Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from
Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford, joined as always
Speaker 1: by my trusted colleague Weston Hodkowitz. We're coming to you
Speaker 1: here from our studios at lambeau Field. A little short
Speaker 1: on sleep, West, but the Packers are in the wind column.
Speaker 1: Week two is in the books. Green Bay posts a
Speaker 1: thirty five to seventeen victory over the Detroit Lions on
Speaker 1: Monday night football one on one, tied for first in
Speaker 1: the NFC North. And when you look at this one,
Speaker 1: the thirty five points. Offensively, it starts with number thirty three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and as you said, short on sleep, but not short
Speaker 1: on points. The Packers offense, they got out the gates
Speaker 1: and I thought it was the start they need to have.
Speaker 1: It wasn't perfect. Aaron Rodgers talked about that afterwards, certain
Speaker 1: things they wish they could do, but the fact is
Speaker 1: they fed Aaron Jones early and he produced in the
Speaker 1: red zone. I mean to be able to get four
Speaker 1: touchdowns three received ving first time that's been done since.
Speaker 1: It was a remarkable performance by him. And to you know,
Speaker 1: last week fifteen carries forty three yards on the ground.
Speaker 1: Green Bay just did not get their ground game going,
Speaker 1: and I felt like in this game, while they didn't
Speaker 1: break a big gainer, it allowed those offensive linemen to
Speaker 1: get comfortable. It allowed the offense to get into a rhythm.
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur mentioned that benefits to him as a play caller,
Speaker 1: and at the end of the day when the Packers
Speaker 1: made the decision to bring back Aaron Jones, these were
Speaker 1: the type of moments that they brought him back for.
Speaker 1: He is dynamic and if teams are gonna go cover two.
Speaker 1: We talked so much this week myself included about okay,
Speaker 1: you pound that, you know you pound the ball against that. Well,
Speaker 1: if they're gonna let running backs be opened in the
Speaker 1: flat two and a guy is dangerous as Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: being able to get the ball in his hand and
Speaker 1: look up field. I thought, you saw what he can
Speaker 1: turn that into. Yeah. Absolutely. My favorite sequence in this
Speaker 1: game was right in the beginning, on the very first possession,
Speaker 1: Packers get into the red zone offensively. They ran the
Speaker 1: ball three consecutive times in the red zone to get
Speaker 1: themselves down there inside the inside the five yard line.
Speaker 1: I leaned over to you in the press box and
Speaker 1: I said, Wes, I love it when they run the
Speaker 1: ball in the red zone. I just it just it
Speaker 1: sets up everything else. It just looks like they are
Speaker 1: in control when they were able to do that. And
Speaker 1: actually Matt Lafleur said that the little push pass out
Speaker 1: of the shotgun that Jones caught on the jet motion, offensively,
Speaker 1: they look at that as a running plea even though
Speaker 1: statistically it's it's a passing play and it goes for
Speaker 1: a a receiving touchdown for Aaron Jones. But they they showed,
Speaker 1: they showed the commitment to the run. The Lions banged
Speaker 1: up in the secondary. We had talked about it. Jeff
Speaker 1: Acuda was not playing. They had some young guys back there.
Speaker 1: They kept their two safeties deep, I think to protect
Speaker 1: those young cornerbacks as best they could most of the game.
Speaker 1: And and the Packers took advantage they didn't like obviously
Speaker 1: the three and out on the second possession after the
Speaker 1: productive first possession, but then after that, spanning the end
Speaker 1: of the second quarter are into the second half, the
Speaker 1: Packers scored touchdowns four consecutive times they had the ball,
Speaker 1: and that's exactly what they needed to do. Bouncing back
Speaker 1: from week one. Davantae Adams also obviously a big night
Speaker 1: with a yards receiving eight receptions. Rogers talked about it
Speaker 1: after the game. This offense starts with getting the ball
Speaker 1: to thirty three and seventeen and when you just look
Speaker 1: at the numbers West, if you take out the three
Speaker 1: kneel downs. At the end of the game, the Packers
Speaker 1: ran fifty eight offensive plays based on touches and targets.
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones and Davante Adams were involved in thirty two
Speaker 1: of those fifty eight plays. That's when the Packers offense
Speaker 1: is at its best. Well. And to bring it back
Speaker 1: to that first series and as you mentioned, technically, yes,
Speaker 1: three three carries in a push pass, yeah, but realistically
Speaker 1: it was three times touching the ball in a run
Speaker 1: game orientation for eighteen yards. It wasn't just that it
Speaker 1: was a nice eleven place seventy five yard drive to
Speaker 1: get on the board get that first touchdown that they
Speaker 1: were looking for. It was the fact that you saw
Speaker 1: how jittery that made Detroit in the red zone the
Speaker 1: rest of the game. I was thinking of that you know,
Speaker 1: play action kind of rollout that they did later on,
Speaker 1: which was the second touchdown catch. I believe for Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones that was completely set up by linebackers and safeties
Speaker 1: biting on the Packers potentially running it up the middle.
Speaker 1: It was a nice play actually read that's setting up
Speaker 1: your offense. That's being able to to take advantage and
Speaker 1: mentally be one step ahead. But even more than that,
Speaker 1: I love the way that Aaron Rodgers attacked this defense too.
Speaker 1: You talk about the fifty yard pass to Davante Adams, which, honestly,
Speaker 1: to me, as important as Aaron Jones was to get
Speaker 1: this thing started. I felt like that's where the Packers
Speaker 1: really started to put their their foot you know. That
Speaker 1: was that was the play of the game offensively, really
Speaker 1: from a situational standpoint, because it's the opening drive of
Speaker 1: the second half. The Packers are down seventeen fourteen and
Speaker 1: Rogers had just been sacked on second and two, a
Speaker 1: ten yard loss. You're staring at third and twelve to
Speaker 1: open the third quarter and you're down by three points
Speaker 1: and boom, the big hit down the field. Davante Adams
Speaker 1: is in one on one coverage. Roger said the Lions
Speaker 1: had actually rotated out of cover two into a single
Speaker 1: high safety, so Davante was was one on one down
Speaker 1: the sideline, perfect throw, great catch, fifty yard gain, and
Speaker 1: from there the Packers offense looked pretty unstoppable. And Rogers
Speaker 1: mentioned to the dangerous kind of weaponry in this offense
Speaker 1: of arsenal for Green Bay. When they go to that
Speaker 1: single high look, you're also having to keep attention on
Speaker 1: Marcus Valdes scantling and with his speed going down field,
Speaker 1: and just to put an absolute perfect pass on DeVante
Speaker 1: Adams in that area. Adams, as he always does, he
Speaker 1: has the sideline as good as Jordy Nelson was on
Speaker 1: the sideline, and he made some miraculous you know, you know,
Speaker 1: air bending type catches throughout his career. I don't know
Speaker 1: anybody that is more aware of his body in where
Speaker 1: he is in relation to the sideline than Davanta Adams.
Speaker 1: As he mentioned, that's a weapon for him. That's something
Speaker 1: that he can use at this level to get you know, open.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the part that's a part of the
Speaker 1: whole game plan. And then right after that they come back,
Speaker 1: Rogers a beautiful pass to Robert Tonyan, I mean, you
Speaker 1: and I when we're up in the press box, it
Speaker 1: looked impressive. But then I don't know if you saw
Speaker 1: that camera angle where it was actually the camera that's
Speaker 1: set up in the end zone and you see just
Speaker 1: the absolute frozen rope that is coming in on there,
Speaker 1: and Robert Tony makes a fantastic play on the ball.
Speaker 1: That was the game. That's where it started to break open.
Speaker 1: I felt like, whether it was offense, defense, heck, even
Speaker 1: special teams, I felt like Green Bay really felt like
Speaker 1: it had its mojo at that point. Yeah, and that
Speaker 1: that throw to Tony in for the touchdown was another
Speaker 1: third down. I believe that was third and seven from
Speaker 1: the twenty two yard line, and Alan Lazard was even
Speaker 1: wide open on the little shallow cross there over the middle.
Speaker 1: Rogers saw the linebacker and alone with his back to
Speaker 1: him and uh and said, well, he's not gonna be
Speaker 1: able to defend this. He fired it in there to Tonyan,
Speaker 1: but even admitted al Lazard might have scored if if
Speaker 1: he had actually taken the shorter throw there. And that's
Speaker 1: what you love about this offense. I mean, Alan Lazart
Speaker 1: I think played forty snaps. He didn't have a catch.
Speaker 1: Buddy impacted the football game. Afterwards, Matt Laflour talking about
Speaker 1: you know, Mercedes Lewis, the way that they affect games.
Speaker 1: Randall Cobb comes in, has three catches on a single series.
Speaker 1: They have different guys at different moments that can step up.
Speaker 1: As we talked about, it is Davante Adams, it is
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones. But those situational football players. That's what made
Speaker 1: this offense the top scoring unit a year ago and
Speaker 1: it's what allowed Green Bay to really put this one away. Yeah,
Speaker 1: big third down conversion there on the one series for
Speaker 1: Randall Cobb. That was actually a couple of a couple
Speaker 1: of conversions, one of those on a free play when
Speaker 1: Rogers caught the Lions with twelve on the field, and
Speaker 1: another third down conversion to uh to Cobb later in
Speaker 1: the ballgame. A little bit of historical perspective. You mentioned
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones the three touchdown receptions first time since nineteen two,
Speaker 1: So Andy Yurum, if I'm saying that correctly, he was
Speaker 1: the last Packers running back to have three touchdown receptions
Speaker 1: in the game. It was in ninety two. You remember
Speaker 1: in two thousand three one a Mon green And broke
Speaker 1: off that ninety eight yard touchdown run. Okay, that's the
Speaker 1: longest touched on run in franchise history. The guy who
Speaker 1: had the longest one before that, Andy Europe seven yards
Speaker 1: in ninety nine. So I just wanted to say that
Speaker 1: because I looked it up in the record book. If
Speaker 1: you've never heard of Andy Uram, now you have. And
Speaker 1: he has a couple of rather prominent places in uh
Speaker 1: in Green Bay Packers history. So with that, we'll go
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Speaker 1: in better. I can't get over that. That's that's where
Speaker 1: we need the lower third on the spot stats in
Speaker 1: and Ems Packers Hall of Famer. It's not like he's
Speaker 1: a complete but I'm just saying the modern day, the
Speaker 1: modern day fans have probably never heard of him. I
Speaker 1: just I thought I thought I would throw that in there,
Speaker 1: and that much amount of time. Let's passed. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's remarkable. But but kudos to Aaron Jones um.
Speaker 1: And also I don't know if we're gonna get back
Speaker 1: to it, so I just want to throw it out
Speaker 1: there too. A monumental night for him and his family. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to be able to for him to get four touchdowns
Speaker 1: like that. He had fifteen members. You know, his mother
Speaker 1: was there, his brother, his son, Aaron Jr. We all
Speaker 1: know the story of what happened with Alvin Senior, Aaron's
Speaker 1: father this offseason, unfortunately passed away at fifty seven years old.
Speaker 1: Aaron had a little pendant that he was wearing. We
Speaker 1: found out after the game they actually lost it. He
Speaker 1: believed it was on that second touchdown grab. Fortunately though
Speaker 1: the reports out this morning, I believe it was on
Speaker 1: Steve Saban show that he mentioned that he did find it.
Speaker 1: Credit goes to Brian fleet ingold Packers trainer, was able
Speaker 1: to actually get that back forth flee out there hunting
Speaker 1: around in the end zone around quarter to two, just
Speaker 1: just shy of two a m and uh, and he
Speaker 1: did find it. So Aaron Jones has necklace and the
Speaker 1: pennant back. Another quick historical note, only four players in
Speaker 1: Packer's history with multiple hole four touchdown games now Paul Hornick,
Speaker 1: Jim Taylor, Sterling Sharp, and Aaron Jones. That's some pretty
Speaker 1: good company right there. On the defensive side of the ball, West,
Speaker 1: it was not a good first half. The Packers were
Speaker 1: really struggling to find themselves defensively. There was one stop
Speaker 1: in the first half, thanks mostly to some Lions penalties
Speaker 1: that put them in a very bad down and distant situation.
Speaker 1: The other three possessions in the first half two touchdowns
Speaker 1: in a field goal. Then the defense comes out in
Speaker 1: the third quarter. After the Packers take the lead on
Speaker 1: that opening possession of the third quarter and the Lions
Speaker 1: are moving again fourth and one on the green Bay
Speaker 1: twenty five yard line, the Packers get the stop Eric
Speaker 1: Stokes tight coverage on Quintus cefas Jared Goff's passes incomplete.
Speaker 1: It felt like that play just completely changed things for
Speaker 1: this Green Bay defense, and it also helped that the
Speaker 1: defense was playing with a lead for the first time
Speaker 1: all season here in the middle of the third order
Speaker 1: of Game two. Yeah, I asked deve Andre Campbell, Packers
Speaker 1: inside linebacker, about that. After the game in one of
Speaker 1: the Zoom rooms, and he mentioned, I mean it's just
Speaker 1: to be able to get a stop like that, just
Speaker 1: the confidence builder that that was just a momentum changer.
Speaker 1: And credit to Eric Stokes. I mean, this rookie, first
Speaker 1: round pick out of Georgia, he had an impressive outing
Speaker 1: with you know, a little bit bigger of a menu
Speaker 1: of plays. The biggest adjustment really that they made defensively
Speaker 1: was in that Nickel package. They brought in Stokes as
Speaker 1: the perimeter corner now opposite Jaire Alexander, and they moved
Speaker 1: Kevin King into the slot. There was some miscommunication there
Speaker 1: early on on one of the touchdown passes the Sea Fast,
Speaker 1: but in the second half, as the Packers started to
Speaker 1: dial up the pressure a little bit more, you got
Speaker 1: to see what Stokes can do as just a natural
Speaker 1: man corner and and just had some really fantastic places.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the fourth and one, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: quote unquote garbage time at the end, but a remarkable
Speaker 1: PBu at the end of the game against Trinity Benson
Speaker 1: Um that kept points off the board. That's what the
Speaker 1: Packers wanted to see from this young man. He has
Speaker 1: remarkable speed, good size, for cornerback, but can you step
Speaker 1: up in those moments? And I thought he passed a
Speaker 1: big test in this one. Yeah. Absolutely. I think we're
Speaker 1: going to see some some more of Stokes now. The
Speaker 1: Packers are going to face deeper receiving corps than than
Speaker 1: the Lions. As as things move along here, the Lions
Speaker 1: still trying to piece together exactly who they're um perimeter weapons,
Speaker 1: their top perimeter weapons are going to be. But that
Speaker 1: beingstead said Stokes with an impressive performance, I thought the
Speaker 1: I thought the fourth and one, if Anthony Lynn, the
Speaker 1: Lion's offensive coordinator, was watching the film on the plane
Speaker 1: on the way home, he's gonna want that call back
Speaker 1: he had he had Jared Goff in the shotguns single setback.
Speaker 1: The Packers were kind of spread out defensively. Now, whether
Speaker 1: he was whether Jared Goff should change that to a
Speaker 1: run or where, whether Anthony Anthony Lynn should have just
Speaker 1: called a run, or if he did and Goff decided
Speaker 1: to throw it, I don't know. But you're looking at
Speaker 1: that one from above. I was stunned that they didn't
Speaker 1: hand the ball off there on fourth and one. I
Speaker 1: think I think they definitely want that back, but quick
Speaker 1: fade like that. It just wasn't. It just wasn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that that's that's a that's a tough timing play for
Speaker 1: sure in that situation. But after that, the next three
Speaker 1: possessions for the Lions offensively, Golf has the fumbled snap
Speaker 1: on first down right when the rain started falling and
Speaker 1: started coming down during that commercial break, and then sure
Speaker 1: enough the very first snap, Golf can't handle it, Chris
Speaker 1: Barnes falls on it. So the Packers catch a big
Speaker 1: break there, a one play possession with the fumbled snap.
Speaker 1: Then you get a pressure quasi sack on third down
Speaker 1: from Shawn Gary on the next possession to snuff that
Speaker 1: one out, and then with the Lions essentially abandoning the
Speaker 1: run because they're so far behind, you get an interception
Speaker 1: from Campbell with with with Golf also under pressure and
Speaker 1: trying to scramble out of the pocket. So after the
Speaker 1: fourth and one stop, three more possessions where the Lions
Speaker 1: really don't get and it don't really get much movement
Speaker 1: at all in terms of offensive production and UH and
Speaker 1: the Packers defense, for as much as it struggled the
Speaker 1: first quarters of this season, they finally have just at
Speaker 1: least a little bit to hang their hat on, a
Speaker 1: little bit of momentum that hopefully they can take into
Speaker 1: week three here in San Francis. Yeah, and to add
Speaker 1: into your comment about Campbell, the fact that that was
Speaker 1: Jonathan Garvin, the second year guy, former seventh round pick,
Speaker 1: was the one applying the pressure to golf. You gotta
Speaker 1: imagine he feels really good about that on Tuesday morning
Speaker 1: looking back at that film, understanding, Okay, I can do it.
Speaker 1: I can get after these guys at this level. The
Speaker 1: biggest difference to me, Mike was pressure. And I don't
Speaker 1: have all the stats. I don't know how many more
Speaker 1: times they blitzed right now, but that was the difference.
Speaker 1: They were a lot more creative that you saw more
Speaker 1: games in the second half. You saw some more blitz
Speaker 1: is from DeAndre Campbell in some of the dime looks.
Speaker 1: I just felt like they let their hair go back
Speaker 1: a little bit and they just felt played with a
Speaker 1: little bit more confidence. Yeah, And it was and it wasn't.
Speaker 1: It wasn't throwing the kitchen sink at Jared Goff necessarily,
Speaker 1: but it was definitely picking spots to send that one
Speaker 1: extra guy, whether it was Campbell, whether it was Adrian Amos.
Speaker 1: I think even one time I saw Kevin King maybe
Speaker 1: being the extra guy that was sent. So just sending
Speaker 1: that fifth rusher seemed to speed up golf's play clock.
Speaker 1: And and uh, and the ball had to come out early.
Speaker 1: The Lions were not pushing the ball down field, and
Speaker 1: and the whole the whole narrative defensively changed and it
Speaker 1: certainly helped that the Lions basically had to give up
Speaker 1: on the running game because of what the Packers offense
Speaker 1: had done and building that second half lead. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I mean the other thing, the big difference in this
Speaker 1: game was just execution. It applies to both sides of
Speaker 1: the ball. I mean, the Lions in this game, as
Speaker 1: we mentioned, oh for two on fourth down. Last week
Speaker 1: New Orleans two for two. Uh, you know, four for
Speaker 1: nine on third down, which was, you know, margin markably
Speaker 1: better than last week against the Saints. And realistically it
Speaker 1: also just disciplined, Mike, the Packers played with a lot
Speaker 1: more discipline in this ball game. The Lions, as you said,
Speaker 1: there were instances where they hurt themselves with penalties. Green
Speaker 1: Bay took advantage of those, and they didn't really do
Speaker 1: the same on the other side, and if they did
Speaker 1: have a holding call or something, they found a way
Speaker 1: to pick themselves back up on the next play. I
Speaker 1: believe Tonyans even his twenty two yard touchdown catch was
Speaker 1: a part of that. Defensively, do you have to hope
Speaker 1: that this is something that now when you go into
Speaker 1: Sam for Cisco, because they're gonna see a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: stiffer tests in the weeks to come, with next week,
Speaker 1: everything that Kyle Shannon can throw at you the week
Speaker 1: after that. You know Ben, you know Roethlisberger, one of
Speaker 1: the sharpest minds in the game. It's going to get
Speaker 1: more difficult and they're gonna have to do some of
Speaker 1: these things on the road. But at least to get
Speaker 1: a feather in their cap here. You gotta imagine that
Speaker 1: feels good for a defense that did kind of take
Speaker 1: it on the chin the first six quarters. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: truly a team victory because the Packers also got a
Speaker 1: significant contribution on special teams and primarily I'm talking about
Speaker 1: rookie seventh round pick Kyle and Hill with a forty
Speaker 1: one yard kickoff return in the second quarter. Now, mind you,
Speaker 1: this is what the Packers down four seven. He kind
Speaker 1: of runs into the pile, bounces off, keeps his balance
Speaker 1: and makes his way down the sideline and suddenly, even
Speaker 1: though the Packers are down by seven, they're starting a
Speaker 1: possession on their own forty four yard line, almost twenty
Speaker 1: yards further ahead. Then then you'd be with a normal touchback.
Speaker 1: That was a significant moment in the game because then
Speaker 1: the Packers did take advantage of that field position, drive
Speaker 1: down get the game tied up there at fourteen in
Speaker 1: the second quarter. Dante Adams had a really high praise
Speaker 1: for Kyle and Hill after the game. He kind of
Speaker 1: went out of his way to give it to him too.
Speaker 1: It was a question I asked just about the response,
Speaker 1: and he immediately pointed towards the special teams and he
Speaker 1: basically said, he's, like, you know, just based on the
Speaker 1: situation and the weapons they have. Kylan Hill didn't have
Speaker 1: a huge role, probably could have had a bigger role,
Speaker 1: but the spark that he gave them, especially on that
Speaker 1: forty one yard returned the longest return the Packers have
Speaker 1: had since Tyler Irvin's back in December of two thousand nineteen,
Speaker 1: which was longer longer than any kickoff return last year
Speaker 1: that the Packers had so for for Hill to do that,
Speaker 1: to bounce off makes something out of nothing and honestly
Speaker 1: a breakdown on Detroit's coverage. That's what green Bay needs
Speaker 1: to take advantage of. It's not about a guy with
Speaker 1: just four three speed running past everybody. It's when somebody
Speaker 1: you know loses they lost containment on the edge there.
Speaker 1: You have to be able to turn that thing off
Speaker 1: field and hey through in a nice little hurdle two
Speaker 1: over Austin Siebert the spice. You know, get these guys
Speaker 1: going into that next series. Yeah, absolutely, well that that's
Speaker 1: a good sign Corey. But horqu was also um Bojorke
Speaker 1: has excuse me for the Packers with the punting game
Speaker 1: we saw. I was really impressed with the punt he
Speaker 1: had late in the game because it wasn't one of
Speaker 1: those like super high hang time ones. But he launched
Speaker 1: that thing with a ton of distance, decent hang time,
Speaker 1: but put it like right along the sideline. I mean,
Speaker 1: the biggest punt returns that happened against you are when
Speaker 1: the ball is kicked down the middle, when the returners
Speaker 1: get to catch the ball between the numbers right And
Speaker 1: even though that one maybe wasn't the you know, the
Speaker 1: matching the hang time with the distance like they you know,
Speaker 1: they like to say, if you can place the ball
Speaker 1: all the way over on the sideline like that, you're
Speaker 1: not going to give that return or chance to get
Speaker 1: much more than than maybe eight or ten yards, which
Speaker 1: even if he's getting ten yards on a fifty five
Speaker 1: yard punt, you're taking that. Yeah, I mean the fifty
Speaker 1: six yard of the sideline was exceptional. It's one of
Speaker 1: the better punts I've seen. Also, that was the one
Speaker 1: where I finally noticed. I was like, oh, that's a
Speaker 1: left footed punter punting to the left sideline from the
Speaker 1: left hash and you saw how much of a weapon
Speaker 1: that can be for that young man. I wish the
Speaker 1: coverage would have been better there. That's the only issue
Speaker 1: we talked about, you know, help punting your coverage at
Speaker 1: kicking your coverage. This was kind of the opposite of that.
Speaker 1: At Bjork was basically did everything you need to do.
Speaker 1: The gunner just didn't get there in time. But because
Speaker 1: of how good that punt was in the placement of
Speaker 1: it still ended up netting them forty six yards. Also
Speaker 1: had one of the opposite sideline I've been really impressed
Speaker 1: early on with how much touch he's shown along the sidelines.
Speaker 1: That's been one area or Green Bay. It wasn't just
Speaker 1: j K. Scott, it was before that too. They've really
Speaker 1: struggled to get that directional punning game going. But Hoork
Speaker 1: was It's a very small sample size, but I thought
Speaker 1: that was a really promising development. Yeah. Absolutely, Well. Looking
Speaker 1: at the rest of the NFC North here before we
Speaker 1: sign off West, the Packers one on one tied for
Speaker 1: first place with the Chicago Bears, who defeated the Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Bengals in Chicago in their home opener. The Justin Fields
Speaker 1: era has begun, apparently do mostly due to a knee
Speaker 1: injury to Andy Dalton. Um doesn't sound like it's a
Speaker 1: season ender for Andy Dalton, but Justin Fields is going
Speaker 1: to be the man for the time being, and you
Speaker 1: wonder if if that will be a more permanent thing
Speaker 1: now going forward. And then the Minnesota Vikings a second
Speaker 1: straight heartbreaking loss. Um after losing an overtime in week one.
Speaker 1: They are set up for a game winning field goal
Speaker 1: thirty seven yards right in the middle of the field
Speaker 1: and Joseph misses the kick and Arizona survives with a
Speaker 1: one point victory. So the Lions and the Vikings both
Speaker 1: oh and two. Packers and the Bears are at one
Speaker 1: and one. Vikings one of those really bizarre games where
Speaker 1: they basically outplayed the Arizona and really every capacity. I mean, now,
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray had a fantastic game, but you know, Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook was much more effective on the ground. It seemed
Speaker 1: like they had a better rhythm. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, when games are that close, it comes
Speaker 1: down to situational football. And this kicker thing has been
Speaker 1: a deal. You know, it's been an issue for them
Speaker 1: now for going on five six years, and it came
Speaker 1: back once again at an unfortunate time. Just yeah, and
Speaker 1: the one point was a missed extra point from earlier
Speaker 1: in the game. He gets a chance for redemption to
Speaker 1: kick a game winning field goal and misses that. So
Speaker 1: um a tough one on the chin for the Vikings.
Speaker 1: But on our next show, take a look before our
Speaker 1: next show later this week, the schedule for the NFC
Speaker 1: North in Week three, the Packers are playing the Niners.
Speaker 1: Look at the other teams at the NFC North, um
Speaker 1: teams are playing. It's going to be a really really
Speaker 1: interesting week in the division. But we will definitely get
Speaker 1: to that on our next show. For now, we'll call
Speaker 1: it a wrap on this edition of Packers Unscripted. Be
Speaker 1: sure to follow all of our coverage of the team
Speaker 1: on packers dot com for West, I'm Mike. Thank you
Speaker 1: for tuning in, everybody, See you next time.