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Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from

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Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford, joined as always

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Speaker 1: by my partner and crime Wes Hodkowitz. Were coming to

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Speaker 1: you here from our shiny news studio at lambeau Field

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Speaker 1: and West. The Packers momentum was slowed with the bye week.

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Speaker 1: It was halted and stopped dead in its tracks on

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Speaker 1: the trip to Tampa Bay a thirty eight to ten loss,

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna give you this analogy. This game felt

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Speaker 1: like the days that you come into the office because

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Speaker 1: you're a coffee drinker. I'm not, and the only thing

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Speaker 1: that went right for you was that your cup of

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Speaker 1: coffee in the morning was pretty good. The rest of

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Speaker 1: the day was completely forgettable. It was just it was

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Speaker 1: one of those days for the Packers. The beginning of

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Speaker 1: the game, everything looked just fine, and by the end

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Speaker 1: of the game, it was like, what the heck happened?

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Speaker 1: I made this comment an Insider Inbox this week, Mike,

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Speaker 1: I was curious if you'd agree with me on this.

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Speaker 1: This was a weird type of blowout in that the

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Speaker 1: Packers actually played really well in the first quarter on

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Speaker 1: on both sides, of the balls. They got ten points

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Speaker 1: right off the bat. They continued their streak, the only

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Speaker 1: team in the NFL right now who has scored on

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Speaker 1: their opening possession all five games to this point. They

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Speaker 1: come back after that, they go down, they score the

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Speaker 1: touchdown twice, and then you look on the other side

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Speaker 1: of the field. They got a three and out defensively,

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Speaker 1: and Tampa Bay had what like nine total yards or

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Speaker 1: something like that after the first quarter. They forced a

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Speaker 1: punt to start the second, and then things unraveled from there.

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Speaker 1: It's just it was odd to me that usually if

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Speaker 1: if games, if you're disheveled, if you're not looking good,

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Speaker 1: you sort of tend to not look good right from

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Speaker 1: the start. If you would have told me that that

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Speaker 1: that first quarter would be tend to nothing, the Packers

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Speaker 1: would have, you know, twelve minutes of time of possession

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Speaker 1: and then the final score was what it was at

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Speaker 1: the end, I would have asked you afterwards what happened?

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Speaker 1: So it was it was an unfortunate outcome. But again,

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Speaker 1: the one thing I'll always say in these instances is

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Speaker 1: these things happen over the course of a long season.

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Speaker 1: You have to find a way to bounce back. From it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so many things in this game just anomaly for the Packers,

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Speaker 1: both within this season and in the larger context historically. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers throws a pick six. He's only done that

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Speaker 1: now three times in his entire career, and weirdly enough,

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Speaker 1: two of them have been at Raymond James Stadium, which

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Speaker 1: that's something that's almost impossible to explain. But then also,

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Speaker 1: the Packers had had zero turnovers through the first four

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Speaker 1: games of the season. They have two on back to

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Speaker 1: back possessions. Aaron Rodgers almost never throws two interceptions in

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Speaker 1: a game, let alone too on consecutive possessions, as happened

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Speaker 1: there and gave the Buccaneers fourteen points that wiped out

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Speaker 1: the early ten nothing lead. But then also the way

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Speaker 1: the rest of the game went offensively. The Packers had

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Speaker 1: had only one three and out offensively all season long,

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Speaker 1: and after the two interceptions, they had five three and

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Speaker 1: ounce with j. K. Scott taking the field to punt

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Speaker 1: the ball without gaining a first down. Nothing was going

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Speaker 1: right Tampa Bay, led by those that inside linebacker tandem

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Speaker 1: of Lavonte David And and Devin White, and we talked

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Speaker 1: about them last week and their speed. And I tell you, well,

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Speaker 1: you hear about how fast these guys are, right, and

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Speaker 1: but not having watched a game of Tampa Bay's as

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Speaker 1: closely as obviously we did this one. Man, those guys

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Speaker 1: are fast, they're they're in for my money. There is

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Speaker 1: not an inside linebacker duo in the league that is

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Speaker 1: I agree with the assertion that Lavonte David is probably

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Speaker 1: one of the most unheralded players in the National Football League.

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Speaker 1: Maybe there's a lot of folks out there that wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be able to tell you that he was drafted in

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Speaker 1: two thousand twelve. This is a guy that's been doing

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Speaker 1: amount of speed and explosiveness he still plays with. The

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Speaker 1: guy turns thirty one in January. He still looks like

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Speaker 1: he's a twenty five year old guy running around out there. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: and certainly you know he has all the fundamentals and

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Speaker 1: um sideline to sideline. Devin White's gonna be a really

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Speaker 1: special talent. Though. You can just see the way with

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Speaker 1: the speed that he has, and that was he was

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Speaker 1: touted for that. You and I remember that draft, and well,

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Speaker 1: he was the top five pick for a reason, and

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Speaker 1: there was and we were talking about him, Hey, could

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Speaker 1: this be a guy that potentially would be there for

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Speaker 1: at number five, and he is the transcendent talent that

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Speaker 1: still have to find a way to beat them. And

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Speaker 1: for Green Bay, they just weren't able to really penetrate

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Speaker 1: the second level. The outside zones really weren't working that

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Speaker 1: well for them in the final three quarters, and the

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Speaker 1: Buccaneers just started to go to work after they were

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Speaker 1: Buccaneers sort of rolled from there. Yeah, and on the

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Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball for the Packers again, after

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Speaker 1: what looked like a promising first quarter, things start to unravel.

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Speaker 1: And really we've talked about it with this defense West,

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Speaker 1: it very much is predicated on the big play. And

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Speaker 1: when you don't get any sacks and you don't get

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Speaker 1: any turnovers and you're facing a Hall of Fame quarterback. Now,

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady didn't do anything spectacular in this game. I

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Speaker 1: thought a couple of his passes, particularly the touchdown to

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Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowski and the other sideline pass to Gronkowski, those

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Speaker 1: were picture perfect throws. But Tom Brady did not have

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Speaker 1: this you know, oh my gosh, wow, tom Brady type

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Speaker 1: of game. But because the Packers defense didn't get any

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Speaker 1: any of those sacks or turnovers, it just turned into

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Speaker 1: a really long afternoon. Well, and it's the reason why

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Speaker 1: they always talk about, you know, total yards, total defense,

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Speaker 1: total passing. It's kind of a misleading stat because I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you what, Mike, when I was going, we were

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Speaker 1: getting ready for the zoom calls, and I brought up

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Speaker 1: the post game you know sheet tom Brady had a

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixties six passing yards in that game. Now,

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Speaker 1: mind you, that was kind of buoyed by the forty

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Speaker 1: really tell you that, you know, they needed to play

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Speaker 1: a clean game that being in Bay, and they just

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Speaker 1: didn't uh Tampa Bay for their To their credit, again,

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Speaker 1: this is a team that had eleven penalties for a

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Speaker 1: bite them. They weren't able to get their drives late

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Speaker 1: Whether it was the extra week and a half rest

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Speaker 1: what the reasons were, but they cleaned it up. They had.

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Speaker 1: They were charged with no penalties, only one offsetting penalty

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Speaker 1: the football. Uh. But all that being said, green Bay

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Speaker 1: able to do that. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: when you go back to what Green Bay did so

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Speaker 1: pressure and there just wasn't enough of it on Tom Brady. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there were missed opportunities in this game for the Packers.

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Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, I thought, you know, after the

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Speaker 1: fourteen to ten at that point, you get a big play.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if Lewis, because he's not the fastest

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Speaker 1: But he's gonna put the Packers in position to get

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Speaker 1: pick that went through Amos his hands, a potential interception there.

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Speaker 1: The two touchdown drives that Tom Brady and the Buccaneers

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Speaker 1: The Packers defense got them in third down four times

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Speaker 1: lot of it came out of what Matt Lafleur was

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Speaker 1: The game plan wasn't good enough. The execution wasn't good enough,

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Speaker 1: So you can't allow it to be two losses. You

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Speaker 1: got to find a way to come back from it. Yeah. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: the Packers have to turn the page quickly. You don't

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