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Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.

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Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford, sitting alongside my partner in crime,

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Speaker 1: Wes Hodkowitz. Were coming to you here from our studios

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Speaker 1: at lambeau Field and West. The Packers wrapped up their

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Speaker 1: two thousand eighteen season on Sunday at lambeau Field, and

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Speaker 1: to be brutally honest, it just wasn't pretty. Thirty one

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Speaker 1: to nothing a loss to the Detroit Lions. The Packers

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Speaker 1: finished the season six nine and one. It's one of

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Speaker 1: these games that started poorly and just continue to get worse.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers leaves with a concussion, backup quarterback to Shaun

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Speaker 1: Kaiser already in a fourteen to nothing hole, isn't able

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Speaker 1: to get anything going offensively, and the Lions just kind

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Speaker 1: of kept tacking on some points here and there, and

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Speaker 1: the result was actually the Lions first shutout of the

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Speaker 1: Packers at lambeau Field since nineteen seventy if you can

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Speaker 1: believe that. Yeah, actually I looked that up after the

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Speaker 1: game last night. So um, yeah, just a rough way

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Speaker 1: to end what had been a rough season for Green Bay. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's no if fans or butts about it, Mike, and

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Speaker 1: not the performance the Packers were looking for, I said,

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Speaker 1: and Saturday's inbox and I mentioned it on Friday. You

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Speaker 1: wanted to finish strong. It was a pretty simple mindset.

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Speaker 1: You built some momentum winning two of their last three.

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Speaker 1: It was a small moral victory, but yet you got

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Speaker 1: the wins that you were looking to get. They just

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Speaker 1: were not able to carry it over. And once Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers left the ball game. I'm not saying that that

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Speaker 1: took anything out of the team or anything or it,

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Speaker 1: but it did, you know, I mean, you could just

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Speaker 1: see there was a deflating kind of aspect to it.

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Speaker 1: To Rogers credit, and Corey Linsley spoke about this in

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Speaker 1: the locker room afterwards. Rogers was was very emotional when

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Speaker 1: he got taken out of the game and had to

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Speaker 1: go back to get the concussion protocol to start that process,

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Speaker 1: and Lindsley said, I mean that really spoke volumes about

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Speaker 1: him and in some extent this Packers season, and that

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Speaker 1: the game was meaningless other than really draft position. That

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Speaker 1: was the one thing. You're trying to build some moral victories,

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Speaker 1: You're trying to get some you know, give you something

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Speaker 1: to feel good about going in the off season, but

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day in the win lost

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Speaker 1: column and had no bearing on what things are gonna

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Speaker 1: look like today, whether or not the Packers wanted lost

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Speaker 1: that game. Aaron Rodgers though, it was more than that

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Speaker 1: to him. He wanted to finish this thing on a

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Speaker 1: high note. It made David Bakti want to stay on

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Speaker 1: the field. Corey Lindsley played every offensive snap. Those guys

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Speaker 1: were motivated to be out there. But at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, you have to be able to play well.

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Speaker 1: You have to be able to win the game, and

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Speaker 1: the Packers just not did not do that against the Lions. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's just a lot of a lot of disappointment in

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Speaker 1: terms of how this game went, and not not just

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Speaker 1: that Rogers left with a concussion. We haven't really been

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Speaker 1: given any updates on on that um in the concussion protocol,

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Speaker 1: Rogers doesn't speak to the media and and there haven't

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Speaker 1: haven't been any discussions of of how he's doing. But

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Speaker 1: when you look on the defensive side of the ball,

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Speaker 1: you know, we've talked about it, Wes. It just it

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Speaker 1: seemed like it seemed like this defense under Mike Petton

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Speaker 1: was was showing a lot of strides on a lot

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Speaker 1: of progress. And granted, they're playing with a lot of

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Speaker 1: young guys out there, a lot of backups, you know,

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Speaker 1: reaching into the depth, but so were the Detroit Lions

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Speaker 1: on on both sides of the ball, quite frankly, and

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Speaker 1: it just it felt like even the defensive side, which

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Speaker 1: I thought was was really the uptick for the Packers

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Speaker 1: this season in took a step backward as well. We

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Speaker 1: And Detroit was really just controlling the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 1: And it was the it was the kind of defensive

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Speaker 1: took a step backward in this final game. I don't

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Speaker 1: but realistically, Mike and really the last forty five minutes

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Speaker 1: preseason game to me, just with the you know, the

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Speaker 1: I give credit to Capri Bibbs, I give credit to

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Speaker 1: way that this team was set up back in September,

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Speaker 1: different dominoes happened. Now, No, don't get me wrong, Packers

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Speaker 1: didn't play well. There's six nine and one. Because they

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Speaker 1: didn't play well. I I'm not gonna you know, think that,

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Speaker 1: oh just because you know, fifteen guys ended up on

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Speaker 1: I R and they went through all these things. This

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Speaker 1: is why they were Yeah, does it affect you, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: But it's a hundred percent injury rate, as everyone always

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Speaker 1: likes to say, every team deals with. The Packers were

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Speaker 1: is I mean I looked at that defensive front. You

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Speaker 1: to Dean Lowry. Those guys stepped their game up. Lowry

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Speaker 1: but they weren't the starting defensive alignment at the beginning

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Speaker 1: of the year. Kyler Facral stepped up, but you didn't

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Speaker 1: have Nick Perry. It's just it's one of those things

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Speaker 1: an attrition for Packers this season, and in losing thirty

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Speaker 1: that last one. Unfortunately for the Packers, it it was almost,

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Speaker 1: i think, to some extent of self fulfilling prophecy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: We had talked about it for, you know, all week long,

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Speaker 1: He needed two catches in a hundred and thirty four

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Speaker 1: Certainly the opportunity would have been there, but the knee

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Speaker 1: You know, the sore net didn't go away. Obviously, the

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Speaker 1: another certainly disappointing footnote that that Davante Adams wasn't able

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Speaker 1: Brian Angle, everybody on the training staff side of things.

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Speaker 1: They're doing the right thing for the player. You want

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Speaker 1: to protect him. There's a bigger picture and play here,

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Speaker 1: it's it's not you know, as far as win loss,

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Speaker 1: there's no implications there, I'll be honest, though, I still

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Speaker 1: But um, now, I mean, they're they're not going to

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Speaker 1: that record, maybe all three of them. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: in his career. Certainly another statistical note definitely worth pointing

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Speaker 1: for Kyler Facula. Yeah, he said we were. I was

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Speaker 1: Because he's just such a big, powerful guy, it's hard

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Speaker 1: these Mike Petton writing down your goal things at the

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Speaker 1: what he talked about with Petton for double digit sacks,

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Speaker 1: and Bill Huber and I from Packer Report, we asked him, like,

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Speaker 1: you really thought that was an attainable goal. Uh, you

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Speaker 1: that's why their goals. You want to set something up

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Speaker 1: it on that note, Fatral said that that sack, when

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