry Christmas, everybody. Merry Christmas to you, Weston,
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to you, Michael. I hope you get everything
Speaker 1: that you want from the family. I know for myself,
Speaker 1: just happy to have my health, happy to have a
Speaker 1: healthy family, and Mike, most importantly, I'm happy to have
Speaker 1: you absolutely well. We are certainly looking forward to getting
Speaker 1: into a new year as well during this holiday season
Speaker 1: with everything that has brought. But there is some business
Speaker 1: to take care of here in the NFL, and it's
Speaker 1: Week sixteen Packers and Titans, Sunday night football under the
Speaker 1: lights at lambeau Field and West This is really an
Speaker 1: interesting Not very often this late in the season do
Speaker 1: you get two teams both with double digit victories from
Speaker 1: different conferences going at it here. But we saw when
Speaker 1: this schedule came out in the spring, Packers Titans Week sixteen,
Speaker 1: a couple of nights after Christmas at lambeau Field, You're
Speaker 1: kind of like, well, these are the two teams that
Speaker 1: lost in the conference championship games the previous season, they
Speaker 1: were the conference runners up, and uh, sure enough, here
Speaker 1: we are. This is a pretty big ball game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that might have been the first thing that came to
Speaker 1: mind for you, Mike. The first thing that came to
Speaker 1: mind for me was why the heck are the Packers
Speaker 1: playing the Titans in Week sixteen? Like, what is the
Speaker 1: point of this? But as I joked about an insider inbox,
Speaker 1: so the fact that this game was not moved out
Speaker 1: of the Sunday night football time slot tells you everything
Speaker 1: you need to know about the fact that this is
Speaker 1: once again two teams that made it to the final
Speaker 1: four last year and have stayed right at the cream
Speaker 1: of the crop in their respective conference this season and
Speaker 1: to be able to make another run at this thing. Certainly,
Speaker 1: the storyline there of Matt Laflour being the former offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator for Mike Vrabel and Tennessee Uh has been something
Speaker 1: that you know this week. Lafleur has been very complementary
Speaker 1: of that season that he spent there and also complimentary
Speaker 1: of the time that he was able to learn from
Speaker 1: Rabel a little bit before moving on to his own
Speaker 1: head coaching post, And from Rabel's perspective, it's he's a
Speaker 1: young man in the coaching profession, only forty five, but
Speaker 1: already developing a coaching tree. Both of these teams have
Speaker 1: been very successful this season, but if you look at
Speaker 1: the way they've done it, very different in their paths
Speaker 1: to how they've gotten to this point. Yeah, I think both.
Speaker 1: I think from the outside, you know, fans, analysts, pundits
Speaker 1: are looking at this game as saying, Okay, which one
Speaker 1: of these teams is going to make a statement so
Speaker 1: to speak on Sunday Night that you know they're ready
Speaker 1: for the playoffs, They're going to be playoff tested all
Speaker 1: of that. Personally, I think both of these teams are
Speaker 1: Super Bowl contenders. Regardless of what happens on Sunday Night.
Speaker 1: There is going to be a perception though with with
Speaker 1: regard to the result of this game, how the game looks,
Speaker 1: how it unfolds, as far as what a lot of
Speaker 1: people are going to think about these teams heading into January,
Speaker 1: don't you think it does? And I think, especially from
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans point of view, now that they're still
Speaker 1: in a competition with the Colts trying to win that
Speaker 1: division title. Certainly get a home playoff game to start
Speaker 1: this thing off in a very tightly contested a f
Speaker 1: C race right now, even though Pittsburgh's fallen off, you
Speaker 1: still have Kansas City up there. You can't really take
Speaker 1: any of these games for granted. If you're the Titans
Speaker 1: on the NFC side of things, Green Bay, it's pretty
Speaker 1: cut and dry for them at this point. As I
Speaker 1: keep saying over and over again, they're one thirty two
Speaker 1: minute flight away, uh, you know, going to Chicago away
Speaker 1: from being able to to run this thing all the
Speaker 1: way to the Super Bowl at lambeau Field if they're
Speaker 1: able to keep winning. So that's a massive advantage. But
Speaker 1: but like I mentioned earlier, I mean the fact that
Speaker 1: both of these teams, whether it was the Derrick hun
Speaker 1: Henry rushing offense, uh, paired with the play action game
Speaker 1: that Tennessee runs, a defense that well has given up
Speaker 1: a lot of yards, has been very opportunistic in their
Speaker 1: ability to take the football away, which has contributed to
Speaker 1: the Titans being tied for the league lead right now
Speaker 1: and turnover differential at plus twelve and then you can
Speaker 1: firstly or that with Green Bay that can run, can pass,
Speaker 1: can own time of possession and has been really efficient
Speaker 1: at getting on the scoreboard right away. I mean they're
Speaker 1: in a historic streak, Mike. We haven't really talked about
Speaker 1: it that much, but they're opening possessions scoring I think
Speaker 1: now ten or eleven of them to this point. They've
Speaker 1: been able to set the temple in these games, and
Speaker 1: I think a lot of times that's really dictated where
Speaker 1: things have gone in the three quarters after that. Yeah, absolutely,
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Speaker 1: Backslash Packers well West Keys to Victory here. Maybe we'll
Speaker 1: start in reverse because there's been so much talk obviously
Speaker 1: about Derrick Henry coming into lambeau Field He's the reigning
Speaker 1: rushing champion in the NFL, having won the rushing title
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. He is nearly two hundred yards ahead
Speaker 1: of anybody else in the NFL in going for back
Speaker 1: to back rushing crowns. Here, so a lot of focus
Speaker 1: on the Packers defense and what it's going to take
Speaker 1: to contain Derrick Henry, and not just Henry, but this
Speaker 1: entire Titans offense, which has been pretty darn explosive both
Speaker 1: in the run and the past. How do you see
Speaker 1: this matchup for Green Bay's defense? One thing that I
Speaker 1: look at with this matchup, Mike is going to be
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry, but not just him as a ball carrier,
Speaker 1: him as an overall football player. And the fact that
Speaker 1: if you look at how the Tennessee Titans have performed
Speaker 1: this season, there has only been four games where he
Speaker 1: has not touched the ball more than twenty times, and
Speaker 1: in those games they are one in three this season.
Speaker 1: He and and it's not just a direct, you know,
Speaker 1: reflection of what he does when he does have the football.
Speaker 1: It also shows you how if he does get doesn't
Speaker 1: get normal amount of carries that he usually gets, it
Speaker 1: is going to take them out of their offensive rhythm.
Speaker 1: Everything is predicated on establishing the run early and building
Speaker 1: the play action passing game off of that. Late Corey
Speaker 1: Davis A. J. Brown to the top young receivers in
Speaker 1: this league deep ball threats. They pair up very nicely
Speaker 1: with the constant threat that Henry provides in that backfield.
Speaker 1: But from Green Bay's defensive standpoint, I think it comes
Speaker 1: down to early on making him work for those yards.
Speaker 1: It's going to be almost nearly impossible to keep him
Speaker 1: underneath fifty sixty yards. It's only happened I think twice
Speaker 1: this season that he's been under seventy. He's going to
Speaker 1: get his production, But how many times does he have
Speaker 1: to carry that ball in order to do it. The
Speaker 1: more times he carries it, the fewer yards that he's
Speaker 1: able to mass off of it. That's what can disrupt
Speaker 1: the Titans. And that's where the Packers have to win
Speaker 1: this ball game, because you know, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, the breakdowns type of you know, the explosive place,
Speaker 1: that's where they're gonna want to challenge you. So if
Speaker 1: you're able to curtails some of that early momentum, I
Speaker 1: think that's going to really be what helps push this
Speaker 1: thing in the Packers favor. Yeah. I mean we talked
Speaker 1: sometimes about, Okay, is there a magic number to hold
Speaker 1: a big running back to We've had fans ask us
Speaker 1: an insider in box welcome the Packers hold them under
Speaker 1: a hundred yards, And I don't know if there's a
Speaker 1: magic number in that respect. I don't think the Packers
Speaker 1: have to hold Derrick Henry under a hundred yards in
Speaker 1: order to win this game. But I'm with the US.
Speaker 1: I think it is about how many carries is it
Speaker 1: going to take him to get that production? And so
Speaker 1: maybe it's the it's the yards per carry, it's that
Speaker 1: per carry. The average might be the key statistic in
Speaker 1: this game. You look at the Packers run defense. We've
Speaker 1: talked about, how ever, since right off the bat in
Speaker 1: that Chicago game a month ago, when David Montgomery ripped
Speaker 1: off that fifty seven yard run, we've talked about how
Speaker 1: the Packers run defense has vastly improved since then. They've
Speaker 1: only allowed since that fifty seven yard run. Over the
Speaker 1: last four games, they've only allowed two hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: eight rushing yards. I believe is the number, and the
Speaker 1: yards per carry is right at four point zero. I
Speaker 1: think if the Packers run defense can actually limit Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry to four point zero, I think that would be
Speaker 1: a big win for the Packers. That you know, that means, Okay,
Speaker 1: if he's gonna get a hunter and twenty yards, it's
Speaker 1: gonna take him thirty carries to get there. That goes
Speaker 1: along with the point you were just making. I think
Speaker 1: it's numbers like that that might mean more than what
Speaker 1: that final whatever the rushing total is going to be
Speaker 1: for him at the end of this game. And not
Speaker 1: wearing down They're going to challenge you early on with Henry,
Speaker 1: He's going to be just running up the gut and
Speaker 1: he's going to try to wear down that defense and
Speaker 1: that defensive front seven. It's being up to that task
Speaker 1: where Green Bay needs to really rise to the occasion
Speaker 1: and keep themselves their feet underneath them for four quarters
Speaker 1: and not allowed him to break into the second level
Speaker 1: of this defense. Like, the huge part of this I
Speaker 1: don't think a lot of people have talked about is
Speaker 1: when you have a running back like Henry, it's the
Speaker 1: mental side that he yet he challenges you, not just
Speaker 1: the physical side, because you know exactly what you're facing.
Speaker 1: You can watch the film all week. These are professional athletes.
Speaker 1: They're gonna see what he presents. It's mentally being up
Speaker 1: to that challenge of wanting to stop him. And I
Speaker 1: was listening to Kenny Clark and you can kind of
Speaker 1: hear the excitement in his voice about where this run
Speaker 1: defense is at and this being the perfect time to
Speaker 1: get a test like Derrick Henry. Dean Lowry, a guy
Speaker 1: that I think earlier this season was kind of off
Speaker 1: to a slow start. Kenny even talked about it. There's
Speaker 1: been something different about Dean the last few weeks. He
Speaker 1: hasn't been thinking as much. He's been playing more instinctively.
Speaker 1: And that reminds me a lot of that Dean Lowry
Speaker 1: that finished the seventeen season as strong as he did,
Speaker 1: and the Dean Lowry that really brought it for sixteen
Speaker 1: games in two thousand and eighteen. When those two guys
Speaker 1: are working in chemistry. Mike Rabel even went out of
Speaker 1: his way to talk about how fundamentally sound those guys are.
Speaker 1: When they're filling their gaps, everything becomes a lot easier
Speaker 1: for everybody else around them. You need to get the
Speaker 1: rotation going, no question about it. You can't have them
Speaker 1: playing of the snaps in a game like this, but
Speaker 1: that is going to be the first defense that the
Speaker 1: Titans are gonna see on Sunday. And if they can
Speaker 1: hold up, if they can force a three and out
Speaker 1: or a punt early on, that's where the Titans can
Speaker 1: start to doubt themselves a little bit, and maybe, just
Speaker 1: maybe Green Bay can sees the momentum of this thing
Speaker 1: and reduce those amount of offensive touches that that Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry is gonna see. Yeah. Well, if there are two
Speaker 1: things that we've heard repeatedly from the Packers side this
Speaker 1: week and discussing Derrick Henry, One is the concept of
Speaker 1: gang tackling. It's about getting a lot of different helmets
Speaker 1: to the football because here, this is the bottom line West,
Speaker 1: If only one guy is going to beat his block
Speaker 1: on a running play and be the lone guy with
Speaker 1: a chance to tackle Derrick Henry and end the play,
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry is gonna win that battle. More often than not.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be it's gonna be incumbent upon two and
Speaker 1: three and four guys to beat their block, to beat
Speaker 1: their guy on a number of plays and to get
Speaker 1: those multiple hats to the football. The other thing is
Speaker 1: about taking the proper angle on Derrick Henry because he's
Speaker 1: deceptively fast. He's a big guy, and you don't think
Speaker 1: he's got this beat of say like an Eric Dickerson
Speaker 1: from back in the you know, a long legged, bigger guy.
Speaker 1: But when Eric Dickerson was in the open field man
Speaker 1: he could really go. And Derrick Henry is the same way.
Speaker 1: It's hard to take the proper angle because of that deception.
Speaker 1: For me, this for this Packers defense, I think what
Speaker 1: we've seen here over the last two seasons is these
Speaker 1: big games come down to the Packers defense being able
Speaker 1: to make one or two key stops throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the game. The big one, obviously against Carolina was
Speaker 1: Chris Barnes slapping the ball out at the goal line
Speaker 1: on the quarterback sneak. That was the play defensively that
Speaker 1: completely changed the complexion of the game. Now, would it
Speaker 1: will it have to be something that dramatic against Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Not necessarily, but it's about, you know, maybe you're gonna
Speaker 1: have one of those third and two's where everybody knows
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry is getting the ball and the Packers rise
Speaker 1: up and get the stop. Maybe it's going to be
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, you know, a key third and
Speaker 1: seven or third and eight, Just one of those key
Speaker 1: moment type series where the Packers win the battle and
Speaker 1: get off the field and get the ball back to
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. I think that's what this game could come
Speaker 1: down to. Yeah, and the other aspect of that that
Speaker 1: you have to look back on that Carolina game. I
Speaker 1: know the third quarter did not go how the Packers
Speaker 1: wanted it to go, but after that takeaway, in the
Speaker 1: fact the Packers were able to generate a touchdown off
Speaker 1: of it at three. As much as there was some
Speaker 1: adversity of Green Bay had to face in the second half,
Speaker 1: it never really felt like the game was in jeopardy
Speaker 1: for them, at least on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: They just were able to find those answers and just
Speaker 1: they seem to have a little bit of swagger there
Speaker 1: after they got that key takeaway and being able to
Speaker 1: do their d Train celebration in the end zone and whatnot.
Speaker 1: That was a big moment I felt, not only in
Speaker 1: that game, but something that can really launch them forward
Speaker 1: here because you're seeing I talked about Laurie and Clark,
Speaker 1: but You're seeing a lot of guys start to really
Speaker 1: amp up here during this final stretch. Preston Smith has
Speaker 1: had a number of sacks the last few weeks after
Speaker 1: quiet first half of the season. Adrian Amos is playing
Speaker 1: everywhere in this defense. Had three pass deflection in that game. Uh,
Speaker 1: Darnell Savage looks a lot more comfortable in the back end.
Speaker 1: And you don't need me to go into exactly everything
Speaker 1: that goes into why JayR Alexander has been the player
Speaker 1: he's been this season. So with Chris Barnes being able
Speaker 1: to shake through and appears that eye injury is not
Speaker 1: an issue. He was a full participant in practice this week,
Speaker 1: He's able to be on the field as a key
Speaker 1: communicator and able to rotate those inside backers. I just
Speaker 1: think that they have the horses to be able to
Speaker 1: stop Henry. The challenge is going to be if he
Speaker 1: does break one early, and I'm not saying it has
Speaker 1: to be a seventy five yard could be twenty yards,
Speaker 1: being able to come back the next play and understand
Speaker 1: that you need to be able to get back to
Speaker 1: where you're at, because that's naturally just something that could
Speaker 1: happen when you're facing someone of Henry's caliber. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: So many times, defensive football is about responding to the
Speaker 1: explosive play against you and either rising up and forcing
Speaker 1: a field goal or even after an explosive play, getting
Speaker 1: a stop and getting the ball back. Those those are
Speaker 1: the momentum shifts that really matter on the offensive side
Speaker 1: for Green Bay. You know, we talked about it West.
Speaker 1: This Packers team has made a pretty good habit. Now,
Speaker 1: they fell short last week, but they made a pretty
Speaker 1: good habit of scoring thirty plus points per game this
Speaker 1: season ten out of fourteen games. And this is this
Speaker 1: is the statistic that sticks with me, is that the
Speaker 1: Packers have only lost once this season when they've scored
Speaker 1: thirty plus points and that was in an overtime game
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis when that occurred. So, you know, Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: he's going to be taking the field here with you know,
Speaker 1: another one of those m VP candidate type guys on
Speaker 1: the other side in Derrick Henry. And this is the
Speaker 1: Titans defense that has struggled, particularly against the past, particularly
Speaker 1: with the big play and with allowing a lot of
Speaker 1: points in in some games. I think the Packers offense
Speaker 1: really needs to to rise to that occasion this year,
Speaker 1: it does need to be complimentary football. If the defense
Speaker 1: does get the stop, the offense has got to respond
Speaker 1: and put points on the board. And uh and I
Speaker 1: just I think that thirty plus number is really going
Speaker 1: to be key for Green Bay in this game Sunday night.
Speaker 1: The defense pick ed up this team last week to
Speaker 1: be able to close out that a point victory the
Speaker 1: way they did. But this week, the offense needs to
Speaker 1: be the ones that that really stand up to this
Speaker 1: because the defense is going to be in for a
Speaker 1: long night. That's just the way it is. I don't
Speaker 1: care if your ranked number one or your ranked number
Speaker 1: thirty two, The Titans are going to stress you out
Speaker 1: so offensively. You look at these numbers that they're going
Speaker 1: to be facing. The Titans are twenty seven in total yards,
Speaker 1: they are twenty nine against the past, They are dead
Speaker 1: last in third down defense, and they are thirtieth in
Speaker 1: red zone defense. What does that tell you? You You need
Speaker 1: to be able to move the football, take advantage of
Speaker 1: explosive plays, and once you do get in the gold zone,
Speaker 1: you need to be able to get the gold You
Speaker 1: have to be able to turn that into points. Have
Speaker 1: to be able to turn that into touchdowns. That opportunity
Speaker 1: is going to be there. And I keep mentioning this point,
Speaker 1: but you know, Davante Adams in weeks in which he
Speaker 1: has been quiet more often than not, particularly this season,
Speaker 1: he has bounced back with a big game. I think
Speaker 1: Davante Adams, Aaron Jones, Robert Tonyan, I think all of
Speaker 1: the classics here for Aaron Rodgers need to be in play.
Speaker 1: And when it all boils down to it, the guy
Speaker 1: that very well could be the National Football League m
Speaker 1: VP in a couple of weeks, he needs to be
Speaker 1: at his absolute zenith. This is going to be a challenge.
Speaker 1: There are going to be momentum swings. There's gonna be
Speaker 1: times where the Packers are moving the ball at will,
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be times where they need to respond
Speaker 1: to that adversity and make sure that if you do
Speaker 1: have a three not you bounce right back and you
Speaker 1: find a way to get back downfield. I think long drives,
Speaker 1: time of possession, and more than anything else, ball security
Speaker 1: is going to be the pre eminent emphasis in this
Speaker 1: matchup in order to win against the Titans. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: interesting A lot of people talk about this, this type
Speaker 1: of game as as a playoff tune up because of
Speaker 1: the caliber of opponent you're playing. In some ways, it's
Speaker 1: almost like mentally it's more important to have that playoff
Speaker 1: tune up. And what I mean by that is what
Speaker 1: you just said about momentum swings and handling those, because
Speaker 1: playoff games are all about the momentum going back and
Speaker 1: forth and who can respond in the key moments, who
Speaker 1: who who can stem the tide when things are going wrong,
Speaker 1: who can seize the momentum when things are going right.
Speaker 1: Playoff games always have that kind of feel to them,
Speaker 1: and perhaps this game on Sunday night will have that
Speaker 1: kind of feel as well. Yeah, and if there's an
Speaker 1: opportunity for special teams, you know, with Tavon Austin getting
Speaker 1: more comfortable on punt returns, or even if it's j
Speaker 1: K Scott having a timely punt, they just need different
Speaker 1: areas to kind of be able to pick themselves up.
Speaker 1: Because when you're facing a ten win team that does
Speaker 1: have Super Bowl aspirations, that was one game away from
Speaker 1: it last year and returned most of those players, you
Speaker 1: have to be able to to find different guys that
Speaker 1: are going to step up. As I mentioned, Rogers is
Speaker 1: the key, He's the kingpin. He's the guy that has
Speaker 1: to be able to bring it. But it's going to
Speaker 1: be the the Alan Lazard. It's catching a twenty two
Speaker 1: yard cross, or Mason Crosby making a fifty one yard
Speaker 1: field goal, or even Chris Barnes finding a way to
Speaker 1: get a deflection at the goal line, and undrafted rookie
Speaker 1: with a big momentum turning play. All of those reasons
Speaker 1: are why they won a week ago, and they need
Speaker 1: more of those type of moments in this game against Tennessee. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: as far as the playoff pictures concerned, I'll repeat where
Speaker 1: the scenario stands. As we had talked about on our
Speaker 1: last show. The Seattle Seahawks will face the Los Angeles
Speaker 1: Rams late Sunday afternoon, and if the Rams are able
Speaker 1: to knock off the Seahawks, then the Packers will take
Speaker 1: the field on Sunday night with a chance to clinch
Speaker 1: the number one seed in the NFC. If the Seahawks
Speaker 1: beat the Rams, the Packers will not be able to
Speaker 1: clinch on Sunday night, and the number one seed will
Speaker 1: come down to all the activity amongst several teams in
Speaker 1: week seventeen. So with that in mind, West, I just
Speaker 1: want to get your thoughts on this one other game
Speaker 1: that is obviously very important in the Packers playoff picture,
Speaker 1: the Rams and the Seahawks. Seattle is one game up
Speaker 1: on the Rams in the NFC West. The Rams took
Speaker 1: that surprise loss to the previously winless New York Jets
Speaker 1: the previous week. The Seahawks had actually had a game
Speaker 1: very similar to the Packers against the Panthers. The Seahawks
Speaker 1: were playing Washington, had a big lead, I believe it
Speaker 1: was twenty two three. They were facing a young backup
Speaker 1: quarterback in Dwayne Haskins and had to hold off Washington
Speaker 1: down the stretch to to squeak one out. How do
Speaker 1: you see with what these teams are coming off of
Speaker 1: and where they are, how do you see the Seattle
Speaker 1: l A matchup l A last week could not have
Speaker 1: gone any worse. You come off, you get off to
Speaker 1: a slow start against a previously winless Jets team. They
Speaker 1: came back a little bit in the second half, but
Speaker 1: didn't have enough gas left in the tank to be
Speaker 1: able to come back and win that game. But we
Speaker 1: talked so often about Matt Lafleur, the fact the Packers
Speaker 1: have yet to lose back to back games underneath his leadership.
Speaker 1: The l A Rams this year have yet to lose
Speaker 1: back to back games, and one of those bounced back
Speaker 1: performances after a loss against Miami was the Seattle Seahawks. Now,
Speaker 1: it's a different game going into whatever the name of
Speaker 1: their stadium is now these days, it changes every other week,
Speaker 1: but Seattle is difficult to be at the stadium formerly
Speaker 1: known as Century Link and is not going to be
Speaker 1: easy any time that you walk into that stadium. But again,
Speaker 1: seeing that defense with again at who likely will end
Speaker 1: up being the defensive player of the year and Aaron
Speaker 1: Donald seeing what they can do to generate pressure on
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, I feel like you're going to see a
Speaker 1: big bounce pack performance from the Rams. Now will it
Speaker 1: be enough to win? The Seahawks are pretty darn good
Speaker 1: to seven Pro Bowlers that they're sending to a virtual
Speaker 1: game kind of, And this is gonna be one of
Speaker 1: those moments where I just I feel like with these
Speaker 1: NFC West matchups, any given week, any of these teams
Speaker 1: can beat each other regardless of the venue. But I
Speaker 1: do definitely think you're going to see a much better performance,
Speaker 1: the best put foot put forward by the l. A.
Speaker 1: Rams trying to bounce back from a demoralizing loss to
Speaker 1: the Jets. Because you gotta remember, the l. A. Rams
Speaker 1: have a lot to prove here to trying to get
Speaker 1: back into the playoff hunt missing it a year ago. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: the Rams are trying to get back into the postseason
Speaker 1: and they and they still feel like they have a
Speaker 1: legitimate shot to win that division and and get a
Speaker 1: home game. We will certainly be watching that game late
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon leading up to the kickoff of Packers and
Speaker 1: Titans on Sunday night. It should be a pretty good
Speaker 1: Sunday of football. With that, we will call it a
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