WEBVTT - #760 Packers Unscripted: They’re in 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:07.720 Hi, everybody. 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:11.640 Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com. 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:14.880 I am Mike Spofford, joined as always by my partner 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:17.040 in crime, Weston Hodkowitz. We're coming to you hear from 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:20.279 our studios at lambeau Field to talk about Wes. A 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:24.080 playoff clinching victory for the Green Bay Packers seventeen to 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:28.160 nine over the Chicago Bears, the last game at lambeau 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:30.840 Field for this season, but not the last game of 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.120 the season for the Packers because they now have the 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.120 number seven seed, they will be playing in the wild 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:39.200 Card round, taking a nine to eight record into the playoffs. 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:40.680 Hang on, here we go. 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.400 Here we go, buddy, I'll tell you a little story here, 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:45.880 a little story time with Wes hod to start the show. 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:49.440 All right, Last year, my good friend Rob Dmofski. For 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:52.360 as much crap as I give him, I actually watched 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:55.760 his son Hogan during his run up to the state 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.840 championship with the the Peer boys basketball team. Went to 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.040 all the tournament series games and they were lucky enough 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:02.960 and fortunate enough to win the Division on state title 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:05.680 at the Coal Center. When I got done, I said 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:07.840 to myself, man, I wish I would have enjoyed it more. 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:09.280 I was just so nervous. 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.680 And then after the game ended on Sunday, I got 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.280 the same feeling like it was like I didn't want 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.040 to talk to anybody. Our boss, Duke Bobber in the 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:20.160 last two minutes of the game, was trying to tell me, hey, 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:22.319 you know, this is what's happening with the Rams right now, 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:23.800 this is what's going on with the forty nine ers, 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:25.760 and I was like, nothing, I want to hear nothing. 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:28.000 I want this game to be over. I want the 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.480 Packers to advance and then we could talk about everything 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:30.920 else later. 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:31.280 Yep. 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:33.440 But as I've stepped back from it, we're now two 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.200 days after the fact of this game. What a fun 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:39.959 football game that was from the Green Bay Packers, the 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:42.679 way that Jordan Love performed, to have Aaron Jones with 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:47.640 his third consecutive one hundred yard game, and then certainly 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:51.280 Dontavian Wicks being the latest receiver to step up for them. 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:53.880 The Green Bay Packers. So many times, Mike, the Chips 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:56.640 have been down, they've needed to rally, and they did 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.400 it once again, and they got the three victories they 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.760 needed to, as you said, get themselves back in the postseason. 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:05.880 Yeah, when you look at this game, it all starts 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:10.040 with how Jordan Love performed. And we've always you know, 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:13.080 we've wondered because not that there haven't been big games, 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:17.200 but you always wonder when it's a first time starting quarterback, 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:19.480 how is he going to respond when the pressure is 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:22.520 really on, when you have to perform. Jordan Lov went 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.240 out last week at US Bank Stadium in a do 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:26.880 or die game and showed what. 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:27.440 He's made of. 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.679 And he showed even more I thought against the Chicago 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:35.680 Bears that was an absolute tour to force performance. Twenty 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.560 seven out of thirty two, three hundred and sixteen yards. 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.320 He goes over four thousand yards on the season, a 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:46.360 one twenty eight point six passer rating against the defense that, 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:48.880 as we had talked about all last week, had been 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:52.320 allowing only fifteen points per game, and quite frankly, Wes 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:54.560 I wrote about this mentioned this in a couple of 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:57.560 the things that I wrote. I thought the Packers completely 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:02.359 dominated this game in every facet except the scoreboard. They 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:04.520 didn't score as many points as they should have the 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.440 fact that this game ended seventeen to nine. I'll give 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:09.920 the Bears some credit. They certainly made some plays that 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:12.200 made some things difficult on the Packers, But it felt 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.799 to me like the Packers were just stopping themselves and 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:19.799 not being able to put this game away offensively until 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:22.560 the final drive to be able to kill the last 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.320 six minutes eight seconds. You're backed up on your own 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:29.200 six yard line in a one possession game, six minutes 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:32.440 and eight seconds, four first downs. The Packers put the 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:34.520 game away with their offense on the field. I thought 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:38.080 it was a nice reward for the defense to not 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:40.320 have to go back out on the field after a 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.600 pretty solid performance from Joe Berry's crew. 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:44.920 Well, and what a way for the defense to leave 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:48.880 the field right with Carl Brooks's sack pushing the Bears 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:51.360 out of field goal range, out of scoring range, they 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.200 had to punt the ball despite being down eight points 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:55.160 with six minutes to go. 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:56.920 Yeah, and then they don't get the ball back. 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.040 Yeah, it ended up it was fourth and twenty two 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:03.360 or something. I mean, yeah, in any almost any kind 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:05.600 of normal down in distance on four town, the Bears 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:06.720 are probably not punning that. 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:08.760 Football because if you get a three and out, you 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.160 get the ball back ninety seconds later, two minutes later. 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:13.400 But Green Bay did not allow that to happen. Michael, 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:15.240 I want to talk to you about that six minute drive. 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:16.960 I want to talk about how good Green Bay has 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.960 been in four minute situations this season. But before I 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.119 do that, I just want to expand on the Jordan 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:25.240 Love piece, because you're right, there was some adversity that 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:27.000 hit this team in this game, and it was not 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.760 being stopped on third down. It was the miss forty 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.360 one yard field goal. It was the missed opportunity right 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:34.960 before halftime when the clock ran out. It was Jordan 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:37.000 Love trying to extend for a first down on a 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:40.679 scramble and then fumbling the football right every time though, 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.240 when there could have been a moment for Jordan Love 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.520 to falter, to wilt, he came back and in so 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:48.880 many ways this game against the Bears reminded me of 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.799 what we saw from him against Kansas City. This kid 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:55.080 does not blink. Yeah, he is calm, he's collected, and 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:58.960 he made some incredible throws throughout, including on that six 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.440 minute drive to finish the thing in some key situations 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:01.800 as well. 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:05.839 Yeah. Absolutely, the third down conversion throws to Jayden Reid 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:07.880 on the third and two and the Packers are still 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.800 inside their own twenty yard line. Then he you know, 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.040 steps up, buys some time and finds Tucker Craft on 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.120 the third and eight, where there was still enough time 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.560 there for the Bears. If the Packers are punting there 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:20.960 they don't convert on third and eight, there's still enough 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.159 time for the Bears to possibly go down and tie 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.880 up the football game. He hits Kraft and then Aaron 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:28.800 Jones finishes it off with the with the final first 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.560 down that allows them to then kneel it out. Jones, 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:33.479 as you said, his third straight hundred yard game, and 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.360 this one came against the number one rushing defense in 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:42.520 the NFL. Really impressive, what now, really impressive what Aaron 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:44.640 Jones has done down the stretch. And we've talked so 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:46.839 much about about how much he's meant to this offense, 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:51.480 but for him to average five yards of carry against 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:53.920 one of the top run defenses in the NFL, and 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:57.760 you've made these statistical comparisons before his longest run was 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:01.279 seventeen yards. It's not as though that averag was skewed 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:03.279 by a forty or a fifty yard run that he 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.800 busted out somewhere. Those are great when they happen, but 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.520 when you're looking at the big picture and you're averaging 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:10.919 five yards of carry and you didn't even have a 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:14.640 carry longer than seventeen yards. That just shows how consistent 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:18.440 that production has been upfront by the offensive line opening holes, 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:21.720 the tackles that Aaron Jones can break, making guys miss. 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.000 He is at the top of his game right now, 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.920 West and we hadn't seen that really since Week one 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.360 when the hamstring first you know, went out on him 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:32.359 crossing the goal line at Soldier Field. Aaron Jones is 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:34.440 at the top of his game and that has helped 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:36.520 this offense get to the top of its game. 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:37.080 One hundred percent. 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:39.000 I mean, when you look at three straight games of 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.240 one hundred yards rushing and the Packers winning all three 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:45.280 of those games, that's really as easy as it boils 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:47.800 down to. When you're getting production like that from Aaron Jones, 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:51.280 it shows twenty and one now in the regular season 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:53.440 under Matt Lafloor, when Aaron Jones gets at least one 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.960 hundred total yards twenty one and two all time underneath 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:01.480 Matt Lafloor. In those circumstances, this guy is looking as 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.360 fresh as he's looked all season. Yep, he's looking fast 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:08.200 he's looking powerful, and while he was very explosive in 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.600 that win against Minnesota, he actually came back and you 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:13.640 could have told me that was Jerome Bettis by the 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:16.520 way that he was moving piles, keeping his feet moving, 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.800 looking like a guy that is really trying to pull 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:21.720 this team on his back to get them back to 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:22.400 the playoffs. 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:24.000 Nobody wants it more than him. 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:25.800 And as I tweeted, you probably didn't see it because 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:27.800 you were doing the live blog, but I took that 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:31.280 old grinch, little meme, jiff, whatever you want to call it. 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.120 When his heart is kind of busting out of the frame, 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:36.680 he's trying to get the sled from falling down the hill. 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:38.080 That's Aaron Jones. 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:38.560 Yeah. 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:40.440 He puts it all out there. 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:42.200 And at a time in which they did not have 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:45.480 aj Dillon at all, he wasn't even in the cards 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.000 because of the stinger, this thing needed to be on 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:49.240 his shoulders, and he. 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.080 Was the bell call that the Packers needed him to be. 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:54.640 Yeah. Well, I want to talk about this defensive effort 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:56.480 because I certainly don't want to overlook it, but I 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:58.280 want to go back and make one more point about 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:02.920 Jordan Love because because my favorite, my favorite sequence when 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.240 you talk about the no blink and the response to adversity. 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:11.400 Jordan Love fumbles the ball away on the scramble, the 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.200 Bears recover. It's fourteen to six. The Bears drive and 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.600 kick a field goal and get to within fourteen to 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.080 nine early in the fourth quarter. It's a game the 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.160 Packers are absolutely dominated. But yet there's most of a 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.280 quarter left to play. You're only up by five points. 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:29.760 Anything can happen. The very next play, his very first 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:33.840 snap after fumbling the ball on the previous possession, what 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:37.520 does Jordan Love do? Play action bootleg to the left, 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:41.480 fires it downfield for Jaden Reid, hits him in stride, 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.719 big play, fifty nine yards down the field and the 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:48.480 Packers are in position to get points again. He just 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:52.160 lets it all hang out there. I mean, that fumble 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:56.280 was critical and could have completely shifted the momentum of 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.559 this game. And what did Jordan Love do. He went 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.160 out and just took it right by and just didn't 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:04.120 let the only turnover of the game, didn't let it 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:08.400 bother him. And that's something that, as Matt Lafleur said 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:10.680 after the game, you can't teach, you can't coach that 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.240 kind of stuff that's just in him. That's who he is, 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:15.880 and we've just seen we've seen it start to come 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:19.120 out more and more as this Packers offense has had 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:20.080 more and more success. 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.480 I've said it for three years, Michael, whether it's just 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.079 the way he handled being behind Aaron Rodgers or how 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:28.080 he's handled becoming the starting quarterback the Green Bay Packers, 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:32.959 Jordan Love has just completely aced this test. He has 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.760 been at every part of his career. Now in year four, 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:38.079 he has been the player the Packers have needed him 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.800 to be. Year one was all about learning, Year two 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.560 is about showing strides. Year three was showing he could 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:43.840 do it. 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:45.120 Yeah, and year four is. 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:48.040 Proving that he is a bona fide NFL starting quarterback. 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.000 And before we pivot to the defense, I just want 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.600 to mention this quickly. Aaron Jones, everything he did on 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:57.160 the run, five catches on five targets, Dantavian Wicks, you 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:00.400 look at his stats, six on seven. Bo Melt steps 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.560 up again with another five catches. The Packers lose Romeo 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:06.120 Dobbs in the first driving this game has to go 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.400 to the hospital to get observed for that chest injury. 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:10.880 Is allowed to come back but doesn't doesn't play in 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:14.640 the rest of the game, and it didn't matter. Jordan 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.240 Love was Jordan Love and the guys around him. I 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.760 think there's so much to be said for how these guys, 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:24.760 when they're given their opportunity, respond to his leadership. And ultimately, 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:26.560 when you have a game where Daniel Wheeland doesn't have 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:30.360 to punt once, feels that momentum down in and down out. 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:32.680 Yeah, And what Dontavian Wicks did in this game was 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:36.319 just emblematic of how things have gone for this offense 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:38.599 with the perimeter weapons all season long. He'd missed the 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.120 last game and a half. He exited at halftime against 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.920 Carolina on Christmas Eve after catching a touchdown pass. He 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:47.000 misses one and a half games. He comes back and 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:51.280 he scores two touchdowns, gets both of Jordan Love's touchdown passes. 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.480 And for those who haven't seen it, I would encourage 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:55.480 them to check out your story The Key to the 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:59.000 Game story that was posted on Sunday night, Dontavian Wicks 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.080 playing with heavy heart that game on Sunday. The date 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.680 was the date of the birthday of one of his 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:10.640 three Virginia football teammates. That was murdered in that tragic 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:15.880 shooting in Virginia before Dantavian Wicks came to the NFL. 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.840 So please check out that story. You found out about that. 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:21.439 Wix was talking about it at his locker after the game. 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:27.440 Really good story and just definitely worth the read. 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.920 Well, and to understand what he went through and what 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.520 that football team went through last year. It's something that 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:34.400 they're going to carry with them the rest of their lives. 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.760 And you can go on Virginia's page. They still have 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:40.000 the emblem with the V and acknowledging and remembering the 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.560 three players. In this case, Lavelle Davis Junior was the 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:44.800 one that unfortunately lost his life in that would have 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:49.640 been twenty two years old on Sunday. And as you know, 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:53.480 Dantavian talked about afterwards kind of playing through him, living 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:55.240 through him a little bit there and after his second 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.439 touchdown mentioned he did go to the sideline and cried. 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.520 You know, just an emotional evening. But my goodness, this 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:02.800 fifth round pick. When you saw all those stats he 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:07.319 put together his junior year, breaking Herman Moore's last season record. Yeah, 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:09.920 you're understanding more and more why this guy is the 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.120 player that he's become here in a very short amount 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:12.760 of time. Yeah. 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:16.040 Absolutely, well, we do need to shift gears to the defense. 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.040 And I'll just start with this. We us. If you 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.720 had told me all the discussion in previewing this game 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:24.439 and everything last week talking about what the Bears were 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.600 going to have to do in order to keep the 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.800 Packers on their heels and possibly ruined Green Bay season, 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:32.000 if you had told me that the Packers were going 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:35.840 to hold Khalil Herbert and Justin Fields to a combined 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:39.160 fifty five yards rushing between those two guys, I would 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:40.640 have said, the Chicago Bears are going to have a 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:44.240 really hard time winning this game. And that's exactly what went. 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.480 Down on twenty carries slash scrambles. 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.000 It's not like it was a situation where the Packers 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.520 got up and the Bears just had to start throwing, right. 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:55.040 They tried, They tried their darnedest, but they couldn't get 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:57.800 a single carry of more than nine yards in this game. 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:02.200 And it was a full attention to a detail approach 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.280 match with a natural aggressiveness that I thought was really 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.000 integral to this thing. Kenny Clark mentioned it. They ran 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:11.040 a lot of inside stunts with their defensive tackles. You'll 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.440 see that a lot with edge rushers, just trying to 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:15.520 confuse the tackles a little bit. But when you do 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:17.679 that in the interior, it's just trying to muddy things up. 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:19.720 It's trying to get bodies moving, it's trying to close 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:20.280 up gaps. 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.720 Yeah, Carl Brooks has become outstanding at that. He throws 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:27.360 his body into multiple offensive linemen, as you say, to 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:31.280 muddy things up, to muddy the waters, and that's created 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.760 opportunities for sacks. I actually have the video of a 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.760 couple of those in in what you might have missed 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:38.920 piece that's on the website if you want to check 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:42.200 out those clips. I mean, Kenny Clark and Carl Brooks 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.520 are becoming quite the tandem when they get that stump 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:46.320 call in the middle. 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:48.280 Yeah, and then Kenny was able to get his seven 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:50.160 now up to seven and a half sacks on the 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:53.840 season off of that, the Packers just it was perfect, man. 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.640 They only allowed four plays of more than sixteen yards 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:01.080 in terms of just the explosiveness passing wise, by not 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:04.720 allowing Herbert to get going, it neutralized everything the Bears 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:08.480 wanted to do offensively. Back to back games for Herbert 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:11.200 with over one hundred yards rushing, green Bay kept him 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.600 to twenty eight on twelve. Yeah, justin fields. We talk 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:16.640 about all the time, he's gonna get his yards. This game, 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.800 he did not get his yards. And while they didn't 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.640 turn over the football, while they played relatively clean, there 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:26.080 was just nothing spectacular about what the Chicago Bears offered. 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:27.920 And then when they would get into the third and 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:30.320 long situations, they could not stay on the field. 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:31.240 Green Bay. 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.320 Again, for everything they've been through over the last month, 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:36.640 I felt like that was one of the strongest defensive 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:37.960 performances they've had this season. 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:41.160 Yeah, five sacks of justin fields, and more importantly, four 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:44.360 of those five on third down. You know, timing is everything, right, 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.760 you get a sack on third down, that's how your 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:50.640 defense gets off the field. The Bears. If I'm not mistaken, 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:54.280 the Bears had six possessions in this game, and all 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.760 six of them they crossed the fifty yard line at 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:01.560 some point on each of those drives. Packers defense rows 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.440 up in the moments that it needed to. I mean 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.680 to have six possessions by the opponent that crossed the 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:09.800 fifty yard line and there are only nine points on 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.560 the board. Three field goals, one of those being the 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.280 the you know, the doink, the deflection that goes in. 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:17.880 Uh. 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.560 This was this was a game. This was a game 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.640 that that the Packers defense was big in the clutch, 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.160 in the big, in the big moments to keep the 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:29.320 points off the board. And you hope that that's something 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.160 that can continue because you know, we'll talk a lot 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:35.000 more about Green Bay and Dallas and the big matchup 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.880 in the wild card round coming up on Sunday. Two 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:39.600 offenses that are going to move the ball a heck 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.680 of a lot, and it already looks like a game 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:43.760 that's probably going to be decided in the red zone. 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:45.520 Who's going to be able to finish drives and who's 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.280 going to settle for field goals. The Packers defense can 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:50.320 can keep this up and force a couple of field 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:52.240 goals that could be the difference in the game. 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.520 And my last point on this because you need it all. 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:56.440 You need to have the pressures, you need to have 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:58.640 the sacks, you need to have the defensive line contributing 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:00.200 the way they did. You're gonna need a bottle up 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.680 Tony Pollard. But Michael, there's a two time All Pro 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.240 cornerback that was back on the field on Sunday for 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:10.200 Green Bay. The shoulder injury appears to be behind him. 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:13.000 The issues that led to the suspension appear to be 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.720 behind him, and jyr Alexander to me, looked like he 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:16.320 was having. 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.000 Fun again out there. It was it's going to take 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:19.360 some time. 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:20.800 It's going to take some time to get his win 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:22.880 back and feel, you know, feel the way he wants 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.520 to feel to be out there. But when you're talking 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:29.960 about a test like DJ Moore in what the explosive 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:33.080 possibilities are of the Bears offense, now you're ready for 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:36.560 ceedee lamb, You're ready for these challenges that Dallas is presenting. 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:37.520 If there was. 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.240 Ever a time for number twenty three to be back 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.000 on the field for the Green Bay Packers, this is 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:44.640 the time. This is in twenty twenty one. He's not 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:46.560 coming back to play eight snaps and dime. They need 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:48.600 him out there as much as possible. Yeah, and I 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:52.280 feel like this is definitely the leap, the step, the 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:56.880 propelling propellanation, if I may call it that, but no, 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:02.080 but just just the impat for what could be something special. Yeah, 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:03.640 and I'm excited to see what Gayer can do with 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:04.200 that opportunity. 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:06.000 Yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you on that one 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.480 hundred percent. 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I'm very excited to 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:42.679 be drinking my morning coffee out of this moving forward. 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:45.199 There you go. I'm not a coffee drinker, but I 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:46.240 will still display. 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:48.639 You could get hot apple cider, that's true. I could. 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.919 You're right, You're right, I could well. Looking at the 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:55.080 playoff picture, the packers are the seven seed in the NFC, 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:59.480 they will travel to face the number two seed Dallas Cowboys, 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:02.879 who wrapped up the NFC East Division title with a 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:06.359 blowout victory over Washington. Pretty much what we expected there. 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:10.240 So the seven versus the two is Green Bay at Dallas. 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:14.120 That will be three thirty pm Central Time kickoff from 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:17.320 AT and T Stadium. Just to run down the way 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:21.720 the rest of the playoff picture looks, the Detroit Lions 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:23.919 are the three seed. They will host the six seed 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:27.600 Los Angeles Rams. Tampa Bay wins the NFC South as 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.919 the four seed, they will host the five seed Philadelphia Eagles. 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:34.720 San Francisco is the one seed with the lone by. 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:38.840