Speaker 1: Hi everyone, Welcome back to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford sitting alongside my trusted colleague West Hodkowitz.
Speaker 1: Were coming to you here from our studios at lambeau
Speaker 1: Field after roughly a week off, West and the Packers
Speaker 1: coming off of their bye week. Now in this setting,
Speaker 1: we haven't had a chance to review that Monday night
Speaker 1: football victory for Green Bay over San Francisco, and boy
Speaker 1: it was an important one because it got the Packers
Speaker 1: to three two and one at the bye week. We
Speaker 1: all know this tough road schedule the Packers have coming up,
Speaker 1: and I tell you what, thinking back to that Monday
Speaker 1: night football game when the Packers went forward on fourth
Speaker 1: and goal midway through the fourth quarter and didn't get it,
Speaker 1: it wasn't looking too good. No, it wasn't. I mean,
Speaker 1: the one thing we've always learned, when Aaron Rodgers is
Speaker 1: your quarterback and you make a couple of stops on defense,
Speaker 1: comebacks can always happen. And they've have been once again
Speaker 1: in this game. What what stands out to me the
Speaker 1: most about it going into the bye week and now
Speaker 1: into this matchup with the Rams, was the Packers and
Speaker 1: I think Davanta Adams talked about it afterwards. When they
Speaker 1: need points, when they need yards, they can get them.
Speaker 1: That's really been the biggest thing. They have had their
Speaker 1: times where it's been you know, tough going, but for
Speaker 1: the most part, they've been able to get production when
Speaker 1: they need it most. And I think the fact that
Speaker 1: I believe now their fourth in total offense in the
Speaker 1: league right now kind of signifies that certainly want to
Speaker 1: be able to finish off some of those drives a
Speaker 1: little bit more not you know, play a little bit cleaner,
Speaker 1: mistake free football, cut down on the penalties, but to
Speaker 1: be three two and one too, whether some of the
Speaker 1: storms that they did to get to this point, I
Speaker 1: think it's really important. And in my biggest takeaway honestly
Speaker 1: from that game was the fact that they got Jimmy
Speaker 1: Graham going. You saw what he could do in the
Speaker 1: open field. They had three guys i'll go over receiving
Speaker 1: yards in that contest, and at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers just made some magical things happen once again, Yeah,
Speaker 1: some statistical things in case anybody missed it. In the aftermath,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers throws for four twenty five yards. He actually
Speaker 1: becomes the first Packers quarterback in team history to throw
Speaker 1: for more than four hundred yards and back to back games.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned the three receivers going over a hundred yards.
Speaker 1: Davante Adams, Jimmy Graham and Marquez Valdez Scantling all go
Speaker 1: over a hundred. That was the first time the Packers
Speaker 1: had done that. I believe it was against the Yeah,
Speaker 1: against the against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. So um, some
Speaker 1: neat statistical things there, but also West, I tell you
Speaker 1: what if anybody in the NFL has ever gone from
Speaker 1: the outhouse to the penthouse in eight days. Boy, what
Speaker 1: a night for Mason Crosby. Coming off the worst game
Speaker 1: of his career, as we had talked about in Detroit,
Speaker 1: he comes back and makes all seven of his kicks
Speaker 1: against San Francisco, including a fifty plus yard field goal,
Speaker 1: including the game winner as a walkoff kick to get
Speaker 1: the Packers this thirty three to thirty victory after a
Speaker 1: tremendous two minute drive put together by Aaron Rodgers in
Speaker 1: the receiving corps. Just a great way for this one
Speaker 1: to end and for every anybody wondering how's Mason Crosby
Speaker 1: going to handle things. He showed exactly how he handles it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he handles it like a pro. He handles it like
Speaker 1: a guy who's been doing this for over a decade.
Speaker 1: And I think if you talk to anybody in that
Speaker 1: locker room might not at least know all the guys
Speaker 1: that I did. Afterwards, I asked Tremont Williams about it,
Speaker 1: and he said, if you've been around Mason Crosby long enough,
Speaker 1: you know the way he's built and what he's been
Speaker 1: through in this league. He wasn't gonna let a performance
Speaker 1: like Detroit get him off of his path. He was
Speaker 1: going to reset, he was going to correct what he
Speaker 1: needed to do, and he was going to go out
Speaker 1: there and hit the football. Now. The one thing that
Speaker 1: you can't mistake, though, was the fact that Mason Crosby
Speaker 1: said it was probably one of the longest weeks of
Speaker 1: his career as a kickers A lot to think about
Speaker 1: you and I saw it before the game. He was
Speaker 1: the first guy from the packer's sideline that was down
Speaker 1: on the field just walking around, wasn't even doing any
Speaker 1: warm upsolutely, just walking going through his process. If there's
Speaker 1: a week he probably wanted a Thursday night game. It
Speaker 1: would have been this one after what happened on that
Speaker 1: Sunday in Detroit. I'm sure he just wanted to get
Speaker 1: out and get into another game because he knew that
Speaker 1: was the best way to put it behind. And he
Speaker 1: made some big kicks, man, I mean he had the
Speaker 1: fifty one yard or certainly they got into a really
Speaker 1: good situation with the back shoulder pass to Equinimia st
Speaker 1: Brown on the sideline. Davante Adams gets another catch, makes
Speaker 1: it a chip shot field goal for him, But still
Speaker 1: he needed to make that kick even before that, Mike,
Speaker 1: how important was that extra point? When the Packers finally
Speaker 1: come back, they have an opportunity to tie it. That's
Speaker 1: a really important kick. I just thought from a field
Speaker 1: goal operations standpoint, Mason Crosby and being able to put
Speaker 1: Detroit in the rear view mirror and becoming the NFC
Speaker 1: Special Teams Player of a Week the following week, it's
Speaker 1: just a credit to his mental toughness, is an ability
Speaker 1: to bounce back. Yeah, you mentioned the extra point that
Speaker 1: ties up the game, and we've seen since the NFL
Speaker 1: moved this extra point back to thirty three yards these
Speaker 1: are not the gimmes they were at twenty yards, And
Speaker 1: in fact, Baltimore's Justin Tucker misses the first extra point
Speaker 1: of his career two hundred and twenty two combined twenty
Speaker 1: yards thirty three yarders but two hundred two extra points
Speaker 1: in a row in his career, and he misses one,
Speaker 1: and Baltimore loses to the Saints twenty four to twenty
Speaker 1: three on what should have been for them, what they
Speaker 1: were thinking was a tying touchdown in the last minute
Speaker 1: of the game. Packers were in that same situation. Mason
Speaker 1: Crosby makes the kick, you know, after having obviously hit
Speaker 1: the upright on an extra point the previous week in Detroit.
Speaker 1: So all these moments, the pressure is there, and uh,
Speaker 1: obviously sometimes you come through, sometimes you don't. But what
Speaker 1: Crosby went through to then go from that performance in
Speaker 1: Detroit to the NFC Special Teams Player of the Week,
Speaker 1: that's that's gonna be a memorable moment in in in
Speaker 1: his career, in a very decorated career. And the thing
Speaker 1: you got to remember, too, is just how much he
Speaker 1: means to this team, how much he means to Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 1: You've heard Aaron Rodgers talk about him. He saw the
Speaker 1: clip of him at the Detroit game, just coming and
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, mussing up his hair a little
Speaker 1: bit and just trying to, you know, tell him, you
Speaker 1: know what we got you. It's okay. Things like this happened.
Speaker 1: It's a tough game. The thing I go back to, though,
Speaker 1: Mike is stability. A kicker, to me is still one
Speaker 1: of the most important things in the NFL today, and
Speaker 1: it has to be a good kicker. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: just stand by a guy who's making six out of
Speaker 1: every tent. But you see these teams where I think
Speaker 1: the best example this isn't to throw the Bears under
Speaker 1: the bus, but the best example is what happened with
Speaker 1: Robbie Gold. They made a decision that it was time
Speaker 1: to move on from him. Gold ends up going to
Speaker 1: San Francisco and has this resurgence in his career because
Speaker 1: the reality is, it's not easy to kick in the
Speaker 1: NFC North. It's not easy to take a kicker that's
Speaker 1: never been in those elements and just throw them out
Speaker 1: there and expect the best. It's a tough, tough climate
Speaker 1: to be a participant in. If you're kicking the ball,
Speaker 1: and Aaron Rodgers discussed how gold In Mason Crosby are
Speaker 1: two of the best to ever do it. The Packers
Speaker 1: have been through a lot of wars with Mason Crosby
Speaker 1: and staying with him through all that ultimately has helped
Speaker 1: them win a lot of those games. Yeah. Well again,
Speaker 1: looking back at the San Francisco game on the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball for the Packers, once again, at
Speaker 1: was kind of a good news bad news situation in
Speaker 1: that the bad news is they we're up and down.
Speaker 1: The first half was not the type of defense the
Speaker 1: Packers want to play. The second half was, but this
Speaker 1: defense has not been able to iron out those inconsistencies
Speaker 1: just yet. You hope, Okay, the bye week, some guys
Speaker 1: maybe get healthier. You're gonna be facing you know, obviously
Speaker 1: the Rams and the Patriots too high powered offenses these
Speaker 1: first two weeks coming out of the by But this
Speaker 1: Packers defense needs to needs to find some sort of
Speaker 1: reliable level of play that the coaching staff and the
Speaker 1: rest of the team can rely upon because this, uh,
Speaker 1: this roller coaster thing, quite frankly west has been going
Speaker 1: on too long. Yeah it has, and I mean it's
Speaker 1: just the way that the game has structured. Obviously, it's
Speaker 1: a very offensive football game now, so trying to figure
Speaker 1: out how you're going to be able to attack those
Speaker 1: schemes is going to be important. I thought in the end,
Speaker 1: the Packers did what they needed to do in that contest. Defensively,
Speaker 1: What did we say the whole week, You have to
Speaker 1: win the turnover margin, You have to win that battle.
Speaker 1: It took the ball way three times. Yeah they did.
Speaker 1: They did finally flip that script in terms of getting
Speaker 1: on the plus side and turnovers. If you're gonna give
Speaker 1: up yards, if you if there's gonna be situations like that,
Speaker 1: you have to find ways to take away the football.
Speaker 1: And you know how Clinton Dicks did that with the
Speaker 1: force fumble. I mean, you look at Raven Green and
Speaker 1: you know James Crawford getting together for one on a
Speaker 1: special team's place, stealing in early possession. Packers turned both
Speaker 1: of those into uh six points. And Kevin king Man,
Speaker 1: I mean, he made the biggest play of his career
Speaker 1: at a time in which the Packers desperately needed it.
Speaker 1: You and I had some mixed thoughts on be third
Speaker 1: in the decision of Kyle Shanahan to throw their believe
Speaker 1: it was a third and three situation or third and
Speaker 1: five situations. It was third and three, I believe. Afterwards,
Speaker 1: will Clay Matthews said that actually probably was the right
Speaker 1: call there because the Packers were kind of moving guys up.
Speaker 1: They were going to try to, you know, push the
Speaker 1: box a little bit, and they got single high cover
Speaker 1: and not even single high zero. It was one on one.
Speaker 1: Just has to make that play or it could be
Speaker 1: a potential big play. King makes it, they get to
Speaker 1: take away and they're able to go and finish off
Speaker 1: that contest. That's what you need. But yes, ultimately it's
Speaker 1: still about stitching together those four quarters of complete football.
Speaker 1: The defense is still looking to do that. We'll see
Speaker 1: what this week holds for them. As of Tuesday, they
Speaker 1: will practice, but they're actually not going to be forced
Speaker 1: to submit an injury report. So it's gonna probably have
Speaker 1: to wait and see how close a guy like jyr
Speaker 1: Alexander is going to be the potential to being back
Speaker 1: in the cards. But if they could get all four
Speaker 1: of those corners together, Tremon Williams and the three young guys,
Speaker 1: I'll go a long way and bland in that conversation
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, just to backtrack for a second, I
Speaker 1: think I think what surprised me about the forty Niners
Speaker 1: clock management there on that final drive is just we've
Speaker 1: seen so many times in that situation a tie game,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is moving the team down the field, and
Speaker 1: it's not just about getting in position to get the points.
Speaker 1: It's about draining the clock and not giving the other team,
Speaker 1: not giving the other quarterback any opportunity to come back
Speaker 1: the other way. And it just seemed like they had
Speaker 1: I believe it was second and three even before the interception,
Speaker 1: and they were throwing the football. The Packers had no
Speaker 1: time outs, forts had all of theirs. They were in
Speaker 1: complete control of the clock and everything they wanted to do,
Speaker 1: and it just seemed like they were in this big hurry.
Speaker 1: They had a very reliable kicker and Robbie Gold like
Speaker 1: you talked about. I was just surprised that they were
Speaker 1: that aggressive. But that's Kyle Shanahan, that's that that's who
Speaker 1: he is. He's always going to to play that way.
Speaker 1: And they did get the coverage they wanted. They got
Speaker 1: the Packers in a blitz. There was no safety help.
Speaker 1: Kevin King was one on one and and for my money,
Speaker 1: that was one heck of a play because he's got
Speaker 1: to stay with this guy, he's got to turn his
Speaker 1: head at the right time, find the football, and then
Speaker 1: he ends up hanging onto it as as the two
Speaker 1: players are crashing to the ground, and he gives Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers that chance to win in regulation as opposed to
Speaker 1: possibly having a good overtime. I've said it time and
Speaker 1: time again, and certainly we're gonna have to you have
Speaker 1: to wait five ten years to to look back on drafts.
Speaker 1: But if Kevin King stays healthy, what the dimension he
Speaker 1: brings this defense? And honestly, Mike, it's one they haven't
Speaker 1: had because when you go back and look at their
Speaker 1: top flight corners in the past, it's guys like Sam Shields.
Speaker 1: It's guys like Tremont Williams, Guys that were undrafted free
Speaker 1: agents that sort of caught people by surprise, had had
Speaker 1: some intangibles, but ultimately just made their style work to
Speaker 1: what the packers needed. And you look at a guy like,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously Charles Woodson came in with a different
Speaker 1: pedigree when they signed him. Sure, but Kevin King, I
Speaker 1: think has a really great makeup for the position to
Speaker 1: be not only have all those when you look at
Speaker 1: the speed and the height and everything, but working with
Speaker 1: Joe Wood Jr. Being able to hone those skills. Now
Speaker 1: his ceiling, man, it's it's sky high. And now you
Speaker 1: get guys like Jr. Alexander involved in Josh Jackson, another
Speaker 1: draft pick. The Packers invested in those corners, and there's
Speaker 1: still things they need to do better defensively, but the
Speaker 1: future of that position is really bright for reasons like King. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I want to see, as you mentioned before, how
Speaker 1: this week goes in practice with regards to the health
Speaker 1: of Jiar Alexander. He's been out now with a groin injury,
Speaker 1: but if he comes back and as you said, Packers
Speaker 1: went into the season within whatever or do you want
Speaker 1: to put him in King, Williams, Jackson, and Alexander as
Speaker 1: the top four cornerbacks and Mike Petton likes to play
Speaker 1: with four cornerbacks on the field, certainly on third downs,
Speaker 1: but we just haven't had gotten to see that combination
Speaker 1: a whole lot because of the injuries to King and Alexander.
Speaker 1: So that could be a big thing for this defense
Speaker 1: moving forward. And you tip your caps. You know, guys
Speaker 1: like Germaine white Head have been able to sort of
Speaker 1: stem the tide for them there, and they've had a
Speaker 1: lot of guys step up in that regard and play
Speaker 1: different spots. But I think everybody saw what Alexander can
Speaker 1: do as a nickel slock cornerback and the versatility that
Speaker 1: Josh Jackson has shown being inside or outside and having
Speaker 1: that flexibility. It's a really good potential for the Packers.
Speaker 1: And as you've seen with a lot of these young
Speaker 1: corners who can get better throughout the course of the season,
Speaker 1: the more work that they get. It's gonna be really
Speaker 1: exciting to see if you can get all four of
Speaker 1: them out there. You know what that group can do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Um. Well, quickly, let's here some
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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers. Okay, the Los Angeles Rams are on
Speaker 1: the docket this week. They are seven and o West,
Speaker 1: undefeated and really announcing themselves as the team to beat
Speaker 1: in the NFC, I think, along with the New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 1: I want to get into some more detail with regards
Speaker 1: to the Rams in tomorrow's show, but it's worth looking
Speaker 1: at right now since the Packers were off. What happened
Speaker 1: over the bye week in the NFL I mentioned the Rams.
Speaker 1: They took care of business against the forty nine. They
Speaker 1: are seven and oh. We mentioned the Saints winning by
Speaker 1: one point against Baltimore with Justin Tucker's missed extra point,
Speaker 1: So the Rams, I'm sorry. The Saints have just one
Speaker 1: loss and uh. And then in the NFC North, the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings moved back into first place with a road
Speaker 1: victory over the Jets. The Chicago Bears lose on a
Speaker 1: hail Mary that comes up one yard short against the
Speaker 1: New England Patriots. The Bears lose by seven to fall
Speaker 1: to three and three. The Lions win and they get
Speaker 1: to three and three. So right now in the NFC North,
Speaker 1: all four teams nobody in the NFC North is below
Speaker 1: five hundred with either six or seven games on the docket.
Speaker 1: It's it's really interesting how this is taking shape. We
Speaker 1: said the division was going to be good, Michael, We
Speaker 1: really did. And you know, and I also was mentioning too.
Speaker 1: I at no point did I think that the Vikings
Speaker 1: weren't real. I mean that that that is a real
Speaker 1: competitive football team, a team that has Super Bowl aspirations,
Speaker 1: that wants to finally bring a Lombardi Trophy to Minneapolis
Speaker 1: in the Twin Cities. And it was a good performance
Speaker 1: for them to be able to go and beat a
Speaker 1: Jets team that I think felt like they were getting
Speaker 1: a little bit of momentum worked in their favor. They
Speaker 1: turned things around. The Patriots have done exactly what I
Speaker 1: think we expected them to do to they bounce back
Speaker 1: from some losses early in the season. Now they're at
Speaker 1: five and two. The Bears, I'm sure there's no moral victories,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure Matt Nagy's telling those guys that that's
Speaker 1: the crema, the cream of the crop right now in
Speaker 1: the NFL. And you've played them, you know, right to
Speaker 1: the final whistle. So well, I think if you're the Bears.
Speaker 1: The thing that you're lamenting is not even so much
Speaker 1: the Hail Mary that comes up one yard short, but
Speaker 1: the fact that you lose to the Patriots by seven,
Speaker 1: and you gave up fourteen points on special teams, a
Speaker 1: kickoff return for a touchdown, a block punt for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: From the offense defense side of things, the Bears won
Speaker 1: the football game. They really were the better team in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways. The Patriots were kind of sloppy
Speaker 1: with the football with some turnovers early that gave the
Speaker 1: Bears the lead, but two special teams touchdowns. That's awfully
Speaker 1: hard to overcome, and Mr Bisky did everything he could
Speaker 1: to try to overcome it, but but it just wasn't
Speaker 1: to be. No, And the thing I think actually surprised
Speaker 1: me the most about the Bears earlier this season is
Speaker 1: their running game really hasn't driven them as much as
Speaker 1: I thought they were going to the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: they've actually put in Robinsky's hands a lot. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: they're trying to find that running game because they definitely
Speaker 1: want that to be to be a really strong complimentary
Speaker 1: piece to their to their young up and coming quarterback.
Speaker 1: But that that running game just hasn't found the footing,
Speaker 1: so to speak, that everybody expected it to have him
Speaker 1: the get go. Yeah, and Cohen has been a difference
Speaker 1: maker as a pass catcher. But you know, I think
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard, at least me, maybe I wasn't paying close
Speaker 1: enough attention to the Bears, but I was just anticipating
Speaker 1: that he's gonna be a guy that you just jotted
Speaker 1: down for a thousand yards each season. Yeah, because he's
Speaker 1: gonna get a hundred, you know, two twenty five touches
Speaker 1: and he's gonna make the most out of him. They've
Speaker 1: been off to a slow start right now, so there
Speaker 1: are three and three. It was a tough loss. They
Speaker 1: did go up some team some points on special teams.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna be interesting to see how they bounced
Speaker 1: back from that because they played him tough. But when
Speaker 1: you look at a statuet on him, it just wasn't
Speaker 1: didn't appear to be as close as what you know,
Speaker 1: kind of looked. Yeah, and another big game coming up. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the Packers have a big one against the Rams, but
Speaker 1: the rematch of the miracle in Minneapolis will take place
Speaker 1: on Sunday. I guess that'll be when we're flying back
Speaker 1: from l A. Because I believe it's Sunday night. I
Speaker 1: believe it's Sunday night football is the What I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: of course, is the Saints at US Bank Stadium in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: UM to UH two contenders, rematch of last year's playoff game.
Speaker 1: That should be a pretty interesting one because the Vikings
Speaker 1: now they're you know, they're trying to get the momentum
Speaker 1: going on their side. They put up thirty seven points
Speaker 1: against the Jets. The Saints are as are as hot
Speaker 1: as any team except the undefeated Rams. The Saints having
Speaker 1: lost in Week one to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but
Speaker 1: they've won every game since then, including you know, some
Speaker 1: really tough road victories, and this will be another tough
Speaker 1: road test for New Orleans. Yes, the thing I love
Speaker 1: about so the Rams are just running through everybody right
Speaker 1: like they're the Their offense is so complete. They obviously
Speaker 1: do a lot of things well defensively. The Saints to
Speaker 1: me are almost like kind of they are winning games obviously,
Speaker 1: but they're just sort of having to like scratching cloth
Speaker 1: through this entire schedule so far. They did it again
Speaker 1: in this game against the Ravens, and you know, it
Speaker 1: was an impressive performance. Obviously, Elvin Kamara is what he
Speaker 1: is and downten going into the fourth quarter. If I'm
Speaker 1: not mistaken, on the road, they come back and win
Speaker 1: the ballgame. They find ways to to get it done. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just New Orleans one of those teams that just
Speaker 1: it feels like, you know, any given week they can
Speaker 1: beat anybody, and potentially any given week they could lose anybody.
Speaker 1: But they have done things well. They've done some good
Speaker 1: things defensively. I think they right now are tops in
Speaker 1: the league and run defense. So seeing how the Vikings
Speaker 1: match up with that, it's it is gonna be a
Speaker 1: really good game. And the fact of the matter is
Speaker 1: too Mike kirk Cousins is the quarterback now and the
Speaker 1: Vikings signed him because they're trying to get over that hump.
Speaker 1: Be interesting to see how he matches up with the Saints. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and if anybody's wondering just how topsy turvy this NFC
Speaker 1: might get, all you have to do is look at
Speaker 1: the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles, three and four
Speaker 1: now through seven games, after blowing a seven team to
Speaker 1: nothing lead at home to a very competitive Carolina team
Speaker 1: that has now announced itself in that NFC South along
Speaker 1: with the New Orleans Saints. Is hey, here we are.
Speaker 1: You better start paying attention to us. I love that
Speaker 1: nobody's running the ball either. Isn't that great? Like, I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously Mike McCarthy, he says he wants to get the
Speaker 1: running game more touches, and people are like, well, why
Speaker 1: are in certain players getting these amount of perhaps like
Speaker 1: look at this, alright, Philadelphia leading rusher was Small Smallwood
Speaker 1: nine carries for thirty two yards for the For the Panthers,
Speaker 1: it was Christian McCaffrey had seven carries for twenty nine yards.
Speaker 1: You I can go back to the game with the
Speaker 1: Saints and Ravens. I think the leading rusher, I mean
Speaker 1: you had Kamara had like twelve carries. But like, nobody's
Speaker 1: getting twenty carries in It's just that isn't the game
Speaker 1: we play. But hey, here's the thing that's surprising to
Speaker 1: me about the Eagles is that for the most part,
Speaker 1: and I'm only watching from you know, a distance, but
Speaker 1: it seems like Carson Wentz has played okay, zach Ertz
Speaker 1: is having a career year for a tight end, it
Speaker 1: seems like, but they just have not been able to
Speaker 1: get the job done. They faced some good opponents. I
Speaker 1: mean that there are three and four records that their
Speaker 1: four losses are against some good teams. Yeah, welcome to
Speaker 1: having a first place schedule, but you got to get
Speaker 1: it done against those teams. So um Yeah, a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of rallying that they need to do
Speaker 1: right now. Because here's the thing is Washington, Mike, and
Speaker 1: I know you had some reservations about them, Sure you
Speaker 1: still do. They're keeping themselves in this thing. Dallas goes
Speaker 1: and trades for Marie Cooper. That division is competitive. So
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's the Cowboys hit the upright on
Speaker 1: the potential game tying field goal there in Washington escapes
Speaker 1: with a big home victory. So I mean, you gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta be able to pick up these wins, and
Speaker 1: you've gotta be able to take care of business. But
Speaker 1: I think it goes back to something you and I
Speaker 1: were saying before the bye two. Outside of really the
Speaker 1: Rams and obviously the Saints are often good starts, it's
Speaker 1: wide open, ye, And that's why all these games have,
Speaker 1: you know, huge significance. Yeah, it is absolutely wide open. Well.
Speaker 1: We will get to a lot more in depth look
Speaker 1: at the Los Angeles Rams the upcoming opponent on tomorrow's show,
Speaker 1: but for now we're going to call it a rap
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