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 trust in colleague West hodkow it'z. We're coming
Speaker 1: to you hear from our studios at Lambeufield here to
Speaker 1: talk about the home opener coming up here. West is
Speaker 1: a Sunday noon kickoff at Lambeau Packers versus Saints, and
Speaker 1: the Saints are coming in with a two or zero record,
Speaker 1: built largely on the strength of their defense, allowing only
Speaker 1: one touchdown through the first two games of the season,
Speaker 1: and that touchdown occurred with like just over a minute
Speaker 1: to go in game number two. This Saints defense is
Speaker 1: I've been saying it's probably the toughest test for Jordan
Speaker 1: Love and this Packers offense for at least the first
Speaker 1: half of the season, maybe for the maybe on the
Speaker 1: entire schedule.
Speaker 2: I would agree. And just what Dennis Allen has done
Speaker 2: with that unit. I mean, you forget ten years ago,
Speaker 2: just the roller coaster that those Saints teams went through
Speaker 2: because Drew Brees would be thrown for five thousand yards
Speaker 2: and then they couldn't stop anybody either. And you know,
Speaker 2: it's been a steady progression for them. But you know,
Speaker 2: Dennis Allen has sort of been the exception to the rule.
Speaker 2: This is a league where defensive coordinators one don't tend
Speaker 2: to last very long for one reason or another, positive
Speaker 2: or negative in two in having success that has slowly
Speaker 2: built up. I think when you look at these Saints defenses,
Speaker 2: they've gotten better every single year. Dennis Allen has been there.
Speaker 2: The training camp practice we had here last year super
Speaker 2: impressive unit. But I think they've even taken yet another step.
Speaker 2: And the probably the most impressive thing of all to
Speaker 2: me is that Larry mccaerron said this when we were
Speaker 2: doing three things on Wednesday. And it's true they have
Speaker 2: name brand talent at a number of positions, but even
Speaker 2: more than that, they have ageless wonders at those spots.
Speaker 2: I mean, Cameron Jordan, if you've ever looked at it,
Speaker 2: has one of them satisfying box score career stat lines
Speaker 2: I think I've ever seen. I mean, he went years
Speaker 2: by playing in every single game, and although he did
Speaker 2: miss one last year and the year before, it actually
Speaker 2: has allowed him to continue the streak of sixteen starts
Speaker 2: a season. Yeah, and he continues to be a top
Speaker 2: playmaker the honey Badger. I mean, you see Marshawn Lattimore
Speaker 2: coming back kind of a scary incident last year, and
Speaker 2: you know, return at the end of last season and
Speaker 2: he's built back as good as he's ever been. It's
Speaker 2: a very dangerous unit for Jordan Love and this Packers
Speaker 2: offense to tackle, but also an incredible opportunity to show
Speaker 2: how far this offense has come in a short period
Speaker 2: of time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yesterday when I was putting together a story on
Speaker 1: the Saints defense and I was looking up, you know,
Speaker 1: with regard to Cam Jordan de Mario Davis at middle linebacker,
Speaker 1: Lattimore and Tyron Matthew. Like you said, in the secondary,
Speaker 1: you start adding up to the the All Pros and
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowls and stuff, and you lose track. Because
Speaker 1: these these are extremely veteran, extremely accomplished play in this league.
Speaker 1: They will have to make one significant adjustment in the
Speaker 1: secondary because starting safety Marcus May, who has an interception
Speaker 1: this season, has been suspended by the NFL for a
Speaker 1: violation of the substance Abuse policy, so he will not
Speaker 1: be on the field at Lambeau. But this defense, it
Speaker 1: started to hit its stride in the second half of
Speaker 1: last season. You look at how twenty twenty two went
Speaker 1: for the Saints. Seven of their first nine games I
Speaker 1: believe on the season they allowed twenty four plus points
Speaker 1: or something like that, seven out of nine. But then
Speaker 1: in the final eight games last season they did not
Speaker 1: allow any team to score more than twenty and that
Speaker 1: streak has now continued into twenty twenty three. They're at
Speaker 1: ten consecutive games not allowing more than twenty points, which
Speaker 1: is one off of the longest such streak by a
Speaker 1: defense in the NFL basically in the last twenty five
Speaker 1: three years. So a major test for the Green Bay
Speaker 1: Packers for Jordan Love, and we'll see what happens with
Speaker 1: regard to where things are on offense. Christian Watson is
Speaker 1: back at practice, Aaron Jones is not. Elton Jenkins is
Speaker 1: out kind of on He's on a week to week
Speaker 1: basis right now. David Bakhtiari essentially is week to week
Speaker 1: as well from what we know at this point, So
Speaker 1: we'll see just who all is out there comes Sunday.
Speaker 1: The one that we know for sure won't be I
Speaker 1: think is Jenkins. Everybody else will have to see what happens.
Speaker 1: But as we talked about on our last show, the
Speaker 1: Packers were putting together a pretty good offensive performance despite
Speaker 1: being extremely shorthanded in terms of some of your major
Speaker 1: players against Atlanta. You've got to you've got to be
Speaker 1: able to, you know, bounce back from that rough fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: pick up where you left off in that second and
Speaker 1: third quarters in Atlanta and try to try to capitalize
Speaker 1: on the opportunities you do get against a tough unit.
Speaker 2: Yeah. One of the big points I've been stressing this week,
Speaker 2: and a lot of my writing has been remembering what
Speaker 2: you did well in the third quarter, but learning from
Speaker 2: what happened in the fourth. Yeah, and you know, Packers
Speaker 2: got up One thing not enough people really talk about,
Speaker 2: and it's a story that I'm writing this week. It's
Speaker 2: something you and I have discussed as the fact that
Speaker 2: Jordan Love for all of these games that he's played,
Speaker 2: so few of them have actually come at lambeau Field.
Speaker 2: I mean the times in which he's gotten in and
Speaker 2: gotten some experience. Now he finally gets that home field advantage.
Speaker 2: The Packers have to make that count and we'll see
Speaker 2: what tools and weapons are going to be around him
Speaker 2: in this one. Certainly it was a positive sign to
Speaker 2: see Christian Watson being able to practice again on Wednesday
Speaker 2: after returning last Friday. That's a big, big check mark
Speaker 2: there to make sure there were no setbacks in his rehab.
Speaker 2: But David Bactieri, Elton Jenkins, and Aaron Jones, that's that's
Speaker 2: three of the best at their position, not on this
Speaker 2: football team, but in the National Football League, and they're
Speaker 2: going to have to overcome that. At the same token,
Speaker 2: the New Orleans Saints are dealing with their own business
Speaker 2: right now. As you mentioned, may get suspended. Elvin Kamar
Speaker 2: is still on the suspension, and now Jamal Williams has
Speaker 2: this hamstring injury that likely is going to sideline him
Speaker 2: on Sunday. So now they're looking at a young backfield
Speaker 2: that's going up with Derek Carr. The most intriguing thing
Speaker 2: to me, and I don't want to end up sounding
Speaker 2: like a broken record here, Mike, but watching these turnover
Speaker 2: margins and differentials in the coming weeks is going to
Speaker 2: be really critical because, yes, the Packers have done a
Speaker 2: great job of protecting the football. They need to extend
Speaker 2: that into this game against the Saints because they're going
Speaker 2: up against the New Orleans offense that has been a
Speaker 2: little inconsistent in recent years. And while they have made
Speaker 2: the transition now to Derek Carr. Carr has one touchdown,
Speaker 2: he has two interceptions, He's been sacked eight times. There
Speaker 2: is opportunity out there, but you have to make sure
Speaker 2: that if this game is going to be seventeen to fourteen,
Speaker 2: you get the points to win those type of games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's what I was going to say about
Speaker 1: Carr with him taking over now in New Orleans. You
Speaker 1: look at and it is only just two games thus far,
Speaker 1: but you look at the stats, you see sixty four
Speaker 1: percent completion rate seems to be pretty efficient. But the
Speaker 1: two interceptions in the eight sacks definitely jump off the page.
Speaker 1: After two games, there is the potential to disrupt things,
Speaker 1: to make things difficult on this Saints offense. They won't
Speaker 1: have Kamara in the backfield. It sounds like they won't
Speaker 1: have Jamal Williams. That's certainly going to put an even
Speaker 1: bigger spotlight than normal on Taysom Hill and how the
Speaker 1: Saints are going to use him, whether it be as
Speaker 1: a straight tailback or as a wildcat quarterback or whatever
Speaker 1: they want to do. There in their receiving corps. They
Speaker 1: have right now, they have kind of the one to
Speaker 1: two the combination of the old pro with the young
Speaker 1: rising star. You've got Michael Thomas, you got Chris Olave,
Speaker 1: those guys, and Derek Carr's a veteran quarterback. You figure
Speaker 1: it's not going to take that long for all of
Speaker 1: those guys to get on the same page. But I
Speaker 1: think the big question with this game, based on how
Speaker 1: well the Fat Falcons ran the ball and ultimately used
Speaker 1: that to come back and defeat the Packers in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter last week. What are the Saints going to
Speaker 1: do to run the ball, because you know they're going
Speaker 1: to want to attack the Packers and their run defense
Speaker 1: that did not perform well last week. But by the
Speaker 1: same token, you can't just you can't just ignore what
Speaker 1: you do well, which right now they're not the greatest
Speaker 1: rushing offense because they've had so many moving parts in
Speaker 1: the backfield.
Speaker 2: It's one hundred percent correct, Mike, But there also is
Speaker 2: a young man down there in Tony Jones Junior, who's
Speaker 2: best game in the National Football League came right out
Speaker 2: of the gate against the Packers in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: Eleven carries fifty yards. That was a tough day for
Speaker 2: the Packers trying to defend the run. Jones was the
Speaker 2: complimentary back in that scenario, and he ran the ball
Speaker 2: really well. He's never run for fifty yards again. I
Speaker 2: don't even know that rookie that twenty twenty one season
Speaker 2: if he ended up running for another fifty the entire year.
Speaker 2: But he has that confidence in his back pocket if
Speaker 2: they have to turn to him in this game. For me, though,
Speaker 2: it does go back to the tricks. It comes back
Speaker 2: to Taysom Hill. The Packers have actually done a pretty
Speaker 2: good job defending Taysom Hill in the past few years.
Speaker 2: Alvin Kamara a little bit of a different story, but
Speaker 2: Taysom Hill, they've been able to keep him somewhat under wraps.
Speaker 2: You have to imagine though, they are going to be
Speaker 2: cooking up and coming up with some interesting plans for him. Obviously,
Speaker 2: last week we saw what he can do with the
Speaker 2: ball in his hand. Get him in space. He's still quick.
Speaker 2: Even though everyone wants to talk about the age number,
Speaker 2: he kind of plays beyond that. And then, as we
Speaker 2: were talking about before we went on air, you know,
Speaker 2: Rashid Shaheed is a guy that has really impressed me
Speaker 2: as a former college free agent that again has made
Speaker 2: some critical plays for them both last year and now
Speaker 2: going into this year. And he gives you a special
Speaker 2: team's aspect of that you know game as well. The
Speaker 2: New Orleans Saints went and got Derek Carr for a
Speaker 2: very specific reason. It's almost kind of like the New
Speaker 2: York Jets light. They had a team they felt could
Speaker 2: compete to win a division title. They had a team
Speaker 2: they felt could compete to actually get to the playoffs,
Speaker 2: but they just made either too many mistakes when as
Speaker 2: Winston was in there, or they just got a little
Speaker 2: bit too blase when it was Andy Dalton. Derek Carr
Speaker 2: gives them a little bit more of both worlds there,
Speaker 2: the playmaking and also the protection. And that's what they're
Speaker 2: hoping to build this thing off of. They were hoping
Speaker 2: with that signing and that acquisition that they were that
Speaker 2: player away from being able to make this thing happen. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: to Victory. We've already dropped a few suggestions here and there,
Speaker 1: but if you were to put something at the top
Speaker 1: of the list, Wes, what is the a number one
Speaker 1: priority that we'll get the Packers a victory on Sunday.
Speaker 2: This is not gonna sound great, okay, because it's the
Speaker 2: home opener at lambeau Field, and there's seventy eight thousand
Speaker 2: people there that are reven and rare in to go,
Speaker 2: and you want them to have as entertaining of a
Speaker 2: football game as possible. But for me, it's that if
Speaker 2: the game gets kind of boring, if there isn't a
Speaker 2: whole lot of sparkle happening, don't be the ones that
Speaker 2: make the sparkle for the Saints. The Packers have to
Speaker 2: be smart. I think where you've seen these two victories
Speaker 2: that New Orleans has had, it has been predicated on
Speaker 2: the opponent making a mistake in the Saints taking advantage
Speaker 2: of it and ultimately using that to win. Green Bay
Speaker 2: has played really clean football. I don't know what the
Speaker 2: percentage possibilities are of going three straight games to start
Speaker 2: a season without a turnover. This would be appreciated though,
Speaker 2: if that can happen in this game. And defensively, it's
Speaker 2: getting back to what they did well against the Bears,
Speaker 2: getting in rotations with that defensive front. I sat here
Speaker 2: and I pontificated about, you know, Kenny Clark and Preston
Speaker 2: Smith and being able to kind of keep some reps
Speaker 2: off of these guys. They need young guys to step
Speaker 2: up up once again against the Saints. It's easy for
Speaker 2: me to sit here and say, yeah, stop the run,
Speaker 2: but that has to happen because the Packers need to
Speaker 2: keep an eye on Chris A. Lave on the back end.
Speaker 2: They need to keep an eye on some of those
Speaker 2: big plays downfield. If the Packers can win this game
Speaker 2: in the trenches up front, in force maybe a turnover
Speaker 2: two along the way, that's going to help out Jordan
Speaker 2: Love's cause and hopefully getting his first win at lambeau Field.
Speaker 1: It sounds like the way you started things. Is what
Speaker 1: you're saying is don't force it. Don't force it. You can't.
Speaker 1: You can't try to take something that's that's not there.
Speaker 2: Even if it gets boring, even if it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and and and the urgent that there's good, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be some urgency there. And here's here's the way
Speaker 1: I see this game. When I look at and I
Speaker 1: understand two weeks as a small sample size. We're just
Speaker 1: in week three here, But when I look at the
Speaker 1: Saints first two games and everything about this defense and
Speaker 1: and how well they're playing. The Tennessee Titans kicked five
Speaker 1: field goals. The Carolina Panthers kicked three field goals before
Speaker 1: they scored a touchdown. The scoring opportunities are there. Teams
Speaker 1: have not saying they've gone up and down the field,
Speaker 1: but teams have moved the ball well enough at certain
Speaker 1: points in the games to give themselves scoring opportunities. Against
Speaker 1: the Saints. In that Tennessee Titans game, I looked back
Speaker 1: at the numbers. Three of the five field goals that
Speaker 1: Tennessee kicked were thirty one yards or shorter. That means
Speaker 1: those possessions were deep in the red zone, but they
Speaker 1: couldn't finish the drives. If the Packers are only going
Speaker 1: to get say they're going to follow the same pattern
Speaker 1: as the Panthers or the Titans, and they're going to
Speaker 1: get four or five scoring opportunities in this game, it
Speaker 1: comes down to are you going to score touchdowns? Are
Speaker 1: you going to kick field goals? Because if not, to
Speaker 1: say you're going to score a touchdown every single time,
Speaker 1: but if you get enough touchdowns and you're scoring opportunities
Speaker 1: as opposed to only kicking field goals or as the
Speaker 1: Panthers did, kicking field goals until the last two minutes
Speaker 1: of the game, that's going to be the difference between
Speaker 1: whether you have sixteen seventeen points on the board or
Speaker 1: you're up there in the twenty four to twenty seven
Speaker 1: range and breaking this streak of New Orleans holding opponents
Speaker 1: to twenty or less for ten consecutive games. I believe
Speaker 1: the Packers are going to have chances to score points.
Speaker 1: It's going to be a matter of whether they whether
Speaker 1: they cash in, and that's ultimately going to decide this game.
Speaker 1: I do think the Packers defense is going to bounce
Speaker 1: back from its performance last week. I know I talked
Speaker 1: all off season about how the Packers defense has to stop,
Speaker 1: you know, this roller coaster thing, which was the story
Speaker 1: all of last season where they play really well and
Speaker 1: they don't play well and they go through these ups
Speaker 1: and downs. Well, they just had a down. They just
Speaker 1: had a down game, certainly a down fourth quarter in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: so they have to bring it back up again. But
Speaker 1: then but then try to stay there as best they can.
Speaker 1: I think it comes down to what are the Packers
Speaker 1: going to do with the score chances when they get them?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and honestly play like a team that plays outdoors.
Speaker 2: It's not going to be cold, but I mean a
Speaker 2: team that is built for this type of environment. I think,
Speaker 2: historically speaking, you can't take one season and just translate
Speaker 2: it to another. But the New Orleans Saints are typically
Speaker 2: a much different team when they're on grass, as opposed
Speaker 2: to win there in the super Dome, as opposed to
Speaker 2: win there in those climate controlled environments. I think the
Speaker 2: Packers it's been a long wait to get back to
Speaker 2: lambeau Field for meaningful football, not just preseason. Yeah, making
Speaker 2: sure that you can actually capitalize on that is going
Speaker 2: to be imperative because there are so many things. I
Speaker 2: just think about this. I've been kind of manifesting in
Speaker 2: my mind a little bit on while this game could start,
Speaker 2: And I mean, just imagine with Jordan Love being able
Speaker 2: to get off to some of these quicker starts that
Speaker 2: they have, being able to put points on the board
Speaker 2: in the first quarter, for a Green Bay Packers crowd
Speaker 2: that is just ready to come on glued for this
Speaker 2: young guy. There's no better way that you could start
Speaker 2: a football game. And I think one of the big
Speaker 2: things we never talk enough about, because you're absolutely right
Speaker 2: about the points margins and everything like that, but the
Speaker 2: emotional upliftingness of a touchdown, of putting twenty five thirty
Speaker 2: points on the board is all the momentum that comes
Speaker 2: with that. The Packers have to be able to take
Speaker 2: care of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, And with regard I lost my train of
Speaker 1: thought there for.
Speaker 2: A second, I could say one more thing, go ahead,
Speaker 2: if you want the Green Bay Packers, we are going
Speaker 2: to have a big transition with iPhones with your Packers app. Yes,
Speaker 2: So if you are coming to the game, there's some
Speaker 2: great little tidbits on Packers dot Com that you could
Speaker 2: find that is actually going to give you some information
Speaker 2: to update your app so you can access your tickets. Yes,
Speaker 2: you're going to want to do that before you come
Speaker 2: to Lambeufield and then cheer for Jordan Love.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's a great reminder, the update, update your app
Speaker 1: so you don't have any issues with your tickets. We're
Speaker 1: in this whole all electronic ticket world, right, you got
Speaker 1: to have everything with your phone working right or you're
Speaker 1: going to be standing out in the parking lot going
Speaker 1: how do I get in? But I don't want to
Speaker 1: be in that situation.
Speaker 2: As I said an insider inbox, my dad has already
Speaker 2: done it, and if my God bless him, my sixty
Speaker 2: two year old father can do it, Gosh darn it,
Speaker 2: you can do it.
Speaker 1: Too, all right. The other thing I was going to
Speaker 1: point out is that you know you have to make
Speaker 1: and it's it sounds funny to say it this way,
Speaker 1: you have to make the fourth quarter failure last week
Speaker 1: in Atlanta count for something, which means that you've you've
Speaker 1: got to you've got to learn from it. You've got
Speaker 1: to understand, you've got to understand why it happened. And
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball, defensively and offensively, you
Speaker 1: have to understand why it happened, what led to it,
Speaker 1: and but by the same token, while while learning from it,
Speaker 1: you can't dwell on it. You can't let you can't
Speaker 1: let the one bad quarter beat you again. And then
Speaker 1: you have another game coming up, you know, four days
Speaker 1: after on Sunday. Don't don't let one bad quarter of
Speaker 1: football suddenly turn the whole first quarter of your season
Speaker 1: upside down. I think Matt Lafleur has always had, has
Speaker 1: always had a really good mentality and a really good
Speaker 1: approach to how to deal with coming up short, how
Speaker 1: to deal with failure. And this was and on the
Speaker 1: offensive side, this was Jordan Love's first first time, you know,
Speaker 1: stepping into that crucible of crunch time in an NFL
Speaker 1: regular season game, and you have to make the failure count,
Speaker 1: make it worth something so that you're better the next time.
Speaker 2: And I'll close with this, Matt Lafleur has not been
Speaker 2: in a joking mood this week, nor would I try
Speaker 2: to be a comedian. But you know, when you look
Speaker 2: at what happened in the fourth quarter, I really am
Speaker 2: reminded of that story he always likes to tell about
Speaker 2: his time with the Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, his first year in the NFL as a lowly
Speaker 1: offensive assistant for the Houston Texans going up against Peyton
Speaker 1: Manning and the Indianapolis Colt.
Speaker 2: And the Packers weren't facing Peyton Manning in this game,
Speaker 2: but it does again remind you of you know, twelve thirteen,
Speaker 2: fourteen point leads. Yeah, if you feel really good about it,
Speaker 2: you have that confidence in that swagger. But they really
Speaker 2: can go quickly, and I think for a young football
Speaker 2: team that's the biggest benefit right now. Yeah, Matt Lafleur
Speaker 2: and the coaching staff, they've experienced it. A couple of
Speaker 2: these veterans on this team have experienced it, Guys like
Speaker 2: Dontavian Wicks and Jaden Reed and this young roster they
Speaker 2: might have gotten a taste of it in college, but
Speaker 2: realistically those are the eye openers that kind of remind
Speaker 2: you that league. No lead is safe in this league. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you have to make those opportunities count. You have to
Speaker 2: really put your your stamp on these games when you
Speaker 2: have the opportunity to do so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely quickly before we go a couple of other
Speaker 1: games in the NFC North to pay attention to that.
Speaker 1: Let's go Falcons. The Atlanta Falcons, who just beat the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers, now go to Ford Field in Detroit
Speaker 1: to take on the Lions. So the Falcons playing the
Speaker 1: Packers and Lions in back to back weeks, and then
Speaker 1: the Packers and Lions are going to play one another
Speaker 1: on Thursday Night football here coming up. And then we
Speaker 1: touched on this one also on our last show. The
Speaker 1: Chargers are going to Minnesota. Two teams that are both
Speaker 1: zero and two, two teams that nobody thought would be
Speaker 1: zero to two at this stage, and barring a seventy
Speaker 1: minute stalemate, one of these teams is going to be
Speaker 1: oh to three in beginning. We both made the playoffs
Speaker 1: last year.
Speaker 2: And you saying that, you know, two oh and two
Speaker 2: teams that nobody expected, just like Sunday Night Football now,
Speaker 2: where you're gonna have a two and o team in
Speaker 2: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers hosting the defending NFC champions in
Speaker 2: the Philadelphi Eagles, a team that I don't think many
Speaker 2: people expect to be two and oh either. So like
Speaker 2: it just shows you that, regardless of whatever the narratives
Speaker 2: are around these teams, to use another old Matt Lafleur line,
Speaker 2: you gotta do it on the grass. Yeah, and the
Speaker 2: Buccaneers going to and taking on Philly now with a
Speaker 2: chance to really get off to fast start, that's one thing.
Speaker 2: But US Bank Stadium playing host to this game, this
Speaker 2: could get real bad, real quick for the Vikings if
Speaker 2: they don't attack this thing the right way. Because while
Speaker 2: the Chargers are oh and two, and while there are
Speaker 2: the Brandon Staley questions out there, they have lost those
Speaker 2: games very by narrow, very very easy for you, very
Speaker 2: narrow margins, three narrow margins in one of those is
Speaker 2: too a Miami Dolphins team that's suddenly, you know, NFL's
Speaker 2: pundit's already talking about them being a Super Bowl contender. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So the reminder is there of how important it is
Speaker 2: and how crucial it is to win these games. And
Speaker 2: then also from the Falcons perspective, you know, Arthur Smith,
Speaker 2: I was watching a lot of the interviews this week.
Speaker 2: Not that they're feeling themselves. I think they've taken the
Speaker 2: right mentality, but the NFL is feeling the Falcons now.
Speaker 2: And you know, an opportunity after getting in having this
Speaker 2: incredible two and oh start, which is the first time
Speaker 2: in however many years they've done that to go three
Speaker 2: and oh, it would be really important in a division
Speaker 2: that looks like it's going to be a complete, you
Speaker 2: know race right till the end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you have when you bring a brand new
Speaker 1: potential rising star into this league and he does what
Speaker 1: Bejeon Robinson has done in the first two weeks, where
Speaker 1: you're getting a glimpse of what that young man can do.
Speaker 1: But everybody who's watching it knows that as the oak
Speaker 1: cliche goes, that's just scratching the surface, like there's there's
Speaker 1: no idea, there's no ceiling as to just maybe what
Speaker 1: that young man could accomplish.
Speaker 2: And guess what he gets to do this weekend he
Speaker 2: gets to face the Detroit Lions. So very interested to
Speaker 2: see how that one plays out. The narratives potentially coming
Speaker 2: out of that game could be expansive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, with that, we'll call it a rap on
Speaker 1: this edition of Packers Unscripted. Be sure to follow all
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Speaker 1: I Mike. Thank you for tuning in everybody. We will
Speaker 1: see you next time.