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 partner in crime, West hod Kuitz. Were coming
Speaker 1: to you here from our studios at lambeau Field West.
Speaker 1: The Packers are back from Chicago with a five and
Speaker 1: one record by virtue of fourteen win over the Bears
Speaker 1: at Soldier Field. A lot of places we can go
Speaker 1: with the discussion here about this game, but I want
Speaker 1: to start with this one to punch the Packers have
Speaker 1: in the backfield on offense, because hundred and nineties six
Speaker 1: yards I believe it was against Pittsburgh yards from scrimmage
Speaker 1: Dight eight at Cincinnati, Aaron Jones and A J. Dillon
Speaker 1: combined for a hundred and sixty nine rushing and receiving
Speaker 1: yards against the Bears. That's five hundred and fifty yards
Speaker 1: in three weeks out of out of those two guys.
Speaker 1: This um, this offense, this offense is is starting to
Speaker 1: find it's you know, it's extra gear, starting to hit
Speaker 1: its stride, and it starts with those two running backs.
Speaker 1: Right now. There's so many times, Mike, on draft night
Speaker 1: where you and I will get done we'll start working
Speaker 1: on our features. You'll figure out what you're doing, what
Speaker 1: I'm doing, try to get as much content up on
Speaker 1: packers dot com as possible. So many times those stories
Speaker 1: are based on projection, where you see player A fitting
Speaker 1: into the green Bay Packers in the grand scheme of things.
Speaker 1: I would challenge you, as you were sitting in your
Speaker 1: office in Green Bay, as I was out in Swamico
Speaker 1: in mind, because we couldn't be anywhere near each other
Speaker 1: during the NFL drafts, I think you and I would
Speaker 1: have both agreed that at some point down the line,
Speaker 1: this was the picture perfect pairing the Green Bay Packers
Speaker 1: were hoping for. Certainly, Jamal Williams is an exceptional players
Speaker 1: having a good year this year in Detroit, But when
Speaker 1: they made the decision to draft A J. Dillon, it
Speaker 1: was because they felt like this guy was going to
Speaker 1: be a good compliment not only for Aaron Jones, but
Speaker 1: also this Packers offense and Mike. I don't know any
Speaker 1: other way to say other than this is exactly how
Speaker 1: you pictured it working out for Green Bay. Time after
Speaker 1: time after time, You're seeing two guys play interchangeably get
Speaker 1: series by themselves. A J. Dillon this You're just getting
Speaker 1: series in the middle of the game by himself. And
Speaker 1: the thing that stands out to me is that moment
Speaker 1: is not too big for him. His assignments aren't too
Speaker 1: big for him, and he's more than just a north
Speaker 1: and south runner. There's a shifting nous to him, as
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones talked about after the game, There's an explosiveness
Speaker 1: with him when he's in the open field. Those numbers
Speaker 1: are not by accident. Aaron Jones and a J. Dillon
Speaker 1: have been two of the better players on the Packers
Speaker 1: roster right now, and they're getting the production they need
Speaker 1: out of that tandem. Yeah. Well, I rattled off the
Speaker 1: combined rushing and receiving yards from the last three games,
Speaker 1: but I would say personally, for my money, what these
Speaker 1: two running backs did against the Bears was the most impressive,
Speaker 1: even though was it was the fewest in terms of
Speaker 1: the yardage total because the Chicago Bears came in defensively,
Speaker 1: came into this game allowing just three point nine yards
Speaker 1: per carry on the ground to the opposition, which ranked
Speaker 1: I believe eighth in the league. Aaron Jones and A J.
Speaker 1: Dillon averaged five point six four carries for a hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty five yards, pounding the ball in the ground.
Speaker 1: The other thing too, the Bears run defense had allowed.
Speaker 1: The longest run it had allowed all season was a
Speaker 1: twenty nine yard or a j Dillon ripped off a
Speaker 1: thirty six yarder, Aaron Jones ripped off a twenty eight yarder.
Speaker 1: That's two of the three longest runs the Bears have
Speaker 1: allowed all season came in this game against the Packers.
Speaker 1: You can't ask for better production, and the Packers did
Speaker 1: it again with more shuffling up front with the offensive line.
Speaker 1: Elton Jenkins comes back uh steps back in at left tackle,
Speaker 1: but on the opening series of the opening offensive series
Speaker 1: of the ballgame, Josh Meyer's the rookie center, goes down
Speaker 1: with a knee injury. Lucas Patrick has to jump back
Speaker 1: in there after really not getting any reps with the
Speaker 1: number one offense during the week. He had obviously played
Speaker 1: center the previous week, but with Myers coming back from
Speaker 1: the finger injury, he was getting all the reps with
Speaker 1: the number one offense, So Patrick has to get thrown
Speaker 1: in there and then lo and behold. Number sixty two
Speaker 1: ends up the highest graded offensive lineman when the coaches
Speaker 1: go through the tape and do their usual grades. So
Speaker 1: once again this Packers offensive line stepping up to the challenge.
Speaker 1: And um, and I just I can't say enough about
Speaker 1: how much I like what they're doing with these two
Speaker 1: running backs. And I want to give a little shout
Speaker 1: out here to Lucas Patrick. And in a couple of
Speaker 1: reasons for that one, the Packers are gonna need him
Speaker 1: at the floor mentioned on money, it looks like that
Speaker 1: knee injury that Josh Meyers sustained, While it will not
Speaker 1: be something that sidelines him for the rest of the year,
Speaker 1: he could miss some games with it. That means Lucas
Speaker 1: Patrick is right back in the middle of the heart
Speaker 1: of this thing. And Lucas is a really interesting guy.
Speaker 1: If you ever had a chance to talk to me
Speaker 1: about understanding where he comes from, not just the undrafted background,
Speaker 1: but just where he comes from as a human being.
Speaker 1: The guy is all hard work in appreciation. And he
Speaker 1: went into camp this year competing for a starting spot
Speaker 1: at right guard, and when Royce Newman emerged there, then
Speaker 1: he's suddenly competing for a spot at left guard. He
Speaker 1: ends up sustaining the concussion. John Runyon has been great
Speaker 1: in that role. Lucas Patrick goes back to the bench,
Speaker 1: fifth year veteran guy that's been around for a number
Speaker 1: of years now. He didn't sulk, he didn't drop his
Speaker 1: head low. He he wasn't complaining. The guy just shifted
Speaker 1: his focus to all right, what does this team need
Speaker 1: me to do? And he had a real salient point.
Speaker 1: I felt Mike back in training camp when he was
Speaker 1: kind of asked about competing with all these young guys
Speaker 1: and the fact that he hadn't really carved out his
Speaker 1: starting role yet. He said, the way I look at
Speaker 1: it is if I'm competing with somebody and they beat me,
Speaker 1: that makes this team better if I'm you know. And
Speaker 1: that's his disposition on everything. But what a luxury it is,
Speaker 1: Mike in this sport that you can turn to a
Speaker 1: four or five year veteran to come off your bench
Speaker 1: and play as well as he did in that game,
Speaker 1: to be able to be a center, the access point,
Speaker 1: the pivotal spot in this Packers offense, and he came
Speaker 1: through with flying colors, as you mentioned, grading out his
Speaker 1: highest paid player. I think that's a testament to Lucas Patrick.
Speaker 1: And like we've said, all all season, Mike, the depth
Speaker 1: of that offensive line, Yeah, absolutely well. The latest news
Speaker 1: is that the Packers could be getting David Baktieri back soon,
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur saying that the five time All Pro left tackle,
Speaker 1: who has been on the pup list with the knee injury,
Speaker 1: had the reconstructive surgery after the a c L injury
Speaker 1: last December. He is scheduled to return to the practice field,
Speaker 1: but no timeline as of yet as to when he
Speaker 1: will be ready to step in and play a game.
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur saying there will be a ramp up period
Speaker 1: here to get Bactieri back in the swing of things
Speaker 1: so he can get confidence in that knee. You need
Speaker 1: to practice, you need to play some football. It's not
Speaker 1: just okay, go through you know, a few reps on
Speaker 1: a Thursday and Friday and get out there on Sunday.
Speaker 1: That's not what this is when you're coming off of
Speaker 1: an injury like that. But again, we'll see, We'll see
Speaker 1: what happens then when Bot does come back, and and uh,
Speaker 1: what the Packers decided to do with the lineup up front,
Speaker 1: shifting gears to the defensive side of the ball. I
Speaker 1: thought the biggest thing that stood out to me in
Speaker 1: this game for the Packers from a defensive standpoint is
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears deferred when they won the coin toss,
Speaker 1: so they want to have the opportunity for the double up.
Speaker 1: Right at the end of the first half beginning of
Speaker 1: the second half. They got exactly what they wanted. They
Speaker 1: got the opportunity they wanted. The Packers had a ten
Speaker 1: to seven lead and the defense stopped the Bears at
Speaker 1: the end of the first half, Dean Lowry getting a
Speaker 1: huge sack that pushed Chicago out of field goal range.
Speaker 1: There did not score before halftime, and then they get
Speaker 1: a quick I believe it was just one first down
Speaker 1: and then three and out after that on the opening
Speaker 1: possession of the third quarter. So the Bears set themselves
Speaker 1: up for the double up and they get no points
Speaker 1: out of it, and then the Packers eventually take a
Speaker 1: two score lead and uh and take control of the
Speaker 1: football game. I thought that was the key stretch for
Speaker 1: this defense where they said they they said, all right,
Speaker 1: we've we've got this one excellent point. Key stretch because
Speaker 1: you talk about the double up. If you look at
Speaker 1: that as like, you know, back to back on each
Speaker 1: side of that book, ending it We're Packers scoring drives now.
Speaker 1: It was only a thirty eight yard field goal before that.
Speaker 1: Packers weren't able to punch that one in. But then
Speaker 1: they come back with arguably their best drive of the game, uh,
Speaker 1: ceiling that with the touchdown pass to Aaron Jones, the
Speaker 1: route runner of the past catcher. Aaron Jones has become Mike.
Speaker 1: I'll be honestly, I don't know if we've really seen
Speaker 1: much like it in terms of where he went from
Speaker 1: in two thousand seventeen. Is a pretty raw, shifty slasher
Speaker 1: running back to an all around playmaker now. But defensively,
Speaker 1: I just think that gave this whole entire roster and
Speaker 1: a huge boost this game, Mike. So many guys are missing, right,
Speaker 1: you know, Zadarius Smith and r Alexander there too, all
Speaker 1: pros from last year. Neither was available for this game.
Speaker 1: Kevin King has a shoulder injury, and while it doesn't
Speaker 1: appear like you'll need to go on I R with
Speaker 1: it wasn't available in this one. So Isaaci Adams starts.
Speaker 1: After the first series, they make the switch to Resseul Douglas,
Speaker 1: who's been here for all of thirteen days he plays
Speaker 1: competitive football. Darnell Savage has the concussion, Preston Smith leaves
Speaker 1: with an oblique strain. What do you when you look
Speaker 1: at this whole unit, Mike, what's left? What is the
Speaker 1: one area where the Packers had their full reservoir of players?
Speaker 1: It was the defensive line. And in this game, whether
Speaker 1: it was the way that Dean Lawry finished that first
Speaker 1: half seven tackles now sack and a half in the
Speaker 1: last two games, to pass deflections, Dean playing great ball,
Speaker 1: and then the way that Kenny Clark finished this game.
Speaker 1: I felt like, Mike, the defensive line set the tone
Speaker 1: in this one. And when guys are out, you need
Speaker 1: your veteran, top players who are available to step up.
Speaker 1: And Kenny Clark definitely did that. Yeah, what Clark did
Speaker 1: down the stretch in this game, the Packers with a
Speaker 1: ten point lead to fourteen, the Bears trying to trying
Speaker 1: to get that score to make it a one score game,
Speaker 1: and you know, in the final four or five minutes
Speaker 1: and in a span of three plays, Kenny Clark gets
Speaker 1: two sacks. I believe they accounted for twenty three yards
Speaker 1: or twenty five yards something like that. I mean not
Speaker 1: just We're not just talking about two three yards sacks.
Speaker 1: I mean he was getting Justin Fields way in the
Speaker 1: backfield for some significant lost yardage. Clark with uh Clark
Speaker 1: with those two sacks. And also to have to point
Speaker 1: out Jonathan Garvin Um, the second year outside linebacker, seventh
Speaker 1: round draft pick out of Miami a year ago, a
Speaker 1: raw player came in here with a long way to go.
Speaker 1: He's getting a heck of a lot more snaps now
Speaker 1: with Darius Smith being injured. As you said, Preston Smith
Speaker 1: ends up leaving this game. Jonathan Garvin gets his first
Speaker 1: full sack um in this game, after having a half
Speaker 1: sack previously, and then also on the open drive of
Speaker 1: the third quarter, he chases down Justin Fields on a scramble.
Speaker 1: Doesn't get credit for a sack because Fields was able
Speaker 1: to cross the line of scrimmage and game two yards,
Speaker 1: but it was on a third down play just the
Speaker 1: two yard game. On the scramble, Garvin makes the tackle
Speaker 1: and the Bears have to punt there, which then, as
Speaker 1: you said, the Packers respond with the touchdown drift to
Speaker 1: go up by two scores. Those are the kinds of
Speaker 1: things and whether you're talking about whether you're talking about
Speaker 1: Jonathan Garvin, whether you're talking about Henry Black stepping in
Speaker 1: for Darnell Savage when Savage goes out with an injury.
Speaker 1: That's the type of impact the Packers are going to
Speaker 1: have to have to continue to weather this injury storm
Speaker 1: for however long it's going to take to hopefully get
Speaker 1: Jayar Alexander back, Hopefully you get Zadarius Smith back. We
Speaker 1: don't know. Um Darnell Savage. You hope he's okay with
Speaker 1: the concussion, but you never know how long that could
Speaker 1: keep somebody out. Preston Smith with this oblique the guy's
Speaker 1: never missed a game in his career, but he's in
Speaker 1: he's in danger of possibly missing a game, even though
Speaker 1: he obviously wants to play against his former team Washington
Speaker 1: coming up this week. But it's those types of contributions
Speaker 1: from these guys that the Packers are going to have
Speaker 1: to continue to rely on as you you try to
Speaker 1: navigate through this and get to where, hopefully by the
Speaker 1: stretch run, you know, Thanksgiving on through December, you can
Speaker 1: sort of get back to the personnel on the field
Speaker 1: defensively that you've been hoping to have all year. Interesting
Speaker 1: juxtaposition with the offense right, because offensively, you had Lucas Patrick,
Speaker 1: a guy who's one of the longest tenure players on
Speaker 1: this roster at this point, subbing in for Josh Meyers
Speaker 1: a week earlier. Randall Cobb, you know, one of their
Speaker 1: most veteran players to jump in. Defensively, it's been a
Speaker 1: lot of young guys and Jonathan Garvin, a seventh round
Speaker 1: pick last year, got draft in the league at twenty
Speaker 1: one years old. Henry Black and undrafted free agent a
Speaker 1: year ago, a guy that made a run in a
Speaker 1: roster spot before starting the year on the practice squad,
Speaker 1: but very quickly making his way to the fifty three.
Speaker 1: I just think you're seeing young talent really emerge, and
Speaker 1: Garvin is probably the one that's the most satisfying, I
Speaker 1: think because he took his lumps. I mean, were a
Speaker 1: lot of times last year where he was just a
Speaker 1: healthy scratch. He only played in like seven games his
Speaker 1: rookie season, but he came back and he got so
Speaker 1: many reps during camp. With Darius Smith being out, they
Speaker 1: were very careful with Rashawn Gary how much they practiced
Speaker 1: him during camp, and the young guy just built off
Speaker 1: of it. And when you get a sack like that,
Speaker 1: when you make plays like that, And I tweeted this
Speaker 1: during the during the game as well, it's one thing
Speaker 1: to get a sack, right, Everybody looks at the box
Speaker 1: score afterwards. Oh, Jonathan Garvin had a good game. But
Speaker 1: it was how disciplined he was on that sack, because
Speaker 1: the thing you and I talked about before the game
Speaker 1: was you had to stay in your rush lanes. You
Speaker 1: had to rush to contain. He never lost his leverage.
Speaker 1: He didn't allow fields to cut back inside. He stayed
Speaker 1: in front of him, kept the play in front of him.
Speaker 1: And it was one of the bigger ones of this
Speaker 1: ball game. Yeah, classic draft and developed prospect. There. You
Speaker 1: take a guy in the seventh round. He he comes
Speaker 1: out early, a lot of people wondering, you know, from
Speaker 1: the scouting point of view, should he have stayed in
Speaker 1: school another year, you know, and and continued to develop
Speaker 1: his game. The Packers draft him in the seventh round,
Speaker 1: and here he is in year two. Injuries have thrust
Speaker 1: him into a larger role than he could have expected.
Speaker 1: And uh, and he's coming through on the defensive side.
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Speaker 1: kidding me? Eighty two yard punt? Second longest punt in
Speaker 1: Packer's history, Folks, Don Chandler ninety yards back in nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty five. We'll have to try to see see if
Speaker 1: we can find the video of that one. But eighty
Speaker 1: two yards in a sixty two yard net is that
Speaker 1: ball scooted into the end zone for a touch back.
Speaker 1: So I watched the Don Chandler punt. Go and watch
Speaker 1: it if anyone has a chance to bring it up
Speaker 1: on YouTube. I haven't seen it yet. The parallels between
Speaker 1: those two punts is like it's almost like a circle
Speaker 1: in time, like they just kind of come back together.
Speaker 1: They looked the same, and it was the same situation
Speaker 1: where I mean give credit to Chandler to boot the
Speaker 1: ball the way he did and to get behind the defender.
Speaker 1: Heck of a play, basically just ten yards back from
Speaker 1: where Bjork has hit his but bo Joe blast Man.
Speaker 1: The first day that Maurice Strayton came in and talked
Speaker 1: about this acquisition, he mentioned hang time. I like hang time,
Speaker 1: I see Hank time. He was really excited about that
Speaker 1: and you're seeing why. I mean, but Hark has mentioned
Speaker 1: a week ago when he was talking to the media
Speaker 1: a week or two ago. Yeah, he can blast all
Speaker 1: these balls as far as he basically wants to. But
Speaker 1: it's about oh, kicking your coverage. Well, this was one
Speaker 1: particular instance, punting it as far back as he did,
Speaker 1: with the snap coming in a little bit low, he
Speaker 1: just let that thing go and I think it was
Speaker 1: Grant was on the return, just kind of missed it
Speaker 1: the ball, let it go over his head, and then
Speaker 1: it took the bounce that you're hoping for if you're
Speaker 1: if you're the Packers. So Grant had no even though
Speaker 1: he probably has some room there if he can get
Speaker 1: his hands on the ball because of the distance. But
Speaker 1: but Grant couldn't pick it up and generate any kind
Speaker 1: of a return, and the ball ended up going all
Speaker 1: the way into the end zone. You take a sixty
Speaker 1: two yard net anytime. Well, And honestly, Mike, if the
Speaker 1: Packers would have been backed up another ten yards, it
Speaker 1: probably would have been a ninety two yard punt with
Speaker 1: that thing wasn't stopping. It got the right bounce afterwards.
Speaker 1: But you know, let's just talk about the reality of
Speaker 1: this thing is that Horkes is giving something the Packers
Speaker 1: have been longing for. In the punt game has been
Speaker 1: perfect week earlier. There were a couple of little bits
Speaker 1: of adversity there, but overall he has really good power.
Speaker 1: He also has good accuracy, and I think he's given
Speaker 1: them a big boost. Covered unit's got to get better,
Speaker 1: no question about that. But between the Horkes and Amari
Speaker 1: Rodgers making strides, I think you know as much as
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure what to expect with Kylan Hill as
Speaker 1: a kickoff returner, he's been fine. Um and Mason Crosby
Speaker 1: bounce back. So from the main specialist positions, the Packers
Speaker 1: are getting what they want. Yeah, there are some things.
Speaker 1: There are some things to shore up in terms of
Speaker 1: the coverage units on special teams, but we're definitely seeing
Speaker 1: seeing the progress in a lot of other areas. UM
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Speaker 1: this victory, the Packers are five and one, two and
Speaker 1: oh in the division and a two game lead on
Speaker 1: the rest of the division after six games, because now
Speaker 1: both the Bears and the Vikings are three and three.
Speaker 1: So that's a heck of a spot to be in
Speaker 1: considering where this team was after Week one obviously, which
Speaker 1: they as I said in inbox, they have put that
Speaker 1: game in the ancient dustbin of history. Here with a
Speaker 1: five game winning streak, looking to make it six this
Speaker 1: week against Washington. But here's the other thing I want
Speaker 1: to talk about. Two though, we're seeing this, uh this
Speaker 1: NFC West. Five teams in the NFC either at six
Speaker 1: and oh or five and one. You have the Arizona Cardinals,
Speaker 1: who are coming up very soon on the schedule at
Speaker 1: six and oh. The Dallas Cowboys, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams, and the Green Bay Packers are
Speaker 1: at five and one. Now, I am not going to
Speaker 1: say after six weeks that the rest of the NFC
Speaker 1: is fighting for two playoff spots, because that's not reality.
Speaker 1: But this NFC is looking like looking like it is
Speaker 1: going to be one heck of a battle for the
Speaker 1: playoff positioning and how this all might shake out when
Speaker 1: when we start talking a little bit more seriously about
Speaker 1: that in December, because there are a lot, a full
Speaker 1: handful of really really good teams in the NFC right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hadn't want to turn this into the whole thing
Speaker 1: about West doesn't like the one by system for the playoffs,
Speaker 1: but I think a season like this really shows why
Speaker 1: I thought there was a lot of value and having
Speaker 1: the two because ultimately, Mike, you are right, some of
Speaker 1: these teams are gonna rise, some of these are gonna
Speaker 1: fall from this current hierarchy. But there's gonna be probably
Speaker 1: a team or two here that's gonna be challenging. Fourteen
Speaker 1: win thirteen wins for sure, um, and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: unfortunate when one of those guys ends up being the
Speaker 1: number two seed. That being said, I think this early
Speaker 1: part of the season you've seen teams really assert their dominance,
Speaker 1: and you know, I look at Arizona and I'm starting
Speaker 1: to see more parallels between them and like the two
Speaker 1: thousand eleven Packers, like that kind of offensively, they can
Speaker 1: just play with anybody, and defensively they're highly opportunistic. So
Speaker 1: uh yeah, and then what do you say, I mean,
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay is steady as it goes. I mean, you've
Speaker 1: seen what the Rams have to offer, even though they
Speaker 1: had that one loss to the to the Cards, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a really competitive conference. And in addition
Speaker 1: to the fact that I think you're seeing Dallas kind
Speaker 1: of run their division, Green Bay has gotten some separation,
Speaker 1: and there's that battle to be able to get those
Speaker 1: wild card spots this year. It's gonna be a really
Speaker 1: competitive sort of fight right to the very end. Well,
Speaker 1: and you said it too. And we talk about these
Speaker 1: teams that are these teams that are five and one.
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay's one loss was to the Rams, right, Um,
Speaker 1: Dallas's loss was that also to the Rams. You can
Speaker 1: look at you can get that one. Let me ask,
Speaker 1: let me check. Um. But then as you said, the Rams,
Speaker 1: the Rams one loss, oh, Dallas loss in in Week
Speaker 1: one obviously the kick off openers. So yeah, and then
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, uh, the Los Angeles Rams one losses
Speaker 1: to Arizona. So these losses that the teams have are
Speaker 1: only are only to each other. Um, and as we know,
Speaker 1: the Packers have both Arizona and the Rams on the
Speaker 1: upcoming schedule as well as some really tough a f
Speaker 1: C games coming down the pike. So I'm like I say,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to say that these five teams are
Speaker 1: in the playoffs and everybody else in the NFC is
Speaker 1: fighting for two spots, but we are starting to see
Speaker 1: a little bit of separation here that if if some
Speaker 1: of these other teams that are in that you know,
Speaker 1: three and three, three and two range right now, because
Speaker 1: the bye weeks did begin, Um, if they don't start
Speaker 1: to make a charge, you know they're they're gonna be
Speaker 1: behind the eight ball here down the stretch. Well, let's
Speaker 1: make tie this back to the Packers, right. This is
Speaker 1: why we were saying this was such a critical stretch
Speaker 1: for them, not just to get on a big winning
Speaker 1: streak to win five in a row, but being able
Speaker 1: to take out the uncommon opponents. There. You've got Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati back to back. The Cincinnati game kicked off
Speaker 1: this big roadstand. Obviously they're back for this game against Washington,
Speaker 1: but a lot of road matchups you wanted to pick
Speaker 1: off as many of these wins as possible. You cannot
Speaker 1: look past the football team that is going to be
Speaker 1: a big game on Sunday. Green Bay needs to keep
Speaker 1: this thing going. But to get to six and one
Speaker 1: is the ideal recipe. Then, when you're going on the
Speaker 1: short week to Arizona against a team that is going
Speaker 1: to be highly competitive in that game and the rest
Speaker 1: of the season, you have to pick the games off
Speaker 1: that you're expected to win. That's gonna be the key
Speaker 1: for green Bay. And then seeing how that month of November,
Speaker 1: that month November, I don't care what Seattle's quarterback is,
Speaker 1: that is still going to be a gauntlet for green
Speaker 1: Bay and they have to be able to build up
Speaker 1: that momentum before they enter into it. Yeah. Absolutely, Well,
Speaker 1: next up is Washington. We will talk more about the
Speaker 1: Washington football team on our next show, but for now,
Speaker 1: we're going to call it a wrap on this edition
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Speaker 1: For West, I'm Mike. Thank you for tuning in everybody.
Speaker 1: We'll see you next time.