Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford, sitting next to the one on
Speaker 1: only West Hodkowits were coming to you here from our
Speaker 1: studios at lambeau Field and West to continue our discussion
Speaker 1: from yesterday. The aftermath of this Packers Rams game at
Speaker 1: the l A Colosseum certainly the toughest and most frustrating
Speaker 1: loss for the Packers thus far in and uh, Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy made no bones about it in his press conference
Speaker 1: on Monday. It was a very emotional locker room. This
Speaker 1: was a team that put everything they had into this game.
Speaker 1: They expected to win the game. They felt they had
Speaker 1: an opportunity to win it at the end, which then
Speaker 1: they didn't get that opportunity obviously because of the fumble.
Speaker 1: Guys were upset, and uh, quite frankly, Mike McCarthy was
Speaker 1: okay with that, because the alternative means that guys don't care.
Speaker 1: And so if there's emotions running hot back and forth
Speaker 1: and whatever, okay, you let hours go by and everybody
Speaker 1: gets over it. But but this is a tough one
Speaker 1: to get over. It is because again, the team played
Speaker 1: well and because of that, there's going to be frustration
Speaker 1: disappointment when you can't you know, achieve what is the
Speaker 1: biggest goal, which was walking out of there with a victory.
Speaker 1: So to some exset, I think that's what you expect. Now.
Speaker 1: The important thing for the Packers is resetting this week
Speaker 1: and being able to set the focus on the Patriots,
Speaker 1: being able to set the focus on where they want
Speaker 1: this team to go here through the month of November,
Speaker 1: uh to you know, and you heard it in a
Speaker 1: lot of voices. Obviously we weren't in the locker room,
Speaker 1: but when players came out, most of them, if not
Speaker 1: all of them were uh you know, available and talking
Speaker 1: to the media. And the biggest comment that came along
Speaker 1: with that, and what guys were echoing was that they
Speaker 1: played a game well enough to win. So now what
Speaker 1: do you do? How do you reset? You know, being
Speaker 1: able to calibrate yourself to now trying to beat you know,
Speaker 1: an even more difficult opponent in an even more hostile environment,
Speaker 1: against the veteran quarterback that's seen and done at all.
Speaker 1: That's where I think that you have to push this
Speaker 1: thing forward. Understanding the emotions that got into it, the
Speaker 1: players and their their thoughts and feelings. It's all gonna
Speaker 1: come with it with a fifty three man roster, but
Speaker 1: can you get that back together and I'll go into
Speaker 1: Gillette Stadium looking for a really big victory. Yeah. We
Speaker 1: talked about back when the schedule came out how tough
Speaker 1: a stretch of schedule this was going to be. And
Speaker 1: you know the way that Rams game ended on Sunday,
Speaker 1: This is the type of week you'd really like to
Speaker 1: be coming back and playing a home game. I don't
Speaker 1: care who the opponent is. And it's not just a
Speaker 1: going on the road to Gitette Stadium and facing Brady
Speaker 1: and the Patriots. And we'll talk later in the week
Speaker 1: about more specifically about the opponent, but the bottom line
Speaker 1: is the Packers are oh and three on the road
Speaker 1: and they just laid it all on the line on
Speaker 1: the road against the best team in football and they
Speaker 1: still came up short. You'd love to have a home
Speaker 1: game this week to circle the wagon, so to speak,
Speaker 1: get back above five. All of that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: That's not the reality. The reality is they have to
Speaker 1: go on the road again. They have to try to
Speaker 1: get their first road win of the season and get
Speaker 1: this thing turned around. And the task just doesn't get
Speaker 1: any tougher than what they're facing right now. They have
Speaker 1: to bottle that energy. Kenny Clark was asked after the
Speaker 1: game too about you know this is you know, they
Speaker 1: played up to their competition with the Los Angeles Rams,
Speaker 1: and they also had some games there against Washington and
Speaker 1: Detroit that I mean, I believe they were favored to
Speaker 1: win those and not being able to come out on
Speaker 1: the winning end. So it's about continuing to have that consistency,
Speaker 1: that level of sense of urgency every single week. I'm
Speaker 1: sure it's going to be there again against New England
Speaker 1: because of who the opponent is, but it's gonna have
Speaker 1: to be there against Seattle and Century like it's gonna
Speaker 1: have to be there when they go, you know, into
Speaker 1: Soldier Field, they have to be able in US Bank Stadium.
Speaker 1: I mean, those are opponents, especially down the line here,
Speaker 1: that are gonna really dictate where this season goes for
Speaker 1: the Packers. The one thing that I thought was positive
Speaker 1: that did come out of it was the fact that
Speaker 1: they could see what they could do against one of
Speaker 1: the best, if not the best team in football. I
Speaker 1: don't think there'll be as much debate Mike. If the
Speaker 1: Packers could have had that performance against Washington, against Detroit,
Speaker 1: the way they protected the football for a majority of
Speaker 1: the game, the way they were able to string together
Speaker 1: series and defensive stops, they've come out victorious in those
Speaker 1: other two road games. But again, the frustrating part that
Speaker 1: factors into it is that they just didn't against you know,
Speaker 1: the team that's right now the front runner in the NFC. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: the continuing discussion, uh, sticking point, I guess you want
Speaker 1: to call it. What this game was, the way it
Speaker 1: ended with time Montgomery's fumble on the kickoff with two
Speaker 1: minutes to go kickoff return with two minutes to go,
Speaker 1: which prevented Aaron Rodgers from getting the one last possession
Speaker 1: down by two, only needing a field goal to win.
Speaker 1: Montgomery did not address the media after the game on Sunday.
Speaker 1: He did address the media in the Packers locker room
Speaker 1: on Monday. There's been a lot of stuff swirling around
Speaker 1: in terms of his motivations and his decision. He came
Speaker 1: out and said, basically explained that he wasn't sure exactly
Speaker 1: where the ball was going to land, so he made
Speaker 1: a split second decision to just take it and run
Speaker 1: and not put the game in the officials hands. Um
Speaker 1: still questionable judgment and everything like that, but he expressed
Speaker 1: a lot of dismay at any suggestion as to his
Speaker 1: motives or his commitment to the team. And Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: certainly didn't go down that road either and just said, hey,
Speaker 1: he made a mistake. We've all been there. Nobody feel
Speaker 1: is worse than the guy who made a mistake. It's
Speaker 1: time for this team to move on. And that's really
Speaker 1: what the Packers have to do here. It's time to
Speaker 1: move on. Yeah, it is Mike, and now you look
Speaker 1: at I thought one of the more powerful things that
Speaker 1: came out of the Monday locker room. I was in
Speaker 1: a small group there with Truman Williams, and he mentioned
Speaker 1: that after the game in the l A. Colosseum visiting
Speaker 1: locker room, he actually went up to uh Time Montgomery,
Speaker 1: a story that Montgomery collaborated on corroborated. Excuse me, um, instead,
Speaker 1: you know, just gave him some words, you know that
Speaker 1: that things are going to be okay. And and yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a low point right now, but we've all
Speaker 1: been there. Truman william said, he's been there, He's needed,
Speaker 1: you know, teammates to pick him up too, and Montgomery
Speaker 1: mentioned some of the conversations they had really hadn't some
Speaker 1: of it had nothing to do with football. It was
Speaker 1: a bigger picture than that, and understanding that a mistake
Speaker 1: was made and you have to move on from it.
Speaker 1: I think the most the toughest thing for me listening
Speaker 1: to Montgomery discussed this was kind of talking about sort
Speaker 1: of the outside perception of this so unfortunate in the
Speaker 1: age of social media where things are are at in
Speaker 1: that regarding and it's it's not the Montgomery situation either.
Speaker 1: I just feel like, whether it's Twitter or Facebook, all
Speaker 1: these things, and certainly there are certain aspects to it
Speaker 1: that are positive, but the idea that people can just
Speaker 1: sit behind an account and anonymously rip on people and
Speaker 1: it almost feels to me like and the way we
Speaker 1: are at right now in society, it's just that we're
Speaker 1: almost looking for reasons to rag on people and to
Speaker 1: bring people down, and I think that's unfortunate. I think
Speaker 1: it needs to be about trying to bring people up
Speaker 1: and and understand people's perspectives on life and how they
Speaker 1: view things. I I just I sat down last night
Speaker 1: even when I was working on Insider Inbox and I
Speaker 1: was thinking about how I was going to approach the
Speaker 1: show today with some of these topics. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a dad, now you're a dad. Uh Like, it's
Speaker 1: just a part of me that gets a little nervous
Speaker 1: about at for what our kids, my kid is, the world,
Speaker 1: the way this thing is going, because we're about ten
Speaker 1: years into this technological error right now, and I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: It's there's certain things of it that are really disappointing.
Speaker 1: It's a game Packers lost. Everyone feels terrible about it.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if you can call yourself a fan.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can call yourself a human
Speaker 1: um for some of the things that came out on
Speaker 1: social media after that game, I'm I'm I'm with you,
Speaker 1: I'm with you ad percent here West and I certainly
Speaker 1: share Montgomery's um despair at at the state of humanity.
Speaker 1: And he's talking about obviously a portion of humanity, not
Speaker 1: not everyone, but UM, I personally don't understand um how
Speaker 1: it how it makes anybody feel better to throw something
Speaker 1: at somebody on social media, even whether it's a threat
Speaker 1: that you're actually never going to follow through on our
Speaker 1: But if that's what you have to do to feel
Speaker 1: better about your favorite team losing a game, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I just I feel sorry for you. Then, I mean
Speaker 1: all of us, all of us are fans of one
Speaker 1: team or another or multiple teams, whatever it is, there
Speaker 1: are there are tough losses to deal with every single year.
Speaker 1: That's but but that's that's part of being a fan,
Speaker 1: and and everybody's going to have their own way of
Speaker 1: dealing with things, and to too, to take it out
Speaker 1: on other people just to try to feel better about it.
Speaker 1: I just I don't get it. It's really disappointing. Um
Speaker 1: I get it. It's frustrating. It is disappointing. I wrote
Speaker 1: about it an inbox. You can feel all those emotions,
Speaker 1: but to convey that kind of message was disheartening to
Speaker 1: me because I just don't I don't get what. I
Speaker 1: don't quite understand what leads to someone feeling like that's right.
Speaker 1: But be that as it may. The packers have to
Speaker 1: put that in the rearview right now. They need to,
Speaker 1: you know, get this locker room, you know, on the
Speaker 1: same page, Get them on the same page of the field,
Speaker 1: and to what Mike Daniel's original point was on Sunday afternoon,
Speaker 1: you have to tighten up what needs to be tightened up.
Speaker 1: It's all about the Patriots now. They got to put
Speaker 1: this behind them. They have to learn from it and
Speaker 1: try to once again kind of get on a run
Speaker 1: here during a really difficult stretch of games. Yeah. Well,
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Speaker 1: this game against the Rams West. We talked about a
Speaker 1: little bit on yesterday's show, and it bears repeating. Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy certainly emphasized as well that performance by rookie cornerback
Speaker 1: Ji year L Alexander. Wow, I mean what can you
Speaker 1: say this is and uh, you know, no offense to
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. But this wasn't against the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: This was against the Los Angeles Rams and one of
Speaker 1: the top offenses in this league. And he took a speedy,
Speaker 1: big time playmaking wide receiver and Brandon Cooks eight targets,
Speaker 1: three catches now three for seventy four yards. Seventy four
Speaker 1: yards is pretty good. But Brandon Cooks, he didn't make
Speaker 1: any backbreaking plays in this game. And for him to
Speaker 1: have only three catches on eight targets, it's a huge
Speaker 1: credit to Alexander. Yeah, it is. And he even mentioned
Speaker 1: during the week that he was this was he was
Speaker 1: getting up for this matchup. It was something that really
Speaker 1: excited him. He had a good idea that he'd be
Speaker 1: coming back from the hamstring injury. I love the comment
Speaker 1: that Kevin King made after the game when he was
Speaker 1: asked about it, like, I don't know what film they
Speaker 1: were watching. I think that they were going to be
Speaker 1: able to throw on them the way that they You know,
Speaker 1: partly there isn't necessarily enough film on him because he
Speaker 1: missed a couple of games with injury. He hadn't played
Speaker 1: and then he obviously the pack has had the bye week,
Speaker 1: so they maybe they hadn't seen a whole lot of
Speaker 1: of of what he had done. Although the interception against
Speaker 1: Minnesota that got overturned on the Clint Matthewston, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean this guy has this guy has made some
Speaker 1: plays in his limited time and then he made a
Speaker 1: bunch of them in l A. Talking with Tremont Williams
Speaker 1: to at his locker on Monday, he mentioned, like people
Speaker 1: look at him and they you know, they bring up
Speaker 1: the hype thing, but they don't really understand. Like he
Speaker 1: is a big guy, Like he actually has some weight
Speaker 1: to him. He has some size to him. It allowed
Speaker 1: him to be able to drop his shoulders and make
Speaker 1: a you know, an open field tackle on Cooks. For
Speaker 1: I think it was maybe a gain of one something
Speaker 1: like that. He's he was all over the place. And
Speaker 1: his ball skills, man, I mean, he just the way
Speaker 1: he's able to track the football. Uh. He he can
Speaker 1: press man the line of scrimmage. We saw him jam
Speaker 1: uh Cooks a couple of times. He can stay with
Speaker 1: him on slants. He has long arms. He can you know,
Speaker 1: be able to get in on some of those past
Speaker 1: deflections five pp us in this game. Pp uses an
Speaker 1: interesting statistic. It's kind of hard to be able to
Speaker 1: find up last time win, so I really do know
Speaker 1: the last time we had a game where someone registered
Speaker 1: that many. But I mean, we're in a league right
Speaker 1: now where if you can get fifteen in the season,
Speaker 1: I think that's pretty darn if you if you average
Speaker 1: one a week for an entire season, that that ends
Speaker 1: up being a pretty good number and close to the
Speaker 1: top of the league usually. Yeah, So for Alexander to
Speaker 1: do that coming out of the gate, being down for
Speaker 1: two and a half weeks, it was pretty impressive to
Speaker 1: me to see him put that stretch together. Dude. Here's
Speaker 1: the thing about Alexander to the Packers need him. They
Speaker 1: they need that presence in this defense because you saw
Speaker 1: with that package that Penton was using. I don't know
Speaker 1: the name of it, so for the lack of a
Speaker 1: better turn, I'm gonna refer to it as a nitro
Speaker 1: package though, which was a term that Dom Capers used
Speaker 1: to describe as a safety in the box with the
Speaker 1: inside linebacker. In this case, it was mostly Jermine Whitehead.
Speaker 1: So six defensive backs on the field. Truman Williams talked
Speaker 1: about it too, what they were able to do in
Speaker 1: terms of moving some of those personnel pieces. Williams worked
Speaker 1: in some of the slot. They were able to move
Speaker 1: those guys around because of their versatility. I think if
Speaker 1: this defense is going to be what they needed to
Speaker 1: be the second half of the season, your Alexander, his
Speaker 1: flexibility and his playmaking ability from that position is going
Speaker 1: to be paramount because as you need your pass rushers,
Speaker 1: you need your boundary cornerbacks. But with the way that
Speaker 1: this league has gone, now, Mike, you need a playmaker
Speaker 1: in the slot of those nickel packages with how much
Speaker 1: you're playing it, the Packers look to have found one
Speaker 1: of those. Alexander. Yeah. Now there's a lot being made
Speaker 1: by some others with the fact that essentially Alexander was
Speaker 1: playing outside corner in this game against Cooks and Tremon
Speaker 1: Williams moved into the slot. I'm not going to read
Speaker 1: into that too much in terms of it being some
Speaker 1: kind of a permanent change, because I think this was
Speaker 1: all about putting Alexander on Cooks. It was it was
Speaker 1: matching him because because of Cook's size and speed and
Speaker 1: shiftiness and big playability, they felt Alexander was the guy
Speaker 1: who he can make plays beyond Cooks. And then Patton
Speaker 1: essentially adjusted the rest of the defense from there, and
Speaker 1: you had Um, you had Kevin King primarily on Robert
Speaker 1: Woods the other outside receiver. I think you know, we
Speaker 1: we talked about it last week, getting those top four
Speaker 1: cornerbacks ready or available, I should say, healthy and available
Speaker 1: to play. Seeing King and Alexander on the field together
Speaker 1: in coverage, I think that tandem is just what makes
Speaker 1: this defense look different. Because we saw King miss some
Speaker 1: some time earlier in the year, we saw Alexander miss sometime.
Speaker 1: Those two guys as your young up and coming cornerbacks.
Speaker 1: You can call them both first round picks, even though
Speaker 1: technically Kevin King was the top pick in the second round,
Speaker 1: but essentially your top draft picks of the last two
Speaker 1: years at the same position. When those guys are on
Speaker 1: the field together, this defense looks different. Yeah, there, Ying
Speaker 1: and Yang. When you look at their skill sets, their size,
Speaker 1: what they offered to the table, and another thing Trumont
Speaker 1: Williams said to when you the way that Alexander carries
Speaker 1: himself his voice fullness at only twenty one years old.
Speaker 1: UM Mike McCarthy said he walked through the door with
Speaker 1: a ton of complice and the play in this league.
Speaker 1: But what I really like about it, Mike, and I've
Speaker 1: said this to you a number of times now, is
Speaker 1: that it does It's not just predicated on him having
Speaker 1: five pass breakups in a game or being able to
Speaker 1: match against a Pro Bowl type receiver like Cooks. The
Speaker 1: Packers lose a game, he still has that confidence. If
Speaker 1: he gets beat, he still has that confidence. It's not false,
Speaker 1: it's not synthesize that. He isn't something that he just
Speaker 1: walks into the mirror and really just gets himself all
Speaker 1: riled up. It's just who he is. And he's twenty
Speaker 1: one years old. It's a twenty one year old rookie
Speaker 1: cornerback that they said, you know what, there's Brandon Cooks
Speaker 1: over there. You stay on him, you follow him. That's
Speaker 1: gonna be your responsibility. He's like, all right, cool, I'm
Speaker 1: ready for it. Williams said it one of the last
Speaker 1: things he said. He hasn't really been around a rookie
Speaker 1: like this before, but he said, it's gonna make him
Speaker 1: a great player in this league, for this team for
Speaker 1: a long time, and it's gonna make him a great
Speaker 1: leader too, because he walks the walk. He talks to talk,
Speaker 1: and he's able to back it up and if something
Speaker 1: goes wrong, he admits to it. You know, if something
Speaker 1: doesn't work out for him, he says he's gonna learn
Speaker 1: from it, and he has the short enough memory that
Speaker 1: it isn't gonna dictate how he plays the next play.
Speaker 1: Josh Jackson Jr. L Xander, Kevin King. That is the
Speaker 1: focal point right now for the secondary. They've invested the
Speaker 1: resources into it and they're starting to see some of
Speaker 1: it paid dividends. Yeah. Maybe one of my favorite moments
Speaker 1: in this early stages here of Alexander's career was being
Speaker 1: asked about getting his first career interception taken away on
Speaker 1: the Clay Matthews thing, and he's just like, I'll get
Speaker 1: some more, you know, and he's he's it's it's not
Speaker 1: a line, it's just it's just those that response is
Speaker 1: in him. It comes naturally to him. He just he
Speaker 1: believes in his ability. I think he can be he
Speaker 1: can be a huge player in this defense, especially paired
Speaker 1: with Kevin King for for a long time. And it's
Speaker 1: neat because I think there is a really thin line
Speaker 1: between confidence and arrogance. But if you can straddle that,
Speaker 1: if you can stay on the side of confidence, he
Speaker 1: straddles it about as well as anybody. But you know it, Mike,
Speaker 1: the best cornerbacks that have ever played this game no
Speaker 1: that line. They edge near that line, and they stay
Speaker 1: on that line. And I think that's the thing that's
Speaker 1: impressive about Alexander. He just has a mentality that he's
Speaker 1: just going to dominate no matter what happens. You get
Speaker 1: him once, he'll be right back in your face the
Speaker 1: next play. And I like the fact he talks to uh.
Speaker 1: There was a couple of times throughout that game you
Speaker 1: could see him jibber jabbering with Cooks and being able
Speaker 1: to you know, sort of sort I don't want to say,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't know what's said in those settings,
Speaker 1: but you can just see that whatever he was saying,
Speaker 1: he believed it. So I just think that um, as
Speaker 1: I said on yesterday's show, there was there. It's a
Speaker 1: tough game. It's a frustrating game, and it's tough to
Speaker 1: to be able to put it behind you and move forward.
Speaker 1: But it was one of the positives I drew from
Speaker 1: it is that if this kid stays healthy. If everything
Speaker 1: works out with the soft tissue injuries he's been playing
Speaker 1: through earlier this year, he has the chance to be
Speaker 1: a really big playmaker in this defense. Yeah, one other
Speaker 1: thing I want to get to before we go today West,
Speaker 1: and that's shifting things to the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: We saw, uh the offense kind of go through some
Speaker 1: fits and starts again. Now, the Los Angeles Rams is
Speaker 1: an undefeated team with a very good defense. They had
Speaker 1: a lot to do with that, and this wasn't to me.
Speaker 1: It didn't feel like the same sort of fits and
Speaker 1: starts we've seen against other teams where you're questioning, you know,
Speaker 1: the quality of the defense that you're facing. But that
Speaker 1: being said, if there's one bugaboo here still with this
Speaker 1: Packers offense, it's on third down. Sorry bugaboo, you don't
Speaker 1: like that one. I like it, but but we talked
Speaker 1: about it yesterday too. For nine on third down, you
Speaker 1: still put up twenty seven points against one of the
Speaker 1: best teams in the league. If you convert a couple
Speaker 1: more third downs, who knows where you are in this
Speaker 1: game now. The two third down conversions were the big
Speaker 1: passes to Davante Adams, but all week long the Packers
Speaker 1: had talked about and through the bye week talked about
Speaker 1: staying out of third and longs. They've been in way
Speaker 1: too many of the third and eleven plus is. I
Speaker 1: think they only had one of those third and eleven
Speaker 1: pluses in this game. There were a lot of manageable
Speaker 1: third down, some third and twos and third in fives,
Speaker 1: and they just still couldn't convert that. That's the that
Speaker 1: to me, that's the one last step for this offense
Speaker 1: to get to where it needs to be to try
Speaker 1: to make a run here is when you're in third
Speaker 1: and five, when you're in third and three, you've got
Speaker 1: to convert. It's the bug. Yeah, I mean no, I
Speaker 1: like that word. I'll be saying that one now for
Speaker 1: the next four shows. Um it is. It's exactly where
Speaker 1: it's at. And I think one thing that can really
Speaker 1: help them is, Okay, randall cops back. Now, you have
Speaker 1: jern Will Allison back. You're using a lot more receivers,
Speaker 1: you're rotating guys, you're using a lot of different packages.
Speaker 1: I do think that's gonna help it. I think that's
Speaker 1: gonna be big, and they just got to learn from it.
Speaker 1: I mean there's just I go back to something. Jordy
Speaker 1: Nelson always said, uh, And it wasn't like this, this
Speaker 1: really attractive answer that ended up in the headline of
Speaker 1: everybody's story the next day. But when things like this
Speaker 1: would happen, Jordi would stand at his locker after games.
Speaker 1: He said, we just got to get back to work.
Speaker 1: We have to get worked in practice, we have to
Speaker 1: get to work in the meeting room. Everybody wanted some
Speaker 1: high salutant term that I was just going to solve everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: magic being. I mean, just just some some rhetoric that's like, okay,
Speaker 1: well now now we're good. It's everything is good now.
Speaker 1: He said this, it's everything's gonna change. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: what you say. It matters what's going on in the
Speaker 1: meeting room twelve hours a day during the week. And
Speaker 1: I always thought Nelson was very perceptive when he said
Speaker 1: that stuff the packers are going to fix, the third
Speaker 1: down thing has to happen in practice. It has to
Speaker 1: happen in the meeting room. You have to break down
Speaker 1: the film and figure out where the lapses are and
Speaker 1: correct them, and then you know what, when it gets corrected.
Speaker 1: The following Sunday, if something goes well, if you actually
Speaker 1: start succeeding in that area, people will be looking for
Speaker 1: the same rhetoric about, oh, what amazing thing happened this
Speaker 1: week that you guys changed it you studied. Yeah it's not.
Speaker 1: It's not hey, somebody wore a special hatter and not
Speaker 1: this outfit or or something like that that oh well,
Speaker 1: that that just changed the tide and everything. No, it's
Speaker 1: literally sitting down figuring out what you didn't do well
Speaker 1: and you know what, Mike, do it better. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's getting to work. I I the Packers showed so
Speaker 1: much progress on Sunday in Los Angeles. There's more progress
Speaker 1: to come at third down on offense is just one example.
Speaker 1: There's other things on special teams and other other issues
Speaker 1: we'll talk about. There's more progress to come. Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: sees it. He they're studying the film. They're gonna see you.
Speaker 1: Even in the best game they've played so far this year,
Speaker 1: They're going to see where they can be better. That's
Speaker 1: what the focus is this week. Totally into not dem
Speaker 1: you know, diminished the original point. You can't You're not
Speaker 1: going to get a forty yard Davante Adams play every
Speaker 1: time to bail you out of those situations, you have
Speaker 1: to convert on them, you have to improve on exactly.
Speaker 1: It's just that the reality of it is it all
Speaker 1: starts here, what happens out there. Yeah, I agree with
Speaker 1: you with that. We're going to call it a wrap
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